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Sectorum, *A New Order for the Ages*. The design for the Great Seal is supposed to have been handed to Thomas Jefferson i in his garden one night by a mysterious stranger dressed in a cape tae 2 he a eee etek The superbuffs have scuffled through history books to try to pinpoint the origin and location of the fabled super-government and the identities of its members. One group believes they are key industrialists (particularly munitions makers) and bankers. Others have produced dozens of books advocating anti-Semitism and claiming that a secret inner circle of Jews has been working for generations on a plan to take over the world. One of the most vicious and most successful racist books ever written came out of Russia in the last century and is called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This obvious hoax purports to be the Jewish master plan for gaining control of the world's gold and the press. Oddly enough, Adolf Hitler seems to have used Protocols as a guidebook in his bid for power. Jewish cultists have fought back with their claim that a Catholic conspiracy exists. Jesuit priests are a favourite target of this group. It is a fact that the Jesuits (the Society of Jesus) engaged in so many political conspiracies in the eighteenth century that the Vatican was compelled to dissolve the order in 1773. It was reestablished in 1814. Today the order is largely confined to running schools such as Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Following World War II, men like J. Edgar Hoover and the late Senator Joseph McCarthy gave impetus to the public paranoia over the Communist Conspiracy. This was partly based upon the spread of left wing beliefs during the social unrest of the 1930s, when intellectuals and working men embraced, temporarily, the Communist ideology. It was based partly upon Joseph Stalin's mad machinations in the early days of the Cold War, The gradual thaw that followed Stalin's death and the public revelations of his outrageous purges ultimately broke the Communist Party in the United States. The numerous organizations and buff groups that had been dedicated to combating the partly real and partly illusory Communist threat began to flounder and look around for a new cause. They found it when in his final speech as President, Dwight Eisenhower issued a guarded warning about the growth of what he termed 'the military-industrial complex.* The assorted buff groups scurried back to the earlier literature on the super-government. They extended Ike's warning to include rehgion and came up with the religious-military-industrial conspiracy - a plot against humanity which supposedly included the churches - (notably the Catholic church), the Pentagon, and the huge* industries which were churning out weapons that have never been used. By the end of the 1960s our social and political problems had generated a whole maze of new supposed conspiracies. The extreme right and left wings found themselves in the absurd position of advocating the same beliefs and fears. Everything from sex education to the fluoridation of water became an issue within the context of their beliefs. As they stumbled about searching for a new explanation behind the universal madness, many of these groups, ranging from the John Birch Society to our youth subculture - the Hippie movement - rediscovered the ffiuminati. The Communist Conspiracy was nearly forgotten as everyone went after the Illuminati. Do the Illuminati even exist? It is very unlikely. The buff groups have confused some of the earlier secret societies with the process of mystical illumination. IIlumined individuals, like with a hood over his head.