Presented as the Protestant counterpart in Jiang's secret battle with the Jesuits.
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Freemasons
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Key Notes
Secret society Jiang says partly descends from Templar survivors after the 1307 suppression.
Kabbalah becomes, for Jiang, the most powerful mystical tradition because it makes Biblical stories deeper, more physical, and more action-driving than monkish contemplation alone.
Jiang argues that competing secret societies seek legitimacy, authority, and cohesion by retroactively inventing long genealogies that connect themselves to older orders such as the Freemasons or Knights Templars.
Jiang says Pike rewrites history so the Freemasons become the endpoint of the Knights Templars and uses prior persecution by the French crown and Catholic Church to justify secrecy, legitimacy, and authority for the later order.
England becomes attractive to wealth because it combines island security, naval protection, intermarriage, religion or secret societies, and contract law.
Jiang describes Jesuits and Freemasons as opposing Catholic and Protestant secret-intelligence systems fighting through infiltration, schools, oaths, and trained identities.
America is presented as a Freemason country because Jiang reads its founders, Washington D.C. design, and dollar symbolism as secret-society markers.
The new world order is framed as the culmination of Freemason symbolism and a topic to be developed in the next class.
The Knights Templar become a multinational bank by solving pilgrim money-transfer problems, then grow wealthy and heterodox enough that the Church bans them in 1307.
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"...world. It becomes a basis for most secret societies, especially the Freemasons. Okay? Which control America. Okay. And the thing about the Kabbalah that..."
"And the sexual aspect to the Kabbalah is what energizes, galvanizes people into action. Okay? The sexual nature comes from its physicality. Its corporality...."
"...not today in our school, but because we're connected to the Freemasons, or they're connected to the Knights Templars, okay? So they go back..."
"...going back into history and rewriting history to show that the Freemasons were the endpoint of history, the natural revolution of the Knights Templars...."
"...masonry, okay? So that's why we took the guise of the Freemasons, because the Freemasons were just a workers' guild who built temples. And..."
"...go deeper and say that science itself was a creation of Freemasons, right? That's what I was about to say, yes. Isaac Newton. They're..."
"Exactly. So, evolution, right? The theory of evolution. It's a really problematic theory. But, like, think about how, in, like, 20 years' time, it..."
"...control the modern state of Israel today. And you have the Freemasons. Which control the national security apparatus of the United States. And they..."
"So, even though the king dies, the people are liable for the debt, okay? Does that make sense? All right? So, now, if you're..."
"...the major secret society that facilitated trade, of course, were the Freemasons. But during this time, these two were really between eros. They were..."
"...of the Jesuits okay and response the Protestant Septim called the Freemasons okay we'll discuss this later on right but so so throughout history..."
"the Jesuits and the Freemasons they're using all sorts of really nefarious evil techniques including as we discussed traumatizing young children so they could..."
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