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Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids

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This book is extraordinarily interesting, broad, and paradigm-altering.

The table of contents provided enough detail to be an executive summary. The book is somewhat deficient on sources (heavily reliant on superficial "encyclopedic" references) but the alternative explanation of history and reality is not to be missed.

I bought the book thinking it was about government secrecy. Not so. Much more importantly, this book is about the secret societies used by the 300-500 wealthiest individuals in the world, the ones that own the central banks that can cause financial panics, move inflation or deflation, all to the end of profiting, while "exploding the client," the individual "patsy" whose hard-earned wages are nothing more than a supermarket shelf from which these elites pluck extra funds to buy another castle. See my review of Mark Lewis's "Liar's Poker" to understand Wall Street use of individuals as *disposable* sources of cash, and my review of John Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" to get a sense of the larger global methods being used to loot the commonwealths. Also relevant is Jeff Faux, "The Global Class War : How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win it Back" and many of my other reviews of books by others on the loss of government legitimacy and credibility with the people, combined with the predatory immorality of corporations that now own government.

Much of what the author attributes to a grand master plan can also be explained by the natural tendency of wealth to create wealth (compound interest) and for wealth to influence politics, but this book is deeper than that.

The author begins with an introduction of the Rothchilds, and gradually builds up a detailed picture of how they funded "barons" around the world, and in America, where the Morgans and the Rockefellers were their chosen instruments. The Bush family is second tier but right up there. Special attention is given to the Federal Reserve, which is NOT controlled by the government and has NEVER been audited in its history, and to the ease with which bankers make money from advance knowledge of changes in domestic and foreign policies that they often simply mandate.

The USA was until around 1837 a "value-based" economy in which real assets--gold, silver, land, labor--paid in full. There was no debt, no interest. From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Jackson, bankers from Europe were rejected and considered "more dangerous than armies, swindling the future." Jefferson also believed central banks to be unconstitutional, since the right to create a national currency is reserved to the U.S. Treasury. The author notes that both Lincoln and Kennedy were unique for issuing debt-free currency, and for being assassinated. Reagan was shot by Hinkley, whose relative was dining with a prominent member of the Bush family the night before, and he suggests this was intended to move Bush, a member of the secret society world and leading pawn, into power years sooner.

An extensive discussion is provided of bankers themselves causing financial panics, wars, and other confrontations. The author refers to the Rothschild Formula as being to spawn wars and finance both sides. The book discusses the bank-rolling of Hitler, Trotsky, the US Civil War, the French Revolution, the Boar War, and on and on.

Credible evidence is provided that the terrorism in Italy, as part of a "Strategy of Tension" described in a captured document, was intended to create enough of a perception of leftist terrorism to justify a shift in the government toward fascism. The P2 Lodge behind the terrorism was a secret society on the right, not the left, and is said to have been guided by the Alpine Lodge in Switzerland, the "Gnomes of Zurich." George Bush senior is alleged to have been an honorary member of this lodge, while Henry Kissinger is said later in the book to be a member of the Alpine Lodge. Most interesting for me is the CIA connection. The "Strategy of Tension" was first devised by James Angleton to prevent a communist take-over in Italy following WWII, and is STRICKINGLY apt in considering the allegations that 9/11 was allowed to happen if not made to happen. See my review of "Crossing the Rubicon," of "9/11: Synthetic Terror Made in the USA," among other books (use my lists).

Summing up this book early on, I found it to be 1/3 wealth begets wealth; 1/3 corruption begets wealth, and 1/3 conspiracy begets wealth. However, once I entered the secret society segment of the book, I reverse the above order.

This book gave me a completely new perspective on Cheney and Rove as front men rather than the prime movers, intended to take the heat and be "sacrificed" without the public every realizing that it is Citi-Bank (the same bank said to have secretly received Yamashita's Gold from Douglas McArthur, as told in "Gold Warriors" by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave), and Chase Manhattan, the two owned sufficiently by the Morgan and Rockefeller families to be the hubs for their power. The author also discusses the 40,000 tax exempt organizations that serve as fronts for banks and foundations and corporations, all manipulating the individual citizen-voter without paying a cent in taxes.

On page 408 the author says "Whatever the truth may be, we must be wary of leaders who attempt--whether by force, manipulation, or deceit--to move whole populations in directions they may not wish to go and might not be beneficial to all."

On page 409 the author says "Knowledge is indeed power. It is time for those who desire true freedom to exert themselves--to fight back against the forces who desire domination through fear and disunity [enabled by secrecy." The author notes that there are more of us than of them (see my review of Jonathan Schell's "Unconquerable World.")

I have one word for what I plan to work toward: TRANSPARENCY. Collective public intelligence is going to survive and prosper. The times, they are a'changing.

It may be true that there are other books out there by William Bramley, David Icke, and others that cover some of the same material that Mr. Marrs covers in this book but that isn't the whole story. Anyone that writes that you should save your money on this one has to make you think. I mean, I bought this book just because of the negative reviews I read to see if I would agree. After finishing the entire book I have to say this is a must read for the entire population of America. It seems to me that anyone saying it is just another boogie man story is either in denial or is following an agenda to keep this secret. It is a book of the facts that are out there for anyone to see. On some issues I simply couldn't believe the information I read so I searched out and found the book "Secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Eustace Mullins at my local library to confirm this authors claims. Several more times I found information I simply could not bring myself to believe and each time I found that Mr. Marrs is correct. There is no gray area here. Its black and white. Yes, Mr. Marrs quotes some of the more controversial authors, and yes, he shares his own views at times, but for the most part the entire book is a book of objective information interpretted just the way I would interpret it myself had I been the one who researched it. If you are the type that just can't let go of your own little paradigm of the Universe don't buy this book. It will shake you up. I have read books like this before but this is the best of the best to come out on this topic that I've seen. If you really think that our Presidents are elected and you think you have a pretty good bead on things you will be rudely awakened to the fact that they are selected, not elected after reading all of this information. You will realize as I did that the Mass Media is joined at the hip with the secret societies and Governments of the world. We've been deceived and the truth is starting to break the damn of secrecy down. Let us all hope that by the time the damn breaks it isn't too late. There is a boogie man alright, several families of them in fact, and they laugh at the citizens of the United States and the world all the way to the bank everyday. Read this book before it gets banned. It will rock your world.

This is an excellent book. I have studied a number of works on this subject matter and found this one to be the most well-organized, comprehensive and understandable.

My daughter is a political science major and she is reading "Rule By Secrecy" also -- she told me, "If there really is a power behind the government running our world, I want to know about it!" Mr. Marrs book should be required reading in our schools. If anything, it will cause one to think and question which is vital to our personal sovereignty. And by the way, other books that support/corroborate the informaton in this book are "Trance-Formation of America" by Cathy O'Brien/Mark Phillips and "The Biggest Secret" by David Icke (though both may challenge your comfort zone even more than this one.)

"Rule By Secrecy" is written in such a way that it is easily digestable and a great read for anyone who questions reality even a little bit. Skeptics find this work and others like it confrontive and threatening because they demand "proof". Well, that is an illusion because the "powers that be" manufacture proof on a daily basis through the media. Please consider that if you are addicted to a steady diet of newspapers and/or watching the news daily, you are perhaps being influenced by only a few (of many) very powerful forms of mind control. When you begin to wake up and question the way things are your heart will provide you real proof. The ability to think and discern using your intuition and feeling nature is the only true freedom there is.

I applaud Mr. Marrs for his courage. Reading this book will cause you to view our world in a new light -- buy it and educate yourself if you dare.

If you want to know the who, how, and why of current events, you must read this book. Pages 26-27 alone, lists 29 public figures and their titles, all of which are involved in the secret societies which dictate our governments policies. The ultimate goal of this global conspiracy,(beyond the creation of mega wealth and power,) is one world government. Marrs takes us on a journey backward in time from our modern secret societies, such as the Trilateral Commission, the CFR, and Federal Reserve System, to the evolution of century old organizations. His fact laden commentary on the hidden agenda's of the elite, makes futurist authors such as Furland all the more credible. This is the best and most thoroughly researched book on the subject I have found. Do your own due diligence. Read this book. I would also recommend Icke, whitaker, and Furland.

After listening to Jim Marrs on a couple of talk shows promoting his theories and new book, I looked forward with anticipation to reading the book. I have two major impressions:

1. The first two thirds of the book are excellent in re-capping the history of various secret societies. His conclusions are pretty convincing. But, I have read similar theorizing from numerous other authors, (Holy Blood, Holy Grail; Ancient Plan of Secret Societies, etc.) that the author does a credible job of summarizing. Not much original but a great job of synthesis.

2. My dissappointment with the latter part of the book is the discussion of all the esoteric theories such as Alien control of Secret Societies. While reading this section, I did not understand why he shouldn't have thrown a section on the Kingdom Of Evil, run by Satan himself and his personal control of these societies. My advice: Take the last few chapters with a grain of salt but re-read the first half of the book.

If you really want to move to the next level of this topic get a copy of "The Hope of the Wicked" by Ted Flynn, which was just published recently by Maxkol. Also, if you have a brain for detail and arcana read: "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. Eco has done an outstanding job of telling the whole story of Conspiracy with historical facts about secret societies and their operations today. It is a novel but in Eco's unique manner the truth is hidden but available in the pages of the story. It is all there. The challenge is for you to find the TRUTH.

In researching my own web book, Outrageous Truth: A Mystical Paradigm, I have read and studied thousands of manuscripts of books, journals, research reports, newspaper accounts, newsletters, articles, and web pages. There have only been two books that have impressed me to the extent as this one, both of which are metaphysical, The Secret Doctrine, by H.P. Blavatsky, and The Secret Wisdom of All Ages, by Manley P. Hall. They share in common a quality that I can only label "Inspired."

By "Inspired," I do not mean the definition that is overused to describe creative novelty, excitement and intensity. By "Inspired" I mean other worldly, that the writer had to have been informed from sources well beyond the material elements and limits of this earth and the human intellect. The indications of this special status include: awesome meticulous and exhausting detail, consistent and extensive cross references to other valid and credible works, the impression that he has remembered every detail of everything he has ever read or contacted. There is an impeccable logic of the story line's themes and contextual development. There is consistent validation among the book's information with credible links to widely documented real world events and sources descriptive of them. The esoteric elements of his book are firmly connected to ancient evidence whose validity is confirmed by multiple credible sources. These qualities well transcend the limited capacities of even pure genius

This book transcends the politics of any party or religion. The author begins with an accounting of those secret societies that operate today, and who the public figures are that, unknown to the general public, are linked to them. He then develops the antecedents of these societies and links them to world figures and events, Hitler, the Nazis, the wars of the 19th and 20th century, and the corporate holders of economic and political control of all sides of conflict who manipulate world events. The chilling links behind why and who orchestrated the Kennedy assassinations become stunningly clear. He identifies the foundation Principles that created their modern expressions from their earlier forms: the Alchemists, Freemasons, Rosicrucian's, and the Illuminati. He then traces the origins of these earlier secret societies back to the most ancient human societies and cultures, and their first written documents, particularly in Egypt, the Middle east, and especially Samaria. He shows how these links from the dawn of human consciousness have evolved to their current expressions today.

Major insight is provided regarding the placement of Christianity in world events and the activities that nurtured its growth and contributions to world events. Some of this information will shock many of today's Christian believers. I find that this information is consistent with other credible sources that address that topic. Across the ages, Marrs links every historical figure of prominence to their role in the evolution of secret power and control to their contemporary secret manifestations today, e.g., the Skull and Bones Society (Yale University), The Trilateral Commission, and CFR (Council on Foreign Relations,) and the German society, the Bilderburgers, and the Priory of Sion.

Few persons today can imagine the mystical connections of these worldly groups to their guiding principles that extend back before the pyramids. But from this book you will learn how and why the persons behind these groups arranged to profit from both sides of the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, and how they now instigate to promote world wide violence to create a single world order controlled entirely by them. In pursuit of this goal they are completely ruthless and unprincipled. They cultivate and use support from any source that will help them achieve their goals, including the naive support of gullible religionists. You can come to recognize their skill at creating "plausible deniability" which are the watchwords that protect their identity and roles behind the success of all their actions when taken.

Here is a passage from the Introduction to Marr's book:
"Be forewarned. If you are perfectly comfortable and satisfied with you own particular view of humankind, religion, history, and the world, read no further.

If you truly believe that humanity has reached the peak of its scientific and spiritual fulfillment, and the corporate owned mass media is keeping you well enough informed, stop here.

But if you are one of those millions who look at the daily news, scratch you head in wonder, and ask, "What in the world is going on?" or if you entertain questions of who we are, where we came from, and where we're going, you are in for a joy ride."

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"Joy ride" or not, the book is a demanding read. The fire hose torrent of information, of names alone, can be daunting even to an experienced reader conversant with many of the names and events of today and recent history going back to the 19th and 18th Centuries. I encourage you to simply skim over those parts of the book that cause you to glaze over. There are rewards for getting any part of this book that is accessible to you, and that will be most of it. That is why the rewards for reading it will be unsurpassed. For example, the election struggles leading to November this year, and in 2008, will be understood from an incredible fresh perspective that you cannot now imagine.

This book is such a stunning indictment of current politics and American social values, it is a wonder that Marrs has not already been murdered by the same corporate power structure that is largely in control of all of today's major social decisions. I believe that Marrs is alive because the power elite who own this country quake in their boots and fear that any such drastic act on their part will cause the book to become more widely visible. Because while it was published by HarperCollins, it was never seriously marketed. But in spite of being panned by other corporate controlled editorial reviews, it became a quiet best seller nevertheless. Should the book become publicly visible by an act of violence so as to make Marrs a martyr, then it would become sensational, then widely read by many audiences, and finally, acted upon. They must desperately hope and expect that this book and Jim Marrs will quietly fade away without any major social or political impact. I hope you will help to not let that happen. I have begun to read this amazing book a second time, and I will continue to study it and selected references in it that I am not already familiar with. I find, as they say, it's easier the second time around.

First off, let me say that one MUST have an open mind when reading this book, a trait obviously not possessed by some of its readers. I'm not saying you have to be an "X-Files" fan to read it...just be sure to go in with a completely objective perspective. Take everything in the book with a grain of salt, but remember to also take what you've learned in the past with a grain of salt. Personally, I believe the truth lies somewhere in between.

Marrs' descriptions and analysis of the relationships between the modern secret societies such as the CFR and the Trilateral Commission are mostly based on accepted and unexotic facts...his conclusions are hardly revolutionary, in that the facts speak for themselves, in ways that are immediately disturbing. Thankfully, the book takes no political side: personalities from both ends of the political spectrum are placed under scrutiny.

Towards the end of the book is where things get a little nuts. The possibility of humankind's origins being linked to extraterrestrials is discussed, but the argument is compelling, especially when one temporarily lets go of religious bias. The one weakness in this part of the book is the author's tendency to either wander from citing sources properly, or to present his own conclusions from undivulged research as fact...which one of these I do not know. It would probably be somewhat impractical in a book like this, but the use of footnotes as opposed to endnotes would have helped a lot, especially in my desire to look into some of these issues myself.

In any event, Marrs makes an extremely strong case for the true origins of modern religion, government, and who's running the show...and he ties it all together in a surprisingly neat little ball of relationships that easily overlay the history we commonly are taught in school.

Without a doubt, Marrs has with this book at the very least hit on some immensely strong possibilities which cannot be denied in their superior logic to commonly held beliefs, as well as a few things that one would have to do independent research on before deciding which side to take.

If you still think it's all hogwash, at least you'll be entertained.

The information in this book is mind altering. It will change your view of the future and the authorized history of the world forever. Read it and you will look at every headline, every issue and every politician from now on with different eyes and a wizened perception. What's so staggering about the premise of this book, is that the myth our culture is being fed is is so big, so huge and pervasive, it can't be seen even in the light of day by the majority of people. And when you finally realize its breadth and scope it's seems too perposterous to accept. Yet Marrs will show you the wall of deception, brick by brick, page by page. Funny thing is that most of us are already familiar with a great deal of the factoids, stories, rumors and tidbits of research. But like tiny pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, they don't make sense individually, not without the context of the big picture. Marrs has assembled all the tiles together in a timeline to form a huge panorama that vaults our entire history from present day to ancient origins of civilzation, only then does the true story and plot line of history reveal itself with fascinating clarity, undeniable motives and devastating plausibility. If you're a seeker of truths, this book is the reality check. It may not be 100% ironclad, as Marrs himself will admit, but the picture is still valid and what was hidden is now clear. And its far stranger and more gripping than any fiction we could dare to invent.

Not a bad book at all. Marrs provides succinct synopses of prior material, saving the intrepid voyager thousands of hours of wading through weighty -- and often all but unreadable tomes. His journalistic style also lowers the temperature in an area that tends to get heated by self-aggrandizement and fear-hype, enabling cooler thinking to engage with what is, after all, a difficult and often tortuous subject. His "Sources" section provides adequate citation for further reading, which is a big plus. All too many books in this area are long on speculation and very short on documentation and attribution. One would wish that a bibliography separate from Notes had been included, and more, that some deeply considered reason for why we should fear Global Government was provided. All in all Rule by Secrecy, while offering nothing new or particularly insightful in the area of global conspiracy since time immemorial,provides the neophyte or the seasoned veteran concise summations and profitable sources for further reading.

Anyone who tells you anything negative about this book....just run and hide....and run a long way before you hide. For they are not true Americans. Jim Marrs finally puts all the pieces together for every man, woman and child to read.....the reality of the control of our lives. Remember now, Mr. Marrs comes with massive amounts of Military Intelligence-investigative journalist hours tacked on his back that few persons have ever endured. Every American citizen should study every single paragraph of this book and understand it no matter how long it takes. My wife thinks it should replace the Bible. I'm not quite that drastic. RULE BY SECRECY should be required reading. Place your Bible on top of it. Thank you Jim Marrs. I knew you would do it.