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Robert Shea - The illuminatus! trilogy

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THE REAL AMERICAN UNDERGROUND THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY The longest shaggy dog - photo 1
THE REAL AMERICAN UNDERGROUND
THE ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY

The longest shaggy dog joke in literary history. A hundred pages in I couldnt figure out why I was wasting my time with this nonsense after three hundred I was having too much fun to quit, and by the end I was eager to believe every word I loved it.

Rolling Stone

More important than Ulysses or Finnegans Wake.

Timothy Leary

Funny, savagely sarcastic, definitely anarchistic wild and irreverent Shea and Wilson blend a marvelous amount of fact and inspired fiction together to weave one of the most dizzying tales Ive come across in years. Laugh or rage at it or with it you wont be able to put it down. Limit

All the ingredients: kinky sex, raunchy language, and a fantasy plot that oscillates between a schizoid nightmare and a psychedelic dream. Booklist

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MASKS OF THE ILLUMINATI
SCHRDINGERS CAT TRILOGY

The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret - photo 2

The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret - photo 3

The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies.

Ishmael Reed, Mumbo-Jumbo

To Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley Contents PART I The Eye in the Pyramid - photo 4

To Gregory Hill and
Kerry Thornley

Contents

PART I
The Eye in the Pyramid

PART II
The Golden Apple

PART III
Leviathan

THE FIRST TRIP, OR KETHER
From Dealey Plaza
To Watergate

The Purple Sage opened his mouth and moved his tongue and so spake to them and he said:

The Earth quakes and the Heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains.

Indeed do many things come to pass.

Lord Omar Khayaam Ravenhurst, K.S.C.,
The Book of Predications. The Honest Book of Truth

It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton. On April 1, the worlds great powers came closer to nuclear war than ever before, all because of an obscure island named Fernando Poo. By the time international affairs returned to their normal cold-war level, some wits were calling it the most tasteless April Fools joke in history. I happen to know all the details about what happened, but I have no idea how to recount them in a manner that will make sense to most readers. For instance, I am not even sure who I am, and my embarrassment on that matter makes me wonder if you will believe anything I reveal. Worse yet, I am at the moment very conscious of a squirrelin Central Park, just off Sixty-eighth Street, in New York Citythat is leaping from one tree to another, and I think that happens on the night of April 23 (or is it the morning of April 24?), but fitting the squirrel together with Fernando Poo is, for the present, beyond my powers. I beg your tolerance. There is nothing I can do to make things any easier for any of us, and you will have to accept being addressed by a disembodied voice just as I accept the compulsion to speak out even though I am painfully aware that I am talking to an invisible, perhaps nonexistent, audience. Wise men have regarded the earth as a tragedy, a farce, even an illusionists trick; but all, if they are truly wise and not merely intellectual rapists, recognize that it is certainly some kind of stage in which we all play roles, most of us being very poorly coached and totally unrehearsed before the curtain rises. Is it too much if I ask, tentatively, that we agree to look upon it as a circus, a touring carnival wandering about the sun for a record season of four billion years and producing new monsters and miracles, hoaxes and bloody mishaps, wonders and blunders, but never quite entertaining the customers well enough to prevent them from leaving, one by one, and returning to their homes for a long and bored winters sleep under the dust? Then, say, for a while at least, that I have found an identity as ringmaster; but that crown sits uneasily on my head (if I have a head) and I must warn you that the troupe is small for a universe this size and many of us have to double or triple our stints, so you can expect me back in many other guises. Indeed do many things come to pass.

For instance, right now, I am not at all whimsical or humorous. I am angry. I am in Nairobi, Kenya, and my name is, if you will pardon me, Nkrumah Fubar. My skin is black (does that disturb you? it doesnt me), and I am, like most of you, midway between tribalism and technology; to be more blunt, as a Kikuyu shaman moderately adjusted to city life, I still believe in witchcraftI havent, yet, the folly to deny the evidence of my own senses. It is April 3 and Fernando Poo has ruined my sleep for several nights running, so I hope you will forgive me when I admit that my business at the moment is far from edifying and is nothing less than constructing dolls of the rulers of America, Russia, and China. You guessed it: I am going to stick pins in their heads every day for a month; if they wont let me sleep, I wont let them sleep. That is Justice, in a sense.

In fact, the President of the United States had several severe migraines during the following weeks; but the atheistic rulers of Moscow and Peking were less susceptible to magic. They never reported a twinge. But, wait, here is another performer in our circus, and one of the most intelligent and decent in the lothis name is unpronounceable, but you can call him Howard and he happens to have been born a dolphin. Hes swimming through the ruins of

Atlantis and its April 10 alreadytime is moving; Im not sure what Howard sees but it bothers him, and he decides to tell Hagbard Celine all about it. Not that I know, at this point, who Hagbard Celine is. Never mind; watch the waves roll and be glad there isnt much pollution out here yet. Look at the way the golden sun lights each wave with a glint that, curiously, sparkles into a silver sheen; and watch, watch the waves as they roll, so that it is easy to cross five hours of time in one second and find ourselves amid trees and earth, with even a few falling leaves for a touch of poetry before the horror. Where are we? Five hours away, I told youfive hours due west, to be precise, so at the same instant that Howard turns a somersault in Atlantis, Sasparilla Godzilla, a tourist from Simcoe, Ontario (she had the misfortune to be born a human being) turns a neat nosedive right here and lands unconscious on the ground. This is the outdoor extension of the Museum of Anthropology in Chapultepec Park, Mexico, D.F., and the other tourists are rather upset about the poor ladys collapse. She later said it was the heat. Much less sophisticated in important matters than Nkrumah Fubar, she didnt care to tell anybody, or even to remind herself, what had really knocked her over. Back in Simcoe, the folks always said Harry Godzilla got a sensible woman when he married Sasparilla, and it is sensible in Canada (or the United States) to hide certain truths. No, at this point I had better not call them truths. Let it stand that she either saw, or imagined she saw, a certain sinister kind of tight grin, or grimace, cross the face of the gigantic statue of Tlaloc, the rain god. Nobody from Simcoe had ever seen anything like that before; indeed do many things come to pass.

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