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"content": " \n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\tby Philip Gardiner\nfrom\r\n\t\t\t\nScribd Website\n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nMan collects into groups, like schools \r\n\t\t\tof fish and flocks of birds. These groups become religions, secret \r\n\t\t\tsocieties, governments and cults. The reasons for these groupings \r\n\t\t\tare the same as it is for animals banding together. We come together \r\n\t\t\tfor protection against predators, for strength in numbers. Whether \r\n\t\t\tyou are a Freemason or a Boy Scout, the reason you join forces with \r\n\t\t\tothers of like-race and like-mind is to gain strength and \r\n\t\t\tprotection. \n\r\n\t\t\tIn the extensive research for my new book and DVD, Secret Societies: \r\n\t\t\tGardiner's Forbidden Knowledge, Revelations About the Freemasons, Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults, I found that, \r\n\t\t\thistorically, the secret societies of the world are all connected \r\n\t\t\tand all derive from a similar if not the same source, and that the \r\n\t\t\tthreads running through them all have been traced by scholars \r\n\t\t\tthroughout the ages.\n\r\n\t\t\tAs Le Couteulx de Canteleu said in his Les Sectes et Societes \r\n\t\t\tSecretes published in 1863: \n\nAll secret societies have almost \r\n\t\t\tanalogous initiations, from the Egyptian to \r\n\t\t\t\t\nthe Illuminati, and most \r\n\t\t\tof them form a chain and give rise to others.\n\nAccording to an article published in the Patriot 1922 by G.G. or Dargon, \r\n\t\t\tentitled The Anatomy of Revolution, \n\nFor centuries there have existed certain schools of mystical \r\n\t\t\tphilosophy (with)... elements of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and \r\n\t\t\tEgyptian occultism mingled with Grecian mysteries, Jewish Kabalism, \r\n\t\t\tand fragments of ancient Syrian cults. Out of the hodge-podge of \r\n\t\t\tOriental philosophy, magic, and mythology arose... Gnostic sects, \r\n\t\t\tand after the rise of Mohammedanism, heretical sects...\n \n\nTo the \r\n\t\t\tsame sources may be traced the ideas that inspired such \r\n\t\t\tpolitical-religious movements of the Middle Ages as the Illuminati, Albigenses, Cathari, Waldenses, Troubadours, Anabaptists, and \r\n\t\t\tLollards and the rise of early secret societies. The \r\n\t\t\t\t\nTemplars are \r\n\t\t\tsaid to have been initiated by the Assassins into anti-Christian and \r\n\t\t\tsubversive mysteries, and we find similar traces of an old and \r\n\t\t\toccult origin in the Alchemists, the Rosicrucians, and later \r\n\t\t\tmystical cults... \n\nThis analogous form running through all secret societies is the \r\n\t\t\tunderlying belief in and worship of the stars. It is this element \r\n\t\t\twhich named them the shining ones and it is this element that is \r\n\t\t\tstill at the root of so much misinterpreted symbolism. Even the Holy Vehm were wissends who had the sun and the stars as symbols of \r\n\t\t\tpower. \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nThis worship of the stars was known as\r\n\t\t\tSabeism and the high \r\n\t\t\tMason, Albert Pike, pointed out: \n\nThe seven great primitive nations, \r\n\t\t\tfrom whom all others are descended, the Persians, Chaldeans, Greeks, \r\n\t\t\tEgyptians, Turks, Indians, and Chinese, were all originally Sabeists \r\n\t\t\tand worshipped the stars. \n\nThe very power of understanding the stars was jealously guarded by \r\n\t\t\tpriesthoods around the world, from Aztec to Egyptian. The role of \r\n\t\t\tthe priest was to interpret the movements of the stars, sun, and \r\n\t\t\tmoon, in order to predict the future and for navigation. This \r\n\t\t\tjealousy forged ciphers, codes and symbols and forced the hiding and \r\n\t\t\tdestruction of implements and tools of the trade. Many of the \r\n\t\t\tFreemasonic symbols we see today were never meant for building, they \r\n\t\t\twere meant for astrology and the logic of the stars. \n\r\n\t\t\tThese secrets of the stars were mystical to the early peoples who \r\n\t\t\tcould not understand the magic. Secrets were passed from one \r\n\t\t\tgeneration to the next by initiates and adepts and this is how the \r\n\t\t\tlong thread was woven, by passing on knowledge and keeping it \r\n\t\t\thidden. Eventually, the secret brotherhoods no longer knew why they \r\n\t\t\tkept their odd symbols secret and why they said strange invocations. \r\n\t\t\tYet, through tradition and dedication to their brothers, they kept \r\n\t\t\talive a rich tapestry, a tapestry that I and other scholars can \r\n\t\t\tbreak down and interpret. \n\n\n\nHidden History\n\r\n\t\t\tWe must pull hard on the thread to unravel the tapestry, one \r\n\t\t\tgeneration at a time. According to Le Couteulx de Canteleu, the \r\n\t\t\tpriests or leading men of the organizations followed the Egyptian \r\n\t\t\thierarchy. At the highest level, there was the priest, who alone \r\n\t\t\tcould do magic and contact the gods. At the second, we find the \r\n\t\t\tgreater initiates, those chosen from the people and who must \r\n\t\t\tmaintain secrecy at all costs and protect the priesthood. At the \r\n\t\t\tthird, the lesser initiates were only told things that were deemed \r\n\t\t\tproper. \n\r\n\t\t\tIn this hierarchical trinity, we see the plan of most, if not all, \r\n\t\t\tof the worlds secret societies. The majority of Freemasons today \r\n\t\t\tfall into the category of the lesser initiates; they seek no more \r\n\t\t\tbecause they know of no more. Only at the highest degrees in \r\n\t\t\tFreemasonry are the real secrets revealed, and yet there have been \r\n\t\t\tsome who claim to have been higher-level initiates or indeed \r\n\t\t\tpriests and who have since spilled the beans. Anyone who has \r\n\t\t\tseen these supposed secrets of white powdered gold and even Jewish \r\n\t\t\tconspiracy plots will know that this is misinformation at best and \r\n\t\t\tmoney-making at worst. \n\n\n\nLessons for Today\n\r\n\t\t\tEach generation tends to look forward, forgetting that our past \r\n\t\t\tholds intelligent and thought provoking answers to questions that \r\n\t\t\tare and will always be relevant. Because we begin each generation \r\n\t\t\tafresh, we do not see the thread running through each generation \r\n\t\t\tfrom the one beforethe thread of the secret society. \n\r\n\t\t\tIn the 20th century, psychology and psychoanalysis emerged, and the \r\n\t\t\tclever new words that came with them. Yet, why are we arrogant \r\n\t\t\tenough to believe that we discovered the root of human psychological \r\n\t\t\tproblems? This is utter rubbishPsyche herself was a Greek goddess.\r\n\t\t\t\n\r\n\t\t\tFor thousands of years, man has sought answers to the conundrums of \r\n\t\t\this own inner realitythe only radical change is the wording. When \r\n\t\t\twe say that a person is psychotic, our ancestors would have said \r\n\t\t\tthey were touched by the spirits. Are we more advanced than our \r\n\t\t\tancestors? \n\r\n\t\t\t90% of the worlds population still believes in God, yet, we still \r\n\t\t\trage war in the name of religion and we pollute the environment and \r\n\t\t\tdestroy our own homes. There is anthropological evidence to prove \r\n\t\t\tthat ancient man was peaceful, living in harmony with his neighbor \r\n\t\t\tand respecting the earth and living in balance with it. As \r\n\t\t\tpopulations grew and more people occupied smaller spaces, minor wars \r\n\t\t\terupted and even, violent sacrifices. Small bands of men gathered \r\n\t\t\ttogether to control those who fought, and these small bands emerged \r\n\t\t\tas our kings and queens, medicine men and priests, and our secret \r\n\t\t\tsocieties. \n\r\n\t\t\tThere is a lesson here for us all. Just 100 years ago, a billion \r\n\t\t\tpeople lived on the planet. Now, there are six billion and growing. \r\n\t\t\tSix billion people can do a lot of harm to themselves and the \r\n\t\t\tenvironment, destroying the whole for everyone. Without balance, \r\n\t\t\twithout wisdom, without knowledge, where are we heading? \n\r\n\t\t\tWe may believe that some spark in the bio-chemical and electric \r\n\t\t\tbrain is enlightenment, yet, it is not. Our masters tell us what to \r\n\t\t\tbe like, what to buy, what to do and say. We no longer need to know \r\n\t\t\tourselves-the TV has all the answers. And yet, what we see on TV is \r\n\t\t\ta reflection of greed, money and capitalism and these can be \r\n\t\t\tinterpreted as the dark forces of human nature. Light and dark are \r\n\t\t\topposite sides of the same coin. Balance is wisdom, like a coin \r\n\t\t\tplaced upon its edge, and like a coin, it can easily be knocked \r\n\t\t\tover. \n\r\n\t\t\tI desire a good life that does not include a range of cars, a yacht \r\n\t\t\tin every port or another million. I am a realist, and the reality is \r\n\t\t\tthat while one man has, another does not. My evolutionary instinct \r\n\t\t\tis to gather goods, property and wealth for the bad times ahead, to \r\n\t\t\tsee me through the winter or the coming storm. The down side of this \r\n\t\t\tis that we grow that divisive side of our nature, greed, and \r\n\t\t\tsomebody somewhere suffers. We join forces with others and hold our \r\n\t\t\tnewfound cabal in secrecy, protecting it until time matures the \r\n\t\t\toriginal intention until it becomes unrecognizablethese are the \r\n\t\t\torigins of the secret societies of the ancients.\n\r\n\t\t\tThe ancient Chinese texts tell us that mankind has been in this \r\n\t\t\tsituation before many times and that his greed and noise has \r\n\t\t\tbrought his civilization crashing down to the ground. \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nHow close are \r\n\t\t\twe to doing it yet again? \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nHow noisy are we?\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Philip Gardiner\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Brotherhoods-Secret Societies\n\r\n\t\t\t \n " |
