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Robison, a highly respected British historian and longtime Mason, wrote in his Proofs of a Conspiracy:

I have found that the covert secrecy of a Mason Lodge has been employed in every country for venting and propagating sentiments in religion and politics, that could not have been circulated in public without exposing the author to grave danger. I have observed these doctrines gradually diffusing and mixing with all the different systems of Free Masonry till, at last, AN ASSOCIATION HAS BEEN FORMED FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF ROOTING OUT ALL OF THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS, AND OVERTURNING ALL THE EXISTING GOVERMENTS OF EUROPE.

The publishers of Robison's book commented, "A conspiracy conceived not by Masons as Masons, but by evil men using Freemasonry as a vehicle for their own purposes."

Weishaupt enticed people into Illuminated Freemasonry with promises of influence, power, and worldly success. But he also ensured that the members were so compromised by personal revelations about themselves or even the commission of crimes, that denying the order could bring disgrace or even prison. He, and the Masons, had lower orders of rank where the initiates were either lied to or kept in the dark about further secrets. But his biggest appeal was to raw, naked power. He wrote,

The pupils are convinced that the Order will rule the world. Every member therefore becomes a ruler. We all think of ourselves as qualified to rule. It is therefore an alluring thought both to good and bad men. Therefore the Order will spread.

Perhaps more than anything, the following candid admission by Weishaupt can explain the secret of the Illuminati and all those who are seeking world power:

Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule-to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world.

Perhaps this statement answers the question I raised in the first section of this book: how could a concept like world order be kept alive and vital for two hundred years? If successive generations of men indeed bought into Weishaupt's occultic dream of power, they could indeed be willing (or obligated) to perpetuate it.

To Gain the Whole World

Members of the Illuminati at the highest levels of the order were atheists and Satanists. To the public they professed a desire to make mankind "one good and happy family." They made every effort to conceal their true purposes by use of the name of Freemasonry. By every ruse imaginable, the Illuminists were able to attract to their numbers the rich and powerful of Europe, very possibly including Europe's most powerful bankers.

Illuminism reportedly had large wealth at its disposal. Its influence is clearly alive and powerful today in the doctrines of both the one-world communists and the one-world captains of wealth.

Before we leave the influence of Freemasonry on the quest for a New Age and new world order, we should examine the writings of Albert Pike, whose Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry was first published in 1871 and subsequently republished in 1966. It was intended for use by the Thirty-Third Degree Masonic Councils. Pike probably was the most prominent expositor of the creed and doctrines of the Masons.

It should be understood that the Scottish Rite is not from Scotland. It was an American adaptation of the Rite of Perfection of the French Freemasons, which were in turn heavily influenced by Illuminated Freemasonry. Keep in mind that Weishaupt learned the Egyptian rites of the occult, so Egyptian symbolism plays a strong role in the Scottish (or French Perfection) Rite of Freemasonry.

Without comment, I will quote directly from the 1966 edition of the principles of the Scottish Rite by its leading expositor in America.

"Every Masonic temple is a temple of religion." (p. 213)

"The first Masonic legislator . . . was Buddha." (p. 277)

"Masonry, around whose altars the Christian, the Hebrew, the Muslim, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucius and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim." (p. 226)

"Everything good in nature comes from Osiris." [the Egyptian sun God; the all-seeing eye is a Masonic representation of Osiris] (p. 476)

"Masonry. conceals its mysteries from all except Adepts and Sages, and uses false symbols to mislead those who deserve to be misled." (pp. 104–5)

"Everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of the Illuminati is borrowed from the Kabalah; all Masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols." (p. 744)

"When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the Mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands."

Manly Hall, Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 48

"To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees—The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates to the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine.

"Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also God. Lucifer, God of Light and God of good is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil."

Albert Pike, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, Instructions to the twenty-three Supreme Councils of the World, July 14, 1889

To my mind, there is no more monstrous evil than to bring public-spirited, often churchgoing, men into an organization that looks like a fraternal lodge, then deliberately mislead them until they are solid members. Then move them up thirty degrees to the place where they are ready to learn that Satan is the good god waiting to liberate mankind, and the Creator of the Universe (Yahweh, Elohim, Adonai) is, in their theology, the malicious prince of darkness.

It is my understanding that as part of the initiation for the Thirty-Second Degree, the candidate is told that Hiram, the builder of Solomon's temple, was killed by three assassins. The candidate therefore must strike back at those assassins which are, courtesy of the Illuminati, the government, organized religion, and private property.

This particular ritual is not Egyptian but from the Hung society of China, based on the cult of Amitabha Buddha. The ceremony, which clearly resembles those of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, was apparently copied as well by the Freemasons. It involves not a builder named Hiram, but a group of Buddhist monks, all but five of whom were slain by three villains, one of whom was the Manchu Emperor Khang Hsi.

It is self-evident that Masonic beliefs and rituals flow from the occult. Beliefs from Egyptian mysticism, Chinese Buddhism, and the ancient mysteries of the Hebrew Kabalah have been resuscitated to infuse their doctrines. What a splendid training ground for a new world/New Age citizen!

The New Age religions, the beliefs of the Illuminati, and Illuminated Freemasonry all seem to move along parallel tracks with world communism and world finance. Their appeals vary somewhat, but essentially they are striving for the same very frightening vision.

Now that we have taken a closer look at these spiritual and mystical threads which intertwine to form the historic ideology of a new world order, it is time to take a more precise and in-depth look at what this new world will actually be like.