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The First Philosopher:

Pythagoras was the first person to be known as a philosopher, the first to use that term to describe himself, the first pure mathematician and the first person to adopt a systematic, deductive, scientific method, making him the forefather of modern science.

Such was his renown that the phrase autos epha was coined, meaning, “he himself said it.” This was later translated into a famous Latin phrase: ipse dixit. Anyone who wanted to end a debate, simply declared, “He himself said it.” No one dared challenge a direct pronouncement of Pythagoras.

He was famed for his skill with the lyre, and, like Orpheus, he used music to help those who were ill and to soothe wild animals. He was obsessed with music because it brought numbers to life. Music might be considered as aural mathematics: mathematics transformed into emotion. Social and political harmony are akin to beautiful music, while the chaotic opposite is music that has degenerated into discord.

Twenty-one of the central principles taught by Pythagoras to the inner circle of the Illuminati (who were known as the mathematikoi) were:

(1) Reality is mathematical at its deepest level.

(2) The cosmos exhibits order because it obeys mathematical laws.

(3) If the cosmos were not mathematical it would be permanently chaotic and random. No form of organization would ever have emerged. No life could have arisen.

(4) Mathematics is the first language of the cosmos. Mathematics underlies reason, order, organization, pattern, logic, and form.

(5) God is mathematics come to life.

(6) God is mathematical perfection.

(7) The thinking mind, both human and divine, is born of mathematics.

(8) The mathematics of humanity can evolve to the mathematics of divinity: the latter is simply an inferior version of the latter.

(9) Through the understanding of mathematics, humans can comprehend the Mind of God.

(10) The human soul reflects the mathematics of eternity.

(11) Mathematics and philosophy can purify the soul spiritually.

(12) The human soul can rise to union with the divine.

(13) Certain symbols have a mystical significance via which the secrets of God are revealed.

(14) God has filled the cosmos with mathematical messages (codes) to the human race to provide the answers to all of our questions. We need only read the codes, but to do so we must learn to see through God’s eyes.

(15) Good and evil have their origins in mathematics. Good is associated with those who wish to live in harmony with others; evil is the result of the desire to destroy harmony by treating others in a lesser way than one would expect to be treated oneself. Good people seek harmony; evil people seek discord. Good people seek cooperation, evil people seek to put others down in order to raise themselves up.

(16) God wants all good people to join him. He rejects all evil people.

(17) Emotion is based on music, and music on mathematics. All of our emotions are reflected in music. Music can make us happy, sad, tearful, and ecstatic. It can rouse us to dance. It can plunge us into despair. It can deliver serenity. It can make us restless. It can inspire us, or crush us. It can allow us to enter into communion with others. It can raise our minds to the level of the divine. Through perfect music, we can glimpse the perfect mind of God.

(18) All things have a profound inner grasp of mathematics. Even when they do not know it, all things are carried along in the eternal flow of mathematics, the river of enlightenment.

(19) Those who do not understand mathematics are those who have not had what is buried within them brought into the light of reason.

(20) Light and sound are mathematical. In the afterlife, we hear the Music of the Spheres and see the infinitely dazzling light patterns of eternity.

(21) All Brothers and Sisters of the Order should observe strict loyalty and secrecy.

Twenty-one was a revered number because it was the product of two of the most sacred numbers: three and seven.

Consider the sophistication of Pythagoras’s principles in contrast with the primitive and childish stories, parables, laws and commandments of the Torah, Bible and Koran. How could Jews, Christians or Muslims ever claim to have any real knowledge of anything at all? Abrahamism is all about superstition, fear and control.

“Bless us, divine number, who generated gods and men. Number contains the root and source of eternally flowing creation.” –Pythagoras

“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are…” –Heinrich Hertz

The soul, if it is to be at all meaningful in this scientific age, must be capable of a scientific and hence mathematical description. From the outset, Pythagoras treated the soul scientifically and mathematically. Any religion that fails to do so is no religion at all, but mere moonshine for simpletons.

This is not to say that the soul can be fully described and defined mathematically. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata may be analysed mathematically, divided up into waveforms, amplitudes, sine waves, frequencies, wavelengths etc. We can thus provide an exact mathematical analysis of the music, sufficient to allow us to copy it onto millions of plastic disks and transport it all around the world, where it will be reproduced exactly each time it is played. But how can mathematics define how the music makes us feel? The external mathematical definition of the soul does not and never can express what it’s like to be a soul, how it feels, how it’s experienced, what the inner nature of the soul is; its moral content. Mysticism, esotericism, intuition, insight, the inner eye, and, above all, Gnosticism, can all help here. Even so, just as there would be no Moonlight Sonata without mathematics, nor could the soul exist without mathematics.

The mathematical and scientific nature of the soul must be addressed by any credible religion. Any religion that cannot do so must be rejected as false. In fact, Einstein’s special theory of relativity, Minkowski’s 4D spacetime, and Quantum Mechanics, provide the ideal modern framework in which to define the soul (as demonstrated by other books in this series). And at the heart of all of these stands none other than Pythagoras’ Theorem, known to every schoolchild. You will not find any religion other than Illumination that can describe the science and mathematics of the soul. All other religions are fake and phoney, particularly the ludicrous Abrahamic faiths which directly contradict science and hence are simply unbelievable. These infantile religions must be consigned to the oblivion they deserve.

Plato’s famous Academy, and Aristotle’s Lyceum, the templates for modern universities, were based on Pythagoras’s Illuminati school of mathematics, science, philosophy, religion and esoteric knowledge at Croton in Italy. Thus, in a sense, the whole education system enjoyed by the world today is in debt to the Illuminati. Yet if humanity is to fulfil its divine potential, the education system needs to be vastly more like Pythagoras’ original mystery school and much less like the modern sausage factories of today’s mass produced education for producing legions of capitalist worker droids.
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The Illuminati Republic:

Some people have suggested that Adam Weishaupt, the Illuminati’s most controversial Grand Master, was inspired by the political vision set out in The Republic by Plato. In fact, almost the opposite is true insofar as Plato’s political views were entirely the product of his involvement as a First Degree novice with the Illuminati. (He never proceeded beyond that level because he was expelled for failing to maintain the rigorous secrecy demanded by the Order.) In other words, the Illuminati shaped Plato, not the other way around. Weishaupt simply remained loyal to all of the ancient political positions espoused by Pythagoras as the first Grand Master of the Illuminati.

Given that The Republic reflects the Illuminati’s political thinking then Plato’s great work is certainly the place to go if you wish to understand the politics of the Illuminati from the earliest times. Plato’s other political work The Laws is equally valuable. The internal workings and organisation of the Illuminati can be discerned from a close reading of these works.

The Illuminati, from its inception, was a meritocracy. Members advanced through the organization on merit alone. The Grand Master was the most meritorious of all, elected by a majority vote of his peers within the organization. Meritocracy uses the democratic device of a vote to avoid selecting by lot or by allowing those already in power to appoint someone. However, only those suitably qualified are allowed to vote. The modern notion of giving everyone a vote for managing the stupendous feat of staying alive for 18 years, regardless of any expertise that they may or may not have acquired, is ridiculous, and a guarantee of bad government.

In ancient Greece, meritocracy was known as aristocracy – “rule by the best” i.e. the most talented. Historically, the rich hijacked the word “aristocracy” since they believed that to be the richest was to be the best. In fact, rule by the rich is rightly known as plutocracy, but the rich never liked to view themselves as merely wealthy, so chose not to use that label. They wanted wealth to reflect superior moral and intellectual qualities. The same attitude persists to this day amongst capitalists and libertarians: wealth = superior moral worth in their materialistic equation. Poor people are “evil” because they are poor. QED. (Karmic thinking makes similar claims.)

To the Illuminati and to Plato, aristocrats were indeed those with superior intellectual and moral qualities, but one quality they certainly did not possess was wealth. The Illuminati lived as an extremely tightly bound community with no private wealth, and they have even been described as proto communists. No one owned any private property – all property was held in common. Everyone lived in common housing and shared common meals. Each degree of the Illuminati had various “housekeeping” tasks to perform to maintain the community, and the tasks were shared out equally. There was no favouritism or privilege.

The Illuminati strove to bring about an enlightened society founded on justice, freedom, community, talent, the universal well being of the people, and the maximization of everyone’s potential, led by the people who had demonstrated the highest merit, as acknowledged by their peers.

In Plato’s Republic, the state is run by an educated class known as the Guardians (who are the most meritorious). From their number, a philosopher-king is chosen to serve as ruler of the state. This individual was the equivalent of the Illuminati’s Grand Master. In modern terms, it would be the President, Prime Minister or Chancellor.

Capitalists and libertarians have always despised Plato (and by extension Pythagoras), describing him as a communist or fascist, depending on taste and mood. They loathe the way that Plato condemns wealth and supports a form of government that seeks to perfect humanity rather than leaving it to go shopping. Nothing could be more soul-destroying than the “philosophy” of capitalists and libertarians, the ideology of unrestrained greed, unchecked by government. In fact, for capitalists and libertarians, government should not exist at all, making them nothing but anarchists. These people constitute an astounding threat to humanity’s future.

The contemporary political thinking of the Illuminati is a dialectical evolution of Pythagoras’s original utopian state. The dialectic itself now takes centre stage. Every process in a state should reflect dialectical principles. Every aspect of society should be evolving towards perfection. The wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of the people – “crowdsourcing” – should be invoked as much as possible.

The idea of elites, divorced from the needs and wants of the people and acting in their own interests, is anathema. Crowdsourcing and meritocracy, working in a continual feedback loop, can provide the engine to take humanity to the next stage of its evolution. The people should be working in partnership with government. They should not be passive recipients of diktats from on high, from a remote government of the privileged elite. Citizens must be active in the moulding of the state, contributing at every level. Government and the people should be hardwired together: there should be no possibility of the government not representing the people’s interests. Any government that is not deemed by the people to be representing the General Will of the people is a tyranny, reflecting only the particular wills of the ruling elite.

In the past, the elite burned “witches” – innocent women who dared to think for themselves. Now it’s time that the elite’s mansions and fortresses were burned to the ground.
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The Tribunes of the People:

One of the most influential struggles between the rich elite and the people took place in ancient Rome. The Old World Order have made a careful study of this period, and it shapes much of their current strategic thinking. By the same token, the Illuminati also devote much thought to the example set by Rome, particularly since two of the prime protagonists were Illuminati martyrs.

Ancient Rome, in its earliest times, was a monarchy. The Roman kings, like so many of their kind, degenerated into tyranny and were violently deposed. The aptly named Tarquinius Superbus (“Tarquin the Proud”) was the seventh and last of the unlamented line.

Rome became an oligarchic republic, ruled by the Senate, an assembly comprised of male Senators from, almost exclusively, the most elite Roman families. The Republic was referred to by the letters SPQR: SENATUS POPULUS QUE ROMANUS (“The Senate and People of Rome.”) In effect, this could be translated as The Rich Elite and the ordinary people of Rome. And thus it is in virtually every nation on earth even now: power in the hands of the elite, and the people being pushed around like so many flocks of sheep and herds of cows on their way to the slaughterhouse.

The Romans were ferociously militaristic; in fact Rome might be described as nothing but a machine for waging perpetual war. Nearly all of the Romans’ energy was given over to conquest in an endless cycle of wars, or squabbling over the plunder, or savagely fighting amongst themselves to see who would emerge as top dog. In a sense, the Senate was more like a military council, organizing the means for war without end.

The Roman state was a well-oiled military machine and most of the male citizenry served in the army for long tours of duty. Enormous amounts of plunder returned to Rome, keeping the economy buoyant. Food poured in from the conquered territories. Prisoners of war were forced into slavery, and they performed the majority of menial tasks. Some of these prisoners were dragooned into becoming gladiators and then compelled to fight to the death for the entertainment of the masses. Some were thrown to dogs, lions, bears and boars as an alternative form of entertainment. Roman generals liked to bring back exotic animals from the faraway lands they had conquered, and then display them for the mob’s entertainment, usually by having them eat slaves alive. (Famously, Christians were amongst those thrown to the lions.) And chariot racing at the Circus Maximus was always popular, accompanied by gambling, heavy drinking and sometimes lethal violence between supporters of different chariot teams, most notoriously the “blues” and “greens”.

In the modern day, we have the “Pop Idol” and “X-Factor” auditions as our version of having victims eaten alive in public. No one gets killed, but the same savage instinct to see people destroyed is still there, as strong as ever. No decent person would watch these shows, just as no decent person would have gone to the Coliseum to see human beings being torn to pieces in the name of entertainment. It’s extraordinary how many TV shows are fantastically cruel. They love mocking and jeering at ordinary people, humiliating them and destroying their dreams. From the carnage, a few puppets with pretty faces, mediocre talent, no personalities and nothing to say will be launched to fame and fortune. These are the “darlings of the mob” (and of their OWO controllers). The billionaire media moguls of the Old World Order love serving up this mindless shit to people. It keeps the people dumbed down, and it maintains cruelty at the heart of the body politic. The OWO are terrified of talent, justice and respect being at the heart of our culture because that would signal their own demise. They are creatures of hate that prosper most when hate is maximized (especially in wars, which they are always keen to wage).

As for the Circus Maximus, we now have plenty of sports to fill that gap. Sport should be a reflection of human excellence, but it’s increasingly just a cynical exercise in corporate branding, mass marketing and ultra-capitalism. The stars are ridiculously overpaid. Their faces are plastered on billboards all over the world. They are part of the “star economy” that gives enormous riches to a lucky few while screwing over everyone else. The OWO stand behind most sporting “franchises”. They relentlessly exploit people’s obsessive support for their favourite team. You can get credit cards bearing the badge of your special team…and you pay extra for the privilege. What do credit cards have to do with sport? Why do people fall for this nonsense? Many people approach sport with an almost religious fervour. That shows you how far true spirituality has fallen by the wayside.

Many men, week after week, sit around drinking beers, discussing “the game”. They have an encyclopaedic knowledge of all the statistics relating to their team for the last fifty years. Yet ask them about anything important and they will stare at you blankly, or as if you’re a lunatic. The amount of energy they devote to becoming experts in trivia is remarkable, as is the lack of energy they expend on doing anything significant with their lives.

The ordinary citizens of ancient Rome were anonymous and had little to occupy them. Some were shopkeepers, some were artisans, some were bodyguards, minor officials, and so on. Many didn’t have meaningful jobs since the slaves performed most of the basic tasks. Hence arose the Roman policy of panem et circenses – “bread and circuses”. As long as the Senate could feed the masses and keep them entertained, the Roman “mob” was reasonably easy to control.

Now the Elite have TV, cinema, video games, iPhones, iPads, iTunes to keep the masses entertained and preoccupied, and junk food to keep them bloated and immobile. The “mob” have never been so easy to control, and they actually pay the Elite for the privilege of being controlled.

The song “Perfect Game” by The Thompson Twins has lyrics that are all too appropriate:

They don’t know what to call us
Because we don’t have a name
But they still know how to force us
To keep playing the perfect game
So if you want to find out why you call someone insane
Just sit inside the building where they’re playing the perfect game

Isn’t it time for a new game? Let’s make the Elite the prancing clowns. We’ve danced to their tune too long. Enough muzak. It’s time for the rebirth of music. It’s time for the Soundtrack of the Revolution.
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Optimates versus Populares:

The nobility of ancient Rome were referred to as patricians and the commoners as plebeians (“plebs”). The plebeians sought better treatment and enhanced rights from the patricians, but it was always a struggle to win any concessions. Without credible political representation, the plebeians had little chance of gaining a true voice in the Roman Republic.

To try to improve their lot, the plebeians on several occasions carried out an act of mass protest, similar to a general strike. Each time, they abandoned the city en masse in an act known as a Secessio Plebis (Secession of the Plebs; withdrawal of the commoners) and left the patricians to themselves.

All shops and workshops closed, and all commerce in the city halted. On one occasion, the pleb soldiers refused to fight for the patricians. On another occasion, the plebs threatened to build a new city, free of the nobility. The patricians were forced to come to terms and offer political powers to the plebeians.

Isn’t it time for a modern Secessio Plebis to show the Elite who’s really in charge? The word veto is Latin for “I forbid”. Shouldn’t we forbid the ever-widening gap between the rich and poor? The people can change everything at any time of their choosing, just as the Roman plebs did by going on general strike.

The plebeians were permitted to elect ten political representatives called tribunes (from the Latin tribus = tribe) who were empowered to convene the Plebeian Council (People’s Assembly), act as its president, and propose legislation. It was illegal for patricians to do tribunes any harm; their lives were sacrosanct because they were regarded as the personal embodiment of the plebeians. They had the power of veto in many matters, and were entitled to intervene legally on behalf of plebeians. A tribune had the right to summon the Senate and submit policies for consideration. It was illegal for any patrician to serve as a tribune.

In the 2nd century BCE, two remarkable brothers, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus (known as the Gracchi) were elected as tribunes of the plebs and used their power in an unprecedented way to challenge the Elite. Roman politics was changed forever.

Certain issues such as who had the right to become a citizen and how and where land and property should be allocated to citizens were becoming causes of increasing tension between patricians and plebeians, and the Gracchi became the vox populi – the voice of the people – demanding radical reform. The stage was set for an almighty political showdown.

Thanks to the Gracchi, a political movement emerged known as the Populares (“favouring the people”; the Popular Party). They wished to curb the power of the patrician Senate, and enhance the rights and livings conditions of the people. Leaders of the Populares movement were known as populists or “demagogues” (leaders of the people). In general, they campaigned for the extension of citizenship to provincials, for cancellation of debts where they had become extortionate, and for the fair distribution of land and property.

The political faction that opposed them was called the Optimates (“Best Men”). They were also known as Boni: “Good Men”. The Optimates were the establishment party, the advocates of firm, patrician, Senatorial rule. They were conservatives, defending the traditions of Rome and the existing ruling order. They strove to maintain the power and privileges of the Elite and limit the power of the people. They exercised their power through the Senate. This was just the Roman version of the Washington D.C. political establishment. It is perhaps unsurprising that America has its own patrician Senate, with the plebs having the House of Representatives. In the UK, there is a patrician House of Lords (unelected) and a House of Commons. Labels such as “Lords” and “Commons” shows how anachronistic, absurd, divisive and elitist British politics remains.

The Optimates promoted the interests of the “nobiles” (noble families i.e. the typical OWO dynastic families of privilege and power) and fought hard to hold back the rise of novi homines (“new men”, often from the provinces and outwith the Roman nobility, and often advocates of the People’s Party). The most famous and talented novus homo was Cicero, the first of his family to enter the Senate, and who, ironically, chose to be on the Optimates’ side. He ingratiated himself with them by the simple tactic of always taking their side. This won him their support, but they never liked or trusted him. He was always an outsider; “not one of us” – lower class, unrefined, lacking patrician taste and manners, despite the brilliance of his mind.

The Optimates sought to restrict the extension of Roman citizenship and to preserve the ancient traditions of their forefathers. They strove always to uphold the oligarchy of the noble families. They dominated the Senate and acted as a continual block on social reform. They particularly feared popular generals who enjoyed the support of both the people and the army.

The members of both political factions belonged to the wealthier classes; no ordinary people ever had any power in Rome; no plebeian without influential connections ever served in the Senate or in formal government. No plebeian without influential connections had the benefit of an education.

Members of branches of patrician families that had fallen on hard times and lost their status were regarded as plebeian by the snobs of the nobility, but such “plebeian” families had nothing in common with the masses of true plebeians i.e. all the common people living in slums. Often, these plebeian “nobles” were determined to regain former glories. They turned to the people for support since they certainly wouldn’t get if from the established nobility.

At the zenith of the Optimates’ power, the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla posted throughout Rome long lists of Populares to be executed. The named individuals were stopped on sight and summarily put to death. This was true terror – having to check lists of the condemned to see if your name was on there, knowing that you could be killed instantly if it was.
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Caesar:

Julius Caesar was a member of one of Rome’s oldest and most respectable noble families, yet he championed the Populares’ political faction. He was opposed by Pompey the Great, a novus homo, who fought on behalf of the Senate and the Optimates.

Behind his public mask, Caesar had complete contempt for plebeians, but nevertheless continually courted their support against the Senate. To achieve his goal of becoming the supreme leader of Rome – a king or emperor – he had to smash the power of the Senate, hence he cynically exploited the plebeians. He was assassinated by a combination of Optimates defending the interests of the Senate and the nobility, and Populares, who foresaw that Caesar would become a tyrant and an enemy of the people.

The civil war that followed Caesar’s death led to the end of the Roman Republic and the creation of the Roman Empire under the first emperor, Octavian (Augustus Caesar), nephew and heir of Julius Caesar. Imperial succession then followed on a mostly hereditary basis, although eventually rival generals fought it out for the crown.

Caesar, a patrician, was no supporter of the lower classes, but he was prepared to use them to advance his own personal cause. Likewise, many Roman politicians appealed to whatever constituency served their interests at a particular time. They had no principles or political ideology. Self-interest was their only guide.

It has been said by historians that the clashes between the Populares and Optimates were nothing whatever to do with political stances and concerned only raw power. A patrician who had no interest in the people would nevertheless pander to them if it were politically expedient (just like today!).

The Roman patricians were infamously devoted to power. The entire Roman culture was brutally militaristic and power driven. Imagine America being run by hundreds of vigorous, ambitious, ruthless, battle-hardened generals in the prime of life rather than soft, decrepit politicians, and you will get a flavour of the savage power politics of ancient Rome. Politics was conducted like war. The ends always justified the means. Victory was everything. It didn’t matter how it was achieved. Bribery, corruption, blackmail, and assassination were all perfectly acceptable. After all, if you won and then ordered the execution of all of your rivals for treason, who would oppose you? Since money bought power, the Roman Elite were infamous for their corruption (just like the modern politicians of nations like America and Britain).

Jugurtha, King of Numidia (Algeria) said of Rome’s fatal weakness for money, “Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem invenerit”: “The city’s life is for sale, and it would kill itself if it could find a buyer.”

Doesn’t that sound like Wall Street, Washington D.C. or Hollywood? Ancient Rome has been reincarnated in America.
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The Gracchi:

The Gracchus brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were the first prominent Romans to be recruited by the Illuminati, and, as Latin speakers, were the first to actually use the term “Illuminati”. As the star of Rome ascended and Latin became the language of Europe, this became the permanent name of the secret society.

It was with the Gracchi that the Populares, the People’s Party, began. Unlike many others who jumped on the bandwagon, seeing an opportunity for self-advancement, the Gracchi genuinely wanted to bring about radical reforms on behalf of the ordinary people, and to smash the power of the ruling Elite. They paid with their lives.

The Gracchi were born to a plebeian branch of an old and noble family. Their ambitious mother wanted them to have the best possible education, and put them in the hands of the finest Greek tutors (the Greeks were the best and most knowledgeable teachers of the time, and many were brought to Rome). The tutors taught Tiberius and Gaius philosophy, science, mathematics, astronomy, logic, oratory, history and political science (particularly the ideas of Plato, Aristotle and Athenian democracy). One of the tutors was a member of the Illuminati, and it was he who recruited the brothers, seeing that they were individuals of exceptional ability who could literally change the course of Rome and the world.

Plutarch, an ancient Greek historian with strong links to the Illuminati, said, “These boys were brought up with such care and such ambitious hopes by their mother, that though they were without dispute in terms of their natural gifts the first among the Romans of their time, yet they seemed to owe their virtues even more to their education than to their birth.”

Plutarch described the similarities and differences between the two remarkable brothers: “We notice that the figures of Castor and Pollux, as they are represented in sculpture and painting, show certain differences in their physique, as between the boxer and the runner. In the same way with these two young Romans; in spite of their strong resemblance to one another in courage and self-discipline as well as in generosity, eloquence, and greatness of mind, yet in their actions and administrations of public affairs, a considerable variation showed itself…Tiberius was gentle and composed, alike in his cast of features, expression and demeanour, whereas Gaius was earnest, highly strung and impassioned. And so in their public speeches to the people, Tiberius spoke in a quiet, orderly manner, standing throughout on the same spot; whereas Gaius would walk about on the hustings, and in the heat of his orations pull his gown off his shoulders, and was the first of all the Romans that used such gestures…Gaius’s oratory tended to electrify his audience, making everything tell to the utmost, whereas Tiberius was more conciliatory and appealed to men’s sense of pity…The same difference that appeared in their speaking styles was observable also in their characters. Tiberius was mild and reasonable, Gaius rough and passionate, to the degree that, often, in the midst of speaking, he was so hurried away by his passion, against his judgment, that his voice lost its tone, and he lapsed into abuse, spoiling his whole speech. As a remedy to this excess, he made use of an ingenious aide of his, one Licinius, who stood constantly behind him with a sort of pitch-pipe, or instrument to regulate the voice by, and whenever he perceived Gaius’s tone alter and break with anger, he struck a soft note with his pipe, on hearing which Gaius immediately checked the vehemence of his passion, and his voice, grew quieter, and allowed himself to be recalled to temper. Such are the differences between the two brothers; but their valour in war against their country’s enemies, their justice in the government of its subjects, their care and industry in office, and their self-command in all that regarded their pleasures, were equally remarkable in both.”

The Gracchus brothers, like all Roman men, were well trained in martial matters. They became renowned for their horsemanship and combat skill, outshining their peers. Tiberius, the older brother, earned fame for his courage and daring by being the first to scale the walls of Carthage in Rome’s final campaign against that city. On another occasion he used his diplomacy skills and personal charisma to save an army of 20,000 men that had been cut off and threatened with extermination.

The boys, linked as they were to a noble family, and now with big reputations as rising stars of the army, were looked upon favourably by the ruling elite. If they had played the usual game, they would have allied themselves to the Optimates and enjoyed lives of privilege. Instead, they remained true to the principles of the Illuminati and campaigned on behalf of the people. Land reform was their main angle of attack. They wanted to take away the excessive amounts of land that the elite had acquired and to distribute it amongst the plebeians (just as the present-day Illuminati want to strip the Elite of their excessive wealth and invest it instead in the people). Naturally, they generated a whirlwind of opposition, ultimately costing them their lives despite some early successes.

The brothers, so well taught by the Greeks, were able to make incendiary speeches that gripped their audiences and roused them from their apathy. They were inspired orators, brilliantly persuasive, who knew how to deliver well-crafted speeches in the grand Greek style, and which Romans always found so impressive in comparison with their plainer, more functional speeches.

The Gracchi were fiercely opposed to the increasing trend of rich landowners pushing plebeians off their farms and into economic ruin. (The same type of thing happened in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries, in the forced expulsions of people from their land to make way for more profitable sheep, known to history as the “Highland Clearances”. Many of these displaced people made their way to America and Canada.) The plebeians ended up in the Roman slums, idle and having to accept handouts due to lack of paid work in a slave based economy.

An old law that the Senate had conveniently chosen to ignore specifically limited the amount of land that any single individual could own. By invoking this law, Tiberius had the ancient traditions of Rome on his side, and legal right. He established a commission to redistribute land holdings from patricians to plebeians. But the patrician landowners were furious that their lands were being confiscated.

Plutarch described the volatile situation, and the sleazy tactics adopted by the rich: “However, Tiberius did not draw up his law without the advice and assistance of those citizens that were then most eminent for their virtue and authority; amongst whom were Crassus, the high-priest, Mucius Scaevola, the lawyer, who at that time was consul, and Claudius Appius, his father-in-law. Never did any law appear more moderate and gentle, especially being enacted against such great oppression and avarice. For they who ought to have been severely punished for transgressing the former laws, and should at least have lost all their titles to such lands which they had unjustly usurped, were notwithstanding to receive a price for quitting their unlawful claims, and giving up their lands to those fit owners who stood in need of help. But though this reformation was managed with so much tenderness that, all the former transactions being passed over, the people were only thankful to prevent abuses of the like nature for the future, yet, on the other hand, the moneyed men, and those of great estates, were exasperated, through their covetous feelings against the law itself, and against the lawgiver, through anger and party-spirit. They therefore endeavoured to seduce the people, declaring that Tiberius was designing a general redivision of lands, to overthrow the government, and cut all things into confusion.”

(Here we hear the usual “conspiracy theory” accusations that have followed the Illuminati throughout history. The accusers are always the Elite. They have always been terrified of the Illuminati’s New World Order that would sweep away their power. All those who are opposed to the NWO are puppets of the Elite.)

“But they had no success. For Tiberius, maintaining an honourable and just cause, and possessed of eloquence sufficient to have made a less credible action appear plausible, was no safe or easy antagonist, when, with the people crowding around the hustings, he took his place, and spoke on behalf of the poor. ‘The savage beasts that roam over Italy,’ he said, ‘have their dens and holes to lurk in; but the men who fight and die for our country enjoy the common air and light and nothing else. It is their lot to wander with their wives and children, houseless and homeless over the face of the earth.’ He told them that their commanders were guilty of lies and mockery, when, at the head of their armies, they exhorted the common soldiers to fight for their ancestors’ tombs and altars; when not any amongst so many Romans is possessed of either altar or monument, neither have they any houses of their own, or hearths of their ancestors to defend. They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men. They were styled the masters of the world, but in the meantime had not one foot of ground which they could call their own. A harangue of this nature, spoken to an enthusiastic and sympathizing audience, by a person of commanding spirit and genuine feelings, no adversaries at that time were competent to oppose.

“Forbearing, therefore, all discussion and debate, the patricians addressed themselves to Marcus Octavius, his fellow-tribune, who being a young man of a steady, orderly character, and an intimate friend of Tiberius, upon this account declined at first the task of opposing him; but at length, over-persuaded with the repeated importunities of numerous considerable persons, he was prevailed upon to do so, and hindered the passing of the law; it being the rule that any tribune has a power to hinder an act, and that all the rest can effect nothing, if only one of them dissents. Tiberius, irritated at these proceedings, presently laid aside this milder bill, but at the same time preferred another; which, as it was more gratifying to the common people, so it was much more severe against the wrongdoers, commanding them to make an immediate surrender of all lands which, contrary to former laws, had come into their possession.”

The situation became increasingly tense and dangerous. Finally, Tiberius was accused of trying to make himself king. His enemies in the Senate pronounced him a tyrant and demanded emergency powers to deal with him. Some of them took armed thugs with them to confront Tiberius and his supporters. Tiberius and around 300 of those with him were savagely clubbed to death. Tiberius’s murderer was one of his fellow tribunes, a plebeian like himself. (It’s always the same story: the rich can always find traitors amongst the people who will do their dirty work for them.) This was the first occasion since the time of the kings that blood had been openly shed in Roman politics. The bodies of the dead, including Tiberius, were denied decent burial and callously dumped in the River Tiber.

Several years later, younger brother Gaius took up where his brother had left off. He was under no illusions about his likely fate. He told a story that his brother had appeared to him in a dream and said, “Why do you hesitate, Gaius? There is no escape. Fate has decreed the same destiny for us both, to live and die in the service of the people.”

He was bitter towards all those who had failed to stand with his brother. He said, “But you stood by and watched while these men beat Tiberius to death with clubs, and while his dead body was dragged through the midst of the city to be thrown into the Tiber. And afterwards those of his friends who were caught were put to death without a trial.”

But his passion for justice drove him on. As well as reviving land reform, he fixed grain prices to prevent profiteering and granted improvements in the rights of citizenship for those non-Roman Italians in the territories around Rome, who had previously been denied significant rights.

However, many plebeians were angry that non-Romans were being treated on a par with them, and turned against Gaius. Immediately, Gaius’s powerful enemies in the Senate seized the moment to crush him. 3,000 of Gaius’s supporters were killed in the fighting and in summary executions afterwards. As for Gaius himself, he committed suicide in the traditional manner of a defeated Roman soldier by falling on his sword. His enemies beheaded him and stuck his head on the point of a spear.

As before, the bodies of the dead were tossed into the Tiber, and their property was sold and the proceeds seized by the Senate. Their wives were forbidden to wear mourning clothes in public.

The Senator who was behind the plot against Gaius that had led to so much violence on the street of Rome, built, in a grotesquely nauseating act of hypocrisy and triumphalism, the Temple of Concord. An outraged citizen carved on it: “This Temple of Concord is the work of mad Discord.”

After this, the Illuminati withdrew from Roman politics and over the following centuries concentrated on Roman religion – specifically Mithraism, which was a version of Illuminism. Tragically, Illuminist Mithraism was swept away by the Jewish Messianic Mithraism of St Paul: the appalling religion known to the world as Christianity.

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The conflict between Populares and Optimates raged on, but the Gracchi were replaced, on the whole, by unscrupulous demagogues rather than men of principle. The struggle ended with the assassination of Caesar (ostensibly one of the Populares but really a man who would be king), and the consequent birth of imperial Rome in the aftermath of the civil war that followed Caesar’s death.

History has judged the Gracchus brothers to have been blinded by unrealistic idealism, and deaf to the base notes of human nature. They struggled to understand how corrupt and selfish Romans were. Above all, they didn’t comprehend how fickle and unreliable the plebeians were. Most of them refused to stand and fight. Most of them could be bought off. Most of them had no principles. So what’s new?

The Gracchi retain a position of immense honour in the history of the Illuminati. They were exemplary meritocrats. The world is in desperate need of two such brothers again. They were true revolutionaries, and were failed by the people, as happens so often in history. Had they triumphed, world history would have been entirely different. But for any revolutionaries to win, they need the people to stand as one, and the people rarely do. It’s all too easy for the Elite to divide and rule, to make the people split into factions and fight amongst themselves, thus posing no danger to the Elite.

The Gracchi have sometimes been compared with the Kennedy brothers: JFK and RFK – young, dynamic, charismatic, good-looking, from a distinguished family, cut down in their prime after trying to push through reforms antithetical to the interests of the Elite.

The comparison is rather stretched. The Kennedys were members of the Old World Order, albeit outsiders by virtue of being Catholics in a WASP-controlled nation, but nevertheless, they were fervent capitalists, militarists, anti-Communists, pro-rich i.e. typical OWO members. However, they did begin to see that genuine reform was necessary, and, within OWO circles, they argued that it was necessary to make concessions to the people to prevent a popular uprising against the Washington D.C. Establishment that would probably be led by African-American radicals.

The OWO old guard, ultra conservatives, hated such talk, and took the necessary steps to silence the Kennedys. Even so, the Kennedy agenda prevailed, and reforms were introduced, though not of a sufficiently transformative nature to bring about meaningful change.

The Kennedys will always retain an ambiguous reputation: far too closely linked with power, wealth and privilege, but smart enough to try to help ordinary people, albeit in limited fashion.
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Spartacus:

Spartacus was a great hero in the war against the Elite. He led a slave uprising against Rome that shook the Republic to its core. He stood for the oppressed against the slave-owning patricians, for justice for the downtrodden, for freedom against tyranny.

After winning several spectacular victories, his rebellion was finally crushed with ferocious violence. Tens of thousands of slaves died in the last battle, including, it is thought, Spartacus himself, though his body was never identified.

6,000 captured rebels were crucified along either side of the Appian Way leading to Rome.

Although he had no connection with the Illuminati, Spartacus was greatly admired by the Order, to the extent that Grand Master Adam Weishaupt chose to be known as “Brother Spartacus” within the Order. Those absurd people who consider Weishaupt a secret member of the Elite must find it somewhat perplexing that he chose for himself the name of a slave who wanted to destroy the evil rulers of the world.

Adam Weishaupt was in fact the most revolutionary of all the Grand Masters of the Illuminati and detested the Elite to the point of obsession. He it was who coordinated all of the Illuminati’s actions throughout both the American and French Revolutions. He was hardline and uncompromising. It was Weishaupt who encouraged the Jacobin leaders in France to implement the “Terror” to eradicate aristocrats and counter-revolutionaries. He argued that a sign had to be sent to the whole world that the Elite were not indestructible, that they were mortals who could be struck down just as easily as they themselves normally struck down the ordinary people. Weishaupt frequently pointed out how the Gracchus brothers were assassinated without hesitation by the Elite, and the followers of Spartacus were exterminated. Why were the Elite never condemned for their savagery, for the “Terror” they inflicted on the people as a matter of course, and with total impunity? The people had to show that they would treat the Elite exactly as the Elite treated them. Only then would the Elite learn their lesson.

Weishaupt’s stance remains very controversial within the Illuminati. Some have argued that he went too far. Others, that the Elite had to be taught a lesson they would never forget.
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