Previous chapters have examined the Templars' secret history and how they became Masons in turn.

Not that the Masons are identical copies of the Templars, but their intentions are the same - to replace monotheistic religions like Christianity and Islam with pagan belief systems and a materialistic worldview, aggressively targeting all religious organizations.

The Real Truth: Jews Promote Christianity & Islam – Library of Rickandria

This perverse teaching, painted in the colors of mysticism and occultism, was inherited from the Templars and forms the central belief of Masonry.

It reveals itself in full to the upper echelons of the order, increasing in transparency bit by bit as one advances up the ladder.

Masonry's global strategy is to impose this worldview on the masses by preparing the ground in a nice sort of way-or, in some cases, by ruthlessly eliminating any obstacles.

Communism & Freemasonry: Two Fronts of the Jew World Order – Library of Rickandria

From the 18th century on, Freemasonry's global strategy can be recognized behind the scenes of some ideological and political movements.

Communism & Freemasonry: The Red Dragon & the Black Beast – Library of Rickandria

and Illuminati, whose long, ongoing struggle is to return the West to a pre-Christian paganism.

The occult conspiracy: the dark side of politics from ancient Egypt until today - Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)

It is a little-known fact that for thousands of years secret societies and occult groups - guardians of ancient esoteric wisdom - have exercised a strong and often crucial influence on the destiny of nations.

they affected the course of the French and American revolutions as well as the overthrow of the medieval order...

The REVOLUTION IS NOW – Library of Rickandria

The Nazis, of course, but also the British security forces, the founding fathers of America, and the Vatican have all had a part - for good or ill - in the occult conspiracy.

As quote points out, the fight against religion was not fought on one front only.

It extended to a wide range of neo-pagan philosophical or political movements, the Illuminati who paved the way for the French Revolution, their Bavarian brothers who were trying to realize a pan-European socialist revolution, even to the fascists who founded the Nazi Party, and the Carbonari who prepared the ground for the Italian National Front.

These organizations and movements had significant ideological differences, but they also shared common aims and methods, such as applying pressure to religious organizations and ousting religion, replacing it with a materialistic or naturalistic philosophy.

To this end, Freemasonry has taken different shapes ever since the 18th century, recruiting members from all different political and philosophical movements and even penetrating the Vatican, seeking to manipulate this most powerful Christian institution according to Masonic ideologies.

Some drawings depicting rituals in the Masonic lodges in the 18th century.

It can be observed that the sword played an important role in these rituals.

This symbolizes that the Masons continue the Templars' traditions.

Another remarkable aspect of Masonry is that it's profit orientated.

Being a pagan (and therefore secular) organization, it's natural for its members to seek worldly gains rather than idealist goals.

Pagan (Called Satanic, Gentile or Goyim by the Jews) – Library of Rickandria

For this reason, while carrying out a seemingly philosophical struggle, Masonry has been a focus for both political and economic interests, just like the Templars-the most influential bankers of Europe while promoting the teachings of paganism at the same time.

Following chapters will examine more closely this aspect of Masonry and the role it plays in the organization's links to the Mafia.

It's impossible to state exactly all that the Masons have done, for by their very nature, they are a secret society.

Brotherhoods & Secret Societies – Library of Rickandria

The only way of investigating their activities is to find the tip of the Masonic iceberg, exploring as much and as deeply as possible and then guessing at the rest of the picture.

We'll begin this strategy by examining their impact on the past two hundred years.

The Templars' transformation into Masons also produced a number of byproducts, the Rosicrucians being one of these.

Another is the Illuminati, one of the most talked about associations in the history of occultism.

Illumination on the Illuminati – Library of Rickandria

Founded in Bavaria, in southern Germany, it was also known as the Bavaria Illuminati, and its mission was to bring about a secular Masonic world order by revolutionary means.

Its founder was Adam Weishaupt, a professor of law.

1. Abolition of monarchies and all ordered governments.

2. Abolition of private property and inheritances.

3. Abolition of patriotism and nationalism.

4. Abolition of family life and the institution of marriage and the establishment of communal education of children.

5. Abolition of all religion. 49

The Encyclopedia of the Occult reveals that the Illuminati society, increasingly powerful in Germany, was practicing all Masonic rituals while preserving its own distinct identity.

Weishaupt, the "Grand Master," stamped his authority on the hundreds of intellectuals who had joined the society, even though only a very few had access to Weishaupt himself.

In 1780, the German Baron von Knigge, a Grand Master Mason, joined the society and increased the society's influence even further.

Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr Knigge (16 October 1752 – 6 May 1796) was a German writer, Freemason, and a leading member of the Order of the Illuminati.

Weishaupt and Knigge began preparations for a revolution aimed at bringing down both Church and Hapsburgs.

In 1784, when the Bavarian government received intelligence about the planned revolution, the two Grand Masters quickly dissolved the Illuminati and joined ordinary Masonic lodges.

As occultist historians acknowledge, some of the players of the French revolution like François-Noël Babeuf were of Illuminati origin. 50

François-Noël Babeuf (French: [fʁɑ̃swa nɔɛl babœf]; 23 November 1760 – 8 Prarial, Year V [27 May 1797]), also known as Gracchus Babeuf, was a French proto-communist, revolutionary, and journalist of the French Revolutionary period. His newspaper Le tribun du peuple (The Tribune of the People) was best known for its advocacy for the poor and calling for a popular revolt against the Directory, the government of France. He was a leading advocate for democracy and the abolition of private property. He angered the authorities who were clamping down hard on their radical enemies. In spite of the efforts of his Jacobin friends to save him, Babeuf was executed for his role in the Conspiracy of the Equals.

The Illuminati was renowned for its uncompromising hostility towards religion.

According to historian Michael Howard, Grand Master Weishaupt felt a "pathological hatred" against religion [51] that their planned revolution tried to realize.

It never happened, but their "brothers" in France successfully carried out theirs-in the form of the French Revolution. 

Masonry played an important behind-the-scenes role in the socialist movements of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The above Masonic drawing symbolizes this relationship.

You'll recall that in France, by a joint operation of the Catholic Church and the King, the Templars were arrested and their order subsequently liquidated.

No doubt, one of the surviving Templars-turned-Masons' foremost ambitions was to weaken, even destroy, these two institutions.

It is therefore very significant that the Masons played such a role in the birth of the French Revolution.

In The Occult Conspiracy, English historian Michael Howard points to the role played by the Masonic lodges in the preparation of the revolution.

Its Grand Master, Savalette de Lage, founded one of these lodges, Friends of Truth, whose political philosophy drew up the framework for the social reforms that brought about the Revolution.

and medicine in opposition to the Church's.

During the Revolution, the College of Apollo, founded by the lodge, was renamed the Lycée Republican.

Books written within the short period of the Revolution testify to the important role Masonry had played.

According to a claim widely circulated, the uprising that ignited the Revolution was planned at the Great Masonic Convention in Wilhelmsbad in 1782.

One participant of this convention was Comte de Mirabeau, a leader of the revolutionaries.

Upon returning to France, he immediately moved to implement in the lodges of France the decisions taken at the convention. 52

Behind the scenes, Comte Cagliostro played a leading role in the Revolution.

Giuseppe Balsamo (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈbalsamo]; in French usually Joseph Balsamo; 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795), known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (US: /kɑːlˈjɔːstroʊ, kæl-/ ka(h)l-YAW-stroh, Italian: [alesˈsandro kaʎˈʎɔstro]), was an Italian occultist.

Born in Sicily, his real name was Joseph Balsamo.

A member of the Illuminati and of the classic Masonic lodges in Germany, he was chosen to be one of the agents entrusted with the mission of disseminating radical and revolutionary ideas across Europe, thus preparing the ground for the eventual French Revolution.

At the end of his tour, he went to France and became a Jacobin.

At the Grand Masonic Congress in 1785, he received new orders for preparing for the revolution.

In the same year, Cagliostro was the focal point of the Diamond Necklace Affair, making the Queen the victim of a conspiracy devised to give the impression that she had a love affair with a Cardinal.

Affair of the Diamond Necklace - Wikipedia

Among the people, this irreparably dented the reputations of both the Church and the Monarchy.

French novelist Alexandre Dumas confirmed that this scandal was arranged by the Masons. 53

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.

In his capacity as the lodge's agent provocateur, Cagliostro was at the center of many events leading up to the Revolution.

In a letter about the coming revolution that he wrote from London to a friend in Paris in 1787, he spoke about how the Bastille would be stormed, that the Church and monarchy would be abolished and replaced by a new religion based on the principles of reason. 54

Cagliostro was no fortune teller, so the information contained in his letter more likely came from his superiors in the lodge.

As Michael Howard puts it,

To a great extent, the French Revolution was the making of Freemasonry.

The Masons saw the Revolution as a major milestone on the way to their desired new social order, as well as an act of revenge for what the French monarchy had done to the Templars. 

When an agitated mob marched on the Bastille, Comte Mirabeau shouted,

The real aim of the storming of the Bastille wasn't to free a handful of prisoners from this strategically unimportant prison.

This was where the Grand Master Jacques de Molay had been imprisoned for years before his execution in 1314!

If one purpose of the Revolution was to avenge de Molay, then the Bastille was a priority target. 57

The role played by the Masons - or to be more precise, the neo-Templars - in realizing the Revolution was revealed in 1789, when the Inquisition arrested Cagliostro.

He quickly confessed and told all he knew, hoping to save his life.

One of the first things he told the Inquisition was that the Masons were planning revolutions right across Europe, intending to finish off what the Templars had begun: namely, to either destroy the Papacy or bring it under their control.

The French Revolution was the stage for horrific acts of terror.

Ten thousand were sent to the guillotine.

Behind the slogan of,

Masonry created barbarism anew.

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (French: [maksimiljɛ̃ ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 10 Thermidor, Year II 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the voting rights of all men and their unimpeded admission to the National Guard. Additionally, he advocated for the right to petition, the right to bear arms in self-defense, and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. He was a radical Jacobin leader who came to prominence as a member of the Committee of Public Safety, an administrative body of the First French Republic. His legacy has been heavily influenced by his actual or perceived participation in repression of the Revolution's opponents, but is notable for his progressive views for the time.

Robespierre, who sent thousands to the guillotine, was himself beheaded by it.

The methods used by the Masons and Illuminati to advance the revolution were equally ruthless and merciless.
 

In the spring and summer of 1789, an artificial shortage of grain was created by Illuminist manipulations of the grain market.

This produced a famine so intense that it brought the nation to the edge of revolt.

One of the leading figures in this scheme was the Duc d'Orleans, the Grand Master of the Grand Orient lodges.

Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (Louis Philippe Joseph; 13 April 1747 – 6 November 1793), was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French Revolution.

The Illuminists claimed that their revolution would be,

But in reality, the conspirators held up the food supplies and blocked all reforms in the National Assembly to exacerbate the situation, and the populace starved...

A panic was created simultaneously around the nation.

Horsemen rode from town to town telling the citizens that "brigands" were approaching and that everyone should take up arms.

Citizens were instructed that the conspirators were being harbored in the larger estates, the chateaux, and that by edict of the King all should be torched.

The people, obedient to their monarch, complied.

Soon, the flames of destruction were burning out of control.

Anarchy continued to grow as citizens began raiding and pillaging-and not only for food. 58

With the beginning of the Revolution, the Jacobins, most of whom were also Masons, began a campaign of terror.

Ten thousand royalists and church members were sent to the guillotine, drowning France in a sea of blood.

Terror was rampant in the streets of Paris… 

Not surprisingly, in November 1793 a campaign against religion was inaugurated by a massacre of the priests all over France.

In the cemeteries the cherished motto of the Illuminati,

was posted by order of the Illuminatus "Anaxagoras" Chaumette.

In the churches of Paris, Feasts of Reason were celebrated where women of easy morals were enthroned as goddesses.

These were also known as "Eroterion," and were modeled on Weishaupt's plan to honor the god of Love… [59]

Toward the end of 1793, the new revolutionary Republic found itself faced with hundreds of thousands of working men for whom it could not find employment.

The revolutionary leaders embarked upon a fearful new project that was to be copied by tyrants ever after, called "depopulation."

The idea was to reduce France's population of twenty-five million down to either eight or sixteen million, depending on which source you believe.

Maximilien Robespierre believed depopulation to be "indispensable." 60

Masons are known to have controlled the British aristocracy and the palace in the Victorian era when the Ripper murders took place.

Were the Jack the Ripper Letters Fabricated by Journalists? | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com)

Committed for Masonic reasons, these murders were easily covered up.

In France, members of the revolutionary committees in charge of the extermination toiled day and night over maps, calculating just how many heads must be sacrificed in each town.

Fearful Revolutionary Tribunals tried to determine who would be killed, and a never-ending stream of victims marched to a variety of deaths.

In Nantes, 500 children were killed in one butchery, and 144 poor women who sewed shirts for the army were thrown into the river. 61

This terror was the product of hostility towards the monarchy and the church by the Masons and the Illuminati, the Templars' successors.

Evidence suggests that Mozart was one of those who were killed by Masons for treachery.

Mozart’s Death was Faked – Library of Rickandria

Above, a Masonic drawing of Mozart.

In 1796, a book entitled The Tomb of Jacques de Molay was published in France, stating that the Revolution was realized by the Freemasons, whose origins are the Order of the Templars.

The following year, a Jesuit priest, Father Bamuel published his Memoires pour servir de l'histoire du Jacobinisme (Memoirs toward a History of Jacobinism), revealing that the Templars still lived on behind the front of Freemasonry and that the Revolution was of their making.

The English civil war, he claims, was also a Templar conspiracy. 62

The English Revolution – Library of Rickandria

In 1808, a public requiem was held in the Church of St Paul in Paris for Jacques de Molay.

The Masons attending this service were dressed exactly like medieval Templars, performed some rituals over de Molay's bones and personal belongings, then proceeded to march down the streets of Paris carrying the piebald banner of the Templars. 63 

Five centuries after his execution by the King and the church in Paris, de Molay was remembered in Paris with a great ceremony.

This time there was no king and no church, and blood was cheap.

In researching the Masons' political activities, especially their illegal ones, the infamous "Ripper" murders cannot be overlooked.

These serial murders were committed in London in 1888.

Over a span of nine weeks, five prostitutes were brutally murdered and their bodies disemboweled, sometimes dismembered.

These murders were never actually solved, and the murderer was never caught.

Letters "signed" under the name of Jack the Ripper sent to the police force, shortly after these murders were committed, provided the murderer with his nickname.

Dear Boss letter - Wikipedia

Who the person or people responsible for the murders is or are is still unknown.

Jack the Ripper murders were never solved.

A caricature depicting the police surprised in these murder cases by the British press.

Historians suggest that the reason behind the cover-up is that both the murderer and the police chief were Masons.

The name "Jack the Ripper" originated in letters received by the police.

The writer claimed to be the murderer and that he enjoyed killing, then signed his letters "Jack the Ripper."

Of course, the real name of the murderer remains unknown.
 
A number of people who have investigated this mystery concluded that the murders were politically motivated, and that evidence suggests that Masons were to be found behind this conspiracy.

Hollywood film based on historical documents and evidence, From Hell shows the Ripper murders to be a Masonic conspiracy by revealing what went on behind the scenes.

In this scene from the film, investigating detective Abberline discovers the link between Masonry and the murders.

Shortly before the time of the murders, the British monarchy was threatened with a great scandal.

The eldest son of Queen Victoria, later King Edward VII was the Grand Master of the English Freemasons.

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

Theoretically, his son, Eddy, would have become King if his grandmother and father had died before him, but Eddy had a private life incompatible with palace discipline.

He was secretly visiting his painter friend Walter Sickert and his friends; and at one of these visits he met and began an affair with Annie Crook, a Catholic shopgirl of the lower classes.

After some time, she gave birth to his child, and they were secretly married.

Sickert hired a nanny for Eddy and Annie's baby girl.

Mary (or Marie) Kelly and Sickert were the witnesses at their secret wedding.

Dr. Gull, the murder suspect (above), with his fellow Masons in the lodge.

At the time, Britain was in political turmoil.

Had the public learned of Eddy's marriage to a woman like Annie, it could have had far-reaching repercussions, including the abolition of the monarchy.

(It was against British law for the monarch to marry a Catholic, not to mention the problems posed by her working-class background.)

Such a scandal was a serious threat to anyone with an active interest in the Britain's political and social systems, especially the Freemasons.

An initiation ceremony in the lodge where the cover-up of the Ripper murders was planned.

Here, the new member swears an oath of secrecy, under the threat of death, not to reveal what he witnesses in the lodge.

 

The new member's blindfold is removed and for the first time he sees the inside of the lodge.

When word of all this got to Queen Victoria, she demanded that, Lord Salisbury - her Prime Minister, and a renowned Mason - cover up this affair.

Salisbury had Annie admitted to an asylum, where she was to die 32 years later.

Her daughter later became Sickert's mistress and bore him a son.

Marie Kelly, the witness at the marriage, became an alcoholic and prostitute and later shared this secret with three of her prostitute friends.

When these women threatened to reveal Eddy's secret, Salisbury decided that this threat had to be ended and enlisted the help of Sir William Gull, physician to the Queen and a high-ranking Freemason; it was he who had declared Annie insane and sent her to the asylum.

Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet (31 December 1816 – 29 January 1890) was an English physician. Of modest family origins, he established a lucrative private practice and served as Governor of Guy's Hospital, Fullerian Professor of Physiology and President of the Clinical Society. In 1871, having successfully treated the Prince of Wales during a life-threatening attack of typhoid fever, he was created a Baronet and appointed to be one of the Physicians-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria.

Considering his options, Gull concluded that these prostitutes constituted an unacceptable threat to the monarchy and Freemasonry and decided to kill them, one by one, according to Masonic ritual.

This is how the shocking "Ripper" murders came about.

Prime Minister Salisbury, the other members of government and the police force provided the cover-up, as was expected of the Masonic brotherhood.

They kept this secret and admired Gull for his great sense of "responsibility." 

Gull sent his driver Netley to persuade Sickert to help locate and identify the four prostitutes.

They were located, picked up, brutally murdered, and then their bodies mutilated and dismembered as prescribed in Masonic rites and finally disposed of at the chosen sites.

1) On August 31, 1888, Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols was murdered by having her throat cut deeply, starting at one ear and circling her throat, and her abdomen was cut open.

2) On September 8 of the same year, Annie Chapman was murdered by having her throat cut. 

Her tongue protruded between her teeth and was swollen.

Her abdomen was entirely opened; her small intestines were removed and placed above her right shoulder but still attached.

Part of her stomach had been cut out and placed above her left shoulder.

Her womb and portion of her vagina were removed.

Her jewelry and coins were removed, and two brass rings put on her toes.

3) On September 30, Elizabeth (Liz) Stride was murdered by having her throat cut, from one side of the jaw to the other.

4) Also on September 30, Gull thought that he was killing his last and most important victim, Marie Kelly.

Instead, by mistake he murdered Catherine (Kate) Eddowes, who went by the name of Mary Ann Kelly.

Eddowes was murdered by cutting her throat from ear to ear.

Her nose was completely cut off, part of her right ear was cut off, her face was mutilated with deep triangular cuts, her abdomen was completely cut open, and her intestines taken out and placed over her right shoulder.

A two-foot piece was removed and placed between her left arm and her body, and her left kidney and part of her womb removed and taken away.

The police found a piece of her cut apron, soaked in blood, that fit the part still on her body.

5) On November 9th, Gull and his partners in crime corrected their earlier mistake by murdering Mary Kelly in her flat.

Her throat was cut with the tissue severed all around, whole surface of abdomen and thighs removed, and abdominal cavity emptied.

Her breasts were cut off, her arms mutilated, and her face hacked to the extent that it could no longer be recognized.

Her womb, kidneys and one of her breasts were placed under her head, the other breast by her right foot, liver between her feet, intestines by her right side, and spleen by her left side.

Skin removed from her abdomen and thighs was on a bedside table.

Part of one lung was missing, as was her heart.

Had these murders not been premeditated, it would have been risky to mutilate and dismember the victims' bodies.

(Stride, the third victim, refused the carriage ride, so she was murdered quickly then and there, in the middle of the street.)

The only explanation for these horrific acts of slaughter is that they were ritualistic murders, committed according to Masonic ritual.

All of their aspects-cutting of the throats, removal of the heart, removal of intestines, triangular cuts, cutting off part of the victim's apron-can be found as prescribed punishments for traitors in the books read in the lodges of Masonry.

The Ripper's next victim was dumped in the district known as Mitre Square.

The mitre is a Mason's tool, and the Mitre Tavern is a well-known meeting point of the Masons.

What does "Juwes" mean?

Some have suggested that this is a spelling error for Jews-perhaps deliberate, intended to deflect suspicion onto some illiterate bigot.

Instead, the circumstances and methods of the murders suggest that they were committed by an educated individual who would hardly make such an ignorant spelling mistake.

Others who have researched these murders suggest that the word juwes stands for Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum, the three traitors who murdered Hiram Abiff, the legendary founder of Masonry.

Another unexplained detail is that the writings on the wall that the police found when they discovered the body were immediately washed off, by the order of the head of the police, Sir Charles Warren, who had never gone to a crime scene before.

General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS (7 February 1840 – 21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of the Temple Mount. Much of his military service was spent in British South Africa. Previously he was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888 during the Jack the Ripper murders. His command in combat during the Second Boer War was criticized, but he achieved considerable success during his long life in his military and civil posts.

Incidentally, he was also a Mason.

All of this suggests that this violence later to be called as the Jack the Ripper murders was actually part of a political conspiracy and committed by Masons.

There is evidence that the Masons committed other murders including the famous murders of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Captain William Morgan, both of whom were thought to have committed treachery against the Freemasons.

William Morgan (born 1774 – disappeared c. 1826) was a resident of Batavia, New York, whose disappearance and presumed murder in 1826 ignited a powerful movement against the Freemasons, a fraternal society that had become influential in the United States. After Morgan announced his intention to publish a book exposing Freemasonry's secrets, he was arrested on trumped-up charges. He disappeared soon after and was believed to have been kidnapped and killed by Masons from western New York.  The allegations surrounding Morgan's disappearance and presumed death sparked a public outcry and inspired Thurlow Weed and others to harness the discontent by founding the new Anti-Masonic Party in opposition to President Andrew Jackson's Democrats. It ran a presidential candidate in 1832 but was nearly defunct by 1835.

In 1890, news of the death of high-ranking Mason and murder suspect Dr. Gull was circulated, but actually, he lived on under the name of "Thomas Mason" as a patient in an insane asylum and died many years later.

Sickert the painter, who knew everything, told the true story to his son Joseph.

Three quarters of a century later, Joseph related the events witnessed by his father to the journalist Stephen Knight, an expert on Masonry, who then published Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution in 1976.

Jack the Ripper: the final solution - Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)

In the ensuing controversy surrounding the book, the Freemasons vehemently denied these allegations, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

The subject made headlines again in 2001 when the Hollywood blockbuster From Hell was released.

In this film, the Jack the Ripper murders are retold as a story based on historical evidence, and the Masonic conspiracy behind these murders is revealed in graphic detail.

This story is probably only the tip of the iceberg. 

Masonry is a secret society and as such, never reveals its secrets to outsiders. 

It is difficult to glimpse their real activities past the smokescreens, behind which much worse is hidden. 

Leaks in the Jack the Ripper case only illustrate what horrors this secret society is capable of.

Now we'll move on beyond the iceberg's visible tip for a better idea about the whole.
 

In March 1981, two Milanese prosecutors were investigating a fake kidnapping incident from 1979, in which an international banker disappeared.

The Sicilian-born Michele Sindona was a financial adviser to the Vatican and thought to have links to the Mafia.

Michele Sindona (Italian: [miˈkɛːle sinˈdoːna]; 8 May 1920 – 22 March 1986) was an Italian banker and convicted felon. Known in banking circles as "The Shark", Sindona was a banker for the Sicilian Mafia and the Vatican. Sindona was a member of the fascist Propaganda Due (#0501), a secret Masonic lodge of the Grand Orient of Italy. He was fatally poisoned in prison while serving a life sentence for the murder of lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli.

While on the run from the authorities and hiding in Palermo, Sindona suddenly traveled to Arezzo, a town 600 miles north, where he met with the textile manufacturer Licio Gelli.

Licio Gelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːtʃo ˈdʒɛlli]; 21 April 1919 – 15 December 2015) was an Italian Freemason and businessman. A Fascist volunteer in his youth, he is chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2).

If a personality like Sindona leaves the safety of his hiding place to meet Licio Gelli, then this Gelli must be an important person indeed.

For this reason, prosecutors ordered the investigation of Gelli.

On March 17th, the investigating police officer searched this industrialist's office and found a list containing the names of 962 people.

No ordinary list, it gave the names of the members of the Propaganda Due Masonic lodge - P2, for short - of which Gelli was the Grand Master.

and 24 other journalists and TV personalities.

Michele Sindona was also listed.

Another member of the lodge was banker Roberto Calvi, later to be found hanged from the Blackfriars Bridge in London, in the Masonic style of ritual execution, and only a few hundred yards away from a church that in the Middle Ages had once belonged to the Templars.

Roberto Calvi (13 April 1920 – 17 June 1982) was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" (Italian: Banchiere di Dio) by the press because of his close business dealings with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of Italy's biggest political scandals.  Calvi's death by hanging in London in June 1982 is a source of enduring controversy and was ruled a murder after two coroners' inquests and an independent investigation. Five people were acquitted in Rome in June 2007 of conspiracy to murder Roberto Calvi. Popular suspicion has linked his death to allegedly corrupt officials of the Vatican Bank, the Sicilian Mafia, and the Continental Freemasonry lodge Propaganda Due.

As far as could be understood, every member of the P2 had sworn loyalty to Gelli and to do anything that he might ask of them.

These 962 members were grouped into 17 cells, each with its own Master.

Gelli ran the lodge with such secrecy and professionalism that even the members themselves knew no one outside their own cells; only the Grand Master of each cell knew all its members.

I Banchieri di Dio - God's Bankers - Masons, P2 and The Vatican (bibliotecapleyades.net)

But who was Licio Gelli, the Grand Master of the lodge?

He was a militant who had fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the fascists and had been a fervent supporter of Mussolini.

Benito Mussolini – Library of Rickandria

Later, after the war, when his involvement in the torture of Italian partisans was discovered, he was forced to flee the country for Argentina, where he became a close friend of the president Juan Perón.

Juan Domingo Perón (UK: /pɛˈrɒn/, US: /pɛˈroʊn, pəˈ-, peɪˈ-/ ⓘ, Spanish: [ˈxwan doˈmiŋɡo peˈɾon] ⓘ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine lieutenant general, politician and statesman who served as the 35th President of Argentina from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and again as the 45th President from October 1973 to his death in July 1974. He had previously served in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President under presidents Pedro Pablo Ramírez and Edelmiro Farrell. Perón is the only Argentine president elected three times and holds the highest percentage of votes in clean elections with universal suffrage. Peron's ideas, policies and movement are known as Peronism, which continues to be one of the most influential forces in Argentine politics.

And now here he was, the Grand Master of the P2 Masonic lodge.

These revelations shook Italy to the core.

The investigation further revealed that the lodge was participating in the government affairs and was central to Italy's endless corruption scandals.

With the aid of their Masonic cardinal brothers, the lodge had turned the Vatican into a money-laundering institution and the lodge was also the strongest branch of the legendary Italian Mafia.

The P2 was behind many assassinations, acts of terror like bombings and was closely linked to the contra-guerilla cell Gladio.

For a long time, the P2 had been channeling CIA and Vatican funds to fascist groups in Europe and Latin America.

Lodge Member Michele Sindona was later arrested on charges of the murder of an Italian lawyer and died in prison after drinking a cup of poisoned coffee.

He was not only the treasurer of the P2, but also the investment advisor to the Vatican.

Sindona was responsible for selling the Vatican's Italian assets and investing the proceeds in the US.

He was working for the Mafia as well as the CIA and had previously channeled funds to his Yugoslavian "friends" and to the Greek military junta that came to power in 1967.

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The parliamentary commission investigating this affair discovered that the P2 was an international organization influential in everything from arms trading to crude oil prices.

Licio Gelli, the dark name of banking scandals and the secret and illegal P2 Lodge, received a prison sentence of 12 years.

The P2's political activities and murders make horrific reading, but its organizational structure and ritualistic practices are equally so.

This far-from-ordinary lodge had been building in great secrecy and every member was required to maintain this secrecy when coming or going.

In his book St. Peter's Banker, Italian journalist Luigi Difonzo explains the P2, based on former members' confessions, with its activities of money laundering and links to the Mafia.

St. Peter's banker - Anna’s Archive (annas-archive.org)

In interviews two former members have described the oaths they took.

They were taken to a compound, a Villa hidden in the Apennines in the region of Tuscany.

A 12-foot wall seals the neatly manicured grounds from view.

In the center of the main courtyard stands a fountain shaped like a tree trunk.

The cobra-like sculpture, with its inflated hood, watches over the compound in a protective posture, as if ready to strike.

The cobra's head is twice the size of a human skull.

It has a single eye, which is blue during daylight and red after nightfall, for inside the cobra's hood and behind its eye there is a closed-circuit camera that follows a visitor, invited or unwelcome, as the fountain rotates in the direction the intruder moves.

and party room.

Approximately ten cameras, including the one inside the cobra, have infrared lenses.

All of the exterior cameras are camouflaged by the landscaping.

The Villa's interior is magnificent. Every room has marble floors and is furnished with antiques. 

the visitor experiences a feeling, a sort of living, breathing odor of danger and power that penetrates the soul and cell by cell contaminates the mind with fear.

The year is 1964. [64]

One of the shocking secret rites taking place in the P2 Lodge, as printed in the Italian press In this lodge were conducted hair-raising rituals.

In the meeting room, twelve members of P2, dressed in satin ceremonial robes and wearing black hoods reminiscent of those worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan, sit in leather chairs at a red marble conference table.

They are the elite members of the Wolf Pack, Gelli's disciples - some say his execution squad.

None of the black-clad disciples knows the identity of any of his eleven brothers.

Grand Master Licio Gelli is the only one who bears his face.

Two Masons stand post at the entrance to the meeting room.

Their faces are also covered...

They are ... personal bodyguards, some say his death squad-former Mussolini Fascists whose job is to protect the Grand Master and kill any of the twelve disciples who betray the cause "Il Momento di Passare all..." (The Time for Real Action) ...

Each bodyguard carries an axe; they also bear automatic weapons. [65]

The ceremony begins.

There is an uneven series of knocks at the door.

"Your Worshipful," a disciple announces, "a pagan wishes to enter."

The Grand Master strikes the table with one blow with his axe.

The Lizzie Borden Ax Murders Never Happened – Library of Rickandria

Immediately the oversized door swings open and slams against the inner wall.

Two guards escort the initiate to the center of the room where he faces the twelve Masons with his back to the grand master's throne.

The Pagan, as he is called, is wearing a plain black hood and a blindfold.

Pagan Programs Before the Jewish Infiltration – Library of Rickandria

His identity is known to Grand Master Licio Gelli, but to no one else.

He is asked one question by each of the disciples, but the Pagan does not answer, instead, one of the guards speaks for him.

Once all the ritual questions about purpose and belief and reason for wanting to become a member of Propaganda Due are answered, the Pagan is turned to face the Grand Master, who asks,

"And Pagan, are you prepared to fight and perhaps face shame, even death, so that we who may become your Brothers may destroy this Government and form a Presidency?"

Then the blindfold is removed. It takes a moment for the initiate's vision to clear, because this is the first time since entering the compound that he has been allowed to see light.

The blindfold serves a purpose other than security.

"Without membership one is blind; with the help of the order, however, the way is clear." 66

Along with the darker sides of the P2, the lodge had also an Israeli connection.

The July 1981 issue of The Middle East International Journal established that the P2 had close links with Israel, especially with Mossad, and that the Jewish community in Italy played an important role in this connection.

Middle East Exopolitical Saga – Library of Rickandria

In later years, Carlo De Benedetti, the second richest man in Italy, was discovered to have had a close relationship with the P2 Lodge and also very good contacts with the Jewish communities in Europe and the US.

Carlo De Benedetti (born 14 November 1934) is an Italian industrialist, engineer, and publisher. He is both an Italian and naturalized Swiss citizen. He was awarded the Order of Merit for Labour by the Italian state in 1983, the Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte (gold medal of culture and art) and the Legion d'Honneur in 1987.

The Italian journal Panorama wrote that Élie de Rothschild arranged the necessary amount of money for the Masonic hanging of banker Roberto Calvi, who either had or was about to "talk" against the P2. 67

Élie Robert de Rothschild (29 May 1917 – 6 August 2007) was the guardian of the French branch of the Rothschild family banking dynasty. He followed his father as a partner in the family bank, de Rothschild Frères, and ran the Château Lafite-Rothschild premier cru claret vineyard from 1946 to 1974.

Henry Kissinger was directly involved at the top of the lodge.

In Papa, Mafya, Agca (The Pope, The Mafia and Agca), Ugur Mumcu, a prominent Turkish journalist wrote,

The alliance between the P2 and Israel or to be more specific, with Mossad is illustrated by ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky in The Other Side of Deception, published in 1994 after his other greatly controversial book, By Way of Deception.

Ostrovsky writes that Licio Gelli, P2's Grand Master, was the ally of Mossad in Italy and that Gelli also had a close relationship with the Gladio contra-guerilla group, allied with Mossad and that Mossad used this Gelli-Gladio alliances for its arms dealings with Italy in the 1980s. 69

The P2 scandal had educational value for Italy as well as other countries.

Now, there was no doubt that the Masons could become an invisible government in any country and, like a Mafia organization, empty the coffers of the state.

Quickly enough, Freemasonry lodges around the world were distancing themselves from the P2 by claiming, for example, that the P2 Lodge was an exception and not a true Freemason's lodge, that it had developed its own organization independent of Masonry, and so forth.

All these statements were just attempts at erecting smoke screens around Masonry's true nature.

English journalist and writer Martin Short states that P2 was a regular lodge, founded and run according to the rules by which Masonic lodges abide.

With plenty of details, he reveals the close relationship between the P2 and the English Grand Lodge. Short states that P2 was different from other lodges only in that it was to remain a secret lodge.

In 1977 Lino Salvini, Grand Master of the Italian Grand Lodge, instructed Gelli to continue its work-albeit in secrecy and isolated from the other Italian lodges. 70

Grand Orient of Italy - Wikipedia

The skull on this Masonic apron symbolizes the punishment for those perceived to be enemies of Masonry.

The five-pointed star, a symbol of the Satanists, represents Baphomet's goat head, as worshipped by the Templars.

A CURRENT TEMPLARS RITE.

The Order of the Templars, declared illegal and liquidated seven centuries ago, still exists today.

In this Templars ceremony, highest-ranking members of Masonry from different countries with the title of Knights Templar meet according to the customs of the order and decide on matters of political importance.

Knights Templar swear an oath to protect and defend their mission.

The ritual of Masons receiving the title of Knights Templar from the Grand Master.
 
After the P2 scandal exposing the Masons' links to the Mafia, their relationship continued.

A legendary politician like Giulio Andreotti, often addressed as "the Godfather," had also been exposed as a Mason.

Giulio Andreotti OMI SMOM OCSG OESSH (US: /ˌɑːndreɪˈɒti/ AHN-dray-OT-ee;[2] Italian: [ˈdʒuːljo andreˈɔtti]; 14 January 1919 – 6 May 2013) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy in seven governments (1972–1973, 1976–1979, and 1989–1992), and was leader of the Christian Democracy party and its right-wing; he was the sixth-longest-serving prime minister since the Italian unification and the second-longest-serving post-war prime minister. Andreotti is widely considered the most powerful and prominent politician of the First Republic.

The list continues, with the Social Democrat Prime Minister's connection to the Masons being revealed, along with many more at lesser levels.

All this was evidence enough that the P2 was no exception, and for this reason, the Italian media discussed whether there might be a P3.

In the last days of 1993, the Italian police caught the Mafia's boss of bosses, the legendary Salvatore Riina.

Salvatore Riina (Italian pronunciation: [salvaˈtoːre (toˈtɔ r)riˈiːna]; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called Totò (sicilian diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities. He was also known by the nicknames la belva ("the beast") and il capo dei capi (Sicilian: 'u capu di 'i capi, "the boss of bosses").

He too was exposed as a Mason.

The newspaper La Stampa printed excerpts of Riina's confessions in which he stated that many Italian Mafia bosses were Masons like him-but because many judges were Masons too, the legal system didn't not prevent judges from aiding their Mafia brothers instead of prosecuting them.

After this revelation, Italy's highest court ruled it illegal for judges or prosecutors to be-or become-Masons.

After all these Mason-connected corruption scandals came an attempt to clean up Italy's political and legal institutions - Operation Clean Hands, which didn't go very far either.

After this, media mogul Silvio Berlusconi of his Forza Italia party was elected Prime Minister.

Silvio Berlusconi (/ˌbɛərlʊˈskoʊni/ BAIR-luu-SKOH-nee, Italian: [ˈsilvjo berluˈskoːni] ⓘ; 29 September 1936 – 12 June 2023) was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013; a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2022 until his death in 2023, and previously from March to November 2013; and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, and previously from 1999 to 2001.vWith a net worth of US$6.8 billion as of June 2023, Berlusconi was the third-wealthiest person in Italy at the time of his death.

He too had been a P2 member and had some interesting connections with Israel. 71

In short, the P2 is not an "exception" or "accident" as the Masons say in an attempt to cover up the scandal.

On the contrary, they need these "secret and isolated lodges" to accommodate the top government officials in a country.

What is an "exception" or "accident" is that the P2 was exposed.

Evidence to this effect came also at the middle of 1990's from England.

Michael Patrick Nolan, Baron Nolan, PC, DL, KC (10 September 1928 – 22 January 2007) was a judge in the United Kingdom, and from 1994 until 1997 was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. In the words of his obituary in The Guardian, "Lord Nolan .. made a profound mark on national life by substantially cleansing the Augean stable of corrupt politics as founding chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life."

Lord Nolan was appointed by the Prime Minister John Major in 1994 to lead a Committee on Standards in Public Life to investigate allegations of corruption in British politics.

Sir John Major KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He previously held Cabinet positions under prime minister Margaret Thatcher, his last as chancellor of the Exchequer from 1989 to 1990. Major was Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon, formerly Huntingdonshire, from 1979 to 2001. Since stepping down as an MP in 2001, Major has focused on writing and his business, sporting and charity work, and has occasionally commented on political developments in the role of an elder statesman.

Realizing that Masons were at the center of the allegations, he decided to focus on their involvement in politics.

The newspaper Independent's 21st January 1995 issue gave it a headline article, launching an inquiry into Freemasonry for the first time in British history.

It reported that the Masons were an organization 300,000 strong, represented at the top of the police force, in the government, the House of Lords, the high court, banking, the boardrooms of the largest companies and every part of the establishment, even the Royal family!

Nolan's committee also established that, just as with the P2 in Italy, along with the ordinary English lodges there were more secretive ones.

Some were very selective about where they recruited their members.

One of these lodges, for example, was recruiting only from the Ministry of Defense, among high-ranking officers, and the senior management of the arms industry.

A similar scandal hit the front pages in France.

For years the corruption of Roland Dumas, former French Foreign Minister and Mason, had been covered up by other high-ranking government officials who were also Masons.

Roland Dumas (French pronunciation: [ʁɔlɑ̃ dyma]; 23 August 1922 – 3 July 2024) was a French lawyer and Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993. He was also President of the Constitutional Council from 1995 to 2000.

Le Point, the French weekly magazine, exposed other cases of corruption, revealing how the Masons covered up for each other in their illegal activities.

Clearly, the P2 scandal in Italy wasn't a series of coincidences.

Considering other scandals in Britain and France, it can safely be said that these weren't isolated cases.

This leads to the question of whether every country has its own P2s.

49 Eustace Mullins, The World Order: Our Secret Rulers, p. 5.

50 Lewis Spence, The Encyclopedia of the Occult, p. 223.

51 Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, The Secret History of Mystics, Templars, Masons and Occult Societies, 1st ed., London: Rider, 1989, p. 63.

52 Ibid., p. 64.

53 Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 403.

54 Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, p. 66.

55 Ibid., p. 67.

56 Ibid., p. 68.

57 Ibid., p. 69.

58 William T. Still, New World Order, Vital Issues Pr, 1990, pp. 85-86.

59 Ibid., pp. 86-87.

60 Ibid., p. 89.

61 Ibid., p. 89.

62 Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, p. 70.

63 Ibid., pp. 70-71.

64 Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, Franklin Watts Ltd.,1983

St. Peter's Squared - Roberto Calvi and the P2 Masonic Lodge Conspiracy (freemasonrywatch.org)

65 Ibid.

66 Ibid.

67 Panorama (A Turkish Magazine), January 3, 1993.

68 Ugur Mumcu, Papa Mafya Agca (Pope Mafia Agca), 4.ed., Istanbul: Tekin Publishing, 1987, p. 246

69 Victor Ostrovsky, The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994, p. 226.

70 Martin Short, Inside the Brotherhood: Further Secrets of the Freemasons, London: Grafton Books, 1989, pp. 116-118.

71 Werner Raith, Das Neue Mafia-Kartell (New Mafia Cartel).