History's Mysteries investigates secret societies and the influence they have had on the world throughout history. Read all History's Mysteries investigates secret societies and the influence they have had on the world throughout history.
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Top cast Edit. Richard Schmidt. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. User reviews 1 Review. Top review. Yet another example of a historical show that is, in fact, crap.
Over the past couple decades, I've noticed that with so many channels on TV devoted to history and so many shows, they'll sometimes do or say anything to get our attention. Shows implying Jesus was an alien or that the Egyptians were helped by aliens are the rage--as are dopey shows like "Secret Societies". Why do I say dopey? Because they are short on facts, big at making mild accusations with no clear proof and feature self-proclaimed experts who are just idiots trying to promote themselves and their books.
Because of this less than historical approach, crap like this show gets made. But instead of giving us history and interviews with its members, it's a long succession of tired 'experts' making wild and seemingly baseless claims.
In , as the city of Paris watched, dozens of Knights Templar were burned at the stake for their alleged crimes. Under pressure from the French crown, Pope Clement V formally dissolved the order in and redistributed their wealth. Rumors that the Knights Templar guarded artifacts like the Holy Grail and Shroud of Turin began bubbling up among conspiracy theorists. A soldier of the Knights Templar, with the Cross of Lorraine pictured below. The Cross of Lorraine Croix de Lorraine in French is a double-barred cross that is featured prominently in the coat of arms of the Dukes of Lorraine.
Some eagle-eyed observers have claimed to spot the Cross of Lorraine in the Exxon and Nabisco logos and even stamped on Oreo cookies. Read more: Who Were the Knights Templar? The freemasons loom large in American history—after all, 13 of the 39 men who signed the U. Constitution were Masons. But who are the freemasons? The freemasons can trace their routes to the Middle Ages in Europe, a time when most craftsmen were organized into local guilds.
Cathedral builders, by nature of their profession, had to travel from city to city. Freemasonry quickly spread across Europe and to the American colonies. Freemasonry is not a religion, though members are encouraged to believe in a Supreme Being , or "Grand Architect of the Universe.
The Church first condemned the freemasons in and has gone on to issue around 20 decrees against them. A depiction of a Masonic ritual taking place in a New York Masonic lodge, circa Roosevelt and John Wayne. The view of the All-Seeing Eye as a masonic symbol has been sharply debated. Roosevelt purposefully chose it when they redesigned the dollar bill in Inspired by the spread of the Enlightenment across Europe, he also drew upon ideas expressed by the Jesuits he was a former member , the Mysteries of the Seven Sages of Memphis, the Kabbalah and freemasons.
He recruited heavily from the latter group, infiltrating masonic lodges in his quest to recruit some of the wealthiest and most influential men in Europe. The organization flourished before being stamped out by Karl Theodor of Bavaria, who issued an edict making membership in the Illuminati punishable by death in But the death of the Bavarian Illuminati did not quell gossip about their clandestine activities, and conspiracy theorists have linked the group to everything from the French Revolution to the assassination of JFK.
The prominent list of Bonesman includes several presidents and modern-day power brokers. Each year, 15 seniors at Yale are tapped to join Skull and Bones. Their names are published in Yale Rumpus , though what happens behind the closed doors of The Tomb , the windowless meeting space where Bonesmen gather twice a week, is under wraps: Members take an oath of secrecy. Bush and his son, George W. The symbol of Skull and Bones is, appropriately, a skull with two crossbones.
Yale Alumni Magazine points to a popular theory that it represents the year B. The first Bilderberg Meeting was in and held at the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands, from which the organization gets its name.
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