Part 6 (2/2)

7/28.

J.M.:.

On the origin of the pyramid-and-eye symbol, test your credulity on the following yarn from Flying Saucers in the Bible Flying Saucers in the Bible by Virginia Brasington (Saucerian Books, 1963s, page 43.): by Virginia Brasington (Saucerian Books, 1963s, page 43.): The Continental Congress had asked Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams to arrange for a seal for the United States of America.... None of the designs they created or which were submitted to them, were suitable....Fairly late at night, after working on the project all day, Jefferson walked out into the cool night air of the garden to clear his mind. In a few minutes he rushed back into the room, crying, jubilantly: ”I have it! I have it!” Indeed, he did have some plans in his hands. They were the plans showing the Great Seal as we know it today.Asked how he got the plans, Jefferson told a strange story. A man approached him wearing a black cloak that practically covered him, face and all, and told him that he (the stranger) knew they were trying to devise a Seal, and that he had a design which was appropriate and meaningful....After the excitement died down, the three went into the garden to find the stranger, but he was gone. Thus, neither these Founding Fathers, nor anybody else, ever knew who really designed the Great Seal of the United States! Thus, neither these Founding Fathers, nor anybody else, ever knew who really designed the Great Seal of the United States!

Pat ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #11.

7/29.

J.M.:.

The latest I've found on the eye-and-pyramid is in a San Francisco underground paper (Planet, San Francisco, July 1969, Vol. I, No.4.), suggesting it as a symbol for Timothy Leary's political party when he was running for governor of California instead of just running: The emblem is a tentative design for the Party's campaign b.u.t.ton. One wag suggests that everyone cut out the circle from the back of a dollar bill and send the wholly dollar to Governor Leary so he can wallpaper his office with them. Then paste the emblem on your front door to signify your members.h.i.+p in the party.Translations: The year of the beginning New Secular Order The year of the beginning New Secular Order Both translations are wrong, of course. Annuit Coeptis Annuit Coeptis means ”he blesses our beginning” and means ”he blesses our beginning” and Novus Ordo Seclorem Novus Ordo Seclorem means ”a new order of the ages.” Oh, well, scholars.h.i.+p was never the hippies' strong point. But- means ”a new order of the ages.” Oh, well, scholars.h.i.+p was never the hippies' strong point. But-Tim Leary an Illuminatus? an Illuminatus?

And pasting the Eye on the door-I can't help but think of the Hebrews marking their doorways with the blood of a lamb so that the Angel of Death would pa.s.s by their houses.

Pat ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #12.

8/3.

J.M.:.

I've finally found the basic book on the Illuminati: Proofs of a Conspiracy Proofs of a Conspiracy by John Robison (Christian Book Club of America, Hawthorn, California, 1961; originally published in 1801). Robison was an English Mason who discovered through personal experience that the French Masonic lodges-such as the Grand Orient-were Illuminati fronts and were the main instigators of the French Revolution. His whole book is very explicit about how Weishaupt worked: every infiltrated Masonic group would have several levels, like an ordinary Masonic lodge, but as candidates advanced through the various degrees they would be told more about the real purposes of the movement. Those at the bottom simply thought they were Masons; in the middle levels, they knew they were engaged in a great project to change the world, but the exact nature of the change was explained to them according to what the leaders thought they were prepared to know. Only those at the top knew the secret, which-according to Robison-is this: the Illuminati aims to overthrow all government and religion, setting up an anarcho-communist free-love world, and, because ”the end justifies the means” (a principle Weishaupt acquired from his Jesuit youth), they didn't care how many people they killed to accomplish that n.o.ble purpose. Robison knows nothing of earlier Illuminati movements, but does say specifically that the Bavarian Illuminati was not destroyed by the government's crackdown in 1785 but was, in fact, still active, both in England and France and possibly elsewhere, when he wrote, in 1801. On page 116, Robison lists their existing lodges as follows: Germany (84 lodges); England (8 lodges); Scotland (2); Warsaw (2); Switzerland (many); Rome, Naples, Ancona, Florence, France, Holland, Dresden (4); United States of America (several). On page 101, he mentions that there are 13 ranks in the Order; this may account for the 13 steps on their symbolic pyramid. Page 84 gives the code name of Weishaupt, which was Spartacus; his second-in-command, Freiherr Knigge, had the code name Philo (page 117); this is revealed in papers seized by the Bavarian government in a raid on the home of a lawyer named Zwack, who had the code name Cato. Babeuf, the French revolutionary, evidently took the name Gracchus in imitation of the cla.s.sical style of these t.i.tles. by John Robison (Christian Book Club of America, Hawthorn, California, 1961; originally published in 1801). Robison was an English Mason who discovered through personal experience that the French Masonic lodges-such as the Grand Orient-were Illuminati fronts and were the main instigators of the French Revolution. His whole book is very explicit about how Weishaupt worked: every infiltrated Masonic group would have several levels, like an ordinary Masonic lodge, but as candidates advanced through the various degrees they would be told more about the real purposes of the movement. Those at the bottom simply thought they were Masons; in the middle levels, they knew they were engaged in a great project to change the world, but the exact nature of the change was explained to them according to what the leaders thought they were prepared to know. Only those at the top knew the secret, which-according to Robison-is this: the Illuminati aims to overthrow all government and religion, setting up an anarcho-communist free-love world, and, because ”the end justifies the means” (a principle Weishaupt acquired from his Jesuit youth), they didn't care how many people they killed to accomplish that n.o.ble purpose. Robison knows nothing of earlier Illuminati movements, but does say specifically that the Bavarian Illuminati was not destroyed by the government's crackdown in 1785 but was, in fact, still active, both in England and France and possibly elsewhere, when he wrote, in 1801. On page 116, Robison lists their existing lodges as follows: Germany (84 lodges); England (8 lodges); Scotland (2); Warsaw (2); Switzerland (many); Rome, Naples, Ancona, Florence, France, Holland, Dresden (4); United States of America (several). On page 101, he mentions that there are 13 ranks in the Order; this may account for the 13 steps on their symbolic pyramid. Page 84 gives the code name of Weishaupt, which was Spartacus; his second-in-command, Freiherr Knigge, had the code name Philo (page 117); this is revealed in papers seized by the Bavarian government in a raid on the home of a lawyer named Zwack, who had the code name Cato. Babeuf, the French revolutionary, evidently took the name Gracchus in imitation of the cla.s.sical style of these t.i.tles.

Robison's conclusion, page 269, is is worth quoting: worth quoting: Nothing is as dangerous as a mystic a.s.sociation. The object remaining a secret in the hands of the managers, the rest simply put a ring in their own noses, by which they may be led about at pleasure; and still panting after the secret they are the more pleased the less they see.

Pat At the bottom of the page was a note in pencil, scrawled with a decisive masculine hand. It said: ”In the beginning was the Word and it was written by a baboon.”

ILLUMINAT! PROJECT: MEMO #13.

8/5.

J.M.:.

The survival of the Bavarian Illuminati throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth is the subject of World Revolution World Revolution by Nesta Webster (Constable and Company, London, 1921). Mrs. Webster follows Robison fairly closely on the early days of the movement, up to the French Revolution, but then veers off and says that the Illuminati never intended to create their Utopian anarcho-communist society: that was just another of their masks. Their real purpose was dictators.h.i.+p over the world, and so they soon formed a secret alliance with the Prussian government. All subsequent socialist, anarchist, and communist movements are mere decoys, she argues, behind which the German General Staff and the Illuminati are plotting to overthrow other governments, so Germany can conquer them. (She wrote right after England fought Germany in the First World War). I see no way of reconciling this with the Birchers' thesis that the Illuminati has become a front for the Rhodes Scholars to take over the world for by Nesta Webster (Constable and Company, London, 1921). Mrs. Webster follows Robison fairly closely on the early days of the movement, up to the French Revolution, but then veers off and says that the Illuminati never intended to create their Utopian anarcho-communist society: that was just another of their masks. Their real purpose was dictators.h.i.+p over the world, and so they soon formed a secret alliance with the Prussian government. All subsequent socialist, anarchist, and communist movements are mere decoys, she argues, behind which the German General Staff and the Illuminati are plotting to overthrow other governments, so Germany can conquer them. (She wrote right after England fought Germany in the First World War). I see no way of reconciling this with the Birchers' thesis that the Illuminati has become a front for the Rhodes Scholars to take over the world for English English domination. Obviously-as Robison states-the Illuminati say different things to different people, to get them into the conspiracy. As for the links with modern communism, here are some pa.s.sages from her pages 234-45: domination. Obviously-as Robison states-the Illuminati say different things to different people, to get them into the conspiracy. As for the links with modern communism, here are some pa.s.sages from her pages 234-45: But now that the (First) Internationale was dead it became necessary for the secret societies to reorganize, and it is at this crisis that we find that ”formidable sect” springing to life again-the original Illuminati of Weishaupt.... What we do know definitely is that the society was refounded in Dresden in 1880.... That it was consciously modelled on its eighteenth century predecessor is clear from the fact that its chief, one Leopold Engel, was the author of a lengthy panegyric on Weishaupt and his Order, ent.i.tled Geschichte des Illuminaten Ordens Geschichte des Illuminaten Ordens (published in 1906).... (published in 1906)....... In London a lodge called by the same name ... carried on the rite of Memphis-founded, it is said, by Cagliostro on Egyptian models-and initiated adepts into illuminized Freemasonry....Was it ... a mere coincidence that in July 1889 an International Socialist Congress decided that May 1, which was the day on which Weishaupt founded the Illuminati, should be chosen for an annual International Labour demonstration?

Pat ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #14.

8/6.

J.M.:.

And here's still another version of the origin of the Illuminati, from the Cabalist Eliphas Levi (The History of Magic (The History of Magic by Eliphas Levi, Borden Publis.h.i.+ng Company, Los Angeles, 1963, page 65). He says there were two Zoroasters, a true one who taught white ”right hand” magic and a false one who taught black ”left hand” magic. He goes on: by Eliphas Levi, Borden Publis.h.i.+ng Company, Los Angeles, 1963, page 65). He says there were two Zoroasters, a true one who taught white ”right hand” magic and a false one who taught black ”left hand” magic. He goes on: To the false Zoroaster must be referred the cultus of material fire and that impious doctrine of divine dualism which produced at a later period the monstrous Gnosis of Manes and the false principles of spurious Masonry. The Zoroaster in question was the father of that materialized Magic which led to the ma.s.sacre of the Magi and brought their true doctrine at first into proscription and then oblivion. Ever inspired by the spirit of truth, the Church was forced to condemn- under the names of Magic, Manicheanism, Illuminism and Masonry-all that was in kins.h.i.+p, remote or approximate, with the primitive profanation of the mysteries. One signal example is the history of the Knights Templar, which has been misunderstood to this day.

Levi does not elucidate that last sentence; it is interesting, however, that Nesta Webster (see memo 13) also traced the Illuminati to the Knights Templar, whereas Daraul and most other sources track them Eastward to the Has.h.i.+s.h.i.+m. Is all this making me paranoid? I'm beginning to get the impression that the evidence has not only been hidden in obscure books but also made confusing and contradictory to discourage the researcher ...

Pat Scrawled on the bottom of this memo was a series of jottings in the same masculine hand (Malik's, Saul guessed) that had jotted the baboon reference on memo 12. The jottings said: Check on Order of DeMolay [image]

TARO = TORA = TROA = ATOR = ROTA !?????.

Abdul Alhazred =[image] ??! ??!

”Oh, Christ,” Barney groaned. ”Oh, Mary and Joseph. Oh, s.h.i.+t. We'll end up either become mystics or going crazy before this case is over. If there's any difference.”

”The Order of DeMolay is a Masonic society for boys,” Saul commented helpfully. ”I don't know what the Atus of Tahuti are, but that sounds Egyptian. Taro, usually spelled t-a-r-o-t, is the deck of cards Gypsy fortune tellers use-and the word 'Gypsy' means Egyptian. Tora is the Law, in Hebrew. We keep coming back to something that has roots in both Jewish mysticism and Egyptian magic....”

”The Knights Templar were kicked out of the church,” Barney said, ”for trying to combine Christian and Moslem ideas. Last year, my brother-the Jesuit-gave a lecture about how modern ideas are just old heresies from the Middle Ages warmed over. I had to go for politeness' sake. I remember something else he said about the Templars. They were engaged in what he called 'unnatural s.e.x acts.' In other words, they were f.a.ggots. Do you get the impression that all these groups related to the Illuminati are all male? Maybe the big secret they're hiding so fanatically is that they're all some vast worldwide h.o.m.os.e.xual plot. I've heard show-biz people complain about what they call the 'homintern,' a h.o.m.o organization that tries to keep all the best jobs for other fruits. How does that sound?”

”It sounds plausible,” Saul said ironically. ”But it also sounds plausible to say the Illuminati is a Jewish conspiracy, a Catholic conspiracy, a Masonic conspiracy, a communist conspiracy, a banker's conspiracy, and I suppose we'll eventually find evidence to suggest it's an interplanetary scheme masterminded from Mars or Venus. Don't you see, Barney? Whatever they're really up to, they keep creating masks so all sorts of scapegoat groups will get the blame for being the 'real' Illuminati.” He shook his head dismally. ”They're smart enough to know they can't operate indefinitely without a few people eventually realizing something's there, so they've taken that into account and arranged for an inquisitive outsider to get all sorts of wrong ideas about who they are.”

”They're dogs,” Muldoon said. ”Intelligent talking dogs from the dog star, Sirius. They came here and ate Malik. Just like they ate that guy in Kansas City, except that time they didn't get to finish the job.” He turned back and read from memo 8: ”'... with his throat torn as if by the talons of some enormous beast. No animal was reported missing from any of the local zoos.'” He grinned. ”Lord G.o.d, I'm almost ready to believe it.”

”They're werewolves.” Saul answered, grinning also. ”The pentagon is the symbol of the werewolf. Look at the Late Late Show some time.”

”That's the pentagram, not the pentagon.” pentagon.” Barney lit a cigarette, adding. ”This is really getting on our nerves, isn't it?” Barney lit a cigarette, adding. ”This is really getting on our nerves, isn't it?”

Saul looked up wearily and glanced around the apartment almost as if he were looking for its absent owner ”Joseph Malik,” he said aloud, ”what can of worms have you opened? And how far back does it go?”

WE SHALL NOT.

WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED.

In fact, for Joseph Malik the beginning was several years earlier, in a medley of teargas, hymn singing, billy clubs, and obscenity, all of which were provoked by the imminent nomination for President of a man named Hubert Horatio Humphrey. It began in Lincoln Park on the night of August 25, 1968, while Joe was waiting to be tearga.s.sed. He did not know then that anything was beginning; he was only conscious, in an acid, gut-sour way, of what was ending: his own faith in the Democratic party.

He was sitting with the Concerned Clergymen under the cross they had erected. He was thinking, bitterly, that they should have erected a tombstone instead. It should have said: Here lies the New Deal.

Here lies the belief that all Evil is on the other other side, among the reactionaries and Ku Kluxers. Here lies twenty years of the hopes and dreams and sweat and blood of Joseph Wendall Malik. Here lies American Liberalism, clubbed to death by Chicago's heroic peace officers. side, among the reactionaries and Ku Kluxers. Here lies twenty years of the hopes and dreams and sweat and blood of Joseph Wendall Malik. Here lies American Liberalism, clubbed to death by Chicago's heroic peace officers.

”They're coming,” a voice near him said suddenly. The Concerned Clergymen immediately began singing, ”We shall not be moved.”

”We'll be moved, all right,” a dry sardonic, W.C. Fields voice said quietly. ”When the teargas. .h.i.ts, we'll be moved.” Joe recognized the speaker: it was novelist William Burroughs with his usual poker face, utterly without anger or contempt or indignation or hope or faith or any emotion Joe could understand. But he sat there, making his own protest against Hubert Horatio Humphrey by placing his body in front of Chicago's police, for reasons Joe could not understand.

How, Joe wondered, can a man have courage without faith, without belief? Burroughs believed in nothing, and yet there he sat stubborn as Luther. Joe had always had faith in something-Roman Catholicism, long ago, then Trotskyism at college, then for nearly two decades mainstream liberalism (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s, ”Vital Center”) and now, with that dead, he was trying desperately to summon up faith in the motley crowd of dope-and-astrology-obsessed Yippies, Black Maoists, old-line hardcore pacifists, and arrogantly dogmatic SDS kids who had come to Chicago to protest a rigged convention and were being beaten and brutalized unspeakably for it.

Allen Ginsberg-sitting amid a huddle of Yippies off to the right-began chanting again, as he had all evening: ”Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare....” Ginsberg believed; he believed in everything-in democracy, in socialism, in communism, in anarchism, in Ezra Pound's idealistic variety of fascist economics, in Buckminster Fuller's technological Utopia, in D. H. Lawrence's return to preindustrial pastoralism, and in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Voodoo, astrology magic; but, above all, in the natural goodness of man.

The natural goodness of man ... Joe hadn't fully believed in that, since Buchenwald was revealed to the world in 1944, when he was seventeen.

”KILL! KILL! KILL!” came the chant of the police-exactly like the night before, the same neolithic scream of rage that signaled the beginning of the first ma.s.sacre. They were coming, clubs in hand, spraying the teargas before them, ”kill! kill! kill!”

Auschwitz, U.S.A., Joe thought, sickened. If they had been issued Zyklon B along with the teargas and Mace, they would be using it just as happily.

Slowly, the Concerned Clergymen came to their feet, holding dampened handkerchiefs to their faces. Unarmed and helpless, they prepared to hold their ground as long as possible before the inevitable retreat. A moral victory, Joe thought bitterly: All we ever achieve are moral victories. The immoral brutes win the real victories.

”All hail Discordia,” said a voice among the clergymen-a bearded young man named Simon, who had been arguing in favor of anarchism against some SDS Maoists earlier in the day.

And that was the last sentence Joe Malik remembered clearly, for it was gas and clubs and screams and blood from then on. He had no way of guessing, at the time, that hearing that sentence was the most important thing that happened to him in Lincoln Park.

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