Conspiracy Theory Part 2
Black was convicted in 1981 for attempted armed overthrow of
the government of the Dominican Republic, in violation of the US Neutrality Act.
He was sentenced to three years in prison, during which time he learned computer
programming, which led him to establish Stormfront. Stormfront featured the
writings of William Luther Pierce and
David Duke, as well as works by
Carto’s Institute for Historical
Review (IHR). In a 2001 USA Todayarticle, journalist Tara McKelvey called
Stormfront “the most visited white supremacist site on the net.” 11 By
June 2008, the site was attracting more than 40,000 unique users each day. 12
Despite some dubious supporters, Paul attracted a wide
following by saying a lot of the right things, particularly to the conspiracy-minded
crowd. As noted by James Kirchick, who
was the first to break the story of
Paul’s newsletter in an article in The New Republic, “If you are a critic of
the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six
months, Ron Paul has said something
that appealed to you.”13 As Kirchick further describes, “Antiwar conservatives, disaffected centrists, even young
liberal activists have all flocked to Paul, hailing him as a throwback to an
earlier age, when politicians were less mealy-mouthed and American government
was more modest in its ambitions, both at home and abroad.” 14 But
Paul and his associates published a number of newsletters, particularly in the
period between 1988 and 1994 when Paul was no longer in Congress, dwelling on
conspiracy topics like “industrial-bankingpolitical elite,” the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the CFR, praising anti-government militia movements
and warning of coming race wars. The newsletters offered praise for David Duke and other controversial figures.
On his website, Duke boasts of
the endorsements and kind words he received from Paul in his newsletters and in
turn endorsed Paul for president. During his 1996 congressional election, Paul
said the material had been taken out of context, but in later years claimed the
articles were ghostwritten and that he was unaware of their content. Paul’s former
staffer Eric Dondero said Paul was not telling the truth. 15 Likewise,
Paul’s former secretary said, “It was
his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final
product… He would proofit.” 16 Paul continued to deny the
accusations and to disavow the material.
Dondero related that Paul’s newsletter was a joint effort
between Paul and another popular political commentator, Lew Rockwell, and others joined in later on. 17
Rockwell is an American libertarian and proponent of the Austrian School of
economists, such as Friedrich Hayek. He formed the Ludwig Von Mises
Institute, which Paul still has a close working relationship with. Ludwig von Mises (1881 –1973), a member of the Mont Pelerin society, who was born to wealthy Jewish parents in the
Ukraine, was another Austrian school economist who had a significant influence
on the libertarian movement in the US. He had also become one of the closest
economic advisers of Engelbert Dollfuss
and Otto von Habsburg of the Knights of Malta as well as Mont Pelerin, who were both
in Coudenhove-Kalergi’s synarchist
Pan- European Union.
Rockwell was closely associated with a student of von Mise,
Murray Rothbard, his teacher and colleague. Rothbard was born in the
Bronx, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. In 1954 Rothbard, along with
several other students of Ludwig von
Mises, such as George Reisman and Ralph Raico, associated with novelist Ayn Rand. Rand was the author of two
best-selling novels, The Fountain head and
Atlas Shrug ged, which offered a philosophy of selfishness, which is the basis of libertarianism and neoliberalism. According to Rand’s philosophy
of Objectivism, the proper moral purpose of one’s life is the pursuit of one’s
own happiness (or rational self-interest) and the only social system consistent
with this morality is complete respect for individual rights embodied in
laissez-faire capitalism. Rothbard also
made use of the insights of fascist theorists Gaetano Mosca and Robert Michels to build a model of state personnel,
goals, and ideology.
Rockwell’s political ideology, like Rothbard’s, combines a
form of anarchocapitalism with cultural conservatism and the Austrian School of
economics. Rothbard considered the monopoly force of government the greatest
danger to liberty, labeling the state as “the organization of robbery
systematized and writ large,” and concluded that all social services could be provided more efficiently by the private sector. Rothbard also lent support to the concern
among conspiracy buffs about the pernicious role of the Federal Reserve. 18 As well,
Rothbard also reflected the inherent racism that afflicts much of conservative policy. In a 1963
article, Rothbard wrote that “The Negro Revolution has some elements that a
libertarian must favor, others that he must oppose. Thus, the libertarian
opposes compulsory segregation and police brutality, but also opposes
compulsory integration and such absurdities as ethnic quota systems in jobs.” 19
In a 2003 Southern Poverty Law Center essay, Chip Berlet commented that
Rothbard was “a man who complained that the Officially Oppressed’ of American society (read, blacks, women
and so on) were a ‘parasitic burden,’ forcing their ‘hapless Oppressors’ to provide ‘an endless flow of benefits.’” 20
The Southern Poverty Law Center also lists the Ludwig
von Mises Institute as a neo-Confederate organization. Thomas E. Woods
Jr., a member of the institute’s senior faculty, is a founder of the secessionist
group the League of the South, and the author of The Politically Incorrect
Guide to American History, a pro-Confederate, revisionist tract published in
2004. Paul reviewed the book positively, saying that it “heroically rescues
real history from the politically correct memory hole.” 21 As
Kirchick describes:
The people surrounding
the von Mises Institute—including Paul—may describe themselves as libertarians, but they
are nothing like the urbane libertarians who staff the Cato Institute or the
libertines at Reason magazine. Instead, they represent a strain of right-wing
libertarianism that views the Civil War as a catastrophic turning point in
American history—the moment when a tyrannical federal government established
its supremacy over the states. 22
According to a Reasonmagazine article on the Paul
newsletters, “ Rockwell and the prominent libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard championed an open strategy of
exploiting racial and class resentment to build a coalition with populist
‘paleoconservatives’…” 23 After Paul garnered only 1 percent of the vote
in a presidential run as leader of the
Libertarian Party, libertarians had searched for ways to broaden their
appeal. Rockwell and Rothbard advocated a coalition of libertarians and
so-called “paleoconservatives,” who unlike war-mongering “neocons” were
socially conservative, noninterventionist and opposed to what they viewed as state-enforced
multiculturalism. 24 A detailed
description of the strategy was presented in an essay Rothbard wrote for
the January 1992 Rothbard-Rockwell Report, titled “Right-Wing Populism: A
Strategy for the Paleo Movement,” which is summarized by Sanchez and Weigel:
Lamenting that mainstream
intellectuals and opinion leaders were too invested in the status quo to be
brought around to a libertarian view, Rothbard pointed to David Duke and Joseph
McCarthy as models for an “Outreach to the Rednecks,” which would
fashion a broad libertarian/ paleoconservative coalition by targeting the
disaffected working and middle classes. (Duke, a former Klansman, was discussed
in strikingly similar terms in a 1990
Ron Paul Political Report.) These groups could be mobilized to oppose an
expansive state, Rothbard posited, by exposing an “unholy alliance of
‘corporate liberal’ Big Business and media elites, who, through big government,
have privileged and caused to rise up a parasitic Underclass, who, among them all,
are looting and oppressing the bulk of the middle and working classes in
America.” 25
Paul’s newsletter’s outlook showed sympathy for the cause of
the radical Patriot Movement, where armed revolution against the federal government
was seen as justified. In January 1995, three months before
right-wing militants bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, a
newsletter listed “Ten Militia Commandments,” describing “the 1,500 local
militias now training to defend liberty” as “one of the most encouraging
developments in America.” 26
Ron Paul has given extensive interviews to the magazine of
the John Birch Society, and has
frequently been a guest of the radio show of
Alex Jones, a representative of the
Christian Patriot Movement and
the most popular propagandist of the conservative version of conspiracy.
The Patriot Movement are in complete
denial of the Masonic roots of the
American Revolution and of its purpose against
Christianity in creating secularism. They have created a cult out of the
“Founding Fathers,” and by denouncing the
CFR and other “Globalist” organizations for distancing the United States
from the “ideals of the Constitution,” their “libertarianism,” which celebrates
the cause of “ Liberty,” is a merely a call for
neoliberalism. But in following the program of the CNP, JBS and the Christian Identity ideology of the Patriot Movement, Jones is also exposed to
its latent white-supremacism. Therefore, Jones repeats the excuse put forward
by the movement which has rebranded itself as not being against other races,
but being “for” white pride, and sees the “conspiracy” as being intent on exploiting
minority issues to undermine the rights of pro-gun and “freedomloving” white
Americans.
Thus, by serving as the unwitting mouthpiece for their hidden
neo- Nazi sympathies, Jones is acting to popularize the racist Aryan theories that ultimately tie the
conservative movement to the New Age.
Though the New Age denies its close
relationship to Nazism, it nevertheless
shares with it its roots in the thought of
Blavatsky, as expressed by Alice Bailey. Both the New Age and Nazism hold in common the belief
in the creation of an Aryan race by
extraterrestrials on Atlantis, which has
become the basis of the UFO phenomenon.
Presented as a fulfillment of Bailey’s
“ Externalization of the Hierarchy,” and
the Age of Aquarius,
extra-terrestrials are “ Ancient Aliens” who have guided humanity throughout
the centuries, and who will now come forward to lead the establishment of
a New World Order according to a one-world religion.
Between 2005 and 2007, the Esalen Institute held three annual
conferences to gather the Council of Nine. They were composed of eight
channelled discarnate entities and one still living being, who included Goethe,
Hegel, William James, Alfred North
Whitehead, Rudolf Steiner, Sri
Aurobindo, Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and the Dalai Lama.27 According to Palden
Jenkins, editor of the 1992 The Only Planet of Choice, a book of channeled
information from The Nine by way of Puharich associate Phyllis Schlemmer, which
has had an unprecedented influence over the New Age, an increasing number of channellers are realizing that the real source of their
wisdom is The Nine. According to the
entity named Tom, in a description reminiscent of the Gnostic idea of the
battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, the Earth was
created as a battleground to enable The Nine to confront the Others, the
Pleiadean followers of the Beast on a physical plane. Every being in the
universe must be incarnated on Earth to experience the delights as well as
challenges of free will, which exists nowhere else in the universe, hence the title,
The Only Planet of Choice.
The Nine are supposedly guiding the genetic evolution of
mankind by the Alteans and the Hoova, who arrived in our solar system 1.6
million years ago, to found the civilizations of Tibet and Atlantis. They claim that they left
a store of knowledge hidden beneath the
Giza plateau, which was to be used as apart of the final “awakening”
to raise man to a new level of spiritual
awareness to the point where we as a race would be welcomed into a benevolent
galactic federation. All the races of the earth are therefore part
extra-terrestrial, or “divine,” except the Blacks however, who are the only
truly indigenous race of Earth. According to James Hurtak in The Keys of Enoch,
his guides Enoch and Metatron advised him not to allow his “…seed to marry with
the fallen races of the earth.” 28 Hurtak claims that Islam has been influenced by the “Fallen One,” and refers to Muslims as
the “Children of Darkness.” According to Tom the Holocaust as a sad tragedy
necessary for the creation of the state of Israel, an important part of the
plan for Earth: “The greatest portion of these six million came at that time to sacrifice self, to make your
planet aware that there were
those who would attempt to rule and control humanity.” 29
Ultimately, according to Tom, Jesus and
Jehovah are one and the same, and have a special relationship to The Nine. Jesus was “the last of us to visit planet
Earth.” The Second Coming will be a mass landing of extra-terrestrials,
when Jesus will return as the Messiah
of the Jews.
James Hurtak, who was director of the Institute for Noetic
Sciences ( IONS), where Willis Harman was president, established himself as a
New Age guru, travelling the world giving workshops on his book of channelled
revelations from The Nine, The Keys of Enoch.One disciple described him
reverently as “almost the Messiah.” 30 Hurtak was also associated
with the Human Potential Foundation,
founded in 1989 by Senator Claiborne
Pell, who as well was a member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences ( IONS). Also
a member of the CFR, Pell was a very
powerful figure in Washington, having
served as Chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee from 1987 to
1994. Pell was also a leading member of
the Club of Rome as well as friend of
Aurelio Peccei. 31 Pell was also a close friend of BCCI figure Clark Clifford. Pell was mentor
to former Vice-President Al Gore, with
whom he shares an avid interest in the paranormal, with both supporting
government-funded research into the matter. In 1988, Pell introduced a bill to
acquire government funding for the new age group the National Committee on
Human Resources, of which Al Gore was a
co-sponsor. The resolution was to establish the Center for Human Resource
Development and spoke of the “normal aspiration of all citizens to more fully
achieve their potential in body, mind and spirit… [and] there is a role for
government to assist in research and education on techniques that promote the…
fuller realization of human potential.” 32
The Human Potential
Foundation’s president was one of Pell’s aides, C. B. “Scott” Jones, a veteran
of US Navy intelligence. According to researcher Jim Schnabel, “Scott was in
touch with a ring of psychics around the United States, who he occasionally put in touch wit various intelligence
officials on operational matters.” 33 The Human Potential Foundation also received
funding from Laurance Rockefeller. Its
employees included Dick Farley, who resigned over concern that the Council of
Nine exercised increasing influence over politicians and
decision-makers. He wrote that the Nine “maintain a working network of
physicists and psychics, intelligence operatives and powerful billionaires, who
are less concerned about their ‘source’ and its weirdness than they are about
having every advantage and new data edge in what theybelieve is a battle for
Earth itself.” 34
IONS was founded by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who has become one of the
chief authorities on the supposed government “cover-up” of extraterrestrial
contact. Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that he is “90 percent sure that many of
the thousands of unidentified flying
objects, or UFOs, recorded since the
1940s, belong to visitors from other planets”35 and that UFOs have been the “subject of disinformation
in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn’t come
out.” 36 He offered his
opinion that the evidence for such “alien” contact was “very strong” and
“classified” by governments,
who were covering up visitations and
the existence of alien beings’ bodies in places such as Roswell, New Mexico. He
further claimed that UFOs had provided
“sonic engineering secrets” that were helpful to the US government. 37
An important promoter of the myth of alien-constructed
structures on Mars first proposed by Hurtak is
David M. Myers, who is another channeller of The Nine, also in contact with Tom. Myers is
co-author with Britain’s David S. Percy
of Two-Thirds, a history of the galaxy and the human race according to Myers’ other-worldly contacts. Percy touts himself as an award-winning film and television producer, member of the
Royal Photographic Society, and is best known as a champion of the “Face on
Mars” and the moon-landing hoax theory. He was involved in the making of two
Moon Hoax movies, Dark Moon: Apollo and
the Whistle-Blowersand What Happened On the Moon?The “face” on Mars refers to
an unusual photograph taken by Viking 1 probe in 1976 when in Mars’ orbit.
The other major proponents of the “monuments” of Mars and
their alleged connection with ancient Egypt is Dr. Richard Hoagland, who bills himself a former NASA consultant and CBS News advisor, who has
promoted this idea since 1973. In 1971, it was Hoagland who came up with the
idea he passed on to Carl Sagan, of
equipping the Pioneer 100, the first
space probe to leave the solar system, with a plaque bearing symbolic
information about human civilization, and a diagram indicating the Earth as the
third planet from the Sun. He was also
instrumental in the campaign to name the
first space shuttle “Enterprise,”
inspired by his friend Gene Roddenbery, creator of Star Trek.
In 1983, Hoagland was working for the Stanford Research
Institute (SRI) on a project concerning the rings of Saturn, and while studying photos from the
Viking archive, found what he believed to be a pyramid complex near the “face”
on Mars, in the Cydonia region. When Hoagland decided to set up a project to
study the features further, he approached the Institute for the Study of
Consciouness, founded by Arthur M. Young, who introduced him to Lambert Dolphin
Jr., who had headed the SRI expedition to
Giza in the 1970s. Hoagland and Dolphin then formed the Independent Mars
Mission, with funding from SRI. The American and European Director of
Operations for Hoagland’s Mars Mission were, respectively, David Myers and
David Percy.
According to Uri Geller, the Face on Mars had been discovered
by remote viewing in the early 1970s. 38 In fact, Hoagland’s
interpretation of the “monuments” of Mars comes directly from The Nine. Hoagland’s writings claim “the Face
on Mars” is part of a city built on Cydonia Planitia consisting of very large
pyramids and mounds arranged in a geometric pattern, which must be trying to
“tell us something.” According to Hoagland:
For it is now clear… that, if appropriately researched and
applied to many current global problems, the potential “radical technologies”
that might be developed from the “Message of
Cydonia” could significantly assist the
world in a dramatic transition to a real “new world order”… if not a literal New World. 39
Hoagland described his theories in The Monuments of Mars: A
City on the Edge of Forever, and
co-authored the book Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, a New York TimesBest Seller. Hoagland
claims that advanced civilizations exist or once existed on the Moon, Mars and
on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and that NASA and the United States government have
conspired to keep these facts secret as explained in the “the Brookings Report.” Among Hoagland’s other
claims are that the US government has covered up the presence of extraterrestrials, that the Space Agency murdered
the Apollo 1 astronauts, that NASA missions to Mars are a “well documented
interest of the Bush family,” 40
and that there is a clandestine space program which uses antigravity technology
reverse-engineered from lunar artifacts and communicated by secret societies.
He goes on to say that NASA is
suppressing knowledge of an ancient civilization on the Moon, and that the advanced
technology of this civilization is lying around on the Moon’s surface. 41
All related to the communications from The Nine, and the
research of the SRI and ARE at Giza in
Egypt, these authors are characterized by Picknett and Prince, in Stargate Conspiracy,as
part of a conspiracy for the “manipulation of beliefs about the origins and
history of human civilization, in particular of beliefs about the existence of
an advanced civilization in the ancient past and its influence on
the earliest known historical civilizations, primarily that of Egypt .” 42 Expressed through a number of popular
pseudo-scientific non-fi ction works
of a field known as “Alternative
Egyptology,” the best-known
names in this conspiracy are Robert
Temple, John Anthony West, Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock, whose works
have been instrumental in arousing interest in the “mysteries” of ancient
Egypt.
In 1990, Dr. Zahi Hawass granted a license to John Anthony
West and Robert Schoch, known as the Schoch Project, backed by the University
of Boston, where Schoch was a professor. Also influenced
by Schwaller de Lubicz, in 1993 West’s work with Schoch was presented by
Charlton Heston in a NBC special called The Mystery of the Sphinxthat won West
an News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for
Best Documentary. Investors in the project included Dr Joseph M. Schor, one of
two leading members of ARE, whose
aim was to fulfill the prediction made
by Edgar Cayce in 1933 that a secret chamber would be discovered under
the Sphinx that contained the so-called “Hall of Records,” a repository of
Atlantean knowledge. ARE had also arranged a scholarship for Dr. Zahi Hawass at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he gained his PhD in Egyptology, before going on to become Egypt ’s
Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. The project’s main discovery was
water erosion on the Sphinx, but it also undertook seismographic tests to
detect the possible existence of chambers beneath the Sphinx. According to
Bauval and Hancock, a total of nine chambers in all were discovered, which they
called the Genesis chamber. Also enthusiastic about these discoveries was Dr.
Zahi Hawass, who suggested they may represent the symbolic “tomb of Osiris.” 43
Also in 1993, Rudolf Gatenbrink famously sent a robot fitted with a camera to explore shafts in the
pyramid of Giza. Bauval seized upon the
opportunity to interpret Gatenbrink’s data to suggest that the southern shaft
of what is called the Queeen’s Chamber would have been aligned to the star
Sirius in around 2450 BC, which therefore must have been the date of its
construction. However, Bauval’s claim had nothing to do with the research of
Gatenbrink, who rejected Bauval’s theory, but was rather developed from ideas first proposed by James Hurtak and derived
from Masonic literature dating back at
least to the late nineteenth century. 44
One of the many recurring themes in several of Hancock’s
works has been an exposition on the “ Orion Correlation Theory” (or OCT). It
was the subject of a bestseller, The
Orion Mysteryby Robert Bauval, as
well as a BBC documentary, The Great Pyramid: Gateway to the Starsin 1994. The
OCT proposes that the layout and
formation of the pyramids of Giza
correspond to the stars in the
constellation of Orion. This is taken as
evidence by the authors of advanced knowledge of the stars, which would
purportedly indicate the extra-terrestrial origins of its builders.
The book that launched Hancock’s career as a bestseller was
The Sign and the Seal (1992), where,
following clues found in the Bible, the Grail epic of Eschenbach and the Knights Templar, he traces
the location of the Ark of the Covenant from its supposed source in ancient
Egypt, to Jerusalem, and from there to its final resting place in Ethiopia. In Fingerprints of the Gods(1995), without stating so
explicitly, Hancock attempts to prove the historical accounts of Theosophy, by
attempting to prove that a universal cataclysm took place, presumably the sinking
of Atlantis, and that numerous cultures of the ancient world report the occurrence
of “white gods” who taught them the arts of civilization, the proof of which
are the various enigmatic monuments around the world.
Hancock has since updated his Ancient Aliens hypothesis by
marrying it with the entheogen thesis, by suggesting that “supernatural”
entities such as aliens and fairies are actually transdimensional beings
encountered by human beings under altered states of consciousness, most likely
achieved by ingesting psilocybin
mushrooms or ayahuasca. It was through such “contact,” he proposes, that
early human civilizations learned advanced skills from their encounters with
these beings.
These authors started forming expectations about a Giza discovery around year 2000, which was
supposed to herald the Age of Aquarius. The source of these predictions were
not only the visions of Edgar Cayce, but the traditions of AMORC. Spencer Lewis claimed to have inside
knowledge about Giza derived from the
“Rosicrucian Archives” which formed a major part of AMORC’s beliefs. These ideas formed the
bedrock of Bauval’s Project Equinox 2000, announced in 1998, and based around a
group of twelve authors in addition to himself, whom he referred to as the
Magic 12. It originally included GrahamHancock, John Anthony West, Andrew
Collins, Robert Temple, Michal Baigent, one of the authors of the Holy
Blood Holy Grail, and Christopher
Knights and Robert Lomas, authors of the Hiram Key, which contains a radical
hypothesis regarding the origins of Freemasonry, seeking to demonstrate a
heritage through the Knights Templar to the Jerusalem Church and Pharaoic
Egypt.
The Magic 12 were to hold a series of conferences held on the
equinoxes and solstices throughout the year 1999, at locations regarded as the
major Hermetic sites of the world, such as
Giza, Alexandria, Stonehenge and San Jose, the headquarters of AMORC. According to Bauval, the purpose was
to perform a global ritual symbolizing the return of the Hermetic tradition to Egypt.
The year’s rituals were to culminate on New Years Eve, when the 12 authors
would deliver their “message to the planet” in front of the Sphinx, and which
would mark the “return of the gods” to Egypt.
Hawass, who is also linked to
AMORC, had announced that a ceremony of blatant Masonic symbolism was also to take place,
where a gold capstone was going to be placed on the top of the Great Pyramid, but the event was finally cancelled
due to overwhelming protests. Hawass has received widespread publicity
internationally, and was the subject of a reality television series in the US,
Chasing Mummies. But his links to business ventures and the Mubarak regime have caused controversy. In
connection with the awarding of a gift shop contract at the Egyptian Museum and
alleged smuggling of antiquities, he was sentenced to a prison term, which was
later lifted.
Most recently, the pseudo-history of these authors, as well
as the ancient astronaut theorists Zecharia Sitchin and Erich von Däniken, has
been popularized in another History Channel documentary, called “ Ancient
Aliens.” Von Däniken was convicted of
several financial crimes including fraud shortly after publication of his first book, but later became a co-founder of the Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI Research
Association (AAS RA), which produces the Legendary Times magazine, published by
Giorgio Tsoukalos, the Consulting Producer for the “ Ancient Aliens” series.
However, in Debunking Ancient Aliens, Chris White does an excellent job of not
only making evident the dreadfully poor scholarship demonstrated by many of
these authors, but also in several cases, the very bold mendacity employed in
making many of their claims.
Effectively, the plot to promote Bailey’s
New Age philosophy takes place on many fronts, even among the most
vehement opponents of the “ New World Order.” One such example is the highly
popular David Icke. As revealed in another
excellent documentary by Chris White, called David Icke Debunked, Icke claims to be imparted with insights from
a spiritual entity named Rakorski, who
he also identifies with the name St Germain. Rakorski is none other
than Bailey’s Master Rakoczi, one of the
Ascended Masters of Theosophy,
Lord of Civilization, whose task is the establishment of the new civilization
of the Age of Aquarius. Icke calls him
the Lord of All Creation, saying that he is “directly responsible for the
changes the earth will undergo.” Essentially,
Icke, like other conspiracy researchers such as Jordan Maxwell, Michael
Tsarion, and Acharya S,is an ardent critic of the Illuminati, but presents the myriad speculations
of Theosophy as the truth being
suppressed. All his main teachings are Theosophical.
In 1989, Icke began to feel a presence around him, and in
1990 a voice told him to look in a bookstore at a particular section of books,
one of which was by Betty Shine, a psychic healer. When he met her, Shine told
him that she had a message for him from Wang Yee Lee, a being who she said
looked like a Chinese mandarin and had Socrates standing next to him, that Icke
had been sent to heal the Earth and that the spirit world was going to pass
ideas to him. Icke decided in 1991 to visit the pre-Inca Sillustani burial
ground near Puno, Peru, where he
became fixated at a certain mound in a circle of stones, and
felt a number of powerful sensations and new ideas began to pour into him. He
described it later as the “kundalini,” exploding up through his spine, activating
his brain and his Chakras, triggering a higher level of consciousness. He
returned to England and began to write a book about the experience, which he
titled Truth Vibrations. Icke wrote that he had been channeling for some time,
and had received a message through automatic writing that he was a “Son of the Godhead,” interpreting “Godhead” as the “Infinite Mind.”
Michael Barkun has described Icke’s position as “New Age
conspiracism.” To Icke, the Illuminati are the enemies of the New Age. The
Illuminati, to Icke, are descended from ETs, called the Babylonian
Brotherhood, reptilians humanoid beings from the constellation Draco, and who
live in tunnels and caverns inside the earth. In his book on the reptilians,
Children of the Matrix, Icke also made extensive use of Maurice Doreal’s translation of the so-called Emerald
Tablets, where he presented dire political warning about a Serpent Race. According
to Icke, the tablets were found in a Mayan temple where they had been deposited
by Egyptian priests. Their supposed author,
Thoth, had written them thirty-six thousand years ago in an Atlantean
colony in Egypt. Based on the influence of
Zecharia Sitchin, Icke argues that the reptilians are the race
of gods known as the Anunnaki in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish.
One of the main sources for David Icke’s
reptilian hypothesis is a woman who goes by the name of Arizona Wilder.
But on her Facebook page, she apparently retracted anything she confessed
to Icke, claiming she was deliberately
programed for the interview. 45 Another of David Icke’s sources for the reptilian theory is Stewart Swerdlow, who
claims to have been a victim of a mind control operation at Montauk Point from
the age of 14 in the early seventies, when he was one of the so-called “Montauk
Boys.” He claims to have personally witnessed Lawrence Gardner, author of
Bloodlines of the Holy Grail, and conservative pundit William F. Buckley, shapeshift into reptilian form during a human sacrifice ritual. Swerdlow also claims his great-uncle, Yakov Sverdlov,
was the first president of the Soviet Union, and that his grandfather helped
found the Communist Party in the United States in the 1930s. To ensure his
loyalty to the US government, he says, he was
“recruited” for specific government mind-control
research, including 13 years at the Montauk Project, which was supposed to have
enhanced his natural abilities.46 Janet Diane Mourglia-Swerdlow,
Swerdlow’s wife and partner in offering their psychic healing services, “sees
and hears frequencies on all levels,” an ability she ascribes of her mix of
American Indian and Celtic ancestry, as well as her lineage from Mary Magdalene, which extends back through to
the Waldensian heretics.47
Icke is a classic example of the Aryan racism
that typifies the channeled information
of the occult. Icke teaches that
Martians came to Earth and founded the
Aryan race, which the reptilians used as a vehicle to overtake the planet,
and that the Aryans who inhabited Atlantis were blond giants whose skin glowed
white. As Atlantis was destroyed, our
ultimate objective is to reattain the powers we once had. According to Icke, we will enter the New Age by rediscovering our hidden
psychological potential. Icke said,
“Many of you will remember the Atlantean times, you will remember you
communicated with, say, dolphins and whales, you understood these sentient
creatures, you could levitate, you could manifest things, you could cause
spontaneous combustion by not miraculous means at all.” 48
Icke is gifted with an affable charm that is the key to his
popularity, and gives every impression that he is sincere. According to
Nicholas GoodrickClark, author of Black
Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, “it is
clear from Icke’s book that he is a
transmitter of this information rather than its originator. …Who is then
guiding Icke and his New Age following toward the beliefs of
the millenarian-conspiracy cults?”49
He remarks that recent investigations by Matthew Kalman and John Murray of Open
Eyemagazine suggest that far-right and neo- Nazi groups are exploiting Icke to penetrate the Green and New Age movements.
In his book The Robots’ Rebellion, Icke praised the popular New Age magazine Nexus, which has been
exposed for its far-right links. Nexus’range of topics cover “prophecies, UFOs, Big Brother, the unexplained,
suppressed technology, hidden history and more.” Although formerly concerned
primarily with Green issues and Third
World causes, Nexustook up the subject
of the US Patriot movement under its new
editor Duncan M. Roads. Roads visited Qadda fi
in Libya in 1989, and is a close
friend of the right-wing Qaddafi supporter
and convert to Islam, Robert Pash. In
the late 1970s, Pash was the Australian contact for the US-based Aryan Nations and distributed material of
the Ku Klux Klan. As chairman of the Australian
Peoples Congress, Pash is also closely involved with the Australian League of
Rights, an ultra-right anti-Semitic organization. Among Pash’s other introductions
to Libya is John Bennett, president of
the Australian Civil Liberties Union, and an associate of Holocaust denier David Irving and Willis Carto. Bennett serves on the editorial
committee of Carto’s Journal of Historical
Review. Nexus’British agent is also an admirer of Irving and a Holocaust denier.50
The London-based New
Age magazine Rainbow Ark maintainsan influential
relationship with Icke, printing
excerpts of his work and helping to organize his lectures and meetings. The
magazine betrays a wide range of far-right links. In particular is Donald
Martin, the anti-Semitic publisher of Bloomfield Books, who is the leader of the British League of Rights. Donald Martin
represents the Australian League of Rights that Robert Pash is involved in.
Martin has also run the ultra-right British Federation for European Freedom and
the UK armof the World Anti-Communist
League ( WACL). Donald Martin has published in Spearhead, the magazine of John
Tyndall, leader of the British National Party, who regards Martin as his ally
in opposing immigration. Tyndall, an admirer of Sir Oswald Mosley, was a former deputy to Colin Jordan of the neo- Nazi National
Socialist Movement in the early 1960s, and corresponded with Savitri Devi. In 1963, Tyndall eventually
fell out with Jordan over Françoise Dior
who, though originally engaged to Tyndall, hastily married Jordan who had been released
from prison before him, to avoid being expelled from Britain as an undesirable
alien.
In 2004, Tyndall joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol, written by David Duke.
In 2004, Duke organized a weekend gathering of “European Nationalists,” in the spirit
of white nationalism in Kenner, Louisiana. In an attempt to overcome the
divisiveness that had followed the death of William Pierce in 2002, Duke
presented a unity proposal for peace within the movement. His proposal, now
known as the New Orleans Protocol, pledged adherents to a pan-European outlook,
recognizing national and ethnic allegiance, but stressing the value of all
European peoples. The Protocol was signed by and sponsored by a number of white
supremacist leaders and organizations, including Don Black and Willis Carto.
The editor of Rainbow Arkhas steered Icke toward meetings with militant US patriots, and
recommended Bloomfield Books. The same
editor has hinted at their manipulation of
Icke, by suggesting Icke wasn’t “ready for this yet,” referring to a spoof document entitled
Further Protocols,outlining plans
of “secret Zionism” for the “Goyim.”
Ultimately, David
Icke’s message like that of the
New Age itself, spells consequences with fascist overtones, foreboding a
new holocaust intended for the “fundamentalists” of Islam,
Christianity, and Judaism, who
refuse to adapt their age-old faiths for the ecumenism of the New Age movement. According to New Age or occult interpretation, the Atlanteans
were destroyed because of their transgressions. Likewise, despite their wishy-washy
claims of universal brotherhood and tolerance, the New Age warns of a coming confrontation with
all those who resist the transformation promised by the Age of Aquarius. Betraying these same fascist
tendencies, according to Alice Bailey,
“…let us never forget that its the Life, its purpose and its directed
intentional destiny that’s of importance; and also that when a form proves inadequate,
or too diseased or too crippled for the expression of that purpose, it is—from
the point of view of the Hierarchy—no disaster when that form has to go. Death
is not a disaster to be feared; the work of the Destroyer is not really cruel
or undesirable… Therefore, there is much destruction permitted by the
Custodians of the Plan and much evil turned into good…” 51 Similarly,
according to David Icke:
I do not
seek to hide the severity of this period of fundamental change. It will be
tough for every one of us… Many will return to light levels (die) in the wake
of the physical events and the quickening vibrations. The Earth Spirit is
already rising up the subplanes, and through the years ahead she will progress
through the whole frequencies in her journey back to Atlantis and beyond… Those who cannot quicken
their own vibrations through love and
balance will find themselves out of synchronization with the environment around
them. This process is already apparent. 52
Conspiracy Theory Part 3
Another popular author who employs the conspiracy genre to
preach a New Age doctrine is Jim
Marrs. Marrs is a prominent
figure in the
JFK conspiracy press and his book Crossfi re, which reached the New York
Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 1992, was a source for Oliver
Stone’s film JFK. Marrs’ Rule By Secrecydescribes a conspiracy linking the Round Table, Skull and Bones, the Trilateral Commission, the Illuminati, and the Templar, as making use of the knowledge of
the ancient mystery schools, revealed to ancient civilizations by extra-terrestrials.
In support of his claims, Marrs resorts to the new Egyptologists, as well as
David Icke, von Däniken,
Sitchin and even the prophecies of
Edgar Cayce. He quotes Icke as an
authority, according to whom humans were creations engineered by extra-terrestrials,
who are “a race of interbreeding [‘royal’ reptile-human hybrid] bloodlines…
were centered in the Middle East and
Near East in the ancient world and, over the thousands of years since, have
expanded their power across the globe… creating institutions like religions to
mentally and emotionally imprison the masses and set them at war with each
other.” 53 Marrs also quotes
Masonic historian Manly P. Hall, “The ancient knowledge was given to
early man by “their progenitors, the Serpent Kings, who reigned over the Earth.
It was these Serpent Kings who founded the Mystery Schools… and other forms of
ancient occultism.” 54
To Marrs, the
Templars were “non-conformists” mistreated by the evil Catholics, and
preserved these traditions that were inherited by the Freemasons and other secret societies.
Therefore, Marrs concludes: “Since it has been clearly demonstrated that this
knowledge—or view of the world—is still tightly held within the inner sanctums
of the secret societies, there appear to be but three possibilities: the small
inner elite continues to accumulate wealth and power in the hope of contacting
our ancient creators (nonhuman intelligences); or they have already achieved
such contact and are being guided or controlled; or they are the ancient
creators, the Anunnaki, the Serpent Kings.” 55
These claims are similar to those put forward by Dan Brown in his latest novel, The Lost
Symbol. Throughout all his books we are teased to believe that the secret
societies have been preserving a hidden truth contrary to the teachings of the
organized religions. Similarly, in The Lost Symbol, we are pulled into a labyrinth
of plot twists only to discover, after all, that the “Lost Symbol,” the Holy Grail as it were, the great secret that has been
kept from us over so many centuries, is the
Bible ! But, Dan Brown explains,
it’s not the Bibleyou or I read, and he
quotes from occult artist William Blake
who confessed, “Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I
read white.” In other words, the secret is in an inverse Gnostic or Luciferian interpretation of
the Bible, the hidden esoteric
interpretation of the Kabbalah . And
what is that? That there is no God outside of ourselves and that, allowed to discover
our true “potential,” we will find that we possess “divine” powers to be able to
perform works of magic, by which we will become like “gods” and, supposedly,
transform our world for the better.
Effectively, it would seem, what is being prepared is the
revelation of the expected messiah, known as
Maitreya, the Mahdi, St. Germain and Christ, the “King of the Jews” of the
Protocols, the proposed leader of the
New World Order, who will come down to earth in, as the ancients
ignorantly described, a flaming chariot,
which in actuality, we are to believe, will be a flying saucer.
This scenario mirrors allegations presented in 1994 by Quebecois journalist and
conspiracy theorist Serge Monast. Monast claims to reveal a secret plot known as Project Blue Beam, with the assistance
of NASA, to attempt to implement a New Age religion with the Antichrist at its
head and start a New World Order, via a
technologically-simulated Second Coming. The image of God speaking in all
languages will appear in a gigantic “space show” with laser projections of
multiple 3-dimensional holographic images worldwide. The project was apparently
supposed to be implemented in 1983, but was postponed several times, first to
1995, 1996, and finally by the year 2000.
As absurd as this prognostication may appear to be, these are
precisely the expectations of many New Agers, and who knows what other groups,
which may include secret societies, UFO
religions, neo- Nazis and so on. And,
given the success of the 2012 hullabaloo,
we may wonder to what extent these same expectations will filter to the rest of society, and to what effect.
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