SO, quite recently, it was published in the media: "specialists from the University of Zurich conducted a mathematical analysis of the relationships of 43,000 transnational corporations and made a frightening conclusion: the world is ruled by one giant" supercorporation ".
It is she who "pulls the strings" of the global economy.
To model the image of the global corporate system, the experts processed a huge amount of data reflecting the ownership relations between the largest transnational corporations.
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“Reality is so complex that we had to move away from dogmas, whether it be conspiracy theories or free market theories,” explained the author of the study, complex systems theorist James Glattfelder. “Our analysis is based on real data.”
Previous studies have shown that a relatively small group of companies and banks own the lion's share of the global "economic pie", from which everyone else is left with only crumbs. However, these studies have overlooked indirect relationships - the relationship of corporations with subsidiaries and affiliates.
After sorting through the 37 million companies and investors worldwide represented in the 2007 Orbis C database, the Zurich-based research team selected 43,060 multinational corporations and identified their total assets.
A model was built for the distribution of the economic influence of TNCs through the control of some companies over others: ownership of funds, participation in profits, etc.
Scientists have found a core of 1,318 companies whose ties to others can hardly be called anything other than incestuous. Each of these 1,318 companies had the closest relationship with two or more other companies (average number of affiliated partners was 20).
While these corporations' official earnings barely exceed 20% of global operating revenue, they actually own most of the world's companies operating in the "real" economy through their satellite firms. Thus, about 60% of global income is concentrated in the tentacles of corporate monsters.
Continuing to unravel the vast web of ownership, the team found that the majority of financial chains are headed in the direction of a "superenclave" of 147 companies. Their assets intersect with each other, effectively being common property, which gives this unspoken financial conglomerate control of 40% of global corporate wealth.
Most of these "supercorporations" are financial institutions. So, the top 10 included:
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc.
3. FMR Corporation
4.AXA
5 State Street Corporation
6JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8Vanguard Group Inc.
9.UBS AG
10 Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.
Analyze this list yourself, dear readers, and you will see that these are not ordinary companies, and not ordinary people work there. The analysis revealed the connection between the leaders of these super giants of the world economy and secret societies, namely Masonic lodges. Some of these companies were founded directly by people - members of Masonic organizations, and some with their participation.
LET'S GO TO THE RUSSIAN MASONS.
It is known that by the mid-50s of the 20th century, some Russian Freemasons had completely left Freemasonry: Bernstein, Niedermiller, Lebedev, Lomeyer, Zhdanov, Grunberg. Others went over to the French lodges, which by this time had begun to revive little by little, but their future was extremely doubtful.
An anonymous author reports: "New forces have been found." It can be assumed that these were brothers from the Vekhi and Free Russia lodges, who were taken in by Lotus, but for some reason they were still listed in the Obedience of the Great East: Jakeli, Dzhanshiev, Kadish, Kangisser, Aronsberg, Shamin (from the French lodge), G.G. Karganov (from the mixed lodge "France?Armenie").
In 1959 the fateful moment came: the Grand Lodge broke off relations with the Grand Orient. The last document in the Masonic archive is the last list of those present at the session of the lodge "Northern Star", February 25, 1965. This does not mean that this session was the last. They continued for another five or six years. It is characteristic that the Masons, who at one time left the United States and returned to France after the Second World War, apparently never returned to st. Kade. In this last list - all the surnames belong to the "third generation" of Russian Freemasonry, their average age was 60-65 years. Here is the list: M...R...., V. Grosser, A. Marshak, S. Grunberg, S. Der...sky, Gorbunov, A. Orlov, V. Marshak, A. Julius, A. Barlant, A. Shimunek (indecipherable - perhaps this is Shishunok), I. Fidder, T.S ...., A, Poznyak, G. Gazdanov, Petrovsky, S. Lutsky.
After the rupture of the two Rites in 1959, how to understand the presence of brothers from the Grand Lodge at the session of the Grand Orient? Maybe whoever wanted to came, and no one was asked where he came from, and whether he had the right to be present in the temple? If this is true, then not only the ability to compromise was lost, but also the sense of Masonic discipline.
17 people attended the session in 1965, according to the last list above. It must be taken with caution, it is composed carelessly and does not inspire much confidence. But we don't have another. S.P. Theakston told me in Paris in 1960: "Some are paralyzed and confused by the consciousness of an approaching end that we are powerless to fight." Of these 17 people, half remained by 1970. And then something happened that was supposed to happen: five people came to one of the sessions. Who they were is unknown. Was there at least one Master among them - the All-Wise, the Venerable, or at least only the Secret? But the letter of the law since St. Tybalt demanded that there be seven of them in the temple. And the French Great East took away their premises from the Russian brothers, following the letter of the law. And that was the end of Russian Freemasonry in exile.
SOVIET MASONS.
"The program for the activities of agents of influence in the USSR was personally developed by the Freemason A. Dulles, the future director of the CIA. Having become a Freemason while still studying at Princeton, Dulles already in the mid-20s reaches the 33rd degree and other Masonic regalia. In 1927 he becomes one of the directors of the international Masonic coordinating center - the Council on Foreign Relations, in 1933 he receives the key post of secretary, and since 1946 - the president of this organization.
"The first contacts of the future leaders of the CPSU with Freemasonry date back to the sixties and seventies. M.S. Gorbachev had contact with Freemasonry, apparently, during his vacation in Italy, where Masonic lodges controlled by the CIA were then operating, which aimed to contain communism (in particular, the famous "Propaganda-2" lodge, headed by CIA agent L. Jelly). A. N. Yakovlev's contacts with Freemasonry date back to the time of his stay in the USA and Canada.
“Gorbachev’s accession to the Trilateral Commission should be attributed to January 1989. The meeting of the main architects of Soviet perestroika and the “brothers” who worked for the “good” of the “Architect of the Universe” and the “new world order” took place in Moscow. The Trilateral Commission was represented by its chairman David Rockefeller (also head of the Council on Foreign Relations), Henry Kissinger (head of B'nai B'rith), J. Bertoine, V. Giscard d'Estaing and J. Nakasone. A. Yakovlev, E. Shevardnadze, G. Arbatov, E. Primakov, V. Medvedev and some others. As a result of secret negotiations, agreements were developed on joint activities, the nature of which at that time was not clear to anyone. However, everything became clear in the end the same year, when, in the same composition of his associates as at the meeting with the delegation of the Trilateral Commission, M. Gorbachev met with President D. Bush on the island of Malta. It was in Malta, the capital of the Order of the Knights of Malta, whose cavaliers are members of the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Club, as if symbolizing a new stage in relations between the world behind the scenes and the leadership of the CPSU.
"The year 1990 becomes fatal in the history of Russia. In a short time, the system of governing the country is changing. Taking advantage of the transition period, Gorbachev and his associates from the former Politburo (Yakovlev, Shevardnadze, Medvedev, Primakov), where all the most important issues of domestic and foreign policy were decided ", in fact, they completely usurp power in the country. A conscious dismantling and destruction of many state structures is being carried out, and instead of them, shadow backstage authorities are being created, and above all Masonic lodges and organizations."
"It is characteristic that the first official Masonic structure that arose in the USSR was the international Jewish Masonic lodge B'nai B'rith. Permission to open it was received personally from Gorbachev at the request of one of the leaders of the order, H. Kissinger. L'Arche reported that a 21-member delegation from the French branch of B'nai B'rith, led by President Marc Aron, visited Moscow from December 23 to 29, 1988. The first lodge of this order was organized during the visit and by May it consisted of 63 members. By the same time, two more lodges were established in Vilnius and Riga, and later in St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Odessa, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk.
“Since 1989, the Freemasons have carried out a widespread and even in a sense open campaign to promote subversive Masonic ideas and recruit new members in Russia. In March 1991, the CIA-funded Radio Liberty calls on residents of the USSR to establish contact for entry into Masonic lodges. The host of the program, F. Salkazanova, gave the address at which Soviet citizens could sign up for a Masonic lodge in Paris. attractive, they called it "Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin" (although the great Russian poet was not a Freemason).The "brothers" from this lodge who spoke in the program called for the moral and spiritual improvement of society, considering the United States as a model, which "from the very beginning were laid Masonic principles.
"The Freemasons of France are striving to "lay their stone in the construction of democracy in Eastern and Central Europe." This was stated in September 1991 in Paris, speaking to journalists, by the Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Orient of France, J.R. East intend to increase the necessary material and financial efforts for this purpose.After some time, the Grand Master comes to Moscow, and later visits St. Petersburg to organize the correct Masonic work there.At the same time, the Grand National Lodge of France also operates.In April 1991, she dedicated two citizens of Russia who became the organizers of the Russian lodge "Northern Star".
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"The day before the start of the August 1991 coup d'état, a member of the Pushkin lodge already mentioned by me arrived in Moscow from Paris, who emigrated from Odessa in 1922 (his name was kept secret). 8 more members of this lodge came to Moscow with him. Despite on disturbing events, this Masonic emissary opens on August 30, 1991 a new lodge "Novikov".
"As a result of the coup d'état in August-December 1991, the plans of the world behind the scenes were achieved. The world behind the scenes awards B.N. Yeltsin with the title that almost every member of the world Masonic government wears - Knight Commander of the Order of Malta. He receives it on November 16, 1991. No longer embarrassed, Yeltsin poses for reporters in the full garb of a knight-commander. In August 1992, Yeltsin signs Decree No. 827 "On the restoration of official relations with the Order of Malta."
"Relying on high support, Masonic lodges are growing like mushrooms in Russia. The first such organization in Russia was the Rotary International Masonic Club, which is widespread in Western countries, the opening of which was announced on June 6, 1990 in a report on the television program "Vremya." "White Freemasons" of the first call in this club are the heads of the administrations of Moscow and St. Petersburg Luzhkov and Sobchak, the banker Gusinsky, the well-known democratic functionaries M. Bocharov, A. Ananyev, Yu. "Cribble Institute and Similar Institutions".
"The so-called International Russian Club (IRC), created in 1992, is also a match for Rotary. This club was headed by M. Bocharov and Yeltsin's former press secretary P. Voshchanov. It included a number of well-known people, for example, Minister of Justice I. Fedorov , international deputy E. Ambartsumov, member of the Masonic Commission "Greater Europe", businessman Svyatoslav Fedorov, former head of state security V. Ivanenko, general K. Kobets, member of the Presidential Council A. Migranyan. According to the charter, the club consists of forty people, and each no more than a third can be added for a year, and each entrant is obliged to obtain three recommendations.
"Following the model of one of the main organizations of the world behind the scenes - the Bilderberg Club - in 1992 its Russian counterpart, the Magisterium Club, was created, initially uniting about 60 "brothers" in spirit. The key figure in this Masonic underground was the already mentioned J. Soros, who placed the article "Big money makes history" in the first issue of the club's secret bulletin. Other key figures of the club are the patriarchs of the Masonic movement in the former USSR A. Yakovlev and E. Shevardnadze. A. Sobchak, V. V. Ivanov are also represented in the "Magisterium" , S. Shatalin and others".
“A number of funds and clubs of a lower rank are being created in Russia. The most typical example of such an organization is the Interaction reform club, which brings together entrepreneurs, heads of banking, stock exchange institutions, and major government officials. The club was headed by E. T. Gaidar, as well as A. B. Chubais, K. N. Borovoy, L. I. Abalkin, E. G. Yasin, A. P. Pochinok, E. F. Saburov, O. R. Latsis, etc. Among the members of the club were B. G. Fedorov, S. N. Krasavchenko, N. P. Shmelev, S. S. Shatalin Close to the Interaction club is the International Fund for Economic and Social Reforms, headed by S. S. Shatalin. L. I. Abalkin and V. V. Bakatin.
"In 1993, another Masonic-type organization was created - the Order of the Eagle. Among the main founders are a well-known financial swindler, the head of the Stolichny bank, previously convicted A. Smolensky, banker P. Nakhmanovich, entrepreneur V. Neverov, one of the leaders of the international Masonic movement M. Shakkum, as well as such chess players G. Kasparov, S. Solovyov, sculptor Z. Tsereteli".
MASONS OF MODERN RUSSIA
There are Masonic lodges in Russia, one of the Masons, Andrey Bogdanov, even ran for the presidential election in 2008. The official website of the Grand Lodge of Russia is quite open to readers and points out, without prejudice, to its leaders and its structure. Maybe these people know something, maybe they are initiated, but they do not open up. But IT IS VERY PROBABLE THAT all this is not what was once the essence of real Masonic processes.
Now a closed political process also exists: there are closed groups, societies, structures that make very serious decisions - financial, political and military. But I would not dare to call them Masons. Maybe they use the principles of closed secret societies, but it is unlikely that this is accompanied by paraphernalia and oaths, as before.
Platonov's book "Russia Under the Power of Freemasons" seriously states that during perestroika, a number of famous people were agents of the influence of US Freemasons. To what extent does this reflect reality? The former adviser to the chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, retired major general of militia, Doctor of Law Vladimir Ovchinsky answers:
Doesn't reflect, says Ovchinsky. “I think Platonov gives out wishful thinking as real. There, of course, there were some secret agreements between certain people. The same Alexander Yakovlev (whom the author refers to as Masons) in his memoirs, written before his death, says that all his life he wanted to break the back of the communist system, imperial statehood. In fact, a member of the Politburo, an ideologue of the CPSU, declares that he has worked all his life against what he serves. But to call him a Freemason?! We have no evidence for this."
IS PUTIN A MASON? The answer, to some disappointment, is no. "Here is Berberova's archive - these are genuine documents. (download)
They list the names of Freemasons from the beginning of the 20th century - people themselves talk about this, there are witnesses. This is reality. There are materials from the investigation into the case of the Decembrists, which was conducted by Benckendorff - he fought against Masons and secret societies. Everything is proven here. According to the French Revolution, there is also a lot of evidence of Masonic conspiracies. The influence of Freemasons on the formation of the United States is not just a fact, it is the national and cultural pride of America. As for accusing our political leaders of Freemasonry, one must have grounds for this, but there are none. There are proven facts, and there is the current reality. How strong the Masons are in Russia, now it is not known for sure."
OTHER FORCES ARE OPERATING IN MODERN RUSSIA, the basis of which are the special services and world capital. But are people working in the special services members of Masonic organizations? This is the next question, however, which can be answered quite positively. They are not only members of international Freemasonry, but are sometimes also in the service of foreign intelligence services.
The book of the former CIA officer L. Gonzalez-Mata "True Masters of the World" lists the powerful of this world belonging to Masonic organizations, including CIA founder Allen Dulles, Bilderberg Club Secretary General Joseph Retinger, former President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jacques Attali, US Presidents Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George Bush, head of the Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller and many others.
In Russia, these include dozens of politicians and businessmen who belong not only to regular lodges, but also to closed clubs that belong to the so-called "white Freemasonry".
What are they all after? In words - quite noble goals. The Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France, Jean-Rebert Ragache, at a meeting with journalists in 1991, said that the Freemasons of France are striving to "lay their stone in building democracy in Eastern and Central Europe." He was concerned about "the resurgence of separatist and irredentist sentiments in Eastern Europe" and "the desire of the Church to bring about a new evangelization."
To achieve this lodge, the Grand Orient of France allocated 1.2 million francs, the Grand Lodge of France - 300 thousand francs, the Grand National Lodge of France - a set of swords, aprons and orders.
The donation, frankly, is ridiculous compared to what was presented by the Order of Malta to Potanin and Ignatiev. Therefore, there are secret items of expenditure, and other secret goals. Which? Alas, there is no definitive answer.
It is known, for example, that the Order of Malta, represented in Russia by Jacques Masson, is vitally interested in the Russian military-industrial complex.
They, these organizations, are still closed to the uninitiated. And therefore, special services, builders of the new order and ordinary swindlers will work under their "roof" for a long time to come.
Almost 200 years ago, on August 13, 1822, Emperor Alexander I issued a decree prohibiting officials from participating in Masonic lodges or other secret organizations. “To take a special subscription from those belonging to them that they will no longer belong to them; if someone does not wish to give such an obligation, he should not remain in the service, ”the decree said. This historical decree of the Russian emperor could not prevent the uprising of the Decembrists on December 14 (26), 1825, whose leadership was in the Masonic lodges, but after this uprising, the Freemasons (freemasons, as they were dubbed by the people. - V.B.) gained special significance their close ties with foreign "brothers" - Russophobes, began to be perceived as enemies of Russia and Orthodoxy. The Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 only confirmed this assessment.
Alas, the lessons of history are thoughtlessly forgotten. In our time, Freemasons operate almost openly at all levels of the Russian state, including the presidential administration, where, oddly enough, Freemasonry is treated very tolerantly. This is largely due to the fact that even before the collapse of the USSR, liberal Masonic lodges (“Great East”, etc.) and the Zionist Masonic Order “B'nai B'rith” began to actively infiltrate Russia and established contacts at the highest level, which Gorbachev, who actively flirted with Freemasonry, and his treacherous cabal was only welcomed.
Vladimir Putin in his book "From the First Person" admiringly recalls the first conversation with one of the patriarchs of world Freemasonry Henry Kissinger in the early 1990s. Then Putin worked in St. Petersburg in the team of the mayor of the city Anatoly Sobchak as the head of the committee on foreign relations. He sent him to the airport to meet the overseas guest, who flew in with his heads to see and evaluate Sobchak as one of the candidates for the future leaders of Russia. But Sobchak did not realize what value he ignored.
Henry Kissinger (born in 1923) is one of the oldest leaders of the Zionist Masonic order of the sons of the Old Testament "B'nai B'rith". - V.B.). This order has more than half a million people in its ranks. He is also a member of the leadership of para-Masonic organizations such as the Bilderberg Club, the US Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission (TCC). It is these three structures in modern history that play the role of a shadow "world government". The influence of Freemasonry in these structures is very great. It is known that the TSC includes (or included) in one way or another connected with the Masonic lodges: George W. Bush - Sr.; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Allen Dulles, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Robert McNamara, Olof Palme, David and Nelson Rockefellers, Edmund de Rothschild (Baron), Henry Ford, Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl, Hans Merkel, Helmut Schmidt, Axel Springer, Franz Yosef Strauss, Ludwig Erhard and others.
Henry Kissinger was US National Security Advisor from 1969-1975 and US Secretary of State from 1973-1977. He is also a member of the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, with whom his entire career and his work in world government are connected.
Putin figured him out right away, and they had a heart-to-heart talk as an intelligence officer (Kissinger served in the US Counterintelligence Corps during the war. - V.B.) with an intelligence officer (Putin - in the foreign intelligence of the KGB of the USSR. - V.B.). Well, as a former spy and a high degree Freemason, Kissinger knew that Masons in the West traditionally actively interact with special services (with the CIA, MI6, BND and Mossad), which he himself never shied away from.
In total, Putin and Kissinger saw each other about 20 times after that meeting in St. Petersburg. And regardless of the post he occupies - from an official of the St. Petersburg mayor's office to the president of Russia - Putin willingly hosted "old Henry." One must think that such a readiness of the leader of a great power after all to communicate with him is explained not only by his personal sympathy for him, but also by state considerations.
Kissinger - was one of the first hundred most influential people on the planet as one of the most trusted emissaries of the world government and world freemasonry, which, in general, is almost the same thing. He is not the architect of the new world order, whose authorship belongs to David Rockefeller, Lionel Rothschild and other bosses of the world behind the scenes. He is his longtime chief foreman. And at this global "construction site" he, like the entire world army of "freemasons", including his own lodge "B'nai B'rith", worked tirelessly all his life.
The messages from the world behind the scenes and the White House to the Russian president, which "old Henry" brought to Moscow, were different - from a request to release Mikhail Khodorkovsky from prison (shortly after Kissinger's unexpected visit, on December 20, 2013, Putin signed a decree pardoning the stealing oligarch, freeing him from serving a sentence) to “black marks” (i.e. threats of sanctions and other measures, as after the reunification of Crimea with Russia). But when the threats did not work, he brought a whole suitcase of "peace proposals", which then, after Kissinger's shuttle trips to Moscow and back to Washington with a stop on the way to China, became the subject of interstate negotiations, including at the highest level. It is clear that the details of his meetings in the Kremlin did not get into the press.
Kissinger has vast experience in secret diplomacy. He is considered the architect of détente. An adequate assessment of this process, as a result of which peace was indeed preserved on our planet, has not yet been given. With all its positive aspects, detente nevertheless shook the foundations on which the Soviet Union, and with it the entire socialist camp, rested, which ultimately led to their collapse.
The “shuttle diplomacy” that Kissinger has been practicing for many years has turned out to be far from innocent. The technology he uses to indirectly control the life of a society or a community of countries in the international arena is built on the principle of "Divide and Conquer!". She was involved in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now Mr. Kissinger is trying it on for Russia. Significant in this regard is the recognition of this supermason himself, dated January 16, 2012: “The United States is minimizing China and Russia ... We allowed China to increase its military power, gave Russia time to recover from Sovietization, gave them a false sense of superiority, but all this together will lead them to death faster. We, as an excellent shooter, do not need to choose a weapon, like beginners, and when they try to rock, we will make a “bang-bang” (See for more details: Shevchenko V., Sokolova R., Spiridonova V. Modern problems of the Russian state. Philosophical essays - V.B.).
In his well-known book Diplomacy, Kissinger spoke even more frankly: “I would prefer chaos and civil war in Russia to the tendency to reunite it into a single, strong, centralized state” (Quoted from: Kissinger G. Diplomacy. M., 1997. - V .B.).
So, when "old Henry" swore his "love for Russia", it had to be divided by ten. Unfortunately, this is not taken into account by Russian liberals who do not get tired of praising Kissinger for his “realism” and “wisdom”, as do, for example, Putin's press secretary Peskov, Senator Pushkov and other Westerners. Kissinger was a sworn enemy of Russia, and this must be clearly understood by those who are at the helm of the Russian state. And, if he was so willing, despite his age and numerous illnesses, to rush to meetings in the Kremlin, it was only because he realized, as an experienced diplomat, that in the modern world, without the participation of Russia, the problems that the world community is facing cannot be solved. . One can only congratulate him that Putin has nevertheless achieved such recognition during his presidency. And even more so, this revived status of Russia as a great power requires vigilance in relation to the Masonic "architects" and "foremen", because the building of the world is built for years, and the war destroys it in an instant.
Kissinger served only one master - the world behind the scenes, and he himself was and remains, as a Freemason and Zionist, its faithful functionary. In this ministry, for him, a Jew professing Judaism, there is no place for sympathy for either Russians or even his blood brothers, if it comes to the global interests of the architects of the New World Order.
Kissinger's 11 relatives died in the Nazi death camps. But when, at a meeting with Nixon on March 1, 1973, the then Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, asked to increase American pressure on Soviet officials, thus forcing them to give the green light to Jewish emigration, Nixon turned to Kissinger for advice. And he told him the following: “The emigration of Soviet Jews is not on the list of priorities for American foreign policy. And even if they are sent to the gas chambers, this will not become an American problem (italics mine. - V.B.), except perhaps a humanitarian one ”(Nagourney Adam. “In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks.” The New York Times December 10, 2010. - V.B.). But he could have put it all in a different way. But he did not consider it necessary. Such transcendent cynicism and such cruelty are characteristic of all those who strive for world domination and are preparing plans to reduce the population of the Earth (and not all Jews will be spared here) to 1-2 billion people in order for the world elite to live comfortably.
Reform Masons
It is well known that even under Sobchak, contacts between the St. Petersburg authorities and Masons became commonplace. Sobchak himself was a member of many Masonic lodges and organizations (Masonic club "Rotary", Masonic lodge "Magisterium" and Masonic association-lodge "Greater Europe"). But even after him Masons were willingly received at the highest St. Petersburg level. So, on June 20-21, 2001, Grand Master Fred Kleinknecht, who has the 33rd degree of initiation, paid an official visit to St. Petersburg with his wife Jean. They, together with the Russian "brothers" - the leaders of the Grand Lodge of Russia Georgy Dergachev, Alexei Koshmarov and Alexander Kodyakov - are received by ... Governor V. Yakovlev himself. At the meeting, purely organizational matters are discussed: contacts and connections between European and Russian Freemasons, the restoration of traditional interaction, the participation of Freemasons in the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. As A. Kondyakov later publicly admits, “Governor Yakovlev admitted that at one time he was very interested in Freemasonry and regards the Masonic Brotherhood as one of the most important factors in the development of world history ...”. This is not enough, "Governor Yakovlev expressed his readiness to provide the necessary support in the process of establishing Freemasonry in his city, as well as throughout Russia ...".
Connections with Freemasonry were noted in Russia and at the government level. In special studies published by the EIR magazine in the late 90s, it is said that Peter Aven, who worked briefly in 1992 as Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, established contacts with world Freemasonry in this post. He himself is a fixed Mason, a member of the Interaction Club and the Rotary Club. Aven, like most of Yeltsin's "first call" reformers, was trained at the Institute of Economic Relations (IER) in the UK. This is not an ordinary institution. It is founded by one of the most secret and most impenetrable Masonic lodges, the Society of Mont Pelerin.
Today Mont Pelerin has about 500 members. Lodge conventions are held once every two years, each time in a different country. The place and time of these Masonic gatherings is strictly classified. In 1983-1985, special training at the Institute of Economics of the Mont Pelerin Society was given to: E. Gaidar, A. Chubais, V. Potanin, A. Shokhin, K. Kagalovsky, B. Fedorov (the same one who later became the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation will leave resign and take up a post on the Board of Directors of Gazprom - VB), P. Aven, V. Mau, E. Yasin and other "reformers". Let us add to this that the Mont Pelerin Masonic lodge from its very inception was subsidized by British intelligence, was under its control and protectorate, carried out its special assignments ...
Oddly enough, after becoming president of the Russian Federation for the first time, B. Putin hired Andrey Illarionov as an adviser on economic issues, who took over contacts with the Mont Pelerin society. In early 2004, a delegation from this Masonic lodge came to Moscow, and President Putin received them for four consecutive hours. Illarionov was the main organizer of this meeting.
Devils from the box
Naturally, as it should be in secret societies, "freemasons" do not publicly advertise contacts with representatives of the Russian authorities. But from time to time, the press, like devils jumping out of a box, gets information about where they work and where they enter, which shocks the inexperienced layman into shock. Something similar happened in December 2018, when Gazeta.ru (December 24, 2018) and the Zavtra newspaper (December 25, 2018) published the following message, citing a source in the Presidential Administration:
“49-year-old political strategist Vyacheslav Smirnov, director of the Research Institute of Political Sociology, a member of the Public Scientific and Methodological Advisory Council under the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, is preparing to start working in the Presidential Administration.
Smirnov will become the chief adviser to the Office of the Presidential Administration for ensuring the activities of the State Council of the Russian Federation. The head of the department is Alexander Kharichev, the right (and indispensable) hand of the curator of domestic politics, Sergei Kiriyenko. Smirnov, most likely, will be monitoring regional election campaigns. You can also expect proposals from him on changing and developing the party system. According to the decree of Vladimir Putin, the department for ensuring the activities of the State Council is entrusted with the functions of "ensuring the interaction of the President of the Russian Federation with expert organizations, monitoring and analyzing social processes." It is the employees of this unit that most closely intersect with the election process.”
In the Russian political beau monde, Smirnov is well known as "a master of black PR, including evil trolling, fake information throws, namesakes in elections, street trash shows, etc." His work biography speaks of him as a modern-day Ostap Bender from politics, an unprincipled adventurer and an omnivorous political pimp. Gazeta.ru cites his track record as follows: “He worked hard as the director of the department of regional political programs, head of the special propaganda department of the Novokom IAC. He made a number of election campaigns - from mayor's in small towns to governor's in large regions. Headed: All-Russian Committee of Citizens for Fair Elections, Federal Electoral Headquarters of the CEC of United Russia, Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Russia (DPR), National Democratic Institute of International Relations, Russian Lobby Foundation for Political Consulting and Management, Moscow branch of the Right Cause party, the Central Committee of the Russian Party of Motorists, the Central Council of the Union of Citizens party, etc. The author of the project of the Zionist party Kosher Russia (end of 2015). He ran for deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 5th and 6th convocations, legislative bodies of almost all regions of Russia - from North Ossetia - Alania to the Novosibirsk and Moscow regions, from the federal city of Sevastopol to Cherkessk, Bryansk and Novosibirsk, from the Moscow municipal district "Savelovskoye" to position of the head of the city district of Khimki. In the fall of 2017, he announced his intention to run for the presidency of the Russian Federation from the Union of Citizens party under the playful slogan “Let's be naughty!”. He carried out orders from the Kremlin, various oligarchs (including Boris Berezovsky, Oleg Deripaska, Alexei Mordashov), local financial and industrial groups, worked with pro-government parties in the near abroad. Not squeamish, rather - omnivorous. He calls himself a "ritualist", a gamer and an adventurer.
Knowledgeable people believe that Smirnov was invited to Staraya Square after he successfully worked in Primorsky Krai over the victory of the Kremlin candidate Oleg Kozhemyako.
To the message about the Kremlin engagement V.N. Smirnov, no one would have paid attention if he had not been a Freemason of high degrees of initiation. He is the right hand and official assistant of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia Bogdanov and in the Masonic hierarchy even a degree higher than him. According to Sovershenno Sekretno weekly, Smirnov is not only the second person in the leadership of the Grand Lodge of Russia, but also the leading Russian representative of the Egyptian (esoteric or "revolutionary") Memphis-Mizraim Freemasonry, created by the famous warlock and adventurer Giuseppe Balsamo, better known as Alessandro Cagliostro. Since 2009, Smirnov has been titled "Grand Sovereign Master Grand Commander of the Sovereign Russian Sanctuary of the Eastern Masonic Order of the Ancient and Primordial Rite of Memphis-Mizraim 33:.90:.96:.", "Vice-President of the International Sovereign Sanctuary of the Eastern Masonic Order of the Ancient and Primordial Rite Memphis-Misraim".
It must be assumed that those who recommended V. Smirnov for the position of a high-ranking employee of the Presidential Administration, including those who are responsible for this in the FSB, knew that he was the owner of the highest degree among Russian regular Freemasons. He has the 96th degree according to the charter of Memphis-Misraim, while Andrei Bogdanov himself has only the 95th. The same Vyacheslav Smirnov represents the Italian order "Great Orient of Italy" in the international association of orders of Egyptian Freemasonry "The World Association of Egyptian Obediences". And all these titles are not just Masonic trinkets for internal consumption in lodges, but also a mandate to belong to the leadership of world Freemasonry, to which Russian Freemasonry is spiritually and organizationally subordinate, no matter how much Bogdanov and Smirnov rant about its “independence”.
Let me remind you that on June 30, 2007 Bogdanov was elected and installed to the position of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia. Its election and installation were attended by representatives of the world's oldest United Grand Lodge of England and American Grand Lodges, longtime accomplices of the world behind the scenes. Not everyone gets that kind of honor. Obviously, in the Masonic nomenclature, he is far from the last place. In July 2010, Andrei Bogdanov was re-elected to the position of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia for a period of 5 years, until 2015, and then re-elected to this post and will hold the position of its Grand Master for another 5 years, until 2020. I will especially note that the Grand Lodge of Russia, headed by Bogdanov, was recognized by the Recognition Commission of the Conference of Grand Lodges (Grand Masters) of North America as meeting the “recognition standards”. So he has a direct connection with American and world Freemasonry.
The mysticism of the Egyptian rite and Masonic vigils in the workshops of the Grand Lodge of Russia do not prevent either Bogdanov or Smirnov from engaging in one of the most profitable businesses in Russia - political technology, the creation of political organizations and parties to participate in regional, federal and even presidential elections in Russia. In this case, he and Bogdanov act as long-term business partners of the main Kremlin puppeteer Vladislav Surkov, with whom Bogdanov began to cooperate even before Smirnov. They are called "record holders" in terms of party building, since when Surkov was deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, they together acted as the founders of more than a dozen federal parties.
It all started with the fact that Bogdanov, on behalf of Surkov, set about creating a quasi-patriotic Rus party, which he reformatted on the basis of the Russian Stability Party (RPS), founded in 1992 and consistently adhering to liberal political views. Political scientist Alexei Makarkin wrote: “Recently, a hitherto little-known structure called the United Russian Party (URP) “Rus” has been actively promoted in the media. Her commercials are designed in a patriotic way with active pedaling of the concept of "Russian". At the same time, the leaders of "Rus" are little known not only in big politics, but also in the nationalist crowd, where the project of creating this party is considered the result of the efforts of the Presidential Administration ”(Politkom.ru. 08.29.2003. - V.B.). Behind these efforts was the same V. Surkov. Bogdanov and Smirnov, heading his team of political technologists, as experienced provocateurs, have repeatedly tried to use the slogan of this party “Russia for the Russians!”, On the one hand, to mobilize support for the government by Russian nationalists, and on the other hand, to whip up hostility towards the Russians.
“I don't care what batch to make, the orientation depends on the customer,” says Bogdanov. He doesn't care about ideology. There would be money. He even revived the CPSU in his own way - the Communist Party of Social Justice. In fact, no one bought it.
As it turned out, the creation of a turnkey party is a very profitable business, especially when the order comes from the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, as was the case in 2000 in connection with the creation of United Russia. It is known for sure that Surkov supervised this project personally. The business was very profitable. In 2005, Bogdanov, revealing the "kitchen of party building", was frank: "Now no one undertakes to create parties for less than $ 1 million." In November 2008, Bogdanov co-founded the Just Cause party, but did not enter its governing bodies. Its co-chairs were the leader of Delovaya Rossiya Boris Titov, as well as well-known liberals - the former deputy chairman of Boris Nemtsov for the Union of Right Forces, the Zionist Leonid Gozman and journalist Georgy Bovt. At the same time, Bogdanov added his brother Timur as a member of the Federal Council of the new party. Before the 2012 presidential election, this party was successfully sold to the richest contender for the highest post in Russia, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. (By the way, as Moskovsky Komsomolets recalled, Ksenia Sobchak was then the first to dress up in a T-shirt with a portrait of an oligarch and, forgetting all the insults, including the Courchevel betrayal, ran to interview Prokhorov). Prokhorov headed Right Cause for a short time - from June 25, 2011 to September 16, 2011, and in this capacity he successfully performed during the election campaign against Putin, confidently gaining points. Apparently, this alarmed the applicant for a return to the Kremlin. And Prokhorov was simply thrown. Surkov summoned him to the Kremlin, where the oligarch learned that he had already been removed from the leadership of his own party. Prokhorov openly declared then that "the Kremlin's puppeteer Surkov is behind all this." But the raider seizure of this party, fully paid for by Prokhorov, was prepared by the same “high-ranking Masons” Bogdanov and Smirnov. After the Right Cause scandal, Prokhorov disappeared from public politics for three months. They say that the same "iron lady" - his sister Irina - returned him there. But, of course, much more influential people were interested in his return, primarily the Bilderbergs and his fellow tribesmen from the list of "richest Jews."
Prokhorov's party, which he soon left, was headed by his sister. She, like Navalny, was among the organizers of the “Peace March” against the annexation of Crimea to Russia, and then organized the congress “Against the war, against the self-isolation of Russia, against the restoration of totalitarianism” in 2014. Its main topic was the condemnation of Putin for the reunification of Crimea with Russia. On this basis, there was a split in the "Civil Platform" - some of its members came out in support of Putin in the Crimea, and some went after the singer Andrei Makarevich, who, either in Kyiv or in Israel, began to make Russophobic speeches and songs and vilify Vladimir's last words Putin. Despite all his art, Prokhorov remains in the clip of the world behind the scenes, and there they will still bet on him.
The 2018 presidential campaign showed that Bogdanov and Smirnov, with their team of seasoned political technologists, are still in demand. The business of these political peddlers is on a grand scale. In August 2015, Bogdanov announced the sale of a dozen officially registered political parties created by his Center for Social Technologies for $250,000 each. He proposed to replace the party leadership with the people proposed by the buyer for $1 million, and at the same time organize intra-party voting on the proposed issues, transfer reports to the Ministry of Justice and other actions to create a working structure.
The 2018 Sobchak project is also the work of Bogdanov and Smirnov, who offered her their help on a tip from the same Surkov. For those elections, Andrey Bogdanov created a fresh forum of non-parliamentary parties "Third Force". He stated that he was ready to help Ksenia Sobchak to run for president of Russia for free from one of the small parties that are part of his forum. These are the "People's Alliance", the Democratic Party of Russia, the "Union of Citizens", "Civic Position". Bogdanov, who created these parties together with Smirnov under the auspices of Surkov to manipulate elections at various levels in Russia, offered Sobchak favorable conditions: a candidate from any registered party needs to collect 100 thousand signatures, but an independent one - 300 thousand. How much Sobchak had to pay for this service is unknown. According to political analyst Valery Soloviev, her campaign was supposed to be financed by "whoever the presidential administration recommends to do so."
Bogdanov, as you know, put forward his candidacy for the presidency of Russia back in 2007. Smirnov also tried to run for president. Both of them did not hide their belonging to the Masonic lodges, but, on the contrary, they promoted themselves in every possible way as Masons. The results of these self-nominated candidates were deplorable.
In March 2008, it was reported that Bogdanov won only 1.3% of the Russian vote. But the main thing for him was not the result, but participation. Even at the beginning of that election campaign, he said that he was nominated for the post of head of state not by a party whose members allegedly "did not have time to convene the congress", but by some "initiative group of citizens." As it turned out, Bogdanov did not hide this during the pre-election television debate either: this “group of citizens” is nothing more than a group of Freemasons, members of the Grand Lodge of Russia directly headed by Bogdanov, behind which is world Freemasonry, and above all its American branch. And Vladislav Surkov was undoubtedly behind this, without whose permission Bogdanov would not have been allowed to run in the presidential elections and would not have been allowed to debate on state television with Zhirinovsky and other Russian presidential candidates. It was the peak of the puppetry of the Kremlin "gray eminence".
Modern Russian Freemasonry cannot boast of the fact that it unites intellectuals of the highest standard. The level is usually average. Bogdanov began his career at the Academy of Sciences, but as a cloakroom attendant he does not have a higher education. V. Smirnov graduated from the Moscow Automotive College. But this does not in any way prevent the Great Wardrobe Officer and the Great Auto Mechanic, as evil tongues dubbed them, parodying Masonic titles, to penetrate into the power structures of modern Russia and act there in the interests of world freemasonry.
Masonic style
The further the Russian ruling elite moves away from the people, the stronger the desire of these elites for isolation, secret societies and clubs of the Masonic model and for esoteric practices. All repeats. Something similar was observed in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. As the revolutionary storm brewed, the minds of the elite were ruled by mystics - from Papus to the mother - the founder of theosophy - the syncretic religious-mystical teaching of Helena Blavatsky and her followers. Like mushrooms after the rain on the eve of the revolution of 1917, Masonic lodges bred, and it is known how it all ended.
Starting from the first years of perestroika, various kinds of esoteric sects and "churches" began to appear in Russia. The most famous of these is the Church of Scientology, founded after the Second World War by the American preacher Hubbard. On November 23, 2015, at the suit of the Ministry of Justice, the Moscow City Court ruled that the Church of Scientology in Moscow would self-liquidate within six months, having been found to have violated the Federal Law “On Freedom of Religion and Religious Associations in the Russian Federation”. This was not the first attempt to get rid of this church in Russia, but after each ban it was revived again only in a different form and under a different name. Such a survival rate indicates that this "church", and in fact the sect, has a strong "hand" at the very top of Russia's power. The first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, who openly communicated with Hubbard's emissaries and is considered a follower of Scientology, has been directly accused of patronizing Scientologists more than once in the Russian media. Here is what the Kommersant newspaper reported: “The publication of the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung became a sensation, from which it follows that acting. Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko belongs to the Scientology sect. The story turned out to be very simple. In 1995, when Sergei Kiriyenko (the surname was taken from his mother, he is Israel from his Jewish father. - V.B.) was the president of the Nizhny Novgorod bank Garantiya, the bank's managers, like many Nizhny Novgorod businessmen, participated in the Hubbard College seminar, one of the structures of the Church of Scientology. (“Kommersant” No. 57 of 04/02/1998. - V.B.). Kiriyenko himself denies any connection with Scientologists, but Hubbard's followers use his name in every possible way for self-promotion. Thus, according to the newspaper "Megapolis-Express" dated August 20, 1998, a portrait of Kiriyenko hung in the Paris Dianetics Center, which Scientologists showed to all visitors, claiming that he achieved his high position thanks to the use of Hubbard's technologies. ("Megapolis-Express" dated August 20, 1998 - V.B.).
Scientologists actively use knowledge about the intimate life of those who have been trained by them for subsequent blackmail. Therefore, in the Federal Republic of Germany, people associated with Scientology are not accepted into the civil service, even for the most insignificant posts. But in Russia this practice, alas, is ignored. It is known that Eva Vasilevskaya, the daughter of Putin’s court director, a supporter of the Church of Scientology Igor Shadkhan, worked for a long time as a speechwriter and referent for Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, about whose connection with the President of Russia the agency APN North-West wrote back in 2009.
In addition to secretaries and PR people, open lobbyists of Scientologists are regularly exposed in the authorities with impunity. Among them are the former vice-president of Russia Alexander Rutskoi, the chairman of the Novgorod Regional Duma from United Russia, the mayor of Perm Vladimir Fil and other quite officials. In addition to them, Vyacheslav Kantor, a billionaire close to the administrative vertical and close to the administrative vertical, contributed a lot to the sect.
Kiriyenko, after his appointment to the post of the first deputy head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, was also spoken of as a member of the elite "circle of methodologists" ("Shchedrovites" - V.B.). The founder of the Moscow Methodological Circle in 1958 was the philosopher Georgy Shchedrovitsky, who was close in his views to Scientologists. Methodologists believe that there are universal methods for solving any problems. The way to solve and develop these methods is the so-called organizational-activity games.
The following were familiar with the developments of the “methodologists”: former Minister of Energy Viktor Khristenko (he called himself a student of Shchedrovitsky. - V.B.), presidential assistant for economic issues Andrei Belousov (in 1995 he wrote an article for a collection of methodologists), Kiriyenko’s adviser in the Volga Federal District Sergey Gradirovsky , State Duma deputy and leader of the Civic Platform party Rifat Shaikhutdinov and others.
Russian elites from the highest power structures created other closed societies on the Masonic model. The BBC has counted five main "societies", which include top-ranking Russian officials. Among them, the most influential are the so-called "Afontsy" - members of the Russian Athos Society (RAO), which was founded in 2005 with the participation of Patriarch Alexy II and the then mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov. It is known that the Athos from RAO go: Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov, Vladimir Putin's partners in judo - businessmen Arkady and Boris Rotenberg and others.
“I was ordered to go for it”: the secret side of Russian Freemasonry
A tall man in a black coat leads along the winding streets of the night capital. "I once lodged for the scientific interest, so to speak," he snaps, without looking back. Now he does not stop communicating with other members of the fraternity, but he does not name the reason for his departure.
“They enter the lodge for various reasons. Some think, and seriously, that they will decide the fate of the world, others believe that they will gain secret knowledge. his life in the lodge. - Approx. ed.)," my interlocutor Pavel remarks.
Masonic Leader's Desk
If at the time of Pushkin and Griboedov (Masons consider them "theirs." - Approx. ed.) The principle was in effect: "to be a Mason, ask a Mason about it" and it was necessary to make as many acquaintances as possible with members of the lodge, then in the 21st century the opportunity "steer" the fate of the world can take advantage of almost everyone.
"There are millions of Freemasons in the United States. There are also quite a few in Europe. And we have a continuous turnover. There are few permanent members of the lodge," Pavel complains. He said it's all about enough expensive "entrance ticket" - from 10-20 thousand rubles. Therefore, the budget of Russian Freemasonry - in contrast to foreign secret societies - is not as large as is commonly believed.
“A few years ago, one of the major lodges in France kicked out its great master with a scandal. Do you know why? He bought a personal helicopter with the money of the brotherhood,” he shares.
We approach a small door in an old building next to Tverskoy-Yamskoy(st. Tverskaya, 21 Revolution Museum, former English Club. Prim Ruan), followed by steps leading down. In the basement is not a bar, not a club. “Usually, meetings of various secret societies are held in such an entourage. Although in the best of times, the Grand Lodge of Russia (the only Masonic organization recognized abroad in the Russian Federation. - Ed.) held its meetings in the Metropol, near the Kremlin. Martinists who practice the occult - they have something like Christian cabalism," says my interlocutor.
Are there many Masons in Russia
Freemasonry does not have a single centralized organization, but at the same time it is quite hierarchical. Various Masonic lodges of about 10 people (maximum of 20) can be combined into "great". The first such united lodge appeared in England exactly 300 years ago (1917 anniversary, 2017 anniversary approx. RuAN) and has since been considered the most authoritative. In 1740, her adept, a general in the Russian service James (Jacob) Keith, appointed Grand Master of Russia. And by the end of the 18th century, the entire Russian nobility "fell ill" with Freemasonry: well-known statesmen, poets, artists, architects became members of the lodge. This continued until the grandson of Catherine II, Emperor Alexander I, in 1822, unexpectedly for everyone, outlawed Freemasonry. It got to the point that the officials gave special receipts about their "non-membership of the lodges."
Only briefly did Freemasonry revive after 1905 ( They lie and don't even blush. Note. RuAN). But in the very first decade of Soviet power, the Masonic lodges were "cleaned up". There is a story that the Masons tried to cooperate personally with Stalin, but he, having familiarized himself with their proposal, immediately requested the nominal lists of all members of the Russian lodge. And in the post-war years, when the campaign to "fight against Zionism" unfolded, the idea of the Freemasons as a "secret world government" finally took root in the public mind.
Once again, Russian Freemasonry rose to 1995 year with the advent Grand Lodge of Russia (VLR), recognized by more than 90 Masonic organizations around the world. Its members call themselves "a club of men who believe in God and want to bring the light of knowledge into society". This organization considers itself the only one that has received an official right to exist from foreign lodges. Continuity is an important concept for Freemasons, because they believe that they have been storing and transmitting "secret knowledge" for more than one millennium.
VLR today includes 50 lodges, mostly Moscow. However, in Russia there are other Masonic organizations with different statutes. But they, unlike VLR, do not have official status"Grand Lodge" and are, in fact, representatives of foreign Masonic assemblies.
Meeting of the Grand Lodge of Russia
“Now in Russia there are about one and a half thousand Masons. more than a thousand of them are regular, that is, they are members of the Grand Lodge of Russia," says religious scholar Dmitry Pedenko.
Most of the lodges operating in Russia require their candidates to believe in God and the immortality of the soul. However, this does not mean that there are no atheist Masons. “A distinctive feature of a number of so-called irregular Masonic organizations is precisely the fact that they accept not only believers, but also atheists. However, the number of such lodges in Russia is insignificant and there are very few participants in them. In this regard, a situation is common when members of two irregular organizations are the same persons," the expert emphasizes.
"Ordered to become a Freemason"
"Masonry is, first of all, an ancient club of respectable people," assures ( lies and does not blush. Note. RuAN) political scientist Vyacheslav Smirnov Member of the Grand Lodge of Russia. When asked what prompted him to become a Freemason, he evasively answers: "The Motherland ordered."
In each lodge there are three degrees (degrees. - Approx. ed.) of initiation - an apprentice, an apprentice, a master mason. In addition, there are many different degrees, however, according to the lodges, there is no highest degree of initiation, After all, a Mason is a brother to a Mason.
The rite of initiation itself into a degree complex and symbolic. So, a candidate for "disciples" before the beginning of the initiation is half-naked, blindfolded and left for half an hour in the "reflection room". After that, he is led to the "temple", where a number of different symbolic actions are performed: for example, the future Freemason solemnly swears on the holy book of his religion (most often it is the Bible. - Approx. ed.).
"Often the initiation ceremony is accompanied by musical accompaniment, which enhances the impression of the candidate," - say in one of the Masonic forums.
At the end of the ceremony, the master mason calls on the members of the lodge to help the newcomer in difficulties, being sure that he will help them in difficult times. It is helping one's neighbor, brotherly love and adherence to the truth that are the main principles of Freemasonry ( and a Mason's neighbor is a brother Mason. Brotherly love. Note. RuAN). Masons themselves formulate their calling as follows: "to make a good person better." At the same time, Masons themselves often cannot answer how intricate rituals, together with the requirement to understand a huge number of abstract terms, really contribute to this.
Masonic initiation ritual
In turn, Paul argues that the higher the degree, the more you have to pay for initiation. In addition, according to the already official information on the VLR website, Masons make annual contributions.
For some reason, it is commonly believed that Masons have sex during their rituals. Masons are often confused with Thelemites. These are the real outcasts, they initiate through sex. A Thelemite friend of mine told me that some master from the USA even came to their ceremonies in Moscow,” says Pavel. Thelemites are followers of the teachings of the famous English mystic Aleister Crowley, which is expressed in principle: “do what you will, let then by law" (in they are all scumbags. Note. RuAN).
"We do not give out our own"
Masonic lodges have several rules of anonymity. So, any member of the fraternity can declare their belonging to Freemasonry without prior agreement with the brothers. But you can't give others away.
“When meeting with a Russian member of the brotherhood, it makes no sense to give signs - everyone already knows each other, at least they know me for sure. If I don’t know someone, acquaintances will introduce. And for foreign brothers there are letters of recommendation with seals or emails from their jurisdictions with a photo and a recommendation for communication," explains Vyacheslav Smirnov.
However, in the early 2010s, Russian Freemasonry was nevertheless shaken by a "revealing" scandal: someone published lists of full members of the lodge on the Web. This gave new food to various kinds of conspiracy theories that the Freemasons first destroyed the USSR, and then firmly settled in the Kremlin. “The culprit was quickly found and everything was forced to be removed. There (in the list. - Ed.) There were even some officials and managers of well-known companies,” says Pavel.
However, in recent years, the Masonic ranks, according to him, are thinning. "Let's just say that expectations do not match reality: many people see that it is rather boring to be a Mason. And we don't like them", he concludes But this is the absolute truth. Note. RuAN).
Masons and the February Revolution
"In the bowels of world Freemasonry the question of the world war was decided and war became inevitable. The center of the terrible intrigue that led to the world massacre was located in England. From here came directives and instructions to all the English continental lodges.
Masonic lodges carried out propaganda against Germany, put pressure on their own and foreign governments and contributed to the diplomatic and military encirclement of Germany. England, France, Italy and America, whose governments were in the hands of the Masons, created internal unity from socialists to monarchists, created an alarming mood and propagated the inevitability of taking preventive measures against "attacking imperialist Germany". Russian diplomacy, captured by the Masons, worked for the allies.
Freemasons Sazonov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Imperial Government, Russian ambassadors - Izvolsky in Paris, Shtrandman in Serbia - were mere pawns in the hands of the Anglo-French Masons-politicians. The Russian ambassador in Paris, Izvolsky, upon receiving news of the outbreak of war, with the air of a victor, said:
"This is my war!" The assassination in 1914 in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which served as a pretext for a world war, was carried out by Freemasons.
The plan for his assassination was drawn up over several years by the "Grand Orient de France". Lord Balfour at the beginning of the war declared that the war would end in 1918 before the feast of the Nativity of Christ. On January 13, 1919, the Jewish newspaper "Peyevishe Wordle" wrote:
"International Jewry forced Europe to accept war in order to start a new Jewish era all over the world." German General Ludendorff said: “Now it has become clear to me that the German soldier ended up hidden behind the scenes of the dark forces. We cannot but admit now that the German sword cleared the way for these forces that enslaved Russia. This could only happen because most of us were still unaware of the hidden springs that pushed us.
The world conspiracy not only provided for the defeat of the Central Powers, but also the defeat of Russia, the Russian revolution and world chaos, which was supposed to lead to the realization of the age-old Masonic dream - the creation of a Masonic superstate(World Government, approx. RuAN).
The revolution in Russia, as it is now established, was prepared and orchestrated by the Freemasons.
The intensified and systematic work of the Masons in Russia was especially intensified after the murder in 1911 of P.A. Stolypin. With the assistance of the "Grand Orient of France", already in 1911, Masonic lodges were founded everywhere in Russia, members of which were representatives of different segments of the population, including the military.
Freemasonry captured various political currents - from liberals to the Bolsheviks, inclusive. All the leaders of the socialists and communists belonged to the Freemasons: Savinkov, Avksentiev, Kerensky, Burtsev, Apfelbaum (Zinoviev), Radek-Sobelson, Sverdlov, Tchaikovsky, Lenin, Trotsky and others.
By the time of the revolution of 1917 were organized and military lodges gathered in the palace of Count Orlov-Davydov. Among the Masons were Generals Polivanov, Ruza, Polovtsev, Prince Vyazemsky. For example, the commander of the Finnish Regiment Teplov was accepted into the Masonic lodge. When one of the brothers asked him about the Tsar, Teplov replied: "I'll kill you if I'm told to."
One of the highest members of the “Great Orient of France”, Baron Senchol, who was instructed to organize Freemasonry in Russia, exclaimed: “If the Tsar had seen the list of Russian Freemasons, he would have found in it the names of persons standing very close to him.” The conspiracy was led by a conspiratorial center that arose back in 1915.
It was the famous Masonic "five", consisting of Efremov, Kerensky, Konovalov, Tereshchenko and Nekrasov. A provisional government headed by Prince Lvov was planned as early as April 1916. From England there was propaganda that the Russian court was ready to conclude a separate peace and betray the national interests of Russia and the interests of the allies.
The leaders of British politics, having used Russia to crush Germany, welcomed the coup d'état in Russia, because " England does not need a strong Russia”, as he later quite openly told the whole world about it Lloyd George.
The representative of England, Buchanan, tells our conspirators that it would be much better for Russia if the revolution "came from above." The Italian minister, Niti, stated in no uncertain terms that " Russia's victory in the world war would be the greatest misfortune for civilization". In a word, all our "faithful allies" were in solidarity and inspired by one desire: that Russia, for the incalculable sacrifices made, should be defeated - if not at the front, then with the help of the revolution. By the end of 1916, when the issue of the victory of the Allies over Germany was clarified, an order was given from England: to take action. In Masonic circles, the idea of the need to remove the Tsar from the throne was born. Thought about it Prince Lvov from the first days of the war at a meeting with Konovalov.
From that moment on, the question of a palace coup was raised in Masonic conspiracy meetings. The question is raised about the elimination of the "German", that is, the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. In this spirit, Prince Lvov conducted his intimate negotiations with General Alekseev. The persuasion worked, and by the autumn of 1916, an agreement on actions had been established. The plan was to arrest the Tsaritsa, exile her to the Crimea, and force the Tsar to agree to a "ministry of public trust".
This plan was scheduled for November 30 (November 3, 9), but collapsed by itself: Alekseev had an acute attack of an old illness, and the chief of staff was forced to go to the Crimea for a long treatment, where he stayed until the 20th of February 1917. After this failure, on December 9, a secret meeting was held at the apartment of Prince Lvov. The prince developed the idea of a palace coup with the aim of overthrowing Nicholas II from the throne and replacing him with Nikolai Nikolaevich.
Khatisov was authorized to enter into negotiations with Nikolai Nikolaevich, familiarizing him with the project of a palace coup and finding out how the Grand Duke would react to this project and whether it was possible to count on his assistance.
Lvov said that he had a statement from General Manikovsky that the army would support the coup. This plan was supposed The king is arrested and taken into exile, and to imprison the Queen in a monastery, they talked about exile, and the thought of murder was not rejected. In Tiflis, during the New Year's reception, Khatisov outlined to Nikolai Nikolaevich "Lvov's plan." After 2 days, Khatisov again met with Nikolai Nikolaevich and learned from him that the Grand Duke decided to evade participation in the conspiracy, motivating his refusal with the opinion of General Yanushkevich that the army was monarchist and would not go against the Tsar.
The idea of the forced abdication of the Tsar was stubbornly pursued in Petrograd in late 1916 and early 1917. Palaiologos (French ambassador), who was a member of the house of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, writes that the Grand Dukes, among whom are the sons of Maria Pavlovna, intended to capture Tsarskoye Selo at night with the help of four guards regiments (Pavlovsky, Preobrazhensky, Izmailovsky and Personal convoy) and force the Emperor to abdicate. The empress was supposed to be imprisoned in a monastery and the heir to be proclaimed Tsar under the regency of Nikolai Nikolaevich.
The question of the forced removal of the Sovereign from the throne was also raised at a dinner with the Grand Duke Gabriel Konstantinovich. It was attended by Putilov and Ozerov who belonged to the Freemasons and were in connection with the conspirators. General Krymov was involved in organizing the coup. Admiral Kolchak not only sympathized with the coup, but also took an active part in it. The commanding staff of the Russian army, thus, by that time had been sufficiently propagandized, prepared for the revolution, and when street traffic began in Petrograd at the end of February, he did not take any measures to suppress the rebellion, but, on the contrary, all the front commanders recommended the Emperor to abdicate from the throne.
The army - the support of the throne - has become a force hostile to the throne. November 1, 1916Freemason Milyukov from the rostrum of the State Duma he delivers a speech on the topic: "Stupidity or treason?" national treason. This vile speech of one of the most infamous people in Russia had absolutely no evidence - everything from beginning to end was a deliberate lie.
This was later clarified by a commission set up by the Provisional Government, which, despite its prejudice against the leaders of the "old regime", revealed with complete clarity that not only the Empress, but also Sturmer, Shcheglovitov, Protopopov and Sukhomlinov himself were in no way guilty of any treason, neither in negotiations with Germany, nor in search of a separate peace.
In the Duma, deputies make speeches against Rasputin. Mason Maklakov persuades Yusupov to kill Rasputin. Participation in the murder of Rasputin, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich and Prince Yusupov, further convinced that Rasputin was a traitor and the destroyer of Russia. In January 1917, an allied commission from representatives of England, France and Italy arrived in Petrograd. After a meeting with brother Guchkov, then chairman of the Military Industrial Committee, prince, brother Lvov, Chairman of the State Duma, brother Rodzianko, general, brother Polivanov, brother Sazonov, English Ambassador, Brother Buchanan, brother Milyukov and other persons, this mission submitted to the Sovereign demands of the following kind:
1) introduction to the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of allied representatives with the right of a decisive vote:
2) renewal of the command staff of all armies on the instructions of the powers of the Entente;
3) the introduction of a constitution with a responsible ministry.
The Sovereign put the following resolutions on these demands: "On the first point: It is superfluous to introduce allied representatives, for I do not propose to introduce my representatives into the allied armies with the right of a decisive vote." “On the second point: Also redundant. My armies fight with greater success than the armies of My allies." "On the third point: The act of internal government is subject to the discretion of the Monarch and does not require the indication of allies."
As soon as the Sovereign's answer became known in the British Embassy, an emergency meeting was held with the participation of the same persons; on it it was decided abandon the legal path and embark on the path of revolution».
“We knew,” said brother P. N. Milyukov after the revolution, “that in the spring the victories of the Russian army were coming. In such a case, the prestige and charm of the Tsar among the people would again become so strong and tenacious that all our efforts to undermine and topple the throne of the Autocrat would be in vain. That is why it was necessary to resort to the speediest revolutionary explosion in order to avert this danger. At the end of February Freemasonry releases destructive forces. Other people's gold appears. February 23 a skillful hand drives the crowds into the streets of Petrograd.
The mob is frightened by the coming famine. Clashes begin with the police and troops. On February 26, a decree on the dissolution of the Duma follows, to which it is not subject.
March 19, 1917 Jacob Schiff, who, according to French intelligence, gave the Russian revolutionaries twelve million dollars, sent Milyukov telegram: “Allow me, as an irreconcilable enemy of the tyrannical autocracy, which mercilessly pursued our co-religionists through you, congratulate the Russian people on the deed that they have just brilliantly accomplished, and wish your comrades in the new government and you personally complete success in the great work that you have begun with such patriotism.
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SO was recently published in the media: "specialists from the University of Zurich conducted a mathematical analysis of the relationships of 43,000 transnational corporations and made a frightening conclusion: the world is ruled by one giant" supercorporation ".
It is she who "pulls the strings" of the global economy.
To model the image of the global corporate system, the experts processed a huge amount of data reflecting the ownership relations between the largest transnational corporations.
“Reality is so complex that we had to move away from dogmas, whether it be conspiracy theories or free market theories,” explained the author of the study, complex systems theorist James Glattfelder. “Our analysis is based on real data.”
Previous studies have shown that a relatively small group of companies and banks own the lion's share of the global "economic pie", from which everyone else is left with only crumbs.
However, these studies have overlooked indirect relationships - the relationship of corporations with subsidiaries and affiliates.
After sorting through the 37 million companies and investors worldwide represented in the 2007 Orbis C database, the Zurich-based research team selected 43,060 multinational corporations and identified their total assets.
A model was built for the distribution of the economic influence of TNCs through the control of some companies over others: ownership of funds, participation in profits, etc.
Scientists have found a core of 1,318 companies whose ties to others can hardly be called anything other than incestuous. Each of these 1,318 companies had the closest relationship with two or more other companies (average number of affiliated partners was 20).
While these corporations' official earnings barely exceed 20% of global operating revenue, they actually own most of the world's companies operating in the "real" economy through their satellite firms. Thus, about 60% of global income is concentrated in the tentacles of corporate monsters.
Continuing to unravel the vast web of ownership, the team found that the majority of financial chains are headed in the direction of a "superenclave" of 147 companies. Their assets intersect with each other, effectively being common property, which gives this unspoken financial conglomerate control of 40% of global corporate wealth.
Most of these "supercorporations" are financial institutions. So, entered the top 10:
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc.
3. FMR Corporation
5 State Street Corporation
6JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8Vanguard Group Inc.
10 Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.
Analyze this list yourself, dear readers, and you will see that these are not ordinary companies, and not ordinary people work there. The analysis revealed the connection between the leaders of these super giants of the world economy and secret societies, namely Masonic lodges. Some of these companies were founded directly by people - members of Masonic organizations, and some with their participation.
LET'S GO TO THE RUSSIAN MASONS.
It is known that by the mid-50s of the 20th century, some Russian Freemasons had completely left Freemasonry: Bernstein, Niedermiller, Lebedev, Lomeyer, Zhdanov, Grunberg. Others went over to the French lodges, which by this time had begun to revive little by little, but their future was extremely doubtful.
An anonymous author reports: "New forces have been found." It can be assumed that these were brothers from the Vekhi and Free Russia lodges, who were taken in by Lotus, but for some reason they were still listed in the Obedience of the Great East: Jakeli, Dzhanshiev, Kadish, Kangisser, Aronsberg, Shamin (from the French lodge), G.G. Karganov (from the mixed lodge "France?Armenie").
In 1959 the fateful moment came: the Grand Lodge broke off relations with the Grand Orient. The last document in the Masonic archive is the last list of those present at the session of the lodge "Northern Star", February 25, 1965. This does not mean that this session was the last. They continued for another five or six years.
It is characteristic that the Masons, who at one time left the United States and returned to France after the Second World War, apparently never returned to st. Kade. In this last list - all the surnames belong to the "third generation" of Russian Freemasonry, their average age was 60-65 years.
Here is the list: M...R...., V. Grosser, A. Marshak, S. Grunberg, S. Der...sky, Gorbunov, A. Orlov, V. Marshak, A. Julius, A. Barlant, A. Shimunek (indecipherable - perhaps this is Shishunok), I. Fidder, T.S ...., A, Poznyak, G. Gazdanov, Petrovsky, S. Lutsky.
After the rupture of the two Rites in 1959, how to understand the presence of brothers from the Grand Lodge at the session of the Grand Orient? Maybe whoever wanted to came, and no one was asked where he came from, and whether he had the right to be present in the temple? If this is true, then not only the ability to compromise was lost, but also the sense of Masonic discipline.
17 people attended the session in 1965, according to the last list above. It must be taken with caution, it is composed carelessly and does not inspire much confidence. But we don't have another. S.P. Theakston told me in Paris in 1960: "Some are paralyzed and confused by the consciousness of an approaching end that we are powerless to fight." Of these 17 people, half remained by 1970. And then something happened that was supposed to happen: five people came to one of the sessions. Who they were is unknown. Was there at least one Master among them - the All-Wise, the Venerable, or at least only the Secret? But the letter of the law since St. Tybalt demanded that there be seven of them in the temple. And the French Great East took away their premises from the Russian brothers, following the letter of the law. And that was the end of Russian Freemasonry in exile.
SOVIET MASONS.
"The program for the activities of agents of influence in the USSR was personally developed by the Freemason A. Dulles, the future director of the CIA. Having become a Freemason while still studying at Princeton, Dulles already in the mid-20s reaches the 33rd degree and other Masonic regalia. In 1927 he becomes one of the directors of the international Masonic coordinating center - the Council on Foreign Relations, in 1933 he receives the key post of secretary, and since 1946 - the president of this organization.
"The first contacts of the future leaders of the CPSU with Freemasonry date back to the sixties and seventies. M.S. Gorbachev had contact with Freemasonry, apparently, during his vacation in Italy, where Masonic lodges controlled by the CIA were then operating, which aimed to contain communism (in particular, the famous "Propaganda-2" lodge, headed by CIA agent L. Jelly). A. N. Yakovlev's contacts with Freemasonry date back to the time of his stay in the USA and Canada.
"The first published news about M. Gorbachev's affiliation with freemasons appears on February 1, 1988 in the German small-circulation magazine Mer Licht" ("More Light"). Similar information is published in the New York newspaper "New Russian Word" (December 4, 1989) However, the strongest evidence of Gorbachev's belonging to Freemasonry is his close contacts with the leading representatives of the world Masonic government and joining one of the main mondialist structures - the Trilateral Commission. "J. Soros, who in 1987 formed the so-called Soros Foundation-Soviet Union, from which the Soviet-American Cultural Initiative Foundation later grew."
“Gorbachev’s accession to the Trilateral Commission should be attributed to January 1989. The meeting of the main architects of Soviet perestroika and the “brothers” who worked for the “good” of the “Architect of the Universe” and the “new world order” took place in Moscow. The Trilateral Commission was represented by its chairman David Rockefeller (also head of the Council on Foreign Relations), Henry Kissinger (head of B'nai B'rith), J. Bertoine, V. Giscard d'Estaing and J. Nakasone. A. Yakovlev, E. Shevardnadze, G. Arbatov, E. Primakov, V. Medvedev and some others.
As a result of secret negotiations, agreements were worked out on joint activities, the nature of which at that time was not clear to anyone. However, everything became clear at the end of the same year, when, in the same composition of his associates as at the meeting with the delegation of the Trilateral Commission, M. Gorbachev met with President D. Bush on the island of Malta. The conclusion of an important agreement in Malta, the capital of the Order of the Knights of Malta, whose cavaliers are members of the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Club, as if symbolized a new stage in relations between the world behind the scenes and the leadership of the CPSU.
"The year 1990 becomes fatal in the history of Russia. In a short time, the system of governing the country is changing. Taking advantage of the transition period, Gorbachev and his associates from the former Politburo (Yakovlev, Shevardnadze, Medvedev, Primakov), where all the most important issues of domestic and foreign policy were decided ", in fact, they completely usurp power in the country. A conscious dismantling and destruction of many state structures is being carried out, and instead of them, shadow backstage authorities are being created, and above all Masonic lodges and organizations."
"It is characteristic that the first official Masonic structure that arose in the USSR was the international Jewish Masonic lodge B'nai B'rith. Permission to open it was received personally from Gorbachev at the request of one of the leaders of the order, H. Kissinger. L'Arche reported that a 21-member delegation from the French branch of B'nai B'rith, led by President Marc Aron, visited Moscow from December 23 to 29, 1988. The first lodge of this order was organized during the visit and by May it consisted of 63 members. By the same time, two more lodges were established in Vilnius and Riga, and later in St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Odessa, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk.
“Since 1989, the Freemasons have carried out a widespread and even in a sense open campaign to promote subversive Masonic ideas and recruit new members in Russia. In March 1991, the CIA-funded Radio Liberty calls on residents of the USSR to establish contact for entry into Masonic lodges. The host of the program, F. Salkazanova, gave the address where Soviet citizens could sign up for a Masonic lodge in Paris, which was not a simple one, but was created specifically to "promote the spread of Freemasonry in Russia" and recreate a "Masonic structure" there.
To make this lodge attractive, they called it "Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin" (although the great Russian poet was not a Freemason). The “brothers” from this lodge who spoke in the program called for the moral and spiritual improvement of society, considering the United States as a model, which were based “from the very beginning on Masonic principles.”
"The Freemasons of France are striving to "lay their stone in the construction of democracy in Eastern and Central Europe." This was stated in September 1991 in Paris, speaking to journalists, by the Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Orient of France, J.R. The East intend to increase the necessary material and financial efforts for this purpose.
After some time, the Grand Master arrives in Moscow, and later visits St. Petersburg to organize proper Masonic work there. In parallel, the Grand National Lodge of France also operates. In April 1991, she initiated two Russian citizens into her ranks, who became the organizers of the Russian lodge "Northern Star".
"The day before the start of the August 1991 coup d'état, a member of the Pushkin lodge already mentioned by me arrived in Moscow from Paris, who emigrated from Odessa in 1922 (his name was kept secret). 8 more members of this lodge came to Moscow with him. Despite on disturbing events, this Masonic emissary opens on August 30, 1991 a new lodge "Novikov".
"As a result of the coup d'état in August-December 1991, the plans of the world behind the scenes were achieved. The world behind the scenes awards B.N. Yeltsin with the title that almost every member of the world Masonic government wears - Knight Commander of the Order of Malta. He receives it on November 16, 1991. No longer embarrassed, Yeltsin poses for reporters in the full garb of a knight-commander. In August 1992, Yeltsin signs Decree No. 827 "On the restoration of official relations with the Order of Malta."
"Relying on high support, Masonic lodges are growing like mushrooms in Russia. The first such organization in Russia was the Rotary International Masonic Club, which is widespread in Western countries, the opening of which was announced on June 6, 1990 in a report on the television program "Vremya." "White Freemasons" of the first call in this club are the heads of the administrations of Moscow and St. Petersburg Luzhkov and Sobchak, the banker Gusinsky, the well-known democratic functionaries M. Bocharov, A. Ananyev, Yu. "Cribble Institute and Similar Institutions".
"The so-called International Russian Club (IRC), created in 1992, is also a match for Rotary. This club was headed by M. Bocharov and Yeltsin's former press secretary P. Voshchanov. It included a number of well-known people, for example, Minister of Justice I. Fedorov , international deputy E. Ambartsumov, member of the Masonic Commission "Greater Europe", businessman Svyatoslav Fedorov, former head of state security V. Ivanenko, general K. Kobets, member of the Presidential Council A. Migranyan. According to the charter, the club consists of forty people, and each no more than a third can be added for a year, and each entrant is obliged to obtain three recommendations.
"Following the model of one of the main organizations of the world behind the scenes - the Bilderberg Club - in 1992 its Russian counterpart, the Magisterium Club, was created, initially uniting about 60 "brothers" in spirit. The key figure in this Masonic underground was the already mentioned J. Soros, who placed the article "Big money makes history" in the first issue of the club's secret bulletin. Other key figures of the club are the patriarchs of the Masonic movement in the former USSR A. Yakovlev and E. Shevardnadze. A. Sobchak, V. V. Ivanov are also represented in the "Magisterium" , S. Shatalin and others".
“A number of funds and clubs of a lower rank are being created in Russia. The most typical example of such an organization is the Interaction reform club, which brings together entrepreneurs, heads of banking, stock exchange institutions, and major government officials. The club was headed by E. T. Gaidar, as well as A. B. Chubais, K. N. Borovoy, L. I. Abalkin, E. G. Yasin, A. P. Pochinok, E. F. Saburov, O. R. Latsis, etc. Among the members of the club were B. G. Fedorov, S. N. Krasavchenko, N. P. Shmelev, S. S. Shatalin Close to the Interaction club is the International Fund for Economic and Social Reforms, headed by S. S. Shatalin. L. I. Abalkin and V. V. Bakatin.
"In 1993, another Masonic-type organization was created - the Order of the Eagle. Among the main founders are a well-known financial swindler, the head of the Stolichny bank, previously convicted A. Smolensky, banker P. Nakhmanovich, entrepreneur V. Neverov, one of the leaders of the international Masonic movement M. Shakkum, as well as such chess players G. Kasparov, S. Solovyov, sculptor Z. Tsereteli".
MASONS OF MODERN RUSSIA
There are Masonic lodges in Russia, one of the Masons, Andrey Bogdanov, even ran for the presidential election in 2008. The official website of the Grand Lodge of Russia is quite open to readers and points out, without prejudice, to its leaders and its structure. Maybe these people know something, maybe they are initiated, but they do not open up. But IT IS VERY PROBABLE THAT all this is not what was once the essence of real Masonic processes.
Now a closed political process also exists: there are closed groups, societies, structures that make very serious decisions - financial, political and military. But I would not dare to call them Masons. Maybe they use the principles of closed secret societies, but it is unlikely that this is accompanied by paraphernalia and oaths, as before.
Platonov's book "Russia Under the Power of Freemasons" seriously states that during perestroika, a number of famous people were agents of the influence of US Freemasons. To what extent does this reflect reality? The former adviser to the chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, retired major general of militia, Doctor of Law Vladimir Ovchinsky answers:
Doesn't reflect, says Ovchinsky. “I think Platonov gives out wishful thinking as real. There, of course, there were some secret agreements between certain people. The same Alexander Yakovlev (whom the author refers to as Masons) in his memoirs, written before his death, says that all his life he wanted to break the back of the communist system, imperial statehood. In fact, a member of the Politburo, an ideologue of the CPSU, declares that he has worked all his life against what he serves. But to call him a Freemason?! We have no evidence for this."
IS PUTIN A MASON? The answer, to some disappointment, is no. "Here is Berberova's archive - these are genuine documents. (download)
They list the names of Freemasons from the beginning of the 20th century - people themselves talk about this, there are witnesses. This is reality. There are materials from the investigation into the case of the Decembrists, which was conducted by Benckendorff - he fought against Masons and secret societies. Everything is proven here. According to the French Revolution, there is also a lot of evidence of Masonic conspiracies. The influence of Freemasons on the formation of the United States is not just a fact, it is the national and cultural pride of America. As for accusing our political leaders of Freemasonry, one must have grounds for this, but there are none. There are proven facts, and there is the current reality. How strong the Masons are in Russia, now it is not known for sure."
OTHER FORCES ARE OPERATING IN MODERN RUSSIA, the basis of which are the special services and world capital. But are people working in the special services members of Masonic organizations? This is the next question, however, which can be answered quite positively. They are not only members of international Freemasonry, but are sometimes also in the service of foreign intelligence services.
The book of the former CIA officer L. Gonzalez-Mata "True Masters of the World" lists the powerful of this world belonging to Masonic organizations, including CIA founder Allen Dulles, Bilderberg Club Secretary General Joseph Retinger, former President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jacques Attali, US Presidents Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George Bush, head of the Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller and many others.
In Russia, these include dozens of politicians and businessmen who belong not only to regular lodges, but also to closed clubs that belong to the so-called "white Freemasonry".
What are they all after? In words - quite noble goals. The Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France, Jean-Rebert Ragache, at a meeting with journalists in 1991, said that the Freemasons of France are striving to "lay their stone in building democracy in Eastern and Central Europe." He was concerned about "the resurgence of separatist and irredentist sentiments in Eastern Europe" and "the desire of the Church to bring about a new evangelization."
To achieve this lodge, the Grand Orient of France allocated 1.2 million francs, the Grand Lodge of France - 300 thousand francs, the Grand National Lodge of France - a set of swords, aprons and orders.
The donation, frankly, is ridiculous compared to what was presented by the Order of Malta to Potanin and Ignatiev. Therefore, there are secret items of expenditure, and other secret goals. Which? Alas, there is no definitive answer.
It is known, for example, that the Order of Malta, represented in Russia by Jacques Masson, is vitally interested in the Russian military-industrial complex.
They, these organizations, are still closed to the uninitiated. And therefore, special services, builders of the new order and ordinary swindlers will work under their "roof" for a long time to come.
All about one of the most secret and powerful associations in the world
Masons are the most closed society in the world. There are rumors about the amazing wealth of Freemasons, about their powerful influence on world politics, about their involvement in the overthrow of monarchs and revolutions ... In a word, there are more than enough myths around "freemasons". Which of them are true?
Where did they come from
The exact date of the origin of the Masonic organization is known - June 24, 1717. On this day, the first lodge of "freemasons" began its work in England. The four societies that were at that time in London were called in the same way as the taverns in which their participants used to gather: “Goose and a baking sheet”, “Crown”, “Apple”, “Grape brush”. On June 24, they solemnly united and became the Grand Lodge of London. This day is still celebrated as the main holiday of the Masons.
Later, representatives of the nobility, the intelligentsia, and businessmen began to join the society of Masons. Belonging to a secret brotherhood has become fashionable. In addition, the intellectuals liked the ideas of equality and brotherhood, the desire for spiritual perfection, preached by the Masons. Freemasons have developed their own rites and secret symbols that are still in effect today.
What are the goals
Why are Masonic lodges needed at all, what do they discuss when they get together, what tasks do they set for themselves?
As the Freemasons themselves explain, their first goal is to improve themselves and the world around them. Everyone who joins the lodge tirelessly works on himself, helping the other to become better: more educated, tolerant, understanding.
The second important goal of Freemasons is charity. In some states, Masonic lodges include hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom are very wealthy, they open hospitals in the Third World countries, provide assistance to the sick, and finance the work of educational institutions.
What is behind their rituals
Masons are sometimes called almost a religious sect. These thoughts are prompted by intriguing rumors about the mysterious, beautiful, and deeply meaningful rites of the Masonic lodge. For example, the head of the Lodge is called “Venerable Master”, they call each other “brothers”, it is impossible for an uninitiated person to get to the meeting - the place and time are kept in such a secret. And yet it is not a sect. Moreover, Freemasons avoid talking about religion. And the mechanisms developed over the centuries do not allow the Order of Freemasons to turn into a religious sect. For example, the leaders of the lodge are constantly changing - the Venerable Master cannot remain so for more than three years.
Their secrets
Neither Freemasonry as a whole, nor its individual lodges hide the very fact of their own existence. In addition, any member of the Lodge has the right to declare his affiliation to the Freemasons quite openly.
But he has no right to say the same about other Freemasons - disclosure is under the strictest ban.
It is supposed to keep secret words and signs by which Masons recognize each other, special rituals.
They and politics
Masons are believed to rule the world. Most likely, this is a strong exaggeration caused by long-standing rumors about the "Jewish Masonic conspiracy." Yes, in many countries very influential people are members of the brotherhood. However, Masons are not involved in politics - they have other goals. By tradition, almost all US presidents were Freemasons: it is not for nothing that even dollar bills have a Masonic sign.
In Russia, quite different connections are valued today. Of course, domestic Freemasons would like prominent politicians, oligarchs, and big businessmen to belong to their order. But do politicians and oligarchs need old romantic rites and philosophical conversations? Do they have time for this? And do they want their names to be mentioned in connection with some secret meetings and projects? Very doubtful.
How to get there
As already mentioned, Masons have the right to speak openly about their belonging to the order. If anyone who wants to join knows about it, he must take the initiative, no one will invite him, because campaigning is prohibited.
If a person really wants to join the order, but he doesn’t have a single freemason he knows, it doesn’t matter: today you can find information about lodges on the Internet and apply by e-mail. She will be considered. The candidate ("profane") will need 2-3 guarantors, and he will also have to go through an ancient rite of passage, described in detail in the novel L. Tolstoy"War and Peace". At present, the rituals have not changed much. The members of the lodge vote, and three votes "against" are enough for the candidate to be forever closed this way.
If it becomes clear that a person, striving for the Lodge, is pursuing material gain or wants to achieve social benefits, the road there is blocked for him. Real Masons strive for one thing: to reveal their spiritual potential and help others.
Men's Privilege
Ladies are not allowed to enter Masonic lodges. This is how it happened historically. Although today in some countries “mixed lodges” are beginning to be practiced, where women are allowed.
Which celebrity was a Freemason?
This can only be said with some degree of probability, given the strict secrecy of such data. In Russia, it is customary to refer to Masons, for example, A.S. Pushkin, A.V. Suvorova, N.M. Karamzin, A.S. Griboyedov, A.F. Kerensky, N.S. Gumilyov.
By the way: One of the legends says that Mozart in his opera The Magic Flute, he spoke about the secrets of the Masonic lodge, for which he was killed. To this day, Masons treat this work with special reverence. When Mozart's The Magic Flute, in particular, the Master's aria, once again sounds at the Vienna Opera, several dozen listeners stand up in the hall, as if by agreement. These are Masons.
