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Dark Majesty: The Secret Brotherhood and the Magic of a Thousand Points of Light

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What an extremely interesting book. I have read Anthony Sutton's book "America's Secret Establishment" as well as this one. Mr. Marrs takes you to the secret ceremony that George Bush went through, like so many before and since, on the night he was inducted into the Skull & Bones Society. This book will inform you about illumination of the masses by this society. If you find this book hard to believe, do your own research. But use this book as a tool to get you heading in the right direction.

The book, as a whole, was interesting to say the least. However, as is the case with conspiritorial theorists, UFO hunters, Loch Ness monster watchers, and so forth, the book lacks any academic rigor. Marrs does not back up his truth-claims, nor does he explain how these groups will consolidate their power to take over the world, a large endevor to say the least. Whereas I am sure the book has a certain element of truth to it, Marrs seems to want us to fear what we cannot see, explain, or be a part of. He taps into the millenial fears of those who are willing to let him and hold stock in the claim that these individuals are the real cause for our ills. They are not the cause. We are. Humanity doesn't need help to be screwed up. In the end, the enormous plan of world domination by secret orders and economic giants is unconvincing.

This is an amazing book containing a vast amount of hard to find information. The research was very impressive and the content insightful even for someone well versed in these topics. I am looking forward to seeing this authors other works.

The book, as a whole, was interesting to say the least. However, as is the case with conspiritorial theorists, UFO hunters, Loch Ness monster watchers, and so forth, the book lacks any academic rigor. Marrs does not back up his truth-claims, nor does he explain how these groups will consolidate their power to take over the world, a large endevor to say the least. Whereas I am sure the book has a certain element of truth to it, Marrs seems to want us to fear what we cannot see, explain, or be a part of. He taps into the millenial fears of those who are willing to let him and hold stock in the claim that these individuals are the real cause for our ills. They are not the cause. We are. Humanity doesn't need help to be screwed up. In the end, the enormous plan of world domination by secret orders and economic giants is unconvincing.

I have read Mr. Marrs' books, heard him speak, and talked with him personally. This book is simply another in his series. He pulls together unrelated pieces of information, connects dots in convoluted fashion (without substantiation)and--voila!--conspiracy! Having also been on both sides of the fundamentalist/new age debate, I have to say that, if there is a conspiracy anywhere, it is with the fundamentalist/religious right, which I personally observed while in that movement. Nowhere does that exist in the extremely loosely knit new age community--they are simply too diverse, too independent, and too unorganized to fit Mr. Marrs' conspiracies. Further, a check of his references show they are limited, and citations in text are completely lacking. If we are to follow his lead, we can pull Sacajewea from the top of the US Capitol, and pull the Statue of Liberty from New York Harbor. [pp211-212] Mr. Marrs believes they are both statues of the "Goddess of Reason" designed to poison our minds and country! His books are amusing, but please don't take them as factual or reliable. They wouldn't pass in a freshman research course.

This book is exemplary of the know nothing fundamentalist zealotry that makes many of the non-religious stay non-religious these days. I am afraid to admit that the author writes with great pseudo-intellectualism and religious paranoia. He writes as if he were an informed authority on religion, occult, and secret societies. Yet hislack of specificity, lack of knowlege, the outrageously ludicrous comparisons and points he makes, all point to the fact that hes not. Mr Mars is very much a common fundamentalist christian writing with little more than common fundamentalist insight. I think that if Mr. Mars has learned only a little more about the history of religion and the occult since publishing, he will undoubtedly regret and perhaps be ashamed of this work. Let me give you some examples of the flaws of logic and shody research one can find in this book.

When refering to the "thousand points of light" foundation, the author gives reasons why the number one thousand has a special "occult significance." He states that it "mocks" the one thousand year reign of christ but dosent tell us why the name is seen as a mockery. He states that it refers to the "serpent" or "lucifer" which is suposedly equivalent to the 1000 headed Shesha in hindu tradition. Any serious religious or occult scholar has learned that there are many fundamental differances between these three entities, so many in fact that one could write a book on them and I must not delve into that here. (email me for more info) Devout christians rarely do unbiased and in depth research on satan and concept of evil in religion and Mr Marrs is no exception seeing as how he paints every "pagan" or "occult" subject in a sinister light. He does this because he is grossly ignorant about traditions outside christianity and thus paranoid and suspicious of them. He implies that the points of light organization is evil because the greek monster madusa was supposed to have 1000 snakes wreathing from her head. (i think of sex 1000 times a day, but i dont think its related to the points of light foundation or a conspiracy to rule the world) He betrayes a lack of knowlege of classical/biblical language, which is forgivable but the mark of a true biblical scholar. In speaking of the masonic patriarch "hiram abif" he makes the halariously incorrect and insubstantiated statement that the name "Hiram" means High Ram, and thus the "baphomet" revered by some satanic sects. This is flat stupidity. Hiram is not english at all but ancient hebrew. A very apropriate name for a hebrew man in ancient times. The consonants were "mem, yod, resh, he." This name was a hebrew adjective meaning "exaulted." Look it up in a hebrew dictionary. The whole of the book follows the same logic and highly questionable research that these examples illustrate. Let me say that i dont want to sound pompous or self riteous in bringing such critisism to this work. I honestly hope that Mr. Mars has been enlightened since writing this mistake of a book. I think the book does deserve one star because I learned alot about religion and freemasonry not by reading the book in itself, but from trying to do further research to substantiate the claims and points he made. In finding out how the book is 80% rubbish I did learn something. Dont be fooled by it.

I'll give this book 2 stars, not 1, since it was at least entertaining.

Seems as though Mr. Marrs has an Ayn Rand sort of grudge against the new age; LOL.

At any rate, the book isn't convincing at all and is a discredit to the truth movement.

-j

I see some have given reviews that Marrs researched his subject area well. What he's done is give some conspiratorial reason for life as we know it. He connects unrelated dots and makes so many egregious errors its not even worth mentioning.

Because some guy makes some "connections" and offers cockamamie theories disguised as "insight' and "knowledge" doesn't make them true, people. I used to be a Fundie Christian, but I could never quite understand how some supposed intelligent people could believe such utter toxic waste and even more so when less and less evidence produced. The structure of a cult has it that you recruit the brainier types. For some reason they are easier to bamboozle. Intellectual morons are what they're called in some circles. I'm not saying Christians are intelligent (from my experience, quite the opposite, but the leaders are), but those who are "intelligent" are blind, arrogant (usually), make massive conclusions based upon virtually nothing and fit the same pattern as the Christians who destroyed ancient Rome and brought on the Dark Ages. What was rumor and innuendo (usually stemming from paranoia and slop originating from the authors of books like the subject of this review) ends up being cirulated and recirculated to the point that within these circles it becomes some NWO and Luciferian reality. Scary ain't it? Then, they cause wars to take place in far-flung places like Iraq so to bring about the death and chaos and so the Messiah can ride down and impose his version of a dictatorship and meanwhile our "good" Christians get to rule with a iron rod. Sounds like fantasy, right? Not to these psychos. Because they are psychotic in their actions and the delivery system is Christ-insanity. Allow this mental toxic waste to propagate then you got another Dark Ages with added life destroying methods like bio warfare, nuclear weapons and environmental degradation. All for the arrival of the Messiah!

Anyway, people, this guy, Mr. Marrs, repesents the same forces that destroyed European culture and achievement (thus relagating her to backwater status) for over 1,000 years, commencing with the Dark Ages where all knowledge and old ways were considered evil and heretical. Of the DEVIL! Lucifer, Baal, Satan, Molech, you get the drift.

I believe some "belief-systems" are toxic waste waiting to destroy in the name of love and grace. Christ-insanity is one such cult gone wild. If it blossoms again be prepared for incessant wars to bring about the Messiah and a earth destroyed for their paranoid and evil delusions. THEY are the EVIL ones folks! The greatest country as yet (eventhough its tarnished now) is probably the USA due to a farreaching and foresight oriented document called "The Constitution". The men that brought it about were mostly Freemasons and Deists. They didn't want the same petty religious squabbles that were happening in Britian between various psychopathic Christian factions to inundate the new America. The Puritans, for example, were persecuted by rival Christian factions and when they obtained power became the persecutors. I've researched how the Christians really acted in ancient Rome. They targetted higher ups (rich, wealthy, senators) to convert and then plotted and succeeded in controlling the Roman state, i.e. Constantine. They used basically the same tactics as early to modern communists. Scheming and doing everything possible to destroy the Roman state so through a chaos scenario they can usurp it. They did more than that. Then they destroyed all the vestiges of the old relgions, banned all freedom of thought, annihilated science, philosophy and other disciplines. Europe didn't slink out of this until the Renaissance. Meanwhile, guys like Marrs would say how the Pope or some other religious leader was evil and of "the Devil" and the cycle would endlessly repeat over and over and over.....until the madness abates with reason and open inquiry without the fear of being put in the Iron Maiden for heretical thoughts. For example, Germany, in the 30 Years War in the early 1600s was turned into a wasteland (1/2 of the population destroyed) due to Marrsesque madness.

Folks, there is a conspiracy, mostly of very wealthy, high level, types who want to hold onto their shekels to the detriment of all. Basic human pettiness and greed is the most part. They use Democrazy and conflicting factions (religious and ethnic - divide and conquer) to hold basic control and offer the illusion of *voting*. Bearing in mind the sleazebag politicians will do whatever gives them a new car or vacation and knowing *selling out* has become a virtue. They, these guys and politicians, are criminals for the most part destroying the planet, our health, our very existence. However, because of their utter and complete corruption they will go down and no amount of BS democrazy is going to save their sorry asses when all their ill-gotten wealth and property (maybe even *more*) is confiscated. It is another cycle and it will happen sooner than you think. So forget about numbnuts Marrs and his drivel for the slow witted. These a**holes that I described will crash & burn soon enough. This is due to organic historical cycles and a shifting of wealth and power. I can only hope a strong man comes about that makes them pay dearly for their arrogance and greed. Ruthless action is what will come my friends and when it does they won't have any place to hide.

Nothing more than paranoia run rampant and a complete betrayal of the principles of democracy and freedom - so what if a group of people have an unnamed god - just so what! To say that some secret brotherhood controls the world is as meaningful to say that little green men inhabit the dark side of the moon. Show me the money. Don't bother spending your hard earned money on this garbage, watch the X-Files - its more entertaining and takes itself far less seriously than this millennium hoo-haw.

Tired rehash of conspiracy theories so distressingly common among prophecy writers these days. Save your money, folks; they've cut down good trees to print this insanity.