Subject: Secret Societys.. are they real?
Content: Ok... Today I came across this... I always thought it to be all fictional, and only made for movies.... Now Its got me thinking... What does everyone else think and believe???? Skull and Bones This famous organization has been designated as "America's secret establishment" by author Antony Sutton, but it's also been known as "the Brotherhood of Death," "the Order," or just plain "Bones." For more than 150 years, Skull and Bones has been active at Yale University. Also called "Chapter 322," some claim it's an offshoot of a secret German university society. This group allegedly had a fascist and communist bent, with a Hegelian philosophy of "service to the state." Many conspiracy theorists also believe that it was the infamous "Thule Society" (whose members went on to form the Nazi Party) and has ties with the Illuminati (another society I'll mention later on). Apparently, the American branch of this group was founded in 1832 at Yale University by class valedictorian William Russell and his schoolmate Alphonso Taft. William was the cousin of Samuel Russell, who made his fortune by smuggling opium to China, and he supposedly struck up a great friendship with a leader of a clandestine German university society during the two years he spent studying in Germany. He evidently became so enthralled that he got permission to start a branch in America. William Russell later went on to become a state legislator in Connecticut and a military general. His partner, Alphonso Taft, was later appointed the United States' attorney general, secretary of war, and ambassador to both Austria-Hungary and Russia. Alphonso was also the father of William Howard Taft, who ultimately became the only man to be both chief justice of the Supreme Court and President of the United States. The identify of those who have been in Skull and Bones is assumed to be secret, but the group published membership lists (which were held in the Yale library) until 1970. Only after that time was membership kept secret. However, several leaks have occurred over the years - one of which was the result of a break-in, with another coming from a disgruntled member who gave a list of fellow Bonesman to Antony Sutton in the mid-1980's. The membership reads like a who's who of East Coast society, with members from old, wealthy, and powerful families that are stepped in politics, banking, commerce, industry, and the like. Three Presidents of the United States (the aforementioned Taft, along with George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush) were Bonesmen, for instance; and the younger President Bush supposedly appointed 11 of his old "frat brothers" to his administration in his first term. The Illuminati The term Illuminati - meaning "enlightened ones" in Latin - has been appropriated by various organizations. Some real and some fictitious. Today, however, it mainly refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society that allegedly has conspiratorial aims to destroy the national identities of countries and the Catholic Church in the hopes of establishing a New World Order. A powerful society that called itself Roshaniya, or "the illuminated ones," and was based on a secret cult started to rise in the mountains of Afghanistan in the 16th century. The Roshaniya were founded by a man named Bayezid Ansari, who claimed that his ancestors had aided Mohammed after his flight from Mecca. Because of that help, Ansari insisted that he'd been granted admission into the mysteries of the Ishmaelite religion - which involved a covert training that dated from Abraham's rebuilding the Temple at Mecca. The secret order of the Roshaniya stayed in existence for more than 100 years. In 1776, approximately 40 years after the death of the order's last leader, a man by the name of Adam Weishaupt formed a similar group in Germany. Weishaupt was raised by Jesuits in a very conservative and Catholic-controlled part of that country and went on to become a professor of canon law at Ingolstadt University. Evidently Weishaupt became disenchanted with the Jesuits and the Church in general, for he adopted the teachings of the anti-Christian doctrines of the Manicheans, which he was apparently exposed to in 1771 by a German merchant named Kolmer. Illuminati members have to swear to obey the organization and their superiors. Members are assigned certain ranks, which fall under three main divisions: 1 . "The Nursery" encompasses levels such as "Preparation," "Novice," "Minerval," and "Illuminatus Minor." 2 . "Masonry" includes degrees such as "Illuminaturs Major" and "Illuminaturs Dirigens" (also called "Scotch Knight"). 3. The final class, "Mysteries," is divided into both lesser mysteries with the degrees of "Presbyter" and "Regent," and greater mysteries with the degrees of "Magus and "Rex." The Illumaniti did expand, and within just 20 years of its founding, this group had gained several thousand members in various countries in Europe. Meanwhile, the conservative ruler of Bavaria and the Catholic Church (with the aid of the Jesuits) were clamping down on Adam Weishaupt and his associates. Soon after the Bavarian government banned all secret societies - including the Illuminati and the Freemasons - in 1784, the organization collapsed in this region, and Weishaupt fled the country. The Illuminati continued to operate in other areas of Europe, even under the threat of arrest and persecution; and many claim that they finally disbanded in 1790. But other people insist that they still exist today, and my spirit guide Francine agree. After the group's suppression in Bavaria, it simply became extremely clandestine in its dealings. As several publications with exaggerated accounts of the Illuminati were published after its supposed demise, some historians and consipiracists began to link it to the French and Russian Revolutions, calling it "the ultimate society for conspiracy and revolutionary plots."
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