Yale University students become members of Skull and Bones // Photo: russian7.ru
According to some reports, he copied the charter from the German equivalent of the club, as well as some traditions. Initially, the society was called the Eulogia Club, in honor of the Greek goddess of eloquence. Later, its members chose the image of a skull and crossbones as their coat of arms, and after that they decided to change the name. In addition to the sign of death, the secret society’s coat of arms also depicts the number 322. What it means is not known for certain to the uninitiated. Each number has its own sacred meaning. Perhaps the founding date of the club is encrypted here, and it is also noted that there are only two of them in the world.
Members of the society and the rite of passage
Skull and Bones is an elite club. The path into it is prohibited for mere mortals. Each year, only a dozen Yale students can become new members of the society. All candidates undergo a strict selection process. Since the history of “Skull and Bones” goes back hundreds of years, a core of families has formed - permanent members of the club. For example, several generations of men from the Bush family, including George W. Bush, were members of society. Everyone in Skull and Bones comes from rich and famous families directly related to government or large companies.The secret society meets at its headquarters located on the university grounds. It is a building without windows and is called the “Tomb”. This is where the initiation ceremony for new members takes place. As journalists found out, newcomers are beaten and forced to repeat oaths. Then they are undressed, and they talk about their deepest secrets, including revealing details of their intimate lives.
The secret society meets at its headquarters located on the university grounds. It is a building without windows and is called “Tomb” // Photo: pravda.ru
According to another version, in order to become a member of society you must commit a crime. This is a guarantee of the new member's silence. If he doesn't keep his mouth shut, he'll be in trouble. During initiation, senior club members dress up as Satan and Don Quixote. One of them wears a Pope costume. At the end of the initiation, the newcomers kiss the latter's feet.
There are also rumors that the “Tomb” has a rather original decoration. There are human skeletons and skulls hanging everywhere here. Many of the bones belong to famous people. There is also a lot of antique furniture and stuffed animals at the order's headquarters. At weekly meetings, students critique each other and discuss current issues.
It is worth noting that initiation rites are known only by hearsay. None of the members of the secret society wanted to talk to journalists.
Property
Every member of Skull and Bones pays dues. As journalists managed to find out, the secret society had over four million US dollars. In addition to the ominous mansion on the grounds of Yale University, the club also owns its own island, located near Canada. Several villas, tennis courts and other leisure facilities have been built on the island.
The club also owns an island located near Canada // Photo: nosecret.com
Elite
Members of Skull and Bones are exclusively from influential families. After graduating from university, they become prominent politicians, judges, businessmen, athletes, and so on. Researchers have always been amazed by the incredible devotion of secret society members to the club and each other. The media found out that more than ten of his fellow club members worked in the George W. Bush administration. According to some reports, Bush managed to become governor of Texas solely thanks to the help of Skull and Bones. Once in the White House, he did not remain in debt.
On modern stage Even the Skull and Bones secret society could not escape political correctness. It is reported that recently they began to accept representatives of non-Caucasian races and women.
Secret university societies are a relic of student years, a kind of romance, a spirit of unity. And in general there is nothing in them
Secret university societies are a relic of student years, a kind of romance, a spirit of unity. And in general, there is nothing wrong with them if we are talking about the “Dead Poets Society” - a circle of creative individuals in the non-existent Welton Academy, about which a film of the same name was made. But if we are talking about the Skull and Bones society?
Imagine a group in which all the most influential personalities in the state have been members since their student years. Together, leading the political, financial, scientific, educational spheres and all federal media, they can manage the entire state and make history.
"Skull and Bones"
The Skull and Bones Society originated at Yale University in 1832. Its founders were people from the Russell, Taft and Gilman families. Then representatives of the Bundy, Lord, Rockefeller, Phelps, and Bush families entered the society. Often Skull and Bones is even called a Masonic organization, or at least a club of followers.
Cranial structure
The society was organized in the German manner, since one of the founders brought the idea of creating a secret society from Germany. They were apparently popular there. Although the most famous Thule Society arose much later - in 1918.
The organization approved a coat of arms that depicted a skull and two crossbones underneath with the number 332. There is still debate about the meaning of the number. Some believe that the numbers 332 encrypt the founding date of the club. Others believe it is a reference to the death of Demosthenes, whose Greek patriotic society became the prototype for the Skull and Bones Club.
Members of the secret organization organized weekly meetings where they called their clan “the center of the Universe,” “knights.” The club members despised all other students and called them “barbarians.”
Membership in the organization was a symbol of selectivity and elite.
How to get to the club?
Initially, only representatives of the American aristocracy, Anglo-Saxon origin and Protestant religion could become participants in the first secret society. In the twentieth century, boundaries expanded, and even black people began to be accepted into society. At the end of the twentieth century, the finest hour came for women.
As for the rite of passage, for a long time the order of the ritual was shrouded in darkness. It was rumored that in the 19th century, when the organization first began to function, during the ritual, newcomers were stripped naked, beaten, placed in a coffin and forced to tell stories from their sexual experiences. But these are just rumors. Now the ritual has changed, it has become more humorous.
Blindfolded newcomers must drink Getorade from a skull as an alternative to blood, take an oath and, perhaps the most unpleasant moment, kiss the toes of one of the participants in a Pope suit.
Future life
Then the students who founded the circle completed their studies at Yale University and scattered throughout the US government agencies. And all our lives we kept in touch with each other, because this is unspoken rule Yale secret societies.
By the way, subsequently there were much more of them.
In 1841, a second secret society of undergrads called the "Scroll and Keys" arose at Yale University, and in 1884 the "Wolf's Head" society appeared. Three student organizations made up the prestigious “Big Three” at Yale University.
Then three more secret societies arose, but their specifics are little known. Can these six generations be seen as a single whole, as a secret society that arose out of Skull and Bones at Yale University?
Famous personalities
If we proceed from this premise, then in total more than two and a half thousand famous American figures have been in the ranks of the university’s secret clubs.
This is US President William Taft (1909-1913), founder of Time magazine Henry Luce, judge Supreme Court USA Potter Stewart, Henry Stimson, former minister US defense under two presidents - Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman."
Also George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. The latter, by the way, had the nickname “Temporary”. Apparently, Bush Jr. did not gain authority within the university. One of the most famous members of the society today is John Kerry.
And now... attention!
Mr. Navalny also studied at Yale University. No comments needed. Now everything has fallen into place, it is now clear who and where is brainwashing politicians.
Public criticism
Nowadays society is a little shy secret organizations. Because if a group of people has something to hide, then their initiatives are unlikely to lead to good.
Also, the Skull and Bones Club is accused of the idea of moral superiority, which leaves an imprint on further activities participants. But with such lordly manners they strive to enter politics, determine foreign policy states. Should we then be surprised by Washington's imperial views?
Skull and Bones is accused of plotting to seize world domination. In one revealing work entitled The Order of Skull and Bones: The Secret Power, the American scholar credits the secret society at Yale University with influencing wars and revolutions, as well as using the mechanism of global domination in the years October revolution, World War II, in modern international conflicts.
So is this student circle something to be wary of?
Margarita Vanke
From powerful members to mysterious rituals, Yale University's secret society Skull and Bones has long been associated with dark secrets and conspiracy theories.
Official symbol of the secret society "Skull and Bones"
Legend has it that in 1918, under the cover of darkness, Yale University student Prescott Bush and his friends excavated the grave of the legendary Chiricahua Apache war leader Geronimo. They took the skull and bones of the great leader and returned to Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut). Geronimo's remains were displayed at the headquarters of one of America's most mysterious secret societies.
Prescott Bush, US Senator from Connecticut, father of the 41st US President George Hebert Walker Bush, grandfather of the 43rd US President George W. Bush, was a member of the elite club at Yale University known as the Skull and Bones.
Throughout history, this secret society has included many prominent American figures. In addition to George W. Bush and his son—both of whom followed in Prescott's footsteps while attending university—Skull and Bones members included hundreds of government officials such as former Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as entertainment industry figures such as actor Paul Giamatti. .
However, other than this information, we know little about this elusive society.
The Skull and Bones Club was founded in 1832, 131 years after Yale University first opened its doors to students. It was created after conflict broke out between a number of existing societies over the awards ceremony. To end the confrontation, members of Linonia, Brothers in Unity and Calliopean separated from their groups and formed the Skull and Bones Club.
William Huntington-Russell and Alphonso Taft took charge of founding the society and, along with twelve other members, formed the inaugural class. Every spring since 1832, the society has elected fifteen new members from among its freshman students (women only became accepted into Skull and Bones in the early 1990s). It believes that these people can benefit it in the future.
The initiation ceremony into the Skull and Bones Society has long been shrouded in mystery. Many believe it involves occult practices, black magic and even animal sacrifices.
Headquarters of the secret society "Skull and Bones", also known as "The Tomb"
Like the other Yale-based societies (there are seven in total), the Skull and Bones Club has its own headquarters, which is known as “The Tomb.” It is a windowless building built in gothic style on High Street; members of the society hold meetings and events there.
According to rumors, the remains of Geronimo, which were stolen by Prescott Bush, are also kept here, as well as the skulls of the eighth US President Martin Van Buren and the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
In addition to the Tomb, the society also owns Deer Island, a small plot of land near the St. Lawrence River. This is where members of the community can come on weekends to “rekindle old friendships.”
Due to the secrecy and elitism promoted by society, it has long been the subject of conspiracy theories.
Some people claim that members of Skull and Bones were behind the assassination of Kennedy, that they were responsible for the creation of the nuclear bomb, that they are sponsored and influenced by the Illuminati, and even control Central Asia. intelligence agency.
President Taft, George Herbert Walker Bush, and George W. Bush were members of the Skull and Bones Society.
However, conspiracy theories associated with the society, no matter how crazy they may seem, did not arise out of nowhere, given the backgrounds of its members.
At various points in history, the Skull and Bones Club controlled the destinies of the Rockefellers, Carnegies and Fords. It also helped its members advance their careers to high positions at the Council on Foreign Relations and powerful media corporations such as Time, as well as become presidents of the United States (we are talking about William Howard Taft, George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush ).
In fact, John Kerry and George W. Bush, who ran for President of the United States in 2004 (from the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively), were former members of Skull and Bones.
Despite all the theories and accusations surrounding them, the members of Skull and Bones remain silent about what is really going on in their inner sanctum. Both Kerry and Bush were asked about their membership in the Skull and Bones Society, but refused to comment.
“It’s a secret,” Kerry said.
“Everything is so secret that I can say nothing more,” George W. Bush wrote in his autobiography.
Maybe the Skull and Bones Club really wants to take over the world. It is also quite possible that nothing interesting happens within the walls of the “Tomb” at all, and the members of society themselves simply like to be at the center of crazy theories.
Hundreds of books documentaries and television programs were dedicated to the secret society “Skull and Bones”. Their creators wanted to know more about the inner workings of the club, but it seems that the only way to receive any significant information is to become a member yourself.
- Oh, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio! (W. Shakespeare "Hamlet")
The political elite of the United States (and not only the United States) has long been firmly “tied” to Secret Societies. As a rule, young and talented people from wealthy and elite families are recruited in advance "promoted" educational institutions. These establishments are well known. They are usually located in England or the USA. There, young people join all kinds of Secret Societies and undergo the corresponding ritual “initiations.” It is in this way that destructive Secret Societies train new cadres in foreign countries, which they are trying to control and/or "rob".
In particular, the same George W. Bush is a member of the Skull and Bones Secret Society, which, according to my version, is involved in the September 11 terrorist attack. Let me remind you that the terrorist attack occurred during the reign of D. Bush and marked the beginning of the “New World Order”, declared earlier by his father.
Skull and Bones in 1947, George H. W. Bush immediately to the left of the clock
These destructive Secret Societies tend to be destructive in nature. The main goal of these societies is to control all of humanity through the global credit and financial system and further chipization of the entire population of the planet. The idea of a “New World Order”, etc. The "Golden Billion" has the same roots and traces its origins to the Illuminati and members of the World Occult Government. WITH general structure Some Secret Societies can be found below:
As you can see from the diagram (see below), the 33rd degree of initiation is followed by further levels, since there are other pyramids above this pyramid. In fact, members of Secret Societies up to 33 degrees of initiation are still “out of touch” and are used blindly by Jews and Levites. In fact, according to Illuminati symbolism, they are simply slaves and “purses” for the purposes of the Levites, since they are members of a truncated and not a full-fledged pyramid. In the language of symbols, the truncated pyramid symbolizes slaves, and the full pyramid symbolizes the masters (Levites). A two-dimensional image of a pyramid is a triangle.
In turn, Yale University is a private research university in the United States, located in the state of Connecticut, and is the third of nine colonial colleges founded before the Revolutionary War. It is included in the so-called. The Ivy League is a community of eight of the most prestigious private American universities. Together with Harvard and Princeton universities, it makes up the so-called “Big Three”. It is significant that here we are dealing with a “troika”, and the number “3” is closely related to the triangle, which is a two-dimensional image of a pyramid - the same ill-fated symbol Illuminati.
The emblem of Yale University already clearly shows what its roots are. Pay attention to the characteristic text and book. The text has clearly Jewish roots, and the Book itself is a symbol of Secret Societies, as, indeed, is the very symbolism of the Skull and Bones.
The Yale University emblem proves that the Skull and Bones Secret Society, despite its apparent independence, is “inscribed” in the global structure of the “Jewish mafia” and is controlled by it from the upper “floors” of the pyramidal structure of the Secret Societies.
Yale University emblem
For decades now, the US elite has been almost completely controlled by members of the Skull and Bones Secret Society, which was founded back in 1832 by William Russell, along with thirteen other students, among whom was Alphonso Taft, the future Secretary of War, and then US Secretary of Justice and father of the 27th President of the United States, William Howard Taft.
In addition, the emblem of the Secret Society "Skull and Bones" is "painfully" reminiscent of the pirate flag with the image of the "Jolly Roger", which, along with dozens of others, was used by pirates in the 17th-18th centuries. There was no single pirate flag then. However, in the culture of the XIX-XXI centuries. It was the skull and crossbones flag that was most often associated with piracy.
"Jolly Roger" by Edward England
Apparently, the Morgan “clan” is directly related to the Secret Society “Skull and Bones”, since the similarity of the Symbolism of this Secret Society with the “Jolly Roger” is obvious. The fact is that the Morgans (members of the Occult World Government) trace their origins to Henry Morgan (English Henry Morgan; 1635 - August 25, 1688) - an English navigator (originally from Wales), a pirate, better known under the nickname "Cruel", later Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Jamaica.
Henry Morgan
Henry Morgan actively pursued English colonial policy. During the era of the struggle between England and Spain for supremacy at sea, he undertook several military campaigns against Spanish possessions in the Caribbean Sea. His first large-scale operation was a raid on the city of Puerto del Principe. The “pearl” of raids and sabotage was the sack and destruction of the city of Panama in 1671. Henry Morgan died in 1688 and was solemnly, with ceremonies befitting his rank, buried in Port Royal in the Church of St. Catherine. Four years later, on June 7, 1692, a strong earthquake occurred, and the grave of Sir Henry Morgan sank into the depths of the sea.
The Skull and Bones society was originally called "Club Eulogie" after the Greek goddess of eloquence. However, after a trip to Germany, Russell, impressed by the events that took place there, introduces the Nazi spirit into the rituals and symbolism of his brainchild. Since 1833, Death has become the symbol of society, and the coat of arms of the “death’s head” is a skull with crossbones - a sign warning about mortal danger. Under the symbol of Death "322". This number is the “key” number for this organization.
SS officer's cap with Skull and Bones symbols
Shortly before World War II, the Skull and Bones Society was suspected of having links with the German National Socialists. Moreover, these suspicions were confirmed by specific statements from knowledgeable persons. In particular, in 1937, William E. Dodd, the US Ambassador to Germany, told a New York Times journalist that “a clique of American industrialists” was interested in creating fascist state. During the first years of Hitler's reign, the SS received American-made weapons and money from dubious companies, which included the Union Banking Corp. and "Hamburg-America". These enterprises were headed by the same Prescott Bush.
Emblem of the NFL club "Tampa Bay Buccaneers" (Florida - USA)
The rituals of the Skull and Bones society are openly satanic in nature. A significant role in them is played by the skull of the Apache Indian leader Geronimo, stolen from a grave at Fort Still in 1918. The person responsible for the theft of the skull was Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush. A student who wishes to join the circle of the Brotherhood of Death must lie naked in open coffin and go through the so-called “cleansing” - open your secret desires. A newcomer who has passed the test is considered accepted and in the future bears responsibility for his actions only before the secret society.
Many researchers are still puzzling over the meaning of the number “322” and are looking for some deep and secret meaning, understandable only to the initiated. I can express my personal opinion on this matter.
It is known that people who come into “contact” with the Noosphere or the information field of the Earth very often see the symbol of one eye. It is believed that this eye or " All-seeing eye", as a symbol, was given to man from above and is not his invention. The eye was observed by both pharaohs and priests during certain phases of religious rites. That is why this symbol exists in many Hermetic knowledge and religions. The theme of “one eye” appeared in the history of mankind long enough.
Later, Sahih al-Bukhari mentions that the Dajjal (Antichrist) will be a lame, curly-haired and one-eyed youth from the lands of Khorasan (the territory of modern Iran). However, long before the prophecy of Al Bukhari, the theme of "one eye" is raised in the Egyptian legend of Horus ( ancient god in Egyptian religion).
Horus (Horus or Horus) - Ancient Egyptian God
Horus or Horus (ḥr, "height", "sky") is a god in ancient Egyptian mythology, the son of Isis and Osiris. His wife is Hathor. His main opponent is Seth. Horus - god of the sky, royalty and sun; the living ancient Egyptian king was represented as the incarnation of the god Horus. Anubis, by order of the god Ra, collected the scattered (or, according to another version, cut up by Set) members of Osiris, embalmed the body and swaddled it. Isis, in the form of a falcon, alighted on the corpse of Osiris and, miraculously conceiving from him, gave birth to a son, Horus.
The choir is conceived and born in order to act as a natural avenger for the death of his father. At the same time, he considers himself the only legal heir of the latter. Secretly nurtured and raised by his mother in the swamps of the Delta, Horus goes, “shod in white sandals,” to a duel with Set, demanding before the court of the gods the condemnation of the offender and the return of the inheritance of Osiris to him, the only son of the deceased king.
Surviving ancient Egyptian texts have conveyed to us various versions of the myth of the Eye of Horus. According to one of them, Seth pierced Horus's eye with his finger, according to another, he stepped on it, according to the third, he swallowed it, according to the fourth, he broke it into 64 pieces.
One of the texts says that Hathor restored her eye by giving it gazelle milk. Another says that Anubis buried the eye on the side of a mountain, where it sprouted shoots in the form of a vine. Subsequently, Horus is recognized as the legitimate (in Egyptian, “right-minded”) heir of Osiris and receives the kingdom; God Thoth writes down the decision of the court of the gods.
After this, Horus resurrects his father Osiris, allowing him to swallow his eye ("Wadjet"). However, Osiris does not return to earth and remains to rule the kingdom of the dead - Amenti, leaving Horus to rule the kingdom of the living. Horus has four sons who are the protectors of Osiris, the pillars
Shu and one of the stars of the constellation Ursa Major. Their names are: Imseti, Duamutef, Hapi and Quebehsenuf.
The myth of Horus is also mentioned by a number of Greek authors. Son of Osiris, Egyptian deity. Herodotus identified him with Apollo. The Greeks called the constellation Horus Orion. Ra, in line with religious syncretism, was also compared with local deities of light: Amon (in Thebes), under the name Amun-Ra, Khnum (in Elephantine) - in the form of Khnum-Ra, Horus - in the form of Ra-Horakhty. The latter comparison was especially common.
Amulet in the form of a Wadget (to be worn around the neck)
The right eye is a symbol of Horus (aka Horus or Horus), while his Left eye was gouged out by Set (Horus's uncle) during battle. According to legend, Horus's left eye was stolen by Set, who subsequently broke it into 64 pieces. Thus, the number 64 symbolizes the single and complete Wadjet or Udjat - the eye of Horus.
In Egyptian writing, "irt" means "eye", and the verb "wḏȝ" means "to protect". General meaning This sign is the “guarding eye.” Apparently, the outline of this symbol reflects both the features of the human eye and the features of a falcon. Thus, in one element of the wadget, namely, in 1/64 of its part, scientists see a symbolic image of a falcon - the embodiment of the god Horus.
Wadjet (Udjat)
In Egyptian arithmetic, the components of Wadjet were used to write fractions from 1/2 to 1/64, and were also used to measure capacities and volumes. The sum of the six signs included in the Wadget and reduced to a common denominator: 32/64 + 16/64 + 8/64 + 4/64 + ²/64 + 1/64 = 63/64.
At the same time, Wadget’s arithmetic calculus was as follows:
- most of the eye 1/2 (or 32/64);
- pupil 1/4 (or 16/64);
- eyebrow 1/8 (or 8/64);
- smaller part of the eye 1/16 (or 4/64);
- teardrop 1/32 (or 2/64);
- falcon sign 1/64;
- wadget 63/64
To measure grains and bulk solids, the so-called. hekat. For example: Hekat of barley: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/32 (that is, 25/32 vessels of barley). Hekat was equal to approximately 4.785 liters.
IN Ancient Egypt Wadjet was considered a powerful symbol and was associated among the Egyptians with healing, light and radiance. This is where, in my opinion, the very name of the Secret Society “Illuminati” (enlightened ones) comes from. The one-eyed symbol, as we know, they really like.
In the ancient Egyptian numeral system, the Eye of Horus determined the old kingdom, rounded to the number one. At the same time, in the eye of Horus, as its parts, six parts are mathematically encoded. Thus, Wadjet (also the eye of Ra or the eye of Horus) is an ancient Egyptian symbol, the left falcon eye of the god Horus, which was knocked out in his fight with Set.
The right eye of Horus symbolized the Sun, and the left eye the Moon; its damage was explained by the phases of the moon. This eye, healed by the god Thoth, became a powerful amulet worn by many Egyptians - both pharaohs and ordinary people. He personified various aspects divine world order, from royal power to fertility.
The "eye in triangle" emblem is also a symbol of the "Alpha Dragon" Civilization,with which the Illuminati cooperates
In addition, the word "eyes" in Hebrew doesn't have plural and is always pronounced "eye". That is - in the singular. At the same time, the truncated pyramid symbolizes slaves, and the full-fledged pyramid symbolizes masters. A two-dimensional image of a pyramid is a triangle.
A triangle is also formed if you connect all 3 eyes of a representative of an alien race of reptiles with which the Illuminati cooperates (the so-called Chitauri). This alien race has 3 eyes. Two yellow (in the usual place) and one red (the so-called “eye of death”), located on the forehead of a high-ranking Chitauri individual (in the translation “Child of the Snake”).
Chitauri (Child of the Snake) in the center. The third eye is visible on the forehead.
As you can see, in Ancient Egypt there was a legend about the god Horus (aka Horus or Horus) and the story that happened to his left eye. According to these legends, Seth stole his left eye and broke it into 64 pieces. The number "64" symbolizes a single and complete ujat or wadjet - the "Eye of Horus". The word "Udjat" or "Wedjat" refers to the Egyptian name for the symbol "Eye of Horus", which was considered a very powerful symbol in Ancient Egypt.
This is the key to understanding the meaning of the number "322", located under the symbol of the Secret Society "Skull and Bones". 1/32 (or 2/64) are part of the eye of Horus and symbolize the "tear drop". The crossed bones mean a “multiply” sign or simply a pair of “2s,” since the society’s emblem, in addition to the skull, contains only two tibia bones. Thus, if we multiply the number 32 by 2, then we just get the most key number for Secret Societies, “64,” which symbolizes the same “Eye of Horus” or the full Wadget.
That's the whole "mystery covered in darkness."
People generally tend to give those who have more power and money with some “special” qualities and abilities, and even more so if the matter smacks of “mystery.” While in fact, the mysterious aristocratic “casket” opens quite simply.
Symbol of the Secret Society "Skull and Bones"
As Alexandra Robbins writes in her acclaimed book Secrets of the Tomb, in addition to three presidents, famous members of this order also included many senators, starting with Prescott Bush, secretaries of state, attorneys general, intelligence chiefs, chief justices of the Supreme Court, directors of major multinational companies and banks.
Sutton, in turn, talks about the ability of adherents of this Secret Society to penetrate the Church and the Federal Treasury, Congress and the media, Wall Street and the Supreme Court, and scientific institutions such as the Council on external relations"in New York. Membership in this fraternity does not stop with graduation. Entire generations of the most privileged families of the East Coast were and are members of it - people who have been part of the ruling class of America for almost two centuries.
The secret society "Skull and Bones" today numbers about 800 active members, and until recently it was purely masculine and, despite all its insanity, purely elitist. New entrants receive the status of “cavaliers,” and they call veterans of the Order “patriarchs.” members of the order call themselves “knights”, “the center of the Universe” (more precisely, the navel of the Earth), and all the rest, the uninitiated, “barbarians”.
In 1852, the order bought a house on High Street, in the very center of the old Yale campus - a three-story building where it is located to this day. Members of the order refer to this headquarters as “the Tomb.” Both Bill Clinton and Bush Sr. and Jr. are members of this company and not only them. “In my senior year, I joined the Skull and Bones Society,” Bush Jr. wrote in his 1999 autobiography, “a society so secret that I can say nothing more about it.”
George Bush Junior.
The Order of Skull and Bones played an extremely important role in the life of the Bush family. After George W. Bush's victory in 2001 presidential elections, journalist Alexandra Robbins, author of a book about secret order, wrote: “George Bush is a classic example of harnessing the power of the Skull.” He joined the Skull and Bones Society, and this secured his career from the very beginning. The Brotherhood gave him money to election campaign, drove with useful people, opened the necessary doors. On presidential post he is faithful to the traditions of the order and promotes members of the Brotherhood of Death to important positions. As soon as Bush took office as president, he met with his secret society comrades. Soon members of the Brotherhood of Death received appointments to high positions in the Department of Justice, in the Department of the Interior, as US Ambassadors and Pentagon representatives in Europe...”
It is not customary to talk about the secret society “Skull and Bones”. There is a rule for members of the order: if “Skull and Bones” or “Brotherhood of Death” are said somewhere, they must leave the room. George Bush did just that when, at a press conference in Oval Office he was asked a question about Skull and Bones. The order includes a number of wealthy US families: the Rockefellers, the family of former US President Taft (whose father was one of the founders of the order), M. Bundy - advisor on national security under President John F. Kennedy. In addition, the order includes the “Council on Foreign Relations,” which is an integral instrument of the secret world government. Thus, it is not difficult to see who sets the direction for the United States, as well as many international organizations.
Secret societies in the United States, and throughout the world, also have their own armed units that are not directly subordinate to the Department of Defense. That is, formally, they don’t exist. However, it is these paramilitary special units (well trained and equipped) that participate in many covert operations USA and Globalists, including drug trafficking, murders, sabotage and provocations abroad, etc.
The Skull and Bones Secret Society, as well as some other Secret Societies (which are much less known, but no less powerful), also have such military units. It is also obvious that the secret society "Skull and Bones" is "inscribed" in the system Global Governance 22 Hierophants and controlled by them from above through the so-called. "Jewish mafia" and the Bilderberg club.
In addition, the Secret Society "Skull and Bones" is closely connected with the "New World Order" project and the secret universal chipization of the planet's population. Also, this destructive society is at the origins of the use of psychotronic weapons against the civilian population, for the purpose of physical elimination and group persecution of “undesirable” citizens.
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Woe from mind
US President George W. Bush does not like to remember his student years. He has never been to the traditional Yale alumni reunions - in his own words, he has unpleasant memories of the atmosphere of “intellectual snobbery” that reigned there. “In my senior year, I joined the Skull and Bones Society,” he writes in his 1999 autobiography, A Charge To Keep, “a society so secret that I can say nothing more about it.”
The maxim looks like a joke, especially in combination with a frivolous title. You won't surprise America with student societies. This is an old university tradition, something like closed men's clubs with elements of secrecy - each with its own ritual, charter and paraphernalia. Having completed his studies, the graduate soon forgets about his membership. However, Skull and Bones is a different kind of affair. Membership in this fraternity does not end with graduation. Entire generations of the most privileged families of the East Coast were and are members of it - people who have made up the ruling class of America for almost two centuries.
As Universal Pictures prepared to release Skulls in 2000 and Bush was campaigning for the presidency, members of the community received a message reminding them to maintain confidentiality as “the key to the well-being of the order,” regardless of events in the “barbarian world.” . Barbarians in the language of the Skull and Bones knights are everyone who does not have the happiness of belonging to society. They, the “barbarians,” really know almost nothing about society. But conspiracy theorists are trying their best. The hero of the film “Skulls” is a young journalist trying to penetrate the secrets of the order. The attempt ends in death. They say that at the society's headquarters, in one of the rooms, a bloody knife is displayed in a glass box.
Anti-Masons
His Majesty's College of the Colony of Connecticut, as Yale University was originally called, was created as a bastion of Congregationalism (the English branch of Calvinism) in opposition to Presbyterianism, which was then dominant in New England. The initiator of its foundation was Increase Mather, an authoritative theologian, president of the only New England college at that time - Harvard. Concluding that Harvard was failing in its mission as a Congregational nursery, Mather resigned and called on like-minded people to create a new institution “to preserve true faith in future generations."
The college named itself Yale in honor of Elihu Yale - not a scientist or an educator, but a wealthy English merchant. In 1718, in response to a request from the trustees of the college, Yale sent from London a large box of books, a portrait of King George I and nine bales of Indian goods, from the sale of which the college received 562 pounds 12 pence - a substantial amount at that time.
In accordance with the plans of its founders, the college was distinguished by exceptional piety and intolerance, even for that era. The first church in American educational institutions appeared here; students were required to attend services twice a day. On college grounds they were required to speak only Latin. The mentors instilled in them a sense of moral superiority and isolation and did not allow any student government.
The psychology of a fortress besieged by infidels contributed to the fact that at Yale, like in some Gogolian bureau, a kind of “hazing” was practiced, hazing - the custom of a humiliating “initiation” of a freshman. Senior students were not only not prohibited, but were required to teach newcomers the rules and procedures of the institution; This “course of science” lasted, as a rule, a week, which for this reason was called “hellish”. The practice of separating students depending on the social status of their parents was also quite official.
In 1776, an event occurred that was destined to play an important role in the development of academic education in America. At the College of William and Mary in Virginia, the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity was founded; the largest student fraternities are traditionally called by Greek abbreviations; in in this case- abbreviation of the motto philosophia biou kubernetes - “philosophy is the leader of life”). Three years later, the Phi Beta Kappa cell appeared at Yale. A distinctive feature of the organization was secrecy - non-members were not allowed to know its structure and goals.
In the 1832-1833 academic year, the secretary of Phi Beta Kappa at Yale University was William Russell, who came from a very wealthy family. How he came up with the idea of creating a new society is not known exactly. According to one version, he brought it along with the “fruits of learning” from Germany, where he studied for some time. The fact is that, upon returning to America, Russell found himself in the midst of an anti-Masonic campaign. It started after mysterious disappearance in 1826 by William Morgan, who was about to publish a book about Masonic secrets. On the wave of public outrage, the Anti-Masonic Party emerged, quickly gaining strength by criticizing the abuses of government officials whose affiliation with Freemasonry was known. In the 1832 presidential election, the party ran against Democrat Andrew Jackson and American Whig leader Henry Clay, both Freemasons. Anti-Masons demanded that the law prohibit anyone from taking an oath except in court, and insisted on the open nature of the activities of Masonic lodges. The fight against secret societies also affected student fraternities. The Yale Phi Beta Kappa, which also held its meetings in a building that belonged to the Masonic lodge, was required to abandon the principle of secrecy. Then William Russell decided, together with 14 like-minded people, to organize a new secret brotherhood modeled on one of the German ones. Some sources claim that this model was the Order of the Illuminati.
The secret society of the Illuminati (illuminatus - illuminated) was founded in 1776 in Ingolstadt by a young Bavarian law professor Adam Weishaupt. The professor's teaching contained a project for social reform of an egalitarian sense. In its sinister glory, the Illuminati is second only to Freemasonry. Some authors consider Illuminism to be the forerunner and prototype of all secret societies that set as their goal a radical reorganization of the world - right up to the Russian Bolsheviks, who supposedly learned from the Illuminati the principle of a “double doctrine” (one for leaders, the other for ordinary members) and a strict centralized hierarchy. Membership in the Order of the Illuminati is attributed to Goethe, Herder, Mozart, Duke Carl August of Weimar-Eisenach, and Field Marshal Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick. Contrary to popular belief, the Illuminati were not Freemasons, but the fact is that Weishaupt taught his adherents to take advantage of every opportunity to spread influence, and the Illuminati began to join lodges for precisely this purpose. Illuminati cells have emerged in many European countries. However, the Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor did not share the idea of Illuminism. In 1785, the order was banned, Weishaupt fled from Bavaria; the publication of secret papers of the order, from which it was clear that the Freemasons often acted as a blind tool of the Illuminati, turned the latter into the personification of the “world behind the scenes.” The global conspiracy theory has received a powerful boost. The machinations and machinations of the Illuminati seemed to conspiracy theorists everywhere.
Could an American student, almost half a century after the defeat of the order, have encountered in Germany some rudiment of an Illuminati cell? The question is complex. Adam Weishaupt died in 1830, having lived for 44 years in exile in the city of Gotha under the patronage of the local elector. But his name continued to terrify especially impressionable people. The Illuminati was demonized in the 90s of the 18th century by the Jesuit Abbot Augustin de Barruel, the author of the book “Memoirs to the History of Jacobinism,” which gained extraordinary popularity. Eyewitness french revolution, Barruel considered it the product of a “triple conspiracy” of the world’s forces of evil: “sophists of godlessness,” to which he included Voltaire, d’Alembert and Frederick the Great; the conspiracy of the “sophists of indignation” was, according to Barruel, made by the Freemasons; The Order of the Illuminati became a gathering of “sophists of anarchy.” Weishaupt himself appeared to the abbot as nothing less than the devil's deputy on Earth.
Russian trace
He is a pharmacist; he drinks one
A glass of red wine.
Eugene Onegin
In Russia, which since time immemorial has firmly believed in the existence of an anti-Russian conspiracy by external forces, Barruel’s book met with an interested reader. She fully confirmed the empress's suspicions regarding the Illuminati. Among European monarchs, Catherine the Second was one of the most zealous persecutors of Illuminism. She, however, did not distinguish the Martinists, that is, the followers of the mystic philosopher Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, from the Illuminati. Both of them were Freemasons for her and all together were “monkeys,” as she deigned to call them in her comedies. The brutal reprisal against members of the Moscow Martinist circle led by Nikolai Novikov, clearly disproportionate to their “guilt” before the throne, is one of the most shameful pages of Catherine’s reign.
Count Fyodor Rostopchin claimed that a message from the Bavarian Illuminati to Novikov was intercepted at the Moscow post office. According to other sources, the Novikovites were in correspondence with the Berlin Rosicrucians. Catherine was informed that the Martinists were luring the heir Pavel Petrovich into their networks. The initial investigation, carried out on the orders of the empress, did not reveal any malicious intent against the authorities - Novikov only had to refuse publishing activities. However, things soon took a different turn. In March 1792, in Stockholm, at a masquerade at the royal opera, King Gustav III of Sweden was mortally wounded, who was plotting a campaign against revolutionary France. The brother of Gustav III, the head of the Swedish Freemasons, the Duke of Südermanland, became regent for the minor heir, and then king. Little of. Two weeks before the assassination attempt on Gustav, Emperor Leopold II, the elder brother of Queen Marie Antoinette of France and also a passionate opponent of the French Revolution, unexpectedly died in Vienna. A rumor spread that the emperor had been poisoned and that the murders of both monarchs were the work of the Jacobins. In April, a secret report came from Europe that the Jacobin secret agent Basseville was heading to Russia “with malicious intent on the health of Her Majesty.” Rostopchin, as usual, bluntly reported that the Russian Martinists “cast lots as to who should kill the Empress Catherine,” and that “the lot fell on Lopukhin.” (Ivan Vladimirovich Lopukhin is a mystical writer, a member of the Novikov circle.) Under such conditions, it is difficult to resist arrests. Can hardly be counted just a coincidence the fact that Catherine ordered the arrest of Novikov just when they were searching in vain for Basseville in St. Petersburg and Mitau; the pretext for the arrest was a book that Novikov did not write or publish. The queen considered it inconvenient to try Novikov, and therefore, having found him guilty of secret relations with enemies of the throne and seduction (“capturing him into his sect”) of the heir, she ordered him to be imprisoned in the Shlisselburg fortress without trial for a period of 15 years.
Under Paul, the surviving Freemasons were completely rehabilitated, received ranks, appointments and awards (in the eyes of Catherine’s nobles, this only confirmed the validity of the deceased’s suspicions), while under Alexander, the eradicators of harmful teachings resumed their efforts. They saw France, of course, as the source of all sorts of filth. “Our offices,” his close advisor Chamberlain Nikolai Novosiltsov wrote to the Tsar in 1807, “are full of “Martinists,” “Israelites,” “Illuminati,” and scoundrels of all shades, and our houses are infested with Frenchmen and Jacobins of all nations.” However, the Peace of Tilsit was soon concluded; Napoleon and Alexander became allies. The fighters against heresy fought back immediately after the union collapsed. The outstanding statesman of Alexander's reign, Mikhail Speransky, fell victim to them in March 1812. He was accused of both Illuminism and treason.
Since Speransky was close to the emperor immediately after the Erfurt meeting between Napoleon and Alexander, his opponents came to the conclusion that it was then that he sold out to the French. De Maistre wrote to his king that Speransky "carries out the orders of a great sect that seeks to destroy thrones." The tireless Rostopchin, in a denunciation to the emperor, listing the secret Martinists, indicated that “they are all more or less devoted to Speransky, who, not adhering to any sect in his soul, and perhaps no religion, uses their services to direct affairs and keeps them dependent Push". The author of another denunciation claimed that Speransky was pushed to betray his fatherland by “gold and diamonds delivered to him through the French ambassador.” The third said that in Erfurt he “was accepted into a high degree of Illuminism” and that “Weishaupt was ordered by Napoleon to pay attention to Secretary of State Speransky.” (Thus, it was not Weishaupt who ordered Napoleon, but vice versa.)
Speransky completely denied all the accusations and called the stories about the intrigues of the Illuminati “women’s tales that can only be used to scare children.” However, not all so simple. Speransky, indeed, with the knowledge of the emperor, was in relations with Paris, namely, in correspondence with the adviser to the Russian embassy, the future chancellor Karl Nesselrode, who carried out his instructions without the knowledge of the ambassador Prince Kurakin and the chancellor Count Rumyantsev. He was a deep expert in mystical and Masonic literature and received instructions in this area from the Moscow Martinist Ivan Lopukhin. Finally, the most important thing: Speransky started a reform of Russian Freemasonry. The king was worried about the existence secret lodges; Speransky's project proposed to establish lodges that would operate under government control. The most gifted young priests were supposed to join these lodges. To develop a new Masonic ritual, professor of oriental languages Ignaz-Aurelius Fessler, whom many Russian Freemasons considered an Illuminati, was invited from Lvov. All existing lodges were ordered to temporarily suspend the admission of new brothers and submit their papers to the committee created for this purpose. In the future, they had to either accept the new charter drawn up by Fessler and Speransky, close to the original English one, or close down. Speransky's employee Baron Fyodor Gauenschild, who subsequently entered the Austrian diplomatic service and who presented a corresponding note to Metternich, writes that the project “reminded him too much of Weishaupt.” In June 1810, the lodge of the new Polar Star charter was opened. That’s where it all ended: the emperor lost interest in the idea, and then in Speransky. The fact is that the persons whose positions were supposed to implement the reform - the Minister of Public Education Count Razumovsky and the Minister of Police Balashov - were themselves Freemasons and in no way wanted to reform. Then the intrigue against Speransky began, ending with his sudden resignation. The emperor’s “young fun” came to an end.
It is worth adding that for Pushkin, who was initiated into the Freemasons in 1821 (“I was a Freemason in the Kishinev Lodge, that is, in the one for which all the lodges in Russia were destroyed.” - Letter to V.A. Zhukovsky, January 20th 1926), Freemasonry was directly associated with Illuminism and revolution. Here is the testimony of his close friend Sergei Sobolevsky: “... I once expressed my surprise to Pushkin that he distanced himself from Freemasonry, into which he was accepted, and that he did not belong to any other secret society. “This is still due to the prediction about the white head,” Pushkin answered me. - Don’t you know that all philanthropic and humanitarian secret societies, even Freemasonry itself, received from Adam Weishaupt a direction that is suspicious and hostile to the existing state order? How could I pester them? Weisskopf, Weisshaupt - one and the same.” ( It's about about a German fortune teller who predicted Pushkin’s death from a white horse, a white head or a white man - weisser Ross, weisser Kopf, weisser Mensch.) Pushkin spoke more than once about December 1825, the decision to return to St. Petersburg and the hare that forced him to abandon the idea friends. Sobolevsky claims that he heard this story “in front of strangers.” It ended like this: “But what would be the consequences of my trip,” added Pushkin. - I expected to arrive in St. Petersburg late in the evening, so that my arrival would not be announced too soon, and, therefore, I would get to Ryleev directly for the meeting on December 13. I would be received with delight; I probably would have forgotten about Weishaupt and would have ended up with the others Senate Square and I wouldn’t sit with you now, my dears!”
The Mystery of the Yale Tomb
Give me bullets, gunpowder and blunderbuss,
So that my corpse is not carried away by a grave thief,
Give five guineas to one of the boys
Who will drive a charge into the grave thief.
Three weeks should my pathetic ashes
Protect without sparing effort,
So that I let go of the spirit and get pretty rotten
And tasted peace in the grave!
Robert Southey
Surgeon's Warning
Translation by Arkady Sternberg
Current members of the Skull and Bones Society do not deny the version of his German origin. The headquarters has a German Room, where the walls are decorated with scenes from student life in Germany and sayings on German. One of the society's anthems is composed to the melody of Deutschland uber Alles - as the members of the "Skull" specify, this music was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797; It is hardly worth clarifying that Haydn was a Freemason (under the patronage of his friend Mozart, he was initiated into the brothers of the Viennese lodge Zur wahren Eintracht in 1785).
At first the organization was called the “Brotherhood of Death”. The number-symbol of the brotherhood became 322, which, according to some members, contains the year of foundation (1832) and an indication that this is the second cell of the same society after the German one. According to others, this is the date of death of Demosthenes - 322 BC. It is said that society member Averell Harriman, American Ambassador in Moscow during the Second World War, he carried secret papers in a briefcase, the lock of which was encoded with precisely these numbers. One of the fifteen members of the first draft was Alfonso Taft - the founder of a dynasty of outstanding politicians, Secretary of War, Secretary of Justice, Minister to Austria-Hungary and Russia and the father of William Howard Taft - the 27th President and (the only case in the history of the country) Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court . At first there was a lot of boyishness in the idea: members of a secret society revered famous pirates and made plans to achieve world domination. After 170 years, the society has grown, taken root and branches, and achieved a completely exceptional and unprecedented influence. The “skull and crossbones” has ruled America for many years.
In the first decades of its existence, "Skull" was assembled at different apartments. In 1856 the society was officially registered as a trust under the name Russell Trust Association. Since then, Skull has had no financial problems. Unlike other similar societies, its members do not pay membership fees, but make voluntary donations. Upon graduation, each member of the society receives a gift of 15 thousand dollars, and as a wedding gift - a grandfather clock in a mahogany case.
Having received a legal entity and the right to financial transactions, in the same year the company bought a house where its headquarters are located today. This building, in the style that is called Greco-Egyptian in America, is located in the heart of the old Yale University campus, on High Street in New Haven. Iron doors under the columned portico are permanently locked with a padlock. At the entrance there is a sign: PRIVATE CLUB. BE PREPARE TO SHOW YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD. The house, with three floors and almost no windows on the facade, looks like a tomb, and this is precisely its unofficial name. Journalist Ron Rosenbaum, who studied at Yale in the 1960s and lived in a dormitory located in a neighboring building, says that if on an April night, when the initiation ceremony of new members of the order takes place in the “tomb,” into the inner courtyard, surrounded by a solid fence, you can hear strange heartbreaking screams and moans - such, they say, is the severe test the society subjects those newly initiated into its secrets.
The interior decoration of the house is known from the words not of members of society, but of persons who, for one reason or another, were honored to visit it. Distinctive feature the clock in the house is that it is five minutes fast. It is at this time that members of the order schedule their meetings; The time in which the rest of humanity lives is called “barbarian.” The premises of the “tomb” are richly decorated and filled with rarities. Hunting trophies and weapons are hung on the walls, mannequins of knights in full battle dress stand in the corners, and medieval manuscripts and miniatures are displayed in glass cases. The founder of the order, General Russell, began the collection of military relics - these items belonged to members of the society who fought on the fronts of the Civil, First and Second World Wars. But, of course, the most main element The interior consists of skulls and skeletons of animals and people in all forms - images, dummies and originals. Some human bones are not just real, but belong to famous dead people. For example, in one of the glass cabinets there is a skeleton, which members of the society respectfully call “Madame” and claim that these are the remains of the Marquise de Pompadour, the favorite of Louis XV. The Marquise died at the age of 43 in 1764 from consumption and was buried next to her daughter in the crypt of the Capuchin temple on Place Vendôme. Nothing has been heard about the disappearance of her skeleton. However, there are quite a few cases where the graves of celebrities turned out to be empty - it’s just that usually no one opens them.
"Stolen by George Bush, 1948"
Another trophy of the same kind is the skull of Geronimo, the famous leader of the Apache Indians, or rather, the Chiricahua tribe of the Apache people. Geronimo is a legendary person. He fought desperately, resisting the placement of his fellow tribesmen on the reservation, was captured, fled, and finally, in 1886, he was forced to surrender due to the multiple superiority of the enemy forces. Geronimo was converted to Christianity, died in 1909 and is buried at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. In the mid-1980s, Ned Anderson, chairman of the community council of the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, where the Apaches now live, tried unsuccessfully to find Geronimo's grave. Eventually he received an anonymous letter, the author of which wrote: “What you are looking for is not in Oklahoma, but in New Haven, Connecticut, on the campus of Yale University. If you are interested in purchasing an item, I can send you photographs of it.” Anderson answered in the affirmative and after some time received a photograph of a glass box in the style of museum ones, inside of which were visible beautifully laid out stirrups, a horse harness mouthpiece, human bones and a skull. The package also contained a document detailing how Geronimo's remains came to Yale. This was in 1918. Geronimo, members of the order reasoned, had taken 49 scalps from white Americans - it would be fair if his head now adorns the “tomb.” Then everything happened exactly as in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” or in Robert Southey’s poem:
And they used a pick to unscrew the slab,
They hastily deepened the dig
And with a shovel they raked up clods of dry earth,
Revealing the patented coffin.
According to the paper, the pickaxe was wielded by none other than Prescott Bush, the future senator and grandfather current president USA. It was he who led the expedition of grave thieves to Fort Sill.
Following the instructions of the anonymous author, Anderson found the grave and made sure that there was no skull or remains of a horse harness in it. Then Anderson and his lawyer, not wanting to make too much noise, arranged a meeting with Jonathan Bush, the brother of George H. W. Bush, who was then vice president in the Reagan administration. He looked at the photographs and listened carefully to the story, after which he promised all possible assistance. A second meeting took place 11 days later in the office of a New York lawyer representing the interests of the order. Anderson was shown not the photograph, but the glass box itself with the skull and fragments of the harness and explained that the examination had established that the skull belonged to a ten-year-old child. But Anderson claims that it was the skull that looked different in reality than in the photograph.
Finally, the society allegedly owns a tombstone stolen from the grave of a benefactor, Elihu Yale, in Wales.
But isn’t theft really contrary to the rules of society? In the mid-70s, I accidentally found out interesting detail. New Haven police report student caught trying to steal from cafeteria scenic portrait one of the former presidents of the university, Charles Seymour. For identification, the police woke the professor from his bed in the middle of the night. “Why, pray tell, do you need a portrait?” - asked the professor. And the student admitted that he really wants to join Skull and Bones, and the theft of the portrait is part of his initiation ritual. The society needed the portrait because the venerable Charles Seymour was also a member of it in 1908. “The tomb,” the student told the astonished professor, is chock-full of objects with signs on them that say: crooked by - “stolen by so-and-so.” Even about the director of the CIA, the kidnapper added in a whisper, there is a sign: “Stolen by George Bush, 1948.”
They enter society in the penultimate year, at the end school year, in April, and not on its own initiative, but at the invitation of full members. Only fifteen people are accepted each year. They look at the candidate for a long time and make inquiries. People from families whose ancestors were members of the society enjoy an absolute advantage. Finally, on a certain day, at midnight, all fifteen senior members appear in the candidate’s bedroom and, showing him the skull and crossbones, ask: “Do you agree?” However, this was the case before, but now the procedure has been simplified. There is the most scandalous information about the initiation ritual. Some sources claim that the recruit lies down in a coffin and, masturbating in front of the cult members, reveals to them his most shameful sexual secrets. Alexandra Robbins, author of the one-of-a-kind investigative book "Secrets of the Tomb", based on her own experience as a member of one of Yale's secret societies, considers these rumors to be grossly distorted - in her opinion, they are too vulgar to be true.
Whether to the cross, to the town...
George W. Bush joined Skull and Bones in 1967. He represents the third generation of members of the order, and on both lines: his already mentioned grandfather Prescott Sheldon Bush was married to Dorothy Walker, the daughter of his business partner George Herbert Walker Jr., also a member of the Skull. Many men from both branches of this spreading tree studied at Yale and were members of the order. Last year, the eldest of the Bush twin daughters, Barbara, entered Yale University. She also has the opportunity to become a member of the order: recently ladies have been accepted there. For more than a century and a half, the order was exclusively male. Only in 1991, by general vote, it was decided to admit women into society. The decision was made as a result of an unusually heated and persistent discussion. Supporters of gender equality won only in the second round with a majority of 48 votes; In total, 688 members participated in the referendum, of which 425 came to the “tomb” in person for this occasion.
A brief history of the Skull would be incomplete without an overview of its major achievements. Supporters of the conspiracy theory believe that the behind-the-scenes power of the order came from the presidency of William McKinley (1897-1901), who, supposedly, the “tomb” forced him to start a war with Spain over Cuba and the Philippines in 1898 and thereby completely changed both the world order and the place USA in it. The civilian governor of the reconquered Philippines was William Howard Taft, who in 1904 was appointed Secretary of War in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt; in this capacity in 1906 he pacified the uprising in Cuba. And two years later he became the first president “delegated” to the highest government post by a secret Yale order. Taft appointed fellow Skull member Henry Lewis Stimson, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy, as his Secretary of War. He served in the administrations of seven presidents; under Coolidge he was governor general of the Philippines, under Hoover - Secretary of State finally, under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman - again as Secretary of War. During World War II, along with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Chief of the Joint Staff General George Marshall, Stimson was one of the key strategic decision makers. He is famous not only for the doctrine of his name, but also for educating young American politicians, the so-called “Stimson kindergarten”. Not all of his pets were members of the Skull, but many were.
He devoted the last years of his life (Stimson died in 1950) to transferring key federal departments to a peaceful path. National Security Act of 1947 War Ministry was reorganized into the Department of Defense, and the Office of Strategic Services became the Central Intelligence Agency. Stimson's student Robert Lovett, a hereditary member of the Skull, became Minister of Defense in 1951. As for intelligence, many members of the order were already working there. One of them was the famous “mole hunter”, the head of the CIA’s own counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton. Under John Kennedy, the Skull strengthened its position. The post of National Security Adviser to the President was taken by McGeorge Bundy, a hereditary member of the order, like Lovett. Averell Harriman was Under Secretary of State for Asian Affairs. Both continued to work in the Lyndon Johnson administration.
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It turns out that members of the order took part in the decision for decades critical issues foreign policy and defense: they controlled the creation of the atomic bomb and chose the place in Japan where to drop it, stood at the origins of " cold war", dragged America into the Vietnam War. It was Vietnam that became the point at which the order began to suffer defeats. In 1968, Johnson was replaced in the White House by Richard Nixon. A skilled internationalist himself, he placed Henry Kissinger at the helm of American foreign policy. The influence of the order seemed to fade away. But it was not there. In 1972, Nixon was re-elected to a second term, but in August 1974 he was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal - an attempt to break into the headquarters of the Democratic Party for the purpose of wiretapping. One of the two journalists who exposed Nixon was Bob Woodward, a Yale graduate. He used the services of an administration source codenamed "Deep Throat", whose identity remains unknown to this day; According to one version, this informant was one of Woodward’s classmates who worked in the CIA or the State Department. Yale graduate Gerald Ford became the President of the United States - the only head of government in the history of the country for whom no one had ever voted: he was not elected, but appointed vice president after the early resignation from this post of Spiro Agnew, who fell as the first victim of Watergate. Ford replaced the team: leaving Kissinger as Secretary of State, he took away his second post, National Security Advisor - General Brent Scowcroft became it. Donald Rumsfeld was appointed Secretary of Defense, and member of the Order George W. Bush was appointed Director of the CIA instead of career intelligence officer William Colby.
They say that Bush Sr. first thought about the presidency when he was head of the American diplomatic mission in Beijing (1974-1975). Having heard that the ambassador wants to run for president, his interlocutor clarified: “Which company?” “The United States,” said Bush. This interlocutor was the head of the CIA station, the scion of a glorious New England family and an old comrade from Skull and Bones, Winston Lord. The Bush Jr. project became a new success for the order.
A little skepticism instead of a conclusion
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