Where the IO stands today.

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Now, so far I have talked about symbols that are associated with the Illuminati, and symbols that are often, but rightly should not be, associated with the Illuminati, and I have also talked about degree systems that should be considered rightly associated with the Illuminati, as well as degree systems that should be considered not rightly associated with the Illuminati.

In the next series of articles, I intend to address further symbols that can be associated with the Illuminati, but first let us finally finish with those symbols that are, but should not rightly be, associated with the Illuminati.

Firstly, here is a non-Illuminati symbol:



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This symbol combines the swastika inside the star of David motif of the modern Raelian UFO cut, following the Theosophical style of Blavatsky. Surrounding this is a coiled serpent, eating its own tail. Behind this is the Wewelsburg Castle "Black Sun" motif of the inner-SS, surrounded by the text of the most secret encrypted symbol of that Order. The Black Sun, the SS, and the Bohemian Grove, the Bilderberg group, the army-base Satanists, etc. are all the 7=OTO degree of the POD, and not the 6=IO degree of the POD. It is essential to establish the distinction between the "Illuminati" and the "NWO" group. Not even everyone in the OTO (begun as Yale's frat Skull and Bones) understands or even knows about the inspidi plans of the eugenicists.

However, this is all that I can muster for now, and I grow weary. I'll return to the bat-cave for now, but remember to tune in next page, same bat time, same bat channel. PEACE. - Jon
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Now, insofar as we ahave established now what the "IO" is Not, that it is Not the OTO degree in itself, nor is it truly an appendent body of Masonry; we should begin to look at what the "IO" Is, and not only what it is Not. To this extent, we are left with few symbols by which to uniquely identify members of this group to one another through recognition, and thus to communicate the IO's "secrets" in this silent manner.

Foremost of all "true" IO symbols is the "eye in the triangle." This symbol did not appear prior to 1776, and was never used in any Masonic capacity. It is, indeed, the symbol of the "Illuminati" as a "pyramid scheme." It is printed on the money, because in theory finances work like voodoo: you tell two people, then they tell two people each, who tell two people each, etc. until eventually it "all adds up" and you "get rich quick." Of course, no one believes in such nonsense, and we all beleive instead in an "honest wage for an honest day's work." Because we disbelieve it, it fails to work, and not the other way around, in this case. The "pyramid scheme" idea is, in truth, so pervasive to our society that the "all seeing eye" of the Gov't is branded on every US dollar in circulation, now or ever.


"In the Land of the Blind, the One Eye'd Man is King."

Such is an "Illuminati Axiom," though the meaning now may be much different from what it would have meant at Weishaupt's time. A "king" now means the same thing as the idea of the "everyman," because the promise of US consumerism was that "everyman is a king." But there is only so much wealth to go around. Few kings lived richer than many middle-class yuppies ever can. And the poor will always be poor.



However, cleverly concealed in the symbolism of Illuminism is the meaning to those, the Illuminati, who would know how to unravel it. Thus, the "Light Within" is "Brought Out." Here we see that the eye-in-the-pyramid motif cleverly conceals the hidden truth: the eye is the apex of the truncated "body" or form of the pyramidon (a pyramid without a "cap-stone"). This symbolises the mind above the body below. Likewise, from this elevated vantage, the mind surveys the entirety of material reality, and thus, by "co-creating" its immediate surroundings, the mind manipulates matter using the body as an interface or relay station.

The second symbol of "True Illuminism" - which comes to us directly from Weishaupt and not from the, sensitively infiltrated, US Masons, prior to the split between the IO of Weishaupt into the non-Masonic 7 US degree system and the 4 degree system of Spain - is this actual layout of the "Pyramid" schema.



In the first iteration, one person "twins" their message to two people. By the time the original message has become distinct and been changed by the intermediary messengers enough that a third party can learn of it without knowing or meeting the one who began the concept then the person who originated the "meme" or message is called a "Master" in the Illuminati. Becoming a Master means going "three-deep."



However, there is going three steps or levels deep in society, and in a social way, and there is going three levels deep psychologically, for each individual, as well. The three steps of the "Pyramid" also symbolise three different roles played out by people in crowds. One is the "wanderers," one is the "civilisers," and one is the "conquerers," and each expands their own way outward from their initial, three-layered "Pyramidon." The wanderer explores aimlessly, sending out chutes like the branches of a tree. Contrarywise, the conqueror expands along a front founded on a controlled ratio, with only what is needed within and behind the lines. The civilisers are in between these, revealing a strange zodiac of different patterns, as all the members make choices within a given set of rules.

However, the Illuminati numerology is not confined to the Trinity and, as I will demonstrate, the Trinity is viewed as an ultimate evil by many Illuminati. The symbol of the "eye in the triangle" to an "Illuminatus" is a symbol of Ialdabaoth, the Demi-Urge, the devil or, simply put, Satan. As I will also demonstrate in coming articles, the numerology of the Illuminati includes 3, 5, 7, 13, and 23. These are specifically "Illuminati" numbers for a very specific reason. I shall explain more soon.

For now, though,
PEACE
- Jon
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It is possible that the three Blue Lodge degrees of Free Masonry were established as a contrary Trinity to that of the Catholic faith. It could, equally possibly, only be a coincidence. However, regardless of the original motives of the Masonic use of 3, the Catholic Church has since (and for a long time now) renounced Masonry and its concept of the Trinity. In Catholicism, the Trinity is a symbol of Unity: the three in one and one in three of the Father, son and Holy Ghost are, so to speak, three "faces" of one being, God. Since the Council of Nicea, these 3 have been considered inseperable, and their meanings one and the same for each. This runs contrary to the Masonic use of the Trinity, which establishes the 3 degrees of Blue Lodge Masonry as a progressive sequence that can operate for each member individually. One can become a 1st°, then stop, or progress to the 2nd° then stop, or progress to the 3rd° and stop. Beyond this are "appendent" bodies of Masonry revealing further Masonic mysteries in additional degrees, however the first 3° of Blue Lodge are integral to and the foundation for these other degrees as well.

It is most significant that the Catholic concept of the Trinity has long been expressed as a triangle. The Halo of God, whenever depicted in post-Rennaissance Christian art, has always been depicted as an equilateral triangle. The most striking examples of use of this motif occur in modern Eastern Orthodox churches, however the fact that it originated in the later European Dark Ages is relatively uncontested. It was never, as I have said, prior to 1776 associated with a pyramid however. The Trinue Halo of God as an equilateral triangle is specifically unique from the eye in the pyramid motif of Illuminism in several specific regards.

Here is an exmaple of the triune Halo motif, from Antoniazzo Romano, late 1400's.


Here is the first use in Christian art of the "eye of providence" or eye in the triangle
from Jacoppo Carucci (called Ponormo)'s Supper at Ammaus (1525):


In the former motif, we see the equilateral triangle used a symbol for the Trinity as the Halo of God. This depiction is that common in such other Christian motifs as Byzantine icons, Bulgarian churches, the Catholic church of St. Peter and in a work now found in the Metropolitan museum. In the latter depiction, we see the standard "eye of providence" (the so-called "all-seeing" eye), which was used to represent God in the independent tradition of Alchemy, interpolated within the triangular Halo design. The eye in the Pontormo painting is the right eye, the same eye used in ancient Egyptian symbolism of the eye of Ra or Horus. The eye of providence is also commonly used in Masonic symbolism, such as on the fold of the apron in some of the craft degrees. In Masonic use, both the right and left eyes are used interchangeably, and it does not appear to distinguish whether the meaning may be different between the right and left eye used in the Masonic symbols. The 1776 eye in the pyramid of Illuminism is a left eye. Because the Pontormo painting is the sole Christian depiction of the eye of providence within the triangular halo of God, and it is a right eye, and because no public Masonic works exists to dictate the specifically Masonic use of this symbol, it can be asserted that the "right-eye" is symbolic of the "eye of providence" within the triangular "halo of God" used in Christian art, while the "left-eye" is the symbolic "eye of God" within the pyramidon motif used by the Illuminati.

Now, aside from the obvious difference between the base-4 pyramid and the triangle, which I will discuss in greater detail in a moment, the most significance difference between the "IO" and the Catholic depictions of the "eye of providence" motif is the Illuminati interpretation of the Masonic Trinity which, as I have already said, is distinct from the Catholic Trinity in certain, remarkable ways. The Catholic Trinity is 3-in-1 and 1-in-3 (if you can believe that). The Masonic trinity are the three degrees of the Blue Lodge Craft degrees. Ordinarily these are depicted as three steps leading up to the basis or foundation for the York and Scottish rite degrees. These three stair-steps up to the "Lodge Door," figuratively speaking, are also depicted in the Illuminati eye in the pyramid design, although not in the pyramid itself. They are depicted in the iris of the eye of providence:



Thus, the pupil of the "eye of providence," surrounded by the 3 stair-steps in the iris, represents itself the "Lodge Door," and, more importantly, the "mir licht" promised beyond it to the hood-winked candidate. The iris of the Illuminati "eye of providence" is thus the Masonic Trinity, while the pupil itself represents the dilation of the eye to allow in the Light of Illumination. The difference between the Illuminati use of the "eye of providence" and that by Catholic and other Christian artists is that the 3-tiered iris of the Illuminati "eye" might be thought to signify the Masonic GAOTU rather than the Catholic Trinity. Putting the "eye of providence" of the GAOTU in the Trinune halo of God may be considered a blasphemy to Catholicism. This, I believe, was the intention: by infiltrating Masonry, Weishaupt hoped to militarize the order against Catholicism; as the Rosicrucian saying went, "the Pope is the Anti-Christ," and thus the GAOTU did not represent Lucifer, aside from insofar as a Good angel in opposite to the worse, "Satanic" power-monger, the Pope.

Also, before discussing the "pyramidon" motif distinguishing the Illuminati application of the Masonic version of the "eye of the GAOTU" to the Trinity halo motif of Catholicism, we should pause for a moment to consider the slogans commonly associated with the Illuminati "eye in the pyramid." Here we see the standard circular seal folded into a "vesica pisces," or yonic eye design:



above we see the slogan "ANNUIT COEPTIS," meaning, essentially, "fortune favours" from the old Greek saying "fortune favours the bold." However, rather than the "bold," the slogan continues with the lowered standard, emblazoned with the slogan "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM," meaning, essentially, a "New Secular Order." This differs, also, from the Catholic concept of "Temporal Power," the psychic empire of the Church over her believers. Instead, the Illuminati slogan substitutes "Secular," generally interpreted as "worldly," for the "Temporal" or "Universal" power of the Church. Remember, the IO's prime directive was, at the start, to overthrow the governments of Europe (which answered to the Church) as well as the Church itself, and replace it with the Rosicrucian Roger Bacon's idea of a "New Atlantis." None of these words were chosen haphazardly; all are intended to be preserved for posterity. To this end, the date 1776, the date of the American Constitution's ratification, is emblazoned in Latin (Roman) numerals across the base of the pyramid: "MDCCLXXVI" meaning 1776, which was also the year, prior to the ratification of the Constituion, of the founding of the Bavarian Illuminati.



On this note, let us now begin to address the Pyramidon design itself. Although it is usually explained that the 13 steps of the Illuminati pyramid might represent the 13 original American colonies, the lowest step is actually the base, and so it's inclusion could be called into question, particularly because the design of the Illumianti pyramid pre-dated the adoption of the 13 stripes used on the original "Union Jack" of the US by, if only, a few months. The original "union jack" flag flown above the Continental Congress bore the symbol of a diamon-back rattle snake (the same used several years prior, chopped into 8 pieces to represent the divided colonies, which was captioned "Join or Die," indicating the severity of pre-Constitutional, colonial Unionism). The snake of 1776 was before 13 stripes, alternating red and white, and bored the caption "Don't Tread on Me," indicating the severity of the new Nation's Independent sovereignty. Here is the first flag, supposedly designed by Martha Washington, in 1777 showing the 13 stripes with 13 stars, which clearly represents the 13 colonies unified.



In point of fact, the 12 proper steps of the pyramid stand for something more significant to the Illuminati than even the 13 letters of "E PLURIBUS UNUM" ("out of one, many," explaining the pyramid scheme concept itself), and even more than the "unlucky" 13 of the Templar inquisition at the hands of the Catholic Church. The 12 steps of the pyramid, above the basis of foundation of the pyramid, can be further thought to stand for the stair-steps of the Masonic "Fellow-Craft" tracing board.



Here we see that, above the 3 lowest steps of the "winding stair" of the FC°, representing the 3 "Blue Lodge" degrees of Freemasonry, there are 12 steps on the stair case, divided into two sets, the first, of 5, representing the senses and the styles of columns, and the second, of 7, representing the schools of learning. The sequence of 3,5,7 will play into much of the Illuminati symbolism, because these numbers are the first odd numbers, and also the lowest prime numbers.

Most important of all is the sacred geoemtry used in the design of the Illuminati "eye in the pyramid" motif, because this, even moreso than any of the rest, speaks to its desire to appeal to the Masonic craft. Again, we find the sacred Trinity expressed, however here we see it expressed within the symbol itself as measurements of ratios, and not symbolically merely as the triangular shape itself. In this crudely rendered diagram, I have attempted to show some of these sacred ratios in the Illuminati pyramid design:



The blue line on the left signifies a measure of 1/3 the overall height from the base or foundation. The horizontal blue line across the middle signifies 2/3 of the overall width of the foundation, from the furthest left line to the furthest right line. This ratio can be moved around relative to how one interprets the base length, based on the fact that the motif itself is turned at a slight angle to express a second side of the pyramid as well. I express much more about these sacred ratios in this model on the page on my site: http://www.benpadiah.com/otherstuff/dollahdollahbillsyall/GreatSeal.html In the last place in this diagram we come to the ratio of the cap-stone to the upper "platform" of the truncated "pyramidon," where the capstone is labeled as 2/3 the distance from its uppermost tip to the pyramidon's "platform" in the upper-right of the diagram.

Lastly, I want to address another Masonic monument, often mistaken for a statue of the "Whore of Babalon," Serapis or Semiramis. The Statue of Liberty is many things to many people. The torch she bears aloft has been a beacon for many wayward immigrants to the USA, however it cannot be disagreed, even among serious modern scholars, that this torch's original meaning was not as a beacon for the "tired, the poor and those yearning to breathe free," despite the Masonic ideals of Faith, Hope and Charity. Nor, however, is this a symbol of the "Babylonian Brotherhood." It is definately a massive ediface to honor the Masonic virtues, however the torch is one of "Illuminism" (radical, anti-papal anarchism) lighting the way to the "New Atlantean" Enlightenment, were secular humanism and the sciences have promised to replace the empire of Rome with a new world order. In lady liberty's hand is a tablet, upon which is written the date 1776, again in latin (Roman numerals) a a symbol to the Catholic Church of the new states' authority:



While the "Illuminati" symbolism (the Light Above) is perhaps even more obvious than all those aspects concealed in the Illuminati pyramid, the Masonic symbolism of the Statue of Liberty is somewhat more obtuse. Following is a depiction of the Statue as seen from almost directly above, with a red outline around the stellated base or foundation upon which the statue stands:



This symbol may not be immediately familiar to the average Freemason, and that is for a very good reason: it is not commonly known to most Masons, and is a symbol specifically reserved to only a handful of the highest initiates of the Scottish Rite. The symbol of the triple-triangle might still seem unfamiliar even to them, should they miss the subtraction of the basic square shape of the foundation from the middle. Here is the outline of the Masonic basis of the Statue of Liberty, clearly seen as an 11 pointed shape:



This shape may take a little bit of deciphering to unravel, however it is derived from attaching a regular square over top of the 3-triangle motif of the 33rd°. Here is the same outline, overlapped with this symbol:



The 4 points of the square addition remains indicated, somewhat, by the alignments of the handles and tips of the crossed sword and benediction-wand, however the other 6 points of the triple triangle design are more obvious, and inherent within the design of this symbol. The triple triangle motif, it should also be noted, should not be confused with the "heptagram" or 7 pointed star, which is also a symbol of the Illuminati that has slightly infiltrated the Masonic rites proper. It was adopted, however, directly by the OTO as the star of "BABALON," and this adoption threatens to reduce its original Illuminati meaning to Masonic geometry until it is merely accepted as an ineffable symbol, alike the Catholic Trinity itself.

PEACE.
- Jon
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Now, why do I say:

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we here in this IO branch, the IOBB2, of the US wing of the Bavarian Perfectibilists, ie. the predecessors on US soil of the OTO precursor, the German Skull and Bones, should all consider these words with great care, and should come to a decision for themselves about this information.

How does the OTO seem to relate to the IOBB2 and the "modern" IO? Constantly, Alex Jones and other "conspiracy theorists" (in name only) spout the latest news assuring us the Bilderberger take-over of US soveriegnty is going smoothly, despite all our best efforts. But what does he call the Bilderbergers? He calls them, the "Illuminati." Is this fair, or is this a slander? Alex Jonesd has been to Bohemian Grove and filmed the ceremony there. He has also witnessed what many others report, though he remains strangely silent about: the bizarre sexual rituals performed there. According to, of all people, Hank Azaria (the voice of Homer Simpson on tv's cartoon show by Matt Greonig), there is a "seperate island" for "where they keep the women." "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here." Alex Jones: Enemy of the NWO.

In any event, there should be some gut feeling for any member of the "Randian" US "IO" (as replicated here on IOBB2) about what I have just said in regards to the IO and its relationship to the OTO. You should all examine that "gut feeling" and analyse it, determine if it is "right" or "wrong" inteligently, "Objectively," and then act relative to your descision.

I have personal experience with a few OTO members myself. When I was 18, in 1997, I petitioned to join the OTO online via the "submit membership petition via email" feature of the "oto-usa.org" site. I discovered you had to pay for more than an "adjunct" membership, so I opted to recieve the newsletter and not pay regular dues, remaining in the "zero degree." At the end of my "trial period" I petitioned again for reguar dues membership to the OTO grand lodge via their website. I exchanged emails with the head of initiations at that time, "Ixel Balamke" (a "pen-name" or pseudonym). I inquired, before I joined, if my membership in the OTO would in any way effect on my eligibility for membership in Free Masonry if I wanted to later become a Free Mason. She wrote back saying no, there was no "affiliation." I wrote back pointing out, "but the founders of the OTO were masons," to which she replied, tersely, "it's DO WHAT THOU WHILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF the LAW." (I had mis-quoted in a previous email the OTO greerting and said, the "Whole of Thy Law.") This pretty much ended the exchange, and she refered me to the closest local lodge-head. This camp, located in Jaxonville, Flordia, was closer than the next nearest one, in Lousiana, which was only slightly closer to me than the one in Augusta, Georgia. I spoke via emails briefly with him, and he offered to send a member who lived nearby to come and drive me there (to Tampa) to be "initiated" by ceremony. I told him this wasn't something I was really prepared to do at that time, and that ended our correspondence.

Later, I discovered, via canadian masonry dot com, a chapter of the IO operating in my hometown. I enthusastically signed up for the group, hoping to be able to meet the local members and undergo initiation. I joined the internet forum for the site, hoping to find someone online who might have access to translations of some of Weishaupt's own actual writings. I, as we all did, soon enough discovered the Tallahassee-based "IO" was nothing but the online "IOBB," there were no initiation rituals or ceremonies, only a e-mail course, and the whole thing was a mis-managed sham. It was when I first joined the IOBB that I met Nilsson Aime, an older forum-member of the IOBB1. Although he'd never posted on the "hidden" forums for each level, IXO Didymus (his nom deplume) was already a 7th level "IO Master" by the time he became my "mentor" in the IOBB1 e-mail scam. Later, after I'd quit the IOBB1, IXO confided in me something he'd made known to many other members of the IOBB1 before: he was a member of the OTO.

Almost immediately afterwards our personal relationship began to deteriorate. He tricked me into making long-distance phone-calls at weekday prices by telling me they would be free "conference calls" he'd booked for us online. Soon afterwards, despite my mentioning that to him, he went on to stipulate I refer to him only as "Master" and his screen name. I thought that was more than a little bit weird. So I called him out in a chat we were having with some fellow (by then also defunct) IOBB1 7th Master-level members. The first time, another of those present through an ego-fit and logged off. A second time, a fellow old IOBB1 poster came to IXO's defense, but was then, himself, falsely accused of a crime. A third time I called him out, in a long document I sent as an email to everyone who'd been involved thus far. He contacted me repeatedly afterwards, demanding I do him the same favour the admins of the IOBB1 had done for me: delete his posts on the IOBB2. So far I have gleefully re-posted every email he has sent in which he begs for this priveledge. I have not heard back again from him recently.

Personally I have a distrust for the OTO. During my first attempt to confront IXO about IXO's problem with IXO's grandiose "IXO-persona's" ego, when the other person there stood up at random against me, Nilsson said something that caught my ear: "I guess Jon doesn't come from a happy family." I didn't take it too personally, considering that "happy family" is code.

No, I dont like the OTO-members that I've met, personally. This may very well provide a personal bias for why I have said what I just said, in the way that I just wrote it. The IO is not only NOT the same, anymore, as the OTO, but the IO can, conceivably, be used a method of leverage or counter-weight against the inexorable gravitas of the OTO's sexual deviancy as practised by the economic elite. This was, I suppose, to some large extent my hope early on in developing the POD as a method of delivery for the "Atlantean Democracy" message. The POD was an outgrowth of the "reformed IO," the sister-project of the IOBB2. The IOBB2 only chronicled the posts made on the original IOBB1, whereas the later "reformed IO" was an attempt to correct the mis-applied concepts of the IO itself, and thus "restore" the IO. This "experiment in occultism" split between my own POD project, and IXO Didymus' OTO-based "IOK&M." The "egregore" of the IOK&M is a horned owl. It's degree system is only revealed upon taking a death-oath to Nilsson himself, and might not even actually exist. The POD is, simply put, the opposite, point by point, of the IOK&M.

It is my belief that the "degree system" of the IO, shown to us on the IOBB1, reproduced here on IOBB2 for posterity, was itself merely an OTO ruse, circulated to various initiates of other esoteric schools and mystery traditions as an "Illuminati" document, when really it was all only an OTO experiment, and had nothing whatsoever to do with Weishaupt's original "Illuminati" or Perfectibilists. But I digress...

To those who know, no belief is necessary. For those who know not, no belief will suffice.

PEACE.
- Jon
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Next, let us turn our focus for attention away from the "occultism" of 20th century sects of speculative philosophers toward modern economic and political planning bodies, yet continue in this to apply the same method for studying both: to analyse their degree systems. So we shall see how the earlier idealogies of these occult sects has infused and inspired the politics and economics of the 20th century.

The rapid assumption of political and economic rank by crypto-IO / neo-OTO operatives and occult initiates was due to the first world war. As more people became aware of the propagation of European cults in England and America - the GD being the most public, but no less so was the Theosophical Society than was Weishaupt's original IO in the form of Skull and Bones - there became an increased presumption of a trans-Atlantic "cult-gap," which Crowley, an Englishman, traveled to America to counter-balance (presenting the OTO works of Reuss to the Northern jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite in 1919). This was the era when the initiate as shamen idea was usurped and suppressed by the idea of the initiate as a spy.

To begin our analysis, let us take up the storyline in 1917, the year of the Bolshevik Revolution of October 25 (Julian) or November 7 (Gregorian). By this time, many of the European, middle-eastern and Asian nations were in ruins from WWI. The Treaty of Versailes began being negotiated (1919) long before the end of combat operations was officially declared (1922). It was already being drafted by political planning committees staffed by the wealthiest bankers in 1917. This planning body was called, at the time, "The Inquiry."