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THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the religion, politics and philosophy of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day and the author is a member, working under the pseudonym of “Adam Weishaupt” – the name of the Illuminati’s most notorious Grand Master.
The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the “Demiurge”; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.
If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his “Chosen People”, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the “God of All” entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then dispatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the “Original Sin” of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s “son”, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.
Of course, the Chosen People of “God” have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan?
Remember that this same “God” ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical “believers”.
Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.
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Quotations:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” –H.L. Mencken
“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” –Paul Valéry
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” –George Orwell
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The Movement:
A number of people have expressed an interest in joining the Illuminati, but, by and large, they have been turned down even though they are bright, capable people. The Illuminati’s recruitment policy is, and has been for over a thousand years, connected with the core religious secrets of the society. For obvious reasons, these cannot be divulged.
Illumination, the religion of the Illuminati, is a “mystery” religion akin to those of ancient Greece, and the inner secrets are revealed only to those who have attained the highest mystery degrees. Those who are recruited by the Illuminati are those who have been identified as having the requisite readiness for the final revelations. “Readiness” is not connected to someone’s intelligence, dedication, moral worth, status, wealth, background, or anything of that kind, but only whether that person is already exhibiting a strong, intuitive grasp of “gnosis”.
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The Illuminati Order:
There are only 6,000 members of the Illuminati: fewer than one in a million in a world population of some seven billion people. In a city like London, there are only eight members. Many people, when they imagine a secret society, picture something along the lines of Freemasonry, with Masonic lodges in every major town and regular meetings involving a large number of people. The Illuminati offer nothing of that kind. Meetings are infrequent. Special locations are selected for small gatherings and these change every year (they are always connected with locations across the world that have played critical and fateful parts in the history of the Illuminati). Many members have to expend a great effort in terms of travel, expense and their time to get to the chosen meeting place. The occasions are highly dramatic and spine tingling, as they must be when great religious mysteries are revealed.
The Illuminati Order is not something you “join” for the sake of joining, not something that exists to give you status or a secret identity to make you feel good about yourself, or to allow you to solve the “puzzle of life” in the manner of an amateur mathematician or a detective. Joining the Illuminati is a transformative experience. Neither money, status, celebrity, fame, prestige, nor any other of the “golden” attributes of our shallow, materialistic and consumerist society can secure a person admission to the Illuminati. Equally, many good and honourable people who have many of the right qualities we look for are also unable to join since they are simply not ready in terms of the criteria we apply.
This means that the Illuminati miss out on many talented people. The Illuminati have always got round this problem in the past by creating new secret societies and orders that are based on many, but not all, of the principles of the Illuminati. These other organisations have less restrictive admission criteria, recruit many more members and evolve in their own way. Although they have an association with the Illuminati, they are not appendages of the Illuminati or puppet organisations.
Freemasonry was the creation of the Illuminati, but it must be emphasised that the Illuminati did not run Freemasonry. A few of the original Grand Masters were members of the Illuminati but because the number of Freemasons rapidly outstripped the total membership of the Illuminati, Freemasonry soon changed in character. “Undesirables” infiltrated it and the Illuminati lost control, with the disastrous consequences that are now all too apparent.
Contemporary Freemasonry is an obscenity, a grotesque insult to the ideals on which it was founded. Whereas the original Freemasons were anti-establishment, determined to work against false religions, arrogant nobles and tyrannical kings, modern Masons are the central pillars of the oppressive regimes they once opposed. Freemasonry has been turned on its head.
The Illuminati have thought long and hard about why Freemasonry failed so spectacularly and became the primary weapon of the Old World Order to maintain its power, wealth and privileges indefinitely. Can something along the lines of the original vision of Freemasonry be reborn, without falling victim to the same dismal fate?
The Illuminati have decided that the time has come for a new attempt, an addition to the historical “Illuminati Network”, one that has learned from all the problems and flaws of the past, one that, most importantly of all, relies on you. This is your chance to be part of the great chain of history, part of the age-old resistance to the Old World Order, part of the great endeavour to build the utopia humanity has always craved. The Old World Order is not vast. Like the Illuminati, it has only about 6,000 members – that’s all that stands between the world and freedom.
The new secret society will be given the simplest and broadest possible name: The Movement. This will be a secret society like no other because you will be responsible for its creation and even its secrets. It will be an internet-based, grassroots movement designed to demonstrate the incredible creativity and brilliance of ordinary people.
It will be based on the concept of “crowdsourcing”: using an army of volunteers, interacting and cooperating with one another, to provide the answer to a problem, or some great enterprise. Wikipedia is a classic example. Crowdsourcing can unleash the power of the people. Men and women from all walks of life and all disciplines can collaborate to solve seemingly intractable problems. More often than not, they pour their hearts, souls and time into solving the problems that fire their imaginations. They show remarkable creativity and innovation. Wondrous, unexpected results can emerge the most powerful alchemy imaginable.
Many people on YouTube spend days and weeks perfecting humorous little projects to entertain their friends. Instead of “having a laugh”, why don’t they put the same energy and passion into changing the world and overthrowing the Power Elite?
Above all else, the Illuminati wish to release the limitless potential of the people in a huge outpouring of breathtaking creativity. And from that process, humanity’s collective divine spark will be liberated and ignited into the most brilliant fire of the human spirit.
The Movement consists of four interrelated elements covering religion, politics, activism and psychology.
1) A New Religion
Imagine a clean slate for religion. No bearded prophets, no holy texts, no brainwashing going back hundreds and thousands of years, no commandments, no saints, no angels, no rituals, no sacraments, no places of worship, no priests and preachers, no traditional practices and observances, no holy days, no popes, no rules regarding diet, clothes or appearance, no prohibitions, no sermons.
How would you go about creating a religion from scratch? It should be a religion that does the following:
a) Wakes up humanity and brings about a spiritual renaissance.
b) Frees humanity from the materialistic, zombie consumer culture of shopping malls.
c) Appeals to theists, deists, gnostics, agnostics and even atheists.
d) Promotes mystery, secrecy and wonder, and provides a transformative experience for its initiates.
It’s up to you to build it. Create the perfect religion with no historical baggage and then bring it alive. Start on the drawing board then invoke crowdsourcing to perfect it. Can you do it? Can you become a new-style prophet of the internet age, without any of the fanaticism and dogmatism of the old breed?
This new religion will be called Illuminism (rather than Illumination). The aim is for it to be so inspiring that it will consign all other religions to oblivion, and will allow agnostics and atheists to participate. For all of its triumphs, science, the bedrock of atheism, is full of holes and contradictions (it’s amazing how many critical flaws in science are glossed over as if they didn’t exist), and, above all, science can’t answer the most basic question of all: what is the meaning of life? This isn’t a scientific question, it’s a philosophical one, and atheists are as interested in it as much as everyone else.
So, can you collaborate with others to produce a religion that will inspire the world and save us all from the horrors of the current dominant religions?
It should be a religion that costs nothing, requires no priests, rabbis, or imams, no churches, mosques, synagogues or temples, no baptisms, no “holy” days; a religion that has no need of “saints” interceding on our behalf, nor of “sacraments” that bestow “grace” upon us, nor ancient texts that we are supposed to take literally, nor fierce prophets ordering us what to do. No one and no organisation stands between you and God. God is within you.
The qualities attributed to Jesus Christ are those possessed by each person if they did but know it. As with Christ, God and man are united in each and every one of us; two natures existing within each person.
Christians are willing to believe this of Christ, but not of ordinary men and women. Gnostics accept it as true of everyone. This radically opposite view makes all the difference in the world.
Christianity or Gnosticism? – God incarnate in one person (Christ), or the divine spark incarnate in everyone? Which offers the most glorious and hopeful vision for humanity? There is no possible doubt. Had Christianity evolved slightly differently (and it had many opportunities to become unrecognisable from the way it turned out), it could have been the Gnostic version of Christianity, with Christ as in Everyman – a shining example to all Gnostics, a model for everyone to emulate, the perfect blend of humanness and the divine spark. (Some Gnostics regarded Christ as a divine messenger sent by the True God to enlighten us. He had a phantom body, they said, rather than a real one because no being from the realm of light would ever fully enter into the Satanic material world. Other Gnostics regarded him as indeed taking on a physical reality so that he could act as the perfect example to everyone of how to escape Satan’s material hell. His life, they said, was about an ordinary man – a carpenter – going on an incredible journey to release his divine spark and become God. He was so successful that billions now worship him as though he were a unique being rather than an exemplar that anyone can emulate.)
The Illuminati, knowing the true identity of Jesus Christ, revile him, but the “image” of Jesus Christ rather than the reality could certainly have been the foundation of great things if it had evolved along Gnostic lines. The archons – the ultimate puppetmasters and agents of the Demiurge – ensured that this did not happen.
Nothing is more important than the idea that God (or a “higher self” to placate atheists) resides within you, because this ensures that no one is alienated from God. He is no longer separate and distant from us, and it gives every person’s life infinite value. It ensures that everyone has the highest self-esteem and self-confidence. Kings of old claimed to be divinely appointed and thus to have the absolute right to dominate everyone else.
Illuminism should teach that we are all divinely appointed and no one has the right to dominate anyone.
Illuminism should promote humanity’s highest aspirations, the feeling of well-being and contentment, the feeling that everyone is precious and to be treated as such.
Illuminism should abolish churches and formal buildings of worship. Religion should return to nature, to the outdoors: to groves and forests, rivers and lakes, mountains and fields, caves and grottoes. It should contain mystery and magic to kindle the human imagination. There should be no power hierarchy.
Ecstasy means standing outside of oneself. Enthusiasm means being possessed or inspired by a god. Inspiration means breathing in the divine essence. These words are all related to the quest for the divine spark and attaining your higher self.
Illuminism should be full of ecstatic experiences, enthusiasm and inspiration.
A long-running joke in The Simpsons is the incredible tedium of the Reverend Lovejoy’s services. The Simpsons, like most Christians, regard religion as a chore that needs to be endured every Sunday. There’s nothing uplifting about it, nothing transcendent.
Religion is supposed to be the core of the mystery of life, and yet for most people it’s something that sends them to sleep. Modern religion is either a bore or leads to the psychopathic fanaticism of suicide bombers. The majority of people these days are numb, “comfortably” numb. Isn’t it time to come out of your numbness, to feel the exhilaration that true religion brings? The world is crying out for a new religion.
Can you create symbols and initiation degrees for Illuminism? Can you create a structure for an underground religion? Can you create secret and mystical ceremonies? Can you create a religion that allows people to feel like gods?
Perhaps the ancient and historical red Phrygian cap should be worn? This is the famous liberty cap of the American and French Revolutions.
Perhaps you can find inspiration in the following texts:
The Emerald Tablet
The Kybalion
The Corpus Hermeticum
The Rosicrucian Manifestos
1. Fama Fraternitatis
2. Confessio Fraternitatis
3. Chymical Wedding
The Holy Grail romances:
1. Perceval, The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes
2. Joseph of Arimithea, or the Novel of the History of the Grail by Robert de Boron
3. Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Faust by Goethe
Or from the following spiritual films:
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
(The quest for a modern Grail.)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
(An encounter with reified dreams and the deep contents of the unconscious.)
Excalibur (John Boorman)
(The quest for the original Grail.)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
(Journey into the heart of darkness for an encounter with your higher self, only to discover that it has become corrupt. You must “kill” your higher self, allowing it to be reborn in a purified state.)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
(A man finding his higher self through eternal recurrence and reincarnation.)
The Matrix (Wachowski Brothers)
(A man transforming into his divine self.)
V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
(A masked hero fights back against an oppressive, totalitarian regime.)
Network (Sidney Lumet)
(The cynicism and evil of corporations and the media are spectacularly exposed.)
Objective: for Illuminism to replace all established religions.
2) A New Politics
The Meritocracy Party is the political wing of the Illuminati. Meritocracy is the system that will replace the Old World Order’s rancid democracy – government of the people by the Elite for the Elite.
Can you help to improve the meritocratic model? Can you devise a political constitution; a political vision that will astound the world?
The Old World Order’s democracy is accompanied by free market capitalism as its economic implementation – designed to ensure that a small number of people control the vast bulk of the world’s wealth and power. Meritocracy will be based on an entirely new economic system where no one can become disproportionately wealthy. It will rely on the new field of behavioural economics i.e. economics based on human psychology rather than on abstract equations divorced from human behaviour. Many ideas are suggested on the Meritocracy section of the Illuminati’s website. Can you provide new, fresh thinking?
The Venus Project described in Zeitgeist: Addendum is a utopian, transformational vision of society that seeks to leave behind profit-driven capitalist economics. Can you produce something to rival it?
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Zeitgeist: http://www.youtube.com/
Zeitgeist Addendum: http://www.youtube.com/
Zeitgeist Moving Forward: http://www.youtube.com/
Meritocracy, like Illuminism, is about treating everyone as infinitely precious. Everything should be done to ensure that each and every person is treated with respect and afforded the best possible chance in life. Meritocracy seeks to identify what every individual is good at and passionate about, and actively steer them in the direction where their merits shine the brightest. At the moment, most of us are left to rot. We come out of school, college and university with little sense of what we are best at and what makes us tick. Why? Because the Power Elites couldn’t care less about us and what we do or don’t like and what talents we do or don’t have. All they care about is that we should comply with their system and pose no threat to them.
The basic family unit should be extended to a greater “community” family – where local communities are responsible for ensuring that every child, no matter if it’s from a privileged or dysfunctional family, is given full community support, is nurtured and afforded the fullest opportunity to maximise its potential.
Anyone who supports the current family model is effectively saying that the elite dynastic families, those that comprise the Power Elite, those taking maximum advantage of privilege, should be allowed to dictate the shape and leaders of the future. That can never be right.
Every generation should be as free as possible from the influence of previous generations. Every generation, as far as possible, should start afresh. It is always wrong for financial advantages to be passed on by the rich to their offspring, and simultaneously denied to the offspring of ordinary families.
Life should be a level playing field. Everyone should start from the same starting line. No one should be permitted to rig the game of life in their favour. The Old World Order’s entire game plan is to ensure that they manipulate the system to allow their descendants and them to rule in perpetuity.
Objective: for Meritocracy to replace Democracy.
3) A New Psychology
The great unspoken truth of the world is that it is entirely based on psychology. The current dominant psychological paradigm of the world is the one devised by the Old World Order to legitimise and facilitate their rule. It is a master-slave psychology where everyone is fitted into a power and status hierarchy, and those at the top dominate everyone below. It’s a pyramid structure. An entirely new psychology is needed, one founded on a Round Table where no one dominates anyone else.
The world should be managed according to a psychological paradigm where self-esteem, happiness, aspiration, and personal fulfilment are given primacy, rather than the current economic one where money, materialism and consumerism constitute the dominant ideology of our age. Capitalist economics is a master-slave ideology – those with most capital dominate the enormous number who have little or no capital.
While the masters are human subjects, the slaves are mere objects, dehumanised and depersonalised. Non persons. The Round Table paradigm is about treating everyone as an individual worthy of the highest respect, and where there are no masters and no slaves. The most meritorious rise to the top in society, but they are not driven by the need to dominate others and they do not seek excessive and disproportionate rewards.
Can you flesh out the Round Table psychological paradigm? Instead of favouring the Old World Order, is must be designed to ensure that each and every person is given the maximum opportunity to find personal fulfilment.
The new paradigm should be informed by the well-known psychological models for categorising different types of people such as Myers-Briggs personality types, Enneagrams (deriving from the Ancient Egyptians and Pythagoras), the Four Humours of Hippocrates, Sheldon’s Somatypes, and the Belbin team roles.
More information about Myers-Briggs can be found here: http://
Most members of the Illuminati fall into the Myers-Briggs categories of “INTJ” or “INTP”. Few people appreciate the power of this methodology. Everything can be interpreted according to Myers-Briggs personality types: history, nations, philosophy, advertising, political parties, art, religion.)
This wing of the Movement will be referred to as the “Psy” Faction and its purpose is to bring about the psychological transformation of the world.
The Psy Faction should be concerned with carrying out the programme of Illuminism and Meritocracy: treating us all as priceless individuals and finding exactly what motivates us and what we’re best at.
The Old World Order are the masters of the psychology of the lowest common denominator but we can attain that of a higher truth: the highest common factor. Let’s soar to the top rather than race for the bottom.
Objective: to replace the Old World Order’s master-slave pyramid psychology with Meritocracy’s Round Table psychology.
4) A New Radicalism
In the internet age, how to do you create new forms of radicalism to electrify the world, to motivate the people, to panic the Old World Order, to promote the Movement’s radical, transformative agenda, to outflank the slick election machines of political parties?
The Movement’s radical faction for activists will be known as the “R” Faction. You will be like those brave seekers in The Matrix who choose to take the red pill and challenge the power of the sinister controllers that seek to deceive and enslave us all. As Morpheus says to Neo, “Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.”
It’s time to join the Resistance.
It’s up to you. You can change the world. Are you radical enough?
Objective: for the Movement’s radicals to energise the world with the Movement’s message.
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The Movement seeks to introduce a new global religion, a new global political system, a new global economic model, a new global psychology, a new global radicalisin short, a New World Order.
The future comes in the shape of a society that resembles that of Star Trek: a meritocracy where technology has brought an end to the traditional economics of the Old World Order. There is no money in Star Trek – no one needs it. There are no super-rich people. There is no mindless celebrity culture and no consumerist mentality.
Each person strives to be personally fulfilled, and society is set up to help everyone achieve their personal goals. There is no religious fanaticism, no people bowing, kneeling, praying and demanding that all the infidels who disagree with them should be consigned to hell.
Isn’t that a future worth striving for? Isn’t that the real human race?
You can help to make it happen. You have the power, the intelligence, the creativity, the energy. You have probably always wanted to do something great, to make a difference. This is your chance. The Movement is not a fixed entity set in stone. It is something that you yourself can shape. You can create it in your image if you have the will, the merit, the ability to charm and persuade others. Your time has come. There are no excuses left.
First step: Make contact with people in your vicinity. Create the seeds of a secret society in your local town.
We recommend that people place a message on Craigslist, Gumtree, Facebook etc.
It could be worded as:
Transforming ourselves and the world – a secret project for seekers. Are you fascinated by the Holy Grail, interested in conspiracy theories and secret societies, disillusioned with conventional religions and governments? Are you seeking a higher truth? I’m looking to meet people who are on quest to improve themselves and the world. If we all do nothing, nothing will change. If we all do something, everything will change. Get in touch if you’re interested.
Or come up with your own message.
In an ideal world, the Movement would spring up in towns and cities all over the world, each “cell” doing its own thing. Eventually different cells could link up and compare their different ways of doing things. Would cells in Texas be different from ones in New England, ones in America be different from ones in Britain, ones in the West be different from ones in the East? The Movement should evolve and grow ever more refined – like base metal being gradually being turned into gold.
This is a grassroots movement. No money is involved. You can be part of changing the world. One day the Old World Order will wake up and realise that they are too late to save themselves. They will discover that the Movement has arisen everywhere, and they are surrounded with no escape routes. Their tyranny and reign of terror will at last be over and humanity can become what it always had it in it to be: the True God’s dazzling reflection.
The Last Bling King by Mike Hockney describes a popular uprising to overthrow the super rich and celebrities. It’s a direct response to Ayn Rand’s notorious and poisonous novel Atlas Shrugged in which the super rich go on strike to force the ordinary people to worship them and give them everything they want without any interference or regulation (precisely the mentality that created the current financial disaster). In The Last Bling King, the ordinary people refuse to do anything on behalf of the super rich and celebrities to show these arrogant monsters once and for all that they have nothing and they are nothing without the cooperation of ordinary men and women. A secret group called The League for the Liberation of Nobodies leads the people’s resistance.
The Millionaires’ Death Club by Mike Hockney provides an insight into the workings of an elite, English, OWO secret society similar to the Skull and Bones in America.
Prohibition A by Mike Hockney describes a brainwashing programme run by the American intelligence services, designed to extend their power to every corner of the world. It involves a secret society that is recruited in a luxury Manhattan nightclub dedicated to exploring the sexual secrets of Dante’s Inferno.
Ideas can be taken from all of these regarding how to shape your own secret society – a benign and altruistic one – to change the world for the better.
The Movement can transform the world. The Movement is the voice of the people, expressed via crowdsourcing. The Power Elite will play no part in it. The Movement will replace the Old World Order with a New World Order based on values that the people have chosen.
The Movement will be a meritocracy. The most effective cells of the Movement will spread virally, while the least effective will wither and die. The Movement is evolution in action. Can the Movement reach an earthly Omega Point where humanity has reached perfect understanding of itself?
Humanity is being held back by the greed and selfishness of the Old World Order. The current “purpose” of the world is to serve their needs. The human race is crying out for something higher, nobler, and more meaningful.
The Movement can deliver the very best of which humanity is capable, and of which you are personally capable. Change yourself, change the world and change the future via the Movement.
And those who prove the most creative and meritorious members of the Movement are the ones who are likely to be invited to join the Illuminati, as was always done in the past with all of the other groups founded by the Illuminati. But it is a process that typically takes years. The Illuminati is in no rush to make mistakes.
This is your chance. Will you take it?
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