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  The Occult & Subversive Movements

  Tradition & Counter-Tradition in the Struggle for World Power

  By

  Kerry Bolton

  The Occult & Subversive Movements

  Tradition & Counter-Tradition in the Struggle for World Power

  By Kerry Bolton

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  The Occult & Subversive Movements, provides an excellent overview of the conspiratorial view of history and the role of the occult therein. It also does so without the often heavy-handed, ideological baggage that affects many works in the genre. You allow the source materials, which are ample and well-cited, to speak for themselves.

  One thing that I strongly agree with is your assertion that the objective reality of doctrines and theories discussed is not the issue, but whether or not people were motivated to act on them or affected by those who did. I emphasize the identical thing in my class on Conspiracies and Secret Societies in History. In that respect I think your work is a worthwhile tool indeed.

  Dr Richard Spence

  Chair, Department of History

  University of Idaho.

  Dr Richard Spence Honors Program courses include: ‘Secret Societies and Conspiracies in History’, and ‘The Occult: Its Presence and Influence in History’.

  He is the author of :

  Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence, and the Occult - Feral House. 2008

  Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly - Feral House. 2003

  Boris Savinkov: Regade on the Left - Columbia University Press 1991.

  Table of Contents

  Occult & Subversive Movements

  Foreword

  Preamble

  Introduction

  Anti-Tradition & Counter-Tradition

  Black & White Adepts

  Rudolf Steiner and The Ahrimanic Deception

  Preparing the Way for Ahriman

  Role of Secret Societies

  Enchaining Man to Matter

  Are There ‘Conspiracies’?

  Conspiracy Theories and Epochal Events

  The Beginnings of Conspiratorial Theory

  The French Revolution

  1905 Russian Revolution & the Appearance of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

  1917 Russian Revolutions Nesta Webster

  Christian Responses to Masonry

  Catholic

  Protestant

  Revival of Interest

  Debunking Debunkers

  Lineage of Secret Societies

  Order of the Knights Templar

  Accusations of Heresy

  Templars & Masonry

  Rosicrucians & the ‘Society of Unknown Philosophers’

  Freemasonry

  Grand Orient de France

  Strict Observance

  Antient & Accepted Scottish Rite

  Martinism & the Rites of Memphis and Mizraim

  Martinism

  Memphis

  The ‘Perfectibilists’: Order of the Illuminati

  Bohemian Grove, Illuminati & The Owl

  Lodge 322 - Order of the Skull & Bones

  Theosophy

  Luciferianism in Theosophy

  Annie Besant: ‘New Beginning’ for Theosophy

  The ‘World Teacher’

  Besant & the Luciferic Current

  Lucis Trust

  New Age

  The Cult of the All-Seeing Eye

  Early Masonic Use of Eye & Pyramid/Triangle

  All Seeing Eye on the American Dollar Bill

  Rosicrucian Connection

  All Seeing Eye of Grand Orient Masonry

  Religious Foundations

  ‘Enlightenment’ & Atheism

  The Rebel in the Cosmos

  Luciferianism

  Luciferic ‘Inner Society’ within Masonry

  Satan Mounts the Barricades

  Karl Marx

  Carducci’s Hymn to Satan

  Communism Fermented in the Lodges

  Anarchism

  Marxism & the Order of Memphis

  Marx’s Lodge

  The First International

  Revolution

  Novus Ordo Seclorum: The American Revolution

  America’s Masonic Goddess

  The Curse of De Molay The French Revolution

  The Mystical Symbolism of a Rationalist Revolution

  Contending Cults

  Vendée Revolt

  Napoleon And After

  Italy

  Portugal

  Fatima

  Russia, Bolshevism & ‘Red Shambhalla’

  Austro-Hungary: The Preliminary Scene for Destruction

  Bolshevik Mahatmas

  Mexico: Battle Ground of the Scottish Rite

  Spain

  Counterfeit Europe

  Stepping-Stone to the Universal Republic

  Charlie Hebdo

  Grand Orient de France

  ‘Principle of Conflict’

  Cosmic Polarities

  Principle of Conflict & the New World Order

  New World Order – Motto for the New Age

  Esoteric Cult of the UNO

  Universal Syncretic Religion

  United Nations Meditation Room

  The Ashler.

  The Eye in the Pyramid

  The Mural

  U.N. ‘Holy of Holies’

  The Role of the United Nations

  Masonry: Religion of ‘Those Who Should Wield Power’

  ‘Hidden Hierarchy’ Working Through UNO

  Jerusalem: World Capital

  The Myth of The Temple in Masonic Doctrine & Ritual

  Supreme Court, Jerusalem: Masonic Symbolism

  The All Seeing Eye

  33 Degrees of Initiation

  Conclusion

  References

  Foreword

  Dr Mark L. Mirabello

  Conspiracies and secret societies are older than recorded history. The late great Professor Joseph Campbell, the mythologist and scholar of religion, wrote in his classic work, The Masks of God, that many hunting nomads, such as the Ona people from Tierra del Fuego, have a story of a more primitive time when women were in sole possession of the magical art. In those days, women ruled because they could bring sickness and death to all who dared to displease them.

  According to the legend, the older women taught the magic to young girls at the time of “first blood,” the time of the mystery and terror of puberty. The men were vexed by their subordinate position, however, and they secretly plotted to gain power. The male plan was so simple – and so ruthless – that success was guaranteed.

  Striking without warning, the men murdered all the women. Only the little girls – the prepubescent ones who had not yet been initiated into the mysteries – were spared. Still wet with blood, the men then formed a secret society to keep the females in subjection forevermore.

  • • • •

  I am from a different tradition than Dr. Kerry Bolton – he is a prominent right-wing thinker – whereas I am a student of all traditions, left as well as right, but Dr. Bolton understands the power of conspiracy and secrecy in history.

  All readers, from all traditions, w
ill find this book worthy of attention.

  Mark L. Mirabello, Ph.D., Professor of History, Shawnee State University (USA), author: Death & Other Worlds: A Skeleton Key; Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws: Resisting Tyrants, Hangmen, and Priests; The Odin Brotherhood; The Cannibal Within, etc.

  Preamble

  ‘Occult conspiracies,’ including conjecture on the continuing influence of the 18th century Illuminati, excite the popular imagination, particularly with a proliferation of such theories on the internet since ‘9/11’. There are often biases according to religious perspective, or a focus on a variety of pet-theories such as reptilian extra terrestrials, Nazi-UFO-Bush and /or British Royal Family connections, the Vatican, Opus Dei, Priory de Sion, Jews, bankers, and any one of a muddle of combinations thereof. Commercial interests, which one would expect, from the ‘conspiratorial’ perspective to be part of some vast conspiracy, are nontheless cashing in on this interest, with movies such as ‘National Treasure’, and books such as the ‘conspiracy’ series of volumes published by Collins & Brown, and the best-selling books by Dan Brown.

  This book attempts to approach the subject with the use of scholarly methodology combined with the perspective of Tradition versus Counter-Tradition. The focus is here on a ‘spiritual’ or ‘occult war’, with the emphasis being on the primary esoteric current of the past several centuries, from which many others have emerged: Freemasonry.

  What compounds the difficulty in dealing with this subject is that what Perennial Traditionalists describe as the ‘Counter-Tradition’ and ‘Anti-Tradition’, are ‘counterfeits’ of Tradition, and – like counterfeits in general – are therefore difficult to recognise from the genuine article. It is an analogous situation to that warned of in the Bible where ‘false prophets’ and the ‘Antichrist’ were prophesied as arising to fool many of the faithful. This ‘Antichrist’ would appear performing many miracles and be thought of as the returned Christ to set up a world government. The Christian prophesy is not too far removed from what is today happening with ‘false prophets’, ‘gurus’ and ‘messiahs’ proclaiming a ‘new age’ of peace, joy and unity for all mankind under a centralised authority.

  Another seeming anomaly is that many of these occult societies were at the forefront of promoting rationalism and scientism using the language, rituals and symbols of the occult while proclaiming their opposition to all religions and superstitions. From a Traditionalist perspective, these ‘rationalists’ in mystical garb were the ‘Anti-Traditionalists’ performing the work of the ‘Counter-Tradition’. This is a dialectic in which rationalism and materialism are used as a means of destroying all Faiths that pose a barrier to what some have called the ‘Black Adepts’ who aim to impose their own authority over the world and set up their own religion on the ruins of the old beliefs. Hence rationalistic, atheistic, materialistic, and communistic doctrines are a means to an end, and not the end.

  What must be emphasised from the start is that it matters not whether YOU believe in such metaphysics, or regard it as utter nonsense and primitive superstition. What matters is that there are – and have been for centuries – those who regard themselves as Adepts in the service of what are often called ‘Hidden Masters’, who believe they are chosen to usher a new form of government and ultimately a new form of humanity.

  As a contemporary authority on such matters, Dr Richard Spence, of Idaho University, remarked on an early MS of this book: ‘One thing that I strongly agree with is your assertion that the objective reality of doctrines and theories discussed is not the issue, but whether or not people were motivated to act on them or were affected by those who did’.

  Introduction

  The reality of the matter is that magic is basic to the modern mentality, to our politics and science, and we cannot understand our present-day world without a knowledge of what magic is.1

  Socio-psychological explanations reduce beliefs in occult conspiracies down to a symptom of neuroses during periods of change and uncertainty. Such an explanation is insufficient. While beliefs in the occult and mysticism might arguably themselves be delusional, such delusions impact upon reality no less than when the paranoid delusions of a psychotic murderer impact upon the reality of his victims.

  The power of myth is important in its own right, outside of any rational or empirically proven historical factors. Myth, whether ultimately based on the embroidering of an actual individual or event over the course of a long duration, or entirely grounded in superstition, instinct and the irrational, shapes history, and is of greater importance in doing so than empirical ‘truth’. It is the foundation of religions, of faith, ‘the holy lie’, the subjective way of looking at the world, whether caused by instinct, intuition, or some mystical connection – or perceived connection – with the divine, that turns the wheels of history in the great cycles of rise and fall. The German philosopher Hans Vaihinger considered in his primary work Philosophy of 'As If' the vital role of ‘fictions’ – what he called ‘fictionalism’ - in both individual and collective life. Hence the world was not governed by ‘truth’ but by the impact of an idea. For example, we might say that the ‘value’ of Darwin’s evolutionary theory is not that it has been ‘proven’ but that it served the Zeitgeist or the ethical outlook of 19th century materialism and English economic theory in interpreting life as ‘struggle’; a doctrine that met the requirements of English capitalism.

  The ‘occult war’ that has taken place for at least several centuries, in an empirically discernible line of history that will be examined here, relies for its sustenance not on ‘facts’ but on myth, or ‘fictionalism’, that nonetheless becomes real when applied to the shaping of events to accord with these ‘fictions’. One might say that making such fictions into reality is itself ‘magic’.

  The historical impact has significantly centred around a conflict between Catholicism and Freemasonry. Some occult theorists such as Eliphas Levi trace the origins of Masonry back to the Knights Templar, whose Order was suppressed by the Church for heresy. Here is a primary example of the influence of myth and legend, whether having any historical basis or not, as an important influence on secret societies. Occultism by definition is based on myth and it is how this myth is perceived that is important. In this instance, what is important is not so much whether a direct Templar connection with Masonry is historically accurate, but that it is perceived as such by Masonry and its derivatives.

  It is something of a paradox (or a dialectical process) that the secret societies and revolutionary thinkers that heralded the Enlightenment and the triumph of liberal-humanism resorted to occult societies and occult allegory. In the same vein, rationalism itself became a substitute for traditional religion, as the ‘Goddess of Reason’ was worshipped on the altar of Notre-Dame Cathedral during the French revolutionary regime, hymns were sang and baptisms performed in the name of ‘Reason’ and of the ‘Unknown Deity’, upon the wreckage of the Church. Current generations have witnessed the same irrational phenomenon under atheistic communism, which manifested in forms of mass religious worship, and placed the mummified body of Lenin within a stepped pyramid.

  What can be concluded from this is that man has an inherent religious nature and need for spirituality that cannot be fulfilled by rationalistic or economic interpretations of history. Man needs to worship something beyond himself and believe in something other than processes of production and consumption. Hence, religion is more than an ‘opiate of the people’, a prop for the maintenance of a ruling class, but can be perverted into serving such an end.

  The hatred of established religion often assumed the form of outright Satan and Lucifer adulation, especially during the 19th century, when these figures were given heroic proportions as the archetypes of rebellion against tyranny. Such Luciferic rebellion was established within certain occult degrees of initiation, and the ‘Light-Bringer’ also became a god of the ‘Enlightenment’ and of ‘Rationalism’, supposedly against superstition. It is an example of what Traditionalist
s such as Rene Guénon recognised as the façade of Anti-Tradition working for the goals of Counter-Tradition in the name of ‘science’ but for the ultimate purpose of establishing something quite different. The aim, whether with the use of myth and superstition or with ‘reason’ and ‘science, is world power.

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  1 Rushdoony, p. 54.

  Anti-Tradition & Counter-Tradition

  To Traditionalists, the great faiths of mankind that have remained true to their original beliefs share a common – perennial – core, which maintains humanity’s nexus with the Divine; sees the duty of the individual, from peasant to king and priest, as being that of manifesting the Divine order, and society as being the terrestrial re-presentation of the cosmos. Perrenial Traditionalists such as Julius Evola and Rene Guénon, regarded the ‘modern world’ as not being a product of a lineal, progressive ascent or Darwinian-type evolution of humanity, but as being the product of a cultural cycle of decline, where humanity had been divorced from its spiritual, cosmic nexus. Into this ‘dark age’, prophesied in the holy texts and oral lore of the traditional faiths, from Hopi to Norse, from Hindu to Muslim and The Revelation of John of Patmos; come to the fore the forces of Counter-Tradition, which aim to bind humanity to crass matter. Hence the doctrine of materialism that is propagated by Anti-Tradition posing in the guise of religion and mysticism; hence the use of Marxism, for example, by occultic initiates.

  Anti-Tradition was stated by Guénon to be ‘pure negation and nothing more’, and was the prelude of Counter-Tradition.1 Within this Counter-Tradition there is a ‘counter-initiation’,2 representing what Guénon called a ‘satanic’ current of those who seek the severing of the nexus between the terrestrial and the divine. Guénon wrote of this:

  After having worked always in the shadows, to inspire and to direct invisibly all modern movements, it will in the end contrive to ‘exteriorise’, if that is the right word, something that will be as it were, the counterpart of a true tradition, at least as completely and as exactly as it can be so within the limitations necessarily inherent in all possible counterfeits as such.3