The Armageddon Conspiracy (33 page)

‘
But the Catholic
Church believes they’re the most ancient and sinister secret
society on earth and came into existence long before the advent of
Christianity.
They’re at the root of all the attempts to subvert
Catholicism, which, for them, was the institution created by their
Satanic enemy to crush them.
The Illuminati created the Cathars,
the Knights Templars, the Alchemists and the Freemasons.
The
Protestant leaders Luther and Calvin were Illuminati, and the whole
Reformation was engineered by the Illuminati.
The Illuminati
eventually decided that they wanted to create an entire country,
far from the reach of the Vatican, that would become the most
powerful nation on earth, capable of challenging the Catholic
Church once and for all.’

‘
America,’ Vernon
muttered.

‘
Exactly.
America is
the Masonic heart of the world, every part of it created by
Freemasons, all of its laws designed by Freemasons, nearly all of
its leaders Freemasons.
The Declaration of Independence is a
Masonic document par excellence.
Without the knowledge or consent
of the vast majority of its people, the American Freemasons have
been pursuing a relentless Masonic agenda since the country’s
inception.
America’s top politicians, lawyers, businessmen,
soldiers, spy chiefs, policemen, medics are all Masons.
It’s almost
impossible to rise to any position of real power in America if
you’re not a Mason.
And behind the Masons stand that even more
shadowy organisation, the ultimate puppet masters – the
Illuminati.

‘
If you look at the
pyramid on the Great Seal of America you’ll see that it contains
two Latin inscriptions.
Annuit
Coeptis
means: God has favoured our
undertakings, and
Novus Ordo
Seclorum
means: A new order of the
ages.’

‘
The new world order,’
Vernon muttered.

Kruger nodded.
‘They
want to sweep away the old world where the Catholic Church holds
sway and replace the Catholic God with their Masonic God.’
He again
pointed at the pyramid painted by Raphael.
‘You see that the
capstone hasn’t yet come down on the pyramid.
That symbolises that
their plan isn’t complete, and will be finished only when the
Catholic Church is destroyed.
The eye in the centre of the capstone
is that of the Illuminati’s God.
Some call it the
All Seeing Eye
, others
refer to it as the
Eye of
Horus
.
To those who oppose the occult, it
is simply the
Evil Eye
.’

James shuddered as he gazed at it.
MI5’s old crest was a pyramid capstone, and the symbol at the top
was unquestionably an All Seeing Eye, there for the improbable
reason of representing the ‘I’ in MI5.
Was there a more sinister
reason?
Even the modern MI5 crest was dubious – containing
five-leafed red roses and five-pointed green cinquefoils that, if
you looked closely, appeared suspiciously like black-magic
pentagrams.

‘
On the back of the
dollar, on the other side from the pyramid,’ Kruger went on, ‘is
the national bird of America, the bald-headed eagle.
But, in fact,
it’s a disguised version of another of the Illuminati’s most sacred
symbols – the Phoenix.
The Illuminati believe that they are like
the Phoenix because no matter how many times the Catholic Church
tries to eliminate them, they always rise from the
ashes.

‘
If you scrutinise the
so-called eagle, you’ll see that the right wing has thirty-two
feathers – the number of ordinary degrees in Scottish Rite
Freemasonry, the origin of modern Freemasonry.
As for the left
wing, it has thirty-three feathers to represent the Thirty-Third
Degree of the Scottish Rite that’s conferred on individuals for
outstanding services to Freemasonry.
The stars above the eagle’s
head form a hexagram.
That is one of the most potent symbols of the
occult.
The Illuminati were the power behind witches and warlocks,
just as they were behind alchemy, black magic and all the occult
arts.
Their mission, at all times, was to find ways to attack
Catholicism, to undermine it, and pave the way for the Illuminati
to replace it.’

Kruger grabbed a book from a shelf and
thrust it into Vernon’s hand.
Pointing at a highlighted passage, he
said, ‘Read that.’

Vernon turned the book
towards the light and read out the passage: ‘Not only were many of
the founders of the United States government Masons, but they
received aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe which
helped them to establish this country for a peculiar and particular
purpose known only to the initiated few.
(Manly P.
Hall,
The Secret Teachings of All
Ages
, pp.
XC and XCI.)’

‘
Manly Hall was one of
the twentieth century’s greatest experts on Freemasonry,’ Kruger
said.
‘The European “secret and august body” was the Illuminati.
Only the highest-ranking Freemasons knew this.
The “peculiar and
particular purpose” was the final overthrow of
Catholicism.’

‘
For over two
centuries, the Vatican anticipated an attack from the Illuminati of
America, but the Illuminati stunned them by taking advantage of the
economic chaos in a powerful European state to seize that nation
and use it to begin their assault on the world.
Then something
astounding happened.
Instead of attacking Catholicism, they
launched the most savage attack on their other ancient enemy – the
Jews.’

‘
You’re talking about
Nazi Germany, aren’t you?’

Kruger nodded.
‘Hitler and all his top
henchmen were leading adepts of the Illuminati.
Some have said
Hitler was the supreme Grand Master, having complete authority over
the American branch of the Illuminati.’

‘
If that were the case,
why did Hitler declare war on America?’

‘
The American
Illuminati were crippled by the Wall Street Crash, temporarily
losing a vast amount of their wealth and influence.
It took them
decades to recover.
Hitler believed that the Jews stepped in and
seized most of the levers of power in America.’

‘
Well, if America is
again under the influence of the Illuminati and they despise Jews,
why is the USA such a slavish supporter of Israel?’

Kruger laughed.
‘Adolf Hitler detested
the Soviet Union and firmly believed Bolshevism was a Jewish
conspiracy to destabilise the West.
After all, Marx, Lenin,
Trotsky, Kamenev, and Zinoviev were all Jews.
Yet Hitler signed a
non-aggression pact with Stalin before WWII began.

‘
The Israeli-American
link-up is another unholy alliance.
Anti-Semitism was rife in
America before WWII and, under the surface, it’s still there.
There
was simply no good reason for the USA to support the new state of
Israel in 1948.
Many leading American politicians, including the
Secretary of State George Marshall and most of the State
Department, were appalled, for reasons of simple logic, that
America ever recognised Israel.
Marshall, one of America’s most
distinguished politicians and soldiers, and the man credited with
reshaping post-war Europe, resigned the following year.

‘
What has America ever
got from that relationship other than endless trouble, and the
hostility of every Muslim country on earth?
In foreign policy
terms, it’s the most incomprehensible decision ever reached.
No
rational person would deliberately antagonise 1.5 billion Muslims
to support a few million implanted settlers in a small country far
away.
Hitler would certainly have claimed that it was precisely
because of the power of Jews in America that this decision was
taken.
Afterwards, as the Illuminati regained their strength, it
suited them to maintain the status quo and it served to throw the
rest of the world off the scent of the Illuminati’s grand
conspiracy.
Besides, the Illuminati are no friends of Islam.
The
Pope wasn’t fooled for a second, though.
The Vatican saw through it
all from the beginning.’

Vernon was no conspiracy theorist.
Trouble was, Kruger was worryingly convincing.
It was impossible to
think of a single way in which America had benefited from its
relationship with Israel, and easy to list a whole hornets’ nest of
problems.
So, if there was no rational foreign policy justification
for it, there had to be a hidden agenda.

‘
Let’s get back to
Hitler,’ Kruger said.
‘Only he and twelve of his companions knew
the complete history of the Illuminati.
It was rumoured that there
was a
Secret Doctrine
that involved a clandestine mission whose nature was so
diabolical that it was revealed only to a handful at the highest
level of the Illuminati.
The late Pope said the Nazis tried to
carry out the mission in the early years of WWII, but failed for
some unknown reason.
The Illuminati then spent the subsequent
decades trying to work out what went wrong.
Now, the Pope believed,
the Illuminati had solved their problems and were about to try
again.
This time, he feared their plan was flawless.’

‘
And he turned to his
Swiss Guard to stop them?’

‘
That’s
right.’

‘
He placed immense
trust in you, didn’t he?’

‘
We swore we’d give our
lives to ensure the success of this mission.’

‘
I want to know exactly
what your mission is.’

‘
The Pope told us he
knew the precise day when the Illuminati would make their final
strike.
He said it was written in the centre of Raphael’s
painting.’

Vernon saw several small Roman
numerals: XXX – IV – MMXII.
He did a rapid conversion: 30 – 4 –
2012.
‘God Almighty.
30 April 2012.’

Kruger nodded.
‘Two days away.’

Vernon stood there, frozen, trying to
take it in.

‘
The Pope was convinced
he knew what the Secret Doctrine was,’ Kruger said.
‘He believed
the Illuminati were the founders of Gnosticism and that the
Gnostics’ central belief – that the material world is evil – was
the key to the Secret Doctrine.
He thought it went far beyond a
mission to destroy the Catholic Church.
He reached the conclusion
that it was nothing less than a plan to destroy the world itself.
He believed the Illuminati had found a weapon of mass destruction
so powerful it could blow up the planet.’

Vernon thought back
to
The Cainite Destiny
.
Everything Kruger said fitted.
This was becoming
terrifying.

‘
You must understand
that my soldiers and I are men of faith,’ Kruger said.
‘Like the
Pope, we don’t believe any normal man-made weapon can destroy the
planet, but we know from the Bible that there’s a weapon described
there that has awesome destructive power, perhaps
unlimited.’

‘
The Ark of the
Covenant.’

‘
Exactly.
We believe
the Illuminati have spent millennia looking for the lost Ark and
now they have found it.
We think they know how to activate it and
make it unleash maximum destruction.’

‘
But it was blown up a
few hours ago, outside the White House.
Someone used it to
assassinate the President.’

‘
What are you talking
about?’

‘
I saw it live on
TV.’

Kruger shook his head.
‘I don’t know
anything about that, but whatever you saw, it wasn’t the real Ark.
Solomon created a replica Ark and hid the true Ark beneath the
Temple to safeguard it.
The fake Ark was stolen from the Temple by
Solomon’s son, thinking it was real, and taken to Sheba –
modern-day Ethiopia.’