by Texe Marrs
One of the men who gave this subject much thought was Bertrand Russell, a socialist and a member of the Fabian Society of England. Russell pondered the question of how human beings could best be controlled and manipulated for what he considered to be “the good of society.” In his 1953 book, The Impact of Science on Society, he theorized that an elite aristocracy could exercise fantastic power by employing the new advances in mind control:
It is to be expected that advances in psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have... Education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school master would have wished. 3
Russell, an advocate of a socialist world government and a harsh critic of capitalism, proposed that authorities work on children’s minds “from a very early age to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable.” If the child is thoroughly indoctrinated, Russell emphasized, any “serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.” 4
But what if, prior to their indoctrination, the masses did not want to accept the goals of their masters? What then? Should they be brainwashed to believe? Bertrand Russell’s answer reveals the distorted view of the elitists who, in reality, care nothing for human rights:
Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so. 5
In shocking passages reminiscent of the Nazi racial experiments, Bertrand Russell also suggested that genetic selection would be necessary to develop a more perfect society:
The System, one may surmise, will be something like this: Except possibly the governing aristocracy, all but 5 percent of males and 30 percent of females will be sterilized... As a rule, artificial insemination will be preferred to the natural method. The unsterilized, if they desire the pleasures of love, will usually have to seek them with sterilized partners.
Children will be taken from their mothers and reared by professional nurses. To those accustomed to this system, the family as we know it will seem as queer as the totem organization of the Australian Aborigines seems to us. The laboring class will have such long hours of work and so little to eat that their desires will hardly extend beyond sleep and food. The upper-class, being deprived of the softer pleasures, both by the abolition of the family and by the supreme duty of devotion to the state, will acquire the mentality of ascetics: They will care only for power and in the pursuit of it will not shrink from cruelty. 6
Eventually, Russell explains, the pursuit of power will not require cruelty, for the masses, persuaded to do their “duty”—which means to slavishly serve their upper class rulers-will be so paralyzed in their minds and thoughts that they would not even think of rebelling:
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between the rulers and the ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs (lower-classes) would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton. 7
No Need for Firing Squads in the New World Order
The purpose of mind control is to so condition the minds of the average men and women so that brutality, suppression, and rigid totalitarian powers need never be exercised. The ideal, the Secret Brotherhood realizes, is to have the people willingly and eagerly accepting their fate, convinced that they’ve got it good, that things are just as they should be, that those who rule over them are chosen to do so by a natural system of selection. The New Culture, said Aldous Huxley, will not need firing squads:
There is no reason why the new totalitarian state should resemble the old. Government by firing squads...is not merely inhuman...it is demonstrably inefficient, and in an age of advanced technology, inefficiency is a sin against the Holy Ghost. 8
According to Huxley, “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude.” 9
The Example of the French Revolution
The French Revolution, instigated by the Grand Orient Lodge of Paris, gave the men of the Secret Brotherhood every hope that eventually the entire world could be convinced to willingly become its slaves. The Masonic Order and the conspiratorial Jacobins Society enjoyed tremendous success in convincing the people of France that the monarchs were nothing less than vile insects and enemies of the people. A small group of elitists calling itself “The Committee on Public Safety” was “democratically” formed and began to draw up lists of “Enemies of the People.”
At the same time, the Masonic membership of this Committee on Public Safety employed techniques of mass hypnosis, brainwashing, illusion (theater), magic and alchemy to process the common people toward the desired goals.
Ultimately, nearly five million Frenchmen lost their heads in the guillotines as a savage, bloodletting orgy commenced throughout the country. Because of the psychological and spiritual warfare carried out against the people by the Masonic overlords—who convinced the masses that they were democratically chosen and wanted only to bequeath to the people liberty, fraternity, and equality—a mass program of “de-Christianization” was launched. Churches were torched, priests were tortured and sent to the guillotine, and even the average Christians in the pews were tormented by mobs.
These innocent men, women, and children were ridiculed, scoffed and reviled. Anyone who had the audacity to pray to the person of Jesus Christ was branded an “Enemy of the State.” Crucifixes were torn off the walls of those churches that weren’t torched. Crucifixes were also forcibly removed from the walls of homes, turned upside down on display in the streets, and urinated on by mobs.
A great cloud descended over the nation. If it was not the devil who gripped the minds of the men on the Committee on Public Safety, then who was responsible for these foul things? If it were not the devil, acting through his Masonic agents, whose sophisticated techniques of mind control made these atrocities possible, then how is it possible that they occurred? What type of delusion attacked the minds of millions of common peasants and petty merchants to convince them to participate in such brutal acts of terror against their innocent neighbors?
A Planetary Delusion
From what I have discovered in my studies of the mind control techniques and methods that the Secret Brotherhood is now using against mankind, the mind rape of the people of France over two centuries ago is being repeated today on a global scale. Could it be that somewhere today, in a high-rise office building, a team of “social engineers” hired by the Brotherhood is drawing up lists of people who are to be accused of being “Enemies of the State?”
I am convinced that the techniques of old are now combined with newer psychological advances, the power of words (general semantics), and propaganda. These occult systems are being used to captivate, intoxicate, and totally transform the minds of men.
The Secret Brotherhood now has the capacity to induce a mass hallucination, a form of group insanity and planetary delusion, into the minds of the masses. Furthermore, they have also developed certain occultic and magical powers to the maximum and are now able to use the black arts and sorcery to achieve an altered state of consciousness in the minds of entire populations.
A Paradigm Shift: Novus Ordo Seclorum
Effective on a planetary scale, these occult techniques, combined with psychology, mind control, and propaganda, are pushing mankind at a rapid pace down the slippery slope of slavery. What is occurring is a shocking new paradigm shift, a change in men’s minds. It is through this paradigm shift, our mind controllers believe, that matter can be magically transmuted to spirit. A new consciousness will grab hold of and possess men’s minds. The paradigm shift, they believe, signals their supreme success in the alchemical processing of humanity.<
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The Great Work, the illumination of all mankind, is finally on the threshold of completion. The New Order of the Ages (Novus Ordo Seclorum) is on the immediate horizon.
The men who intend to rule over us have no desire to smash us into submission. Rather, they are confident and are looking forward to our rapturous embracing of the solutions that they offer us to resolve the chaotic problems and crises now besetting our planet. They arrogantly believe that mankind will, in desperation, turn to them for salvation.
The hidden persuaders are not interested in becoming Hitlers and Mussolinis. Their way is not that of China’s Mao, Russia’s Stalin, or Cambodia’s murderous Pol Pot. They use the velvet-gloved fist, the satin-smooth turn of words, and the magical frame of thinking to gain their objectives. Theirs is the route of hidden persuasion to change and alter men’s minds.
As Vicomte Leon de Poncins writes in The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, “The role of Freemasonry is to create the revolutionary state of mind rather than to act directly.”
We may well recall the dilemma of Winston, the heroic character from George Orwell’s book 1984. When it was found out that he was a rebel, an insurrectionist who was able to discern the lies of Big Brother and who sought to combat the oppressive forces of the elitists, Winston was arrested. Thrown into a prison cell, he was tortured unmercifully. His captors could have ended it all by simply dispatching Winston with a bullet to the back of the head. But they chose not to do so. 10
Instead, they began to work on his mind and to remold his thoughts. Winston, Big Brother’s police state ruled, was guilty of “thought-crime.” His thoughts had to be made “pure” so that once again, he would love Big Brother and also love and respect the system that Big Brother had created for the good of society. It was only when Winston was able to totally and unconditionally accept these principles—in other words, only when his mind was thoroughly cleansed, purged, and changed, that Big Brother could be appeased.
In the world of 1984’s Big Brother, the Party, comprised of the elitists, felt it necessary to create a Ministry of Truth. The bureaucrats of this ministry were housed in an enormous pyramid-shaped building of glittering white concrete, which soared up, terrace after terrace, 300 meters into the air. On the white face of this pyramidal structure, in elegant lettering, were the three slogans of the Party:
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Mandatory: A “New Way of Thinking”
What the Secret Brotherhood is insisting is that Americans and the peoples of the earth adopt a “new way of thinking.” Even some ostensibly Christian groups are falling for this ploy. For example, in the Plain Truth magazine published by the Worldwide Church of God, a religious cult founded by the late Herbert W. Armstrong, was a special section, entitled, “Needed for the ‘90’s... A New Way of Thinking!” 11 In this special section, a number of authorities were quoted as recommending that a “new way of thinking,” a “new ecological and cultural ethos,” and a “new kind of mind,” be adopted by the peoples of the world. According to the Plain Truth, “We need this new mind because the old mind is proving incapable of handling the world we’ve made for ourselves.” 12
Everywhere we turn it seems that authorities are encouraging us to develop this “new way of thinking.” Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich, in their book, New World, New Mind, claim that the human mind is now “mismatched for the world it has created.” They say that the population explosion and the environmental crisis cannot be solved unless the human mind is changed and upgraded. In the UNESCO Charter, we also find an appeal that men change their minds: “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that we have to erect the ramparts of peace.”
Gorbachev Promotes a “New Way of Thinking”
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet President who is now head of a think tank organization with centers in both Moscow and the United States, obviously has been told by his mentors in the New World Order to hammer out a similar refrain. Gorbachev has become a superhero to New Agers around the world who love to hear him preach on his favorite theme: that the world desperately needs a “higher consciousness.” 13
Gorbachev also continues to stress the topic of world unity, to trumpet and proclaim that “we are all one.” As he puts it: “We are all passengers aboard one ship the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah’s Ark.” 14 Strange words indeed for a man who says that he is an atheist and a dedicated communist.
To promote these ideas, Mikhail Gorbachev wrote his book, Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World, which promptly became a smash hit on the New York Times bestseller list in 1987 and 1988. In his book, Gorbachev explained that Perestroika meant that the world must be reconstructed, and that mankind must rally behind the formation of a “global consciousness.” The former bully of the Kremlin also called for “a worldwide revolution” so that mankind would have a “new way of thinking.” 15 This revolution, he added, must “begin in the mind.” Gorbachev’s claim is that such a revolution will insure peace and harmony for all the peoples of the world because, along with this “new way of thinking” will come “universal values to take advantage of man’s spiritual capital.” 16
Gorbachev has proven to be one of the greatest parrots and evangelists imaginable for the New Age masters of the Secret Brotherhood. The good comrade from Moscow no doubt recognizes that the term “global consciousness” simply means that the entire world is to be propagandized into believing in the necessity of the “worldwide revolution” that he and fellow conspirators so stridently propose. That revolution, he tells us, “must begin in the mind.” 17
This is exactly what Vicomte Leon de Poncins revealed as the true goal of Freemasonry: the creation of the revolutionary state of mind. It is interesting also that Gorbachev talks about “spiritual capital” for, as de Poncins notes, “The inner nature of the struggle is spiritual.” It is a conflict between the Christian idea—between God—and the men who would exalt themselves to godhood.
German Banker Calls for a “New Way of Thinking”
Another prominent figure in the New World Order, the fabulously powerful German banker F. Wilhelm Christians, has also joined the rising crescendo of voices urging this “new way of thinking.” Christians just happens to be the chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank. As such he is virtually the equal of Great Britain’s wealthy Lord Rothschild and America’s banking and corporate magnate David Rockefeller in the international banking sweepstakes. 18
It was Christians who broke down the walls of communism by having his bank and other banking syndicates which he controls lend billions of German marks to the Soviets to help them build the Siberian Pipeline and the Yamal Pipeline, among other projects. Over the years, Christians has traveled back and forth to the Soviet Union, both before the fall of communism and since. He has held secret and open meetings with Soviet leaders like Brezhnev, Andropov, and Gorbachev, as well as American Presidents Carter, Reagan, and Bush.
Truly a financial insider, Christians authored a penetrating book, Paths to Russia: From War to Peace, which has a foreword by Helmut Schmidt, the former Chancellor of West Germany. In it, Christians heaps praise on Gorbachev’s doctrine of Perestroika (reconstruction) and on his “new way of thinking.” Christians writes that he is in full agreement with these goals, which, he notes, also include such elements as “a new morality and a new psychology.” 19
Thus, we have it from one of the hidden persuader’s own top spokesmen: The “new way of thinking” is the wave of the future—the path not only to conquest over the hardline communists of Russia, but over the peoples and nations of the whole world.
The Secret Brotherhood is convinced that its hidden blueprint for world domination will be achieved by the year 2000, as mankind enters the “New Millennium.” So appropriately, F. Wilhelm Christians says that it is significant that we are about to enter the third millennium, “a
new millennium,” he says, that “exerts a powerful suggestive effect on people.” 20 Christians is positive that this new era, the New Millennium, has great possibilities. He happily notes that, “There are signs of changes in world events, signs that were inconceivable until very recently.” These changes, Christians’ adds, mean that “Long familiar absolutes and fixed positions are shifting, becoming relative; they are no longer suitable.” 21
F. Wilhelm Christians stresses his belief that Gorbachev’s Perestroika and “new way of thinking” must be adopted by Europe, America and the whole world and not just in Russia alone. He says that he is so glad that Gorbachev (a coworker with him in the Secret Brotherhood), understands the “vibrations” which are causing the world to change so dramatically:
Unlike millions of indolent (Communist) Party members, Gorbachev feels the vibrations that are announcing the new international system of the coming millennium. 22
World Government is Needed
If we are “to attain an irreversible peace on this planet,” Christians writes, “all human beings will cooperate in implementing the new geopolitical vision now offered to US.” 23 And what is meant by this new “vision?”
More than anything else, we have to cast off the traditional national structures. The European Economic Community is set on this course, which will eventually effect the other European countries. The Eastern European countries, having long been deprived of self-determination, are urgently intent on emphasizing their inviolable borders. But ultimately they will have to yield, slowly but inevitably, to the global lifting of such demarcations. 24
