Brotherhood of Darkness

Secret societies and the Luciferian conspiracy (condensed edition)
-- by: Stanley Monteith, 2000, source: Radio Liberty
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3.  The Murder on the Orient Express

All of the suspects have a hand in the game

A Confusing Scene

At this point, we must return to our story of "The Murder on the Orient Express". Inspector Poirot realized that someone had altered the crime scene to confuse him... New clues kept appearing, and it soon became apparent that they were all designed to conceal the identity of the person, or persons, who had murdered Crosetti. In many ways we face the same dilemma today. How can we possibly determine who is responsible for our problems when there are so many clues and so many suspects? (p. 90)

[Here a review of the authors own path of investigation in the 1960s and 70s. --ed]

The Final Secret

When Monsieur Poirot completed questioning the passengers on the Orient Express, he was amazed to find that all of them...had a motive to kill Crosetti. The inspector also suspected they were all concealing what they knew about the crime... We face the same problem today. Many groups are working to establish a world government and a new world religion. The media is lying to us, conservative organizations are deceiving us, and our political leaders are doing everything possible to keep us from learning the identity of our enemy. (p. 106)

[Here a review of the Rhodes-Milner Group and their activities during the first half of the 20th century as documented by professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University. --ed]

Inspector Poirot was left with two possible explanations for the crime. The evidence suggested that someone had boarded the train, killed Crosetti, and escaped, but the Inspector knew most of the evidence was contrived. The second possibility was that all of the passengers were involved... All of the groups listed in the previous chapter are working to establish a new world order and a new world religion, with the exception of the Jews as a race. Our enemy is not a race or a religion. It is a spiritual movement that involves people of all races and all religions -- including some apostate Jews. (p. 116)

Professor Quigley told us that Cecil John Rhodes created a secret society to bring the uncivilized world under the control of the British Empire and reunite the United States with England... That concept gradually evolved into the current effort to unify the world...

[However,] Quigley failed to grasp the significance of the fact that John Ruskin was an occultist. Through the centuries, some men and women have sought the forbidden knowledge, and if they discovered it they fulfilled their obligation by dedicating their lives to uniting the world. Plato advocated that goal, and John Ruskin read Plato every day. When Cecil Rhodes heard Professor Ruskin's clarion call, he was consumed with a desire to dedicate his life to uniting the world... (p. 116)

Earlier I quoted part of Cecil Rhodes' "Confession of Faith", but I left out the most important part. He wrote:

"In the present day I become a member of the Masonic Order. I see the wealth and power they possess, the influence they hold, and I think over their ceremonies and I wonder that a large body of men can devote themselves to what at times appears the most ridiculous and absurd rites without an object and without an end. The idea gleaming and dancing before one's eyes like a will-o-the-wisp at last frames itself into a plan.

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire, for the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire."

Although Cecil Rhodes never understood the Masonic rites, or the significance of the oaths he took, he remained in the Lodge because it gave him access to the money he needed to purchase the gold and diamond mines of southern Africa. If you study the lives of those who joined him, you will discover that most of them were either Freemasons, spiritualists, Theosophists, or members of the Society for Psychical Research. (p. 117)

Lord Milner was a 33rd degree Mason, William T. Stead was a spiritualist and a Theosophist, and Arthur Balfour was a spritualist, a Mason, and a member of the Society for Psychical Research. What most researchers have missed is the fact that most of the men who joined Cecil Rhodes' secret society were involved in the occult. [E1]

Professor Quigley discussed the two power blocs that controlled Great Britain during the early decades of the twentieth century. One was led by Lord Cecil, the other by Lord Milner. [He] wrote:

One of the enduring creations of the Cecil Bloc is the Society for Psychical Research, which holds a position in the history of the Cecil Bloc similar to that held by the Royal Institute of International Affairs in the Milner Group. The Society was founded in 1882 by the Balfour family and their in-laws... In the twentieth century it was dominated by those members of the Cecil Bloc who became most readily members of the Milner Group. [30]

Lord Tennyson's uncle, the Balfour family, and their in-laws formed the Society for Psychical Research, and Alfred Lord Tennyson was a member. (p. 118)

To understand what is happening today, you must understand the oaths that Cecil Rhodes and many of his followers took when they became Masons... During each [initiation] ceremony the candidate is asked, "What do you desire most?". He is told to respond either "the Light" or "more Light", but he is never told what the Light represents... When an initiate kneels before his Worshipful Master and asks for the Light, something happens, and his world view changes. (p. 119)

Albert Pike was the leading Masonic philosopher of the nineteenth century, and he remains the most revered Mason of all time. His body is interred at the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C. and his statue stands close by. Until 1974 his book, "Morals and Dogma", was given to every Scottish Rite Freemason who reached the 14th Degree, and it is still recommended on all Masonic reading lists. He wrote:

Masonry conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it.

The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry.

Albert Pike goes on to explain that the secret of Masonry originated with the Ancient Magi, was imperfectly revealed by the Gnostics, and guessed at by the Templars... Here we learn that the secret of Masonry can be found in the teachings of Zoroaster [whose] followers believe that there are two gods: a good god and an evil god, a God of Light and a God of Darkness... They believe the two forces are in constant conflict, and according to Albert Pike, the battle began in the Garden of Eden. He tells us: (p. 127)

...the Prince of Darkness...made Adam, whose soul was of the Divine Light, contributed by the Eons, and his body of matter, so that he belonged to both Empires, that of Light and that of Darkness. To prevent the light from escaping at once, the Demons forbade Adam to eat the fruit of "knowledge of good and evil", by which he would have known the Empire of Light and that of Darkness. He obeyed; an Angel of Light induced him to transgress, and gave him the means of victory; but the Demons created Eve, who seduced him...

What is the secret that has been handed down through the ages? The answer can be found on page 321 of "Morals and Dogma", where you will discover the source of "the Light" that Masons seek. Albert Pike wrote: (p. 128)

...Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not! For traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations...

Manly P. Hall clarified Albert Pike's statement when he wrote:

When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands... [31]

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky became a Mason, and later channelled the three volumes of her book "The Secret Doctrine". Adolph Hitler, Margaret Sanger, Thomas Edison, William T. Stead, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Wallace, and many others read her books and embraced her philosophy. Her beliefs are the basis of Alice Bailey's writings, the Lucis Trust, and the New Age movement. In volume two of "The Secret Doctrine", [she] wrote:

In this case it is but natural...to view Satan, the Serpent of Genesis, as the real creator and benefactor, the Father of Spiritual mankind. For it is he who was the "Harbinger of Light", bright radiant Lucifer, who opened the eyes of the automaton created by Jehovah, as alleged; and he who was the first to whisper: "in the day ye eat thereof ye shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil" -- [he] can only be regarded in the light of a Saviour...

And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, ...and Lucifer, or "Light Bearer", is in us: it is our Mind -- our tempter and Redeemer, our intelligent liberator and Saviour from pure animalism. Without this principle...we would surely be no better than animals. [32]

The occult religions are only part of our problem. The Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission, the Club of Rome, and almost all of the other groups listed previously can be traced back to the occult...

The leaders of Masonry are working to replace our republican form of government with an authoritarian system, create a non-sectarian [universal] religion, and unite the world under their control. Their plan was laid out in [their journal] the "New Age" magazine in 1950: (p. 130)

God's plan is dedicated to the unification of all races, religions and creeds. This plan, dedicated to the new order of things, is to make all things new -- a new nation, a new race, a new civilization and a new religion, a non-sectarian religion that has already been recognized and called the religion of "The Great Light". [33]

Some Answers to the Mystery

Now you know the secret of the Ages, and I can answer the questions that were raised in previous chapters. (p. 130)

Benjamin Disraeli wrote "Coningsby". In that novel, a financier named Sidonia claimed the world was ruled by a secret cabal. Disraeli was obviously referring to Nathan Rothschild, who was the most powerful financier in the world at that time, and since Nathan Rothschild was Jewish, Disraeli's book has been used to document the existence of a Jewish conspiracy.

Why did Benjamin Disraeli promote that belief when both he and Nathan Rothschild were Jewish? I believe it was because both men were Masons. The Lodge has always sought to divert attention away from its influence, and anti-Semitism has been used to conceal Satan's agenda. Both the American Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Defamation League [of B'nai B'rith] have strong ties to Masonry...

J.P. Morgan was instrumental in forcing our country into World War I. He and his associates funded the Bolsheviks and the Nazis, and he helped organize the Council on Foreign Relations. Occult writes tell us he based his investment strategy on astrology.

Henry Ford built automotive factories for both the Communists and the Nazis, received a medal from Adolph Hitler, and wrote "The International Jew", which claimed that Jewish bankers financed Bolshevism. He distributed anti-Semitic material through his newspaper, and his closest friend, Thomas Edison, was a Theosophist. The Ford Foundation has funded a number of communist front organizations [including] the Institute of Pacific Relations which brought communism to China. Henry Ford was both a spiritualist and a 33rd Degree Mason. (p. 131)

Andrew Carnegie and Cecil Rhodes were friends. The directors of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace planned World War I, and then mounted a propaganda campaign to force us into that war. They financed the Lucis Trust and have worked to establish a world government. Andrew Carnegie was a spiritualist.

Col. Edward Mandell House manipulated the leaders of the Western world during the early decades of the twentieth century, and helped J.P. Morgan organize the Council on Foreign Relations after World War I. I found a copy of the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" among House's papers at Yale University, which suggests he was involved with either the writing or the distribution of that scurrilous doucment. New Age writers tell us he was an occultist.

President Truman carried a copy of Lord Tennyson's poem in his wallet throughout his life. He packed the Supreme Court with Masons, ceded China and Eastern Europe to the communists, created the United Nations, involved us in a no-win war in Korea, and fired Gen. MacArthur when he wanted to win that war. Harry Truman was a 33rd Degree Mason.

Winston Churchill referred to Lord Tennyson's poem as "the most wonderful of modern prophecies". During World War I, he was responsible for the British invasion of Gallipoli where 216,000 British soldiers and 150,000 Turks fell in battle. During World War II, he insisted on the invasion of North Africa despite the opposition of our military planners. Then he did everything he could to delay the invasion of Europe...and intentionally prolonged the war for over a year. That delay resulted in millions of additional deaths. Most Holocaust victims were killed during the closing months of the war; had the Allies been allowed to invade Europe in 1943, most of the Jews would have been spared. Winston Churchill was both a Mason and a Druid. He wanted to demonstrate the futility of war, and he succeeded. (p. 132)

What part does communism play? Rev. Richard Wurmbrand was living in Romania when the communists took over that country. He was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for fourteen years to force him to renounce his faith... When he was finally released...he read the early writings of Karl Marx and discovered that Marx wasn't an atheist; he was a Satanist. Karl Marx didn't believe in communism, but he embraced it in an effort to destroy Christian civilization. [34]

Mikhail Gorbachev was the dictator of the USSR and the Director of the Soviet KGB before he came to the United States. Maurice Strong, Steven Rockefeller, and Mikhail Gorbachev wrote the Earth Charter, which calls for a world government and a new spirituality. Gorbachev's State of the World Forum meetings always have an underlying theme of occultism. (p. 133)

Barbara Marx Hubbard is one of the leaders of the New Age movement. [She] has been a consultant for our Department of Defense, and she ran for the Democrat Party's vice-Presidential nomination in 1984. In her book, "The Book of Co-Creation", she discusses the hidden meaning of the Revelation of St. John the Divine. Her manuscript was channeled by a spirit she called The Christ Light. She quoted from Revelation 6:8:

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And Power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."

The Christ Light [then] explained the true meaning of that passage: (p. 134)

Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend with all their heart, mind and spirit... One-fourth is resistant to election. The are unattracted by life ever-evolving. Their higher self is unable to penetrate the density of their mammalian senses. They cannot be reached... They are defective seeds...

Now, as we approach the quantum shift from creature-human to co-creative human...the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body... Fortunately you, dearly beloveds, are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

We come to bring death to those who are unable to know God. We do this for the sake of the world... The riders of the pale horse are about to pass among you. Grim reapers, they will separate the wheat from the chaff. This is the most painful period in the history of humanity... You do not have to participate in the destruction. You are to be responsible for the construction which shall begin as the tribulations come to an end. [35]

Conclusion

Saint Paul warned us about the spritual forces that are aligned against us when he wrote:

"Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." -- Ephesians 6:11-13

God and Satan are involved in a cosmic struggle for the souls of mankind, and each of us is involved whether we want to be or not. The battle is being waged in our courts, our media, our schools, our banks, our military, our churches, and in our government. It appears that God has given Satan free reign to do as he pleases to determine how we will respond. (p. 137)

Perhaps these are the last days, and nothing can be done to turn back the tide of destruction that Barbara Marx Hubbard and her followers anticipate, but who can be certain?... Some people who say nothing can be done are cowards; others are working for the enemy. What are we to do? In Ezekiel 3 and Ezekiel 33, we are told to be watchmen, and to warn others. If we remain silent, their blood will be on our hands. We are to be involved, just as the servant who was given one talent [of money] to invest for his master should have been involved. Because he did nothing, he was punished.

We are to pray as if everything is up to God, and to work as if everything depends on us. Christians will face persecution in the days that lie ahead, and we must prepare ourselves and our families for that eventuality. We are engaged in a battle for the hearts and minds of men. We are to do our best, and recognize that ultimately the battle is the Lord's.