The history behind Yale's Skulls and Bones Society

Phi Beta Kappa began as a secret society for the educated elite, but the society soon decided to emerge above ground, which greatly angered the Yale valedictorian, which is why he created the Order of Skull & Bones in 1832 after spending a summer in Germany. Bones was based off a fraternity William H. Russell had joined while in Germany. Russell’s family ran the North American opium cartel.

The rituals of Bones bear a close resemblance to the rituals of Adam Weishaupt’s original Bavarian Illuminati, which took elements from an earlier Spanish secret society. The Bush family is the most important family inside Bones today, and during WWII Prescott Bush would supervise Union Bank’s extensive trading with the Nazis during the war.

The Boners are seeking to perfect themselves through the application of Hegelian rationalism. The original name for the Illuminati was “the perfectibilists.”

Of course, perfection is a vain and insurmountable objective, and it’s only the bait that draws in the acolytes. The real function of these secret societies is to bind a small group of overachievers into a mega-mind that can be tapped into for any purpose. Weishaupt knew it was important to recruit both virtuous and non-virtuous members, and to keep those two groups separate from each other.

Weishaupt had a few other rules, like: never use the name “Illuminati,” but always hide under some other name. Primarily the “beard” deployed was the lower degrees of Freemasonry. Members only knew their recruiter and the others they recruited, while rumors were spread that all the heads of the royal houses of Europe were members. Some of this seems to have been so, for when the society was revealed to be plotting global domination and in possession of poisons to advance their cause through murder, the most valuable secrets were shipped to the King of Sweden for safekeeping. He would later return the documents to a masonic lodge in Bavaria, where they were confiscated by the Nazis.

Timeline:

1478 — The Spanish Inquisition attacks the last vestiges of Manichaeism that had survived in a quasi-Christian form.

1509 — Inspired by tales of Camelot, Íñigo López de Loyola (Ignatius of Loyola), takes up arms for the Duke of Najera in Spain at age 18; wounded in battle, he studies the lives of the Saints while hospitalized; inspired by Francis of Assisi he develops guided meditation techniques while on pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

1517 — The Reformation begins at the University of Wittenberg, Germany.

1525 — Inquisitor General Alonso Manrique de Lara issues an edict against alumbrados, who believe enlightenment brings a state of impeccability that allows indulgence in sinful acts without staining the soul.

1534 — After graduating from the University of Alcala in his early thirties (where he studied theology and Latin) Ignatius falls in with a group of alumbrados and is called before the Inquisitor General to be grilled on his beliefs.

1539 — Ignatius founds the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) with six students at the University of Paris, all of whom have military experience; they quickly create schools and send missionaries around the world; and lead retreats that practice group silence, followed by guided group meditations. They become the Catholic Church’s vanguard against the Reformation, but begin to alarm Europe’s oligarchies with the speed with which they dominate trade and economic development, a lot of which stems from profits taken from the New World.

1614 — Three anonymous documents are circulated through Europe reporting on secret powers attained by mystics; they are all written as fake news, but become widely accepted as fact, launching the Protestant-connected Rosicrucian movement which is infested with fake mystics who deploy magic shows to lure high-ranking Freemasons and their wives into their staged seance psyops.

1773 — Bending to royal pressures, the Pope of Rome begins a campaign of suppression against the Jesuits to stem their growing influence.

1776 — The Illuminati is founded by Adam Weishaupt, a professor of canon law at a Jesuit university in Ingolstadt, Germany. 1777 — Weishaupt joins Freemasonry in order to secretly spread his society.

1784, 1785 and 1787 — Illuminati banned four times, some internal correspondence published, bans have little impact other than driving Weishaupt into retirement 1790.

1797 — History of Jacobinism by Augustin Barruel accuses Illuminati of fomenting the Reign of Terror as a massive psyop, a book written by the leading Jesuit of France; while Proofs of a Conspiracy by John Robison published in Scotland by a Protestant contains much of the same accusations.

1798 — An Illuminati scare spreads through New England, mostly through Protestant pulpits.

1818 — 20 year-old Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein, set in Ingolstadt; it is intended as an update on Prometheus and draws on the city’s reputation for Illuminist intrigues.

1826 — William Morgan murdered in Batavia, New York, after publishing an expose of Freemasonry.

1830 — Weishaupt dies but not before being reconciled with the Catholic Church, indicating his split with them may have been staged.

1832 — Order of Skull & Bones founded at Yale University after William Huntington Russell visits Germany and joins a college fraternity there during summer school. Skull & Bones rituals will mirror those of the original Illuminati.

1836 — Russell creates a military prep school in New Haven to prepare young men to serve as officers for a coming Civil War.

1837 — Funded by Russell, John Brown devotes himself to the destruction of slavery through violence, and sparks the war Russell was agitating for.

1880 — Prussian police spy Theodor Reuss revives the Illuminati in Munich, but the name of the order is soon changed to Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO).

After the Illuminati were exposed in the late 1770s, and found in possession of all sorts of devious spy tech, the real secrets of the order were shipped to the King of Sweden to protect them. These documents were eventually returned to a Masonic lodge in Bavaria, and were eventually seized by the Nazis, who briefly imprisoned the head of the OTO, and banned all masonic lodges, unless they pledged loyalty to Hitler.