from
The Komformist
"The
chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of
the universe, the rules of the game are the laws of
nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us."
-- Thomas
Henry Huxley
"In every
grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star."
-- Arthur
Machen
"The Old
Ones were, the Old Ones are and the Old Ones will be...
not in the spaces we know of, but "between_"them ...
Yog-Sothoth is the Gate."
-- Abd al-Hazred,
Al Azif
"All
perception is inferential; all inference uncertain; all
theory, a combination of perception and inference, is
therefore educated guessing."
-- de
Selby, Golden Hours, I, 93 |
These days most people have heard of Microsoft Corporation,
and its founder Bill Gates. The majority of computers in use
today use Microsoft system software, and those that do not
often run applications from Microsoft. However, few
people know the true story behind the rise of Microsoft
and even fewer suspect the terrible cosmic secrets that are
concealed beneath the facade of a successful software company.
In the Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 Programmer’s Reference
there is a very curious term. On page 78, the second
paragraph starts with the sentence,
"In the aggregation model, this
internal communication is achieved through coordination with a
special instance of IUnknown interface known as the
controlling unknown of the aggregate."
The term "controlling unknown" is
a very interesting choice of words. It is not the most intuitively
obvious term for what it is describing (a base class used for
implementing an object-oriented data exchange/embedding system).
A term strikingly similar to "controlling unknown" was the
term "unknown superiors", used by many occult secret
societies. These included the Strict Observance
Masonic lodge, whose members were sometimes referred to as "illuminati",
and which had some connection with Adam Weishaupt’s order. "Unknown
superiors" is a term that refers to non-corporeal or
superhuman agencies in command of secret societies or mystery cults.
Such an agency is frequently known as the "inner head"
of an order of organization, as opposed to the outer head, who is
human.
Organizations that claimed or were claimed to be commanded by such "unknown
superiors" include the Ordo Templi Orientis of
Aleister Crowley and the Knights Templar, whose
Inner Head was apparently a being named
Baphomet.
Apart from the term "controlling unknown", another hint at
the secrets behind Microsoft is the fact that Microsoft
Windows has a limit of five window device contexts. Five is
a decidedly odd number for such an application, being neither a
power of two nor one less than a power of two, but let us not forget
Adam Weishaupt’s discovery of the Law of Fives in
the Necronomicon*.
Few people for sure how many buildings there are in the
Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA.
No maps of the entire facility are known to exist. Some Microsoft
employees put the estimate at six or three. An article in an
Australian newspaper has claimed that there are 22 buildings. That
is partly true; however, there is another building, hidden from the
public and even from most Microsoft employees. The
twenty-third building, or Building 7, is
pentagonal in shape; its exact location is known only to five
people (of whom Bill Gates may be one), however it is
believed that the building is accessible from elsewhere in the
Microsoft campus by a secret passage.
What is in the five sided building is not known. However, it is
believed that the contents of Building 7 are of a
supernatural nature. Apart from the Pentagon,
there was a similar five-sided building in Nazi Germany.
This has been carefully kept hidden from the public. One hypothesis
is that Building 7 is inhabited by, or used to
communicate with, the Inner Head, or "controlling
unknown". The identity of the Outer Head is
unknown. Bill Gates may be the Outer Head, a high
initiate of the conspiracy or just a figurehead whose purpose it is
to divert attention.
To fully understand this history, or whatever of it may be
understood by human minds, one must have some knowledge of the
history and origins of the Illuminati. Little is known
about the Illuminati, but what is known is that the
Illuminati can be definitely traced back to 1776.
On Walpurgis night 1776, five men met in a cavern deep beneath
Ingolstadt, Bavaria. There they invoked some sort of
supernatural beings and made contact with the Unknown Superiors.
The following day, one of these five men proclaimed the foundation
of the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria, using the
name "Adam Weishaupt", which means "the first man to know
the Superiors".
Although the Illuminati were officially disbanded in
1785, they did not disappear; throughout the past 200 years, they
have been observing the profane world carefully, and occasionally
intervening (as they did in Sarajevo in 1914, St.
Petersburg in 1917, Manhattan in 1929 (to divert
attention from a rather unpleasant affair off the coast of New
England) and Dallas in 1963 to name a few cases. Their
contacts with the Unknown Superiors continued in
specially constructed buildings, originally in Germany but later in
Washington. During the 1920s and 1930s there occurred a potential
problem; a young writer named Howard Phillips Lovecraft
published many stories which contained allegories to Illuminated
history (for example, Joseph Curwen’s invocation of "Yogge-Sothothe"
in an underground complex in the 18th century). It is believed that
Lovecraft’s father was a Grand Orient Freemason.
The Illuminati, however, persuaded Lovecraft to
join their cause and faked his death in 1937 (Have you ever wondered
why his grave is not marked?) Another incident occurred on October
21, 1967, when occultists attempted to "raise" the
Pentagon; they were given permission to approach it but
prevented from completely encircling it. However, in 1975, a crisis
developed that threatened the very foundation of the
Illuminati.
A book, claiming to be a fantasy novel, appeared. This book was
mostly fiction; however, it hinted at the secrets of the
Illuminati (even going as far as using Lovecraft’s
term "Yog-Sothoth" for the Unknown Superior).
To this day it is not known whether the authors were renegade
Illuminati or whether the information was acquired from informers
within the organization. The book was called Illuminatus!
Immediately, the Illuminati convened an emergency
meeting in Cesme, Turkey. There they discussed a
contingency plan to restructure the organization and to move the
Pentacle of Invocation to a new location. They decided on
setting up a small computer company in one of the smaller cities of
the United States as a front. That year, Microsoft Corporation
was founded.
But why did the Illuminati select a software company
and not, say, a company that manages investments or makes kitchen
appliances? The answer lies in symbolism (Perhaps because of
their involvement in mystic arts such as the Cabala, the
Illuminati have always had an affinity for symbolism). There
is a recurring legend about a device in the form of a human head
which could answer yes/no questions (some link this device to the
Knights Templar and their god Baphomet;
others claim that Pope Sylvester, who lived in the tenth
century, brought such an object back from India, where he met the "Nine
Unknown Men"). This device is extremely suggestive of a computer
of some sort, and if it did exist in anything more than hermetic
allegory, it could not have been manufactured by any human
civilization of the time whose existence is known. Hence, the
Illuminati decided to use a computer company as a front.
It has been already speculated that the name of the founder, Bill
Gates, is a code much as "Adam Weishaupt" was a code.
Apart from being the name of a magician in Aleister Crowley’s
novel, "Moonchild", Gates is a reference to the
Unknown Superior and the gateway between ordinary
reality and the Invisible World; Lovecraft himself
referred to Yog-Sothoth as "the Gateless Gate".
By the same token, IBM can be said to stand not for "International
Business Machines" but rather for "Iacobus Burgundus
Molensis", or Jacques de Molay, the last overt
Grand Master of the Knights Templar, whose name
was borrowed by the Bavarian Illuminati for one of
their ciphers. One must also not forget that a Microsoft
network administration tool currently under development
is named Hermes, after the god of alchemy, and
that a line in Umberto Eco’s novel, Foucault’s Pendulum
reads, quite clearly, "Microsoft-Hermes".
*
Some sources claim that the copy of
The Necronomicon which
Adam Weishaupt owned was the von Junzt German
translation; this, however, is unlikely, as von Junzt lived
in the nineteenth century. The Necronomicon involved
was probably either Olaus Wormius’ Latin edition or the
original Arabic, as the details of the illustrations would attest.
I am
chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and
scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which
your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am
chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free.
-- Eris |
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