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 draw...