Ruled from the Shadows:
Secret Societies Ancient and Modern
by Doug Michael
“Our country like so many before us, and like so many after us, was in fact founded by Freemasons. Freemasonry, in one form or another, has played a role in almost every government that was founded in this world. It is powerful in operation today throughout the world. However, we do want to establish first that what we are not talking about is Blue Masonry, or the Masonic lodges in your home town. We are not talking about the Freemasons that live across the street from you. We’re talking about a worldwide fraternal organization that is powerful enough, old enough, and wise enough to operate behind all governments in the world, behind fraternal institutions, and behind international monetary systems in the world. And, yes, they are, in fact, connected.”
- Jordan Maxwell
The Consortium is a vast network of secret societies, political think-tank groups, intelligence networks, fraternal organizations, and other institutions, whose members at the very top are connected by genetic bloodline; they are interrelated.
People that rise to the top in politics in the United States for instance, are related to the European ruling class families. Out of the 44 presidents the United States has had, 34 of them have been high level Freemasons. Every single president the US has ever had, has always possessed the most “royal genes” or blood connections to the European ruling families, as Burke’s Peerage1 has clearly shown.
There was only one time in the history of the US that the candidate with the most genetic connections to the European aristocratic bloodlines did not win, and that was in 2004 when John Kerry lost to G.W. Bush, amidst very fishy circumstances in Ohio. The Consortium had their man who would be kept in the position of the presidency to do the bidding of the Round Table Network. He has done more than any other president in history, to undermine US sovereignty, to remove liberties and to destroy the image of the US in the eyes of the world. The agenda continues under Obama and will continue no matter which figurehead is placed into office.
The US is a one party system, in which candidates are hand-picked, for the most part by the Consortium and its round table organizations. The voting system is an illusion, a false left/right paradigm. Of course, the Consortium can always simply rig an election to work in their favor, as was clearly demonstrated in 2000. There is a reason that people like Barack Obama, G.W. Bush, or Bill Clinton are chosen to be placed into the presidency and it has nothing to do with leadership abilities or allegiance to the people of the US. They are chosen based on their genetic bloodlines and their allegiances to the Consortium and its Round Table and secret society networks.
The US is a one party system. No matter who you vote for, the Consortium wins. David Dees art: http://www.deesillustration.com/
This essay will examine just a few of the secret societies, both ancient and modern, that act as fronts for the true, hidden rulers. The inner circles of the Consortium must remain hidden, and they use a multitude of groups/networks to remain so. They operate in a compartmentalized way, in a top-down, pyramidal structure, where those at the lower levels will never know the true workings of the upper elite. It truly is just a very few that control most of the planet, and they are coming to a point in history where they will try to establish their global world order.
We are on the very cusp of this global, totalitarian, super state, and it remains to be seen if enough people will become aware of it before there is more needless suffering. This edifice of power is in place only because the majority of people give their power away to it. We are tricked into doing so basically from birth. There are a multitude of secret societies, many of which appear unconnected but are intimately so at the top of the Consortium’s pyramid. Let’s take a look at some of them:
Freemasonry
I want to make it clear right from the start that I am not referring to all Freemasonry when I speak about the Consortium and their elite, secret society network. I understand that Freemasonry was, and is very much so today, a philanthropic organization, that actually does do good works for communities and for people. What I will be referring to here is the “Illuminist” Freemasonry, the upper echelons of this fraternal order that was long ago infiltrated by agents who were followers of the philosophies of Adam Weishaupt, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Albert Pike among others. These people were absolute globalists who believed in and taught philosophies of a small, elite class, ruling over the people, in a dictatorial manner. Many high-level politicians are absolute followers of these philosophies and are placed into the positions where they can enact them. Very simply, an “Illuminist” is someone who is initiated, or illuminated into the esoteric knowledge that the majority of the people are denied.
Just like the Round Table Network, Freemasonry, (and all other fraternal organizations that the Consortium operates through) has an inner and an outer court. They must operate in a top-down manner to remain hidden. These Illuminists have been referred to as “Luciferians” by many researchers and that’s exactly what they are, dark Luciferians. The Illuminists are ruthless in every sense of the word, and we need to get a good background of how they infiltrated Freemasonry to get a glimpse into their workings.
Just as the Jordan Maxwell quote referenced above states, I and other researchers into this type of information, are not talking about “Blue Lodge” Freemasons or your neighbors who are Masons that may actually do great works for the community. We are not talking about the Masons that help construct nursing homes and children’s hospitals. We are talking about the Illuminists that operate from within the inner circles of Freemasonry.
Freemasonic, solar and stellar occult symbolism appears everywhere in society, including on many nations’ flags. It appears on corporate logos, in the media, in government buildings, on many products in commerce, and in schools and churches.
Some researchers and historians attest that Freemasonry can be traced back to Egyptian times and although prior to the middle ages, historical evidence is scarce, Freemasonry is indeed an ancient order. It is interesting that Freemasonry displays many Egyptian symbols on their regalia and in their lodges.
Rather than try to trace the entire history of this organization, I’d like to point to the late 1700s when Masonry was infiltrated by a group known as the Bavarian Illuminati. Again, the term Illuminati refers to those initiated into the esoteric secrets that remain hidden from the general population. The word esoteric simply means “hidden,” or “restricted” knowledge. Those within the upper echelons of illumined Freemasonry use this esoteric knowledge for their nefarious purposes; they can absolutely be considered black magicians or dark sorcerers, and the way the Consortium perpetuates the control paradigm is through the psychological manipulation of human consciousness.
Ferdinand, the Duke of Brunswick, who was a high level Grand Master of world Freemasonry warned in the late 18th century:
“I have been convinced that we, as an order, have come under the power of some very evil occult order, profoundly versed in science, both occult and otherwise, though not infallible, their method being Black Magic, that is to say, electro-magnetic power, hypnotism and powerful suggestion. We are convinced that the order is being controlled by some Sun Order, after the nature of the Illuminati, if not by that Order itself.”
The Duke’s reference to a “sun order” is very interesting, because Masonic, solar imagery appears everywhere and the upper level Masons and Illuminists pay homage to the sun in their rituals, art and symbolism. Solar, stellar, lunar and saturnian symbolism is prominent everywhere; it is ubiquitous to the point that most cannot even see it.
The Bavarian Illuminati was founded on May 1st, 1776, by a former Jesuit by the name of Adam Weishaupt. He was a professor of Canon law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany. Weishaupt formed the order as the “Order of Perfectibilists,” which later became the Illuminati, and he adopted the name of “Spartacus.” Weishaupt formed the Order of Perfectibilists with a man called Adolph Freiherr Knigge, a Freemason and German writer. The Illuminati was formed as a secret society whose mission was to establish a New World Order, a tyrannical, globally based system of oppressive control.
The Bavarian government acted to suppress the Illuminati because of its intention to overthrow the governments of Europe, which many historians generally agree upon.2
The financial force behind the Illuminati was the house of Rothschild, which funded the French Revolution and other wars.3 In 1784, Weishaupt issued the orders to instigate the French Revolution. Apparently, in the late 18th century Weishaupt also issued orders to instigate the Revolutionary War in order to weaken the British Empire.4 In 1784, a courier for Weishaupt was ordered to deliver the plans for the French Revolution to the Illuminist lodges in France, apparently headed by Robespierre. On his way from Frankfurt to Paris, the courier was struck by lightning and killed. Police recovered the documents detailing the plan to instigate the French Revolution, and the Bavarian government ordered the raiding of Weishaupt’s lodges (Grand Orient Lodges) and the homes of his influential, fellow Illuminists. The Bavarian government became convinced, after recovering further Illuminati documents, that the documents were genuine, and that the Illuminati indeed intended to start wars, funding all sides, with the intention to establish a centralized order, which would be funded by the Rothschild banking dynasty.5
The Bavarian government outlawed the Illuminati in 1785, and in 1786 published all of the details of the Illuminati conspiracy for world government. The Consortium however, is pervasive and the actions of the Bavarian government merely forced the Illuminati underground, despite their warnings which were sent to all of the heads of church and state throughout Europe. The warnings were ignored.
It was at this time, that Weishaupt ordered the Illuminists to infiltrate the blue lodges of Freemasonry and form the inner court within Masonry. The brilliant playwright Myron Fagan exposed in the 1960s, the plan to infiltrate Masonry with Illuminism:
“…Only Masons who proved themselves internationalists and those whose conduct proved they had defected from God were initiated into the Illuminati. Thenceforth; the conspirators donned the cloak of philanthropy and humanitarianism to conceal their revolutionary and subversive activities.”6
Fagan goes on to state:
“In order to infiltrate into Masonic lodges in Britain, Weishaupt invited John Robison over to Europe. Robison was a high degree Mason in the ‘Scottish Rite.’ He was a professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University and Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Robison did not fall for the lie that the objective of the Illuminati was to create a benevolent dictatorship; but he kept his reactions to himself so well that he was entrusted with a copy of Weishaupt’s revised conspiracy for study and safekeeping.”7
Robison published a book, based on the documents Weishaupt entrusted him with titled: Proof of a Conspiracy to Destroy all Governments and Religions but his warnings were ignored. Robison warned Masonic leaders in America about the Illuminati’s infiltration into their established order, just as the Duke of Brunswick had issued his warnings. John Quincy Adams, a Mason, also issued orders concerning the Illuminati. Adams wrote three letters to Col. William L. Stone, a high level Mason, detailing how Thomas Jefferson was using the Masonic lodges for the Illuminati. Those letters still exist, in the Library in Whittenburg Square, in Philadelphia.8
Freemasonry consists of 33 degrees of official initiation, but most will never reach the upper echelons of the inner court, and will have no idea of the Illuminists that pervade their organization. In 1834, the Illuminati recruited an Italian revolutionary and 33rd degree Freemason by the name of Giuseppe Mazzini, into the order. Mazzini founded the notorious criminal entity known as the Mafia in 1860. Mazzini recruited a man into the order by the name of Albert Pike, who he wanted to head the American chapter of illumined Freemasonry. In a letter to Pike, Mazzini outlined the intentions to infiltrate the order of Freemasonry and to create a secret society within the already established order:
“We must allow all the federations to continue just as they are, with their systems, their central authorities and their diverse modes of correspondence between high grades of the same rite, organized as they are at the present, but we must create a super rite, which will remain unknown, to which we will call those Masons of high degree whom we shall select. With regard to our brothers in Masonry, these men must be pledges to the strictest secrecy. Through this supreme rite, we will govern all Freemasonry which will become the one international center, the more powerful because its direction will be unknown.”9
The Illuminati wished to infiltrate the already established order of Freemasonry, which was active worldwide and they were successful. To this day the Illuminati rule the inner court of Freemasonry and are one of the hidden hands of the Consortium’s network. In 1785, first American President, and high level Freemason, George Washington, in a letter written to one Reverend G.W. Snyder, claimed his support for the Illuminati’s presence within the order of Freemasonry:
“Reverend, Sir, it was not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati-the principles of Jacobinism-had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am.”10
Washington admitted that he was not only aware of the Illuminati’s doctrine spreading to the US, but that he was happy about it. The majority of the founders of the US were in fact Freemasons, but how many were actually illumined Freemasons? Is it possible, that the Revolutionary War was a cover for the shift from overt control, to covert control by the Illuminati, as per Weishaupt’s vision to weaken the British Empire in America? Many researchers do believe so.
Albert Pike served as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, and was tried for treason, only to be pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, a fellow Freemason. Pike was one of the key players of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and also one of the founders of the infamous Ku Klux Klan, and one of the top leaders of that organization. Pike was said to be a Satanist who was heavily into the occult. In Washington DC, near Capitol Hill, a statue of Pike stands to honor him not as a war general, but as a master Mason.
The headquarters for the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry was established in Charleston, South Carolina, which is interesting because Charleston is situated at the 33rd parallel of latitude and this is no accident. Symbolism is everything with the Consortium and the illumined servants of this vast network.
In 1871, Pike published a book titled: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry,11 in which he outlined a plan to enact three world wars to bring the New World Order into fruition. Author William Guy Carr, in his book Satan, Prince of This World,12 quotes a letter written by Pike to Mazzini, outlining the three wars that would lead to the establishment of the New World Order:
- The First World War: “must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the ‘agentur’ (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.”
- The Second World War: “must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.”
- The Third World War: “must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the ‘agentur’ of the ‘Illuminati’ between the political Zionists and the leaders of [the] Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”13
It appears as if Pike’s vision has played out according to plan, with the Third World War just on the horizon. With the current quagmires in Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq and elsewhere the situation in the Ukraine, conflicts in Libya and Obama’s antagonism towards Iran, it appears as if the Illuminati is right on schedule, or perhaps just a bit behind. [BUT see Albert Pike @ [url=http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/search/label/albert pike]http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/search/label/albert%20pike[/url] - N.I.]
We can see clearly that Pike’s vision for the first two world wars have played out precisely as he predicted, and that the third war appears to be playing out just as he envisioned as well. These however were not merely predictions by Pike; they were blueprints for the Illuminati’s march towards a fascist, global government.
The Illuminati are heavily into solar worship and Luciferianaism. Lucifer was the “Morning Star,” the “light bearer,” of course “light” refers to knowledge. As Pike himself claimed:
“Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of darkness! Lucifer the son of the morning! Is it he who bears the light? Doubt it not!”14
Or, in more recent times, as the UN Director of Planetary Initiative [sic] David Spangler claimed:
“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian initiation.”15
Illumined Freemasons are entrenched within the occult and their symbolism appears everywhere. In fact, the entire city of Washington DC was designed on esoteric principles and sacred geometry, and its monuments, statues, buildings, street layouts etc. contain heavy occult themes. A French Freemason by the name of Pierre Charles L’Enfant was employed to design the city on esoteric and occult motifs. 22 zodiacs are imbedded into the street plan of Washington DC, and even the name “District of Columbia” has significant, occult meaning.
The Egyptian hieroglyph for the star Sirius, is the dome, the 5 pointed star and the obelisk. In Washington DC, there is an obelisk ( a phallic symbol, symbolic of the penis of the Egyptian god Osiris, which represents male energy), the Pentagon (5 points) and the capitol building (the dome is also symbolic of the womb, or female energy). Some streets intersect at 33 degrees (33 degrees of Masonry) and others mark the points of the sun rising at the summer and winter solstices. Symbols have an effect and influence on the mind and the dark occultists of the Consortium know this well. This is why their symbolism appears everywhere.
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