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secrecy
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Key Notes
Secret societies gain power through secrecy, trust, and coordination, with eschatology functioning as the shared script that lets dispersed actors coordinate action.
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.
Their dialogue must operate as both public language and private language because hostile servants and suitor spies may overhear them.
Factional politics requires cheating inside a bureaucracy, so successful factions must solve secrecy, trust, and coordination through secret-society structures.
Jiang defines the strongest organization through hierarchy, purpose, selflessness, love, money, secrecy, discipline, energy, and negative emotions generated by sin.
Transgression is defined as breaking taboos, social norms, and social laws; Jiang proposes that greater transgression creates greater cohesion and synchronicity because secrecy becomes necessary for survival.
Because the pyramid had to appear as God on earth, Jiang argues its builders would preserve mystery by destroying models or records so later people saw it as a divine gift rather than a reproducible technique.
Secret societies solve three modern elite problems, secrecy, trust, and coordination, and blackmail is the mechanism that binds all three together.
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"...more power and control over other people. Okay? The first is secrecy. Second is trust. And the last is coordination. Okay? And how they're..."
"Okay, stop, okay, all right. Okay, great, okay. So, what he's doing, what Albert Pike is doing is trying to explain the eschatology of..."
"So we had to disguise ourselves under stone masonry, okay? So that's why we took the guise of the Freemasons, because the Freemasons were..."
"At the mind level, okay, this is really important. At the mind level, they are afraid of each other, but they long for each..."
"stranger prove to me that you actually know my husband okay so uh can you read uh ivory"
"...to solve three problems, okay? Three problems. These three problems are secrecy, trust, and coronation. Remember, in theory, everyone has to obey the bureaucracy,..."
"...certain aspects of secret societies. The first is the idea of secrecy. How do you do that? Well, you do that through the idea..."
"And what St. Zevi and Jacob Frank says is like, by sinning, by going against the laws of man, by being shunned by your..."
"...other. We let us pursue a material victory. They love money, secrecy, discipline, energy, and motivation. Okay? Self -hatred, fear, anger, jealousy. Okay? And..."
"...would benefit uh the members in today's society the first is secrecy second is"
"trust and the third is coordination okay so secrecy because you don't want to be discovered you know um if you are discovered that..."
"...um have three characteristics the first is the ability to maintain secrecy right because once you enter it it's like you swear to maintain..."
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