Novus Ordo Seclorum

Illuminists, Scholars and Statesmen on the New Order

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

- Patrick Henry

I have always been afraid of banks... (u)nless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

- Andrew Jackson

 

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it only comes once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known freedom again.

- Ronald Reagan

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom were not highly rated.

- Thomas Paine

"Governments, it is true, have not yet taken official notice of the subtle evolution which is taking place under their eyes.  They are bewildered and alarmed; they either break down in chaos or react savagely against the manipulations which disturb their stupidity. But they will not prevent the prodigious dawn which is taking place in the essence of man."

-Aleister Crowley (1925)

"Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes it laws."

-Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812)

"The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born while I speak, with birth-pangs so terrible that it seems almost incredible that life could come out of such fearful suffering and such overwhelming sorrow."

-Nicholas Murray Butler (1915)

"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation.  But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?"

-John Adams

"If there are those who think we are to jump immediately into a new world order, actuated by complete understanding and brotherly love, they are doomed to disappointment.  If we are ever to approach that time, it will be after patient and persistent effort of long duration.  The present international situation of mistrust and fear can only be corrected by a formula of equal status, continuously applied, to every phase of international contacts, until the cobwebs of the old order are brushed out of the minds of the people of all lands."

President; World Federation of Education Associations

"Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."

-James Madison (1774)

"Countless people...will hate the new world order...and will die protesting against it."

-H.G. Wells (1939)

"The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense."

-Thomas Paine

"The United Nations has not been able, nor can it be able to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand."

-Nelson Rockefeller (1962)

"The United States is not a Christian nation anymore than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation."

-John Adams (1797)

"The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a new world order."

-Richard M. Nixon, in Foreign Affairs Magazine (1967)

"Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right to religious freedom.  The tendency of the spirit of the age is strong toward religious liberty."

Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

- H.L. Mencken

"The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping a new world order or is doomed to await collapse in a passive posture.  We believe a new order will be born no later than early in the next century and that the death throes of the old and the birth pangs of the new will be a testing time for the human species."

-Richard A. Falk (1975)

"I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion."

-James Buchanan

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

- John F. Kennedy
 

"My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber...so we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order."

address before the United Nations General Assembly (1975)

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.

- Dick Vermeil
 

"I am tolerant of all creeds.  Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but in fact.  Religion and politics should not be mingled."

-Millard Fillmore (1856)

"...Nelson Rockefeller was in the forefront of the struggle to establish not only an American system of political and economic security, but a new world order."

-New York Times (1975)

Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and the keystone under independence. The rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.

- George Washington

"The clergy believe that any portion of power confided to me as President will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.  And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.  But this is all they have to fear from me:  and enough, too, in their opinion."

-Thomas Jefferson (1800)

"Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy?  And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens?  Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?  Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule of what we are to read, and what we must believe?"

-Thomas Jefferson (1814)

It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."

-Thomas Jefferson (1779)

"No man should be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor should he be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor...otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief...all men should be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinion in matters of religion, and...the same should in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."

-Thomas Jefferson (1779)

"Is uniformity available? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.  What has been the effect of coercion?  To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites."

-Thomas Jefferson (1787)

I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another (individual) nor ask another (individual) to live for mine.
 - Ayn Rand

"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion.  Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear.  Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences.  If it end in a belief that there is no god, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others it will procure for you."

-Thomas Jefferson (1787)

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Robert A. Heinlein

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.  This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

-Thomas Jefferson (1813)

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of the virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

-Thomas Jefferson (1813)

"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order."

address before the United Nations General Assembly (1988)

"We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S. - Soviet antagonisms."

-Brent Scowcroft (1990)

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money."

-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs Magazine (1995)

"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society?  In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people.  Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient allies."

-James Madison

"In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."

-James Madison

"A just government, instituted to perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy"

-James Madison

"That diabolical, hell conceived principle of persecution rages among some, and to their eternal infamy the clergy can furnish their quota of imps for such a business."

-James Madison (1774)

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial.  What has been its fruits?  More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."

-James Madison

You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And with respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

- George Bernard Shaw

"All national institutions of churches appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

-Thomas Paine

"There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or another, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood."

-Thomas Paine

"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.  Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible!  This is the rubbish called revealed religion!"

-Thomas Paine

"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe."

-John Adams

"The constitution of most of our states and of the United States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the world that a free man, contending for his liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."

-George Washington (1776)

"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."

-James Madison

"If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves."

-Samuel Adams

"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class."

-Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1863)

"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

-Henry Ford

"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created."

-Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. (1913)

"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something.  They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

-Woodrow Wilson

"The New World Order cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component.  Yes, there will  be a new world order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions."

-Henry Kissinger (1994)

"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it.  The only question is whether  World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent."

-James Paul Warburg (1950)

"All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a New World Order."

-Robert F. Kennedy (1967)

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)

"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation."

      Mayor, New York City (1918-1925)

"...the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government.  The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries."

address before the Trilateral Commission

"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.  To make them love it is the task assigned, in present day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers...the greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing.  Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."

-Aldous Huxley (1946)

"The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp.  It was, I venture to suggest, this semi occult power which...pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I."

-J.F.C. Fuller (1941)

"The world can therefore seize the opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind."

-George H.W. Bush (1991)

"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority."

-Strobe Talbot (1992)

"Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it."

-George Bernard Shaw

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

-George Bernard Shaw

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.  Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

-Abraham Lincoln (1863)

"So far as I can remember,  there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence."

-Bertrand Russell

"The idea of god is the sole wrong for which I can not forgive mankind."

-Marquis D.A.F. de Sade (1740-1814)

"I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.  I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring protestant states.  I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."

-Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811)

"This eternal accusation against christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see...I call christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race..."

"The Antichrist"

"The theories of Divine Right, aristocratic superiority, the moral order of Nature, are all today exploded bluffs."

-Aleister Crowley (1937)

"Patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel."

-Samuel Johnson (1791)

"We shall see science triumphant, philosophy revolutionized, art renewed, commercialism checkmated; and astride of the horse of the Sun we shall the Lord come as a conqueror into His Kingdom.  The revival of Magick is the Mother of the New Aeon."

-Aleister Crowley (1917)

"I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of it's origin, of it's history, of it's object, nor any explanation of it's mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.  Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable."

-Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811)

"There is no man, nor system in the world, which can show, by undoubted succession, that it should stand as head of the order.  Our ignorance in this particular frets me.  Do but consider our short history of 120 years - who will show me the Mother Lodge?"

-Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811)

"Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.  This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.  The proficient in this order are therefore justly named the Illuminated.  And of all Illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.  In comparison with this, the most brilliant sciences are but amusements for the idle and luxurious."

-Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811)

"For the Order wishes to be secret, and to work in silence, for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole."

Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811)

"We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, the origin of savagery, and of the most bloody turmoil.  Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the pure light through the universal manifestation which will result in the destruction of christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."

In a letter to Giuseppe Mazzini

"...Thus the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonai; but Lucifer, god of Light and god of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonai, the god of darkness and evil."

-Albert Pike (1889)

"The order will thus work silently, and securely, and though the generous benefactors of the human race are thus deprived of the applause of the world, they have the noble pleasure of seeing their work prosper."

-Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811)

"Our final aim is that of Voltaire and of the French Revolution - the complete annihilation of Catholicism, and ultimately all Christianity."

Society of the Carbonari (1818)

"It was not my intention to doubt that the doctrines of the Illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States.  On the contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am."

-George Washington (1798)

"Hidden schools of wisdom are the means which will one day free men from their bonds.  These have in all ages been the archives of nature, and the rights of men; and by them shall human nature be raised from her fallen state.  Princes and nations shall vanish from the earth.  The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of rational men. "

-Adam Weishaupt (1774)

"Lastly, when the whole body of the Church should be sufficiently weakened and infidelity strong enough, the final blow is to be dealt by the sword of open, relentless persecution.  A reign of terror is to be spread over the whole earth, and...continue while a christian should be found obstinate enough to adhere to christianity."

-Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

(1789)

"The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment, let it never appear, in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation."

-Adam Weishaupt