There is an elite group that control the world.
They control governments, companies and religions.
They have done so for a very long time.
- It goes a long, long way back.
You gotta right back to Samaria, Babylon,
you gotta go into the Egyptians thoughts, et cetera,
because the whole thing is all tied up.
Their names have changed, their faces altered,
but their bloodlines remain the same.
We see glimpses of their power.
We see the outcomes of their plots and schemes.
We see revolutions and war.
We succumb to their propaganda and manipulation
again and again.
Most have no idea that they are under their spell.
In the 18th Century,
they emerged briefly into the spotlight
to bring about worldwide cataclysmic change.
And they called themselves the Illuminati.
Quickly they spread and embedded themselves and their ideals
within other secret societies.
The French had a bloody revolution,
America turned the tide against a royal regime.
Russia, Spain and more all fell
to the zeal of a new world order.
This is the story of the world's most powerful, secret
and sacred order.
In the 18th Century, a Freemason wrote the following words.
"There are a certain number of people
who have arrived at the highest degree of imposture.
They have conceived the project of reigning over opinions
and of conquering not kingdoms nor provinces,
but the human mind.
This project is gigantic,
and has something of madness in it,
which causes neither alarm nor uneasiness.
But when we descend to details,
when we regard what passes before our eyes
of the hidden principles,
when we perceive a sudden revolution
in favor of ignorance and incapacity,
we must look for the cause of it,
and if we find that a revealed and known system
explains all the phenomena
which succeeded each other with terrifying rapidity,
how can we not believe it?"
- I feel that one of the first lessons
is that we should teach at all levels
what true Americanism means and is.
Today, the latest weapons
coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier
stand ready on the alert all over the world
to defend this country.
You, the American people against aggression.
- The film you are about to see
was produced as a troop information film.
Especially prepared to alert the American solider
against a hidden enemy,
an enemy that can destroy morale,
rob the soldier of the will to fight,
and even trick him into surrendering.
Enemy propaganda.
Although this study of communist deception
was made for a military audience,
we think that you, the American public,
will also find it pertinent and enlightening.
- This material is just another sample
of what you might call the communist war without guns.
And this is some of their ammunition.
I'm Colonel Foster.
I'm going to be your guide for a short tour
through the maze of communist propaganda.
As for America, the Soviet people are told
that conditions here are hopeless.
In their theaters, the Soviets see news reels
made up especially to show the terrible truth about us.
This is America of the big capitalists.
Wall Street with its big impressive buildings.
But this is the real America where the workers live.
Since they are underpaid,
they must eek out a few pennies extra
by peddling fruit on the streets.
Almost everyday in America,
you will see police and goon squads
attacking the workers who try to strike.
But for the wealthy class,
there is not a care in the world.
- Did you recognize those old newsreel scenes?
You know how typical they are of America.
As for the Soviet soldier,
he is also a prime target for the Kremlin propagandists.
The Soviet soldier's head may be full of propaganda,
and his ears may be ringing with lies,
but he's still a soldier,
and a tough one.
In all his life,
he will never hear the truth about the other side.
Are you really fighting for freedom?
Do you not realize by now
that you have been sent by the Wall Street merchants
to crush Korea's attempt to gain independence?
You can not beat 500 million Chinese and Koreans.
Our brave and heroic soldiers will never surrender.
Don't let your capitalist leaders deceive you.
Don't fight their aggressive war.
Let all foreign troops which draw from Korea
go home and live in peace.
- Well every GI in Korea wanted nothing more
than to go home and live in peace,
if only the communists would do the same thing.
Yankee, you die!
Yankee, we come!
We come get you now!
All Yankee.
You die now!
- I do not say the Americans are bad, only mistaken.
Where is this Soviet threat they talk about?
Stain is dead.
The Soviets want only peace.
So, why don't the Americans go home?
- Well, if you hear enough of this kind of gossip
planted by the communists,
enough phony rumors of America's secret plans
to launch a war,
enough big lies, little lies and medium sized lies,
maybe you'll begin to believe some of it.
Isn't there an end to this?
No.
There is no end.
Not until communism ends
under the weight of its own evils and its own lies.
- The best defense against enemy propaganda is truth.
For a communist, a thing is true
only if it advances the communist cause.
It is false if it does not.
The solder who understands how enemy propaganda works
is forewarned and forearmed.
In this knowledge lies his strength.
The Illuminati are for many the men in black.
The silent masters in the background
who plot our futures.
To others, they are a fable, a boys club,
created by frustrated Freemason's in the 18th Century.
There is as ever truth in all,
but we must understand that most of the time
we end up believing exactly what their marketing
and propaganda wants us to believe.
Do the Illuminati still exist?
Are they the world's most powerful secret society
at the heart of it all?
We investigate the root and the incredible links
grown and fostered over time.
This is the real story of the Illuminati.
Standard history tells us
that they were started by Johann Adam Weishaupt,
the founder of the order of the Illuminati.
Weishaupt was born in Bavaria
on the 6th of February, 1748.
His father, Baron Ickstatt
was a professor at the University of Ingolstadt,
having married the niece of the curator.
The baron secured a scholarship
at the Jesuit college for Adam,
who went on to become a law student at the age of 15.
Ingolstadt was a steadfastly Jesuit area
and had been for over 200 years.
Dissent was not permitted,
even though they had be partially suppressed in 1773
by Clement XIV.
It has been said of the Jesuits
that they were the world's largest
and most powerful secret service
due mainly to the fact that they were feared by many
in the Catholic church,
and that a universal confession
could well be utilized for blackmail.
The Jesuits were founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola
and nine companions.
Just like that other mysterious group, The Knights Templar.
Interestingly, Nicholas Poussin,
the infamous painter of the Shepherds in Arcadia,
made famous by The Da Vinci Code,
was also a Jesuit,
and it seems from the pages of history
that the Jesuit order has been at the butt of many outrages.
They are intimate with the Vatican,
and history has shown
that there is little in the politics of the world
that the Vatican has not had a hand in.
According to a converted nun, M. F. Cusack,
the Jesuits offer the world at large
a system of theology by which every law,
divine or human,
maybe be broken with impunity.
And by which the very bulls of popes may be defied.
It is a ghastly religion,
it is a religion to be abhorred
by all honest and honorable men.
So, according to this 19th Century writer,
they were even above the bulls of the pope.
Edwin A. Sherman, an American Freemason
also writing in the 19th Century,
stated, "The Jesuits laugh at us,
"and during their hilarity
the rattlesnake is coiled at our feet,
climbing to strike us in the heart."
Even President Lincoln,
who was finally assassinated after numerous attempts,
said, "The Jesuits are so expert in those deeds of blood,
that Henry IV said that it was impossible to escape them,
and he became their victim.
Though he did all he could to protect himself,
I know that the Jesuits never forget nor forsake."
Amazingly in the world of the conspiracy theorists,
the Jesuits have also been implicated
in the creation of the anti-Semitic
Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
They have also been shown
to have been complicated
in The Secrets of the Elders of Bourg-Fontaine,
another stirring work.
We must also note
that the Jesuits have hundreds of links
with the Masonic order
and Templar symbols.
In the Jesuit extreme oath of induction
is recorded in the journals
of the 62nd congress, third session of the U.S.A.,
we find that on either side stands a monk,
one of whom holds a banner of yellow and white,
which are papal colors.
And the other, a black banner with a dagger
and a red cross above a skull and crossbones.
A Templar symbol.
According to the same text,
the letters "INRI" are established
and in fact mean exterminate impious kings.
The superior then states,
among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic
and to be a spy even among your own brethren,
to believe no man, to trust no man
and obtaining their confidence
to seek even to preach from their pulpits
and to denounce with all vehemence in your nature
our holy religion and the pope,
and even to descend so low as to become a Jew amongst Jews
that you might be enabled to gather together
all the information for the benefit of your order.
You have been taught to plant insidiously
the seeds of jealously and hatred
between communities, provinces, states that were at peace
and to incite them to deeds of blood.
Involving them in war with each other
and to create revolutions and civil wars
in countries that were independent and prosperous.
To take sides with the combatants
and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit
whom might be engaged on the other side.
You have been taught your duty as a spy
to gather all statistics, facts and information
in your power from every source.
To integrate yourself into the confidence
of the family circle of Protestants and heretics
of every class and character,
as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer,
among the schools and universities,
in parliaments and legislatures,
and the judiciaries and councils of state,
and to be all things to all men.
It seems like a peculiar world that the Jesuits inhabit.
On the one hand they fraternize with Freemasons,
royalty and presidents,
and on the other,
taking an oath which puts them at odds
with just about everybody who is not Catholic.
It is into this world that Weishaupt was brought up.
By 1775, Weishaupt was professor of Canon Law at Ingolstadt.
And it was this year he or somebody else
choose Weishaupt to form a plan
of an association which he would head.
This association would oppose the forces
of superstition and lies,
or, in other words, religion.
The thoughts of many commentators
is that Weishaupt so hated the Jesuits
that he thoroughly intended to do away with them
once and for all.
Others believed that Weishaupt was in fact
trained by the Jesuits
for the purpose of raising a world wide army of spies,
who would constantly be feeding back information.
The information that the Jesuits could not get anymore
through their confessions.
In fact, the Illuminati even set up
their own confessions in line with that of the Jesuits.
All of the surveillance and confession
was fed back to the Jesuits from the very people
who were supposed to be against them.
How better to find out
what was in the mind of the opposition
then to be the opposition?
This is a standard double play utilized for centuries
by the secret services of all religions and states.
They even fed the anti-Semitic rhetoric
which suited the Catholic Church down to the ground.
Through associations with the Freemasons,
the Jesuits managed to get information from
and influence to the Freemasons of the globe.
Just how much influence the Illuminati
finally had or have is unknown.
That is the idea of secrecy.
But what can be seen
is that following Weishaupt's amazing creation,
out of the order of a much older institution,
we suddenly have several worldwide revolutions
and the balance of power shifting like never before.
However, even though Weishaupt and his close friends
were banished and never seen again,
there can be nothing read into this.
It could be that they were simply rewarded
for the long holiday out of the way
or were, as some believe,
sent to Saxe-Coburg and the Netherlands
to start the whole thing again.
There are older links for the Illuminati though
that stretch back into the realm of The Shining Ones
in Afghanistan.
This link is with the Roshaniya or illuminated,
enlightened ones.
And reference to them comes from
the house of wisdom in Cairo,
a variable font of esoteric knowledge
predating the Roshaniya by hundreds of years.
Again, initiation and ritual match up
between the Roshaniya and others
such as the muslim assassins,
who we know influence the Templars
and hence Christianity.
The earliest leader we know of is Bayezid Ansari,
who claimed descent from the helpers of Muhammad.
Who exactly these helpers were, nobody knows.
Suffice to say,
their existence in helping Muhammad escape Mecca,
pinpoints them in space and time if nothing else.
It is claimed that Bayazid
was indoctrinated by the Ismailis,
themselves close to the assassins
and having hidden lodges around the world.
These Ismailis came about to protect
a great secret of Islam after the crusades,
in much the same manner as the cathars
protected some strange secret knowledge.
It seems that the Ismailis recruited well,
as the illuminated ones grew fast.
Bayazid taught a series of supernatural exercises
which were believed to lead to enlightenment
and a great secret.
An obvious illusion to the fact
that the great secret is enlightenment.
To obtain this illuminative aspect of the secret,
they had to undergo the usual meditation and fasting
called the khilwat, silence.
Using merchants and soldiers,
Bayazid eventually spread his message across the world
by word of mouth and those gnostics and mystics
who heard the message
already understood the secret of illumination.
Eventually, Bayazid, who was now known
as the sage of illumination
founded a great city at Hashtnagar
with the message of human fulfillment
emanating from its sender.
It was understood that utilization of the human mind
in the enlightened aspect
could bring about wonders.
Eventually, Bayazid died
and his sons and successes were not really up to the job.
However, only 40 years after the last leader
of the illuminated ones died,
Weishaupt started his illuminati.
As Arkon Daraul says in Secret Societies,
coincidences of date and beliefs
connect these Bavarian Illuminati with the Afghan ones,
and also with other cults
which called themselves illuminated.
The beginning of the 17th Century
saw the foundation of the illuminated ones of Spain,
the Alumbrados,
condemned in an edict of the grand inquisition in 1623.
In 1654, the illuminated Guerinets
came into public notice in France.
Documents still extent
show several points of resemblance
between the German and Central Asian Illuminus.
Points which are hard to account for
on the grounds of pure coincidence.
The Roshaniya have some telling symbols and rituals.
The priests were identified with a secret sign,
where they crossed over both hands flat on the forehead.
The place of the third eye and illumination.
The colors of the Roshaniya and the Ismailis
were red and white.
These colors are widespread amongst the secret orders,
such as the Knight's Templar,
who also had a red cross on their white clothes.
The red and white being symbolically important
for the enlightenment process.
Red and white were also incredibly important in the far east
where we find more illuminated ones
known popularly as the Triad.
Unfortunately, finding the origins
of most Chinese secret societies is nearly impossible,
as they are so couched in myth and mystery.
One thing is sure,
that secret societies have changed the course of China.
The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was led by a secret society.
These boxers or fist for protection society
were initiated in much the same way
as any other across the world.
Placed in darkness, alternating light,
they were made to fast and meditate,
opening up their minds to cleansing.
This Boxer society came from an older group
known as The Big Swords,
and this was another name used by the triads.
In the 12th Century at the time of the crusades,
there were gatherings of men who took oaths
to regard the stars as our brothers
and heaven and earth as our father and mother.
These same men then drank each others blood mixed with wine.
By the 14th Century, the White Lotus Society was formed,
and eventually China was scattered with secret societies.
However, most of these organizations
can be linked together
and form the triad we know of today.
This group of societies were believed to have been formed
for a popularized royalist myth
to bring back the main dynasty.
However, hundreds of years
and even the detainment of power
have not resolved this supposed goal.
But, the reason for this non attainment is simple.
Ming actually means light,
and is the real element these secret societies
wish to see restored.
It is the light of The Shining Ones
spreading back hundreds if not thousands of years,
even in the heart of Red China
that these secret societies still strive for.
We know that this is the case
because once The Lotus Society
had installed the Ming dynasty
to the throne in the 14th Century,
it was only by the 17th Century
that they were deposed again by the same society.
The Society of Jesus was founded in 1540
by St. Ignatius Loyola,
and since then has grown from the original seven
to nearly 30,000 members
who work of out nearly 2,000 houses
in over 100 countries.
According to J. Parnell McCarter
in his Puritan news service,
Ignatius was himself a gnostic illuminist,
a member of the Alumbrados of Spain, his home.
Bringing full circle the Jesuits being created
by an Illuminati
and then going on to create an Illuminati.
All of this was occurring at the same time
as the rise in free masonic thought.
What is known about Ignatius
is that he was a Spanish Basque soldier
who then supposedly underwent
an extraordinary conversion while recuperating
from a broken leg.
His experiences were written down,
and he called them spiritual exercises,
going on later to found the Society of Jesus or Jesuits,
with the approval of Pope Paul III in 1540.
Strangely, upon the printing of
his spiritual exercises in 1548,
he was brought before the Inquisition,
but was later released.
According to the Catholic Church,
the Jesuits have become renowned for their sanctity,
which basically means
that they have many members canonized or blessed.
They have been involved in many scientific discoveries
and in the exploration of the new world.
They are governed by general congregations.
From the start, the Pope was overwhelmed
with the Jesuits service becoming his secret police.
Collector of information and generally bully boys,
much akin to the history of the Alumbrados.
On the face of it, the Jesuits were opening schools,
making amazing discoveries,
and sending missionaries out across the world.
In fact, it is claimed by the Catholic Church
that no order has ever had so many martyrs.
This skill of Ignatius Loyola
was in gathering around him
of an energetic band of well-educated and determined men.
Ignatius had the concept of supplying the church
with missionaries such as Francis Xavier
who would preach and administer the sacraments
whilst growing the church's membership
and gathering huge amounts of information and money.
Ignatius soon discovered that colleges and universities
offered the greatest service to the church
or by and through religious instruction
the Jesuits could manipulate the thinkers
as well as the masses manipulated in church on a Sunday.
This is something they later passed on to Weishaupt
and his Illuminati.
As he wrote, "I propose academics
under the direction of the order.
This will secure us the adherence of the literati,
science shall here be the law."
These Jesuit schools on learning sprang up everywhere
and became an influential part of Catholic reform
called a rebirth of the infant church.
So influential were the Jesuits
that they threatened the royalty
and they were asked to leave several countries.
To see how influential the Jesuits have been,
we need to look at what the Catholic Church claim
on their behalf.
By 1750, 30 of the world's 130 astronomical observatories
were run by Jesuit astronomers
and indeed 35 lunar craters have been named
to honor Jesuit scientists.
The Gregorian Calendar,
instigated by Jesuit Christopher Clavius,
sometimes called the most influential teacher
of the Renaissance.
According to the Catholics,
until recent times,
no foreign name was as well-known in China
as the Jesuit Matteo Ricci.
Five of the major rivers of the world
were first charted by Jesuit explorers.
Two of the statues in Washington are Jesuits.
The Jesuits founded Sao Paulo.
Spanish Jesuits built settlements in Paraguay,
which lasted from 1607 to 1767.
They taught agriculture, architecture, metallurgy,
farming, music, ranching and printing
to the indigenous people of each country they occupied.
How better to build their wealth.
In 1773, Pope Clement XIV yielded to Bourbon pressure
and reduced the power of the Jesuits on the surface.
The Jesuits followed orders and disbanded temporarily
until 1814,
when they were brought back together again.
Like the Knight's Templar before them,
the Jesuits simply assumed other roles.
As if to prove that the Jesuits
were ultimately obedient to the Pope,
in 1590, Pope Sixtus V
wanted to take out the name of Jesus
from the official name of the society
to which the Jesuits dually complied,
although Sixtus then surprisingly died.
The questions arise who killed him
and does this really show obedience to the Pope.
Today, the Jesuits are back in force
with schools, colleges and universities across the world.
At any one time they are educating
over half a million people.
President Mitterrand of France was himself a Jesuit,
and it was he who instigated the infamous pyramid of light
at the Louvre in Paris.
In short, the Jesuits were and still are
one of the most powerful religious orders on the planet.
The man who created what has been called
the most powerful secret society
was trained by them.
Weishaupt founded the Illuminati on Mayday 1776 in Bavaria.
He called himself Brother Spartacus
as if mimicking the rebellion from within.
There was no democratic leadership,
no voting, no equality.
The Illuminati was led by clever and powerful people.
Very quickly it set about creating an international network
of spies and counter spies.
They set up in cells,
with each cell having a secret superior,
the structure was closed
with lower levels having no idea who was above them.
Weishaupt then targeted the Freemasons
and was initiated into the Munich lodge in 1777.
He attempted to reform them,
and when this failed
he began recruitment drives within their own lodges.
It was a brilliant ploy,
using a secret society to build a secret society.
His stated goal was to perfect human nature
through education.
He would free people from government
and organized religion.
In this way, Weishaupt grew his Illuminati rapidly
and drew in those who were seen
by government and religious leaders as trouble.
Claiming to free people from the bounds of society,
the Illuminati, in fact,
gave them even harder rules and regulations to follow.
Even their reading literature was prescribed.
This was not enlightenment or freedom,
this was control of the mind under a veil.
Indeed, independent thought and action
was forbidden by the rules of the order.
Enlightenment, they said,
would only take place under the guide of the superior.
In 1784, Weishaupt writings were intercepted
by the secret service of the Bavarian government.
It was said to be seditious,
and the order was banned.
Weishaupt lost his position at the university and fled.
But he didn't stop there.
In fact, he received the financial assistance
of Duke Ernest II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
where he lived and wrote works on illuminism.
The order was claimed to be an offshoot
of the enlightenment movement,
and modeled on the Freemasons.
There were three main classes within the order,
made up of free thinkers and activists.
The aim, they said,
was to remove superstition and the dominance of government.
They said they supported the education of women
and saw them as equals.
Using such grand designs,
the Illuminati managed to draw together intellectuals
and progressive politicians.
It eventually had branches in most European countries.
We are supposed to believe
that thousands of people across Europe
suddenly stopped attending Illuminati meetings,
that they just gave up.
We are told that because the Bavarians had it outlawed,
their grand ideas of reducing the dominance
of religion and state ended there.
And yet, even in 1798,
there were rumblings that they had not died.
Many even claimed they were behind the French Revolution,
which brought down government, royalty and religion.
So powerful was the fear of the Illuminati
that Christian preachers gave sermons across Europe
and even in the United States.
What we do know is that the world was changed.
Royal houses did fall.
Religion was supposedly attacked and changed.
Revolutions occurred across the world.
And all this following the creation of the Illuminati
and within a very short time period.
Today, there are many organizations
that claim direct descent from the Illuminati.
The truth is not so simple.
The truth is that a thought was fostered and spread,
a claim that people were equal
and could themselves achieve enlightenment without religion.
This control of the establishment
was simply replaced by another.
It was nothing new.
Kings were only kings so long as the church
said they had divine authority.
When the Catholic church
through the invasions of controlled foreign powers
took hold in a country,
they simply altered things
and absorbed people into the fold.
Resident pagan Gods were simply canonized
and became saints.
Local religious leaders were indoctrinated
into the ways of the Catholic church
and became priests.
Power was spread not always by force,
but by amendment of what was already there.
By the 18th Century it was recognized
that there was a growing number of people
not happy with the dictatorial approach of the Pope
and his underlings.
That resentment was creeping in,
and so the most powerful secret service, the Jesuits,
stepped in and created a secret order to attract them.
They took in the newly found Freemasons,
and all those who were pointing out the flaws of the church.
They listened to them, collected data on them
and instigated control
through a clever series of superiors.
As they grew too powerful,
they were disbanded and went back to the Freemason fold
to spread their ideas.
And yet, all of that is too easy, too simple.
Intellectuals and free thinkers
would not just go quietly home.
The symbolism of the Illuminati spread
just as they did.
It exists to this day as symbols of the Freemason society
and on the U.S. dollar bills.
Their influence was vast.
Over the past 200 years the church has adapted
and is no longer outwardly dictatorial,
and so no longer the perceived threat it was
in the 18th Century.
It had to change as it always has.
The royal houses that tow the line and join the Freemasons
and even patronize many orders have remained.
Those that did not
have been swallowed up in revolutions.
Such revolutions do not just happen overnight.
They are created, fostered and brought to fruition
by very clever people who need backup and finance.
The revolutions of the French, American, Russian,
Spanish and more
have all been instigated by secret societies,
all with the aim of overturning the authorities
on behalf of the people.
And yet, the people are still in the control of the elite.
It's just in a different way.
Today, instead of bring indoctrinated into a church,
we are manipulated by the media
in all cases that media
is controlled by the elite or government.
It is the modern day stained glass window and hymn
to keep the masses happy and entertained.
We are born, given a number,
stamped with our country of origin,
cajoled into debt and education they own and control.
Nobody is free of paying their taxes.
The Illuminati were a group created by the same elite
that have always manipulated us and still do.
We like to have names for things
and so we still call the elite the Illuminati.
It is the control, the power, the wealth,
the bloodlines that is the truth
behind all the conspiracies of the world
that we are aware of.
Rome was a powerful empire.
Our history books tell us that it collapsed,
and yet it became the home
of one of the biggest religions on the planet.
The soldiers left the shores of Europe
and were replaced with priests.
Control of countries and their people
was now in the hands of those
who own the stairway to heaven,
and only through them could we, the ordinary people,
achieve enlightenment.
It doesn't matter to those in control
whether we pay our tide to the priest
or the Illuminati superior,
just as long as we pay.
There are numerous groups across time
that we know were created some great secret.
- Right. First of all let me say that The Da Vinci Code,
in my opinion, is a complete amount of hogwash.
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code
and the idea of Mary Magdalene and Jesus.
First of all, that was taken straight out of
Michael Baigent's book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
And I don't care what the courts have said,
that was plagiarism,
and I make no bones about that.
I think the courts were wrong.
They were sold a scam,
not to put too fine a point at this,
there's secret dossiers, et cetera, protect the scam.
However, within that,
there was the idea that Jesus was married.
That would have been no big deal,
except the church decided to make him divine.
Get rid of miracles,
if you get rid of the idea of Zeus coming down to Europa
in the form of a ball and impregnating her,
if you get rid of Jupiter coming down to Leda
in the form of a swan and impregnating her,
and if you get rid of God coming down to Mary
in the form of the Holy Ghost and impregnating her,
what are you left with?
You're left a perfectly normal Jewish couple,
who had perfectly normal children
by the perfectly normal method,
and once more everyone knew it.
The Ismailis, the assassins,
the Knight's Templar, the Cathars,
the so-called Priory of Sion
and a lot more.
Nobody has been able to prove any theory
that the secret was the child of Jesus
or the burial place of the Holy Grail
or any other fanciful notion.
The reason is simple.
Because all of the supposed secrets are smoke screens.
The real secret is that they were outside guardians
of an inner sanctum of elite
that crossed cultural and religious boundaries
and have existed for a very long time.
The long line of hidden leaders
that stretches back to the very first shaman, priests,
judges and magi.
The ones who are the king makers and king breakers.
The ones who place the crown upon their pawn's head,
who whisper in their ear,
these are the true Illuminati.
Hidden and yet in full view.