" " And amongmankind thereis he whose tal k about the life ofthis world willimpress you, and he calls on Godas a witness to what isinhisheart.Yet, he is the most stri ngent of opponents." The Holy Koran.chapter 2:204 If the Ameri can people knew what we have done, they would string usup from the lamp posts. " George H.W. Bush TableofContents Introduction:The Clashof Civilizations1 Chapter 1:TheLost Tribes TheLuciferian Bloodline7 TheFallen Angels8 TheMedes 11 The Scythians 13 Chapter 2:TheKabbalah Zionism 15 The Chaldean Magi 16 AncientGreece17 Plato 19 Alexander22 Chapter 3:Mithraism Cappadocia 25 TheMithraic Bl oodline 28 The Jewish Revolt 32 TheMysteriesof Mithras33 Chapter 4:Gnosticism Herod the Great 37 Paul the Gnost ic39 Chapter 5:The Anglo.Saxons Britain43 Constantine 45 The Saxons47 Chapter 6:The Ashkenazi Armeni a 49 Mani chaeism 51 The Pauli cians 52 The Khazars54 The Magyars 57 Chapter 7:TheMerovingians The Franks59 Charlemagne 60 Guillaume de Gell one 62 The Guilhemids63 The Bogomils 66 Chapter 8:The Assassins The Sabians69 The lsmailis71 Chapter 9:TheHoly Grail The Norman Conquest 75 Camelot77 The Cathars 79 The Crusades 79 The Templars81 Baphomet 84 The Sincl airs 85 Chapter 10:TheName of theRose The 1011 y Rover89 The House of Lusignan 90 TheKni ghtsHospitallers93 The Order of theGarter94 The War of the Roses 96 Chapter 11:TheHolyRomanEmpire TheHouse of Guel ph101 TheHabsburgs 104 Chapter 12:TheRosicrucians TheHouse of Stuart109 Bohemia 111 Lurianic Kabbal ah 113 TheRosicrucians115 TheFreemasons 117 Chapter 13:The IlIuminati The Shabbateans123 The111 uminati 125 The Asiatic Brethren 128 The FrenchRevolution 131 The American Revolution133 Chapter 14: ThePalladianRite 1848: The Year ofRevoluti ons 135 ThePall adian Rite137 Nihi li sm 139 Chapter 15:The Wahhabis Mohammed AbdulWahhab141 Ibn Taymiyyah 145 The Saudi Family147 Chapter 16:TheRoundTable The Crown151 TheRothschild Dynasty 155 The Round Table Chapter 17:TheSalafi Jamal udDin al Afghani The HermeticBrotherhood ofLuxor The Salafi Chapter 18:WorldWar One Oil The FederalReserve The League of N ations Fallofthe Ottoman Empire Saudi Arabia Chapter 19:TheMusl imBrotherhood The Nazis The MuslimBrotherhood The Islamo-Fascists The Odessa N etwork The MuslimWorldLeague Chapter 20:Petrodollars Population Control The OilCrisis Third World Poverty Chapter 21:The Age of Aquarius Sex, Drugs and Rock' n Roll The Frankfurt School The CIA andOperation Mockingbird MK-Ultra Chapter 22:One-W0I1d-Religion TheAspen Institute and the Club ofRome The Earth Summit 157 161 167 171 173 175 177 178 181 183 184 185 186 190 193 196 199 201 203 206 207 211 215 Chapter 23:The Are of Crisis Islamic Fundamentalism The Existentialists Al gerian Warof Independence The Revolution inIran Chapter 24: Guns,Drugs andJihad Iran-Contra Affair BCCI Mena, Arkansas The Mujahideen Chapter 25:AlQaeda Abdu 11 ah Azzam Osama bin Laden The Sudan,Bosnia and the Philippines WTCBombing Chapter 26:Dollars for Terror Houston,Texas TheN eo-Nazis Blood Diamonds Chapter 27:TotalWar Rothschilds andthe Holy Grail TheNeo-Conservatives SeptemberII Terrorists Flight Training andMK-Ultra The WahhabiLobby TotalWar Endnotes 219 221 223 224 227 231 235 237 241 244 246 248 253 258 260 265 266 268 271 278 281 285 DOO'U'IBIDIX!!J&ii'D@OO:The Clashof Civilizations Islam does not pose a threat to the West.Itis the contrary that is correcto Islami c lerrori sl organi zali ons are holbeds ofimposlors inservice of lhe Wes1.11is well known lhal lhere arevari ousdubi ousreI alionships lhalexislbelweenIslami c radicals and Western powers.The lruth is far more sinister.Islamic terrorists are connected wilh Western power through an intricale net work of secret societies. Whil e outwardl y cIaiming to adhere to disparate reli gions, the Islamic terrori sts foll ow a hereti cal version ofthe faith, ultimateI y rooled, like theircounterparts in lhe Wesl, in lhe same occul1doclrine,lhe worship ofLucifer, and lhe beIief in lhe use of reli gion asa disgui se 10 deceive lhe masses. Collecli vel y,thi swebisheadedbyanefari ouscabalcommonl y identified asthe"l11uminati ".Thel11uminatiwasthenameof a secret society, foundedby AdamWeishaupl,inGermany,in1776,withlhegoalofseeking worlddominali on throughsubversivemeans.It'sexistenceisoneofthefew inslancesin hi slory inwhi ch hisl ori ans are willing 10recognize lhe exislenceof lhe di aboli cal conspiracy, because lhe evidence is undeni able.However, in1784, the order was exposed, andforced 10 di sband.Scholars, lherefore, have used the fact ofthesuppression of theorder asjustifi cation to supposethat no conspiracy cont inuesto existintoourtime.Nevertheless,Weishaupthimselfboasted,"1 have considered every lhing,andso prepared it, that ifthe Order shoul d lhis day go to ruin, 1 shallin ayear re-establish itmore brilli antthat ever.'" The "IIIuminati ", reall y,ismerely a convenienttermto refer tothose indi viduals and secret organizations who continue to pursue the same goals in ourlime.Inactuality,theorder's exi slencebegan long before lhe ei ghteenth century.ThetrulhisilbeganinBabylon,inthesixthcenturyBC,withthe adventofthe Jewish heresy ofthe Kabbalah.According to their own accounts lhough,theI1luminatirepresenlthedescendantsoftheFall enAngeIswho inhabi tedthe10slcontinenlof All antis.TheseFall en Angelsinlerbredwilh humans, producing a supposedl y superi or race called "Aryans",to whom they taughtthe AneientWisdom. Therefore, the I1lumi nati regard themsel ves asinheritors of a centuri es-long traditi on of preserving their occultknowledge, against the"tyranny"and "despotism"of"organi zedreli gion".Ultimately,theyperceiveittheirdut y Tr.rrorism2 toinstituteaworldorder,toimposetheireultasaone-word-religion,and governed by one of their own.Thus,throughout the eenturies,the111 uminati have been carefullyintermarrying withone another,to preserve their "sacred" bloodline, totransmit their esoteric knowledge fromgeneration to generation, andfromwhichtheirmessi ahistoissue.Forthisreason,theyalsoreferto themsel vesas"the Family". Today,frontedbythepowerfulbankingdynastiesofEurope,the Illuminatiexercisesupremacyovertheworld'sgovernments,aswellas theireconomies,andeventheircultures.Ultimately,theIlluminatiarean international network, existing ina parallelworld, straddled between fronts of legitimacy,andacti vitiesonthe black market andinthe underground. Their method of eonquest isto wholly demoralize the societiesofthe world,wrecking theirveryfabric,by promotingeveryvice,ineluding sexual depravity,greedandwar.Byenslavingthenationsoftheworldthrough colossaldebt,theyensuresubservience,andguaranteetheslowtransfer of theirsovereigntytoglobalgovernment.Byencouragingstockmarket speculationtheysiphonoff thewealthof theignorantmasses.Intheend, byereatingaglobaleconomiceataclysmof untoldmagnitude,theyintend todemonstratetohumanitytheirownineptitude,andoffertheirrei gnas salvation,byimpl ementingaglobalfasciststate,tobegovernedbytheir expected messiah. Deprivedofanymoralrestraint,theyfundtheircovertact ivities bydominatingtheworldofi11egalarmsdealing,narcoticstrafficking,and prostitution.Their aetivities are intertwined with those ofthe world's leading intelligenceserviees,incl uding theCIA,Mossad,andBritain'sM 16,aswell asinternationalcrime syndicates, like theMafia andthe Asian Triads, andthe Yakuza of Japan.' Adopting any disguiseto suit their collective orjectives, they workhandinhandwiththeFreemasonsandnumerousother secret societies, and are responsible for the emergence of numerous radical cults, fromthe Hare Kri shna's to the Moonies,ofChristian and Muslim Fundamentalism, and most importantly, terrori smo Bywieldinginordinatefinancialandpolitical power,the planof the Illuminatiis to foment a global war,or World War 111 , from which will emerge, outof theashesof theexpiredcivilizationsof our time,likea phoenixfrom the fire, a NewWorld Order.The coming confront ation is being presented asa "Clash of Civilizations", betweenthe "Liberal Democrati c West " and"Islamic fundamentalism". Despiteallthefearmongering,however,theMuslimsdonotposea threat.TheMuslimworldhasbeensuffi cientlyweakenedduetotheirown internal corruption, inaddition to the subversive activities the Western powers that,byWWI,the Alliedpowerswereabletobrushasidetheforcesof the OHomanEmpire,whiehby thattimehadcrumbledtoneardust.Sinee,the Muslimworldhasbeenindi sarray,incapableof unitingtoevenrepresent Islam, let alone defend its cause. T11 trod uxcThe Ashkenazi Armenia While the branches stemming fromtheMithraic bloodline would produce the leadingfamiliesof Europe,theywouldreceiveanotherimportantinfusion duringtheCrusades.DuringtheearlyMiddleAges,theMithraicfamilies intermarriedwiththeirbrethrenamongtheSaxons,and,mostimportantly, thedescendantsof Charlemagne,founderof theHolyRomanEmpire.This combinedlineage wasagainreconnected, during the Crusades, withthelong-lostlineageof the Lost Tribesof Israel.Theseincluded theroyaldynasty of Armenia,but alsothe branchesof Eastern Europeanaristocracies,of Poland, BulgariaandHungary,descendedfromtheenigmaticKhazarsof southern Russia.11wasthereunionof thesedisparatedynastiesthatwouldincept inEuropetheIlluminati 'sdiabolicalplottosupplantChristianity.Their emergence wasmarkedbythe adventof theloreof the HolyGrail,andtheir fearedsymbolwasthe skullandcrossbones. The Anglo-SaxonChronicle,writtenintheninthcentury AD, begins by saying that theBritons,liketheSaxons,carnefromArmeniaandthePicts of Scotlandfromthesouthof Scythia.TheideathattheScotscarnefrom Scythia isfound inmostlegendary accounts and also inunedited versions ofthe VenerableBede. 'Itwas their countetparts, who chose toremain behind inthe Don River Basin, who converted to Judaismin the ei ghth century AD, and who were known asKhazars.Therefore, these various peoples alldescendfromthe Scylhian Iribes,whofirslappearedinEurope inIhesevenlh cenluryBC, when they crossed the AraxesRiver, theancientnameofthe ArasRiverin Armenia, the area where the Israeliteswere last known before departing for Europe. InthearticleintheNovember200 Iissueof The AmericanJournal of HumanGenetics, Ariella Oppenheim,of theHebrewUniversityof Israel, wrote that her new study revealedthat Jews have a closer geneticrel ationshi p topopulationsinthenorthernMediterranean,includingKurds,Anatolian Turks,andArmenians, than to populat ions in the southernMediterranean,like ArabsandBedouins. 49 Tr.rrorism50 TheArmeniansIradilionallyidenlifyIhemselvesasdescendanlsof Ashkenaz, Ihe son ofMagog.However, bolhArmenian and Georgian hi slorians alsorecordIhalafterIhedeslrucli onofIhefirslTemple,Nebuchadnezzar transportednumbersofJewishcaptives,notonlyloBabylon,bulalso toArmeniaandIheCaucasus.Bytheendof thefourthcenturyBC,sorne ArmeniancilieshadlargeJewishpopulations.'ThemedievalArmenian hislorianMosesof Khorene,wrolethalKingTigranes11theGreat,kingof ArmeniainIhefirsleenluryBC,settledIhousandsof JewsfromSyriaand Mesopolami a inArmenian cities.IIappears that sorne ofthese earliesl Jewish settlerslater converted to Chrislianity.Josephuswrote thalJudean Jewswere taken by theArmeni an kingArtavazd Il , andresettled inArmenia, again during Ihe firslcenluryBC, bulsorne yearsafler Ti granes' resettlemenLJ Researcher KevinAlan Brook suggesls Ihal one possible avenue for the transmission of Armeniansgenes lo Ashkenazi Jewry might be the aristocracy ofIheaneienlkingdomof Adiabene,whoconverledloJudaisminIhefirsl cenlury AD.According lo Josephus,Monobazus: .. .theking of Adi.bene,who h.d.Iso the n.me of B.zeus,fellinlovewith his sister,Helena,and tookhertobe hiswi fe,andbegatherwithchild.But .s hew.sinbedwithherone night,heI.dhishanduponhiswife'sbell y, .ndfellasleep, andseemedlOhear avoice,whichbid himtot.ke hishand offhiswife'sbell y,and not hurtthe infant thatwastherein,whichbyGod's providence, would be safely bom, andhave ahappyend4 The child's name waslzates, and when he was older, a Jewish merchant namedAnaniasacquaintedhimwiththereli gionof Judaism,withwhichhe becamedeeplyinleresled.Hismolher,QueenHelena,hadbrenpreviously wonover lo Judaismwithouthisknowingil.UponascendingIhethrone,on thedealhof hisfalher,lzalesdiscoveredIheconversionof hi smOlher,and he himself inlendedloconvertlo Judaism,andeventoaceepleircumcision.He was, however, dissuaded fromil by both his teaeher Ananias, and by his mother, but wasultimately persuaded thereto by anolher Jew, Eleazar. Izateswassucceededbyhi sbrolher,Monobazes11 ,who,according toJewishIradilion,asrecordedinIheJewishEncyclopedia,wasthesonof Agrippa11andHelena.'Monobazes11himself hadason,namedIzates11 , whomarriedCleopalra,Ihegranddaughterof MarkAntonyandCleopalra, andsister loPtolemyKing of Mauritania,whohad beenmarried loDrusilla, beforeshedivoreedhimforFelix Anlonius.'Their granddaughter, Awdeof Osrhoene,married Milhridales Arshakuni,Ihe son of VologaesesI of Parthia, the great-grandson AnliochusI of Commagene, and from him were descended thekingsof ArmeniaandParthianandSassanidEmpiresof Persia.'The grandson of AwdeandMilhridales Arshakuni,VologaesesV "GrealKing"of Parthia,married thedaughterof Pharamenses111,whowasadescendantof Alexander theGreal,aswellasCleopalraandMark Antony.Theirsonwas Thr.Ashkena7.l Chosroes 1 "Ihe Greal"Arshakuni,Kingof Armenia,whoruledfrom197to 238 AD, the father of Tiridates11of Armenia. Manlchaelsm Tiridates11ofArmenia married Soshandukht, fromthe Empire ofthe Kushans, innorthwesternIndia, which wasa strongholdofthe Manichaeism,a religion thatwouldfeatureprominentlyintheEasternbloodlines,andwhichwould, IhroughIheirinlermarriagewilhIheWeSl , go onlo infiuenceIheHolyGrail. Manichaeismwasfoundedbyan individual namedMani,bornnearBaghdad in214AD, to a family rel atedto thePersian royalhouse. According to theFihristof Ibnal-Nadim,Maniwasbroughtupwithin lheseclof lheElkasiles,aChrislianbaplismalseclwilhGnosliclendencies, resembling Ihalof IheEssenes, knownasIheMughlasilah, Ihalis , "Ihosewho wash", or "baplize", "Ihemselves".The Mughlasilahmayhavebrenrelaledlo lhe Mandaeans.The Mughtasilah, like the Mandaeans, wore white and performed baptisms.Mandaeansdonotrecogni zeMoses,Jesus,andMuhammad,but acknowledge inslead John lhe Baplisl,whom lhey revere asoneoflheir grealesl leachers.Scholars believelhey originaled in a Jewish-Gnoslic group fromJordan, who emigraled loBabylonia inIhefirslor secondcenlury AD, andamong Ihose stillinIraq, areGnosticbooks preserveddalingfromsevenlhor eighthcentury AD.TheydwelledineastJudeaandnorthernMesopotamia,fromwherethe Mandaeans migrated to southern Mesopolamia, according 10 their legends. However,Maniprolesledagainslhisupbringing,andaround240 AD, he began 10propagale hisownleachings,and becamerenownedforhi s spirilual healing and exorcisms.His followers procl aimed him "Ihe new Jesus" andeven credited himwith a virginbirth.Maniregarded Zoroasler,Buddha, andJesusashi sforerunnersanddeclaredlhathe,likelhem,hadreceived essentiall y lhe same enlightenmenl fromlhe same source.H is teachingswere a fusionof Gnoslicism,wilhaspeclsof ZoroaslrianandMilhraiclradilions, purporting lhallhe creator god wasevil. According10theKephalaia,Manispentmanyyearsinattendanceof Shapur, the Emperoroflhe Sassanid Empire, and many years preaching in Persia, Parthia and Adiabene'ShapurI waslhe secondruler ofthe Sassanian Empire ofPersian,eslablishedbyhi sfather, Ardashir,whichreplacedtheParthi ans. Ardashir, lhe falher ofShapur, was a descendanlAnliochus 10fCommagene.He marriedZiyanak Arshakuni, adescendanlof Monobazesof Adiabene, lhrough herfalher, ArtabanusIVArshakuni ,Kingof Media,lhebrolherof Chosroes 1 "IheGreal"of Armenia.UnderIheleadershipof Ardashir1,IheSassanids crealed an empire thatwasconstantly changing in size asitreacled 10Rome, to Byzanlium10thewest,and10lheKushansof Afghanistan10lheeas1.Atthe limeof Shapur 1, inthelasthalf of lhe thirdcentury AD,theempireslretched 51 Tr.rrorism52 fromGeorgia in the north, to Oman in Arabia inthe south, to theIndusriverin the east, and to the upper Tigris andEuphrates river valleys in the west. AccordingtoAlexanderofLycopoli s,whowroteinthefourth century AD,Mani,asamemberof courtof Shapur1,accompaniedhimon hiscampaigns'Manimadeexcursionsinto theKushanEmpire,inwhatis todayPakistan andnorthwesternIndi a, whenShapurI extended hisauthority eastwardsintotheregion,wherethepreviouslyautonomousKushanswere obli gedtoaccept hi s suzerainty.TheKushanEmpire,whichstretchedfrom Tajikistan to theCaspian Sea to Afghani stan, anddowninto the Ganges ri ver valley,becameastrongholdof Mani'sreIigion,andabaseformi ssionary expeditions into Central Asia. Manichaeismspread withrapidlythroughout both theeastandwest. By 354AD, Hilary ofPoitiers wrote that the Manichaean faith had a significant foll owing in southern France.Its most famous adherent was SI. Augustine, who wasa Manichean before hi s conversion to Christianity.TheManichaean faith wasalso widel y persecut ed.The faithmaintained asporadicandintermittent existence in west Mesopotamia, Africa, Spain, France, North Italy, the Balkans forathousandyears,andflourishedforatimeinthelandof itsbirth, Persia. In1()()() AD, the Arab hi stori an AI-Biruniwrote:"Themajorityof theEastern Turks, the inhabitants of China and Tibet,anda number inIndia belong to the reli gion of Mani". " WhenShapurIdied,sometimebetween270and273AD,andwas succeeded by hi s son Hormi zd,Manireceivedfromhimthe same permissi on to teach thatShapur had granted him.But after only a year in power, Hormi zd died,andwasinturn succeededbyanotherof Shapur 'ssons,Bahram.Soon after his accession, Bahram caused Mani to be crucified, had the corpse flayed, his skin stuffed, and hung up at the city gate. " The Paullclans ManicheanismwasthesourceofanimportantGnosti cheresyinArmenia, calledPaulicianism,whoseeventualspreadintoEuropesignaledthebirth oftheIlIuminaticonspiracyinthatpartof theworld.Thiscultpenetrated firstinto the Balkans, to infl uence the aristocrati c families ofEasternEurope. Thesefamiliesderi vedtheiroriginfromtheenigmaticKhazars,thatTurkic peoplesofsouthernRussia,descendantsoftheScythians,whocon vertedto Judaismintheeighthcentury AD.Theywerethusanimportantlinkinthe transference of the inheritance of the so-called Lost Tribes, and the Armeni an influence, to WestemEurope. Duringtheimportanteraof theCrusades,itwastheirintermarri age withtheircounterpartsamongtheSaxons,andanotherimportantfactionof theMithraic bl oodline,whose primaryrepresentativewasCharl emagne, that Thr.Ashkena7.l IheyIransmi ttedPauli cianinfl uencelO soulhemFrance.AsCalharism,Ihis creedwouldbecomeIhesecrelGnoslicdoclrineofIhalfamily,idenlified coll ecli vely by Ihe symboli sm oflhe Holy Grail, or known asIhe Order oflhe Rose, andbeing Ihe hidden power behind Ihe vairous pernici ous organizalions, beginning wilh Ihe Kni ghls Templ ar,leading lo Ihe Rosicrucians, Freemasons, andfinall y IhelIIuminali. The earliesl accounls of Ihe inlroduclion of Chri slianily inlo Armeni a dalefrom Ihefirsl cenlury AD, whenilwas firsl preached by Iwo Aposll esof Jesus, SI. Bartholomewand SI.Thaddeus.12 The Armenian Aposlolic Church, somelimes incorrectl y call ed IheArmeni an Orthodox Church,has been around since Ihe days oflhe aposll es and Iherefore makes Ihe cl aimofbeing one oflhe oldesldenominalionsinChriSlianily.ArmeniawasIhefirslcounlry lo adopl Chri slianilyas ilsSlale reli gion, in301AD,when SI.Gregory IheIlluminalor converled Tiridales III"Ihe Greal", King of Armeni a,Ihe grandson of Tiridales 11 , andmembers of his court. According lo aManichean Sogdi an lexl,a youngerconlemporaryof Mani , broughl Manichean beli efs 10Armeni a. "There, where Ihere was already a signifi canlChrisli an communily, inIhe secondhalf of IheIhirdcenlury AD, Mani chaeisminfl uencedIheformalionofIheseclofIhePauli cians.The seclemergedunderIhedynaslyofIheMamikoni ans,anoblefamil ywhi ch dominaled Armeni a,belweenIhefourthandei ghlhcenluri es,whose heraldi c symbol wasIhe doubl e-headed eagle. The dynasly wasincepledwhen NarsesSouren 1 "IheGreal"Pahlav, a direcl descendanlof Tiridales11 ,married Sandoukhl, Ihedaughler of Vardan 1.14 AccordingloMosesofKhorene,anArmenianhislorianoflhefiflh cenlury AD,IhelaleofIheMamikonians'ori ginbeginswilharebelli onof IwoChinese brolhers,whowere princes,againslIheChineseemperorinIhe earl y partof Ihe Ihirdcenlury AD.The brolhers,Mamik andKonak,foughl againslIheChinese emperor bullost.TheyfledlOIhelandofIheKushans, Ihen under Ihe infl uence of Mani chaeism, and soughlIhe refuge of Ihe Persi an king,whichwouldhavebeenShapur.TheChineseemperordemandedIhe rebelsberelurned lo China,orPersiawouldfacewar wilhIhe Chinese.The Persian king, nol wanling lOkiliIhe brolhers, bulalso wanting lo avoidconfli cl wilh Ihe Chinese, inslead senlIhem wesl lo Armeni a,resulting in peace again belween China andPersia. rs Thename "Pauli cians" was deri ved from IheirrespecI forlhe Paul ofTarsus, whose Letters Ihey honoured, in addilion lo Ihe Gospel ofLuke, Ihough olherwise fj ecling Ihe Old Teslamenl and Ihe LettersofSI. Peler.In Iheninlh cenlury AD, Pholius relaled Ihalil was a cer1ainMani cheewoman, named Kallinike, who senl her Iwo sons Pauland John lo Armeni a, lo propagale Ihis heresy. rs ThefounderofIheseclwasConslanline-Sil vanus,whohail edfrom Mananalis, aduali sliccommunily near Samosala,Ihecapilolof Cilicia.They Paulici ans believed ina dislinclion belween Ihe God who madeandgoverns Ihe 53 Tr.rrorism54 materi alworld, andthe"Godof heaven"whoereatedsouls, who aloneshould be worshipped, in otherwords, Lucifer.Therefore,like allGnosti c sects before them, theythoughtallmatter tobecorrupt oFor thePaulicians,Chri stwasan angel sentint o theworldbytheir "God".Jesus' realmother wasnot theVirgin Mary,buttheheavenl yJerusalem.Thisideaisderi vedfromtheKabbalah, wherethe "Shekhina", or "beloved"in theSong of Solomon, is equated with the "eongregation ofIs rael". Jesus' work, they claimed, eonsisted only in hi s teaehing thattobe1i eveinhimsavesmenfromjudgment.Theirenemi es,therefore, accused themconstantl y of gross immorality,even at their prayer-meetings. The Khazars Adherentsof thePauli ciansect fted,withtheArmeni anPaulattheirlead, to Episparis, in theArmenian district Phanaroea, the best part ofPontus, aceording toStrabo."Pontuswasanameapplied,inaneienttimes,totheextensive regioninthenortheastof AsiaMinor,nowTurkey,the greaterpartofwhich laywithintheimmenseregion ofCappadocia,whi chinearl yagesextended fromthebordersofCili ciatotheBlackSea.ButSOrneofthePaulicians, itwouldseem,foundtheirwaytothelandoftheKhazars,whowerethen warring against the Arabs in the sameregion. TheKhazars were sometimes creditedwith Armeni an ori ginoThisis stated by the seventh-century Armeni an bishopandhi stori an Sebeos,andthe fourt eenthcentury ArabgeographerDimashqi. "TheCambridgeDocument , di scovered by Solomon Schecht erin the late nineteenth century, and also known asthe SchechterLetter, theSchechterText,andtheLet!er ofan Anonymous Khazar Jew,di seusseshow Jewishmenftedeitherthroughorfrom Armeni a int otheKhazarkingdominaneienttimes,eseapingfrom"theyokeofthe idol-worshippers".Thisinstancewouldrefer to thepersecution mettedoutin Armenia against the Pauli cians. LiketheArmeni ans,theKhazarswereidentifiedwithGogand Magog.They wereregarded asdescendantsof Japheth, Noah's third son, and eonneetedwiththe Torgom-Togarmahand AshkenazoftheOld Testament. " The"Ashkuza"oftheAkkadi anshaveal sobeenlinkedtoabranchofthe Turks, and related to the Huns, call ed Oghuz,to whi ch the Khazars belonged.20 TheKhazars weredescendant sof theScythi ans,andtheword"Ashkenaz"is thought t o have ori ginall y applied to the Scythi ans (I shkuz), who were called AshkuzainAssyri aninscriptions.Lake Ascaniusandtheregion Ascani ain Anatoli a deri ve their namesfrom this group.2I Therefore,ithasbeenclaimedthattheKhazarsderi vedfromboth theEdomit esandtheso-ealled"LostTribes".LiketheirEdomiteaneestors, the Khazarswere al so red-headed, andcarneto be knownas"Red Jews".As outlined by Raphael and JenniferPatai, inThe My!h ofthe JewishRace: Thr. Ashkena7.l .. .oneshouldrememberthattheKhazarsweredescribedbyseveral contemporaryauthorsashavinga pale complexion,blue eyes,andreddi sh ha ir.Red, asdi stinguished from blond, hair is fo und in a eertain percentage of East European Jews, and this,aswellasthe more general zed I ght coloring, could be a heritage of the medi eval Khazar infusion-" Inparti cular,IheKhazarsweresaidlodescendfromIheTribeof Simeon,whohadbeenassimil aledinloIheEdomiles.AccordingloEldad ha-Dani,a Jewish Iraveller oflhe ninlhcenlury, Ihe Khazars were remnanlsof Simeon andManasseh.The Iribe ofZebulon, on Ihe olher hand, he expl ained, occupiesIhelandexlendingfromIheprovinceof ArmenialoIheRi ver Euphrales.Likewise, one version oflhe Le11erofKing Joseph, also known as Ihe Khazar Correspondence, reported Ihallhe Khazars had a Iradilion Ihallhey were descended from Ihe Tribeof Simeon.The Cochin Scrollalsomainlains Ihallhe Khazarswere descended fromSimeon andMenasseh. According loIhe Schechler Le11er,afterIhe JewsfromArmeniaand Persiahadevenluallyassimil aledalmosllolall ywilhIhenomadicKhazars, aslrongwar-I eaderarose,namedBulan,whosucceededinhavinghimself namedruler oflhe Khazars.Sabriel,who happened lo be remolely descended fromIheearl yJewishse11l ers,andhiswifeSerakh,convincedhimloadopl Judaism, inwhich hi s people followed himn ArthurKoesller,inTheThirteenlhTribe,popularizedIheIheoryIhal IhemajorilyofEuropeanAshkenaziJewsareinfac1noldescendedfromIhe ancienlinhabilanlsofIsrael,bulfromKhazarianconvertsloJudaism.The term"Ashkenaz"describesarelativelycompactareaof Jewishsettlementin northweslern Europe, incIuding northeaslern France and northern Germany, where Jewish se11l emenl is documenled daling back lo al leasl lhe sixlh cenlury AD. The Iradili onal explanalionof Easl European Jewish origins was Ihal mosl Ashkenazi Jewsreached Poland and Russia from Germany, and Germany fromFrance. ModerngenelicSludies,however,haveprovenKoesller 'sIheory incorrectoStudies ofmilochondrialDNA havedemonslraledIhalAshkenazi Jewish communilies in Europe were composed mostly Ihrough inlermarriage of Jewish men wilhwomen of European descenl.Thereason isthal Radhanites, PersianJewishmerchanls,hadmigratedloPolandorGermanyorFrance, since thefifthcentury AD, wheretheymostlymarried int o those communities for hundredsof years.The Proceedingsof IheNalional Academyof Science report,appearsto bearoutIhal Ashkenazi Jewsmusl havearrivedinEaslern Europe,notfromIheweslandsouthwesl,butfromIhesoulhandeast,Ihal is,vianorthernIlalyandIheBalkans, AsiaMinorandtheGreekByzanline empire, the Volga kingdomofthe Khazars, or a combination ofalllhree." Thenon-I sraelitehaplogroupsfoundinAshkenazisamplesincIude Q,whi chistypicall yCentralAsian,andRl al ,whichistypicallyEastem European.QisconsideredbyresearcherDoronBehartoconstitut eaminar 55 Tr.rrorism56 founding lineage among Jewish populations.Approximalely ti ve lo len percenl of Ashkenazi Jews todayareinthi s hapl ogroup,whichori ginatedinCentral Asia.11isan extremelyrare haplogroupinbothEurape andthe Middl e East, foundonlyScandinavia,andthefewcountriesthatKhazarswereknownto ha vemi grated to,like Poland, HungaryandLithuani a. " 11hasalsobeenfoundthatabouthalf of AshkenaziLevitespossess Eastern Eurapean non-I sraelite haplotypes belonging to theRlalhaplogroup, which is typically Eastern Eurapean.The Levites are particular1 y interesting because,among Ihem,ilisIheCohens,orKohamin,forwhomIheoffi ce of priesthastraditionally been reserved.Levitical status is genera11y determined by oraltradition, passed fromfather to son, withchildren being Levites iftheir fatherandgrandfatherwas.U nti1theeighteenthcenturyinEurope,many CohenscouldaccuralelyIrace Iheir lineage back loa veriti ableKohamin such asEzra.Today,familiesmayverifytheir priestl y lineageviathe tombstones ofdeceasedancestors,astheuni versalsymbol ofthehandsarranged forthe Pri estlyBlessing.ThisisthehandgestureporpularizedasSpock'sVulcan saluteinStarkTrek.Sorneschol arsmaintain,however,thatbecauseofthe destructionof Jerusalem 'st empl eandtheuna vail abilityoflineagerecords, there is nowno way to establish who is a Levite reli abl y. LevitesinOrthodoxJudaismcontinuetohaveadditionalrightsand obli gationscomparedtolaypeople,althoughtheseresponsibilitieshave diminishedwiththedestructionof the Templ e.Orthodox Judaismmaintains abeliefinandhopeforarestorationof aThirdTempleinJerusalem,and Kohanimareregardedasretaining theiroriginalsanctity,andsornee1ements oftheiroriginalrolesandresponsibilities,andhavingastatusof waitingin readiness forfutureservice ina resto red Temple.Sorne Orthodox Jews have founded schools to trainpriests and Levites in theirrespective roles. TheRl a l haplogroupis almostnever found among SephardicLevites, andmayhavebeenintroducedintothe AshkenaziLevitelinesbySlavs,or Khazarswho convertedto Judaism. "R 1a l , rather,isfounda11over Armenia, Georgia, and Eastern Eurape in general, including the Sorbs, the Poles, and many people of central Europe.I1's also found in Finland, and manyR la 1 people went westto Scotland and Scandinavia.Interestingly, theRl a lwasintroduced only 900-1000 years ago int o onl y the Ashkenazi Levite male populati on. Theirony,of course, is theR 1a 1 Kurganswhoarethefoundersof this haplogroupare considered lhe epilome of Indo-Europeanism.Thehome1andof lhe Indo-Eurapeans is lhe sleppes north oflhe Black Sea, ri ght where lhe Khazarian Empirewas located.Butthe prablemis lhal notonlywereKhazarsmostlikely significanlly Rl a inIheir anceslry, bulmoslEaslem Europeans are also Rl a-" The finding raises Ihe queslion ofhow Ihe signalure became so widespread among lheLeviles.TheforeigngenelicsignalurefoundamongLevilesoccurs on lhemaleor Y chromosomeandcomesfrom afewmen, or perhapsasingle ancestor, who lived aboul1,000 years ago, jusI as lhe Ashkenazim were beginning Thr.Ashkena7.l lo be eslablished in Europe.I1has been proposed Ihallhe anceslor who inlroduced itinlo Ihe Ashkenazi Levites could perhaps have been from IheKhazars. Ultimalely,ilwasIhroughIheinfiltralionof ArmenianJewsIhalIhe double-headedeagleof theMamikoniansbecametheirheraldicsymbolthe Khazars.Theslrikingorrisingeagle,TogrulorTogarmah,meaning"Ihe powerful eagle", represenls forKhazars Ihe messenger andmedialor ofTangri, meaning "The Lord-God-The sun".lt also represenls Ihe sacredroyalimperial power,inHebrewMalchutHa-Shmayim,sincemorethanthreethousand years,andistheheraldicsymbolof thetwomergedroyalcIans,inHebrew Ha-Shechina,andTurkic Ashina.Thusitis the very emblemof any Khagan, meaning "King of Kings, Emperor", of Khazars. " The Magyars Atilshei ght, theKhazarianempirecovered theareaof IheUkraine,southern Russia lo Ihe Caucasus, and the western portions ofKazakhstan and Uzbekistan lo Ihe Aral Sea.The lown of Kiev, meaning "Ihe sileal Iheshore", al IheDnepr river, had been founded by the Khazars around the beginning ofthe eighth century AD, asa tradi ngandadmini strati vecenter inthewestern part of theKhazarian empire.However, a mounted forceViking force, known as the Kievan Rus, lead by prince Svyatoslav, ina treacherous collaboralion wilh Byzantium, succeeded in penelrating Ihe Khazarian empire, anddestroying Iheir capilalItilin967 AD. Svyatoslavwasthe great-grandsonof HalfdanFrodasonKingof Denmark, in turn descended fromOdin, and whose mother was Hilda ofthe Vandals.Hilda's fatherwasHildericof theVandals,whosemotherwasEudoxiaof Rome,the great-great-granddaughter of Constantine." Theresultingdispersalof theKhazarspenetratedintothenationsof Poland, Bulgaria, and the Magyars ofHungary, who were vassals ofthe Khazars. Atlhe end ofthe ninlh century AD, the Khanagate ofthe Khazars had appointed amannamedArpad,tobetheleaderof thekingdomofH ungary,formedby seven Magyar and three Khazar tribes under hi s leadership."And, asrecounted in Ihe Gesla Hungarorum, Lati n for "The Deeds of IheHungarians", a recordof earlyHungari anhistory,writtenbytheunknownauthoraround1200 AD,the Magyarswere Scy1hians, originally descendedfromMagog: Scylhia,whichiscalIedHungaryuponthe[river]Don,isquiteavaSlland. l ISeastemborder stretchesfromthenorthem regiontothe Black Sea.Behind it runstheDonriverwithitsenonnousmarshlands.wherethereareenough manens nOl jusl tolavishly c10thethenoblemenandthelower ranking people, bul alsothe herdsmen, swineherdsmen, and shepherds.The land isriehingold andsil ver,anditsriversoffer pearls andsemi-preciousstones.Scythia '8eastem neighbours were the nations ofGog and Magog, who were cul off fromthe world byAlexandertheGreal.ThedimensionsoflheSeylhianlandareextremely 57 Tr.rrorism58 large. The peopleinhabiling il are stiBcustomarily caBed Don-Hungarians; lhey haveneverbeenundertheyokeof anyruler.TheScythiansare,namely,an ancient nationwhich has power overthe eaSlScythia'sfirslking wasMagog, sonof Japheth, andlhe nati onobtaineditsname "Magyar"fromhim.JI TheGesla goes on lo explain Ihal,fromMagog'sdescendanls, Attil a Ihe Hun, camefromScylhia loPannoni a,in451AD,wilhan enormousarmy,driving oullheRomansandconqueringIheland.InIheyear819AD,ilconlinues, Ogyek,IhecommanderofScythiaandalsodescendanlofMagog,decided tomarryawomannamedEmesh.Duringherpregnaney,Emeshsawa supernal uralvision,inIheshapeof alurul,whiehlandedonherbodyand madeher pregnant.TheTurul,likeIheTurkieToghrulofIheKhazars,isa giantmythiealeagle,amessengerof godinH ungarianmythology,who sits on lop of Ihe treeof life, along wilh Iheolher spirits of unbornehildrenin the formbirds.Turulisoftenrepl aeedbyIhesuninilluslralionsofthetreeof life:"Sinee adreaminHungari an is ealled lom, Ihe boy wasnamed Almos, andbeeame Ihe falher of Arpad. Aceordinglo anearlyGreekdocumenl,ArpadandIheMagyarcl an wasManicheaninreli gion. "Arpadandhi sclanbeganapushwestward, eventually settling in what istodayHungary, where a unified Magyar state was establi shed by Arpad's great-grandson Geza, in 971 AD.Although still a pagan, when hebeeameruler,anallianeewaseoncludedbetween IheHol yRoman EmpireandByzanliumin972AD,foreedGezaloeonvertloChrisli anily, toseeurealaslingpeaeeforHungary.AllhoughGezawasbapli zedin985 AD,itisdoubtfulhi s conversionwassincere,foraecording to IheBishop of Merseburg,he continued to worship pagan gods.l4 7 The Franks Duringthe Crusades, those members ofEastern European aristocracy descended fromtheremnantsof theKhazars,inadditiontothetherulingfamiliesof Armeni a,reconnected to igniteanimportantnetwork, byintermarryingwith thedescendants of the Merovingians.The DaVinciCode of DanBrown has recentl y populari zed thelegendof thattheMerovingians,themostimportant ofthe Illuminatibloodlines, was derived ori ginally from the union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.The likelihood ofthis possibility is nil, as the core doctrines of thislineagearebasedonthe Luciferianteachingsof Gnosticism.Rather, the myth ofthe uni on of Jesus andMaryMagdalene was preserved to disguise a more occult secret aboutthe origin ofthis bloodline. Moreimportantl y,thedescendantsof theMerovingianseventually intermarriedwiththefamil yof Charl emagne,founderof theHolyRoman Empire, and supposedl y, thatof an Exilarch, or claimantto the Davidic throne, named RabbiMakhir.It is from this lineage that allthe leading lines ofEuropean aristocracy descend,a bloodline featured asthe central secret ofGraillore. TheMerovingians,again,carneoriginallyfromScythia,wherethey were known as the Sicambri ans, taking their name from Cambra, a tribal queen of about380 Be.Then, in theearly fifthcentury AD, the invasion of the Huns provokedlarge-scalemi grati onsof almostallEuropean tribes.It wasat thi s time that the Sicambrians, a tribe of the Germanicpeople collectivel y known asthe Franks, crossed the Rhine and moved into Gaul, establi shing themsel ves inwhat is nowBelgium andnorthern France. TheMerovingiansarebelievedinoccuItcirelestohaveoriginally beenJewish,anddescendedfromtheTribeof Benj amin,whohadentered GreeceknownasCadmusandDanaaus.Certainimportantdet ail sof the history ofthe Merovingians are related in the Fredegar' Chronicle, a facsimile ofwhi chisintheBibliotequeNationaleinPari s.Fredegar,who diedin660 AD,wasa Burgundian scribe,and hi sChroniele covered the period from the earli estdaysoftheHebrewpatri archstotheeraoftheMerovingiankings. Fredegar'sProloguetel1showtheSicambrian lineof "Franks", fromwhom 59 Tr.rrorism60 Franceacquiredilsname,wereIhemselvesfirslsocaHedaflerIheirchief Franeio, adeseendant ofNoah, who died in11Be.Priortotheir Seythian days, Franeio's raee originated in aneient Troy after whieh the Freneh eity ofTroyes wasnamed.Theeity of Paris,established by the sixth century Merovingians, likewise bears the name ofParis, thesonofKing Priam ofTroy, whose liaison with Helen of Sparta sparked the Trojan War. The claim, asserted in The Da Vinci Code,i6that Mary Magdalene had brought to southern Franeea child she bore to Jesus, and that her lineagewas survivedamongtheMerovingians.However,asexplainedbygenealogieal researcher David Hughes: Thi s lheorywaspopulariredin1982by lheoceullie book "Holy Blood, Holy Grai l" inwhiehlheaulhorlOsensalionalirehiswork purposely misidemified Jesusof NazarelhwithHiscousinJesus"of Gamala",[or theauthorsurely wouldhaveknown beller from hi s research. The author by this misidentiJication eouldmakelhec1aimlhall esusof NazarelhmarriedMaryMagdal eneand ,ired chi ldren .nd had descendanlS who eyenluall y became lheruling houses of 1redieval and modem Europe, which theamhorrefers lO asthe "Jesus Dynasty" or"lesus Bloodline", howeyer,lhesearelhewifeandehi ldrenof lesus "of Gamala",lhecousinof lesus of Nazarelh,whobyallaccounlS was celibale. R islTUethatdescendamsof Jesus'so-caBed"brothers"and"cousins",the "Desposyni", gayeEurope sorneof ilSnoble androyal houses,howeyer, none descend from lesus ofNazarelh Himselfbul only from His relalives "according of lheflesh",and,uhimalely deseend from Israel's DavidieDynaSly,whieh aceording lOlheBible hasa "di vine righl" lO rule.' Aceording to thegenealogiescompiled by James AlI en Dow,andbased largely on the workof DavidHughes,a descendant of MaryMagdalene and thi s Jesus, Quinlus Tarus, a prefecIof Rome, marriedArgOlla, heiressof IheFranks, to father Meroveeh, Kingofthe Franks-'The most famousofall Merovingian rulers,though,wasMerovee'6grandson,Clovis1,whoreignedbetween481 andSilAD.Gaulwastherichestandlargestareaof thewesternempire,but theFrankishtri beshadnotsucceededinorganizingasinglestate,untilClovis defeated the surviving Romanforcesin486AD.During his reignand thatofhis sons,Frankish power was extended over nearly allofGaul and farinto Germany. The Frankish kingdom eventually became the strongest andmost extensive ofthe new German states, and itwas the only one that truly survived into later centuries, and fromit were descended the modern states ofboth Germany and France. Charlemagne ClovisconverledlO RomanChrisli ani ly,andanaccordwas ralifiedbelween himand theRomanChurch,foll owedbya great wave of conversion.Clovis ___________________The Mcmv1ngians was granted thetitleof New Constantine, presiding over a Hol y Roman Empire. Clovis' successors, however, did not retain hi s ruthl essness, and instead became merefi gureheads, puppetsof theMayorsof thePal ace,inwhosehandswas thereal power.OnClovis' death, hisson Dagobert,acceded to the kingdom of Austrasia, but was deposed by a conspiracy on the partofPepin the Fat, the king'Smayor ofthe palace, which the Church of Rome approved, immedi ately passing the Merovingian admini stration of Austrasia to him. Pepin was foll owed by Charles Mart el , one of the most heroic fi gures in French hi story, and who was the grandfather of Charl emagne, according whose name the dynast y carne to be known in hi story as that ofthe Carolingians.The Carolingians were partl y ofMerovingian descent,butmoreimportantly,they representedtheuni onoftheoncedi videdlineageoftheMithraicbl oodline. Thislineage had survi vedintwobranches.Juli a,the heiressof theEdomit e royalbloodline,wasthedaughterofHerodPhollioKingofChalcis,whose grandfatherwasHerodtheGreat,andwhosemotherwasthedaughterof Salome,marri edTi granesKingof Armeni a,thesonof AlexanderofJudea. Their son Alexander marri ed lotape of Commagene, the daughter of Anti ochus IVFromthemwasdescendedSI.Arnulf,aFranki shnoblewhohadgreat infl uence in theMerovingian kingdoms asBishop of Metz, and whowas l ater canoni zed asa saint, andwholi ved from 582to 640 ADJ In SI. Arnulf, thi s lineage was unit edwith the other branch.That other branchwassurvivedinthepriest-pingsofEmesa,descendedfromClaudi a, thegrand-daughteroftheEmperorClaudius,whichhadalsoculminatedin theperson ofthe Neopl atonicphil osopherlamblichus'Saint Arnulf wasthe grandfather of Peppin11 , the father of CharlesMarte!. CharlesMart el'sson,Peppin111 ,wasthefatherofCharl esthe Great,knownasCharlemagne.In77 1,Charl emagneassumedthethrone andtookadvantageof hi s brother'sdeath tounite theCarolingian territori es. Charl emagne'sgoalwast ounitethroughconquestalltheGermani cpeopl e into one kingdom.By800 AD, theFrankish kingdom included allof modern France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerl and, almost allofGermany and large areas ofItaly and Spain. Charlemagne received substantial help from an alli ance with the Pope, who wanted t o cut the remaining tieswith the Byzantine Empi re.In thi s way, thedomainsof thePope becamean independentstateincentralItaly.Inthe same year, 800AD, Charl emagne was crowned Emperor by the Pope, becoming the fi rst emperor inthe west, sinee the last Roman emperor was deposed in 476 AD, and thus inaugurating the Holy Roman Empi re.Charlemagne's dual role asEmperor,and King of theFranks,providesthe hi storical link between the Frankish kingdoms andlater Germany,as both France and Germany look unto Charlemagne asthefounding fi gureof their respecti ve countries. 61 Tr.rrorism62 Guillaume of Gellone It isfrequentlycl aimedbygenealogiststhatallof Europeanaristocracycan c1aimdescentfromCharlemagne.Lesswell-known,thoughsignifi cantfor occul!lore,isthatCharlemagne'sdescendantswereintricatelyintertwined withthoseofoneRabbiMakhir,a Jewi shExil archfromBaghdad,knownas RabbiMakhir, orNatronai,who became the father of Guillaume the Gellone. Thiswastheimportantunion,infusingEuropeanari stocracywithDavidic lineage, bywhich occull societies,and books like theHol y Blood Hol y Grail, ha vecl aimedrepresentedthesecretof theHolyGrail.Itisalsothereason forwhichoneofthestatedaimsoftheIlluminati ,liketheenigmaticPriory ofZion,mentionedinThe Da VinciCode,is toreinstitute the descendants of Merovingians,asrul ersofa New WorldOrder. TheoriginoftheofliceofExilarchisnotknown,buttheprincely postwashereditaryinafamilythattraceditsdescentfromtheroyalHouse ofDavid.Itwasrecognizedbythestateandcarriedwithitcert aindefinite prerogatives, firstunder the Parthi an Empire of the Persians.The office lasted to the sixthcentury AD,under di/ferent regimes, when therewasnoExilarch fora century, untilthe positionwasrestoredunder the Muslims. IntheeigthcenturyAD,anExil arch,namedJudahZakkai,hadasrival candidateNatronaiben Habibai, who, however, was defeated and sent "West" inbanishment.Natronaiwasthegreat-grandsonofIzdundadPrincessof Persia, the daughter ofYazdagird lll , ruler ofthe Sassanid Empire, and married Exilarch Bustenai ben Hanina, who lived from590to 670AD. Coincidentall y, according to Medieval Jewish legends, one Makhir, oflen confused withNatronai, apparently arri ved in southern France by the invitation of Charlemagne, who is said to have sent an embassy, in which a Jew, Isaac, took parl, to ask the "king of Babel"to send him aman of royal Jewish lineage.In response, the CaliphHarnnal Rashid, dispatchedRabbiMakhir to him.According tothe appendi x of a fourleenthcentury work titl ed Sepher ha Kabbalah: Then King CharlessemlO lheKing of Baghdad[Caliph]requestinglhal he di spalchoneof hisJewsof lheseed of royaltyof the Houseof David.He hearkened andsenthimonefromthere,a magnateandsage,Rabbi Makhi r by name.And[Charles] sellled himin Narbonne, lhe capilal cily,and planled himthere,andgavehimagreatpossessionthereatthetimehecapturedil fromlhe Ishmaelites[Arabs].Andhe[Makhir] lOoktowifeawOmanfrom among themagnatesofthe* ... * andtheKing madehimanobleman anddesigned, oul of love for[Makhir],goodSlalutes for thebenefit of alllhe Jew$dwellingin thecity,asiswrillenandsealedina Latincharter;andthe seal of lhe King lherein [bears] hi s name Carolus; and il is inlheir possession atlhepresentlime.The PrinceMakhirbecame chieflainlhere.He andhis descendanlSwere close [inter-related]wilh lhe King andallhis descendanlS. ___________________The Mcmv1ngians ThetranslationthatofthementionthatMakhirwas"dosetothe kingandallhisdeseendants",asmeaninghewasinter-relatedwithFreneh arisloeraey,Ihroughinlermarriage,wasproposed by Arthur Zuekerman,in A Jewish Princedomin Feudal France, 768 900.There are numerous confusing genealogies provided as lo Ihe descenl offhis Makhir, or Nalronai.Accordinglo Ihe researeh of James ABenDow,Nalronai married one Rolinda of Aquilaine. Their sonswere Makhir andGilbert of Rouergue.Makhirmarried Alda, Ihe daughler of CharlesMartel. s Aeeordinglo Zuckerman,MakhirwouldhaveassumedIheChrislian nameof Theodoric,or Thierry, andassumedIhelilleof King oflhe Jews, and ruledover Ihe independenlslale of Seplimania insoulhernFrance, wilh Ihecily ofNarbonne as ils capilal.In Ihe Mediaeval, romances Theirry is calledAymery, and he was Ihe falherofGuillaume de Gellone, aboul whomIherewere alleast six major epiepoemscomposed before theera of theerusades.Thedeviceof hi sshieldwastheLionof Judah.Attheheightof hispower,heincludedas partofhisdominion, northeastern Spain, the Pyrenees, along with theregionof Seplimania.Zuckerman mainlains Ihe referenceofMakhir's descendanls being "el ose" to those of the king should be understoodto mean "inter-rel ated", or that Guill aume's ancestors intermarried wilh those oflhe Carolingians. Aslateas1143 AD,PetertheVenerableofCluny,inanaddressto Louis VIIofFrance,condemned IheJews of Narbonne who c1aimed lo havea king residing among Ihem, a c1aimbased presumabl y onIhe legendofMakhir. In1144 AD, Theobald,aCambridgemonk,spokeof "thechief Princesand Narbonne where the royal seed resides. "In1165-66 AD, Benjamin of Tudela, thefamousJewish Iraveler andchronicler,reportsthatinNarbonne thereare "sages, magnates and princes at the head of whom is ...a remnantof the House of Davidasstatedinhi s familytree.'" The Gullhemlds And,again,IhoughIhelinesweareaboulloIraceareinlricale,ilisonly Ihrougha carefulsludyof IhemIhalwemaydiscernIhalIherewasacenlral importanceattribuledlothese bloodlines.ThisconcurswithIhec1aimIhat this bloodline cont ained a cert ain"potency", purportedly deri ved from the fact Ihat,nolonly,these famili esdescend from the Lineof David, bulaswehave seen, from the Mithraic bloodline, but,aswell, a c1aimed descent fromLucifer himself.Because,aswe willdiscover,Ihi s carefulinlermarrying conslrucled Iinesof descenttoproduce specificindi vidualswho wouldpl aypivotalroles in this occult hislory weare following. AlookalthenumerousdynasticalliancesbetweenIhisGuillaume deGellone,andIhedescendantsofCharlemagne,willillustrateIhedegree ofpenelralionofhi slineage,anddemonstralethebasisforhi sperceived 63 Tr.rrorism64 importanceinoccultcireles.Theirdescendants,knownastheGuilhemids, wouldformanimportantnexus,throughintermarriage,withtheirSaxon and Scandinavian rel ations, as wellas the aristocracy ofEastern Europe, descended fromIhe Khazars , and Ihe royalfamilyof Armenia, Ihal would fi gure cenlrally inthe occult conspiracy thatwas brought to birth during theCrusades.Their subsequent subversive activities would alter the history ofEurope, and provide anoccultinfluenceIhalwouldremainahidden,Ihoughpowerfulinfluence, unlilIhey finally carnelo lighlasIhe l11uminaliinIhe eighleenlh cenlury. Most hi storians consider the establishment ofthe HolyRoman Empire toactuallybeginwiththesplitof theFrankishrealmbetweenthesonsof Charlemagne'sson,LouisthePious,attheTreatyof Verdunin843AD,who continued the Carolingian dynasty independent1y in three separate sections.The easlern parlfenloLouisIheGerman, whileCharles"IheBald",wasgranled ltaly.Charles"IheBald"marriedErmelruded'Orleans,Ihegranddaughler of GuillaumedeGellone.TheirdaughterwasJudithof England,whomarried BaldwinIof Flanders,fromwhomdescendtheCountsof Flanders.Their granddaughter,Gunhilded'Urgell,marriedRaymond11ofToulouse,whowas descendedfromBerthad'Autun,Williamof Gellone'ssister,andfromthem were descended the Counts ofToulouse-'The grandson ofRaymond11Count ofToulouse, Willi am Taillefer Count ofToulouse,married Emma ofProvence, who wasboth descendedfromWilliam ofGellone, andPriset ofthe Khazars' Priset'sson,Barjik King of the Khazars,wasthe father of Irene,also knownasTzilzak.Irenemarri ed ConslantineV "Copronymus"IheIsaurian, adescendantof AntiochusIof Commagene,andbecamethefatherof Leo theKhazar,whobecameByzantineEmperorin775AD.FromLeothe KhazarwasdescendedMichae1III"IheDrunkard"IhePhrygian,andfrom himCharlesConstantine.CharlesConstantinewasthefatherof Constance of AriesandVienna,whomarriedBosoof Provence,thegreat-grandsonof BernardPl anteve1ue,himse1f thegrandsonof Guill aumedeGellone.Their son was Willi am Tai11eferCount ofToulouse. ' WilliamTaillefer's brother,Raymond111Count of Toulouse,married Adelaide of Anjou, daughter ofFulk IICount ofAnjou.1OHer brother, Geoffrey I Countof Anjou,married Adelaisof Vermandois,who wasdescendedfrom Pippin,brotherof LouisthePious,andsonof Charlemagne,whomarried Cunigundisof theFranks,daughterofWilliamofGellone.Geoffreyof AnjouandAde1ais'daughterwasErmangardeof Anjou.Herdaughterwas Judithof Brittany,whomarriedRichard11of Normandy."Richardwasthe great-grandson of Rollo Ragnvaldsson, a Norman Viking leader, who married Poppaof Bavari a,thegreat-granddaughterof Williamof Gellone,andfrom whomweredescendedtheDukesof Normandy.Rollo'sdaughter, Ade1eof Normandy,married William 111Duke of Aquitaine, fromwhomare descended the Dukesof Aquitaine." ___________________The Mcmv1ngians William of Gellone's sislerIdaRedburga, marriedEgbertof Wessex, of lhe Anglo-Saxoninvaderswho displaced lheBrilonsfromEngland,anda direcl descendanl,according 10 lhe chronicIes, ofOdin.Egbert had been forced inl0 exile al Charlemagne's court by a rivalSaxon 10 lhe lhrone, Offa, King of Mercia, and relumed 10 England in802AD, where he evenlually became King of Wessex, and laler tirslking of England. "Their son, Elhelwulf Kingof lhe English,wasIhefalherof Alfred"IheGreal"Kingof England,whoinlum became lhe falher of Edward lhe Elder, King of England. RedburgawasalsoIhegrandmolherof ThyraDannebodQueenof Denmark, who became Ihe wifeoflhe VikingKingGorm "lhe Old" ofDenmark, and lhe molher ofHarald Blueloolh BlalaandKing ofDenmark.Harald's son, SvenIof Denmark,embarkedonafull-scaleinvasionof England,andwas accepledasKingofIhalcounlry,followingIheflighlloNormandyof king Elhelred lhe Unready inlale10 13 AD. 14 WhenSvenwasbapli zed,alongwilh lhereslof lheroyal family,he wasgiven lhename of 0110,in honor of 011011he Greal,whowascrowned HolyRoman Emperor in 962 AD. "0110 was Ihe son of Henry 1 "Ihe Fowler", HolyRoman Emperor, whoinlum wasIheson of 0110"IheI11uslrious".The molherof 0110"IheI11uslrious"wasOdaBilIung,Ihedaughlerof BilIung1 Counlof Thuringia,aSaxon.Billunghadmarried Aldaof lheFranks,lhe daughler of Charlemagne'sson Pippin,andBerthaof Toulouse,lhe daughler of Willi am of Gellone.16 Hedwige,lhesisler of 0110lheGreal,marriedHughlhe Greal,sonof RobertI ofFrance and Bealrix ofVermandois, a direcl descendanl ofWilliam of Gellone.TheirdescendanlS would become lhe dynasly ofCapelians, fromwhom woulddescendalllhekingsof FranceunlillheSecondRepubliceslablished in1848.Quarrels,however, ensuedbelweenHughIheGreal andLouisIVof France, who was lhe son ofCharles lhe Simple, lhe grandson ofCharles lhe Bald, andPrincessEadgifu,daughler of EdwardlheElder,King of England.These were mended upon lhe ascension ofLolhair I ofFrance, lhe son ofLouisIVand Gerberge, lhedaughler of 0110lheGrea1.LolhairgranledHughlheGreallhe Duchy ofBurgundy and of Aquilaine, expanding lhe Capelian dominions. Thesonof0110lheGreal,011011,whosucceededhim,married TheophanoPrincessofByzanlium.Their son was0110111, whobecameHol y Roman Emperor in996 AD.0110111had givenfullsupportl0 lhecrowingof Hugh Capel, lhe son ofHugh lhe Greal, asKing ofFrance in987 AD, afier lhe dealhof Louis V, lhe son ofLolhair.Hughde Capel wassucceeded by his son Robert11Kingof France,byhiswifeAdeleof Aquilaine,lhegranddaughler of Poppaof BavariaandRolloRagnvaldsson.Robert11marriedConslance d'Arles, a descendanl ofbolh Guillame de Gellone, and lhe Khazars.Conslance d'Arleswas lhe daughler Willi am of Provence, lhe brolher of William Taillefer, who married Adelaide d' Anjou, before she married Raymond111ofToulouse. " 65 Tr.rrorism66 0110JIIwassucceeded asHoJy Roman Emperor by hi s cousin, Henry JI.The grandfather of Henry 11was Henry 1, Duke ofBavari a,the brother of 0110 the Great.His mother was Gi sela ofBurdungy,a niece ofOl1o the Great' s wifeAdelheid.The father ofHenryII 'swife,Cuni gonde ofLu xemburg,was descended from Charl es the Bald, and Ermentrude d' Orleans, the granddaughter ofGuill aumede Gell one. "Cuni gonde'smother was Hedwig ofLotharingia, thenieceof0110I theGreat.Aftertheirdeaths,bothHenryIIandhiswife Cuni gonde were eventuall y canoni zedby the Catholi c Church. In1027AD,Henry11wassucceededasHolyRomanEmperorby Conrad 11 , the son ofHenry of Speyer andAdelheid of Alsace, the sister of Saint Cuni gonde.Henry of Speyer was the grandson of 0110 the Great andEdith of Wessex,andhisbrotherwasPopeGregoryy.Gregory Vwassucceededby Syl vester11 , known asGerbert d' Aurill ac,who wastutor to both011011and 0110 1Il.Gregory V,Otto's cousin, appointed him Archbi shopof Ravennain 998, and the emperor elected himto succeed Gregory as pope in 999.Gerbert introduced Arabknowledgeof Arithmeticand Astronomyandthe Abacusto Europe.Gerbertwasreputed to have studi ed Kabbali sticart s in Spain, andto have beena sorcererinleaguewith thedevil.Gerbertwassupposedto have built a bronze head, thatwouldanswer hi s questi ons.He wasalsoreputedto ha ve had a pact with a female demon call ed Meridi ana,who had appeared after he had been rej ected by hi s earthl y love,andwithwhose helphe managed to ascend to the papal throne. The Bogomils Finally,when thesevari ousbloodlinesreconnectedwith theircount erpartsin IheeaSl, Ihey became inlroduced lo Ihe Pauli cianism, whose infi uence produced the heresy ofthe Cathars,that was adopted by the Guilhemids,andultimatel y fi guring in Ihe loreof Iheir seerel bl oodline,Ihe Graillegends.Therewasone uni on inparti cul ar,whi ehsetoff the beginning of thi srelati onship,andfrom whieh would deri ve the most importantline of deseent, and whieh would later fi gurealIhe cenler of Ihevarious coverlacti vilies of Ihe early predecessors oC the Illuminati.That union was the one betweenAdi va, the daughter of Edward theElder,KingofEngland,andBoleslav1,theDukeofBohemi a,andthe person produced wasa daughter named Dubrawka." At the endof the eighth eentury AD, Bohemia,like the neighbouring sates ofGreat Moravia and Hungary, felltothe invading Magyars, and Boleslav 1, knownas"IheCruel",beeameIhefirsl kingof anindependenlBohemi a, after he led a Czechforce inalliancewith 0110 the Great, that wasvictori ous over themin955 AD. In965AD,aJewishmerchantnamedlbrahimibnJakubnoted that the Jews of Prague, the capital ofBohemi a,were important persons andacti ve ___________________The Mcmv1ngians inboth local andlong-distanttrade.According to theLetterof King Joseph, HasdaiibnShaprut,whowasforeignmini stertoAbdal-Rahman,Sultanof Cordova,madefirslunsuccessfulattempl loresorlloIheByzanline embassy totransmit hisletter to the king of theKhazars.But, theenvoysofBoleslav 1,whoweretheninCordova,andamongwhomweretwoJews,Sauland Joseph,suggestedadifferentplan.TheyofferedtosendthelettertoJews li vinginHungary,who,intheirturn,wouldtransmitittoRussia,andfrom there throughBulgari a,toitsdestinati on atIt1.As theenvoysguaranteedthe delivery of the message,Hasdai accepted the proposa1. 20 Dubrawka,thedaughterofBoleslavandAdi va,marriedMieszko1 KingofPoland,amemberofthePi astdynasty.Mi eszkoandDubrawka's daughter, Adelaide,married Geza Arpad."Theirdaughter Hercegno marri ed GavrilRadomir, the son of Samuil, Tsar of Bulgaria."Samuil wasone offour sonsof PrinceNikolaKumet,Countof Bulgaria,whowasdescendedfrom Kubral IhefirslKing of Bulgari a,himself descended from Attila IheHun." Another branchofthe Turks,the Bulgars, during theseventhcentury AD,hadcomeunderdominati onoftheKhazars,withwhomtheyshareda language.The Khazarsforced sorne ofthe Bulgars tomove to the upper Volga Ri verregionwheretheindependentstateofVolgaBulgariawasfounded, while olher BulgarsfIed lo modern-dayBulgari a. Through Jewish infI uence, Nikola Kumet's sons were al!given Jewish names,whi chinc1uded David,Moses,andAaron.NikolamarriedRhipsime Bagratuni , the daughter of Ashot 11Erkat, Shahanshah of Armeni a. 24Bagratuni was the name ofthe dynasty that succeed the Mamikoni ans as rul ers of Armeni a, in the ninth century AD, andc1aimed Jewish descent.Moses of Chorene, who wrote a History of Armenia at the request of Isaac Bagratuni , the middle ofthe fiflhcenlury AD, slaled Ihal King Hracheye joined Nebuchadnezzar in his firsl campaign againsttheJews, and took part in the siege of Jerusalem.From among thecapti veshesel ected thedistinguished Jewishchief Shambat,and brought himwithhisfamilyto Armeni a.Shambatwaspurportedlydescendedfrom Nedabi ah, the son of Tamar of the DavidicDynasty, the daughter of Johanan Prince of Judah. 25It isfrom thisShambat the Bagratuni c1 aimdescent." TheseBulgarianCsarsbecamedefendersof Bogomilism,aGnostic heresy that developed in Bulgari a, inthe tenthcentury AD, from Manichaeism and Paulici ansism.In 970AD, the Byzantine emperor John Tzimisces, himself ofArmeni anorigin,transplantedasmanyas200,000ArmenianPaulici ans toEurope,andsettledthemintheBalkans,whichthenbecamethecentre forthespreadof theirdoctrines.Settledthereasakindof bul warkagainst theinvadingBulgarians,but the Armenians,instead,converted themtotheir reli gion, eventual!y evolving into what is known asBogomilism.'7 Si gnifying in Slavoni c "fri ends of God", Iheir doclrine mainlained Ihal God had two sons,the elder Satanael, the younger Jesus.To Satanael, who sat on the ri ght handof God, belonged theright of governing the celestialworld, 67 Tr.rrorism68 bul ,filledwilhpride,herebelledagainSIhisFalherandfellfromHeaven. Then,aidedbythecompanionsofhi sfall ,hecreatedthevisibleworld,the image of thecelestial, having like the otherits Sun,Moon, andstars,andlast he created man andthe serpentwhich became hi s mini ster. Later Chri st carne to earth in order to showmen the way to heaven, but His death was ineffectual, for even by descending into Hell he could not defeat thepowerofSatanael.Thebelief intheimpotenceof Christandtheneed therefore to appease Satan, led to the doctrine that Satan should be worshipped. Nicet asChoni ates,a Byzantine hi storian ofthe twelfth century,described the followersof IhiscullasSalanisls because,"considering Salan powerfulIhey worshippedhimle SI hemighldoIhem harm. "" In Ihe firsl half of Ihe lenlh cenlury.Bogomil leaching, led by Ihe prieSI Bogomil, appearedinMacedonia.Within a short periodof time Bogomilism had grownintoalarge-scalepopul armovement.TheByzantineEmpirewas unabletoeradicatetheheresy,andDavid,Moses, AaronandSamuil,began arebellionin869todefendBogomilismagainstitsenemies,resultingin breakingMacedoni aawayfromIheBulgari anEmpire,eSl ablishingIhefirsl Slavic-Macedonian state.After their considerable territori al conquests Samuil wasproclaimed Emperor andwascrowned by thePope of Rome. 29 8 IbIl1Jl1k=o' gn1DJoll:The Assassins The Sabians DuringIheearl yMiddle Ages,anewpowerappearedonIhescene,aIhreal Ihalwouldultimalel yconlribuleloIheCrusades.TheimpelusbehindIhis grealexpansionofIhe Arabs,IhalledloIhecoll apseofIhePersianEmpire, andseizureofmuchofIhelerriloriesofIheformerRomanEmpire,was IhereligionofIslam,revealedloMohammedinIhesevenlhcenluryAD. Essentially, Islam did notc1aimto be a newreligion, butto be a reaffi rmation oflhe limeless message senl lo mankindsince Ihe beginning oflime, including Ihe prophels oflhe Bible, andJesus. However, in lime, Islam loo was subverted Ihrough Ihe same pernicious occultinfluencesthat wereinfecting Europe,froma communit y inHarran, in southeasternTurkey,knownastheSabians.ltwasthroughtheirinfl uence Ihal Ihere emerged Ihe mosl nolori ousof radical Islamicgroups, known asIhe Assassins, who, Ihrough conlacl wilh Ihe famous Knighls Templars during Ihe Crusades, would be resonsible for Iransmitting Ihe occult Iradilion lo Ihe West. Resulting infirsttheJoreof theHoly Grail ,the Jegendof thi scont act would alsoformIhebasisofSeottishRileFreemasonry.Finall y,IheIhemewould formIheralionalfor Ihe conlinued relal ionship belween IheMasons and Iheir counlerparts inIhe Easl,who would cl aimdescenlfrom IheAssassins, known astheMuslimBrotherhood.These aretheprimaryinstigatorsof "Islami c" terrorism, or faJseflagoperations on behalf of theIlluminaticonspiracy. TheSabianswererel aledloIheMughlasil ah,ofwhi ehManihad ori ginally been a member.By Iransmitting ils aneienlGnoslicand oceull lore IheIslamicworld,IhecullwouldconlribuleloIheemergenceof Ismailism, parti cul arl y Ihal facl ion cenlered in Egypl, wilh which Ihe occult organizalions oflhe Wesl would have a long lasling rel ali onship, andwhichin Ihe Iwenlielh cenlury,would produce Islamiclerrorism. SeholarsbelieveIheMandeansoriginaledinaJewish-Gnoslicgraup fram Jordan, who emi grated to Babylonia in thefirstorsecond century AD.The Sabians were rel aled lolhe Mandaeans.In Mandeans ofIraq and Iran, E.S. Drower mainlains Ihal in Ihe mass ofmalerial offered by Arab aulhors Ihere isa good deal 69 Tr.rrorism70 to indicate that the Sabians had points of common belief with the Mandeans, and thatthe Sabiansmerely chose to adoptthe language of Neoplatonisminorder to lend an air of schol arship and philosophy to their tenets.' Harran,originally knownasCarrhae,waslessthana hundredmiles fromSamosata,thecapitalofCommagene,andbelongedtotheRoman provinceofOsrhoene,whichwasoriginallygovernedbydescendantsof I zates ,daughter,whomarriedMannosVIKingof Osrhoene.ltwastheir daughter, Awdaof Osrhoene,whomarriedMithridates Arshakuni,thegreat-great-grandsonof Antiochus1 of Commagene,fromwhomweredescended thekingsof ArmeniaandParthi anandSassanidEmpiresof Persia. 'Often, accordingtoMedievalschol ars,thetermArmeniahadincl udedmuchof Anatolia,orotherwisereferredtocitiesontheSyrian-Mesopotamianroute, such asHarran, and Edessa, the capitolofOsrhoene.' TheSabianswere animportantschoolof translatorsof Greekworks intoArabic,primarilythosedealingwithmathematicalandastronomical works.Mostimportantly,the Sabianswerecon cernedwiththephilosophies ofHermeticism andNeoplatonism,which they transmitted to theArabs,who inturnwereresponsibleforintroducing theseideasto theWes1.Following the closing of the Academy, the lastofthe Neoplatonistsmoved east, seeking lemporary refuge al Ihe courlof Ihe Persian king, Ihough, finding Iheir si lualion inhospitable,theydepartedfromPersia to an unknown destination,sornesay to Harran innorthwesternIraq. According to al-Biruni,a Muslimscholar ofthe eleventh century AD, the Sabianswereoriginallyremnantsof JewsexiledatBabylon,where they hadadoptedtheteachingsof theMagi,orZoroastrians.These,hebelieves, were therealSabians.However, heindicates,thesamenamewasapplied to an occuIt community ofthe so-called Sabians ofHarran: TheyderivetheirsystemfromAgathodaemon, Hermes, Walis, Maba, Sawar. Theybeli evethatthese menandothersagesIi kethemwereprophets.Thi s sectis muchmoreknownbythename ofSabiansthantheothers,although theythemselvesdid not adopt this name befare 228 A. H. under Abb.sid rule, solely forthe purpose ofbeing reckonedamongthose fromwhom the duties ofOhimmi es(protected non-Muslimcommuni ty)areaccepted,and towards whomthelawsofOhimmy .re abserved.Befare thattime theywere called heathens.idolaters.and Harranians .. .. 4 The Sabians,accordingtoChwolsohn, author ofamonumental work, the Ssabier, retained a mixture ofBabylonian and Hellenistic religion, superposed with a coating ofNeoplatonism.'As Majid Fakhry has explained: Their religion,aswellasthe Hellenistic,Gnostic,andHenneticinfluencesunder whichtbeycarne,singularlyqualifiedtheHarranianslOserveasalinkinthe rransmi ssion ofGreek science to the Ara bs and to provide the Abbasid court from the ThcAsSossillS beginning ofthe ninth centurywith ilSgreatly prized elass of eOurt aSlTologers' TheSabians professed lOfollowHermes and Agalhodaimon, identifi ed wilhSelh andEnoeh.Essenlially,likeolher dualislieseels, IheSabians laughl Ihepossibilily of salvalion Ihroughgnosis,whiehisattainedinbypassing evil ArehonsIhalobslruclIheascenlof IhesoulIhroughIheheavenl yspheres,lo reunionwilhIhesupremedeily.Thalsupremedeily,loIheSabians,wasIhe primal cause oflhe universe, bul had noconlactwilhmankindandinslead had placed Ihe universe under Ihe rul e oflhe planels.Hence Ihe Sabians worshipped Iheplanels,orralherIhedemoniebeingsIhalwerebelievedlogovernIhem. TheyweresaidlosaerificeloIhegodsofIhesevendaysof Iheweek,whose nameswerepartlyBabyl onianandpartlyGreek.Theywerealsorepuledlo celebrale "myslery"riles addressed principally lo Tammuz or lo Shamal, lord of Ihe Jinn, and, inwhichIheywere suspecled ofmaking use ofhuman sacrifi ce.7 TheywererepuledlOsacrificeachild , whosefleshwasboiledandmadeinlo cakes, whichwere Ihen ealen by a certain cl ass of worshippers.' TheSabians,aelingasIranslalorsandaslrologers,wereresponsible for Ihe diffusion of myslical leaehings lo Ihe Islamic world, and of conlribuling loIhe formalion of a myslicalversion of Ihal failh,known as Sufism.11is also accepledIhalaselof SufiIreali ses,knownasIheEpisllesof IheIkhwanal Saffa wa Kkhull an al Wafa,or of "The Brelhren of Purily and Loyal Friends", aphilosophi cal and reli gious encyc1opedi a,which schol ars regardasreflecling elemenlsof Pythagorean,Neoplalonie,andIheIradilionsof IheMagi,were drawnup in Ihe ninlh cenlury AD, under Sabian influence. Itisgenerall yagreedIhalIheEpistlesofIheIkhwanasSaffawere composed by leading proponenls ofthe Ismailisec!.The Ismailis were a splinler group oflhe Shiah, a secl Ihalresulled from a splil inIsl am, in Ihe middle oflhe sevenlh cenlury, over who was lo be Iherighlfulsuccessor of Mohammed.The majorily, known as Sunnis, adhered lo Ihe Khilafas,Abu Bakr, Ornar and Osman, while Ihe Shiah insisled on Ihe sueeessorship of Ali, Ihe Prophel's nephew. Through Ihe inll uence of Sufism, Ihe cenlral instiluti on of Ihe Shiah, Ihe Imam, Ihe offi ce occupied by Iheir leaders, had acquired a myslical signifi cance. Thisoffice of ImamwasIhoughllOhave beenpassed on direcllyfromAh, lO Ihe sixlhImam,Jafar asSadiq,andIhenon Ihrough lo Ihe Iwelfth Imam,who disappearedin873AD.The Shiahmajorily,following IwelveImams,were known as Twel vers.Sorne of Jafar 's followers, however, remained loyallo hi s son Ismail,andcame lo be known asSeveners, orIsmailis. The Ismallls While lerrorismdoesnolbelong inIslam,ilwasamelhod of polilical aclion firsl devised bya seCI of Ihe Ismailis, known asIhe Assassins.However, ilwas 71 Tr.rrorism72 Ihe Crusaders who firsl carne inlo conlact wilh IheAssassins who imporled Iheir teehiques to Europe,where they were later reintrodueed to theFreemasons of Egypt,toproduceIslamieterrorismoInparticul ar,theIsmailisperfeeteda method ofindoetrination that would be employed by the Illuminati throughout the subsequent eenturies.Though they professed outwardly to represent Islam, theIsmailiswereeommittedtoIslam'sdeslruclion.Therefore,Iheydevised grades ofinitiali on, wherein the leaders couldadhereto heretieal Gnoslic beliefs, while restrieling the lower levels to professing sorne degree of orthodoxy.Thi s allowed themto appear lodefendthefaith,allthewhileworkingtowardsits destruetion, Ihusreeruiting the lower ranksinlo undermining the reli gion they falsely believed themselves to be represenling. ltwasanallegedmemberof theBrethrenof Purity,Abdullahibn Maymun,a charismalicleader,whosueceededineapturingtheleadership of theIsmailimovementinabout872 AD.Though Ihe earliestIsmailishad not devialed fromIhe cenlral lenels of Islam, ilwas primarilyIhrough hisinfluence IhalIhemovemenlbecamedefi nilelysubversive,andnolJUSIof Islam,bul eventuallyof allreli gions.IbnMaymun,who hasbeenvariouslydeseribed asa Jew, asa follower of Ihe Mesopolamian Gnoslie heretie Bardasanes, and, mostcommonly, asa Zoroaslriandualisl,wasbroughtuponGnosticism,but waswellversedinallreligions.ForIbn Maymun,Islam wasmerel y a front. The purpose ofthe seven degrees of inili ation ofthe seel known as the Batinis, whieh he ereated, was, aeeording to Nesta Webster: _.. lOlink logelher nto onebody thevanqui shedandthelOunitein theformofa vastsecret societywithmanydegrees ofinitiation free-thinkers -who regarded reli giononly asa curb for the people - andbigolSof all sects;to rnakelools of believers inorder LOgive power lOLOinduce conquerors toovertumtheempirestheyhadfounded;10buildupaparty,numerous, compact,anddisci plined,whichindue timewouldgivethethrone,if notto himsel f,at least to hisdescendants,suchwas Abdull ahibn Maymun' s general aim- anextraordinaryconceptionwhichheworkedoutwithmarveloustaet, incomparableskill , and a profound knowledge ofthe humanhearl.Themeans whichhe adoptedwere devised withdiabolioalcunning ... l twas ...not amongtheShi -itesthathesoughthistruesupporters,but amongtheGhebers,lhe Manicheans,the pagansofHarran, andlhe students ofGreekphilosophy;onthelastalonecouldherely,tothemalonecould hegraduall y unfoldthefinalmystery,andrevealthat lmams,reli gions,and morality were nothing but animposture andanabsurdity.Therest ofmankind - the"assess,"asAbdullahcalledthem- wereincapableofunderstanding suchdoctrines.BULLOgainhisendhebyno meansdisdainedtheiraid; on the contrary,he solicited it, buthe took care toinitiate devoutandlowly soul s onlyinthefirstgradesofthesecloHismi ssionarie s,whowereinculcated withtheideathattheirfirstdutywastoconcealtheirtruesentimentsand adaptthemselvestothe views of their auditors,appearedinmanyguises, and spoke,as it were,ina di fferentlanguage toeachc1ass ... ThcAsSossillS vBy meanssuchasthese the extraordinary result was brought about thata multitudeof menof di verse beliefswereallworkingtogetherforan obJect knownonl y toafewof them .. . Amongthefollowersof AbdullahwasHamdanQarmat.Hebecame the founder of the Qaramit ah, which became active in Arabia, where a number of Arabswereenlistedintothesociety.Heputforwardto themarguments borrowedfromGnosticdualism, permil1edthempillage,andtaughtthemto abandon prayer, fasting and other precepts.Asa result ofthese teachings,the Qaramit ah rapidly became a band ofbrigands,pillagingand massacring all those who opposed them, and spreading terror throughoutthe surrounding districts. The Qaramit ah succeeded in dominating lraq, Yemen, and especially Bahrain, and in 920AD, extended their ravages westwards.They took possession ofthe holy city of Mecca,indefense of which thirty thousand Muslimswere killed. ThemajorityofIsmailisbelievedthesuccessorshipof theImam continuedamong theFatimiddynasty,whohasestablishedtheirowncaliph andmovedtheircapitaltoCairoin973AD.Thefounderof theFatimid dynastywasUbeidullah,knownastheMahdi,who cl aimeddescentthrough a lineof "hiddenimams",fromMuhammad, sonof lsmail , andthrough him, fromFatimah, daughter ofthe Prophet.He was accused of Jewish ancestry by hisadversariesthe Abbasids,the Sunnirulersof Baghdad,who declared him thesonorgrandsonof Ahmed,sonof AbdullahibnMaymun,byaJewess. After the establishmentoftheir power inEgypt, the substance ofthe teaching ofthe Fatimids wasnot very different fromthe code ofAbdullah Ibn Maymun, andhis moreviolentinitiate, Qarmat. In988AD,theFatimidsestabli shedtheuniversityof Al Azhar,the oldest university in the world, and themost prestigious educationalinstitution inIslam, thoughnowundertheorthodoxSunnis.In1004 AD,theFatimids established the Dar ul Hikmat, or the "House of Wisdom", as a wing of Al Azhar. Under the directionof thisGrandLodge of Cairo, theFatimids continued the plan of AbdullahibnMaymun's secretsociety, withthe addition oftwo more degrees,making nineinall.Ashe progressedthroughthesedegrees,at first, theinitiatewas persuaded that allhisformer teacherswere wrong,and that he must place his confidence solely in the Imams of the Ismailis, asopposed to the twelve Imams ofthe Twelvers.Eventually, he was taughtto disregard the laws of Islam, and t aughtthedoctrinesof dualism.Finally,in the ninth degree,the adept wastaught thatallreli gious teachingwasallegorical,andthat religious lawsneed be observedonly tomaintainorder,whilehewhounderstandsthe truthmay disregard allsuch constraints. 73 Tr.rrorism74 111e Assassins A fatal schism split the Ismailis over thesuccession to theFatimidCaliphal-Mustansir,who diedin1094 AD.TheEgyptianIsmailisrecognizedhisson al Mustali,but theIsmailis ofIran andSyria heldtheclaimfor hi s olderson, Nizar.TheNizariwereled by Hasan Sabbah.Havinginiti all y convertedto theIsmailisect,andthendeclaring himself tobeadevotedadherentofthe Fatimid Caliphs,Hasan Sabbahjourneyed to Cairo, where he wasreceived by the Dar ulHikmat.His actions having eventuall y embroiled himin di sgrace, hefledto Aleppo.After enli sting recruitsina number of cities, hesucceeded inobtaining thefortressof AlamutinPersia,on theCaspi an Sea.Therehe completedtheplansforhi sgreatsociety,theinfamousAssassins,deriving their name fromthe Arabichashishim, or "eaters of hashi sh," referring tothe marijuana they consumed forritual purposes. At Alamut, Hasan and his followers established a castle, or the Eagle' s Nest,whereHassanSabbahtookthetraditionaltitleof SheikhalJabal,or "OldManof theMountain".Accordingto a legend reported byMarcoPolo, theOldMan hadmade, "thebiggest andmostbeautifulgardensimaginable. Everykindof wonderfulfruitgrewthere.Therewereglorioushousesand palacesdecoratedwithgoldand paintingsof themostmagnifi centthingsin the world.Fresh water, wine, milk and honey fIowed in streams.The loveliest girlsversedintheart sof caressingandflatteringmenplayedeverymusical instrument,dancedandsangbetterthananyotherwomen.'"TheOldMan wouldmakehisdupesfallasleep, sothatwhentheyawoke,theywouldfind themselves in the garden, which he persuaded themwas the Paradise described byMohammed.Soassuredofitsexistence,theywerewillingtorisktheir li vesonanymi ssion assigned to them. The Assassins waged an international war ofterrorism against anyone thatopposedthem,buteventuall yturnedoneachother.TheOldManof theMountainwasmurderedbyhisbrother-in-IawandhissonMohammed. Mohammed,inhi s turn, whil eaiming to take thelifeofhis son Jalal ud-Din, wasinstead anticipated by him with poi son, though hi s son was again avenged by poison, so that fromHassan theIlIuminator, downto the last of hisline of Grand Masters,allfellby the hands oftheirnext-of-kin. Finallyin1250 AD, theconqueringMongols,leadbyManguKhan, sweptoverAlamutandannihil atedtheAssassins.Nevertheless,Nizaris survived,though intworival lines.Theminor line died outby the eighteenth century,while themajorline,ledbyan imamcalled AgaKhan,movedfrom IrantoIndiain1840.Hisfollowers,whoareestimatedtonumberinthe millions,are stillfoundin Syria,Iran, andCentral and South Asia,the largest group being inIndia and Paki stan,where they are known asKhcj as. 9 IbIl1Jl1k=o' OOHou=:The Holy Grail The Norman Conquest ItwasduringtheCrusades,astruggleinceptedt oservethedesignsofthe Guilhemids,thatthesefamiliescarneintocontactwiththeAssassins,and import ed theirdoctrines toEurope,where theyeventuall y became knownas Scotti sh Rile Freemasonry.The importance of Scotl and was Ihal il was Ihoughl lobeIhereIhalIhesacredbl oodlinewasIhoughllosurvive,characlerized by theirredhair.Whil ealsoderi vingfromScylhi a,during theCrusades,a parti cul ar bloodline wascomposed, by way of inlermarriage withthe Eastern arislocracy, again, Ihrough the important person of Dubrawka of Bohemi a,to resultin the sacred bloodline ofthe Stuarts and Sinc1airs, TheSinc1airswereaNormanfamil ydescendedfromRoll oIhe Viking,aNormanVikingleader,whomarri edPoppaofBavari a,Ihegreal-granddaughlerofWilli amofGell one,andfromwhomweredescendedIhe DukesofNormandy.Roll oIheVikingwasIhesonofRangvaldtheWi se, JarlofOrkney.Orkney consists of about two hundred smallislands just north ofCaithnessinnorthernScotl and.TheislandswereinvadedbyVikingsin Iheninlhcenlury AD,whereIheyrul edasJarls,andmadeIheislandsIhe headquarters for Iheir raiding expedilions. Sludies have di scovered thal Ihe genetic componenlof the population ofOrkneyischaracterizedbya typenolfoundinolherBrilishsamples,but onein highfrequencyinRussia,Ukraine,Bohemi a,and throughoutCenlral Asia, andrare inEasl Asia and Weslern Europe.According a study, litl ed The EurasianHeartl and: AconlinenlalperspecliveonY-chromosomedi versily, conducled by Ihe Nali onal Academy of Sciences, Ihe di slribulion of Ihi s gene groupingis" ... likel ytorepresenttracesofananeientpopul ationmigration originating in southern Russia/Ukraine", where itisfound at a hi gh frequeney. ' Inother words,thi s specifi c geneti c type originated inScythia. The infusion ofthe racial componenl ofthese new invaders inlothe peoples of Scotl andresulled inaprevalenceoflhered hair whi ch wascharaclerislicof IheScythi ans.Scoll andhasIhe hi gheslproporti on ofredheadsof any counlry in the world, with aroundIhirteen pereenloflhe popul ati on having naturall y red 75 Tr.rrorism76 hair.Afurtherforty pereenl of Seols earry Ihevarianlgene whiehresultsinred hair.Ireland,aswell , hasIhesecondhighesl populalionofnalurall yredheaded people in Ihe world, amounling lo aboul len percenl of ils inhabilanls-' RagnvaldwasIhegreal-grandsonofHalfdan IheOld.Accordinglo Snorri,Halfdan IheOldwas Ihemosl famous of allkings.Halfdan performed a human sacrifi ce at the winter solsti ce, that he mi ght ve three hundred years. InSlead,however,hereeeivedIheanswer Ihalhewouldnolli vemoreIhan thenormalspanof aman'slife,bulIhalforIhreehundredyearsallof his descendanlswould achieve greal repul e. Emma of Normandy, Ihe daughler ofRollo'sgreal-grandson,Richard DukeofNormandy,marri edElheIredIheUnready, Ihesonandsuccessorof Edward Ihe Elder.When Englandwas invaded by Sven I ofDenmark, ElheIred was foreed to flee fromEngland to Normandy, to seek shelter with his brother-in-Iaw,Robert.ElhelredrelurnedloEnglandinonly1014 AD,aflerSven died,bul he himseIf also diedonly Iwo yearslaler. ElheIredIheUnreadywasIhensucceededbyhi sson,Edmund11 Ironside.However,CanuleIheGreal,Ihesonof SvenandGunhilda,Ihe daughler ofDubrawka andMieszkoI ofPoland, enjoyed grealer support from the Englishnobilily.'Nevertheless, Elhelred and Canule, negoli aleda peace, inwhich IheyagreedIhalupon eilherof Iheirdealhs,lerriloriesbelonginglo the deceased would be ceded lo Ihe li ving. WhenEdmundIIdied,CanulebecameKingofEngland,Denmark andNorway.Toassocialehi slinewilhIheoverthrownEngli shdynasly, andloinsurehimself againslattackfromNormandy,whereElheIred'solher son,EdwardIheConfessor,andAlfred Alheling,remainedinExile,Canule marriedElhelred'swidow,Emmaof Normandy.HeIhendesignaledIheir sonHarthacanuleasheir l o Ihe Ihrone,inpreference lohisolher son, Harold Harefool,an illegilimale child by AelgifuofNorthamplon, a concubine. Inopposili onlohi sbrolher,HaroldprocI aimedhimselfKingof Englandin1037AD,afterIhedealhof hisfalher,andhad Alfred AlheIing blindedand killed when Ihey attempled lorelurn lo England.Haroldhimself died in1040 AD, andHarthaeanule, who was jusI Ihen preparingan invasion, succeededhimloIheIhrone.HarthacanuleIheninviledhishalf-brolher Edward Ihe Confessor back fromNormandy, lo become his co-ruler and heir. EdwardIheConfessorIhenheardIhalanolherhalf-brolher,Edward the Exil e,Iheson of Elhelred IheUnready byanolher woman, was slillalive, hehadhimreealledloEnglandandmadehimhi sHeir.Whenonlyafew monthsold,CanutetheGreathadsentEdmund'sson,Edwardthe"Exile"to be murdered in Denmark.Inslead, however, he was secrelely broughl lo Kiev, andIhenmadehi swayloHungary.InHungary,EdwardIheExilemarried Agalha ofBulgaria, Ihe daughler ofGavrilRadomir, son ofSamuil ofBulgaria. Agalha'smolherwasHercegnoof Hungary,daughlerofGezaand AdeIaide, daughler of MieszkoI andDubrawka' ___________________Thc Hnly Crail However,EdwardtheExilediedshortlyafterhisretum,SOEdward madehi sgreatnephewEdgarAthelinghisheir.ButEdgarhadnose cure following among thenobles.Theresultingsuccession crisisopened theway for the successfulinvasion by Willi am the Conqueror, Duke ofNormandy, the sonof Robertof Normandy.ThoughEdgar Atheling waselectedkingafter Harold'sdeath,hewasbrushedasidebyWilliamof Normandy,whowould use hisrel ationship,asgrandnephewof Ethelred theUnready,asthe basisof hiscl aimtothe throne, cl aiming that thechildless Edward theConfessor had chosen him his heir. Willi amfurtherslrengthenedhisclaimbymarrying,in1053AD, Malildaof Flanders.MalildawasdescendedfromBaldwin11of Flanders,of theGuilhemids, whohad married Ethelswilh, Ihedaughter of Alfred theGreat. Baldwin11wasthe son of Judithof England, thedaughter of Charles theBald andErmenlrude of Orleans,herself thedaughterofWilli amof Gell one'She wasfirstmarriedtoEthelwulf before she married Baldwin's I1father,Baldwin I CounlofFlanders.BaldwinII 's grandson,Baldwin111Counl ofFlanders,was married lo Malilda ofBillung, whose falher, Herman Billung, was Ihe brolher lo Oda Billung. mother of Otto "the IIIustrious", Holy Roman Emperor.Matilda's grandfather,BaldwinIVCountof Flanders,marriedOlgiveof Luxembourg, daughler ofFrederick ofLuxembourg, brother ofSaint Cunigunde. Camelot Thismarri age effecled inHungary came al a poinl when Ihe numerous slrains of Ihisdispersedbloodlinewerereconnecled,jusIinlimeforIheCrusades, whichbroughtinloexistenceanumberof organizationsIhatinceptedthe occultconspiracy in Europe.The daughterof EdwardIheExileandAgalha of BulgariawasSI.MargaretQueenofScotland'Thus,whenshemarried Malcolm111ofScotland,whowasdescendedfromAidan,thefatherof King Arthur, Ihe joinlSaxonandKhazar herilagewasjoined loIhe Scottish. Malcolm and Margarel's son became David 1 ofScotland, while David's sisler, Editha,married Henry1 King of England, theson of WilliamtheConqueror. Itwas their descendanlS,Ihe Stuarts and Sinclairs, the purported Grailfamily, whowouldfi gure centrall y incoming developments. One infl uencing factorin the ri seof Arthurian legend among the Normans wasIhal Willi am Ihe Conqueror wasalso a descendanlof IheBrelons,who had alsosupportedWilli amIheConqueroralIheBattleof Haslings,providinga large proportion of the kni ghts.TheBretons had kept alive Ihe legends of King Arthur. broughtwiththemwhentheyfledBritainduringtheSaxoninvasions fivecenturies earlier.The reason being, astheauthorsof theHolyBloodHol y Grailhaveshown,mighthavebeen Ihal,incontrast tolater Grailchroniclers, WolframvonEschenbach,insleadlocalingof ArthurinBrilain,mainlained 77 Tr.rrorism78 thathiscourt of CamelotwassituatedinFrance, quite specifically atNantesin Brittany.According 10 Wolfram, Ihen,Arfhur's courf is inBrillany. Originallysettledby CelticIribes,Brittany wasconquered by Julius Caesar in 56Be.Chrislianised in Ihe Ihird cenlury, Brittany was successively invaded by IheSaxons,in Ihe Ihirdcenlury.InIhefourfhcenlury,Romanized Brilons fromacross IheEnglishChannel slarfed 10settle, and al an increasing raleasRomanIroopsbeganIheirwilhdrawalfromBrilain,havingbeen pushedbyIheraiding Anglo-Saxons.TheimmigranlBrilonsgave Iheregion ilscurrenlname andconlribuled 10IheBrelonlanguage,a sislerlanguage 10 Welshlanguage and Cornish. During Ihe ninlh cenlury AD,Brittany was severely affecled by Viking allacks,conlribuling 10Ihenobililybeing fraughlbydynaslicdispules.The aulhorilyof IhereigningdukessufferedevenfurfherfromIhepressuresof resisling cl aims by bolh Ihe dukes ofNormandy and Ihe counls of Anjou.This processof fragmenl alionwashalted andreversedfromIheelevenlhcenlury, wheninlermarriageresultedinIhe ducallitle vesling inoneindividual,Duke AlainIV,andscionof a direclline of descenlofkings of Brittany, andbefore Ihal, of Brilain, descended fromUyr Ihe CelticSea god,Ihe falher of Bran Ihe ArchDruid,whomarried Anna,Ihedaughlerof Josephof Arimalhea.Bran andAnna had Iwelve sons,andilwas Alain le Gros,Iheiryoungeslson,who became known asIhe Fisher King, andKeeper of IheGrail. 7 Alain IVDuke ofBrittany married Ermengarde ofAnjou, Ihe daughler of FulkIV.Thecounlsof AnjouweredescendedfromIngelger,Counlof Anjou, who was kni ghted by Louis, son ofCharles the Bald, asthe first lord of Anjou.Ingelger wasIhefalherof FulkI of Anjou,whose grandson, Geoffroi I comle d'Anjou marriedAdelaide ofVermandois.TheHouse ofVermandois were Guilhemids,descended fromfromGuillaume's daughler Cunigonde and Bernardof 11aly,grandsonof Charlemagne.Their son wasFulkIIICounlof Anjou,whose daughler, anolher Ermingarde, was Ihemolher of Fulk 1. Ermengardhadpreviouslybeenmarried10Willi amIXDukeof Aquilaine,wholivedfromlO? I10111 2AD.Hewasdirecldescendanl ofGui ll aumedeGellone.HisgranddaughlerwasEleanoreof Aquilaine. Eleanor'sfalherwasWilli amXof Aqualaine,andhermolher,Philippaof Toulouse.Eleanor inheriled Ihe Duchy of Aquilaine,and,marrying Louis VI , Ihe grandson ofPhilip 1, becamequeen ofFrance.However, Eleanor's conducl arousedLouis'sjealousyandmarkedIhebeginningof Iheireslrangemenl. Their marriagewasfinallyannulled in1152AD. Eleanor Ihenmarried Henry11Kingof England.FulkIV'sson,Fulk VwasIhefalherof GeoffreyVPlanlagenel,IhroughwhomwereuniledIhe Guilhemid,Norman,Saxon andKhazzarianlines,when hemarriedMalilda, Ihedaughler of HenryI of England,andEdilahaof Scotland.Theirsonwas Henry11,who became King ofEngland in1154AD, andmarried Eleanore of Aquilaine, Ihe granddaughler of WilliamIXof Aquilaine. ___________________Thc Hnly Crail Thus, Henry1Iranksasthe firstof the Plantagenet kingsof England, andIhrough hismarri agelo Eleanor,eslablished Ihe AngevinEmpire,asilis caBed, that controlled a domaindwarfing thepower of France, and incorporating a11of England, half of France,aswe11asScotlandandIreJand.Eleanore bore himfi vesonsandthreedaughters,oneof whomwasRi chard1,"theLion-Hearted",who succeededhisfatherasking of England, andunderwhomthe Angevin Empire attained ils hei ghl. The Cathars Somehow,perhapsIhroughIheseinlermarriages,PaulicianandBogomil infl uencesendedupininsouthernFrance,amongtheGuilhemids,where IheyproducedIheheresyof IheCalhars.Though,Ihisheresyalsoreceived influences fromthe Kabbal ah, whi ch was then flourishing inthe region.lt was Eleanor'sgrandfather, William IXof Aquitaine,who isrecognized as thefirst of thetroubadours,partof aculture of "Court1yLove"that developedoutof the influence of Catharism, whi ch tl ouri shed in the Languedoc, parti cul arl y the regionsofToul ouse and Aquilaine. Essenlia11y,IheCalharswereGnoslic.TheNewTeslamenlIhey attribuled lo Ihe benevolenl God, bul Ihal Ihe God oflhe Old was evil, equaling himwilh Salan.They beJieved also Ihal Ihe Chrisl who was born in Ihe visible, andterrestri alBethlehem,andcrucifi edinJerusalem,wasanevilman,and Ihal Mary Magdalene was his concubine.For Ihe good Chrisl, as Ihey c1aimed, neverale,nordrank,andnever assumedphysical form,exceplspirilua11yin thebodyofPaul.TheyalsoregardedtheChurchofRomewasa"denof thieves", and asthe harlotof the Apocalypse. ' TheCalharsalsopraclicedvegelarianismandbelievedinaform ofreincarnali on.Marriagewasfrownedupon,andIhey believedIhalIhose whoborechildrencouldnolbesavedinIhisworld.1Iwasasaresultof thisparticularbeliefthattheterm"buggery"wasintroduced,sinceifthey werelogiveinlosexuallemplalioninIhismanner,ilwouldalleaslensure Ihalnochildrenresulled.And,likeIheGnoslicsbeforeIhem,IheCalhars wereaccusedof engaginginsexualorgies,somelimesinvol vingincesl,and of practi cing secret ritualsinworshipoftheDevil , invol ving thesacrifi ce of children and eating theirtleshincannibalisti c rites. The Crusades GershomScholem,Iheforemoslscholarof Ihesucjecl,acknowledgedIhal Catharismwasinfl uencedbyaKabbali sti ctex tknownastheSepherha-Bahir.The originoflhe work isunknown.Though Ihere hadbeenimportanl 79 Tr.rrorism80 mysticaldevel opmentsleadinguptothattime,theteachingsof theRabbis oftheLanguedocregionunderwentapowerfultransformati on,duetothe infusionof anewmysticaltraditi on, whichtheBahir exemplifi ed,Schol ars of theKabbalahhave been unable to accountfor the sourceof thistraditi on, however,because it represented a formof classical Gnosti cismof a kindthat had disappearedsince thefirst centuries AD. One possible avenue for the transmi ssion ofthe Gnostic knowledge of the Sepher ha-Bahir, corroborated by rumours familiar in the occult,is that the infamousKni ghtsTemplarhadundertakenexcavati onsbeneaththeTemple of Solomon inJerusalem.Therefore, beca useofthespeci al associations that persisted between the Templ ars and the Cathars, aswellas the leading famili es oftheLanguedocregion,itwouldappearthattheCrusadeswereinsti gated deliberatel ytoprovidetheTemplarsthi sveryopportunity,becauseitwas likelyknownamongthemthatsuchtexts,orothertreasures,stillremained buried beneath the Temple. InMarchof1095,ambassadorssentbyByzantineemperor Al exiusI called for help indefending hi s empire against the Seljuk Turks.Later that year, at the CouncilofClermont,PopeUrbanIIcalleduponallChri sti ans to join a waragainsttheTurks,promisingthosewhodiedintheendeavorimmediate remissionoftheirsins.Thefi rsttorespond,aragtagbandledbyPeterthe Hermit, were known collecti vely asthe People's Crusade.However, lacking in military discipline, andill-equipped, they were massacred by the Seljuk Turks. Theventurethatdidsucceedwastheoneledbytheleading representati ves ofthe Guilhemids, known as the Princes'Crusade.The son of Alexius I Comnenus, John IIComnenus, married Pir