He Who Deals with the Causes Behind Phenomena

Q. Similarly, describe the Initiate of The Sacred Science. A. He who deals with the causes behind phenomena, studies and learns to wield the laws in all worlds of form and co-ordinates them in one essential Unity or Cause.

Source: The Science of the Initiates  by Eugene Milne Cosgrove

In Order to Maintain Itself, It Had to Go “Underground”

We know that with the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century—a development clearly linked to the temperament of the left brain—the esoteric tradition lost much of its prestige and that, in order to maintain itself, it had to...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

Understanding of the Way the World Works

All THE upside-down, inside-out, other-way-round thinking of the secret societies, all that is bizarre and mind-bending in what follows stems from the belief that mind preceded matter. We have almost no evidence to go on when we decide what we...

Source: The Secret History of the World  by Mark Booth

Secret, Hidden, Obscured, or Perhaps in Some Cases, Even Purposely Disguised

Some of these teachers we know and in a sense are not secret at all. Yet in many cases what they have to teach remains so. Some are not so well known, indeed, are hardly known at all. One can...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

The Esoteric Tradition Deals in Imagery and Symbols

For one thing, the esoteric tradition deals in imagery and symbols, the meanings of which are often complex and multiple, and which elude the left brain’s demand for clarity and definiteness; they are more attuned to what McGilchrist calls the...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

Their Varied Meanings Are Only To Be Discovered by Reflection and Study

The symbols and ceremonies of Masonry have more than one meaning. They rather conceal than disclose the Truth. They hint it only, at least; and their varied meanings are only to be discovered by reflection and study. Truth is not...

Source: Morals and Dogma  by Albert Pike

The Invisible Ones Behind the Visible Sovereign Powers

The real power structures [are] always the invisible ones behind the visible sovereign powers." The power elite is not a group from one nation or even of one alliance of nations. It operates throughout the world and no doubt has...

Source: JFK  by L. Fletcher Prouty

This Power Elite Is Not Easy to Define

This power elite is not easy to define; but the fact that it exists makes itself known from time to time. Concerning the power elite, R. Buckminster Fuller wrote of the "vastly ambitious individuals who [have] become so effectively powerful...

Source: JFK  by L. Fletcher Prouty

No Reason Why This Old Philosophy Should Be Longer Concealed

Underlying this Secret Doctrine was a profound philosophy of the creation or evolution of worlds and of man. The present humanity, in many quarters of the globe, has evolved on the intellectual plane so far that there now exist a...

Source: Mystic Masonry  by Jirah Dewey Buck

He Is a Lesser Divine Being Who Serves as the Instrument of the Higher Powers

What this secret tradition reveals is that the one whom most Christians naïvely worship as creator, God, and Father is, in reality, only the image of the true God. According to Valentinus, what Clement and Ignatius mistakenly ascribe to God...

Source: The Gnostic Gospels  by Elaine Pagels

Every Visible Thing Is Only an Effect of the Invisible or Causal

Light is not only a physical element, it is also a mental and spiritual element and in the temple the disciple is told to revere the invisible sun even more than the visible one; for every visible thing is only...

Source: Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire  by Manly P. Hall

Novus Ordo Seclorum

The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words...

Source: Fire in the Minds of Men  by James H. Billington

You Don’t Know Because Only I Know

Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you. And for a student to teach his teacher is presumptuous and...

Source: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

This Book Is Not for You

Forget about it. This book is not for you.

Source: The NeverEnding Story

They Were Not Allowed Even to Speak of These Important Secrets

The secrecy in which they buried their Mysteries, had that end. Those to whom they were confided, bound themselves, by the most fearful oaths, never to reveal them. They were not allowed even to speak of these important secrets with...

Source: Morals and Dogma  by Albert Pike

Links in This Vast Chain Extending Round the Whole Globe

I might point to the fact that, although the meetings of our society are of necessity enshrouded with the veil of secresy, which circumstance, in seasons of excitement and peril, the designing and malicious would have converted into matter of...

Source: The Freemasons’ Quarterly Review

They Concealed the Highest Truths Under the Veil of Allegory

In this spirit of mystery they professed to imitate the Deity, who hides Himself from our senses, and conceals from us the springs by which He moves the Universe. They admitted that they concealed the highest truths under the veil...

Source: Morals and Dogma  by Albert Pike

No One Has Ever Seen It

Even figures associated with the rise of modern science and the modern world—Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton—were profoundly influenced by Hermetic ideas. Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, made a living as an astrologer, and Newton wrote more...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

A Co-Conscious Vehicle of Divine Wisdom

He is able to discern that it was himself who at first was "without form and void" and who in virtue of that Fiat Lux! has at last become transformed from chaos and unconsciousness into a form so perfect and...

Source: The Meaning of Masonry  by W.L. Wilmshurst

US Superior Military Strength and Intelligence Hegemony

US superior military strength and intelligence hegemony can only be transformed into power and real global strength if there are conflicts – wars and terrorist attacks – that threaten the multipolar world order of the civilian economic-political system.

Source: The Use of Terrorism to Construct World Order

Such Catalytic Events Afforded Precious Opportunities

Both foundation network-building and the rise of America to globalism were also symbiotically connected to catalytic global events: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, for example; the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 and the...

World Democracy Was the Secret Dream of the Great Classical Philosophers

World democracy was the secret dream of the great classical philosophers. ... Thousands of years before Columbus they were aware of the existence of our Western Hemisphere and selected it to be the site of the philosophic empire. ... The...

Source: The Secret Destiny of America  by Manly P. Hall

The Real Purpose of Modern Masonry

This - the evolution of man into superman - was always the purpose of the ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose of modern Masonry is, not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the...

Source: The Meaning of Masonry  by W.L. Wilmshurst

Remain Unrecognized by Outsiders

Sometimes this philosophy has been hidden from the public and at other times it has been placed in plain view - though always in such a way as to remain unrecognized by outsiders.

Source: The Secret History of the World  by Mark Booth

Some Even Believe We Are Part of a Secret Cabal

Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global...

Source: Memoirs  by David Rockefeller

It Channeled Funds Through Three Private Medical Research Foundations

It channeled funds through three private medical research foundations. One of these, the Geschikter Foundation for Medical Research in Washington, D.C., is still active. Another, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology Inc., was disbanded in 1965. A third...

CIA Funding Was Involved

The CIA's intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960s can only be described as massive. Excluding grants from the "Big Three"- Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie--of the 700 grants over $10,000 given by 164 other foundations during the period 1963-1966,...

The Use of Philanthropic Organizations

The use of philanthropic organizations was a convenient way to pass funds, in that large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source. In addition, foundation...

The Corpus Hermeticum

[Renaissance philosophers] were alerted to the ancient manuscript tradition named after their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus... The documents were collectively called the Corpus Hermeticum or, simply, the Hermetica.

Source: The Magus of Freemasonry  by Tobias Churton