PYRAMID POWER by David Icke An excerpt from "And the truth shall set you free"

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For centuries the Illuminati/Freemasonry Sectret Society Network
has been manipulating society toward their agenda of total control.

The covert network of control is but the physical version of the multidimensional prison, within which our lower consciousness has been, until now, entrapped for hundreds of thousands of years.

Those at the higher levels of the Elite-Illuminate-Brotherhood are, I believe, vehicles for the Prison Warders' manipulation of the physical world. There are many connections between the Elite-Brotherhood and black magic, and once you get involved in that, it is easy for your consciousness to be taken over by an extreme negative force. Such ceremonies and ritual can conjure up very dark and malevolent energies, which can possess the people involved. Most Freemasons learn the lines of their ceremonies and go through the ritual without any idea of what they are playing around with and attracting to them. Most think it is just a gentlemen's club, but the ceremonial has been designed to attract extreme negative energies.

When I spoke at a spiritual-healing exhibition in Birmingham, I was surprised to find it was being held in the main Freemasons' centre in what is Britain's second city. The Freemasons rent part of the complex to outside organisations to earn money. I was delighted because it allowed me to study the subject in the heart of what must be among the largest centres of Freemasonry in the United Kingdom. By 'coincidence' while I was there. I managed to see the inside of some of the temples where the public are not allowed to go.

The complex, called the Clarendon Suites, is built virtually without windows once you get through the main entrance. This is appropriately symbolic, I feel, of keeping out the Light. I walked into a temple of the Royal Arch branch of Freemasonry where the public are not allowed to go, and I will never forget the feeling of extreme negative energy hitting me the moment I stepped through the door. Goodness knows what they must do to attract that scale of malevolence! It took the breath away. And most of the members will not understand what they are doing.

Once you synchronise vibrationally with that sort of energy, it can take you over and control you - especially if you have no understanding of what you are messing with. You can become a mental robot of the Prison Warders, without knowing it. This is how people are snared and pulled into the net. It won't happen to every Freemason because it depends on their intent and their own vibrational rate at the time, but it happens to those who are of the state of mind that is open to such possession.

Freemasonry, like the Elite network in general, can manipulate and deceive most of its own membership because it is structured like a pyramid. If you look at any organisation, from a small business to a multinational corporation, you will see the same pyramid structure. At the top will be a very few people who know everything there is to know about the organisation, its motivation, agenda, and the direction it wishes to go. The further you descend from the peak, you meet more and more people who know less and less about that overall picture. They are only aware of their part in the organisation and not everyone else's. This is a manipulator's dream and it is the means through which the Elite can control so many people and organisations across the world.

Most of those working for the New World Order agenda don't know they are doing so. The conspiracy couldn't exist if everyone involved was in on the plot. Manipulating the manipulators and controlling the controllers is essential to its success. Take the CIA. It has a policy of 'compartmentalisation'. Put more simply, the 'need to know' approach. At the top of the CIA are those who know the true nature of its agenda. The further down you go, the less the CIA employees are award of this wider perspective.

There can be many people within the CIA who do their daily tasks quite innocently. They might think that what they are doing is serving the United States and is not at all sinister. But they don't know how what they are doing connects with the work of others like them throughout the pyramid to produce a very unpleasant picture. Only those few at the top know that. It is in this way that the Elite control and manipulate. Each of the various elements, the Council on Foreign Relations, Freemasonry, etc are also structured as pyramids, and they are themselves all a part of a vast global pyramid with the Elite at the top. It may appear to be a mass of unconnected organisations and people, but there is a central controlling force that holds the structure together and unites it into a common cause and policy.

The Global Elite
At the Apex of this global empire are the Elite who are, I believe, solidly locked into the Prison Warders consciousness which decides the policy and oversees its implementation. I don't know exactly the pecking order o power here, but I am confident about the various elements involved, at least. I believe that at the highest levels of the Global Elite are shadowy people who are not known to the public. Their power stems from their misuse of the esoteric knowledge and their conscious connection to their 'gods', the Prison Warders. No-one I name in this book will be at that level. People such as Henry Kissinger, are pawns, yes-men, and gofers, ableit high-powered ones. Many of the others will be used without their knowledge, or full knowledge, of what they are part of. I am naming the pawns, the gofers and super gofers, of this small group of people I call the Super Elite, the Black Magicians. These are the controllers of the All-Seeing-Eye cult, which is the force behind the Global Elite and those who are manipulating the New World Order into being.

The Global Elite as a whole is the group of people who are selected and initiated into the higher, sometimes highest, levels of knowledge in the whole human structure. While they will be working today to speed the emergence of the New World Order, they will also be looking for others who are deemed to be the right calibre. Then, as the present personnel 'retire' or die, the reins of the conspiracy are handed to the next generation of the Elite, just as Averell Harriman was replace in his role by Henry Kissinger. So while the 'they' - the actual personnel - change with the generations, the agenda they are working from remains basically the same.

It is like passing on a baton in a relay race and, because of the nature of the family structure of much of the Elite, the baton is often handed on across the generations of certain families. This becomes even more understandable because the parents indoctrinate the children from the earliest possible age and later introduce them to the same secret societies and ceremonial which synchronises them into the Prison Warders' vibration.

Some researches claim the existence of a group within the Elite is called the Committee of 300 or the 'Olympians'. This research names the same clique of people that I name in this book.

The Illuminati

Not every member of a secret society or the other organisations I name is part of the Elite. There is a difference between Freemasonry and what I will term 'Illuminised' Freemasonry, those parts of the order which have been infiltrated by Illuminati agents. The word Illuminati - 'the Illuminated Ones' - goes back into the ancient world. It is a covert force which has created or taken over groups and organisations to manipulate the world in the desired direction, but I believe it is a part of the Global Elite, a leading vehicle for manipulation, rather than the very peak of the pyramid. Finding out what happens at that level, above the Illuminati, and identifying the people involved is a life's work. The Illuminati's greatest weapon is the advanced esoteric knowledge it has passed on through its initiation ceremonies and the misuse and abuse of that knowledge.

  The most obvious expression of the Illuminism was the Bavarian Illuminati created by the German professor, Adam Weishaupt, in May 1776, and supported financially by the House of Rothschild, the bankers to endless revolutions and wars. It was Weishaupt who used his wing of the Illuminati to infiltrate and take over Freemasonry.

Weishaupt was trained as a Jesuit, which is short for the Society of Jesus. The founder of the Jesuits, the Spaniard, Ignatius Loyola, formed a secret society within this apparently Catholic order and the initiates were called the 'Alumbrados' which means the 'enlightened', the 'illuminated'. Conflict followed between the Jesuit 'illuminism' and Weishaupt's German version, battles which the traditions of Weishaupt mostly won. He created 13 degrees of initiation in his Illuminati and the key personnel were to be found in the top nine degrees. The Illuminati is a pyramid, too.

The members were given special Illuminati names, inspired by ancient Rome and Greece. Weishaupt was called Spartacus. These people became members of other secret societies like the Freemasons and 'illuminised' them - took them over and used them to destabilise nations and hasten the New World Order. They did the same within governments, banking, commerce, the military, and the media, on behalf of the Elite.

So there is Freemasonry and Illuminised Freemasonry. The former manipulates at one level, but it, too, is being manipulated by another covert force, the Illuminati, which, in turn, answers to the Global Elite. There are organisations (say, the Freemasonry network within a government)and another organisation within those organisation (the Illuminate membership within the Freemasons). This Illuminised form of Freemasonry became known as The Grand Orient Lodges or faction. It followed the modified Hegelian tradition of infiltrating two extremes and playing one off against the other to create the desired change. Using these methods, it was pledged to overthrow the rule of the monarchies, destroy faith in God, put an end to patriotism and nation states, abolish the ownership of property and dismantle traditional social order.

The Black Nobility
The Illuminati interconnects within the Global Elite with what is known as the Black Nobility, an ancient grouping of 'blue bloods'. It has its base in Italy, particularly in Venice and Genoa. Both John Cabot (real name Giovanni Cabotto) and Christopher Columbus lived in Genoa before 'discovering' different parts of the Americas within four years of each other. Today another Giovanni is claimed by scores of researchers to be a member of one of the Black Nobility families. This is Giovanni Agnelli, head of the Fiat Motor Company and a leading Bilderberger. Some families of the Black Nobility in Venice and Rome claim an ancestry back to the Roman Emperor Justinian, a man reputed to have taken references to reincarnation out of the biblical texts in the year 553 They have a desire to return to a system symbolised by the Roman Empire and they are a major force within the Global Elite. This 'noble' line would appear to go back at least a thousand years, probably far longer, and emerged in part through the Guelf and Ghibelline conflicts in Italy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Guelf came from Welf, a German prince competing for control of the Holy Roman Empire, the Ghibelline came from the name of the castle owned by his opponents, the Hohenstaufen family. The Guelfs supported the Pope and the Ghibellines supported the rule of the Hohenstaufen family. Great conflict followed, with the Guelfs triumphant in the end. The Guelfs (Black Nobility) became immensely powerful through their later control of banking and international trade. They set up great financial centres in Lombardy and they dominated the scene so much that Lombard became the name given to all Italian bankers in Florence, Genoa, Venice and Milan. Eventually they expanded their influence northwards to Hamburg, Amsterdam and London.

Today the Black Nobility also control the financial centres of Switzerland where the spoils of the drug trade and other illegal activities are laundered behind the facade of Swiss respectability. The Black Nobility were at the heart of the slave trade from where the fortunes of many leading American and British families originated and they were behind the Orange Order which put William of Orange on the British throne, and led to the Bank of England and the National Debt. In more recent times, the Orange Order has been behind the Protestant wing of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

The Black Nobility includes, or is at least connected to, the Dutch Royal Family of Prince Bernhard, one of the founders of the Bilderberg Group. Its connections extend to London and the British 'establishment' families of the old aristocracy and the new 'money' aristocracies. Members of the European bluebloods which are closely linked with the British Royal Family are involved. The Swedish, Dutch and Spanish royal families are often represented at Bilderberg meetings.

It is believed by researchers who have investigated the Black Nobility, that at this level the British Royal Family is subordinate to the Italian members who trace their ancestry back to the original Guelfs and beyond. I feel that the vicious personal attacks on Prince Charles and the taped telephone conversations released to the media, which have done so much to damage him, are no accident. Is it part of the co-ordinated campaign to undermine him? Is he a rebel they wish to destroy? It is possible. Charles and his brother Andrew, turned down the offer to become Freemasons, an organisation with close connections to the British monarchy over the years.

The Illuminate/Back Nobility/Global Elite use many secret and less secret organisations in pursuit of their global tyranny and the most all-pervading of them is Freemasonry. Illuminised Freemasonry is the first level down from the Illuminati/Black Nobility, and you will find its membership involved in all the organisations in the network I described in the last chapter: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, and their like-minded brethren.

Freemasonry
The vast majority of Freemasons in the world never progress beyond the bottom three levels of degree. But above them are another thirty levels in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which owes its inspiration to the ancient Knights Templars. Even the 33rd degree is not the top because there are the Illuminati levels above that, and the 33rd degree itself is unofficially divided into two streams, one knowing far more than the other. At each stage, the initiate is told a little more about the true nature of Freemasonry and the real game plane.

Those who have reached the 33rd degree are on a different planet in terms of what they know, compared with the Masons on the bottom three levels. The men who go down to the local Freemasons' lodge in your town or city will not have a clue what their organisation is being used for. They have to be kept in the dark if the plan is to work and what better way of doing this than to use these distinct levels of initiation. Only those considered to be 'acceptable' progress to the higher levels and find out what is really going on. Perhaps 90% of Freemasons are on the bottom three levels. They are the fodder and the front. Between the fourth and thirty-third degrees, you find those of the 'right mind' who have influence in society, right up to presidents of the United States.

Then you have the Illuminati levels, which you will not see mentioned in any Freemasons guidebook. Those are the people who actually run the show and they are the agents of the All-Seeing-Eye cult. World Freemasonry is a massive pyramid of manipulation.

It was not always like this. It was once a society that was exclusive to those who worked as stone masons and builders on the churches and cathedrals. It was then called Masonry. Their lodges are like trade organisations and their secrecy and ritual were designed to protect their profession from unskilled outsiders. They wished to keep the profession exclusive and maintain wage rates Most of their work came from the Catholic Church, ruled from Rome. The immense wealth of the Church, most of it stolen directly or indirectly, paid for the construction of the great cathedrals on which the masons' income largely depended. But disaster came when Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534 and formed his own Church of England after the Pope refused him a divorce.

This event had many implications for the future (see The Robots' Rebellion) and it ensured that many masons were made unemployed. Far from continuing the building programmes of Rome, Henry looted the monasteries and everything else he could get away with. He was broke, basically, and there were always wars to fight. One of his targets was the assets of the 'fraternities, brotherhoods and guilds'. The masonry societies collapsed in the wake of this royal mugging and the desperate lack of work for their members. Many of the lodges disappeared, along with their ancient records, and little is known about their true history.

The lodges (branches) which survived did so by opening their memberships to people who were not stone masons. These newcomers - the businessmen, merchants, landowners and aristocracy - were called 'speculative' masons and soon they far outnumbered the original members. The first recorded initiation of a speculative mason in England was in 1646 when Elias Ashmole (don't say it too quickly) joined a lodge in Warrington. He was an astrologer and indeed esoteric knowledge was to be an important part of the new Masonry at the higher levels of initiation.

Masonry had become Freemasonry and as the years passed, the only remaining connection with the stone masons were the symbolic paraphernalia and names for the levels of initiation like apprentice, fellow craft, the master mason. When I looked inside the Royal Arch Temple at the Freemason's complex in Birmingham, there was a spade, pickaxe, and other building tools on the floor. Freemasons claim their society has its heritage and origins in the building of the famous cathedrals, but this is a myth. Freemasonry hijacked and took over the barely surviving Masonic order and quickly transformed it into a quite different organisation. Freemasonry did not begin in the ancient world, although some of its inherited symbolism did.

  It began after Henry VIII destroyed the stonemasons' trade associations and guild societies. From this time onwards Freemasonry, and especially the Illuminised version, became a cesspit of manipulation, myth, and hypocrisy. The working tools of the stone masons - the square, compasses, level, plumbline, gauge, gavel and chisel - were still used in the bizarre ceremonies and rituals and the Freemason's apron was another throwback to the stone masons. But Freemasonry now had a very different agenda.

During the rituals which the founders of the new Freemasonry introduced, bare-chested initiates were blindfolded with a noose around their neck and a dagger held to their heart. They had to swear to serve the order and keep its secrets, on pain of a grotesque ritual death. The penalty for divulging secrets of the Second Degree (the Fellow Craft Mason) is "having my left breast laid open, my heart torn therefrom, and given to the ravenous birds of the air, or devouring beasts of the field as a prey". In the Third Degree (Master Mason) is it "being severed in two, my bowels burnt to ashes, and those ashes scattered over the face of the Earth and wafted by the four winds of heaven, that no trace of remembrance of so vile a wretch may longer be found among men, particularly Master Masons". Charming.

"After 1986, such dire penalties ceased to be spoken by the initiate during the ceremonies and are instead spoken by the Worshipful Master. What difference that is supposed to make I can't think. Purely cosmetic. "

These are the sorts of ceremonies that conjure up the malevolent energies. At the same time, in public, Freemasonry is claiming to be a school of morality and it talks of fraternity and 'brotherly love'! The public apologists for Freemasonry will tell you that these rituals are only symbolic, but there is much evidence that not everyone thinks so, including the Freemason known as Jack the Ripper. The powerful ties of loyalty (and fear, too, when necessary) engendered in the membership makes sure that very few have dared to disclose the secrets, even after leaving the craft. In fact, while people may cease to pay their fees or turn up at the lodge, the oaths still apply. There is no mechanism by which a Mason, once initiated, can unswear his oath.

Such oaths were invented to create fear and control. They were not part of the rituals of stone masons, as some of their few surviving rule books, the 'Gothic Constitutions' as they are called, have proved. The penalty or revealing the secrets in those days was to be thrown out of the lodge. It beats having your bowels burnt to ashes, for sure.

The Freemasonry rituals and oaths are based on a puerile piece of invention in the eighteenth century - the Freemason story of Hiram Abiff. According to the Freemasonry invention, Hiram Abiff was the architect of Solomon's biblical Temple. The Gothic Constitutions of the stone masons make no reference to such a man, but he became the Freemason's martyr figure. Invention has it that Hiram refused to betray the secrets to three fellow craft masons armed with masonic tools. They murdered him when he would not reveal his secrets, so the myth goes, and King Solomon ordered a search when Hiram appeared to be missing. Hiram's body was discovered 'indecently interred' and was reburied with 'all respect and reverence'.

Solomon ordered those responsible for the murder to be executed and in some versions of the story, the killers, Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum, were so full of remorse that they asked to be put to death. Jubela asked for his throat to be cut and his tongue torn out: Jubelo chose to have his left breast torn open and his heart fed to the vultures; and Jubelum was the one who asked for his bowels to be burned to ashes and scattered before the four winds of heaven. You can see where the Freemasons' rituals and oaths come from. Their rituals play out the story and death of Hiram Abiff, baring their breast with their trouser legs rolled up to bare their knees.

The story of Hiram Abiff is a fantasy. The Freemasonic thought police have made great play of the ancient links with the building of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. They have turned it into something akin to the Vatican - and then some. But the Bible from which the figure of Hiram was taken, describes a very different man. First of all his name was simply Hiram. The addition of Abiff came from the founders of masonic myth. Abiff's a miff, you might say. And what does the Bible say about this man? Does it say that he was "the most accomplished mason on Earth", as the Freemasons claim? Not quite. It says that he was neither a mason nor an architect, but a worker in brass.

According to the Book of Kings, he arrived from Tyre after the temple was finished. The Book of Chronicles says he came before the temple was built and was an ornamental metal worker. Any stone skills he had were in decoration, not construction. There is another Hiram in the Bible, the King of Tyre, who is not the same man. But he is also held in great esteem by Freemasonry because he is supposed to have supplied Solomon with Lebanese cedarwood for the Temple. And that's another thing. The Bible says the Temple was built mostly of wood and was no bigger than a church hall to today (30 to 90 feet). The last thing they needed was a stonemason architect.

  The whole story on which Freemasonic ritual is based is a nonsense, but what a vehicle it has been for secrecy, fear, and manipulation. The pyramid structure allows the Elite, the few at the top of Freemasonry, to control the majority by misleading them and keeping them in the dark. The Illuminati Protocols, found in the last century, did - whatever people may say about their origin - describe brilliantly how Freemasons are used:

"We shall create and multiply Freemasonic lodges in all countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are prominent in public activity, for in these lodges we shall find our principal intelligence office and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring under one central administration) (The Illuminate), known to us alone and to all others absolutely unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders........

In these lodges we shall tie together all revolutionary and liberal elements. Their composition will be made up of all strata of society. The most secret political plots will be known to us and will fall under our guiding hands on the very day of their conception. Among the members of the lodges will be almost all the agents of international and national police since their service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a position not only to use its own particular measures with the insubordinate, but also to screen our activities and to provide pretexts for discontents......." Protocal 15

The protocols describe the Masons on the lower levels of degree - the great majority - as a part of a 'show army' who are there only 'to kick dust in the eyes of their fellows'. Everyone is manipulating everyone else. Unless we know the secret society background of people employed by the controlling institutions, be it the police, politicians, doctors, military officers, editors and journalists, or government officials, and unless we know what that secret society truly stands for, how can we possibly know what agenda those who run a country or community are working from?

These people pledge their total allegiance to their secret society in these ritual ceremonies, so what happens to their allegiance to the public they have been elected or appointed to serve? While people in the secret societies are allowed into such positions of control and influence without even having to acknowledge their membership, the whole system is open to the most outrageous corruption. And this is what happens. The system is outrageously corrupt. Not every member is corrupt; most are not. But it doesn't take many to have a terrific impact on society.

Once you have Freemasons in the top positions, who decide which people are recruited or promoted within an organisation, you can make sure that fellow Freemasons get into the key positions or power. One generation of Freemasons follows another as the baton is handed over. When you have achieved this you can run an organisation or a country almost as you like. Or a world. Freemasons also commit themselves to helping each other in distress. That sounds very nice, but what about those who are not part of the club, the 'Profane", as we are called? Does that mean we are subject to lesser consideration when faced with a Freemason in authority? In at least a number of cases, the answer is most certainly 'yes'.

The Freemasons have a series of signs and words which allow them to recognise each other, including the funny handshake. These also include the Freemason's sign for "grief and distress" (i.e. Get me out of trouble), the verbal version of which is: "Will no-one help the widow's son?" The widow's son is Hiram Abiff.

These signs and signals come in very handy when you are arrested by Freemason police officers or appear in court before a Freemason judge. It doesn't always work, of course, but we are kidding ourselves if we think it doesn't happen. The political determination to tackle this dangerous injustice is simply not there, because either the politicians involved - or all parties - are Freemasons themselves or connected with the wider network, or they are frightened to act because their position depends on them not upsetting the secret society elite. Some leading politicians are high ranking Freemasons. Lord Palmerston, the British Prime Minister at the time of the opium wars against China, was the Grand Patriarch or the Grand Orient (Illuminati) version of the order.

Most of the names I have mentioned in the book, those involved with the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, and all the rest will also be Freemasons or members of some connected secret society. But they are all answerable to the same master - the Global Elite. In most countries there is an elite Freemasonry 'cell' which is particularly powerful and which may be unknown even to some high ranking Freemasons. There are many cells linked to the Illuminati-controlled forms of Freemasonry, the Grand Orient Lodges.

The French Revolution was partly hatched and co-ordinated by the Grand Orient Lodge in Paris. In Britain there is, according to some, an elite cell called the Parlour Club. In the US they have the Skull and Bones Society, which is closely related to Freemasonry, and so is the Orange Order which is at the heart of the Northern Ireland conflict. The Round Table is designed on Freemasonic lines and links in with that network. The infamous Knights of Malta are another elite organisation which co-ordinates its covert activities with Illuminised Freemasonry and has enormous influence within the system. Its official head is the Pope! The best known of the Elite Freemasonry cells is the Propaganda Masonica Due Lodge (P2) based in Italy, but operating in other countries also. When this was discovered, it produced one of the greatest political scandals in history. If we look at the background of the P2, you will appreciate how these Elite Freemasonry cells operate in countries around the world and the methods they use.

Continued in "The Truth Shall Set You Free"...

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