Jim Marrs - Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons & the Great Pyramids

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SECRECY

JIM MARRS

INTRODUCTION

A Question of Conspiracy 5

Rule by the Few 10

A View from the Few 13

PART I MODERN SECRET SOCIETIES

The Trilateral Commission 22

Council on Foreign Relations 31

Bilderbergers 39

Rockefellers 44

Morgans 54

Rothschilds 58

Secrets of Money and the Federal Reserve System 64

Empire Building 79

The Royal Institute of International AffairsRound Tables 83

Rhodes and Ruskin 85

Skull and Bones 90

Tax-Exempt Foundations and Alphabet Agencies 96

It's News to Us 102

Commentary 107

PART II: THE FINGERPRINTS OF CONSPIRACY

Report from Iron Mountain 113

Persian Gulf 117

Who Pays the Tab? 121

Vietnam 124

JFK Opposed Globalists 126

All the Way with LBJ 131

Trading with the Enemy 137

Korea 140

Rise of the Nazi Cult 145

Theosophists, Thulists, and Other Cultists 153

The Leader Arrives 157

Hitler's Support Group 163

Hitler's Fortune Turns 170

Japan Against the Wall 172

World War II 176

Business as Usual 178

World War I 183

A Stimulus for War 186

The Russian Revolution 192

The Rise of Communism 191

Commentary 200

PART III REBELLION AND REVOLUTION

War Between the States 207

Secret Society Agitation 209

Preemptive Strikes 214

The Anti-Masonic Movement 217

The French Revolution 221

Jacobins and Jacobites 223

Sir Francis Bacon and the New Atlantis 227

The American Revolution 232

The Illuminati 235

Freemasonry 242

Count Saint-Germain and Other Magicians 251

Masonic Plots 254

Freemasonry vs Christianity 259

Rosicrucians 265

Commentary 268

PART IV ELDER SECRET SOCIETIES

Knights Templar 274

Assassins 280

Templar Bankers and Builders 285

Cathars 291

The Albigensian Crusade 299

The Templars' Demise 303

The Priory of Sion 315

Merovingians 326

A Far-Reaching Web 332

Commentary 337

PART V ANCIENT MYSTERIES

The Road to Rome 346

The Cabala 355

Ancient Secrets and Mysteries 360

Was There More to Moses? 367

All Roads Lead to Sumer 374

The Anunnaki 378

Floods and Wars 390

Commentary

Index 451

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. Benjamin Disraeli

Be forewarned.

If you are perfectly comfortable and satisfied with your own particular view of humankind, religion, history, and the world, read no further.

If you truly believe that humanity has almost reached the peak of its scientific and spiritual fulfillment and that the corporate-owned mass media is keeping you well enough informed, stop here.

But if you are one of those millions who look at the daily news, scratch your head in wonder, and ask, "What in the world is going on?," or if you entertain questions of who we are, where we came from, and where we're all going, you are in for a joy ride.

This book deals with the secrets of government, hidden history, and clandestine religion, the secrets of wealth, power, and control, the secrets rarely recorded in the history books and never mentioned in the mass media. This material may be disturbing and unsettling to some. But no one has ever gained wisdom by studying material that only reinforced their own predetermined ideas.

Addressed here will be issues many would have us believe occupy only the fringe of knowledge. But how often have fringe issues suddenly become areas of major concern? Older readers might recall that irritating but seemingly inconsequential German radical who gained power in Europe in the 1930s. Then there was that small conflict halfway around the world in an obscure place called Vietnam. Or we might remember that little-noticed burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in 1972.

The book also deals with conspiracy, an activity long decried by the major media despite the fact that the American judicial system regularly convicts people for criminal conspiracy

Do secret societies truly exist? Is there really a secret government? Is there a worldwide conspiracy bent on the subversion of freedom and democracy? Or is such talk just the irrational ramblings of "conspiracy theorists"?

The answer all depends to whom you choose to listen. And too many people writing about conspiracyon both sides of the questionhave their own particular agenda. It is time we step back and take the broader view of our world and its history.

As the new millennium begins, the American public is becoming more aware of one not-so-secret conspiracy that for half the year they work for the government. About the first six months of any given year is spent making money which disappears into taxes before the worker even gets his or her check. Withholding this invisible tax money has, over the years, caused most citizens to forget just how much tax burden they really carry. And this is not to even mention the daily sales, state, city, and other taxes which openly burden us. The simple British tax on tea said to have precipitated the American Revolution was a pittance by comparison.

Despite assurances of a healthy economy by the skewed statistics of the mass media and politicians, polls indicate the public feel an increasing uneasiness about the direction of our national life.

This may be why more and more thoughtful people are taking a serious look at conspiracies and the secret groups that spawn them. The Internet is filled with Web sites and chat rooms where conspiracy is the watchword. More and more books and periodicals are being published filled with conspiracies ranging from the secrets of the Crusaders to the JFK assassination.

Yet despite the length and breadth of the Information Highway, the average American remains woefully ignorant. That is not to imply they are stupid or mentally challenged. They have simply not been exposed to the information now available. Many thoughtful, educated people in a variety of fieldsphysicians, lawyers, computer experts, stock brokers, accountants, bankers, merchants, scientists, teachers, etc.are totally in the dark about a wide variety of issues and the connections between them concerning who truly rules the United States.

Primary causes for such ignorance are the lack of time to educate ourselves and our reliance on a corporate-owned mass media which does not present the information in all its broadest implications. As A J Liebling once said, freedom of the press is for those who own the presses or the radio and TV stations.

So how does one know what is true and what is not? What is important and what is trivial? Who is really in charge? Are there ongoing conspiracies that affect us all? Are there plots that can be traced back through mankind's history? What are they and what is their purpose?

This book deals with these questions. But before there can be answers, the issue of conspiracy must be addressed.

A QUESTION OF CONSPIRACY

The concept of conspiracy has long been anathema to most Americans, who have been conditioned by the mass media to believe that conspiracies against the public only exist in banana republics or communist countries.

This simplistic view, encouraged by a media devoted to maintaining a squeaky-clean image of the status quo, fails to take into account human history or the subtleties of the word conspiracy.

The word is derived from the Latin conspirare, literally meaning to breathe together, to act or think in harmony. In modern times, conspiracy has taken on a sinister connotation. Most dictionaries now offer two definitions of the word

1 To plan together secretly, especially to commit an illegal or evil act, or