“the fact that the head of the catholic church was first initiated into the spirit realm under the aegis of a secret society is perhaps not as shocking as it once was because science has taken over from religion as the main agent of social control.”

Dante’s Inferno

“At the beginning of the Commedia, Dante describes how in middle age he found himself lost in a gloomy wood, where he was met by Vigil, one of the great initiates of the ancient world.”
“Vigil takes Dante through a portal with the words Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here written over it.”

“The realm of shades.”

“The judge of the dead.”

“Minos and Cerberus, the three-headed dog.”

“The minareted city of Dis, encounter the three Furies and the Minotaur. They walk the Banks of the Lake of Blood in which the Wood of the Harpies and the burning plain of sand. They meet a famous Scottish wizard, Michael Scott, nimrod and finally, in the deepest rung of Hell, Dante sees what he first takes to be a windmill. It is really Lucifer’s wings.”

“The seven demons who guard the seven gates of the underworld.”

“The book of treasure.”
“According to Dante, we’re all Dorian Grays, creating monstrous selves and devising monstrous punishments for ourselves. We each create a heaven and a hell inside of us.”

“He turns the world inside out to reveal the hideous effects of our innermost thoughts and the deeds we most want kept secret.”

-The Secret History of the World

“The prophet elijah or the green one.”

“The green man”

“Just as a flock of birds turns as one, moved by the same thought, so also several people may be moved by the same thought, so also several people may be moved simultaneously by the same spirit.”

-The Secret History of the World

“Because they know the secrets of nature and could command disembodied beings, they could exert their will magically, which they did mostly for the sake of performing healing miracles. They could read minds, understand all languages, even project living images of themselves over great distances and communicate audibly over great distances. They could also make themselves invisible.”

-The Secret History of the World

“Fama Fraternitatis or Rumour of the Brotherhood’”

“Confession Fraternitatis, told the story of CRC (Christian Rosencreytz) the founder of the brotherhood, gave an account of the rules he instituted and also revealed that his tomb had been discovered in 1604.”

“A door had been uncovered underneath an alter leading down to a crypt. The door carried an inscription ‘After one hundred and twenty years I shall be opened.’ Down below was a seven-sided mausoleum, each side being eight feet high with an artificial sun suspended in the middle above a circular table. Underneath this table lay the uncorrupted body of CRC, surrounded by books, including the Bible a text by Paracelsus, and the body was clutching a rolled scroll, which bore the words ‘Out of God we are born, We die in Jesus, We will be reborn through the holy Spirit.’”

-The Secret History of the World

“Alchemy, like the Cabala, is a very broad church. If there is one great mysterious ‘Work’, it is approached via a remarkable variety of codes and symbols. In some cases the Work involves sulpher, mercury, and salt, in others roses, stars, the philosopher’s stone, salamanders, toads, crows, nets, the marriage bed and astrological symbols, such as the fish and the lion.”

“In early Arab texts the Work involves manipulation of the same Four Elements, but in European alchemy, rooted in the Middle Ages and flowering in the seventeenth century, a mysterious fifth element, the Quintessence, comes to the fore,”

-The Secret History of the World

“Freemasonry has always presented a straight face to the world. The anglo-saxon lodges in particular have been coy about their esoteric origins. The notion that Freemasons at sufficiently high level of initiation are taught the secret doctrine and history of the world outlined in this book might seem implausible, even to many Freemasons.”

“But modern speculative Freemasory is dated by its official historians to the seventeenth century.”

“It’s sometimes claimed that the first recorded case of initiation into FreeMasonry was that in 1664 of the celebrated antiquity and collector and founder member of the royal society, Elias Ashmole, He was certainly on off the earlier english freemasons and very influential.”

-The Secret History of the World

“It is an avowed account of initiation, in which the candidate descends into the volcanic bowels of the earth, and passes the night there, At dawn he climbs out of his underground chamber, following a star. He is freed of his material body and flies up to the planets, where he meets ‘the old man of the palace.” In the palace he sleeps for seven days and when he wales, his robe is changed to beautiful scintillating green. Then there is a strange passage in which he sees a bird with a butterfly wings and knows he must catch it. He drives a steel nail through it’s wings, so that it is pinned down, but its eyes grow brighter. Finally, in a hall with a beautiful, naked woman, he stabs the sun with his sword. The sun shatters into dust and each atom of dust becomes a sun in itself. The Work is completed. This depiction of a portal is by Paolo Veronese, believed by Theosophists to be an incarnation of on of the Hidden Masters.”

-The Secret History of the World

“The seized writings revealed that the ancient wisdom and the secret supernatural powers promulgated within the Illuminati had always been a cynical invention and a fraud. An aspirant progressed through the grades only to discover that the spiritual elements in the teachings were merely a smokescreen. Spirituality was derided, spat upon. Jesus Christ’s teachings, it was said, were really purely political in content, calling for the abolition of all property, of the institution of marriage and all family ties, all religion. The aim of Weishaupt and his co-conspirators was to set up a society run on purely materialistic grounds, a revolutionary new society- and the place where they would test their theories, they had decided, would be France.”

“Finally it was whispered in the candidate’s ear that the ultimate secret is that there is no secret.”

“...in concealment lies a great part of our strength. For this reason we must cover ourselves in the name of another society. The lodgers that are under Freemasory are the most suitable cloak for our high purpose.”

-Secret History of the World

“The second half of the nineteenth century reveals a terrible darkening, a spiritual crisis. If materialist history explains this crisis as ‘alienation’ esoteric history sees a spiritual crisis. In other words it sees a crisis caused by spirits - or more particularly by demons.”

-The Secret History of the World