The Initiates

The 3 Day Death

“Someone undergoing this process might have very realistic visions, directed by the initiates. First, he would be plunged in utter blackness. He would seem to himself to be losing all consciousness, to be dying. But he would seem to himself to be losing all consciousness, to be dying. But he would seem to himself to be losing all consciousness, to be dying. But he would seem to himself to come round again, then be led by an animal-headed being, traveling down long passages and and through a series of chambers. At different stages he would be challenged and menaced by other animal-headed gods and demons, including monstrous crocodiles who would tear at him.”

The Order of Delphi

“The Black Rite that celebrates the death and resurrection of a being whose name I dare not speak. I know what goes on but I say no more….”

Delphi - Philadelphia

The Battle of White Mountain

“The Rosicrucian dream was destroyed in a carnival of bigotry, torture and mass slaughter. Central Europe was a desert.”

“If the Church really saw itself as engaged in warfare with the secret societies, fighting black magic, then perhaps it was making the mistake of believing its own propaganda. The real enemy was the oldest enemy of all in a new disguise.”

The illuminati

“The story of the illuminati  is one of the darker episodes in the secret history and it has blackened the reputation of secret societies ever since. In 1776 a Bavarian professor of law, Adam Weishaupt, founded an organization called the Illuminati, recruiting the first brothers from among his students. Like the Jesuits, the Illuminati brotherhood was run on military lines. Members were requested to surrender individual judgement and will. Like earlier secret society Weishaupt’s illuminati promised to reveal an ancient wisdom. Higher and more powerful secrets were promised to those who progressed up the ladder of initiations. Initiates worked in small cells. Knowledge was shared between cells on what was this newly rediscovered knowledge. Weishaupt joined the Freemasons in 1777, and soon many of the Illuminati followed, infiltrating the lodges. They quickly rose to positions of seniority.”

“Then in 1785 it came about that a man called Jacob Lanz, traveling to Silesia, was struck by lightening. When he was laid out in a nearby chapel, the Bavarian authorities found papers on the body revealing the secret plans of the Illuminati. From these papers, including many in Weishaupt’s own hand, and together with others seized in raids around the country, a complete picture was built up.”

“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.”

“If the Church really saw itself as engaged in warfare with the secret societies, fighting black magic, then perhaps it was making the mistake of believing its own propaganda. The real enemy was the oldest enemy of all in a new disguise.”