Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids

447 Pages·2001·4.425 MB·English

by  Jim Marrs

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
A Question of Conspiracy • 5
Rule by the Few • 10
A View from the Few • 13

PART I: MODERN SECRET SOCIE TIES
The Trilateral Commission • 22
Council on Foreign Relatio ns • 31
Bilderbergers • 39
Rockefellers • 4 4
Morgans • 54
Rothschilds • 58
Secrets of Money and the Federal Rese rve System • 64
Empire Building • 79
The Royal Institute of International Affairs— Round Tables • 83
Rhodes and Ruskin • 8 5
Skull and Bones • 90
Tax-Exempt Foundations and Alphab et Agencies • 96
It's News to Us • 102
Commentary • 107
PART II: THE FINGERPRINTS OF CONS PIRACY
Report from Iron Mountai n • 113
Persian Gulf • 117
Who Pays the Tab? • 121
Vietnam - 124
JFK Opposed Globalists • 126
All the Way with LBJ • 131
Trading with the Enem y • 137
Korea • 140
Rise of the Nazi Cult • 145
Theosophists, Thulists, and Other Cu ltists • 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 • 1 78
World War I • 183
A Stimulus for War • 186
The Russian Revolution • 192
The Rise of Communism • 197
Commentary • 200

PART III: REBELLION AND REVOL UTION
War Between the States - 207
Secret Society Agitation - 2 09
Preemptive Strikes - 214
The Anti-Masonic Movement • 2 17
The French Revolution • 221
Jacobins and Jacobites • 223
Sir Francis Bacon and the New Atlanti s • 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 SO CIETIES
Knights Templar • 2 74
Assassins • 280
Templar Bankers and Bu ilders • 285
Cathars • 291
The Albigensian Crusade • 29 9
The Templars' Demise • 30 3
The Priory of Sion - 3 15
Merovingians - 326
A Far-Reaching Web • 332
Commentary - 337

PART V: ANCIENT MYSTE RIES
The Road to Rome • 346
The Cabala • 355
Ancient Secrets and Mysteries • 36 0
Was There More to Moses? • 367
All Roads Lead to Sumer • 374
The Anunnaki • 378
Floods and Wars • 390
Commentary • 403
Sources • 411
Index • 451
INTRODUCTION
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 par-
ticular 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 cor porate-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 reme mber 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 Ame rican judicial system regu-
larly 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 conspiracy—on both sides of the question—have
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 Dot-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 mast 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 h ave pre-
cipirated 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 pu blic feel an increas-
ing uneasiness about the direction of our national life.
This may be why more and more thoughtful people are taking a seri-
ous 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 conspir acies 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 fields—physicians, lawyers, computer experts, stock bro-
kers, accountants, bankers, merchants, scientists, teachers, etc.—are
totally in the dark about a wide variety of issues and th e 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 th e 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 impor-
tant 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 co nspira-
cies against the public only exist in banana republics or communist
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 tunes, conspiracy
has taken on a sinister connotation. Most dictionaries now offer two def-
initions of the word: 1. To plan together secretly, especially to commit a n
illegal or evil act, or 2. To plan or plot secretly. One definition is vile, the
other less so.
Secrecy is the connecting tissue found throughout man's past. There
are secrets between individuals and groups as well as secrets to be kept
by both church and government auth orities. There are political secrets,
even secrets of finance and commerce.
Obviously, a conspiracy among coworkers to buy the boss a present
is not the same level of conspiracy as bank robbers scheming their next
job. Likewise, the small merchant who keeps his business plan secret
from his competitors is not partic ipating in a conspiracy equal to cor-
porate leaders plotting to fix prices.
The key to an evil conspiracy is the intent of the secrecy.
While some secrets may be benign—why spoil the surprise birthday
parry by telling?—other secrets, such as suppressing cures for cancer or
AIDS or fomenting war, would be considered despicable by people of con-
science. Those secrets that cost or ruin lives, that prevent people from liv-
ing together in harmony, and are used for control or undue profit are
unacceptable to most people. Therefore, whoever conspires to keep such
secrets must be carefully scrutinized by everyone concerned with individ-
ual freedom.
Columnist Stewart Alsop once wrote, knowledge is power, and power
is the most valuable commodity in government, So whoever knows the
secrets controls the knowledge and therefore holds power. Many people
today feel that a mere handful of persons and organizations control much
of the global knowledge. This knowledge is jealously guarded by secrecy.
It turns the old adage "What you don't k now can't hurt you" right on its
head. What you don't know can hurt you!
The issue of conspiracy also lies at the heart of how one v iews his-
tory. Here there are only two views: accidental or conspiratorial.
The former view is that history is simply a series of accidents, or acts of
God, which world leaders are powerless to alter or prevent. One adherent
of mis view was President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser; Zbig-
niew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, today a member of the executive committee
of the secretive Trilateral Commission, said in 1981, "History is much
more the product of chaos than, of conspiracy. . .. Increasingly, policy
makers are overwhelmed by events and information."
Another supporter of the accidental view of history was journalist
and self-described "secular humanist" George Johnson. He wrote that
the notion of conspiracies has been "pushed by right-wing extremists
since the beginning of the century," indicating "that the par anoid style
of American politics didn't die with Senator Joseph McCarthy."
The conspiratorial view, on the other hand, could more accurately be
called the "cause and effect" view. Obviously, accidents occur. Planes,
trains, and cars crash. Ships sink. But in history, it is clear that human
planning most often precipitates events.
So why haven't we heard more about such secret planning?
According to conspiracy researchers Jonathan Vankin and John
Whalen the American public's attitudes are shaped by a sanitized "Dis-
ney" view of both histoty and current events. "The 'Disney version' of
history could just as easily be called the 'New York Times version' or
the 'TV news version' or the 'college textbook version,'" they wrote.
"The main resistance to conspiracy theories comes not from people on
the street but from the media, academia, and governme nt—people who
manage the national and global economy of information."
Anthony C. Sutton, a London-born economics professor who was a
research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover institution, agteed that an
"Establishment history" dominates textbooks, publishing, the media, an d
library shelves. "During the past one hundred years any theory of history
or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern established by the Amer-
ican Historical Association and the major foundations with their grant-
making power has been attacked or rejected—not on the basis of any evi-
dence presented, but on the basis of the acceptability of the arguments to
the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment, and its official historical
line," he commented. "Woe betide any book or author that falls outside
the official guidelines. Foundation support is not t here. Publishers get cold
feet. Distribution is hit and miss, or non-existent,"
This refrain was echoed by President Bill Clinton's academic mentor,
Dr. Carroll Quigley. His 1966 book, Tragedy and Hope: A History of
the World in Our Time, revealed his insider knowledge of modern
secret societies. Quigley said it was withdrawn suddenly by a major
New York publisher. "I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was
suppressed . . . ," Quigley wrote in the mid-1970s.
Researchers and writers—such as the late Gary Allen, A. Ralph Epper-
son, G. Edward Griffin, Dr. John Coleman, Jonathan Vankin, Anthony C.
Sutton, and Eustace Mullins to name but a few—have written about con-
spiracies for many years. But these works are nearly always produced by
small publishers with limited distribution. These authors charge that the
mass media is controlled by corporate America, which has prevented any
meaningful exposure of their material.
This concern is echoed even outside the U.S. A French publisher once
was quoted as saying, "It would not be possible to trace ownership of cor-
porations and the power structure in the United States. 'They' would not
permit it. 'They' would find a way to hound and torture anyone who
tried. 'They' seem to be a fairly small group of people who know each
other, but many are not at all known to the public. 'They' move in and out
of government jobs, but public service apparenrly serves to win private
promotion rather than the other way around. The Government 'control'
that practically everyone mentions cannot be traced through stock hold-
ings, regulatory agencies, public decisions. It seems to function through a
maze of personal contacts and tacit und erstandings." To this one might
add their membership in secret societies.
Many conspiracy authors have written about dark plots to impose a
"New World Order" from within modern secret societies such as the
Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Illu mi-
nati, the Committee of 300, and others. Objective researchers poinr to