The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

2022-09-12 18:16:17Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 

The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world
The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

 

Secret societies and masonic lodges legal or not are not a creation of modern times. They have always existed, some with good intentions and in compliance with the law. But they often had dark goals and inspired wars and horrors.

Here are seven stories you should know.

The Secret Six

The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

One of the lesser known secret societies is that of the Secret Six.

We all know that Al Capone was caught thanks to a ruse: A charge of tax evasion. But who found the way for the boss of the bosses of the Chicago mafia to fall into the hands of justice? According to some sources, behind his arrest was the hand of the "Gang of Six": a group of entrepreneurs and judges from Chicago who in the 30s formed a small secret club with the goal of fighting crime that had gotten out of control. To achieve their goal, they gave Alexander Jamie (Chicago's chief of special agents) all the right information and supplied him with funds in support of the espionage activity that led to the arrest of Al Capone. They are also mentioned in the book "The Untouchables": "These six people - writes Eliot Ness - were playing with their lives, unarmed,

New Bosnia

The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

After the invasion of Austria-Hungary in 1878, tensions in the Balkans began to rise, especially after a group of Serbian army officials, known as the Black Hand, began to finance pro-Serb and pro-Slavic movements throughout Southern Europe. One of these groups was New Bosnia, an anarchist-nationalist organization that wanted to reunite in a single state New Bosnia all Serbs who were under foreign domination. Inspired by Vladimir Gacinovic, a Serbo-Bosnian radical, they were a heterogeneous group of Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats and Muslim revolutionaries. Their greatest act was the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia, Duchess of Hohenberg by the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip, an act that was regarded as the spark that ignited the First World War.

"Skull and Bones"

The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

The Order of Skull and Bones is a society of Yale University and was originally known as the Brotherhood of Death. It is one of the oldest student secret societies in the US. It was founded in 1832 and membership is open only to an elite few. The society uses rituals with Masonic nuances even today. Members meet every Thursday and Sunday in a building they call "The Tomb". According to Judy Schiff, chief archivist at the Yale University Library, members' names were not kept secret until the 1970s, but the rituals have always been secret. The two Bush presidents were members of this society when they studied at Yale, as well as a number of other names of famous and powerful people. This fact has led to the birth of many conspiracy theories, where the most famous, but also the most probable idea, that the CIA was founded precisely by some members of this group. The CIA denied this fact with a statement in 2007.

Thugs

The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

Made famous by Indiana Jones, thugs took their name from a Sanskrit word meaning "hiding", which soon became a criminal synonym. Particularly adept at theft, they went down in history as religious fanatics who committed ritual murders and massacres in the name of Kali, the Indian goddess of destruction. Not wanting to shed blood, the thugs used a yellow bandage known as Rumal to suffocate their victims. Bounties for murders allowed members of the society to fund their cult, and could also form important friendships and alliances that guaranteed them protection and immunity. They were defeated by Lord William Bentinck, the (British) governor-general of India.

Guido von List society

The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, a strange collaboration between racial nationalism, occultism and anti-Semitism was already registered in Austria. One of the ideologues of this triad was Guido von List, journalist, poet, occultist born in Vienna and passionate about the study of the runic alphabet, which was used by the pre-Christian Germanic peoples. What we would call today a charlatanism had some success in that era. Founded in 1905, the Guido von List Society had as its secret followers the industrialist Friedrich Wannieck, Karl Lueger, a well-known anti-Semite, the leader of the Christian Social party and the mayor of Vienna. Among the group's symbols was the broken cross and gestures such as the "Heil" greeting, which were later borrowed by the Nazis.

Galleani group

The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

The group associated with the Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani, who immigrated to the USA in the early 1900s. He gathered a group of Italian anarchists behind him and began to commit acts of terrorism in the United States of America. The society had its headquarters in Boston, but the Galeanists were responsible for a series of assassinations throughout the territory of the USA in the 1920s, especially during the so-called "red summer" in 1919. One of the members of this society allegedly put a car-bomb on Wall Street in 1920. It is the worst attack (40 dead and 200 injured) on American soil before September 11, 2001. The perpetrators were never found.

Cathars

The seven secret societies that changed the history of the world

Even today conspiracy fans cite their end as one of the darkest sides of Christianity. But who were the Cathars really? During the 13th century, the crusade against the Albigenses (citizens of a French town), led by Pope Innocent III, purged this heretical Christian society living in the mountains of southern France. Why? Simple: The Cathars worshiped the notion of dualism, or rather the idea that there was a good God and a bad God, they opposed the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church, which they judged to be corrupt, since according to them the Church had fallen under the sin of power and money, they refused to worship God in temples and cathedrals. And not only that: the Qataris considered men and women equal and in their society, women had important positions. Reason enough for the Church to start a crucifixion and exterminate them. In 1229, the survivors were all converted by the Inquisition, only to become legend many centuries later for Da Vinci Code enthusiasts. Considered for a long time as heretics, today they are viewed in a different light, also because the Cathars along with their treasures took with them many secrets that can never be found. Behind the mask of heresy that the Catholic Church put on them, an advanced civilization appears, that of the philosophical and spiritual tradition, which summarizes the mysticism of the West and Greco-Roman knowledge. Considered for a long time as heretics, today they are viewed in a different light, also because the Cathars along with their treasures took with them many secrets that can never be found. Behind the mask of heresy that the Catholic Church put on them, an advanced civilization appears, that of the philosophical and spiritual tradition, which summarizes the mysticism of the West and Greco-Roman knowledge. Considered for a long time as heretics, today they are viewed in a different light, also because the Cathars along with their treasures took with them many secrets that can never be found. Behind the mask of heresy that the Catholic Church put on them, an advanced civilization appears, that of the philosophical and spiritual tradition, which summarizes the mysticism of the West and Greco-Roman knowledge.



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