BEHOLD A COOPERPEDIA
Mystery Babylon #9: Gnosticism
Catalog title: Mystery Babylon #9
Bill Cooper, aka Milton William Cooper, aka William Cooper
Catalog date: 1993-02-25
Tape: 39
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[00:00:00.000 to 00:00:25.370] The Hour of the Time may be contacted at HOT, that's H-O-T-T, P.O. Box 940, Eager, spelled E-A-G-A-R, in the state of Arizona, 85925. Our phone number is 928-333-2942, and our website is www.hourofthetime.com.

[00:01:32.150 to 00:02:00.090] Welcome once again, folks, to the Hour of the Time and our ongoing series of the exposure of the origins, the history, the doctrine, and the identity of Mystery Babylon. I'm William Cooper. Many of you have written letters and asked, how does one get into the Mystery School since no one ever hears anything about it? And there appears not to be a campaign of recruitment, and you're absolutely right.

[00:02:00.910 to 00:02:12.700] In our research, we have found the requirements to be simple. Be of sound mind and body, have a sincere desire to be illumined, and simply knock upon the door.

[00:05:10.500 to 00:05:36.720] folks, Monday, March 15th, 8 p.m. to 11, I will be at the Lafayette Hotel 2223 El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego. That's Monday, March 15th, 8 p.m., Lafayette Hotel 2223 El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego. I will be giving a three-hour presentation entitled The Sacrificed King, and we'll show you who.

[00:05:38.750 to 00:06:04.680] murdered President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and why. I'm going to be showing you a lot of videotapes, some of which is of the Zapruder film, and frames that you've never been allowed to see before. And as soon as you see these frames, you'll know why. You'll also know why that usually the copies of the Zapruder film that have fallen into the public's hands have been extremely poor copies, black and white.

[00:06:06.210 to 00:06:34.740] Very low resolution, usually fourth, fifth, or sixth generation copies of copies. And you will also understand why that has happened also. You will be amazed. Don't miss it. $40 admission. There's several different places where you can get your tickets in advance. One is the Controversial Bookstore in San Diego. I also recommend that bookstore for...

[00:06:35.510 to 00:06:57.790] Finding suppressed information. Books that you can't find anywhere else. You can sometimes find at the controversial bookstore in San Diego. Now, if you're a CAGI member, the price of admission is only $30. It's only $30. Now, remember, folks, this money isn't for me. I'm a paid speaker. I'm invited. I am paid to come and speak at that event.

[00:06:59.330 to 00:07:28.850] The promoters set the price of admission. However, I always negotiate a lower price for CAGI members. Sometimes it's quite substantial. In this case, it's 25%, which is a pretty good discount. But if you're a CAGI member, you're going to have to purchase your tickets at the event. Okay? So if you're not a CAGI member, you can get your tickets in advance from the Controversial Bookstore in San Diego. If you are a CAGI member, get your tickets at the event, and you will only be charged $30.

[00:07:30.020 to 00:07:58.840] Now, there's a hotline that you can call and find out about this conference if you wish. It's area code 619-492-8588. That's 619-492-8588. And we still need money, folks, to pay for airtime. If you like this show or if you want to see it stay on the air, you'd better contribute. You'd better send something in. Sit down and write a check.

[00:07:59.420 to 00:08:25.420] Our money order, make it payable to WWCR. I don't want the money. It doesn't go in my pocket. It goes to pay for airtime because no individual, I guarantee you, can afford to pay for airtime on radio like we're doing here. So if you want to see us stay on the air, you're going to have to help out. If you're getting work from this program, then chip in something, anything. Any amount will be appreciated. We hope that you'll reach way down in your pocket and come up with the most that you can possibly afford.

[00:08:26.720 to 00:08:52.190] Or set yourself some kind of a schedule and contribute X number of dollars, whatever you can afford each month. That's the best way to do it. Send it to Stan, Post Office Box 889, Camp Verde, Arizona, 86322. That's Stan, Post Office Box 889, Camp Verde, Arizona.

[00:08:54.610 to 00:09:20.460] If you'd like to call and talk to Stan asking to send you an information packet, you may do so at 602-567-6109. That's 602-567-6109. Now, recently the telephone company was doing something with a buried cable up in the mountains, and it was...

[00:09:20.830 to 00:09:43.560] Really messing everything up and someone could call and it said that Stan's number was no longer in service. It's not true, folks. The number is good. You can call Stan and talk to him. He gets a lot of calls, so if it's busy, just call back at a later time and you'll usually get through. Please call him during the normal waking hours, not late at night. Stan and Elma are getting up there in age and they like their sleep.

[00:09:44.120 to 00:10:00.000] They're wonderful people. You'll enjoy talking to Stan, and he will send you a packet of information and answer your questions to the best of his ability. If you'd like for me to come and speak in your area, call Stan, talk to him. He'll tell you what it takes to get me there, and it's not difficult,

[00:10:00.220 to 00:10:30.940] folks, I can assure you. Now, also, we need more CAGI members. The bigger our base of intelligence gathering, the more intelligence we can gather. It just makes sense. Right now, we have a CAGI member attending a press conference with the vice president. That's how powerful our press credentials are. They're real. This is no joke, folks. When you get CAGI press credentials, they're real. It's not a joke.

[00:10:31.550 to 00:10:56.490] It's not some Looney Tunes thing like the Captain Midnight decoder ring. No, this is a real, a real news and commentary program. We have real press credentials. We put out a real newsletter. Soon we hope to be a newspaper. This is no joke. When you join CAGI, you're expected to gather intelligence, information, news.

[00:10:58.430 to 00:11:29.460] If you'd like to join Chad, you send $45 to Stan at the address we've already given, Post Office Box 889, Camp Verde, Arizona, 86322. Or give him a call, 602-567-6109. Now, if you're unsure about all this, just ask him for a packet of information, and he'll be happy to send it to you. Well, to continue, remember that the first religion in the world was the religion of the worship of the heavens.

[00:11:30.630 to 00:11:53.570] And man eventually came to recognize the sun as the representation of the power and the ability of the hidden god of the universe, the invisible god of the universe, the all-powerful creator of everything. But man, as he gained his intellectual ability, began to look toward himself, toward the intellect, as that god.

[00:11:54.240 to 00:12:25.400] And the sun, the representation of what used to be the invisible God of the universe, then became the representation of the intellect, the light, Lucifer. And man began to worship the Luciferian philosophy. He believed, these people who call themselves the guardians of the secrets of the ages, and still believe that man was held prisoner in the Garden of Eden by an unjust, vindictive, and very cruel God, the God of the Bible. And that he was set free from the bonds of ignorance,

[00:12:28.610 to 00:12:57.260] through the gift of intellect given to him by Lucifer through his agent, Satan. Now, many people believe that Lucifer and Satan are the same individual entity, and they may be. I don't know the answer to that. I just know what the mystery schools believe, and I know what I personally believe, and what I personally believe doesn't have any bearing on anything. Knowledge, the truth, is what counts. And that's what we're trying to get to the bottom of here.

[00:12:57.880 to 00:13:12.040] Now eventually this philosophy of worshipping the intellect or wisdom or the mind became known as Gnosticism. And the followers of Gnosticism began to be known as the Gnostics.

[00:13:14.560 to 00:13:40.230] An extraordinary number, folks, of exceedingly bizarre talismans and inscribed stones bear witness to the power of the secret Gnostic organizations, which flourished in various forms during the few centuries immediately before and after the rise of Christianity in the Middle East. You see, one of the oddest emblems of these schools was the figure of Abraxas.

[00:13:41.410 to 00:14:10.750] Now, that's a human body clothed in a Roman soldier's garb, wielding a battle axe as if threatening an enemy. Now, in its left hand, it carried an elliptical shield upon which the words of power, I-A-O and Saboeth, were sometimes written. The head of this fearsome being was that of a cock with open beak. Now, that symbolized the rising of the morning sun because the cock crows with the sunrise.

[00:14:11.910 to 00:14:35.160] For legs it had twin serpents. The serpent throughout history has always been a symbol for wisdom, the gift of intellect, coiling to either side. Underneath the figure sometimes lay a conventionalized thunderbolt. Now who was Abraxas? His name, in accordance with Kabbalistic computation, is decoded to mean 365.

[00:14:37.480 to 00:14:58.100] Isn't it absolutely incredible that every single time we investigate one of these, it leads directly to the sun? For 365 days, or the number of days in the year, or the exact number of days that it takes the earth to make one revolution around the sun, amazing. There

[00:15:00.040 to 00:15:28.950] There was no god or idol belonging to the society, and this is where man made the transition from worshipping a god to worshipping the mind. The Abraxas figure merely represented the aspects of power which went to make up the supreme intelligence, the all-power. The body was man himself. The bird stood for intelligence and the hailing of light, illumination, which is the cock's habit at dawn. The tunic represented the need for struggle or revolution.

[00:15:30.750 to 00:15:51.610] socialism, the arms, the protection and power given by the dedication to the Gnosis, or knowledge. The shield was wisdom, the club or whip, power, the two snakes, insight and logos, understanding, primordial knowing, which was the gift from Satan, the snake, the serpent.

[00:15:54.340 to 00:16:22.290] By means of this diagram, Gnostic teachers inculcated the theory that man comes to his full power by developing certain facets of his mind. He must struggle to arrive at Gnosis. But this knowledge is of the mystical kind and is not the mere collection of facts. You see, great stress was laid upon personal mystical experience, to and through which the initiate was guided under conditions of great secrecy.

[00:16:23.610 to 00:16:53.080] The Gnostics did not confine their studies or their teachings to any one religion, but borrowed illustrations from all that were accessible to them. This caused them to be considered Christians, heretics, Jews who were trying to undermine Christianity, remnants of the Persian sun worshippers. They have been widely studied by early Christian sages, and it is upon the opinions of these latter that many conclusions have been formed.

[00:16:54.470 to 00:17:18.390] Little or no investigation of these, quote, people of wisdom, unquote, has been done by research workers on the spot in Asia and North Africa, where strong and interesting traces of their beliefs and practices still remain. The main teaching states that there is a supreme being or power which is invisible and has no perceptible form. It is pantheism.

[00:17:19.260 to 00:17:47.850] This power is the one which can be contacted by mankind, and it is through it that man can control himself and work out his destiny. The various religious teachers through the ages, putting their creeds in many different ways, were in contact with this power, they claim, and the religions all contain a more or less hidden kernel of initiation. This is the secret which the knowers can communicate to their disciples.

[00:17:48.740 to 00:18:09.310] But the secret can be acquired only through exercising the mind and body until the terrestrial man is so refined as to be able to become a vehicle for the use of this power, or, in their terms, illumined. Eventually, the initiate becomes identified with the power.

[00:18:10.020 to 00:18:40.190] and in the end he attains his true destiny as purified personality, infinitely superior to the rest of unenlightened mankind to the state of apotheosis, where he himself is God. The symbolism in which this teaching is concealed, the methods by which the mystical power is attained, vary from one Gnostic society to another, but the constant factor is there, the attainment of that which humankind unconsciously needs.

[00:18:41.180 to 00:19:09.080] You see, the Gnostic claims that within every man and woman there is an unfulfilled urge which cannot be given any proper expression in the normal way because there is no social means by which it can be fulfilled. This feeling has been put into man in order that he may seek the fulfillment which the Gnostics can give him. His search for completeness in love, trade, professions, theology is vain and unsuccessful.

[00:19:10.970 to 00:19:41.840] The theories of the various schools, folks, of Gnosticism with which the Christian clerics came into contact are very much secondary to the rituals and practices which are used to produce the Gnosis, the Enlightenment, the Illumination. This has not been fully understood by too many people who devote much space in trying to work out the beliefs of the knowers by a perusal of their writings or by reports which have been given them by others.

[00:19:42.340 to 00:20:00.080] simply, folks, because they do not understand the symbolism. It is not clear to them. It is veiled. It is the esoteric wisdom. What were and are the Gnostic practices? Well, first, discipleship

[00:20:00.230 to 00:20:29.370] and the inculcated belief that the initiate must struggle, must devote himself as much as possible to the identification with the power which inspires all. Secondly, there are two kinds of men, those who are bound to the earth and to matter, and those who can refine themselves. It is from the latter class that aspirants are chosen, they claim.

[00:20:30.880 to 00:20:36.800] In every instance that we've investigated, they may choose them from the latter class, but they all end up in the first.

[00:20:39.540 to 00:20:59.700] Thirdly, the methods by which the divine illumination may come are many and varied, and it is the province of the teacher to choose which path he will give to his disciple to follow. Some Gnostics believe that frenzy and excitement would produce the necessary liberation of the mind from the fetters of the body. Remember the Sphinx?

[00:21:00.830 to 00:21:27.960] Others consider that this could be done best by fasting and meditation. Present-day Gnostic practice in the East has it that different methods suit different temperaments, and this could be one cause for the historical confusion as to which branch of heretics practiced what. The Gnostics believed themselves to be intellectual aristocrats.

[00:21:28.830 to 00:21:59.760] Their knowledge was only for the few who were ready to receive it, and that's why they do not recruit. You must knock at the door, and you and only you know when you're ready to receive it. And this is what made them a secret cult, not the fear of persecution. They had their own passwords and shaking hands. They tickled the palm as an identification signal, and they helped one another in every conceivable way, just as Freemasons do today, for they are one and the same.

[00:22:00.610 to 00:22:06.510] as they have always been one and the same with all the different versions of the mystery throughout the ages.

[00:22:09.500 to 00:22:32.810] Now, some say that they could not be called pantheists because they considered that the doctrine was secondary to the experience of religion, and the theologians and ordinary priesthood of any religion did not approve of that. They were not, in fact, a religion like most others, because they stressed the importance of the individual before that of the community.

[00:22:33.540 to 00:23:03.990] Those who were more enlightened were more important in every possible way because they were valuable, refined aristocrats. At the same time, they taught that providing the well-being of the Gnostics was assured. So was that of the community at large. And this meant that they could subscribe to the outward doctrines of any religion and could continue to operate under many different political religious systems. Gnosticism profoundly influenced men's minds even in Europe.

[00:23:04.710 to 00:23:33.990] Up to and after the Middle Ages, and its basic way of thinking is probably an underlying factor in other secret societies whose members would be surprised to know it, because the pyramidal organizational structure of the membership of these organizations means that nobody below the top, the very top, really knows anything of the true religion and goals of the society to which they belong.

[00:23:35.520 to 00:24:01.350] And so these people could truly be said to be the greatest group of followers and fools in the history of the world. For they think that they are illumined, but in fact, they are never given any real secrets, and only those at the top truly know what is really going on.

[00:24:04.440 to 00:24:11.780] Terrible obscenities and other crimes have been laid at the door of the Gnostic by the early ecclesiastical writers.

[00:24:12.640 to 00:24:39.950] Although there is little doubt that some of them did believe in mass ecstasy, it seems unlikely that their secrets were well enough known to enable the commentators to assess them. And in most cases, whenever the commentators tried to assess them, they were assessing the exoteric, or the appearance, but not the esoteric, or the real truth of the object, of the worship of the Gnostics.

[00:24:40.920 to 00:24:59.590] The belief that certain special men could control their destiny and obtain extra powers through dedication to Gnostic practices meant that inevitably there was a belief in magic. Remember on previous shows we discussed that belief in magic? Magic is real, folks. I have seen it work.

[00:24:59.840 to 00:25:09.300] It is not to be played with or laughed at or scoffed about. It is dangerous, extremely dangerous.

[00:25:12.840 to 00:25:30.200] The Meyer agnostic gems, or inscribed stones decorated with serpents, Kabbalistic names, and the rest, are more likely to be proofs of initiation and talismans than mere identification tokens presented to ensure admission to meetings, as some authors have thought.

[00:25:32.130 to 00:25:52.000] The reason for supposing this is that 1. The gems are very similar in many respects to talismans and used by other communities, including the Egyptians, and 2. They can often be interpreted as containing magical messages or diagrammatical invocations. Ethically speaking, Gnostic belief

[00:25:52.680 to 00:26:17.670] is that there are two principles, that of good and evil. A balance must be struck between these forces, and the balance is in the hands of the Gnostic, the knower, partly because nobody else can tell whether an action is for the eventual good of the individual or the community. And this secret knowledge comes through the mystical insight which the supermen Gnostics attained. There's that.

[00:26:18.350 to 00:26:39.560] reference to a super-race or a super-man again, which always crops up with these people, as it did with Hitler and many others. The rise of individuals who wrongly believed that they had attained to gnosis, all knowledge, some of whom were leaders of Gnostic societies, produced very notorious characters.

[00:26:40.600 to 00:27:10.470] Those who followed the way of the Ophite branch glorified the serpent who tempted Eve, and they still do that today. They did this because this snake, by his actions, brought knowledge into the world, gave man the gift of intellect, the use of which will bring him to the state of apotheosis, where man himself will be gone. Vasilides was a leader who taught that Jesus did not die on the cross, and you will see this crop up all through the history of the mystery schools, even in the ninth temper.

[00:27:11.810 to 00:27:33.900] Since matter and material things were considered to be a part of the inferior non-spiritual world, the sect known as the Cainites called upon everyone to destroy those things which belonged to the world, and they called themselves the destroyers, and their god is the destroyer. These deviations...

[00:27:34.620 to 00:28:04.570] and aberrants have attracted the greatest attention, as is natural, and the quieter teachers of the creed have received less attention. The pious horror with which the less respectable Gnostics were viewed by the early Christian fathers has stamped itself forever on Western literature and belief about the, quote, enlightened ones, unquote, but in more than one place in the Middle East, as well as in small groups in Western Europe.

[00:28:05.150 to 00:28:22.730] There are still followers of various schools of Gnosticism. They mainly follow the ideas held by Valentinists, with some variations, and this school features its initiates that matter is more evil than good.

[00:28:23.240 to 00:28:47.090] that man must be purified by mental concentration, that after death man will rejoin that from which he has been severed and will be unified with those whom he loves in the great intelligence. They also believe that all matter will eventually be destroyed by fire. And if they have their way, that could be absolutely true.

[00:28:49.340 to 00:29:17.800] The Mandeans, a small but tenacious community which dwells in Iraq, follow an ancient form of Gnosticism, which practices initiation, ecstasy, and some rituals which have been said to resemble those of the Freemasons. And of course they do, because they are. In every Masonic temple you will see somewhere up on the wall,

[00:29:19.390 to 00:29:48.370] A big letter G. And you will see it in their symbology, in their books. You will see this letter G. And if you ask a Freemason, being bound to the oath never to tell you or reveal the secrets to the profane, which is what they call those who are not initiates or adept in the mysteries, he will tell you that it stands for God. But that is a lie. It does not stand for God.

[00:29:49.280 to 00:29:59.860] for I have researched it deeply all the way up the ladder of the stages of initiation. And at the top, those adept known as the priesthood

[00:29:59.860 to 00:30:29.700] know this large liturgy to represent Gnosticism, and it is an admission that they are indeed the recipients of the ancient Gnostic. They are Gnostics, and they are looking to attain venosis, through which they will receive apotheosis.

[00:30:30.750 to 00:30:43.010] and they believe that they are the only ones in the world who possess truly mature minds, and thus are the only ones in the world capable of ruling the rest of us whom they refer to as cattle. Cattle. Well,

[00:30:45.850 to 00:30:52.500] it's time to take a break, folks. Don't go away. I'll be right back after this very short pause. ...to

[00:33:43.070 to 00:33:53.810] Sleuths, conducted by Eric Kunzel, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Cincinnati is the home of the Order of Cincinnatus.

[00:33:54.310 to 00:34:22.490] and the Knights of the Golden Circle. You see, everything that I do on this show has meaning, even the music, folks. Now, whether you like the music or not makes no difference. Listen to the words. Research the title. Try to find out what the music means before you condemn it. And remember that you're not the only one out there. Your age group is not the only age group listening.

[00:34:25.100 to 00:34:28.940] So whether you like the music or not, it doesn't make any difference. It all has a message.

[00:34:30.910 to 00:34:37.960] It all has a message, folks, and I hope you get the message, for it is extremely important that you do.

[00:34:41.130 to 00:34:59.600] A most detailed account of what was said to be the seven highest degrees of secret Egyptian initiation was first published in Germany in the 18th century. This strange and very exhaustive document combines many elements from the ancient mysteries.

[00:35:02.640 to 00:35:23.410] It seems to come from Greek sources, because many of the words used are Greek. And it could well be that we have here the modern beginnings of an attempted revival of ancient mysteries. Whatever it is, it is not one of those fanciful and spurious ones which used to be printed merely to attract the credulous.

[00:35:24.480 to 00:35:55.610] because it is plausible in containing the sort of material which might well have formed the content of an initiation and mind-conditioning system. And if you understand the secret religions as I do, and specifically the modern ones, you will quickly recognize this as authentic. The earliest version known is in the form of an anonymous pamphlet, probably not intended for public sale, of 30-odd pages,

[00:35:56.250 to 00:36:25.510] printed in 1785. Right in that area of history is momentous occurrences. It was republished in a French translation 30 years later, purporting to be the ritual of the master degree in Freemasonry. If you know anything about the master degree in Freemasonry, you will soon see that it certainly is exact in its descriptions.

[00:36:26.720 to 00:36:45.120] The French editor claims that it is a composite ritual derived from the works of some 15 Greek and Roman writers. This degree, we are told, was open to Egyptian kings and priests alone, and only those specially recommended by an initiate could enter it.

[00:36:45.850 to 00:37:15.730] The usual procedure was that the Pharaoh himself introduced the candidate to the priests. By them he was sent from Heliopolis, the city of the sun, and you'll never escape from the sun when you're studying the mysteries, to the Memphis priests. From there he went to Thebes. He was circumcised, forbidden to eat pulch or fish, and generally had to abstain from wine. He was put for several months in an underground cave and asked to write down his reflections.

[00:37:16.740 to 00:37:41.760] When he had done this, he was led to a passage supported by the pillars of Hermes, where he had to learn certain things which were inscribed thereon. As soon as he was word-perfect, the Thesmorphus, or the Introducer, came to him with a strong whip to keep the uninitiated or the profane at bay. He was blindfolded and his hands bound with cords.

[00:37:42.850 to 00:38:11.030] Now follows the procedure from the first degree of the select body. The candidate was led to the gate of men, where the introducer touched the shoulder of an apprentice, Porco Forus, standing there on guard. He in turn knocked on the gate, which was opened. When the aspirant entered, he was questioned on various manners by the hierophant, after which he was led around the barampa in an artificial storm of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning.

[00:38:12.230 to 00:38:36.680] If he showed no sign of fear, Minis, the expounder, explained the laws of the Krata Rapoa, to which he had to agree. He was then taken in front of the Hierophant, made to kneel, and vowed fidelity with a sword point at his throat. As witness, he called upon the sun, moon, and stars. And where have you heard that before?

[00:38:38.690 to 00:39:07.580] His eyes were then unbandaged, and he was placed between two spare pillars called batiles, where lay a ladder of seven steps, behind which were eight doors of different metals of gradually increasing purity. The Hierophant, then addressing those present, as many Musai are children of the work of celestial investigation, extorted them to govern their passions and fix their thoughts upon God.

[00:39:08.710 to 00:39:28.150] Now the sun, the moon, and the stars, you should know by now, represent the doctrine, the church, and the initiates. The sun, of course, is the doctrine, the moon is the church, and the stars are the body of initiates, are the thousand points of light.

[00:39:30.920 to 00:39:36.900] The candidate was taught, folks, that the latter symbolized the wanderings of the soul.

[00:39:38.150 to 00:40:00.100] He was told the causes of wind, thunder, and lightning, and given other valuable information, such as medical lore. He was given the password of recognition of this degree, which was, and I spell it because I don't know the correct pronunciation, A-M-O-U-N, meaning secrecy. He was taught a grip, given a

[00:40:00.090 to 00:40:11.800] pyramidal cap and an apron called xylon. Around his neck was a collar, and he wore no other clothes. His duty was to guard the gate of men in his turn.

[00:40:14.400 to 00:40:28.040] The porta-force was now able, after showing his devotion, to proceed to the second degree. Following a prolonged fast, he was taken into a dark chamber called Indomien,

[00:40:28.800 to 00:40:56.670] the invitation grotto. He was now of the degree of Neocorus. Handsome women brought him dainty food. They were the wives of the priest who endeavored to excite his love. If he resisted these advances, he was further lectured by the master of ceremonies and led into an assembly where the stolista, or water bearer, poured water over him.

[00:40:57.690 to 00:41:22.800] Then a living serpent was thrown at him. The whole room was full of snakes to test his courage. He was then led to two high pillars between which stood a griffon driving a wheel before him. The pillars symbolized east and west, the griffon, the sun, and the wheel of four spokes, the four seasons. He was taught the use of the level and instructed in geometry and architecture.

[00:41:23.650 to 00:41:56.150] He received a rod entwined by serpents, and that rod is still used today by the medical community. It's called the caducus. And he received the password heave, meaning serpent, and was told the story of the fall of man. The sign consisted in crossing the arms over the chest, and his duty was to wash the pillars. Now when the initiate was initiated into the third degree, the member was given the title

[00:41:56.990 to 00:42:30.640] of Melanophorus. He was led to an anteroom over whose door was written, Gate of Death. The room was full of copies of embalmed bodies and coffins. Here, too, were a number of dissectors, embalmers, and so on. In the center stood the coffin of Osiris. The Melanophorus was asked if he had had a hand in the assassination of his master.

[00:42:32.570 to 00:42:50.030] on his denying the question he was seized by two taphixites or men who buried the dead and led into a hall where he found all the other melanophores clothed in black the king himself

[00:42:50.850 to 00:43:15.650] who always was present on these occasions, addressed him in an apparently friendly way, begging him, if he did not feel courage enough to undergo the test now to be applied to him, to accept the golden crown he was offering him. Well, he had already been coached to refuse the crown and tread it underfoot.

[00:43:16.540 to 00:43:41.580] At this insult, the king called for revenge, raising his sacrificial axe. He touched the head of the initiate. And in one famous initiation, the king actually beheaded the man. The two corpse carriers threw him on the ground, and the embalmers wrapped him in bandages. All who were present wept. Now he was led to a gate over which was written, Sanctuary of the Spirits.

[00:43:42.270 to 00:43:51.230] Now, the initiate was not supposed to be beheaded in that one famous initiation, and I don't know what they chalked that up to.

[00:43:54.890 to 00:44:17.210] Now, standing before the gate, the initiate waited. On its being opened, thunder and lightning struck the apparently dead man. Charon received him as a spirit into his boat and carried him to the judges of Hades. Pluto sat on his judgment seat.

[00:44:17.820 to 00:44:44.100] while Radamanthus and Minos, as well as Athon, Nacreus, Alastor, and Orpheus stood beside him. Very severe questions were put to him as to his former life, and finally he was sentenced to remain in these subterranean vaults. Now remember, this is an initiation, which sometimes lasts for months and even years.

[00:44:44.730 to 00:44:59.450] The bandages were removed, and he was told never to desire blood, never to leave a corpse unburied, and to believe in the resurrection of the dead and the judgment to come. Now remember, this is long centuries before Christianity.

[00:44:59.940 to 00:45:33.380] He was taught coffin decoration and the peculiar hierogrammatical script. The sign was an embrace to express the days of wrath. He was kept in these underground chambers until thought fit to proceed to a higher degree. These, quote, days of wrath, unquote, generally lasted for a year and a half until the initiate was ready for promotion to the fourth degree, the Battle of the Shades. He was handed a sword,

[00:45:33.900 to 00:46:05.740] In his shield, and taken through dark passages, he met certain persons presenting a frightful appearance, carrying torches and serpents. He was attacked with the cry of, He defended himself bravely, but was always taken prisoner. His eyes were bandaged, and a cord placed around his neck. Dragging him into a hall, the specters disappeared. He was led into the assembly of initiates, and his eyes unbandaged.

[00:46:06.560 to 00:46:34.320] Before him he saw a magnificent hall decorated with beautiful paintings. The king and the highest dignitary, the demiurgos, were present. All were wearing their aledi, an Egyptian order composed of sapphires. Among those present were the secretary, the treasurer, and the master of feats. The orator made a speech congratulating the new member on his fortitude. He was given a drink.

[00:46:35.470 to 00:47:03.080] called Scythe, which he drank to the dregs. And this was probably the ritual drink of honey or milk, water, wine, and gruel, and perhaps some hypnotic drug. He donned the boots of Anubis, took up the shield of Isis, put on the cloak and cap of Orcus. He was handed a sword and told that he must cut off the head of the next person he met in a cave and bring it back to the king.

[00:47:06.200 to 00:47:31.530] This cave was pointed out to him. Entering it, he saw what seemed to be a beautiful woman, but in reality was a model of one. Now notice it's a woman. He seized this by the hair and severed the head. This he brought back to the monarch who praised him, telling him that he had symbolically won the head of the Gorgon, wife of Typhon, who had caused the death of Osiris.

[00:47:32.580 to 00:48:02.380] He was now permitted always to wear the dress which had been given to him, and he was entered in a book as one of the judges of the land. Notice that, one of the judges of the land. He was able to communicate at any time with the king and received an allowance from the court. He was invested with an order, that of Isis in the shape of an owl, and it was revealed to him that the secret name of the great lawgiver was J-O-A, Joah.

[00:48:02.790 to 00:48:34.060] which was also the password of this degree. But the password for the meetings of the Christophori, as the fourth-degree initiates were called, was Sassacus. The fifth degree, that of Balahate, could not now be refused to the Christophorus if he demanded or requested it. He was led to a hall to watch a play at which he was the only onlooker. Other members of the degree went through the hall as if looking for something.

[00:48:35.490 to 00:49:00.280] One drew his sword, and the terrible figure of Typhon appeared. Of course he was slain. And now the dude Valahate was told that Typhon represented fire, a terrible element which was at the same time indispensable. The password was Chimea, and the teaching was in chemistry, or alchemy.

[00:49:01.800 to 00:49:24.240] In order to become an astronomer of the gate of the gods, the sixth degree, the candidate was taken to the hall of assembly, bound and led to the gate of death. He was shown corpses which had been cast into water and warned that he might be similarly treated if he broke his oath. He was given some teaching in astronomy and taken back to the gate of the gods.

[00:49:25.310 to 00:49:53.000] where he looked at the pictures of the gods while their histories were explained to him. A priestly dance took place, symbolizing the course of the heavenly bodies. He saw a list of members of the order throughout the world and learned the password Ibis for watchfulness. The last and the highest degree was that of Profeta, in which all secrets were laid bare.

[00:49:53.600 to 00:50:00.080] It was conferred following public processions, and when the permission of the king and all the highest members had been

[00:50:00.080 to 00:50:27.310] obtained, the members secretly left the city by night, and retired to some houses built in a square and surrounded by pillars by the sides of which were placed alternately a shield and a coffin, whose rooms were painted with representations of human life. Now these houses were called maneras, for the people believed them to be visited by the manes of departed men.

[00:50:28.380 to 00:50:56.520] On their arrival at these houses, the new member, now called Prophet Arsaphanath Panka, a man who knows the secrets, was given a drink called Oimeles, and told that now all trials were over. He received a cross of peculiar significance, which he was always to wear. He was clothed in a wide, white striped dress called Itangi,

[00:50:57.280 to 00:51:26.760] The usual sign was crossing his arms in his wide sleeves. He could peruse all the sacred books written in the Ammonite language. His greatest privilege was having a vote in the election of a king, and the password was Adan. These mystical societies always continued, and one of special interest is the powerful society in Afghanistan in ancient times called the Roshaniyya, or Illuminated Ones.

[00:51:27.420 to 00:51:50.740] There are actually references to this mystical cult going all the way back through history to the House of Wisdom at Cairo. The major tenets of this cult were the abolition of private property, the elimination of religion, the elimination of nation-states, the belief that illumination emanated from the supreme being who desired a class of perfect men and women to carry out the organization and direction of the world.

[00:51:51.260 to 00:52:20.130] Belief in a plan to reshape the social system of the world by first taking control of individual countries one by one, and the belief that after reaching the fourth degree, one could communicate directly with the unknown supervisors who had imparted knowledge to initiates throughout the ages. The Roshani also called themselves the Order. Initiates took an oath that absolved them of all allegiance except to the Order and stated, quote,

[00:52:20.660 to 00:52:48.560] I bind myself to perpetual silence and unshaken loyalty and submission to the order. All humanity which cannot identify itself by our secret sign is our lawful prey. Unquote. The oath remains essentially the same to this day. The secret sign was to pass a hand over the forehead, palm inward, the countersign to hold the ear with the fingers and support the elbow in a cupped other hand. Does that sound familiar?

[00:52:49.240 to 00:53:13.570] If you sit in a courtroom in just about any city in this land, you will see those signs exchanged between lawyers and defendants and judges. And you will see that whenever these signs are exchanged, whoever initiated the exchange will usually, in fact, most often does, win the court case.

[00:53:15.550 to 00:53:43.780] The order, of course, is the order of the quest, and the cult preached that there was no heaven, no hell, only a spirit state completely different from life as we know it. The spirit could continue to be powerful on earth through a member of the order, but only if the spirit had been itself a member of the order before its death. Thus members of the order gained power from the spirits of the dead members. The Roshaniya took in travelers as initiates and then sent them on their way to found new chapters of the order, and they were called fellow travelers.

[00:53:44.640 to 00:54:16.120] You see this order as all before it. In all sense, our socialists, communists, it is believed by some that the assassins were a branch of the Roshaniya. And branches of the Roshaniya are the illuminated ones, or the Illuminati exist and still exist everywhere. One of the rules was not to use the same name and never mention, quote, Illuminati, unquote. That rule is still in effect today. And that's probably the breaking of that rule that resulted in Adam Weishaupt's.

[00:54:17.270 to 00:54:47.580] Remember, folks, that we have really only just begun, and you are just beginning to understand, although some of you may think that you already understand. I can assure you that maybe a very small minority of you really do. Most do not. We have a long way to go in this history, and in your own particular individual illumination.

[00:54:50.560 to 00:54:59.350] Oh, I just love it. I just love it, exposing these people who claim that they're doing everything for the benefit of mankind, who

[00:55:00.040 to 00:55:26.060] really have all the guilt for most of everything bad that has ever happened to mankind resting squarely upon their shoulders. Now, if you'd like a packet of information, if you'd like to know how to join CAGI, if you'd like to purchase my book, or if you'd like to donate to pay for the airtime of this show, make a check or money order out to WWCR. That's to pay for the airtime.

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[00:56:04.130 to 00:56:17.500] Next time, folks, we're going to talk about the old man of the mountain. And we're going to continue the history of the order through the ages. Good night, and God bless you all.

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