Secret Societies

Bohemian Grove

The Bohemian Grove's annual gathering has hosted every Republican U.S. president from 1923 to 2005, along with numerous Democratic politicians and corporate …

Christianity and the Crusades

The Bible passages cited to justify crusading violence emphasize feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, yet the Crusades involved armed conquest and kill…

Crusades in the Bible

The Bible contains no mention of crusades, holy war, or military pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and the New Testament passages most relevant to The Crusades' t…

Freemason Symbols and the Bible

Masonic symbolism and the cited biblical passages share an emphasis on works of mercy, but Freemasonry requires these works as universalist moral duty while …

Freemasonry and Christianity

George Washington and Freemasonry

George Washington entered Freemasonry in Fredericksburg, Virginia, at age 20, years before he took command of the Continental Army, making him the first and …

Papal History

The pope ran a large Italian kingdom for over a thousand years until 1870, governing territory larger than several modern European nations combined. From the…

Secret Societies Today

The biblical mandate to care for the poor and stranger functions as a kind of open "secret",Christ identifies himself so completely with the marginalized tha…

Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones was founded after a dispute among Yale's debating societies over whether to induct members of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter, prompting William H…

The Bilderberg Group

The Bilderberg Group cancelled its 1976 meeting because its founding chairman, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, was caught in the Lockheed bribery scandal…

The Freemasons

Freemasonry's three rival global traditions all call themselves regular and label the others irregular, meaning there is no single authority that decides wha…

The Illuminati

The real Bavarian Illuminati lasted only about a decade before being crushed, and its actual goals were to promote Enlightenment rationalism, not to secretly…

The Knights Hospitaller

The Knights Hospitaller briefly colonized four Caribbean islands in the mid-17th century, making them one of the smallest groups ever to establish a colonial…

The Knights of Malta

The Knights Templar

Nine out of ten Templars never fought at all , they were bankers, farmers, and administrators running what was effectively medieval Europe's first internatio…

The Knights Templar and the Catholic Church

The Maltese Cross

The Maltese Cross as a distinct heraldic form did not exist during The Crusades; it developed in the 16th century, centuries after The Knights Hospitaller's …

The Vatican and Power

Vatican Secrets

The Vatican's so-called "Secret Archive" was never secret in the sense of hidden knowledge. The word "secret" came from the Latin "secretum," meaning private…

What is Freemasonry

Freemasonry's core principle of charity directly mirrors biblical commands in Matthew 25 and James 2, yet the fraternity forbids discussion of religion in it…

Who Did the Knights Templar Worship

The Knights Templar did not worship a secret or separate deity,they were a Catholic military order whose members took monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and…

Who Were the Knights Templar

The Knights Templar were primarily a financial institution, not a fighting force,up to 90% of members were non-combatants who managed an early banking networ…