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The Degree System of the Illuminati

Illuminati Degrees

Novice

1. Introduced to an Illuminatus Dirigens
2. Reception into the degree
3. Candidate is presented to a Table
4. Candidate is asked to read several items:
1. A very concise account of the Order, its connection with Free Masonry, and its great object, the promoting the happiness of mankind by means of instruction and confirmation in virtuous principles
2. Several questions relative to the Order, and instructions for submitting a written response:
* What advantages do you hope to derive from being a member?
* What do you most particularly wish to learn?
* What delicate questions relative to the life, the prospects, the duties of man, as an individual, and as a citizen, do you wish to have particularyly discussed with you?
* In what respects do you think you can be of use to the Order?
* Who are your ancestors, relations, friends, correspondents, or enemies?
* Whom do you think proper persons are to be received into the Order?
* Whom do you think unfit for the Order?
* What are your reasons for both?

Mineval

* Academy of Illuminism
* Brethern of Minerva
* Instruction for the Minerval
* Reception at the dead of night in a dark temple desert
* Reception into the degree
1. Introduced to a Bodhi Initiator
2. Candidate is presented to a Table
3. Candidate writes on a piece of paper:
o Name
o Place of Birth
o Age
o Rank
o Place of Residence
o Profession
o Favorite Studies

Illuminatus Minor

The Minerval must advance within three years of initiation, or, if he is found to be unfit, remains a Free Mason and is called a Sta bene.

If he is found worthy the Minerval is advanced to Illuminatus Minor.

o Conference is called for Notice
o The Candidate is told that whereas he had been to date a mere scholar, that his next step would carry him into action.
o The Candidate is told that he must from that point forward consider himself as an Instrument in the hands of his Superiors.
o The Aim of the Order is now fully revealed: To make of the Human Race, without any distinction of nation, condition, or profession, one good and happy family.”

Oath of the Illuminatus Minor:

I, N.N. protest before you, the worthy Plenipotentiary of the venerable Order into which I wish to be admitted, that I, with all my possessions, rank, honors, and titles which I hold in political society, am, at bottom, only a man; I can enjoy these things only through my fellow-men, and through them also I may lose them. The approbation and consideration of my fellow-men are indespensibly necessary, and I must try to maintain them by all my talents. These I will never use to the prejudice of universal good, but will oppose, with all my might, the enemies of the human race, and of politcal society. I will embrace every oppportunity of saving mankind, by improving my understanding and my affections, and by imparting all important knowledge, as the good and statures of this Order require of me. I bind myself to perpetual silence and unshaken loyalty and submission to the Order, in the persons of my Superiors; here making a faithful and complete surrener of my private judgment, my own will, and every narrow-minded employment of my power and influence. I pledge myself to account the good of the Order as my own, and am ready to serve it with my fortune, my honor, and my blood. Should I, through omission, neglect, passion, or wickedness, behave contrary to this good of the Order, I subject myself to what reproof or punishment my Superiors shall enjoin. The friends and enemies of the Order shall be my friends and enemies; and with respect to both I will conduct myself as directed by the Order, and am ready, in every lawful way, to devote myself it its incerease and promotion, and therein to emply all my ability. All this I promise, and protest, without secret reservation, according to the intention of the Society which require from me this engagement. This I do as I am, and as I hope to continue, a Man of Honor.

Illuminatus Major, or Scotch Novice

* The Candidate is represented as depositing an account of his life in the hands of his Sponsor, and this was checked by information derived from the Intelligence Department of the Order.

Intermediary Degrees
Illuminatus Dirigens, or Scotch Knight of Illluminism

* Founded on Ecossais Grades of Masonic Chivalry and reproducing points of their procedure.
* The Candidate was called upon to testify his belief that the Superiors of Illuminism were also the unknown and lawful Superiors of Freemasonry.

1. Short Introduction teaching how the holy secret Chapter of Scotch Knights is asembled Fuller accounts and instructions relating to the whole
2. Instructions for the lower classes of Masonry
3. Instructions relating to Mason Lodges in general
4. Account of a reception into this degree, with the bond which each subscribes before he can be admitted
5. Concerning the solemn Chapter for reception
6. Opening of the Chapter
7. Rituals of Reception, and the Oath
8. Shutting of the Chapter
9. Agape, or Love Feast
10. Ceremonies of the consecration of the Chapter
11. Appendixes
1. Appendix A: Explanation of the Symbols of Free Masonry
2. Appendix B: Catechism for the Scotch Knight
3. Appendix C: Secret Cypher

Class of the Lesser Mysteries
Epopt, or Priest of Illuminism, or Presbyter

1. An Introduction
2. Further Accounts of the Reception into this degree
* The Candidate was hoodwinked and driven by a circuitous route to the lace of assembly.
* He was brought into a brilliantly illuminatted Temple, wherein was a vacant throne, by which lay the insignia of royalty, and a cushion whereon was filded a white priestly robe and girdle.
* The Candidate was to choose between them, and if he was guided rightly he became a Priest of the Order, when a part of its policy was unveiled to him.
3. The candidate is to read the Instruction in the Third Chamber
4. The Ritual of Reception
5. Instruction for the First Degree of the Priest’s Class, called Instructio in Scientificis
6. Account of the Consecration of a Dean, the Superior of this Lower Order of Priests

Regent, or Prince, or Principatus Illuminatus

The political aspects of the Order were developed in this Grade of Knighthood.

1. Directions to the Provincial concerning the dispensation of this degree
2. Ritual of Reception
3. System of Direction for the whole Order
4. Instruction for the whole Regent degree
5. Instruction for the Prefects or Local Superiors
6. Instruction for the Provincials

Class of the Greater Mysteries
Magus, or Philosopher
Rex, or Man-King

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Immortal Technique – Cause of Death

“Cause Of Death”

Immortal Technique - Cause of Death

[Talking]
Immortal Technique
Revolutionary Volume 2
Yeah, broadcasting live from Harlem, New York
Let the truth be known..

[Verse 1]
You better watch what the fuck flies outta ya mouth
Or I’ma hijack a plane and fly it into your house
Burn your apartment with your family tied to the couch
And slit your throat, so when you scream, only blood comes out
I doubt that there could ever be…a more wicked MC
‘Cause AIDS infested child molesters aren’t sicker than me
I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black
The way the government downplays historical facts
‘Cause the United States sponsored the rise of the 3rd Reich
Just like the CIA trained terrorists to the fight
Build bombs and sneak box cutters onto a flight
When I was a child, the Devil himself bought me a mic
But I refused the offer, ’cause God sent me to strike
With skills unused like fallopian tubes on a dyke
My words’ll expose George Bush and Bin Laden
As two separate parts of the same seven headed dragon
And you can’t fathom the truth, so you don’t hear me
You think illuminati’s just a fucking conspiracy theory?
That’s why Conservative racists are all runnin’ shit
And your phone is tapped by the Federal Government
So I’m jammin’ frequencies in ya brain when you speak to me
Technique will rip a rapper to pieces indecently
Pack weapons illegally, because I’m never hesitant
Sniper scoping a commission controlling the president

[Hook]
Father, forgive them, for they don’t know right from wrong
The truth will set you free, written down in this song
And the song has the Cause of Death written in code
The Word of God brought to life, that’ll save ya soul..

Save ya soul motherfucker…save ya soul..

Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Verse 2]
I hacked the Pentagon for self-incriminating evidence
Of Republican manufactured white powder pestilence
Marines Corps. flack vest, with the guns and ammo
Spittin’ bars like a demon stuck inside a piano
Turn a Sambo into a soldier with just one line
Now here’s the truth about the system that’ll fuck up your mind
They gave Al Queda 6 billion dollars in 1989 to 1992
And now the last chapters of Revelations are coming true
And I know a lot of people find it hard to swallow this
Because subliminal bigotry makes you hate my politics
But you act like America wouldn’t destroy two buildings
In a country that was sponsoring bombs dropped on our children
I was watching the Towers, and though I wasn’t the closest
I saw them crumble to the Earth like they was full of explosives
And they thought nobody noticed the news report that they did
About the bombs planted on the George Washington bridge
Four Non-Arabs arrested during the emergency
And then it disappeared from the news permanently
They dubbed a tape of Osama, and they said it was proof
“Jealous of our freedom,” I can’t believe you bought that excuse
Rocking a motherfucking flag don’t make you a hero
Word to Ground Zero
The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th
The New World Order was born on September 11

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
And just so Conservatives don’t take it to heart
I don’t think Bush did it, ’cause he isn’t that smart
He’s just a stupid puppet taking orders on his cell phone
From the same people that sabotaged Senator Wellstone
The military industry got it poppin’ and lockin’
Looking for a way to justify the Wolfowitz Doctrine
And as a matter of fact, Rumsfeld, now that I think back
Without 9/11, you couldn’t have a war in Iraq
Or a Defense budget of world conquest proportions
Kill freedom of speech and revoke the right to abortions
Tax cut extortion, a blessing to the wealthy and wicked
But you still have to answer to the Armageddon you scripted
And Dick Cheney, you fucking leech, tell them your plans
About building your pipelines through Afghanistan
And how Israeli troops trained the Taliban in Pakistan
You might have some house niggas fooled, but I understand
Colonialism is sponsored by corporations
That’s why Halliburton gets paid to rebuild nations
Tell me the truth, I don’t scare into paralysis
I know the CIA saw Bin Laden on dialysis
In ’98 when he was Top Ten for the FBI
Government ties is really why the Government lies
Read it yourself instead of asking the Government why
‘Cause then the Cause of Death will cause the propaganda to die..

[Man talking]
He is scheduled for 60 Minutes next. He is going on
French, Italian, Japanese television. People
everywhere are starting to listen to him. It’s embarrassing

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Angels & Demons: Illuminati 101

Angels & Demons

“Jesus Motherf**king Christ It’s Alive..”—Robert Anton Wilson

By Stella Maris February 28, 2009

The first thing you need to know about the Illuminati is that nothing is real. As soon as you begin to take any of it seriously, they’ve got you.

Therefore, always remember that the overriding immutable rule of the intrepid Illuminati investigator is not to believe anything that you can’t independently verify for yourself. Especially don’t believe anything you read on the internet. And, if you watch a television documentary where someone is talking about the Illuminati in a grave tone of voice, then take immediate evasive action–such as changing the channel or going for a pee. In fact, don’t even believe anything you read in this article.

Yes, I know that the Author’s Note at the beginning of Dan Brown’s bestseller Angels & Demons categorically states that “The brotherhood of the Illuminati is also factual”. He does the same thing with the Priory of Sion in The Da Vinci Code.

But this is a literary device. It’s how fiction writers hook you in. It’s not real.

Okay, granted, technically the Illuminati did indeed once exist. Historically, the Order of the Illuminati was founded at Ingolstadt University in Bavaria, on Walpurgisnacht, May 1st, 1776 by a Jesuit-trained law professor by the name of Adam Weishaupt. However, the movement lasted all of eight years, becoming officially defunct when secret societies were banned by the government in 1784.

The most interesting aspect of the brotherhood were its members, allegedly including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Beethoven, and the mysterious Comte de Saint Germain, who was thought to have attained the Philosopher’s Stone of immortality.

Conveniently for fiction writers, the Comte de Saint German went on to travel throughout Europe as a spy, leading to an endless underground stream of colorful spin-off adventures, and Adam Weishaupt himself refused his university pension and fled into exile, thereby opening the door to panoplies of possibilities.

The most popular theory regarding the demise of the Illuminati is that Weishaupt was used as a stand-in for George Washington, due to their close physical resemblance, thereby deftly tying covert Illuminati influence into the success of the American Revolution. In some versions of the story, Weishaupt actually permanently performed the duties of the first US President in order to cover up Washington’s untimely early death, and it’s therefore Weishaupt’s own portrait that’s featured on the US dollar bill.

Embroideries abound when a swift glance at the genealogy of John Adams, Washington’s Vice-President and successor as second US President, reveals that his family emigrated to Boston from Barton Saint-David, the ultimate center point of the Glastonbury Zodiac on Albion’s mythical Saint Michael Line. For good measure, Adams’ ancestor was said to have been a member of a secret Dragon Order, dedicated to restoring the Stuart monarchy to the British throne.

And so it goes.

Inevitably, astonishing “secret information” has been “revealed” over the years, tracing the inception of the Illuminati either from a lineage of shadowy Sufi mystics or from Noah via John the Evangelist and thence to the Knights Templar, thereby incorporating centuries of hidden knowledge into Freemasonic and Rosicrucian degrees of initiation. Even Aleister Crowley manages to get in on the act—and I’m sure there’s probably an Illuminati sex ritual sequestered somewhere obscure that hasn’t yet been discovered. If not, we can happily invent one.

The most creative conspiracy theorists attribute everything from UFOs to McDonald’s hamburgers to the current global Credit Crunch to the power of the Illuminati’s ultra-secret New World Order manoeuvres.

Fortunately of all of our collective sanities, in the 1970s, former Playboy magazine editor Robert Anton Wilson actually “got” the surrealist joke and ran with it, generating a veritable cottage industry of thirty-five books and even a theatrical production based on the Illuminati, which indelibly influenced modern popular culture for years to come.

As it happens, Robert Anton Wilson became my own personal Cosmic Trigger, as result of “accidently” being introduced to him by my friend Mark Chorvinsky when I was going through my angst-ridden bohemian film student phase at Maryland University.

Synchronistically, Mark’s mother and my mother were best friends back when we were kids. I used to go Trick-or-Treating on Halloween with Mark and his brother, when I was far too young to know what I was getting myself into. We inevitably lost touch when my family moved to England, which made the coincidence even weirder when I literally ran into Mark in the corridors of Maryland U’s television studios out of the blue.

By this time Mark was an internationally renowned Magician and Fortean investigator. He had established a magic-themed bookshop in Rockville, Maryland called Dream Wizards (which unsurprisingly hosted amazing Halloween parties!) and founded Strange Magazine, dedicated to the serious investigation of the weird and wonderful.

Being more experienced in these matters, Mark immediately recognized the significance of our chance reunion and invited me to meet his friend Robert Anton Wilson, who was in town lecturing.

It’s taken me years to unravel just how the Ariadne’s Thread of RAW’s connection to the Maryland-based Prometheus Society and the DC-based L5 Society corresponded to my personal close encounter with Andrija Puharich, who was working with an intriguing group of scientists in a lab around the corner from where I was living in Silver Spring… but, that’s another story.

For now we just need to be aware of Robert Anton Wilson’s role in the resurrection of the Illuminati archetype at the precise moment that the public mindset was ready to absorb it. In fact, I would even go as far as to suggest that Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons would have been an entirely different book if it hadn’t been for Robert Anton Wilson’s preliminary Illuminati performance art.

Sadly, Mark Chorvinsky passed away in 2005, followed closely by Robert Anton Wilson’s demise in 2007, so neither of them will be around to witness the contemporary resurgence of the Illuminati in Angels & Demons when the film is released in May 2009.

But the first question that we’ll be asking ourselves as we watch the movie is… did Ron Howard’s team get the joke? And, if not, then who’s gonna deliver the punchline?

All Hail Eris!