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Pssst... Here's list of secret societies

Secret societies have many things to teach us

Dan Brown has certainly raised eyebrows, but more importantly, he has raised questions that have been troubling human minds for a long time now.

The world of secret societies can be fascinating and scary at once. To learn more about a few prominent secret societies and their origins logon to the following sites.

The Illuminati

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Illuminati.htm On May 1, 1776, in Bavaria, Dr. Adam Weishaupt, a professor of Canon Law at Ingolstadt University and a former Jesuit, formed a secret society called the Order of the Illuminati within the existing Masonic lodges of Germany. Since Masonry is itself a secret society, the Illuminati was a secret society within a secret society.

Skull & Bones

http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm Espionage, drug smuggling and secret societies merge into one... Questions arise - Is Skull and Bones the American branch of the Illuminati? Are national and global events manipulated as part of a grand Hegellian equation, thesis and anti-thesis yielding a New World Order synthesis?

The Priory of Sion

http://www.fiu.edu/mizrachs/ poseur3.html

According to the "prieure documents," a conclave of Calabrian monks who left from the Belgian Abbey of Orval in 1090 helped secure the election of Godfroi de Bouillion as de facto king of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, based on their belief that he was a descendant of the Merovingians, and by that fact, according to these documents, also a descendant of King David through Jesus and Merovech.

In return, Godfroi secured their installation into an Abbey on Msount Sion.

The Rosicrucians

http://www.americanreligion.org/cultwtch/rosicruc.html From their origin in Germany, The Rosicrucians spread throughout the Western world and entered into Freemasonry where various ritual degrees derived their name and meaning from the Rosicrucian legend.

Ordo Templi Orientis

http://www.hermetic.com/heidrick/oto_history.html Ordo Templi Orientis was founded before 1902 by Karl Kellner and Theodore Reuss (also known as Merlin) in Germany, with a principal mailing address in Lugano, Switzerland.

The immediate precursor was the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, a mystical society founded in the mid-19th century, with branches in Europe and North America.

L. S. ROHIT

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