Brotherhood of Darkness by Dr. Stanley Monteith, chapter one.
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Brotherhood of Darkness
Chapter One
The Dark Forces
An understanding of the forces that have shaped the events of the
twentieth century is predicated not on facts to be
learned, but rather on secrets to be discovered.
-Author Unknown
The invisible society is a secret and most august fraternity whose
members are dedicated to the service of a mysterious
arcanum arcanorum.
-Lectures on Ancient Philosophy[1]
The story you are about to read is incredible but true. It will
challenge everything you believe. It is about secret
societies, how they have directed the course of civilization and how
they influence your life today. Most people don't
realize they exist because their minds have been conditioned to reject
any thought of such organizations. Manly P. Hall
was often cited as one of the foremost authorities on esoteric
philosophy, and when he died The Scottish Rite Journal
referred to him as Masonry's Greatest Philosopher. [2] In his book,
The Secret Teachings of All Ages, he traced the
history of esoteric societies through the ages and revealed that they
have left hidden clues to their existence in pictures,
woodcuts, books, and architecture. You see their symbols every day,
but don't recognize them. Whenever you look at
the back of a dollar bill you see their emblem, but you don't realize
that it represents the Mystery Religions of
antiquity.[3]
I want to introduce you to three concepts and three poems that will
help you understand the story you are about to
read.
The first concept is:
An understanding of the forces that have shaped the events of the
twentieth century is predicated not on facts to be learned, but rather
on secrets to be discovered.
-Author unknown
I have studied history for over fifty years, and the longer I live the
more convinced I have become that it is impossible to grasp what is
taking place today without an understanding of the secret societies.
As you read this book, you will learn about a number of them, and how
they have fashioned the modern world.
The second concept is:
Men and women become accomplices to those evils they fail to oppose.
-Author unknown
Once you recognize what is happening, you have a moral obligation to
become involved. Perhaps all you can do is tell others, write letters,
or contribute financially to those who are working to expose what is
taking place. If you choose to do nothing, you become an accomplice to
evil, and one day will have to answer for your failure to act.
The third concept is:
The price that good people pay for their apathy and indifference to
public affairs is that they are ruled by evil men.
-Author unknown
Only half of evangelical Christians are registered to vote, and only
half of those registered actually do vote. We must
convince everyone they have a moral obligation to become involved in
the political process, ensure honest elections, and insist that
elected representatives obey the Constitution. Unless enough people
are willing to take action, we will surely lose our freedom.
Each of the following poems reflects an aspect of the spiritual
struggle that is taking place.
The first poem was written in 1842 by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is
often quoted by those who advocate world federation.
The second poem was written in 1902 by Rudyard Kipling to honor the
man who is responsible for many of our current problems.
The third poem was written before the Civil War by James Russell
Lowell.
I will address each poem in turn.
When I mention Alfred Lord Tennyson, most people remember his poem,
The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns! he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Forward, the light Brigade!
Was there a man dismayed?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
Someone had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turned in air
Sab'ring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke,
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not -
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
Oh, the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble Six Hundred!
These were memorable verses, but most people have never heard of Lord
Tennyson's most important poem Locksley Hall. He wrote it to
popularize his belief that Great Britain had a moral obligation to
consolidate the world under British rule. I suspect that he had no
idea his poem would have a lasting impact, or that it would be
responsible for many of the tragic events of the twentieth century. I
also suspect that he had no concept of the true nature of the dark
spiritual forces he had engaged, or how those forces influenced his
view of the world. [4]
The Poem Locksley Hall is discussed in volume 17 of the 1966 edition
of the Encyclopedia Americana. The remainder of Lord Tennyson's
poetry, and his biography, are covered in volume 26. Why is that
important? Because those who work within the shadows understand the
significance of the message contained in Locksley Hall, and felt it
should be covered separately. The author who wrote the analysis of
Locksley Hall in volume 17 noted that it prophesied universal peace by
means of a league of nations. That has been the goal of the arcane
societies since the dawn of civilization, and it remains their
objective today. [5]
I will quote only the most important sections of Locksley Hall :
For I dipt into the future,
far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world,
and all the wonder that would be;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting,
and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies
grappling in the central blue;
Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer,
and the battle-flags were furl'd
In the Parliament of man,
the Federation of the world.
There the common sense of most
shall hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber,
lapt in universal law. [6]
Thirty years after Lord Tennyson penned those words, Professor John
Ruskin, who taught at Oxford University, embraced Tennyson's vision.
John Ruskin was a charismatic teacher who had the ability to project
his concepts into the minds of his students. He used his lectures to
convince his students that they had a moral obligation to disseminate
English culture and unite the world under British rule.[7] Many of the
young men who sat in his classes were enthralled by his ideas, and
they dedicated their lives to fulfilling his dream, When they
graduated, many of them entered government service, and by the early
1900s they held strategic positions in the English government. They
were the men who were responsible for creating, and then prolonging,
World War I. Why would rational men want a long and bloody conflict?
Because they realized that countries would never relinquish their
national sovereignty unless they recognized the futility of war, and
World War I convinced most people that war was futile. Over twenty
million people perished in that senseless carnage. Repeated efforts to
end the conflict were blocked, and when the war finally ended, most
people and most nations were ready to cede their sovereignty to the
League of Nations. I will develop that concept further in chapter four
when I discuss Winston Churchill and the part he played in determining
military strategy in both World War I and World War II.[8]
Other people embraced Lord Tennyson's vision. Edward Bellamy wrote
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 in 1888, and he advocated socialism and
world government. His story began in Boston in 1887 when a young man
fell asleep after taking a sleeping potion and awoke in the year 2000
to find the world transformed into a socialist Utopia. Bellamy
described the world he envisioned with the advent of the new
millennium, and his predictions were truly remarkable when you
consider that he lived over a hundred years ago. He wrote:
An American credit card ...is just as good in Europe as American gold
used to be, and on precisely the same condition, namely, that it be
exchanged into the currency of the country you are traveling in. An
American in Berlin takes his credit card to the local office of the
international council . . . the amount being charged against the
United States in favor of Germany on the international account. [9]
How could Edward Bellamy have foreseen what is taking place today? Was
he privy to some source of secret knowledge? He foresaw large
corporations taken over by larger corporations until finally all
commerce was merged into a single corporation, The Great Trust.
The nation . . . organized as the one great business corporation in
which all other corporations were absorbed; it became the one
capitalist in the place of all other capitalists, the sole employer,
the final monopoly in which all previous and lesser monopolies were
swallowed up, a monopoly in the profits and economies of which all
citizens shared. The epoch of trusts had ended in The Great Trust.
[10]
Edward Bellamy foresaw what is taking place in communist China where
all Chinese corporations are answerable to the state. He described the
social welfare programs that exist in the United States today, and he
envisioned the coming world government when he wrote:
... I, who, having beheld in a vision the world I looked on, sang of
it in words that again and again, during these last wondrous days, had
rung in my mind: -
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, And the battle flags were
furled.
In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Then the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And
the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law. [11]
Shortly after his book was published, Bellamy Clubs began forming
across the United States. As the movement for socialism and world
government spread, a number of wealthy men embraced Bellamy's
concepts. Among them was Andrew Carnegie. Most people think of him as
a robber baron, an example of everything wrong with the free
enterprise system. That view is incorrect. Andrew Carnegie didn't
believe in free enterprise. He believed in monopoly capitalism which
allows those of great wealth to use government to exploit others.
Andrew Carnegie was a socialist, but the socialism he envisioned
created a ruling class. After selling U.S. Steel [Carnegie Steel,
which he sold to J.P. Morgan who formed U.S. Steel], he funded several
foundations with instructions that their grant-making power was to be
used to transform society and promote world government. Why did Andrew
Carnegie support those goals? Because he recognized that socialism is
a sincere, benevolent, idealistic theory, but it doesn't work without
force. Under socialism the government takes from each according to
their ability and gives to others according to their need.
Everyone is controlled by the government; the government is controlled
by politicians, and politicians are bought and sold by wealthy men and
corporations. That is why Andrew Carnegie, and other men of great
wealth, favor socialism.[12]
Andrew Carnegie embraced Lord Tennyson's vision in 1893 in his book
Triumphant Democracy, when he wrote:
The Parliament of Man and the Federation of the World have already
been hailed by the poet, and these mean a step much farther in advance
of the proposed reunion of Britain and America .... I say that as
surely as the sun in the heavens once shown upon Britain and America
united, so surely is it one morning to rise, shine upon, and greet
again the reunited state, 'The British-American Union.' [13]
One hundred years later, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. wrote an article that
appeared on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. In October
1993 many people were concerned because we seemed to be relinquishing
our national sovereignty, and moving toward world government and a New
World Order. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. addressed that concern:
The world of law will not be attained by exhortation .... Let us not
kid ourselves that we can have a new world order without paying for it
in blood as well as in money. Maybe the costs of enforcement are too
great. National interest narrowly construed may well be the safer
rule. But let us recognize that we are surrendering a noble dream.
Remember those lines of Tennyson that Churchill called 'the most
wonderful of modern prophesies' and that Harry Truman carried in his
wallet throughout his life:
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue. . .
Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle flags were furl'd
In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World. [14]
Here Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. revealed the little-known fact that both
Winston Churchill and Harry Truman were dedicated to world government.
Did Winston Churchill really want Great Britain to surrender its
national sovereignty? Why did Harry Truman carry Lord Tennyson's poem
in his wallet throughout his life? Is it possible that both men were
members of the arcane societies?
Most people have forgotten the strange things that happened during
Harry Truman's presidency. First, he signed the United Nations
Charter, knowing full well that the U.N. was designed to become the
government of the world. Then he ceded control of Eastern Europe and
China to the communists, and when the public began to question why he
had betrayed hundreds of millions of people to a life of slavery, he
plunged us into a no-win war in Asia. When General MacArthur told a
congressman that he wasn't allowed to win the Korean War, President
Truman relieved him of his command. If you study that era, you will
discover that General Lin Piao, the communist leader who commanded the
Chinese army that attacked our soldiers in North Korea, knew there was
a secret agreement that precluded us from winning the Korean War.
General Lin Piao wrote:
I would never have made the attack and risked my men and military
reputation if I had not been assured that Washington would restrain
General MacArthur from taking adequate retaliatory measures against my
lines of supply and communication. [16]
At this point, I want to explain how Harry Truman brought communism to
China. Most people believe that the Nationalist Chinese lost the civil
war, but nothing could be further from the truth. General Chiang
Kai-shek's armies were winning the civil war until the American State
Department placed an arms embargo on the Nationalist forces which
prevented them from buying weapons or supplies anywhere in the world.
Even the weapons they had previously purchased on Okinawa and other
Pacific islands were blockaded. How can an army fight without weapons?
It can't. Contrary to everything you have heard or read, our State
Department intentionally brought Chairman Mao to power. To verify that
charge, I quote from a long-suppressed Senate report on the fall of
China. Copies of the pages quoted are available to researchers:
INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS REPORT
of the
Committee on the Judiciary
Eighty-Second Congress
Second Session
S.(enate) Res.(olution) 366
A Resolution Relating to the Internal Security of the United States
At the end of 1945 when General Marshall left for China, the balance
of power was with the Chinese Nationalists . . . and remained so until
at least June 1946.... Chiang's divisions were chasing the Communists
northward and the prospect of victory by Nationalist China was at its
highest.... However, when General Marshall arrived in China, he
undertook to bring about the coalition government which his directive
demanded.... This plan failed when coalition failed....
When the Chinese government did not effect coalition, by the summer of
1946 United States military assistance to China was brought to an end.
Not only did the United States stop sending military supplies to the
Chinese Government; the shipment of war materials actually purchased
by the Chinese also was halted....The Chinese also had purchased
surplus equipment that remained on Okinawa and other Pacific islands.
Even the shipment of this was banned....A complete embargo took effect
in the summer of 1946. It was maintained at least until May 1947.
General Chennault testified that the first shipment arrived in
Shanghai in December 1948.... Chennault further stated that the war
material sent to China after the embargo did not arrive in time to aid
the Chinese Nationalists in the field.... Admiral Cooke . . .testified
that the Chinese had a number of divisions equipped with American
arms.... When the flow of American ammunition was stopped, these
divisions lost their fire power and were defeated. Even after the
Eightieth Congress appropriated $125,000,000 for aid to the Chinese,
shipments were delayed and when the guns finally reached the Chinese
general in north China they were without bolts and therefore
useless.[17]
Why did our State Department send the Nationalist Chinese guns without
bolts? Could that have happened by accident? It is impossible to read
the complete text of the McCarran Committee Report without coming to
the conclusion that the Truman Administration betrayed the Nationalist
Chinese and brought Chairman Mao to power.
Why? Could it have had anything to do with the fact that Harry Truman
carried Lord Tennyson's poem in his wallet throughout his life?
I encountered the second poem when I visited my son in Cape Town in
the mid-1970s. As we drove down the coastal highway that winds along
the base of Table Mountain, I saw a small, gray replica of the Lincoln
Memorial nestled against the hillside. I was curious, so we trudged up
the dusty path that led to the front of the granite monument. Stone
lions guarded both sides of the stairway before us. After climbing the
stairs, we passed between granite pillars and entered an area that
contained a stone pedestal. On the top of the pedestal sat a
larger-than-life bust of a man. The expression on the stone face was
stern, the eyes hollowed so their gaze followed us wherever we moved.
As the cold Atlantic wind blew past the pillars behind us, I saw a
poem engraved on the pedestal:
The intense and brooding spirit still,
Shall quicken and control.
Living he was the land,
And dead, his soul shall be her soul.
Rudyard Kipling penned those words in 1902, and they were read at
Cecil John Rhodes' funeral. To quicken is to come back to life after
dying, and if there was ever a man whose legacy lived on after his
death, it was Cecil John Rhodes.
What most people don't realize is that his legacy continues to
dominate Europe and Africa, and his influence casts a dark shadow over
our nation today.
The names of most of the men who have tried to unite the world are
well known: Nimrod, Nebuchadnezzar, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great,
Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and Chairman Mao. On
the other hand, very few people associate the name of Rhodes with the
current effort to establish a world government. It is well known,
however, to his followers and members of the arcane societies. In
1877, Cecil John Rhodes laid out his plan to unite the world under
Anglo-Saxon rule. He knew he would never live to see his undertaking
completed, but he dedicated his life to that cause, and he recruited
others to carry on his program aft his death.[18] Cecil John Rhodes
has done more to unite the world than any other man in history. When
he was a student at Oxford University, he attended John Ruskin's
inaugural lecture, and he was so impressed with Ruskin's concepts that
he wrote them down in longhand and carried them with him the rest of
his life, just as Harry Truman carried Lord Tennyson's poem in his
wallet throughout his life.[19]
Cecil Rhodes wrote a Confession of Faith in 1877. There he laid out
his plan to bring the world under British rule and recapture the
United States. He wrote:
The idea gleaming and dancing before ones eyes like a will-o-the-wisp
at last frames itself into a plan. Why should we not form a secret
society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire,
for the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule,
for the recovery of the United States, for the making [of] the
Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire ....[20]
Cecil Rhodes acquired the major gold and diamond mines of southern
Africa and used his wealth to pursue his dream. In 1891, he
established a secret society. When he realized that he wouldn't live
to see his vision fulfilled, he left his vast fortune to the Rhodes
Trust to fund his secret society and the Rhodes Scholarship Fund.[21]
During the past century over forty-six hundred young men have been
sent to Oxford University where they were indoctrinated in socialism
and world government. President Bill Clinton, General Wesley Clark,
Strobe Talbot, Senator Bill Bradley, and thousands of other prominent
men are Rhodes Scholars. They work in government offices, in
international banks, on the boards of corporations, in tax-exempt
foundations, in the Supreme Court, in the media, in our universities,
in the United Nations Association, and in the Council on Foreign
Relations. At Oxford they became part of an elite group that was
dedicated to changing the world. That is why Cecil Rhodes' spirit
still quickens and controls, and why his influence still casts a dark
shadow over our nation.[22]
The third poem was written by James Russell Lowell to address the
problem of slavery. The version cited is taken from the hymn, Once to
Every Man and Nation :
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
for the good or evil side ....
Then it is the brave man chooses,
While the coward stands aside,
Til the multitude make virtue
Of the faith they had denied ....
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold
And upon the throne be wrong,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above his own....[23]
Here James Russell Lowell described the struggle that began in the
Garden of Eden and continues to this day. It is a battle between truth
and falsehood, between good and evil, between Light and Darkness,
between God and Satan. It has been going on for six thousand years,
and it will continue until the end of time.
The past two centuries have been the most violent period in recorded
history. Who is responsible for the terrible wars and bloody
revolutions that have plagued the world? Why did the United States
Supreme Court take God and prayer out of our schools? Why can't we do
something about t moral depravity that is destroying our nation? When
you complete this book you will know the answer to those questions,
and you will never look at the world in the same way again.
Footnotes
1. Manly P Hall, Lectures On Ancient Philosophy, Philosophical
Research Society, Inc. Los Angeles, California, p.
433.
2. Ralph Epperson, Masonry: Conspiracy Against Christianity, Publius
Press, 1997, p. 18.
3. Manly P Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Philosophical
Research Society, California, pp. III-V
4. Dennis Cuddy, Now Is the Dawning of the New Age New World Order,
Hearthstone Publishing Ltd., Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, 1991, p. 38. Dr. Cuddy told me that Lord Tennyson
belonged to the Society for Psychical Research
which was organized by Tennyson's uncle.
5. Encyclopedia Americana, International Edition, Americana
Corporation, New York, Volume 17, p. 643.
6. Charles Johnson, One Hundred One Famous Hymns, Hallberg Publishing
Corporation, Delavan, Wisconsin, 1982,
p. 87.
7. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History o f the World in Our
Time, The Macmillan Company, New York,
1966, pp. 130-138.
8. John McManus, Changing Commands, The John Birch Society, Appleton,
Wisconsin, p. 87. See also The Norman
Dodd Interview, Radio Liberty, PO. Box 13, Santa Cruz, California,
95063.
9. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, Dover Publications, Inc., New
York, originally published in 1888, republished
by Dover in 1996, p. 70.
10. Ibid., p. 27.
11. Ibid., p. 73.
12. Andrew Carnegie, Triumphant Democracy, Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York, 1893, pp. 530-49.
13. Ibid.
14. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Bye, Bye, Woodrow, Wall Street Journal,
October 23, 1993, editorial page.
15. For those who would like to understand the Korean War era, I
suggest General MacArthur's Reminiscences,
General Mark Clark's From the Danube to the Yalu, Major General
Courtney Whitney's MacArthur. His Rendezvous
with History, and Major Arch Roberts's Victory Denied.
16. General Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences, McGrawHill Book Company,
New York, 1964, p. 375.
17. Institute of Pacific Relations: Report of the Committee of the
Judiciary, 82nd Congress, S. Res. 366, pp. 204-205.
18. Frank Aydelotte, The Vision of Cecil Rhodes, Oxford University
Press, 1946, Preface, p. v.
19. Carroll Quigley, op cit., p. 130.
20. Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes Confession o f Faith, found among Lord
Milner's papers, or available in The Sustainable
Development Syllabus, P. O. Box 13, Santa Cruz, California
95063.
21. Carroll Quigley, op cit., p. 130.
22. Rhodes Trust, Register of Rhodes Scholars 1903-1995, 1996, ISBN
0-9527695-0-6. Lists 4,600 Rhodes Scholars.
See also: Frank Aydelotte, op cit., p. 129.
23. Charles Johnson, op cit.