so who are this mysterious group known as the Illuminati where do they operate from and who are its members are they really some Secret World governments operating in the shadows or is the whole thing simply one huge conspiracy theory one has to consider a strong possibility that there are Puppet Masters above Obama above Cameron above Putin who are organizing and influencing it's terrifying that there are millions perhaps tens of millions of people in the world who believe in the Illuminati as a fact it's incredibly widespread and considering the historical data it's surprising so many people
believe what is effectively an urban myth so you believe that they were trying to match this to the way they've laid out Paris they've created an Egyptian temple in the middle of Paris it's now become a series of all-encompassing conspiracy theories but the Illuminati did exist they are a secret society that makes things happen in ways that we know what's not of the pentagram is a ancient symbol of occult power which was used to designate a ritual space inside which magic was performed which is as we now know it the city of London [Music] the
existence of the Illuminati has been rumored for over a century they're said to meet in secret but their influence is felt across the globe a secret world government in effect the hopping sounds like something from a James Bond movie but is it true there's certainly evidence of of several groups who call themselves The Illuminati as all the way back to 14th 15th century the enlightened ones um but they're not the Illuminati that people talk about today they're not they're not that um type of you know secret society that we all think about when we hear
the word lemonade this sort of cult in the belief of the Illuminati is widespread today and particularly amongst the younger generation who would tell you that everything from Wars to economy to weather to Market crashes to missing planes all these things are governed by the Puppet Masters the irony was that the whole Illuminati serious body ruling the world thing in League with the devil actually began with the Catholic Church they really just went for it they built up this whole myth about the Illuminati being illegal the devil being you know satanic um and and you
know Gaza names that they didn't have well I mean it was bad enough as far as the Catholic church was concerned to um you know for them to have aims to overthrow the Catholic church but you know they added to it and they gave it color and that is what started today's Illuminati myth the Catholic Church started it naturally enough the history of the Illuminati is a little foggy when it comes to hard facts and solid research historically the name refers to a secret society founded in 1776 by a law professor in Germany called Adam
weishaup according to his own writings he set it up to oppose the church and State's power influence and Prejudice over public life it was made up of academics Renaissance thinkers and Freemasons on the whole it had a positive agenda fighting for freedom and equality for all men and women quite radical in the 18th century today the Illuminati is seen by many as a cabal of influential politicians financiers and old European families who secretly control the world outside and above elected governments [Music] according to rumors they meet in secret to carry out their evil plans which
include creating Financial crashes price fixing and starting Wars and conflicts they are said to be sworn enemies of the church and many are top-ranking Freemasons [Music] in recent years the main symbols of the Illuminati the All-Seeing Eye and the pyramid have been spotted in music videos leading a whole new generation to believe that artists like Jay-Z Beyonce and Katy Perry a part of a conspiracy to brainwash the Youth of today with an Illuminati agenda and a Rihanna video there's um you know secret subliminal messages about obey the illuminat and Katy Perry video you know with
ancient Egyptian staff and little dogs and men turning into dogs and you know um oh and her strange teeth um it will you know this is this is according to vast numbers of people a fact that subliminal Illuminati messages satanic messages are leeching out from all of these sources these these you know crazy modern sources um and infecting our brains are you telling me that Lady Gaga is not involved in some new world order [Applause] [Music] stood for the should we say the relatively modern Illuminati was to allow people to think freely they wanted gender
emancipation and education for women they wanted to get away from the domination of the church they wanted to get away from the domination of various political despots and they stood ideally for freedom [Music] over the years there have been constant rumors of press reports and even books written about an Unholy alliance between the Vatican various secret societies of the Masonic lodges now very little of this has ever been conclusively proved but it all came out into the light back in 1982 when a chat called Roberto Calvi was also known as God's banker was found hanged
under Blackfriars Bridge yeah foreign [Music] author Robert Howells has spent years investigating the shadowy world of the Illuminati he believes that it does still exist but not as a central group more a murky web of secret societies and Masonic lodges many of whom do have high level links to the Vatican politics and banking do the Illuminati exist today the ideals of them certainly this ideal of cultural revolution and cultural Uprising has kind of stayed with us and certainly people look back at a French Revolution as a marked moment where the populace could turn around and
say we're not happy with this government we're getting rid of it we're not happy with this oppression or this Rule and we can rise up against it so it's a symbol of that they still exist one of the popular myths doing the rounds for the last decade or so is that a private foundation called the Bilderberg Group is really a front for the Illuminati who exactly are the Bilderberg Group the Builder boats formed in the 1950s they were to be a kind of joint group between Europe and America to exchange information and we made up
of heads and states and senior members of the military and different areas of business and commerce but over the years because they meet in secret they never publish the minutes of their meetings and they contain such powerful people Outsiders that look upon them as a potential kind of Illuminati operation uh this kind of group of people that are perhaps trying to run the world or dictate how business is done for a long time until about 15 or so years ago it was even hard to find that the meetings happened at all and of course it's
a conspiracy theorist dream you know what are all these rich and powerful people doing what are they talking about they would send anything private the conspiracy dealers would say they meet in secret and things we don't really know what they talk about because they never publish anything [Music] um I think is the conspiracy theorist dream those who are suspicious of them and who oppose them believe that they are conspirators and that what they really want to do irrespective of what effect they are having on the bulk of humanity is to run the show one has
to consider the strong possibility that there are Puppet Masters above Obama above Cameron above Putin who are organizing and influencing [Music] since the French Revolution dissolved its monarchy Paris has long been one of the centers for secret societies Freemasonry and the Illuminati to the rumors core members of these groups possess written heretical material perhaps alternative gospels and contemporary records from the first century that would challenge our accepted view of Christianity Rob's research has revealed that one of the hotbeds of this heresy was at the church of Sasol peace which is said to have housed a
whole library of so-called heretical Texan books [Music] it was founded by a Catholic priest Jean-Jacques olier in the 17th century who was also a member of several influential secret societies [Music] so it's something we need to see over here earlier on his Deathbed said that Christianity was based on a vast panopoly of untruths right he was the founder of this church in its modern form it was him that rebuilt this church [Music] and if we look at this painting there is a hidden picture of Olia in the painting he's been included here so hang on
so this is the guy who built this church yes and he said that Christianity was based on a lie yes yes and in this picture he has his hand to his mouth which is a Masonic symbol for her trouble the panic and what's he got on his other hand under his arm he has documents he has Scrolls and books and I think that's the fact that this was hidden in one of the frescoes within the church I think is important because they're saying that secretly these documents that this is the kind of evidence this is
the heretical content that existed at the time in this church and we find that later in history when can and Lily was here in the 19th century and stated that he'd found proof that Jesus had was alive in 45 A.D that he had survived the crucifixion pretty powerful stuff for a church it's incredible stuff it's uh it would destroy the church if it was proven in fact the church and the Illuminati have been connected for centuries it's been rumored but rarely ever proved that there are leading members of secret societies at the very highest level
in the church in fact while we were near Notre Dame Cathedral we saw a parade of a Secret order moving through the streets there were priests a bishop and dozens of non-clerical men wearing their ceremonial capes but who were they most likely a masonic or chivalric order connected to the Church of Notre Dame but what struck me was just how much security this group had the parade was surrounded by police and security guards with earpieces walking alongside the Caped gentleman so you ask who are these people and it gets a little difficult to articulate we
have the Bilderberg Group we have G8 we have these Notions of who prints the money in the world you look into that you find us privately hell and you wonder who who owns that so these people they do exist and all evidence sort of suggests that their existence is real they've maintained their anonymity in in the shadows now for hundreds if not thousands of years [Music] according to rob you don't have to go far in Paris to see Illuminati and Masonic influence in fact one of the most iconic landmarks of the city the Pyramid of
the Louvre is part of a much bigger structure a recreation of an ancient Egyptian temple now this is one of the most iconic symbols of Egypt in the center of Paris Paris that perfectly matches the angles of the Great Pyramid in Egypt right okay this was built as part of a Francois meteorens building project where he placed Egyptian objects all across Paris so we have this we have Obelisk we have arches the whole place is a pay on to Egypt the we're in what is a recreation of the Temple of Luxor with a pyramid at
the heart of it the Temple of Luxor itself represents the Temple of Man in which God resides [Music] that looks amazing that's fantastic it is it's a testament to the kind of the Freemasons rediscovering ancient Egypt as a perfect time as a Time when everything was built to Perfection to the ideals of a grand architect to a god [Music] the pyramid was commissioned by a high-ranking Freemason Francois meteorol and it's claimed to have been constructed from 666 panes of glass the symbolic number of Satan from The Book of Revelation though the museum says the number
is really 672. interestingly though its sides were built to exactly match the same angles as the great pyramid at Giza so is meteoron structure just an eye-catching Folly looking rather out of place in this 18th century Stone Courtyard or was it something more had some pretty esoteric ideas right it was revealed after his death by his drivers and staff they who actually go and visit that monument in the middle of the night just by himself of meditate and contemplate there so it was kind of into some very um okay from a an Anglo-Saxon point of
view some some very weird stuff um but it was very interested in things to do with the power of the land and he he saw himself as somebody that had a kind of in a way divine right to rule France he'd seen this from from when he was a young man that somehow he'd been chosen to be the ruler of France it was his destiny thank you so we've seen the pyramid in the Louvre and we're now at the Western end of The Gardens of the Louvre and this is the obelisk this is an Egyptian
obelisk dedicated to Ramses II so is it actually from Egypt well I can see the highway it was it was brought from the Temple of Luxor and this completes the temple that they create recreated using the Louvre this is at the far end of it it's at the gate that was the Gate of Luxor in the same position if we look at a map of the Louvre with the gardens see the pyramid and the head of what would be classed the man in the form of a temple so the pyramid was here and if we
come down through the gardens we're now down here at the Obelisk and if we see an original an aerial photo of the Temple of Luxor we can see the same layer similar layout and at the same end down there there was also that was where this Obelisk came from so you believe that they were trying to match this to the way they've laid out Paris they've created an Egyptian temple in the middle of Paris [Music] it's on one level you know you see these famous landmarks that we all know and love but you think there's
something a lot more to it in the way they're laid out it is very much of the Masonic plan to reintroduce these older beliefs and he's older Mysteries into the modern day and to use that kind of architecture the great Egyptian architecture and to recreate temples in the same way that they recreate Solomon's Temple every time they build a lodge so they build the Egyptian temples as well in in a capital city in the middle of a city if Rob's right and the positioning of the Louvre pyramid and the Obelisk was part of a secret
Masonic plan to create a Sacred Space in the heart of Paris then you get a sense of the power and influence that its creators must have had when you compare the layouts of the Temple of Luxor and the area around the Louvre then you can see distinct similarities [Music] if you look at the plan of Paris and you look at the Temple of Luxor you'll see that the Louvre structure and the gardens are laid out according to the Temple of Luxor so in a way they the Freemasons have recreated Egypt ancient Egypt in Paris in
full view allowing people to wander in and out looking at the Mona Lisa and the garden sit in the gardens eating their lunch not aware that they're sitting in the middle of an Egyptian temple a place of power a place of great spiritual importance and this has been created in the middle of Paris so hang on so you would you're telling me that there's some kind of magic portal in the center of Paris um I'm not saying I believe that I'm saying that any other terrorism I'm including miteron president in this um to them um
alignments of buildings or natural features or patterns or symbols inscribed on walls they're not just as we would see them they're not just interesting they actually mean something to them at a deeper level they represent the direction of an of a magical energy flow and I know that sounds a bit Harry Potter but but to them it really is a kind of portal for energies from the gods from Spirits or whatever to come in through a portal into our Dimension and be used for war well whatever they want to use it for presumably um Power
um you know that's what most people want to use energy for [Music] [Laughter] unusually for a society created at the time Mozart was still alive the Illuminati is big news today in youth culture and social media the internet is in a tizzy over what some people see as its satanic messages and images being used by today's celebrities so if you want to know who the real Illuminati are today you don't need to break into the Vatican secret archives just pop into a cyber cafe hi how are you can I use one of these okay thank
you what do people think the Illuminati are today and it's astonishing phenomenon it's worldwide um I was going to say mainly young people but um I don't know why I say that I mean it's just vast numbers of people on the planet today think the Illuminati exist behind the scenes in League with the devil I mean absolutely not a turn of phrase absolutely literally in League with the devil possibly with devilish aliens um and they basically Run the World there is trying to establish some Sinister New World Order and according to all the Believers in
this this Theory because that's what it is which they accept is total fact I mean to them it's not a theory according to them these people um are in governments um they're in the medical profession they're in financial World um some of us might agree with that to some extent um but uh they're there and they're real and um this is a real conspiracy um based on a satanic pact basically so the Illuminati is according to this an ancient and shadowy group of Elites who control nearly every aspect of life on this planet made up
of the world's political and financial Elite and it would seem Jay-Z it's extraordinary how many people now believe it I mean it's all over the internet but you can't expect that to be but just talking to people um people aren't particularly interested in any of these subjects are interested in politics um you know some particularly young people students we've talked to absolutely accept the Illuminati as an established fact um really just because everyone around them says the Illuminati exists um it's incredibly widespread and considering the you know the facts data historical data it's surprising so
many people believe what is effectively an urban myth ah this looks interesting uh you too can join the Illuminati there you go I just need my details 2.99 a month the obsession with the Illuminati and their symbols has really gone off the scale in the last 10 years take for example this symbol that you see uh famous rock stars and politicians using and it is peculiar but you you know does it mean anything probably not the other one is the all cni which of course appears on the dollar bill and it represents the All-Seeing Eye
of the grand geometrician of the universe according to Freemasonry but now you see this in Lady Gaga videos and Jay-Z videos and Rhiannon and all these celebrities now they're all using the same sort of images fine I mean they are cool images but bloggers and the sort of you know Fringe press or looking at this and saying ha you are a member of the Illuminati and you have been chosen to propagate these messages but it's bollocks I mean it's just cool imagery they're using to uh to sell music if I'm honest the further I looked
into the Illuminati the less real it all felt yes there was a small group of free-thinking liberals in Germany back in the 18th century but as far as I can ascertain that was where it ended but since then the myth of the Illuminati has been slowly and surely built up on the back of Freemasonry secret societies private foundations and occultists to create this monster we see today um people's conceptions of what the Illuminati might be in today's world people have almost certainly got the situation totally wrong almost any situation which can't be explained almost any
power base in the world even now down to stars and Superstars are all fought by one person or another to be associated with this all-encompassing conspiracy to take over the world in usually a very negative sense we particularly find it because people are so suspicious of bankers and industrialists we don't trust politicians anymore so all these people tend to get lumped together as if they're involved in some kind of very definite scheme to disenfranchise and disempower us [Music] so the only city to be influenced by secret societies and Freemasons after the Great Fire of London
destroyed much of the city in 1666 the great thinkers writers Architects and Alchemists of the day like Sir Christopher Wren seized the opportunity to rebuild London reflecting their Esoteric Agenda foreign David hambling has spent years studying their influence on London revealing a secret world of symbols ancient geometry in the occult hidden in plain sight one of these men was Nicholas hawksmore who built a number of churches in London including Christchurch in spitalfields [Music] what's interesting about them was that they were all built along a particular pattern with the separation and alignments which linked them all
together okay so this is a map of the city of London so this yeah this is Matt from the city of London area and we are there at Christchurch Hospital fields and then you've got St Luke's some George's some Jordans right and that makes a sort of star thanks to sort of pentacle so are we suggesting that hawksmore deliberately built his churches to make a shape of a pentagram the pattern and the separation between them certainly makes it look as though he was trying to produce some kind of design and the most obvious way to
join them up is into a pentagram like that and what's the significance of the pentagram the pentagram is a an ancient symbol of occult power which was used to designate a ritual space inside which magic was performed and so what's he telling us then why this space do we know what was basically he's taking some kind of claim to the area within that space which is as we now know it the city of London city of London [Music] the Illuminati is often connected to a lot of conspiracy theories uh what are the main ones I
mean they are at the center of all the biggest conspiracy theories perhaps the most famous one is an American conspiracy theory called the New World Order which is this idea that there is a group that's trying to abolish countries any particular abolish American sovereignty and American rights so they see things like the European Union where you see the national boundaries being dissolved and things being run by shadowy Central Organization for them that's a sure sign that the Illuminati are behind it and in their view the Illuminati are attempting to take over the rest of the
world as well foreign they may not have taken over the world in the 17th century but they did rebuild London and their crowning achievement was undoubtedly Saint Paul's Cathedral according to hambling it was to be at the very center of the Sacred Space they had created in the city a New Jerusalem [Music] I recognize this place and it's a far cry from the austere simple lines of Christchurch spitalfields yeah this is uh very much the handiwork of Sir Christopher Wren in fact this is his greatest achievement possibly the greatest achievement of 17th century English architecture
Saint Paul's Cathedral part of the New Jerusalem that the builders wanted to create after the Great Fire of London so this was absolutely Central to The Illuminati's plan this was literally Central to their plan of London [Music] this is and some Paul's lies at the very heart the beating half of the New London yeah the the New Jerusalem is the The Shining City on the hill the example to the world of a perfect idealized City and at the heart of that is a modern version of Solomon's Temple which embodies all the wisdom in the universe
and that is Saint Paul's Cathedral that was the vision of Christopher Wren and the others who were trying to rebuild their New Jerusalem here [Music] this place also has a very interesting connection with Freemasonry in that the first United Grand Lodge was actually formed right on that spot there at the old goose and Gridiron Public House in 1717. proximity to the Masons is significant it's very significant in Masonic mythology the very first Freemasons Lodge was set up in the porch of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem and the first United Grand Lodge ever which was set up
here in England was set up just over there so in the symbolic Temple of Solomon in London it has long been suggested that there is a very close connection between the Illuminati and Freemasonry now I would tend to the view that both of them are visible tips they're the surfaces of something much older and deeper for one of a better term I might use the name of the Guardians or the guides and that they go back Millennia not just a few centuries according to the conspiracy theorist it's the Illuminati that are behind Freemasonry I called
him to some it's three nations there behind the Illuminati but you can take your pick um that become comes about because back with the original Illuminati there was a connection because the Illuminati worked by trying to infiltrate and take over Freemasonry um but that became kind of a gift to its opponents once the Illuminati had been broken broken up say oh the Illuminati work within Freemasonry therefore they were controlling Freemasonry wherever you see a Mason you can now see the Illuminati there are some quite mad but very firmly held beliefs in uh you know Freemasonry
automatically being evil um and and therefore it must be part of the Illuminati thing and that they all are basically in it because of satanic naughtiness on a grand scale and and wishing to take over the world adjacent to Christchurch in spitalfields are the streets and alleys where the notorious Jack the Ripper terrorized London in the 19th century [Music] humbling believes that the Ripper murders were part of a wider Masonic conspiracy which were part of a secret occult agenda in essence Jack the Ripper was part of the Illuminati one of the most famous and grizzliest
Mysteries of Victorian London were the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 when a number of prostitutes were killed and horribly mutilated all around this area uh Jack the Ripper was never caught and there are many theories about why he did what he did but what wasn't fully appreciated until recently was there was very strong occult Connection in the way the bodies were mutilated the way they were laid out and the the pattern in which they were killed what do you mean the where what the whereabouts of whether murders happened uh well if you plot their
locations on a map they form an exact parallelogram okay so one two three four which are yeah those those are the four who were found outside there was the fifth victim who was found inside uh under different circumstances but with those four uh there appears to have been a ritual connection so if you were to superimpose that onto a map you would get that all right okay so we are here why was he choosing these locations what why are these significant again it's to mock out a Sacred Space on the ground uh for what could
Loosely be described as a Black Magic Ritual uh so that he could gain power so we think that we suggesting then that Jack the Ripper was a member of the Illuminati he certainly had an understanding of the kind of principles that the Illuminati were working with if he was a member of them I would say he was probably a rogue member who was just out for himself given all this information do we know who he might have been uh there's a very strong suspicion that he was a man called Robert donston Stevenson uh who was
a student of the occult and a journalist who wrote a number of articles about the black magic collections of the Jack the Ripper killings he was arrested three times for The Murders but the police never proved anything and he was released but he remains one of the strong Suspects one of the theories which is associated with the horror of the Jack the Ripper killings is that the lacerations Were Meant to conform to a certain geometric pattern that it wasn't simply the old Masonic Vengeance for oath Breakers which it was but that at the same time
there was a geometrical aspect of the mutilations that he carried out and that has a very Sinister depth to it just exactly who was the Ripper and why did he use those peculiar configurations on his victims foreign Ted with the hard evidence of The Illuminati's influence on London it's a compelling case but has there really been a coordinated effort from one group to run our lives our politics our economies Even build our cities from the Shadows or are some people just trying too hard to connect all the dots and construct a powerful mythology thank you
well the longer I've lived The more I've looked into society and why things apparently happen in very unexpected ways sometimes my life experience suggests that there are influences other than the simple cause and effect that we're aware of but that is more of a gut feeling I can't say oh yes I'm sure they exist because of a b z and d I've got no proof that they are a dangerous secret society but when I look at all the things that happen both politically and economically and internationally then I can't help wondering why those things happen
but it's only a question mark it's not a certainty in their existence my neighbor for example that the Illuminati secretly run the world and are trying desperately to establish a new world order in which they are succeeding bit by bit and this terrifies her or she gets together with all her friends and even their religious advisors are pushing this idea that the Illuminati are in charge so for some people it's a very real and a very tangible for it it's very real it's very tangible and the fact that most people don't acknowledge it you know
most people walking in the street you know man in the street don't acknowledge it just shows you know how um how they're sleepwalking around you know not acknowledging this this terrible threat that is hanging over us all you know what's interesting is these societies today like these neo-templar and of course Freemasonry what do they have in common they're private and secretive and and that allows them to to have some fun and pay homage to a ancient tradition but they're harmless but because they're secretive they get thrown into this bucket of being evil and part of
the Illuminati and they're really not they're really harmless I think what we might have here is actually the reverse of what many people think in so much as the Illuminati scene is almost like a nefarious dark manipulating group who are trying to bring about their own world agenda what if they're the opposite what if they are a group that are actually trying to uphold ancient traditions ancient symbolic ideas that were pre-church pre religions of the book and what if they are trying to actually make us aware that some of these ideas the measure for instance
sacred geometry are actually where we find God where you know the real spiritual Elements of Life can be found if we look back to the original conception of the Illuminati when it first bought that name its whole idea was to to literally Build a Better World um not just for the influential people but for ordinary people in my conception and through a host of different books it seems to me that something like the original Illuminati does indeed still exist but it's much more Subterranean than most people would think these days and it's very similar in
its intentions and objectives to what it was back in 1776 it seeks to work make the world a better place but we have to remember that the people involved in it are extremely patient in a world where everything seems to happen in two minutes the Illuminati if that's what you still want to call them are generational and multi-generation they take the time but they are slowly but surely making the world a better place oh so are they real you know after everything I've learned it's hard to dismiss them as a wild conspiracy theory I certainly
think there's evidence to claim that there have been groups of influential men throughout the last 200 years or so who've sought to influence events and change the course of history for the Shadows and are they still doing it well you tell me I'll see you next time thank you foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign foreign [Applause]
