complete set- MYSTERY BABYLON - Bill Cooper - 42 lectures !!

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Let's keep the list updated so it's clear which ones still need to be done:

00 - The Dawn of Man  (finished)
01 - Intro to Mysteries  (finished)(dok)
02 - Antiquities (Amerokah)
03 - Osiris and Isis (grneyelady)
04 - Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (grneyelady)
05 - The NWO and Freemasonry (John Galt)
06 - Maitreya (finished) (luckee1)
07 - Ecumenism
08 - Initiation (luckee1)
09 - Gnosticism
10 - The Assassins (Viper)
11 - The Assassins and The Templars (Viper)
12 - The End of The Templars
13 - The Skull and Bones
14 - The Roshaniya URpwneddude
15 - Quotes of Freemasons
16 - Sun Worship (Devotional Soul)
17 - Bibliography (dok)
18 - Lucifer Worship (finished) (Wake Up)
19 - Fundamental Laws (Rose Cross)
20 - William Morgan Interview Pt 1
21 - William Morgan Interview Pt 2
22 - William Morgan Interview Pt 3
23 - Jordan Maxwell Interview
24 - Americas Assignment Pt 1
25 - Americas Assignment Pt 2
26 - Americas Assignment Pt 3
27 - Letter About Masonry
28 - Jordan Maxwell and Anthony Hilder
29 - The Godmakers (finished) (wakingup)
30 - The UN Meditation Room
31 - Tom Valentine - Ice The Ultimate Disaster
32 - Letter By A Humanist Police Chief
34 - Secret Societies and Vatican II (Angry Patriot)
35 - Christianity to Babylon
36 - Rose Cross Pt 1
37 - Rose Cross Pt 2
38 - Rose Cross Pt 3
39 - The Occult and The Third Reich Pt 1
40 - The Occult and The Third Reich Pt 2
41 - The Occult and The Third Reich Pt 3

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Transcribed by wakingup72

William Cooper's Mystery Babylon: Part 29 – The Godmakers
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Good evening, I'm William Cooper, and you're listening to the Hour of the Time.

(opening music: Also sprach Zarathustra (theme song of 2001: A Space Odyssey) by Richard Strauss)

Ladies and gentlemen, Lt. Colonel James “Bo” Gritz:

(audio clip of Lt. Col. Gritz): “We're gonna have perfect government, but (applause) perfect government is coming soon, and I'm looking forward to it.”

What you have just heard, ladies and gentlemen, is the age old dream of Mystery Babylon, the secret societies, Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, the Knights of Malta, the Ancient Order of the Rose and Cross. The age old dream of a perfect government, permanent Utopia upon this Earth. What is Lt. Colonel James “Bo” Gritz talking about, this 32nd degree Freemason of the Scottish Rite and member of the branch of Mystery Babylon known as the Mormon church? What is he talking about? Ladies and gentlemen, that's the subject of tonight's broadcast.

It is known as the secret kingdom. Investigative reporter Jeffrey Kaye concluded: “The Mormon church, this American Zion, wields more economic power more effectively than the state of Israel or the Pope in Rome.” Actually, dear listeners, the word “church” is misleading when applied to Mormondom, for the power structure controlling its staggering resources is organized for the kind of absolute authoritarianism that one usually associates with a cult and not with a responsible church, nor are the ultimate goals of the Brethren compatible with the normal aims of the Christian leaders. In fact, in no way, shape or form can the Mormon church be called, “Christian.” They are essentially the same as those of cults in general, and especially those of secret revolutionary groups, working toward a takeover of the world. As one former teacher of Brigham Young University has said, “The Mormons do intend to take over the world. There is no secret about that. It's in the writings of Joseph Smith, right on down. The Constitution of the United States will hang by a thread and the church will save it by establishing a theocracy.”

Any who think the Mormon kingdom is a democracy are under a delusion. In fact, it is a dictatorship ruled by its inner elite circle, a council of elders. As the front page of the Wall Street Journal recently said, “Today from their 28th story marble and glass [unquote?] church headquarters building in Salt Lake City, Mormon church leaders oversee a vast and growing world financial empire.” From these offices, their dictatorial control reaches out to every church level and into every facet of Mormon life. Whatever [evoked, there seems to be, at the ward], stake in individual levels is part of a cleverly contrived illusion that continues to deceive millions of Mormons into imagining that they actually have some say in church affairs. Although they do have the freedom to disagree with their leaders, to do so means excommunication and damnation. Excommunicated for openly disagreeing with the Brethren's position on ERA, Sonia Johnson has said this: “The Mormon church has become more powerful than we dare believe. It's downright terrifying, especially when you see how rich and influential it is. I really think if we could ever get an investigation, it would uncover something so like Watergate, it would blow everything wide open.”

Totalitarian, theocratic communism seems to be the goal. Saints Alive was recently involved in some litigation arising out a physical attack upon one of its missionaries by an L.D.S. (or Latter-day Saints) tour guide on the street just outside Salt Lake City's temple square. In an interrogatory exchange, the surprising response by the Mormon church revealed that it was an unincorporated association without assets. Let me repeat that: without assets. All wealth and power is owned and controlled by the closely held corporation of the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Incorporated. You see, folks, church members, who have faithfully and sacrificially contributed their tithes, time and energy, are absolutely powerless to demand an accounting or to change a single action by the first presidency, even if all 5.2 million of them stood up in unison and voted unanimously for it.

The startling fact, folks, is that Mormon church members have no vote or participation of any kind in the corporate entity that controls Mormondom. They can sincerely perform their functions as bishops, elders, high priests and Sunday school superintendents all they wish. But in the real world, the real world of legal ownership and raw power, they are only 5.2 million pawns. Pawns, fools if you will, subject to manipulation from the top. All of this is part of a secret kingdom that Jeffrey Kaye has called the “Invisible Empire,” and about which most Mormons have only the vaguest notions, if they have any notions at all. This theocracy is alluded to by apostle Bruce R. McConkie: “Through this church and kingdom, a framework has been built through which the full government of God will eventually operate.” That “full government of God” involves what is known as “United Order.” Revelations that came through Joseph Smith described it as a theocratic, communistic society. All property and income was to be given over to the control of the church and then distributed to everyone, according to his need as the Brethren find it, so that, “the poor shall be exalted in that the rich are made low.” Those who transgress were to be put out of the church, in which case the property they had given into the treasury would not be returned to them. Serious problems prevented full implementation of the “United Order.” You see, until now, it never really worked. However, the Mormon church still looks forward to the day when these revelations of God through the Prophet will be fulfilled, and Mormon theocratic communism firmly established worldwide. And that can only happen when the church has taken full political power. When that time comes, woe to all who transgress the laws of the Mormon gospel. Excommunication with loss of earthly property will be supplemented, ladies and gentlemen, with the death penalty. The United Order is, in reality, the total makeup of the full body of the Illuminati. All of the different organizations will come together to rule the world. There is a doctrine, an ancient pagan doctrine of blood atonement connected to the Mormon church. And since the early days of the church, it has always been Mormon doctrine that, “Under certain circumstances, there are some serious sins for which the cleansing of Christ does not operate, and the Law of God is that men must then have their own blood shed to atone for their sins.”

It is generally thought at the serious sins are in the category of murder and adultery. However, this is not clearly defined in Mormonism. Brigham Young, a 33rd degree Freemason, said that, “Any man or woman who violates the convenance made with their God will be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out. Your own blood must atone for it.” In the same general vein, President J.M. Grant declared, “If they are covenant breakers, we need a place designated where we can shed their blood.” You see, folks, my prophecy on the Hour of the Time that human sacrifice would return to the world will be fulfilled unless we are smart enough to stop it. Besides murder and adultery, blood atonement was also applicated [sic] for stealing and taking the name of the Lord in vain. Likewise, the penalty for marrying an African “under the Law of God is death on the spot. This will also be so.”

The Mormon church is now, and has always been, a white Aryan racist organization, and until recently when threatened with lawsuits, they never allowed any other race then white Caucasians to belong. That's right, folks, and if you are a black American who belongs to the Mormon church, you have really been fooled. All of the secret organizations of Mystery Babylon are racist organizations. The 1978 decision opening the priesthood to blacks didn't change that law. Blood atonement was also required for lying or damning old Joe Smith or his religion. I guess that tells you what's going to happen to me. But what about other liars, like BoBo [sic] Gritz? Does it apply to him, or is he excused if he is working in the furtherance of the Great Work or the Great Plan?

That most serious of all crimes, apostasy, bears the death penalty, and those who kill an apostate are saving his soul. This is a real concern of ex-Mormons. Many have received death threats and some have even been shot at recently. Brigham Young was very firm on this subject, as the following excerpt from one of his sermons as reported in Journal of Discourses indicates: “I say, rather than that apostates should flourish here, I will unsheathe my bowie knife and conquer or die [Great commotion erupted in the congregation, and a simultaneous burst of feeling, assenting to the declaration].” And he continues: “Now, you nasty apostates, clear out, or judgment will be put to the line, and righteousness to the plummet,” and you could hear voices generally saying, “Go it! Go it!” And he continues: “If you say it is right, raise your hands.” All hands in the congregation were raised. Then he continues: “Let us call upon the Lord to assist us in this, and every good work.”

You see, folks, that doctrine of blood atonement was practiced in Utah prior to statehood until the Mormon leadership realized that they must obey federal laws, or have them enforced by the United States Army, and that's the only thing that stopped it from being practiced in the open. It was, for many years, continued in secret, and there are many who swear today that it is still being carried out. There are rumors that this doctrine is still practiced secretly in Utah. It would be strange if it were not for Mormons boast that they, of all people, “practice what they believe.” And as Joseph Fielding Smith said blood atonement “is scriptural doctrine and is taught in all the standard works of the church.” Certainly, church leaders would openly carry this out today if they could. In fact, the Utah state legislature, with its Mormon majority, has succeeded in legalizing one method of practicing blood atonement. Utah is the only state where the condemned may elect to be executed by a firing squad, which causes his own blood to be shed, and thus why Mormon beliefs atones for his sins. The execution by a firing squad of condemned murderer Gary Gilmore, who was a Mormon, was a recent example. Brigham Young made blood atonement sound like a generous provision that the guilty would willingly embrace, and the executioners gladly perform “in love.” Brigham Young said this: “Now, take a person who knows that by having his blood shed, he will atone for that sin. Is there a man or woman is this house, but what would say, 'Shed my blood that I may be saved and exalted with the Gods?' He would be glad to have his blood shed. I could refer to plenty of instances where men have been righteously slain in order to atone for their sins. This is loving our neighbors as ourselves. If he wants salvation, and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it. That is the way to love mankind.”

Regardless of the understanding of the average Mormon, the Brethren look forward to the day when they will once again be able to practice openly not only polygamy, but blood atonement. When will that day come? In answer to that question, Bruce R. McConkie has written, “This doctrine can only be practiced in its fullness in a day when its civil and ecclesiastical laws are administered in the same kinds.” If the Mormon church should ever succeed in taking over the world, Mormonism, in its most fanatical and bizarre practices will become the rule enforced, unbendingly [sic], upon everyone. Dare anyone call this a conspiracy?

Thinking he was denying it, one Mormon recently told us, “This isn't a conspiracy, it's our destiny.” As with polygamy in the past, the obsessive ambition of world domination is openly denied today, but secretly plotted. The less blatantly proclaimed the ultimate goal hasn't changed since the early days when Mormon leaders brazenly boasted, as first presidency member Heber C. Kimball declared in 1859, “The nations will bow to this kingdom, sooner or later, and all hell cannot help it.”

The global goal, ladies and gentlemen, is a one world government, as it is will all the branches of the Illuminati. Of course, Mormon leaders call their empire, “The Kingdom of God,” however, their god is an extraterrestrial from Kolob. Definitely not the God of the Bible. And the “Zion” to which their spirit brother of Lucifer, Jesus Christ, will return to reign, is Independence, Missouri. Most Christians believe, as the Bible declares, is that Christ will return to Jerusalem, Israel to establish his millennial kingdom, whereas Mormons believe that they must establish a worldwide Mormon kingdom, dictated from their Missouri base in order to make it possible for Christ to return. Therein lies a great difference which is why the Mormon hierarchy, beginning with Joseph Smith himself, has always had worldwide and absolute political power as its goal. Mormon historian Klaus J. Hansen has written, “The idea of a political kingdom of God, promulgated by a secret Council of Fifty, is by far the most important key to an understanding of the Mormon past.” Mormon writer John J. Stewart has said, “The Prophet established a confidential Council of Fifty, or 'Ytfif,' (Fifty spelled backwards), comprised of both Mormons and non-Mormons, to help attend to temporal matters, including the eventual development of a one-world government, in harmony with preparatory plans for the second advent of the Saviour.”

The close relationship between Masonry, the Mormon priesthood and Joseph Smith's growing ambition to rule the world in order to bring Christ back, has been pointed out by a number of Mormon writers. Like the temple ceremonies, the secret Council of Fifty grew out of Freemasonry. The Prophet's divine revelation about the political kingdom of God came just three weeks after the Nauvoo Masonic Lodge was installed and Smith became a Master Mason. These men were all members of the priesthood. They all wore special robes, and the records of their meetings were often burned. Those that remain the possession of the church today are not available, even for church historians to peruse.

In 1884, Mormon spokesman Elder Lunt said, “We look forward with perfect confidence to the day when we will hold the reigns of the United States government...after that we expect to control the continent.” This secret organization was referred to in a “writ issued for the arrest of prominent citizens of Nauvoo for treasonable designs against the state.” Numerous sources report that shortly before his death, Joseph Smith was crowned by the secret council as king over the Mormon kingdom that he believed was destined to control the world. Not only was Joseph Smith crowned “King on the Earth,” but so were Brigham Young and John Taylor. The authority claimed even today for Mormondom's “living prophet,” is still that of an absolute monarch or dictator. One of the greatest authorities on the Mormon doctrine, apostle Bruce R. McConkie has said, “The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it is now constituted, is the kingdom of God on earth. The church is not a democracy, but a kingdom, and the president of the church the mouthpiece of God on earth is the earthly king.” I wonder what the Pope has to say about that. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is a secret government.

The current importance of all of this ambition to rule the world is evident in the secret oaths still taken by each Mormon going through the temple ceremonies. A ceremony, through which Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz has publicly exalted. In one such oath, the patron “consecrates” all he owns, earns and is “to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the building up of the kingdom of God on earth, and for the establishment of Zion.” In the “law of sacrifice,” template patrons swear even to sacrifice their lives to this cause. This is not what Christians think of as the kingdom of God to be established by Christ himself, but as Mormon writer J.V. Williams has pointed out, it involves “a secret government, responsible not to the governed, but to the ecclesiastical authority, which will provide benign rule for all people without election.”

That most Mormons are aware of the real purpose behind Mormonism, doesn't change the facts. Mormon researcher Klaus Hansen's comments are of interest: “Even among the Mormons, few were themselves aware of the revolutionary implications inherent in the concept of a political kingdom of God as taught by their prophet, Joseph Smith, to a small group of faithful followers after he had initiated them in to a secret Council of Fifty in the spring of 1844. Indeed, if few Mormons in 1844 knew what kind of kingdom their Prophet had organized that year, fewer know today. The fact that so few Mormons themselves, to say nothing of non-Mormons, know the truth about Mormonism today reflects the secrecy involved, and the apparent intention of its leaders.”

Is so much of Mormonism plotted and practiced in secret because the Brethren know it can only be “sold” under false labels? Can Mormons reasonably expect the world to convert to a religion that is so dishonestly and secretly presented, and much of it held back in secret because it is so “sacred?” If Mormons are indeed “the only true Christians,” then let them emulate the founder of Christianity who said, “I spake openly to the world and in secret have I said nothing.” The corruption is, of course, as always rooted in power. History confirms, common sense and bearing witness that whenever the absolute control which the Brethren wield has rested for very long in human hands, the results have been tragic. The Bible declares that the heart of every human is “deceitful above all things and is desperately wicked.” This applies to the Brethren as well as to everyone else. The worst despots in history have been those who claimed to be divine, and this is because humans were never intended to exercise God-like power and control, either over themselves or over others. Man is inherently flawed. The concept that imperfect man can rule imperfect man in a thousand years of Utopian peace on this earth is ludicrous. When they attempt it, disaster results as surely as night follows day. Much of the dishonest unwillingness to face facts unfavorable to their religion and the gullible willingness to believe the most outrageous lies that Mormons themselves admit is endemic among them can be traced to their belief that they are in the processes of becoming “gods.”

You see, they are just another branch of Mystery Babylon. How can a “god” ever be wrong? Surely, the temptation to live by the adage, “the end justifies the means,” would be overpowering for anyone who really believes that his “end” will be the “exaltation” to “godhood.” Under the grandiose dream that they are the Godmakers, Mormonism's leaders have developed an utter contempt for truth when it conflicts with their goal of extending the Mormon kingdom in the name of Jesus Christ to encompass the entire world. As the absolute leaders of Mormonism, the Brethren have rewritten [the book of] Revelations. Suppressed facts, promoted fraud, honored false prophets, misrepresented their true beliefs and practices and pretended [sic] to a divine authority, which they obviously do not have. In order to control those under them and ensnare fresh millions in Mormonism, though their religious zeal may be genuine, they have divorced their faith from truth and built an earthly empire upon the insistence that their followers dare not think for themselves or examine facts, but must blindly obey whatever the Brethren decree.

And this brings up some extremely grave questions. Mormonism seems as American as apple pie, and Mormons seem to be the perfect citizens, with their close families, high morals, patriotism, Boy Scout programs, Tabernacle Choir and conservative politics. A Los Angeles Times article implied that Mormons have recently gained the image of “super-Americans who appear to many to be more American than the average American.” Make no mind that the L.A. Times is mostly owned by the Mormon church. This may explain why such a high proportion of Mormons find their way into government. Returned L.D.S. missionaries have “the three qualities the Central Intelligence Agency wants: foreign language ability, training in a foreign country and former residence in a foreign country.” Utah, and particularly Brigham Young University, is one of the prime recruiting areas for the Central Intelligence Agency. According to Brigham Young University's spokesman Dr. Gary Williams, “We've never had any trouble placing anyone who has applied to the Central Intelligence Agency. Every year, they take almost anybody who applies.” He also admitted that this has created problems with a number of foreign countries who have complained about the “pretty good dose of Mormon missionaries who have gone back to the countries they were in as Central Intelligence agents.”

This may, at least partially, explain the reported close tie between the Mormon church and the CIA. A disproportionate number of Mormons arrive at the higher levels of the CIA, FBI, military intelligence, armed forces and all levels of city, state and federal governments, including the Senate, Congress, Cabinet and White House staff. Sincere and loyal citizens, most of them, may be unaware of the secret ambition of the Brethren. What could be better than having such patriots as these serving in strategic areas of government and national security? Unfortunately, dear listeners, as we have noticed in every other area of Mormonism, the real truth lies hidden beneath the seemingly ideal image of patriotism presented by Mormons in public service. Take, for instance, BoBo [sic] Gritz. In fact, their very presence in responsible government positions, particularly in agencies dealing with national security, raises some extremely grave questions, that were expressed by Ed Decker in the following letter mailed to the addressees:

“An open letter to the President, First Presidency and members of the
General Authorities of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

August 21st, 1980

Gentlemen:

I was recently reflecting that, although the actual blood oaths and the oath of vengeance
were removed from the temple ceremonies some time after 1930, you gentlemen
[listing ten of the above] are of an age to have received your own endowments prior to
their removal, and therefore, are still under these oaths.

I am particularly interested in your personal position on your oath of vengeance
against the United States of America. As you recall, the oath was basically as follows:

You and each of you do solemnly promise and vow that you will pray and never cease
to importune high heaven to AVENGE THE BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS
(Joseph and Hiram Smith) ON THIS NATION, and the you will teach this to your children
and your children's children unto the third and fourth generation.

Have you officially renounced this oath? Or are you still bound by it?

If you have not renounced it, how can you presume to lead four-and-one-half
[now over six and a half million Americans] million people [US citizens] under item 12
of your Articles of Faith and still be bound to call upon heaven to heap curses upon
our nation? ("We believe in being subject to Kings, Presidents, Rulers and Magistrates,
in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law."),” and that's a quote directly from item 12
of the Articles of Faith.

“If you have renounced it, how can you justify having sworn such an oath in the most
holy of holy places on this earth, before the sacred altar of your omnipotent God,
and then renounce it? Gentlemen, I call upon you to repent of this abomination and
proclaim to both the Mormon people and to the people of the United States of America
that you renounce that oath and all it represents.

I also call upon all members of the Mormon Church who hold office in our government,
serve in the Armed Services, work for the FBI and CIA who have gone through the
Mormon Temple and sworn oaths of obedience and sacrifice to the church and its
leaders [above], to repent of these oaths in the light of the obvious conflict [*Note: here,
the audio is cut-off, but the rest of the letter is as follows:] of interest between their
pledge of allegiance to the USA and their higher loyalty to a [*Note: audio is now
resumed:] group of men who are sworn to seek vengeance against this great nation.

Sincerely,

(Signed) J. Edward Decker”

He sent a copy to President Jimmy Carter and Mr. Ronald Reagan. No response, ladies and gentlemen, no response was ever received to this letter! The Brethren are so powerful that they are immune to criticism and feel no need to explain themselves or account to anyone for their actions. And this seems to be the same, the same feeling of Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz, who attacked me physically in Salt Lake City at the Salt Dome and yelled at the top of his voice, “You will not criticize me, Cooper!” And I say, BoBo [sic] Gritz, you can stick it where the sun doesn't shine. The Mormon church already packs a political punch far out of proportion to its size. Recently, the Wall Street Journal explained how, in spite of the Constitutional separation between Church and State, public schools in Utah are used to instill Mormonism in young minds. You see, in the state of Utah, it is already a theocracy. It mentioned political reapportionment, airline deregulation, the basing of the MX missile and the ERA as recent political issues affected by the power of the church. For example, when the church opposed the MX missile for Utah, those plans were immediately dropped by the federal government. The same Wall Street Journal article quoted the following statement from J.D. Williams, a University of Utah political science professor: “There is a disquieting statement in Mormonism. When the leaders have spoken, the thinking has been done. To me, democracy cannot thrive in that climate. They don't have to be called to church headquarters for political instruction. They know what they're supposed to do. That's why non-Mormons can only look toward the Mormon church and wonder, 'What is Big Brother doing to me today?'”

But, ladies and gentlemen, there is a more disturbing possibility. While the election of a Mormon president seems unlikely, it is highly probable under the present swing toward conventional morality and conservatism that a Mormon could one day become a Republican vice presidential nominee. This is especially true when one considers the growing cooperation between Mormons and the Moral Majority. With the power, wealth, wide influence, numerous highly-placed Mormons and large voting block under their virtual control, the Brethren have a great deal to offer a Republican presidential candidate.

Let's assume that a Mormon vice presidential candidate is on the winning ticket, and thereafter the President dies in office or is assassinated, causing the Mormon to succeed him as President of the United States. And we know that The Order assassinated John F. Kennedy in the outdoor temple of the Sun, known as Dealey Plaza. We also know that the clamor for a savior in the United States of America is reaching unprecedented proportions and many are looking, many are looking to H. Ross Perot, who will cast around and maybe, maybe choose someone like Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz as his vice presidential running mate. Or is it possible that Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz could himself be elected to the presidency of the United States of America in this climate of absolute chaos, which The Order, the Illuminati has created with the help of people like Tom Valentine and organizations like the Liberty Lobby? Is this a possibility?

Are you listening to me, sheeple? There is every reason to believe that the new President would immediately begin to gather around him increasing numbers of zealous temple Mormons in strategic places at the highest levels of government. A crisis similar to the one which Mormon prophecies “foretold” occurs in which millions of Mormons, with their year's supply of food, guns and ammunition, play a key role. It would be a time of excitement and zealous effort by the Saints to fulfill Joseph Smith's and Brigham Young's “prophecy.”

“The time will come when the destiny of the nation will hang upon a single thread. At that critical juncture, this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction.” Not only does Mormonism predict the “saving” of America, but the precedent for an attempted takeover by force of subterfuge through political means has been set by the founding prophet himself. In 1834, Joseph Smith organized an army and marched toward Independence, Missouri to “redeem Zion.” In spite a humiliating surrender to the Missouri militia that proved his bold prophecies false, and therefore, that he could not possibly be a real prophet as the Mormon church proclaims, ignoring that a prophet cannot possibly be wrong, the prophet later formed the Nauvoo Legion and commissioned himself a Lieutenant General to command it. Lyman L. Woods stated, “I have seen him on a white horse wearing the uniform of a general. He was leading a parade of the Legion and looked like a god.” Joseph Smith was not only ordained king on earth but he ran for president of the United States just before his death, at which time Mormon missionaries across the country became “a vast force of political power.” Today's church leaders are urging Mormons to prepare themselves for the coming crisis in order to succeed where past saints have failed. A recent major article in [LDS] Ensign [magazine] about being prepared included this oft repeated warning reminder: “The commandment to re-establish Zion became, for the saints of Joseph Smith's day, the central goal of the church. But it was a goal the church did not realize because its people were not fully prepared.”

Going back, ladies and gentlemen, going back to our hypothetical crisis. What Mormons attempted unsuccessfully against impossible odds in the past, they might very well have accomplished with much better odds in this future's scenario. They are building a hero, a demagogue, someone who can well become a vice president and will, in fact, be a presidential candidate. Lt. Col. James “Bo” Gritz an undercover of the national and international crisis, the Mormon President of the United States acts boldly and decisively to assume dictatorial powers. With the help of the Brethren and Mormons everywhere, he appears to save America and becomes a national hero. At this time, he is made Prophet and president of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Mormon kingdom of God while still President of the United States.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is no provision in the Constitution to prevent this. With the government largely in the hands of increasing numbers of Mormon appointees at all levels throughout the United States, the Constitutional prohibition against the establishment of a state church would no longer be enforceable. Mormon prophecies and the curse upon which the United States government in revenge for the blood of Joseph and Hiram Smith would seemingly have been fulfilled. In effect, the United States would have become a theocracy exactly as planned by the Brethren, completing the first step in the Mormon takeover of the world. President John Taylor boasted of it one hundred years ago. He said, “Let us now notice our political position in the world. What are we going to do? We are going to possess the Earth and reign over it forever and ever.” Of course, he was speaking for the collective secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. “Now, ye kings and emperors, help yourselves if you can. This is the truth and it may as well be told at this time as at any other. There's a good time coming, Saints, a good time coming!”

But there is a more likely scenario. While the beginning and meat of this program presents a disturbing possibility, it may seem highly speculative and improbable. There is another scenario, however, which is equally disturbing, but is much more likely, and if you've been listening to our series on the Mysteries, you will understand it immediately. It arises from the fact that Mormonism is actually part of something much, much larger. We have already noted that the revelations that Joseph Smith received, far from being unique were, in fact, very similar, if not identical, to the basic philosophy underlying many occult groups and secret revolutionary societies. Thus far in history, these numerous occult revolutionary organizations have remained largely separate and in competition with one another. If something should happen to unite them, dear listeners, and at the same time their beliefs should gain worldwide acceptance, as in the New Age movement, a new and unimaginably powerful force for world revolution would have come into existence. There is, in fact, increasing evidence of a new and growing secular religious ecumenicism, pervasive and persuasive enough to accomplish this unprecedented and incalculable powerful coalition. It could be the means of creating the one world government that has not only been the longstanding hope and plan of the Brethren and many other occult revolutionary leaders in Freemasonry and other secret organizations supposedly existing for the good of the community, but is increasingly gaining a wide acceptance through New Age networks as the only viable option to a nuclear holocaust and our ecological collapse.

Improbable? Perhaps, dear listeners, but certainly it can no longer be summarily dismissed as impossible. After listening to this broadcast, you should have a much clearer understanding of the world, of the Mormon church, of what's happening in the United States, of the many different organizations, veiled, where behind this veil those who consider themselves to be Illumined, continue to work toward their great dream of an earthly Utopia, which they call The Plan, The Great Society, The Great Work. It has been their dream for millennia. It is nothing new, as those of you who have listened to the entire series that we have done on the Hour of the Time, known as the Mystery Schools, or Mystery Babylon have discovered.

Now, please understand that we are discussing the hierarchy of the Mormon church, not Mormons. I know many Mormons who are good, upstanding patriot citizens of this country. They have no knowledge of this. In fact, as the members of every other church of every other religion practiced on this earth, they believe mostly through blind faith and never question. They do not know the basic facts of the truth or falsity of their dogma, nor do they generally care. And even if they knew, which many of them do know and understand, they would not renounce it and walk away for they would be become a pariah in their own society. And in the state of Utah, to renounce the Mormon church, it could be a death sentence.

Now, should you think this absolutely absurd, I recently took a trip through the state of Utah. Through the long valley, there is a small city called Orderville. Now, if you know what I know and if you've been listening to this program, you know some of what I know. You know that I would have had to stop to find out why that city was called Orderville. I did, and I was amazed...for it was no secret there that it was the first Communist settlement established in the United States by the Mormon church. These facts are freely admitted in the city, and in fact they take great pride in the history of their little town. It was the first Communist government, community established by the Mormon church in their search, in their search for their promised land, which eventually became Salt Lake City. It was established and named after a secret organization known as The Order, to which the elders of the community belonged. You can even see it, the history, the same history that I have just given to you, on the signs at the rest stops entering and leaving the town. You can get more of the history by visiting the small historical society in Orderville. It is a fact.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, remember this. This program did not just come from my research, or the research of CAJI, although our research follows what you have heard tonight, letter for letter and word for word. But so that you would understand that I am not crazy, tonight's program was taken from chapter sixteen of a book which you can purchase yourself or order from your bookstore. The name of this book is The Godmakers. The Godmakers, written by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt. It is called The Godmakers, it is written by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt. Tonight's program came from chapter sixteen. It's published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, Oregon, 97402. That's The Godmakers, written by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt, published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, Oregon, 97402.

I recommend that you get this book and read it cover to cover, and understand that the Citizens Agency for Joint Intelligence, and me personally in my own research, have confirmed every single word in this book. It is fact. As for BoBo [sic] Gritz, we here at CAJI and the Hour of the Time have already proven to you, in his own words, that he is a liar. And we have many tapes that we have not played and we will continue to do so until you, the sheeple, wake up.

In the symbology of the temples of Freemasonry, the Mormon church and all along the highways in the state of Utah, you can see one of the most common symbols of that secret organization which we know, collectively, as the Illuminati. Ladies and gentleman, that is the beehive.

Good night, and God bless you all.

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The Roshaniya

The 16th century saw the rise of a very powerful society based upon a secret cult in the mountains of Afghanistan, the Roshaniya, or the Illuminated Ones.  References to the existence of this mystical fraternity exist from the time of the House of Wisdom at Cairo several hundred years before.  In fact, the Roshaniya are just a later emergence of the old cult of the Assassins.
It seems likely the small branches were founded in various parts of the near and middle east which would account for the special usage of the names of the eight degrees of initiation among them.
The earliest figure named in the history of the cult is one Bayazid Ansari of Afghanistan whose family claimed descent from the Ansar, the helpers who assisted Muhammad after his flight from Mecca nearly fourteen hundred years ago.  As a reward for this service he stated his ancestors had been granted initiation into the mysteries of the Ishmaelite religion.  The secret inner training was dated from Abrahams rebuilding of the Temple at Mecca the mystical harem to the Assassins through the Roshaniya and then into Europe via the Knights Templar.
Bayazid’s own father, however, was known to be as narrowly conventional as anyone in the country.  And one account of the rapid rise of the sect has it that Bayazid after a period of preparation for the normal priesthood was converted to his strange doctrine by a missionary from the Ishmaelies.  The sectarians holding a secret doctrine supposedly handed down in the family of the prophet who maintained hidden lodges throughout the world of Islam and also proclaimed after the Crusades to have penetrated with their ideas even Spain, Germany, France and parts of Britain. 
However this may be the Illuminated Ones soon became more than a headache for the governors of Afghanistan, the Moghul rulers of India and their Persian neighbors not far from Peshawar which is now in the northwest of Pakistan, Bayazid set up a small school where he carefully coached those who have been initiated by him in the knowledge of the supernatural that he claimed.
A period of probation was expected from each candidate during which you would go into periods of concealment or meditation known as khilwat, or silence.  During this time he was to receive the illumination which was emanated from the Supreme Being who desired a class of perfect men and women to carry out the organization and direction of the world.  Bayazid collected in this way over a period of 3 years about 50 staunch disciples whom he had trained in obedience and to whom, so we are told, he had shown a way whereby they could liberate their inner powers.  Well this meant that they were ready to follow his further instructions.  These orders, according to what his opponents say, was that the whole sect would now become bandits to prey upon the rest of the world and all those who could not identify themselves by their secret signs were their legal and lawful prey.  Little information is available from the other side but 3 letters said to have been written from one branch to another contain an outline a plan to reshape the entire social system of the world.  First, taking control of individual countries one by one.  And where have we heard that before?    We’ve heard it from everyone of the histories of all of these different sects of Mystery Babylon which on the outward appearance seem to be different from each other.  On the esoteric level are one and the same religion with one same plan, with one same goal, all working toward that end.  And the end always, always, justifies the means. 
Now something does survive the degrees of initiation the first was Salik (seeker),followed by Murid (disciple), Fakir (humble devotee), Arif (enlightened one), Khwaja (master), Emir (commander), Imam (priest), and Malik (chief or king).  This succession does not follow the usual pattern of promotion in the moslem mystical secret societies, the Tariqahs, and seems to have been especially devised for this one.  In the first 3 degrees the candidate perfected himself by repetitions of certain phrases which were believed to carry power.  Examples are these:  (transcriber note:  need help with proper spelling here)
Rava
Afree na a
Calea
Hafida
Qwhil wi ya.
Of these words, all Arabic or Persian, the first stands for the concept of lordship, the second for creation, the third for life, the fourth for protection and the last for absolute power.   If they were repeated with deep meditation upon various forms of their manifestations in human life it was believed the appropriate power would come into the devotee.  Now no special deity was worshipped but it was believed that there was a supreme overall power which was known by the sum of its individual powers: lordship, protection, and so on, a type of pantheism which works its way into the modern mystical societies of today.  And that when one had meditated upon them all and they had become the property of the invocant, he would then thus forward become a man of complete power.  Now folks, this kind of idea underlie a good deal of religious and magical thinking in many faiths.  Now it is seldom put in this concise a manner. 
The Enlightened-one of the 4th degree was he that could obtain during the rituals complete identification with this overall power and was guided by it in all that he did.  It was said that he could communicate directly with the unknown or hidden supervisors.  Now this meant that apart from the guidance of the chief he was free to seek his own pleasure in life.  No theological or social bonds limited him.  It is at this stage said the illuminated that the arif could perform acts of wonder and magic, influence the physical world and know the secrets of others.   He obtained this degree through the acceptance of him by the master to whom he had confided his dreams and mystical ecstasies.  The master alone really knew whether these were true or false experiences and promoted him accordingly.  Some people proceeded to the higher degrees without going through all the lower ones because they were helped by the spirits of former illuminates who had died.  The Master, Emir, Imam, and Malik, degrees were reserved for the very highest men and women initiates.  After the 5th degree the segregation of the sexes in rituals was no longer practiced.  Anyone of the degree of Imam and higher could start his own lodge, and make his own disciples.  Bayazid decided to move his headquarters into the most inaccessible mountains of Afghanistan where he set up a large and luxurious castle and from which he directed his military and bandit operations designed to overcome the rest of the east.  His missionaries were sent far and wide but received little official support.  The cult did however spread among merchants and soldiers who thought that this gave way to mystical experiences was something to enter.  They contributed lavishly to the chief’s upkeep and his most expensive military, political and espionage system.  The heady wine of this success seems to have affected the prudence of the head illuminate more strongly than it should.  For his claims became more and more extreme and public (as most usually do.)  There was, he now preached, no afterlife of the kind currently believed in.  No reward or punishment only a spirit’s stake which was completely different from earthly life.  The spirits if they belonged to the order could continue to enjoy themselves in the earthly powers acting through living members, but that was all.  The preaching of this spiritual vampirism seemed to delight his followers as much as it infuriated his enemies.  Because Bayazid now gave out more and more of the new doctrine based upon his no afterlife creed.  Eat, drink, be merry, gain power, look after yourself, you have no allegiance except to the order, he told them, and all of humanity which cannot identify by our secret sign is our lawful prey.  The secret signal was to pass a hand over the forehead palm inwards the counter sign to hold the ear with the fingers and support the elbow in the cup of their hand.  And you can see that sign being exchanged even today in the courts of law all over the United States of America between lawyers and judges, defendants and judges, prosecutors and judges, prosecutors and the defending lawyers, etc, etc, etc. 
Bayazid took to himself the style of Pir-i Rawshan, or sage of illumination, and founded a city at Hash-nagar, which was to be the center from which illuminism was to spread all over the world.  Now each member of his following was given a new name upon entry.  Does that sound familiar?  And this name depended upon the guilds to which he in theory belonged.  According to Bayazid all of humanity was divided into professions.  His were lamp makers.  Some members were the makers, others were soul’s lamps.  Some were known as this kind of lamp, some another.  Lamp of the Darkness was the typical example among the other guilds noted was those of the builders.  Does that sound familiar?  Soldiers, merchants of various kinds, and scribes, they can be found  today in organizations such as the American Medical Association or the American Bar Association, etc., etc.  Writing in the 19th century, an Afghan scholar who was by no means fond of the society of the Roshaniya claimed that they were in fact an organization devoted to fighting against the tyranny of the Moghuls and that the banditry and strange doctrines attributed to them were untrue.  Allegations by interested parties, he based this upon two manuscript copies of the objectives of the order which seemed to have stated that it was dedicated to influencing people of importance throughout the east and west towards greater justice and self-training and to the immense capacities of the human mind whereby wonders can be caused and through which the harmony of the world will be established.  Now these ideas taken from those enshrined and our ancient literature and practices as well as those of those of the Persians many of whom have followed the true illuminated path before the new message was revealed, they stated.  In the end, the imperial Moghul decided that something must be done about the widespread power - the militant mystics of the Hindu Kush Mountains.  The governor of Kabul arrested Bayazid clapped him in irons and paraded him in the streets to show that here was no supernatural being.  To give further point to the proceedings his hair and beard were half-shaved.  But this governor, Moshe Khan, was under the ascendancy of his religious guide, one Sheik Hatari, who may even have been a secret adherent of the Illuminated One.  For the cult was spreading with rapidity.  In any case, he told the governor that Bayazid was undoubtedly a man of great and holy attainment and that considerable suffering would inevitably attend anyone who treated this man harshly.  Bayazid was allowed to escape.  The indignities to which he had been subjected candled his illuminism still higher. 
Calling his numerous companions, he retired to tribal, Terah, where he set up a military and court atmosphere which is still remembered for its glamour, fervor, and mystery.  India and Persia were to be overcome by force of arms, he announced.  To that end many more were to be enrolled into the ranks of the illuminated. 
Enthusiastic scenes throughout Afghanistan resulted from the proclamation which was carried far and wide to the accompaniment of kettle drums, wild sword dances, and when he was ready, Bayazid attended by his hulka, or circle of dervishes, led the campaign into the lush land of India.  Intercepted by the Moshe Khan, who he had earlier escaped, and was wounded, put to flight and he eventually died as a result of this encounter.
His son,   Omar Ansari, proclaimed himself leader and immediately ordered an attack upon the Papuan tribe of the Yusifsi tribe who had aligned themselves with the Moghul.  He was killed by the Hillmen and his own son, “the servant of the One”, took over the leadership. By the middle of the 17th century this youth had been killed defending his castle against a Moghul expeditionary force.  His infant son escaped with some of his followers into Afghanistan proper where the cult was restarted.  The descendants of this Abdul  Khidar, servant of the powerful, continued to rule the fanatics and to send their teachers far and wide.  The creed eventually split into 2 divisions: the military and the religious.  And now a days, it is only the followers of the latter who survived still a secret cult which might given the right conditions have touched off a movement as important as that of the Assassins.
Forty years after the last religio-military leader of the Afghan illuminated ones died, a society of the same name, the Illuminati, came into being in Germany formed as it is said by Adam Weishaupt, the young Jesuit priest, a professor of canon law, at the Jesuit Ingolstadt University.  Coincidences of date and beliefs connect these Bavarian Illuminati with the Afghan ones.  And also with the other cults which call themselves Illuminated.  In actual fact they are all the same. 
The beginning of the 17th century saw the foundation of the illuminated ones of Spain.  The Alumbrados condemned in an edict of the Grand Inquisition of 1683.  Out of which the condemned Ignatius Loyola emerged as a man, as a man, immune to prosecution, arrest, or accusation from any king, prince, or prelate, as the head of one of the most powerful secret societies ever organized, the Society of Jesus, now known as the Jesuits.  Ignatius Loyola had been the leader of the Alumbrados in Spain and it was his sect, the illuminated ones, or the Alumbrados, which became the Society of Jesus. 
In 1654, the Illuminated were next come into public notice in France.  Now documents still in Spanish show several points of resemblance between the German and Central Asian Illuminists.  Points that are hard to account for on the grounds of pure coincidence.  And yet which still might on supposes be nothing more than that.  The prophet Muhammad, for example, is claimed as an initiate by the western illuminati.  Their calendar is the very same which survived in current usage in the former Iranian territories among the Afghans at the time.  New Year’s Day with them was the same day as the Persian and Afghan’s Nowruz festival.  Further the degrees of initiation although seeming artificial ones coupled with some of the degrees of freemasonry are also eight.  And there are parallels in the naming of the individual degrees, like the Roshaniya, the illuminati stated that they had the objective of gaining important converts for the purpose of improving the state of the world.  A comparison of the degrees shows the similarity: 
In the Roshaniya, the seeker and in the Illuminati, the apprentice. 
In the Roshaniya, the disciple and in the Illuminati, the fellow craft. 
In the Roshaniya, the enlightened one and in the Illuminati, the Illuminatis major. 
In the Roshaniya, the master and in the Illuminati, the Illuminatis derigens.
In the Roshaniya, the Commander or Emir and in the Illuminati, prince.
In the Roshaniya, the priest and in the Illuminati, priest.
In the Roshaniya, king or chief and in the Illuminati, king.

Now the early stages of initiation were designed to admit people into the brotherhood to test them for reliability and possibly to train them for responsible tasks connected with the greater diffusion of knowledge.  Even in higher degrees it seems that tests are also applied.  Those who were to become priests, for example, were taken to a secret place where a throne stood with before it the choice of priestly or royal regalia.  The aspirant had to make the choice.  Those who opted for the symbols of worldly power were dismissed promptly.  But candidates taking up the sacred vestments were saluted with the phrase, “Hail, all holy one.”  The members of this degree were considered teachers in whose hands was the training of disciples.
Priests identified themselves with a secret sign.  Both hands crossed were placed flat upon the head.  In shaking hands the priest extended his palm with the thumb held vertically upwards.  The countersign was the fist with thumb enclosed within it. 
Princes were those who can influence events at a very high level either an academic or political affairs. The room in which the initiation to this high secret degree   was celebrated was hung with red.  The garments which the prince was to wear were red and white.  Now these are, of course, the colors of the Ishmaelies as well. 
 In the ritual the candidate is presented as a slave and states that he wants to liberate society from tyranny.  The sign of the degree was the extending of both arms and the countersign before taking the hand of another the prince gripped both his elbows.   
In 1786, a raid upon the house of an influential lawyer, Zwack, reveals secret papers connected with the order and it is trues those that many of the inner workings of the organization became known.  Men were to be influenced through their womenfolk at a large-scale plan for initiating women members was at an advanced stage of development.   It has been widely claimed and touted that many of the charges which were made against the German illuminati were false and that the possession of instructions for instance of forging seals was due to the fact that the lawyer's lack had a collection devoted to that subject in a matter of legal interest to him.  It is also said that the project of enrolling women and young girls had an actual fact been taken from the aims of a very different society, the Mopses.  While this matter still remains open, however, one may as well examine some of the documents that are stated to belong to the society.  Zwack had written in his own hand a document describing the manufacture of a strong box which would blow up if it were tampered with.  He also had a collection of impressions of the seals of several hundred important persons and he already mentioned data on how to forge or substitute them.  These he stated in a letter of protest were a part of the exhibit of his criminological collection. <mocking laughter>  The famous memorandum detailing the plan to win over women for the cause comes from papers seized at the home of Baron Bassus, one of the members.  The document states that women are the best means of influencing men.  They should be enrolled and into their minds put a hope that they might themselves in time be released from the tyranny of the companion.    Another letter asked how young women can be influenced since their mothers would not consent to their being placed under the illuminati for instruction.  Five women were suggested by one member as a start.  They were four stepdaughters of one of the illuminati who were to be placed in the care of the wife of yet another illuminated one.  They in their turn would enlarge the society through their friends. It was further mentioned that women are not considered to be really suitable for such an undertaking because they are “fickle and impatient.” 
But the order was most sorely hit by the fact that something quite discreditable to the character of the founder was discovered and it was thought that he might be trying to use the organization for personal reasons.   Now the establishment version goes something like this:  Weishaupt upon the suppression of the order refused a pension which it was offered after he had been dismissed from his professorial chair. He attributed his downfall to the machinations of the Jesuits will be hated and opposed him that he was not of their number whereas they considered the university post which he held a long-standing prerogative of their own.  And nothing could be farther from the truth.  For Adam Weishaupt was himself a Jesuit priest holding a professorial chair at a Jesuit university. 
Now he and Zwack were both vanished and little is heard of them thereafter although there are rumors that they carried on the society respectably in Sax Kohlberg in the Netherlands.  Another incident that you will not hear an establishment accounts is the story of the messenger writing from one Bavarian illuminati lodge to another who was literally struck by lightning, divine intervention if you will.  Struck dead from his horse in his pouch carrying the papers of a secret plan to take over individual nations and ultimately the world were put into the hands of the Bavarian government and many of the portions of these papers are almost word for word what later became known as the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion.   
Illuminism had spread to France.  However, some years before suppression in Germany influential personages were members many drawn from the ranks of the important free masons of Paris.   As in the case of the German branch, it was alleged that they pursued terrible aims and practiced frightful orgies. An extract from a French book of the 1790s,
(transcription note:  need help on spelling)
la sect de le illuminates, will give a fair idea of this.
The huge Château of Hermanville near Paris was one of the chief lodges of the illuminated.  It belonged to the Marquis of Giardina who protected Rousseau and later gave him a tomb on his estate. Saint Germaine, the notable impostor, presided over it.   He claims to be 1000 years old and be able to make gold.  He was said to be immortal but strangely died in 1784 and even today some Looney Tunes wackos  claim that they converse with St. Germaine who still alive walking around in a modern-day suit and tie.  On the day of his initiation at the Château of Hermanville, the candidate was conducted through a long dark passage into an immense hall draped with black.  There were faint lamps sat around the room, there were men dressed as corpses  in shrouds, there was an alter of human skeletons which stood in the center of a large hall, and in the darkness flickering low lamplight, the priest conducting the initiation resembled ghostly forms moving through the hall.  And everywhere there was the stench of some terrible odor.  Two men dressed as specters always appeared in tied a pink band or ribbon which was smeared with blood around the forehead of the candidate.  Upon this was an image of the lady of Loretta.   Does this sound familiar, ladies and gentlemen?  A crucifix was placed in his hands and an amulet hung around his neck. He was asked to remove his clothes, and if he showed any hesitancy his clothes were removed for him, and lay upon a funeral pyre. Crosses of blood were smeared on his body and then his genitalia were tied with a ribbon or a string.  Then frightening figures covered with blood and mumbling strange incantations approached and threw themselves down in prayer.   After a long period of time, weeping, crying, wailing broke out as if a herd a floor of mourners were bereaved upon the death of their closest and deepest love.   The funeral pyres burned brighter and brighter, all the clothes of the initiate were consumed, and from behind or near this fire, one of the priests emerged almost as if he had taken form from the smoke of the pyre itself.  In the five figures went into convulsions and loud wailing and screaming took place.  And then came the voice of someone concealed behind a curtain these oaths which the candidate had to repeat:  “In the name of the crucified one, I swear to sever all bonds which unite me with mother, brothers, sisters, wife, relatives, friends, mistress, King, superiors, benefactors, or any other man to whom I have promised faith, service, or obedience. “  “I name the place in which I was born henceforth I live in another dimension which I will not reach until I have renounced the eagle globe which has been cursed by heaven.  From now onwards I shall reveal to my new chief all that I have heard or found out and I shall also seek out and observe things which might otherwise have escaped me.  I honor the aquatofanna(sp?), it is a quick and essential medium of removing from the earth through death or robbing them of their wits of those who oppose truth and those who try to take it from our hands.  I shall avoid Spain, Naples, and all other accursed lands and I shall avoid the temptation to betray what I have now heard.  Lightning will not strike as rapidly as the dagger which will reach me where ever I may be should I betray my initiation."  Then a seven branched candelabrum bearing seven black candles was placed before the candidate in a large bowl containing human blood.  The candidate washed himself in the blood and drank a quantity of it. The string around his genitalia was removed and then he was carried to a bath to undergo complete abdolution (sp?).   After this he was given a meal composed of root vegetables.
Now folks, while it is possible that such ceremonies as this have actually taken place and we know that they have because it is exact, the exact ceremony that George Bush underwent in the crypt for what was known as the tomb, or skull and bones, at Yale University, that it will be recalled that such items as human blood are generally not of the genuine variety in any society other than those reputed to be dedicated to criminal or perverted ends. Well, I have this to say.  No one knows but those who actually take part in the ceremony whether it's chicken blood or human blood or pig blood or cow’s blood.  And as it is with the initiations of other societies there is no doubt that the candidate may have been made to believe that he was actually going through an initiation which involve horrible things of this nature such as human blood.  Initiation into the ancient mysteries was often accompanied by the exposure of the candidate to hear another’s’ emotions in order to make them receptive to the older message which was to be made manifest.  It has been said folks that the European version of the order of the illuminati contributed in no small measure to the development of revolutionary doctrines which eventually culminated in the Russian and other communist machines.  And in fact, those of serious study who have perused the depths of the available material as I and others have, have no doubt, have no doubt whatsoever that communism, international Socialism, is the direct product of the mystery schools of the illuminati.   As was the formation of this nation which was guaranteed to lead us in to what is known as the New World Order.  Novus Ordo Seclorum.  The formation of a one world totalitarian state ruled by benevolent despotism is the way that they put it.   And there is little doubt that the order was dedicated to the overcoming of princely power as it was then known and to the diffusion of anti-religious ideas.  And this can best be seen by examining the development of the teaching of the member as he progressed from one degree of initiation into the next.
Folks many young enthusiasts with a taste for mystery and a desire to fight oppression in any form were drawn through a deliberate plan from the ranks of all the colleges and universities from all the other supposedly benevolent fraternal organizations.   After an oath of obedience and silence have been extracted from the candidate he was then handed over to a director or teacher. Or, if you will, higher, for it to be taught that the order was one of the discipline and effort and that the final objectives were to do good through leaving aside all preconceived notions and upon the basis of free thought to lead mankind to salvation.   But salvation granted by who, and salvation from what?   That is the question that intelligent men should be asking.   However, it's been my experience that most men and most women don't ask any questions whatsoever or very few anyway. 
Those who managed to show that they were likely to accept the next stage in teaching were advanced to the rank in which he was made to swear that he would work under the orders of his masters without doubt or question.   He would not use his critical faculties in any way, in any matter, connected with such instructions.   In the lower ranks are the nursery for all of you Blue Lodge master masons out there who think you know so much.  They are nothing more than the greatest group of followers ever conceived and let loose upon humanity.  Yes, in the nursery the member was very much in the dark of the way in which the order was run and how it should accomplish its design of freeing the world.  As it progressed however, he found that part of his service to the Society was to gain financial and social power and to place them at the disposal of the group.  Indeed, he was expected to be a diligent mason and to try to gain control over freemason funds.  It was not until the 10th rite of promotion had been completed that the member had been given with the grade of priest, a certain definite knowledge. 
And now today, in the order known as the Scottish Rite, this information is not given until the candidate actually reaches the 30th degree according to the actual writings of the man who was the grand commander of all freemasonry of the world and of the Scottish Rite of freemasonry in the United States, Mr. Pike.  General Pike. 
Well this knowledge included the fact that the illuminati were proposing to destroy princes and prelates throughout the world and were to remove forever the feeling of local nationality from the minds of men.
Another goal was to destroy all existing religions.   The ways in which this was to be done involved infiltrating high positions in education, administration of government, the military, and of course, the press.  The very highest degrees showed that the rationalism and materialism of the  thinkers who developed it were determined to stamp out all belief in religion.  God and any faith in a deity, an initiate was told, were human inventions.  Then no meaning whatsoever.  Now this was developed further in the member who arrived at the highest position in the order.  For that designated as Rex, or king, learned that he was now the same as any king of the same level, with the same rights, and the same divine right of rule, and that all men were capable of equal advancement.   Not all men were not equal.   Hence the need for kings over man was an illusion perpetrated by those in power and this perpetration was to be broken at all costs.   
And the highest of the men who sat at the head of the Council, the Council of hidden supervisors, made up of nine members, was designated as Rex Mundi, or literally translated, kings of the world.  And their machinations to overthrow, topple the Kings and Queens of all the countries of the world from their thrones, they established the United States of America and the English colonies in the New World and its ultimate goal its secret destiny was to be the catalyst to bring into the world what they called the great Society or the New World Order.   And it certainly worked dear listeners, as you look back through history the granting of the common man of liberty, fraternity, equality, freedom that he had never tasted or known before in history lit the spark that ignited the French Revolution, of course with the leadership and the manipulation of the people of the illuminati the lodges of Freemasonry, the ancient order of the rose and cross and others, the highest level all the same with the same goals.  And this spark of revolution spread throughout the world until we all grow up and learn how to stop this it will continue.
As the secret societies propel us, manipulate us, deceive us, lie, operating in secret, infiltrating everything decent and good that man has ever built, destroying it from within, bringing them closer and closer to their goal of what they believe to be a utopia on earth.  A one world totalitarian socialist order. To help to create the world where they will rule as being the ones who possess the only truly mature mind, they will establish a council of advisers to a world charismatic political and religious leader who will be the outward rule, but he will really take his orders from this benevolent despotism, this Council learned Elders and everyone on the face of this earth will be in total control of every 24-hour period of their lives.  There will be one world religion catering to the needs of man not men obeying the laws of any God.  The general rule will be as has been touted many, many times by these people, do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, and even murder will be considered to be a learning experience provided that the perpetrator actually learns something.  People who exhibit violent tendencies as a matter of normal behavior on their part will simply be eliminated.  Ladies and gentlemen, I hope this is beginning to come together and make sense to you, if it doesn't as yet have a long, long, way to go as you have probably already begun to understand.

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[Angry Patriot]

Nice

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Its an awesome project.

[luckee1]

wakingup72  is going to do part 31: Tom Valentine

That one is a difficult one I know.  Whew!

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wakingup72  is going to do part 31: Tom Valentine

That one is a difficult one I know.  Whew!

I thank him,

and all the other people for this project.

[John Galt]

Episode 5 – The New World Order And Freemasonry
Mystery Babylon Series, William Cooper
February 18, 1993

Good evening, and welcome to the Hour of The Time. I’m your host, William Cooper.

(Opening song, “Look At All Those Idiots” by Mr. Burns & Mr. Smithers from the TV Show “The Simpsons”)

Ah yes. A nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are steaks on the table and beasts of burden by choice and consent. Do you fit that description? I certainly hope not. If you do, then it’s time to wake up and change it. And if you really want to know in a nutshell what’s wrong with this country, go in your bathroom and look in the mirror.

Promo for upcoming Cooper lecture “The Sacrificed King”:
Everybody write this down. Write it down. Monday, March 15th—that’s a Monday—March 15th, 8pm to 11, the Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego. That’s Monday, March 15th, 8pm to 11, the Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego. I’m going to be giving a lecture that night entitled “The Sacrificed King”, and I will prove to you beyond any shadow of any doubt that John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the religion known as “Mystery Babylon,” specifically by the arm of Mystery Babylon that calls itself the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. I will prove it to you folks. I want to see you. I want to meet you. I want to shake your hand. I want to see who my radio audience is. If you’re a CAJI (Citizens Agency for Joint Intelligence) member, I specifically, really really look forward to meeting CAJI members. You are my heroes. You are the ones who do the dirty work, who are constantly digging out and sending in information. So if you’re a CAJI member, I want to meet you, I want to see, I want to shake your hand. If you’re just a listener to this show, I still want to meet you. I want to shake your hand. I want to see you. And you’re going to want to hear and see what I have to say and show you on Monday, March 15th at 8pm at the Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego, California. The price of admission is $40. If you’re a CAJI member, it’s $30. CAJI members get a 25% discount to this lecture. Sometimes CAJI members get a bigger discount, but this was all I was able to negotiate with the promoters of this event in San Diego. By the way, I will be there all weekend. I will be there the 13th, 14th and 15th. Actually, I will be there the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th. I’ll have a room at the hotel. If you want to come earlier, I’d like to meet you. I’d like to sit down and talk to you. I plan on having some conferences with some good people, some patriots, in my room. And you’ll get to meet my wife and my little daughter Pooh. They’re both looking forward to meeting you also. So please put it on your calendar. Start saving your money. Make sure that you are there. It is important. Now at the same time in this hotel the “National New Age and Truth About UFOs” conference is going on, so if you are interested and into this nutty, loony tunes stuff, you might want to come down and go to some of that too. Now some of these speakers have something to say. Most of them, however, are as nutty as a fruitcake, and so is what they say. I know. I’ve been to many of these. I’ve talked to these people so many times it’s pathetic. I’ve sat in and listened to them, and you talk about lies and deception and just plain old bullshit (chuckles), you hear a lot of it at these conferences. But don’t get me wrong folks, because sometimes it’s a lot of fun. I mean, sometimes loony tunes is just fun. Escape from the real world a little while and listen to some of these people. Most of the lectures are free. If you want to go to the workshops, that’ll cost you. But most of the lectures are free. I mean, you sit there all day and listen to these people, and some of them have something to say. Most of them belong in the loony bin, I’m telling you right now. My workshop is 8 o’clock, Monday night.

Something’s wrong, folks, in America. Something’s really wrong. Something is destroying everything that we’ve ever held dear in this country. What is it? Well, if you’ve been listening to this show, many of you already know what it is. If you’ve just been listening to this show for a little while, you may have some idea, but you’re not quite really sure yet what’s going on. Well, I’m going to tell you right now it’s all about religion. Whether you’re religious or not, doesn’t make any difference. It’s all about religion. Whether you believe in God or not, it doesn’t make any difference. It’s all about a big battle between good and evil. And most of it, I got to tell you, exists in the minds of men. Some of it’s real. The question is, what’s real, what’s deception, what should we be paying any attention to. What is it that’s driving us insane? Yes, something IS wrong in America.

(Short trailer from the 1960 movie “La machera del demonio” aka “Black Sunday”)

Today’s newspapers, folks, are full of stories about the rampant rise of 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, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And I could go on and on and on and on and on. But why? 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, among other things—under such an attack? Is it possible that there are actually people and organizations who really want to change the basic order of things? Well, my regular listeners know the answer to that. Clues to the answers to these questions, folks, 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 the 26th, 1968 reported this, quote, “New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller says as President he would work toward international creation of ‘a New World Order,” unquote. And you thought George Bush coined that phrase? Surprise, surprise.

On January the 30th, 1976, a new document called The Declaration of Interdependence was introduced to the American people, and it was signed by 124 traitors—32 Senators and 92 Representatives, altogether 124 traitors in Washington D.C. And it read in part, quote, “Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation. Now we must join with others to bring forth a New World Order,” unquote. And you thought George Bush coined that phrase? Surprise, surprise.

Another individual who has commented is Henry Kissinger, probably the greatest traitor this nation has ever known, former Secretary of State. According to the Seattle Post Intelligence of April 18th, 1975, Mr. Kissinger said quote, “Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the New Order which is taking form around us,” unquote.

George Bush gave the commencement address at Texas A&M University on May 12th, 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 quote, “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,” unquote.

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 this, quote, “The Colonel’s sole justification for preparing such a batch of blood for his countrymen was his hope of establishing a New World Order of peace and security,” unquote.

You see how these people fool themselves? (chuckles) They always say that the end is peace and security, a world utopia. But to get it, they spill more blood than ever has been spilled in history. Each time they try to bring about their utopia, the blood runs in the streets. They’re liars. They’re hypocrites. They’re manipulators, deceivers. They are the worshippers of Lucifer.

Adolf Hitler, a Socialist and the head of the German government prior to and during the nation’s involvement in World War II, is quoted as saying this, quote, “National socialism will use its own revolution for the establishing of a New World Order,” unquote. Adolf Hitler was a Socialist. “Nazi” means National Socialism. Hitler confided to Hermann Rauschning, the President of the Danzig Senate, quote, “National Socialism is more than a religion. It is the will to create superman,” unquote.

And what is the number of the man? 666. You see, in the New World Order, only one man will be allowed to live—the new man, the illumined man. And the number of that man is 666. You will see that number increasingly all around you. You will also begin to see pyramids increasingly all around you, and the eye in the pyramid, and the eye alone. And you will see circles with the dot in the center. And you will see obelisks appearing all over the place. And these are not the only signs. There are many, many, many more. They’re the signs of the religion Mystery Babylon.

Hitler added this thought, quote, “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,” unquote. Another book on his background quoted his comments that his Nazi party had a hidden purpose, one that was not perceived by the world at large. Mr. Hitler was quoted as saying this, “He who has seen in National Socialism only a political movement has seen nothing.” For it IS a religion.

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.” Now that is a lie, folks. It means that’s okay for some of us to lay back and do nothing and reap the rewards of the labor of others. That’s socialism! That’s what it’s all about. Communism, socialism…it’s the same. And these people, the worshippers of Mystery Babylon, are the original Communists. They ARE international socialism. They invented it. It is their creation. It is their dream of a world utopia—a one-world, totalitarian socialist government.

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 Organizations in the Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy administrations. And he stated this, quote, “We are likely to do better by building our house of World Order from bottom up rather than from the top down. 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,” unquote.

Even the communist party is voicing similar thoughts. The People’s Daily World for Thursday, March 9th, 1989, contained an article written by Angela Davis. You remember her? Those familiar with Ms. 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, and she is quoted in the paper as saying, quote, “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,” unquote.

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, quote, “There were three programs. The first was political and dealt with the various issues of peace and disarmament. The second was dedicated to environmental issues and to the new international economic order,” unquote.

The alleged need for a change in the basic way things are done is consistent with the teachings of the “Father of Communism,” Karl Marx. He’s not really the father of communism, but it’s a name that’s been tagged onto him. You see, he was just a hack writer hired by the mystery religion of Babylon to write the Communist Manifesto. It was not his idea, but he’s reaped the benefits of it, if you can call them benefits. But he co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Frederick Engels, another hack writer, in 1848. Mr. Marx wrote that the Communists, quote, “Openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions,” unquote.

Nesta Webster, a writer on the subject of conspiratorial organizations in the past, wrote this in her book entitled “Secret Societies,” quote, “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 honored traditions trampled under foot, and above all, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated,” unquote.

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 for which a long time have been working for the overthrow of the Christian Social Order,” unquote. One of the Popes who preceded him, Pope Pius XI, oh excuse me, Pope Pius IX, wrote this in November, 1846 about the changes that he saw in the future, quote, “That infamous doctrine of so-called communism is absolutely contrary to the natural law itself, and if once adopted, would utterly destroy the rights, property and possessions of all men, and even society itself,” unquote.

Now don’t get all worked up about what the Pope says, because they have succeeded now with this Pope in putting one of their own up on the thrown of the Vatican. It had long been their dream, and now it is true. And the bans have been lifted against Catholics joining secret societies. Many of the hierarchy of the Vatican belong to the secret societies—the Freemasons, Propaganda Due (“P2”), etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. You will find an obelisk—(chuckles) the symbol of the phallus, the penis of Osiris—in the Vatican courtyard. You don’t believe? Go look.

Another individual who wrote about the future was Dr. José Argüelles of an organization known as the Planet Art Network. Dr. Argüelles wrote, quote, “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,” unquote. Now, 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 Conspiracy.” And she wrote this, quote, “The new world is the old transformed,” unquote.

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, Rhodes, Rhodes, Rhodes, Rhodes Scholar. Where have you heard that before? You have a Rhodes Scholar sitting in the Oval Office right now! He 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”, quote, “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 order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority,” unquote. You hear that? They believe a perfect, secular order will emerge. Nothing perfect will ever emerge from the minds of imperfect men, and no men will ever be ruled by other imperfect men in any kind of a perfect Utopian order, secular or otherwise. That is why we must be eternally vigilant…eternally vigilant.

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 psychologists” 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, quote, “We can no longer afford freedom, and so it must be replaced with control over man, his conduct, and his culture,” unquote. Not long ago, in the Los Angeles Times there was an article called “Ten Forecasts for The Coming Decade,” and one of these was chemical, or electronic, implants to control individual behavior on a twenty-four hour basis.

Another student of these changes is Alvin Toffler, who wrote this in his book entitled “The Third Wave”—and you should read everything he’s written, by the way, because what he’s writing is what is coming—quote, “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,” unquote. Another scientist involved in commenting upon the future changes was Dr. Carl Sagan, and he’s observed this, quote, “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,” unquote.

Now the reason, folks, why these changes are necessary was explained by Manly P. Hall, perhaps the world’s leading authority on esoteric words and language. He was a 33rd degree Freemason. He wrote in his book entitled “Lectures on Ancient Philosophy,” quote, “The time has not yet arrived when the average man is strong enough or wise enough to rule himself,” unquote. And he explained who he considered worthy enough to rule those on the world considered by the experts to be incapable of governing themselves. He wrote this, quote, “Never will peace reign upon the earth until we are ruled by the fit.” And who is the fit (laughs)? Why, them of course—the illumined, the priests of the mystery religion of Babylon. Mr. Hall even indicated that these changes would occur soon. He wrote this comment in his book previously cited, quote, “One hundred years ago (meaning in 1884, folks) 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,” unquote.

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 this, quote, “In the end they (the people) will lay their freedom at our (the controllers) feet and say to us ‘make us your slaves, but feed us,” unquote. The Tucson Citizen newspaper of November the 3rd, 1988 printed a photograph of a group of people involved in a “march for literacy,” and it clearly demonstrated that at least some people in America are now asking their government to make them their slaves. The picture showed a demonstrator carrying a picket sign that read, quote, “Uncle Sam, we want you to support us,” unquote. Mr. Huxley gave us a date when we could expect these changes to occur. He wrote the following in his book written in 1958, quote, “The twenty-first century will be the era of World Controllers,” unquote. And then he told us why these controllers would not fail, quote, “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,” unquote.

Someone who might have given the world the date for the commencement of these predicted changes was Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Marxist and President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor during his four year administration. He wrote the following in his book entitled “Between Two Ages”—and by the way, you should read every book that he’s every written. You will be angered—quote, “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,” unquote. And it did begin exactly when he said it would.

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, folks, 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, the workplace, 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. One, those in favor of the changes will have become seated in the very thrones of power, generally without the public realizing that fact—and this has already occurred. Two, 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, including possibly a World War III using atomic weapons. 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, folks, and it has already begun. However, if that is not the case, it will be introduced one step at a time so that the entire structure will be in place by the year 1999.

We’ve got to take a short break. Don’t go away, folks. I’ll be right back after this very short pause.

(Short trailer from the 1959 movie “The Mummy”)

Yes folks, something is indeed wrong in America. And many sense that changes in this nation’s lifestyle are occurring. Most of us know full well that these changes are taking place. The newspapers are saturated with articles reporting the activities of those advocating increased governmental spending 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. And still the sheople think that all of this is happening by accident, and any concept that it is being brought about by a carefully-orchestrated plan is the product of crazy conspiratorialists (mmm-hmm). 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. And you will quickly see that is the result of a well-thought out, well-conceived, and well-orchestrated plan. Indeed, it is called “the great work.”

As an indication that major changes are coming in tomorrow’s world, one of the current trends mentioned is the call for a “one-world government.” And one of those supporting this leap forward is Norman Cousins, President of the World Federalist Society. He is on record as saying this, quote, “World government is coming. In fact, it is inevitable. No arguments for it or against it can change that fact,” unquote. And I say, that is a lie. Two hundred and forty million Americans standing up in concert with each other, holding a rifle in their hands, can stop it instantly in its tracks. And that’s the truth of why we were given the 2nd article and amendment to the Constitution. It has nothing to do with hunting or preserving your private property. It has to do with preserving our freedom.

The goal of a one world government, folks, is not a new thought. One of the earliest formal organizations that supported the concept of that goal was the Illuminati, founded on May 1st, 1776, by Adam Weishaupt—a Jesuit priest, a professor at Ingolstadt University (a Jesuit university), a teacher of Canon Law. Professor Weishaupt was quoted as saying this, quote, “It is necessary to establish a universal regime and empire over the whole world,” unquote. Now, let me tell you the truth about the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt did not establish the Illuminati, nor did the Illuminati die with Adam Weishaupt. Make sure you understand that. A more modern organization that supports the coming changes is the Masonic Order called simply the Freemasons, or for short, the “Masons.” It has nothing to do with bricklayers, folks. The term originally comes from the French “free masson” (sp?), which literally means “the sons of light.” 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”, quote, “Masonry will eventually rule the world,” unquote (chuckles). Benevolent fraternal organization?

Albert Pike—and you’re going to hear an awful lot about Albert Pike during this series—the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry here in the United States from 1850 to 1891, the man who founded the Ku Klux Klan and B’nai B’rith, wrote a book entitled “Morals and Dogma.” When and if you can find that book, don’t pass it up—buy it and read it. Mr. Pike has been praised by his fellow Masons as a member almost without parallel in the history of the Masonic Order. He was a great friend of Giuseppe Mazzini, the ruler of the European branch of the Illuminati. Carl Claudy, himself a Masonic writer of great esteem, wrote this about Pike, quote, “Albert Pike, one of the greatest geniuses Freemasonry has ever known, he was a mystic, a symbolist, a teacher of the hidden truths of Freemasonry,” unquote. 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 (and I would add, next to Manly P. Hall). His book is given to each Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction 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. As we were told that it was given to each Scottish Rite Mason in Tucson, other Masons say that that is not true. But you have to remember, they’re sworn not to reveal the secrets of the lodge, and therefore you can never trust them to tell you the truth, no matter what they’re telling you. But in this book, “Morals and Dogma,” Pike informs the new Mason about the moral teachings of the Masonic Lodge. He instructs the Masonic reader that the Order will eventually be asked to rule the entire globe. And he wrote this, quote, “The world will soon come to us for its Sovereigns and Pontiffs. We shall constitute the equilibrium of the universe and be rulers over the masters of the world,” unquote.

He wrote this supportive statement in a book entitled “Legenda”, quote, “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,” unquote. Reference to the Order of the Temple is reference to the Knights Templars, who were destroyed in concert by King Philip of France and Pope Clement V. And the “powers of evil” referred to in this paragraph is the Christian Church—the Christian religion, Christianity as a whole. Let me read it to you again, just in case you weren’t paying attention. Quote, “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,” unquote. The Order of the Temple Mr. Pike was writing about was the Knights Templar, which was according to him, quote, “devoted to the cause of opposition to the tiara (the Pope’s triple crown) and the crowns of Kings,” unquote. Well then, is it any wonder that the King of France and the Pope crushed the Templars in France? For that is the only place that they were truly crushed. 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 towards the conquest of the world.” Mr. Pike repeated his devotion to the conquest of the world with this comment at the end of his book entitled “Morals and Dogma,” quote, “Such my brother, is the true word of a Master Mason. Such the true royal secret which makes possible, and shall at length make real, the holy empire of true Masonic Brotherhood,” unquote. Now, all of you “Master Masons” out there who have been writing me letters, don’t write to me anymore. You are my enemies, and if I can, I will destroy you. Don’t write to me and profess your innocence, for your own have proclaimed your guilt. And if you are truly innocent, then you are just a foolish dupe, and you better get out while you can.

The major worldwide movement that champions a one world government, folks, under a religious leader is a new phenomena occurring worldwide called the “New Age” movement—a creation of Freemasonry. The newspaper put out by the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is called “The New Age.” 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, quote, “The New Age movement has undeniably taken on the definite form of a religion.” Of course…because it is Mystery Babylon! He goes on to say, “Complete with an agreed upon body of doctrine, printed scripture, a pattern of worship and ritual, a functioning group of ministers and lay leaders,” unquote.

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, quote, “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,” unquote.

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, and published a newsletter or newspaper called “Lucifer.” In her book entitled “The Externalization of the Hierarchy,” she told her readers who the organizations were that were going to bring the New Age religion to the world, and she identified them as being, quote, “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.” And folks, that is exactly who is bringing it to realization.

The main thrust of this program is going to be to examine only one of the three organizations mentioned by Alice Bailey, that being the Masonic Fraternity. There are numerous works by other writers, lecturers, researchers exposing the involvement of the Church and the educational field in the New Age movement and in the New World Order, so I’m not going to attempt to duplicate those efforts. However, only a few are aware of the involvement of the Freemasons, and that is why I have chosen to concentrate on that organization, Mystery Babylon. And the reason I’m concentrating on that organization is because it is their members who have infiltrated the Church and the educational field who control those other two organizations. So really there’s only one organization that needs to be dealt with, and that is Freemasonry.

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 Masters of Wisdom” that, quote, “The new religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core of the secret of the occult mysteries,” unquote. 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 equivalent of their President) of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, has been quoted as saying this, quote, “We look towards a transforming into a New Age using, however, the insight and wisdom of the ancient mystics,” unquote.

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 through the centuries. Humanity today does not possess this knowledge, but it has become the task of the Masons and other truth seekers—who turn out in every case of investigation to be liars, deceivers, and manipulators—to rediscover these principles for the benefit of all 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, as I have mentioned earlier, 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 only three degrees. A Master Mason is of the 3rd degree, and really knows nothing even though he thinks that he has been illumined. And I get letters from them all the time, “I’m a Master Mason and I never heard of any of the stuff that you’re talking about (laughs). Oh boy! It amazes me, folks, it just absolutely amazes me that people are so stupid! It drives me wild. The initiate into the Blue Lodge goes through three separate and different initiation ceremonies, one for each degree. After completing these ceremonies, he may stay where he is or choose to affiliate himself with either the York Rite, which has thirteen degrees, or the Scottish Rite, which has thirty-two and then the meritorious 33rd. 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 initiate lives. The two Scottish rites have an additional twenty-nine degrees, making for a total of thirty-two. There is one more degree called the 33rd degree, which is honorary and only a few are invited into that degree, and to even be considered they must perform some major work toward the completion of the great work, which is the plan to bring about the Utopia on earth—the socialist dream. The York Rite has a total of nine degrees. However, since little has been revealed about this order, we will concentrate on only the Scottish Rite, and in particular, the Southern Jurisdiction. Well, I’ve since discovered that the York Rite has a total of thirteen degrees, folks, not just nine.

Mr. Hall has written a book entitled “Lectures on Ancient Philosophy” in which he talks a great deal about the Masonic fraternity. This is his comment about the coming changes, quote, “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 philosophy,” unquote. Notice that Mr. Hall has said that current theology, obviously current religion, has proven insufficient. Also, he feels that materialism, meaning the right to private property, 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 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,” quote, “At the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, many Freemasons travelled 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 initiates—by an esoteric order of the masters of wisdom,” unquote. 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 become 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 significant changes coming, and that he was supportive of those changes. He wrote the following in his book entitled “Morals and Dogma,” quote, “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,” unquote. Now, if Mr. Hall is right, the evils that his fellow Mason Albert 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. Quote, “A new light is breaking in the east (the significance of the location, the east, I have already pointed out—it is the point where the sun rises) a more glorious day is at hand. The rule of the philosophic elect, the dream of the ages, will yet be realized and is not too far distant,” unquote. 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 changes were expected to occur was Alice Bailey, previously mentioned. She wrote about when she thought the New Age would arrive. Quote, “Eventually, there will appear the Church Universal, and its definite outlines will appear towards the close of the century,” unquote. And you have already seen the emergence of the Universalis Church. 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 1990s. This estimate of that date is not too far wrong, as will be demonstrated later in this series of programs.

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”, quote, “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,” unquote.

Now, just what is the New Age religion that will last for at least one thousand years on the earth? What is it? One who attempted to answer that question was Constance Cumbey in her book entitled “The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow.” She wrote that these were the basic tenets of the new religion. Listen closely. The plan for the future includes the installation of a new world Messiah, the implementation of a new world government and new world religion under Maitreya (an individual who will be examined later in this series of programs). Two, a universal credit card system will be implemented as a cashless society. Three, a world food authority will control all of the world’s food supply. Four, a universal tax. Five, a universal draft, and six, they intend on utterly rooting out people who believe the Bible and worship God and to completely stamp out Christianity from the face of this earth. 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, folks, 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, quote, “publishers estimate that total sales of New Age titles today are at least $100 million at retail,” unquote. So, whatever they believe in, many believe in it. But perhaps the most insightful comment about the nature of what the New Age religion believe 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, quote, “the intent of bringing about a New World Order, an order that writes God out of the picture and deifies Lucifer,” unquote. So, if Mrs. Cumbey and the other writers on the subject are right, the New Age movement needs to be studied in some depth.

We know that the goal of Freemasonry, at least that which is stated, is to bring about the new man, the illumined man. And the number of the man is 666.

(Short trailer from the 1957 movie “The Amazing Colossal Man”)

2nd Promo for upcoming Cooper lecture “The Sacrificed King”:
Now don’t forget, folks, Monday, March 15th, 8pm to 11, Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego. I’ll be giving a lecture, “The Sacrificed King.” Admission’s $40, for CAJI members it’s $30. Once again, Monday, March 25th, 8pm, Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Boulevard.

Now, you know what we need to do folks? I want you to listen to this closing song. Good night, and God bless you all.

(Closing song, “Werewolf” by Five Man Electrical Band)

Transcription by ~jg

[luckee1]

Do I have to beg a mod to please delete this post

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=76718.msg913561#msg913561

That one is the error.

Thank you for deleting my error, and my mix up.

[URpwneddude]

Dok, I'll do 12 - The End of The Templars, too.  Put me down.

[Dok]

Let's keep the list updated so it's clear which ones still need to be done:

00 - The Dawn of Man  (finished)
01 - Intro to Mysteries  (finished)(dok)
02 - Antiquities (Amerokah)
03 - Osiris and Isis (grneyelady)
04 - Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (grneyelady)
05 - The NWO and Freemasonry (finished) (John Galt)
06 - Maitreya (finished) (luckee1)
07 - Ecumenism
08 - Initiation (luckee1)
09 - Gnosticism
10 - The Assassins (Viper)
11 - The Assassins and The Templars (Viper)
12 - The End of The Templars URpwneddude
13 - The Skull and Bones
14 - The Roshaniya (finished) URpwneddude
15 - Quotes of Freemasons
16 - Sun Worship (Devotional Soul)
17 - Bibliography (dok)
18 - Lucifer Worship (finished) (Wake Up)
19 - Fundamental Laws (Rose Cross)
20 - William Morgan Interview Pt 1
21 - William Morgan Interview Pt 2
22 - William Morgan Interview Pt 3
23 - Jordan Maxwell Interview
24 - Americas Assignment Pt 1
25 - Americas Assignment Pt 2
26 - Americas Assignment Pt 3
27 - Letter About Masonry
28 - Jordan Maxwell and Anthony Hilder
29 - The Godmakers (finished) (wakingup)
30 - The UN Meditation Room
31 - Tom Valentine - Ice The Ultimate Disaster (wakingup)
32 - Letter By A Humanist Police Chief
34 - Secret Societies and Vatican II (Angry Patriot)
35 - Christianity to Babylon
36 - Rose Cross Pt 1
37 - Rose Cross Pt 2
38 - Rose Cross Pt 3
39 - The Occult and The Third Reich Pt 1
40 - The Occult and The Third Reich Pt 2
41 - The Occult and The Third Reich Pt 3

[Viper]

Obviously if anyone plans on hosting this on their website it'll have to be
re-read through in it's entirety and checked.

*MeaoooW*

[Devotional Soul]

For the Roshinaya one, my neighbor teaches Arabic, so I can get the correct spelling for those words.

[URpwneddude]

Transcribed by URpwneddude!!

The End of the Templars

To all of my regular listeners and all the ships at sea around the world it’s me, William Cooper, speaking to you from the dead where I have indeed seen the light and I turned it off.

 One of the most disgraceful acts which stain the annals of the Templars says even one of their ardent admirers, occurred in the year 1155, when Bertrand de Blanchefort, whom William of Tyre calls a “pious and God-fearing man,” was Master of the order.   In a contest for the supreme power in Egypt, which the viziers, bearing the proud title of Sultan, exercised under the phantom-khalifs, Sultan Abbas who had put to death the khalif, his master, found himself obliged to fly from before the vengeance of the incensed people.  With his harem, and his own and a great part of the royal treasures, he took his way through the Desert.

Well, a body of Christians, chiefly Templars, lay in wait for the fugitives near Ascalon; the resistance offered by the Moslems was slight and very ineffectual.  Abbas himself was either slain or he fled, and his son, Nassir-ed-deen, professed his desire to become a Christian. The far larger part of the booty, of course, fell to the Templars but this did not satisfy their avarice.   They sold Nassir-ed-deen to his father's enemies for 60,000 pieces of gold.   Now, if you think that's a lot of money in this day and age it was a veritable king’s ransom in that.  And they stood by to see him bound hand and foot, and placed in a sort of cage or iron-latticed sedan, on a camel, to be conducted to Egypt where a death by protracted torture awaited him. 

It was not the Templars alone folks who were guilty of arrogance and worse.  The Hospitaliers had deteriorated from their first fine beginnings and the annals of both orders are not innocent of unpleasantness though they are indeed well filled with tales of glory.  The Hospitaliers, for instance, refused to pay tithes to the patriarch of Jerusalem even going so far as to erect immense buildings in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as a practical demonstration of their own importance.   And when the patriarch entered his church, they rang a bell so loudly that he cannot make himself heard.   There is an occasion recorded when “the congregation was assembled in church the Hospitaliers rushed into it in arms and shot arrows among them as if they were robbers or infidels.  These arrows were collected and hung up on Mount Calvary where Christ had been crucified to the scandal of these recreant knights.  On applying to Pope Adrian IV for redress, the Syrian clergy found him and his Cardinals so preprocessed in favor of his enemies,-- bribed by them in fact, it was said, --that they had no chance of relief."

This man, folks, was the background, was the rise of the Templars and the flavor of their environment. Now if one adds to these elements the fact that various very heterodox sects, Gnostic, manichi(sp?), and the rest, still lurk in the Holy Land together with a great deal of magic and superstition of every kind, and there is a possibility to say the least that the Templars were infected by it.  The facts indeed show that they were not only infected but taken by and were initiated if not only by the branch known as the Assassins but veritably arose from the secret sects in Syria.

A contention which has been made of such heresy is archaic religions and practices do not survive until the Templar period is demonstrably false.   Although much play has been made of it by those who defend the order, for do such sects not endure there until this very day?  Well, this is not to say that the Templars were guilty of the practices which formed the substance of the confessions later to be wrung from them by barbaric torture, which we will examine in due course.  The secret tradition and magical rites may well have played a part in their hidden lore and practices.  It should also be remembered folks that towards the end there were Templars who were of actual Palestinian birth who would have every opportunity of absorbing the unorthodox beliefs of the many schools of a magical religious nature which existed in the area.  The grandmaster, Philip of Naploos in 1167, for instance, was a Syrian and many Crusaders were Levantine lords.  Whatever their original bloods, speaking Arabic perfection, it was 1162 that the “Magna Charta” of the order was obtained by the Templars:  the bull Omne Datum Optimum, often described as the keystone of their power,   And through this instrument they were able to consolidate their authority and preserve their secrets against intrusion, and were to find, too, that did much to excite the envy of their opponents. 

Pope Adrian IV had died, the two rival popes were elected, Alexander III by the Sicilian group, and Victor III by the imperial party.   At first the Templars acknowledged Victor but in 1161 they switch their allegiance to Alexander.  It was probably some sort of secret arrangement behind this for by January 7 of the following year the famous bull was issued.  By the terms of this document, the Templars were released from all spiritual ties except to the Holy See itself.  They were permitted to have special burial grounds in their own houses.  They could have chaplains of their own.   They had no tithes to pay, which in that day was miraculous, and they were allowed to receive times was absolutely incredible.  Nobody who had once entered the order could leave it except to join one with a stricter discipline. 

The stage, dear listeners, was set for clerical hatred of the Templars and Hospitaliers who had similar privileges.  In fact, were one and the same and still are today.   Although the advantages to the pope of the combined support of these two orders could hardly be overestimated.   

In 1184 an incident occurred which inspired a great deal of distrust of the order although the rarity of its occurrence should have underlined the fact that it was nothing of much consequence.   You see the English knight, Robert of St. Albans; left the Templars, became a Moslem, and led an army for Saladin against Jerusalem, then in the hands of the Franks.   The charge against the Templars that they were secret Musselmans or allies with the Saracens does not seem borne out by the fact that Saladin accused them of treacherous troops breaking and other crimes and unlike his usual chivalrous self took a solemn oath that he would execute such Templar captives as he could obtain as "beyond the limits of Islam and infidelity are like."  Nor do they make any attempts to invoke any religious bond with Saladin when they were captured, as we know from the Arabic life of Saladin written contemporaneously by his secretary Qadi al Sal (sp?).   Strong evidence of this is given in the events which followed the terrible battle of Hittin, two years before Saladin had made a pact with the Assassins that they would give him a free hand to continue its holy war against the Franks which we discussed on an earlier program.   

On July 1, 1187, he captured Tiberias.  He attacked nearby Hittin, on Friday, July 3, 30,000 Christians, 30,000 Christians were captured including the king of Jerusalem.  No Templar, not one is mentioned in the detailed Arab account as asking for mercy on religious, or any other grounds.   Although all knew that Saladin had issued a war cry,  “come to death, Templars”  The grandmaster, Gerard of Ridefort, and several other knights were among those taken.   Saladin offered them their lives if they would see the light of the true faith.  Well according to history, none accepted and all these knights were beheaded except admittedly the Templar grandmaster.   Could it be that he did accept the true faith of the light of the true faith, as Saladin had put it? 

A non-Templar, Reginald of Chatillon, tried to invoke the sacred code of Arab hospitality and other Crusaders claimed that they were Moslems and were spared.  None of them were Templars or Hospitaliers.   Reginald and the Templars collectively were sentenced to death for breaking the truth and the war crime of killing unarmed pilgrims to Mecca.  Arab accounts include only a few references which could be construed as indicating any collusion with the Christian army.  One says that on the Friday at midday and the battle lasted for two days, Sultan Saladin issued the attack cry to be passed along Sarasin host, “on for Islam" at which the striped banner of the Templars was raised and Emir Lion of the Faith said, “are those Sultans, Saladin, Yusof’s allies with whom I have heard from the reconnaissance men?”  Well this cannot be regarded as anything at all conclusive the only other reference is "a body of Templars who went over to the Saracen side, and whose supposed descendants survive to this day as the Salibiyya (Crusader) tribe in north Arabia."   

Disengagement folks, felt the end of real Western power in Palestine for over 700 years, although it did stimulate the unsuccessful third Crusade.   Although the Templars and some other Crusaders were still in the holy land and lost almost all their possessions there, but in the West laid the real seat of their power.
At this time their European possessions numbered over 7000 estates and foundations.   Although principally concentrated in France and England, they had extensive properties in Portugal, Castile Leon, Scotland, and Ireland, Germany, Italy, and Sicily.  When Jerusalem was lost their headquarters were transferred to Paris.   This building, like all their branch churches, was known as, The Temple.   It was here that the French King Philip the Fair took refuge in 1306 to escape a civil commotion.   It is said that this visit gave him his first insight into the real wealth of the order.  Now remember the wealth was not for the members for they practiced the first true Socialism, international socialism, or communism.  The fabulous treasures, which his host showed him, giving the bankrupt monarch the idea to plunder the knights on the pretext that they were nominated by heresies.   Phillip the Fair was not entirely without some grounds for attacking the Templars, for in 1208 we find Pope Innocent III, a great friend of the order, censuring them publicly for “causing their churches to be thrown open for mass to be said every day, with loud ringing of bells, bearing the cross of Christ on their breast, but not caring to follow his doctrines, who forbids to give offense to any of the little ones who believe in him.” “following the doctrines of demons, they affixed the cross of their order upon the breast of every kind of scoundrel, asserting that whoever, by paying two or three pence a year, became one of their fraternity, could not, even though interdicted, be deprived of Christian burial;”  "and thus they themselves, being captive to the devil, cease not to make captive the souls of the faithful, seeking to make alive those whom they know to be dead."

The first sign of an attempt to bring some sort of physical restraint upon the Templars came from Henry III of England.  For in 1252, he hinted that he might try to seize some of the property of the order.  “You prelates and religious,” he said, “especially you Templars and Hospitaliers have so many liberties and charters that your enormous possessions make you rave with pride and haughtiness.   What was imprudently given must therefore be prudently revoked and what was inconsiderately bestowed must be considerately recalled.”   Those were the words of the King.   The master of the Templars immediately replied.  “What sayest thou, O King?   Far be it that thou mouth should utter so disagreeable a silly a word.  So long as thou dost exercise justice, thou wilt reign.  But if thou infringe it, thou wilt cease to be King."   Now remember the Knights Templar at that time were the very first international bankers.  They were the wealthiest order, wealthiest group then known in the world even surpassing the kings of the different countries that existed.  And even though the Hospitaliers were created before the Knights Templar, eventually the two became the same order.  Though to the public and to the rulers of Europe, they were different orders with different names.

The haughty Templars of the 14th century owned land and revenues gained steadily in honor and important, they might have thrones had they wanted them.  For such was their power towards the end that banded together, as one historian points out, they could have overcome more than one of the smaller countries of Europe, perhaps though, they aim even higher than that.  If their eventual aim was world hegemony they could not have organized themselves better or planned their aristocratic hierarchy more thoroughly.  And you will see that that's been carried over even onto the modern-day.

The pride, arrogance, and complete confidence and self-sufficiency of the order is something that shows through even the least inspired pages of the chroniclers.   Their power was legendary.   Everywhere they went they had chapels, tithes, farms, villages, mills, and rights of pasturage, of fishing, of winery, of wood.  They also in many places the right of holding annual fairs which were managed and the tolls received by some of the brethren of the nearest houses are by their donates or servants.   The number of their preceptors is by the most moderate computation rated at 9000.  The annual income of the order put at about £6 million, an unbelievable, unimaginable sum of those times.   Masters of such a revenue descended from the noblest houses in Christendom.   Uniting in their purses the most extreme secular and religious characters regarded as the chosen champions of Christ and the flower of Christian knights it was not possible for the Templars in such lax times as the 12th and 13th centuries to escape falling into the vices of ravish luxury and overweening pride.

The order, folks, when fully developed was composed of several classes: chiefly knights, chaplains and serving brothers, affiliated were those who were attached to the order in worked for and received its protection without taking its vows and in this affiliation was said to be derived from the Arab clientship association analogous to blood brotherhood and tribal associations.   A candidate for knighthood should prove that he was of a knightly family and entitled, yes entitled, to the distinction.  His father must have been a knight or eligible to become one.  He had to prove beyond any doubt that he was born in wedlock.   The reason for this last requirement was said to be not only religious, there was the possibility that a political head such as a king or a prince might influence the order by managing to have one of his bastard sons enter it, later perhaps to rise to high rank therein and finally attaching it to the service of his dominion.   A candidate for initiation had to be unmarried and free from all obligations.   He should have made no vow nor entered any other order.   And he was not to be in debt. 

Eventually the competition for admission was so great from eligible people that a very high fee was exacted from those who were to be monk warriors of the temple.   All candidates were to be knighted before entry into the order, but the period of probation which was originally demanded was before very long entirely abolished.   No young man could be admitted until he was 21 years of age because he was to be a soldier as well as a monk, and this was the minimum age at which he could bear arms.   When a new knight was admitted to the order the ceremony was held in secret.  This fact and persistent rumors caused the belief that certain ceremonies and tenants were put into practice which deviated more than a little from the rituals of the church.   The ceremony was held in one of the order's chapels in the presence of the assembled chapter alone.   

The master, or the prior who took his place in chapels other than those at which he was present, opened the proceedings.  “Beloved brethren, you see that the majority are agreed to receive this man as a brother.   If there be any among you who knows anything of him on account of which he cannot lawfully become a brother let him say it.  For it is better that they should be signified beforehand then after he is brought before us.”  And if no objection was lodged, the aspirant was sent to a small room with two or three experienced knights to coach him in what he had to know.  “Brother, are you desirous of being associated with the order?”   If he agreed they would dwell up on the trials and rigors of being a Templar.  They would prepare him for initiation.  He had to reply that for the sake of God he was willing to undergo anything in remain in the order for life.   They asked him if he had a wife or was betrothed, had he made vows to any other order.   Did he owe money, more than he could pay?  Was he of sound mind and body?   Was he a servant of any person?   Well, after satisfactory answers, the result was passed to the master.   The assembled company was then asked again if they knew anything that might disqualify him and if none objected they were asked, “Are you willing that he should be brought in God's name?”  The knights answered,  “Let him be brought in in God's name.”

He was now again asked by his sponsors if he still desired to enter the order.  Receiving an affirmative reply they led him to the chapter where he folded his hands and flung himself upon his knees. “Sir, I am come before God and before you, for the sake of God, and our dear lady, to admit me into your society and the good deeds of the order, as one who will be always lifelong servant and slave of the order."

“Beloved brother”, answered the receptor, “you are desirous of a great matter for you see nothing but the outward shell of our order.”  Now let me repeat that again in case you weren't listening folks. “Beloved brother,” answered the receptor, “you are desirous of a great matter for you see nothing but the outward shell of our order.  It is only the outward shell when you see that we have fine horses and rich comparisons that we eat and drink well and are splendidly clothed.  From this you conclude that you will be well off with us but you know not rigorous maxims which are in our interior, for it is a hard matter for you who are your own master to become the servant of another.  You will hardly be able to perform, in future, what you wish yourself. For when you may wish to be on this side of the sea, you will be sent to the other side; when you will wish to be in Acre, you will be sent to the district of Antioch, to Tripolis, or to Armenia; or you will be sent to Apulia, to Sicily, or to Lombardy, or to Burgundy, France, England, or any other country where we have houses and possessions.”  Where we wish you to do our will.  Further he says, “When you will wish to sleep you will be ordered to watch; when you will wish to watch, then you will be ordered to go to bed; when you will wish to eat, then you will be ordered to do something else. And as both we and you might suffer great inconvenience from what you have, mayhap, concealed from us, look here on the holy Evangelists and the word of God, and; answer the truth to the questions which we shall put to you; for if you lie you will be perjured, and may be expelled the order, from which God keep you!"

In all the former questions were asked of holy writ if the answers proved acceptable the receptor continued.  “Beloved brother, take good care that you have spoken the truth to us; for should you have spoken false in any one point, you might be put out of the order, from which God keep you! Now, beloved brother, attend strictly to what we shall say unto you. Do you promise to God, and our dear Lady Mary, to be, all your life long, obedient to the Master of the Temple, and to the prior who shall be set over you?"

And initiate answers with, “"Yea, Sir, with the help of God!"

"Do you promise to God, and our dear Lady Mary, to live chaste of your body all your life long?"

"Yea, Sir, with the help of God!"

"Do you promise to God, and our dear Lady Mary, to observe, all your life long, the laudable manners and customs of our order, both those which are already in use, and those which the Master and knights may add?"

Yea, Sir, with the help of God!"

"Do you promise to God, and our dear Lady Mary, that you will, with the strength and powers which God has bestowed on you, help, as long as you live, to conquer the Holy Land of Jerusalem; and that you will, with all your strength, aid to keep and guard that which the Christians possess?"

"Yea, Sir, with the help of God!"

"Do you promise to God, and our dear Lady Mary, never to hold this order for stronger or weaker,for better or worse, than with permission of the Master, or of the chapter which has the authority?"

"Yea, Sir, with the help of God!"

"Do you finally promise to God, and our dear Lady Mary, never to be present when a Christian is unjustly and unlawfully despoiled of his heritage, and that you will never, by counsel or by act, take part therein?"

"Yea, Sir, with the help of God!"

"In the name, then, of God, and our dear Lady Mary, and in the name of St. Peter of Rome, and of our father the pope, and in the name of all the brethren of the Temple, we receive to all the good works of the order which have been performed from the beginning, and shall be performed to the end, you, your father, your mother, and all of your family whom you will let have share therein. In like manner do you receive us to all the good works which you have performed and shall perform?  We assure you of bread and water, and the poor clothing of the order, and labor and toil enow."

Then the candidate was admitted.  With a joyous celebration the candidate was admitted.

The white mantle with its Red Cross was placed by the master over the neck of the candidate and clasped firmly by him.  The chaplain recited the 132nd psalm and the prayer of the Holy Ghost and each brother repeated a Pater noster.   Then the master and the chaplain kissed the new entrant on the mouth.  As he sat down before the masters, the latter delivered him a sermon on his duties. 

Knights were equipped more lightly than other Crusaders and were issued with shields, sword, lance and mace.  They were allocated three horses each, not one, but two knights riding but three horses each plus an Esquire who was either a serving brother or a layman, perhaps a youth from a noble family anxious to become a knight in his own turn.   Retired knights were looked after by the order, became counselors at meetings, and were eventually buried in coffins in their Templar habit with the legs crossed.   

Many Templar gravestones show the knight with his feet up on a dog, but most show the crossed thighbones and the skull known as the skull and bones.   The
same skull and bones of the Russell trust, the brotherhood of death at Yale, and the same skull and bones displayed upon the flag of the Pirates.

It was Philip the Fair of France bankrupted fearful of the growing power of the warriors of the Temple who laid the conspiracy for the suppression of the order for all time.  It has been hinted that Philip had some forewarning that a plot against the throne was afoot that the Templars frustrated in their attempts to win back the holy land were about to turn upon Pope and King alike and try to overcome all Christendom.  And believe it or not that's closer to the truth than anything that you ever heard about the Templars.   

In 1305, Pope Clement had been crowned through the assistance of the French King and was actually in control of the French King, and Philip was ready to bring all the power of church and state against the Knights of the Temple. There had been continued rivalry between the Templars and the Hospitaliers on the surface, underneath they were one and the same.   And Clement, six months after his enthronement, wrote asking them to visit him for a conference ostensibly for the purpose of making plans for aiding the Kings of Armenia and Cyprus.   The pope was however hoping that he could affect reconciliation between the two orders which would in turn strengthen his own position as their only ultimate head.  William de Villaret, master of the hospital was fully engaged in an attack upon the Saracens of Rhodes.  When the invitation arrived he could not obey it.  But Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Temple, decided to accept.   He handed over the defense of Limassol in Cyprus to the Orders Marshall, collected 60 knights, packed 150,000 gold florins, plus much other treasure, and set sail for France.   

At Paris, DeMolay was received with honors by the King who was plotting his downfall.  In Poitiers , he met Clement and discussed the possibilities of a fresh crusade. DeLay opined that only a complete alliance of all Christendom could be of any avail against the Moslems and that the amalgamation of the two orders was not a good idea.   The Grand Master returned to Paris and almost at once rumors began to circulate about certain serious charges to be preferred against the order.  Troubled at this campaign, the master together with Geoffroy de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy, Geoffroy de Gonneville, preceptor of Aquitaine and Hugues de Pairaud, preceptor of France, returned to Poitier to justify the order before the pope.   An audience took place about April of 1307 which the pope mentioned the charges which have been made.   The commission understood that the answer satisfied Clement and returned to the capital in good heart.  But this, dear listeners, was only the beginning.   

The method by which the charges were originally said to have been made was to a former Templar who had been expelled from the order for heresy and other offenses.   Squin Flexian found himself imprisoned together with another man, a Florentine, named Noffo Dei and they thought our were told that they could obtain the release of a pardon for the crime of which they were currently accused if only they would testify against the order.   One account has it that Flexian called for the governor of the prisoner saying that he had a disclosure to make which he could tell the King personally and which would be more to him than the conquests of an entire kingdom.   Another chronicle has it that both men were degraded Templars and has been actively engaged in revolt against the king during which Philip had been forced to take refuge with the Templars.   It is further stated that Cardinal Cantilupo, the Chamberlain to the pope, had been in an association with the Templars since he was 11 years old had confessed some of their doings to his master.   Ten main charges were made by Flexian against the order:

One, each Templar on his addition swore never to quit the order and to further its interest by right or wrong.

Two, the heads of the order are the secret alliance with the Saracens and they have more of Mahommedan infidelity than Christian faith; in proof of which, they make every novice spit and trample on the cross of Christ, and blaspheme his faith in various ways.

Three, the heads of the order are heretical, cruel, and sacrilegious men. Whenever any novice, on discovering the iniquity of the order, attempts to quit it, they put him to death, and bury him privately by night. They teach the women who are pregnant by them how to procure abortion, and secretly murder the new-born babes.

Four, they are infected with all the errors of the Fraticelli; they despise the pope and the authority of the Church; they scorn the sacraments, especially those of penance and confession. They pretend to comply with the rites of the Church simply to avoid detection.

Five, the superiors are addicted to the most infamous excesses of debauchery; if any one expresses his repugnance, he is punished by perpetual captivity.

Six, the temple-houses are the receptacles of every crime and abomination that can be committed.

Seven, the order works to put the Holy Land into the hands of the Saracens; and favors them more than the Christians

Eight, the Master is installed in secret, and few of the younger brethren are present at this ceremony; it is strongly suspected that on this occasion he repudiates the Christian faith or promises, or does something contrary to right.

Nine, many statutes of the order are unlawful, profane, and contrary to Christianity; in fact, some of them are stone penises.  The members are, therefore, forbidden, under pain of perpetual confinement, to reveal them to anyone.

Ten, no vice or crime committed for the honor or benefit of the order is held to be a sin.

Now these charges were later augmented by others which were collected through testimony from other enemies of the order and included such assertions as the use of the phrase Ya, Allah, which means O, Allah, and the adoration of an idol called the head of Baphomet.  In fact, the head of Baphomet was not an idol that they worshiped but was the receptacle of the intelligence or the seat of the intelligence. The brain, the light, Lucifer, the gift of intellect, primordial knowing, and that is what really the object of veneration was.   

Philip and his advisors prepared a great secrecy for the dissent on this powerful organization, the Knights Templar, and on 12 September, 1307, sealed letters were sent to all the governors and royal officers throughout France instructing them to arm themselves on the 12th of the next month and open the sealed orders and to act upon them forth with by the morning of Friday, October 13.   And on that day, almost every Templar in France was in the hands of the King's men and thus was born the legend of Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.  And notice that it was October, Friday the 13th, the very first October surprise. 

Hardly one seems to have had any warning but they did because before the king acted the Templars had moved their wealth, their treasure, and their holdings out of the country of France.  On the day before his arrest the Grand Master had actually been chosen by the King to be a pall bearer at a state funeral.   The secret orders had it that all Templars were to be seized; tortured, and interrogated, confessions were to be obtained from them.   Pardon might be promised only if they confessed.   And all their goods were to be expropriated, but the only thing that they really got was the actual real estate property held by the Templars in France and nowhere else.  None of the gold, none of their wealth, none their jewels, none of their other treasures, and other relics have been recovered from the holy land were ever found.

The king himself took possession of the Temple at Paris as soon as the Grand Master and his knights were arrested.   The next day the University of Paris assembled together with canons and other functionaries and ministers and the Chancellor declared that the knights had been proceeded against for heresy.   Two days later the University met in the Temple and some heads of the order, including the Grand Master, were interrogated.   They are said to have confessed 40 years guilt, whatever that means.  Now whether DeMolay or others confessed on that occasion or not, the king was emboldened to publish an accusation in which he called the Knights polluters of the error and devouring wolves.   A public meeting was called in the royal gardens and addressed by monks and representatives on the subject. Edward II was the son-in-law of the French elite and to him was a priest who invited the English monarch to act at once against the order in Britain.  Well, Edward almost at once wrote to say that the charges seem to him to be incredible.  But Pope Clement wrote on November 22 to London, assuring Edward that the master of the Temple had confessed of his own free will.  That knights on their admission to the order had denied Christ, others had admitted idolatry and other crimes, he therefore called upon the King of England to arrest all Templars within his domain and to place their lands and goods in custody until the guilt or innocence should be ascertained, he condemned them torture by the Dominican monks under the Inquisition until they confessed their guilt or were dead.   

Now notice the date folks, in November 22 in the year 1307, that a significant date in our history and has direct bearing as you will see many hours down the line.   

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Before the King of England received this missive he seems to have been sorely troubled by the allegations.  He wrote on November 26 to the senechal of Agen asking about the charges.    On the 4th December he wrote to the kings of Portugal, Castile, Aragon, and Sicily asking “what they had heard and adding that he had given no credit to it." He wrote to the pope himself on December 10 expressing disbelief of what the French King said and begging his Holiness to institute an inquiry.  Well folks, by December 15 when the papal bull arrived, Edward felt he must act upon it without question.   On December 26 he wrote to the pope that his orders would be obeyed but in the interim Edward had sent word to Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, that the Templars were all to be seized as in England but they were to be treated with kindness.   On October 19, less than a week after they had been arrested in France, 140 prisoners were being tortured by the Dominican, Imbert in the Paris Temple.   

Promises and the rack produced many confessions, 36 of the examinees died during these proceedings. Throughout France the racks worked overtime in the confessions poured forth, many good men were crippled for the rest of their life.   Many of these were contradictory and confused perhaps there is little wonder of that.  How many of you could resist even for five minutes with torturers of the medieval Inquisition?

The pope now seemed a little uneasy at the arbitrary methods which were being employed.   Philip wrote sharply to him saying that he the king was doing God's work and rendered accounts to God alone. He offered to turn over all the goods of the Templars to the service of the holy land.  Clement still a weakling merely stipulated that the inquisitions of each bishop should be confirmed by provincial Council, and the examination of the heads of the order should be reserved to himself.  Now we hear a constant succession of confessions and retractions, allegations that the heads of the order confessed completely and spontaneously to the pope himself.   

The pope himself for some unexplained reason folks tried to escape to Bordeaux but was stopped by the King.   Now he was the monarchs’ captive as well as his creation.   Detailed confessions of individual Templars have been kept on record many of them undoubtedly obtained by extreme racking and other tortures.   The Templars who were prepared to defend the order in court were brought to Paris to the number of 546.   Deprived of their knightly habits, and the sacraments of the church, they have no means to acquire defense counsel.   Their numbers rose to 900 and now they clamored for the presence of the Grand Master who was held elsewhere.   

An act of accusation in the name of the pope was drawn up and 75 Templars throughout the defense. The accusation that it now “at the time of their reception they were made to deny God, Christ, the Virgin etc., and in particular to declare that Christ was not the true God but a false prophet who had been crucified for his own crimes and not for the redemption of the world.  They spat and trampled upon the cross especially on Good Friday, they worshiped a cat which sometimes appeared in the chapters.  Their priest when celebrating mass did not pronounce the words of consecration.  They believed that their master to absolve them from their sins.   They were told that their reception that they might abandon themselves to all kinds of licentiousness.   They have idled in all their provinces, some with three faces, some with one.   They worshipped these idols in their chapters, believed that they could save them, and regarded them as the givers of wealth to the order and of the fertility to the earth.   They touched them with cords which they afterward tied around their own bodies underneath their robes (and that is still practiced today by Freemasons and by the Mormon Church.)   Those who at the time of their reception would not comply with these practices were put to death or imprisoned.   

The reply of the Templars denied every charge and stated that they had been subjected to every kind of illegality since their arrest.  54 of the Knights who volunteered to defend the order were committed to the flames having been declared relapsed heretics before the trials had even started.   And you will see this number 54 crop up later, and even in modern-day, and sometimes 54+1, the Grand Master who later was burned at the stake.   Four years to the day after the first arrests, the pope led convocation of 114 bishops to come to a final decision about the Templar order.   Well folks the prelates of Spain and England, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, and Scotland, called for the Templars to be allowed to defend themselves.  The pope reported by closing the session almost at once.  He would not hear of it.  Out of 1500 to 2000 Templars who were in hiding in the vicinity 9 knight came forward to testify for the order. The pope doubled his guards sent a message to the king to do the same as there was still danger from the Knights they were not heard.   Only one Italian prelate and three French ones voted to prevent the order from putting in its defense.   

Now Philip deciding that something should be done to hasten affairs sent off for Venice and the conference's arrival had an electric effect.   On his sole authority the pope almost immediately abolish the order of a secret consistory and this was on March 22 in the year 1313.

1313 plays a significant number later on but that was a famous address in New Orleans.   Some of you may remember.   On May 2 when the bull was published the order ceased officially to exist.   The Grand Master assumed, but not proved to be guilty, was sentenced to perpetual imprisonment.   Most of the other knights were released and many of these past their remaining days in poverty.

DeMolay, one of his chiefs, Guy of Auvergne, announced or proclaimed their innocence on the public stage to which they had been taken to have sentence announced.   The king upon hearing them recant their confession immediately had them committed to the flames.   And some say that while he was being burned at the stake that DeMolay cursed both the pope and the King of France stating that within a certain short period of time, he would meet them, he would meet them, in another life, in front of God who would judge them for their crimes.  And believe it or not folks, well within the period of time which was not very long, multiple and the King of France were dead and I'm sure joined Jacques DeMolay in front of God and got their final judgment. 

We are in no way finished with the story of the Knights Templar, but until tomorrow night good night, and God bless each and every one of you.

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William Cooper's Mystery Babylon: Part 31 – Tom Valentine: Ice, The Ultimate Disaster
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You're listening to the Hour of the Time, I'm William Cooper.

Good evening, folks. Tonight's episode is a rerun. Due to the great mass of bullshit poured out on Radio Freemasonry just prior to this program, we will expose this wolf in sheep's clothing in his own words. Tonight, we're going to play a portion of a program that originally aired on June the 23rd, 1993. If, after hearing tonight's program, you wish to order that original broadcast, it is tape number 123 in our catalog. That's tape number 123 in our catalog. We discussed this rerun a little bit last night, so you all know the subject. But you all need to hear it again, even those of you who heard it the first time that it was broadcast, and those of you, of course, who have never heard it and are struggling, attempting to understand the purpose of the Hour of the Time. We hope that this rebroadcast will bring some things into the forefront that have lurking into the shadows, and will make some of the conversation that you've heard on the Hour of the Time much clearer. We encourage you to order the original tape from the original broadcast on June 23rd, 1993, so that you may study its content in your home. Now, without further ado, we go into the rebroadcast of the Mystery exposé. At the end of this rerun, ladies and gentlemen, we will open the phones for your comments and questions.

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Now, folks, I'm going to take you into the mind of someone who has been an Initiate, an Adept, a Priest of the Mystery School for many, many years. I'm not going to identify this person until the end of the program. I want you to see if you can guess who this person is and what this is all about. If you can, then you'll know instantly what this program is for, the reason behind it, and you'll be to understand a little bit better how you've been manipulated for many, many years by the priests of the hidden religion called Mystery Babylon. And if you can't guess, then at the end of the show you're going to be told and you better be holding on to your chair, because it just might knock you right out. Just might knock you right out.

I'm going to quote from a book that this person wrote. This person, uh, verified something I wrote in my book, Behold a Pale Horse, and that is the calendar of the hidden religion of Mystery Babylon. It's 6000 years and it started in 4000 B.C. and ends in the year 2000. “The Great Pyramid system of passages and chambers is a chronological graph that begins in 4000 B.C. and continues for 6000 years.” Now, let's go to an interview that was conducted with this person by someone else, not by me. But I'm going to be reading to you, word for word, this entire interview and this is going to take up most of the program. But this is going to give you a glimpse into the personality, the religious beliefs of the priests of the Mystery Religion, and you'll see sort of how they try to disguise what they really believe behind this aura of wanting to further the evolution of mankind and create some kind of a world Utopia, which they know in their heart is a lie to begin with. So, I'm going to call these Number 1 and Number 2. Number 1 is the interviewer, Number 2 is the interviewee.

Number 1: How did you become interested in the Great Pyramid?

Number 2: Well, like everyone else, for most of my life I accepted the idea that the Great Pyramid was just a great big pile of stones made by thousands and thousands of slaves. But I read a book in 1967, called The Ultimate Frontier. That book profoundly affected my life. In it, they made statements about the Great Pyramid being much more than a tomb. Point in fact, it never was a tomb for a Pharaoh. It is a monument to mankind and human perfection. It is the oldest artifact of an ancient system of religious belief. Then I thought, “That's something I could check out. I could see if the information in The Ultimate Frontier is true or not.” I started investigating. I then learned a great number of things about the Great Pyramid. First of all, the ancient Greeks were quite right in calling it, “The First Wonder of the World.” When one considers the thought, preparation and choice of site, one will see that the solid bedrock of the Giza plateau, the only [table land] within miles capable of supporting the weight of the structure, was the most intelligent choice. There is a fantastic amount of literature about the Great Pyramid, therefore it is not unusual that we also find a great deal of controversy surrounding it. The British in the 1860s were the first to study the ancient building in a serious manner. By re-examining the theories of the British, which were discarded by the experts of that time, the crux of my book began to take shape.

Number 1: Does the crux of your book include the fact that the Great Pyramid may not have been built by the ancient Egyptians?

Number 2: Yes. The British did not discuss that possibility. That possibility is my own bit of research. However, most people who study the Great Pyramid realize that the civilization we know as ancient Egyptian could not have built the Great Pyramid the way we know today. It would have had to have been built. You see, the building is built geometrically perfect, and according to our present conception of ancient history, the Egyptians didn't understand highly theoretical mathematics. Obviously, from the way the other eighty-nine major pyramids in Egypt were constructed, the manner in which the other pyramids were constructed was a very haphazard way of building. They are copies of the Great Pyramid. The Great Pyramid itself is, however, absolute perfection in stone, both to the Pi relationship, the relationship of a diameter to the circumference of a circle and the Golden Mean, or Pi relationship, with which we can divide a straight line so that a² + b² = c². The reason why it was structured is embodied in the word itself: pyramid, which mean “lights and measures,” that there are revelation types of lights. The word “pyramid” used by the ancient Egyptians was “glorious light,” and the word has meaning that there are revelations in the measurements. If you pursue this hint, so to speak, you find out that the builders of the Great Pyramid are the same people that wrote the original text of the Old Testament, and they laid out their plan in the Great Pyramid, as well as in the Scriptures.

[William Cooper]: I hope, folks, you understand the significance of that one statement, and there's much, much more to come.

Number 1: Who are these people?

Number 2: My opinion is they were what we call Hexos, or Hyksos, and we find traces of them throughout Mesoamerica, India and the Middle East in the earliest of times. The Egyptians had two or three different ways of Hyksos rulers come in. The word “Hyksos” for many years was translated, “Shepherd Kings.” Which is a paradox, you see, looking at life the way he look at it today. How can a group who were non-warlike come into a land and take over and run things without any fighting? Yet they obviously did, and these ancient builders had a profound influence wherever they went. The years of research I have done tell me that the Hyksos were a group of people who had in their culture information stemming from a previous civilization. I think that our view of history, saying that it started in the cradle of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia is wrong. The surviving evidence indicates both Egypt and Mesopotamia are actually later civilizations, remnants of a far, far greater early empire.

[William Cooper]: And here, folks, we see in this person's philosophy the same philosophy that Hitler pursued. The myth of ancient Atlantis, or Mu, if you will. An ancient civilization which, when it was destroyed, left behind a remnant, a surviving element of that race which is a super-race: more intelligent, smarter, more worthy than any other race on this earth. If you will, the master race. And if you understand the esoteric meaning of what you're hearing, you are hearing Nazi philosophy, national socialism, Hitler's vision of world history. And when you find out who this person is and what he's doing now, it will all come together. We continue:

Number 1: Do you think the Hyksos race was a race chosen by some greater intelligence to impart a superior ideology to the rest of the human race?

Number 2: Not so much chose, but actually chose themselves. All geniuses self-appointed [sic]. I would say these people were a remnant from a previous culture and they had something they wanted to do, and they embodied their thinking in their work and the influence to people by their works.

[William Cooper]: Folks, that's the Luciferian philosophy. Continuing:

Number 2: They came into the land and there were already humans in the Nile valley. But they came into the land in an unobtrusive and dexterous maneuver, so as not to alarm the existing culture. They came in without fighting. They took the worst land. They didn't try to impress their knowledge on the others. They just did things in a better way. Soon the people in that area were paying attention to them. Once they gained the attention of the people, it didn't take very long before they were running everything, because they did everything with better methodology, which is the way life ought to be. You ought to show by example.

Number 1: What happens then?

Number 2: Fairly soon after arriving, they suggested to the people that, as life was now so peaceful and harmonious, it would be a happy challenge to build a monument to the future, to the future of mankind. In my opinion, the Hyksos philosophy, and the philosophy of many modern people is identical, in that human beings CAN BE PERFECT IF THEY WORK TOWARD THAT END [emphasis added by Mr. Cooper] ...

[William Cooper]: … and that is the heart and soul philosophy of Mystery Babylon, the Mystery Schools. That man, himself, will become God. Wait until you find out who this is.

Number 1: What happened to the ancient tribe, the Hyksos?

Number 2: I think they are still in existence today and have not died out, but have gone underground many thousands of years ago. What we call Masonry, Freemasonry is an offshoot of the group that started out. The Hyksos group became what The Ultimate Frontier calls, “The Brotherhoods.” These are a group of people who have knowledge about what it really means to be human.

[William Cooper]: And folks, that implies that the rest of us are not, and that also is in direct line and in direct concert with the philosophy of the Mystery Religion of Babylon. You see, to them we are all cattle, animals. We have no intelligence. Continuing:

Number 2: These are a people who have knowledge about what it really means to be human, to be a human becoming. To grow toward human perfection. It's a philosophical thing. These people still exist. They still band together in groups here and there, and they show by doing. Again, their lifestyle shows that they really have a handle on life is all about. They don't try to impress others with numbers, or with what they know. They just live doing something. They want to accomplish while they are here. We know in Egypt these people have formed secret societies and that Pharaoh Akhenaten came up “under the rose.” Out of one of these secret societies and took over the land of Egypt in a manner that forbids disclosure at a time in which the superficial popular theology left a want unsatisfied, which religion in a wider sense alone could supply.

[William Cooper]: And there, he has admitted that he knows, he knows the esoteric teachings of the Mystery Schools, their origin and their purpose, and if you've been listening from the beginning, now you know that this person is a priest of the Mystery Religion, himself. Continuing:

Number 2: We know Alexander the Great wanted to get the knowledge of one of these ancient secret societies because he writes about it a great deal. Pythagoras consented to be circumcised in order to become of the Initiates of these secret societies, which are the Hyksos population carrying their knowledge of science and the universe and cosmology with them, and keeping the truth secret so they wouldn't be persecuted and wiped out. You can imagine what society today would do to a group of people like this were they to perform certain ancient rituals in public. Look what they did to Akhenaten. As soon as he was dead, they destroyed the city he built.

Number 1: That's right, they tried to...

Number 2: Wipe out his name.

Number 1: Yes, because he taught there was only one God.

Number 2: The human tendency in the mass populace...

Number 1: When you use the term “mass populace,” are you referring to a group of people who have become undeveloped on account of a too pleasant or a too severe climate, or even from physiological or psychological causes?

Number 2: The phrase “mass populace” was a term used by the ancient ones, which usually refers to those in a populace, any populace in any country who sit back waiting for some savior to raise them up out of their misery.

[William Cooper]: Recognize the venom directed at Christianity, folks?

Number 1: Then you are referring to people who are merely living a conditioned response to their environment?

Number 2: Yes, the human tendency in the mass populace is to tear things down, rather than reach up to the excellent, which brings everything down to mediocrity. We're doing that in this country today with our so-called “standards” from the federal government. Everything's got to be brought down. This is just another social indication of this tendency in human beings to bring things down to a lower level, so it's easier instead of striving for excellence. The Hyksos people went after pleasing results who worked hard in this manner. They strove for excellence and, therefore, they had to go underground to keep from being persecuted. In almost every case that we can trace, anyone that tried to bring the truth to man has been crucified or killed in some cruel or barbarous human ritual.

[William Cooper]: And folks, for many years, that was exactly true. But this is not the true intent of these people, for if you also go back through history, you'll find that these are the people who have been behind every religious war, have been behind every revolution, have been behind, and at literally are, the heart and soul of Socialism and Communism. And everywhere they go, death follows, and a stench.

Number 1: Do you how the Great Pyramid was constructed?

Number 2: I leave that puzzle to the engineers, architects and professors of physics who have researched and studied the building. No one at the present really knows. There are several suppositions, but since no one really knows, that mystery remains to be answered in the next twenty-four years, and since no one really knows, in my opinion, there's no such thing as an expert.

Number 1: In that case, how do you believe the Great Pyramid may have been constructed?

Number 2: My information from people who seem very knowledgeable says that they built in with water blocks and floated the blocks into place. That's pretty hard to conceive of because they would have had to have been tremendous blocks. Because the Great Pyramid is up on a plateau at least six miles from the banks of the Nile river. Water with a series of basins and pipes that match the corridor and the chamber system of the Great Pyramid's interior system embodies all the laws of hydraulic engineering. For example, the Great Pyramid's grand gallery is a perfect vacuum bottle, and this pumping system, which I explain in my book as I explore the research work of Edward J. Kunkel, author of the book, Pharaoh's Pump.

[William Cooper]: Well, folks, it's time to take our break. Don't go away. We'll be right back and continue with this revelation after this very short pause.

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[William Cooper]: And we continue, folks:

Number 1: If this tribe of people,  the Hyksos, caused the Great Pyramid to be constructed, did they know their message wouldn't be understood for thousands of years, or did they think that humans would grasp its meaning a little before that?

Number 2: I think it's quite apparent that they knew it would be grasped in the 20th century. I think that they laid it out so the core of their meaning would be picked up by those who really have the mathematical knowhow. It wasn't until 1905 that we had the real understanding of gravitational astronomy, the astronomy involving the solar system and the movement of the Earth around the Sun, down so pat that we had all the answers the builders of the Great Pyramid had. They knew as much, or more, about today's system of gravitational astronomy as we know.

Number 1: Do you think this falls in line with a number of other theories that humans were at one time visited by supremely intelligent beings from other worlds?

Number 2: I don't accept that thesis. However, I believe that there is life probably on every little planetoid in the entire universe, life that is similar to ours, having a spiritual nature but somewhat different in physical nature. No other beings from outer space ever came down here and cohabited with the apes, as Mr. [Erich] Von Danagan say. I would reject that thesis but, on the other hand, I would say we are indeed created by another intelligence far greater than this planet or even the solar system. You know, it's a funny thing. I was once an atheist. I went through most of my college days as an atheist. I went through most of my college days as an anthropologist and didn't believe in a created theory at all. But after studying for many years, I was forced to accept the fact that I had obviously had been created, because it just didn't happen by chance. There's no way, I would say, that this theory that something in outer space came down and interfered is quite accurate in that respect. We are in the image of a Creator of some kind that we can't even conceive. Therefore, we have the ability to all kinds of fantastic things. I think there was a civilization 50,000 years ago in the Pacific now underwater that had in it achievements that we only think of today.

Number 1: OK, just a minute, let me backtrack here. At the beginning of the interview, you mentioned that you began your investigation of the Great Pyramid after you read The Ultimate Frontier. What's it all about?

Number 2: Oh, that's a big topic! The Ultimate Frontier ties together a history of this planet, the idea and purpose for mankind being a part of it, and a philosophy of growth towards human perfection, and how this philosophy is what life is really all about. The truth of this was lost when the great civilization on the Pacific continent of Mu was destroyed by a sudden cataclysmic change on the crust of the earth 50,000 years ago. There are a group of individuals who call themselves, “The Brotherhoods,” unobtrusively working to uplift mankind back to this ancient wisdom belief, and the Great Pyramid is indeed a monument to this particular brotherhood.

Number 1: Perhaps the truth is never lost. Perhaps as we evolve towards a true understanding of essentials, we suddenly find ourselves faced with a question where we discover we have really understood nothing at all, and consequently we have to begin learning all over again on a new and higher level. Perhaps the memory of the destruction of Mu and other catastrophic events is contained in the collective unconsciousness of man. Perhaps some humans, direct genetic descendants of the survivors of these cataclysmic events, carry in their bloodline a genetic mutation.

[William Cooper]: Let me read that portion again, folks: “Perhaps some humans, direct genetic descendants of the survivors of these cataclysmic events, carry in their bloodline a genetic mutation.”

Number 1: Perhaps this genetic mutation was deeply imprinted into the central nervous system of some of our forbearers who actually experienced and survived a sudden slippage in the Earth's tectonic plates or a supernova explosion. Such a genetic mutation, passed in genetic structures or DNA from generation to generation, may explain why some of us today are more acutely sensitive to subtle Earth tremors than our neighbors. In any case, this book, The Ultimate Frontier, started your mental processes working along these lines.

Number 2: Ah, they were already working along this line, just like many peoples are without knowing about it. I had started into an investigation the phenomena of mysticism on my own, because of my religious convictions couldn't answer my questions. Going to different churches and checking them out, I found, didn't answer my questions as to why I am. I've always wanted to know why. The human physiology is a remarkable thing. Why should it be? Why should we be different than the animals? Why should we have these philosophies when no other animals has philosophies? I studied many of the standard religions, but they couldn't answer my question to my satisfaction. I didn't like the idea of blind faith. I didn't like the idea of blind faith. [sic] To me, blind faith is irresponsible and unreasonable. Then I got into science and became an atheist. I was working on a Master's degree in Anthropology and found that, just like the churches, the information from the scientific side fell short. They can't answer all the questions. In fact, the more we learn, the more anomalies we have, and we realize how little we know. Then my son who, at the time was four-and-a-half years old, nearly drowned. In fact, he did drown. He was full of saltwater and unconscious for forty-five minutes. He should by all rights have died. The year was 1960. I was eating at a restaurant on the beach when I saw him floating face down in the water. I ran across the beach, jumped into the water, handed him to my brother who handing him to a strange old man who appeared to be a derelict. When this old man pumped out the water, I was in shock. One, of my son who in the next forty-five minutes [sic]. He refused to give my son to the ambulance crew, and the doctor who had arrived had pronounced him dead. The old man looked into my eyes and said, “This boy isn't dead. I'm going to bring him back.” I told the doctor, “Let him keep trying,” and the old man kept working. Forty-five minutes is a long period of time to remain unconscious without breathing. However, my son not only recovered without brain damage from that episode, but he told us in the hospital  exactly all the events that took place, from me running out of that restaurant, jumping across the breakwater, diving into the water and getting him, handing him up to my brother. He recalled all of this as if he had been watching it as a spectator, and yet he was unconscious. I mean, he wasn't Gene Dixon or anything. That personal experience is positive proof in my mind that the human mind is a lot greater than that body.

Number 1: Did it reinforce a previous belief, or did it really serve to allow you to see for the first time that there are other realities?

Number 2: It made me re-look at some of my own experiences. It made me stop and think about a lot of things. For instance, the first thing it made me think of was when I was studying anthropology. I was studying the theory of evolution, chance evolution, chemistry just providing a scenario for self to keep creating and surviving and improving and so on. If we accept evolution as the ultimate answer, we have to accept a ludicrous notion that atoms, all matter is made up of the atomic elements can so arrange themselves as to be able to give themselves abstract qualities, such as memory, desire, will, curiosity, consciousness, conscience, creativity, intuition, emotion and reason. How can you get that chemically? You can't. It has to be something else that is endowed that man is the only one that has it. A goat doesn't see the stars or know what's over the mountain, or know anything about life and death, you see, but we do. These ideas were in my head and, intuitively, I knew much more. But when that happened to my son, I realized that I too am a discrete bundle of mental energy. Only I didn't have that phraseology for it. I didn't know about what life was all about as I feel I do now.

Number 1: Were you able to determine the capability of the human being to deal with all these diverse areas of knowledge?

Number 2: Certainly, I am doing it, and I am nothing extraordinary. I am dealing with all of these areas of knowledge in a relaxed and causal way. And I feel that I am growing. I am not impatient about my growth because I know that someday, if I continue to try to improve myself, if I continue to use those qualities of mind that I have, then I will become as perfect as humanely possible. Now, according to our basic beliefs in this country, human beings are created in the image of their Creator. To me, that means we have the same qualities of mind. We're certainly not the physical image, but the mental image. We have will, memory, desire, curiosity, consciousness, creativity, conscience. I have gone through those before. Intuition, emotion, reason...those ten qualities of mind are the same qualities as the Creator has. Perhaps we can never become absolute perfection as the Creator, whatever it is must have been. I cannot conceive of the creative force, not enough to verbalize it, that makes sense to everyone, but I think we can attain relative perfection and become one with the Creator by improving ourselves based upon what we have to work with. There's no limit to human abilities, to what humans can do. We limit ourselves by our own conditioning. 

Number 1: Do you think that most people are really trying to find out about all these things?

Number 2: Many humans are. I would say there are millions of people who have an inner urging towards something better, especially in this day and age, because now there are more of them here. Out of the great majority, roughly 220 million people today in the United States, only about 2 or 3 million are really interested in what makes them tick. What is involved in life, the purpose of it all and in really growing and building on their character. The other 200 and something million are merely living a conditioned response from their environment, and they don't think about it at all. Look, here we are in the city of Atlanta, a huge city. Look at the people walking back and forth. They're positive in many ways, and yet they never really give any thought as to why they are. Why they're capable of building these tremendous buildings and driving those tremendous vehicles they drive, and-

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[*Note: Assuming this is 'Number 1']: Catholicism has been losing quite a few members because those members say that their religion is not in tune with the times, and this is the case in many other religious bodies. Do you believe that formal religion is just not keeping in tune with the times, or has it ever been in tune with them?

Number 2: Oh, considerably in tune. Essentially, it's this: the church for the last 2000 years has done a remarkable job with what it's had to work with. Remember, they're dealing with part of the truth. Part of the truth. I've just finished this week a new book, called The Life and Death of Planet Earth. Now, what it points out is that the absolute truth is what we're all trying to find out, and we prove this subjectively. As we know it, that nobody can change our minds, because we know it just like I know that fire burns my fingers because I've stuck them in there. You can tell me all you want, but I won't believe it until I do it. Knowledge is what we're seeking. The churches started off with a paradigm, a framework of understanding, and they had to work within that framework, and their framework was quite narrow. Then Jesus came along and broadened it tremendously. He resurrected the ideas of love and brotherhood, and working, you too can do as I do. He was showing by his lifestyle that you can be perfect. You can know yourself, you can know your Creator, you can know what it's all about. All you have to do is get off the dime and stop being so lazy and pay attention. That's what he was saying. Human beings have a tendency to want to put frameworks around things so they can be comfortable with them. So the early church put a framework around the truth. Theologians have translated and interpreted what has been said by all the great teachers until it's been quite distorted. However, even with all of the translations and misinterpretations of what was really said in the ancient times, they've done a remarkable job. They've done some bad things as well as good things in the eye of history, but the information is here. All you have to do is want it and dig for it. I found it. I found it for myself. There's more than one path. The reason I follow the path of the Great Pyramid is because I'm in doubt or a skeptic and there is something made of stone, the world's largest stone structure. It can be checked and re-checked, and measured and re-measured. It's been around for a very, very long time and there's no doubt it's there. However, in the metaphysical idea, somebody going into a trance and some voice talking through him telling me he's Jesus, that doesn't prove anything to me. It could be, but I could never prove it. I can prove that the Great Pyramid does and that turned me on. There are answers to everyone's questions. We each have progressed, you see. I accept we have lived many thousands of lifetimes.

[William Cooper]: Let me repeat that: “I accept we have lived many thousands of lifetimes.”

Number 2: People say, “Oh, reincarnation, I can't believe that.” Well, they probably didn't believe it in their last lifetime either. I probably didn't either. However, each time we live a life, we learn something more towards this perfection, this perfection. We're supposed to be growing until, finally, we reach a point where we choose our incarnation with such great care, that we incarnate [to two very sharp parents] at which point we grow with a tremendous rate of speed. That's the purpose of it all. Civilization's purpose is to provide the playground, the background, the environment that enhances soul growth, character growth. An environment which enhances the ability of humans to practice the virtues. By practicing these virtues, love, brotherhood and working, you too can do as I do, which are part of Universal Law. What you put out comes back to you. Karma. You set an example for others by practicing patience, tolerance, forbearance, kindness and charity. In your everyday life, you grow. By your example, you set off a multitude of self-sustaining series of events, a chain reaction which strengthens the truth. I found this for myself. This is the message in all of the esoteric teachings in all seven of the great religions. I think the key, the key thing that the present human civilization is missing is that the idea has been lost, that we're all responsible. Individual responsibility has been lost. We want some wizard to come along and do it for us. We want the preacher on Sunday to save us from our sins. We want the man in the confessional booth to cleanse us. We don't want to do it for ourselves. Well, there are no wizards. Every single ego, every single created individual or discreet bundle of mental energy must do it for himself. This is part of the message of the Great Pyramid, and as soon as humans realize this and take responsibility for their actions, the problems of the planet Earth will be diminished a thousand fold.

Number 1: I found it most fascinating the fact you mentioned a moment ago that the individual ego has a hand in the choice of his or her own incarnated person.

Number 2: This is esoteric information. I use the term “esoteric information.” Esoteric, meaning “inside”. Inside information, and it's only information that has been given to me. I've not proven it yet. Even if I did prove it, it will still be only information to you. So, the difference between information and knowledge is clear. We need to make that clear. Now, my information is that each of us chooses our parents, and our station, and our situation. Even our race.

[William Cooper]: Listen to this, folks, listen to this crap! Beginning again:

Number 2: One of the individuals that I have been told about in this esoteric information was George Washington Carver, who deliberately incarnated into a race that was downtrodden, to work on the idea of bringing them up. He was an ego of tremendous advancement, and when he did incarnate into that environment, which was a terrible environment, I understand he may have lost a few points, because he became embittered near the end. Had he remained without bitterness, he would have gained. This is the story I have. We all take a chance incarnating into a civilization that can drag us down, because when you get inside of a physical body, you become the subject of the nuisances of that animal body, and the conditioning and the responses, and it's up to you, with those ten qualities of mind, to overcome those. That's why being well-disciplined is vitally important and permissiveness is not wise.

[William Cooper]: Well, folks, there's no way I'm a be able [sic] to read to you all of this interview because it's just too long. So, I'm going to pick out some pertinent, uh, points. This is Number 2 talking, uh, and this is an excerpt from a paragraph: “However, don't permit it, don't say laziness is good for everybody because you won't get uptight if you're lazy. We have so many errors on the idea of human potential and what to do with it. I believe in being well-disciplined, but not cruelly. I believe in responsibility in the organization I belong to: The Stelle Group.”

The Stelle Group. The group in which Lars Hansen was reared. Now I want to quote to you from a book, called The New World Order by A. Ralph Epperson, which you can order from Publius Press in Tucson, Arizona. On page 67 in The New World Order, Mr. A Ralph Epperson has a direct quote from Eklal Kueshana. He was the leader of the Stelle Group. Mr. Texe Marrs also has the same quote in one or two of his books, but I'm taking this from The New World Order by A Ralph Epperson: “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 a spiritual advancement.” That is the teachings of the leader of the Stelle Group, the group that this man belongs to. So folks, pay attention. This again is Number 2 speaking:

Number 2: “This is a part of the message a band of men at the dawning of the Age of Taurus, a more civilized age embodied in the Great Pyramid's mathematical code, to transmit to a generation of humans living in the Age of Aquarius, something they felt was vitally important. The Age of Aquarius began 23 August 1953, and this is a New Age idea, the idea that we can perceive and try to improve. Of course, there's still a larger majority of humans, even in the Age of Aquarius, that want to drag people down and lower the standards. However, every single ego, every single human has the capabilities of bringing himself up to the equal of his Creator. It's just a matter of effort and patience and practicing the virtues.”

Number 1: As Jesus stood between the two columns, Jachin and Boaz, on the outer porch of King Solomon's temple, John 10, verse 23, on 25th December, the celebration of the winter solstice (William Cooper: which is what that date is really for), a large majority of the people did not understand him when he said, “Ye are gods.” John 10, verse 34. “Some people in the crowd took up stones to kill him as the moneychanger in the temple cocked his head away from his table to see what some in the crowd were yelling about. He heard Jesus say, 'Is it not written in your law, “I said, 'Ye are gods?'”' As he saw a lawgiver of the temple sit bolt upright to listen to this man speaking to the crowd. The moneychanger wondered why such an important lawgiver of the temple sat up to listen, as rigid as a rod of iron, remembering the law and his responsibility. As the lawgiver remembered Psalm 82:6, he remembered a song of Asa, in which God said, “Ye are gods.” The man speaking to the crowd said, “The Father is in me, and I in Him,” and what he meant could not have been other than what he said. As the crowd screamed, “Blasphemy,” and moved forward to kill Jesus, he simply disappeared. So when you say humans have the capability to bring themselves up to the equal of their Creator, it would seem to me that this New Age idea is, in reality, a very, very ancient idea. However, you did say that that this is part of the message of the Great Pyramid. But what about these ancient brotherhoods, these people who are responsible for all these secret type of teaching, which seems to be such a mystical type of notion. Are they still around today?

Number 2: I think so, very much. In fact, I can say I know it. You can say it's “information” now. The brothers are those individuals who have obtained a degree in advancement over other humans.

[William Cooper]: This, also, is Number 2:

Number 2: If you meet a brother and you get him alone, and you say, “I've noticed about you certain things and want to ask you if you are familiar with the Rosicrucians or the Masons or the Stelle Group or the book, The Ultimate Frontier, or some of these metaphysical philosophies, you, when you ask, are allowing him to interfere in your environment. This is the teacher appearing when the student is ready. But unless you ask, the brothers won't help.

[William Cooper]: And here's the crux, folks.

Number 2: Yes, the fifth level of intelligence is responsible for the direct work with the planet, and they can make mistakes. The story of Lucifer and Jehovah is a tale of the mistake made by the angelic intelligence. The argument between the angelic forces on the fifth level of existence is that Jehovah, according to my philosophy, believed that humans could advance with a perfect environment. So, at first, humans were given the Edenic state. All they had to do was eat bananas, sleep, chase the girls, make love, swim, sun and sleep. But they didn't grow in that Edenic state. They were lazy. All they wanted to do was eat, drink, make love and sleep some more. They didn't want to grow. So Lucifer said, “We should help mankind grow. And you know the rules; we can't go down and do it for them, so we'll give them problems to overcome.” And zap! Like the thunderbolt of Zeus, Eden was gone, and we now have winters in Chicago, and man has to overcome.

[William Cooper]: Now, folks, I don't care if this man worships Lucifer. I don't care if he believes what he believes or belongs to the Mystery Schools. You all know me, I believe in the Constitution, and that we all have a right. But when he deceives and manipulates all of us, and when on June 8th, 1993 on Radio Free America, he said to the world that I am a CIA disinformation agent, then it's time that you knew who this man really is. I want you to track down and read these books that he wrote:

The Great Pyramid: Man's Monument to Man, New York, Pinnacle Books, 1975.
The Life and Death of Planet Earth, New York, Pinnacle Books, 1977.
Psychic Surgery, 1973 (reprint edition), Chicago, Pocket Books, 1975.

The entire text of the interview you heard tonight can be found in a book called 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster, by Richard W. Noone, spelled N-O-O-N-E, and he was the interviewer, Number 1.

Folks, research the history of Willis Carto. Research the history of the Liberty Lobby, and specifically Radio Free America. Tom Valentine has been a member of the Stelle Group for most of his life. He has also been closely connected to the Communist party by his own admission. Wake up! The members, the high priests of the Mystery Schools are enacting Ordo Ab Chaos [sic], create enough chaos and then they can step up and take control and establish order, The New World Order. Now you know why, on Radio Free America, Tom Valentine gets so angry when someone questions Freemasonry. Now you know why he covers for the secret societies and for Freemasonry, and now you why he's attacked me, because I am the enemy of Mystery Babylon.

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And there you have it, folks. And yes, there you do have it, ladies and gentlemen. I want to read to you a letter that I received today. Talk about synchronicity! From my good friend in Tucson, Arizona, A. Ralph Epperson. He says, and I quote, “You might enjoy letting your listeners know about a quote I just found in a book, entitled Legenda of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, written by Albert Pike. This book was written by Mr. Pike in 1888, three years before he died, and was published by the 33rd degree Council when they were in Charleston, South Carolina. This quote should settle the question once and for all as to who the god is that the Masons worship in their lodges. Here, in Tucson, one of their lodges is called a “cathedral”, and another is called a “temple”, two words describing places of worship. This quote will prove concretely that the god they worship is not the God of the Bible. I have been looking for this book by Pike for many years, and presumed that it was out-of-print because I couldn't locate a copy. However, I knew it was not forgotten, because Rex Hutchins, then a 32nd degree Mason, but who later became a 33rd degree Mason, quoted from it in his Masonic book, entitled A Bridge to Light. So I considered it fortunate when I found that a publisher of out-of-print and rare books called Kessinger Publishing Company in Kila, Montana had reprinted it. It is their claim that Legenda is a series of monographs intended to supplement the ritualistic instruction of the book written by Mr. Pike, called Morals and Dogma. As you know, the first ten words of the Bible are found in Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1 and are, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” That means that, in the time before there was something, there had to be nothing. So, God created something out of nothing when he created the universe, or there would not have been a need for a beginning. But Mr. Pike does not agree. This is what he says on page 109 of Legenda in his explanation of the 28th degree, “Nothing is produced from nothing, because existence can no more cease to be than nothing can cease not to be. To say that the world came forth from nothing is to propose a monstrous absurdity. Everything that Is [sic], proceeds from that which was, and consequently nothing of that which Is [sic] can ever not be.” The letter “I” in the word “is” was capitalized by Mr. Pike. It is customary to capitalize the first letter in the name of a deity, or a noun that refers to a deity. Does this mean that he is making a deity out of matter?”

Well, folks, Lucifer is the god of the material world, so Mr. Pike says that those of us who believe in a God who created the universe out of nothing believe in a “monstrous absurdity.” The Christians and the Jews who believe in the God of the Old and New Testaments believe in a “monstrous absurdity” when they profess that their God made the universe out of nothing. Let there be no doubt: Pike told his readers that he and the Masons do not worship the Creator, God. They worship a secret and concealed god in their cathedrals and temples, who cannot create anything. In fact, Mr. Pike agreed with that statement. He wrote this about their “sun god” on pages 253 and 254 of Morals and Dogma. I might remind you that Radio Free America is carried by the Sun Radio Network. “Ammon, at first, the god of lower Egypt, was the sun god. He created nothing.” And to show that this is true, he repeated the idea on page 281, “The supreme being of the Egyptians was Ammon, a secret and concealed god, the original light. He creates nothing.” Yet he calls this god the “supreme being”. If the universe had two gods, one who created everything from nothing and one who created nothing, I would presume the first god who made everything, including the second god, would be superior to the second god, who created nothing. So the only way you can resolve this problem if you believe in this second god who created nothing is to claim that there's no Creator, God. Then your god can then be become the supreme being, and that is what Mr. Pike did. Make no mistake about it, the Masons do not worship the Creator, God, the God who made the world out of nothing, and that is why they have chosen to call their god, “The Great Architect of the Universe,” and that is why the Brotherhood in the ancient times was called, “The Builders” and today are called, “Freemasons,” or “franc-maçon” in the French. It is known that architects do not draw plans to create a structure out of nothing. They design structures that must be built from existing materials, or, if you will, out of materials that must be changed from one form to another before they can be integrated into a structure. The Masons worship some other being, one that they know can create nothing, and that includes the Stelle Group. That includes the Ancient Order of the Rose and Cross, the Knights Templars, the sovereign and military Order of the Knights of Malta and all of the rest of these skunks. The number one Mason of all time has said, ladies and gentlemen, in his own writings. I have never claimed that Tom Valentine was a Freemason; I have only claimed what you have heard in this broadcast tonight, and I am sick of his stinking lies, and I am sick and tired of you stupid sheeple out there who cannot study or listen or repeat exactly what you hear, but have to make up some strange tale in order to cover your pathetic ignorance. Ladies and gentleman, I do not attack people, I reveal them. I wish nobody ill will. I don't care what alter anyone worships upon. You are listening to a true Constitutionalist who believes 100% in our right to protect us, the religion of our choice. I would fight for any one of you if that right were threatened to be taken away. Where I draw the line is when you lie, when you deceive and when you manipulate the rest of us to pit us against each other so that you could bring about your silly, stupid Utopia. Your dream of a thousand years of peace on this earth. You will never do it because you are mankind, just like me and everyone else, who you claim are nothing but cattle. And because you are man, just like me and everyone else, you suffer for the same inherent failings that I, and everybody else who lives upon this earth, suffers [sic] from. You have the same temptations and the same greed and you fight every day against these things. And to say that you, you are the only truly mature minds in this world, and that you are going to control the rest of us because we do not have the capability or the power to think for ourselves is not only ludicrous, but is what eventually will bring you to your knees as we round you up and throw you in the jails and the prisons where you belong, and stop your wrecking of all the good than man has built upon the face of this earth. Don't pervert my words, because I'm the only one you'll ever hear on the radio who uses fact, who uses [their own] words of the people that I talk about, and I have no ulterior motive of trying to hurt anyone. The only reason for this broadcast and for me sitting here, ladies and gentlemen, is to wake the sheeple, empower the people and try like hell to save freedom, for not only for this country but for the entire world.

Now, if you cannot understand what you heard tonight, then you are one of the most stupid ones out there. Those of you who are sheeple, who think you understood but aren't quite sure, but you believe that you are getting some meaning in what you heard tonight, you have a chance. And, of course, the rest of you, the people who have listened to the over thirty-two hours of the Mystery series that we've aired on this program, you already know the truth, and you are the hope for the future in this nation. Ladies and gentlemen, I have said it before and I'll say it again: these people practice the Hegelian conflict, political resolution [sic], and they control both sides of each conflict. Tom Valentine never said a word on his program about Freemasonry until I forced him to by my broadcast, and if you don't believe that, you go back and listen to all the tapes. Remember, a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table, by choice and consent.

Shortly after I originally ran this program, Tom Valentine came on with the master of the Stelle Group and claimed that he became a Christian in 1968 and left the Stelle Group forever. And that is a lie, because in the interview that you just heard, he claimed that he was loyal to the group to which he belonged, the Stelle Group. That interview was conducted in 1976, and that book was published in 1982. I've said it before, I will say it again: Tom Valentine, you are a liar and if you are not, sue me. We'll let a court of law determine it. I have all the evidence I need, mister.

All of you out there listening, good night, and whether you believe it or not, I mean this from my heart: God bless you all.

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wakingup72 is a glutton for punishment, he is doing yet another one!  13 - The Skull and Bones

[Viper]

The Assassins

Two men in the year 1092 stood on the ramparts of a medieval castle - the Eagle's Nest - perched high upon the crags of the Persian mountains: the personal representative of the Emperor and the veiled figure who claimed to be the incarnation of God on earth. Hasan, son of Sabah, Sheikh of the Mountains and leader of the Assassins, spoke: "You see that devotee standing guard on yonder turret-top? Watch!"

He made a signal. Instantly the white-robed figure threw up his hands in salutation, and cast himself two thousand feet into the foaming torrent which surrounded the fortress.

"I have seventy thousand men - and women - throughout Asia, each one of them ready to do my bidding. Can your master, Malik Shah, say the same? And he asks me to surrender to his sovereignty! This is your answer. Go!"

Such a scene may be worthy of the most exaggerated of horror films. And yet it took place in historical fact. The only quibble made by the chronicler of the time was that Hasan's devotees numbered "only about forty thousand." How this man Sabah came by his uncanny power, and how his devotees struck terror into the hearts of men from the Caspian to Egypt, is one of the most extraordinary of all tales of secret societies. Today, the sect of the Hashishin (druggers) still exists in the form of the Ismailis (Ishmaelites), whose undisputed chief, endowed by them with divine attributes, is the Aga Khan.

Like many another secret cult, the Assassin organization was based upon an earlier association. In order to understand how they worked and what their objectives were, we must begin with these roots.

It must be remembered that the followers of Islam in the seventh century A.D. split into two divisions: the orthodox, who regard Mohammed as the bringer of divine inspiration; and the Shiahs, who consider that Ali, his successor, the Fourth Imam (leader), was more important. It is with the Shiahs that we are concerned here.

From the beginning of the split in the early days of Islam, the Shiahs relied for survival upon secrecy, organization and initiation. Although the minority party in Islam, they believed that they could overcome the majority (and eventually the whole world) by superior organization and power. To this end they started a number of societies which practised secret rites in which the personality of Ali was worshipped, and whose rank and file were trained to struggle above all for the accomplishment of world dominion.

One of the most successful secret societies which the Shiahs founded was centred around the Abode of Learning in Cairo, which was the training-ground for fanatics who were conditioned by the most cunning methods to believe in a special divine mission. In order to do this, the original democratic Islamic ideas had to be overcome by skilled teachers, acting under the orders of the Caliph of the Fatimites, who ruled Egypt at that time.

Members were enrolled, on the understanding that they were to receive hidden power and timeless wisdom which would enable them to become as important in life as some of the teachers. And the Caliph saw to it that the instructors were no ordinary men. The supreme judge was one of them; another was the commander-in-chief of the army; a third the minister of the Court. There was no lack of applicants. In any country where the highest officials of the realm formed a body of teachers, one would find the same thing.

Classes were divided into study groups, some composed of men, others of women, collectively termed Assemblies of Wisdom. All lessons were carefully prepared, written down and submitted to the Caliph for his seal. At the end of the lecture all present kissed the seal: for did the Caliph not claim direct descent from Mohammed, through his son-in-law Ali and thence from Ismail, the seventh Imam? He was the embodiment of divinity, far more than any Tibetan lama ever was.

The university, lavishly endowed and possessing the best manuscripts and scientific instruments available, received a grant of a quarter of a million gold pieces annually from the Caliph. Its external form was similar to the pattern of the ancient Arab universities, not much different from Oxford. But its real purpose was the complete transformation of the mind of the student.

Students had to pass through nine degrees of initiation. In the first, the teachers threw their pupils into a state of doubt about all conventional ideas, religious and political. They used false analogy and every other device of argument to make the aspirant believe that what he had been taught by his previous mentors was prejudiced and capable of being challenged. The effect of this according to the Arab historian, Makrizi, was to cause him to lean upon the personality of the teachers, as the only possible source of the proper interpretation of facts. At the same time, the teachers hinted continually that formal knowledge was merely the cloak for hidden, inner and powerful truth, whose secret would be imparted when the youth was ready to receive it. This 'confusion technique' was carried out until the student reached the stage where he was prepared to swear a vow of blind allegiance to one or other of his teachers.

This oath, together with certain secret signs, was administered in due course, and the candidate awarded the first degree of initiation. The second degree took the form of initiation into the fact that the Imams (successors of Mohammed) were the true and only sources of secret knowledge and power. Imams inspired the teachers. Therefore the student was to acknowledge every saying and act of his appointed guides as blessed and divinely inspired. In the third degree, the esoteric names of the Seven Imams were revealed, and the secret words by which they could be conjured and by which the powers inherent in the very repetition of their names could be liberated and used for the individual especially in the service of the sect.

In the fourth degree, the succession of the Seven Mystical Law-givers and magical personalities was given to the learner. These were characterized as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed and Ismail. There were seven mystical 'helpers': Seth, Shem, Ishmael, Aaron, Simon, Ali, and Mohammed, the son of Ismail. This last was dead, but he had a mysterious deputy, who was the Lord of the Time: authorized to give his instructions to the People of Truth, as the Ismails called themselves. This hidden figure gave the Caliph the power to pretend that he was acting under even higher instructions.

The fifth degree named twelve apostles under the seven prophets, whose names and functions and magical powers were described. In this degree the power to influence others by means of personal concentration was supposed to be taught. One writer claims that this was done merely by the repetition, for a period of three years to train the mind, of the magical word AK-ZABT-I.

To obtain the sixth degree involved instruction in the methods of analytical and destructive argument, in which the postulant had to pass a stiff examination. The seventh degree brought revelation of the Great Secret: that all humanity and all creation were one and every single thing was part of the whole, which included the creative and destructive power. But, as an Ismaili, the individual could make use of the power which was ready to be awakened within him, and overcome those who knew nothing of the immense potential of the rest of humanity. This power came through the aid of mysterious power called the Lord of the Time.

To qualify for the eighth degree, the aspirant had to believe that all religion, philosophy and the like were fraudulent. All that mattered was the individual, who could attain fulfilment only through servitude to the greatest developed power - the Imam. The ninth and last degree brought the revelation of the secret that there was no such thing as belief: all that mattered was action. And the only possessor of the reasons for carrying out any action was the chief of the sect.

As a secret society, the organization of the Ismailis as outlined above was undoubtedly powerful and seemed likely to produce a large number of devotees who would blindly obey the orders of whomever was in control of the edifice. But, as with other bodies of this kind, there were severe limitations from the point of view of effectiveness.

Perhaps the phase of revolt or subversion planned by the society did not in the end get under way; perhaps it was not intended to work by any other means than training the individual. Be that as it may, its real success extended abroad only (in 1058) to Baghdad, where a member gained temporary control of Baghdad and coined money in the Egyptian Caliph's name. This sultan was slain by the Turks, who now entered the picture, and the Cairo headquarters was also threatened . By 1123, the society was closed down by the Vizier Afdal. The rise of Turkish power seemed to have discouraged the expansionist Cairo sect so strongly that they almost faded out, and little is heard of them after that date.

It was left to Hasan, son of Sabah, the Old Man of the Mountains, to perfect the system of the ailing secret society, and found an organization which endured for nearly another thousand years.

Who was Hasan? He was the son of a Shiah (Ali-worshipper) in Khorasam, a most bigoted man, who claimed that his ancestors were Arabs, from Kufa. This assumption was probably due to the fact that such a lineage bolstered up claims to religious importance, then as now, among Moslems. The people of the neighbourhood, many of them also Shiahs, stated very decisively that this Ali was a Persian, and so were his forebears. It is generally thought that this is the truer version. As the Governor of the Province was an orthodox Moslem, Ali spared no efforts to assume the same guise. This is considered to be completely permissible - the Doctrine of Intelligent Dissimulation. As there was some doubt as to his reliability in the religious sense, he retired into a monastic retreat, and sent his son Hasan to an orthodox school. This school was no ordinary one. It was the circle of disciples presided over by the redoubtable Imam Muwafiq, about whom it was said that every individual who enrolled under him eventually rose to great power.

It was here that Hasan met Omar Khayyám, the tentmaker-poet and astronomer, later to be the poet laureate of Persia. Another of his schoolmates was Nizam-ul-Mulk, who rose from peasanthood to become prime minister. These three made a pact, according to Nizam's autobiography, where whichever rose to high office first would help the others.

Nizam, the courtier, became Vizier to Alp-Arslan the Turkish sultan of Persia, in accordance with his vow, and secured him a pension, which gave him a life of ease and indulgence in his beloved Nishapur, where many of his Rubá'iát poems were written. Meanwhile Hasan remained in obscurity, wandering through the Middle East, waiting for his chance to attain the power of which he had dreamed. Arslan the Lion died, and was succeeded by Malik Shah. Suddenly, Hasan presented himself to Nizam, demanding to be given a place at court. Delighted to fulfil his childhood vow, the vizier obtained him a favoured place, and relates what transpired thus in his autobiography:

"I had him made minister by my strong and extravagant recommendations. Like his father, however, he proved to be a fraud, hypocrite and a self-seeking villain. He was so clever at dissimulation that he appeared to be pious when he was not, and before long he had somehow completely captured the mind of the Shah."

Malik Shah was young, and Hasan was trained in the Shiah art of winning people over by apparent honesty. But Nizam was still the most important man in the realm, with an impressive record of honest dealing and achievements. Hasan decided to eliminate him.

The king had asked in that year, 1078, for a complete accounting of the revenue and expenditure of the empire, and Nizam told him that this would take over a year. Hasan, on the other hand, claimed that the whole work could be done in forty days, and offered to prove it. The task was assigned to him. And the accounts were prepared in the specified time. Something went wrong at this point. The balance of historical opinion holds that Nizam struck back at the last moment, saying "By Allah, this man will destroy us all unless he is rendered harmless, though I cannot kill my playmate." Whatever the truth may be, it seems that Nizam managed to have such disparities introduced into the final calligraphic version of the accounts that when Hasan started to read them they appeared so absurd that the Shah, in fury, ordered him to be exiled. As he had claimed to have written the accounts in his own hand, Hasan could not justify their incredible deficiencies.

Hasan had friends in Isfahan, where he immediately fled. There survives a record of what he said there, which sheds interesting light upon what was in his mind. One of these friends. Abu-al-Fazal, notes that Hasan, after reciting the bitteer tale of his downfall, shouted these words, in a state of uncontrollable rage: "If I had two, just two, devotees who would stand by me, then I would cause the downfall of that Turk and that peasant."

Fazal concluded that Hasan had taken leave of his senses, and tried to get him out of this ugly mood. Hasan took umbrage, and insisted that he was working on a plan, and that he would have his revenge. He set off for Egypt, there to mature his plans.

Fazal was himself later to become a devotee of the Assassin chief, and Hasan, two decades later, reminded him of that day in Isfahan: "Here I am at Alamut, Master of all I survey: and more. The Sultan and the peasant Vizier are dead. Have I not kept my vow? Was I the madman you thought me to be? I found my two devotees, who were necessary to my plans."

Hasan himself takes up the story of how his fortunes fared after the flight from Persia. He had been brought up in the secret doctrines of Ismailism, and recognized the possibilities of power inherent in such a system. He knew that in Cairo there was a powerful nucleus of the society. And, if we are to believe the words of Fazal, he already had a plan whereby he could turn their followers into disciplined, devoted fanatics, willing to die for a leader. What was this plan? He had decided that it was not enough to promise paradise, fulfilment, eternal joy to people. He would actually show it to them; show it in the form of an artificial paradise, where houris played and fountains gushed sweet-scented waters, where every sensual wish was granted amid beautiful flowers and gilded pavilions. And this is what he eventually did.

Hasan chose a hidden valley for the site of his paradise, described by Marco Polo, who passed this way in 1271:

"In a beautiful valley, enclosed between two lofty mountains, he had formed a luxurious garden stored with every delicious fruit and every fragrant shrub that could be procured. Palaces of various sizes and forms were erected in different parts of the grounds, ornamented with works of gold, with paintings and with furniture of rich silks. By means of small conduits contained in these buildings, streams of wine, milk, honey and some of pure water were seen to flow in every direction. The inhabitants of these places were elegant and beautiful damsels, accomplished in the arts of singing, playing upon all sorts of musical instruments, dancing, and especially those of dalliance and amorous allurement. Clothed in rich dresses, they were seen continually sporting and amusing themselves in the garden and pavilions, their female guardians being confined within doors and never allowed to appear. The object which the chief had in view in forming a garden of this fascinating kind was this: that Mahomet having promised to those who should obey his will the enjoyments of Paradise, where every species of sensual gratification should be found, in the society of beautiful nymphs, he was desirous of it being understood by his followers that he also was a prophet and a compeer of Mahomet, and had the power of admitting to Paradise such as he should choose to favour. In order that none without his licence should find their way into this delicious valley, he caused a strong and inexpungable castle to be erected at the opening to it, through which the entry was by a secret passage."

Hasan began to attract young men from the surrounding countryside, between the ages of twelve and twenty: particularly those whom he marked out as possible material for the production of killers. Every day he held court, a reception at which he spoke of the delights of Paradise... "and at certain times he caused draughts of soporific nature to be administered to ten or a dozen youths, and when half dead with sleep he had them conveyed to the several palaces and apartments of the garden. Upon awakening from this state of lethargy their senses were struck by all the delightful objects, and each perceiving himself surrounded by lovely damsels, singing, playing, and attracting his regards by the most fascinating caresses, serving him also with delicious viands and exquisite wines, until, intoxicated with excess and enjoyment, amidst actual rivers of milk and wine, he believed himself assuredly in Paradise, and felt an unwillingness to relinquish its delights. When four or five days had thus been passed, they were thrown once more into a state of somnolency, and carried out of the garden. Upon being carried to his presence, and questioned by him as to where they had been, their answer was 'in Paradise, through the favour of your highness'; and then, before the whole court who listened to them with eager astonishment and curiosity, they gave a circumstantial account of the scenes to which they had been witnesses. The chief thereupon addressing them said: 'We have the assurance of our Prophet that he who defends his Lord shall inherit Paradise, and if you show yourselves to be devoted to the obedience of my orders, that happy lot awaits you'."

Suicide was at first attempted by some; but the survivors were early told that only death in the obedience of Hasan's orders could give the Key to Paradise. In the eleventh century it was not only credulous Persian peasants who would have believed such things were true. Even among more sophisticated people the reality of the gardens and houris of paradise were completely accepted. True, a good many Sufis preached that the garden was allegorical - but that still left more than a few people who believed that they could trust the evidence of their senses.

The ancient Art of Imposture, by Abdel-Rahman of Damascus, gives away another trick of Hasan's. He had a deep, narrow pit sunk into the floor of his audience-chamber. One of his disciples stood in this, in such a way that his head and neck alone were visible above the floor. Around the neck was placed a circular dish in two pieces which fitted together, with a hole in the middle. This gave the impression that there was a severed head on a metal plate standing on the floor. In order to make the scene more plausible (if that is the word) Hasan had some fresh blood poured around the head, on the plate.

Now certain recruits were brought in. "Tell them," commanded the chief, "what thou hast seen." The disciple then described the delights of Paradise. "You have seen the head of a man who died, whom you al knew. I have reanimated him to speak with his own tongue."

Later, the head was tracherously severed in real earnest, and stuck for some time somewhere that the faithful would see it. The effect of this conjuring trick plus murder increased the enthusiasm for martyrdom to the required degree.

There are many documented instances of the recklessness of the fidayeen (devotees) of the Ismailis, one witness being a Westerner who was treated a century later to a similar spectacle to that which had appalled the envoy of Malik Shah. Henry, Count of Champagne, reports that he was travelling in 1194 through Ismaili territory. The chief sent some persons to salute him and beg that, on his return he would stop at and partake of the hospitality of the castle. The Count accepted the invitation. As he returned, the Dai-el-Kebir (Great Missionary) advanced to meet him, showed him every mark of honour, and let him view his castle and fortresses. Having passed through several, they came at length to one of the towers which rose to an exceeding height. On each tower stood two sentinels clad in white. 'These,' said the Chief, pointing to them, 'obey me far better than the subjects of our Christians obey their lords;' and at a given signal two of them flung themselves down, and were dashed to pieces. 'If you wish,' said he to the astonished Count, 'all my white ones shall do the same.' The benevolent Count shrank from the proposal, and candidly avowed that no Christian prince could presume to look for such obedience from his subjects. When he was departing, with many valuable presents, the Chief said to him meaningly, 'By means of these trusty servants I get rid of the enemies of our society.'

Further details of the mentality of Hasan are given in what is supposed to be an autobiographical account of his early days: and it probably is in fact such, because the method of his conversion does seem to follow the pattern which has been observed in fanatics, of whatever religious or political persuasion.

He was, he says, reared in the belief of the divine right of the Imams, by his father. He early met an Ismaili missionary (Emir Dhareb) with whom he argued strenuously against the Emir's particular form of creed. Then, some time later, he went through a bout of severe illness, in which he feared to die, and began to think that the Ismaili doctrine might really be the road to redemption and Paradise. If he died unconverted, he might be damned. Thus it was that as soon as he recovered he sought out another Ismaili propagandist, Abu Najam, and then others. Eventually he went to Egypt, to study the creed at its headquarters.

He was received with honour by the Caliph, due to his former position at the Court of Malik Shah. in order to increase their own importance, the high officials of the Court made a good deal of public play of the significance of the new convert; but this fact seemed in the end to help Hasan more than it did them. He entered into political intrigue and was arrested, then confined in a fortress. No sooner had he entered the prison than a minaret collapsed, and in some unexplained way this was interpreted as an omen that Hasan was in reality a divinely protected person. The Caliph, hurriedly making Hasan a number of valuable gifts, had him put aboard a ship sailing for north-west Africa. This gave him the funds which he was to use for setting up his 'paradise' - and also, through some quirk of fate, the disciples whom he sought.

A tremendous storm blew up, terrifying the captain, crew and passengers alike. Prayers were held, and Hasan was asked to join. He refused. "The storm is my doing; how can I pray that it abate?" he asked. "I have indicated the displeasure of the Almighty. If we sink, I shall not die, for I am immortal. If you want to be saved, believe in me, and I shall subdue the winds.'

At first the offer was not accepted. Presently, however, when the ship seemed on the point of capsizing, the desperate passengers came to him and swore eternal allegiance. Hasan was still calm; and continued so until the storm abated. The ship was then driven on to the sea-coast of Syria, where Hasan disembarked, together with two of the merchant passengers, who became his first real disciples.

Hasan was not yet ready for the fulfilment of his destiny as he saw it. For the time being, he was travelling under the guise of a missionary of the Caliph in Cairo. From Aleppo he went to Baghdad, seeking a headquarters where he should be safe from interference and where he yet could become powerful enough to expand. Into Persia the road led him, travelling through the country, making converts to his ideas, which were still apparently strongly based upon the secret doctrines of the Egyptian Ismailis. Everywhere he created a really devoted disciple (fidayi) he bade him stay and try to enlarge the circle of his followers. These circles became hatching-grounds for the production of 'self-sacrificers', the initiates who were drawn from the ranks of the most promising ordinary converts. Thus it was that miniature training centers, modelled upon the Abode of Learning, were in being within a very few months of his return to his homeland.

During his travels, a trusted lieutenant - one Hussein Kahini - reported that the Iraki district where the fortress of Alamut was situated seemed to be an ideal place for proselytism. Most of the ordinary people of that place, in fact, had been persuaded into the Ismaili way of thinking. The only obstacle was the Governor - Ali Mahdi - who looked upon the Caliph of Baghdad as his spiritual and temporal lord. The first converts were expelled from the country. Before many months, however, there were so many Ismailis among the populace that the Governor was compelled to allow them to return. Hasan, though, he would not brook. The prospective owner of Alamut decided to try a trick. He offered the Governor three thousand pieces of gold for "the amount of land which could be encompassed by the hide of an ox". When Mahdi agreed to such a sale, Hasan produced a skin, cut it into the thinnest possible thongs, and joined them together to form a string which encompassed the castle of Alamut. Although the Governor refused to honour any such bargain, Hasan produced an order from a very highly placed official of the Seljuk rulers, ordering that the fortress be handed over to Hasan for three thousand gold pieces. It turned out that this official was himself a secret follower of the Sheikh of the Mountain.

The year was A.D. 1090. Hasan was now ready for the next part of his plan. He attacked and routed the troops of the Emir who had been placed in the governorship of the Province, and welded the people of the surrounding districts into a firm band of diligent and trustworthy workers and soldiers, answerable to him alone. Within two years the Vizier Nizam-ul-Mulk had been stabbed to the heart by an assassin sent by Hasan, and the Emperor Malik Shah, who dared to send troops against him, died in grave suspicion of poison. Hasan's revenge upon his class-fellow was to make him the very first target of his reign of terror. With the king's death, the whole realm was split up into warring factions. For long the Assassins alone retained their cohesion. In under a decade they had made themselves masters of all Persian Irak, and of many forts throughout the empire. This they did by forays, direct attack, the poisoned dagger, and in any other manner which seemed expedient. The orthodox religious leaders pronounced one interdict after another against their doctrines; all to no effect.

By now the entire loyalty of the Ismailis under him had been transferred from the Caliph to the personality of the Sheikh of the Mountain, who became the terror of every prince in that part of Asia, the Crusader chiefs included. "Despite and despising fatigues, dangers and tortures the Assassins joyfully gave their lives whenever it pleased the great master, who required them either to protect himself or to carry out his mandates of death. The victim having been pointed out, the faithful, clothed in a white tunic with a red sash, the colours of innocence and blood, went on their mission withouth being deterred by distance or danger. Having found the person they sought, they awaited the favourable moment for slaying him, and their daggers seldom missed their aim."

Richard the Lionheart was at one time accused of having asked the 'Lord of the Mountain' to have Conrad of Montferrat killed; a plot which was carried out thus: "Two assassins allowed themselves to be baptized and placing themselves beside him, seemed intent only on praying. But the favourable opportunity presented itself; they stabbed him and one took refuge in the church. But hearing that the prince had been carried off still alive, he again forced himself into Montferrat's presence, and stabbed him a second time; and then expired, without a complaint, amidst refined tortures." The Order of the Assassins had perfected their method of securing the loyalty of human beings to an extent and on a scale which has seldom been paralleled.

The Assassins carried on the battle on two fronts. They fought whichever side in the Crusades served their purposes. At the same time they continued the struggle against the Persians. The son and successor of Nizam-al-Mulk was laid low by an Assassin dagger. The Sultan, who had succeeded his father Malik Shah and gained power over most of his territories was marching against them. One morning, however, he awoke with an Assassin weapon stuck neatly into the ground near his head. Within it was a note, warning him to call off the proposed siege of Alamut. He came to terms with the Assassins, powerful ruler though he undoubtedly was. They had what amounted to a free hand, in exchange for a pact by which they promised to reduce their military power.

Hasan lived for thirty-four years after his acquisition of Alamut. On only two occasions since then had he even left his room: yet he ruled an invisible empire as great and as fearsome as any man before - or since. He seemed to realize that death was almost upon him, and calmly began to make plans for the perpetual continuance of the Order of the Assassins.

http://www.phinnweb.org/neuro/assassins.html

[EvadingGrid]

 

[Viper]

The remainder of pt.10:

The ruler of one the most terrifying organizations the world has ever known was without a lineal successor. He had had both of his sons killed: one for carrying out an unauthorized murder, the other for drinking wine; certainly a case of "do as I say, not as I do". He called his two most trusted lieutenants from the strongholds which they maintained on his behalf: Kia Buzurg-Umid (Kia of Great Promise) and Abu-Ali of Qaswin. Kia was to inherit the spiritual and mystical aspect, while Abu-Ali attended to the military and administrative affairs of the Order. It is said that Hasan bin Sabah died almost immediately afterwards, in 1124, at ninety years of age; having given the world a new word; assassin. 'Assasseen' in Arabic signifies 'guardians', and some commentators have considered this to be the true origin of the word: 'guardians of the secrets".

The Organization of the Order, under Hasan, called for Missionaries (Dayes), Friends (Rafiq) who were disciples, and Fidavis, devotees. The last group had been added by Hasan to the Ismaili original, and these were the trained killers. Fidavis wore white, with a girdle, cap or boots of red. In addition to careful coaching in where and when to place the dagger in the victim's bosom, they were trained in such things as languages, the dress and manners of monks, merchants and soldiers, any of whom they were ready to impersonate in carrying out their missions. The chief was known as Sayedna (Our Prince, Leader), and popularly (because of the mountain stronghold of Alamut), as the Sheikh of the Mountain. This is the figure referred to in Crusaders' writings as 'Sydney', or 'Senex de Monte', the first word being a literal translation of the word 'Pir': Persian for Ancient, or Sage. There were three Great Missionaries, who ruled three territories. After the Friends and Fidavis came the Laziks, aspirants who were being trained for membership of the society, but were as yet uninitiated.

Hasan reduced the original number of degrees of initiation from nine to the mystical number of seven. A similar number of regulations formed the rules of the Order. This, in fact, comprised the working plan of the spreading of the Faith. The First Rule was the the Missionary must know human psychology in such a way as to be able to select suitable people for admission to the cult; and was summed up in the mnemonic: Cast no seeds upon rocks. The second rule of procedure was the application of flattery and gaining the confidence of the prospective member. Third came the casting of doubt into the mind, by superior knowledge. Fourthly, the teacher must apply an oath to student never to betray any of the 'truths' which were to be revealed to him. Now he was told, as the fifth stage, that Ismailism was a powerful secret organization, supported by some of the most important figures of the time. After this, the aspirant was questioned and studied, to discover whether he had absorbed the opinions of the teacher and attached himself sufficiently into a position of dependence upon his ideas. At this stage he was asked to meditate upon the meaning of the reported saying of the prophet that "Paradise lies in the shadow of swords". In the final degree, many difficult passages of the Koran were explained in terms of allegory.

How is it that the rules of this extraordinarily successful Order are known in such detail? It so happened that when the Mongols eventually overthrew Alamut by force of arms, their chief Halaku ('Destruction') Khan, asked his chief minister to examine their library. This most learned man, 'Father of Kings' Jawani, later wrote a careful book in which he detailed the organization of the Assassins, whose name he attributed to the use of the drug Hashish, which they were said to use in stupefying candidates for the ephemeral visit to 'paradise'.

It is possible that recruits were made in another way than by selecting gullible, fully grown youths. Legend has it that Hasan, once master of Alamut, used to buy unwanted childern from their parens, and train them in implicit obedience and with the sole desire to die in his service.

Buzurg-Umid ('Great Promise'), the second Grand Master, maintained the power of the Assassins on much the same pattern: building new forts, gaining fresh converts, terrorizing those whom he did not want to have killed and using them to further his designs of world conquest. Sultan Sanjar of Persia, in spite of several expeditions against the Viper's Nest, as Alamut was now being called, could do little about him. Ambassadors on each side were slain; a notable religious leader was captured by the Assassins, given a mock trial and flung into a furnace. The Grand Master at this time seldom put on the field more than two thousand men at a time: but it must be remembered that they were killers acting under an iron discipline, and more than a match for any organized army that they might ever have to face. Now the Order began to spread in Syria, where the continued contact with the Crusaders was established.

The warriors of the Cross were in fairly effective control of an area extending from the Egyptian border to Armenia in the north. Bahram, a Persian leader of the Assassin cult from Astrabad, gained control of a mighty fortress in Syria, in the region known as the Valley of Demons (Wadi-el-Jan), and from there spread from one fort to another. The Grand Prior Bahram now moved to an even more substantial fortified place, Massyat. Bahram's successor, Ismail the Lash-Bearer, planted a trained devotee on the saintly Vizier of Baghdad, into whose confidence he worked his way to such an extent that this Assassin, now called the 'Father of Trust', was actually made Grand Judge of Baghdad.

The Crusaders had by now been about thirty years in the Holy Land, and the Assassins decided that they could usefully form an alliance with them aimed against Baghdad. A secret treaty was therefore made between the Grand Master and Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, whereby the Ismaili Grand Judge would have opened the gates of Baghdad treacherously to the Crusaders, if the fortified city of Tyre were handed over to the Assassins for their part in the transaction.

Something went wrong. The judge had ordered an underling to open the city's gates. This servant had told the military commander of Damascus, who lost no time in killing the man, the Vizier and six thousand people believed to be secret Assassins within the city. The Damascus garrison fell upon the Crusaders and beat them back in a thunderstorm which the Christian warriors attributed to divine anger at their unworthy pact, and the Assassins as an attempt by the powers of Nature to allow the Crusaders into the city under its cover.

Meanwhile the Grand Master was indulging in an orgy of destruction of individual rulers who opposed his creed; the list is interminable, but this is a fair example: "The celebrated Aksunkur, Prince of Mosul, was a warrior equally dreaded by the Christians and the Assassins. As this Prince, on his return from Ma'ara Masrin, where the Moslem and Christian hosts had parted without venturing to engage, entered the Mosque at Mosul to perform his devotions, he was attacked at the moment when he was about to take his usual seat by eight Assassins, disguised as dervishes. Three of them fell below the blows of the valiant Emir; but ere his people could come to his aid, he had received his death-wound and expired."

The fanaticism which inspired the killers was shared, it seems, by other members of their families, who had been thoroughly trained in the bloody creed: for the historian Kamal-ed-Din relates, "On this occasion when the mother of one of the youths who attempted Aksunkur's life heard that he had been slain, she painted her face and donned the gayest raiment and ornaments, rejoicing that her son had been found worthy to die the glorious death of a martyr in the cause of the Imam. But when she saw him return alive and unscathed, she cut off her hair and blackened her countenance, and would not be comforted."

Things thus continued for the fourteen years and a quarter of the Second Grand Master's rule. When he died he nominated his son Kia Mohammed as his successor. Under Mohammed the killings continued, a part of the sea-coast of Palestine came into Assassin hands, and the cult leaders reaffirmed their overt belief in orthodox Islam. In public, Ismailis were ordinary Moslems; the secret doctrine of the divinely guider leader was not to be discussed with the uninitiated.

[Viper]

11 - The Assassins and The Templars

But this most successful of secret societies soon showed that its strength ultimately depended upon a powerful leader: and Kia Mohammed was not such. Little by little it became obvious that his own son, Hasan the Hated, was the stronger personality. Now Hasan, through some magnetic power, was able to capture the imagination of the Assassins, soon having it believed that he himself was none other than the Power of All Powers, the Hidden Imam, who had been mentioned by the first Grand Master; an incarnation of all greatness. So important was he that he was the fountain of power, and others only held a measure of authority because he allowed them to have it.

This final absurdity was lapped up by members who had been conditioned to believe in things which were not, shall we say, exactly self-evident to the ordinary man. The doctrine of the all-powerful Invisible Imam was a part of Ismailism; and Hasan was ready even during his early manhood to assume the role. But, since his father was able to assert himself by having some two hundred and fifty of Hasan' followers murdered, he thought it wiser to hold his hand. In 1163 his chance came. Mohammed died, and Hasan II issued an order to all Ismailis to collect below the castle of Alamut.

Never before had such an assembly of killers, fanatics and dedicated perverters of the truth been seen. Hasan, probably in a state of megalomania, assured them that he had received a message from the Almighty that as from now, all the bond of religion were loosed: everyone might do as he liked. It was not necessary to keep up the pretences. And, furthermore, he, Hasan, was none other than the Hidden Imam. His word was law; and he was a form of the divintiy, not merely relaying instructions from above.

There was one further obstacle. According to Ismaili doctrine, the Hidden Imam was to be of the Family of Hashim, the blood of Mohammed the Prophet. Such descendants were known and revered: and it was common knowledge that Hasan II was not one of them. He overcame this difficulty by stating that he was not in fact the true son of Kia Mohammed the Persian, but an adopted child of the Caliphial family of Egypt. This pretence was carried on for four years, during which the crazed Hasan showed that he was not as mad as he might have been, by consolidating quite efficiently the power of the cult. Eventually, he was assassinated by his brother-in-law, Namwar ('The Famous'). Now the father-to-son succession seemed to be established. Mohammed II, son of Hasan II, began the cultivation of letters and sciences which was to distinguish successive Grand Masters of the Order. It was a conceit of his, in the time of the greatest flowering of Persian literature, that he was supreme among poets and philosophers. He used his assassins, too, to drive this point well home. The Imam Razi, one of the greatest thinkers of the time, refused to acknowledge the Assassins as the most advanced theologians: so Mohammed II sent an envoy to him, promising either a swift death by dagger or a pension of several thousand gold pieces a year. Suddenly the learned Imam's discourses seemed to lose their bite. One day, soon afterwards, he was asked why he did not attack the Assassins as of old. "Because," said the old man, with a nervous glance around the assembly where a murderer might lurk, "their arguments are so sharp, and pointed."

For thirty-five years Mohammed II ruled the Ismailis with a rod of iron; the only law was that of obedience to the Assassin will. The observances of ritual Islam were abolished. A new star had arisen: a power to stiffen resistance to Crusader penetration; Saladin, who was to become an implacable foe of the Assassins.

The Syrian branch of the cult grew in power, while the activities of the Eastern Assassins were carried out much more quietly, with missionaries being sent to India, Afghanistan, even the remote Pamir mountains which straddle China and Russia, where even today adherents of the sect are to be found. Saladin had overcome the other Ismaili branch and original home of Assassinism - Egypt - and restored the true faith to the people of the Nile. He now had enough booty for ten years' war against the Crusaders in Palestine, and troops to spare. His first task was to unify the forces of Islam; and this he determined to do by force if necessary. Sinan, Ancient of the Assassin cult in Syria, decided to oppose this terrible enemy of the Fatimites. Three assassins fell upon Saladin and nearly killed him. This made the sect a priority target for the Saracen chief. The Old Man of the Mountain, for his part, now unleashed a succession of fanatics, in every kind of disguise, upon Saladin. By 1176, Saladin decided that an end must be put to the cult. He invaded their territory and started to lay it waste, when the Assassin chief offered him freedom of action to fight the Crusaders, and no further attempt upon his life, if the cult were spared. These terms were agreed to, and henceforth no Assassin ever again attempted to molest Sultan Saladin.

This period introduces Sinan as yet another strange and terrible Assassin leader. He had decided that he was the incarnation of all power and deity, and that he would live the part. Sinan was never seen to eat or drink, sleep, or even to spit. Between sunrise and sunset he stood on a pinnacle of rock, dressed in a hair-shirt, and preached his own power and glory to delghted Assassins. Thus, at one and the same time, there were two chiefs of the Order, each busily telling his own followers that he, and he alone, was God. Hasan in Persia, Sinan in Syria, each commanded legions of devoted killers, all committed by oath to follow his path.

When Mohammed II died, he was succeeded by his son Jalaludin, who completely reversed the orders that the Assassins were to have no outward religious observances. He felt that he could do a great deal by adopting the cloak of orthodox piety, and sent ambassadors far and wide to announce his maintenance of the true faith. He went so far as to curse his predecessors publicly, in order to convince the incredulous that such a people as the Assassins could turn over a new leaf. As a result of what would today be called a long-term and comprehensive propaganda plan, he was acknowledged as a religious leader by half the orthodox monarchs of Islam, and (the first Assassin to be so styled) came to be termed Prince Jalaludin.

Jalaludin died in 1203, after twelve years of leadership of the cult, handing over to Alaeddin (Aladdin), a child of nine years of age. Weak, inefficient, stupid, Alaeddin made little mark upon history. It is said that his main activity was tending sheep, to which he was passionately attached, and he even had a small hut built in a sheepfold, where he spent most of his time. He was extraordinarily cruel, in spite of the contact with the sheep, and continued to terrorize in time-honoured fashion any person, great or small, who did not pay tribute or otherwise co-operate with the organization.

The Assassins' hands, ears and eyes were everywhere. Once fully initiated, a man might be sent to a place a thousand miles away, there to take up residence and live: waiting for the moment when orders came to him from Alamut to fulfil his fatal destiny. A story is told of the court of the Shah of Khwarism, thus: "The Ismaili ambassador spent some time with the Vizier. One day, after a splendid banquet when the wine which they had been drinking in violation of the law had mounted into their heads, the ambassador told the Vizier by way of confidence that there were several Ismailis among the pages, grooms, guards and other persons who were immediately about the Sultan. The Vizier, dismayed and at the same time curious to know who these dangerous attendants were, besought the ambassador to point them out to him, giving him his napkin as a pledge that nothing evil should happen to them. Instantly, at a sign from the envoy, five of the persons who were attendants in the chamber stepped forth, avowing themselves to be concealed Assassins, 'On such a day and at such an hour,' said one of them, an Indian, to the Vizier, 'I might have slain thee without being seen or punished; and if I did not do so it was only because I had no orders from my superiors.' "

The Vizier begged for his life. But word got the Sultan, who ordered the Assassins to be apprehended and burned alive, and "the five chamberlains were cast on the falming pyre, where they died exulting at being found worthy to suffer in the service of the great Sheikh of the Mountain." The Assassins had the last laugh, for an order arrived immediately afterwards from Alamut, that the Shah must pay ten thousand pieces of gold as compensation for each man killed - which he did.

Another subsidiary activity which the Assassins delighted in was holding captive in Alamut of useful, rare and distinguished personages who could be of value to them in educational, military or other spheres. One was a physician, another a famous astronomer, a third the greatest painter in Persia, who worked to the order of the chief alone.

The end of chapter was near, for the Mongol hordes under Halaku, lieutenant of Chinghiz, were steadily destroying all the civilization of Islam which lay in their inexorable path westwards. Rukneddin, son of Alaeddin, succeeded him and tried at first to turn the Mongol tide. After a series of encounters, pitched battles, intrigues and counter-intrigues, Rukneddin was taken. He played for time as long as he could, but was eventually murdered in his own turn by the victorious Mongol chief's men. Assassin power in Persia was broken, and what remained of the members were ordered - none knows by whom - to conceal their faith and await a signal that the cult was in full operation again. Alamut was silenced, and the Syrian headquarters alone remained.

It was a long time until the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt was able to overcome the Mongol thrust. In 1260, however, he carried the banners of Islam victoriously against them, and restored the fortress of Alamut and other properties to the Assassins, who were strongly surviving underground. They soon found that they had exchanged one master for another, for the Egyptians were now employing them for their own purposes. Ibn Batuta, the great traveller of the fourteeth century, found them well entrenched in their former strong places, being used as the "arrows of the Sultan of Egypt with which he reaches his enemies."

The supposed suppression of the creed which followed the Mongol destruction did not in fact take place. Copying each other, historians have asserted that Assassinism died six hundred years ago. Now and again, however, fresh facts of their continued existence still come to light. In the eighteenth century an Englishman, the British Consul at Aleppo in Syria, was at pains to make this better known: "Some authors assert," he wirtes, "that these people were entirely extirpated in the thirteenth century by the Tartars... but I, who have lived so long in this infernal place, will venture to affirm that some of their spawn still exists in the mountains that surround us; for nothing is so cruel, barbarous and execrable that is not acted, and even gloried in, by these cursed Gourdins."

The Assassins were widely dispersed throughout Asia. The rise of the Thugs, the secret society of assassination of India, followed the Mongol invasion of Persia. indeed, at least one of the Thug recognition-signals (Ali bhai Salam!) indicates salutations to Ali, the descendant of the Prophet most greatly revered by the Assassins. Ismailis, not all of them recognizing the one chief, reside in places as far apart as Malaya, East Africa and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). They would not necessarily feel that they are Assassins in the same sense as the extremists who followed the old Sheikhs of the Mountains; but at least some of them revere the descendants of the Lords of Alamut to the extent of deification.

The modern phase of Ismailism dates from 1810, when the French consul at Aleppo found that the Assassins in Persia recognized as their divinely-inspired chief a reputed descendant of the Fourth Grand Master of Alamut, who then lived at Kehk, a small village between Isfahan and Tehran. This Shah Khalilullah "was revered almost like a god and credited with the power of working miracles... the followers of Khalilullah would, when he pared his nails, fight for the clippings; the water in which he washed became holy water."

The sect next appear to the public gaze through an odd happening. In 1866, a law case was decided in Bombay. There is in that city a large community of commercial men known as Khojas: "A Persian," the record tells us, "Aga Khan Mehalati (i.e., a native of Mehelat, a place situated near Khek) had sent an agent to Bombay to claim from the Khojas the annual tribute due from them to him, and amounting to about £ 10,000. The claim was resisted, and the British court was appealed to by Aga Khan. Sir Joseph Arnold investigated his claim. The Aga proves his pedigree, showing that he descended in a direct line from the fourth Grand Master of Alamut, and Sir Joseph declared it proved; and it was further demonstrated by the trial that the Khojas were members of the ancient sect of the Assassins, to which sect they had been converted four hundred years before by an Ishmaelite missionary, who composed a work which has remained the sacred book of the Khojas."

In the First Afghan War, the then Aga Khan contributed a force of light cavalry to the British forces. For this he was awarded a pension. Hitti, in his History of the Arabs, notes (p. 448, 1951 edition) that the Assassin sect, known as Khojas and Malwas, gave over a tenth of their revenues to the Aga Khan, who "spends most of his time as a sportsman between Paris and London."

The influence of the new form of organization and training, as well as initiatory techniques, of the Assassins upon later societies has been remarked by a number of students. That the Crusaders knew a good deal about the Ismailis is shown from the detailed descriptions of them which survive. S. Ameer Ali, an Orientalist of considerable repute, goes further in his assessment: "From the Ismailis the Crusaders borrowed the conception which led to the formation of all the secret societies, religious and secular, of Europe. The institutions of Templars and Hospitallers; the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola, composed by a body of men whose devotion to their cause can hardly be surpassed in our time; the ferocious Dominicans, the milder Franciscans - may all be traced either to Cairo or to Alamut. The Knights Templar especially, with their system of grand masters, grand priors and religious devotees, and their degrees of initiation, bear the strongest analogy to the Eastern Ismailis."

http://www.phinnweb.org/neuro/assassins2.html

second half of pt.11 to follow...

[Viper]

The book Bill got most of part 10 and 11 from.

[EvadingGrid]

 

[John Galt]

Episode 5 – The New World Order And Freemasonry
Mystery Babylon Series, William Cooper
February 18, 1993

For the record, the book Bill got much of part 5 from was 1990's "The New World Order" by A. Ralph Epperson:


http://www.scribd.com/doc/6499302/The-New-World-Order

This project is turning out to be a huge success! We're now over a quarter of the way there. We rock! Great job so far to Dok, luckee1, wakingup72, URpwneddude, and now Viper!

"I love it when a plan comes together!" -Hannibal from tv's The A-Team

[Viper]

For the record, the book Bill got much of part 5 from was 1990's "The New World Order" by A. Ralph Epperson...

Cool, i'll bet these books are toppers,
and good side-info for anyone who's gonna post all this on their site too.

[luckee1]

Well, viper, it seems you felt the announcement of the WTC bombing was not relevant to the broadcast transcription.

It was quite relevant as that was a major part of history.

Some people's lives were directly affected by that.

it is alright though, we'll get it.

[EvadingGrid]

Well, viper, it seems you felt the announcement of the WTC bombing was not relevant to the broadcast transcription.

It was quite relevant as that was a major part of history.

Some people's lives were directly affected by that.

it is alright though, we'll get it.

Eh ?

Did I miss something ?

* Pesky Cat looks lost

[Dok]

11 - The Assassins and The Templars

Please fix this. This is not a TRANSCRIPT of his program. You left out the whole begining that dealt with 9-11. I know its hard tedious and somewhat boring after a couple of hours. But i was willing to do this on my own as its something that i believe should be done. I was really amazed that it hasnt been done until now, and i am grateful for all the hard work everyone has put into this. But please try tp stick to the actual words as much as possible. If he is talking about someting that no longer applies as in giving ordering instructions for books and tapes you can add

(info for ordering tapes and memberships)

or something appropriate that implies to what is being said. But as to everything else try to stay as close as possible as you can.

I again thank everyone wo has contributed to this project oe is still contributing. For those who would still like to help please just update the list of what is being done.

[Freedom Reigns]

Please fix this. This is not a TRANSCRIPT of his program. You left out the whole begining that dealt with 9-11. I know its hard tedious and somewhat boring after a couple of hours. But i was willing to do this on my own as its something that i believe should be done. I was really amazed that it hasnt been done until now, and i am grateful for all the hard work everyone has put into this. But please try tp stick to the actual words as much as possible. If he is talking about someting that no longer applies as in giving ordering instructions for books and tapes you can add

or something appropriate that implies to what is being said. But as to everything else try to stay as close as possible as you can.

I again thank everyone wo has contributed to this project oe is still contributing. For those who would still like to help please just update the list of what is being done.

Actually, it applies to the '93 bombing if I remember correctly.

[Dok]

Actually, it applies to the '93 bombing if I remember correctly.

your rght the 93 bombing. But still it was all left out. Just add it back in please.

[Freedom Reigns]

your rght the 93 bombing. But still it was all left out. Just add it back in please.

Of course it needs to be added, you can't leave out important information like that.  Just wanted to clear up any confusion between the '93 bombing and 9/11 in case someone who doesn't know any better looked at the thread.  Bill did 8 hours worth of material on the day of 9/11.

[luckee1]

wakingup 72 said that he will take it and do it. both 10 and 11

10- The Assassins
11 - The Assassins and The Templars

[luckee1]

From Wakingup72
William Cooper's Mystery Babylon: Part 13 – Skull & Bones
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Get comfortable, ladies and gentlemen, open your ears, sit back and relax. Get set for an unbelievable revelation. You're going to want copies of this tape. This tape of the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper.

(closing music: The Rose, written by Bette Midler, performed by unknown artist)

Ah yes, the seed that lies beneath the snow, in the springtime becomes the rose. I'm going to begin tonight's broadcast, ladies and gentlemen, by reading a portion of the introduction of a book, entitled Born in Blood:, by John J. Robinson, The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. Now, you should seek out this book, purchase it and read it. It is a wonderful edition to your own library, and I begin now:

“The research behind this book is not originally intended to reveal anything about Freemasonry or the Knights Templar. Its objective had been to satisfy my own curiosity about certain unexplained aspects of the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381, a savage uprising that saw upwards of a hundred thousand Englishmen march on London. They moved in uncontrolled rage, burning down manor houses, breaking open prisons, and cutting down any who stood in their way.

“One unsolved mystery of that revolt was the organization behind it. For several years, a group of disgruntled priests of the lower clergy had traveled the towns, preaching against the riches and corruption of the church. During the months before the uprising, secret meetings had been held throughout central England by men weaving a network of communication. After the revolt was put down, rebel leaders confessed to being agents of a Great Society, said to be based in London. So very little is known of that alleged organization that several scholars have solved the mystery simply by deciding that no such secret society ever existed.

“Another mystery was the concentrated and especially vicious attacks on the religious order of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John, now known as the Knights of Malta. Not only did the rebels seek out their properties for vandalism and fire, but their prior was dragged from the Tower of London to have his head struck off and placed on London Bridge, to the delight of the cheering mob.

“There was no question that the ferocity that was unleashed on the crusading Hospitallers had a purpose behind it. One captured rebel leader, when asked for the reasons for the revolt, said, 'First, and above all...the destruction of the Hospitallers.' What kind of secret society could have that special hatred as one of its primary purposes?

“A desire for vengeance against the Hospitallers was easy to identify in the rival crusading order of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. The problem was that those Knights Templar have been completely suppressed almost seventy years before the Peasants' Revolt, following several years during which the Templars had been imprisoned, tortured and burned at the stake. After issuing the decree that put an end to the Templar order, Pope Clement V had directed that all of the extensive properties of the Templars should be given to the Hospitallers. Could a Templar desire for revenge actually survive underground for three generations?

“There was no incontrovertible truth, yet the only evidence suggest the existence of just one secret society in fourteenth-century England [William Cooper: Just one], the society that was, or would become, the order of Free and Accepted Masons. There appeared to be no connection, however, between the revolt and Freemasonry, except for the name or title of its leader. He occupied the center stage of English history for just eight days and nothing is known of him except that he was the supreme commander of the rebellion. He was called Walter the Tyler, and it seemed at first to be mere coincidence that he bore the title of the enforcement officer of the Masonic lodge. In Freemasonry the Tyler, who must be a Master Mason, is the sentry, the sergeant-at-arms, and the officer who screens the credentials of visitors who seek entrance to the lodge. In remembrance of an earlier, more dangerous time, his post is just outside the door of the Lodge room, where he stands with a drawn sword in his hand [William Cooper: even to this day].

“I was aware that there had been many attempts in the past to link the Freemasons with the Knights Templar, but never with success. The fragile evidence advanced by proponents of that connection had never held up, sometimes because it was based on wild speculation, and at least once because it had been based on a deliberate forgery. But despite the failures to establish that link, it just will not go away, and the time-shrouded belief in some relationship between in two orders remains as one of the more durable legends of Freemasonry. That is entirely appropriate, because all of the various theories of the origin of Freemasonry are legendary. Not one of them is supported by any universally accepted evidence.”

[William Cooper]: Ah, here I break from reading the introduction of the book and interject a comment here. There was never any universally accepted evidence, until you hear what you're going to hear tonight, produced by John Galt, an agent of the Citizens Agency for Joint Intelligence [CAJI]. The connection, dear listeners, is in the genealogy of the families of the elite. You are going to be amazed, and now I continue from the introduction to Born in Blood:

“I was not about to travel down that time-worn trail, and decided to concentrate my efforts on digging deeper into the history of the Knights Templar to see if there was any link between the suppressed Knights and the secret society behind the Peasants' Revolt. In doing so, I thought that I would be leaving Freemasonry far behind. [And] I couldn't have been more mistaken.

“Like anyone curious about medieval history, I had developed an interest in the Crusades, and perhaps more than just an interest. Those holy wars hold an appeal that is frequently as romantic as it is historical, and in my travels I had tried to drink in the atmosphere of the narrow defiles in the mountains of Lebanon through which Crusader armies had passed, and had sat staring into the castle ruins Sidon and Tyre, trying to hear the clashing sounds of attack and defense. I had marveled at the walls of Constantinople and had strolled the Arsenal of Venice, where Crusader fleets were assembled. I had sat in the round church of the Knights Templar in London, trying to imagine the ceremony of its consecration of the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1185, more than three hundred years before Columbus set sail west to the Indies.

“The Templar order was founded in Jerusalem in 1118, in the aftermath of the First Crusade. Its name came from the location of its first headquarters on the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon, helping to fulfill a desperate need for a standing army in the Holy Land, the Knights of the Temple soon grew in numbers, in wealth, and in political power. They also grew in arrogance, and their Grand Master de Ridfort was a key figure in the mistakes that led to the fall of Jerusalem in 1187. The Latin Christians managed to hold on to a narrow strip of territory along the coast, where the Templars were among the largest owners of the land and fortifications.

“Finally, the enthusiasm for sending men and money to the Holy Land waned among the European kingdoms, which were preoccupied with their wars against each other. By 1296 the Egyptian sultan was able to push the resident Crusaders, along with the military orders, into the sea. The Holy Land was lost, and the defeated Knights Templar moved their base to the island of Cyprus, dreaming of yet one more Crusade to restore their past glory.

“As the Templars planned to go on a new Crusade against the infidel, King Philip IV of France was planning his own private crusade against the Templars. He longed to be rid of his massive debts to the Templar order, which had used its wealth to establish a major banking operation. Philip wanted the Templar treasure to finance his continental wars against Edward I of England.

“After two decades of fighting England on one side and the Holy Roman Church on the other, two unrelated events gave Philip of France the opportunity he needed. Edward I died, and his deplorably weak son took the throne of England as Edward II. On the other front, Philip was able to get his own man of the Throne of Peter as Pope Clement V.

“When word arrived on Cyprus that the new pope would mount a Crusade, the Knights Templar thought that their time of restoration to glory was at hand. Summoned to France, their aging grand master, Jacques de Molay, went armed with elaborate plans for the rescue of Jerusalem. In Paris, he was humored and honored until the fatal day. At dawn on Friday, the thirteenth of October, in the year 1307, every Templar in France was arrested and put in chains on Philip's orders. Their hideous tortures for confessions of heresy began immediately.

“When the pope's order to arrest the Templars arrived at the English court, young Edward II had took no action at all. He protested to the pontiff that the Templars were innocent. Only after the pope issued a formal bull [William Cooper: on November the twenty-second in the year 1307] was the English king forced to act. In January [William Cooper: of the year], 1308, Edward finally issued orders for the arrest of the Knights Templar in England, but the three months of warning had been put to good use. Many of the Templars had gone underground, while some of those arrested managed to escape. Their treasure, their jeweled reliquaries, even the bulk of their records, had [totally] disappeared. In Scotland, the papal order was not even published. Under those conditions England, and especially Scotland, became targeted havens for fugitive Templars from continental Europe, and the efficiency of their concealment spoke to some assistance from outside, or from each other.

“The English throne passed from Edward II to Edward III, who bequeathed the crown to his ten-year-old grandson who, as Richard II, watched from the Tower as the Peasants' Revolt exploded throughout the city of London.

“Much had happened to the English people along the way. Incessant wars had drained the king's treasury and corruption had taken the rest. A third of the population had perished in the Black Death, and famine exacted further tolls. The reduced labor force of farmers and craftsmen found that they could earn more for their labor, but their increased income came at the expense of land-owning barons and bishops, who were not prepared to tolerate such a state of affairs. Laws were passed to reduce wages, and prices to preplague levels in genealogies were search to reimpose the bondage of serfdom and villeinage on men who thought themselves free. The king's need for money to fight the French wars inspired new and ingenious taxes. The oppression was coming from all sides, and the pot of rebellion was brought to the boil.

“Religion didn't help, either. The landowning church was as merciless a master as the landowning nobility. Religion would have been a source of confusion for the fugitive Templars as well. They were a religious body of warrior monks who owed allegiance to no man on earth except the Holy Father [William Cooper: according to the Holy Father, but according to the Templars, in secret, their allegiance was only to themselves]. When their pope turned on them, chained them, beat them, he broke their link with God. In fourteenth-century Europe there was no pathway to God except through the vicar of Christ on earth. If the pope rejected the Templars and the Templars rejected the Pope, they had to find a new way to worship their God, at a time when any variation from the teachings of the established church was blasted as heresy.

“That dilemma called to mind a central tenet of Freemasonry, which requires only that a man believe in a Supreme Being, with no requirements as to how he worships the deity of his choice. In Catholic Britain such a belief would have been a crime, but it would have accommodated the fugitive Templars who had been cut off from the universal church. In consideration of the extreme punishment for heresy, such an independent belief also would have made sense of one of the more mysterious realm of Freemasonry's Old Charges. [William Cooper: The ancient rules that still govern conduct of the fraternity. The charge says that no Mason should reveal the secrets of a brother that may deprive him of his life and property. That connection caused me to take a different look at the Masonic old charges.] They took on new direction and meaning when viewed as a set of instructions for a secret society created to assist and protect fraternal brothers on the run and in hiding from the church. That characterization made no sense in the context of a medieval guild of stonemasons, the usual claim for the roots of Freemasonry. It did make a great deal of sense, however, for men such as the fugitive Templars, whose very lives depended upon their concealment. Nor would there have been any problem finding new recruits over the years ahead: There were to be plenty of protesters and dissidents against the church among future generations. The rebels of the Peasants' Revolt proved that when they attacked abbeys and monasteries, and when they cut off the head off of Archbishop of Canterbury, the leading Catholic prelate in England.

“The fugitive Templars would have needed a code such as the Old Charges of Masonry, but the working stonemasons clearly did not. It had become obvious that I needed to know about the Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Masons. The extent of the Masonic material available at large in public libraries surprised me, as did the fact that it was housed in the department of education and religion. Not content with just what was readily available to the public, I asked to use the library in the Masonic Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio.”

[William Cooper]: By the way, folks, Cincinnati, Ohio is an extremely important location in this country, the United States.

“I told the gentlemen there that I was not a Freemason, but wanted to use the library as part of my research for a book that would probably include a new examination of the Masonic order. His only question to me was, 'Will it be fair?' I assured him that I had no desire or intention to be anything other than fair, to which he replied, 'Good enough.' I was left alone with the catalog and the hundreds of Masonic books that lined the walls. I also took advantage of the publications of the Masonic Service Association in Silver Springs, Maryland.

“Later, as my growing knowledge of Masonry enabled me to sustain a conversation of the subject, I began to talk to Freemasons. At first, I wondered how I would go about meeting fifteen or twenty Masons and, if I could meet them, would they be willing to talk with me? The first problem was solved as soon as I started asking friends and associates if they were Masons. There were four in one group I had known for about five years, and many more among men I had known for twenty years and more, without ever realized that they had any connection with Freemasonry. As for the second part of my concern, I found them quite willing to talk, not about the secret passwords and hand grips (by then, I had already knew them), but about what they have been taught concerning the origins of Freemasonry and its ancient Old Charges.

“They were as intrigued as I about the possibilities of discovering the lost meanings of words, symbols, and ritual for which no logical explanation was available, such as why a Master Mason is told in his initiation rights that 'this degree will make you a brother to pirates and corsairs.'”

[William Cooper]: And folks, I'll explain that to you (laughs) a little later.

“We agreed that unlocking the secrets of those Masonic mysteries would contribute most to unearthing the past, because the loss of their true meanings had caused the ancient terms and symbols to be preserved intact, lest subject to change over the centuries, or by adaptations to new conditions.

“Among those lost secrets were the meanings of words used in the Masonic rituals, words like tyler, cowan, due-guard, and Juwes. Masonic writers have struggled for centuries, without success, to make those words fit with their preconceived convictions that Masonry was born in the English-speaking guilds of medieval stonemasons.

“Now I would test the possibility that there was indeed a connection between Freemasonry and the French-speaking Templar order. By looking for the lost meanings of those terms, not in English, but in medieval French. The answers began to flow, and soon a sensible meaning for every one of the mysterious Masonic terms was established in the French language. It even provided the first credible meaning for the name of Hiram Abiff, the murdered architect of the Temple of Solomon, who is the central figure of Masonic ritual. The examination established something else as well. It is well known that in 1362 the English courts officially changed the language used for court proceedings from French to English. So the French roots of all the mysterious terms of Freemasonry confirmed the existence of that secret society in the  fourteenth century, the century of the Templar supression and the Peasants' Revolt.

“With that encouragement I addressed other lost secrets of Masonry: the circle and mosaic pavement on the lodge room floor, gloves and lambskin aprons, the symbol of the compass and the square, even the mysterious legend of the murder of Hiram Abiff. The Rule, customs and traditions of the Templars provided answers to all of those mysteries. Next, came a deeper analysis of the Old Charges of ancient Masonry that define a secret society of mutual protection. What the 'lodge' was doing was assistance brothers in hiding from the wrath of church and state, providing them with money, vouching for them with the authorities, even providing the 'lodging' that gave Freemasonry the unique term for its chapters and its meeting rooms. There remained no reasonable doubt in my mind that the original concept of the secret society that came to call itself Freemasonry had been born as a society of mutual protection among fugitive Templars and their associates in Britain, men who had gone underground to escape the imprisonment and torture that had been ordered for them by Pope Clement V. Their antagonism toward the Church was rendered more powerful by its total secrecy. The suppression of the Templar order appeared to be one of the biggest mistakes the Holy See ever made.

“In return, Freemasonry has been the target of more angry papal bulls and encyclicals than any other secular organization in Christian history. Those condemnations began just a few years after Masonry revealed itself in 1717 and grew in intensity, culminating in the bull Humanum Genus, promulgated by Pope Leo XIII in 1884. In it, the Masons are accused of espousing religious freedom, the separation of church and state, the education of children by laymen, and the extraordinary crime of believing that people have the right to make their own laws and to elect their own government, 'according to the new principles of liberty.'”

[William Cooper]: You see, folks, and this is an aside, all of our forefathers who have established this country were Freemasons, and their intent is spelled out in Latin on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States of America, where it plainly says, Novus Ordo Seclorum, the New World Order. And I will interpret all of the meaning of the symbols on that Great Seal according to their true meaning, and not the meaning the you read in certain disinformation books written by Freemasons to steer you down the wrong road.

“Such concepts are identified, along with the Masons, as part of the kingdom of Satan. The document not only defines the concerns of the Catholic Church about Freemasonry at that time, but, in the negative, so clearly defines what Freemasons believe that I have included the complete text of that papal bull as an appendix to this book.”

[William Cooper]: ...and I urge you all to get this book and read it.

Finally, it should be added that the events described here were part of a great watershed of Western history. The feudal age was coming to a close. Land, and the peasant labor on it, had lost its role as the sole source of wealth. Merchant families banded into guilds, and took over whole towns with charters as municipal corporations. Commerce led to banking and investment, and towns became power centers to rival the nobility in wealth and influence.

The universal church, which had fought for a position of supremacy in a feudal context, was slow to accept changes that might affect that supremacy. Any material disagreement with the church was called heresy, the most heinous crime under heaven. The heretic not only deserved death, but the most painful death imaginable.

Some dissidents run for the woods and hide, while others organize. In the case of the fugitive Knights Templar, the organization already existed. They possessed a rich tradition of secret operations that had been raised to the highest level through their association with the intricacies of Byzantine politics, the secret ritual of the Assassins [and Roshaniya], and the intrigues of the Moslem courts which they met alternately on the battlefield or at the conference table. The church, in its bloody rejection of protest and change, provided them with a river of recruits that flowed for centuries.

More than six hundred years have passed since the suppression of the Knights Templar, but their heritage lives on in the largest fraternal organization ever known. And so the story of those tortured crusading knights, of the savagery of the Peasants' Revolt, and of the lost secrets of Freemasonry becomes the story of the most successful secret society in the history of the world.

[William Cooper]: I've got to take a break, folks. Don't go away. I'll be right back after this very short pause.

(break music: When You Wish Upon A Star, music by Leigh Harline, lyrics by Ned Washington, performed by unknown artist)

[William Cooper]: Spurned by God in the form of the vicar of Christ on earth, the pope, and spurning God in their turn, the Knights Templars banded together in secret and formed what was to become known as Freemasonry. Now the legend goes that Freemasonry sprang up from ancient stonecutters, guilds, and the men who built the stone buildings of the age. But Freemason actually comes from the French: frère macon, which literally means, “The Sons of Light.” Which light will certainly, in researching the problem, that it is not the light of Christ. It is the light of the fallen angel of light, for when they were forsaken by the church, by Christ vicar on earth, the pope, they spurned God and turned to Lucifer. They held to the Luciferian philosophy that the gift of intellect by Lucifer, through his agent Satan, would in its turn make man, God. These men were always on the run. They took the hidden Templar wealth and built a financial empire that stands to this day is the most powerful on the earth. Jews, who had traditionally been persecuted throughout Europe, flocked to the hidden Temple, for there they could believe as they wished and worshiped whatever god they wished, for all were welcome. Many of the Templars running [to ground] flocked to England and to Scotland, where they fought for Robert the Bruce, who was engaged in an intense battle with the King of England.

Now, let me regress just a little bit. King William the Lion, who was born in 1165 and died in 1214, had a daughter, Isabel of Scotland. Well, Isabel married a certain Robert Rose [Roos] . Robert Rose [Roos] was a Knights Templar who was heavily involved in the first efforts (and was very successful) at international banking. Plus, he established the first overt and covert international intelligence gathering organization which all, all subsequent intelligence organizations had been based upon since. His son, Sir William Roos, and his daughter, Lucy Roos, figure prominently in the story to follow. Lucy married Sir Robert Plumpton. They sired two children: Sir William Plumpton and Alice Plumpton. During this period of time, this family, this family as the Knights Templar were going to ground, in the male progeny of this family always followed in their father's footsteps and entered into the order. They established, in secret, the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and may have had a significant role in the establishment, for intelligence reasons, of the order known as the Ancient Order of the Rose and Cross.

Now, Alice Plumpton married Sir John Boteler. They gave birth to a daughter, Alice Boteler, who then married John Gerard, who had a child, Constance, who married Sir Alex Standish. The following children issued from that marriage: Ralph Standish, Sir Alex Standish, Roger Standish, and Alice Standish, who then married James Prescott. The children of this marriage were Roger Prescott, Ralph Prescott, John Prescott, and Captain Jonathan Prescott. Jonathan Prescott married Rebecca Buckley. They had two children, Abel Prescott and Lucy Prescott, and Lucy married Jonathan Fay. They sired three children: Samuel Prescott Phillips Fay, Samuel Howard Fay, and Harriet Eleanor Fay. Harriet married Reverend James Smith Bush   , son of merchant Obidiah [Newcomb] Bush. Their son, Samuel Prescott Bush, became the president of Buckeye Steel Castings Company of Ohio. A pioneer family of Franklin, Ohio between Dayton and Cincinnati, and was one of the members of the Golden Circle and Order of the Quest, also known as the JASON Society, which gave issue to most of the political elite of the United States of America, who are, by the way, all (and I mean all without exception) related to each other.

Now, Samuel Prescott Bush married, and his son Prescott Bush became a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, the director of Prudential Insurance, the director of CBS, a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, chairman, National Republican Finance Committee, funds placed in Merrill Lynch accounts in Switzerland under the guidance of Donald Reagan. When he married, that marriage gave issue to the following:

Prescott Bush II: an investment banker indicted for fraudulent banking practices.

George Bush:
Chairman of Zapata Oil from 1963 to [19]64,
Chairman of Republican Party, Harris County, Texas when J.F. Kennedy was killed,
Delegate to the GOP National Convention (1964),
1968 member of the 90th and 91st Congress from Texas,
From 1965 to [19]66, Nixon appointed Bush as ambassador to the United Nations to deal with China,
He was the director for the Central Intelligence Agency,
Chairman of the GOP party,
Vice President of the United States of America, and President of the United States of America.

Four other children were William H. Bush, James Bush, Jonathan Bush, and Nancy, who married Alex Ellis.

The issue of George and Barbara Bush was:
Dorothy (who married William LeBlond),

John Ellis Bush,

Neil Bush, son of the director of CIA, becomes director of Silverado Savings and Loan and launders CIA drug money. Silverado loses over $100 million dollars and Neil goes unpunished.

And the two other children? Marvin Pierce Bush and George Bush II.

Folks, this intelligence was gathered by one of our agents, code named “John Galt,” who spent literally years in dusty libraries and books of genealogy. And I'm not going to tell you which libraries or how he arrived at this information. But it has been checked, it is absolutely accurate and this is just one portion of the pedigree of George Bush, who's literally related to most of the royal families of Europe.

Now, you can have a copy of this chart if you want it. I'll tell you how to get it later, so have your pencils and paper ready. I'm going to tell you exactly where the money goes. One half of the money goes to help pay for the airtime here; the other half goes to our agent, John Galt, to pay for the years of toil and dusty library books that nobody ever looks in, tracing genealogy. And folks, this is only one of the charts that he has furnished to us, along with others, other agents of the Citizens Agency for Joint Intelligence [CAJI], who are engaged in the exact same research. And we have found that our most productive connections of the secret societies, the royal families, and what's happening in the world today, is through genealogy.

We have found a direct connection between the Peasants' Rebellion [Revolt] in England, the French Revolution, the Ronald Reagan and George Bush [Sr.] political campaign, and the George Bush [Jr.] political campaign. As far as the Peasants' Rebellion goes, the Encyclopedia Britannica calls it a “curiously spontaneous rebellion.” Barbara Tuchman, in her fourteenth century history, a distant mirror, said the rebellions spread “with some evidence of planning.”

Winston Churchill went even further in this work, The Birth of Britain, he wrote: “Throughout the summer of 1381, there was a general ferment. Beneath it all lay organization. Agents moved round the villages of central England, in touch with a 'Great Society' which was said to meet in London....the spark of rebellion was being fanned vigorously, and finally the signal was given. Even though he had been arrested, excommunicated, and even now was a prisoner in the Ecclesiastic prison at Maidstone in Kent, letters went out from priests John Ball and from other priests who followed him. Clerics were then the only literate class, so letters must have been received by local priests who were obviously intended to be shared with or read aloud to others. They all contained a signal to act now, which could put to rest the concept that the rebellion was simply a spontaneous convulsion of frustration that just happened to affect the hundred thousand Englishmen all at the same time.”

This, from a letter from John Ball. In it he says, “John Ball greeteth you well all, and doth you to understand that he hath rongen your bell. Now right and might, will and skill. Now God speed [haste you in] every dele [William Cooper: which means 'ideal'], [now is time].”

From priest Jake Carter [spelling?], “You have great need to take God with you in all of your deeds, for now is time to be war.”

From priest Jake Truman [spelling?], “Jake Truman doth you to understand that falseness and guile have reigned too long and truth hath been set under a lock, and falseness reigneth in evervil flock. God do bote, for now is time.”

Now, you'll notice in every one of those quotes, there was one phrase that stands out and that phrase is “now is time.” One letter from John Ball, “Saint Mary['s] Priest,” is worth quoting in its entirety. Even with the medieval English spelling, the meaning will be clear. Lechery and gluttony were frequent points in his accusations of high church leaders:

“John Ball, Saint Mary’s Priest, greets well all manner [of] men [and] bids 'em in the name of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, stand manly together in truth, and helpeth truth, and truth shall help you. Now reigneth pride in price, and covetousness is held wise, and lechery without shame, and gluttony without blame. Envy reigneth with treason, and sloth is taken in great season. God do bote, for now is time. Amen.”

Now folks, if you research the history of the French Revolution, you will hear that the spark, the word that spread through the country like wildfire that ignited the rebellion in France was “now is the time,” literally the same phrase. Some say that in the American Revolution the same phrase was heard and we find mention of it in several texts, but not like it was heard in the Peasants' Revolt in England, and not like it was heard in the French Revolution. But it was heard again in modern times. It was the campaign slogan of the Bush/Reagan campaign, and was used again in the Bush campaign: “Now is the time.” Now is the time.

One famous photograph staged by George Bush [Sr.] and selected by George Bush for publication in Life Magazine shows him lying in bed, holding the pyramid with the capstone in place, signaling to Masons, Freemasons, and members, the priests of the Mystery Schools around the world, that he is the one who will bring into fruition their ages-, centuries-, millennia-old dream of the New World Order. In our search for the Templars, we have followed them right to their gravestones, and on some of their gravestones it shows the knight, leaning back, reclining with his feet resting up on a dog, denoting that he is the master. On most of the tombstones, however, we have found something unexpected: the skull and crossbones. Now, when the Knights Templars were persecuted, the fleet, they have vast fleets, an entire navy disappeared. And no one, at least no one in the establishment historian group, claims to know where they went. But we have found them folks. They became the pirates and hoisted their symbol of the skull and bones to the yardarm. They became the vast fleet of pirates who roamed the seas of the world and terrorized nations, navies and merchantmen. And thus arose, from the initiation rights of the Templars, the initiatory rights of crossing the equator, the International Date Line, and others, had accounts for the brotherhood amongst the pirates of the world. Even to establishing seaports that they owned and operated, and where they could always find safety. Those on the land established what they called the “Brotherhood of Death.” Chapters were formed throughout the world.

George Bush was initiated in the crypt, or what is known as the tomb at Yale into the Brotherhood of Death, also known as the Russell Trust, also known as the Skull and Bones. The research of many people have revealed what the interior of the crypt, or what is known as the tomb at Yale, the fraternity house of the Bonesmen, contains. And Anthony C. Sutton, in his monumental work, America's Secret Establishment, all about the Skull and Bones, and one other who wrote a magazine article and published it, revealed the initiation ceremony, revealed that swastikas were found inside the tomb, revealed that the alter is a pile of bones and that the secret ceremony that George Bush underwent during his initiation was thus: “On the day of his initiation, George Bush was conducted through a long dark passage into an immense hall draped with black. He was able to see by the faint light of [several] Crow lamps corpses [William Cooper repeats: Corpses] in their shrouds. The alter, built of human skeletons, stood in the center. Ghostly forms moved through the hall, leaving behind them a foul odor. At [length], two men dressed as specters appeared  and tied a pink band of ribbon smeared with blood around his forehead. Upon this was an image of the Lady of Loret[t]o. A crucifix was placed in his hand and an amulet hung around his neck. His clothes were removed and laid upon a funeral pyre [William Cooper: in a fireplace], while upon his body, crosses were smeared in blood. Then his [pedenta?] were tied with string [William Cooper: that's his genitals].

“Now five horrid and frightening figures, blood-stained and mumbling, approached him and threw themselves down in prayer. After an hours, sounds of weeping were heard. The funeral pyre started to burn and his clothes were consumed. From the flames of this fire a huge and almost transparent form arose, while the five prostrate figures went into terrible convulsions. Now came the voice of an invisible Hierophant, booming from somewhere below as George Bush lay in a coffin naked. The words were those of these oaths, which the candidate had to repeat: 'In the name of the crucified one, I swear to sever all bonds which unite me with mother, brothers, sisters, wife, relatives, friends, mistress, kings, superiors, benefactors, or any other man to whom I have promised faith, service, or obedience. I name the place in which I was born, henceforth I live in another dimension, which I will not reach until I have renounced    the evil glow which has been cursed by Heaven. For now onwards, I shall reveal to my new chief all that I have heard or found out, and I shall also seek out and observe things which might have otherwise have escaped me. I honor the Aqua Tofana. It is a quick and essential medium of removing from the earth through death or robbing them of their wits, of those who oppose truth and those who try to take it from our hands. I shall avoid Spain, Naples, and all other accursed lands, and I shall avoid the temptation to betray what I have now of heard. Lightning will not strike as rapidly as the dagger which will reach me wherever I may be, should I betray my initiation.'

“Now a candelabrum bearing seven black candles is placed before the candidate, and also a bowl containing what is supposed to be human blood. He washes himself in the blood and drinks a quantity of it. The string around his genitalia is removed. He is placed in a bath to undergo complete ablution. After this he eats a meal composed of vegetables. At this time, he is given his new name by which he will be known to all of the others in the order, the Brotherhood of Death. And with the completion of his initiation, George Bush joined all of the male members of his family in a long line of ancestry, traced from Robert Roos to the modern day. He took his place in the order, the Knights Templar, Freemasonry, and has worked diligently to fulfill his role in the completion of the plan, The Great Work, the formation of the New World Order, the one-world totalitarian socialist state, the destruction of all existing nation states, all existing religions, and enslavement of the mob.

The very highest degrees of the order show that the rationalism and materialism of the thinkers who developed it were determined to stamp out belief in religion. God and any faith in a deity, the initiate were told, were human inventions and no real meaning. Subsequently, this was developed further and the member who arrived at the highest position, that of Rex or King, learned that he is now equal to a king, and that all men were capable of equal advancement. Hence, the need for kings over ordinary mortals was an illusion, and that at the highest rank, the title of Rex Mundi, or King of the World, is assumed.”

If you would like to get this genealogy folks, if you're a CAJI member, it's five dollars, send it in to the address that you'll hear at the end of this broadcast. For everybody else, it's ten dollars. Good night, and God bless each and every single one of you.

(closing music: Amazing Grace, sung by unknown artist)

[Viper]

Bill didn't re-start the series until half-ways through 11, whatever, i'd rather read the original books anyways.

[Dok]

Bill didn't re-start the series until half-ways through 11, whatever, i'd rather read the original books anyways.

oK then thanx for ALL YOUR HELP.

That John Gault is a lazy ass, he won't produce, let's just say pt 10 will be up before John manages a breath.

Looks like he produced correctly. We dont need or want your help with that kind of attitude. 9Thanx for wasting our time. wakingup72 will pick up your slack as he believes in his commitments. Thanx for your contributions. ill make sure to exclude you on any future endevure.

[Dok]

(Personal note: let it be known right now that this was originally assigned to Viper from PrisonPlanet Forums. His way of 'contributing' was to locate the passage of the book that Cooper was reading from and paste the text without adding the additional commentary by Mr. Cooper.

Let it be known that Viper talks a good game, but made it clear in his actions that he is completely useless. This episode was the easiest out of the whole series - maybe that's why he chose it. But Viper doesn't even possess the self-discipline to sit through an entire hour of audio.

If you want to debate me about this Viper, you know where to find me...douche.)

Transcribed by wakingup72:


William Cooper's Mystery Babylon: Part 10 – The Assassins
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You're listening to the Hour of the Time and I'm your host, William Cooper.

(opening music: Unknown [as in, can't remember the title] classical song)

(Read from A History of Secret Societies by Arkon Daraul, Citadel Press 1961/1989.)

“Two men in the year 1092 stood on the ramparts of a medieval castle - the Eagle's Nest - perched high upon the crags of the Persian mountains: the personal representative of the Emperor and the veiled figure who claimed to be the incarnation of God on earth. Hasan, son of Sabah, Sheikh of the Mountains and leader of the Assassins, spoke: 'You see that devotee standing guard on yonder turret-top? Watch!'

“He made a signal. Instantly the white-robed figure threw up his hands in salutation, and cast himself two thousand feet into the foaming torrent which surrounded the fortress.

“'I have seventy thousand men - and women - throughout Asia, each one of them ready to do my bidding. Can your master, Malik Shah, say the same? And he asks me to surrender to his sovereignty! This is your answer. Go!'

“Such a scene may be worthy of the most exaggerated of horror films. And yet it took place in historical fact. The only quibble made by the chronicler of the time was that Hasan's devotees numbered 'only about forty thousand.' How this man Sabah came by his uncanny power, and how his devotees struck terror into the hearts of men from the Caspian to Egypt, is one of the most extraordinary of all tales of secret societies [William Cooper: the Mysteries]. Today, the sect of the Hashishin ([or] druggers) still exists in the form of the Ismailis ([or] Ishmaelites), whose undisputed chief, endowed by them with divine attributes, is the Aga Khan.

“Like many another secret cult, the Assassin organization was based upon an earlier association. In order to understand how they worked and what their objectives were, we must begin with these roots.

“It must be remembered [William Cooper: dear listeners] that the followers of Islam in the seventh century A.D. split into two divisions: the orthodox, who regard Mohammed as the bringer of divine inspiration; and the Shiahs, who consider that Ali, his successor, the Fourth Imam ([or] leader), was more important. It is with the Shiahs that we are concerned here.

“From the beginning of the split in the early days of Islam, the Shiahs relied for survival upon secrecy, organization and initiation. Although the minority party in Islam, they believed that they could overcome the majority (and eventually the whole world) by superior organization and power. To this end they started a number of societies which practised secret rites in which the personality of Ali was worshipped, and whose rank and file were trained to struggle above all for the accomplishment of world dominion.

“One of the most successful secret societies which the Shiahs founded was centred around the Abode of Learning in Cairo, which was the training-ground for fanatics who were conditioned by the most cunning methods to believe in a special divine mission. In order to do this, the original democratic Islamic ideas had to be overcome by skilled teachers, acting under the orders of the Caliph of the Fatimites, who ruled Egypt at that time.

"Members were enrolled, on the understanding that they were to receive hidden power and timeless wisdom which would enable them to become as important in life as some of the teachers."

[William Cooper]: ...and you'll find that these same precepts in every branch, in every nationality on every continent where the Mysteries prevail.

"[And] the Caliph saw to it that the instructors were no ordinary men. The supreme judge was one of them; another was the commander-in-chief of the army; a third the minister of the Court. There was no lack of applicants. In any country where the highest officials of the realm formed a body of teachers, one would find the same thing.

"Classes were divided into study groups, some composed of men, others of women, collectively termed Assemblies of Wisdom. All lessons were carefully prepared, written down and submitted to the Caliph for his seal. At the end of the lecture all present kissed the seal: for did the Caliph not claim direct descent from Mohammed, through his son-in-law Ali and thence from Ismail, the seventh Imam? He was the embodiment of divinity, far more than any Tibetan lama ever was.

"The university, lavishly endowed and possessing the best manuscripts and scientific instruments available, received a grant of a quarter of a million gold pieces annually from the Caliph. Its external form was similar to the pattern of the ancient Arab universities, not much different from Oxford. But its real purpose was the complete transformation of the mind of the student.

"Students had to pass through nine degrees of initiation [William Cooper: the same number that are claimed in the York Rite of Freemasonry]. In the first, the teachers threw their pupils into a state of doubt about all conventional ideas, religious and political. They used false analogy and every other device of argument to make the aspirant believe that what he had been taught by his previous mentors was prejudiced and capable of being challenged. The effect of this according to the Arab historian, Makrizi, was to cause him to lean upon the personality of the teachers, as the only possible source of the proper interpretation of facts. At the same time, the teachers hinted continually that formal knowledge was merely the cloak for hidden, inner and powerful truth, whose secret would be imparted when the youth was ready to receive it. [William Cooper: None ever questioned why no secret was ever put forth.] This 'confusion technique' was carried out until the student reached the stage where he was prepared to swear a vow of blind allegiance to one or other of his teachers.

"This oath, together with certain secret signs, was administered in due course, and the candidate awarded the first degree of initiation. The second degree took the form of initiation into the fact that the Imams (successors of Mohammed) were the true and only sources of secret knowledge and power. Imams inspired the teachers. Therefore the student was to acknowledge every saying and act of his appointed guides as blessed and divinely inspired. In the third degree, the esoteric names of the Seven Imams were revealed, and the secret words by which they could be conjured and by which the powers inherent in the very repetition of their names could be liberated and used for the individual especially in the service of the sect.

"In the fourth degree, the succession of the Seven Mystical Law-givers and magical personalities was given to the learner. These were characterized as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed and Ismail. There were seven mystical 'helpers': Seth, Shem, Ishmael, Aaron, Simon, Ali, and Mohammed, the son of Ismail. This last was dead, but he had a mysterious deputy, who was the Lord of the Time: authorized to give his instructions to the People of Truth, as the Ismails called themselves. This hidden figure gave the Caliph the power to pretend that he was acting under even higher instructions.

"The fifth degree named twelve apostles under the seven prophets, whose names and functions and magical powers were described. In this degree the power to influence others by means of personal concentration was supposed to be taught. One writer claims that this was done merely by the repetition, for a period of three years to train the mind, of the magical word AK-ZABT-I.

"To obtain the sixth degree involved instruction in the methods of analytical and destructive argument, in which the postulant had to pass a stiff examination. The seventh degree brought revelation of the Great Secret: that all humanity and all creation were one and every single thing was part of the whole, which included the creative and destructive power. But, as an Ismaili, the individual could make use of the power which was ready to be awakened within him, and overcome those who knew nothing of the immense potential of the rest of humanity. This power came through the aid of mysterious power called the Lord of the Time.

"To qualify for the eighth degree, the aspirant had to believe that all religion, philosophy and the like were fraudulent. All that mattered was the individual, who could attain fulfillment only through servitude to the greatest developed power - the Imam. The ninth and last degree brought the revelation of the secret that there was no such thing as belief: all that mattered was action. And the only possessor of the reasons for carrying out any action was the chief of the sect.

"As a secret society, the organization of the Ismailis as outlined above was undoubtedly powerful and seemed likely to produce a large number of devotees who would blindly obey the orders of whomever was in control of the edifice. But, as with other bodies of this kind, there were severe limitations from the point of view of effectiveness.

"Perhaps the phase of revolt or subversion planned by the society did not in the end get under way; perhaps it was not intended to work by any other means than training the individual. Be that as it may, its real success extended abroad only (in 1058) to Baghdad, where a member gained temporary control of Baghdad and coined money in the Egyptian Caliph's name. [Now] this sultan was slain by the Turks, who now entered the picture, and the Cairo headquarters was also threatened . By 1123, the society was closed down by the Vizier Afdal. The rise of Turkish power seemed to have discouraged the expansionist Cairo sect so strongly that they almost faded out, and [very] little is heard of them after that date.

"It was left to Hasan, son of Sabah, the Old Man of the Mountains, to perfect the system of the ailing secret society, and found an organization which [has] endured for nearly another thousand years.

"Who was Hasan? He was the son of a Shiah (Ali-worshipper) in Khorasam, a most bigoted man, who claimed that his ancestors were Arabs, from Kufa. This assumption was probably due to the fact that such a lineage bolstered up claims to religious importance, then as now, among Moslems. The people of the neighborhood, many of them also Shiahs, stated very decisively that this Ali was a Persian, and so were his forebears. [So] it is generally thought that this is the truer version. As the Governor of the Province was an orthodox Moslem, Ali spared no efforts to assume the same guise. [Now] this is considered to be completely permissible - the Doctrine of Intelligent Dissimulation. As there was some doubt as to his reliability in the religious sense, he retired into a monastic retreat, and sent his son Hasan to an orthodox school. This school was no ordinary one. It was the circle of disciples presided over by the redoubtable Imam Muwafiq, about whom it was said that every individual who enrolled under him eventually rose to great power.

"It was here that Hasan met Omar Khayyám, the tentmaker-poet and astronomer, later to be the poet laureate of Persia. Another of his schoolmates was Nizam-ul-Mulk, who rose from peasanthood to become prime minister. These three made a pact, according to Nizam's autobiography, where whichever rose to high office first would help the others."

[William Cooper]: ...and that tenet has survived to this day. It is how their own infiltrate all levels of society, military, and government, and then pull their brothers up into positions below them. It is the method of infiltrating and controlling large masses, populations, governments, military organizations, and society as a whole.

"Nizam, the courtier, became Vizier to Alp-Arslan the Turkish sultan of Persia [William Cooper: in a very relatively short time. He helped Omar], in accordance with his vow, and secured him a pension, which gave him a life of ease and indulgence in his beloved Nishapur, where many of his Rubá'iát poems were written. Meanwhile Hasan remained in obscurity, wandering through the Middle East, waiting for his chance to attain the power of which he had dreamed. Arslan the Lion died, and was succeeded by Malik Shah. Suddenly, Hasan presented himself to Nizam, demanding to be given a place at court. Delighted to fulfill his childhood vow, the vizier obtained him a favored place, and relates what transpired thus in his autobiography:

"'I had him made [a] minister by my strong and extravagant recommendations. Like his father, however, he proved to be a fraud, hypocrite and a self-seeking villain. He was so clever at dissimulation that he appeared to be pious when he was not, and before long he had somehow completely captured the mind of the Shah.'

"Malik Shah was young, and Hasan was trained in the Shiah art of winning people over by apparent honesty [William Cooper: which means he had the appearance, with a look of honesty, but truly is not, just as the notice of apparent violations sent by the FCC (laughs)]. But Nizam was still the most important man in the realm, with an impressive record of honest dealing and achievements. Hasan decided to eliminate him.

"The king had asked in that year, 1078, for a complete accounting of the revenue and expenditure of the empire, and Nizam told him that this would take over a year. Hasan, on the other hand, claimed that the whole work could be done in forty days, and offered to prove it [William Cooper: and there's that forty days again]. The task was assigned to him. And the accounts were prepared in the specified time. Something went wrong at this point. The balance of historical opinion holds that Nizam struck back at the last moment, saying, 'By Allah, this man will destroy us all unless he is rendered harmless, though I cannot kill my playmate.' Whatever the truth may be, it seems that Nizam managed to have such disparities introduced into the final calligraphic version of the accounts that when Hasan started to read them they appeared so absurd that the Shah, in fury, ordered him to be exiled. As he had claimed to have written the accounts in his own hand, Hasan could not justify their incredible deficiencies [William Cooper: and could not sluff the blame off upon his friend].

"Hasan had friends in Isfahan, where he immediately fled. There survives a record of what he said there, which sheds interesting light upon what was in his mind. One of these friends, Abu-al-Fazal, notes that Hasan, after reciting the bitter tale of his downfall, shouted these words, in a state of uncontrollable rage: 'If I had two, just two, devotees who would stand by me, then I would cause the downfall of that Turk and that peasant.'

"Fazal concluded that Hasan had taken leave of his senses, and tried to get him out of this ugly mood. Hasan took umbrage, and insisted that he was working on a plan, and that he would have his revenge. He set off for Egypt, there to mature his plans.

"Fazal was himself later to become a devotee of the Assassin chief, and Hasan, two decades later, reminded him of that day in Isfahan: 'Here I am at Alamut, Master of all I survey: and more. The Sultan and the peasant Vizier are dead. Have I not kept my vow? Was I the madman you thought me to be? I found my two devotees, who were necessary to my plans.'

"Hasan himself takes up the story of how his fortunes fared after the flight from Persia. He had been brought up in the secret doctrines of Ismailism [William Cooper: The Arab branch of the Mysteries], and recognized the possibilities of power inherent in such a system. He knew that in Cairo there was a powerful nucleus of the society. And, if we are to believe the words of Fazal, he already had a plan whereby he could turn their followers into disciplined, devoted fanatics, willing to die for a leader. What was this plan? He had decided that it was not enough to promise paradise, fulfillment, eternal joy to people. He would actually show it to them; show it in the form of an artificial paradise, where houris played and fountains gushed sweet-scented waters, where every sensual wish was granted amid beautiful flowers and gilded pavilions. And this [dear listeners] is what he eventually did.

"Hasan chose a hidden valley for the site of his paradise, described by Marco Polo, who passed this way in 1271:

"'In a beautiful valley, enclosed between two lofty mountains, he had formed a luxurious garden stored with every delicious fruit and every fragrant shrub that could be procured. Palaces of various sizes and forms were erected in different parts of the grounds, ornamented with works of gold, with paintings and with furniture of rich silks. By means of small conduits contained in these buildings, streams of wine, milk, honey and some of pure water were seen to flow in every direction. The inhabitants of these places were elegant and beautiful damsels, accomplished in the arts of singing, playing upon all sorts of musical instruments, dancing, and especially those of dalliance and amorous allurement. Clothed in rich dresses, they were seen continually sporting and amusing themselves in the garden and pavilions, their female guardians being confined within doors and never allowed to appear. The object which the chief had in view in forming a garden of this fascinating kind was this: that Mahomet having promised to those who should obey his will the enjoyments of Paradise, where every species of sensual gratification should be found, in the society of beautiful nymphs, he was desirous of it being understood by his followers that he also was a prophet and a compeer of Mahomet, and had the power of admitting to Paradise such as he should choose to favor. In order that none without his license should find their way into this delicious valley, he caused a strong and inexpungable castle to be erected at the opening to it, through which the entry was by a secret passage."

[William Cooper]: ...and thus the legend of Shambala, or the paradise in the mountains, a valley of lush greenery, unending fruits, fair, beautiful maidens...thus the legend began.

"Hasan began to attract young men from the surrounding countryside, between the ages of twelve and twenty: particularly those whom he marked out as possible material for the production of killers. Every day he held court, a reception at which he spoke of the delights of Paradise and at certain times he caused droughts of soporific nature to be administered to ten or a dozen youths, and when half dead with sleep [William Cooper: drugged out of their minds] he had them conveyed to the several palaces and apartments of the garden. Upon awakening from this state of lethargy, their senses were struck by all the delightful objects, and each perceiving himself surrounded by lovely damsels, singing, playing, and attracting his regards by the most fascinating caresses, serving him also with delicious viands and exquisite wines, until, intoxicated with excess and enjoyment, amidst actual [real] rivers of milk and wine, he believed himself assuredly in Paradise, and felt an unwillingness to relinquish its delights. When four or five days had thus been passed, they were thrown once more into a state of somnolency [drugged], and carried out of the garden. Upon being carried to his presence, and questioned by him as to where they had been, their answer was, 'in Paradise, through the favour of your highness'; and then, before the whole court who listened to them with eager astonishment and curiosity, they gave a circumstantial account of the scenes to which they had been witnesses. The chief thereupon addressing them said: 'We have the assurance of our Prophet that he who defends his Lord shall inherit Paradise, and if you show yourselves to be devoted to the obedience of my orders, that happy lot awaits you'.

"Suicide was at first attempted by some [William Cooper: to be able to return to the Paradise that they had just left, not knowing that it was an illusion]; but the survivors were early told that only death in the obedience of Hasan's orders could give the Key to Paradise. In the eleventh century it was not only credulous Persian peasants who would have believed such things were true. Even among more sophisticated people the reality of the gardens and houris of paradise were completely accepted. True, a good many Sufis preached that the garden was allegorical - but that still left more than a few people who believed that they could trust the evidence of their senses.

"The ancient Art of Imposture, by Abdel-Rahman of Damascus, gives away another trick of Hasan's. He had a deep, narrow pit sunk into the floor of his audience-chamber. One of his disciples stood in this, in such a way that his head and neck alone were visible above the floor. Around the neck was placed a circular dish in two pieces which fitted together, with a hole in the middle. This gave the impression that there was a severed head on a metal plate standing on the floor. In order to make the scene more plausible (if that is the word) Hasan had some fresh blood poured around the head, on the plate.

"Now certain recruits were brought in [William Cooper: the initiates]. 'Tell them,' commanded the chief, 'what thou hast seen.' The disciple [William Cooper: appearing as a head on the plate] then described the delights of Paradise. 'You have seen the head of a man who died, whom you all knew. I have reanimated him to speak with his own tongue.'

"[William Cooper: And then, he would really sever, treacherously, the man's head] in real earnest, and stuck for some time somewhere that the faithful would see it. The effect of this conjuring trick plus murder increased the enthusiasm for martyrdom to the required degree [William Cooper: and gave him unbelievable control over his flock.].

"There are many documented instances of the recklessness of the fidayeen (devotees) of the Ismailis, one witness being a Westerner who was treated a century later to a similar spectacle to that which had appalled the envoy of Malik Shah.”

[William Cooper]: But we've got to take a break first, folks. Don't go away, I'll be right back after this very short pause.

(break music: Theme from The Twilight Zone)

"Henry, Count of Champagne, reports that he was traveling in 1194 through Ismaili territory. The chief sent some persons to salute him and beg that, on his return he would stop at and partake of the hospitality of the castle. The Count accepted the invitation. As he returned, the Dai-el-Kebir (Great Missionary) advanced to meet him, showed him every mark of honor, and let him view his castle and fortresses. Having passed through several, they came at length to one of the towers which rose to an exceeding height. On each tower stood two sentinels clad in white. 'These,' said the Chief, pointing to them, 'obey me far better than the subjects of our Christians obey their lords;' and at a given signal two of them flung themselves down, and were dashed to pieces. 'If you wish,' said he to the astonished Count, 'all my white ones shall do the same.' The benevolent Count shrank from the proposal, and candidly avowed that no Christian prince could presume to look for such obedience from his subjects. When he was departing, with many valuable presents, the Chief said to him meaningly, 'By means of these trusty servants I get rid of the enemies of our society.'

"Further details of the mentality of Hasan are given in what is supposed to be an autobiographical account of his early days: and it probably is in fact such, because the method of his conversion does seem to follow the pattern which has been observed in fanatics, of whatever religious or political persuasion.

"He was, he says, reared in the belief of the divine right of the Imams, by his father. He early met an Ismaili missionary (Emir Dhareb) with whom he argued strenuously against the Emir's particular form of creed. Then, some time later, he went through a bout of severe illness, in which he feared to die, and began to think that the Ismaili doctrine might really be the road to redemption and Paradise. If he died unconverted, he might be damned. Thus it was that as soon as he recovered he sought out another Ismaili propagandist, Abu Najam, and then others. Eventually he went to Egypt, to study the creed at its headquarters.

"He was received with honor by the Caliph, due to his former position at the Court of Malik Shah. in order to increase their own importance, the high officials of the Court made a good deal of public play of the significance of the new convert; but this fact seemed in the end to help Hasan more than it did them. He entered into political intrigue and [he] was arrested, then confined in a fortress. No sooner had he entered the prison than a minaret collapsed, and in some unexplained way this was interpreted as an omen that Hasan was in reality a divinely protected person. The Caliph, hurriedly making Hasan a number of valuable gifts, had him put aboard a ship sailing for north-west Africa. This gave him the funds which he was to use for setting up his 'paradise' - and also, through some quirk of fate, the disciples whom he sought.

"A tremendous storm blew up, terrifying the captain, crew and passengers alike. Prayers were held, and Hasan was asked to join. He refused. 'The storm is my doing; how can I pray that it abate?' he asked. 'I have indicated the displeasure of the Almighty. If we sink, I shall not die, for I am immortal. If you want to be saved, believe in me, and I shall subdue the winds.'

"At first the offer was not accepted. Presently, however, when the ship seemed on the point of capsizing, the desperate passengers came to him and swore eternal allegiance. Hasan was still calm; and continued so until the storm abated. The ship was then driven on to the sea-coast of Syria, where Hasan disembarked, together with two of the merchant passengers, who became his first real disciples.

"Hasan was not yet ready for the fulfillment of his destiny as he saw it. For the time being, he was traveling under the guise of a missionary of the Caliph in Cairo. From Aleppo he went to Baghdad, seeking a headquarters where he should be safe from interference and where he yet could become powerful enough to expand. Into Persia the road led him, traveling through the country, making converts to his ideas, which were still apparently strongly based upon the secret doctrines of the Egyptian Ismailis. Everywhere he created a really devoted disciple (fidayi) he bade him stay and try to enlarge the circle of his followers. These circles became hatching-grounds for the production of 'self-sacrificers', the initiates who were drawn from the ranks of the most promising ordinary converts. Thus it was that miniature training centers, modeled upon the Abode of Learning, were in being within a very few months of his return to his homeland.

"During his travels, a trusted lieutenant - one Hussein Kahini - reported that the Iraki district where the fortress of Alamut was situated seemed to be an ideal place for proselytism. Most of the ordinary people of that place, in fact, had been persuaded into the Ismaili way of thinking. The only obstacle was the Governor, Ali Mahdi, who looked upon the Caliph of Baghdad as his spiritual and temporal lord. The first converts were expelled from the country. Before many months, however, there were so many Ismailis among the populace that the Governor was compelled to allow them to return. Hasan, though, he would not brook. The prospective owner of Alamut decided to try a trick. He offered the Governor three thousand pieces of gold for 'the amount of land which could be encompassed by the hide of an ox'. When Mahdi agreed to such a sale, Hasan produced a skin, cut it into the thinnest possible thongs, and joined them together to form a string which encompassed the castle of Alamut. Although the Governor refused to honour any such bargain, Hasan produced an order from a very highly placed official of the Seljuk rulers, ordering that the fortress be handed over to Hasan for three thousand gold pieces. It turned out that this official was himself a secret follower of the Sheikh of the Mountain.

"The year was A.D. 1090. Hasan was now ready for the next part of his plan. He attacked and routed the troops of the Emir who had been placed in the governorship of the Province, and welded the people of the surrounding districts into a firm band of diligent and trustworthy workers and soldiers, answerable to him alone. Within two years the Vizier Nizam-ul-Mulk had been stabbed to the heart by an assassin sent by Hasan, and the Emperor Malik Shah, who dared to send troops against him, died in grave suspicion of poison. Hasan's revenge upon his class-fellow was to make him the very first target of his reign of terror. With the king's death, the whole realm was split up into warring factions. For long the Assassins alone retained their cohesion. In under a decade they had made themselves masters of all Persian Irak, and of many forts throughout the empire. This they did by forays, direct attack, the poisoned dagger, and in any other manner which seemed expedient [William Cooper: indeed, the ends always justifies by the means]. The orthodox religious leaders pronounced one interdict after another against their doctrines; all to no effect.

"By now the entire loyalty of the Ismailis under him had been transferred from the Caliph to the personality of the Sheikh of the Mountain, who became the terror of every prince in that part of Asia, the Crusader chiefs included. 'Despite and despising fatigues, dangers and tortures, the Assassins joyfully gave their lives whenever it pleased the great master, who required them either to protect himself or to carry out his mandates of death. The victim having been pointed out, the faithful, clothed in a white tunic with a red sash, the colors of innocence and blood, went on their mission without being deterred by distance or danger. Having found the person they sought, they awaited the favorable moment for slaying him, and their daggers seldom missed their aim.'

"Richard the Lionheart was at one time accused of having asked the 'Lord of the Mountain' to have Conrad of Montferrat killed; a plot which was carried out thus: 'Two assassins allowed themselves to be baptized and placing themselves beside him, seemed intent only on praying. But the favorable opportunity presented itself; they stabbed him and one took refuge in the church. But hearing that the prince had been carried off still alive, he again forced himself into Montferrat's presence, and stabbed him a second time; and then expired, without a complaint, amidst refined tortures.'"

[William Cooper]: You see, the method of controlling men's minds that Hasan had perfected was extremely effective and powerful, and not one, not even one incidence of one of his followers failing to carry out his orders exactly can be found.

"The Order of the Assassins had perfected their method of securing the loyalty of human beings to an extent and on a scale which has seldom been paralleled.

"The Assassins carried on the battle on two fronts. They fought whichever side in the Crusades served their purposes [William Cooper: They fought with the Knights Templars and fought against the Knights Templars.]. At the same time they continued the struggle against the Persians. The son and successor of Nizam-al-Mulk was laid low by an Assassin dagger. The Sultan, who had succeeded his father Malik Shah and gained power over most of his territories was marching against them. One morning, however, he awoke with an Assassin weapon stuck neatly into the ground near his head. Within it was a note, warning him to call off the proposed siege of Alamut. He came to terms with the Assassins [after that], powerful ruler though he undoubtedly was. They had what amounted to a free hand, in exchange for a pact by which they promised to reduce their military power."

[William Cooper]: It was during their pacts, their treaties, their battles with the Knights Templars that many, some say most, some few even say all the Knights Templars were initiated into the Mysteries.

"Hasan lived for thirty-four years after his acquisition of Alamut. On only two occasions since then had he even left his room; yet he ruled an invisible empire as great and as fearsome as any man before - or since."

[William Cooper]: ...they say, but his empire may still exist today, changed and melded with other sects of the Mysteries.

"[Hasan] seemed to realize that death was almost upon him, and calmly began to make plans for the perpetual continuance [folks] of the Order of the Assassins."

[William Cooper]: And we now being the latter days of the Assassins, which we will not finish in this hour, but will finish in the next.

"The ruler of one the most terrifying organizations the world has ever known was without a lineal successor. He had had both of his sons killed: one for carrying out an unauthorized murder, the other for drinking wine; certainly a case of 'do as I say, not as I do'. He called his two most trusted lieutenants from the strongholds which they maintained on his behalf: Kia Buzurg-Umid (Kia of Great Promise) and Abu-Ali of Qaswin. Kia was to inherit the spiritual and mystical aspect, while Abu-Ali attended to the military and administrative affairs of the Order. It is said that Hasan bin Sabah died almost immediately afterwards, in 1124, at ninety years of age; having given the world a new word; assassin. 'Assasseen' in Arabic signifies 'guardians', and some commentators have considered this to be the true origin of the word: 'guardians of the secrets [William Cooper: which the Knight Templar took to Europe].'

"The Organization of the Order, under Hasan, called for Missionaries (Dayes), Friends (Rafiq) who were disciples, and Fidavis, devotees. The last group had been added by Hasan to the Ismaili original, and these were the trained killers. Fidavis wore white, with a girdle, cap or boots of red. In addition to careful coaching in where and when to place the dagger in the victim's bosom, they were trained in such things as languages, the dress and manners of monks, merchants and soldiers, any of whom they were ready to impersonate in carrying out their missions. The chief was known as Sayedna (Our Prince, Leader), and popularly (because of the mountain stronghold of Alamut), as the Sheikh of the Mountain."

[William Cooper:] Now, Alamut, or the stronghold of the mountain, was also known as "The Eagle's Nest," and this is what Hitler named his mountain retreat, and there's also an Eagle's Nest near Santa Barbara, California, which very few people know anything about...yet.

"[Now the Sheikh of the Mountain] is the figure referred to in Crusaders' writings as 'Sydney', or 'Senex de Monte', the first word being a literal translation of the word 'Pir': Persian for Ancient, or Sage. There were three Great Missionaries, who ruled three territories. After the Friends and Fidavis came the Laziks, aspirants who were being trained for membership of the society, but were as yet uninitiated.

"Hasan reduced the original number of degrees of initiation from nine to the mystical number of seven. A similar number of regulations formed the rules of the Order. This, in fact, comprised the working plan of the spreading of the Faith. The First Rule was the the Missionary must know human psychology in such a way as to be able to select suitable people for admission to the cult; and was summed up in the mnemonic: Cast no seeds upon rocks. The second rule of procedure was the application of flattery and gaining the confidence of the prospective member. Third came the casting of doubt into the mind, by superior knowledge. Fourthly, the teacher must apply an oath to [the] student never to betray any of the 'truths' which were to be revealed to him. Now he was told, as the fifth stage, that Ismailism was a powerful secret organization, supported by some of the most important figures of the time. After this, the aspirant was questioned and studied, to discover whether he had absorbed the opinions of the teacher and attached himself sufficiently into a position of dependence upon his ideas. [And] at this stage he was asked to meditate upon the meaning of the reported saying of the prophet that 'Paradise lies in the shadow of swords'. In the final degree, many difficult passages of the Koran were explained in terms of allegory.

"How is it that the rules of this extraordinarily successful Order are known in such detail? It so happened that when the Mongols eventually overthrew Alamut by force of arms, their chief Halaku ('Destruction') Khan, asked his chief minister to examine their library. This most learned man, 'Father of Kings' Jawani, later wrote a careful book in which he detailed the organization of the Assassins, whose name he attributed to the use of the drug Hashish, which they were said to use in stupefying candidates for the ephemeral visit to 'paradise'.

"It is possible that recruits were made in another way than by selecting gullible, fully grown youths. Legend has it that Hasan, once master of Alamut, used to buy unwanted children from their parents, and train them in implicit obedience and with the sole desire to die in his service.

"Buzurg-Umid ('Great Promise'), the second Grand Master [William Cooper: 'Grand Master' is still used today, folks], maintained the power of the Assassins on much the same pattern: building new forts, gaining fresh converts, terrorizing those whom he did not want to have killed and using them to further his designs of world conquest. Sultan Sanjar of Persia, in spite of several expeditions against the Viper's Nest, as Alamut was now being called, could do little about him.”

[William Cooper:] "Viper's Nest" was the term given by the Assassins' enemies. The Assassins themselves call it the "Eagle's Nest."

"Ambassadors on each side were slain; a notable religious leader was captured by the Assassins, given a mock trial and flung into a furnace. The Grand Master at this time seldom put on the field more than two thousand men at a time: but it must be remembered that they were killers acting under an iron discipline, and more than a match for any organized army that they might ever have to face. Now the Order began to spread in Syria, where the continued contact with the Crusaders was established.

"The warriors of the Cross were in fairly effective control of an area extending from the Egyptian border to Armenia in the north. Bahram, a Persian leader of the Assassin cult from Astrabad, gained control of a mighty fortress in Syria, in the region known as the Valley of Demons (Wadi-el-Jan), and from there spread from one fort to another. The Grand Prior Bahram now moved to an even more substantial fortified place, Massyat. Bahram's successor, Ismail the Lash-Bearer, planted a trained devotee on the saintly Vizier of Baghdad, into whose confidence he worked his way to such an extent that this Assassin, now called the 'Father of Trust', was actually made Grand Judge of Baghdad.

"The Crusaders had by now been about thirty years in the Holy Land, and the Assassins decided that they could usefully form an alliance with them aimed against Baghdad. A secret treaty was therefore made between the Grand Master and Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, whereby the Ismaili Grand Judge would have opened the gates of Baghdad treacherously to the Crusaders, if the fortified city of Tyre were handed over to the Assassins for their part in the transaction.

"[William Cooper: Well, as with most plans,] something went wrong. The judge had ordered an underling to open the city's gates. This servant had told the military commander of Damascus, who lost no time in killing the man, the Vizier and six thousand people believed to be secret Assassins within the city. The Damascus garrison fell upon the Crusaders and beat them back in a thunderstorm which the Christian warriors attributed to divine anger at their unworthy pact, and the Assassins as an attempt by the powers of Nature to allow the Crusaders into the city under its cover.

"Meanwhile the Grand Master was indulging in an orgy of destruction of individual rulers who opposed his creed; the list is interminable, but this is a fair example: 'The celebrated Aksunkur, Prince of Mosul, was a warrior equally dreaded by the Christians and the Assassins. As this Prince, on his return from Ma'ara Masrin, where the Moslem and Christian hosts had parted without venturing to engage, entered the Mosque at Mosul to perform his devotions, he was attacked at the moment when he was about to take his usual seat by eight Assassins, disguised as dervishes. Three of them fell below the blows of the valiant Emir; but ere his people could come to his aid, he had received his death-wound and expired.'

"The fanaticism which inspired the killers was shared, it seems, by other members of their families, who had been thoroughly trained in the bloody creed: for the historian Kamal-ed-Din relates, 'On this occasion when the mother of one of the youths who attempted Aksunkur's life heard that he had been slain, she painted her face and donned the gayest raiment and ornaments, rejoicing that her son had been found worthy to die the glorious death of a martyr in the cause of the Imam. But when she saw him return alive and unscathed, she cut off her hair and blackened her countenance, and would not be comforted.'

"Things thus continued for the fourteen years and a quarter of the Second Grand Master's rule. When he died he nominated his son Kia Mohammed as his successor. Under Mohammed the killings continued, a part of the sea-coast of Palestine came into Assassin hands, and the cult leaders reaffirmed their overt belief in orthodox Islam. In public, Ismailis were ordinary Moslems; the secret doctrine of the divinely guider leader was not to be discussed with the uninitiated."

[William Cooper]: Don't miss tomorrow night's show. Good night, and God bless each and every one of you.

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[Viper]

Dok no.10 was half-ways done when i stumbled on the book online, good luck with this.