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Ralph Epperson The Great Seal of The Unites States with a pyramid, eagle, Latin phrases, etc. has been reproduced on the reverse side of every American dollar bill, but few in America know what these sym- bols mean. The key to understanding the meaning behind all of these symbols is found in the translation of the Latin phrase "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM," ("The New World Order") found underneath the pyramid on what is known as the Reverse Side of the Great Seal. Ralph Epperson has spent 27 years in researching the history of the two sides of the Great Seal, and has discovered that those who designed them committed America to what has been called "A Secret Destiny." This future "destiny," called THE NEW WORLD ORDER, is so unpleasant that those who wanted the changes it entails had to conceal that truth in symbols. This book, THE NEW WORLD ORDER, is the amply documented explanation of what those symbols mean and how they connect to this nation's future. Mr. Epperson is making his research available to the American people so that they may know just what these planners wanted for our future. And so that they can take corrective action. the phrase "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM" as found on the bottom of the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States is Latin for THE NEW WORLD ORDER TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedications: 23.3 eos tala ie oa te ah Se ek Ree vii About-the Author ...<.i.poccdvesactss covecsesbevacstaeveepiebestecteparecbeosoracneaeeeveess Vili About the Material 0... eeceesceseceseceseceecseecaeeeaeeeeeeneeeereeeesees xi Introduction. «..c:s:4s5c as heels Sud eee daa xii Chapter One Tomorrow's Rulers eee 1 Chapter Two The New Age Movement ..... 10 Chapter Three Lord Maitreya oes eseeeee 19 Chapter Four The Ancient Mysteries... 25 Chapter Five Secret Societies eee eeeeeeeees a2: Chapter Six Concealed Mysteries... eee 35 Chapter Seven Serpents, Stars and Suns... 40 Chapter Eight The Author's Clarification .... 58 Chapter Nine Lucifer Worship oe ceeeeeeeeeeeee 60 Chapter Ten Becoming a God 00... eee eeeeeeee 74 Chapter Eleven Sons of Light... ee eeeeeeeeeees 719 Chapter Twelve East and WeSt o...... eee eeseceseeeeereeeeee 87 Chapter Thirteen The Pyramid of Giza... ee 89 Chapter Fourteen Obelisks ccsicccssssisssessseivensseesssscevests 97 Chapter Fifteen The Iluminati ne ee 104 Chapter Sixteen Karl Marx, Satanist oe 198 Chapter Seventeen Adolf Hitler, Satanist 0. 128 Chapter Eighteen The Great Seal oe 133 Chapter Nineteen The Freemasons ............ eee eeeeeeees 148 Chapter Twenty Those Who Object... eee 162 Chapter Twenty-One = Albert Pike oo. creeeee eee eeee 169 Chapter Twenty-Two Hiram Abif oo... eee ceeeneeeeeeeeee 173 Chapter Twenty-Three The Hierarchy oo... eee cee eeeeeeeeeeeee 177 Chapter Twenty-Four Masonic Obligations _....... 181 Chapter Twenty-Five The 33rd Degree oo... eee eeeeeeeeees 185 Chapter Twenty-Six Phe: UMAni StS: xsepseHusiseetessiesnchdastuaeienes 196 Chapter Twenty-Seven Situation Ethics 0.0... eee ese eseeeeeeeeeees 216 Chapter Twenty-Eight Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One Chapter Thirty-Two Chapter Thirty-Three Chapter Thirty-Four Chapter Thirty-Five Chapter Thirty-Six Chapter Thirty-Seven Chapter Thirty-Eight Chapter Thirty-Nine Questions Answered Footnotes Selected Bibliography Index VI The Attack on Religion oo... ee 225 The Attack on the Family ... 229 The Right of Association .... 253 The Attack on Education .... 262 Russian Laws ee eeesceeceesseceenceceteeeenees 272 The Attack on Property ..... 279 The Attack on Nationalism .. 283 Answering the Skeptic... eee eee 287 Reagan and Bush... eee 289 "Eleven Short Years" ..........ccccccccccceceeeeeeees 296 The Summation o.c...ccceccececceeeeeeeeeeeees 299 The Solution wo..icicccceeeeeeeeeeeeseeeseeeeeeeee 301 sdsnagt taste tas ova cayttadenwas ban aaantae 302 be clotted rch Sin Sih al 305 Bde biases Roagdeaacadiecieas nageiaa deeeeen 316 Ll vavasutuauttevanes votatuateunteaveendeba 340 ABOUT THE AUTHOR When I finished writing my book entitled THE UNSEEN HAND, and was preparing it for publication, I decided that I would add a brief page describing a little about me and _ the reasons that I had written it. I felt that it would assist the reader in understanding my material if I included some _ brief comments about my personal background. I have become an avid reader since my _ graduation from college and I have noticed that many of the works I read frequently failed to provide some of this background information. So I feel that I must include similar information in_ this, my second book. I started reading in 1963 when a friend of mine noticed that even though I was a college graduate, my knowledge of history, political science and economics was woefully lacking. I started reading at his insistence, and I haven't stopped since. Reading in one subject got me interested in another, and the process led me ultimately into the esoteric world of secret so- cieties and their concealed symbols. (The word esoteric is de- fined as a word or understanding that is intended for or under- stood by only a chosen few, as an inner group of disciples or in- itiates.) As I continued my reading, I started noticing that I was discovering the evidence of an enormous truth; a truth that had escaped almost all of yesterday's historians. There was no question that some of these researchers had been moved to expose a part of this truth, but I was unable to find the one book that would put the entire story all together. My search for that elusive volume continued, but I simply couldn't find it. About a year ago, I started feeling the need to write that volume myself. However, feeling extremely inadequate for a task as impor- tant as this one, I decided that I would redouble my efforts to locate the one volume that would put it all together into one easily understood text. I continued my search into the writings of others, hoping to find someone who had performed this task before me, but I continued to be unsuccessful. Since I was unable to find that one book, I decided that I had to write it myself. This is that effort. So, please accept this modest work for what it is: an honest attempt to put 26 years of research into one volume, by an individual who feels completely inadequate for the task! I can assure the reader that my _ self-perceived inadequacy is only because of the importance of the information § discovered. The chore seems to be doubly difficult: not only must my research be thorough, but I must also make the information I have uncovered believable. However, I do feel that I have succeeded as far as my meager talents have allowed me. There is no question that the research I conducted was not as exhaustive as it could have been. The more that I read, the more that I realized I had to read because the evidence to support the conclusions of this book appeared to be _ nearly limitless. However, there comes a time when every researcher must conclude that the material that has been already located is adequate enough to convince even the most ardent skeptic and that any additional material uncovered would only duplicate that which had already been found. In addition, there are several things I would like the reader to know. Quite often I have quoted the comments of several writers when one or two would probably have made my point. However, there is a reason for this. My intention is to make certain that the skeptical reader could not claim that I had cited only one writer and that he or she could not speak for the others in his or her field. I wanted the reader to know that there were several authors who made the same point with their writings. In other words, I have endeavored to truly document my conclusions by exposing the reader to as many writers as possible. I believe that the reasons I have endeavored to do this will become clear as the reader progresses through this book. Secondly, the authors that I have quoted were either those that I discovered had a part in the events described in this book, or were those who had convinced me that they had per- sonally researched the original works of the authors they cited. In other words, I am attempting to prove my contentions from the writings of those who were either directly involved or have thoroughly documented their own research. The reader will soon discover that the writers I have cited are many of the principal writers in the area of this volume. The reason that I have done this is simply because I believe that the information that I have uncovered is extremely important to the future of the world, and that it must be presented in a manner that is as believable as is possible. I wnnt the reader to believe this information because it comes from the experts in their respective areas of expertise. I also believe that the reader will begin to understand why I have re- sorted to this strategy as they peruse my book. And lastly, I would like the reader to understand that I have attempted to keep my comments and or opinions to a minimum in this book. I believe that the evidence that I will present stands on its own and should be adequate to convince even the most ardent skeptic. It will need little if any explanation from me. In summary, then, I am hopeful that the reader will agree with me that I have succeeded in exposing a monumental truth that has escaped the overwhelming majority of the historians of the past. ABOUT THE MATERIAL I am convinced that the average reader will find it difficult to accept the conclusions in this book. However, that does not mean that the evidence is incorrect; it merely indicates that most people will consider those conclusions to be simply too in- credible to be believed. But, because of the implications for the future of not only the United States but of the world, if I am correct, it is impera- tive that this material be considered, by as many as is possible. For this reason, I have attempted to keep the contents of this book as readable as I could. I am hopeful that each reader will be as dutiful as the average jury member. Anyone who has served on a jury will remember being admonished by the judge to remain open as they consider the evidence to be presented throughout the trial. The juror is instructed to ignore any previous prejudices and to carefully weigh the evidence presented. I can ask no more. My goal is to have a positive impact on reversing the plans of those who are altering our future. Obviously, to accomplish that task, I must convince as many as I can that I am correct in my assertions. I am therefore hopeful that each reader of this material will accept my challenge and remember the admonition of the judge: be honestly open and dutifully consider the evidence that will presented. XI INTRODUCTION Something is wrong in America! Today's newspapers are full of stories about the rampant rise in divorce rates; the increasing abuse of children by some parents; increases in the incidence of rape; pornography being read by an increasing number of people; more crimes against property; demands for world government; urgings for national borders to fall; Christian churches being closed because they will not seek licensing by the state; etc. But why are these things happening? Why are all of the legacies of the past, the family, national borders, the right to practice any chosen religion, the right to private property, amongst other things, under such attack? Is it possible that there are actually people and organizations who really want to change the basic order of things? Clues to the answers to these questions can be gleaned from some comments made by people and organizations that are talking about these wide-reaching changes in the nature of our lifestyle. An Associated Press dispatch on July 26, 1968 reported: Xii INTRODUCTION "New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller says as President he would work toward international creation of 'a new world order..." ! On January 30, 1976, a new document called The Dec- laration of Interdependence was introduced to the American people. It was signed by 32 Senators and 92 Representatives in Washington D.C. and read in part: "Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join. with others’ to _ bring forth a new world order." * Another individual who has commented is Henry Kissin- ger, former Secretary of State. According to the Seattle Post- Intelligence of April 18, 1975, Mr. Kissinger said: "Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a_ cre- ative and decisive role in the new _ order’ which is taking form around us." * President George Bush gave the commencement address at Texas A & M University on May 12, 1989, and he used similar words as well. His speech was on the subject of Soviet-American relations and he was quoted as saying, in part: "Ultimately, our objective is to welcome the Soviet Union back into the world order. Perhaps the world order of the future will truly be a family of nations." * Historian Walter Mills maintained that prior to World War I, Colonel Edward Mandell House, the major advisor to Woodrow Wilson, the President at the time, had a _ hidden motive for involving America in the war. The historian wrote: "The Colonel's sole justification for preparing such a batch of blood for his countrymen was his hope of es- tablishing a new world order of peace and security." ° INTRODUCTION Adolf Hitler, a Socialist, and the head of the German gov- ernment prior to and during that nation's involvement in World War II, is quoted as saying: " National socialism will use its own _ revolution for the establishing of a new world order." ° He confided to Herman Rauschning, the President of the Danzig Senate: "National Socialism is more than a _ religion; it is : 7 the will to create superman." Hitler added this thought: "Well, yes! We are barbarians, and _ barbarians we wish to remain. It does us honor. It is we who will rejuvenate the world. The present world is near its end. Our only task is to sack it." ° Another book on his background quoted his comments that his NAZI (National Socialist) Party had a_ hidden purpose, one that was not perceived by the world at large. Mr. Hitler was quoted as saying: "He who has seen in National Socialism only a political movement has seen nothing." * The Humanist religion issued a manifesto in 1933 stating its beliefs about the world in general. It took the following position about the need for the wealthy governments to share their wealth with the less fortunate nations: "It is the moral obligation of the developed nations to provide — through an international authority - .. economic assistance .. to the developing portions of the globe." '° The April, 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs, the quarterly periodical issued by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, had an article in it by Richard N. Gardner, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organi- X1V INTRODUCTION zations in the Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy admin- istrations. He stated: ".. we are likely to do better by building our ‘house of world order’ from bottom up rather than from the top down .... a an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, is likely to get us to world order faster than the old-fashioned assault." |! Even the Communist Party is voicing similar thoughts. The People's Daily World for Thursday, March 9, 1989, contained an article written by Angela Davis. Those familiar with Miss Davis will remember that she was the Vice Presidential candidate for the Communist Party a few years ago. She currently is a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party of the United States. She is quoted in the paper as saying: "One underlying effect of anti-communism in this respect is to encourage a_ certain hesitancy to embrace solutions which call for deep, — structural, socio-economic transformation." |” Another Communist, Alexei Kovylov, spoke at an evening meeting held at Windstar, Colorado in August, 1985, and gave the participants in attendance a surprise presentation. He spoke about the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Moscow a few months prior to his lecture. He said: "There were three programs. The first was _ poli- tical and dealt with the various issues of peace and disarmament. The second was dedicated to environmental _ [is- sues] and to the new international economic order." The alleged need for a change in the basic way things are done is consistent with the teachings of the "father of Com- munism," Karl Marx. When he co-authored the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO with Frederick Engels in 1848, Mr. Marx wrote that the Communists: XV INTRODUCTION "..openly declare that their ends can_ be attained only by the _ forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions." '* Nesta Webster, a writer on the subject of conspiratorial organizations in the past, wrote this in her book entitled SECRET SOCIETIES: "... the revolution desired by the leaders [of world revolution] is a moral and _— spiritual revolution, an anarchy of ideas by which all _— standards’ set up throughout nineteen centuries shall be _ reversed, all honoured traditions trampled under foot, and above all the Christian ideal finally obliterated." '° Some of the Catholic Popes in the past have commented on the major changes coming in the future. One such Pope was Pope Pius XI, who wrote the following in 1937: "Communism has behind it occult forces which for a long time have been working for the overthrow’ of the Christian Social Order ...." 1° One of the Popes who preceded him, Pope Pius IX, wrote this in November, 1846 about the changes that he saw in the future: "That infamous doctrine of so-called communism is absolutely contrary to the natural law itself, and, if once adopted, would’ utterly destroy the rights, prope: and possessions of all men, and even _ society itself." Another individual who wrote about the future was Dr. Jose Arquelles, of an organization known as the Planet Art Network. Dr. Arguelles wrote: "Also implicit in all these events is a _ call for another way of life, another way of doing things, .. a redistribution of global wealth .. in short, a New World Order." '* XVI INTRODUCTION Just what the future society was that these people are talking about was described, in a brief manner, by Marilyn Ferguson in her book entitled THE AQUARIAN CON- SPIRACY. She wrote: "The new world is the old ~ transformed." ” Another clue about what is in store for the future world was offered by Dr. James H. Billington, who received his doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and has taught at Harvard and Princeton Universities. He wrote this in his book entitled FIRE IN THE MINDS OF MEN: "This book seeks to trace the origins of a faith - perhaps THE faith of our time. What is new is the belief that a _ perfect secular [meaning worldly] order will emerge from _ the forcible overthrow of traditional authority." °° That these future changes would involve force and slavery was confirmed by B. F. Skinner, chairman of the Psychology Department at Harvard University, in his book entitled BEYOND FREEDOM AND DIGNITY. Dr. Skinner has been called "... the most influential of living American psy- chologists" by Time magazine. So the world should listen to the professor when he speaks. The magazine told the reader what the message of Professor Skinner's book was: "We can no longer afford freedom, and so it must be replaced with control over man, his conduct and_ his culture." 7! Another student of these changes is Alvin Toffler, who wrote this in his book entitled THE THIRD WAVE: "A new civilization is emerging in our lives This new civilization brings with it new family — styles; changed ways of working, loving and _ living; a new economy; new _ political conflicts; and beyond all this an altered consciousness as well. The dawn of this new_ civilization is the — single most explosive fact of our lifetimes." ** XVil INTRODUCTION Another scientist involved in commenting upon the future changes was Dr. Carl Sagan. He has observed: "It's clear that sometime relatively soon in terms of the lifetime of the human species people will identify with the entire planet and the species ...." * The reason why these changes are necessary was ex- plained by Manly P. Hall, perhaps the world's leading authority on esoteric words and language. He wrote in his book entitled LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: "The time has not yet arrived when the average man is strong enough or wise enough to rule himself." ~ And he explained who he considered worthy enough to tule those on the world considered by the experts to be in- capable of governing themselves. He wrote: "Never will peace reign upon the earth until we are ruled by the fit." *° Mr. Hall even indicated that these changes would occur soon. He wrote this comment in his book previously cited: "One hundred years ago [meaning in 1884] it was predicted that within a few centuries men would _ revert to the gods of Plato and Aristotle .... We may all look forward with eager anticipation to that nobler day when the gods of philosophy once more shall rule the world ...." *° Aldous Huxley, in his book called BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED, quotes a character called the Grand Inquisitor in one of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski's parables as saying: "In the end they [the people] will lay their freedom at our [the controller's] feet and say to us ‘make us your slaves, but feed us." The Tucson Citizen newspaper of November 3, 1988 printed a photograph of a some people involved in a "march for literacy," and it clearly demonstrated that at least some xvm INTRODUCTION people in America are now asking their government to make them their slaves. The picture showed a demonstrator carrying a picket sign that read: "Uncle Sam, we want you to support us." * Mr. Huxley gave us a date when we could expect these changes to occur. He wrote the following in his book written in 1958: "... the twenty-first century .. will be the era of World Controllers ...." 7” And then he told us why these "controllers" would not fail: "The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses enough miracles and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship education will really work ~ with the’ result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good’ reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown." Someone who might have given the world the date for the commencement of these predicted changes was Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor during his four year administration. He wrote the following in his book entitled BETWEEN TWO AGES: "Either 1976 or 1989" -- the two — hundredth anniversary of the Constitution — could serve as a suitable target date for culminating a national dialogue on the’ relevance of existing arrangements, the workings of the representative process, and __ the desirability of imitating the various European regionalization reforms and of streamlining the administrative structure." *' X1xX INTRODUCTION So, the people of the world can now determine what those changes are that those in the positions of implementing changes have in store for them. In summary, then, these changes are: The old world is coming to an end. It will be replaced with a new way of doing things. The new world will be called the "New World Order." This new structuring will re-distribute property from the "have" nations and will give it to the "have- not" nations. The New World Order will include changes in: the family: homosexual marriages will be legalized; parents will not be allowed to raise their children (the state will;) all women will be employed by the state and not allowed to be "homemakers"; divorce will become ex- ceedingly easy and monogynous marriage will be slowly phased out; the workplace: the government will become the owner of all of the factors of production; the private ownership of property will be outlawed; religion: religion will be outlawed and believers will be either eliminated or imprisoned; there will be a new religion: the worship of man and his mind; all will believe in the new religion; The United States will play a major role in bringing it to the world. World wars have been fought to further its aims. Adolf Hitler, the NAZI Socialist, supported the goal of the planners. The majority of the people will not readily accept "the new world order" but will be deceived into accepting it by two strategies: XX INTRODUCTION 1. Those in favor of the changes will have become seated in the very thrones of power, generally without the public realizing that fact; 2. The "old world order" will be destroyed piece by piece, by a_ series of planned "nibbles" at the _ established format. The Communist Party is actively supporting the changes to the "new world order." The basic tenets of Christianity, which were the base for the "old world order," will have to be eliminated. If the slower, methodical techniques of change do _ not function, violence will be introduced and controlled by _ the planners. The people of the world will give up their freedom to the "controllers" because there will be a planned famine, or some other serious occurrence, such as a depression or war. The change to the "New World Order" is coming shortly, perhaps beginning after 1989. However, if that is not the year, it will be introduced one step at a time, so that the entire structure will be in place by the year 1999. XXi The Great Seal of the United States Obverse Side Chapter | Tomorrow's Rulers Something is indeed wrong in America! And many sense that changes in this nation's lifestyle are occurring. The newspapers are saturated with articles reporting the activities of those advocating increased governmental spend- ing for a _ variety of unconstitutional purposes; organizations supporting a globalism concept urge the world to adopt a one world government; psychologists preaching the destruction of the family unit and recommending that the society rear the nation’s children; governments closing private schools; and nations forming regional governments under which national borders are scheduled to disappear. Since these changes appear to be part of the new philosophy known as "the new world order," anyone desiring to know the future has to become familiar with this new phrase and what it portends for the world of tomorrow. As an indication that major changes are coming in to- morrow's world, one of the current trends mentioned is the CHAPTER | TOMORROW'S RULERS call for a "one-world government." One of those supporting this leap forward is Norman Cousins, President of the World Federalist Society. He is on record as saying: "World government is coming. In _ fact, it is inevitable. No arguments for it or against it can change that fact." *»” The goal of a one world government is not a new thought. One of the earliest formal organizations that sup- ported the concept of that goal was the Illuminati, founded on May Ist, 1776, by Adam Weishaupt, a teacher of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, now part of Ger- many. Professor Weishaupt was quoted as saying: "It is necessary to establish a universal regime : 33 and empire over the whole world ...." A more modern organization that supports the coming changes is the Masonic Order called, simply, the Freemasons or the Masons. This world wide fraternity has members in America, as will be discussed, and they, too, support a call for a one world government. One who has written about this secret organization is Paul Fisher, and he says this about them in his book entitled BEHIND THE LODGE DOOR: "Masonry will eventually rule the world." ** Albert Pike, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry here in the United States from 1850 to 1891 wrote a book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA. Mr. Pike has been praised by his fellow Masons as a member almost without parallel in the history of the Masonic Order. Carl Claudy, himself a Masonic writer of great esteem, wrote this about him: "Albert Pike: one of the greatest geniuses Free- masonry has ever known. He was a mystic, a symbol- ist, a teacher of the hidden truths of Freemasonry." CHAPTER | TOMORROW'S RULERS So, the outsider can know that whenever Mr. Pike speaks, he speaks with authority and knowledge. He is perhaps the greatest Masonic writer of all time. His book is given to each Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdic- tion Freemason who is asked to read it. (There seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether or not this book is still required reading for each Scottish Rite Mason. This writer was told that it was given to each Scottish Rite Mason in Tucson. Other Masons say that that is not true.) In it, he informs the new Mason about the moral teachings of the Ma- sonic Lodge. He instructs the Masonic reader that the Order will eventually be asked to rule the entire globe. He wrote: ".. the World will soon come to us _ for its Sovereigns [apparently referring to its governmental leaders] and Pontiffs [apparently meaning its religious leaders. | We shall constitute the equilibrium of the universe, and be rulers over the Masters of the World." *° He wrote this supportive statement in a _ book entitled LEGENDA: "And thus the warfare against the powers of evil that crushed the Order of the Temple goes steadily on, and Freedom marches ever onward toward the conquest of the world." *” The Order of the Temple Mr. Pike was writing about was the Knights Templar, which was, according to him, "devoted to the cause of opposition to the tiara [the Pope's triple crown] and the crowns of Kings ...." ** Mr. Pike said that the Catholic Church was a "power of evil ...". because it had "crushed" the Templars, even though he admitted that they were "devoted" to opposition to the Church and its leader, the Pope. But the major point of that quote is that these forces of opposition, presumably meaning the Masons, are marching "onward toward the conquest of the world." CHAPTER | TOMORROW'S RULERS Mr. Pike repeated his devotion to the conquest of the world, with this comment at the end of his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA: "Such, my Brother, is the TRUE WORD of a Mas- ter Mason; such the true ROYAL SECRET, ~~ which makes possible, and _ shall at length make _ real, the HOLY EMPIRE of true Masonic Brotherhood." * But, the major worldwide movement that champions a one world government, under a religious leader, is a new phenomena occurring worldwide called. The New Age Move- ment. Texe Marrs, a researcher into this new religion, has written two books on the subject. Both of these books are excellent primers for those who wish to know more about the beliefs of this religion. The two books are entitled DARK SECRETS OF THE NEW AGE, and MYSTERY MARK OF THE NEW AGE. He has written: "The New Age Movement has undeniably taken on the definite form of a religion, complete with an agreed-upon body of doctrine, printed scripture, a pattern of worship and _ ritual, a functioning group. of ministers and lay leaders." “° Another writer who has written two books on the New Age religion is Constance Cumbey. Her two books are called THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW, and A PLANNED DECEPTION. She has written this: "The New Age Movement is a_ religion complete with its own Bibles, prayers and mantras, Vatican City/Jerusalem equivalents, priests and gurus, born- again experiences (they call it ‘rebirthing,') spiritual laws and commandments, psychics and _ prophets and nearly every other indicia of a religion." “! The new religion has a series of leaders. One is a woman named Alice Bailey, a prolific writer on the subject of the New Age. She was the founder of an organization called the Arcane School, one of the major Lucis Trust divisions. The Lucis Trust was a major publisher of books supporting the religion. In her book entitled THE EXTERNALIZATION OF CHAPTER | TOMORROW'S RULERS THE HIERARCHY, she told her readers who the organiza- tions were that were going to bring the New Age religion to the world. She identified them as being: "The three main channels through which the preparation for the New Age is going on _ might be regarded as the Church, the Masonic’ Fraternity and the educational field." “” (The main thrust of this book will to be to examine only one of the three organizations mentioned by this author, that being the Masonic Fraternity. There are numerous works by other writers exposing the involvement of the Church and _ the educational field in the New Age Movement, so this writer will not attempt to duplicate those efforts. However, only a few are aware of the involvement of the Masons, and that is why I have chosen to concentrate on that organization.) Another major writer on the New Age Movement is Benjamin Creme, and he admitted in his book entitled THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST AND THE MASTORS OF WISDOM that: "The new religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is imbedded the core of the secret of the occult Mysteries." ” So Masonry conceals a great mystery inside its temples, one that is connected somehow to the New Age Movement. The Masons admit in some of their writings that they too are anticipating a new age, a series of major changes. Henry Clausen, the past Sovereign Grand Commander (the equiva- lent of their President) of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, has been quoted as saying: "We look towards a _ transforming into a New Age using, however, the insight and wisdom of the ancient mystics." “* The Masons claim that the things that they believe in are as old as the ancient civilizations. They also claim that these "mystics," the ancient philosophers, had the wisdom of all ages, and that somehow this knowledge has become lost CHAPTER 1 TOMORROW'S RULERS through, the centuries. Humanity today does not possess _ this knowledge, but it has become the task of the Masons, and other "truth" seekers, to rediscover these principles for the benefit of all of mankind. Those possessing this knowledge will correct the world's current problems. Some of the Masons also claim to have identified the cause of these problems. One of the most prolific writers on the subject of this "lost" truth is Manly P. Hall, a 33rd degree Mason. (For those unfamiliar with the Masonic degrees, all Masons in America start through what is called the Blue Lodge, consisting of three degrees. The initiate into this lodge goes through three separate and _ different initiation cere- monies, one for each degree. After completing these ceremo- nies, he may stay where he is, or choose to affiliate himself with either the York Rite or the Scottish Rite. The latter is divided into two separate jurisdictions, the Southern and _ the Northern. These are based primarily on _ state borders, and whether one joins one or the other depends on where the ini- tiate lives. The two Scottish rites have an additional 29 degrees, making for a total of 32. There is one more degree, called the 33rd degree, which is honorary, and only a few are invited into that degree. The York Rite has a total of nine degrees. However, since little has been revealed about this order, the author will concentrate on only the Scottish Rite, and in particular, the Southern Jurisdiction.) Mr. Hall has written a book entitled LECTURES ON AN- CIENT PHILOSOPHY in which he talks a great deal about the Masonic fraternity. This is his comment about the coming changes: "A new day is dawning for Freemasonry. From the insufficiency of theology and_ the _ hopelessness of materialism, men are turning to seek the God of phi- losophy." © Notice that Mr. Hall has said that current "theology," ob- viously current "religion," has proven insufficient. Also, he feels that "materialism," meaning the right to private proper- ty, is also a failure. But more importantly, he points out that this new "God" of the Freemasons is somehow different from the God of the Jews and Christians. As will be illustrated CHAPTER | TOMORROW'S RULERS later, some of the Masons believe that the God of the Bible is a God of evil. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, perhaps the founder of the current New Age movement, has also determined that the Masons are somehow supportive of her religious views. She wrote this in her book entitled THE SECRET DOCTRINE: ".. at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries many Freemasons trav- elled to Tibet where they were initiated into _ the esoteric [defined as intended for or understood by _ only a chosen few, as an inner group of disciples or ini- tiates] order of the Masters of wisdom." “7 It should be expected that she would support the Masonic fraternity. In 1875, she founded an _ organization called the Theosophical Society, basically dedicated to teaching the world about her new secret religion. One of the earliest members of that organization was Albert Pike, later to be- come the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Albert Pike, who later became a 33rd degree Mason, the highest degree attainable, also saw that there were some sig- nificant changes coming, and that he was supportive of those changes. He wrote the following in his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA: we can look on all the evils of the world, and see that it is only the hour’ before sunrise, and __ that the light is coming." “ If Mr. Hall is right, the "evils" that his fellow Mason Al- bert Pike saw are connected to current religion, and_ that which is coming is somehow different from those religious views. Mr. Hall, who as mentioned previously is another 33rd degree Mason, also wrote that a new day was coming, and that it was not too far into the future: "A new light is breaking in the east; [the signifi- cance of the location, "the east," will be pointed out later] a more glorious day is at hand. The rule of the CHAPTER | TOMORROW'S RULERS philosophic elect ~ the dream of the ages — _ will yet be realized and is not too far distant." ” So, Mr. Hall is also expecting that these changes are about to occur in the not too distant future. Someone who attempted to zero in on when these chang- es were expected to occur was Alice Bailey, previously men- tioned. She wrote about when she thought the New Age would arrive: "Eventually, there will appear the Church — Uni- versal, and its definite outlines will appear towards the close of this century." Since she wrote early in the 20th century, we can see that she was predicting the eventual arrival of the New Age, sometime around the 1990's. This estimate of that date is not too far wrong, as will be demonstrated later in this book. Whatever is coming in the future, some New Agers have told us that they expect that it will last for a long time. One such writer is Ruth Montgomery, who wrote that she saw that the new religion would rule the earth for a_ thousand years. She wrote the following in her book entitled HERALD FOR THE NEW AGE: "The New Age, the millennium [a millennium is a period of one thousand years], will see an end to _ that strife, at least for a thousand years." *! Just what is the New Age religion that will last for at least one thousand years on the earth? One who attempted to answer that question was Con- stance Cumbey in her book entitled THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW. She wrote that these were the basic tenets of the new religion: 1. "The Plan" for the future’ includes’ the _ instal- lation of a New World "Messiah," the imple- mentation of a new world government and new world religion under Maitreya (an indi- vidual who will be examined later in this book). CHAPTER | TOMORROW'S RULERS 2. A universal credit card system will be _— imple- mented. 3. A world food authority will control all of the world's food supply. 4. A universal tax. 5. A universal draft. 6. They intend on _ utterly rooting out people who believe the Bible and worship God and to completely stamp out Christianity. As was discussed prior to this summary, certain people have indicated that they see the Catholic Church as an enemy. Here Mrs. Cumbey says that they see not only Catholicism as the enemy, they also see all of Christianity as an enemy. Whatever the New Agers believe in, it appears to be growing in popularity. Bantam Books, one of this nation's leading publishing houses, has reported that the sales of their New Age titles has increased tenfold in the past decade. Time magazine reports that the number of New Age bookstores has doubled in the past five years, to a total of about 2,500. *° According to an article in Forbes magazine, "publishers estimate that total sales of New Age titles today are at least $100 million at retail." ™ So, whatever they believe in, many believe in it. But perhaps the most insightful comment about the na- ture of what the New Age religion believed in, and who they worshipped as their god, was written by Mrs. Cumbey in her book entitled THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW. She wrote that they had: ".. the intent of bringing about a New World Or- der — an order that writes God out of the picture and deifies Lucifer." »° So, if Mrs. Cumbey and the other writers on the subject are right, the New Age Movement needs to be _ studied in some depth. Chapter 2 The New Age Movement The New Age Religion appears to be the exact opposite of the Old Age Religion, meaning the religion of the Jews and the Christians. These are the two religions that set the United States on its course because these religions taught that mankind had some basic human rights. They held that the family was the basic unit in all of the world; they believed in the right to private property; they believed in the inalienable (defined as being incapable of being surrendered) right to life; they held that each person had the right to worship their god; and they held that all had the right to freedom of association. As shall be documented in this study, these positions, which were deemed to be _ "self-evident" by those who wrote the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, became the cornerstones of the American civilization. (The term "self-evident" means __ that these human rights were not worthy of debate because they stood on their own simply because they were true. They couldn't be debated.) 10 CHAPTER 2 THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT Yet, today, these cornerstones of American life are no longer "self-evident." They are being publicly discussed: people and organizations are now debating whether an_ individual has the basic human rights to life, liberty and property. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, a German philosopher, and one of the teachers of many of the world's leading communist revolutionaries, put the argument quite succinctly, in this statement: "I condemn Christianity. I raise against the Chris- tian Church the most terrible of all accusations that any accuser uttered. It is to me the highest conceivable corruption." *° Texe Marrs, an author who has written in opposition to the New Age, wrote this about their hatred of the Christians: "The New Age believer is told, "You could be a _ god in the next instant if only those horrible Christians weren't around with their poisonous attitudes.” ~” That thought was illustrated by another of the important New Agers, David Spangler, who wrote this in his book en- titled REFLECTIONS ON THE CHRIST: "We can take all the scriptures and all the teach- ings and all the tablets and all the laws, and all the marshmallows and have a_ jolly good _ bonfire and marshmallow roast, because that is all they are worth." ** So the New Age, like the Masons, feel that Christianity is the enemy, a force to be countered, not by open debate, but by contempt and ridicule, and as shall be illustrated later, by even murder. Other parties wish to join the debate. In 1911, the So- cialist Party of Great Britain published a pamphlet entitled SOCIALISM AND RELIGION, in which they placed their po- sition about religion into the arena: "It is therefore a profound truth that Socialism is the natural enemy of religion. A Christian Socialist is 11 CHAPTER 2 THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT in fact an anti-Socialist. Christianity ae is the antithesis of Socialism." ©” So the Socialist, the New Ager, and the Mason have de- clared war on the Christians. And, as in every war, the enemy must be defeated, even by bloodshed if necessary. This war is no different. Bloodshed is anticipated by all parties in the battle. LaVedi Lafferty and Bud Hollowell, two New Agers, started the discussion about how their religion sanctions the use of violence against the Christian community. They wrote the following in their book entitled THE ETERNAL DANCE: "This is a time of opportunity for those who will take it [apparently the New Agers.] For others, — [ap- parently the Christians] if the earth is unsuitable for them, [if they will not accept the New Age religion] they will go on to other worlds.” © Another New Age spokesman, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the "guru" sought out by the rock 'n roll group known as _ the Beatles, has been quoted as saying: "There has not been and there will not be a place for the unfit [apparently the Christians] The fit will lead, and if the unfit are not coming along, [if they will not accept the New Age religion] there is no place for them. In the Age of Enlightenment there is no place _ for ignorant people. Nonexistence of the unfit has been the law of nature." °! Another example of New Age thinking on this vital issue came from a pamphlet available in a bookstore selling New Age material. It was published by something called the Guardian Action Publications of New Mexico, and it was en- titled Cosmic Countdown. It alleged that it had _ received these thoughts from something called "Higher Intelligence," and it directed its attention to the hunger/disease problem in the third world. The pamphlet stated: "The world should be forewarned to be on _ the lookout for diseases which have been suppressed for 12 CHAPTER 2 THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT years, suddenly’ rearing their ugly heads and_— deci- mating populations already on the verge’ of _ starva- tion in the Third World Nations. Although these peoples’ will eventually be replaced by the new root race about to make its appearance in a newly’ cleansed world; nevertheless, for the mo- ment, this is a tragedy." © The words reveal an incredible scenario: those people in the Third World nations are going to be entirely replaced by a "new root race." That eventuality will not be a tragedy; the tragedy is that these people are dying now due to starvation and disease. The concept that a new race of people will inhabit the world in the New Age millennium has been expressed by other believers in the religion. Ruth Montgomery, previously mentioned, has written about that change: "Those who survive the shift will be a _ different type of people from those’ in_ physical form _ today, freed from strife and hatred, longing to be of service to the whole of mankind. the souls who helped to bring on the chaos of the present century [apparently the Christians and the Jews] will have passed into spirit to rethink their attitudes." © To show that the New Agers are talking about the physical death of the "enemy," one must only search the writings of other New Agers. Another believer to write on the subject of the destruction of those who will not accept the new religion was Ruth Montgomery. She has been quoted as saying in a transcribed interview carried by a magazine called Magical Blend: "Millions will survive and_ millions won't. Those who won't will go into the spirit state, because there is truly no death." “ Estimates of the number to perish have been made by some New Agers. One who has made such an estimate is John Randolph Price, who was quoted by Texe Marrs in his book about the New Age. He said that: 13 CHAPTER 2 THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT "John Randolph Price was told by his spirit guide that up to two and one-half billion might perish in the coming chaos." © That estimate is about half of the current world pop- ulation. Another estimate of the number required to die because they will not accept the new religion was offered by the so- called "Tibetan master," Djwhal Khul, who has said in one of his channelling experiences, that one third of all humanity must die by the year 2000. © That would be about 2 billion people. Channelling is one of the strange activities occurring inside the New Age religion. Some of the believers claim that they have the ability to call forth the deceased spirit of someone who lived many years before. Quite often these spirits claim to be "ascended masters," those who have gone on to discover the eternal truths of all of creation. One such believer who claimed to be in touch with a "master" was Alice Bailey, previously mentioned. Her spirit called himself Djwhal Khul, and she claimed he spoke through her, saying: "Death is not a disaster to be feared; the work of the Destroyer is not’ really cruel or undesirable Therefore there is much destruction permitted by _ the custodians of the Plan and much evil turned into good." Just what "The Plan" constituted was told to the world by Benjamin Creme, another New Age leader. He placed an advertisement in about 20 newspapers all over the world on April 25, 1982, that defined the term. The ad read, in part: "What is The Plan? It includes’ the installation of a new world government and new~ world _ religion under Maitreya." © But perhaps the most startling example of the teachings of this new religion came from the pen of Barbara Marx Hubbard, one of their most articulate writers. She wrote in her book entitled HAPPY BIRTHDAY PLANET EARTH: 14 CHAPTER 2 THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT "The choice is: do you wish to become a_ natural Christ, a universal human, or do you wish to die?" se "People will either change or die. That is _ the choice." ”° So the people of the world will be given a choice: they will choose to accept the new religion, or they will choose to die! The battle lines are drawn! Choices will have to be made. Some of the leading Socialists of the past have shown that they too have chosen up sides. One such individual was Adolf Hitler, the head of the German government during World War II, who held no conviction that the murder of over 50 million people during that war was wrong. He considered himself to be an agent of this unseen god in reducing the population of people that he held to be undesirable. He wrote: "IT have the right to exterminate millions of in- dividuals of inferior races, which multiply like ~ ver- min." And he did what he considered acceptable inside his religion. Those who did not believe in his new religion had no choice, and they perished. (The evidence that Adolf Hitler was a New Ager will be presented later in another chapter.) Another of the leading spokesmen for the Socialist posi- tion was George Bernard Shaw, a _ well-known writer during his day. He wrote a book entitled THE INTELLIGENT WOM- AN'S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM, in which he stated: "I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income’ or _ nothing, and under Socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not’ the character and _ in- dustry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might be executed in a _ kindly manner, but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well." ” 15 CHAPTER 2 THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT The Masonic writer, Albert Pike, placed the Masonic order into the discussion, when he wrote this in his book MORALS AND DOGMA: "It is not true to say that ‘one man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great, to a majority or to all men.’ That is not only a fallacy, but a most dangerous one. Often one man and many men _ must be - sacrificed, in the ordinary sense of the term, to the interest of the many. the interest and even the life of one man _ must often be sacrificed to the interest and welfare of his country." 7 The religious view is that the "sacrifice" of one life for the interest of the "many" is murder, and those who believe in the God of the Bible are told not to commit this act. The commandment against this practice is contained in Exodus 20:13 of the Old Testament, and in Matthew 5:21 in the New, and is simply expressed in the words: "Thou shalt not kill." The principle is easy to understand: no person has the right to take the life of another. This understanding is _ nearly worldwide (there are, of course, cultures that have deter- mined that human sacrifice, cannibalism and murder are ac- ceptable forms of behavior, but these are rare in the history of man.) But, here we are being exposed to a whole new re- ligious view, one growing daily in size and_ stature, that openly advocates the wholesale slaughter of entire races of people. Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, has also endorsed this new conviction that murder was not improper by including it in the initiation ceremony into the Order. He has his initiator tell the initiate: "Behold our secret... If in order to destroy all Christianity, all religion, we have pretended to have the sole true religion, remember that the end _— justi- fies the means, and that the wise ought to take ll the means to do good which the wicked take to do evil." 16 CHAPTER 2 THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT The initiate was told that he may use whatever means, murder included, to achieve the goals of the association that he was joining. And that the major goal of the Illuminati was the destruction of all religion, including Christianity. That meant that if Christians physically stood in the way, they could be removed by simply murdering them. Weishaupt even went so far as to say that anyone not willing to take the life of another was unfit to join the Illuminati. He wrote the following in a letter to a _ fellow member in 1778: "No man is fit for our Order who is not ... ready to go to every length ...." ° Weishaupt wrote that again, this time using different words: "This can be done in no other way but by secret associations, which will by degrees, and _ in __ silence, possess themselves of the government of the States, and make use of those means for this purpose’ which the wicked use for attaining base ends." ” Weishaupt was aware of the enormous power of govern- ment and he desired its power for his members. He com- mitted his organization to its infiltration. Then, he committed it to unspeakable purposes: anything that would further the goal of the Illuminati. He even went on to grant permission to his members to distort the truth by lying if it would further their goals. He wrote: "There must not a_ single purpose ever come _ in sight .. that may betray our aims against religion and the state. One must speak sometimes one way and_ some- times another, but so as never’ to contradict our- selves, and so _ that, with respect to our true way of thinking, we may be impenetrable." ”” Perhaps a perfect example of an oath that these initiates take somewhere along the road to the pinnacle inside the secret society was given in a book written by George Orwell 17 CHAPTER 2 THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT entitled 1984. Mr. Orwell has an initiate into a secret society called The Brotherhood in his story asked these questions: "Are you prepared to give your life? Are you prepared to commit murder? Are you. prepared to commit acts of sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds’ of innocent people? Are you. prepared to betray your. country’ to foreign powers? Are you prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute —habit- forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to dissem- inate venereal diseases — to do- anything which is likely to cause demoralization and weaken’ the power of the [people?] Are you prepared to commit suicide, if and when we order you to do so?" This is an example of the philosophy that "the ends justify the means." The initiate should do as he was required, as long as the act benefited the Brotherhood. There is no morality under such an oath. So murder of the unfit, those unwilling to adopt the new religion, will be acceptable. And those who do the annihilat- ing are to feel no remorse. In the view of the New Age re- ligion, the murderers have served mankind well. But, this callous disregard for the right to life of every human on the face of the earth has been predicted before. In the New Testament, John was moved to write in John 6:12: "Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." The New World Order will sail in on a sea of blood. Chapter 3 Lord Maitreya The New Age religion will have a worldwide leader, an individual that they call Lord Maitreya. This individual has not made his public appearance yet, but the New Agers claim that he is on the earth at the present time. They claim that he came to live with the Asian community in East London, England, in July, 1977, by "descending" from his ancient retreat in the Himalaya Mountains along the border of India and Tibet. They further believe that "his imminent emergence into full public view is assured." They also claim that this individual is the one that the Christians call Christ, the Jews call the Messiah, the Buddhists call the Fifth Buddha, the Hindus call Krishna, and the Muslims call the Imam Mahdi. In other words, all of the major religions of the world are awaiting the arrival of this one individual. It is their claim that this one individual living now in London is the one expected by all of these religions. And he is on the earth now, patiently waiting for the appointed time to reveal his existence to the peoples of 19 CHAPTER 3 LORD MAITREYA the world. He will apparently assume the leadership of all of these religions, and when he does, he will create a one-world religion. The New Agers have written that in the esoteric tradition (previously defined as being intended for or understood by only a chosen few as an inner group of disciples or initiates) the word "Christ" is not the name of an individual, but the name of an office, or function, within the Spiritual Hierarchy of Masters. The masters are a group of perfected men who have guided human evolution from behind the scenes for cen- turies. And they believe that this Lord Maitreya is _ that Christ. Manly P. Hall has written of this individual, by identifying him as: "... the way, the truth, and the life which, coming to every life, redeems all who accept it." ” Texe Marrs has quoted this individual as saying: "My Army is ready for battle, My masters of Wis- dom and Myself at the head. That battle will be fought for the continuance of man on this earth. Rest assured that my Army shall triumph." *° It appears that the battle to be fought between the follow- ers of Lord Maitreya and the rest of humanity is still in the future. But at least one of the participants has an army already prepared. One who claims to have seen the birth in a "vision" of someone who seems to fulfill the requirements of this Mait- reya was astrologer Jeanne Dixon. Her major claim to being a "prophet" is her prediction, reportedly made before the event, of the assassination of President John Kennedy in 1963. However, her credentials were dealt a serious blow in 1968 when she also "prophesied" that the Soviet Union would be the first to put a man on the moon. Another of her "prophecies" was that the Republican Party would be vic- torious in 1968 (and it was with the election of Richard Nixon, a Republican,) but she also predicted that "within the following decade (1970-1979) the two-party system as we have known it will vanish from the American scene. * 20 CHAPTER 3 LORD MAITREYA She further predicted that Richard M. Nixon had "ex- cellent vibrations for the good of America" and would "serve [the] country well." Be Those who question her inability to correctly predict that America, not the Soviet Union, would become the first to place a man on the moon; and that the two-party system has not vanished from the scene; and that President Nixon ap- parently did not have "good vibrations" for this nation and would later be removed from office by the event commonly referred to as "Watergate," can only presume that she must have been given "inside" information about the assassination of the President Kennedy. And that would account for her knowing, at least in that event, the true future. Secondly, one can only wonder why this "“non-prophet" should be listened to about anything after her appalling record on "prophecies," but there is reason to believe that she might have been asked to write an account of this "vision" of an important birth by the New Age religion because they wanted the official imprimatur of someone commonly referred to as a "prophet." In other words, her "prophecy" might have been written to legitimize his claim to be a man-god so that when this individual made his public appearance himself, the public would marvel at the fact that his birth had fulfilled a prophecy." But, in any event, Ruth Montgomery wrote a book about her, entitled THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, in which she wrote about the very revealing and intriguing vision that Jeanne Dixon allegedly had: "The vision which [Jeanne] considers the most sig- nificant and _ soul-stirring of her life occurred on _ Feb- ruary 5, 1962. She saw the brightest sun she had ever seen. [The reader is asked to remember this reference to "the sun." | Stepping out of the brightness were a Pharaoh and Queen Nefertitii [Remember here that these two in- dividuals were Egyptians. This will become _ significant later on in this. study.] The couple .. thrust forth — [a] baby, as if offering it to the entire world." *° Jeanne looked at the baby and then said, according to the author: 21 CHAPTER 3 LORD MAITREYA "I knew ‘Here is the beginning of wisdom." “ So what Ruth Montgomery wrote can be summarized as follows: A sun deity gives the world a child, from Egypt, who pos- sesses enormous "wisdom." And this event allegedly took place on February 5, 1962. The interpretation of these sym- bols will be discussed later and their alleged significance will be developed. Jeanne then says: "A child, born somewhere in the Middle East short- ly after 7 am. (ES.T.) on February 5, 1962, will revo- lutionize the world. Before the close of the century he will bring together all mankind in_ one all-embracing faith. Mankind will begin to feel the great force of this man in the early 1980's, and during the subsequent ten years the world as we know it will be reshaped into one without wars and _= suffering. His power will grow greatly until 1999 [this year is extremely significant as will also be developed] at which time the peoples of this earth will probably discover the full meaning of _ the vision.” So, according to this "vision," a child, born on February 5, 1962, will grow up to bring a one-world religion onto the face of the earth, and his efforts will be successful in 1999. The New York Times newspaper ran three consecutive articles on the conjunction of five planets, the sun, the moon and an "invisible body that astrologers call Khetu," starting on February 4, 1962. The first article stated that the various bodies moved into "rough alignment in the constellation Cap- rico at 7:05 A.M., New York time," and that they would "remain in that alignment until 7:17 A.M., New York time, Monday." °° However, the article went on to say that most of the people in India became alarmed, because most astrologers were making "predictions of disasters." There were a few astrologers who were predicting good for the world as a result of this alignment, but "few Indians appear[ed] to be paying them much heed." 22 CHAPTER 3 LORD MAITREYA Astronomers did not consider the event to be rare, how- ever, and the article went on to report that "the same con- figuration [had] occurred several times in the past,” the last time being in April, 1821, and then it occurred twice. The article reported that Dr. Kenneth L. Franklin of the Museum of Natural History-Hayden Planetarium in New York had commented that that year does not seem to be a year of any remembered disasters. He was then quoted as saying: "And that year isn't famous for anything, as far as I know." Dr. Franklin also commented on the body the astrologers call Khetu. He "speculated that it may be some sort of astro- logical addition used to make everything come out right." He then added that he believed Khetu "to be the invisible planet that is frequently taken into account in astrological reck- onings, but that he had no idea how it was possible to keep track of something that no one could see." The Times carried another article the next day, Monday, February 5, 1962, and it repeated the concern of the Hindu astrologers. In fact, that headline read "Hindu Astrologers Still Say It's Doomsday." And the sub-headline read "Peaceful Beginning of Planetary Event Is Viewed Gravely." The third article in the series ran on Tuesday, February 6, 1962, and carried the headline "'Doomsday' in India Unevent- ful." The article reported that the Indian astrologers had "predicted a variety of disasters, earthquakes, tidal waves, devastating fires, and warfare, to name a few," but that none of these events had occurred. Furthermore, the article re- ported that Hindu priests had claimed that the reason noth- ing had happened was because their prayers to their god had been answered. But, none of these three articles mentioned the birth of anyone on these three days. Furthermore, none but a few as- trologers had believed that something good was going to hap- pen, and that only a few in India had listened to them. Only Jeanne Dixon, another "astrologer," had seen a_ vision of something beneficial, in this case the birth of a baby "full of wisdom,” at about the midpoint of the three day affair. One can only wonder if, once again, she missed the mark, and was involved in another error. In any event, these people claim that the Lord Maitreya will appear shortly to the entire world and start everyone off on a road to a world religion. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in her book entitled THE SECRET DOCTRINE, called him "the 23 CHAPTER 3 LORD MAITREYA dragon of wisdom." So it appears that the one call that Jeanne Dixon made that appears to match other comments is her statement that the baby she saw in her "vision" was "full of wisdom." If the baby she claimed to have seen in her vi- sion was "Lord Maitreya," then she was right, because others have claimed that Lord Maitreya is "full of wisdom." However, there is still reason to believe that she was given "inside" information by some New Agers who wanted to have this "Lord's" birth "prophesied' so that when he did surface, the New Agers could claim that his birth had been "a fulfilled prophecy." So the world awaits the visible appearance of Lord Maitreya. 24 Chapter 4 The Ancient Mysteries "The One Who Knows The _ Secret Does Not Speak. The One Who Speaks Does Not Know The Secret." Alice Bailey, one of the key members of the New Age religion, wrote: "There is no question therefore that the work to be done in familiarizing the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be’ restored to outer’ ex- pression through the medium of the Church and _ the Masonic Fraternity." ** The question of just what the Ancient Mysteries were was answered, in part, by Albert G. Mackey, another 33rd degree Mason, in his two volume work entitled ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FREEMASONRY. He wrote this under the subject of the Ancient Mysteries: 25 CHAPTER 4 THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES "Each of the pagan gods ... had, besides the public and open, a _ secret worship paid to him to which none were admitted but those who had_ been _ selected by preparatory ceremonies called Initiation. This secret worship was termed the Mysteries." © The student of the Masonic Order can know that when Mr. Mackey writes, his writings can be relied upon. He is considered to be one of the premier Masonic authors of all time. These are the comments’ from the biographical information presented on Mr. Mackey in the front of his ENCYCLOPAEDIA: "... his writings are universally esteemed for _ their sincerity, honest records and common _ sense. [He was] a leader in research ... who valued accuracy." Carl Claudy, another Mason who writes on the subject of the Lodge, also has words of praise for Mr. Mackey: "[He was] one of the greatest students and most widely followed authorities the Masonic world has ever known." *! And in his book entitled INTRODUCTION TO FREEMA- SONRY, he praised Mr. Mackey with these words: "Albert Gallatin Mackey: one of the greatest — stu- dents and most widely followed authorities the Masonic world has known. [He is] the great Master of Freema- sonry." 7 So Mr. Mackey can be believed when he tells his readers that the worship of pagan gods had a secret, non-visible worship besides the public one. The reader can believe him when he identifies the name of this secret worship. He told his readers: "This secret worship was termed the Mysteries." Another who has written about the subject of the Ancient Mysteries was Manly P. Hall, another 33rd degree Mason. He 26 CHAPTER 4 THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES has written in his book entitled WHAT THE ANCIENT WISDOM EXPECTS OF ITS DISCIPLES: "In the remote past the gods walked with men and they chose from among the sons of men the wisest and the truest. With these specially ordained and _ illumined — sons they left the keys of their great wisdom, which was_ the knowledge of good and evil. [This will be examined later. | these illumined ones, founded what we know as the Ancient Mysteries." ”° He wrote additional comments about these mysteries in another of the books he has written, called THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES: "The arcana [defined as being a _ secret or hidden knowledge] of the Ancient Mysteries were never _ re- vealed to the profane [defined as _ those not __ initiated into the inner mysteries] except through the media of symbols. Symbolism fulfilled the dual office of con- cealing the sacred truths from the uninitiated and_ re- vealing to those qualified to understand the symbols."™* Mr. Hall dedicated the latter book to: "the proposition that concealed within the emblem- atic figures, allegories and rituals of the ancients is a secret doctrine concerning the inner mysteries of life, which doctrine has been preserved in toto’ [in the whole] among a _ small band of initiated minds since the beginning of the world." ”° He went on to mention that the Mysteries: "were secret societies, binding their initiates to in- violable secrecy, and avenging with death the betrayal of their sacred trusts." ”° Mr. Hall told the reader that no one is to know the _ iden- tity of those who have received the secrets. He wrote: 27 CHAPTER 4 THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES "The true Adept and _ MInitiate shall reveal his identity to no man, unless that one is worthy to receive +. 97 it. He further explained where some of these initiates lived, when he wrote: "... no reasonable doubt can exist that the initiates of Greece, Egypt, and other ancient countries possessed the correct solutions to those great cultural, intellectual, moral, and social problems which in an_ unsolved _ state confront the humanity of the twentieth century." *° He further amplified that thought when he added: "Neo-Platonism [defined by Mr. Hall as a_ school founded by Plotinus around 240 A.D., concerning _ itself with the problems of metaphysics, the study of knowledge] recognized the existence of a secret and _ all- important doctrine which from the time of the earliest civilizations had been concealed within the rituals, symbols and allegories of religions and philosophies." " So, in summary, it is possible to understand what these Ancient Mysteries were. There appear to be at least four truths gleaned from the information provided in the com- ments made above. Those truths appear to be: 1. The Ancient Mysteries had two forms of worshipping the same god. 2. The knowledge of the true god _ was __ reserved for those who had been entrusted with the secrets. 3. Those who understood those secrets were sworn to the strictest secrecy. 4. Those who had knowledge of the secrets claimed to possess all of the answers to all of the problems of mankind. There was an additional secret for the secret bearers: they had to be initiated in a private initiation ceremony. Albert Pike wrote a little about it: 28 CHAPTER 4 THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES "Initiation was considered to be a _= mystical death; and the perfect Epopt was then said to be regenerated, newborn, restored to a _ renovated existence of life, light and purity."-!°° In fact, this "new born" experience is similar to the exper- ience the "born again" Christians go through. The Christians call their experience a second birth, just as the Masons do. In fact, Albert Pike calls a similar ceremony a "born again" ex- perience. He wrote: "In the Indian Mysteries, the Third degree, the Initiate is said to be 'born again.” 1” The ceremony in the ancient mysteries has been described by the Masonic writer Manly P. Hall: "In the ancient system of initiation, the — truth seeker must pass through a_ second birth, and_ those who attained this exalted state were known _ thereafter as 'the twice born.’ This new’ birth .. must be personally — earned through a complete regeneration of character and conduct." '” This "new birth" ceremony involves a _ symbolic death, according to the Mason Kenneth Mackenzie. He wrote: "In the ancient mysteries, the aspirant could not participate in the highest secrets until he had _ been placed in the Coffin. In this he was symbolically said to die, and_ his resurrection was to the light." '”° Modern day Masons participate in an almost similar ceremony to the one described by these Masonic writers. In the Third Degree, called the Master Mason degree, inside the Blue Lodge, the candidate is actually knocked off of his feet by several of the Masons in attendance. He is wrapped up in a blanket and moved to the western end of the Temple. There, after further ceremony, he is "raised up" by a secret grip called "The Master's grip, or the lion's paw." '™* 29 CHAPTER 4 THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES Those who learned the mysteries also learned that they had a secret project, one that was described by Albert Pike in his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA. Mr. Pike wrote: "Behold our object, the end, the result, of the great speculations ... of antiquity; the ultimate annihilation of evil, and restoration of Man to his first estate, by a Redeemer, a Masayah, a Christos, the incarnate Word, Reason, or Power of Deity." '° Mr. Hall told his readers that those who had _ been initiated into the mysteries were the secret power behind the governments of the past. He wrote this about these ancient initiates in his book entitled WHAT THE ANCIENT WIS- DOM EXPECTS OF ITS DISCIPLES: "[they] .. are the invisible powers behind the thrones of earth, and men are but marionettes, dancing while the invisible ones pull the strings. We see the dancer, but the master mind that does the work remains concealed by the cloak of silence." '° Other writers have confirmed the thoughts of Mr. Hall. A Masonic scholar named George Steinmetz also acknowledged that these mysteries exist, and that some of the members inside the Masonic lodges are custodians of the secrets. He has written this in his book entitled FREEMASONRY, ITS HIDDEN MEANING: "Ancient secret doctrine, which is concealed in Ma- sonic allegory and symbolism .... It was but to preserve these truths for future generations that Masonry was perpetuated." '°” Another who has officially connected the Ancient Mysteries to the Masonic Order was Manly P. Hall, who wrote this: "Much of the ritualism of Freemasonry is based on the trials to which candidates were subjected by the ancient hierophants [defined as the high priests of the mysteries] before the keys of wisdom were enthroned to them." 30 CHAPTER 4 THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES The Ancient Mysteries had a beginning, according to Mr. Mackey. He wrote about where they started: "The first of which ... are those of Isis and Osiris in Egypt. The most important of these mysteries were the Osiric in Egypt." 1° Another writer, Edmond Ronayne, an ex-Mason, confirmed that the Masons were involved in the worship of Osiris, when he wrote this in his book entitled THE MASTERS CARPET: Masonry's ". ceremonies, symbols, and _ the cele- brated legend of Hiram in the Master Mason's _ degree, were directly borrowed from the ‘Ancient Mysteries,’ or the secret worship of Baal, Osiris or Tammuz." '!° Albert Pike then detailed where the mysteries went after their beginnings in Egypt. He wrote this in MORALS AND DOGMA: "From Egypt, the Mysteries went to Phoenicia, and were celebrated at Tyre. Osiris changed his name, and became Adoni or Dionusos, still the representative of the sun. In Greece and Sicily, Osiris took the name of Bacchus we “T So the Ancient Mysteries conceal an important mystery kept secret from the average person. The mystics claim that this mystery has been concealed from the world for centuries. Even though they had taken the mystery to other con- tinents, those who believed in this religion were yet to take it to America. That was yet to come. 31 Chapter 5 Secret Societies "An invisible hand is guiding the populace." Lafayette Arthur Edward Waite, a prolific writer on secret societies, has written this: "Beneath the broad tide of human _ history _ there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface." |!” Another who wrote about the power just underneath the surface was President Woodrow Wilson, who made _ this startling statement: "... there is a power so_ organized, so_ subtle, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak 32 CHAPTER 5 SECRET SOCIETIES above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” 113 So these two writers has warned America that secret societies had been arranging the major events of the past. And President Wilson warned those who were quick to con- demn these organizations that they had better be cautious. Albert Pike also connected the secret societies with a secret belief in his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA. He wrote that all secret orders and associations: ".... had two doctrines, one concealed and_ reserved for the Masters, ... the other public ...." '" One such secret society with two doctrines was the I[llumi- nati, and Professor Weishaupt, its founder, boasted of his organization's secrecy. He realized that this secrecy would enable them to decide the fate of nations and because their deliberations were secret, no outsider could interfere. He wrote: "The great strength of our Order lies in its conceal- ment; let it never appear in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation." | Weishaupt later wrote about that secrecy in a letter to a fellow member of the Hluminati: "Nothing can bring this about [the new world order] but hidden societies. Hidden schools of wisdom are the means which will one day free men from _ their bonds [the "bonds" of religion, as will be detailed _later.] Princes and nations shall vanish from the earth." ''° So the secret societies were created to bring the world to the new society known as the New World Order. The members of these organizations obviously feel that their goals are so noble that they may perform whatever tasks are required of them to bring that goal to fruition. This means that murder, plunder, and lying all become acceptable as long as these methods assist its members in obtaining their goal. But the Masons want the world to know that they are not one of the societies involved in changing the world's 33 CHAPTER 5. SECRET SOCIETIES civilization. They are quick to rush to their own defense. Albert G. Mackey attempted to clear the air about those who had been charging them with some of these activities. He wrote in the ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FREEMASONRY: "There is no charge made more frequently against Freemasonry than that of its tendency’ to revolution, and conspiracy, and to _ political organizations which may affect the peace of society or interfere with the rights of governments. It has been the unjust accusation of every enemy of the Institution in all times past, that its object and aim is the possession of power and control in the affairs of state. It is in vain that history records no _ instance of this unlawful connection between Freemasonry and politics; it is in vain that the libeler is directed to the Ancient Constitutions of the Order, which expressly forbid such connections." '"” So the public is to believe that just because their Consti- tution forbids such activity, the Masons do not engage in it. But the evidence that connects the Masonic Lodges to such activity continues to accumulate, Mr. Mackey's denials not- withstanding. 34 Chapter 6 Concealed Mysteries "Tn all time, truth has been hidden under symbols." ''* ose symbols ni are nevertheless ingenious veils that cover the truth." '!° Thus wrote Albert Pike, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Free- masonry. There certainly seems to be a power in knowing some- thing that you can't tell your family, friends, children or busi- ness acquaintances. Adam Weishaupt said it best with this selection from his writings: "Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery." '”° 35 CHAPTER 6 CONCEALED MYSTERIES The power of hidden symbols was alluded to by another writer, this time Foster Bailey in his book entitled THE SPIRIT OF FREEMASONRY: "A symbol veils or hides a_ secret, and is _ that which veils certain’ mysterious forces. These energies when released can have a potent effect.” '”" There are many who can attest to that simple truth: organizations with concealed or _ secret initiation ceremonies abound in America. College fraternities and _ sororities teach the college student to accept secret initiation ceremonies and hidden knowledge at a young age. The Masons, intended for adult males, have similar organizations for their young sons and daughters, and other secret organizations for their wives. All of these organizations tend to prepare their male members for further service in the master secret organization: the Masons. However, the Masons are quick to point out that they conceal their truths from the general public. Manly P. Hall wrote this : "It is for the Adepts [an adept is defined by _ the dictionary as one who is an expert. But, there is an "esoteric" definition that shall be discussed later] one to understand the meaning of the Symbols." '” He further instructed his readers that understanding the symbols could make one wise: an understanding of these symbols’ is _ the 5 : 123 beginning of wisdom" Max Toth, a writer about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt also wrote about the purpose of symbols: "The knowledge of the ancient mysteries was _nev- er revealed to the layman except through the media of symbols. Symbolism fulfilled both the need to _— conceal sacred truths from the uninitiated and to offer a language for those qualified to understand it." '”* 36 CHAPTER 6 CONCEALED MYSTERIES Whatever these secrets are, one writer on the subject feels it is time to make them public. Alice Bailey, one of the key writers supporting the New Age movement, wrote this: "The hour for the ancient mysteries has arrived... These Ancient Mysteries were ia hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words, and in symbology; these veil the secret ...." '”° Another writer who writes on the Order, Carl H. Claudy, told anyone who read the Masonic literature that they had best understand the language, or they would miss the true meaning of the words. He wrote: "He who hears but the words of Freemasonry misses their meaning entirely. '”° Rex Hutchens, a 32nd degree Mason who has written a hook for the Masons, one so important that it was used to replace one written by MHenry Clausen, a former Sovereign Commander, also informed his readers that his writings also concealed a secret: "The word reveal means to ‘'re-veil,) that is, to give one explanation and yet continue to maintain the mystery of the symbol by not explaining it in a full and complete manner." '”7 So, the language code must be broken if one is to learn the truth about the Masonic Order. The reason that this is so is because the Masons have admitted that they have con- cealed the true meaning of some of their language. However, it is possible to know the true meanings of at least some of the hidden language. And the reader can be certain that the discovered interpretations are correct because the Masons themselves have revealed the hidden meanings of some of their symbols in some of their own _ literature. The secret societies that have concealed their purposes in hidden meanings, concealed writings, and private initiation cermonies, are admittedly powerful. One who recognized that power was Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of England 37 CHAPTER 6 CONCEALED MYSTERIES in the late 1880's, who said this in the House of Commons on July 14, 1856: "There is in Italy a power which we seldom men- tion in this House ... I mean the secret societies .... It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe -- the whole of Italy and France and a_ great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries ~ is covered with a network of these secret societies .... what are their objects? They do not want constitutional government; .. they want to change _ the tenure of the land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to. ecclesiastical [meaning religious] establishments." '”* The Masons know about concealing secrets from the rest of the world. Carl Claudy, a Masonic writer, told his readers that secrets are inside secrets which are inside other secrets. He wrote: "Cut through the outer shell and find a _ meaning; cut through that meaning and find another; under it if you dig deep enough you may find a third, a fourth - who shall say how many teachings?" '”” And even the Communists use concealment. Nikolai Lenin, the Marxist Communist who communized the Russian nation in the years following the Russian Rev- olution of 1917, wrote this: "We have to use any ruse, dodge, trick, cunning, unlawful method, concealment, and veiling of the truth." ‘°° The use of secrecy to conceal thoughts from certain of the members of an organization or from the public is the device of those who have something to hide. That something is so horrible, so terrible, that knowledge of that secret must be kept from those who would have the most to lose by knowledge of that secret. In the case of the secret societies, it is a belief in Lucifer, also known as Satan, the devil. 38 CHAPTER 6 CONCEALED MYSTERIES In the case of Communism, it is the truth that the people living in a Communist nation know that the system does not work. But those in a non-Communist nation targeted for a Communist government are not to learn that simple truth. They are to be told that the system is the culmination of man's upward search for a perfect society. And they must be deluded into believing that there is no cost in the change from their. current form of government to the Communist form. But history has recorded the brutality of the Com- munists and the fact that millions of people have had to die as the Communists installed that form of government. The evidence to support that contention will be discussed later in this study. Secrecy is certainly not a part of the Chrisian religion. It is possible to know that nothing that Jesus said has been hidden from the Christians. He told the high priest in John 18:20: ".,. and in secret have I said nothing." The intentional concealing of an organization's beliefs and purposes by the use of hidden language and concealed sym- bols is reserved primarily to the secret societies, and the nationwide Masonic Lodges are indeed a _ secret society. The Masons know that they must conceal their horrible secret from the people. That secret is simply the fact that certain of their members worship Lucifer. And that they keep that secret from the overwhelming majority of their own members. And certainly the public is not to know __ this fact. And the evidence to support that conclusion is ample. But only to the one who cares enough to look for it. 39 Chapter 7 Serpents, Stars and Suns So the student of history has to discover the hidden meanings behind the symbols in the Masonic literature and in the secret initiation ceremonies to understand the Masonic Order. One of the first symbols that needs to be examined is the symbol of the serpent, also called a snake or dragon. Manly P. Hall wrote that the use of this symbol is as old as early man when he wrote this in his book entitled THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES: "Among nearly all these ancient peoples the serpent was accepted as a symbol of wisdom ...." Here Mr. Hall states that the serpent was a symbol of "wisdom." It will be remembered that Lord Maitreya, the future New Age leader, also claimed to possess "wisdom." Mr. Hall continued: 40 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS "Serpent worship in some form _ has permeated nearly all parts of the earth." "The serpent is the symbol and _ prototype of the Universal Savior, who redeems the world by _ giving creation the knowledge of itself and the realization of good and evil." '°* And then Mr. Hall links the serpent with the Ancient Mysteries previously discussed. He continues with the com- ment that the serpent was worshipped by the priests of that religion: "The priests of the Mysteries were symbolized as a serpent, sometimes called Hydra." He then pointed out that the Ancient Mysteries have been passed on to various other cultures, and that they have been brought forward to the present day: "The Serpent Kings [notice that Mr. Hall cap- italized the two words, as one would do for a deity or for royalty] reigned over the earth. It was these Serpent Kings who founded the Mys- tery Schools which later appeared as the Egyptian and Brahmin Mysteries ..... The serpent was their symbol They were the true Sons of Light, and from them have descended a long line of adepts and _ initiates duly tried and proven according to the law." Another writer, Wilfred Gregson, informed his readers why Mr. Hall capitalized the two words "Serpent Kings" when he wrote: "One symbol of great prominence throughout all ancient civilizations is the snake of serpent, where it has symbolized 'Divine Wisdom." '*° So. Mr. Hall had reason to capitalize the words, because he had discovered that the serpent represented divinity. Notice also that Mr. Gregson, even though he chose not to capitalize the word "serpent," confirmed that Mr. Hall's use of the capital letter was correct when he stated that there was a connection between "Divine Wisdom" and the serpent. 41 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS Mr. Hall made the same connection in these comments: "The serpent is true to the principles of wisdom, for it tempts man to the knowledge of himself." °° A serpent is "often used by the ancients to sym- The symbol of the serpent has another concealed truth, according to Kenneth Mackenzie. He identified that truth in this quote when he described a Brazen Serpent: "It was a type of Mediator, and a promise of re- demption." The word Brazen is defined as "bold, or impudent." And Impudent is defined as "shamelessly bold or disrespectful." It will be remembered that Lucifer was an anoited cherub in heaven, who fell because he sought godly power. The story is covered in Isaiah 14: 12-14 of the Old Testament: "How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground .... For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: ... | will be like the most High." Therefore, it can be safely said that Lucifer would be con- sidered to be "shamelessly bold" and "disrespectful." It appears that the Brazen Serpent could be Lucifer! Another author, John Anthony West, wrote a book enti- tled SERPENT IN THE SKY, in which he also connected the serpent with "wisdom." He wrote: "the serpent represents intellect, the faculty by which man _ discriminates. There is a higher and a _ low- er intellect. Thus, symbolically, there is a _ serpent that crawls, and the higher intellect, that which allows man _ to know , God - the heavenly serpent, the serpent in_ the sky." 42 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS The somewhat veiled worship of this serpent in the sky inside the Masonic lodges was alluded to by another Masonic writer, Kenneth Mackenzie, in his book entitled THE ROYAL MASONIC CYCLOPAEDIA. He wrote this: "Among the charges preferred against the Order of Knights Templar, for which Jacques de Molay _ suffered martyrdom, was that of worshipping an idol or image called Baphomet. It has been suggested that Baphomet is none other than the Ancient of Days, or Creator. More cannot be said here without improperly _ re- vealing what we [meaning we Masons] are bound to hele, conceal and never reveal." 2 So, according to this Mason, the snake or serpent is some- how a symbol of the subject of the Masonic worship, and ap- parently this fact is the secret that the Masons cannot reveal to the rest of the world. A Christian minister, Reverend Alexander Hislop, wrote a book that included some discussion on the subject of serpent worship. In that book, entitled TWO BABYLONS, he ex- plained that serpent worship was not something that is re- cent in time. It was an ancient practice. "Along with the sun [this symbol will be discussed later] as the great fire-god, and, in due time, iden- tified with him, was the serpent worshipped. In __ the mythology of the primitive world, the serpent is uni- versally the symbol of the sun. .. as the sun was the great enlightener of the physical world, so the serpent was held to have _ been the great enlightener of the Spiritual, by giving man- kind the 'knowledge of good and evil." | He then discussed a coin minted in Tyre, the center of the ancient Phoenician culture. (This coin was also the subject of an article in the September, 1986 issue of The Good News magazine.) It depicted a serpent entwined around a tree stump. To the left of the stump stood an empty cornucopia, and to the right a flourishing palm tree. The snake on the coin is the symbol of the powerful god whom the Romans 43 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS called Aesculapius. The name means "the man-instructing snake, or the "snake that instructs man." The article then reported: "In mythology, Aesculapius was believed to be the child of the Sun, and thus the ‘enlightener’ of mankind. As the legend goes, Aesculapius was _ ultimately — struck down by a thunderbolt thrown by an angry Zeus, king of the gods, and cast into the underworld." '*! The tree stump represented the fallen "god" and _ his ruined kingdom. In the mythologies of many ancient civili- zations, the image of a fallen tree was used to symbolize the cutting off of a great god or hero, someone cut off in the midst of their power. The snake on the coin was shown twist- ing itself around the dead stump, exerting its power in an attempt to restore his fallen kingdom. The cornucopia is an ancient symbol of plenty, but it was empty on the coin. This has been interpreted as meaning that the abundance had been cut off because the great "god" has been cut off, However, the implication is that the horn of plenty will return when the fallen "god" is restored to his "rightful" position. The palm tree shown on the coin is a well known symbol of victory. So it appears that the coin was minted to depict the anticipated return of the fallen snake-god to the world. The Bible talks about a fallen serpent in the book of Rev- elation, chapter 12, verse 9. However, in this case, the snake is connected to another symbol of the serpent: "a great drag- on." "And the great dragon was cast out, that old ser- pent, called the Devil, and Satan ...." Is the serpent worshipped in the Ancient Mysteries and a symbol in the Masonic ceremonies a symbol of Satan, the devil? As has already been discussed, there is indeed evidence that this is the case. Another symbol that needs to be analyzed is the star. On the page opposite page 124 in Mackey's ENCYCLO- PAEDIA is a drawing illustrating the "symbols of Freema- sonry." Included in the twenty or so Masonic symbols is a drawing of a shooting star. 44 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS It can be fairly claimed that a blazing or shooting star would be one that was on the move inside the universe. One of the directions it could move would be towards the earth. If itwas moving towards the earth, it could be called a "falling star. Lucifer is a "fallen angel," according to Isaiah, an Old Testament prophet, who wrote this in Isaiah 14:12: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer ...." Notice that Isaiah also said that Lucifer fell from heaven. And other parts of the Bible report that he fell to the earth. So, it is conceivable that the symbol of the "falling" or "blazing" star could be a symbol of Lucifer. A variety of authors have used their writings to discuss the star as a symbol. Professor Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, was one who explained what he considered the star to be a symbol of: "... the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason." Mr. Mackey wrote that the star: "was a symbol of God." He then connected the blazing star to another symbol when he wrote: "The Blazing Star ... refers us to the sun ...." '" And then he connected it with the secret initiation cere- monies inside the Masonic lodge: "In the Fourth Degree of the same Rite [the Scot- tish Rite of Freemasonry] the [Blazing Star] is again said to be a symbol of the light of Divine Providence pointing out the way of truth." '“* And Mr. Hutchens, the Masonic writer who has_ authored the recent book on Masonry, further interpreted the symbol of the star: 45 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS "The star as a type of the myriad suns that light other countless systems of worlds is an emblem of _ that Masonic Light in search of = which every Mason travels -- the correct knowledge of the Deity, and of His laws that control the universe." Closely allied with the symbol of the star is the symbol of the sun. Albert Pike identified it with the worship of the past in this collection of quotes from his writings: "The worship of the sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity." '“° "... thousands of years ago, men _ worshipped the Sun ..... Originally they looked beyond the orb to _ the invisible God ..... They personified him as _ Brahma, Amun, Osiris, Bel, Adonis, Malkarth, Mithras, and Apollo. Krishna is the Hindu Sun-God." '” "... the Gauls worshipped the Sun under the name of Belin or Belinis." '“* "The sun is the ancient symbol of the _ life-giving and generative power of the Deity. The Sun was His manifestation and visible image." '” "The Sun is the hieroglyphical sign of Truth, _ be- cause it is the source of Light." !°° So, Mr. Pike identified the sun as a symbol of a deity that should be worshipped. He chose to capitalize the first letter in the word, the "s," as one would in recognizing the name of a deity. Albert Mackey repeated Mr. Pike's contentions with com- ments like these about "sun worship:" "... [it was] the oldest and by far the most _prev- alent of all the ancient religions. Eusebius says that the Phoenicians and the Egyptians were the first who ascribed divinity to the sun." "Hardly any of the symbols of Masonry are more important in their signification or more extensive in their application than the sun as the source of mate- rial light, it minds the Mason of that intellectual light of which he is in constant search. 46 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS The sun is then presented to us in Masonry first as a symbol of light, but then more emphatically as a symbol of sovereign authority.” |! So, the sun was a symbol of something that only the be- lievers in the religion known as the Ancient Mysteries un- derstood. These believers, called adepts, certainly knew that the people would not accept their mystery religion, so they had to conceal it from them. So the task became one of cre- ating a religion around a belief that they knew the _ people would accept, because it would make some sense, at least as far as the adepts would explain it. But their basic purpose was to create a popular religion as a cover for their secret worship. The secret religion would be built around a belief in the sun. The sun would be a perfect thing to build a religion around because of its basic nature. It is very visible, and has a very important role in man's life. It rises in the morning (it appears to be born) and then sets during the evening, (it ap- pears to die) and then appears to be "born again" the next morning. It also appears to wander in the sky, setting further north (or south) each night. It then returns back to any given position twice a year. So the sun appears to have a major birth or death twice each day and twice each year. It would be very easy for the adepts to explain to the peo- ple that only something bigger than mankind, a god, had the ability to die and come back to life. So, the adepts would teach the people that they had to pray to the god or it would choose not to return. They encouraged a worship of the sun so that it would return to mankind again, either once a day, or once every six months. Albert Pike confirmed this view with this explanation of why early man worshipped the sun: "To them [meaning early man]... the journeyings of the Sun, were voluntary and not mechanical ...." 7 So early man considered the sun to be something that moved voluntarily. In other words, the sun did not have to return each morning. Man must have quickly determined that since the sun did not have to return, man should start asking 47 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS it to return. Man certainly must have figured out just how important the sun was to his life and well-being and he cer- tainly must have determined that if the sun chose not to re- turn, all of mankind would perish. So it was an easy jump from a belief that the necessary sun was an entity that chose to move across the daytime sky, to a belief that it would re- turn only if man prayed to it to return. But there is something even more interesting to be con- sidered that Pike didn't explain with that comment. Obviously, to make the new religion work, the believers would have to be able to predict the movements of the sun. It wouldn't be too long before some of the common people would start noticing that the sun was neither an actual being nor a god to be worshipped, but something that moved according to precise laws. If the common people figured that out, they would not need the adepts who had computed the sun's peri- odic cycles. So, to keep their power intact, they would teach the people that if they did not accommodate their wishes, they would make certain that the sun did not return. They could even predict, as their measurements became more so- phisticated, the exact time and date when the moon would go between the sun and the earth, causing the sun to "disap- pear." They could then fool the people into believing that they were the cause of the disappearance. They could then explain to the people that if they did not continue to pay them sort sort of tribute, they would not intercede in their behalf, and the sun would not reappear. To keep the minds of the common people away from figur- ing out that the whole religion was a scam, the adepts would conduct beautiful and ornate ceremonies around the worship of the sun. And they would expect the people to pay them for the elaborate rituals. And to make their rituals valid, the adepts would always claim that the sun obeyed their prayers, thereby convincing the people of their need to keep the adepts around. The people would continue to pay tribute to these adepts as long as they appeared to be successful. Now, if the adepts knew that the sun was a symbol of something that the people would not support, such as a belief that Lucifer, the devil, was the god that they worshipped, they would have to continue with their charade, so that the people would not decide to stop worshipping. Because if the people figured it out, they would no longer support their 48 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS activities. They would have to keep their beliefs from the people, and conceal their secret worship in hidden symbols. So sun worship as a religion prospered. Mr. Hutchens discussed that position in his book: "In the Tabernacle the brethren, clothed in __ black, mourn Osiris, who is_ representative of the sun, of light, of life, of good and _ beauty. They reflect upon the way the earth may again be_- gladdened by his presence. Mr. Pike connected the sun to Osiris, mentioned by Mr. Hutchens as worthy of being mourned: "The three lights at the Altar [inside the Masonic Temple] represent Osiris, Isis and Horus. Osiris was represented by the Sun." !* Mr. Mackey went a little further and informed his readers that: : 155 "Osirus was the sun ...." In his book entitled INTRODUCTION TO FREEMA- SONRY, Carl H. Claudy, the author, himself a Mason, connected the sun worship with the ceremonies inside the Masonic Lodge: "The lodge ... sets him [meaning the initiate] upon the path that leads to Light but it is for him to travel the winding path to the symbolic East." !*° The physical sun rises in the east, and the Masons ex- plain that their search for light begins in the east. And notice that Mr. Claudy capitalizes the word "East," apparently in reverence to the spot where they believe that this god resides. The Masons tell the world that they circumambulate (de- fined as walking around) the Temple floor during their initia- tion ceremonies. Mr. Claudy explains why this rite is per- formed: "When the candidate first circles the lodge room about the altar, he walks step by step with a thou- 49 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS sand shades of men who have thus_ worshipped the Most High by humble imitation. Thus thought of circumambulation is no _ longer a mere parade but a ceremony of significance, linking all who take part in it with the spiritual aspirations of a dim and distant past." '° He further instructs his readers as to why this ceremony is part of their ceremony: "Early man _ circled altars on which burned the fire which was his God, from east to west by way of the south [notice that the north is not included in the cer- emony. The significance of that omission will be dis- cussed later.|_ Circumambulation became a _ part of _ all religious observances." In another part of his book, entitled INTRODUCTION TO FREEMASONRY, Mr. Claudy reported that this style of walking was traceable to the ancient religions of the past. He wrote: "Circumambulation .... was in the ceremonies of an- ; 158 cient Egypt." So, this practice of the modern Masons is based upon the ancient religious practices of the Ancients. So the Masons are telling us that early man _ walked around in a circle because he was worshipping the sun. Then they tell us that they are doing it for the same reason. There are reasons that the north as a location to be vis- ited in their walk around the temple floor is not included in their initiation rites, and six of the great Masonic writers have told us why this is so. Captain William Morgan offered his readers this explana- tion with this comment from his book: we, therefore, Masonically, term the north a place of darkness." '°” Mr. Mackey confirmed that statement in his book: 50 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS "The north is Masonically called a place of dark- ness." 160 And Mr. Pike confirmed the comments made by the other two Masons with this declaration: "To all Masons, the North has immediately been the place of darkness, and of the great lights of the Lodge, none is in the North." '*! And Kenneth Mackenzie added his confirming thoughts: "The North was always esteemed a place of dark- ness." 162 Mr. Hutchens became the fifth Masonic writer to confirm this detail: "As in other degrees, the closing ritual provides a summary of the lessons taught in the degree. We _ hear in the West the eagles gather and the doom of tyran- ny is near. In the South, truth struggles against error and oppression. In the North, fanaticism and __intoler- ance wane. In the East, the people begin to know their rights and to be conscious of their dignity and that the sun's rays will soon smite the summits of the mountains." '® Mr. Hutchens informed his readers that the North was where "fanaticism and intolerance" resided. What he meant by this and what the symbol of the North represents will be explored in later paragraphs of this study. And the sixth Masonic writer who confirmed that the North was a place of darkness was Carl Claudy, who wrote thisin his book entitled INTRODUCTION TO FREE- MASONRY: "... the place of darkness, the North." '* And the reason the Masons do not include the North in their rites is found in the Bible in Isaiah 14:13: 51 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS "I [meaning Lucifer] will exalt my _ throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north." The God of the Bible sits in the North, and Lucifer hopes one day to acquire the throne of God for his throne. But, un- til then, the "North is a place of darkness." But, while the north is an excluded territory, the east is the "place of light," and is to be revered. Mr. Hutchens tells his readers why that is so: ve the East — the source of light and thus knowl- edge." Albert Mackey quotes Etienne Francois Bazot, a French Masonic writer in his ENCYCLOPAEDIA: "The veneration which the Masons have _ for the East... bears a _ relation to the primitive religion whose first degeneration was sun-worship." ‘°° Rex Hutchens then tells his readers that the Masons de- ploy lights around the Lodge room during the initiation cer- emony for the 25th degree, called the Knight of the Sun. He writes: "The ceiling should be decorated to represent the heavens with the moon, the principal planets and_ the constellations Taurus and Orion. A __— single powerful light, a great globe of glass, representing the sun, is in the South. In a_ physical sense the’ greater light comes from the sun and _ the transparencies provide lesser light symbolically, the sun or great light is the Truth and the lesser lights are man's symbolic representation of Truth.” '° Mr. Mackey further discusses this Rite of Circumambula- tion, as he calls it, in his ENCYCLOPAEDIA. He says that the rite: "... exists in Freemasonry. 52 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS the people always walked three times round the altar while singing a sacred hymn. In making this _pro- cession, great care was taken to move in imitation of the course of the sun." '®* He then assisted the reader with understanding this _prac- tice in the Masonic temples: "This Rite of | Circumambulation undoubtedly _ refers to the doctrine of sun-worship ...." '% However, in another of the books that he wrote, Mr. Mac- key directly states that the rite is connected to sun worship. This is what he wrote in a book entitled MANUAL OF THE LODGE: "The circumambulation among the pagan nations referred to the great doctrines of Sabaism or sun wor- + 170 ship. Sabaism is defined by Mr. Mackey in his ENCYCLO- PAEDIA as: "SABAISM: The worship of the sun, moon and stars, ‘the host of heaven.’ It was _ practiced in _ Persia, Chaldea, India and other Oriental countries, at an_ ear- ly period of the world's history." '”! He then added this rather cryptic comment: te and although the dogma of sun-worship does not of course exist in Freemasonry, we find an_ allusion to it in the Rite of Circumambulation which it pre- serves ...." One can understand what Mr. Mackey meant by _ that comment: the Masons do not worship the sun, they worship the Sun! So he was telling the truth, but concealing it in a sym- bolic language. Mr. Hutchens then volunteered the information that in the 12th of the 32 degrees the Rite of Circumambulation is preserved. He writes: 53 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS "In all the Scottish Rite Degrees thus _ far, — the candidate has made twenty-one prescribed circuits around the altar; this degree adds seven for a total of twenty-eight. This practice, called circumambulation, iS derived from the ancients and _ existed among’ the Romans, Semites, Hindus, and others. It is thought to have been a rite of purification. The sun was believed to travel around the earth; the initiates imitated the movement of the sun _ when _ they made circuits around the altar." '”* Furthermore, in the ninth degree, other symbols of the sun are involved in the ceremony. Mr. Hutchens tells his readers: "After the obligation is taken, the nine candles of yellow wax are lit. Yellow is representative of the sun, hence light and knowledge." ' In the tenth degree, further symbols representing the sun are utilized, according to this author: "There are three sets of five lights: the wax is yel- low, meaning knowledge and also, as the color of the sun, represents the Deity.” '”° Other clues that the sun and the serpent are both known symbols of the Masonic Lodge are given by the titles of two of the 32 degrees inside the Masonic Lodge. The 25th degree initiate is called a Knight of the Brazen Serpent, and the 28th degree initiate is called a Knight of the Sun. There is another symbol of the sun inside the Masonic Lodge. The Worshipful Master, the equivalent of the Presi- dent of the Lodge, sits in the east side of the temple. We are told why that is: "The Worshipful Master represents the sun at _ its rising, the Senior Warden [another officer of the Lodge] represents the sun at its setting, and the Jun- 54 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS ior Warden [still another officer of the Lodge] _ repre- sents the sun at meridian [the half-way point.]" '”° Other individuals and organizations besides the Masonic Lodges are also involved, in varying degrees, with sun wor- ship, or with an acknowledgement that the sun plays a cen- tral role in their understanding of the nature of the world. Elizabeth Clare Prophet has been described as being a leader in the New Age Movement, and she has written this in a newsletter she publishes called THE COMING REVO- LUTION: "the healing of the nations begins with the healing of ourselves. We must draw forth from the Great Cen- tral Sun — that eternal Light with which we were anointed from the beginning." |”’ Adolf Hitler, the head of the German government prior to and during World War IJ, and who was directly responsible for the murder of over 50 million people, was also a sun- worshipper. Very early in his life, he joined a secret organi- zation called the Thule Society. And forty years after the war, some historians are finally delving into its strange beliefs. Two of these writers, Michel Bertrand and Jean Angelini, have produced a book entitled THE OCCULT AND THE THIRD REICH, and one of their conclusions is: "In the Nazi cosmology the sun_ played a_ prime role... as a sacred symbol of the Aryans, in contrast to the feminine and magical symbolism of the moon, revered by the Semitic peoples." The Nazi Party was the name of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, the party that Mr. Hitler joined. It became the controlling party of the German government prior to and during the war. the Fuhrer [German for leader, in this case meaning Mr. Hitler] saw in the Jewish people, with their black hair and swarthy complexion, the dark side of the human = species, while the blond and _ blue-eyed Aryans constituted the light side of humanity. Hitler undertook to extirpate [meaning to eliminate] from the 55 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS material world its impure elements .. to lead it back to glory." 178 But sun worship, as the Masons point out, is not new. The Bible talks about it as well. Ezekiel was an Old Testament prophet writing sometime during the period of 571 to 592 B.C. He tells about how he was taken by God to see a practice occurring near the Tem- ple. This is what he wrote in Ezekiel 8:15-16: "And He [the Lord God] brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the al- tar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and _ they worshipped the sun toward the east." And Ezekiel points out that the Lord God considered this practice "an abomination." There is another reference to sun worship in the Old Tes- tament, this time in Deuteronomy 17: 2-4, 7. That reference reads as follows: "If there be found among you, .... man or woman that... hath gone and_ served other gods, and _ wor- shipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven ... and it be true... that such an abomination is wrought in Israel... so thou’ shalt put the evil away from among you." So the God of the Bible has made it clear that sun wor- ship is something that He does not want His creatures prac- ticing. The Bible even went so far as to say, in both instances, that He considered the practice to be an "abomina- tion" or an "evil." But to show just how far this practice has invaded the Christian community, the following "prayer" was offered up at a recent funeral in a local Christian church: "Now you will feel no rain, for your Mother, the earth, will fold her arms around you. 56 CHAPTER 7 SERPENTS, STARS AND SUNS Now you will feel no cold, for your Father, the Sun, will always warm you." Sun worship continues. Because some Christian churches pray to the Sun god in their church services. And don't understand who they are praying to. Simply stated, the Sun god that they were praying to is Lucifer! 57 Chapter 8 The Author's Clarification The student of esoteric language and concealed symbols must study the being referred to as Lucifer, Satan or the dev- il in the Bible. But before that study commences, the author has to take an unusual step and attempt to clarify his position on _ the subject. I have endeavored to write this book as an_ historian, carefully basing my conclusions on my own research into the writings of the people involved. I have literally read hundreds of works on the subject of this book, and have attempted to record those comments as accurately as was possible. Although I am a Christian, I have tried not to let my reli- gious views color my thinking on the subject of this book. As I said, I have tried to write this book not as a religious writ- er, but as an historian who has discovered that history has been a series of planned events led by a conspiracy based 58 CHAPTER 8 AUTHOR'S CLARIFICATION upon a worship of Lucifer. I believe that it is possible to show that this is a fact of history, not as a religious writer, but as an historian. And that is what I have attempted to do in this book. I have, on occasion, quoted the Bible, and will do so in the remaining material whenever the context seems to war- rant it. At the very least, for the skeptic, the Bible is a magnificent record of the history of a particular group of people during particular periods of the past. I have used the Bible as I have used any other book, as a book of history. But it has always been to make a counterpoint in a_ specific instance where the historical facts seem to indicate that the use of the Bible warranted it. In this instance, it becomes important to start with a reading of a particular section of the Bible, and then show how others, not known for their belief in the God of the Bible, have also chosen to believe that section as well. It is hoped that the reader can understand the signifi- cance of what I have just written. It will make the reading of the remaining material a little easier to understand. 59 Chapter 9 Lucifer Worship The Bible discusses a being called Lucifer in both the Old and New Testaments. Other names for this creature are Sa- tan, and the devil. One of the first explanations of just who this being known as Lucifer is, is found in the Old Testament in a book written by the prophet Isaiah, who wrote around 740 B.C. He wrote that Lucifer was created "full of wisdom," and was "perfect." He was created the "anointed cherub that covereth the throne of God," and that he actually was "upon the holy mountain of God." He later "corrupted [his] wisdom by reason of [his] brightness." The Bible then records that God "cast [him] to the ground." Isaiah wrote this in Isaiah 14:12: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations!" 60 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP Notice that the fall of Lucifer weakened the "nations of the world." This will be examined in other chapters of this study. "For thou hast said in thine’ heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." Luke, a writer in the New Testament, records in Luke 10:18, that Jesus said that he beheld "Satan ([Lucifer's new name] as lightning fall from heaven." Peter records in II Peter 2:4 that God has "spared not the angels [who were in- volved in Lucifer's revolt against God] that sinned, but cast them down" as well. Paul, another New Testament writer, wrote this about Lu- cifer in II Corinthians 11:14, in about 57 A.D.: "And no marvel, for Satan is transformed into an angel of light". And in II Thessalonians 2:9, Paul wrote that Satan was capable of working "lying wonders." In around 90 A.D., John, the author of the book known as Revelation, wrote in Revelation 12:9, that Satan was a "drag- " on. Lucifer shows up in the original site of human_ habitation on earth, called the Garden of Eden. The creator God placed Adam, the first man (and later Eve, the first woman) in this garden, but told them that there were certain rules that they had to abide by. These are spelled out in Genesis 2:16-17: "And the Lord God commanded the man, - saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die. Later, Lucifer spoke through a_ serpent to Eve, but in reality, to both men and women: 61 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP "Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the ser- pent: We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the gar- den: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden [the tree of the knowledge of good and evil] God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye - shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and _ ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” So, from the above information, it is possible to glean a little knowledge about the nature of Lucifer: 1. He was cast down from heaven, because he desired to ascend directly into the seat of heavenly power, the throne of God. 2. He is referred to as the "son of the morning.” This appears to be a reference to Lucifer be- ing similar to the sun, which also arises every morning. 3. His desire is to sit on the north side of _ the mountain of God. 4. Lucifer can deceive the world, because he has been transformed into an "angel of light." 5. Lucifer can work "lying wonders." Now, with those basic understandings of Lucifer in place, it will be possible to examine the views of others about this fallen entity. However, not all agree with a picture of Lucifer being evil. Albert Pike wrote: there is no rebellious demon of Evil, or Princi- ple of Darkness and in eternal controversy with God. '” In fact, Mr. Pike believes that Lucifer was not a force of evil, but could be a force for good. He wrote this in MORALS AND DOGMA: "For the Initiates [those initiated into the true se- crets of Masonry] this is not a_ person, but a force, created for good, but which may serve for evil." 62 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP To further amplify that belief of Mr. Pike's, it becomes important to quote a letter that he wrote on July 14, 1889 to the 23 Supreme Councils of the world. Judging from the con- tents of this letter, it appears that Mr. Pike was attempting to tell the leaders of the various Supreme Councils all over the world that they were to know that Lucifer was the secret god of the Masons. This letter clearly indicates that he believed the position that Lucifer was a god who had come to earth for the good of mankind. He wrote: "That which we must say to the crowd is [pre- sumably Mr. Pike meant that the "crowd" was all of the non-Masons, or the public at largel We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without super- Stition." It appears that one of the purposes of this letter was to advise all of the top ranking Masons that they were to con- coct a story that the Masons worshipped the "traditional" God, so that none could ever accuse them of worshipping a cherub, a non-god, by the name of Lucifer. In other words, they were to deny that Lucifer was their god whenever an outsider was smart enough to break through all of the secrets and figure it out. So the secret inside the Masonic Order is that Lucifer is their secret god. Any non-Mason today who attempts to explain to any of their Masonic friends or relatives that this is the secret inside the Lodge will be met with an instanteous denial. Every Mason, whether they know the secret of the Lodge or not, will obviously deny the accusation. Mr. Pike continued: "You may repeat it to the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees — The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine." Here Mr. Pike seems to indicate that it is the 30th, 31st and 32nd degrees that are to be taught the "Luciferian doc- trine." The direct evidence that the honorary 33rd degree is 63 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP formally taught that Lucifer is the Great Architect of the Universe will be presented later. But, here Pike seems to say that that lesson is to be taught at an earlier degree. "If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay [the God of the Christians and the Jews] and his priests calum- niate [defined as _ spreading false and _ harmful _ state- ments about or to slander] him?" Pike makes two incredible statements about Lucifer: 1. He is considered to be a god! and 2. The priests, and the rabbis, have it all —back- wards, and are all slandering his name. As has been illustrated, the Bible states that Lucifer is nothing more than a fallen cherub. He is not a god. Yet Mr. Pike clearly states that Lucifer is a god! And secondly, those who claim that he is the "wicked one" are "slandering” him. Those individuals have it all wrong! Mr. Pike continued: .. the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay;" Adonay, also spelled Adonai, is the Hebrew word for God. To show that Pike was referring to the God of the Bible, he wrote this in his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA: ",,. Adonai, the rival of Bal and Osiris." i" As has been illustrated, Osiris is the sun-god, and the sun has been shown to be a symbol of Lucifer. Adonai is the "n- val" of Lucifer, both in the Bible, and in the writings of Albert Pike. "put Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God _ of Darkness and Evil." '* Here once again Mr. Pike writes that Lucifer and Adonay are rivals, and that the religious world has it all backwards: 64 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP Lucifer is the "good god," and Adonay is the God of "evil and darkness." (The author would like to interrupt the narrative to make an observation. That authenticity of that letter by Albert Pike that was just quoted has been questioned by a variety of writers. It has been reported that Mr. Pike made these comments in a "encyclical" hand carried to the a meeting of 23 Supreme Councils of the world on July 14, 1889 in Paris, France. This author is willing to concede that the only evidence for the contents of this "encyclical" consists of it being quoted in a book written by Frenchman named A.C. de la Rive enti- tled LA FEMME ET L'ENFANT DANS LA RANC-MACON- NERIE UNrVERSELLE. That title translated from French to English means THE WOMAN AND CHILD IN UNIVERSAL FRENCH MASONRY. A copy of that page that contains that quote, and the cover of the book has been supplied to this author by a concerned researcher who had someone locate the book in France for him and make copies of the pertinent pages. The author has read another book that contains the English translation of that "encyclical." That book is entitled OCCULT THEOCRASY and was written in 1933 by Edith Starr Miller. She cites the book by Mr. de la Rive as her source. She obviously believed that the letter was true and con- tained the actual thoughts of Mr. Albert Pike. In other words, the only source for the letter is a French- man who quotes it in his book and not Mr. Albert Pike him- self. It must be assumed that Mr. Pike, if he were alive today and was asked whether the letter was his, would deny that he ever wrote such an "encyclical," whether or not he had written it. But, the reader is admonished to remember that if he did indeed worship Lucifer, and wrote the "encyclical," he would certainly have to deny it. So that answer would tell the researcher nothing. It is the contention of this writer, and others who are at- tempting to decipher the secret symbols of the Masonic Or- der, that a small percentage of the Masons know that all of the symbols inside the Lodge refer to Lucifer. And it must be remembered that these Masons must of necessity do all that they can to deny that fact. 65 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP And certainly anyone today who believes that the contents of the letter are a fraud would do all that they could to dis- credit anyone who said that the thoughts were the actual thoughts of Pike. However, this writer is of the opinion that Mr. Pike did indeed worship Lucifer, and is not basing that conclusion on just this one letter. Notice that Mr. Pike has written else- where that he considered Lucifer to be the secret god of the Masonic Lodge. So, it is not essential to this writer's position that this "encyclical" be proven to be valid. It is the author's contention that there is ample evidence from other sources, including from Masons other than Mr. Pike, that the secret god inside the Masonic lodges is Lucifer. That evidence is available to anyone who cares to locate it.) But there is another Mason who knows that Lucifer is the "good god" of a particular segment of the Masons. Pike's fel- low 33rd degree Mason, Manly P. Hall, also felt that this "god" was a "god of good." He wrote in his book entitled THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES: "Sun worship played an important part in _ nearly all the early pagan Mysteries. The Solar Diety .. was slain by wicked ruffians, who personified the evil principle of the universe. By means of certain rituals and ceremonies, symbolic of purification and_ regeneration, this wonderful GOD OF GOOD was brought back to life and became the = sav- iour of His people." '’ (emphasis by author.) This "god" who came back to life is not the Jesus of the Bible, because Mr. Hall refers to him as "The Solar Diety." He is referring to the death and resurrection of Osiris, cov- ered in detail in the Masonic rituals. Manly P. Hall has further identified Lucifer as the god of some of his fellow Masons. He has written this in his book entitled THE LOST KEYS OF FREEMASONRY: "When the Mason learns the key to the’ warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of the living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft. 66 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP The seething energies of Lucifer are in _ his _ hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy." '™* Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian anarchist, also addressed this question of evil and good gods. He wrote: "The Evil One is the’ satanic revolt against divine authority, revolt in which we see the fecund [defined as meaning fertile] germ of all human emancipations, the revolution. Socialists recognize each other by the words ‘In the name of the one to whom a great wrong has_ been done.' Satan [is] the eternal rebel, the ffirst freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes men ashamed of _ his _ bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." '® That thought that Lucifer was a "good" spirit, to whom a great wrong" was done, is the basic thought that holds the New Age together, according to Texe Marrs, the author of two major books on the subject. He has written: "Many New Agers commend Lucifer because by tempting Eve he enabled man to evolve’ toward en- lightened knowledge and godhood." '*° Mr. Marrs discusses the thoughts of a leader in a mys- tical organization called the Stelle Group, named Eklal Kue- shana. He writes that this New Age leader says that: "Lucifer is the head of a _ secret Brotherhood of Spirits... the Brotherhood is named after Lucifer because the great Angel Lucifer has been responsible for the abolishment of Eden in order that men _ could begin on the road to spiritual advancement." '*” So, there is a basic disagreement about the nature of Lucifer, also known as Satan or the devil. The Bible depicts 67 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP him as a force for evil, and Mr. Pike, and others, pictures him as a force for good. But the connection between Lucifer and the Ancient Mys- teries needs to be further amplified. The Mysteries had a purpose: to create a super man, one capable of understanding the true nature of the universe, and to worship the "true" god. W.L. Wilmshurst, a Mason, wrote these thoughts in his book entitled THE MEANING OF MASONRY: "This -- the evolution of man into’ superman - was always the purpose of the ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose of modern Masonry is, not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the evolution of those who aspire to _ perfect their own nature and transform it into more _ god-like quality." He amplified this thought a little later in his book: "Man who has_ sprung from the’ earth [meaning that he was not created by a creator God] and de- veloped through the lower kingdoms of nature to _ his present rational state, has yet to complete his evolu- tion by becoming a_ god-like being and _ unifying his consciousness with the Omniscient ~ to promote which is and always has been the sole aim and _ purpose of Initiation.” '*° "No higher level of attainment is possible than that in which the human merges in the Divine con- sciousness and knows as God knows." ! So, just as Satan tempted mankind with the ability to know good and evil themselves just like God, without His assistance, now the Masons are teaching that they too could become a god through an initiation into the Ancient Mys- teries. John Anthony West, in his book SERPENT IN THE SKY, wrote this in support of Mr. Wilmshurst's statement: "Egypt started with the concept of divine _ attri- butes within man. The gods are not brought down to earth; rather man is raised to the gods." ™ 68 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP Others besides the above mentioned Masons, like Louis Keuerbach, have joined the discussion with similar thoughts. He was a nineteenth century philosopher, and a hero of the Communists like Karl Marx. In fact, Frederick Engels, the co- worker with Karl Marx during the time Marx wrote THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, wrote this about his friend: "All the Communists of 1845 were followers’ of Feuerbach ...." !” The reason that the Communists supported the ideas of Keuerbach is apparent when the student reads his writings, He wrote: "Man alone is our God, our father, our judge, our redeemer, our true home, our law and_ our rule, the Alpha and Omega of our life and of our political, mor- al, public and domestic activity. There is no __ salvation, save through the medium of man." '*° John Denver, the well known popular singer, has adopted this same philosophy about his divinity. He has been quoted us saying this after his new conversion: "Its the single, most important experience of my life — I can do anything. One of these days, I'll be so complete I won't be human; I'll be a god." '™ Mr. Hall, the Mason, stated a _ similar thought when he wrote this in his book entitled LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: "We may study’ the star intellectually, but we have never attained consciousness until we are the star." But this idea that man could become a god is not new. The Bible anticipated it, and Isaiah wrote about it back in 741 B.C. This is what he wrote in Isaiah 43:10: "Thus saith the Lord .... understand that I am He: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me." 69 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP And once again, in Isaiah 45:5: "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me ...." The Bible teaches that there is but one God, and _ that mankind has no possibility of sharing His godhead. One who apparently has not believed those statements in the Bible is Shirley MacLaine, who has become a spokesman for the position that man can become a god. She has written several books on the subject of her support of the New Age (Newsweek magazine described her as "the New Age evan- gelist.") She wrote the following statement in her book entitled DANCING IN THE LIGHT: "... we are part of God ..." '° and this elsewhere in the same book: ". if one says audibly I am God, the sound vi- brations literally align the energies of the body to a higher atunement." '”” If each man is a god, mankind is capable of making de- cisions for their own welfare. Each man has complete control of his decision-making, according to Miss MacLaine. In fact, man's control has extended into areas few have ever claimed for mankind. These are the thoughts of Miss MacLaine: "I think we choose to be together .... We choose our parents, and I think the parents choose the chil- dren they want to have before they ever come into an incarnation." '”* She went on further to record another strange thought, when she wrote this: " there was no such thing as_ reality, only . 199 perception." !” One can only wonder where Miss MacLaine got these bi- zarre thoughts from. Several clues that can assist the student 70 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP in understanding her have been given by either her own rev- elations or from some articles that have appeared about her in the media. In her book entitled OUT ON A LIMB, she wrote about her meetings with her married lover in her apartment. She commented that he looked at her shelf of books on, amongst other subjects: "Marxist theory," including a "biography of [Karl] Marx." °” PARADE magazine of December 18, 1988 had an article on Miss MacLaine in which it revealed that her den had "lots of framed pictures: Shirley with [Communist] Fidel Castro, and with [Communist] Nikita Khrushchev [amongst others.]" a The magazine reported how Shirley and her lover: "talked about Democratic-Socialist principles and how it was possible to have them both at the same time if the rich would only share their wealth more." 7” Elsewhere in her book, she wrote about how much of a hypocrite she was when’ she added _ this contradictory statement: 7 wanted to talk to him [her lover] about how I had made a lot of money and that it made me feel elite in a world that was broke to know I could buy just about anything I wished for." *° However, nowhere in her book did she say that she had freely donated any of her own wealth to the relief of the poor, Apparently she believes that the Communist ideas about wealth sharing are acceptable only as long as she does not have to share her wealth like she wants the other rich to do. Miss MacLaine has since gone on a_ nationwide tour pro- moting her new found religious views to the public. News- week magazine reported in 1987 that she had made a great deal of money explaining her new thoughts to others: "Since MacLaine began her tour in January [1987,] more than 10,000 people in 15 cities have paid _ the $300 admission fee." ** 71 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP 10,000 times $300 equals 3 million dollars. Obviously, Shirley's tours have proven to be both popular and lucrative. The Newsweek article on her seminar men- tioned a little of what she teaches in them. The following are a few of her comments: "The earth is moving off its axis,’ she says, and only the ‘collective consciousness' of —= mankind can right it. For the — spiritually inclined, ‘a window’ of _ light’ will appear on those days [August 16 and 17, 1987] that MacLaine says will ‘allow us to rise to a_ higher plane of cosmic understanding." °° "Evangelist" MacLaine became "Doctor" MacLaine when she reported some of her new cures for two of the world's most serious medical problems: AIDS and cancer of _ the abdomen. According to the Newsweek article, she told her audience: "They [those who paid to hear her in the 15 cities on the tour] all got to hear MacLaine's pronouncements on such subjects as AIDS (she thinks sufferers are sick because they have been ‘bereft of love necessary to sustain the balance’ of health); and cancer (for cancer of the abdomen, she advises ‘putting patients in a yellow room _ because yellow is the color ‘frequency’ of that part of the body.')" 7° And to think her "patients" only have to pay $300 for such wisdom! But "Doctor" MacLaine is not as dumb as one might think. The Newsweek magazine article reported: . everyone who attended had to _ sign waivers absolving the seminar's organizers from responsibility for psychological injury." 7” So someone in charge of arranging her seminars is aware that her ideas might cause psychological damage to _ those attending, and they have moved to protect her from malprac- tice lawsuits. 72 CHAPTER 9 LUCIFER WORSHIP Not only was this "New Age evangelist" making money on her personal lecture tours, she was also making money on her best selling books. As of July, 1987, her book entitled OUT ON A LIMB, had sold 3 million copies, and her other major seller, DANCING IN THE LIGHT had sold 2.2 million. Time magazine reported that her "five books on self-exploration and self-promotion have run to more than 8 million copies." ** It appears as if selling the New Age religion can be very profitable! But, in summary, perhaps the most cogent comment about the battle between the New Age and the Christians was made by Nesta Webster in her book entitled SECRET SOCIETIES: "The war now. begins between the two _ contending principles: the Christian conception of man __ reaching up to God, and_ the secret society [Miss Webster wrote too early for her to know about the New Age Movement] conception of man as God, _ needing no revelation from on high and no_- guidance but the law of his own nature. And since that nature is in itself divine, all that springs from it iS praiseworthy, and those acts usually regarded as sins are not to be condemned." The battle lines are drawn between those who believe in a creator God, and those who believe that man can become god. These are the two opposing positions. And the battle between them has begun. 73 Chapter 10 Becoming a God What does the New Age religion offer to its believers? As was covered in the last chapter, it is simply the promise of personally becoming a god! But there is another bait. It is unlimited knowledge of the entire universe! Fred Gittings wrote this in his book entitled SECRET SYMBOLISM IN OCCULT ART: ".. it is claimed that, after Lucifer fell from Heaven, he brought with him the power of thinking as a gift for mankind." Manly P. Hall added these comments about this belief system: "In the secret teachings it is written that mind is the Savior-God." 7" 74 CHAPTER 10 BECOMING A GOD i where reason reigns supreme, inconsistency cannot exist. Wisdom ... lifts man to the condition of 212 Godhead." "Even in man's present state of imperfection it is dawning upon his realization that he can never be tru- ly happy until he is perfect, and that of all of the _ fac- ulties contributing to his self-perfection none is equal in importance to the rational intellect. only the illumined mind can, and _ must, lead the soul into the perfect light of unity." 7" "Philosophy is indeed a _ mystical ladder up which men climb from ignorance to reason." 7'* ire the philosopher soon becomes fabulously wealthy in that most priceless of all possessions: rea- son." But the Masons are not the only ones preaching the need for man's reason to solve all of man's problems. The Humanist Religion (this will be examined more care- fully in a later chapter) that is currently becoming America's major religious view of mankind, also has a_ plank in its platform about the total dependence on man's reason. Their fourth plank in their 1933 HUMANIST MANIFESTO reads: "Fourth: Reason and _ intelligence are the most effective instruments that humankind possesses." *!° And the members of the [Illuminati share the — similar views of both the Masons and the Humanists. Professor Weis- haupt wrote these two statements: "This is the great object held out by this Associa- tion: and the means of attaining it is _ Illumination, en- lightening the understanding by the sun of reason." 7!” "When at last Reason becomes the _ religion of men, then will the problem be solved." Perhaps the position that reason is man's last hope for a perfect world can be summed up with these comments from members of the Masonic Lodge. Harold J. Bolen wrote this in the New Age Magazine, the official magazine of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: 75 CHAPTER 10 BECOMING A GOD "Freemasonry believes it is more holy to live’ by reason than to live by faith, for reason is a_ bridge of understanding while faith is only a bridge of hope. Reason challenges our minds, while faith might give comfort without achievement.” *!” Mr. Hall then added this confirming statement: "The secret doctrine that — flows through _— Free- masonic symbols has its source in three ancient and exalted orders, one of which is the Dionysial artificers [Dionysus was identified by the Romans’ with Bacchus, the "god" that Albert Pike and Albert Mackey have identified with the sun-god Osiris. ] The Dionysians also first likened man to a _ rough ashlar which, trued into a finished block through the instrument of reason, could be fitted into the — structure of that living and eternal Temple built’ without the sound of hammer, the voice of workmen, or any tool of contention." 7° Albert Pike added additional comments to the record, the first of which claimed that Masonry had its own Ten Com- mandments. The first of those commandments was: MT ss God is the Eternal, Omnipotent, Immutable Wis- dom." Wisdom is defined as the power of judging rightly based upon knowledge and man gets wisdom through the use of his reason. In fact, Mr. Pike went so far as to deify man’s mind. He wrote: "Reason is The Absolute, it is in IT we must be- lieve... 7 "Masonry propagates no creed except its own most simple and Sublime One; that universal religion, taught by Nature and by Reason." 7” "The structure itself will be overthrown, when, in the vivid language of a living writer, ‘Human _ reason leaps into the throne of God and waves her torch over the ruins of the Universe.” ** 76 CHAPTER 10 BECOMING A GOD Masonry has deified reason, the ability of man to make his own decisions in all of his affairs without concern of the moral absolutes imparted by the God of the Bible. No one would be impudent enough to suggest that man not use his mind at all. What these New Agers, Masons, Humanists, and members of the Illuminati are saying is that they wish to use the mind exclusively. That means, for those who believe that there is no God, man can have "the knowledge of good and evil," and make up his own moral code as he goes along. For those who believe in a God, He is to have no say in the future determination of what is right or wrong. Therefore man should have the right to decide for himself in all moral, religious, political and economic decisions, whether or not there is a God. But the truth of life is that the existing God gave man moral laws to follow, primarily in the Old Testament. These are called "moral absolutes," and spell out just what is right and wrong. According to these individuals and _ organizations, man has the right to ignore these teachings, and to decide for himself what is right and wrong. This new "morality" is not new. It is as old as man _ him- self. The Bible teaches that man decided to eat the "fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," and that is what these organizations have done. Where these decisions of men's "reason" leads mankind will he discussed later in this material. But it is possible to know what the God of the Bible thinks about these decisions. Proverbs 1:7 of the Old Testament Bible teaches: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowl- edge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." The Bible says that there is a true wisdom, and that it springs from the mind of God. The Humanists, New Agers, Communists and the Masons say that wisdom springs solely from the mind of man, and that man's mind teaches that he can become a god himself, having the ability to decide for himself in all things. And Proverbs 3:5 directs man to: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and _ lean not unto thine own understanding." 77 CHAPTER 10 BECOMING A GOD But some men "reason" that they are too wise for that. And mankind has had to pay for their impudence. 78 Chapter | 1 Sons of Light If early man first worshipped the sun and then the star as a symbol of that sun, it would be the next logical step to worship the light that comes from that sun. And this is the progression that iS taught by history. Albert Mackey wrote: "... light always constituted a principal object of adoration, as the primordial source of knowledge ,.."** John White, called "another New Age theologian" by Texe Marrs in his book entitled DARK SECRETS OF THE NEW AGE, wrote that man is not only to seek light but to become light: "First you go toward the light. Next you're in the light. 79 CHAPTER 11 SONS OF LIGHT n 226 Then you are the light. Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, (which means The I]Juminated Ones) wrote this in 1778: n 227 "Let there be light, and there shall be light. And on August 17, 1984, the Lucis Trust sent this letter to an inquiring citizen who wanted an explanation of the origin of the name Lucis Trust. This is the explanation he received: "Lucis is the genitive case of the Latin word Lux. We would translate it 'of light.’ The Trust has always been Lucis right from __ its incorporation in 1923. The _ publishing company, how- ever was called at first the Lucifer Publishing Com- pany as authored by H. P. [Helena Petrovna] Blavat- sky earlier. Lucifer as here used means ‘bringer of light or the morning star’ and has no_ connection whatsoever with Satan as conventional wisdom would have it." *”* But there is someone else who is making the claim to being the "morning star." That claim is made in the book of Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16 of the New Testament of the Bible: "I Jesus... am the root and _ offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." So the Lucis Trust claims that Lucifer is "the morning star," and Jesus Christ makes the same claim. Only one can correctly be what they both claim to be. But the Lucis Trust attempted to make an important dis- tinction between Lucifer and Satan, one that should be made again at this juncture. Lucifer was the name of the being that was in heaven with the God of the Bible, until he rebelled. He was punished and sent to earth, where it appears that his name was changed to Satan. These New Agers, some of the Masons, and members of the Illuminati worship the being that was in heaven before he fell, not the being known as Satan. 80 CHAPTER 11 SONS OF LIGHT Albert Pike added this explanation of their belief in the being that emanates light to mankind. He wrote this in MORALS AND DOGMA: "And the Mason is familiar with these doctrines that the Supreme Being is a centre of Light whose rayS or emanations pervade the Universe; for that is the Light for which all Masonic journeys are a_ search, and of which the sun and moon in our Lodges are only emblems." 7” Notice that Mr. Pike says that this light-bringer is a god; in fact he capitalizes the "s" and the "b" in "Supreme Being." He further deifies "Light" by capitalizing the letter "1." And then he added these thoughts about the nature of this "Light:" "Behold, it said, the light, which emanates from an. immense centre of Light, that spreads everywhere its benevolent rays; so do _ the spirits of Light emanate from the Divine Light." **° "Masonry is a march and _— struggle toward the Lashes To show the reader that these are not just the thoughts of one Mason, but are the thoughts of all of Freemasonry, it becomes important to quote other Masonic writers. Kenneth Mackenzie in his book entitled THE ROYAL MASONIC CYCLOPAEDIA, written in 1877, said this after the entry: SONS OF LIGHT: "Masons by their tenure are _ necessarily Sons of Light, and are so accepted even by’ their opponents, who are Sons of Darkness." ** This is an important revelation. Those who are opposed to the Masons and what they stand for are told that they are "Sons of Darkness." If "Light" is a deity, and it must be be- cause Mr. Mackenzie capitalizes the word, then "Darkness" is also a god. At least this Mason recognizes that there are two gods in the universe: one of Darkness and one of Light. The evidence that other Masons are aware of this distinction will be offered later in this study. 81 CHAPTER 11 SONS OF LIGHT Another source of revelations on the subject of the Ma- sonic religion is a book entitled FREEMASONS REPOS- ITORY, which is a collection of articles written by Masons. The particular one used in the following reference was pub- lished in 1882-1883. Here the writer was moved to comment: "Let there be light’ is a phrase of small import as some have heard it when kneeling at Masonic Altars. Its breadth of meaning has not been understood. These are the true Craftsmen who = are followers of the light in every deed; they are pledged to oppose whatever is of darkness, ignorance and_ sin; they have entered upon that illumined way which leadeth to God and to heaven, and they may rightly be called ‘Sons of Light.” "Thus has light been regarded in all _ the philo- sophies and _ religions of the world. In_ this respect Masonry but maintains the symbolism which has found general acceptance." ** "Light is the sign of a presence and power deserv- ing of devout recognition. God may be said to_ reveal himself in the light. He dwelleth in light — inacces- sible — yet he reveals himself to give knowledge to the minds of men, while by the illumination of his presence and his truth he imparts to the human world a condition of true spiritual life ...." "The creation of the earth ... was, at the first, ‘without form and_ void.’ It was a_ shapeless and desolate mass of matter. In that condition of primeval chaos, there was an entire absence of light. Then it was the Spirit of God manifested itself as the great quickening principle of a mew order, commu- nicating light and life to the hitherto desolate and disordered creation." *** To show the reader that most people do not understand the esoteric meaning behind the symbol of "light," Mr. Mackey wrote these comments in his ENCYCLOPAEDIA: "Freemasons are emphatically called the ‘sons’. of light, because they are, or at least are entitled to be, in possession of the true meaning of the symbol." 82 CHAPTER 11 SONS OF LIGHT "Light is an important word in the Masonic _ sys- tem. It conveys a far more recondite [defined as _ being beyond the grasp of the ordinary mind] meaning _ that it is believed to possess by the generality of readers. .. it contains within itself a far more abstruse [defined as being hard to understand] allusion to _ the very essence of Speculative Masonry." ** Perhaps the very reason that the Masons conceal a great truth in the word "light," or "Light," can be best summarized in this single statement of Albert Pike in his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA: "... Light will finally overcome Darkness." **° So, if the student of "esoteric knowledge" wishes to under- stand the language, it becomes important to determine, if possible, who the "light-bearer" is. And the student can know for certain who that is, because one of the greatest "seekers of light" has told the world. That writer is Albert Pike, a Mason, and he has described who this individual is in his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA. Mr. Pike identified the "light-bearer" on page 321 of that book: "Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light ...? Doubt it not!" 7 Albert Pike has admitted that the Masons seek Light! He has now admitted that the "Light-bearer" is Lucifer! The Masons ask for "Light" from the "Light-bearer" Lucifer! But Mr. Pike is not the only Mason who has admitted that in easily understandable language. Another Masonic writer is Manly P. Hall, and he has said basically the same thing in his book entitled THE LOST KEYS OF FREEMA- SONRY. The skeptic can know that this book has been in- eluded in a "list of the best Masonic books available" in a Masonic magazine called THE ROYAL ARCH MASON. The list says that "it [the list] is the finest basic library available 83 CHAPTER 11 SONS OF LIGHT to Freemasons." So the student can know that this book is approved reading for the Masonic Order. This is that com- ment, as found on page 48 of his book: "The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands [the Master Mason's hands] and _ before he may _ step upward [through the remaining degrees? he must prove his ability to properly apply energy." *** So the energies of Lucifer are in the hands of the Master Mason! The god of some of the Masons is Lucifer! There can be no doubt, because some of the best known Masonic writers have told the reader in their own words! Mr. Hall added this comment on page 55 of the same book: "The Master Mason is in truth a sun, a_ great re- flector of light .... He stands before the glowing fire light [the sun?] and the world. Through him passes Hydra, the great snake ([Lu- cifer?], and from its [the snake, as a _ symbol of Lucifer] mouth there pours the light of God. His [Hydra's, the great snake's?] symbol is __ the rising sun .... Albert Pike confirmed that Hydra was a "serpent" on page 508 of his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA. So that quote from Mr. Hall's book confirms that the Mason is the intermediary between the sun-god and man. And through him passes the truth of the sun-god. Simply stated, once again, Lucifer is the god of some of the Masons! The Bible has made it clear that Lucifer entered the body of a snake when he approached Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. So, the Masons believe that "Light," the emanations from their god Lucifer, will finally overcome the truth given to man by God inside the Bible. Albert Pike put another piece of the puzzle into place when he wrote this on page 287 of MORALS AND DOGMA: 84 CHAPTER 11 SONS OF LIGHT "You see, my brother, what is the meaning of Ma- sonic "Light." You see why the East of the Lodge, where the initial letter of the Name of the Deity overhangs the Master, is the place of Light. .. it is that Light, the true knowledge of Deity [the truth that Lucifer is god!] the eternal Good, for which Masons in all ages have sought. Still Masonry marches steadily onward toward that Light that shines in the great distance [the coming New World Order, — still perceived as _ being many years in the future] the Light of that day when Evil [this "Evil" will be identified later in this — study,] overcome and _ vanquished, shall fade away and_ disap- pear forever, and Life and Light be the one law of the universe, and its eternal harmony." So, Mr. Pike tells the careful reader that the "Light" that all Masons seek is the true knowledge of the real god. And then he tells the world that Lucifer is the real god of the universe. The final secret of the Masons is no longer a secret! The student of the Masons can know that the great secret that the Adept Masons are keeping from the Initiate Masons is that the concealed God of the Masonic Lodge is Lucifer, the "light-bearer!" But a_ study of "Light" would not be complete without identifying the individual that the Bible says is the source of the true light. The name of this individual has been recorded in the New Testament, and it was written down by the disci- ple John, in about 80 A.D. He was an eye witness to many of the events in the New Testament, and he was moved to write the following, in John 8:12: "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying I am the light of the world: he that followeth me _ shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." So here we see the exact nature of the battle between the followers of the deceiving "light-bearer," Lucifer, meaning the Masons, the Illuminati and the New Age, and the true light, Jesus. And as has been illustrated, these organizations be- 85 CHAPTER 11 SONS OF LIGHT lieve that their god, their light, will finally overcome the true light, Jesus Christ. The battle lines are indeed drawn, and have been for many centuries. All are working to insure a victory for their side in the war. 86 Chapter 12 East and West In order to understand why "Light" has become an_ object of worship by the Masons and others, one has to understand some simple laws of the physical universe. It is obvious that the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west. The Masons know that it is in the direction known as the east where the physical sun rises each day. Mr. Pike indicated that it is in the eastern part of their Lodge that their Worshipful Master, their equivalent of the President, sits. One Mason who explained this fact was Cap- tain William Morgan, a Mason of some 30 years, who exposed the Masonic rituals in a book entitled FREEMASONRY EX- POSED. According to him, the Master sits in the east for a reason: "As the sun rises in the east to open and adorn the day, so presides the Worshipful Master in the east to open and adorn his lodge ...." 87 CHAPTER 12 EAST AND WEST Albert Pike further discussed that point when he wrote: "Our Lodges are said to be due East and West, because the Master represents the rising Sun, and_ of course must be in the East." *” Mr. Mackey also wrote about the relationship of the place of the Master's location, and the east: "The East, being the place where the Master sits, is considered the most honorable part of the Lodge ..." “” So the sun, a symbol of Lucifer, the god of some of the Masons, resides in the east. The Masons know this, so_ they place their Worshipful Master in that area, and then conceal the reasons why they have done so from their fellow Masons. The significance of this fact will become clear in further chapters of this study. 88 Chapter 13 The Pyramid of Giza The Masons have agreed with the Egyptians that Osiris, one of their gods, was a deity. For instance, Albert Mackey wrote rule "Osirus was the sun ...." *"* Sun-gods all over the world have had temples erected to their memory, and as a place where, they might be _ wor- shipped. Osirus was no exception. The Masons are aware of this penchant for temple building as a place for god worship. In October 1953, a Mason wrote the following in the NEW AGE MAGAZINE, the magazine published by the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: "If perchance you were to visit the Great Pyramid of Gizeh [also spelled Giza]... you would be _ pre- sented with a souvenir stating that Osiris com- manded Thalmes to build him a_ house in the form of a pyramid with certain designated passageways." ~” 89 CHAPTER 13 THE PYRAMID OF GIZA Some in Egypt claim that the Great Pyramid was not built as a tomb for a deceased pharaoh, but as a temple for initiation into sun worship. There is now a growing body of evidence to support that claim. But, it is important to set the stage for that conclusion first by examining that evidence. (The author would like to make a few comments at this juncture. It is not my purpose to convince the reader that these comments about the purpose of the pyramid are correct. I am only attempting to convince you that these sun-worship- pers consider them to be true. And, because they do, they are making plans for our future. And those plans should concern each reader of this material because, as I am attempting to point out, the overall changes they are arranging are going to alter the very way all of us live our lives. And, I for one, do not care for the plans being made.) There are some who claim that the pyramid was _ con- structed about six thousand years ago, and not about three thousand years ago as most archaeologists believe. One who makes that claim is Richard W. Noone in his book entitled 5/5/2000. Mr. Noone's book is not about pyra- mids as such, but about his claims that massive changes will occur on the earth on that date in the year 2000 due to a change in the alignment of five planets near to the earth. This will not be the place to comment on his charges. However, he has done considerable research into the pyra- mids as part of his studies. He has pointed out that the word for "pyramid" in an- cient Egypt was "glorious light," once again connecting the pyramid with the sun and the sun-god Osiris. Manly P. Hall stated that he too believed that the pyra- mid was constructed for some purpose other than for the bur- ial of a pharaoh. He wrote: "The Pyramids [notice that he capitalizes the word] - the great Egyptian temples of initiation." *“* He also wrote that he knew what the initiation ceremony was for: "... the illumined of antiquity .. entered its por- tals as men; they came forth as gods." *” 90 CHAPTER 13 THE PYRAMID OF GIZA There are many now who believe that an_ individual named Khufu built the Great Pyramid. The name, according to Mr. Noone, is "phonetically similar to the ancient Egyptian word for the Great Pyramid, Khuti, meaning ‘Glorious Light." 248 Some writers on the pyramid have indicated that their research has led them to the conclusion that the pyramid has a concealed time table built into its passageways. Max Toth is one of these authors, and he has written this in his book entitled PYRAMID PROPHECIES: "The prophecies of the ancient masters are _ locat- ed into the pyramid form ...." “” It is the opinion of Mr. Noone that there is only one prophecy" that should be examined, and it is this one: "Beginning at the geometrical point beneath the pyramid arris edge [defined as two _ straight lines coming together at an angle] meets the projected floor line of the ascending passage, we have a straight line that runs up the ascending passage and Grand Gallery. This line measured 6,000 inches." sate (For those not familiar with these terms, the pyramid is entered through a passageway called the Descending Passage- way. This meets with a passageway, going up into the pyra- mid, called, obviously, the Ascending Passage, at the end of which are several rooms. So, here the author is describing a line down the Grand Gallery, through the ground under the pyramid, where it meets with a line coming down the outside of the pyramid. The line, from the point where these two lines meet, back up the inside line, and where it meets the rooms at the top of the passageway, measures 6,000 inches. The significance of this measurement will be explained in some of the following paragraphs. The important thing to no- tice here is that this 6000 inch line is truly hidden: it does not exist in reality. It is hidden under ground with no ap- parent existence. It is truly a hidden prediction.) 91 CHAPTER 13 THE PYRAMID OF GIZA Joseph Carr, a writer on the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler and its connections with sun worship, wrote about an _ experi- ence an individual had inside the pyramid: "In April, 1904 an English Buddhist named _ Aleis- ter Crowley visited Cairo .... Rose Edith Crowley [his wife] asked her husband to perform a magical ritual ... [He] obeyed by saying the prayer of invocation to Horus’ [another Egyptian sun-god.] He later claimed that a being appeared _ to him during that hour [and] announced to _ [him] _ that the old age was passing away, and a New Age_ was dawning. Also revealed to Crowley was that the religion of the New Age could not take its place until the old religion [presumably Christianity] was smashed." So, here we see a connection between the pyramid, sun- worship and the New Age. One of the proofs that the pyramid was not constructed as a burial chamber is the fact that both of the two large rooms inside the pyramid, the so-called "King's chamber" and the "Queen's chamber," have vent ducts leading from inside the rooms to the outside of the pyramid. This had led many to believe that the ducts were meant to provide air for hu- man occupants. Some of these writers have expressed their opinions in the books that they have written. One of these is Wilfred Gregson, an architect and a 33rd degree Mason, who wrote this: "Obviously the idea was to get air moving into the pyramid. You can't’ exist very long breathing stagnant air. So my _ principle is that this was a temple of initiation." *” Manly P. Hall, a fellow Mason, agreed with Mr. Gregson, when he wrote this comment: : there seems to be no_ reason why a_ legitimate tomb should have air vents going from the _ King's chamber [as well as the Queen's chamber] out to the surface." °° 92 CHAPTER 13 THE PYRAMID OF GIZA Another writer on the pyramid, Andre Pochan, has written in his book THE MYSTERIES OF THE GREAT PYR- AMID: "If the two — conduits [into the King's chamber] were originally ventilation ducts, the unavoidable conclusion is that the Great Pyramid’s upper cham- ber was not the site of the royal sepulcher. Continuous ventilation would have inevitably re- sulted in not only’ the putrefaction of the mummy, but also. the rapid destruction of all the funerary furniture indispenable to the deceased for his life to the beyond." 74 Mr. Noone connected the great pyramid in Egypt with the symbolism of the pyramid in Mexico, called the Pyramid at Chichen-Itza: "the temple at the East of the quadrangle has a great many repeats of a huge’ sun_ burst, from the middle of the sun burst is the huge head of a ser- pent whose mouth is open. This needs little explanation. The sun representing ‘God’ and _ the serpent ‘His Divine Wisdom,' holds man's’ head so that he can neither see the serpent ‘Divine Wisdom,’ nor _ the Light of God from which it comes." °° Mr. Noone is saying that the serpent is attempting to keep man from understanding that the god was Lucifer, in the form of a sun burst. But there is another mystery concealed inside the Great Pyramid that must be explored. The pyramid appears to have been built to memorialize the explosion of a_ great star 4,000 years ago. Mr. Noone says: "If the Ascending Passage and Grand Gallery were built to observe’ this supernova’ explosion, — the Giza complex was built to memorialize a tremendous cataclysm in the’ earth's. planetary system which _af- fected the globe with fire and flood." *° 93 CHAPTER 13 THE PYRAMID OF GIZA "The Grand Gallery, aimed like a_ giant telescope at a particular celestial body in the’ earth's southern sky — before its view of the heavens was blocked by the completion of the building — points to where ra- dio astronomy has just pinpointed the supernova (or giant stellar explosion) nearest to our solar system ... The Great Pyramid's Grand Galler is focused at this particular spot in the earth's southern sky." * Then Mr. Noone discussed the research being done to locate the spot in the universe where the Grand Gallery is pointed. He wrote: "In the late 1960's Dr. Anthony Hewish, 1974 co- recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, was working at England's Mulard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Hewish began to track a mysterious’ rhythmic _ series of pulses, clearly from a point in the earth's southern sky." Mr. Noone pointed out that Dr. Hewish : ee demonstrated that the strange rhythmic pulses were radio emissions from a_ star that had _ collapsed or blown itself up in the’ earth's southern sky some time around 4000 B.C., a date memorialized in _ the mysteries of Freemasonry as Anno Lucis, the Year of Taishi!" In another part of the world George Michanowsky, author of the book entitled THE ONCE AND FUTURE STAR, was deciphering an incredible message cut, carved, and indented in an ancient cuneiform (meaning a language of wedge- shaped characters used in ancient inscriptions) clay tablet, located in the British Museum. "The ancient Sumerian cuneiform table Micha- nowsky was deciphering described a_ giant star ex- ploding within a triangle formed by _ the _ three _ stars Zeta Puppis, Gamma _ Velorum, and Lambda _ Velorum. These three stars are located in the’ earth's southern sky and unknown to Michanowsky at the time were being tracked by Anthony Hewish. 94 CHAPTER 13. THE PYRAMID OF GIZA Michanowsky continued deciphering the Sumerian star catalogue, containing observations going back thousands of years. The remarkably accurate star catalogue now stated that the blazing star that had exploded within the triangle would again be seen’ by man in 6,000 years." *°° So two world renowned scientists had independently dis- covered the results of a large explosion that they both felt had occurred around 6000 years ago. Mr. Noone then asked the question: "Is there a Masonic connection between Vela X, a star which exploded within a _ triangle, and the = an- cient religious symbolism and star dates of Free- masonry?" ~°! And the Masons have answered it with a positive yes. Albert Mackey, the Mason, in his ENCYCLOPAEDIA, wrote this: "In the Year of Light; abbreviated ALL. The date used in ancient Craft Masonry; found by adding 4000 to the Vulgar [meaning the common] Era; _ thus, 1911 + 4000 = 5,911" This current book was being written in 1989, A.D., which stands for Anno Domini, the "year of the Lord," meaning since the birth of Jesus. But according to the Masons, the true calendar date should be written 5989 A.L. Another writer on the Great Pyramid is Tom _ Valentine, and his book is entitled THE GREAT PYRAMID: MAN'S MONUMENT TO MAN. Mr. Valentine wrote: ". the Great Pyramid's system of passages and chambers is a_ chronological graph that begins’ in 4000 B.C. and continues for six thousand years." 7” So, according to the Masons, there are only 11 years to the year 6000. But what happens after the 6,000 years? What is next? 95 CHAPTER 13 THE PYRAMID OF GIZA The New Agers have told us. Marilyn Ferguson, a New Age believer, has written a book entitled THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY, in which she wrote the following: " light. .. We are entering a millennium of love and 1 264 A millennium is defined as a thousand year period. So, it appears that sometime in the near future, the New Agers are going to see the beginning of the millennium reign of Lord Maitreya. This position was confirmed by the Lucis Trust, also a New Age organization, when it wrote the following in a quar- terly newsletter for the third quarter, 1982: "The year 2000 looms’ before humanity as a_= gi- gantic milestone which marks both an _ ending and a beginning. It marks the end of a _ volatile millennium which has seen enormous progress and change .... But more importantly, the year 2000 stands as a symbolic portal through which humanity can _ pass _ in- to a New Age ... if it so chooses." So something is coming. And it is coming by the year 2000. And it is called The New Age. Or The New World Order. 96 Chapter 14 Obelisks The Masons have admitted that they use symbols to con- ceal important truths from their fellow Masons. Previous chapters have examined two of the major Masonic symbols, the star and the sun. Other Masonic symbols need to be ex- amined as well. One of these symbols is the obelisk. The word is defined by a dictionary as a tall, four-sided stone pillar tapering toward its pyramidal top. There are three of major importance in the world today: one in Washington D.C., called the Washington Monument; another one in Central Park, in New York City; and the third in the Vatican, located in Rome, Italy. The first major obelisk is in St. Peter's square in Rome, Italy, and is placed in such a way that every Pope who ad- dresses any crowd in the square, must face the obelisk. The second major obelisk was brought to New York from its location in Alexandria, Egypt, and placed in Central Park in New York City in 1881. The four sides of this obelisk are 97 CHAPTER 14 OBELISKS covered with Egyptian hieroglyphs and these drawings have been translated by a variety of Egyptologists including some Masonic writers. The Masons have told the readers of one of its publica- tions that this obelisk was quarried: "to praise and adore the divinity of the sun, worshipped by the ancient Egyptians as the source of light and life. It is a representation of the God Ra, or the sun." *°° So, there is a symbol of the sun in Central Park, in the heart of New York City. The third major obelisk is the Washington monument, which was constructed to honor George Washington, the first President of the United States. President Washington was an active and public member of the Masonic Lodge. The monu- ment built in his honor: "is the tallest such monument in the world, 555 feet high, though not truly an obelisk, because it is not quarried from a_ single piece but put together from 36,000 separate blocks of granite faced with marble." 7°” This obelisk is a symbol that has definite Masonic connec- tions. It was constructed many years after the President's death on December 14, 1799, as it was not until 1833 that the Washington National Monument Society was organized to erect a monument in his memory. The monument was not completed until 1848, when the 3300 pound capstone was set in place. The weight of the cap- stone appears to be semi-symbolic, utilizing the number 33 as a reminder of the 33 degrees inside the Masonic Order. The obelisk was constructed of a total of 36,000 separate blocks and included 188 Memorial Stones inside the monu- ment, donated to the Society by individuals, societies, cities, states and nations of the world. Approximately 35 of these came from Masonic lodges, and the last of these blocks was placed into the monument at the 330 foot level. Once again, the number 33 shows up in the construction of the obelisk, and once again it is semi-concealed in a fact about its con- struction. 98 CHAPTER 14 OBELISKS The total cost of the monument concealed another Ma- sonic number, this time the number 13: the cost of the entire monument was $1,300,000. There are other Masonic secrets concealed in the numbers relating to the eight windows in the monument, two on each side. Six of these windows are of the same size, but the seventh and the eighth, the two facing the east, are larger. It will be remembered that The Masons have stated that it is in the east that their Master sits. So the east has special sig- nificance to them. The eight windows total 39 square feet in size, and 39 is three times the Masonic number 13. But the two windows facing the east conceal another reference to the number 13. The student of geometry will remember that the sum of the squares of the base and perpendicular in a right-angled tri- angle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse, meaning the third side. The example often cited to prove that truth is the triangle with the three sides being 3 inches, 4 inches, and 5 inches in length. The square of the two sides, the sides that are 3 inches and 4 inches in length, are 9 and 16, and the total of those two squares is equal to the square of the 5 inch side, or 25. Each of the two windows in the east are 2 feet by 3 feet, and the square of the third side is 13. The square of 2 is four, and the square of 3 is 9. The total of 4 and 9 is 13. The number 13 appears to be a very symbolic number to the Masons, but finding out why it is has become a difficult chore. One clue is contained in the Bible in the book of Gene- sis. That book records in Genesis 14:4 that it was in the thir- teenth year that an amalgamation of various kings rebelled against their leader. It will be recalled that Lucifer rebelled against God in the heavens, and some historians equate the number 13 with rebellion and Lucifer. Stan Deyo is one author who explained that the number 13 had a very definite meaning. He wrote this in his book en- titled THE COSMIC CONSPIRACY: "... thirteen is the value [assigned] to represent Satan, [the] serpent, [the] dragon, [the] tempter or rebellion." ** So the Washington Monument, dedicated to the memory of a Mason, conceals many Masonic symbols inside its obelisk 99 CHAPTER 14 OBELISKS form. But there is an extremely important meaning that has not been explained by modern historians. As has been illustrated, the Masons have placed a_par- ticular importance on the obelisk, primarily because it has its root in the ancient times in Egypt. However, there is another reason, one that is far more important. The first connection is to the past. Carl Claudy, the Ma- sonic writer, wrote this: ".... the initiate of old saw in the obelisk the very spirit of the god he worshipped." °°” So, according to this Masonic writer, the obelisk is a sym- bol of a god that was worshipped by the believers of the an- cient mysteries. It has been shown that those involved in the ancient mysteries worshipped Lucifer. But a far more important reason was revealed to those careful enough to note the importance of the revelation. Mr. Claudy then added this comment: "From the dawn of religion the pillar, monolith or built up, has played an important part in the worship of the Unseen. in Egypt the obelisk stood for the very pres- ence of the Sun God himself." *”° He repeated these very words in another section of the same book: " in Egypt the obelisk stood for the very _pres- ence of the Sun God himself." *7' He went on to repeat his statement that: ".... the initiate of old saw in the obelisk the very spirit of the God he worshiped." *” Mr. Claudy revealed that the obelisk is a symbol of the sun-god, and implied that this very deity is present inside the stone itself. The obelisk stands for the very presence of the sun-god! And the sun-god is Lucifer! 100 CHAPTER 14 OBELISKS Mr. Pike confirmed this statement in his book entitled MORALS AND DOGMA: "The obelisk was ... consecrated to the Sun." 7” And Kenneth Mackenzie, a third Masonic writer, added this supporting statement: "Sun-worship was plainly connected with the erec- tion of obelisks .... .. they were placed in front of the temples’ of Egypt. [They referred] to the worship of the sun." *”* And Mr. Mackey, a _ fourth Masonic writer, offered this comment: "Obelisks were, it is supposed, originally —_erected in honor of the sun god." 7” So, obelisks are a symbol of the "very presence of the sun- god himself." This is an explanation that is not offered to the overwhelming majority of the American people. Yet, one of the major monuments in Washington D.C. is an obelisk. And it was erected to honor George Washington, a very visible member of the Masonic Order. And the Masons have con- cealed various esoteric numbers inside the blocks of the mon- ument itself. One of the strange incidents that involved the Washington monument occurred first in 1981, and then again in 1985, when the inauguration ceremony of President Ronald Reagan was moved to the west front of the Capitol from the tra- ditional location, the east front. Every President since George Washington had been sworn in on the east front of the Capi- tol building, but, for some unexplained reason, someone wanted President Reagan sworn in on _ the west front. Newsweek magazine for January 26, 1981, the issue cov- ering the inauguration ceremonies, wrote about this change in the location of the ceremony: "Swearing in a_ President on _ the Capitol's West " Front - for the first time ever - .... 101 CHAPTER 14 OBELISKS The article went on to point out that the reason the move was made was not an aesthetic one: "But the seldom-used West Front is crumbling, _ its rickety porticos held up by wooden posts. 'It's not about to fall down,’ assured Capitol architect George White, ‘but it is in need of structural repair.’ Rather than pop for a major repair job, however, the Inaugural committee ordered a hasty coat of white paint - and draped a= gigantic American flag over the unsightly wooden beams." But the Newsweek magazine article did not explain why the location was moved to that particular side of the Capitol. But a possible explanation was offered, rather subtly, in a Time magazine picture that accompanied their coverage of the inauguration ceremonies. The picture was a behind the back, over the shoulder, elevated shot showing the President giving his inauguration address. The picture is approximately 7" by 8" in size, and both the President, at the bottom of the pic- ture, and the Washington monument off in the distance, at the top of the picture, appear to be about one inch in height. But the interesting caption at the bottom of the picture is where it appears the hidden message is contained. The cap- tion reads: "Before some 150,000 _ listeners at the West Front of the Capitol, Reagan gazes toward the Washington Monument and delivers his address." 7”° The President gazes at a symbol of the "very presence of the sun-god himself and gives his inauguration address. It is unknown if this shift in the location site was for the express purpose of giving a signal to those able to understand the significance of the President "gazing" at the very presence of the sun-god. But it was the first time that any President had been sworn in on that side of the Capitol, and it put him in a position where, if someone had wished to send a signal involving the Washington monument and its esoteric symbol- ogy, they could have done so. The same scene was repeated in President Reagan's sec- ond inauguration in 1985. Time magazine wrote this in their coverage of that event in their January 21, 1985 issue: 102 CHAPTER 14 OBELISKS "A public ceremony will follow on Monday at_ the West Front of the Capitol ...." 77” A possible explanation of the significance of these two in- auguration ceremonies will be offered in one of the last cha- pters of this book. But, for the esoteric minded, it appeared that someone might have wanted some of the American people to know something about President Ronald Reagan. The move to the west front of the Capitol Building might have had a concealed meaning. 103 Chapter 15 The [lluminati The thought that there have been people actually plan- ning the major events of the future in a harmful way has often been expressed by some of the world's leaders. One such individual was Winston Churchill, the Prime. Minister of England during World War II. He wrote about what he had discovered when he made his views public in a London news- paper in 1920. These are those thoughts: "From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa _ Luxe- mbourg, and Emma _ Goldman, this world wide _ conspir- acy for the overthrow of _ civilization and _ for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested § de- velopment, of envious malevolence [defined as being done with malice; spitefull) and impossible — equality, has been steadily growing. It played a _ definitely recognizable role in __ the tragedy of the French’ Revolution. It has been _ the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 104 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI nineteenth century, and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld’ of the great cities of Europe and America’ have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads, and _ have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire." 7” Spartacus was the code name that Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, used inside that organization; Karl Marx was, of course, the so-called "father of communism;" Trotsky was Leon Trotsky, one of the major leaders in the Communist Revolution in Russia in 1917; and Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg and Emma Goldman were _ revolutionaries. The French Revolution was in 1789, and many historians have concluded that the Illuminati fomented it with the goal of putting their fellow member of the Illuminati, the Duc d' Orleans, on the throne of France. Mr. Churchill linked Weishaupt and the Illuminati of 1776 with the Communist Karl Marx of 1848, and Marx with the Russian Communists of 1917. It was his opinion that those individuals had been linked together in a_ conspiracy lasting for more than 140 years. He then combined this con- spiracy with European and American revolutionaries. And _ his final comment was that their combined purpose was to "over- throw civilization." In other words, Mr. Churchill claimed that their purpose was to bring the world a "New World Order." He had provided the reader with a brief overview of a long lasting conspiracy. He had told the world that this con- spiracy wanted to overthrow civilization. But, because few knew anything at all about this con- spiracy, the world paid no attention to Mr. Churchill's com- ments. That was no accident because this conspiracy has, in the main, acted under the cover of concealment. They do not an- nounce their plans before they occur. And they certainly do not announce their involvement after the planned event has occurred. Professor Adam Weishaupt boastfully stated that his or- ganization would remain concealed from the eyes of the pub- lic. He wrote: "The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its 105 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation.” He even told the world, in his writings, where he would conceal the Order: "None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Free Masonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it, and therefore takes little notice of it." a1 He felt that this secrecy would lead him to success be- cause he felt no one would be able to break into it. He wrote: "Our secret Association works in a way that _noth- ing can withstand ...." ** Another reason that he felt that the Illuminati would succeed was the fact that he was offering his members world- wide power. He felt that this inducement would enable him to draw into his organization only those who would do any- thing to satisfy that desire for power. He wrote: "The true purpose of the Order was to _ tule the world. To achieve this it was necessary for the Order to destroy all religions, overthrow all governments and abolish private property." **! The Bavarian government discovered the existence of this secret conspiracy and investigated the Order in 1786. They is- sued a report in which they concluded: ".. the express aim of this Order was to _ abolish Christianity, and overthrow all civil government." *** As mentioned previously, Weishaupt founded the Illumi- nati on May 1, 1776, and the selection of that date as the founding date of their Order appears to be no_ coincidence, Albert Pike wrote that May Ist was a festival day: "The festival was in honor of the Sun." 7 The reason that Weishaupt chose the First of May to found his secret, anti-Christian religion has not been satis- 106 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI factorily explained. However, there are some interesting clues as to why he might have chosen that date. One possible explanation involves the Roman emperor Diocletian, who reigned from 284-305 A.D. After the death of Jesus, the Christian world continued to be persecuted by a string of violent Caesers of the Roman Empire. But the violence inaugurated by Diocletian surpassed them all in violence. An edict requiring uniformity of worship was issued in 303 A.D., and the Christians resisted by refusing to pay homage to the image of the emperor. Diocletian met that re- sistance with specific retaliation against the Christians: they lost their public and private possessions, and their assemblies were prohibited. Their churches were torn down, and_ their sacred writings were destroyed. In addition, many Christians paid for their resistance with their lives: it has been estimated that the victims num- bered into the hundreds of thousands. Finally, Diocletian grew ill, and abdicated on May 1, 305 A.D. The persecution persisted, but never again approached that of the emperor Diocletian. Is it possible that Professor Weishaupt learned about the date of this abdication and picked up the mantle laid down by Diocletian, and started the persecution of Christians again, some 1400 years later? The goal of the Illuminati was "man made perfect as a god - without God." ** But it was a strange ideal, because Weishaupt permitted his followers to utilize any activity to achieve his goal, including lying. He wrote: "One must speak sometimes one way and _ some- times another .. so that, with respect to our true _ line of thinking, we may be impenetrable." *° The members did tell the truth when they took the initi- ation ceremony, however. They took an oath which read, in part: "I bind myself to perpetual silence and _ unshaken loyalty and submission to the Order ...." *° Weishaupt claimed that he was shocked when his Order turned into a religion, but that is what he said: 107 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI "I never thought that I should become the founder of a new religion." **’ But his religion had a different base than the traditional religion: his was based upon a worship of reason: "... then will Reason rule with unperceived sway." "... Reason will be the only code of Man. This is one of our greatest secrets." "When at last Reason becomes the religion of man, then will the problem be solved." 7° Weishaupt's dedication of his organization to "reason" makes some sense when the reader recalls that "reason" has been defined as the “unbridled use of man's mind to solve man's problems without the involvement of God." The Bible calls this "the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." It was this knowledge that God wanted man not to have, and it was the promise made to man by Lucifer that man could have it by eating of "the fruit." In addition, Weishaupt's religion offered its believers a reward not offered by any other religion: worldwide power! Weishaupt wrote: "The pupils [members of the [Illuminati] are con- vinced that the Order will rule the world. Every mem- ber therefore becomes a ruler." ~”° Weishaupt's religion not only offered power to his believ- ers, but he offered them something else not guaranteed by any other religion: worldly success. He said that once a can- didate had achieved the exalted degree of Illuminatus Minor, the fourth of the thirteen inside his Order, his superiors would: "assist him [the member] in_ bringing his talents into action, and [would] place him in _ situations most favorable for their exertion, so that he may _ be assured of success." ””! 108 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI One of those areas where the Illuminati would strive to place their members was inside government. Weishaupt wrote: "We must do our utmost to procure the advance- ment of Iuminati into all important civil offices." Weishaupt's religion also had a rather unusual view of man's nature. Traditional religion teaches all of mankind that man is basically a sinner, and that his way out is to change his bad habits. Weishaupt felt that this position was in error. He wrote: "Man is not bad except as he is made so by _ arbi- trary morality. He is bad because Religion, the State, and bad examples pervert him." 7” "Men ... suffered themselves to be oppressed — _ gave themselves up to civil societies, and formed states. To get out of this state ... there is no other mean than _ the use of Reason .... This can be done in no other way but by secret as- sociations, which will by degrees, and in_ silence, pos- sess themselves of the government of the States, and make use of those means for this purpose which the wicked use for attaining their base ends." “™* Professor Weishaupt's. religion authorized its members to use any means that would benefit the goal of the Illuminati. That goal was simple: the destruction of all Christianity: "Behold our secret... If in order to destroy all Christianity, all religion, we have’ pretended to have the sole true religion, remember that the end __ justifies the means, and that the wise ought to. take all the means to do good which the wicked take to do evil." *” Weishaupt spoke about the Jesuits, an order of priests in- side the Catholic Church. He was, it will be remembered, an instructor at a Catholic university in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, run by the Jesuits. He apparently admired their success, because he organized his order in a similar manner. He wrote: 109 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI "What these men have done for altars and _ empires, why should I not do against altars and empires? By the attraction of mysteries, of legends, of adepts, why should I not destroy in the dark what they erect in the light of day." 7° Some writers in the past have summarized the beliefs of the Illuminati for the future use of historians. One was Nesta Webster, who wrote the following about their aims in he book entitled WORLD REVOLUTION: 1. Abolition of Monarchy and_= all ordered Govern- ment. 2. Abolition of private property. 3. Abolition of inheritance. 4. Abolition of patriotism. 5. Abolition of the family (ie. of marriage and _ all morality, and the institution of the communal education of children). 6. Abolition of all religion. *”” Weishaupt must have felt that his plan would ultimately succeed. He certainly felt that his Order would control the world. And he anticipated that there would be opposition to his goals. He summarized all of these thoughts in this state- ment: "By this plan, we shall direct all mankind. In _ this manner, and by the simplest means, we shall set all in motion and in flames. The occupations must be so_ al- lotted and contrived, that we may, in_ secret, influence all political transactions." 7° Weishaupt decided that his Illuminati needed a cover, and he successfully infiltrated the Masonic Order in 1782, at the Masonic Congress at Wilhelmsbad. Some Masons became aware of that infiltration and were moved to comment about it. One such Mason was President George Washington who was sent a copy of Professor John Robison's book entitled PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY by a Christian minister named G. W. Snyder. The President responded to the minister's request that he read the book, and his letter to the minister 110 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI has been preserved for posterity. Mr. Washington wrote the minister: "It was not my intention to doubt that the doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism, had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more fully satisfied of this fact than I am. The idea that I meant to convey was that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free- masons in this country had, as_ societies, endeavored to propagate the diabolical [defined as being of the devil] tenets of [the Illuminati. ] That individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder .... may have had these objects ~ and _ actu- ally, in my view, had a separation of the people from their government, is too evident to be questioned. I believe ... that none of the Lodges in this country are contaminated with the _ opprinciples ascribed to _ the society of the Illuminati.” *” The President indicated that he was aware that the TIIlu- minati had arrived in America; that its tenets were diabolical, meaning that he recognized that they involved themselves in devil worship; and that they intended to separate man from his government. The President of the United States had acknowledged the presence of the devil-worshipping Illuminati in America! The book that the President read was written by a mem- ber of the Lodge who had been asked to join the I[luminati. He was a professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh Uni- versity in Scotland. After his study, he concluded that the purposes of the Illuminati were completely unacceptable, and he wrote his book to expose its goals. He wrote: ue an Association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all the religious establishments, and overturning all the existing governments of Eu- rope." He discovered that the leaders would: 111 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI 7 rule the world with uncontrollable power, while all the rest, .. will be .. employed as mere tools of the ambition of their unknown superiors." *”! James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, was a con- temporary of Professor Robison, and he wrote this about his friend: "a man of the clearest head and the most science of anybody I have ever known." *” But, even with all of these criticisms about the purposes of the Illuminati, there were some Masons who felt that the association between the Masons and the Illuminati was a_pos- itive federation. One such Mason, Kenneth Mackenzie, has written that this Masonic infiltration was: ". an attempt to purify Masonry, then in much confusion." *% Another Mason who approved of the merger was Dr. Wal- ter M. Fleming, one of the four founders of the Shrine, an organization that is part of the Masonic fraternity. He and three other Masons formed this organization in 1871, and he assisted in the preparation of a history of the Shrine in 1893. In that book, Dr. Fleming wrote: "Among the modern promoters of the principles’ of the Order [the Shrine] in Europe, one of the most not- ed was Herr Adam Weishaupt ... professor of law in the University of Ingolstadt, in Bavaria... who revived the Order in that city on May 1, 1776. Its members ex- ercised a profound influence before and during _ the French Revolution, when they were known as_ the Illu- minati." ** Dr. Fleming, a 33rd degree Mason, was recognizing the found-of the Illuminati as a "reviver of the Order." His quote comes from a book entitled PARADE TO GLORY, written by Fred Van Deventer, which appears to be given to each new member of the Shrine. 112 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI So Dr. Fleming was supportive of the efforts of Professor Adam Weishaupt, because he had "revived the Order." Albert Mackey also praised Professor Weishaupt. He wrote these comments in his ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FREEMA- SONRY: ".... Weishaupt could not have been the monster that he has been painted by his adversaries." And the reason he couldn't have been a "monster," was because he was: : 305 "...a Masonic reformer." However, the major support that Weishaupt has _ received has come from members of the Masonic Order who have at- tacked those who have been critical of the Professor and the Illuminati he was the founder of. Albert Mackey, for instance, admitted that John Robison was a fellow Mason, but he wrote these comments about his belief that a conspiracy had infiltrated the [uminati: "many of his statements are untrue and _ his argu- ments illogical." "his theory is based on_ false premises and _ his reasoning fallacious and illogical ...." °°” Kenneth Mackenzie in his book entitled THE ROYAL MA- SONIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA also criticized Professor Robison MM being: "The author of a_ silly and _ self-contradictory book about Freemasonry .... .. the nauseating nonsense with which Robison decks his book is only to be compared to the more virulent and subtle sarcasm of Barruel." * The individual called "Barruel" by Mr. Mackenzie was in fact the Abbe Barruel who had written a four volume series on the Illuminati in 1798, independently from the book written by Professor Robison. The Abbe's research basically supported the conclusions of Professor Robison. 113 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI Obviously, some of the Masons feel that the Abbe, like Professor Robison, was grossly in error. This is what the Abbe wrote about the [luminati: "... a terrible and horrible sect. "... it has formed for that general Revolution which is to overthrow all thrones, all altars, annihilate all prop- erty, [destroy the right to private property] efface [obli- terate] all law, and end by dissolving all society." *” Another who attacked the Abbe's volumes on the IIlu- minati was Thomas Jefferson, one of America's founding fa- thers. Although it appears that he had read only one of the four volumes in the set, Mr. Jefferson commented: "Barruel's own parts of the book are _ perfectly the ravings of a Bedlamite." *!° A Bedlamite was a patient of the Bedlam hospital for lunatics in London, England. So it can be seen that Mr. Jefferson did not care for the Abbe's research. While he charged the Abbe with being a lunatic, Mr. Jefferson praised Adam Weishaupt with these words: "Weishaupt seems to be an enthusiastic philan- thropist. Weishaupt believes that to promote the per- fection of the human character was the object of Jesus Christ. His [Weishaupt's] precepts are the love of God and love of our neighbor." 7"' Albert Mackey, one of the greatest Masonic scholars and researchers, praised the Illuminati with these words found in his ENCYCLOPAEDIA: "The original design of Jlluminism was _ undoubtedly the elevation of the human race." *”” Mackey also praised the founder as well: "He is celebrated in the history of Masonry as_ the founder of the Order of the Illuminati of Bavaria ...." °° 114 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI Other Masonic writers have praised the founder and _ his conspiratorial society known as the Illuminati as well. Ken- neth Mackenzie wrote this: "Its object was the advancement of morality, educa- tion, and virtue ...." "had the Order been allowed free scope, much _ good would have resulted ...." ° But, whether the critics or the supporters were correct, the Illuminati had come to America. Several researchers into the conspiracy of the Illuminati have provided the student with their evidence that these conspirators had brought their plans to the United States. Nesta Webster, who wrote in the 1920's, wrote this about her discoveries of where the Illuminati went after their dis- covery by the Bavarian government: "Whilst these events [the early stages of the French Revolution of 1789] were taking place in Europe, the New World [meaning America] had been illuminized. As early as 1786 a lodge of the Order [of the Illu- minati}] had been started in Virginia, and this was _ fol- lowed by fourteen others in different cities." °° In 1798, Jedediah Morse, a minister and the father of Samuel Morse, the inventer of the telegraph, preached a now famous sermon on the Illuminati. He clearly had discovered their presence in America. He said: "The Order [of the — Illuminati] has its branches established and its emissaries at work in America." °!° And in 1812, the President at Harvard University, Joseph Willard, retired to preach in Vermont. He took the occasion of his retirement on July 4, 1812, to express his concern over the consequences of the then looming war: "There is sufficient evidence that a number of socie- ties of the Illuminati have been’ established in _ this land. They are doubtless striving to secretly undermine all our ancient institutions, civil and sacred. These 115 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI societies are clearly leagued with those of the same or- der in Europe .... We live in an alarming period . The Enemies of all order are seeking our ruin. Should infidelity generally prevail, our independence would fall, of course. Our re- publican government would be annihilated ..." °"” Perhaps the next appearance of the Illuminati occurred in Chicago, Illinois, in 1886, in what has been called the Hay- market Riot. It is uncertain as to whether or not they were formally involved as an organization, but the whole affair cer- tainly seems to have occurred in a sequence similar to what they would have orchestrated if they had been involved. Cyrus McCormick, the owner of a harvester works in Chi- cago, had refused to accept a union to represent his employ- ees. When he was pressed by the union, he closed his factory and opened it later with non-union workers. The strikers and the non-union workers clashed, and a squad of police arrived. A bomb was thrown from out of the crowd, and it killed one and wounded many others. Shooting broke out, and sixty- eight policemen were wounded and seven of them killed. After the Haymarket affair, a Captain in the Chicago police department, Michael J. Shaack, decided that he would see if he could determine why the disaster had occurred, and he started a thorough investigation. About a year later, he issued his report, and these are some of his conclusions: "All over the world the apostles of disorder, rapine, [defined as plunder, pillage] and Anarchy = are _ today pressing their work of ruin, and preaching their gospel of disaster to all the nations with a more fiery energy and a_ better organized propaganda than was _ ever known before. People who imagine that the energy of the _ revo- lutionists has slackened, or that their determination to wreck all the existing systems has grown less bitter, are deceiving themselves. The conspiracy against so- ciety is as determined as it ever was. Nothing but the uprooting of the very foundations and groundwork of our civilization will satisfy these enemies of order ...." *"® 116 CHAPTER 15 THE ILLUMINATI Although Captain Shaak did not specify that the group behind the riot was the Illuminati, he clearly had discovered that the goal of the conspirators was to "uproot civilization," which had been their announced goal for over one hundred years. It appears that his research had uncovered the fact that the I!luminati had been at work in America. 1886 was a big year for those uncovering the evidence that this conspiracy existed. Two other individuals spoke out about the secret societies in the world. One was Henry Ed- ward Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, England, who wrote that the Communist International was: "the work of secret, political societies, which from 1789 to this day have been perfecting their formation." He said that this conspiracy: "is now a power in the midst of the Christian and civilized world, pledged to the destruction of Chris- tianity and the old civilization of Europe." *!” The other was Abbe Joseph Lane, a respected scholar of the time, who wrote that he had discovered a plan: "to disorganize at one blow’ Christian society and the beliefs and customs of the Jews, then bring about a state of things where, religiously speaking, there will be neither Christian nor Jew." *”° So there were plenty of warnings, but, overall, few in the world listened. And the secret societies continued to prosper. 117 Chapter 16 Karl Marx, Satanist Other secret societies prospered as well. And some of the historic figures of the past belonged to them. And the fact that these people belonged to these secret societies has generally not been acknowledged by the historians who have written the "accidental school of history" (the theory that the major events happen by accident. It holds that no one really knows why wars, depressions, inflations, etc. happen. They just do. The opposing view of history is called The Con- spiratorial View of History. This view holds that the major events of the past have happened by design. People plan wars, depressions, inflations, and revolutions years in ad- vance.) One of these individuals was Karl Marx, the so-called "father of communism." Mr. Marx had been born into a relig- ious family. His family was Jewish and had converted to Christianity shortly before his birth. Karl was later baptized into the Protestant faith. 118 CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST Marx's first written work was called "The Union of the Faithful With Christ," in which he wrote: "Through love of Christ we turn our hearts at the same time toward our brethren who are inwardly bound to us and whom He gave Himself in sacrifice." *! Just a short time later, he wrote this poem he entitled "The Pale Maiden:" "Thus heaven I've forfeited. I know it full well. My soul, once true to God, Is chosen for hell." >” George Jung, a friend of Marx's during this time, added this comment about Marx's attitude: "Marx will surely chase God from his heaven and will even sue him. Marx calls the Christian _ religion one of the most immoral of religions." *” Marx confirmed this position that something had changed his mind about Christianity with these quotations from his writings: "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of man is a demand for their real happiness." *~* "I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above." *” Something had indeed changed Marx's view of Chris- tianity. He continued: "We must war against all prevailing ideas of reli- gion, of the state, of country, of patriotism. The idea of God is the keynote of a perverted civilization. It must be destroyed.” **° As can be illustrated by his own writings, something had not only changed his ideas on Christianity, but something had changed his ideas on what God had taught man through 119 CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST the Bible. Marx was now being critical of God's instructions about: How to worship the Creator; How to create a nation to protect God-given rights; Why to establish and maintain national borders; How to create the conditions under which all could be free to love their Creator. All of these ideas had a Biblical foundation. All of these principles were taught in the Bible. And each of these ideas had been tested by a variety of civilizations for many cen- turies, but as can be seen from his writings, Marx wanted to "war against" all of these Biblical principles. Something had indeed changed his mind. In addition, Marx had found another bulwark of God's plan for man to be unsatisfactory. He also discovered he had to war against the family. Marx wrote this in his COMMUNIST MANIFESTO: "Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists." *”” His bitterness towards the family unit caused members of his own family to suffer as well: "Armold Kunzli, in his book KARL MARX - A PSYCHOGRAM, writes about Marx's life, including the suicide of two daughters and a_ son-in-law. Three chil- dren [of his] died of malnutrition. His daughter Laura, married to the Socialist Lafargue, also buried three of her children; then she and her husband committed su- icide together. Another daughter Eleanor, decided with her hus- band to do_ likewise. She died; he backed out at _ the last minute." *78 120 CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST Marx further showed his disdain for the family unit by fathering a child with his own personal maid. She was a gift from his mother-in-law upon the occasion of Marx's wedding. Apparently he found no hypocrisy in the fact that he had a maid at the time he considered himself to be the champion of the working man. Marx railed against the rich and _ pros- perous, those who were wealthy enough to have had maids. But he had one himself. It is possible to understand a small degree of the utter despair that Jenny von Westphelan, Karl Marx's wife, must have felt being married to a man who allowed such tragedies to occur. Marx was quoted as writing: "Daily, my wife tells me she wishes she were ly- ing in the grave with the children. And truly I cannot blame her." *”° But the historians who have probed Marx's background have generally failed to uncover the reason that he had _be- come so bitter against Christianity and all of its teachings. A few honest historians have uncovered the something _ that changed Marx's views, and that something was Satan wor- ship. Marx had discovered the world of the occult. Marx had first been brought to the ideas of Socialism by Moses Hess when he was 23. But the most important influ- in his young life was the worship of Satan. Many of his friends had discovered this religion before he had. One was Mikhail Bakunin, a Russian anarchist, who wrote: "Satan is the first free-thinker and Saviour of the world. He frees Adam and impresses the seal of hu- manity and liberty on _ his’ forehead, by making him disobedient." **° Another friend of Marx's was Pierre Proudhon, a_ French socialist and writer. Marx had been introduced to Proudhon by Hess. Mr. Proudhon "worshipped Satan," according to a book about him and his relationship with Karl Marx. * He had written that God was the prototype for injustice: 121 CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST "We reach knowledge in spite of him, we_ reach society in spite of him. Every step forward is a victory in which we overcome the Divine. God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and_ falsehood; God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. Where humanity bows’ before an _ altar, humanity, the slave of kings and priests, will be condemned .... I swear, God, with my _ hand _ stretched out _ to- wards the heavens, that you are nothing more than the executioner of my _ reason, the scepter of my _ con- science ..... God is_ essentially anti-civilized, _anti-liberal, anti-human." Here Proudhon declared God to be evil because he be- lieved that God had denied man his ability to "reason." Notice that the thoughts of these men were not those of an atheist. Marx and his friends, at this stage of their lives, were not atheists, as present day Marxists describe them- selves. That is, while they openly denounced and reviled God, they hated Him while they acknowledged His existence. They did not challenge His existence. They challenged His _ su- premacy. The thing that changed Marx's views about life was the fact that he had discovered the world of Satan worship. There is evidence that he had joined a Satanic cult head- ed by Joana Southcott, a Satanic priestess who considered herself to be in contact with a demon named Shiloh. One of the distinguishing characteristics of his membership in_ this cult was his long hair and unkempt beard, worn by members of her cult. Proudhon also wore his hair in a similar manner, and it is quite likely that he was a member of this cult as well. Other Communists have declared their hatred of God. One, a communist named Flourens, wrote this in 1871: "Our enemy is God. Hatred of God is the begin- ning of wisdom." >” Another notable Communist, Nikolai Lenin, the father of the Communist revolution of 1917 in Russia, also voiced his hatred of God and religion. He wrote the following comments: 122 CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST "Atheism is an integral part of Marxism. Marxism is materialism. We must combat religion." °°? "We, of course, say that we do not believe in God. We do _ not believe in eternal morality. That is moral that serves the destruction of the old society." ** "Everything is moral which is necessary for the annihilation of the old exploiting social order [Lenin wished to destroy the Old World Order, and _ replace it with the New World Order] and for uniting the pro- letariat." "We must combat. religion. Down with _ religion. Long live atheism. The spread of atheism is our chief task. Communism abolishes’ eternal truths. It abolishes all religion and morality." *° "Religion is a kind’ of © spiritual intoxicant, in which the slaves of capital drown their humanity, and blunt their desire for decent human experience." **° "We shall always preach a _- scientific philosophy. We must_ fight against the inconsistencies of the Chris- tians ...." Lenin, like Marx before him, came from a religious family. His father was a school inspector, and a devout member of the Russian Orthodox Church. But, at the age of eighteen, Lenin started reading Karl Marx and soon was _ expounding Marxist principles. He later wrote: "Atheism is a- natural and _ inseparable portion of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific Social- ism. Our = propaganda necessarily includes propaganda for atheism." a Other Communists have joined _ the attack on religion. Nikita Khrushchev, a Russian dictator who embraced the Communist theology during the time he spent at the top of the Russian government, wrote this: "Do not think that the Communists have changed their minds about religion. We remain the Atheists that we have always been; we are doing as much as 123 CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST we can to liberate those people who are still under the spell of this religious opiate." *” But notice that Mr. Khrushchev went one step further than some of the other atheists. He stated that the task of the Communist atheists was to "liberate" the God-fearers from their God. This, obviously, is the task not only of the Communists but of the New World Order. Others, more recently, have praised Marxism. One even served in a high administrative position inside President Jimmy Carter's cabinet. He was Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He was, or is, also Director of the Research Institute on International Change, Professor of Public Law and Gov- ernment, and a member of the Russian Institute, all at Co- lumbia University. In 1970, Mr. Brzezinski wrote a book entitled BETWEEN TWO AGES, in which he made some startling observations on the nature of Marxism. Some of these are as follows: 7 Marxism __ represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision." "Marxism is simultaneously a _ victory of the exter- nal, active man over the inner, passive man and a_ vic- tory of reason over belief ...." 7 Marxism has served as a mechanism of hu- man ‘progress, even is its practice has often fallen short of its ideals." "Teilhard de Chardin [a modern day Jesuit theo- logian and writer] notes at one point’ that ‘monstrous as it is, is not modern totalitarianism really the distortion of something magnificent, and thus quite near to the truth?" " what will probably remain the major contri- bution of Marxism: its revolutionary and __ broadening influence, which opened man's’ mind to _ previously ig- nored __ perspectives and dramatized previously _ neglect- ed concerns." " Marxism, disseminated on the popular level in the form of communism, represented a major advance 124 CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST in man's ability to conceptualize his relationship to _ the world.” "Marxism ... provided a unique intellectual tool for understanding and harnessing the fundamental _ for- ces of our time. it supplied the best available insight into con- temporary reality." *““° It is one thing to make all of these favorable comments about Marxism, and it is another to actually test the theory against the reality. There are nations around the world that have applied Marx's theories. It is now possible to measure the promises against the actuality. One who has actually attempted to determine the actual practice of Marxism in Communist Russia was Robert Con- guest, afamed British Sovietologist. He estimated that at least 21,500,000 human beings had been executed or killed in other ways by the Marxist Communist authorities during and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Mr. Conquest pointed that out this figure was a low estimate and that the total figure could go as high as 45,000,000. The revolution in Russia was the first successful attempt to create a government in a nation based upon the theories of Marxism, the "victory of reason over belief." China as a nation also experienced a similar fate during its Communist revolution of 1923 to 1947. Professor Richard L. Walker in an official government report released by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security in 1971 estimated that the total dead in China might go as high as 64,000,000. China, too, had experienced the Marxist "victory of reason over belief." A tourist who visited China after the United States had established diplomatic relations with that nation in 1973 shared his thoughts about how Marxism had worked in China in an article he wrote for the August 10, 1973 New York Times newspaper. That article was entitled FROM A CHINA TRAVELER, and was written by the tourist, American bank- er David Rockefeller. This is what he wrote about the Marxism in China: 125 CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST "Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution [as many as 64,000,000 _ killed,] it has obviously succeeded not only in_ producing more efficient and dedicated ad- ministration, but also in fostering high morale and community purpose." **! After reading this comment, the student might recall the statement made by Adam Weishaupt: "Behold our secret .... ... remember that the end justifies the means ..." *” No one but Mr. Rockefeller knows what he meant by that comment, but it certainly seems to mean that he must have felt sorry for the 64,000,000 Chinese that were brutally killed by the Marxist Communists, but the results certainly justified their deaths. He was sorry that 64,000,000 Chinese had to die in the Revolution, but it was a small price to pay for "efficient administration and community’ purpose!" Don't forget, "the end justifies the means." And, the student is not to forget: Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote that Marxism was a "victory of reason over belief." Perhaps the best example of someone using "reason over belief was the story offered by Whittaker Chambers, a_for- mer member of the Communist Party in America who decided to break with the Party and come out from it. He has been quoted as saying: "Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God." Mr. Chambers had a very interesting break from his be- liefs in Marxism and Communism. He related the story in his book entitled WITNESS: "But I date my break from a very casual happen- ing. I was sitting in our apartment on St. Paul Street in Baltimore. My daughter was in her high chair. I was watch- ing her eat. She was the most miraculous thing _ that had ever happened in my life. I liked to watch her CHAPTER 16 KARL MARX, SATANIST had ever happened in my life. I liked to watch her even when she smeared porridge on her face’ or dropped it meditatively on the floor. My eyes came to rest on the delicate convolutions of her ear — _ those intricate, perfect ears. The thought passed through my mind: ‘No, those ears were not cre- ated by any chance coming together of atoms in na- ture [the view of the Communists.] They could have been created only by immense design.’ The thought was involuntary and — unwanted. I crowded it out of my mind. But I never wholly forgot it or the occasion. I had to crowd it out of my mind. If I had completed it, I should have had to say: Design presupposes God. I did not then know that, at that moment, the finger of God was first laid upon my forehead." He later added this thought: "A Communist [meaning someone who __ believes that Marxism is a_ "victory of reason over belief] breaks because he must choose at last between = ir- reconcilable opposites — God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism." **° Mr. Chambers had figured it out. Marx, Lenin, Brzezinski and Rockefeller apparently had not. 127 Chapter 17 Adolph Hitler, Satanist Another individual who joined a secret society was Adolf Hitler, the head of the Nazi Socialist Party in Germany. He joined a secret society called the Thule Society, termed "the secret prime mover of Nazism." *““ And it is a rare historian who has written about the importance of this group, or the fact that Hitler had joined it. The authors of a book on this organization wrote: "It is in the Thule Society that one has to look for the real inspiration of Nazism." ** The Thule Society had interesting roots. It was itself: "put a fragment of a much more important secret society known as the Germanic Order founded in 1912," #6 That organization had its origin in other secret societies: 128 CHAPTER 17 ADOLPH HITLER, SATANIST "[they had] gathered together certain lodges of the Prussian Freemasonry, as well as a number of _ openly anti-Semitic associations. The Thule Society became a _ particularly active branch of the main society." **7 The importance of the Thule Society in the formation of the Nazi Party is now being discovered, but not generally by the historians who write the "Accidental School of History." "The Committee and the forty original members of the New German Workers’ Party were all drawn from the most powerful Occult Society in Germany: the Thule Society." ** But the most revealing statement made about this Society was that the major leaders all had a common religion: "The inner core within the Thule Society were all Satanists who practiced Black Magic." *”” Another writer on the Thule Society is Joseph Carr, who has written a book entitled THE TWISTED CROSS. In it, he makes this observation: "The inner group’ which controlled the Thule So- ciety contained men who- were _ self-confessed — Luci- ferians ...." °° So, the evidence is that Hitler himself became a _ Luci- ferian. He had absorbed the works of the tragic philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche: "whose powerful dissertation on ‘the Genealogy of Morals’ sought to make a ‘Revaluation of all values’ in the proof that so-called evil was good, and what was habitually believed to be good was evil." **! Here is that thought again that the God of the Bible is "evil," and somehow the "god" considered to be evil is "good." And that what was needed was a "re-evaluation of mor- als." In other words, that which has been taught by the 129 CHAPTER 17 ADOLPH HITLER, SATANIST Biblical "good" God has to be eliminated, and a new system substituted therefor. These thoughts will be examined later in this study. But Hitler also acknowledged the role of Freemasonry in his life: "In Hitler's observations, published ... under the tile HITLER SPEAKS... one’ can_ rediscover the important role played by German Freemasonry as a model for esoteric structuring of the Nazi Party." * Just like so many other secret societies, the Thule Society had an "esoteric structuring.” That must have meant that there were two classes of members, those who knew what the secret was and those who didn't. But there is evidence that Adolf Hitler was one of the members of the Society that knew. The man who played the most important role in Hitler's life was Dietrich Eckart, one of the original seven who founded the Nazi Party and who was in fact called the "spiritual founder of Nazism." One writer wrote just how important Eckart was in Hitler's life: "Adolf Hitler himself considered Eckart as the most important influence on his life." °° It is known that Eckart had experimented with numerous drugs in an attempt to reach "higher consciousness." It is now being discovered that Hitler also attempted the same thing: ".... Hitler attained higher levels of consciousness by means of drugs and made a_ penetrating study of medieval occultism and ritual magic ...." ** Eckart has been called: "a dedicated Satanist .. and the central figure in a powerful and wide-spread circle of occultists - the Thule Society." *”° But he was also believed in the future appearance of Lord Maitreya, the hoped for New Age Messiah. Eckart partici- 130 CHAPTER 17 ADOLPH HITLER, SATANIST pated in a series of seances with two Russian generals who had left their native land to come to Germany. "During these seances, Eckart and _ his associates were told of the imminent appearance of the German messiah, a Lord Maitreya." *° And he deliberately guided the career of Hitler into the occult world of Satan and Lucifer worship. When he lay dy- ing, he told those gathered at his bedside: "Follow Hitler! He will dance, but it is I who have called the tune! I have initiated him into the ‘Secret Doctrine,, opened his centres in vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers. Do not mourn for me: I shall have influenced history more than any other German." *” "Eckart claimed to his fellow adepts in the Thule Society that he had _ personally received a_ kind of Satanic annunciation [meaning announcement] that he was destined to prepare the vessel of the Anti-Christ, the man inspired by Lucifer to conquer the world and lead the Aryan race to glory." *°* Another of the links of the Thule Society with Lucifer worship is the emblem chosen as the symbol of the Nazi Party itself: the swastika. The dictionary defines a _ swastika as a cross with its four equal arms bent back in a right angle extension. There are two forms of the symbol: one with its arms bent to the left, and one with the arms bent to the right. The former is universally a symbol of good, while the latter is universally a symbol of evil. "Hitler personally selected the final design of the Nazi Blood Flag [the one carrying the swastika as an emblem representing the Nazi Party.| He reversed the swastika [from the one proposed] to the form _ that represents evil ...." >? Hitler had a model to base his selection on: the swastika was the symbol of the Thule Society. Its official insignia: 131 CHAPTER 17 ADOLPH HITLER, SATANIST "consisted of the swastika traversed by two lances." *°° Manly P. Hall in his book entitled LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY advised his readers just what the swastika represented: "The swastika .. is the whirling cross __ that represents the centralizing motion of the Eternal ALL." 3! One of the original founders of the Thule Society, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, linked the swastika with another symbol, the sun, when he made this statement in November of 1918: "I intend to commit the Thule’ Society to _ this combat... I swear it on this swastika, on this sign which for us is sacred, in order that you hear it, O magnificent Sun!" ** So the swastika was a symbol of the Thule Society; it was a symbol of the Nazi Party; it was somehow connected to a symbol of the Sun-god; and the Sun-god was a symbol of Lucifer. And those who resisted the symbol of the swastika and all it represented had to pay for it with the supreme sacrifice on the bloody altar of war. 50 million people died in World War II. 50 million people sacrificed to the religion of Lucifer. All because the historians who write the "accidental view of history" somehow were unable to determine that Adolf Hitler had joined a Luciferic cult named The Thule Society some 16 years before the war started. But, remember, those who write the Accidental View of History do not believe that conspirators plan wars inside secret societies. And they certainly do not believe that Lucifer is a being that is worshipped by secret societies. 132 Chapter 18 The Great Seal "For more than three thousand years, secret societies have labored to create the background’ of knowledge necessary to the establishment of an enlightened democracy among the nations of the world. all have continued ... and they still exist, as the Order of the Quest." SS Thus wrote Manly P. Hall, the 33rd degree Mason, and perhaps the most prolific writer on this type of subject in a book entitled THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA. The title of his book is rather alarming. The thought that America has a_ "secret destiny" will probably startle those not familiar with secret societies and their plans for America and the world. But that is the claim made by Mr. Hall in his book. He informed his readers that he saw this Order coming to America: 133 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL "Men bound by a secret oath to labor in the cause of world democracy’ decided that in the American colonies they would plant the roots of a new way of life." He then told his readers when these conspirators came to America. He wrote that the Order of the Quest: "... Was set up in America before the middle of the 17th century," [meaning sometime between 1625 to 1675.] °° That means that Mr. Hall felt that the members of this Order came to America about the same time that the first settlers arrived. American history records that the first visitors from Europe to the American shore were the English settlers who came in 1607, to be followed by the Pilgrims in 1620. But Mr. Hall says that amongst those early settlers was a group committed by a secret oath. But the only name he mentioned as being involved in the Order of the Quest was that of Benjamin Franklin, one of America's founding fathers: "[Benjamin] Franklin spoke for the Order of the Quest, and most of the men who worked with him in the early days of the American’ Revolution were also members." *°° He further identified most of those men as being, not only members of the Order, but also Freemasons as well: "Not only were many of the founders of the United States Government Masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe [the II- luminati?] which helped them to establish this country for a particular purpose known only to _ the _ initiated So a secret society, or several secret societies, decided that America would be fertile ground for the establishment of a new society, or as Mr. Hall called it, a "particular purpose." It can be known that those who created the Constitution of the United States and its resulting government were not 134 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL connected to the Order of the Quest. Those who created the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States created perhaps the finest documents ever penned by men. The Constitutional Republic they created was the greatest form of government ever devised by man. They created some problems inside the document, (for example it permitted slavery,) but overall, they created the most magnificent form of government in the history of the world. It is obvious that these men, even though Hall stated that they were men who "labored in the cause of world demo- cracy," could not have been the original Founding Fathers, because their purpose inside the Order was known only to the "initiated few." The creation of America's Republic was certainly a_ public act, made known, it is certain, to every freedom seeking nation in the world. People do not keep freedom quiet! They let the world know that it has been officially recognized by the American Con- stitution. Even in nations under totalitarian Communism, where freedom of the press is either non-existent, or in nearly total control of the government, people know that America did something that only a few other societies in the past had ever done: they had created a truly free Republic! Even today, people still swim shark infested waters, climb over barbed wire fences, and dodge army patrols in the dark of night to come to America, because they seek freedom! Free people do not conspire! They make their activities known to the freedom seeking peoples of the world: IT IS POSSIBLE TO CREATE A_ FREE GOVERNMENT! Only those with evil purposes create "secret societies," with "secret oaths," with "particular purposes" known only to an "initiated few." So the purpose of the Order of the Quest was _ not beneficial to freedom loving peoples, no matter that Mr. Hall says they "labored in the cause of world democracy." They must know something that the rest of America does not know: their cause is evil! 135 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL Mr. Hall then instructed the reader that the Order of the Quest concealed their purpose inside the symbols of the Great Seal of the United States. This seal is the one that appears on the back side of the American dollar bill, and consists of two sides, what are called the Obverse side, the one with the eagle, and the Reverse side, the one with the pyramid. Mr. Hall tells his reader: "... if the design on the obverse side of the seal [the eagle] is stamped with the signature of the Order of the Quest, the design on the reverse, [the pyramid] is even more definitely related to the Old Mysteries." ** Here Mr. Hall connects the reverse side of the Great Seal with the ancient mysteries, the worship of Lucifer as a sun- god. The Great Seal was designed and accepted in 1782, but not until several committees appointed by Congress had failed to design one. The first committee was asked by the Continental Con- gress on July 4, 1776, to "prepare a device for a seal of the United States of America," and consisted of three men: Ben- jamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. This committee of three was not able to decide on a design, so Congress appointed a second committee. This committee also had difficulty in deciding, so Congress appointed a_ third committee. They referred the problem to Charles Thomson, the Secretary of Congress, and his designs were adopted on June 20, 1782. Max Toth wrote a book about the history of the Egyptian pyramids, and including a brief review of the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill. This is what he wrote: "All three committees appointed in succession § by Congress between 1776 and 1782 ~ included members holding various positions in Freemasonry." So, those who were deciding the design of the Great Seals were not only Masons, but were quite possibly members of the Order of the Quest. Mr. Hall said that the Order placed "their signature" on both sides of the Seal. So, there is reason to believe that at the very least, some of the Masons were also members of the Order. 136 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL Mr. Hall then commented: "European mysticism was not dead at the time the United States of America was founded. The hand of the Mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government, for the signature of the Mysteries may still be seen on the Great Seal of the United States of America." *”° "The Great Seal is the signature of this exalted body — unseen and for the most part unknown - and the unfinished pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard setting forth symbolically the task to _ the accomplishment of which the United States Government was dedicated from the day of its inception." *”! He elaborated further: "There is only one possible origin for these symbols, and that is the secret societies which came to this coun- try 150 years before the Revolutionary war [about 1620, the date that the Pilgrims came to America. ] There can be no question that the great seal was di- rectly inspired by these orders of the human quest, and that it set forth the purpose for this nation as that pur- pose was seen and known to the Founding Fathers." °” So America has a "secret destiny." And that secret purpose was being kept from the majority of America's citizens. But for the curious, there are ways of determining just what that secret destiny is. The symbols of the Great Seals can be deciphered. Ameri- cans can know what that future is. "Careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and Masonic symbols a ae Mr. Hall tells us that some of these symbols have Masonic interpretations. The Masons also have symbols, and have, on occansion, revealed what those symbols mean. So, it becomes possible to know what those Masonic symbols on the Great Seal mean. 137 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL James H. Billington has been the Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. since 1973. He _ received a doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England, and taught history at Harvard and at Princeton. He has written a book entitled FIRE IN THE MINDS OF MEN, ORIGINS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY FAITH. He has written about the Great Seal as well: "The ideal was ... the occult simplicity of its [mean- ing America's] great seal: an all-seeing eye and a pyramid over the words Novus Ordo Seclorum." *”* So, the search for the "secret destiny" of America ends in the meaning of two symbols and a Latin phrase. Therefore, it would be possible to determine the future of America if these symbols could be deciphered. But first, it would be helpful to decipher as many of the remaining symbols on both sides of the Great Seal as pos- sible. The words "Annuit Coeptis" have been traditionally inter- preted as meaning "He, [presumably the God of the Bible] has prospered our undertakings." But, a far more acceptable interpretation would be that the words mean "announcing the birth of." What the symbols are announcing is new. It was still in its infant stage in 1782, and what it is will be explored in some of the following paragraphs. The eagle in the obverse side has very definite mystic meanings. Manly P. Hall gives us one: "In mysticism the eagle is a symbol of initiation ...." °° Rex Hutchens gives another: "The eagle: ... this emblem is of great antiquity figuring in the symbolic inventory of the Egyptians, as the sun; as wisdom is_ attained through’ reason, _ the eagle is also symbolic of reason." "Among the Egyptians the eagle was the emblem of a wise man _ because his wings bore him above _ the clouds into the purer atmosphere and_ nearer to _ the source of light, and his eyes were not dazzled by that 138 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL light. Since the — eagle also. represented the great Egyptian Sun god Amun Ra, it is a symbol of the infin- ite Supreme Reason of Intelligence." *”° Another Mason who connected the eagle with the sun was Kenneth Mackenzie: "With the Egyptians, the Greeks and _ the Persians, the eagle was sacred to the sun." Albert Pike also confirmed this connection when he wrote these comments about the eagle: "a bird consecrated to the Sun in Egypt." "The Eagle was the Living Symbol of Mendes, a representative of the Sun." °*” Perhaps the reason that the eagle was considered to be sacred to the Egyptians was offered by Robert Hieronimus in his book entitled THE TWO GREAT SEALS OF AMERICA: "... the eagle has been linked to the Sun [the word has been capitalized, apparently referring to the sun as a deity, rather than to the daytime sun] for it can _ fly nearer to the Sun than any other bird, and is the only bird that is said to symbolically look directly into the Sun's rays." >”? Another writer who wrote a book on the Great Seal was E. Raymond Capt, and he added this confirmation in his book entitled OUR GREAT SEAL: "The Eagle ... is also. supposed to be the only creature that can look directly into the sun." *° It is revealing that some of the authors appear to under- stand the symbology of the Sun, and others think it is just the gaseous orb that lights the earth. The drawing of the eagle conceals other secrets and it will assist the student to examine these as well. The eagle in the seal has nine tail feathers, and either 32 or 33 feathers on each of the two wings. These are symbols that have to be interpreted: 139 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL "The nine tail feathers of the eagle represent the nine beings in the innermost circle of enlightenment in the 'Great White Brotherhood - or the Illuminati." **! There is another explanation, one more acceptable than the one offered above by Stan Deyo in his book entitled THE COSMIC CONSPIRACY. There are nine degrees in the York Rite of Freemasonry, and connecting the York Rite to the tail feathers appears to be the more plausible explanation. The feathers on the two wings also conceal a secret. There are 32 on the right side, symbolic of the 32 degrees inside the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and 33 on _ the left side, symbolic of the honorary 33rd degree. The "all-seeing eye" above the pyramid has two meanings, both related to the Masonic Order. One explanation was provided by the Masons themselves in an article that was inside a Masonic Bible. It said: "The ubiquity of Masonic law was _ symbolized by the All-Seeing Eye." **” The word ubiquity is defined as the capacity of being everywhere at the same time. The Masons are saying that their law, the one that will punish the Mason should he reveal their secrets, is everywhere and that he cannot hide from it. The second interpretation of the symbol of the eye has been offered by many Masons, including Albert Mackey: "An important symbol of the Supreme Being, _ bor- rowed by the Freemasons from the nations of antiquity. .. the open eye was selected as the symbol of watchfulness, and the eye of God as the symbol of Divine watchfulness and care of the universe." "The All-Seeing-Eye may then be considered as a symbol of God manifested in his omnipresence ...." **° So, the simplest explanation of the symbol is that it is the symbol of a deity. And some of the Masons in their writings have told the student who that deity is. 140 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL One of the Masons who took the next step in explaining what the symbol stood for was Kenneth Mackenzie who wrote this: "The eye was also the symbol of Osiris." * This was confirmed by another Mason, Carl Claudy: "This [the All-Seeing Eye] is one of the oldest and most widespread symbols denoting God. The Open Eye of Egypt represented Osiris." Mr. Mackey also confirmed that the All Seeing Eye was a symbol of Osiris: x the Egyptians ane Osiris, their chief deity, by the symbol of an open eye .. Albert Pike connected Osiris with the Sun_ with this comment from his bbok MORALS AND DOGMA: "... Osiris, the Sun, Source of Light and Principle of Good ...." **’ Manly P. Hall connected the symbol of the eye with the symbol of the sun with this statement: "His symbol, therefore, was an opened eye, in honor of the Great Eye of the universe, the sun." Rex Hutchens, one of the most recent Masons to write a major book supporting the Masonic Order, also wrote that the all-seeing eye was a symbol of the sun. He wrote: "On the right side [of a sash worn by a Member of the Masons inside the Temple] is painted an eye of gold, a symbol of the sun or of the Deity." **” Albert Pike however revealed the exact meaning of the symbol in his book MORALS AND DOGMA: "The All-Seeing Eye ... which to the Ancients was the Sun." *”° 141 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL So, the all-seeing eye is a symbol concealing the Masonic belief that Osiris, a representative of the sun, was a god. And some of these writers have reported that the sun-god was Lucifer. So, the all-seeing eye is a symbol of Lucifer, the all-seeing god of the universe. And it was placed on the American seal by those who knew what it meant. The unfinished pyramid under the All-Seeing Eye also has a symbolic meaning, as described by the Treasury Department of the United States government in 1935: "The pyramid is the symbol of strength and its un- finished condition denoted the belief of the designers of the Great Seal that there was still work to be done." *” (Notice that the Treasury Department reported that the pyramid was "unfinished [it had no capstone]" because "there was still work to be done" in the United States. The common explanation that the "New World Order" in the Great Seal was the creation of the Republic under the American Consti- tution simply isn't true. That work was finished by the time that the seal was approved in 1782. That means that the "work still to be done" had to be completed in the future. The work of creating a "New World Order" was, in 1782, "still in the future.") But, the all-seeing eye has a far more symbolic meaning to the Masons, as was described by E. Raymond Capt: "The triangle, in connection with the All-Seeing Eye, is the Masonic symbol of the ‘Grand Architect of the Universe." *”” Manly P. Hall told his readers who the Great Architect of the Universe was: he was the Master of the Masonic Lodges: "The Mason believes in the Great Architect Let him never forget that the Master is near. The All-seeing Eye is upon him." °° The Great Architect of the Universe is the title of the god of the Masonic order. But there are some who feel that this god is not the God of the Bible, but Lucifer, considered by these to be the god of some of the Masons. One who has 142 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL pointed out why he considers this to be true is Edward Ronayne, a former member of the Masons, who wrote this in his book entitled THE MASTER'S CARPET: "An Architect is a man who furnishes plans for, and superintends the erection of a building made from material already prepared; but God created of nothing the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, and hence he cannot be a mere Architect, and it would be a direct insult to call him such a nickname." *™* (The author is one of those who believe that Lucifer is the god of some of the Masons. It has been my purpose to prove that that conclusion is true with evidence from the Masons themselves. Some of that evidence has been presented in the material in earlier chapters of this study. Other evidence will follow in the remaining chapters of this book.) Other Masonic symbols on the dollar bill, as told to the student by the Masons themselves in their magazine entitled The New Age are the: 13 leaves in the olive branches; 13 bars and stripes in the shield; 13 arrows; 13 letters in "E Pluribus Unum" on the ribbon; 13 stars in the green crest above; 13 granite stones in the Pyramid; 13 letters in "Annuit Coeptis"; On the front of the dollar bill is the seal of the United States, made up of a_ key, square, and_ the Scales of Justice, as well as a _ compass, which, of course, is an important symbol in Masonry. It is quite certain that the student of history will argue that the number 13 used in all of these symbols simply refers to the thirteen states that ratified the Constitution. This would be a reasonable explanation, were it not for the fact that the Masons claim the number as one of their own. It appears as if they decided that it was time to form the United States when the number of states that could be united in the Union reached 13. As was just illustrated, the Masons consider the number to have Masonic significance. 143 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL They apparently waited for just that time when there were exactly 13 states to form the union, and not 12 or 14. One who has assigned an esoteric interpretation to the number 13 is Stan Deyo, the author who said this in _ his book entitled THE COSMIC CONSPIRACY: "13 is the value assigned to Satan." *° But the key phrase on the back of the dollar bill and inside the Great Seal is the Latin phrase NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM. It means: NOVUS: New ORDO: Order SECLORUM: World The New World Order! The New World Order on the American dollar bill is not the "republic" of thirteen states created by the founding fathers. It is the future one thousand year reign of Lord Maitreya, the New Age "messiah." Lord Maitreya is the earth's representative of the sun-god, Lucifer. And the future period is symbolized by the unfinished pyramid, signifying that the future work is yet to be done. It is an easy task to show that the New World Order is not the republican form of government the founding fathers created, because the pyramid is unfinished. | Whatever the New World Order is, it was not completed in 1782. And it is not in place yet. America is to bring the New Age to the world of the future! Some of this nation's founding fathers said so! There is no question but that the Great Seal has great significance to both the Masonic Order and the "Order of the Quest" described by Manly P. Hall, a member of the Masons. There is one final piece to be placed into the puzzle of the entire scenario, and that is to determine why these symbols appear on the dollar bill at all. Why should the great seal of the United States contain any symbols that conceal secrets from the overwhelming majority of the American people? Especially if those secrets are symbolic of a religion that few in America subscribe to. 144 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., in his book entitled THE COMING OF THE NEW DEAL, told how Henry A. Wallace, the Vice President in President Franklin Roosevelt's first ad- ministration, asked the President to put the two Seals on the back of the American dollar bill. Mr. Schlesinger wrote: "The occult fascinated him [Wallace.] He saw special significance in the Great Seal of the United States ... even more in the reverse of the Seal .... Wallace did induce the Secretary of the Treasury [after he had talked to President Roosevelt] to put the Great Pyramid on the new dollar bill in 1935. His susceptibility to the occult had drawn Wallace in the late twenties into the orbit of a White Russian mystic in the tradition of [Helena Petrovna] Blavatsky, Dr. Nicholas Roerich ...." °°” Mr. Wallace himself put his recollections of the events in a letter that has been recorded several places, as well as in the book entitled OUR GREAT SEAL: "The Latin phrase NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM impressed me as meaning the New Deal [the term applied to President Roosevelt's administrations] of the Ages. Therefore I took the publication [a copy of a book entitled THE HISTORY OF THE SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES] to President Roosevelt .... [He] was first struck with the representation of the "All-Seeing Eye,’ a Masonic representation of the Great Architect of the Universe. Roosevelt like myself was a 32nd degree Mason. He suggested that the Seal be put on the dollar bill rather than a coin and took the matter up with the Secretary of the Treasury." °”* Some Masons created the Great Seal in 1782, and other Masons put it on the back of the American’ dollar bill in 1935. And it appears that all involved knew the meaning of the concealed symbols portrayed therein. There is an abundance of evidence that the Masons were heavily involved in the founding of the United States and the design of the Great Seal. 145 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL The Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry has told the student that 13 of the 39 original signers of the Constitution were Masons. *Another Mason, Past Sovereign Grand Commander Henry Clausen, put the figure at 23 of the 39. “” It is also interesting to note that there were 39 signers, exactly three times the Masonic number 13. Other Masons assumed responsible positions inside the Army fighting for freedom against the English government. 33 Generals in George Washington's army and six of his aides were Freemasons. “ The Masons then and the Masons now are looking forward to the "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM," the Latin phrase on the bottom of the reverse side of the Great Seal. Manly P. Hall told the world about the return of Osiris, someday, when he wrote this: "Osiris will rise in splendor from the dead and tule the world through those sages and philosophers in whom wisdom has become incarnate." *” The return to a worship of Osiris and what he represents as the sun-god, the worship of Lucifer, is still in the future. One who told the world that was C. William Smith of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the September, 1950 copy of the New Age Magazine, the official publication of the Supreme Council, 33rd Degree Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. What Mr. Smith wrote is extremely revealing. After the student has learned that Lucifer is the god of some of the Masons, it appears that the way to truly understand what he wrote is to substitute the name Lucifer whenever he refers to God. He wrote: "God's plan is dedicated to the unification of all races, religions and creeds. This plan, dedicated to the new order of things, is to make all things new — a new nation, a new race, a new civilization and a new religion, a nonsectarian religion that has already been called the religion of ‘The Great Light.’ Looking back into history, we can easily see that the Guiding Hand of Providence has chosen the Nordic people to bring in and unfold the new order of the world. Record 146 CHAPTER 18 THE GREAT SEAL clearly show that 95 per cent of the colonists were Nordics -- Anglo-Saxons. Providence has chosen the Nordic race to unfold the "New Age' of the world - a 'Novus Ordo Seclorum.' .. God's great plan in America for the dawn of the New Age of the world." “°° Yes, some Masons truly expect Osiris to rise from the dead and rule the world. The New Age, the New World Order is __ near! Some are expecting Osiris to rise! 147 Chapter 19 The Freemasons An article in the November, 1946 issue of The New Age Magazine, published by the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, called attention to the following comment made by Andre Tardieu, a former French Premier: "Freemasonry does not explain everything; yet, if we leave it out of account, the history of our times is unintelligible." “* Perhaps the reason Mr. Tardieu said that is because of what Manly P. Hall has said about Freemasonry. He called it: "the most powerful organization in the land." “”° Alice Bailey, the New Age leader, has written this about the Masonic Fraternity: 148 CHAPTER 19 THE FREEMASONS "It is a far more occult organization than can _ be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists." “°° The word occult is defined as hidden, concealed, secret, and esoteric. And an occultist is one who believes in con- cealing secrets from others. The Masons, it is to be assumed, would rush in to defend themselves against such charges. Any secret, hidden or con- cealed organization would have to, especially if it was discovered that their purposes were not what the average citizen believed. And that appears to be exactly what this Order has done. The traditional explanation offered by Freemasonry as_ to its purpose is this one offered by Henry Clausen, a former Sovereign Grand Commander of the Masonic Order. He said it was: "a particular system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols." *°” The Masons will only admit certain individuals into their initiation ceremonies. Those qualifications are: "A candidate for initiation must be a man, _free- born, unmutilated and of mature age." “8 There is one more requirement: they must profess a_ belief in a supreme being. W.F. Brainard, a Mason in New London, Connecticut, gave a speech in 1825 describing the Order he was a member of He said: "What is Masonry now? It is powerful. It com- prises men of rank, wealth, office and talent, in power and out of power; and that, in almost every place where Power is. of any importance; and it comprises among other classes of the community, to the lowest, in large numbers, active men, united together, and _ ca- pable of being directed by the efforts of others, so as to have the Force of Concert throughout the civilized world. 149 CHAPTER 19 THE FREEMASONS They are distributed too, with the means_ of knowing one another, and the means of keeping secret, and the means of cooperating, in the desk -- in_ the Legislative Hall ~ on the Bench -- in every _ gathering of business ~ in peace and war - among enemies and friends — in one place as well as in another! So powerful indeed, is it at this time that it fears nothing from violence, either public or private, for it has every means to learn it in season, to counteract, defeat and punish it." “”’ As has been discussed, members of this powerful organiza- tion have access to a secret. Included in that secret are plans for the future of the world. And whatever those plans are, they are kept from the average citizen. "Very early in our Masonic career, we are taught that Freemasonry is a system of morality, the peculi- arities of which are veiled from [the] uninstructed and popular world by allegorical reaching ([sic: teaching?] and symbolic illustration." *'° It appears to be a logical conclusion that if the Masons had another morality, and if that morality was sound and would be of benefit to all the people of the world, you would think that they would make it public, instead of concealing it inside mysteries and allegories. One can only wonder if the reason their morality is kept secret is because their morality is not sound and of benefit to the general public. That would certainly explain why they want to keep it buried, away from the gaze of the citizens of the world. Another Mason, George Steinmetz in his book entitled FREEMASONRY, ITS HIDDEN MEANING, says: "It is in the ancient symbols of Freemasonry _ that its real secrets lie concealed and _ these are densely veiled to the Mason as to any other. The most profound’ secrets of Masonry are _ not revealed in the Lodge at all. They belong only to the few." 150 CHAPTER 19 THE FREEMASONS So the secrets of the Masons do not even belong to all of the Masons. Some Masons know and some other Masons do not know the meanings of the secrets. But the interesting thing is that the Masons who do not know are being lied to by those who do. Albert Pike confirmed that this statement was true by writing this in the book that used to be read by all Masons inside the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, Masonic Order, entitled MORALS AND DOGMA: "The Blue degrees [the first three degrees of the 32] are but the outer court or portico [a covered walk] of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to _ the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by _ false inter- pretations. It is not intended that he _ shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine that he shall understand them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry." “!” The initiate is being lied to by his own fellow Masons! One brother is lying to another! Some of the Masons are concealing the true meaning of the secrets from other Ma- sons. And this is the way that the powerful Masons operate, the organization that men of rank, wealth, office and_ talent are joining? Pike repeated that position inside the same book, but on another page: "Masonry conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the elect, and uses false explana- tions and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it.” *!° It might be informative at this juncture to identify just what an "adept" believed in. Kenneth Mackenzie, a member of the Masons, wrote this in his book entitled THE ROYAL MASONIC CYCLOPAEDIA: 151 CHAPTER 19 THE FREEMASONS "Adept - a name given to the Order of IL luminati." *'* Was Mr. Pike admitting that only the Adepts, the "illuminated Masons," or those who belonged to both organi- zations, knew the secret of the Masonic Lodges: that Lucifer was a god? It would certainly seem so. Manly P. Hall also revealed the truth that not all Masons understand the meaning of the secrets inside the Temple. He wrote this in his book entitled LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: "Freemasonry is a_ fraternity within a _ fraternity — an outer organization concealing an _ inner brotherhood of the elect. .. it is necessary to establish the existence of these two separate yet interdependent orders, the one visible and the other invisible. The visible society is a splendid camaraderie of ‘free and accepted’ men _ enjoined to devote themselves to ethical, educational, fraternal, patriotic, and hu- manitarian concerns. The invisible society is a _ secret and most august fraternity whose members are dedicated to the _ service of a mysterious arcanum arcandrum [defined as a_ se- cret; a mystery. | Those brethren who have’ essayed to write the history of their craft have not included in _ their dis- quisitions [a formal discourse or treatise] the story of that truly secret inner society which is to the body Freemasonic what the heart is to the body human. In each generation only a few are accepted into the inner sanctuary of the work .... the great —_initiate-philosophers of | Freemasonry are... masters of that secret doctrine which forms the invisible foundation of every great theological and_ ra- tional institution." He further amplified this thought when he wrote these comments in another of his books, this one entitled THE LOST KEYS OF FREEMASONRY: 152 CHAPTER 19 THE FREEMASONS "The initiated brother realizes that his so-called symbols and _ rituals are merely’ blinds, fabricated by the wise to perpetuate ideas incomprehensible to the average individual. He also realizes that few Masons of today know or appreciate the mystic meaning concealed within these rituals." *’° Other Masonic writers have confirmed that there are two classes of Masons. Kenneth Mackenzie added this confirma- tion: "At the present day there are many secrets not usually given, and indeed the condition of Masonic education, except among a certain class, is very low. There are many good Masons’ well acquainted with the ritual, and even the lectures, but they fail from want of taste and opportunity to grasp the subtler philosophy of Freemasonry." The Masons are quick to point out that they do not tell even their more intelligent fellow Masons what the secrets are; they ask them to figure it out for themselves. But, Pike says, they start the process by hinting that the Masons "wor- ship" something other than the God of the Bible in the first degree. Apparently, if the Mason can figure it out for himself just who the other Masons worship, he gets to be one of them. This is what Pike wrote in MORALS AND DOGMA: "It is for each individual Mason to discover the secret of Masonry .... Masonry does not inculcate her truths. She _ states them, once and briefly; or hints them, perhaps, darkly; or interposes a cloud between them and_ eyes _ that would be dazzled by them. That rite [the Scottish Rite] raises a corner of the veil, even in the Degree of Apprentice [the first degree of the Blue lodge] for it there declares that Masonry is a worship." “!8 Other clues that Masonry is not a fraternity of phil- bhropic gentlemen who meet on a regular basis for fel- 153 CHAPTER 19 THE FREEMASONS lowship and works of charity are contained in other parts of Pike's book MORALS AND DOGMA, or in the writings of Manly P. Hall: "Every Lodge is a Temple ...." “!” "Masonry is a worship." “”° ".,. Masonry is a religious and philosophic body." "Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and - : ‘ : : ee 422 its teachings are instructions in religion." Since Masonry claims that it is a religion, it would be helpful to the student to define the term and see if Masonry meets the requirements. A religion is defined as being either of these definitions: 1.