Those behind the NWO and System of the Antichrist: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT not JEWS
NUR
subvert and take over the world] are Jews who planned and undertook
the destruction of the traditional and Christian European civilization
in order to achieve the universal rule of Israel, or God's "chosen
people." This is obviously an exaggeration. At this point we may even
wonder whether a fanatical anti-Semitism, which always sees the Jew as
a deus ex machina, is not unwittingly playing into the hands of the
enemy. One of the means employed by the occult forces to protect
themselves consists of directing their opponents' attention toward
those who are only partially responsible for certain upheavals, thus
concealing the rest of the story, namely a wider sequence of causes.
It could be shown that even if the Protocols were a forgery
perpetrated by provocateurs, nonetheless they reflect ideas very
congenial to the Law and spirit of Israel. Second, it is true that
many Jews have been and still are among the promoters of modern
disorder in its more radical cultural expressions, whether political
or social. This, however, should not prevent a deeper analysis,
capable of exposing forces that may have employed modern Judaism
merely as an instrument."
-- Julius Evola, Men Amongst the Ruins, chapter 13
See Carrol Quigley, the Anglo-American Establishment,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/431914/Carroll-Quigley-The-Anglo-American-Establishment
&
http://www.whale.to/a/gulbekian.html
Brothers of the Shadows: A Perspective on Conspiracies
BY SEVAK GULBEKIAN
New Dawn No. 86 (September-October 2004)
Steiner and Modern Conspiracy Research
In his book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Gore Vidal suggests
that
the American public has been conditioned to respond to the word
‘conspiracy’ with a smirk and a chuckle. Conspiracy, in other words,
is for the nuts and the loners, and is not to be taken seriously. In
this way, he argues, through the media’s association of the concept
of
conspiracy with fringe or extreme elements, the real conspirators go
unnoticed.
It is a vital point, and Vidal courageously chases and exposes
genuine conspiracies by politicians, the FBI, lobbyists for the
tobacco companies, and so on. But the flip-side of the conspiracy
coin
is the proliferation of fanciful and fantastic theories that now
crisscross the globe in seconds with the help of electronic media.
The spread of the internet has democratised conspiracy theory.
Millions of people now have the means to publish their own unique
analysis of what is going on. A necessary consequence of this massive
growth in personal digital publishing is that it is getting to be
much
more difficult to find the pearls among the rubbish. Someone even
observed that, in the age of the internet, if you want to keep
something secret you make it public…
Amidst the more fantastic theories of UFOs and intergalactic
lizards, certain core themes do persistently reoccur in the mass of
‘conspiracy theory’ material now available. Principal among them is
the idea that a shadowy elite is seeking to enslave humanity under
the
auspices of a single, centralised world government. The name of the
mysterious ‘Illuminati’ is most often associated with such a group,
although what is meant by it is frequently ill defined. The
Illuminati
are, supposedly, a cabal of top bankers, politicians and businessmen
seeking to create the aforesaid all-powerful government.
What is the truth of all this? I do not propose to give a full
answer here, but would like to introduce a perspective on the theme –
one that has generally not been given serious consideration – taken
from the research of Rudolf Steiner. In the second part of the
article
I will try and relate Steiner’s ideas to other more familiar
conspiracy research.
So why Steiner? Because, if for no other reason, his
pronouncements and indications on practical areas of life have borne
such remarkable fruit, testimony to which are thousands of Waldorf
schools offering a new kind of education, farms successfully
practicing bio-dynamics, clinics dispensing anthroposophic medicines,
and so on.
As a profound clairvoyant, Steiner claimed to investigate other
dimensions of reality for insight into the human condition. His
legacy
is hundreds of volumes of published talks and written works on a
cornucopia of themes. However, as mentioned above, his work – in
contrast to that of many other spiritual teachers and gurus – has
shown itself to have practical applications in all areas of life.
This
in itself does not provide ultimate evidence for the truth of his
work, but it does correspond to the biblical dictum: “[B]y their
fruits ye shall know them.”
In 1916 and 1917, in the midst of the catastrophic First World
War, Steiner gave a series of 25 lectures to a group of his followers
who gathered together at their centre in Dornach in neutral
Switzerland. These lectures, since translated and published in
English,
1 offer a unique reading of contemporary events.
Behind the outer façade of world affairs, suggested Steiner,
the
machinations of occult groups or ‘brotherhoods’ were at work. Certain
of these brotherhoods had wanted the Great War to take place, and had
manipulated events to bring it about. In doing this, they sought to
protect the dominant economic position of the English-speaking world,
and in turn to crush the ‘mediating’ role of Central European powers
such as Germany, the Austro-Hungarian empire, and so on.
These occult brotherhoods – small groups of men who met
together
in ‘lodges’ and practiced ceremonial magic as a means of achieving
certain goals – originated from the English-speaking (Anglo-Saxon)
world and were allied, in particular, with Anglo-American interests.
Their aim was to extend Anglo-American influence across the globe,
and
to ensure the predomination of Anglo-American culture. Furthermore,
they sought to extend its superiority into the distant future;
essentially to ensure that the present state of affairs continues
evermore.
According to Steiner’s research, human evolution goes through
‘great periods’ of development. During each of these periods, a
particular people is given the task of leading humanity in a
spiritual
sense. Over the millennia, it has been the destiny of different
peoples to bring specific qualities, in a benevolent way, to the
whole
of humanity. Particular periods of history are thus led by particular
nations. This does not imply a form of political control or empire –
and is certainly not a theory of national or racial superiority – but
is referring to a spiritual form of authority.
Steiner suggested that the Western world, and in particular the
English-speaking peoples, have been given the task of getting to
grips
with the material world – of becoming comfortable on Earth and
developing in harmony with it. In this specific sense, the West was
to
introduce a certain kind of (beneficial) materialism into human
development. But this materialism was only meant to be developed up
to
a certain point. It was necessary in order for humans to become fully
part of the earthly world, and to help introduce an individualised
consciousness (the ‘I’). But beyond that it had the potential to be
destructive. Materialism as a philosophy, which shuts out the
possibility of soul and spirit, is retrogressive, asserted Steiner,
and works as an evil in human evolution.
The Anglo-American brotherhoods that seek dominion over mankind
know this, and hence today are deliberately sponsoring various kind
of
materialism in the hope of halting and trapping humanity at the
present stage of its development. They don’t want humans to progress
beyond the present stage of immersion in the material world. In other
words, they don’t want us to reconnect in a free way with our
spiritual ‘I’, because they know that their grip over humanity would
then be lost. Human progress is dependent on spiritual knowledge, and
thus the occult brotherhoods work against it.
Steiner explained further the brotherhoods were aware that the
Slavic peoples were to be given the task of leadership on behalf of
humanity during the next ‘great period’ of history. For this reason,
the Anglo-American brotherhoods not only sought to dominate the
present great period of human development, but – knowing that the
Slavs had an important mission in the future – sought to gain control
over the Slavic peoples (Russia in particular) in the present, in
order to interfere with or even put a halt to their coming task. In
this way, the Anglo-American brotherhoods could extend their control
over human development into the distant future.
Steiner later claimed that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia,
which led to the creation of the USSR and the 72-year cultural,
intellectual, economic and political repression of the populations of
its various peoples, was masterminded and sponsored by these same
brotherhoods as a means of controlling the region and its peoples.2
What is the evidence for Steiner’s analysis? Apart from
anything
else, it is interesting to note the present state of world affairs,
and how – since Steiner spoke about this topic in 1916-17 – Anglo-
American culture has come to dominate the globe in tandem with
American economic and political influence (with the enthusiastic
support of British politicians). The assertion of unilateral military
action by the United States and Britain in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
–
in the face of almost total global opposition – was a good example of
this formidable power at work. However, admittedly these observations
do not provide ‘proof’ in a strict sense.
Another source of evidence is the remarkable research of Prof.
Carroll Quigley (1910-77) who wrote two substantial volumes, The
Anglo-
American Establishment (1949) and Tragedy and Hope (1966),3 on the
secret network which emerged from the enterprise of Cecil Rhodes.
Quigley characterised the power of this group through its influence
in
politics, culture and social life as “terrifying”.
It is important to note that Quigley was no crazed and paranoid
conspiracy nut, but a respected Georgetown professor, and even the
teacher of Bill Clinton. (How such networks might be related to the
brotherhoods Steiner is talking about will be considered later.)
Other
authors have followed Quigley’s lead and complemented his studies
with
contemporary observations. A few have even related Steiner’s ideas to
Quigley’s research.4 In this context, however, I would like to
mention
only two external ‘symptoms’, which, at the very least, offer
circumstantial evidence for Steiner’s diagnosis.
In 1893, an Englishman called C.G. Harrison delivered six
lectures to the Berean Society, a mysterious group of ‘Christian
esotericists’. A record of these lectures is to be found in
Harrison’s
remarkable book The Transcendental Universe. Little is known about
the
Berean Society or Harrison, although he wrote two further books in
his
lifetime. What is clear is that Harrison, who speaks in defense of
the
“high” Church, had access to a phenomenal store of esoteric thought,
and was furthermore privy to a certain amount of inside knowledge. In
his second lecture, he spoke not only of “the next great European
war”, but also of the “national character” of the Slavic peoples and
its ability to “enable them to carry out experiments in Socialism,
political and economical, which would present innumerable
difficulties
in Western Europe”.5 Remember that these lectures were given in 1893,
21 years before the First World War and 24 years before the Bolshevik
Revolution!
While Harrison claimed to be a “theoretical occultist” as
opposed to a “practical” one – i.e. he did not practice magic or
ritual, with the implication that he was not a member of a “lodge”
himself – from his work it is evident he represents an esoteric
strain
of thought which clearly defends the English establishment. How could
he know about the forthcoming War as well as the “experiments in
Socialism”, which would take a grip on Russia and its surrounding
states for most of the twentieth century? If he was not, as he
claimed, a “practical occultist” himself, it is reasonable to assume
he had contact with people who were, and who had access to the malign
plans of such secret groups referred to above.
The second significant piece of evidence which offers some
backing for Steiner’s claims of occult interference in world politics
is to be found in a special edition of the satirical weekly The
Truth,
published at Christmas 1890. Under the heading ‘The Kaiser’s Dream’,
the magazine featured a cartoon map of Europe together with a
humorous
commentary. Many observations can be made of the map, but the most
pertinent point to note in relation to the above is that all the
countries of Europe are shown as republics with the exception of
Russia and its neighbouring states, over which are written the words
“Russian Desert”. In addition, Germany is identified with the words
“German Republics”! This map signifies not only a foreknowledge –
similar to Harrison – of the fate of Russia to become a cultural as
well as an economic ‘desert’, but also of the future splitting of
Germany into ‘republics’. The magazine’s editor, Henry Labouchère,
was
a Freemason. Was his remarkable foresight pure luck, or once again
did
he have some inside knowledge of future plans to shape the world?
It is of course possible that the above examples are merely
coincidences and happy flukes, but surely it is unlikely. Do these
examples offer evidence for the existence of occult brotherhoods with
pernicious plans for political manipulation? We may never know for
sure, but it is evident that Steiner’s perspective offers much
serious
food for thought, and opens up important new vistas for understanding
current world events.
Steiner and Modern Conspiracy Research
Having sketched out Steiner’s picture of secret brotherhoods, I
would like now to try and show how his perspective might relate to
the
more general conspiracy research referred to earlier. To many readers
of this magazine the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Trilateral Commission will be more than familiar.
In
addition, the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones is often
identified by investigators in the conspiracy field. The latter has
been thrown into the limelight recently due to the remarkable
admission by both Republican and Democratic candidates of the 2004
American presidential election that they are members of the exclusive
club.
As Skull and Bones is a tiny society that invites only 15
undergraduates per year to join its ranks – and at any one time has
only 800 or so living members – the fact that the two candidates for
the post of the most powerful position in the world are members of it
(from a population totaling some 293 million people) is quite
incredible!
It has long been known that George W. Bush is an initiate of
Skull and Bones (as was his father George Bush Snr. and grandfather
Prescott Sheldon Bush), but it has been something of a surprise to
discover the democratic candidate John Kerry is also a member. (Kerry
laughed nervously when questioned about his and Bush’s membership on
television. “You both were members of the Skull and Bones; what does
that tell us?” he was asked. “Yup. Not much”, he replied.6)
According to the key researcher of Skull and Bones, Antony C.
Sutton, the society was first founded in 1833. Members, who meet
secretly in its ‘tomb’ on the grounds of Yale, are sworn to secrecy
about the group’s rites and activities. In terms of its operations
and
philosophy, Sutton refers to the ‘dialectical’ process, based on the
philosopher Hegel, as being at the heart of Skull and Bones thinking.
In particular, he tries to prove that the group has been instrumental
in funding and encouraging the development of both far-left and far-
right political groupings – principally the Communists and Nazis – in
the twentieth century. From the point of view of Skull and Bones’
broad vision of human development, left and right are viewed as two
parts of the Hegelian dialectical process; one political wing
represents ‘thesis’ while the other represents ‘antithesis’. These
two
aspects clash and fight each other, but eventually merge to form a
‘synthesis’. It is this synthesis, according to Sutton, that Skull
and
Bones is aiming to create. By controlling and manipulating the
conflict, it controls the outcome (or synthesis).
It is interesting to note that Sutton first published his
interpretation of Skull and Bones in the mid-1980s. At that time, he
quoted the group as working for a ‘New World Order’ (NWO). This NWO
was to be the product of the synthesis of political left and right.
Shortly after the collapse of the Eastern-bloc communist countries,
and the subsequent triumph of Western capitalism – a triumph that
Francis Fukuyama referred to in his famous book as ‘the end of
history’ – George Bush Snr. began to use the specific phrase ‘New
World Order’ in public speeches.
This fascinating fact offers some circumstantial evidence for
Sutton’s reading. Presuming that Sutton is correct, humanity is
living
right now within the period of ‘synthesis’ – the birth of a NWO led
by
the West, and principally the United States. (And perhaps it will
come
as no surprise to adherents of Sutton’s analysis that a new
‘dialectic’ has suddenly appeared to take the place of the old, i.e.
Communism versus Capitalism is replaced with the West versus Islamic
Fundamentalism.)
Antony Sutton’s series of booklets on Skull and Bones begins
with his Introduction to the Order,7 in which he points out that –
despite them being commonly associated with conspiracy –
organisations
such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission
are
ultimately not secret, and have large public memberships. Likewise,
it
could be added that despite the fact the Bilderberg conferences are
not open to the press or public, the names of the people who attend
these yearly private meetings are not concealed. (The minutes of the
1999 meeting in Sintra, Portugal were even leaked and published
wholesale on the internet.) Lists of members of the above groups can
be found in Robert Gaylon Ross’s Who’s Who of the Elite, Members of
the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission
and Skull and Bones Society.)
Sutton suggests that organisations such as the above form a
larger ‘outer circle’ of members, while societies such as Skull and
Bones form part of an ‘inner circle’ of truly secret groupings, of
which there is a still further ‘inner core’ – the ‘decision-making
core’ – which remains completely out of public view, i.e. truly
hidden
(or, literally, ‘occult’). This is a reasonable hypothesis. From what
is known of the Bilderberg conferences, for example, it could be
inferred that their essential motivation is to further the Western
Capitalist Project through high-level networking and the grooming of
young talent. To put it in another way, they are working for the
economic, political and cultural domination of a globalised world by
the West – in particular by the English-speaking peoples led by the
United States and Britain. (Although the Bilderberg conferences
include guests from around the world, the emphasis is on North
America
and Europe, and its leadership is Anglo-Saxon.)
From what is known of the Bilderbergers – and much has reached
the public domain – there appears to be no more conspiracy than that.
Groups such as Skull and Bones (and Sutton deduces that there are
others such as Scroll and Key) are not completely secret in that
their
existence and membership are well documented. According to Sutton
these are the ‘core’, with similar objectives to the more public
groups but with more focused and consciously-held goals.
In contradistinction to the Bilderbergers etc., true secret
societies usually have elaborate initiation ceremonies and use ritual
as a critical part of their mutual enterprise. The brotherhoods
Steiner speaks of, as has already been mentioned, are also built on
Masonic principles of secrecy and ritual, but are hidden from public
view.
In relation to the groups referred to above, it is quite
possible that such genuinely occult brotherhoods form part of the
inner, ‘decision-making’ core, which Sutton refers to. Having said
that, as Sutton points out, most members of the larger groups would
have no inkling of any subterfuge or conspiracy, and neither would
many members of Skull and Bones. This work would be left to the
directors, or ‘initiates’, with esoteric knowledge and understanding.
According to Steiner, the specific brotherhoods he is referring to
not
only have the conscious goal of maintaining Anglo-American
domination,
but complement this aim with real esoteric insight – i.e. an
understanding of the evolutionary cycles referred to above.
The above sketch gives a useful framework for comprehending how
public groups such as Bilderberg, more secret groups like Skull and
Bones, and the occult societies that Steiner refers to might interact
and co-exist. In this sense, the true occult societies would be the
central inspiration for the larger intersecting groups of
organisations with politically active individuals. To my mind, such a
complex picture is more convincing than the nebulous idea of a single
all-powerful ‘Illuminati’ that is supposedly responsible for creating
a massive conspiracy that controls every aspect of modern life.
Footnotes:
1. Karma of Untruthfulness Volumes I & II, Rudolf Steiner Press,
London, 1988 and 1992.
2. See further in Sergei O. Prokofieff, The Spiritual Origins of
Eastern Europe and the Future Mysteries of the Holy Grail, Temple
Lodge Publishing, London, 1993.
3. The Anglo-American Establishment was only published in 1981, Books
in Focus, New York. Tragedy and Hope was published in 1966 by
Macmillan, New York.
4. See Terry Boardman, Mapping the Millennium, Behind the Plans of
the
New World Order, Temple Lodge Publishing, London, 1998, and Amnon
Reuveni, In the Name of the ‘New World Order’, Manifestations of
Decadent Powers in World Politics, Temple Lodge Publishing, London,
1996.
5. The Transcendental Universe, Lindisfarne Press, New York, 1993,
pages 98-99.
6. Daily Telegraph, London, 12 July 2004.
7. The Secret Cult of the Order (1983), An Introduction to the Order
(1984), How the Order Creates War and Revolution (1985), How the
Order
Controls Education (1985), Veritas Publishing Co., Aukland. A more
recent and high profile study is Alexandra Robbins Secrets of the
Tomb.
___________________________________________________________________________
__
SEVAK EDWARD GULBEKIAN lives in England. He is the publisher and
chief
editor of Clairview Books, Temple Lodge Publishing, and Rudolf
Steiner
Press. The above is an expanded chapter from his book In the Belly of
the Beast, Holding Your Own in Mass Culture. Sevak can be reached at
se...@clairviewbooks.com.
Seon Ferguson
groups involved as well like the Bilderberg group. Watch the new 2009
documentary called new world order. They also love conducting false flag
attacks and using terrorism to scare us.
All Bad
"Seon Ferguson" <seo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Wahid is referencing another nut job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola
- All Bad
NUR
wrote:
If Evola was a nut-job, that makes Husayn 'Ali Nari larva!
W
NUR
Read what Evola says. That is exactly what he's saying.
W
Seon Ferguson
"NUR" <wahid...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Yikes I should read all of the stuff you post and not just skip through it.
Seon Ferguson
attacked despite warnings, Rosevelt was warned about Perl Harbor (well he
would probably say that) Communism was funded by the west and so on.
Oh and if he lived today he would know that the JFK was assassinated by the
CIA, the gulf of Tonkin incident was staged and so on. I also believe we
don't need religion for our souls to evolve. In fact religion keeps us in a
fear based mind prison. It makes us afraid to be open to any other theory
out of being afraid of going to hell and therefore we are trapped in it. But
in reality we are infinite consciousness, or souls. We are not at the mercy
of any "God" sure we come from God and have God within us but we are not at
his or her mercy.
Anyway great article. I wish I had read all of it.
"NUR" <wahid...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> �conspiracy� with a smirk and a chuckle. Conspiracy, in other words,
> is for the nuts and the loners, and is not to be taken seriously. In
> this way, he argues, through the media�s association of the concept
> of
> conspiracy with fringe or extreme elements, the real conspirators go
> unnoticed.
>
>
> It is a vital point, and Vidal courageously chases and exposes
> genuine conspiracies by politicians, the FBI, lobbyists for the
> tobacco companies, and so on. But the flip-side of the conspiracy
> coin
> is the proliferation of fanciful and fantastic theories that now
> crisscross the globe in seconds with the help of electronic media.
>
>
> The spread of the internet has democratised conspiracy theory.
> Millions of people now have the means to publish their own unique
> analysis of what is going on. A necessary consequence of this massive
> growth in personal digital publishing is that it is getting to be
> much
> more difficult to find the pearls among the rubbish. Someone even
> observed that, in the age of the internet, if you want to keep
> something secret you make it public�
>
>
> Amidst the more fantastic theories of UFOs and intergalactic
> lizards, certain core themes do persistently reoccur in the mass of
> �conspiracy theory� material now available. Principal among them is
> the idea that a shadowy elite is seeking to enslave humanity under
> the
> auspices of a single, centralised world government. The name of the
> mysterious �Illuminati� is most often associated with such a group,
> although what is meant by it is frequently ill defined. The
> Illuminati
> are, supposedly, a cabal of top bankers, politicians and businessmen
> seeking to create the aforesaid all-powerful government.
>
>
> What is the truth of all this? I do not propose to give a full
> answer here, but would like to introduce a perspective on the theme �
> one that has generally not been given serious consideration � taken
> from the research of Rudolf Steiner. In the second part of the
> article
> I will try and relate Steiner�s ideas to other more familiar
> conspiracy research.
>
>
> So why Steiner? Because, if for no other reason, his
> pronouncements and indications on practical areas of life have borne
> such remarkable fruit, testimony to which are thousands of Waldorf
> schools offering a new kind of education, farms successfully
> practicing bio-dynamics, clinics dispensing anthroposophic medicines,
> and so on.
>
>
> As a profound clairvoyant, Steiner claimed to investigate other
> dimensions of reality for insight into the human condition. His
> legacy
> is hundreds of volumes of published talks and written works on a
> cornucopia of themes. However, as mentioned above, his work � in
> contrast to that of many other spiritual teachers and gurus � has
> shown itself to have practical applications in all areas of life.
> This
> in itself does not provide ultimate evidence for the truth of his
> work, but it does correspond to the biblical dictum: �[B]y their
> fruits ye shall know them.�
>
>
> In 1916 and 1917, in the midst of the catastrophic First World
> War, Steiner gave a series of 25 lectures to a group of his followers
> who gathered together at their centre in Dornach in neutral
> Switzerland. These lectures, since translated and published in
> English,
> 1 offer a unique reading of contemporary events.
>
>
> Behind the outer fa�ade of world affairs, suggested Steiner,
> the
> machinations of occult groups or �brotherhoods� were at work. Certain
> of these brotherhoods had wanted the Great War to take place, and had
> manipulated events to bring it about. In doing this, they sought to
> protect the dominant economic position of the English-speaking world,
> and in turn to crush the �mediating� role of Central European powers
> such as Germany, the Austro-Hungarian empire, and so on.
>
>
> These occult brotherhoods � small groups of men who met
> together
> in �lodges� and practiced ceremonial magic as a means of achieving
> certain goals � originated from the English-speaking (Anglo-Saxon)
> world and were allied, in particular, with Anglo-American interests.
> Their aim was to extend Anglo-American influence across the globe,
> and
> to ensure the predomination of Anglo-American culture. Furthermore,
> they sought to extend its superiority into the distant future;
> essentially to ensure that the present state of affairs continues
> evermore.
>
>
> According to Steiner�s research, human evolution goes through
> �great periods� of development. During each of these periods, a
> particular people is given the task of leading humanity in a
> spiritual
> sense. Over the millennia, it has been the destiny of different
> peoples to bring specific qualities, in a benevolent way, to the
> whole
> of humanity. Particular periods of history are thus led by particular
> nations. This does not imply a form of political control or empire �
> and is certainly not a theory of national or racial superiority � but
> is referring to a spiritual form of authority.
>
>
> Steiner suggested that the Western world, and in particular the
> English-speaking peoples, have been given the task of getting to
> grips
> with the material world � of becoming comfortable on Earth and
> developing in harmony with it. In this specific sense, the West was
> to
> introduce a certain kind of (beneficial) materialism into human
> development. But this materialism was only meant to be developed up
> to
> a certain point. It was necessary in order for humans to become fully
> part of the earthly world, and to help introduce an individualised
> consciousness (the �I�). But beyond that it had the potential to be
> destructive. Materialism as a philosophy, which shuts out the
> possibility of soul and spirit, is retrogressive, asserted Steiner,
> and works as an evil in human evolution.
>
>
> The Anglo-American brotherhoods that seek dominion over mankind
> know this, and hence today are deliberately sponsoring various kind
> of
> materialism in the hope of halting and trapping humanity at the
> present stage of its development. They don�t want humans to progress
> beyond the present stage of immersion in the material world. In other
> words, they don�t want us to reconnect in a free way with our
> spiritual �I�, because they know that their grip over humanity would
> then be lost. Human progress is dependent on spiritual knowledge, and
> thus the occult brotherhoods work against it.
>
>
> Steiner explained further the brotherhoods were aware that the
> Slavic peoples were to be given the task of leadership on behalf of
> humanity during the next �great period� of history. For this reason,
> the Anglo-American brotherhoods not only sought to dominate the
> present great period of human development, but � knowing that the
> Slavs had an important mission in the future � sought to gain control
> over the Slavic peoples (Russia in particular) in the present, in
> order to interfere with or even put a halt to their coming task. In
> this way, the Anglo-American brotherhoods could extend their control
> over human development into the distant future.
>
>
> Steiner later claimed that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia,
> which led to the creation of the USSR and the 72-year cultural,
> intellectual, economic and political repression of the populations of
> its various peoples, was masterminded and sponsored by these same
> brotherhoods as a means of controlling the region and its peoples.2
>
>
> What is the evidence for Steiner�s analysis? Apart from
> anything
> else, it is interesting to note the present state of world affairs,
> and how � since Steiner spoke about this topic in 1916-17 � Anglo-
> American culture has come to dominate the globe in tandem with
> American economic and political influence (with the enthusiastic
> support of British politicians). The assertion of unilateral military
> action by the United States and Britain in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
> �
> in the face of almost total global opposition � was a good example of
> this formidable power at work. However, admittedly these observations
> do not provide �proof� in a strict sense.
>
>
> Another source of evidence is the remarkable research of Prof.
> Carroll Quigley (1910-77) who wrote two substantial volumes, The
> Anglo-
> American Establishment (1949) and Tragedy and Hope (1966),3 on the
> secret network which emerged from the enterprise of Cecil Rhodes.
> Quigley characterised the power of this group through its influence
> in
> politics, culture and social life as �terrifying�.
>
>
> It is important to note that Quigley was no crazed and paranoid
> conspiracy nut, but a respected Georgetown professor, and even the
> teacher of Bill Clinton. (How such networks might be related to the
> brotherhoods Steiner is talking about will be considered later.)
> Other
> authors have followed Quigley�s lead and complemented his studies
> with
> contemporary observations. A few have even related Steiner�s ideas to
> Quigley�s research.4 In this context, however, I would like to
> mention
> only two external �symptoms�, which, at the very least, offer
> circumstantial evidence for Steiner�s diagnosis.
>
>
> In 1893, an Englishman called C.G. Harrison delivered six
> lectures to the Berean Society, a mysterious group of �Christian
> esotericists�. A record of these lectures is to be found in
> Harrison�s
> remarkable book The Transcendental Universe. Little is known about
> the
> Berean Society or Harrison, although he wrote two further books in
> his
> lifetime. What is clear is that Harrison, who speaks in defense of
> the
> �high� Church, had access to a phenomenal store of esoteric thought,
> and was furthermore privy to a certain amount of inside knowledge. In
> his second lecture, he spoke not only of �the next great European
> war�, but also of the �national character� of the Slavic peoples and
> its ability to �enable them to carry out experiments in Socialism,
> political and economical, which would present innumerable
> difficulties
> in Western Europe�.5 Remember that these lectures were given in 1893,
> 21 years before the First World War and 24 years before the Bolshevik
> Revolution!
>
>
> While Harrison claimed to be a �theoretical occultist� as
> opposed to a �practical� one � i.e. he did not practice magic or
> ritual, with the implication that he was not a member of a �lodge�
> himself � from his work it is evident he represents an esoteric
> strain
> of thought which clearly defends the English establishment. How could
> he know about the forthcoming War as well as the �experiments in
> Socialism�, which would take a grip on Russia and its surrounding
> states for most of the twentieth century? If he was not, as he
> claimed, a �practical occultist� himself, it is reasonable to assume
> he had contact with people who were, and who had access to the malign
> plans of such secret groups referred to above.
>
>
> The second significant piece of evidence which offers some
> backing for Steiner�s claims of occult interference in world politics
> is to be found in a special edition of the satirical weekly The
> Truth,
> published at Christmas 1890. Under the heading �The Kaiser�s Dream�,
> the magazine featured a cartoon map of Europe together with a
> humorous
> commentary. Many observations can be made of the map, but the most
> pertinent point to note in relation to the above is that all the
> countries of Europe are shown as republics with the exception of
> Russia and its neighbouring states, over which are written the words
> �Russian Desert�. In addition, Germany is identified with the words
> �German Republics�! This map signifies not only a foreknowledge �
> similar to Harrison � of the fate of Russia to become a cultural as
> well as an economic �desert�, but also of the future splitting of
> Germany into �republics�. The magazine�s editor, Henry Labouch�re,
> was
> a Freemason. Was his remarkable foresight pure luck, or once again
> did
> he have some inside knowledge of future plans to shape the world?
>
>
> It is of course possible that the above examples are merely
> coincidences and happy flukes, but surely it is unlikely. Do these
> examples offer evidence for the existence of occult brotherhoods with
> pernicious plans for political manipulation? We may never know for
> sure, but it is evident that Steiner�s perspective offers much
> serious
> food for thought, and opens up important new vistas for understanding
> current world events.
>
>
> Steiner and Modern Conspiracy Research
>
>
> Having sketched out Steiner�s picture of secret brotherhoods, I
> would like now to try and show how his perspective might relate to
> the
> more general conspiracy research referred to earlier. To many readers
> of this magazine the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign
> Relations and the Trilateral Commission will be more than familiar.
> In
> addition, the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones is often
> identified by investigators in the conspiracy field. The latter has
> been thrown into the limelight recently due to the remarkable
> admission by both Republican and Democratic candidates of the 2004
> American presidential election that they are members of the exclusive
> club.
>
>
> As Skull and Bones is a tiny society that invites only 15
> undergraduates per year to join its ranks � and at any one time has
> only 800 or so living members � the fact that the two candidates for
> the post of the most powerful position in the world are members of it
> (from a population totaling some 293 million people) is quite
> incredible!
>
>
> It has long been known that George W. Bush is an initiate of
> Skull and Bones (as was his father George Bush Snr. and grandfather
> Prescott Sheldon Bush), but it has been something of a surprise to
> discover the democratic candidate John Kerry is also a member. (Kerry
> laughed nervously when questioned about his and Bush�s membership on
> television. �You both were members of the Skull and Bones; what does
> that tell us?� he was asked. �Yup. Not much�, he replied.6)
>
>
> According to the key researcher of Skull and Bones, Antony C.
> Sutton, the society was first founded in 1833. Members, who meet
> secretly in its �tomb� on the grounds of Yale, are sworn to secrecy
> about the group�s rites and activities. In terms of its operations
> and
> philosophy, Sutton refers to the �dialectical� process, based on the
> philosopher Hegel, as being at the heart of Skull and Bones thinking.
> In particular, he tries to prove that the group has been instrumental
> in funding and encouraging the development of both far-left and far-
> right political groupings � principally the Communists and Nazis � in
> the twentieth century. From the point of view of Skull and Bones�
> broad vision of human development, left and right are viewed as two
> parts of the Hegelian dialectical process; one political wing
> represents �thesis� while the other represents �antithesis�. These
> two
> aspects clash and fight each other, but eventually merge to form a
> �synthesis�. It is this synthesis, according to Sutton, that Skull
> and
> Bones is aiming to create. By controlling and manipulating the
> conflict, it controls the outcome (or synthesis).
>
>
> It is interesting to note that Sutton first published his
> interpretation of Skull and Bones in the mid-1980s. At that time, he
> quoted the group as working for a �New World Order� (NWO). This NWO
> was to be the product of the synthesis of political left and right.
> Shortly after the collapse of the Eastern-bloc communist countries,
> and the subsequent triumph of Western capitalism � a triumph that
> Francis Fukuyama referred to in his famous book as �the end of
> history� � George Bush Snr. began to use the specific phrase �New
> World Order� in public speeches.
>
>
> This fascinating fact offers some circumstantial evidence for
> Sutton�s reading. Presuming that Sutton is correct, humanity is
> living
> right now within the period of �synthesis� � the birth of a NWO led
> by
> the West, and principally the United States. (And perhaps it will
> come
> as no surprise to adherents of Sutton�s analysis that a new
> �dialectic� has suddenly appeared to take the place of the old, i.e.
> Communism versus Capitalism is replaced with the West versus Islamic
> Fundamentalism.)
>
>
> Antony Sutton�s series of booklets on Skull and Bones begins
> with his Introduction to the Order,7 in which he points out that �
> despite them being commonly associated with conspiracy �
> organisations
> such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission
> are
> ultimately not secret, and have large public memberships. Likewise,
> it
> could be added that despite the fact the Bilderberg conferences are
> not open to the press or public, the names of the people who attend
> these yearly private meetings are not concealed. (The minutes of the
> 1999 meeting in Sintra, Portugal were even leaked and published
> wholesale on the internet.) Lists of members of the above groups can
> be found in Robert Gaylon Ross�s Who�s Who of the Elite, Members of
> the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission
> and Skull and Bones Society.)
>
>
> Sutton suggests that organisations such as the above form a
> larger �outer circle� of members, while societies such as Skull and
> Bones form part of an �inner circle� of truly secret groupings, of
> which there is a still further �inner core� � the �decision-making
> core� � which remains completely out of public view, i.e. truly
> hidden
> (or, literally, �occult�). This is a reasonable hypothesis. From what
> is known of the Bilderberg conferences, for example, it could be
> inferred that their essential motivation is to further the Western
> Capitalist Project through high-level networking and the grooming of
> young talent. To put it in another way, they are working for the
> economic, political and cultural domination of a globalised world by
> the West � in particular by the English-speaking peoples led by the
> United States and Britain. (Although the Bilderberg conferences
> include guests from around the world, the emphasis is on North
> America
> and Europe, and its leadership is Anglo-Saxon.)
>
>
> From what is known of the Bilderbergers � and much has reached
> the public domain � there appears to be no more conspiracy than that.
> Groups such as Skull and Bones (and Sutton deduces that there are
> others such as Scroll and Key) are not completely secret in that
> their
> existence and membership are well documented. According to Sutton
> these are the �core�, with similar objectives to the more public
> groups but with more focused and consciously-held goals.
>
>
> In contradistinction to the Bilderbergers etc., true secret
> societies usually have elaborate initiation ceremonies and use ritual
> as a critical part of their mutual enterprise. The brotherhoods
> Steiner speaks of, as has already been mentioned, are also built on
> Masonic principles of secrecy and ritual, but are hidden from public
> view.
>
>
> In relation to the groups referred to above, it is quite
> possible that such genuinely occult brotherhoods form part of the
> inner, �decision-making� core, which Sutton refers to. Having said
> that, as Sutton points out, most members of the larger groups would
> have no inkling of any subterfuge or conspiracy, and neither would
> many members of Skull and Bones. This work would be left to the
> directors, or �initiates�, with esoteric knowledge and understanding.
> According to Steiner, the specific brotherhoods he is referring to
> not
> only have the conscious goal of maintaining Anglo-American
> domination,
> but complement this aim with real esoteric insight � i.e. an
> understanding of the evolutionary cycles referred to above.
>
>
> The above sketch gives a useful framework for comprehending how
> public groups such as Bilderberg, more secret groups like Skull and
> Bones, and the occult societies that Steiner refers to might interact
> and co-exist. In this sense, the true occult societies would be the
> central inspiration for the larger intersecting groups of
> organisations with politically active individuals. To my mind, such a
> complex picture is more convincing than the nebulous idea of a single
> all-powerful �Illuminati� that is supposedly responsible for creating
> a massive conspiracy that controls every aspect of modern life.
>
>
> Footnotes:
>
>
> 1. Karma of Untruthfulness Volumes I & II, Rudolf Steiner Press,
> London, 1988 and 1992.
>
>
> 2. See further in Sergei O. Prokofieff, The Spiritual Origins of
> Eastern Europe and the Future Mysteries of the Holy Grail, Temple
> Lodge Publishing, London, 1993.
>
>
> 3. The Anglo-American Establishment was only published in 1981, Books
> in Focus, New York. Tragedy and Hope was published in 1966 by
> Macmillan, New York.
>
>
> 4. See Terry Boardman, Mapping the Millennium, Behind the Plans of
> the
> New World Order, Temple Lodge Publishing, London, 1998, and Amnon
> Reuveni, In the Name of the �New World Order�, Manifestations of
> Decadent Powers in World Politics, Temple Lodge Publishing, London,
> 1996.
>
>
> 5. The Transcendental Universe, Lindisfarne Press, New York, 1993,
> pages 98-99.
>
>
> 6. Daily Telegraph, London, 12 July 2004.
>
>
> 7. The Secret Cult of the Order (1983), An Introduction to the Order
> (1984), How the Order Creates War and Revolution (1985), How the
> Order
> Controls Education (1985), Veritas Publishing Co., Aukland. A more
> recent and high profile study is Alexandra Robbins Secrets of the
> Tomb.
>
>
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