The old Freemason conspiracy

The old Jewish bankers’ and Freemasons’ conspiracy

This is a short look at the old Freemason conspiracy. I have known some high Scottish Freemasons and they did not seem to plan any revolutions or overthrows of governments anywhere. So, I believe that masons do not do these activities any more, at least not here, but they did those things in another place and in another time. I wanted to check how much is true and to write a very short summary of it to myself. As a summary, the conspiracy theory is quite true.

An old conspiracy theory is that the Jewish international bankers are plotting to take over the world, assisted by Freemasons and communists. Today this theory is considered a totally debunked piece of anti-Semitism. It is politically incorrect even to mention this theory, or the documents that support it, notably “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion”. Let us still look at this theory. It can be historically justified quite well and it is not debunked in any scientific sense.

 

Freemasons and the Radical Enlightenment

Many present freemasons discard claims accusations against Freemasonry as misunderstandings of ignorant people. Claims that Freemasonry contains inner circles that have been involved in fostering revolutions and wars, sex magic and Lucifer worship, actions against Christianity, and pursued to world domination, are discarded as ignorant and unfounded superstitions that are caused by misunderstanding the rites of Freemasonry, that may look sinister to an outsider but actually are only philosophical teachings leading to moral growth, while Freemasonry is only a philanthropic fraternity. The historical truth of this organization is somewhat different. There is a basis for these accusations while it is also true that original Freemasonry and modern Freemasonry in most countries has never been involved in these kinds of actions.

The earliest political activities of the Freemasons were the efforts of the Jacobites to restore the Stuarts to the throne of England. Scottish Freemasonry may derive from Stuart Freemasonry in France, but this theory has been questioned. There was Stuart freemasonry with political aims. The Invisible Masters of the Strict Observance are unknown but it is often proposed that they were Jacobites. Jacobite Freemasonry is one of the origins of the main stream French Freemasonry, the Grand Orient of France. This is the branch that has been responsible for most of the revolutionary activities but not for supporting the Stuarts, the inspiration of the Grand Orient was Radical Enlightenment.

The origins of the fall of monarchies in Europe and elsewhere are in the Enlightenment. The thoughts leading into communism can be traced to Baruch Spinoza, whose writings inspired Radical Enlightenment and influenced central thinkers of German romantic nationalism, communism and Zionism, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Shelling, Lessing, Fichte, Moses Mendelson, Moses Hess, Karl Marx, Hertzl, and Maimon. Spinozism is a philosophy advocating atheism and abolishment of religions, materialism, equality of women and men, freedom of thought, and opposition to monarchies. Spinoza’s ethics denies the absoluteness of good and bad. Except for atheism, these ideas are typical to Enlightenment. Spinoza was essentially utopist. After he was excluded from Judaism, he had contacts with several dissident groups. He also lived in Constantinople for some years and probably was in contact with Sabbateans and maybe Sufis. Spinoza was a mystic and Lurian Kabbalah seems to have influenced Spinoza’s thought. Isaac Lurian was a cabbalist in the 16^th century. His cabbalistic writings derive from Maimonides and Zohar, and they describe the general idea that world must be fixed: the present order must be destroyed and the rightful order must be restored. While Radical Enlightenment, as it appears in Illuminati, Jacobins, and communists, is rational, it has this belief that the present world order must be destroyed and a new world order established.

 

Illuminati-Jacobins-Carbonaries-Communists

The political side of Radical Enlightenment can be traced since the 1770ies. A political movement, Bavarian Illuminati, directly leading into communism was started by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. To the opponents of Illuminati the program of the Bavarian Illuminati was to destroy all sovereign states, destroy all religions, destroy private property and inheritance, and destroy the family. Adam Weishaupt explicitly wrote to the Illuminati program the infamous motto that anti-Jesuits claimed that the Society of Jesus followed: The end sanctifies the means.

Weishaupt was a Jesuit or Jewish origins and got his methods from Jesuits. The Society of Jesus was started by Ignatius de Loyola in 1534 as a tool for counter reform. Jesuits invented methods that have been used by later secret societies with political goals. These methods include creation of special schools for educating adherents, infiltration to government, clergy and other important organizations, and structuring the society in a way that a member knows his immediate superior only.  The Jesuit organization was the model to the Bavarian Illuminati, and to the secret society (presumably) founded by Cecil Rhodes. Jesuits were expelled from 70 countries because of being involved in political intrigues and the whole organization was dissolved by the Pope around 1760. Jesuits, and the Pope as their leader, feature often in NWO theories but there is little evidence of activity in modern times. The new Society of Jesus, founded in the 19^th century, has not been connected with political activities but old charges towards Jesuits are still well remembered. Considering the decreasing influence of Christianity in a modern society, it is hardly a convincing argument that the Pope secretly rules the world through the Jesuits. However, the methods of Jesuits have been taken by other organizations.

To the adherents of Illuminati the program searched the good of people: freedom from superstitions, equality of women and men, abolishment of suppression by governments and so on. The organization worked as a secret society, modeled after the organization of Jesuits, and infiltrated Freemasonry, governments, clergy, and universities. Illuminati grew fast and had about 2000 members and it spread into several countries. Discoveries of documents of the Illuminati by the Austrian police revealed the plans of this secret society and it was abolished 1786 by the Prussian king? After the Bavarian Illuminati was stopped by the German government, the movement continued in other countries. French Jacobins had essentially the same program, Mirabeau was a member of Bavarian Illuminati, and his contemporaries equated the Illuminati and the Jacobins. Soon after Jacobins lost power, Carbonaries were established in Italy. The revolutionary activities of Carboraries are well documented in history. Carbonaries were behind most of the revolutions in 1848. Memphis and Mizraim, later Memphis-Mizraim lodges of the Grand Orient of France had several Carbonaries as members, and they were actively planning revolutions in their lodges. The terms Haute Vente Romaine and Alta Vendita both refer to Carbonaries. The Bavarian Illuminati also had connections with a Freemason Lodge in Lyons, which later developed to the Illuminee and Martinists.

The sources from which the notorious document the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” is claimed to have been plagiarized are connected with Carbonaries and the Mizraim lodge of the Grand Orient of France: the Protocols were claimed to have been stolen from the Paris Mizraim lodge by the Russian secret police. The protocols share much text with a book of Maurice Joly. It is claimed in the Internet that Maurice Joly was a member of the Paris Mizraim lodge, but there is no poof. Joly was a socialist politician, though.

Joly’s book is claimed to be a satire of Napoleon III. Interestingly, Napoleon III was a Carbonari and gained power in a revolution created by Carbonaries. The satire seems to be directed against Napoleon III’s efforts to rule as an independent dictator, but it is also true that Adolphe Cremieux, for some time the head of the Grand Orient of France, criticized Napoleon III for this. There was a Carbonari assassination (Orsini) attack on Napoleon III. Another source from which the Protocols are also claimed to have been plagiarized is the book by Sir John Radcliff, i.e., Hermann Goedsche. This book is claimed to have taken material from the book of Alexander Dumas describing the involvement of Guiseppe Balsamo in the Marie Antoinette’s necklace. Interestingly, the origin of the Mizraim lodge is Cagliostro’s Egyptian Freemasonry. Cagliostro, i.e., Guiseppe Balsamo, was involved in – and eventually punished for – the affair of Marie Antoinette’s necklace, which was one of the events triggering the French Revolution. The leader of the Grand Orient of France, Adolphe Cremieux, was the founder of the Israel Alliance Universelle, the organization that later developed into Zionism. There is a clear link between early communism and early Zionism: e.g., the Kibbutz system and the large number of Jews in the early communists in Russia.

The similarities of the methods and the program of the Bavarian Illuminati and the communists are not accidental: Jacobins and Carbonaries form a direct personal link between the Illuminati and Marxian communism. The connection of Zionism and communism is also quite clear through the Mizraim lodge. There is no historical doubt that this line has created the French and the Bolshevik revolutions, and attempted and performed lots of revolutions in Europe in the 19^th century. Influences of Baruch Spinoza’s thoughts to this ideology are well documented. Spinozism in Bavarian Illuminati is described by John Robinson in his book of Illuminati’s activities. He describes two of the three new degrees that Adam Weishaupt introduced to his Masonic system. The fourth degree, i.e, the first higher degree after the three original degrees of Masonry, is directly what Spinoza taught. Spinoza’s large influence in Karl Marx is generally accepted. Spinozism in Zionism is clear since of the founders of Zionism, Hertzl and Hess, have publicly admitted being spinozists in their writings.

The program, methods and lists of members of the Bavarian Illuminati are well documented in the following sources: Austrian government: Original documents of Bavarian Illuminati. Austrian police found documents of Bavarian Illuminati after a house search into the houses of two high Illuminati members. John Robinson: “Proofs of  Conspiracy”. The author is a high British Freemason who was introduced to Illuminati with the goal that he should spread Illuminati to British lodges. He pretended to go along the conspirators but finally he published his findings.

Carbonari document Alta Vendita is kept in Vatican archives. Its authenticity is said to be undisputed. The document is available in WWW. It describes a plan to infiltrate Vatican and to spread liberal views in Vatican.

The connections to Freemasonry are as follows. Freemasonry acted as a cover of the Bavarian Illuminati. The role of Freemasonry in the French Revolution is clear even from their ideal: liberty, equality and fraternity being adopted by the Jacobins. The Freemason lodges of The Primitive Rite of the Philalethes, also called the Rite of Narbonne, was continuation of the rites of Paschalis and Saint Martin, i.e., the cabbalistic Martinists. It was taken to Egypt by Napoleon’s army where most of the officers were disciplines of the Rite of Narbonne. They created Disciplines of Memphis (1815), which later was renamed the Rite of Memphis (1839). The Philadelphes was founded in London 1851. Philadelphes founded La Commune Revolutionnaire and the International Association. The Rite of Mizraim was founded 1805 in Milan but it can be traced to Socians in Venice and to Cagliostro’s 1784 Rite of High Egyptian Masonry. Under Garibaldi, the Rites of Mizraim and Memphis were combined by John Yarker and since 1899 they were known as the Antient and Primitive Oriental Rite of Memphis-Mizraim. The Memphis and Mizraim lodges were well known as the meeting places of socialistic and communistic revolutionaries and the lodges were forbidden by the police in several occasions. Names of revolutionaries who were members include Charles Nodier, Guiseppe Mazzini, Guiseppe Garibaldi, Philippe Bounarroti, Luis Blanc, Luis Auguste Blanqui, Marquise de Lafayette. These lodges were under the jurisdiction of the irregular Grand Orient de France. Garibaldi’s funding for revolutionary activities come from a Freemason banker, Lemmi, a friend of Mazzini.

There are some unclear cases. Lieba Bronstein, better known as Trotsky, studied Freemasonry in prison. Whether he was a Freemason since 1987, and a member of the French lodge Art et Travail, is not proven. It is also claimed that Trotsky had contacts with B’nai B’rith and was a member of Memphis-Mizraim Freemasonry, but these are also not proven. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were introduced to communistic ideology by Moses Hess, who was a Freemason. It is claimed in the WWW that Lenin, Marx and Engels were Freemasons, but there is no proof of it, and probably they were not.

The occult line of Philalethes and Mizraim was organized by Theodore Reuss into the Masonic Academy, which later developed into Ordo Templi Orientalis (O.T.O.).  As a summary, Freemasonry was strongly connected with revolutionary movements during the time 1770-1890. Regular Freemasonry was involved in Italy, as the Grand Orient of Italy is regular. Most of the revolutionary activities were made by the Memphis and Mizraim lodges belonging to the irregular Grand Orient of France. The Bavarian Illuminati was under the Strict Observance. Carbonaries and communists are not Masonic but they have personal links to Masonic organizations.

Douglas Reed was one of the main Russian correspondences of Daily Mirror. He describes how most of the leading people in the Bolshevik revolution were Jews.

There is clear evidence, as shown e.g. by Anthony C. Sutton, that Wall Street bankers funded the communist revolution in Russia. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion claim that the Elders own all the money and the press. This document, true or false, is dated to the time when the Mizraim lodge was the center of radical thought. The Mizraim lodge hosted both the communistic and the Zionistic ideas for changing the world.

In the 1905 war between Japan and Russia, the New York Jewish banker Jacob Warburg gave a huge loan to Japan for purchase of ammunition. The Japanese won largely because of this help. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion state that the Elders will raise the guns of China, Japan, America against Russia. The Japanese government took the war as clear evidence that the Protocols are authentic and the Wall Street Jews are the Elders and they indeed have the power the Protocols claim they have.

Historical evidence of this is Trotsky’s trip from the USA to Russia. At the time when Tsar’s Russia was in alliance with the Western powers, the USA and Great Britain helped Trotsky to travel to Russia in order to fund the revolution. This revolution aided Germans and therefore helping Trotsky was an act against an ally. Trotsky received money probably from the Germans. He has arrested by Canadians, who knew that the sum of money he carried was most probably from Germans and intended for throwing over Kerensky. The orders to release Trotsky did not come from Kerensky’s government but from the USA and Great Britain. Kerensky by the way was a Freemason.

Christian Rakovsky’s interrogation in the book Red Symphony also tells the same story. Christian Rakovsky was a high Trotskyan who was interrogated by Stalin’s secret police and put to a show trial and finally sentenced to death. The document is claimed to be authentic report of the interview of Christian Rakovsky by Stalin’s secret police, but it may be a forgery. It is even likely that it is a forgery. It is sometimes claimed that the document does not contain anything that was not known before and therefore it must be a forgery. However, it does contain an interesting piece of information that the author has not found elsewhere, and which seems to clarify the theory considerably: that They, i.e., those behind communism and with the power, are spinozists. According to Rakovsky, the reason for raising Hitler against Stalin was that Stalin was a Bonapartist, i.e., a nationalistic dictator, not under the control of the real leaders of the world. Rakovsky proposes that Stalin should make a deal with Hitler and attack Poland together. This is what also happened. An American diplomat made a Freemason sign to Rakovsky in his show trial. Even if Red Symphony is a forgery, some theories there may be correct.

 

Zionism and Messianic Judaism

Zionism is a movement that grew from Jewish Enlightenment. Thus, Zionists were secular Jew, often Marrots. Two heresies of Judaism, spinozism and Sabbateanism were well represented in Jewish Enlightenment.

Shabbatai Zvi, or Zevi, or Tzvi, was a false Jewish Messiah who was to take power in the year 1666 and at that time about one half of all Jews are claimed to have believed in him. The expectations were crashed when Shabbatai Zvi converted to Islam – in fact, he had no choice – and most of the followers deserted him. Not much was heard of Sabbateans from the time of Shabbatean Zvi’s conversion up to the time of Jacob Frank in the next century. At the time of Jacob Frank the schism between Sabbateans and Talmudic Jewish caused Sabbateans to be expelled. Sabbateans were a heretic sect of Judaism, which believes in incarnation, removal of the state, religion and family, do not Talmudic laws, study Kabbalah for while and black magic, and they were claimed to practice sexual orgies and incest. It is common for Christians to think that the Jews carrying side-curls are orthodox, i.e., Talmudix, Jews. Actually, they are hasidic Jews, which have many similar teachings as Sabbateans. Hasidic Jews also consider Kabbalah as the highest teaching, believe in incarnation, and have Rabbis who say the Tetragrammaton, the Baal Shems. Still there is a major difference: Hasidism is an accepted form of Judaism, while Sabbateans are expelled heretics. Sabbateans converted outwardly to any religion, like Catholism or Islam. Many of them appear as secular Jews. Many are not Jews at all. They hope to be the twelve tribes of Israel, so naturally not all of them can be from the two tribes, Judas and Benjamin, represented in present day Jews. A small number of followers kept on believing and there is still living a community of Dönmeh in Turkey – outwardly Muslim, but secretly Jewish. Young Turks had close connections with Dönmeh.

Jewish bankers had accumulated great wealth in the middle ages by usury and were very influential in the Netherlands in the beginning of the 17^th century. Orthodox Jews dreamt of a return to Palestine but could not return before the Messiah arises. In 1648 Sabbatai Zvi started claiming being the Messiah, finally about half of all Jews believed in him. Sabbatai converted to Islam and the movement lots of supporters. Around the same time Baruch Spinoza presented his atheistic philosophy. Supporters of both Spinoza and Sabbatai Zevi created the Jewish Enlightenment, called Haskalah. England allowed the return of Jews in 1655. Jews funded Oliver Cromwell to power and managed to get a strong hold of English economy. Three interwoven processes were started: Shabbatean movement with strong occult connections, spinozian movement leading to communism, and traditional economic take-over of nations. Freemasonry become largely infiltrated and used for the goals of these movements. The goal of all of these movements is to create one world run by the Chosen, as a realization of Biblical prophesies. Israel had to be reborn by collecting all Jews to Palestine after a great time of persecution, according to prophesies.

Some NWO theoreticians, like Rabbi Martin Antelman and Henry Makov, try to establish a connection between Sabbateans and the Bavarian Illuminati. Jacob Frank, or his daughter Eva Frank, lived for some time not far from Adam Weishaupt’s home town. I did not manage to verify this connection. There could have been other connections if we assume that Samuel Falk, the Baal Shem of London, was a crypto-Sabbatean, as Nesta Webster claims. Samuel Falk apparently knew Cagliostro and met Swedenborg. The necklace affair of Maria Antoinette connects Cagliostro to Jacobins and he founded the Egyptian Freemasonry, the origin of the Mizraim Lodges. Swedenbord is one of the founders of Theosophy. The rest of the Sabbatean NWO theories are as in the Freemasonry NWO theory: Illuminati, Jacobins, Carbonaries, communists.

The role of Sabbateans is not well demonstrated. Sabbateanism was the other Jewish heresy, the other was Spinozism. Secular Jews in the Radical Enlightenment contained both spinizists and Sabbateans. It is possible that some ideas of Radical Enlightenment can be traces to Shabbatai Zvi, who as the Messiah removed the Jewish law. His conversion to Islam can be interpreted as a sign that all religions are the same. Still, there is no evidence that the remains of Sabbateans have any major role as a group in Radical Enlightenment. Sabbatean NWO theories may be an effort to lay the blame on a group that does not exist and which is clearly outside accepted Judaism.

 

The Anglo-American-Jewish Establishment

The establishment of the Milner group in the Great Britain is well documented by the historian Carroll Quigley in “The Anglo-American Establishment“. His book describes the secret society founded by Cecil Rhodes as the Society of the Elect and its activities. The society had as its goal increasing Anglo-American influence in the world and creating the one-world government. The society later developed to the Milner’s group, or shortly the Group. The Group has founded the Round Table groups and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). Milner’s group (used to) control the Times and several other opinion leading media and had very large influence in British governments.  The group is responsible e.g. for the Boer wars and creation of the state of South Africa and had activities during the Second World War, notably, it wanted to raise Hitler against Stalin. There is a corresponding group in the USA, which has founded the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), the Trilateral Commission.

Anthony Suttons is another historian who describes the role of the establishment, mainly the role of Western international financers. The USA is often understood as the main enemy of communism and it may be strange to notice that the Wall Street has financed communism. But this is the case. Woodrow Wilson and the USA Congress were delighted by the Bolshevik Revolution, and helped Trotsky to get to Russia with German funds. Let us recall that Tsar’s Russia was on the Allied side in 1917, thus Americans, and also British and Canadians, were helping the enemy by facilitating a revolution. Wall Street bankers also planned the first 5-year plans and funded the new communistic state. This does not go well with the common argument that the British and the USA never forgave the nationalization – but after all, mostly French investments were nationalized. The Wall Street and other Western bankers also financed Adolph Hitler.

The role of Jewish bankers is quite important. Jacob Schiff of the Kuehn & Loeb was the major banker in the Russian revolutions. He gave a large loan to Japan for the Japan-Russian war of 1904? and he funded the unsuccessful Bolshevik revolution in 1905. The successful Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was funded by Jacob Schiff and Germans. The role of Jewish bankers in funding Hitler may seem odd but there is good evidence that this is true. . From Jews that raised Hitler to power and rearmed Germany one can mention Max Warburg, head of I.G. Farben, and his brother Paul Warburg, the head of the Federal Reserve System of the USA. There can be reasons: the Zionists wanted the Jews to move to Palestine and were against integration of Jews to European populations. Zionists may have wanted to raise Hitler against Stalin because Stalin made purges in Cheka, earlier manned mostly by Jews.

Most of the NWO theories name the House of Rothschild as the main bankers of the Illuminati but some claims are not well supported. Still, Rothschilds were the main supporters of Zionism and communism and Zionism are parts of the same plan. One common claim in NWO theories is that Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Bavarian Illuminati, was supported economically by Mayer Amstel Rothschild. There seem to be only two connections between these men: both lived close to Frankfurt at the same time, and Mayer Amstel Rothschild worked for Hessel-Kassel, who was a member of the Bavarian Illuminati. As there is no more evidence the claim of economic support must be discarded. It is probably true that Illminati had support in high degrees of Freemasonry. Otherwise infiltration to Freemasonry in several counties in a so short time seems impossible. Furthermore, John Robinson, a high Scottish Mason, was invited to Illuminati with the purpose that he would establish Illuminati in Great Britain, showing that infiltration progressed from the top of Freemasonry. Nesta H. Webster suspects that the original idea to found the Bavarian Illuminati probably come from Freemasons, and not the other way around, that Illuminati was an outside organization that managed to infiltrate Freemasonry. This is reasonable, but we cannot know who were behind such an effort and blame Mayer Amstel Rothschild for it.

There are other connections to the House of Rothschild to NWO, which can be very well shown. Nathan Rothschild was a member of the inner circle of three in Cecil Rhodes’ secret society and consequently had a role in the Round Table Groups and RIIA. There is also a clear connection between Jacob Schiff and Nathan Rothschild: the Kuehl & Loeb bank is Rothschild’s bank. Nathan Rothschild was one of the main supporters of Zionism.

The connection between international bankers and communists/Zionists is a real one but it seems to date not earlier than to the mid 19^th century but from that time on there is evidence. There is a clear connection between Nathan Rothschild and the secret society of Cecil Rhodes, that later developed into the Anglo-American Establishment. There is good evidence that the Wall Street bankers who supported the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and funded Hitler against Stalin are connected to the House of Rothschild. The House of Rothschild has supported Zionism and Israel. The Balfour declaration was written in response to a request from Rothschild.

It seems that the House of Rothschild was not actively participating before the Napoleonic wars. Nathan Rothschild earned his fortune in Napoleonic wars and the House of Rothschild was funding both sides of the war. Later the House of Rothschild has been involved in international affairs.

Rothschild was involved in the first central bank of the USA and he tried to establish a central bank in Tsar’s Russia?

Memorandum of Horst Hoyer from 1952 also states that Hitler was supported by rich Sephardic Jews, and they largely escaped the Holocaust.

Carroll Quigley describes the actions of Neville Chamberlain in the Second World War. The goal was to fund and raise Hitler against Stalin.

Anthony C. Sutton explains how the Wall Street bankers funded Hitler. His proofs are in describing what companies supported Hitler. One enabler for Hitler to go at all to the war were the patents for making synthetic crude. Americans gave these patents to Hitler.

The allied bombings mostly did not damage factories of American companies.

Christian Rakovsky in Red Symphony (probable forgery) also tells that the real leaders will raise Hitler against Stalin and that They have the power to allow Hitler to attack, while They do not control Hitler completely.

The mechanism of economic control is that a country is lured to take a big loan. The loan has interest and it grows to a large figure which yields the loan giver economic power over the country. Joseph Stiglitz describes the mode of operand of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The described method resembles usury. Indeed, the interest was raised to 18% unilaterally in the 1980-ies. John Perkins describes a similar way of usury but he also adds that if the leaders of a country do not take a loan, then assassins are employed.

The idea of a Cabbalistic or occult international banker financing wars and being preoccupied with creating God’s kingdom to Israel seems a bit farfetched. However, it is historically correct. There were two types of bankers in the Middle Ages.

Jewish bankers were giving large loans to kings and other rulers, mainly for financing wars. This kind of business is quite risky and many deportations of Jews were probably responses to situations when the king could not pay back the loan. However, there was an occult and Cabbalistic connection. The deportations were often responses to claimed or real cases of ritual murder: typically a boy of about 12 years was bled to death, sometimes on a cross, and his body was not buried. Furthermore, the reason for these ritual murders was supposed to be that if the sacrifices are not made, the Jews cannot return to Israel. We will not comment the validity of these accusations but merely notice that here we have a group of international financers who give loans for wars and are accused of occult Cabbalistic practices connected with establishing God’s kingdom in Israel.

Another group of international bankers in the Middle Ages were the Knights Templar. They had considerable economic and political power at the time of the Crusades but the Order was dissolved and the leaders burnt on the stake. Interestingly, the Order was accused of heresy of worshipping a bearded man, Baphomet, of sodomy and anti-Christian practices. Naturally, the Order was preoccupied with God’s kingdom in Israel. Most of the property and many knights joined the Johannite Knights, later to become the Malta Knights. Most of the later time Templar knight orders are connected with Masons without any direct link to Knights Templar. There are some connections of the Malta Knights with secret operations, such as the CIA Operation Paper Clip transporting Nazis to the USA after the World War II, and with The P2 Mason Lodge. Many important people are members of knight orders, as they are in a way a natural continuation of Masonic degrees. Knight orders have a supporting role in some NWO theories but nobody claims that the knight orders form a hidden world government. Still, they are a good example of a group of international bankers funding wars, accused of occult practices, and trying to establish God’s kingdom in Israel.

The both sides of the Napoleonic wars were financed by the House of Rothschild. The Jews wanted Napoleon to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, and Napoleon did make this kind of a commitment. Notice, that Napoleon I was very probably a Freemason.

Lending money and taking interest for it is today considered as banking business. We find is strange that in the Middle Ages taking interest was forbidden by the Christian Church and also in the Islamic culture. Banks are a necessary element in the economy: without a possibility to borrow money, it is very difficult to start any new enterprises. Private persons need loans in order to buy houses and cars and so on. The interest is usually on the range from 2% to 7%, and there are mechanisms to help those who fall into debt that they cannot pay. In the Middle Ages the situation was different. There was a shortage of most goods, thus if somebody had money, he could buy goods, while others could not. In this kind of situation, usury becomes possible. A money lender asked for interest ranging from 35% to 45%. If some take loans for this interest and buy basic necessities with borrowed money, the prices increase. Others must also borrow money in order to buy basic necessities for the high interest rate 35% to 45%. This would not be the case if they could afford basic necessities without loans and the loans were only for luxury goods, such as houses or cars that one can be without. The user (i.e., somebody earning by usury) becomes soon very rich with these interest rates but he must assure that sufficiently many clients pay the loans back, even though they are ruined by doing so. Therefore the user must work together with a king or landlord, who can use physical force to punish those who do not pay. This means that the user must give a great part of his profit to the king. If there is a legal system, a court probably would agree that the user has used unethical methods. Therefore, the user must also influence the court system by bribed judges. For one user this task is impossible, therefore the user must belong to a larger community of users. One goal of the community is then to raise to judges people who belong to the community. Usury to private people finally causes a public revolt against usurers, or the king may decide that the common people must be protected against usury. The consequences will very likely include violent actions against the usurers and expelling them, which happened several times in the Middle Ages.

A more profitable way is lending money for interest to the kings. Here also, the king does not necessarily desire luxury goods. If there are several states and one aggressive state obtains loans for building an army, the other states must also take loans in order to build up an army. One usurer usually cannot have enough money to supply a king with an army but a community of usurers can do so. Assuming that the king ends up to too big debts, he will be tempted to expel the community of usurers. We also see these cases in the Middle Ages. A community of usurers can do much bad.

A community can also do speculation: buying necessities of from the shelves causes scarcity and increases the prices. More people must borrow money and will end up in poverty. Selling the goods with higher prices brings good profits. It is also possible to speculate with money. If commodity money, such as gold coins, are used, then the community can accumulate gold in their hands. Then less gold is in circulation and economy declines because of the lack of liquidity. These methods have been used to bring forth a depression several times in the history.

Another method is to monopolize trade of goods that cause addiction, such as alcohol or drugs or tobacco. Users of these substances cannot all control their usage and increasing the supply increases the profits and causes more social problems. As an example, alcohol trade in Poland in 16^th and 17^th century was monopolized with negative results to the country.

We can see what dangers a community of users creates to a society. It is no wonder that there has been a tendency to expel users, or to confine them to closer areas and mark them in a recognizable way. A community us users does not only include usury but usury must be supported by bribery of the king and state officials and the legal system. It creates very unhealthy circumstances. A community of usurers is similar to mafia: it captures the whole society by bribes, threats and blackmail. For this reason, usury is forbidden in most countries. It is not the banking we know. Unfortunately, usury and speculation are still practiced in international affairs.

 

Occult connection

The claim that Freemasonry has an inner circle practicing sex magic and worshipping Lucifer is known as the Leo Taxil hoax. Leo Taxil (alias Jogand-Pages) wrote several books about this topic in 1890ies and caused a scandal when he later publicly admitted having invented the whole thing in order to show how stupid are Catholic priests. The same claims were made also by Marguitte. A.E. Waite, a well-known Rosicrucian writer is said to have debunked all Taxil’s arguments in his book. He explicitly argues that Freemasonry does not admit women, does not practice sex magic, and does not have inner circles.  The claim has an interesting historical setting. Taxil and Marguitte claimed that Albert Pike established the new Palladian Rite. The Palladian Rite was a French Masonic Rite active in 1730, where women were admitted. The new Palladian Rite was thus a new rite admitting women. Indeed, co-masonry started in France 1893 in joint lodges admitting both men and women. To this extent, the timing is correct and there was a new Palladian rite, but it is not known to have practiced sex magic. However, sex magic was practiced around this time by Eliphas Levy (Courbet), the Hermetic Order of the Light, and Paschal B. Randolph in the 1870ies. At 1895 Carl Keller was trying to form his Academica Masonica as a Masonic organization, but as sex magic was central to Keller’s ideas, women were necessary. Keller applied to several existing bodies, including Freemasonry, and the final solution was to rename the Hermetic Order of Light as the Ordo Templi Orientis. Keller acquired Masonic rites to his organization: the first six rites are from regular Freemasonry, the higher orders are from the Rite of Mizraim and also from Swedenborg’s Rite. Whether Albert Pike was in any way involved with the birth of O.T.O. is not known, but he was familiar with the writings of Eliphas Levy. More is known of A.E. Waite. He was a member of the Hermetic Order of Light and must have been fully familiar with O.T.O. and Keller’s efforts to found Academica Masonica, open only to advanced Masons. Thus, Waite pretending not to know of any connections between sex magic and Freemasonry is clearly an intentional cover up. As for Luciferian worship, the teachings of O.T.O. are Luciferian and Gnostic. The Gnostic Church is closely connected with O.T.O. Their main claim, as with any Gnostic teachings, is that there are the higher good God and the lower evil God, the God in the Bible is the latter, and Jesus is the Messiah of the lower God. Lucifer is the Messiah of the higher God. It is obvious to anybody familiar with the writings of Albert Pike and the symbolism of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry (SRF), that SRF contains this Gnostic, or Manichean, doctrine. Thus, while regular Freemasonry does not admit women, does not practice sex magic, and is not Luciferian, there exists an inner circle O.T.O that has all these features. It is a Rosicrucian secret society but is rites are essentially Masonic. There is no independent Rosicrucian movement, maybe there once was, or maybe it was a joke, but later it was always Masonic. The O.T.O. society was established at the time of Taxil’s hoax and at the time of Albert Pike, both of whom must have been aware of it.  So with Freemasonry rebutting claims against it, it is always only half truths. The best to say would be to admit and assure that it is past, if it is past.

We can follow this occult side of Freemasonry historically. Rosicrucian and Theosophy can be traced to Gnosticism and Manicheanism, which derive from Neo-Platonism and maybe from Iranian religions. Many well known people were close to the Rosicrucian movement, such as the Christian mystic Jacob Boehme, scientists Isaac Newton, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Leibniz, Boyle, etc. Theosophy has given birth to very many secret societies, some being Christian, some Luciferian. Cabbalistic ideas are one of the main sources of this occult mysticism, but in the Christian form. Thus, the Anti-Christ features prominently in three systems. Connections between Theosophy and the Ariosophy are close, shown in the symbolisms: swastika, Aryan race, and superhuman. The Thule Society was an Ariosophic secret society that created the Nazi party. The set of occult secret societies includes the Golden Dawn, AMORC, O.T.O., The Church of Satan, I AM, Wicca, and so on. Theosophists and Rosicrucians are usually less interested in infiltrating organizations but a modern form of this line is actively doing so, namely the Scientology. The link between Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O) and Scientology is not generally understood. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, considered himself as an incarnation of Aleister Crowley, the 666 Beast, and according to his son, Hubbard in fact considered himself an incarnation of the Satan. Crazy or not, Hubbard was assisting the talented NASA rocket scientist John Person in the Babalon Works, i.e., an effort to give birth to the Moon Child, a character that can be equated with the Anti-Christ of Christians. The influence of Rosicrucian secret societies and Theosophy in politics has usually been smaller than that of Illuminati/communists, but Rosicrucian influence among science seems surprisingly large.

As a conclusion of Freemasons, Masonry has been plotting revolutions and been involved in occultism. These activities have mostly taken place in Western Europe during the time 1770-1920, maybe up to 1980ies if we include the P2 lodge. After the establishment of the Soviet Union, the political side of Radical Enlightenment was made by the Internationals and the role of the Memphis-Mizraim lodges probably become unnecessary. From the beginning of the 20^th century occultism was practiced in O.T.O, Wicca and other societies and churches. Also Zionism has its own organizations. We may assume that Freemasonry has only a minor role, if any, in these activities. Freemasonry originally did not have political or occult content but it become infiltrated. The original Freemasonry (Blue Lodges in the USA, the York rite in England) has only three symbolic degrees. The infiltrated lodges had more degrees: the Stuart Freemasonry had 25, the Scottish Rite 33, and the Memphis-Mizraim rite 90 degrees. The higher degrees have probably played some role in the inner circles in infiltrated lodges. This does not mean that Scottish Masonry is today mainly infiltrated. There was an action against the Illuminati infiltration effort.

Let us look at alternative explanations. The Protocols resembles the program of the Illuminati. We can look for evidence that Freemasonry has some secret society inside it. There is the Palladian Order that a high Freemason Albert Pike is said to have created. There is claimed to exist a letter written in 1871 from Albert Pike to an Italian patriot, Freemason, Carbonari and revolutionary Guiseppe Mazzini. The alleged letter can be found in the Web and it contains a prediction of three world wars. The descriptions of WWI and WWII are very precise. The third world war is to be between Israel and Muslims, who destroy each other. The whole world will be exhausted by this war and will accept Luciferian world government. The letter of Pike has not been found, nor is here more information of the Palladian Order than what was given by the hoaxer Leo Taxil. The three wars plan first appeared in a book by William Guy Carr, but Carr refers to a book of José María Caro Rodríguez. There is indeed something about a conflict between Jews and Muslims, but Rodriguez bases his book on Leo Taxil. The book predicts a confrontation between Jews and Muslims, but it could be expected as a result of Zionism. There is much evidence to show that Freemasonry was involved in revolutions from 1770 to 1870, but after the Paris Commune fell, the old Mizraim and Memphis lodges were discontinued and the new Memphis-Mizraim Freemasonry was not any more revolutionary. There is reason to think that the subversive activity was moved from Masonry to Theosophy and Rosicrucian secret societies around the time O.T.O. was established. That activity continued up to the end of the Second World War. After Israel was established, such secret societies were not needed.

 

Summary

There is a personal and ideological continuum from the Bavarian Illuminati, through Jacobins and Carbonari to Communists. The Egyptian Freemasonry, founded by Cagliostro, and its later developments: the Rite of the Philadelphes, the Rite of Mizraim, the Rite of Memphis, and the merged form the Rite of Memphis-Mizraim under the irregular Grand Orient of France, have been closely associated with all of the revolutionary movements between 1770 and 1870. Zionism originates from the Grand Orient of France and there are personal connections tying both Zionism and communism to B’nai B’rith and Anti-Defemation League (ADL). The support of international bankers to communism, and also to Nazism, has been shown by several historians. This support has mainly come from Anglo-American and Jewish sources. As the Grand Orient of France was not active in these countries and Freemasonry is implied in this support, the lodges behind these subversive movements must have been some secret group inside regular Freemasonry.

Inner circles of Zionism with the support of international bankers seems to be the only surviving secret society that may have the role today. There is B’nai B’rith and Anti-Defamation League. Much more could be said, but will not be said in this short overview. Some related literature is listed in the references, but it is not all recommended, e.g., Antelman makes a too strong link to Sabbateans.

 

References:

Gary Allen: The C.F.R. Conspiracy To Rule The World, American opinion, Belmont, Mass. 1969.

Marvin Antelman: To Eliminate The Opiate, 1974.

Marvin Antelman: To Eliminate The Opiate, Vol II, Zionist Book Club, Jerusalem, 2002.

Myran C. Fagan: The Illuminati and The Council of Foreign Relations, talk given in the 1960ies, available at

http://usa-the-republic.com/illuminati/cfr_1.htm

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (1905),

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm

Douglas Reed: The Controversy of Zion, 1978 Dolphin Press, Durban. The whole book reprinted by Knud Bjeld Eriksen 1998 freely available at:

http://www.controversyofzion.info/Controversybook/index.htm

Douglas Reed: The Grand Design of the 20^th Century, 1977, freely available at http://www.douglasreed.co.uk/design.pdf

John Robinson: Proofs of a Conspiracy, 1798, freely available at

http://www.sacred-text.com/sro/pc/pc04.htm

Anthony C. Sutton: Wall Street and The Rise of Hilter, whole book freely available at http://reformed-theology.org/htm/books/wall_street/index.html

Carrol Quigley: Tragedy and Hope, Macmillian, 1966.

Nesta H. Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements (1924). Freely available at: http://www.gutenberg.org