History is replete with whispers of secret societies. Accounts of elders or priests who guarded the forbidden knowledge of ancient peoples. Prominent men, meeting in secret, who directed the course of civilization are recorded in the writings of all people.
The oldest is the Brotherhood of the Snake, also called the Brotherhood of the Dragon, and it still exists under many different names. The Brotherhood of the Snake is devoted to guarding the Secrets of the Ages, and to the recognition of Lucifer as the one and only true God. If you do not believe in God, Lucifer or Satan, you must understand that there are great masses of people who do. And their beliefs and actions based on those beliefs will effect me. The important fact to remember is that the leaders of both the right and the left are a small hardcore of men who have been and still are Illuminists or members of the Brotherhood ... They are and always have been Luciferian and Internationalist. They give allegiance to no particular nation although they have used on occasion nationalism to further their causes ... They intend to turn the world into their conception of a Luciferian totalitarian socialist state. In the process they will eliminate all Christians, Jews and atheists. You have just learned one and only one of the great mysteries ...
It is clear that religion has always played a significant role in the course of these organizations. Communication with a higher source, often divine, is a familiar claim in all but a few.
The secrets of these groups are thought to be so profound that only a chosen, well-educated few are able to understand and use them. These men use their special knowledge for the benefit of all mankind. At least that is what they claim. How are we to know, since their knowledge and actions have been secret? Fortunately, some of it has become public knowledge. Bill Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse
I tell you now that freemasonry is one of the most wicked and terrible organisations upon this Earth ... The Masons are major players in the struggle for world domination. The 33rd degree is split into two: one split contains the core of the Luciferian Illuminati and the other contains those who have no knowledge of it whatsoever. ibid. p78
Look at the Council on Foreign Relations. Many members, in fact the majority, never serve on the Executive Committees, they never go through any initiation of any kind. They are in fact the power base and are used to gain a consensus of opinion ... The Executive Committee is an inner core of intimate associates. Members of a secret society called the Order of The Quest, also known as the Jason Society ... Rockefeller gave Kissinger a grant of $50,000 in the early fifties, a fortune in those days ... The Council on Foreign Relations has been the foremost plank of America’s foreign policy establishment for more than half a century ... The CFR is one of the most powerful semi-official groups concerned with America’s role in international affairs. It is controlled by an elect group of men recruited from the Skull & Bones and the Scroll & Key Societies of Harvard and Yale, which are both chapters of a secret branch of the Illuminati known as Chapter 322 ... Their goal is a New World Order. ibid.
Their goal is to destroy all existing religions save theirs, all existing governments save theirs, and shackle the mob in a system of eternal oppressive chained-to-a-computer for the rest of their life. Bill Cooper
The initiated elect communicate directly to gods (Aliens?) who communicate back to them. The masses sacrifice their lambs on an altar facing a stone idol that can neither hear or speak. The elect are given knowledge of the Mysteries and are illumined and are thus known as The Illuminati or the Illuminated Ones, the guardians of the ‘Secrets of the Ages’. Bill Cooper, Secret Societies/New World Order
We know that the Templars are Illuminati because the Freemasons absorbed and protected those that escaped persecution of the church and France, just as the Freemasons would absorb and protect Weishaupt’s Illuminati centuries later. The Knights Templar exist today as a high degree of Freemasonry within the Templar Order. In fact, the Knights Templar is a branch of the Order of the Quest. The de Molay Society is branch of the Freemasons that consecrates the memory of the persecution of the Knights Templar and in particular, their leader Jacques de Molay. I know, because I was a member of the de Molay Society as a young adult. I loved the mystery and ritual. I became separated from the Society when my family moved to a location out of reach of any Lodge. I believe to this day that my association with the de Molay Society may have been the reason for my selection for Naval Security and Intelligence. ibid.
After their recent exposures in Bavaria, the Illuminati had been driven even further underground, taking on a variety of names, such as the French Revolutionary Club. As radicals flocked into these new varieties of Illuminism, a larger meeting hall was needed. The Hall of the Jacobins Convent was leased, and it was from this hall that they eventually derived their new name, the Jacobin Club.
The Jacobin Club met in secret and eventually boasted of having some of the best-educated and most influential men in France among its 1,300 members. The Jacobins vowed to destroy the monarchy, as well as other existing institutions, and sought to establish what they called a New World Order or Universal Republic.
The famous magician and occultist Cagliostro was initiated into the Illuminati in 1783. Many years later, he told Catholic priests about his initiation. The initiation took place in an underground room near Frankfurt, Germany. William T Still, New World Order
On the 20th July 1785 the courier of the Illuminati, Jakob Lanz who worked as a priest, was struck by lightning near Rathenberg in Bavaria and died. He had sown a list of Illuminati members and some compromising papers into his priest’s robe. The local police found other important documents at Lanz’ house including detailed instructions for the coming French Revolution. Some of the papers were addressed to the Grand Master of the Grand Orient in Paris. Everything was handed over to the Bavarian government and on the 4th August 1785 a ban on secret societies was issued. Juri Lina, The Lightbringers: The Emissaries of Jahbulon
I have been convinced that we, as an Order, have come under the power of some very evil occult order, profoundly versed in science both occult and otherwise, though not infallible, their methods being black magic, that is to say, electromagnetic power, hypnotism, and powerful suggestion.
We are convinced that the Order is being controlled by some Sun Order after the nature of the Illuminati, if not by that order itself. Nesta H Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
The art of Illuminism lay in enlisting dupes as well as adepts and by encouraging dreams of honest visionaries or the scheme of fanatics. By flattering the vanity of ambitious egotists. By working on unbalanced brains or by playing such passions as greed and power to make men of totally divergent aims serve the secret purpose of the sect. People with money were welcomed but kept oblivious to actual secrets. The purpose is to win power and riches. To undermine secular or religious government and attain the masters of the world. Nesta H Webster, The World Revolution
They gain control of the world by bankrupting their own businesses. The Illuminati owns 99.9% of the stores you walk into, the shops and the gas stations you go to. And they are going to destroy us on purpose. And the idea of taking over is to bankrupt the whole world where nothing is of any value and the currency doesn’t exist anywhere, and then come back and solve all the problems. John Todd
It is impossible to research history and to research the conspiracy and to research the Illuminati without coming away a solid believer. John Todd, lecture The Illuminati
I sat on a council of thirteen people that take orders only from the Rothschild Tribunal in London. Which they claim they take their orders directly from Lucifer. John Todd
One of the driving forces behind this movement the Illuminati is the satanic cult movement in this country today. Ted Gunderson, lecture ‘CIA & Satanism’
The great strength of our Order lies its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but by another name, and another activity. None is fitter than freemasonry. The public is accustomed to it, expect little from it, and therefore takes little notice of it. Adam Weishaupt, Illuminati co-founder
I am proud to be known by the world as the founder of the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt
All of the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. The hankering of the mind is irresistible. Adam Weishaupt
It is necessary to establish a universal regime and empire over the whole world. Adam Weishaupt
Do you realise sufficiently what it means to rule – to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populus, but over the best of men, over men of all ranks, nations and religions. Adam Weishaupt
The Lodge shall be our nursery garden. All those who are not suited to the work shall remain in the Masonic Lodge and advance in that without knowing anything of the further system. Adam Weishaupt, cited Webster, Secret Societies p210
These good folk swell our numbers and fill our money-box. Set yourselves to work; these gentlemen must be made to nibble at the bait ... But this sort of people must always be made to believe that the grade they have reached is the last. Adam Weishaupt
A symbol of the infinite and eternal godhead, a mongrel word [Yah-bul-on] whose name has been for two thousand years an appellation of the devil. Albert Pike