Genuine secret societies have existed for centuries, conducting their business in darkened back rooms and, more often than not, exerting a mysterious influence upon our culture. Through history there have been many secret societies and conspiracy theories about those societies.
Secret societies are disallowed in a few colleges. The Virginia Military Institute has rules that no cadet may join a secret society, and secret societies have been banned at Oberlin College from 1847 to the present, and at Princeton University since the beginning of the 20th century. On the east side of town, a group of out of state businessmen wait patiently for the girls to arrive. One of the men, a member of a national sex club known only as the 'Secret Society,' has made a call to the club's central office, and has requested an evening's entertainment. In the United States in the late-19th century, there was enough of a national uproar against secret societies that one concerned group created an annual “Anti-Secret Society Convention.”.
From political organisations to college frats, these groups require their members to conceal their activities, and sometimes their identities, from the public. Go behind closed doors as we examine the 10 most Elite secret societies in history.
10. Ordo Templi Orientis
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Ordo Templi Orientis is a mystic organization that was started in the early twentieth century. The group was established along the same lines as the less secretive Freemasons, and supposedly relies on ritual and occult practices as a means for members to move from one level of prestige to another within the organization. The general philosophy of the group was a belief in new age esoteric principles and practices as a method of realizing one’s true identity. Famed occultist and all-around eccentric Aleister Crowley composed much of the group’s lore, including a manifesto called the Mysteria Mystica Maxima, and he later became its head. After his death, the influence and popularity of Ordo Templi Orientis began to wane, but it still exists today and has various chapters scattered across the world, chiefly in the United States, the U.K., and other parts of Europe. As Aleister Crowley’s popularity as a new age figure has continued to grow, more and more of the teachings of the Ordo Templi Orientis have come to light. As such, the group makes much less of an attempt to be secretive today than it did in the past. This doesn’t mean that they don’t still have some bizarre practices. Chief among these is the group’s fixation on the sexual, especially their teachings on the “adoration of the phallus” and the magic of masturbation.
9. Bilderberg Group
No famous members, but attendees have included Ben Bernanke, the royal families of Spain and the Netherlands, World Bank officials, and representatives from major corporations The Bilderberg Group is not a secret society per se, but it does operate under a similar veil of mystery, which has made it the subject of countless conspiracy theories and criticisms. The group was started in 1954, and since then it has convened every year as an exclusive, invitation-only conference of various world leaders, captains of industry, and media moguls. The group was originally started as a means of addressing a streak of anti-Americanism that was spreading through Europe following WWII, but over the years it appears to have morphed into a more broad discussion on reaching mutual understanding between cultures. The Bilderberg Group has become controversial for one key reason: no press is allowed in the conference and no significant details concerning the topics discussed are ever officially released to the public. That kind of secrecy, along with the intense security of the meeting sites, which often feature armed guards, police, and even fighter jets patrolling the skies overhead, has produced a number of conspiracy theories centered on the conference. The most popular is that the group tries to steer the direction of public policy, financial markets, and media in certain prescribed directions of their choosing, perhaps even with the goal of forming a so-called “one world government.” These claims have been brushed aside by the group, which claims global understanding and the end of nuclear proliferation as its main goals.
8. The Knights Templar
The Knights Templar (full name: The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta) is a modern off-shoot of Masonry and does not have a direct tie to the original Knights Templar – a religious military group formed in the 12th century. Members of the Masonic Knights Templar do not claim a direct connection to the medieval group, but merely a borrowing of ideas and symbols. In order to become a member of this group, you must already be a Christian Master Mason. This organization is a distinct one, and is not just a higher degree of Masonry. Despite Freemasonry’s general disclaimer that no one Masonic organization claims a direct heritage to the medieval Knights Templar, certain degrees and orders are obviously patterned after the medieval Order. These are best described as “commemorative orders” or degrees. Nevertheless, in spite of the fraternity’s official disclaimers, some Masons, non-Masons, and even anti-Masons insist that certain Masonic rites or degrees originally had direct Templar influence.
7. The order of the Golden Dawn
The order of the Golden Dawn was created by Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. All three were Freemasons and members of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (an organization with ties to Masonry). It is considered by many to be a forerunner of the Ordo Templi Orientis and a majority of modern Occult groups. The belief system of the Golden Dawn is largely taken from Christian mysticism, Qabalah, Hermeticism, the religion of Ancient Egypt, Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Magic, and Renaissance writings. William Yeats, and Aleister Crowly are two of the more famous members of the group. The fundamental documents of the order are known as the Cipher Documents. These were translated into English using a cipher attributed to Johannes Trithemius. The documents are a series of 60 folios containing magic rituals. The basic structure of many of these rituals appear to originate with Rosicrucianism. There is a great deal of controversy surrounding the origins of these documents.
6. The Black Hand
The Black Hand was a secret society of anti-imperialist political revolutionaries that was started in Serbia in 1912. It formed as an offshoot from Narodna Adbrona, a group that sought to unite all of the Slavic people of Europe under one country. This required the separation of Serbia from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which had annexed the country some years before. With this in mind, the group began disseminating anti-Austrian propaganda and training saboteurs and assassins to disrupt political rule within the province. Their plan was to incite a war between Serbia and Austria, which would give them a chance to free their country and unite the different Slavic nations as one. Black Hand would be all but forgotten today if not for their unlikely involvement in one of the biggest events of the twentieth century. In 1914, the group engineered the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The job was badly botched, and was only completed when a low-level hood named Gavrilo Princip stumbled upon the Archduke’s car and shot him to death at close range (see photo). Still, the results of the assassination were catastrophic. Within days, Austria-Hungary had declared war on Serbia, and after the allies of both countries joined the fray, the small dispute managed to escalate into WWI. The aftermath of WWI eventually led to WWII, and this led to the Cold War, which makes the Black Hand one of the most strangely influential forces of the twentieth century.
5. The Hashshashin
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The Hashshashin, or Nizari, were a mysterious band of Muslim assassins that operated in the Middle East during the 13th century. The group was made up of Shia Muslims who broke off from a bigger sect and banded together in order to establish a utopian Shi’ite state. Because their number was small, the group used guerilla tactics in their battle against their enemies, including espionage, sabotage, and, most famously, political assassination. The Hashshashin would plant highly trained moles inside enemy strongholds, with instructions to only attack when the time was right. They were known for their extreme discretion in minimizing civilian casualties, as well as their penchant for using stealth to intimidate their targets. As the story goes, enemy leaders would often wake in the morning to find a Hashshashin dagger lying on their pillow, along with a note saying “you are in our grip.” Their legend soon grew, and before the Mongols finally destroyed the group, they became well known contract killers, supposedly performing jobs for the likes of King Richard the Lionheart. Around the time of their downfall, the library that contained all Nizari records was destroyed, so much of what is known about them today has taken on the status of myth. The most controversial legend centers of the group’s use of drugs and other intoxicants– “Hashshashin” translates roughly as “Hashish user”–which some have said were employed by the members in battle. This has been widely discredited, but the term “Hashshashin” as it refers to the Nizari is believed to be the origin of the modern word “assassin.”
4. The Knights of the Golden Circle
The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret society that flourished in the U.S. during the American Civil War. In the beginning, the group sought to encourage the annexation of Mexico and the West Indies, which they believed would help the waning slave trade to once again flourish. But once the Civil War started, the group switched its focus from colonialism to fervent support of the newly established Confederate government. The Knights soon had thousands of followers, many of whom formed guerilla armies and began raiding Union strongholds in the West. In the Northern states, the mysterious order had an even bigger impact. Many newspapers and public figures engaged in witch-hunts where they accused supposed Southern sympathizers, including President Franklin Pierce, of being members of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Unlike most secret societies, the Golden Circle didn’t just concern itself with clandestine meetings and mysterious plans. Instead, the group often formed renegade armies and bands of bushwhackers in order to forward their agenda by force. In 1860, a group of the Knights made a failed attempt to invade Mexico. During the war, they robbed stagecoaches and attempted a blockade of the harbor in San Francisco, and a group of them even managed to briefly take control of southern New Mexico.
3. The Order of the Skull and Bones
The Order of Skull and Bones, a Yale University society, was originally known as the Brotherhood of Death. It is one of the oldest student secret societies in the United States. It was founded in 1832 and membership is open to an elite few. The society uses masonic inspired rituals to this day. Members meet every Thursday and Sunday of each week in a building they call the “Tomb”. According to Judy Schiff, Chief Archivist at the Yale University Library, the names of the members were not kept secret until the 1970s, but the rituals always have been. Both of the Bush presidents were members of the society while studying at Yale, and a number of other members have gone on to great fame and fortune. The society is surrounded by conspiracy theories; the most popular of which is probably the idea that the CIA was built on members from the group. The CIA released a statement in 2007 (coinciding with the popularity of the film The Good Shepherd) in which it denied that the group was an incubator for the CIA. You can read that document here.
2. Freemasons
The Grand Masonic Lodge was created in 1717 when four small groups of lodges joined together. Membership levels were initially first and second degree, but in the 1750s this was expanded to create the third degree which caused a split in the group. When a person reaches the third degree, they are called a Master Mason. Masons conduct their regular meetings in a ritualized style. This includes many references to architectural symbols such as the compass and square. They refer to God as “The Great Architect of the Universe”. The three degrees of Masonry are: 1: Entered Apprentice, this makes you a basic member of the group. 2: Fellow Craft, this is an intermediate degree in which you are meant to develop further knowledge of Masonry. 3: Master Mason, this degree is necessary for participating in most masonic activities. Some rites (such as the Scottish rite) list up to 33 degrees of membership. Masons use signs and handshakes to gain admission to their meetings, as well as to identify themselves to other people who may be Masons. The signs and handshakes often differ from one jurisdiction to another and are often changed or updated. This protects the group from people finding out how to gain admission under false pretenses. Masons also wear stylized clothing based upon the clothing worn by stone masons from the middle ages. The most well known of these is the apron. In order to become a Mason, you must generally be recommended by a current mason. In some cases you must be recommended three times before you can join. You have to be at least 18 years old and of sound mind. Many religions frown upon membership of the Masons, and the Roman Catholic Church forbids Catholics to join under pain of excommunication.
1. The Illuminati
A movement of freethinkers that were the most radical offshoot of The Enlightenment — whose followers were given the name Illuminati (but who called themselves “Perfectibilists”) — was founded on May 1, 1776 in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt. This group is now known as the Bavarian Illuminati. While it was not legally allowed to operate, many influential intellectuals and progressive politicians counted themselves as members. Even though there were some known Freemasons in the membership, it was not considered to be endorsed by Masonry. The fact that the Illuminati did not require a belief in a supreme being made them particularly popular amongst atheists. This, and the fact that most members were humanists, is the reason for the widespread belief that the Illuminati wants to overthrow organized religion. Internal panic over the succession of a new leader, and government attempts to outlaw the group saw to it collapsing entirely in the late 1700s. Despite this, conspiracy theorists such as David Icke and Was Penre, have argued that the Bavarian Illuminati survived, possibly to this day, though very little reliable evidence can be found to support the idea that Weishaupt’s group survived into the 19th century. It has even been suggested that the Skull and Bones club is an American branch of the Illuminati. Many people believe that the Illuminati is still operating and managing the main actions of the governments of the world. It is believed that they wish to create a One World Government based on humanist and atheist principles.
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For a half century, an ongoing attempt to dismiss the Secret Society as a scam has raged on, exasperated by the Internet over the past two decades. This futile attempt today across the Internet to smear the Secret Society exposes a dirty little secret you should know about:
The easiest and fastest way to rise to attention, power and popularity is to tear down someone or something of value. The dirty little secret is: the greater the value, then the greater the opportunity for someone such as a politician, journalist, bureaucrat, activist, blogger, lawyer or flamer to attack that value, flame it, tear it down for quick attention, power, and popularity.
Such value-attackers camouflage their dirty little secret by creating an age-old illusion. The illusion is always the same: the person or entity of value – their target/victim – is made out to be an underhanded greedy person or operation, a scam preying on the public. That’s the illusion — which is actually the complete opposite of reality.
But that illusion always works because it makes the attacker appear good, even heroic. Therefore, the public supports and gets behind such value-attackers. With great public fanfare those value-attacking politicians, journalists, activists, regulatory bureaucrats, bloggers, lawyers and flamers bring down the person or entity of value who is now unjustly perceived and emotionally rejected by the public as a scam. The value is destroyed and the value-attackers are erroneously perceived as benefactors of humanity. The public is none the wiser of losing both its freedoms and values. Society as a whole suffers; the standard of living struggles.
This rising up to popularity/prosperity/power at the expense of others has always been used by a certain percentage of the human race. You can even see this start in children as a certain percentage of school children will bully classmates for attention, popularity and power. …Some people will always try to rise at the expense of others. When adults, many of those value-destroyers unfortunately become part of the ruling-and-influencing class of society. This myriad of value-attackers competitively rise to popularity and power by tearing down value-producers.
The value emanating from the Secret Society to its selected recipients is life-changing, financially and emotionally. Because the value is so large, the Society is a target and a victim of this dirty little secret used by bloggers, flamers, haters. Moreover, the ruling-and-influencing class is threatened by those in the Society because we “Robin-Hood” them…transfer their power from the parasitical, elitist ruling-and-influencing class back to the people, especially to the less fortunate. Therefore, the ruling-and-influencing class continually puts down the Secret Society and our life-enhancing, individual-empowering secret knowledge that especially empowers the less fortunate. The value-attackers cast distorted and malicious perceptions and outright lies in their attempt to provoke rejection of the Society and its revealing, establishment-threatening secrets. Unwittingly, some in the outside public (most of whom have never seen our massive secret manuscripts)
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tend to pile onto those false perceptions and lies out of ignorance and a follow-the-herd mentality. They have been influenced by the ruling class to attack us.
The ruling-and-influencing class’s illusions prevent millions from reaping their true benefits from society as instead they unwittingly hail the malefactors of society. But we in the Secret Society “Robin-Hood” the ruling-class greed and power and give their power back to the people. Indeed, we have Robin-Hood techniques to transfer much of the ruling class’s stolen power and wealth back to the powerless…back to the poor and struggling working class and to all who deserve the good life, including you.
For centuries illusions have been cast to influence public perception and provoke emotional dejection toward our kind. Those attacks by outside value-destroyers among the threatened ruling-and-influencing class are another reason why you need to act now to uphold these values while they are still available, before they become banned by the ruling-class authorities in this country as they have been banned by the ruling-class authorities in other countries.
Once inside our Society, the values are so beneficial that those attacks/illusions against our Secret Society simply dissipate. The attacks come from OUTSIDE the Society. Once inside, one will choose to remain inside because of the immense values. Particularly exciting are the Robin-Hood techniques to transfer the massive unearned power, prestige and wealth from the parasitical ruling-and-influencing class directly to YOU for quick but LEGITIMATE attention, prestige, power and wealth! Inside the Secret Society your eyes open immediately to what has secretly been going on behind your back for your entire life, for centuries. And with that hidden knowledge, you can become very successful, even wealthy, at record speed. Francis Bacon said, “Knowledge is power.” But this kind of knowledge captures power and wealth.
Whereas for decades the Secret Society has endured libelous and slanderous reputation-damaging attacks, the vast majority of attackers never saw the large manuscripts. Why is that? If they have not seen the large manuscripts, why then do they attack? They are influenced by the ruling/influencing class to attack us. And why have those money/power giants of the ruling/influencing class for decades influenced others to smear our Society? The answer is: we have the powerful Robin-Hood method to transfer much of their stolen power and wealth back to us.
The majority of attacks on the Society just “follow the herd” and “pile it on”, influenced by the threatened establishment’s age-old illusion slanderously stating “the Secret Society is a scam…ripping off people” by charging for these rare leatherette, massive gold-leafed (up to 2800-pages) restricted manuscripts. To those duped, follow-the-herd libelous and slanderous flamers, here is a challenging, revealing thought that perhaps leads to a positive change for you: If a business does not charge for a value, then the value cannot and will not exist! YOU DON’T JUST GET GOODS FOR FREE. Let me make this very clear: Values come from business and profit. Without business and profit, values/goods would disappear. They could not exist. There is absolutely nothing wrong with profiting from providing a value. So, as most “innocent” attackers did not and will not ever see the manuscripts and instead just pile onto the mound of attacks and think it’s OK to slander the Society and to blindly call the life-changing massive manuscripts a scam…you are fundamentally duped by the ruling-and-influencing class. Indeed, what would you expect us to do? NOT CHARGE for this life-changing value? Then it would disappear. With that flawed philosophy, values will cease to exist for humanity.
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Unfortunately today, a very damaging philosophy that success is somehow bad and done at the expense of others is rapidly spreading. In reality, achievement and success benefit others as personal success brings values, jobs, and rising standards of living to society. The pervasive ruling-and-influencing class pushes the very destructive illusion on the public that is opposite of reality. And those who are duped, in turn, attack achievers and their success.
The Secret Society does something wonderful for its members: this exclusive Society delivers the necessary tools for success in today’s difficult economies, including the tools/weapons to protect that success from the ruling-and-influencing class and their duped followers. Moreover, we “Robin-Hood” the ruling-and-influencing class’s stolen power and give it back to the struggling working class — to you!
The Secret Society brings honest power to the powerless. EVERYONE wants power — the power to earn money, the power to attract a desirable lover or spouse, the power to achieve worthy goals, the power to give your children a wonderful life. A certain percentage of the population unfortunately acquires power quickly and easily through the dirty little secret. You can, too. But most people are not interested in participating in the dirty little secret.
You can test the dirty little secret, however, to get a glimpse of its power. For instance, at a gathering, perhaps at a party, if you put someone down, even in the slightest way, you will see an instant transfer of power to you. It’s human nature — the offensive posture versus the defensive posture. In fact, you see this attacker/bully versus defender/victim role play out starting at a very young age…as early as in pre-school and continuing throughout all school years, sometimes culminating in tragic consequences such as the rash of cyber-bullying, teen suicides lately. Parents and teachers know this only too well about certain children.1
Certain adults use the dirty little secret to its full extent to transfer power and
1One critical point to bloggers, flamers, and haters: When a blogger flames a person, remember that is a real person with real friends, parents, children, loved ones. Today’s wired generation tends to not realize that online attacks on others cause very real pain and consequences in people’s lives. As I wrote above, sometimes this disconnect causes tragic real-world consequences such as the rash of cyber-bullying, teen suicides lately…a sad, sad result of particularly the younger generation not relating what they are doing online to real-world consequences. Let me remind haters, flamers, bloggers who attack on line and cause damage to others, including to me and my Society and reputation, particularly attackers who are downright vicious…you are an example of today’s disconnect between associating destructive on-line posts with real-world consequences. For example, recipients of attacks and hate are real and caring persons with loved ones who are the light of their lives, with friends, with those who admire them. Flamers who attack without reservation, give pause to realize that those you attack are not inanimate objects, but usually kind persons with lives of love around them, with close loved ones who care about them. Just stop for a moment and consider how your online posts that degrade others…how those posts affect not only their reputation, but theirworld…when people they love see those harsh posts, such as their children who look up to them, their family who are proud of them, their customers who respect them. And know those degrading words about those warm human beings posted on line will remain on the Internet, forever.
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wealth from the good, rightful owners of that power and wealth to themselves. The greater the person or entity of value/power being attacked, the greater that transfer of power to the attacker. Those adults rise to power through conquests and join the ruling class of attack-mode politicians, regulatory bureaucrats, journalists, attack lawyers.
Once again, you can get a small taste of this power by putting someone down, especially in front of others. Of course, most good people feel terrible inside by putting someone else down and therefore could never climb to power and wealth through this quick and easy dirty little secret. But a certain percentage of the population, a certain breed has always thrived on this attack mode for a quick and easy rise to power. That bully breed harbors no conscience. And unfortunately, the majority of our ruling-and-influencing class consists of this ruthless breed. They rise to the top through their conquests of value producers. And sadly, millions upon millions of others become influenced by their ruthless put-downs that make the successful appear bad. In turn, the masses believe in the ruling-class attacks on the successful. The value producers are shamed; the value destroyers are revered.
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Many true heroes of society — the value creators — are perceived as villains. Many true villains of society — the value destroyers — are perceived as heroes. The ruling-and-influencing class’s illusions prevent millions from seeing the true benefactors of society, and instead they unwittingly hail the malefactors of society at great costs to themselves! Indeed, overwhelmed by the illusions and guilt, value producers often erroneously feel ashamed of themselves. And countless millions of would-be value creators succumb to the destructive illusions and lose their ambition to become business owners, value creators, job creators. The economy and standard of living steadily decline.
Here is a clue as to how to see through the illusions: the working class — from the ditch digger to the billionaire entrepreneur — works hard to put values into society. The parasitical attack-class — from the bully in school to the highest politician — attacks the value producer to usurp his power and drain values from society.
Often the “villains” that you and children see in the movies are really the heroes and often the “heroes” are the real villains. Likewise, in the real world many of the persons we perceive as “villains” are the value producers, the heroes. And many of the persons we perceive as “heroes” are the value destroyers, the villains. Often life is not as it appears to be. Once again, inside the Secret Society our eyes open immediately to what has secretly been going on behind our backs for our entire lives, for centuries.
Inside the Society, you become both successful and capable of defending your success from the attackers. There is nothing on this planet better for you right now than taking back all your rightful power and soaring into a new realm of success never even fathomed before in your lifetime. That happens as Society members “Robin Hood” the money/power giants using the dirty little secret against us. Our members jiu-jitsu (i.e., flip down) anyone/everyone using the dirty little secret against them. Members jiu-jitsu the money/power giants’ unearned and stolen power, prestige, wealth and recapture it directly for themselves for legitimate power — earned power, prestige, wealth.
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