A friend on YouTube has
sent me this pamphlet How to Overthrow
the Illuminati by Jason Cortez: http://libcom.org/library/how-overthrow-illuminati.
It's a local publication, probably American, and aimed primarily and young
black people who are in the process of becoming politically active. It's
written by somebody called Jason Cortez and the author believes that what he
calls "Illuminati Theory", conspiracy theories in other words, is
wrong. He explains that believing in conspiracy theories is a "waste of
talent" and that it distracts people from addressing the real causes of
the human world's problems. He provides what he thinks is a history of the
"Illuminati Theory" and says that it was created in pieces and
combined over a long period of time by rich and powerful people who'd been
kicked out of authority by mass movements. He claims that the first piece of the
puzzle lies with the origins of the Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society
established by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. It was an organization dedicated to
establishing an international republican and technocratic society, therefore
being staunchly opposed to the aristocracy and the churches. When the French
Revolution erupted a few years later there were rumours abound that it had been
engineered by Weishaupt's Illuminati, this was despite the fact that
Weishaupt's group lasted barely a decade. According to Cortez, the conspiracy
theory surrounding the Bavarian Illuminati was started by those opposed to the
Revolution in order to discredit it. Apparently Weishaupt's men had achieved
their goal by infiltrating and occupying Masonic orders. This theory was promoted
by people like Nesta Webster, John Robison (The author calls him
"Robinson") and the Jesuit priest Abbe Augustin Barreul. According to
this theory the Illuminati still existed in Masonic lodges around the world and
would unleash the same collectivist regimes against the British Empire and
United States of America unless stopped. I recommend a good book to read which
will give you a taste for conspiratorial culture in the 19th Century; it is a
fictional novel by Umberto Eco called
The
Prague Cemetery, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prague_Cemetery.
Cortez dismisses the notion that Freemasonry is anything other than a
"fancy social club" for people who want to feel important and
exclusive. Occasionally they were used as meeting places for radical activists,
but he sees this as inconsequential. He claims that the Freemasons only
originated a few hundred years ago out of the stone masons' guilds of
Europe.
This is false; the origin of the Freemasons, along with the Rosicrucians, Skull
and Bonesmen and many other elite secret societies goes back many centuries,
and even millennia, before that. Masonic history is deeply mysterious, but
there is a provable link to the Knights Templar, see:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Blood-Lost-Secrets-Freemasonry/dp/0871316021.
I think that the true birth of the Masonic secret society network lies in the
mystery schools of antiquity.
The next piece of the "Illuminati Theory" is
anti-Semitism, blaming it all on the Jews because Jews were associated with
finance and credit. Again, it was the recently-deposed and second-echelon
elitists who are supposedly behind this notion because they ape the big boys at
the top of the industrial food chain. Sadly the idea that Jews are behind the
New World Order is quite prevalent, it was behind Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime,
and Cortez is correct to discredit it; I have done so myself from my own
perspective, see:
http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/its-jooooozzz.html.
Of course there is no doubt that banking and economic control are tools used by
the elite to oppress the masses, this is never more obvious than in today's
world; but it's wrong to blame a cultural and religious group for it. I address
the various truths and lies of
The
Protocols of Zion here:
http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/protocols-of-zion.html.
The notion of the Biblical Apocalypse or "Rapture" is widely accepted
in some parts of the American conspiratorial community, but has little
influence beyond the borders of the
USA;
it's nonsense, as Cortez and I again agree. It's clear that the author of this
pamphlet is a Marxist and he interprets the conspiratorial opposition to the
Russian Revolution, the Spartacist uprising in
Germany
and other leftist bids for power accordingly. He sees them as a coming together
of those three theories, essentially serving the interests of the
"petit-bourgeois", those who opposed proletarian political movements
at the same time as having ambitions of joining the A-list capitalist class
themselves. The problem is that Nesta Webster, Robison and others completely
misinterpreted the history of the Illuminati, and Cortez simply echoes their
distortions in his pamphlet. Firstly, the Illuminati are far older than these
researchers, and therefore Cortez, think. Their origin lies in the very dawn of
history itself, and even before; in fact the Illuminati arose as a subversive
cabal in the civilization known to us as Atlantis, although they operated
globally at the time. They were never merely an anti-religious anti-monarchist
Enlightenment pressure group. Such pressure groups were numerous in the 18th
and 19th centuries and some were used by the Illuminati, which incidentally
also controlled the aristocracy and churches, but they were definitely not the
beginning of the Illuminati. The ancient history of the New World Order is a
complicated one; it involves astrology, the occult and the supernatural, but it
can be traced, for example see:
http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-orange-order-marches.html.
Cortez then goes on to describe how black people in his
local area, he calls it "the hood", have come to believe in
conspiracy theories to explain the mistreatment of black people America, some
of which unfortunately still goes on forty years after the civil rights revolution.
These ideas are spread by some "black power" organizations like the
Nation of Islam. Ideas include AIDS being created in a laboratory to
exterminate black people or KFC being set up by the Ku Klux Klan to make black
people overweight and unhealthy. There is a lot of truth behind these theories;
the mistake made is that these people think the goal is merely the destruction
of black people and culture. In truth the artificial creation of disease and malnutrition
is not a racist one, but is instead intended to decimate human beings of all
creeds and colours, for example see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyVK3pAiQQ.
However impoverished black people took on the idea that the entire New World
Order was a black vs. white dichotomy. Cortez is again correct to point out the
flaws in this notion, however he does so from his own Marxist perspective; for
him it's a conflict of class struggle, the capitalist ruling class trying to
keep control of the working class who want freedom. For me, I see the influence
of very ancient occult secret societies that can be found in both rich and poor.
Cortez also sees William Cooper's book
Behold
a Pale Horse as just another development of an illusion, whereas I see it
as one of the most encyclopaedic analyses of the New World Order to date.
Cortez wrongly claims that the "Illuminati Theory" doesn't work
because it leaves no room for coincidences or mistakes; not true! Any serious
NWO researcher you come across understands that such things to happen. Also we
supposedly make out the enemy to be "all-powerful" when this is
completely not the case. Many things happen in the world that are not intended
by the Illuminati, in fact they seem to be panicking at the moment and trying
their best to contain the genuine expansion of human consciousness. Cortez also
echoes the concept of the Skeptics that conspiracy theories fly in the face of
scientific reasoning; not true at all, and I've said so many times, for example
see:
http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/british-humanist-association-conspiracy.html.
Jason Cortez thinks that all the problems people blame
through "Illuminati Theory" can in reality be explained by the
Marxist interpretation of history and politics. The human world is underpinned
by the capitalist system, that there is a ruling class, a "bourgeoisie",
of those who own the means of production and they control everybody else economically
by taking possession of their "surplus labour". This is a complicated
idea and Karl Marx himself wrote about it in his
Das Kapital series of books. This is one of the longest political
textbooks every written and reputed to be the most intricate. This led to his 1848
publication of the far shorter and more comprehensive
Communist Manifesto, see:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf.
It's one of the most widely-read and most influential books in history and many
people come across it at some time in their life. I myself did when I was a
teenager and for a while I was very enthralled by it; I even went along to many
meetings of a local socialist group in
Oxford.
In fact the fictional description of one of these meetings in my new novel
The Obscurati Chronicles, is partly
based on my own experience, see:
http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/obscurati-chronicles-part-13.html.
However I swiftly rejected Marxism; at the time I didn't know why, it was
purely intuitive. I soon began to understand that strands exist in society and
the world in general that cannot be explained by Marxist interpretation and
Marxism doesn't even address them. The principle strand is the influence of
black magic, Satanism and of secret societies on history. What's more I
question the utopian objective of Marxism: the abolition of private capital, forced egalitarianism, extreme collectivism; it sounds as if society would be turned into some kind of
machine... it sounds suspiciously like the New World Order itself! In fact this
was the main criticism Henrik Palmgrem and the others at Red Ice Radio had of
Russell Brand's interview with Jeremy Paxman, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMj3Nw2c3M
(I share these concerns myself, although my emphasis was a bit different, see:
http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/russell-brand-walks-away.html).
What's more I've spoken several times before that I'm very worried about cultural
Marxist ideas like feminism, "positive discrimination", political correctness and the
oppression of white, straight males, see:
http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/anti-feminist-demonization.html.
So really this pamphlet doesn't explain how conspiracy theory is wrong at all,
and it promotes an alternative that I find distasteful. As always I urge
readers to look at both sides of the story, including any black people in
Cortez' "hood"; read the
Communist
Manifesto by all means, but don't do so without also listening to the words
of the aforementioned late, great Milton William Cooper, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUbFwqglIaA.
See here for more background information: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/my-book-review-who-are-illuminati.html .
