The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan

by Robert Shea

Hassan i Sabbah is supposed to be the first one to introduce marijuana and hashish to the Western world, from India. That ties in with Weishaupt’s growing hemp and Washington’s having a big hemp crop at Mount Vernon.”

“They call it the Sacred Chao,”

“Sacred Cow?” Simon asked. “It’s pronounced that way, but you spell it c-h-a-o. A chao is a single unit of chaos, they figure.”

“Never underestimate absurdity, it is one door to the Imagination.

to wish he were stoned; these conspiratorial conversations always made more sense when he was slightly high. He wondered how people like the President of the U.S. or the Chairman of the Board of GM were able to plot such intricate games without being on a trip at the time. Or did they take enough tranquilizers to produce a similar effect?

“I said,” Padre Pederastia whispered, “that we’re never sure anybody is on our side. Uncertainty is the name of the game.”

After the excitement died down, the three went into the garden to find the stranger, but he was gone. Thus, neither these Founding Fathers, nor anybody else, ever knew who really designed the Great Seal of the United States!

And pasting the Eye on the door—I can’t help but think of the Hebrews marking their doorways with the blood of a lamb so that the Angel of Death would pass by their houses.

Forever twinned in my brain with Bobby Conn's song Passover

At the bottom of the page was a note in pencil, scrawled with a decisive masculine hand. It said: “In the beginning was the Word and it was written by a baboon.”

Was it … a mere coincidence that in July 1889 an International Socialist Congress decided that May 1, which was the day on which Weishaupt founded the Illuminati, should be chosen for an annual International Labour demonstration?

TARO = TORA = TROA = ATOR = ROTA !????? Abdul Alhazred = ??! “Oh, Christ,” Barney groaned. “Oh, Mary and Joseph. Oh, shit. We’ll end up either become mystics or going crazy before this case is over. If there’s any difference.” “The Order of DeMolay is a Masonic society for boys,” Saul commented helpfully. “I don’t know what the Atus of Tahuti are, but that sounds Egyptian. Taro, usually spelled t-a-r-o-t, is the deck of cards Gypsy fortune tellers use—and the word ‘Gypsy’ means Egyptian. Tora is the Law, in Hebrew. We keep coming back to something that has roots in both Jewish mysticism and Egyptian magic….”

I remember something else he said about the Templars. They were engaged in what he called ‘unnatural sex acts.’ In other words, they were faggots. Do you get the impression that all these groups related to the Illuminati are all male? Maybe the big secret they’re hiding so fanatically is that they’re all some vast worldwide homosexual plot.

“They’re smart enough to know they can’t operate indefinitely without a few people eventually realizing something’s there, so they’ve taken that into account and arranged for an inquisitive outsider to get all sorts of wrong ideas about who they are.” “They’re dogs,” Muldoon said. “Intelligent talking dogs from the dog star, Sirius. They came here and ate Malik.

Here lies American Liberalism, clubbed to death by Chicago’s heroic peace officers.

Auschwitz, U.S.A., Joe thought, sickened. If they had been issued Zyklon B along with the teargas and Mace, they would be using it just as happily.

thing that happened to him in Lincoln Park.

I get so Numb

After all, the words of his favorite fictional hero, “When you have eliminated all other possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.”

So elementary

and a group who were dubbed, rather affectionately, “the Crazies”—whose

George Romerro would be happy

number 23— pointing out that 2 plus 3 equals 5, the pentad within which the Devil can be invoked “as for example in a pentacle or at the Pentagon building in Washington,” while 2 divided by 3 equals 0.666, “the Number of The Beast,

“What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crises,” Simon had said, “and insanity is the only viable alternative.”

There was more of it, much more, and Joe patiently listened to all of it, determined to continue his experiment in applied schizophrenia

Reality is thermoplastic, not thermosetting, you know: I mean you can reprogram it much more than people realize.

It’s much closer to the truth to say there are no practical limits at all and reality is whatever people decide to make it.

and wondering about the origin of that mysterious bit of 1929 slang, “23 Skidoo….”

I went down a fun wiki rabbit hole with this

He was game—for astrology, for I Ching, for LSD, for demons, for whatever Simon had to offer as an alternative to the world of sane and rational men who were sanely and rationally plotting their course toward what could only be the annihilation of the planet.

Padre Pederastia was speaking. “This part of the ceremony,” he said, camping outrageously, “is very distasteful to me, as you all know. If only Our Father Below would allow us to substitute a boy on the altar

LOL

(Irreverently, he remembered that swingers call it the One-Man Band.)

The haggard look,

Or is that Hagbard look

Truth. If whites and blacks and Indians were turning colors all the time, there wouldn’t be any hate in the world, because nobody would know which people to hate.

Explain Ireland then

Notes found by a TWA stewardess

Would you like some TWA coffee or TWA T?

Christianity all in 3s (Trinity, etc.) Buddhism in 4s. Illuminism in 5s. A progression?

When the first anarchist group arose, they called themselves Justified Ancients of Mummu.

They had a good argument. ‘Look around’ they’d say, ‘what do you see most of? Chaos, right? Therefore, the god of Chaos is the strongest god, and is still alive.’

“Actually, the Illuminati own the companies that put out most of the rock. We started Laughing Buddha Jesus Phallus to counterattack. We were ignoring that front until they got the MC-5 to cut a disc called ‘Kick Out The Jams’ just to taunt us with old, bitter memories.

Great song, great album

“The spirit of Mummu is stronger than the Illuminati’s technology,” Pierpont had said. “Remember that. We’ve got the Second Law of Thermodynamics on our side. Chaos steadily increases, all over the universe. All ‘law and order’ is a kind of temporary accident.”

all. If you were living in Flatland and I stepped out of your plane into a plane at a different angle, it would look to you as if I vanished ‘into thin air.’ Somebody looking down from our three-dimensional viewpoint would see me going off at a tangent from you, and would wonder why you were acting so distressed and surprised about it.”

The basic energy-vector coordinates of Universe are five-dimensional—of course—and can best be visualized in terms of the five sides of the llluminati Pyramid of Egypt.” “Five sides?” Joe objected. “It only has four.” “You’re ignoring the bottom.” “Oh. Go on.” “Energy is always triangular, not cubical.

Einstein also put it into five symbols when he wrote e = mc2.

an Englishman named Fission Chips, who had been born on Hiroshima Day and named by a father who cared more for physics than for the humanities.

Joint Phenomenon! Except that I was on acid; if I’d been on weed, then it would really, royally, be a Joint Phenomenon).

“I am also puzzled,” Sam Three Arrows said finally. “I worked, long ago, in New York City, in construction, like many young men of the Mohawk Nation. I found that whites were often like us, and I could not hate them one at a time. But they do not know the earth or love it. They do not speak from the heart, usually. They do not act from the heart. They are more like the actors on the movie screen. They play roles. And their leaders are not like our leaders. They are not chosen for virtue, but for their skill at playing roles. Whites have told me this, in plain words. They do not trust their leaders, and yet they follow them. When we do not trust a leader, he is finished. Then, also, the leaders of the whites have too much power. It is bad for a man to be obeyed too often. But the worst thing is what I have said about the heart. Their leaders have lost it and they have lost mercy. They speak from somewhere else. They act from somewhere else. But from where? Like you, I do not know. It is, I think, a kind of insanity.” He looked at Hagbard and added politely. “Some are different.”

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway,” the priest added cynically, “which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

his mind was wandering in such odd directions. (“Odd erections,” somebody said in the nearby dark—or was it a distorted echo of his own voice?)

although the Mace had worn off by now. The rest of us rode silently, a little caravan of dried snot and tears, the parmesan cheese odor of stale vomit, some lingering acrid Mace fumes, the urine of somebody who had peed himself, and that high sulphur dioxide and slaughterhouse aroma of Chicago’s South Side.

Objectivity is presumably the opposite of schizophrenia. Which means that it is nothing but acceptance of everybody else’s notion of reality. But nobody’s perception of reality is the same as everybody’s notion of it, which means that the most objective person is the real schizophrenic.

suspect you of making use of telepathy. Most people who have that power would not only not try to hide it, they’d go on television.”

“Another thing that bothers me. Why don’t we ever challenge the spherical earth theory?”

“The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.”

“Life is an illusion,” he wrote, “but an illusion which we must take seriously.”

By the mid-1960s, wiretapping of all sorts must be so common that the concept of privacy will be archaic.”

Now people gladly trade convience for privacy, no wire taping required, people will voluntarely bring devices into their home that can be used to listen in