Weird Elites, Conspiracy, and the Christian World Order

From http://www.chalcedon.edu/blog/2008/01/elite-fraternity.php

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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Weird Elites, Conspiracy, and the Christian World Order

Each year, since 1899, the most powerful men in politics, finance, media, and industry have gathered together for over two weeks during July to engage in both bizarre rituals and serious discussion. Founded in 1872, the Bohemian Club of Northern California is one of the best kept secrets by America's Elite Establishment. Did you have any idea that the current president and his father are regular attendees? How about Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Clarence Thomas, Newt Gingrich, David Gergen, Jimmy Carter, Art Linkletter, Walter Cronkite, etc.?

A 1981 ABC News story represents one of the rare occasions the Grove received any sort of mainstream coverage:


While still president, Richard Nixon described the distinctly homosexual dominance of the Bohemian Grove in one of his private discussions in the Oval Office. Bear in mind that the Bohemian Grove has been an exclusively male attended retreat since its inception:



The Club's symbol is an owl, and the great statue within the Grove that you saw in the ABC video is the "god" (?) for which they perform the "Cremation of Care" ceremony where a mock human sacrifice is offered. Granted, this is beyond silly to the outsider, and I cannot say how seriously these men take this tradition. What it does tell us is that the ceremonies are too bizarre for public consumption, and necessarily require discretion. Since George W. Bush ran as a "Christian" candidate, I'm sure he'd like to keep it under the table that he and his family participate in pagan celebrations teeming with homosexuals. Here's a photo from one of the Club annals showing the president and his father (and Newt) at the Grove:


For conspiracy theorists, the secrecy lends credence to the supposition that the gathering is an evil one where the elite hatch their plans of war against the rest of us. I have no way of confirming that accusation. I can say that it is certainly bizarre, and I would never allow an individual participating in such things to babysit my children. I also could never call myself a Christian and attend anything so explicitly pagan and homosexually populated. But, that's the Ruling Class for ya!

The Elite Establishment is immoral and pagan, yet they wield significant control over the apparatus of the modern centralized state. They remain in power due to the fault of much of contemporary Christianity. This is what they refer to as the "New World Order." It's simply the City of Man, nothing more. It's a world order made in man's image in which he works out the implications of his autonomy and rebellion against God. Regardless of the form it ultimately takes--i.e., one-world system, American super-state, regional super-state, etc.--it remains basic in its objective: man as god and the true incarnation of his godhood in the totalitarian state. But keeping this "vision of man" concealed lies at the root reason for secret groups:

So in the Carpocratians of the second century we find already the tendency towards that deification of humanity which forms the supreme doctrine of the secret societies and of the visionary Socialists of our day. The war now begins between the two contending principles: the Christian conception of man reaching up to God and the secret society conception of man as God, needing no revelation from on high and no guidance but the law of his own nature. And since that nature is in itself divine, all that springs from it is praiseworthy, and those acts usually regarded as sins are not to be condemned. (Nesta Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, p.30)

The remedy is not "exposure" alone. This seems to be the tool of conspiracy theory--simply expose the nefarious deeds of the wicked. This is no solution. In fact, it often leads to the ruin of men's minds and the destruction of relationships. Men cannot cope with an exaggerated conspiracy that they assume is so complex, sophisticated, extensive, and all-powerful that it devastates their sanity. Soon they are ascribing more or equal power to men than that of God Himself:

[E]xposure itself does not defeat the cryptocracy, because given the degraded and atrophied nature of modern man's perceptions and insight today, such revelations may only serve to strengthen the cryptocracy's mental hold. (Michael Hoffman II: Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, p.53)

The Christian must never succumb his or herself to such an unbiblical perspective. It is proper to view history as conspiracy--i.e., history is no accident due to a cosmic impersonalism--so long as you understand the primary source is Satan and the primary means is autonomous man, as Rushdoony says:

History, therefore, is not the outworking of impersonal forces but a personal conflict between the forces of God and anti-God, Christ and antichrist, with the ultimate victory assured to God and His Christ. The Bible as a whole presents a view of history as conspiracy, with Satan and man determined to assert their "right" to be gods, knowing, or determining, good and evil for themselves (Genesis 3:5). From beginning to end, this is the perspective of Scripture, and only a willful misreading of it can lead to any other position. (The Nature of the American System, p.156)

Rushdoony argues that we too often purposely misread the basic construct of the Biblical concept of history. This is why we are not the Church Militant. This is also why the "gates of hell" remain intact and secure. The failure of much of conservative conspiracy theory is that it neglects the religious nature of history:

[F]or history is replete with conspiracies, and many conspiracies, while very important, serve only to deflect the minds of the masses from the central and essentially religious issues. (Ibid., p.158)

Others do hold a "religious" view of conspiracies, but their concept is equally unbiblical because it leads to "false witness" concerning Satan:

We must not bear false witness concerning God or man, and we are not to bear false witness concerning Satan by ascribing to him power that belongs only to God. The true witness of the apostles was not a testimony about the powers of Satan but of the triumphant Christ. (R. J. Rushdoony: The Institutes of Biblical Law, p.564)

Those who do not comprehend the religious nature of subversion also neglect the overall objective of organized wickedness. They too often reduce conspiracies to a lust for power or greed. Such motives never succeed in the ultimate sense, and such motives can never explain the succession of conspiratorial groups. Longevity stems from a religious goal, more so than a material one, viz. money and power are a means to an end and not the end itself. The goal is the City of Man with man as god, and the hindering element to be eradicated is the Christian ideal:

For the final goal of world-revolution is not Socialism or even Communism, it is not a change in the existing economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense; the revolution desired by the leaders is a moral and spiritual revolution, an anarchy of ideas by which all standards set up throughout the nineteen centuries shall be reversed, all honoured traditions trampled under foot, and above all the Christian ideal finally obliterated. (Webster, Secret Societies, p.337)

Only a strong sense of religious destiny can sustain a conspiracy over multiple generations. Conspiracy theorists recognize the great span of time involved in modern conspiracies, but they cannot adequately explain the perpetuity of them by citing greed and power as primary motives. They neglect the "postmillennial" sense behind the planners:

The fact of conspiracy rests on a sense of destiny, of inevitable progress. This destiny is not God's predestination but man's inevitable triumph: man must prevail. (Rushdoony, Nature, p.173)

This mission will fail, as the Scriptures make clear (Ps. 2:9); but some Christians refuse to see the victory historically. What they choose to see is an all-powerful enemy, and their minds are often blinded to God's use of conspiracies in the outworking of His plan in history:

[T]he orthodox Christian's philosophy of history cannot make the conspiracy, however central to the stage of history, the main fact of history. Believing as he must in the sovereignty and predestinating power of God, the meaning of history is for him transcendental. The main fact is the eternal decree and the certainty of the Son's victory, Who shall make the nations His inheritance and possess the ends of the earth, in history and beyond history. (Ibid., p.174)

A growing body of conservative Christians is becoming increasingly aware in our day of the longstanding conspiracies; but out of their hearts is streaming a form of Satan worship. They are so paralyzed by what they consider the insurmountable conspiracy that only the return of Christ shall free them from the evil about to come upon the world. Tim LaHaye represents this ilk. Others dedicate themselves to uncovering ritual, ceremony, perversion, and criminality in order to show others how omnipotent is the satanic power structure. In their world, the heretic is the one who does not embrace the emotional fallout of their conclusions:

Today, however, many so-called Christian conservatives not only spend their time studying the work of Satan but become angry if you question the omnipotence of Satan. They insist that every step of our world history is now in the hands of satanic manipulators who use men as puppets. To deny this is to be classed as some kind of heretic; the practical meaning of this position is Satan worship. But St. John tells us that, at the supreme moment of Satan's conspiracy, when Christ's death was decreed, the secret purpose of God was being most fulfilled (John 11:47-53). It is always God who reigns, never Satan. Any other faith is a false witness and an especially evil one. (Rushdoony, Institutes, p.565)

They also fail to recognize that the present state of man invites such nefarious despotism. In an age of compromised Christianity and the march of the state, elite groups are consistently successful in undermining institutions, traditions, systems, and individuals. The determination is man's faith alone:

Any directorate, even a very small minority, can exercise control when majorities are without faith and direction... More than the guilt of conspirators, however, which is very real, is the helplessness of the Christian West, a helplessness that is a confession of its own sin and shame. (Rushdoony, Nature, p.170)

This is why a moral revolution is needed in terms of God's revealed Word. Too much time is spent on the studying of evil. Supposed Christians are much more versed in the workings of freemasonry, satanism, and the occult than they are in "what saith the Scriptures?"

The key to displacing these grasping evil powers is not a study of the deep things of Satan, nor a belief in their evil power, but godly reconstruction in terms of Biblical faith, morality, and law. (Rushdoony: Institutes, p.564)

Technology is the tool that keeps all us within the "Matrix" of control, and the Scriptures call for the believer to depart from those who worship idols (and then televise it into your home!):

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?...Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. (II Cor. 6:16-17)

Our separation is for the purpose of arming ourselves for spiritual battle--purify our minds with the truth that we might be transformed (Rom. 12:2). Hoffman's advice in this regard is helpful and simple:

It is patent to anyone concerned about resisting the conspiracy that the focus of opposition must be on separation. It is a difficult pill for the modern mind to swallow, but a necessary one. There is nothing that can be done about such technology that is so effective as to stay away from it. In terms of positive engagement, we need to dwell inside the great books, beginning with the greatest of all. Neophytes might wish to obtain the five dollar edition of the 1611 King James Bible...and read it like a paperback. (Hoffman, Secret Societies, p.148)

I am a bit more optimistic and engaging than Hoffman. I believe that we are commanded to take dominion and assured that victory will be secured. What's needed--from our Bible reading--is an understanding of how the two kingdoms grow, and what is our responsibility in light of that understanding.

These are "tares" dominating the field with their "tare-ness," and are permitted to do so because the "wheat" refuses to work out the implications of "wheat-ness" in every area of life (Mt. 13:24-30). If you don't use a pre-emergent weed killer on your lawn, and plant new grass seed, the weeds will eventually crowd out your grass as the year progresses. This is a lesson for us as children of the Kingdom (Mt. 13:38). Jesus said "the field is the world," and there are two "seeds" vying for dominance of that field. We must either be about the expansion of the wheat, or we shall continually suffer the reign of the tares. If you're ready to become a part of the Christian World Order, then begin by equipping yourself with this larger vision. We must "let the dead bury the dead," and not be moved by what immoral men do amongst the Redwood groves of Northern California.