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by Peter Farley
Excerpted from Volume 5 of
'Where Were You Before The Tree of Life?'
from
BookOfThoth Website
The Illuminati
“Popular history texts and
encyclopedias generally paint the Illuminati as having its
origins in 1776 Bavaria. However, the origins go back much
further. The Illuminati are tied directly through masonry to the
sun and Isis cults of ancient Egypt.
“The term “Illuminati” was used by one early writer, Menendez Pelayo, as early as 1492 and is attributable to a group known as
the “Alumbrados” of Spain. The Alumbrados were said to receive
secret knowledge from an unknown higher source, resulting in
superior human intelligence. This group was condemned by an
edict of the Grand Inquisition in 1623, in what was another
battle in the long-running war between the catholic Church and
the secret societies.
“Some writers claim that a group known as the “Illumined Ones”
was founded by Joachim of Floris in the eleventh century and
taught a primitive, supposedly Christian doctrine of “poverty
and equality.” This tactic to disguise Illuminism behind a thin
veil of Christianity is now a well-established theme. Later,
this group is said to have become violent, plundering the rich
and thereby discrediting Christianity as a whole.
“Still other writers trace the Illuminati to the dreaded
Ishmalean sect of Islam, also known as “the Assassins.” Founded
in 1090 by Hassan Sabah, this group combined the use of the drug
hashish with murder as their main path to illumination.
“Killing was a mystical experience to this branch of the Mystery
Schools. They not only maintained their control by murder and
threats of murder, they believed that the assassin could acquire
the gnosis, or soul energy from the victim. This is the theory
behind the human and animal sacrifices of Satanists throughout
history (and the ritual child abuse etc).
“Primitive religions get the same effect by dancing and
drumbeating. Seeking this form of illumination was the main
attraction of drugs like marijuana, hashish, and LSD to
teenagers of the 1960s and the 1970s. Buddhists can gain the
same illumination through sexual rituals known as Tantric Yoga,
or through the different forms of mediation. Witchcraft covens
still meet in the nude and participate in group sexual rituals
for the same effect. Mass participation in animal sacrifice is
another way to scavenge gnosis.
“The sad fact is that although
sex, drugs, dancing, and drumbeating are believed to release a
lot of gnosis, Satanists believe that sacrifices release more of
it than anything else. Such are the dark and sordid machinations
of the deluded souls who think their gnosis accumulations and
illumination will give them some form of deity or immortality. .
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“. . . In what may be the most beautifully composed denunciation
of Masonry ever written, de Poncins wrote:
“The great task of
freemasonry is to spread ideas sometimes noble and beautiful in
appearance but in reality destructive, of which the prototype is
the famous motto: Liberty, equality, fraternity.”
“Masonry, a vast organism of propaganda, acts by slow
suggestion, spreading the revolutionary ferment in an insidious
manner. The heads sow it among the inner lodges, these transmit
it to the lower lodges whence it penetrates into the affiliated
institutions and into the press, which takes in hand the
public.”
“Tirelessly and during the necessary number of years, the
suggestion . . . works upon public opinion and fashions it to
wish for the reforms from which nations die. In 1789 and 1848
[the years of the French revolutions], freemasonry, in its
momentary command of power, failed in its supreme endeavor.
Taught by these experiences, its progress has become slower and
surer. When once the revolutionary preparation is obtained and
judged sufficient, masonry leaves the field to the militant
organizations, Carbonari, Bolshevists, or other open or secret
societies, and retires into shadows in the background. There it
is not compromised; in case of check, it seems to have remained
apart, and is all the better able to continue or take up again
its work, like a gnawing worm, obscure and destroying.”
“Masonry never works in the full light of day. Every one knows
of its existence, its meeting places and of many of its adepts,
but one is ignorant of its real aims, its real means, its real
leaders. The immense majority of masons themselves are in that
position. They are only the blind machinery of the sect which
they serve... Many honest masons are so blind that they would
be stupefied if they knew for what they are being used.”
The Masonic Ritual
revealed
“Every Mason swears to a set of
oaths so ancient that a separate term has been set aside to
describe them. These are called “blood oaths.”
“Masonry, as we know it today in America, is thought of as
having thirty-third degrees, or levels. Many offshoot
organizations have developed over the years that have attempted
to add additional degrees above the publicly known thirty-three.
Mormonism is one such offshoot. As shown in a later chapter, its
founder Joseph Smith, and most, if not all of his initial inner
circle of supporters were Masons. He borrowed heavily from
Masonic ritual for his newly-created Mormon ceremonies.
“With each successive degree, the Mason must swear to ever more
cruel and barbarous oaths. The following details of the
initiation oaths of the first three degrees of Masonry are
closely guarded Masonic secrets. In fact, every Mason musts
swear to kill any fellow mason who reveals them. Fortunately for
humanity, however, several brave souls in the last 200 years
have felt compelled to speak out, publishing this “secret work”
for the world to see. It is thanks to these courageous men that
we have the exact wording and rituals of at least the first
three degrees.”
The personal experience of Lucifer
is not often described in literature. What it was like to be
Hitler living in a physical body with the incarnational
Luciferian energy can only be hinted at in his biographies. The
traditional Hollywood idea of fangs and claws and large
‘devilish’ bodies is a stereotype that does not equate to the
assimilation of these energies into 3rd dimensional living.
Perhaps some of Aleister Crowley’s life might hint at it in
part. Alan Richardson, perhaps to some extent, manifests in his
book Earth God Rising, the slow descent into what might be
called Luciferianism.
And then
Camelot
“All myths are in fact living
energies. We have decided that much. The ones in question were
ancient when the First Dynasty began around 3100 B. C. – and yet
they are no age at all. They are instead ever-becoming, like the
spurting of Atum, or the column of some sparkling and infinite
fountain. How to find that fountain, and when to drink from it,
is something that we can spend a lifetime studying only to find
(as seekers always do) that it is within us all along.
“One of those figures from the realms of myth and history who
was more aware of such matters then most was a certain priest
from the 26th Dynasty. Now he knew all about this sort of thing,
as he never ceased to tell anyone who cared to listen. Many of
the people thought him insufferable because of this, but the man
had absolute conviction as to his merit and his destiny, and he
never ceased to prophesy. That was what he was best at.
“His name was Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, which means “His heart is with Khonsu.”
Khonsu was the old Moon God from Thebes, where the
mysteries functioned on a more subconscious level than
elsewhere. This Dynasty, which ran from 663 to 525 BC—as near as
such things can be determined—saw pharaohs bearing the names
Necho and Psamtik and Ahmose supporting their rule by Osirian
doctrines rather than through the purely solar cults which had
taken over in previous centuries.
Set—it was always Set—became the
personification of darkness again; the great arts and styles of
the Old Kingdom were recreated; a colossal granite temple for
the Apis Bull was built at Saqqara; and the Egyptians were able
to imagine for a little while that true greatness had been
restored to their land. Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, who lived a full life
sometime during those reigns, was the priest who brought about
the Aeon of Osiris to replace that of Isis. And, as is the way
of magic, he was also the one who brought it to an end.
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