Secret Societies: Inside the World's Most Notorious Organizations (47 page)

influence, 41–42

intimidation by, 39–40

and Islam, 157

and Knights Templar, 44, 54

legacy, 22

methods and motives, 22

name, 22

origins, 23–26

Assemblies of Wisdom, 27

Atabeg of Hims, 38–39

B

Bacon, Francis, 141–45,
143

Baignent, Michael, 258

Baldwin ii, 51

Bank of Credit & Commerce International (
BCCI
), 276

bar Yochai, Shimeon, 123, 127

Beckham, David, 135,
135

Beckham, Victoria, 135

Benedict xiv, Pope, 73

Berg, Karen, 133, 134

Berg, Philip,
132,
132–37

Bernard of Clairvaux, 51

Bernhard, Prince, 282, 285

Bethania Mansion (Villa Bethania), 85, 88,
88,
93–96, 98, 261

Bibliothèque Nationale, 79, 91, 93

Bilderberg Group, 16, 280–86, 292

Billard of Carcassone, 87, 99–100

bin Laden, Osama, 42

Bishop of Tyre, 39

Blair, Tony, 284

Blake, William, 117

Blum, Leon, 89

Boehme, Jakob, 117

Bonanno, Joseph (Joe Bananas), 187

Boxer Rebellion, 163–64

Boxer Society (Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists), 163, 164,
164

Boyle, Robert, 79, 141

Brando, Marlon, 191

Brandwein, Yehuda, 133

Brown, Dan, 259, 266

Bruce, Robert, 65

Bruno, Giordano, 146–47,
147

Buchalter, Beatrice, 195

Buchalter, Louis (Lepke), 173, 194–96,
195

Bundy, McGeorge, 247

Bundy, William P., 247

Bush, Barbara, 249

Bush, George H.W., 232–33, 248, 249, 250

Bush, George W., 251, 284

Bush, George William, 249–50

Bush, Jonathan, 233

Bush, Prescott S., 232, 238, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244–46

C

Caesar, 106

Camorra

income, 184–85

and Mafia, 184–85

membership, 184

origin, 183

size, 184

structure, 184

in the United States, 185

Carpocrates, 113

Casso, Anthony (Gas Pipe), 191

Castellano, Paul (Big Paulie), 188, 189,
189,
191,
191

Catholic Church

and Freemasons, 72–74

and French royalists, 88

Inquisition, 147, 176, 225

and Knights Templar, 54, 56, 58

Opus Dei and, 266–67

policy on Masses, 98–99

relations with Saunière, 83, 87, 88

and Rosicrucianism, 141

support for Royalists, 88

threats to, 78

Vatican ii, 98

and witchcraft, 211–12

Central Intelligence Agency, 246, 247, 249, 250

Charles of Anjou, 175–76

The Chemical Wedding,
141, 145, 147, 148

Chiang Kai-Shek, 165

Childeric i, 79

Chinese immigrants, 158

Chinese triads.
See
Triads

Ch'ing dynasty, 161,
161,
162, 164

Chiodo, Peter (Fat Pete), 191

Christianity.
See also
Catholic Church, Christians, the Crusades

and the Apocalypse, 123

and chivalry, 46

definition of sins, 210

and Druidism, 106, 107–8

and Freemasons, 64

and Gnosticism, 117

growth of, 117

in Ireland, 107

pilgrimages, 46

threats to, 78, 86–87

view of women, 210, 212–13

and witchcraft, 210–11

Christian Reformation, 157

Christians, 12–15.
See also
Christianity

crusades, 48

pilgrimages, 47–48, 50

Churchill, Winston,
43,
61

Cirillo, Dominick (Quiet Dom), 190

Clement iv, Pope, 175

Clement v, Pope, 56, 59

Clement xii, Pope, 73

Clymer, Reuben Swinburne, 153–54

Cocteau, Jacques, 79

Cole, Nat “King,” 74

Collins, Douglas, 74

Colombo, Joe, 187–88

Conrad of Montferrat, 19, 20, 36

Cooper, Milton William, 291–93,
292

Coppola, Francis Ford, 256

Corbu, Noel, 88, 93–96, 100, 261

Corrado di Montefeltro, 39

Cosa Nostra, 167–68.
See also
Mafia

attitude to women, 192

competition facing, 194

families, 187–91

induction, 192

portrayed in movies, 256, 257

secrecy, 192

and secrecy, 185–96

structure, 187

triads compared to, 167–68

in the United States, 185–97

wives, 192–93

Costello, Frank, 189–91,
190

Countess of Chambord, 83

Crosby, Bing, 191

Crowley, Aleister,
131,
131–32, 225–26

the Crusades, 20, 24, 38, 42, 45, 50, 65, 90

D

Dagobert ii, 79, 80, 81, 84, 86, 91, 92, 95, 97, 100

Dai-el-Kebir, 20–22, 40

D'Amato, John (Johnny Boy), 193–94,
194

D'Arco, Alfonse (Little Al), 191

The Da Vinci Code,
259, 266–67, 268

de Beauséjour, Abbé, 87

Debussy, Claude, 77, 79

de Castille, Blanche, 94

de Chérisy, Philippe, 92–93, 100, 261

Dee, John, 141

de Flexian, Squin, 57

Deighton, Len, 256, 267

Delano, Warren Jr., 235

de Leon, Moses, 126–27

Deluca, Robert (Bobby Dee), 192

de Martignes, Gerard, 48, 49, 50

de Molay, Jacques, 56, 57, 58, 59,
59,
60, 63, 64–65

Denarnaud, Marie, 82,
83,
85, 86, 88, 93, 100, 261

de Payens, Hugh, 50–51

de Sède, Gerard, 92, 100

de Wit, Daniel, 250

Diefenbaker, John, 61

Di Mambro, Joseph, 272–76

Drain, Richard, 247

Druidism

in British Isles, 107

and Christianity, 106, 107–8

and Freemasonry, 108–9

importance of mistletoe, 102–3

importance of oak trees, 102–3

influence in Europe, 106

in Ireland, 107

and Irish culture, 109–10

levels of, 104–5

and magic, 105

membership, 106–7

men in, 105

and mysticism, 108

origins, 101, 103

practices, 101–2

significance of robe colors, 104–5

and Stonehenge, 102, 108,
108,
109

training, 105

and witchcraft, 209, 211

women in, 105

Druids, 16

modern,
108

du Guesclin, Bertrand, 60

Dulles, John Foster, 241–42

Durante, Jimmy, 191

Dutoit, Tony, 274

E

Eco, Umberto, 257–58

Edward ii, King of England, 59

Edwards, John, 284

Edwards, William, 249

Eid, Albert, 75–76

Elders of Zion, 67

Elizabeth i, 147

Ellington, Duke,
43,
74

Eugenius iii, Pope, 54

Evola, Julius, 97–98

F

Falk, Hayyim Samuel Jacob,
129,
129–30

Ferguson, Sarah, 136

First Opium War, 235

Fleming, Ian, 255, 256

flying saucers, 289–91, 293

Ford, Gerald, 44

Ford, Henry, 265,
265

Franklin, Benjamin, 43, 66

Fratianno, Jimmy, 191

Freemasons, 16, 42, 43, 60

and Catholic Church, 72–74

and Christianity, 64

claims about, 66–72

critics, 72–74

degrees, 63, 65, 71–72

and Druidism, 108–9

in England, 64

in Europe, 64

in France, 64, 65, 88, 89

gender bias, 73, 74

global domination, 264

and Great Seal of the U.S., 61–62

and Holy Grail, 130

and Illuminati, 66–68, 75

influence, 61–62, 66, 69

initiation, 71–72, 75–76

and Kabbalah, 130–31

media coverage, 75

membership, 74

and murder of Washington, 69

origin, 63–64

racial segregation, 73–74

rituals, 71–72

and Rosicrusianism, 148, 152, 154

Scottish Rite, 65, 93

secrecy, 63–64

and Skull & Bones, 229

and Templars, 44, 60–61, 63, 64, 65, 75

in United States, 61, 65–66

French Revolution, 68, 277, 278

Frotmond of Brittany, 47

Fulk de Nerra, 47

G

Galileo, 142

Gambino, Carlo, 188, 191,
191

Gardner, Gerald Brosseau, 225–27,
226

Garibaldi, 178

Geisenheimer, Sigismund, 279

Gelis, Abbé, 87

Genovese, Vito, 190, 193

Gilman, Daniel, 238

Giselle de Razes, 79, 80, 81, 84, 91, 92, 95, 96, 97, 100, 261

Gnosticism

ascetics, 112

beliefs, 110–13, 116–17

Carpocratians, 113

and Christianity, 117

decline, 117

and Kabbalah, 117, 122

licentious, 112

Magus, Simon, 113–16

Manichaeism, 117

Ophites, 112–13

origins, 101, 111

renewal of interest in, 117, 118

Simonians, 114

texts,
117,
117–18

Gnostics, 16

The Godfather,
191

Godfrey de Bouillon, 90, 98

Goedsche, Hermann, 263, 265

Goodfellas,
191

Gotti, John, 188, 189, 194

Gotti, John Jr., 189

Grand Lodge of Freemasons.
See
Freemasons

Gravano, Salvatore (Sammy the Bull), 189

Graves, Philip, 265

Greeley, Horace, 149

Grisham, John, 255

Groninger, Johann, 242

Gruberger, Feivel.
See
Philip Berg

Guinter, J.L., 242

Guy of Auvergne, 58, 60

H

Haley, Alex, 74

Hall, Manly P., 144, 145

Hamilton, Alexander, 66

Hammett, Dashiell, 254

Han Ai, 160

Hancock, John, 66

Harriman, Roland, 240, 242

Harriman, W. Averell, 237, 239, 240

Hasan iii, 41

Hasan Sabbah, 29–38,
30,
42

and Assassins, 29–41

and Nizam-al-Mulk, 30

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 233–34

Henry, Count of Champagne, 19, 20–22, 36

Henry, Patrick, 66

Herskowitz, Mickey, 243–46, 245

Herzl, Theodor, 264,
264

Hilton, Paris, 135,
135

Himmler, Heinrich, 97

Hirsch, Zvi, 279

Hitler, Adolf, 88, 239, 240, 241, 264, 265,
266,
269

The Holy Blood and the Holy
Grail,
98, 258–62

Holy Grail, 60, 98, 130

Hoover, J. Edgar, 191

Hospitaliers, 49–50, 51, 54, 55–56, 59

Hugo, Victor, 77, 79

Hulagu Khan, 41

Hung Mun, 162,
162,
163

Hung Wu, 161

Husayn (grandson of Ali), 24

I

Illuminati, 16, 63

in computer games, 257

and conspiracy theories, 277–80

in fiction, 259

and Freemasons, 66–68, 75

global domination, 264

in movies, 256

secrecy, 279

and Skull & Bones, 229, 234

values of, 255

in video games, 256

Imam Rezi, 40

Inquisition, 147, 176, 225

Islam.
See also
Shiite Muslims; Sunni Muslims

effect of Assassins, 157

founding of, 23

influence on Sicilian society, 174

justice, 174

role of women, 174