The Zionist Influence

The claim that Jews sit atop the Pyramid is complex, as Judaism is simultaneously seen as a race, religion, and culture. While some Jews support the Zionist movement – the effort to provide Jews around the world a homeland as mentioned in the Bible – not all do, nor do all Jews back Israel’s actions. To make matters more confusing, some researchers argue that “fake Jews” are the true power at the top.

While we can’t explore every thread of this topic, we’ll examine the historical claims of Jews running the world, and how this ties into the influence of the Zionist movement and the state of Israel.

As noted in Chapter 11, Israel’s creation was heavily backed by the Rothschild family, key supporters of 19th-century Zionism. In 1917, Walter Rothschild secured British support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

The Rothschilds’ role in Israel’s creation and numerous major geopolitical events has led researchers like John Coleman to place them near the top of the power structure.

Some researchers go further, claiming that we should not only consider the Rothschilds’ massive wealth, but their Jewish heritage as vital to this investigation.

While this topic may make some people uncomfortable due to the history of actual anti-Jewish sentiment, if we are going to answer the question of who is running the Round Table Groups, we must take an honest look.

Jews have faced persecution for centuries, with many researchers citing their expulsion from dozens of countries due to perceived political and societal influence as evidence of their power. While some sources claim Jews were expelled from 109 countries or as many as 1000 times, a more accurate count is between 70 and 100 expulsions.

Modern beliefs in a Jewish conspiracy often trace back to the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, allegedly the meeting minutes of a Jewish group plotting world control. Some believe they were written by the members of the First Zionist Congress held in Basle, Switzerland in 1897.

The Protocols first appeared in 1903 as a series of articles in the Russian newspaper Znamya, and were fully published in 1905, in Sergei Nilus’ book “The Great within the Small”.

The first protocol is titled “Right Lies in Might” and is a call for using violence and deception against the public.

“Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it.”

Protocol 2 is called “Economic War”, allegedly “the foundation of the Jewish predominance”, and discusses using the press to gain the “power to influence” while remaining “in the shade”.

Protocol 4 says in order to “give the goyim no time to think and take note, their minds must be diverted towards industry and trade” so all the nations “will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note of their common foe”.

The Protocols were originally printed in Russia before spreading to the UK, and the U.S. where they gained support from those already blaming Jews for societal ills. Critics, however, dismissed them as just the latest in a long string of so-called anti-semitic conspiracies.

In 1921, journalist Philip Graves wrote an expose for the London Times titled “The Truth About ‘The Protocols’: A Literary Forgery”. He discovered that they were based on Maurice Joly’s 1864 book The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. The book was a satire against French Emperor Napoleon III.

Graves compared the two works and noticed that entire sections and phrases were lifted from Joly’s book. In his third article on the Protocols he writes, “The author of the “ Protocols’ simply copied from the “ Dialogues” a number of passages in which MACHIAVELLI is made to enunciate the doctrines and tactics of despotism as they were at that time practised by NAPOLEON, and put them into the mouth of an imaginary Jewish Elder. There can be little doubt that the forgery was perpetrated by some member of the Russian Secret Police. “

The Protocols were also declared a forgery during the 1933 Bern Trial in Switzerland, where two pro-Nazi men were fined for distributing anti-Jewish material.  Both men were found to be guilty of breaking the law and made to pay a fine. Though their convictions were overturned on appeal, the court’s witnesses declared the Protocols a fake.

Most studies of the Protocols trace the text back to Joly’s earlier satire. Despite the forgeries, some believe the Protocols still contain an element of truth.

In fact, Konrad Heiden, an anti-Nazi contemporary of Hitler, wrote that,”Today the forgery is incontrovertibly proved, yer something infinitely significant has remained: a textbook of world domination pure and simple. They do contain a deeper truth; but the demonstrable history of their origin shows that this truth involves not a Jewish but a fascist world conspiracy.”

Adam Green, host of Know More News, believes the Judeo-Christian religions are themselves part of the problem which allows Zionists to manipulate our world.

Adam Green: Top of the pyramid: “Who do I think is at the very top? I would say the most dominant religions of the last 1700 years. Messianic, apocalyptic Judaism in its three branches. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All ultimately want the same thing, believe in the same prophecies with slight differences. From what we can see, the Judeo-Christian Islamic religions are the most dominant religions on the planet for the last.

Almost 2000 years. There could be some type of hidden hand manipulating and that created that. But I don’t have any good proof of that. And just from what we know and what we can prove, it is the Messianic conspiracy. It is the Torah blueprint. It is the Messiah. Prophecies meant on ruling the world in the end times.

I mean, who has, who has the most influence over America? It’s like we’re basically run by a Judeo-Christian apocalyptic death cult with Mike Pompeo, the secretary, former Secretary of State believes in the rapture. All the top Republicans are close with John Hague, the end times fanatic that’s obsessed with Israel and both these Christian Zionists and the rabbis wants, desire an end times war, so Jesus will return and their prophecies can be fulfilled. And Christians aren’t opposing that ’cause Christians ultimately want the exact same thing. They also want the prophesied Messiah from the Bible to rule the world. In the end times, even these, these Christians and independent media people that are supposedly fighting against the Satanic new world order, it is what they’re really doing in the name of fighting, the so-called Satanic new world order.

They’re helping usher in the Torah prophecy, Jewish New world order.”

Green says messianic beliefs among some Jews have been dominant for centuries and relate to the power struggle for control of the planet. One example is 17th-century mystic Sabbatai Zevi, who declared himself the Jewish messiah at age 22 in 1648. He claimed to possess powers like flight and prediction of the future. His following grew as he encouraged breaking traditional Jewish laws—for instance, feasting on fasting days. Mainstream Jews considered him a heretic.

By 1666, Zevi had been arrested by the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople and given an ultimatum – convert to Islam and stop calling himself the messiah or face death. Zevi chose to convert. Hundreds of his followers also converted to Islam and became known as Dönme. Some still believed he was the messiah, leading to the rise of Sabbateanism after his death.

One of the most well known Sabbatean devotees was a man named Jacob Frank who was born around 1726. By 1755, Frank declared himself the direct successor to Zevi. He also preached defiance of Jewish laws, and his Sabbatean Frankist sect was known for their Kabbalistic mysticism, orgies, and incest. Although Zevi and the Sabbatean Frankists are mostly unknown to the average person, some researchers believe the Sabbateans are at the top of the Pyramid of Power.

One thing is for certain, the Zionist agenda remains highly influential in 2020’s, with unprecedented U.S. support for Israel, governments providing endless funding for genocidal actions, and politicians who receive millions of dollars from the Zionist lobby while literally taking oaths to Israel.  Critics of Israeli policies are increasingly labeled anti-Semitic, and students protesting against the crimes of Israel are now being targeted for speaking out on US campuses.

Zionist supporters defend all actions by Israel and ignore the clear bias towards the nation. Of course, Zionists are not only Jews. There are Zionist Christians, atheists, and members of all political parties. Loyalist groups like Betar track anti-Israel protesters online, aiming to label them anti-Semitic, damage their reputations, and have them deported.

At the same time, it is undeniable that some people wrongly blame all Jews for the world’s problems and judge people solely based on their ancestry. While Zionist influence on geopolitics is real, claiming all Jews are part of a worldwide conspiracy is mistaken and overly simplistic. While Adam Green strongly criticizes Israel and Jewish influence, he also rejects this broad view.

Adam Green: on Blaming all Jews  “Jews are ultimately victims of this Judeo psyop as well. Although Judaism as a whole may have had some benefit from it, individual Jews have suffered throughout history. They’re victims of this conspiracy as well. And most Jews wouldn’t even be aware of this overarching agenda, although it’s almost hidden in plain sight.

Obviously these messianic memes and these religions that developed thousands of years ago, people today are, have fallen victims under its spell. It’s definitely not all Jews. It’s not every Jew. It’s definitely not only Jews, but it is the Jewish religion. The only people that were waiting for Messiah and believing the Torah before Christianity and Islam were known as Jews, but these are.

These are memes that have a life of their own. It wasn’t even all Jews that created Christianity. It was a subset of mystical messianic. There wasn’t a monolithic Judaism, just like today, there is a diverse opinions in sects in Judaism.”

Of course, this does not mean that no Jews are at the top of the Pyramid of Power. In the 16 episodes of this series we’ve covered a wide range of institutions, governments, and organizations. For what it’s worth, here are the players we’ve mentioned who are of Jewish ancestry:

Big Media tycoons like Michael Bloomberg, and Donald and Samuel Newhouse with Advance Publications, and Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast; Deep state agent Henry Kissinger; Big Tech oligarchs Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, and Alex Karp at Palantir;

In Hollywood we see that numerous heads of the Big 5 film studios have Jewish ancestry, including Alan Bergman (Chairman, Disney Entertainment Studios Content) and Bob Iger; David Zaslav (CEO, Warner Bros. Discovery) and Michael De Luca; Tom Rothman (Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group); Brian Robbins (former President and CEO, Paramount Pictures) and David Ellison, the head of the newly formed Paramount Skydance Corporation. Hollywood is indeed one industry which has been prominently run by Jews since its founding. 

We also see Brian L. Roberts of Comcast; Abraham Flexner, Rockefeller ally and author of the Flexner report;

The creation of the Federal Reserve also involved two Jews, Paul Warburg and Jacob Schiff.

The Epstein network also involved a Jewish cabal, from Jeffrey Epstein himself, Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell, and Les Wexner of the little known MEGA Group, a group made up of Jewish billionaires dedicated to advancing Zionist agendas.

Although the key figures involved in the founding of the Technocracy movement were not Jewish, Harold Loeb, another important Technocrat did have a Jewish ancestry. Interestingly, he was the son of Albert Loeb, a partner at law firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co, which was instrumental in the creation of the Federal Reserve.

While many researchers exclusively point the finger at the Jews or the Zionists, in the 19th century a French Catholic Priest named Ernest Jouin warned of a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy. Jouin was the first person to print the French version of the Protocols of Zion and his takeaway was that Jewish leaders were conspiring with Freemasons to infiltrate society and create their version of a new world order.

The Freemasons Conspiracy

Before examining the “Judeo-Masonic” conspiracy claims, it’s important to understand the Freemasons’ influence. According to Masonic history, the modern Freemason Lodges trace their origins to Biblical times, but most scholars place modern Freemasonry between the 1500s and 1700s. Some link its roots to the Rosicrucian movement of the early 1600s, which claimed to offer hidden truths from ancient occult knowledge.

What is certain is that the Freemasons have since become a worldwide movement with various lodges, Grand Lodges, and conspiracy theories surrounding their intentions. Like the Jewish people, they’ve been expelled from many countries due to growing influence. They attracted suspicion from monarchs, church leaders, and politicians. In the U.S., the Anti-Mason Party emerged in the late 1820s as the public became weary of their true goals.

The Party was sparked by the disappearance of William Morgan, a Canadian bricklayer who exposed Mason secrets in his book Illustrations of Masonry before being abducted and murdered. A murder which many believe involved the Freemasons. This murder inspired John Quincy Adams, America’s Sixth President, to publish the 1842 book Letters on the Masonic Institution, in which he criticized the secret oaths and questioned the loyalty of the Freemasons.

Much of the reason the Masons have faced opposition and expulsion relates to how many Masons have been essential in various revolutions, civil wars, and as heads of state and monarchs, including King Leopold I in Belgium, Pedro I of Brazil, Wilhelm I in Germany, Maximilian I of Mexico, Willem II in the Netherlands, and George VI of the UK.

During the American Revolution, at least 68 of the 200 plus “Founding Fathers” were Freemasons, including signers of the Declaration of Independence. Notable members include George Washington, a member of Fredericksburg Lodge in Virginia; Benjamin Franklin, a member of St. John’s Lodge in Philadelphia; John Hancock, member of the Lodge of St. Andrew in Boston; and Paul Revere, infamous for his midnight ride warning of the incoming British troops, was also a member of St. Andrew’s Lodge.

There are also numerous U.S. Presidents with membership in Masonic Lodges, including Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and Gerald Ford. As a youth former President Bill Clinton was a member of the Masonic youth group Order of DeMolay.

The history of Freemasonry in the U.S. is prominent. There are numerous Masonic symbols and buildings in Washington and Philadelphia. George Washington was also aware of attempts to infiltrate Masonic lodges by groups seeking to subvert the newly formed United States.

In August 1798, George Washington corresponded with George W. Snyder about the book Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All Religions and Governments of Europe, written by John Robison, a Scottish physicist and member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Robison believed the French Revolution had been infiltrated by the Bavarian Illuminati and argued that similar forces were working within Freemason lodges around the world to overthrow governments and religions.

Snyder mailed Washington a copy of Robison’s book and warned him of the attempts to take over the US from within. Snyder tells Washington the book “gives a full Account of a Society of Freemasons, that distinguishes itself by the Name “of Illuminati,” whose Plan is to overturn all Government and all Religion, even natural; and who endeavour to eradicate every Idea of a Supreme Being”. He urged Washington to prevent this “horrid plan” from corrupting the “Brethren of the English Lodge,” which Washington was said to preside over.

Washington responded by noting that he had “heard much of the nefarious, & dangerous plan” of the Illuminati but was not familiar with the book. He also clarified he wasn’t leading any Masonic lodges and claimed he had only visited one a couple of times in the last 30 years. He added that he didn’t believe U.S. lodges were “contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati”.

However, after several exchanges, on October 24, 1798, Washington stated that he had come to believe American lodges were being infiltrated.

“It was not my intention to doubt that the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more fully satisfied of this fact than I am.”

Following Washington’s death, a copy of Proofs of a Conspiracy was found in his library.

Robison’s book focuses on the influence of the Bavarian Illuminati and the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits. Robison writes that “the Jesuits took a more active hand in Free Masonry than ever. They ingrained themselves into the English Lodges and “At this time changes were made in some of the masonic symbols, particularly in the tracing of the Lodge, which bear evident marks of Jesuitical interference”. We will explore the Jesuits and the Illuminati shortly.

Freemason influence was also evident in the U.S. annexation of Hawaii. A 13- member group known as the Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, or simply the Committee of Safety, planned the operation. On January 17th, 1893, they carried out a coup against the Hawaiian Kingdom. The Queen ordered her troops to surrender. Within 48 hours, nations around the world recognized the provisional government, and by 1898 Hawaii was annexed by the United States.

The Queen later stated that the Provisional Government did not derive its authority from Hawaiian voters, but rather from the so-called Committee of Public Safety which she noted was “composed largely of persons claiming American citizenship”, “not one single Hawaiian was a member”.

Several key members of the conspiracy were Freemasons. Henry E. Cooper, Chairman of the Committee, was already a Freemason in San Diego before becoming a Master Mason with Hawaiian Lodge #22 in 1894 and later became a Sovereign Grand Inspector General. Co-conspirator Andrew Brown was a “prominent member of the Hawaiian Lodge No. 21”. John McCandless, a businessman in mining and banking, was also a known member of the Freemasons and Director of the Bank of Hawaii.

The US is not alone in having political leaders with membership in Masonic Lodges. In Mexico, several Presidents have been Freemasons including Porfirio Díaz, Benito Juárez, and Antonio Santa Anna, as well as various revolutionary figures including Ignacio Allende, José María Morelos, and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.

The Freemasons arrived in Mexico around the 1820s. In 1827, Mexican leaders, led by Vice President Nicolás Bravo, initiated the Plan de Montaño to ban secret societies, particularly Freemasons. The goal was to curb the influence of the York Rite Mason Lodge in favor of the conservative Scottish Rite Lodges.

In 1926, Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles initiated “Calles Law”, enforcing restrictions against the Catholic Church under Article 130 of the 1917 Mexican Constitution. This law enforced the separation of church and state, required all churches to register with the government and prohibited Priests from holding political office. The enforcement of the law led to the Cristero War, which saw peasant Catholics resisting and revolting against the Mexican government from 1926 to 1929.

The enforcement of Calles Law can be viewed as a battle between the Freemasons’ efforts to secularize Mexico and the Catholic Church. While some Jesuit priests supported the war, the Church officially remained neutral. According to the book Cristero Mexico, during a Free Mason banquet, President Emilio Portes Gil highlighted the Masonic influence on Mexico.

“In Mexico, the State and Freemasonry in recent years have been one and the same thing: two entities that march side by side, because the men who in recent years have been in power have always known how to be in solidarity with the revolutionary principles of Freemasonry.”

The book also states that Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles was a 33rd degree Mason and was awarded the Masonic Merit Medal by the Supreme Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite as a reward for his campaign against Catholicism. 

There have also been warnings about the Mason’s playing a role in the French revolution. John Robison’s Proof of a Conspiracy was not the first book to question the role of the Masons in France. In fact, Robison was picking up on a thread which was beginning to spread across Europe.

In the same period, French journalist and priest Augustin Barruel exposed the influence of Freemasons in the French Revolution and Reign of Terror. In 1797, he published Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism connecting the Jacobins with Freemason lodges. He believed the Masons were subverting the Catholic Church through occult practices and Enlightenment ideals.

Meanwhile, Ernest Jouin, the previously mentioned Catholic priest who first published the French edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, also believed there was a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy to control the world and attack Christianity. In his journal International Review of Secret Societies he shared communications from Vatican leaders who commended him for his efforts. He emphasized that several Popes had spoken out against Masonry.

Jouin’s view was so commonly held in the Vatican leadership that Pope Benedict XV made him an Honorary Prelate. Pope Pius XI thanked Jouin for combating the Catholic Church’s “mortal enemy”.

Jouin’s writing in the International Review of Secret Societies influenced French journalist Léon de Poncins, who focused on the role of Masons and “Jewish powers” in major world events, such as World War I, the creation of Israel, and the League of Nations. In 1928, Poncins published The Secret Powers Behind Revolution: Freemasonry and Judaism, and later The Occult War. Poncins blamed Masons and Jewish financiers, like James de Rothschild and Jacob Schiff, for the French and Russian revolutions.

In Secret Powers he says the Jewish people are uniquely fitted to this role of overthrowing traditions because they have an “instinctive opposition” to “every established order” which is a “direct consequence of their age-long effort to maintain the immutability of their ideal and the constancy of their original traditions.”

Poncin’s writing drew on the 1910 book, The Anti-Christian Conspiracy: The Masonic Temple Seeking to Rise on the Ruins of the Catholic Church. Written by Catholic priest Henri Delassus, the book quotes directly from a 1904 debate in France’s Chamber of Deputies where several officials affirmed their belief that Freemasons had “worked in secret” to “prepare the Revolution”.

(on screen) ‘We are therefore perfectly in agreement on this point that Masonry was the sole author of the Revolution”, (Marquis de Rosanbo)

to which a Deputy named François-Henri Jumel responded (on screen) “We do more than acknowledge it. We proclaim it.”

Both Poncins and Delassus assert that Freemasonry is involved in a worldwide conspiracy to undermine the Catholic Church and turn people away from religion. Poncin (in Secret Powers) blames “materialism and atheism in the spiritual domain, liberalism, democracy and republic in the political domain, collectivism in the social domain” for taking the common man away from the Church and away from support of Monarchy.

A recurring theme in these claims is that Masons attacked tradition, targeting monarchy and Catholicism. French revolutionaries not only advocated for reducing the Church’s power, some went a step further and called for making reason their new God while also murdering clergy and burning churches.

On one hand, it’s understandable that as the ideas of freedom of speech and self-ownership spread throughout the world, the people of the 18th century would desire to be free from the chains of religious dogma and the alleged divinity of Kings. Yet for those loyal to Church and crown, this felt like a direct threat to their way of life. Were the Masons attempting to subvert humanity for worldwide domination? Or was this a natural evolution of humanity breaking free from the chains of bondage? Or, is the truth somewhere in the middle?

Delassus, Poncins, Jouins, and Barruel all point to the presence of Jews and Masons among the thought leaders of the French, Russian, and even Hungarian revolutions. They also note financing from Jewish bankers as evidence that these movements were a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy. However, even Poncins, with his firm anti-Jewish stance, refused to condemn all Jews or all Masons. In Secret Powers he writes:

“To conclude from this that Jewry forms a compact revolutionary army, directed by a single supreme chief, would be absurd. What is the proportion of those who are in the conspiracy, we do not know. All Jews are not Bolshevists, all Masons are not revolutionary atheists, but nevertheless every Jew because of his Judaic mentality and every Mason because of his Masonic mentality is in essence an unconscious revolutionary”

The French weren’t alone in their concerns. Many researchers believe the Masons weren’t acting independently, but were part of a broader worldwide Jewish conspiracy.

In fact, in 1855, Isaac Mayer Wise, an American rabbi who was called “the foremost rabbi in America”, wrote that “Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, degrees, charges, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to the end.” Additionally, Albert Pike, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891, also pointed to Jewish influence on Freemasonry. In his book Morals and Dogma he writes, “All the Masonic Associations” gained their “Secrets and their Symbols” from the Jewish Mystic tradition of Kabbalah.

Whether the Freemasons are a “Jewish creation” or simply inspired by Jewish history depends on your individual perspective. Regardless, Freemasons have clearly played a significant role in major geopolitical events for centuries, if not much further back into history.

Regarding the players we have mentioned in this series and this episode, we do see the influence of the Freemasons.

For example, Senator Nelson Aldrich, who was instrumental in the creation of the Federal Reserve, was a member of the Freemason Lodge in Rhode Island. Cecil Rhodes, the architect for the Rhodes Scholarship and Round Table Groups, was initiated into Apollo University Lodge No. 357 at Oxford in 1877. Several members of the founding of Columbia University – the birthplace of Technocracy and the Trilateral Commission – served as members of the Freemasons in New York, including Phillp and William Livingston. Józef Retinger, one of the founders of the Bilderberg Group, was also a Freemason. Finally, Adam Weishaupt, founder of the infamous Bavarian Illuminati, which John Robison warned about, was inducted into the Masonic lodge in Munich in 1777.

As we shall learn, Weishaupt had interactions with the Freemasons and the Jesuits. 

The Society of Jesus, aka The Jesuits

The Jesuits began as a small group of University of Paris students who took vows of poverty and chastity. They formed a religious order called the Company, later known as the Society of Jesus. In 1537, they went to Italy to seek approval from the Pope and by 1540, Pope Paul III allowed them to become ordained as priests, establish colleges, hold seminars, and recruit for the Catholic Church.

The group chose Ignatius of Loyola, or Saint Ignatius, to be the first Superior General of the order. Ignatius was a Spanish Catholic priest and former soldier who spent ten years in the Spanish military. It was this military experience which saw him treat the Jesuits as a military order as much as a religious one.

During the Counter-Reformation, the Jesuits were tasked with promoting Catholicism and pushing back on the growth of the Protestants. By the 1545 Council of Trent, they were spreading the Church’s message to colonies and building schools and churches to expand their fledgling movement.

Over the next 200 years, monarchs, governments, and Freemasons became suspicious of the Jesuits and their influence, fearing that the church’s power and autonomy threatened emerging ideals of liberty and free thought.

The Jesuits were expelled from the Portuguese Empire in 1759, then from France, Malta, Naples, Sicily, Spain, Austria, and Hungary. Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order in all Catholic territories in 1773. His death shortly afterwards has been believed by some to have been a Jesuit poisoning, although he was 71 years old at the time of his death.  Alexander I banned them from Imperial Russia in 1820, and Switzerland’s 1848 Constitution barred them from government and church roles.

Despite the attempts at suppressing the Jesuits, their message spread throughout China, Russia, Prussia, and the United States. By the early 19th century, fears of the Jesuits led to the publishing of essays and books discussing their alleged secret plans for world domination.

In 1835, Samuel B. Morse, the American inventor of Morse Code, published Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, accusing the Jesuits of secretly plotting to subvert the American experiment. According to Morse, the Jesuits were acting on behalf of the Vatican and the St. Leopold Foundation, also known as the Leopoldine Society. The St. Leopold Foundation was formed in Vienna, Austria in 1829 to support Catholic missions in the US. Morse believed the Austrian monarchy was secretly involved in this effort.

A decade after Morse’s book, Jacopo Leone, a former novitiate of the Jesuits, published the book, The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order. Leone told the story of how he joined the Jesuits at the age of 19 in 1824. He said he met with a Jesuit rector who told him to give a confession of his sins from his entire life. From there he was accepted into the Order.

Leone claimed that in September of that year he was living as a Jesuit novitiate at Chieri and decided to walk in the garden. He went to ask the father for permission when he found the Jesuit library. As Leone began exploring the books he discovered a second row of books hidden behind the first, and a third behind the second. In this third row of books he discovered secret documents, including his own confession, as well as confessions of novices, strangers, Jesuits, and other powerful individuals.

While reading the documents, Leone heard someone approaching and took cover. He overheard 8–10 senior Jesuits discussing secret oaths and plans for world domination. He took notes on what he heard, and later left the Order before becoming a vocal critic of the Jesuits.

He believed the confessions obtained by the Jesuits would be used to blackmail their colleagues and enemies who feared the truth of their transgressions being revealed to the public.

Leone briefly mentions the Monita Secreta (or the Secret Monitor), an alleged secret Jesuit plan for world domination which first appeared in Polish in 1612 under the name the Monita Privata. Though often considered a debunked forgery by a former Jesuit, some believe it contains real instructions from Claudio Acquaviva, the Society’s fifth general.

The Monita Secreta shows up again in 1883 when Edwin Allen Sherman publishes his book, Engineer Corps of Hell. In this book Sherman relays a story of how in August 1870 he was working at the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry lodge in San Francisco, California when a stranger showed up.

This older man told a story of working with the Archeological Society of France, traveling through Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, and eventually discovering an old Spanish adobe house that was occupied by the local indigenous population. The old man would stay at this home from time to time as he traveled and worked on his studies.

One night, while preparing to write, the man found a package under his bed. Inside, he discovered the “Secret Manual of Instructions” for Jesuit ceremonies, printed in Latin with the seal and signatures of the General and Secretary of the Order at Rome.

The man quickly copied the book from Latin to French, and placed the package back where he found it before leaving the next day. When he returned a week later, he was told that a Bishop and his servant returned in “great trepidation and anxiety” looking for the package.

This wandering Mason eventually printed the book in Spanish and distributed it to his Masonic brethren in Spanish America. He claimed his life was under threat and that he needed to leave before he was murdered. In the end, he was stabbed and shot while making his escape.

The traveling Mason reportedly asked Sherman to print the documents so it could be a “valuable weapon in the hands of the Masonic Fraternity”. Sherman claimed his documents were the same Secret Monitor of the Jesuits from the 1600’s.  Whether or not that is true is unknown.

Sherman’s book claims to reveal secret Jesuit oaths. According to the documents, Jesuits are tasked with sowing “jealousy and hatred between communities,” creating revolutions, and infiltrating influential sectors like banking, law, education, and government. He says their goal is to gain the trust of key figures in society to further their agenda.

When they finally take the secret oath, the aspiring Jesuit has a dagger to his heart as he states, “I do now renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or state named Protestants or Liberals or obedience to any of their laws, magistrates or officers.”

The alleged secret oath calls on the Jesuits to promise to “make and wage relentless war”, to exterminate Protestants and Liberals from the face of the earth; and not to spare anyone regardless of their age, sex, or condition. The Jesuit states they will “hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.”

Finally, the Jesuit initiate acknowledges that should they fail to do as they are told, their “fellow soldiers of the Militia of the Pope” will cut off their hands and feet, cut their throat from ear to ear, cut open their belly and pour sulphur in the wound.

It should be noted that the version of the Secret Instructions in Sherman’s book are different from the available printings of the alleged original Monita Secreta. Nevertheless, the rumors of the Monita Secreta contribute to theories of secret plots by the Jesuits.

For their part, Jesuit researchers have attempted to debunk the stories surrounding the Monita Secreta. According to Thomas J. Campbell, a Jesuit historian, and his book The Jesuits, 1534-1921, some believers in the Monita claim it was discovered in the secret archives of the Society at Padua, Italy. He says the use of the term “Monita Secreta” was a “clever imitation” of an official Jesuit document known as the “Monita generalia”.

Finally, Campbell and other Jesuit historians claim the anonymous document was traced to Jerome Zahorowski, a Jesuit priest “who had been dismissed from the Society” for disciplinary matters in 1613. Campbell says he became disgruntled after failing a theology exam which prevented him from taking the fourth vow of the Jesuits. Zahorowski was reportedly charged by the Inquisition for the forgery. After initially denying his role, he is alleged to have confessed to being the author while on his deathbed.

However, in the book “Monita privata: The Critical Edition of the Latin and Polish Texts“, published in June 2025, researchers say there is no direct proof linking the authorship of the Monita to Zahorowski. Instead, the authors of that study pushback on the idea that the Monita was “simply a product of internal Jesuit discord” and instead believe the publishing of the Monita was “part of a broader, calculated anti-Jesuit campaign that resonated across Catholic and Protestant territories” across Europe. They believe the Monita fits “within a broader anti-Jesuit campaign likely connected to Venetian circles” in Italy who opposed the Jesuits.  We will be diving into the power of the Venetian nobility shortly.

The Jesuits have been blamed for a number of important geopolitical events. 

Edwin Sherman dedicated his book The Engineer Corps of Hell to Charles Chiniquy, a Canadian activist and former Catholic priest who was a vocal critic of the Jesuits as well. In 1886, only three years after Sherman’s book, Chiniquy published his autobiography Fifty Years in the Church of Rome detailing what he saw as “Pagan” influence in Catholicism. He warned the Vatican was attempting to flood the U.S. with Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and France.

Chiniquy claimed the Vatican and the Jesuits were involved with the murder of US President Abraham Lincoln. The two men knew each other after Lincoln defended Chiniquy in a libel lawsuit. That much can be proven with historical records. However, what is less certain is whether or not Lincoln feared the Jesuits were a threat to his life, as Chiniquy would later claim in his autobiography.

Determining whether the Jesuits and Vatican are part of a worldwide conspiracy is challenging. Supporters of this theory argue that the Jesuit’s Superior General, sometimes known as the Black Pope or the Gray Pope, is the top of the Pyramid.

For certain, the Vatican has been involved in numerous atrocities, including covering up child abuse, and funding the Nazis and helping them escape. The Jesuits have also educated many individuals through their universities around the world, including the United States, the UK, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, and even China.

While not every graduate of a Jesuit university is a Jesuit, or even Catholic, these graduates have gone on to hold influential and powerful positions in banking, military, intelligence, and governments, leading many people to question their role in the Pyramid. This includes former CIA directors George Tenet, Leon Panetta, and John Brennan. Even US President Donald Trump spent two years at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution. Not to mention, Cecil Rhodes specifically mentioned the Jesuits as a model for his Round Table Groups.

As far as the evidence of them being the top of the Pyramid, we have two separate accounts of individuals claiming to have gained access to secret documents detailing the plans of the Jesuits. Of course, the Society of Jesus has denied any connection to these secret documents and oaths, and says they are simply signs of anti-Catholic sentiment. 

The Jesuits and Freemason Connection

When examining the history of the Jesuits and the Masons, it becomes clear that both groups often accuse each other of plotting world domination.

For example, Augustin Barruel, author of the book Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, was a Jesuit Priest.

Ernest Jouin, the outspoken critic of Masonry, was a Catholic priest, and Léon de Poncins, the author of The Secret Powers Behind Revolution: Freemasonry and Judaism, was a Catholic journalist who worked closely with the Vatican.

Edwin Allen Sherman, author of Engineer Corps of Hell, was Grand Registrar of the Grand Consistory of the 32d Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in California, and Secretary of the Masonic Veteran Association of the Pacific Coast.

Quite simply, none of these accounts are without bias.

One way to view this rivalry is that as Enlightenment ideas spread in the 18th century the Catholic Church and  the Jesuits grew concerned about the ideological threats to their religion, and in response promoted anti-Masonic conspiracies. Meanwhile, Freemasons wanted to see an end of rule by monarchy and superstition, so they spread anti-Jesuit theories in hopes of reducing support for the Church.

Another theory suggests the Jesuits infiltrated the Masons to insert symbols and myths linked to the Knights Templar. This idea came from Nicholas Bonneville, a French journalist, Jacobin, printer, and political figure active during the French Revolution. He later befriended American revolutionary Thomas Paine when he printed Payne’s own essay on Freemasonry.

In 1788, Bonneville published two books on his theories of a Jesuit infiltration of Masonry, titled the Jesuits Expelled from Masonry and Dagger Shattered by the Masons. He argued they inserted the four Templar vows into high-level degree Masonic lodges and hid coded messages in Masonic texts. He claimed a “Jesuit master key” could unlock the “hidden meaning under very common words”.

Some believe the Jesuit-Mason conflict is a distraction, claiming Jewish financiers are truly behind it all. These researchers cite the French Rothschilds’ loans to the Vatican as evidence of Jewish manipulation of the Catholic Church.

Adam Green thinks this debate misses a more important point.

Adam Green Against Masons and Jesuits:  “A lot of conspiracy researchers like to focus on secret societies, Freemasons, Sabatteans, supposed Cathar conspiracies, but I see the Judeo Yahweh Messianic memes as the conspiracy that all of those are rooted in. The Freemasons, Sabatteans, both just manifestations of Judaism. I think the greatest conspiracy is hidden in plain sight.

It’s the greatest book ever printed. Most greatest book ever sold. It’s the Bible. Everybody has it on their shelf, the conspiracy, the blueprint.”

Green may be correct. Perhaps the debates surrounding the Jesuits, the Masons, and even the Zionist Jews are missing the bigger point. Maybe, there is an even more secretive group behind them which has been manipulating the world from atop the Pyramid of Power for centuries.

Nicholas Bonneville, the French revolutionary, may have been working for this secretive group.

In 1787, he met Johann Bode in Paris, and joined the Bavarian Illuminati. Bode was Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt’s second-in-command.

Bonneville’s apparent history with the Illuminati was discussed extensively in the book Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, written by James Billington, the 13th Librarian of Congress under President Ronald Reagan. Billington says the “modern revolutionary tradition” which began in France “grew out of occult Freemasonry”. He said that these ideas originated “from Pythagorean mysticism” and that the men behind the revolutionary fervor were greatly inspired by “Bavarian Illuminism”.

So was the Illuminati the true force behind the accusations that the Jesuits had infiltrated the Freemasons? Is the Illuminati yet another name for the Jewish financiers? As we shall see, the history remains uncertain. 

The Illuminati

Thousands of books and podcasts have examined the Bavarian Illuminati, from its founding by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 to speculations and conspiracy theories about its continued existence. We’re going to take a brief look at both the history and the speculation to see if perhaps the infamous Illuminati are the ones sitting at the top of the Pyramid of Power, influencing the Rhode’s Round Table Groups, the Jesuits, Masons, and Zionists for the last 250 years.

By now, the story of the founding of the Illuminati is well known. In 1775, Adam Weishaupt, a professor at the Jesuit-run University of Ingolstadt, became disillusioned with Jesuit teachings following Pope Clement XIV’s 1773 command to dissolve the Jesuit order. Weishaupt grew to disdain the Jesuits and sought to create his own group based on the degrees of Masonry which would spread reason and enlightenment thinking.

On May 1, 1776, Weishaupt’s group was formed under the name the Covenant of Perfectibility, or the Perfectibilists. The group took the Owl of Minerva as their symbol to represent wisdom. They also used historical aliases for their members, with Weishaupt becoming known as Spartacus.

Weishaupt was admitted to the Freemason lodge of the Rite of the Strict Observance in February 1777. He came to believe that the Mason lodges would be key to spreading the secret mission of the Perfectibilists. By April 1778, the group became known as the Order of Illuminati and began recruiting among the professionals of the day – church officials, academics, doctors, and lawyers.

The Illuminati spread across Germany, having some success in joining and taking over lodges, as well as starting their own. However, due to internal divisions within the Illuminati and increasing pressure from the Catholic Church, the Illuminati, Freemasonry, and other secret societies were banned by an edict of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria in 1784. The group was banned multiple times in the following years, as many believed they had not disbanded and continued their secret mission to overthrow monarchy and religion.

Theodore would later seize and publish documents relating to the Bavarian Illuminati. Weishaupt had his position at the university taken and he was banished from Bavaria. This was effectively the end of the Illuminati.

Of course, almost immediately after the banning of the group theories emerged, claiming the Illuminati continued to influence geopolitics, especially during the French Revolution. One of the earliest polemics against the Illuminati was an essay published in 1789 by Jean-Pierre-Louis de Luchet, titled, Essay on the Illuminati Sect. British physicist John Robison published Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All Religions and Governments of Europe soon after, claiming the Illuminati had infiltrated the French Revolution through the Jacobins and Freemason lodges. In fact, when describing the group which had been secretly influencing the direction of the revolution, Robison emphatically stated,”The Association of which I have been speaking is the Order of the Illuminati”.

Robison also wrote about Weishaupt’s tumultuous relationship with the Jesuits. He says that by 1777, Weishaupt had been “scheming the establishment of an Association or Order, which, in time, should govern the world”. Weishaupt reportedly told ex-Jesuits – who had recently found themselves banned – they could regain their influence under a new name by “directing the education of youth”. Unfortunately, Weishaupt was only successful in convincing two Jesuits to join his burgeoning secret society. After being rebuffed by the Jesuits, Weishaupt considered them to be his enemy. 

In 1780, Weishaupt partnered with Adolph Freiherr von Knigge for help advancing the Illuminati’s message within Freemason lodges. Knigge was successful in growing the Illuminati’s ranks, including by initiating Johann Bode, who would later become Weishaupt’s second in command, and was responsible for the German translation of Nicholas Bonneville’s book The Jesuits Driven Away from Masonry. However, by July 1784, Knigge quit the Illuminati, accusing Weishaupt of authoritarian leadership and of being “a latent Jesuit”.

Could Knigge’s departure have led him to share concerns of Jesuit infiltration with his initiate, Johann Bode, who then inspired Nicholas Bonneville to write The Jesuits Driven Away from Masonry? It certainly appears so.

Thus, the accusations between the Masons, the Jesuits, and the Illuminati have been raging for centuries and continue to this day.

What about the idea that the Illuminati practiced, or still practice, rituals linked to ancient mystery religions? Can a lineage truly be traced from the Knights Templar and Solomon’s Temple to today’s secret societies?

Many theories try to link Freemasons and the Illuminati to ancient secret societies, but the exact path is unclear. While the modern version of these groups clearly have an ideological and spiritual thread connecting them to the Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, and ancient cults of Greece and Rome, proving a direct, unbroken lineage is far more difficult than some conspiracy researchers may want to believe. 

What can be proven is that the Bavarian Illuminati was likely not the first secret society aimed at world revolution, and not even the first to use the name Illuminati or the Illuminated.

In 1527, Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, was suspected by the Spanish Inquisition to be part of the sect of Mystic Christians known as the alumbrados, or the Illuminated. Loyola would be allowed to live after receiving a verbal lashing for his apparent sympathies with the alumbrados. This version of the Illuminati was said to have made their way to Spain from Italy. They believed in the heretical idea of a direct communion or knowledge with God through meditations and visions.

In 1525, the Inquisitor General issued an edict of faith directed against all individuals who “call themselves enlightened, abandoned and perfect’”. Loyola became acquainted with suspected alumbrados, including by leading a group looking for spiritual guidance. During the meetings of this group it was reported that some women had seizures, vomited, fainted, and claimed to have visions of the devil. This surely put Loyola on the Inquisitions radar.

Although the Illuminati is often used as the default name for the true ruling class, the name and concept has been degraded to a meme which shows up in music, movies, pop culture, science fiction, and conspiracy theories about the top of the Pyramid of Power. The concept has become a punching bag for those who want to give a name to the force which is manipulating our world.

Could the leaders of the Masons, the Jesuits, & the Zionists be the real Illuminati? Are the Illuminati the leaders of the alleged Committee of 300? It is possible that the top of the Pyramid may at times refer to itself as the Illuminated or Enlightened ones? This could be true, and yet, there is little credible evidence directly connecting the historical Bavarian Illuminati to the ruling class of today.

Perhaps, to find the top of the Pyramid, we must go even further back in history to study the houses of nobility and royalty.

The Venetian Black Nobility

The Venetian Black Nobility, or simply the Black Nobility was briefly discussed by John Coleman in his work on the Committee of 300. Coleman writes, “America is run not by 60 families but by 300 families and England is run by 100 families…. these families are intertwined through marriage, companies, banks, not to mention ties to the Black Nobility, Freemasonry, the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and so on.”

Coleman makes several other references to this “ancient Black Nobility” throughout his book. He also names the families he believes make up this power structure. Before we name names, let’s dive into the history of the concept of the Black Nobility.

The term Black Nobility originated in September 1870 when the Kingdom of Italy’s army marched into Rome to overthrow Pope Pius IX and take control of the Quirinal Palace. Pope Pius declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican where he remained for the next 59 years. Aristocratic families who supported the pope closed their palace doors in protest, garnering them the nickname “the black nobility” by those loyal to King Victor Emmanuel II.

By 1929, the Lateran Pacts would be signed between the King, Benito Mussolini, and Pope Pius. The treaty had the effect of recognizing Vatican City as an independent sovereign state controlled by the Holy See, and provided for dual citizenship for the Black Nobility in Italy and Vatican City. The Kingdom of Italy also agreed to recognize all noble titles granted by the Pope.

However, recognition of the black nobility was short lived. By 1968, Pope Paul VI issued a document abolishing the perks and advantages granted to the Black Nobility. This included stripping the noble families of their Vatican City license plates and discounted rates on food. According to the mainstream history, this was effectively the end of the power and influence of the Black Nobility.

The concept of Venetian Nobility dates back centuries. Powerful Italian noble families, such as the Colonna, Massimo, Orsini, Ruspoli, Pallavicini, Theodoli, and Borghese, gravitated toward Rome to maintain ties with the Vatican. Some even became popes.

Other powerful noble families gathered in Venice and Genoa, Italy, building their wealth off trade route monopolies. The families grew in wealth as the Port of Venice became a gateway for trade to Europe, the Adriatic Sea, and the Middle East and Asia. These families provided military support for the Crusaders which helped Venice become an economic and military power.

Over time these families gained complete control over Venice. Prior to 1172, Venice was governed through the appointment of the republic’s highest official position, the Doge, who administered Venice for over 1,000 years. After that date, the election of the Doge was now the responsibility of the Committee of Forty made up of these same noble families. The theory is that these powerful families maintained control of Italy throughout the following centuries.

While this group is sometimes known as the Venetian Black Nobility owing to their origins in Venice, Italy, their power and influence spread beyond the peninsula and throughout Europe, including in London, England with the establishment of the financial district in the City of London. Many researchers now believe the Black Nobility families can be found in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands, and Greece.

As you research this concept of the Black Nobility or Venetian Black Nobility, you’ll find numerous lists from different sources attempting to identify these elite families and trace their influence through history.  In The Committee of 300, John Coleman names several families he claimed were or are still part of the Black Nobility. These include:

– the Swiss Oltramare family;
– the Giustiniani family of Rome and Venice;
– Pierpaolo Luzzatti Fequiz, Black Nobility of Venice;
– Umberto Ortolani, infamous for his involvement with the P2 Masonic Lodge;
– the Orsini family;
– the Doria family, the financiers of the Spanish Hapsburgs;
– Elie de Rothschild of the French Rothschild family;
– the Alba family in Spain;
– Queen Elizabeth II of England, of the Black Nobility Guelphs;
– and Sir Moses Montefiore, the man who established the first Jewish settlement in Palestine

Other lists claiming to be the current families of the Black Nobility commonly include the Italian Houses of Medici and Corsini; the Swedish House of Bernadotte; the House of Bourbon, originating in France with monarchs currently in Spain and Luxembourg; House of Grimaldi, ruling family of Monaco; the House of Guelph in the UK which connects to the House of Windsor, the current monarchs of the UK, via the House of Hanover; the House of Habsburg in Austria; the House of Oldenburg in Denmark, and formerly in Greece and Norway; and the House of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands, among others.

I want to make it clear – confirming 100% that these families and their descendants are the true ruling class is difficult.

Some claim these noble families are the true top of the Pyramid and the so-called Committee of 300, pointing to their historic land ownership across Europe.

We know that Cecil Rhodes and the Round Table Groups worked with the Rothschilds to spread their influence around the world, and reabsorb America into the British Empire. Is it possible that the members of the various Round Table Groups worked with the Black Nobility to manipulate world events over the last 200 years? Absolutely.

I believe at least some of these families, as well as the Vatican and members of the Jesuits, work with the Zionists and Jewish bankers, and the Freemasons and other secret societies to maintain their iron grip on humanity’s destiny. 

While the preceding investigations have focused on the various groups choosing to manipulate humanity, there are those who believe what we are facing is not only a battle of psychopathic corrupted humans vs a free humanity, but rather, a spiritual battle for the very soul of our species.

The Dark Occultists

Occult researcher Mark Passio is a former member of the Church of Satan who claims to have learned the hidden goals of a worldwide movement of Satanists and what he calls Dark Occultists. Passio spent time as a member and gained insights into the ways in which these Dark Occultists operate.

Mark Passio: history of joining COS “Well, in my youth I became disillusioned with organized religion. My family was the kind of family that sort of went along to get along and just believed whatever  you know, uh, the popular aspect of you know, the culture of you know, south Philadelphia, Roman Catholic background.

I became very disillusioned with organized religion and I sought out the opposite of that in my anger and, and angst regarding, uh, organized religion. Okay. And I encountered the work of Anton Lavey, then the high priest of the Church of Satan. And, I basically devoured all of the material regarding, you know, formal, Satanism in the Laveyan style.

And after doing that, I became a rank and file member of the Church of Satan, joined that organization and subsequently, I started, a band that espoused the Satanic ideology and I wrote for small music fanzines, as they were called in the eighties and nineties, on the topic of lave and satanism and LaVey himself became aware of some of my work. LaVey himself offered me a priesthood in the Church of Satan and offered me to head what is known as a grotto.

That’s their equivalent of covens in the Philadelphia area. I did accept the appointment of priesthood and became a regular priest in the Church of Satan, which is their ranking just above regular membership. And I declined the grotto leadership because I saw satanism and dark occultism in general back then as something that was just purely individualistic.

After that, my involvement  became a little bit deeper because I was given some people and organizations that did have their own grottos in my tri-state area, and I attended some of the gatherings and rituals of those local grottos. That is when I became fully aware that satanism and occultism, dark occultism in general was not what I had previously believed it to be, which was just a way to psychologically, get a leg up, so to speak, on your fellow man by holding Knowledge that they lack and then exploiting that ignorance as a power differential. But instead, uh, this was something that was, uh, wide scale in our, in our world, in our culture. And it was being, um, uh, used by, uh, these eclectic varieties of groups of people and networks, uh, to seize power, to infiltrate all of our institutional organizations.

And when I realized that every institution there were people in positions of high levels of power that were involved in satanism and the dark occult, seeing this in person at some of these rituals that I attended. I realized there was much more to this than met the eye. And these people were working together to ultimately bring about the enslavement of human beings. Upon realizing that, that’s when I ceased my involvement and started to blow the whistle on how this all worked.”

It is this group whom Passio believes are at the top of the Pyramid of Power.

Mark Passio: The Dark Occultists “From my perspective, uh, the pyramid of control culminates in the human domain with who I have referred to in my work as the dark Occultists of the world. And I would segment that into two groups. The lower end of it are Satanists. The higher end of it I refer to as dark luciferians. Those who truly have the knowledge of natural law in hand reject it out of their own pure egotism and selfishness, want to become God. And they want to do that by getting other people to build their compartmentalized system of human slavery for them. Do the dirty work, bloody their hands which these dark luciferians will not do themselves. They just issue the commands and pay people.

That’s who runs things from the perspective of the human domain. I have my own beliefs regarding it going into the spiritual slash non-terrestrial slash extra dimensional domain. however, you know, substantiating that is somewhat more difficult. So that’s conjectural. I would say it does pass off into the spiritual, extra dimensional realm and that ultimately even these people at the highest levels of the human domain of power are taking marching orders from others and their puppets.”

The Otherworldly Influence

Conspiracy researcher David Icke has referred to the ruling class at the top of The Pyramid as the “Global Cult”. Regarding who he thinks is running this cult, he is most well known for his statements in the late-90’s claiming that shapeshifting Reptilians are at the top. Icke has alternatively referred to these Reptilians as Archons and Annunaki.

In his 1999 book, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, Icke writes, “Putting together the mass of evidence, views, research and opinions, that I have read or heard almost daily these past years, I feel the Anunnaki are a race from a reptile genetic stream.”

He points to statements in the Bible and other historical accounts of serpents and snakes as evidence of this Reptilian race interacting with humanity.

In 2024, I asked David Icke if he still stands by these statements and asked him to elaborate on his thesis.

David Icke: “When you have a perception, the perception dictates your behavior. So where does the perception come from? It comes from your state of consciousness. Your state of consciousness dictates your perception, which then dictates your behavior. And if you look at religions and one of the common themes, it is that there is a non-human, highly negative psychopathic force.

I’ve heard these, these common themes all over the world. Of a highly negative force, which I say is a state of inverted consciousness that is manipulating human society.

So if we start at the top of this pyramid, it’s that state of consciousness. It’s inverted, it’s chaotic, it’s psychopathic, but it works through endless different levels of what you might call form. So it will work through a form that will take a reptilian. Form and other non-human forms.

And, and the levels I’m talking about up to this point are all outside of human sight and to really grasp. What is happening? We’ve really gotta understand the illusory nature of the reality that we’re experiencing. And for me, every child should be taught at the first earliest time they can grasp it.

This simple fact that when you look through your eyes into any space. You are not seeing everything in that space. You are seeing a tiny band of frequency called visible light, which is all that we can see. And the entities, the consciousness that I’m talking about that’s behind all this is in that realm Outside of visible light, Though, people say to me, well, why can’t we see ’em then? Because you can virtually see nothing, mate. That’s why. And then you, you, you have to have a means by which this consciousness and these entities operating outside the human frequency band can manipulate the human world.

And this is where this global cult comes in. The consciousness is the top of the pyramid, and everything, in any kind of form, whether it’s a more etheric form, like the entities outside of human sight, whether it’s a dense physical form, like those within human sight, they’re all possessed. Yes, dictated to in their perceptions and thus their behavior. Thus their lack of empathy, their lack of compassion, they’re all expressions of this consciousness.”

Catherine Austin Fitts, the founder of the Solari Report and former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the 1st Bush administration, uses the term “Mr. Global” to describe who she believes is at the top of the Pyramid.

Catherine Austin Fitts : “Who is Mr. Global? Mr. Global is my nickname for the Secret Governance System. We live on a planet, planet Earth where the governance system is secret. Trying to understand how it works is like peeling an onion down through many, many layers. It helps to understand the financial system and, um, and how the financial system relates to the assets it manages or it finances.”

She also believes there is the potential for the top of the pyramid to involve life from another planet.

Catherine Austin Fitts: “So we have the group that meets annually in the United States and the Bohemian Grove. We have the Bilderbergers, which includes sort of all the Western world. We have the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. We have the Trilateral Commission, and of course there’s a multitude of secret societies.

Behind all these groups, there are intergenerational pools of capital that think in very long term increments and think very strategically because they’re managing big positions of capital and they’re managing risk. So one of the things you’ll find the higher you go up in the financial system. Or in the related political system or in these cross-cutting groups, as much of their focus is on risk.

Some of the big risks include geophysical risks, and, obviously things like war, but big changes and big changes that are, uh, are sort of out of the control of humans are very difficult to address. Um, another key issue is technology. Especially when technology is changing as rapidly as it is now.

And this of course includes the powerful technology used for surveillance and, and weaponry. You know, control comes down to who has the biggest guns and how do these different groups coordinate and. And deal with whoever’s got what guns, particularly when those guns are secret, invisible. There’s an extraordinary amount of invisible weaponry operating on planet Earth.

And of course, the question is who’s got it? And, and how do they use it?”

“Many of my questions relate to whether or not we’re dealing with the interaction between our civilization, and one or more what I call breakaway civilizations of groups that have much higher technology than is commonly understood by most people on planet Earth. And is that breakaway civilization, a group of humans, who are they, where they come from?

Or is it non-human? There’s some people who believe it’s non-human. But again, an unanswered question. I have a lot of questions. I think we’re being impacted by interdimensional intelligence. Christians would tell you, would call them angels and demons. Other religions have different names for them.

But we’re dealing with intelligence from other dimensions and that is also in play, in my opinion.”

On the other end of the spectrum, Adam Green believes that theories about Satanists, Luciferians, and other worldly evil only serve to reinforce the Judeo-Christian myths which he says are the root of our problems.

Adam Green: Against Satanism  “Satan in Judaism, is a Judeo concept, and in Judaism, Satan is the adversary to God, but works for God. God created him. He allows him to operate and provides a divine role. Of tempting and testing and is the evil inclination and prosecuting and accusing sinners. Everybody that blames everything on satanic cults and satanism is ultimately just scaring people towards the God of Israel, the God of the Bible, and Jesus as the solution.

So I see all the satanic panic just to be fearmongering that scares people into the churches.”

Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle. I do not buy into the Abrahamic religions as truth and so I do not subscribe to the idea that what we are witnessing is the story of Revelations from the Bible playing out in front of our eyes. However, I do, in fact, believe that we are witnessing a spiritual battle. For me, the battle happens in our individual hearts and minds.

When an individual is consumed by their trauma, their fear, their insecurities and doubts, the Predator Class is winning. When we are incapable of overcoming our personal traumas and we look for external sources to help us – whether that be drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, or government – we are outsourcing the important self work that must be done for humanity to rise above our challenges.

This is a spiritual battle for the soul of humanity. And it’s up to each of us to do the necessary work so we may be an example to our fellow brothers and sisters in their own journeys to healing. By healing ourselves we contribute to the collective healing of humanity, and through that, we can topple the Pyramid of Power.

There is No Capstone 

While some of the researchers we have interviewed feel strongly that there is one single group or organization to point to, others believe the truth is a bit more complex.

Richard Grove is a forensic historian who has been researching the Round Table Groups for two decades. He does not believe there is one ultimate bad guy sitting atop the hierarchy.

Richard Grove: A Pyramid with no Capstone    “I think it’s a pyramid without a capstone. I think that there’s a group of groups and those groups have individuals in there, and some of those individuals are very powerful, but they can’t, they can’t coexist individually. They’re grouped together now in a like security alliance and they’ve weeded out the unnecessary parts and they’re merging all the other relational parts, like it’s down to Amazon and Costco, I love you in the future, which is gonna win, right?

So they’re whittling down our options while they’ve already reached the technical acumen that they seek to, to deliver, and they’re scuttling Western society to build their new world order. Elysium separation from the people type of new world order, brave New World 1984 situation.”

Richard Spence is a historian, Professor Emeritus at the University of Idaho, and author of Wall Street and the Russian Revolution. Spence has spent decades understanding the role of secret societies and conspiracy on historical geopolitical events. He is equally skeptical that we can easily point the finger at one culprit.

Richard Spence: “Who’s at the top of the pyramid? Or maybe to put it more simply, who rules the world? You know, is it the international oligarchy? Is it the Illuminati? Is it the, is it the high bank or what sort of I, I’m not sure that those names really matter. What kind of a name do you have to have? Why even have a name?

Why not simply be consciously aware of the power that you have? So. I am not, for my own part, firmly convinced that any such ruling group exists. I’m not saying they don’t. I am reasonably convinced that there are one or more, perhaps, numerous groups who think that they ought to be in that role and may in fact be competing with each other.

That’s another kind of scary idea that you don’t have one group of, you know, entitled elitists trying to run things. You have competing factions among them. In fact, given the nature of human beings, that’s probably more likely. Now, I know that that’s probably a very unsatisfying way of looking at it because I haven’t told you exactly what to look for, but they’re there in one form or another.

How much power they actually have, whether they are truly the masters of the universe. Or they’re a group of entitled diluted people who think that they should be, there’s something going on.”

G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekkyl Island, and a researcher of the Pyramid since the 1950’s, believes it is not a person at the top of the Pyramid, but rather an ideology.

G. Edward Griffin: Collectivism   “It really boils down to two things: the world is and has for a long time been in the grips of a war between an ideology called collectivism, and the opposite is individualism. And all of these things that we’re trying to choose between communism, fascism, Nazi, et cetera, they are variants. Merely variants of this thing called collectivism.

I don’t care what gender or how much, how much money the person makes, I don’t care about any of that. Are they collectivists or are they individualists? So now we have to learn what that means. And so I think it’s so important, by the way that I, I devoted the last several years of my life trying to clarify this issue.

I think that people fall for the trickery of this argument of collectivism versus individualism, mainly because there are collectivists who are definitely trying to make sure that they do get confused. All the greatest crimes of the world or committed, supposedly, on your, for your behalf. You have to, you have to do all the things that the government wants you to do.

Why? Because it’s for your best interests, you know, the greater good or the greater number. And if you don’t go along with it, you’re a bad person because you, you know, you don’t care about other people. That’s the argument they always use. And so the answer is why people fall for it. It’s because it’s constantly being presented to them and being, uh, revered as though it is a gospel truth.

But once you see the light, once you understand it, then of course the trick doesn’t work anymore. Once you know what the magician is doing and distract you while he takes the pee from one hand and puts it in the other one, um, once you see it, then you’re, you’re finally out of the woods. You know, as the saying goes, once the bell is rung, it can never be unrung.”

In the end, we may be able to identify specific names and organizations who are playing a role, but in doing so, we risk overlooking a crucial aspect of the Pyramid of Power.

The False Belief in Authority

While our attention has been trained on the external forces which attempt to control the destiny of humanity, we ought not forget the importance of personal responsibility.

Yes, the intelligence agencies have the power to indoctrinate and spy on our most personal secrets. And when they work with the corporate media apparatus and the controlled “Mainstream Alternative Media” they absolutely can shape our perception of reality. No one can deny the dangers posed by Big Pharma and the Medical Cartel, or the toxicity of Big Agriculture and their pesticides. We can’t ignore the very real influence of the Foundations and the harm caused by the Pedoclass.

However, we can take actions in our own lives which lead to more personal and collective sovereignty.

Larken Rose: The Belief in Authority  “So who are the ultimate shadowy figures? The final boss and the hierarchy of evil? I don’t exactly know and I don’t exactly care. Yeah, there absolutely are organizations and individuals who’ve been viewing and treating the rest of us like livestock for a very long time. But even the most powerful people in the world, even the nastiest people in the world, they’re still only symptoms.

Of the real problem. They’re not the cause of it. And as long as we, the people, believe that government is legitimate and necessary, the worst people in the world will always be first in line to exploit that belief for their own benefit. Whether you’re talking about banking establishments funding both sides of every war, or secret organizations of nasty psychos constantly playing their divide and conquer games, or down to the politicians who are just each playing the game to see how much they can enrich and empower themselves out of it – and the left and right both totally do that –  all the way down to just some sadistic moron with a badge on his own little power trip.

All of that, that entire game, all of that is the inevitable result. Of the belief in political authority, the idea that we actually need rulers, that that’s legitimate. So who’s the ultimate cause of this? In one way, we are the people when we think and act like obedient subjects, empowering and enriching the people who claim the right to rule us and going along with whatever they say.

Of course, nasty psychopaths are gonna be there to jump into the role of slave master, but we’re still their power supply. Without us enabling all of that and paying for it with taxes and with obedience, even the most despicable psychopaths in the world wouldn’t have any power at all.”

Researcher James Corbett believes we are asking the wrong question.

James Corbett: The Ideology behind the Pyramid  “The question who is at the top of the pyramid is the wrong question because I don’t think that this is about individuals. So of course there are individuals in positions of power and we could look at many ways of identifying them. David Rothko, who was the head of Kissinger and Associates for many years, and a very important member of the global cabal, wrote back in 2007 about the super class, which he identified as 6,000 people who were able to enter into, act transnationally and be able be able to basically enact any agenda across national boundaries. They weren’t necessarily people in government, they were people in corporations or finance or international positions, and he thought this was a great thing. Um, yes, there is a super class that exists that does, does have that kind of power, but it is not the people that are really the top of the pyramid.

What is at the top of the pyramid fundamentally is an ideology. It is the ideology of centralization of control in the hands of a few powerful people, and once we frame the question in the proper way, rather than who is at the top of the pyramid, what is at the top of the pyramid, I think we can arrive at a better answer for how to solve this problem.

Because if the question is who is at the top of the pyramid and we identify the individual names of the individual people who are in certain positions of power, then the obvious logic of the situation is, well, we get rid of those people. So we get rid of those people and everything will be better because the top of the pyramid has been removed.

But in reality, as I think everyone understands, if you removed those particular individuals from their particular positions of power, there would be a million people trying to jump into those positions as quickly as possible to take that power for themselves. Because they believe in centralized authority.

They believe in the idea that a few people should be ruling over managing stewarding over the masses. So fundamentally, what we’re against is that idea, and if we can de-legitimize that idea in the minds of the people, then it does not matter who is sitting in those positions of power. Because power will not exist, it will not function in a society where people do not recognize the legitimacy of that power.”

This series has been focused on understanding if there exists an international cartel that covertly manipulates the world for their own benefit. Well, after spending 5 years producing 16 mini-documentaries, and over 1,000 hours of research, I’m confident a network of intelligence agencies, secret societies, NGOs, think tanks, world leaders, Technocrats, and Zionists secretly conspire to achieve goals which conflict with the interests of most people.

As we’ve shown throughout this series, the forces behind the Pyramid of Power are fundamentally anti-human, pushing a eugenicist agenda that likely spans centuries if not millenia.

The question then is: what can we actually do to counter this agenda?

Solutions:

I’ve said it in every episode of Pyramid of Power, the people are the answer. This isn’t abstract or utopian; our actions, or inaction, will directly shape the world we leave for future generations.

I don’t believe our problems can be solved through politics or voting. The machine is simply too vast and controlled for a real evolution of humanity to come from the ballot box. That doesn’t mean it’s hopeless, it means we must wake up, grow up, and stop playing the games placed before us by the Predator Class.

Rather than focus on national politics, we should invest our energy into building local freedom communities, in our neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Decentralized strategies like Freedom Cells offer a path forward. By organizing locally, we can focus our efforts on building local food systems in the form of community gardens, urban farms, and permaculture-based communities. We can unplug from Big Tech apps, OS’, phones, and laptops. We can support each other as we opt out of the growing Technocratic control grid.

I call this approach Exit and Build. Instead of trying to reform broken, corrupt systems, we focus on creating the ones we want. It’s like “Voting with your Dollar,” but applied to all areas of life. If you oppose harmful food systems, for example, you opt out and support local farmers or buy from ethical producers that align with your values.

In addition to avoiding Big Tech and mainstream food systems, you can also reject the financial control grid by using cash and alternative currencies. Refuse facial recognition at airports, stadiums, and on your devices. Take a stand against digital ID systems which are rapidly advancing. These actions are vital for the preservation of liberty.

Opting out is important, but it’s only part of the solution. We must also build parallel systems that challenge the dominant culture. I encourage everyone to learn more about Exit and Build strategy, Freedom Cells, and the philosophy of Agorism which focuses on building these parallel systems. Visit ThePyramidOfPower.net and the Solutions tab for a refresher on ideas shared in this series.

It’s also important to clarify that opting out and building parallel systems doesn’t mean running from the New World Order. We should still resist tyranny when possible.

During COVID1984, massive protests showed people they weren’t alone and sometimes helped overturn oppressive policies. Of course, in many places the protests did not stop the march of tyranny.

Nevertheless, as we Exit and Build, we must also raise our voices against policies that hinder our vision of a free world. Resist the rise of the police state wherever and however you safely can.

Mark Passio: Saying No “The solution is the same no matter who is ultimately in control of that structure of power. The solution is to say no to evil, the lost word, the word of all power.”

We must get comfortable saying “no” to tyrants and set an example for future generations. If we don’t, we should not be surprised if authoritarianism rises and freedom dies. We are the last defense for a free humanity.

If this series has helped you understand the world better, spread the word. Download this series, buy our DVDs or share it on USB drives. The information war is still raging and you are the only hope to awaken new hearts and minds

Larken: We Outnumber Them “If there you are as one person looking at this huge authoritarian monstrosity that’s been around for ages and it basically has unlimited money and resources and power, of course you’re gonna feel hopeless and powerless. It isn’t just you against that big, huge thing. The victims of authoritarianism always vastly outnumber the perpetrators.

The game doesn’t work any other way, and that’s why the control freaks are constantly trying to pit us against each other. Men versus women, black versus white, rich versus poor. Dividing people by religions or nationalities or, or anything they can think of. Anything they can find to keep us fearing and hating each other as long as we’re screaming and snarling at each other.

The control freaks in power who are robbing all of us, they know they have nothing to fear, but when the day comes, that all of us mere mortal peasants stop being tricked into fighting each other and stop bickering over which master we should bow to and start actually disobeying and resisting anyone who claims the right to rule us, that’s when tyranny and corruption end, not by an election, not by legislation, by people thinking and acting like people who own themselves. And that is when people will see and will all the way realize the power they’ve always had the whole time.”

Passio: Ultimate Solution  “The ultimate solution to defeating the power structure of our world that has created human slavery on earth. Is for each individual to elevate their own level of consciousness to the point where they fully understand objective morality and Natural Law and how it works and operates in our world, and then to teach that to other people in as wide and as free of a way as possible in whatever methods of media creation that they can do and put that information out into the general public so that others can learn from it.”

Finally, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the heaviness of the topics we’ve covered. We’ve talked about false flags, overthrowing of governments, murder, child abuse, and psychological manipulation. While I believe it’s important that we take the time to understand the true nature of our world, if conducting this research makes you miserable, or you feel hopeless after watching this series, then they’ve already won. Do not allow yourself to be sucked into the pit of nihilism and believing that all hope is lost.

As long as we are alive, as long as we are breathing – there is still hope. Not hope in false political heroes and reformism, but a true hope in the potential for an awakening of humanity to shift into action. Awareness alone isn’t enough; being informed means little if it only leads to inaction and despair.

James Corbett: Identifying what Is happening   “And I think people are starting to recognize that there is an agenda towards centralization of power and centralization of control. And that is key because once people start to at least be able to identify what is happening, then it’s, I think, quite obvious. Well, if we want to go in the opposite direction of the way ‘they them those’ are trying to take us.

Well, then we have to do the opposite of what they’re doing. Rather than putting more and more power in fewer and fewer hands in centralized positions of control, we have to move towards decentralized systems. We have to bring things down more local. We have to create communities of support for ourselves so that we will be able to not just, not just survive, but actually really thrive.

Whatever these people in presumed positions of power are doing. I think once it is framed in that, those terms. For people who are starting to at least be able to identify this agenda, I think the logic speaks for itself.”

I believe we need to continue to educate and empowering our brothers and sisters, and exit from these slavery systems, and expose the power where necessary. Most of all, take some kind of action. We need to move beyond being simply awake and towards being activated. Towards actively working on the liberation of humanity. 

Whatever you do, don’t give up. Remember, you are not alone. The coming 7 generations are counting on us and our ancestors are walking with us. We can overcome and we will thrive in the face of this generational evil that is attempting to subvert the beauty and potential of humanity.

Thank you for watching.

Until next time, remember, You are Powerful. You are Beautiful. You are Free.

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