posted 02-15-2002 07:25 AM            

"The Order of the Illuminati has continued through history as a secret order that exists within the ranks of other secret orders."

"Not all Masons are Illuminati. Not even all 33rd-degree Masons are Illuminati. But all Illuminati are 33rd-degree Masons."

These two quotes are from the Part I-0The Occult Bible, so it is from the occultists' perspective. This chapter suggests that the "Superhumans of Lemuria" founded the Order of the Illuminati. And that the Order "perpetuates the knowledge of the star system of Sirius".

posted 02-15-2002 10:25 AM            

I'd like to think that there is good in Freemasonry considering it's impact on the orgins of the U.S./presidents/layout of Wash.DC/Cydonia, Mars. I've also read that the Illuminati may use their symbology in things like mass school shootings, Denver airport, etc.? and that this symbolgy is confused with Masonry, or maybe deliberately used by Illuminati to make Freemasons look bad? Or to show Freemasons that they have the stronger power?

I know that there've been deeper studies than I can relate, so it does take time to look at the whole thing. It makes sense to me that some of these societies do have access to suppressed knowledge, of science and history, and that they use it for their own purposes in some cases and for reasons unknown in others. In time, I think we'll find out more, but who knows when?

posted 02-21-2002 02:05 PM            

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http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue4/ar4hallrec.shtml

The famed Greek historian Herodotus, in 443 B.C., recorded after his visit to Egypt that extending beneath and in all directions far beyond the pyramid whereon great figures are graven is a vast labyrinth, and a way into it underground.

In the Corpus Hermeticum, a body of treatises compiled from older materials toward the beginning of the Christian era, we find in one of these works, the Virgin of the World, these words:

The sacred symbols of the cosmic elements, the secrets of Osiris, were hidden carefully. Hermes (the Greek equivalent to Thoth), before his return to Heaven, invoked a spell on them, and said, O holy books which have been made by my immortal hands, by incorruption's magic spell remain free from decay throughout eternity and incorrupt by time. Become unseeable, unfindable, from everyone whose foot shall tread the plains of this land, until old Heaven shall bring instruments for you, whom the Creator shall call His souls. Thus spake he, and laying the spells on them by means of his works, he shut them safe away in their rooms. And long has been the time since they were hid away.

The Roman Marcellinus, in the 4th century, stated: There are certain subterranean galleries and passages full of windings beneath the pyramids which, it is said, the adepts in the ancient rites (knowing that the flood was coming, and fearing that the memory of the sacred ceremonies would be obliterated), constructed vaults in various places, mining them out of the ground with great labor. And upon leveled walls they engraved the hieroglyphic characters.

Marcellinus contemporary, Iamblichus, wrote a treatise on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, and described the Initiation associated with the Sphinx. In a secret location between the paws of the feline monument, he said, is a bronze door, its opening triggered by a hidden spring. Beyond it, the neophytes went into a circular room. From this point on, they were subject to a series of trials to become full members among the Initiates, eventually reaching Masterhood.

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