2002-04-09 - 9:55 p.m.

And now, my friends, a lesson in the fine art of conspiracy theory, brought to you by someone who has read all the great works wrought by the most paranoid minds of a hundred generations.

I have seen the greatest minds of my generation go screamingly wonky trying to figure out exactly what "Novus Ordo Seclorum" implies and exactly what oil magnate and CIA operative George Herbert Walker Bush was doing in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Strange lights appear in the sky over Bavaria? I am not surprised.

Bavaria, that old and mystical district, where aged hausfrau used to complain about the furry-faced haarmenschen staring in at the windows on dark and stormy nights, has been a stronghold of strange mysticism for long years.

In the 17th century, a Bavarian philosopher of the occult named Adam Weishaupt took a group of fellow seekers of truth up into the mountains and came back into town with the Bavarian Illuminati in tow.

"The Illuminated Ones" were all Freemasons, part of that ancient order of plutocrats and intelligentsia which pervade modern history. The Founding Fathers were all Freemasons, with the notable exception of the Adams boys, and rebellion in America was decried by ol' King George himself as "an uprising of Masons and ruffians". The Freemasons really made their presence felt when crafting the symbols that would define the American government, placing the emblem of the All-Seeing Eye (also favored by the Illuminati) on our national seal and arranging for Washington D.C. to be laid out in a series of remarkably occult geometrics which would have dazzled Solomon. A full report of the intriguing dimensions of the Capitol Hill and the surrounding network of streets and strange inscriptions, see Baigent and Leigh's "The Temple and the Lodge."

The Illuminati were frequently accused of being behind the revolutions that tore at the flesh of France from 1780 until the age of Napoleon. Napoleon made membership in the Illuminati illegal and had them executed on sight. Not that it mattered. Officially, the Illuminati had ceased to exist when they were banned by the Hapsburgs and pursued out of Bavaria by the Austrian lancers.

The Illuminati might be pulling strings from the shadows, but the Freemasons are still out in the sunshine even today. My own grandfather was a 33rd Degree Master Mason of the Scottish Rite. Today's Masons are the descendants of the Scottish Rite Freemasons who clashed with the Illuminati, in what was essentially a war of elitists who felt they could use royalty (particularly the British royal family, sometimes lovingly referred to as "the sacred cows of Albion" in the more entertaining Masonic tracts) and elitists who felt that all royalty must be abolished, and ideally beheaded.

Both Masonic societies are rife with links to ancient cults such as the Order of the Solomnic Temple, the Eleusian Mysteries, and the Knights Templar.

The Knights Templar, intriguingly enough, were popular enough that even after their Grand Wizard, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake thanks to King Philip the Fair of France, imitative orders sprang up around Europe.

One of the most successful was the Order of Teutonic Knights, invested by Frederick Barbarossa himself and kept alive in myth and song in Bavaria until the 1920s, when a young man named Heinrich Himmler became fascinated with the mysticism and rites and used them in crafting his Schutzstaffel, the brutal protectors of Hitler's interests during the 1930s and World War II, who were suspected of engaging in all manner of intriguing rituals to accompany their mass slaughters.

When the war ended, and Americans and Russians were stampeding through Germany snatching up scientists and technology in preparation for the coming Cold War, the Americans found a hangar in Berlin full of what a lucky G.I. called "flying discs" in his memoirs. Details on this fascinating bit of history, which features not only rockets, celebrities, and flying discs, but also drugs, lies, and Nazi spies -- known as Operation: Paperclip -- can be found in a book of the same name by Claire Lasny.

And speaking of Nazi UFOs, the lights in the sky over Bavaria are very similar to the phenomenon observed after 1947 by people all across the world. The "flying disc" with its prerequisite instantaneous stopping and starting and zipping motions was lacking, but burning lights in the sky are a hallmark of the era just as much as saucers and wedges.

It is particularly intriguing that NASA attributed the phenomenon to burning debris, since the same Operation: Paperclip which served to bring the flying disc prototypes to the American base in New Mexico, also brought such stalwarts as Dr. Werhner von Braun and the V-2 crew to the welcoming arms of the sparkling new National Air and Space Administration. NASA has been as Nazi operation from the beginnning, just like the Central Intelligence Agency, reorganized on the bones of the Office of Strategic Services per the order of President Truman under the gentle administration of not only Allen Dulles, but of Hitler's spymaster, Reinhard Gehlen.

Ah, Hitler. The dark little twisted darling of the conspiracy world. Hitler was often observed, when he thought himself alone in places such as the Eagle's Nest or the Wolf's Lair, speaking shrilly to the air in front of him. One of his manservants who wrote reports to Le Resistance said that he often screamed that he was "butchering as many as he could," as read in Jean Robin's "Hitler, l'elu du Dragon."

The strange entity which Hitler was screaming at was associated by some researchers with the "Invisible Masters" of the Initiated Brothers of Asia, a Rosicrucian society -- Rosicrucians being the Order of the Rosy Cross founded in 1642 by a man who wrote a series of pamphlets on finding the hidden secrets of Christianity and human spirituality. The Masons greatly admired the Rosicrucians, while the Illuminati sought to outdo them. -- which taught that Invisible Masters would give instruction in the ways of the spirit when you were initiated into the order.

The symbol of the Initiated Brothers of Asia was the swastika, that beloved sun sign of the steamy Far East. The order flourished to its greatest heights in the 16th century under the Comte de San Germaine, held by some terrible fiction writers today to be an immortal and a father of vampires.

The Brothers of Asia broke up throughout the proceeding centuries into a number of other German secret societies -- Goethe once observed that a German was less than nothing without a society meeting to attend each night -- and one of these was the Thule Group, founded by an unusual fellow named Ludwig Sebottendorff, a mystic who forwarded not only the secrets of the human soul but also the idea of a master race of Teutonic knights. He foresaw a great mystic order of racially pure warriors under a leader who was both general and Messiah. Hitler loved this image, and later had Sebottendorff hired to run his newspaper, the Volkische Beobachter.

One of Sebottendorff's closest friends, correspondents, and financiers of the Thule Group prior to their subsidizing by the National Socialist party was the man who called himself the Beast, Aleister Crowley. Crowley, a devoted pagan who devised a number of innovative rituals while proclaiming the coming Apocalypse, apparently came up with a ritual known as the "Babylon Working" sometime in the 1930s, as described in Kenneth Grant's "Outside the Circles of Time".

In 1947, L. Ron Hubbard and John Whiteside Parsons -- a propulsions engineer who worked on hush-hush jet projects before dying in a mysterious explosion in 1952 -- purportedly ventured out into the Mojave Desert, where the shamans of the Mojave Indians went out to find su'mach, the dreams that brought wisdom, and there the two enacted the Babylon Working. This was 1947. The year Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine flying saucers skimming over the Pacific, and blew open a floodgate of saucer sightings and encounters which has not stopped since.

Aleister Crowley died in 1947.

The chariots of fire men have seen in the sky since ancient times and in ever-greater numbers since 1947 have been associated with the gods since ancient times. Ezezkiel spoke of "a wheel within a wheel" whizzing through the sky in the Bible, which also features pillars of fire and guiding stars and angels descending in blazing light and enough close encounters of the third kind to choke the Men in Black. Most religions, if you get to the meaty potatoes, are founded on the premise of the descent of burning lights from the heavens.

Zechariah Stichin, in his immortal work "The Stairway to Heaven", points to Sumerian artifacts which portray wide-eyed round-headed gods who have come from the heavens in fiery chariots and great towers that look a lot like rockets in order to both create and educate mankind. Sumerian culture, as it happens, has been renowned among archaeologists for its astonishing level of advancement and the way it seemingly sprang up with not many signs of prior development -- no overbuilding, no sign of long-term farming in the area gradually setting into an urban pattern, no wreckage from revolutions, wars, or failed experiments with building materials. The cities are simply there, tall and proud and weathered and looking not dissimilar from later dynasty Egyptian architecture.

Sumeria, of course, was buried under the sands of Persia, from whence sprang the Aryans who served as god figures for the cults of Germany from which Hitler's dark mythology sprang.

From burning stars in the sky guiding the kings to the home of the savior across the ancient lands of the Aryans to the Order of the Rosy Cross seeking wisdom in the soul to Bavarian Freemasons leading revolutions to bring light to the world to the newly forged America serving as the deciding factor in massive wars which led to the discovery of new technology in the hands of dark mystics which opened up the skies over Bavaria, which were recently seen burning.

Here we are, then. Back at the Reuters story about lights in the sky over southern Germany.

For some reason, we've picked our way through a tangled web of conspiracy, secrecy, rumour, innuendo, religion, madness, and outright lies.

What does it all mean?

Perhaps everything.

Perhaps nothing.

It does conclusively demonstrate the wisdom of one more great myth:

Ouroboros. Jormungandr. The world-serpent..

You can go as far around the great, magical and mysterious world as you like, but you won't get very far if you're going to just eat your own tail when you get there.

...

Q.E.D.

- Wheels of Conspiracy

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