Top 10 Secret Societies

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Through history there have been many secret societies and conspiracy theories about those societies. This is a
list of 10 of the most famous and popular secret societies or alleged secret societies.

1. Skull and Bones [Wikipedia]

Members of the Skull and Bones (George Bush is left of the

clock) [1947]

The Order of Skull and Bones, a Yale University society, was

originally known as the Brotherhood of Death. It is one of the
oldest student secret societies in the United States. It was
founded in 1832 and membership is open to an elite few. The
society uses masonic inspired rituals to this day. Members
meet every Thursday and Sunday of each week in a building they call the “Tomb”.

According to Judy Schiff, Chief Archivist at the Yale University Library, the names of the members were not kept
secret until the 1970s, but the rituals always have been. Both of the Bush presidents were members of the society
while studying at Yale, and a number of other members have gone on to great fame and fortune.

The society is surrounded by conspiracy theories; the most popular of which is probably the idea that the CIA was
built on members from the group. The CIA released a statement in 2007 (coinciding with the popularity of the film
The Good Shepherd) in which it denied that the group was an incubator for the CIA. You can read that document
here.

2. Freemasons [Wikipedia]

Freemasons Annual Meeting [1992]

The Grand Masonic Lodge was created in 1717 when four

small groups of lodges joined together. Membership levels
were initially first and second degree, but in the 1750s this
was expanded to create the third degree which caused a split
in the group. When a person reaches the third degree, they
are called a Master Mason.

Masons conduct their regular meetings in a ritualized style.

This includes many references to architectural symbols such
as the compass and square. They refer to God as “The Great
Architect of the Universe”. The three degrees of Masonry
are: 1: Entered Apprentice, this makes you a basic member of the group. 2: Fellow Craft, this is an intermediate
degree in which you are meant to develop further knowledge of Masonry. 3: Master Mason, this degree is necessary
for participating in most masonic activities. Some rites (such as the Scottish rite) list up to 33 degrees of
membership.
Masons use signs and handshakes to gain admission to their meetings, as well as to identify themselves to other
people who may be Masons. The signs and handshakes often differ from one jurisdiction to another and are often
changed or updated. This protects the group from people finding out how to gain admission under false pretenses.
Masons also wear stylized clothing based upon the clothing worn by stone masons from the middle ages. The most
well known of these is the apron.

In order to become a Mason, you must generally be recommended by a current mason. In some cases you must be
recommended three times before you can join. You have to be at least 18 years old and of sound mind. Many
religions frown upon membership of the Masons, and the Roman Catholic Church forbids Catholics to join under
pain of excommunication.

3. Rosicrucians [Wikipedia]

Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians

The Rosicrucian order is generally believed to have been

the idea of a group of German protestants in the 1600s
when a series of three documents were published: Fama
Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis, Confessio Fraternitatis, and The
Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz anno 1459.
The documents were so widely read and influential, that
the historian Frances Yeats refers to the 17th century as the
Rosicrucian Enlightenment. The first document tells the
story of a mysterious alchemist (Christian Rosenkreuz)
who travelled to various parts of the world gathering secret
knowledge. The second document tells of a secret
brotherhood of alchemists who were preparing to change
the political and intellectual face of Europe. The third
document describes the invitation of Christian Rosenkreuz
to attend and assist at the “Chemical” wedding of a King
and Queen in a castle of Miracles.

Current members of the Rosicrucian Order claim that its origins are far more ancient than these documents. The
authors of the documents seemed to strongly favor Lutheranism and include condemnations of the Catholic Church.
Rosicrucianism probably had an influence on Masonry and, in fact, the 18th degree of Scottish Rite Masonry is
called the Knight of the Rose Croix (red cross).

There are a large number of Rosicrucian groups today – each claiming to be closely tied to the original. Of the two
main divisions, one is a mix of Christianity with Rosicrucian principles, and the other is semi-Masonic. The
Masonic type tend to also have degrees of membership.

4. Ordo Templis Orientis [Wikipedia]

Crowley with OTO Instruments

The OTO (Order of the Temples of the East) is an organization that was
originally modeled on Masonry but, under the leadership of the self-styled
“Great Beast” Aleister Crowley, it took on the principles of his religious
system called Thelema. Thelema is based around a single law: “Do what thou
wilt shall be the whole of the law, love is the law, love under the will” [1904].
Membership is based upon degrees of initiation and highly stylized rituals are
used. The OTO currently claims over 3,000 members worldwide.
Crowley created a “Mass” for the OTO which is called the Gnostic Mass. Of the “Mass”, Crowley wrote:

“I resolved that my Ritual should celebrate the sublimity of the operation of universal forces
without introducing disputable metaphysical theories. I would neither make nor imply any
statement about nature which would not be endorsed by the most materialistic man of science. On
the surface this may sound difficult; but in practice I found it perfectly simple to combine the most
rigidly rational conceptions of phenomena with the most exalted and enthusiastic celebration of
their sublimity.”

The ritual is very stylized and uses virgin priestesses, children, and priests. Many Ancient Egyptian God’s are
invoked, as well as the Devil, and at one point the priestess performs a naked ritual.

5. Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn [Wikipedia]

Golden Dawn Symbolism

The order of the Golden Dawn was created by Dr. William Robert
Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor
Mathers. All three were Freemasons and members of Societas
Rosicruciana in Anglia (an organization with ties to Masonry). It is
considered by many to be a forerunner of the Ordo Templi Orientis and a
majority of modern Occult groups.

The belief system of the Golden Dawn is largely taken from Christian
mysticism, Qabalah, Hermeticism, the religion of Ancient Egypt,
Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Magic, and Renaissance writings.
William Yeats, and Aleister Crowly are two of the more famous
members of the group.

The fundamental documents of the order are known as the Cipher Documents. These were translated into English
using a cipher attributed to Johannes Trithemius. The documents are a series of 60 folios containing magic rituals.
The basic structure of many of these rituals appear to originate with Rosicrucianism. There is a great deal of
controversy surrounding the origins of these documents.

6. The Knights Templar [Wikipedia]

Mediaeval Templar’s Sword

The Knights Templar (full name: The United Religious,

Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John
of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta) is a modern off-
shoot of Masonry and does not have a direct tie to the
original Knights Templar – a religious military group
formed in the 12th century. Members of the Masonic
Knights Templar do not claim a direct connection to the
medieval group, but merely a borrowing of ideas and
symbols.

In order to become a member of this group, you must already be a Christian Master Mason. This organization is a
distinct one, and is not just a higher degree of Masonry. Despite Freemasonry’s general disclaimer that no one
Masonic organization claims a direct heritage to the medieval Knights Templar, certain degrees and orders are
obviously patterned after the medieval Order. These are best described as “commemorative orders” or degrees.
Nevertheless, in spite of the fraternity’s official disclaimers, some Masons, non-Masons, and even anti-Masons insist
that certain Masonic rites or degrees originally had direct Templar influence.

7. The Illuminati [Wikipedia]

The Pyramid, an illuminati symbol

A movement of freethinkers that were the most radical offshoot of The

Enlightenment — whose followers were given the name Illuminati (but who
called themselves “Perfectibilists”) — was founded on May 1, 1776 in
Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt. This group is
now known as the Bavarian Illuminati. While it was not legally allowed to
operate, many influential intellectuals and progressive politicians counted
themselves as members. Even though there were some known Freemasons
in the membership, it was not considered to be endorsed by Masonry. The
fact that the Illuminati did not require a belief in a supreme being made
them particularly popular amongst atheists. This, and the fact that most
members were humanists, is the reason for the widespread belief that the
Illuminati wants to overthrow organized religion.

Internal panic over the succession of a new leader, and government attempts to outlaw the group saw to it collapsing
entirely in the late 1700s. Despite this, conspiracy theorists such as David Icke and Was Penre, have argued that the
Bavarian Illuminati survived, possibly to this day, though very little reliable evidence can be found to support the
idea that Weishaupt’s group survived into the 19th century. It has even been suggested that the Skull and Bones club
is an American branch of the Illuminati.

Many people believe that the Illuminati is still operating and managing the main actions of the governments of the
world. It is believed that they wish to create a One World Government based on humanist and atheist principles.

8. The Bilderberg Group [Wikipedia]

A Bilderberg Meeting

This group is slightly different from the others in that it does

not have an official membership. It is the name given to a
group of highly influential people who meet ever year in
secrecy (and usually with strong military and government
sponsored security). The topics discussed are kept secret.
The structure of the meetings is that of a conference –
usually held in five star hotels around the world. Attendance
at the meeting is strictly by invitation only. The first
meeting took place in 1954 at the Hotel Bilderberg in the
Netherlands.

The original meeting was initiated by several people. Polish emigre and political adviser, Joseph Retinger, concerned
about the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe, proposed an international conference at which leaders
from European countries and the United States would be brought together with the aim of promoting understanding
between the cultures of The United States of America and Western Europe.

Although the agenda and list of participants are openly available to the public, it is not clear that such details are
disclosed by the group itself. Also, the contents of the meetings are kept secret and attendees pledge not to divulge
what was discussed. The group’s stated justification for secrecy is that it enables people to speak freely without the
need to carefully consider how every word might be interpreted by the mass media.

Needless to say, this group is constantly surrounded by controversy and conspiracy theories.

9. The Priory of Sion [Wikipedia]

Logo of the Priori of Sion

After the publication of the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, a great deal of interest in
the Priory of Sion has been created. Unfortunately for those hoping to find and join
the Priory, it is, in fact, fictional. It was a hoax created in 1956 by a pretender to the
French Throne, Pierre Plantard. Letters in existence dating from the 1960s written by
Plantard, de Cherisey and de Sède to each other confirm that the three were engaging
in an out-and-out confidence trick, describing schemes on how to combat criticisms of
their various allegations and how they would make up new allegations to try to keep
the whole thing going. Despite this, many people still continue to believe that the
Priory exists and functions to this day.

The authors of the well known book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, misled by
the hoax, stated:

1. The Priory of Sion has a long history starting in AD 1099, and had illustrious Grand Masters including Isaac
Newton and Leonardo da Vinci.
2. The order protects certain royal claimants because they believe them to be the literal descendants of Jesus and his
alleged wife Mary Magdalene or, at the very least, of king David.
3. The priory seeks the founding of a “Holy European Empire” that would become the next hyperpower and usher in
a new world order of peace and prosperity.

10. Opus Dei [Wikipedia]

Ordination of Opus Dei Priests

Opus Dei is an organization of the Catholic Church that

emphasizes the Catholic belief that everyone is called to
holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity. The
celibate numeraries and numerary assistants live in special
centers, while associates are celibate members living in
their private homes. The order was founded in Spain in
1928 by Roman Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá with the
approval of Pope Pius XII.

When Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code was published, it

claimed that Opus Dei was a secret organization within the
Church whose aim was to defeat the Priory of Sion and
those who seek to uncover the “truth” about Christianity and the alleged royal bloodline of Christ. Outside of the
book, there has been a great deal of controversy over Opus Dei because of the strictness of its religious structure.

The Catholic Church forbids secret societies and membership in them, and Opus Dei investigators have frequently
debunked claims that this organization is acting in secrecy to further a sinister agenda.

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Behold the Green Dragon: The Myth & Reality of an Asian Secret Society

January 1, 2009 By davidjones

Dr. RICHARD SPENCE

History certainly has no shortage of enigmatic or controversial brotherhoods, orders, lodges and societies. The
Knights Templar, for instance, are a perennial object of fascination and speculation. Whether the Templars were the
inspiration for the no less controversial Freemasons, a band of depraved heretics or the innocent victims of a
conspiracy born of greed and envy remains a topic of lively debate.

What no one can contest, however, is that the Knights existed. The beginning and formal end of the Order can be
dated with precision, and the names of its leaders are a matter of historical record. Even a dubious organisation like
the Priory of Sion can be shown to have had a genuine, if recent, existence, though its claims to centuries of tradition
and hidden influence remain unsubstantiated. But there are other groups which seem to exist only in that gray zone
between reality and imagination, ones whose origins, number, scope and purpose remain maddeningly vague.

One such entity is the quasi-mythical Green Dragon Society (GDS), also known as the Order of the Green Dragon or
simply the Green Dragon. It most often is mentioned as a Japanese secret society, but that is not necessarily the
whole story. Other evidence, or at least allegation, argues that its true origins lay in China or Tibet and that its
influence extended to the power centres of Tsarist Russia and Nazi Germany. Historical figures from the Emperor
Hirohito, to Adolf Hitler to Rasputin have been tied to the Green Dragon, legitimately or not. The waters have been
further muddied by role-playing games which have combined the Society with H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and
other fictional elements. Determining what is “real” and what is the playful figment of someone’s imagination can be
tricky.
What follows will not solve the mystery of the Green Dragon, but it will try to separate fact from fiction and explain
where claims and information came from. In doing so, it will offer a tantalising glimpse into a mysterious
organisation that may have played a significant role in shaping modern history.

Enter the Black Dragon

The simplest explanation for the Green Dragon Society is that it is a muddled reference to the better known, and
definitely real, Black Dragon Society (BDS) or Kokuryukai. The BDS first appeared about 1901 and was an offshoot
of another, older Japanese secret society, the Black Ocean or Genyosha. Like its parent, the Black Dragon was a
militant, “ultra-nationalist” body which worked to expand Imperial Japan’s influence on the Asian mainland. The
BDS initially concentrated on combating Russian interests in the vast Chinese province of Manchuria. Indeed, the
Society took its name from the “Black Dragon” or Amur River which separated Manchuria and Siberia. The Black
Dragon’s network of spies and saboteurs took an active part in the subsequent Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) and the
Black Dragons later expanded their operations and influence throughout Asia and Europe and even the Americas.

The nominal founder and leader of the Black Dragon was Ryohei Uchida, but the true master, or “darkside emperor,”
was Uchida’s shadowy and sinister mentor, Mitsuru Toyama, also a founding member of Genyosha. He reputedly
was steeped in “extreme Eastern religious beliefs.”1 That suggests the mysticism and occultism attributed the Green
Dragon Society. Might the scheming and secretive Toyama have played a guiding role in both societies?

Were the Black and Green Dragons, if not one and the same, two sides of the same conspiratorial coin? For instance,
just as the Black Dragon (Amur) River delineated the northern limit of Manchuria, further south the much smaller
Qinglong or Green Dragon River roughly followed the dividing line between Manchuria and China proper. If the
Black Dragon Society was primarily anti-Russian in its focus, might the Green Dragon have been anti-Chinese or
anti-Western? While the Black Dragon focused on the political side, did the Green deal with the more secretive
occult realm?

One obscure but important reference which clearly distinguishes between the Black and Green societies appears in
the memoir of Chinese strongman Chiang Kai-shek’s “second wife,” Ch’en Chieh-ju.2 She recalls that her
husband contemplated a “completely secret system of private investigators” and considered as models the
“Green and Black Dragon Societies of Japan and the Triad societies of Shanghai.”3 Thus, in Chiang’s mind at
least, the two Dragons were entirely separate (though not necessarily unrelated), Japanese, and appropriate
models for secret intelligence gathering.

As noted, the Black Dragon Society was heavily involved in spying and the kindred spheres of propaganda and
subversion. As such, it basically functioned as an extension of the Imperial Army’s “special organ,” the Tokumu
Kikan. Not to be outdone in anything, the Japanese Imperial Navy maintained its own secret service, the Joho Kyoko.
Just as the Army utilised the Black Dragon to augment or handle its “special needs,” might the Navy have used the
Green Dragon in the same way?

Trevor Ravenscroft & Karl Haushofer

The identification of the Green Dragon as a fundamentally mystical order most evidently appears in Trevor
Ravenscroft’s 1973 The Spear of Destiny. It is not insignificant that Ravenscroft was a follower of Anthroposophy
and its founder Rudolf Steiner, and his book is a distinctly Anthroposophist take on the nefarious occult forces
behind Hitler and his Nazi Regime. Ravenscroft firmly connects the Green Dragon to German geo-politician and
mystic Karl Haushofer, one of Hitler’s presumed spiritual mentors. According to Ravenscroft, Professor Haushofer
“gained… extraordinary gifts through membership of the Green Dragon Society of Japan in which the mastery of the
Time Organism and the control of the life forces in the human body is the central aim of ascending degrees of
initiation.” Ravenscroft adds that “one of the highest tests of this type of initiation in the Green Dragon Society
demands the capacity to control and direct the life force in plants in a somewhat similar manner to the former powers
of the Atlantean people.” “Only two other Europeans have been permitted to join this Japanese Order,” [and who,
one wonders, were they?] continues Ravenscroft, “which demands oaths of secrecy and obedience of far more strict
and uncompromising nature than similar secret societies in the Western world.”4
The major problem with all this is that Ravenscroft’s sources are hazy or non-existent. He likely took a cue from the
1960 work of Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians. Those authors claim that
Haushofer “is said [by whom?] to have been initiated into one of the most important secret Buddhist societies and to
have been sworn, if he failed in his ‘mission,’ to commit suicide in accordance with the time-honoured ceremonial.”5
Assuming this to be an allusion to the above GDS, we are still faced with the lack of any identifiable source for the
authors’ information.

Ravenscroft goes on the claim that members of the Green Dragon Society set-up shop in 1920s Germany and there
joined forces with a group of Tibetan monks called the “Society of Green Men.” The latter were, in fact, the “Adepts
of Agharti and Schamballah” and their leader was a mysterious “Man with the Green Gloves.”6 It also turns out that
the Green Dragons and the Green Men had “been in astral communication for hundreds of years.”7 The united
brethren soon established communication with the rising Herr Hitler.

Others have since elaborated on the above by turning the Green Dragons into an “inner cabal” of both Genyosha and
the Black Dragon, and making them “but an outpost of a much larger conspiracy based on the even more secretive
group known and the Green Men.”8 While fascinating, such assertions appear not to have any basis in hard fact.

But that is not to say they may not have a germ of truth. For instance, there was an occult figure in late Weimar
Berlin sometimes referred to as the “Magician with the Green Gloves” who did become a short-lived soothsayer for
Hitler and the Nazi Party. He was no Tibetan but, of all things, a Jew who went under the name of Erik Jan
Hanussen. When he became inconvenient by accurately predicting the Reichstag Fire (or arranging it), his erstwhile
Nazi pals killed him.9

Likewise, there could very well be something to a Green Dragon-Tibet connection. A green dragon, or Zhug, plays an
important role in Tibetan mythology where it symbolises the “God of Thunder… bravery and all-conquering
force.”10 More to the point, perhaps, a Japanese Buddhist monk named Ekai Kawaguchi made two visits to Tibet in
the years before World War I, around the same time Haushofer was in Tokyo. On the surface, Kawaguchi seemed a
simple religious devotee, but he is known to have had contact with at least one Japanese secret agent while in the
Land of Eternal Snows, Narita Yasuteru, as well as an operative of British Indian intelligence.11 Kawaguchi also had
links to Annie Besant and her Theosophist sect, another group accused of subversion and general skullduggery.12
More significantly, Kawaguchi was a devotee of Zen Buddhism.

In his 1989 The Unknown Hitler, Wulf Schwarzwaller claims that Haushofer was a master of various Eastern
mystical traditions and “had familiarised himself with the Zen teachings of the Japanese Society of the Green
Dragon.”13 More recent sources emphasise the Green Dragon’s intimate association with Zen, specifically its Soto
branch, and claim that the “Green Dragon has had a tradition of secret propagation,” whatever that means.14

The Buddhist connection may offer some important clues. Buddhism originated in India and spread to Tibet and
China, and from there to Japan. Zen (Cha’an) doctrine also had its roots in China. One of the most revered
Buddhist “saints” in Japan is Kukai, an 8th-9th century mystic who spent years studying in China.
Interestingly, his main place of enlightenment was the Green Dragon Temple in Xian where he was trained in
occult, tantric traditions originating in Tibet. Returning to Japan, Kukai incorporated these into his version of
True Land (Shingon) Buddhism.15 The problem is that Shingon was and is quite distinct from Zen, so which,
if either, is connected to the Green Dragon?

To further complicate the picture, there are numerous references to a Chinese Green Dragon Society. Most are
linked to the martial arts. Green Dragon kung fu societies are active throughout the world, but most appear to be of
fairly recent origin. Oddly enough, during the 1960s, the Chicago-based Green Dragon Society was locked in a
bitter feud with the rival Black Dragon Society! One version of the Chinese Green Dragon’s history pegs it as a
Taoist secret society formed in response to the 17th century persecutions launched by the Jesuit-influenced Emperor
Kiang Hsi. According to this, the secret society emerged from the Pure Thought Mystical School of Tao, and along
with an implacable hatred for the Manchu Dynasty, it remained dedicated to the “practice of Taoist Alchemy and
Immortalist Techniques.”16 That sounds a bit like what Ravenscroft described. The Green Dragon also reputedly
operated under numerous aliases and disguises. A secretive and even sinister Green Dragon Society also shows up in
at least two martial arts films: ‘The Deadly Sword’ (1978) and ‘Seven Promises’ (1980). Finally, a Green Society or
Green Gang was (and arguably still is) a major force in the Chinese underworld.
So, could there be two Green Dragon Society’s, one Japanese and Buddhist and the other Chinese and Taoist? This
much seems clear: the inter-pollination of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, and the sects and secret societies they
spawned, is centuries old. Within that context, just about anything is possible.

Other oddments, which may or may not mean anything, include the fact that during his marriage to another wife,
Chiang Kai-shek paid a visit to a Green Dragon monastery. The late scholar Charles Rice, after sifting through
everything he could find on the Green Dragon Society, wondered whether it might be nothing more than the karate
club of the Japanese Emperor’s Imperial Guard!17 Strangest of all, perhaps, is a 2004 article from the South China
Morning Post which describes the recent arrest of three members of the “Green Dragon Temple Cult” on charges of
running a prostitution ring.18 The female victims were assured a place in heaven if they earned enough money for
the cult.

Seven Heads of the Green Dragon

There is another, more involved, though no less mysterious, description of the Green Dragon Society that predates
Ravenscroft by forty years and Pauwels and Bergier by almost thirty. It is almost certainly the source for much of
what he and others have had to say about the GDS since. The work in question is the 1933 Les Sept Tetes du Dragon
Vert [“The Seven Heads of the Green Dragon”] by Teddy Legrand. The title evokes the dragon with “seven heads,
ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads” mentioned in Revelations 12:3, although that beast is red, not green. At
first glance the book seems to be just an obscure piece of French pulp fiction, albeit one replete with real people and
real events along with many invented ones.

Basically, the book presents the Green Dragon or, more simply, “The Greens,” a sinister international cabal
bent on world domination. An interesting detail is that these secretive conspirators number precisely 72 and were,
presumably, the “72 unknown superiors” of conspiratorial legend.19 To achieve its nefarious aim, the Green
Dragon generates war, revolution and chaos, and its hand is the unseen common denominator in such
seemingly disparate events as the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the instigation of the Bolshevik
Revolution, the murder of the Romanovs, the 1922 killing of German foreign minister Walther Rathenau, the
abduction of White Russian general A. P. Kutepov and the apparent suicide of millionaire Swedish “Match
King” Ivar Kreuger. All in all, the Green Dragon sounds like another version of the infamous Illuminati who
haunt so many conspiracy theories.

At the time of the book’s action, 1929-30, the mysterious Greens are busy facilitating the rise of the “The Man of the
Two Z’s” under whose “sharp spurs” Europe would soon tremble.20 The latter is a thinly-veiled and rather prophetic
reference to Hitler who had barely come to power when the book was published. The “Two Z’s” were the
interlocking arms of the Swastika.

The central figure of Les Sept Tetes… is a British secret agent, the ace of L’Intelligence Service, James Nobody, who
may be the original literary inspiration for James Bond. He had already starred in a series of pot-boiler spy novels by
French writer Charles Lucieto, and the latest was an effort to continue the franchise after Lucieto’s recent death.
Interestingly, Lucieto was a retired spy, having served the French secret service in World War I. He liked to claim
that his Nobody and similar yarns were roman-a-clefs which revealed true, if hidden aspects of recent history and
current events. His publishers later implied that this had something to do with his untimely demise.

To no great surprise, Lucieto’s successor, “Teddy Legrand,” was a pseudonym. In fact, the author was Pierre Mariel
who turns out to be a rather interesting fellow. Nominally he was a journalist, but like Lucieto he had ties to French
intelligence. That has led to the claim that the latter “inspired” or even directed his literary efforts as it had his
predecessor’s.21 More importantly, perhaps, he was a self-proclaimed expert on the occult. Some years later, under
the name Werner Gerson, he would author one of the first books on Nazi occultism.22 Mariel himself was a member
of both the Freemasonic Martinist Order and a one-time French grand master of the Ancient and Mystical Order
Rosae Crucis (AMORC).23 Interestingly, in Les Sept Tetes… Mariel paints the Martinist Order as a conspiratorial
sect which played a behind-the-scenes role in the French Revolution and later political upheavals, and which just
might have links to the mysterious Green Dragon.24

In the book, brother spies Nobody and Legrand are inspired by their common curiosity about the fate of the Russian
Imperial family. The chief object of fascination is an icon on St. Seraphim, supposedly found on the Tsarina
Alexandra’s body, which bears a puzzling inscription, in English: “S.I.M.P. The Green Dragon. You were absolutely
right. Too late.”25 They quickly determine that the first element, which is accompanied by a six point “kabbalistic”
symbol, stands for “Superieur Inconnu, Maitre Philippe” [Unknown Superior, Master Philippe], a French Martinist
mystic who was an early guru to the Tsarina Alexandra.26 They also note the Tsarina’s predilection for the “Tibetan”
Swastika as a good luck symbol. The rest of the story follows the duo’s efforts to discover who or what constitutes
the Green Dragon.

Some interest inevitably falls on Maitre Philippe’s successor as royal spiritual guide, Rasputin, who comes across as
a tool of the Green Dragon, if not an outright member. Legrand/Mariel correctly observes that during World War I,
the dissolute holy man maintained communication with mysterious “Greens,” or simply “The Green,” based in
Stockholm in which Mariel portrays as another piece of a larger conspiracy.27 Interestingly, Colonel Stanislaus de
Lazovert, one of the men later involved in the plot to kill the dissolute holy man, claimed that Rasputin was a
member of the “Green Hand,” a secret order presumably backed by Russia’s Austrian enemies.28 Most recently and
reliably, Russian investigator Oleg Shishkin linked Rasputin’s mysterious friends to a Berlin-inspired conspiracy
which included German occult lodges and members of the ethnic-German Baltic nobility. Their secret brotherhood,
Baltikum, used a green swastika as its symbol.

Coincidentally or not, one of the antagonists encountered by Nobody and Legrand is a Baltic Baron, Otto von
Bautenas, whom they identify as no less than one of the “72 Verts.” Bautenas turns out to have been a very real
person: an ex-adherent of Baltikum, a close ally of Lithuanian politico Augustine Valdemaras and leader of the
fascistic Iron Wolf movement.

Mariel also implies that Anthroposophy kingpin Rudolf Steiner was mixed-up in all this skullduggery and “secret
politics” through his connections to pan-German secret societies.29 He also drops Gurdjieff’s and Besant’s names in
the same murky mess.

While the book’s action stays within the geographic confines of Europe, shifting from Constantinople, to
Scandinavia, to Paris to Berlin, there are numerous references to the Orient, especially Tibet. Legrand and Nobody
enlist the aid of one of their old antagonists, Jewish-born “international spy” I.T. Trebitsch-Lincoln, whom has
transformed himself into the Tibetan lama Dordji Den. Here again, there is at least a kernel of truth; in 1931 the
chameleon-like Trebitsch was ordained a Buddhist monk and became “the Venerable Chao Kung.”30

The pair eventually find themselves in Berlin, in the presence of The Man with the Green Gloves, an apparently
Asian soothsayer who has set himself up much as the real Hanussen. They observed an eerie figure that seemed to
have “complete mastery of his reflexes.”31 Was this the “control of the life forces” mentioned by Ravenscroft? Like
a living statue, “not a muscle in his face moved” as the weird seer conversed in “excellent Oxford English.” Nobody
and friend finally realise that they are standing face-to-face with “one of those famous Greens.” The description has
led one recent author, Christian von Nidda, to conclude that the Greens were nothing less than “reptilian” beings!32

In the end, Mariel never clearly defines just what the Green Dragon Society is and is not. Doubtless, that was never
his intention. Interestingly, there is no suggestion of any Japanese connection. However, as the episode with the Man
with Green Gloves suggests, there is the spectre of a powerful, mysterious Asiatic hand at work. The true purpose of
the Russian Revolution, he believed, was to destroy Europe’s eastern barrier against Asiatic intrusion. Mariel sensed
a kind of “permanent conspiracy against the white race – against Western Greco-Latin civilisation – which seeks to
sap, fracture and shake the edifice of already unstable Europe.”33 When the time came, the conspirators would
“substitute him” [the Man of the Two Z’s] as a means of bringing about a New Order.

It also remains uncertain to what degree Mariel intended Les Sept Tetes… to be taken seriously. Clearly, that has not
prevented some from doing so. Truth, fiction, or some strange amalgam of the two, Mariel’s little book is
undoubtedly the inspiration for most of the claims about the Green Dragon Society which have sprung up since. We
are still left to wonder whether, if all the exaggeration, obfuscation, superstitious dread and outright lies were cleared
aside, there would be anything there at all. Maybe.

Footnotes:

1. “Japan’s Dark Background, 1881-1945.” www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/lieber/50/bds1.htm [15 Oct. 2008].

2. Chieh-ju Ch’en, Chiang Kai-shek’s Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Westview Press: Boulder, 2000.
3. Ibid.

4. Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear of Destiny: The Occult Power behind the Spear which Pierced the Side of Christ, Weiser Books: Boston, 1982, 246-
247.

5. Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians, Avon Books: New York, 1960, 279.

6. Ravenscroft, 256.

7. Ibid.

8. Gil Trevizo, “The Order of the Green Dragons” (2003), http://odh.trevizo.org/green_dragons.html [15 Oct. 2008]. This and like articles are
connected to the Delta Green role-playing games.

9. On Hanussen’s bizarre career, see Mel Gordon, Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant, Feral House: Los Angeles, 2001.

10. “Tibet’s Dragon Culture,” courtesy of Charles Rice, August 2006.

11. Alexander Berzin, “Russian and Japanese Involvement with Pre-Communist Tibet: The Role of the Shambhala Legend,”
www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/kalachakra/shambhala/russian_japanese_shambhala.html. [10 Sept. 2008]

12. Richard Spence, Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult, Feral House: Los Angeles, 2008, 184, 189.

13. Wulf Schwarz waller, The Unknown Hitler: Behind the Image of History’s Darkest Name, Berkley Books: New York, 1990, 100.

14. For a highly critical view of “Green Dragon Zen,” See: groups.google.com/group/alt.philosophy.zen/browse_thread/thread/da7a81921050f728.

15. Trevor Corson, “The Magic of Buddhism,” Kyoto Journal (1 July 2000),
www.scrawlingclaw.com/blogs/ArticleArchive/Entries/2000/7/1_The_Magic_of_Buddhism.html [10 Nov. 2008].

16. “The Green Dragon Society & Brotherhood, Chi Tao Ch’uan Gung Fu: A Recent History,” www.orientalherb.com/index.php?cPath=35 [1 Nov.
2008].

17. Charles Rice to author, 3 July 2003.

18. Clifford Lo, “Sex Cult Might Have Lured 30 Women,” South China Morning Post (16 Jan. 2004).

19. Nolan Romy, Les Grandes Conspirations de Notre Temps, Bruxelles, 2002, 35-50.

20. Teddy Legrand, Les Sept Tetes du Dragon Vert, Berger-Levrault: Paris, 1933, 78.

21. Oleg Shishkin, Ubit’ Rasputina, Olma Press: Moscow, 2000, 36-37.

22. Werner Gerson, Le Nazisme: Societe Secrete, Productions de Paris: Paris, 1969.

23. Shishkin, 36.

24. Legrand, 32.

25. Legrand, 30-33.

26. True name: Nizier Anthelme Philippe.

27. Legrand, 39-40.

28. “Stanislaus Lazovert and the Assassination of Rasputin, 29 December 1916,” www.firstworldwar.com/source/rasputin_stanislaus.htm.

29. Legrand, 228-230.

30. Bernard Wasserstein, The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln, Penguin Books: New York, 1989, 274.
31. Legrand, 243-244.

32. Christian Von Nidda, Our Secret Planet, Lulu Publications, 124-125.

33. Legrand, 132

Dr. RICHARD SPENCE is a professor of History at the University of Idaho.

Among other works, he is the author of Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney
Reilly (Feral House, 2002). His latest book is Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley,
British Intelligence and the Occult, published by Feral House.

The above article appeared in New Dawn No. 112

(January-February 2009).

Chinese Secret Society Vs. Illuminati

A Chinese secret society with 6 million members, including 1.8 million Asian gangsters and 100,000
professional assassins, have targeted Illuminati members and their families if they proceed with plans for
world tyranny and depopulation.

Illuminati plan to reduce the Asian population to just 500 million by means of race-specific biological
weapons.

"The Illuminati, with the exception of Japan, is very much a white man's game," ????? says.

The secret society confirmed this information and asked for advice.
He provided them with a list of 10,000 names of people associated with
the Illuminati, mainly members of the Bilderberg, CFR and Skull and
Bones. Neo Cons are also high priority targets.

"I have promised that not a single person will die if they negotiate
in good faith," ????? says.

????? is the former Asian Pacific bureau chief for Forbes

magazine. He quit in disgust when Forbes refused to run a damaging
story about one of its advertisers. ????? has since written 15 books
in Japanese. His most recent is a scathing dissection of the 9-11 Hoax.

???? says Japan has been controlled in secret by the Illuminati

through the use of murder and bribery. Underground sources tell him
the Americans have murdered over 200 Japanese politicians and
influential citizens since the end of WW2.

Among the victims are former Prime Ministers Tanaka, Takeshita,

Ohira and Obuchi. They were all murdered using a special drug that
induces strokes. The Illuminati have been warned that the Chinese
secret society will not tolerate any more murders. It has also
extended its protection to truth seekers in the West.

"THE GREEN AND THE RED SOCIETIES"

The Chinese Secret Society is called the "The Green and the Red
Societies," ?????? says.

It "can be found in the history books. When the Manchus invaded

China in 1644 the Ming army became an underground society aimed at
overthrowing the Qing (Manchu) and restoring the Ming. They supported
the Boxer Rebellion but were put down by imperialist powers. Later,
with the help of overseas Chinese and the Japanese imperial family,
the society managed to overthrow the last Emperor and install Sun Yat
Sen in his place. They last appear in the history books as the Green
Gang and the Red Gang that fiercely fought the Communists in Shanghai
in the 1940's. They were defeated by the Communists in 1949 and once
again became an underground organization. "

"Since 1949 they have steadily increased their influence throughout

China and the rest of the world. They have members at the very highest
levels of the Chinese government but they are by nature and
anti-establishment, and are not an official Chinese government
organization. ..The society has deep roots in Japan because of the
link between Yakuza crime gangs and the Japanese imperial family. The
Japanese imperial family are descended from 6th century Korean
invaders. The original invaders had trouble putting down the native
Jomon peoples so they brought over a tough, warlike minority people
from the Asian mainland. These are the ancestors of the Yakuza. They
have historically been used for secret work and for jobs like
collecting taxes. When the Japanese decided to help overthrow the last
Chinese dynasty, they used the Yakuza as a go-between with the Chinese
secret society, many of whose members were gangsters. To this day many
of the senior leaders of this group are actually Japanese, not Chinese."
"It must be made very clear though that it is not a crime gang.
Although many members are Triad and Yakuza members, over 2/3 thirds of
the members are intellectuals such as university professors,
researchers and government bureaucrats. Each member earns their own
living and membership in the society is like belonging to an emergency
fire brigade. Their book of rules reads like a book of ethics filled
with instructions to do things like help the weak, fight injustice,
help your comrades etc."

"They approached me and asked if they could help after I made a

speech in Tokyo describing the Bush regimes' use of race-specific
biological weapons. For me it was like a ghost from the history books
appearing right in front of me. At first I thought of silly things
like having them play 911 truth videos in Chinatowns around the world.
However, then I remembered the scene from the movie Kill Bill where
Uma Thurman snatches out her opponent's eye. I soon realized these
people could save the world by directly attacking the eye at the top
of the pyramid on the one-dollar bill."

"Think about it, the illuminati and their top servants have a total
membership of about 10,000 whereas the Chinese group has over 6
million members. That is 600 to one odds. Furthermore, the 6 million
have the names and addresses of the 10,000 while the 10,000 do not
know who or where the 6 million are."

????? ON THE ILLUMINATI

"Below is a brief a summary of the intelligence I have received from

sources including: former Japanese Prime Ministers, senior Yakuza
gangsters, senior Japanese Freemasons, Western intelligence agencies etc.

"First the illuminati are really inbred families of European and

North American traditional aristocracy and banking families. They
control the U.S., England, Europe (except for Scandinavian countries,
Germany and Italy; Italy kicked them out in the 1970's),Japan, Africa,
Iran, Canada and Mexico. They do not control China, Russia (Putin
kicked them out for the first time since 1917), India, South East
Asia, South America, Cuba etc.

"Their goal is to create a world government. Until 2 years ago the

plan was the New World Order. That was outlined pretty clearly in the
Project for a New American Century. However, with the debacle in Iraq,
the secret government of the West changed to a new plan that is a
world government based on the EU. To do this they will sabotage the
U.S. economy.

"However, there is a big schism in the secret government. Jay

Rockefeller and Philip Rothschild support one faction, the Global
Warming Faction. Opposing them is the War on Terrorism Faction
supported by David Rockefeller and the JP Morgan descendents (Bush,
Harriman, Walker etc.). The warming people want to sell 500 nuclear
power plants to China and a similar amount to the rest of the world.
The terrorism guys want to keep U.S. dominance by maintaining control
over oil. Putin was a huge setback for them.

"They are also neo-Nazis who want to reduce the amount of colored
people in the world by at least half through disease, starvation and
war. The Chinese secret society got wind of this and are preparing to
stop them."

GERMANY AND SCANDINAVIA NOT ILLUMINATI?

I challenged ?????? on Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and possibly

Russia not being controlled by the Illuminati. He replied that "the
quality of my intelligence varies":

"I can say with certainty that China, Russia and India are free.
When Putin kicked out Nieslev and Bereshovsky and arrested
Khordokovsky, he basically kicked the Rockefellers and Rothschilds out
of Russia. I have good Russian sources and am confident Putin is a
nationalist who is fighting the illuminati with all his might. When
ex-NSA chief Bobby Inman spoke a the Foreign Correspondent' s Club of
Japan on June 26th he made it very clear he expected a protracted
struggle with Russia.

"India kicked them out in Ghandi's day and they have never been
allowed back. Having liberated themselves after 300 years of
illuminati (East India Company) rule, they do not intend to let
themselves fall under their control again.

"There have been many attempts by the illuminati to infiltrate and

dominate China. They financed Chairman Mao but he then kicked them out
in the 1960' s (that is why China and the USSR nearly went to war
then). They are now trying to create a financial crisis in China that
would open the way for them to infiltrate the Chinese financial
system. They will not succeed. Italy basically purged itself during
the big P2 Masonic lodge scandal back in the 80's and re-infiltration
has only been partly successful. Germany is part of the Nato alliance
and is thus indirectly controlled. There is a powerful branch of the
Rothschild family operating there.

"However, Germany does not appear on a top-secret illuminati power

flow chart I have obtained. As far as Iran is concerned, I know they
financed Ayatollah Khomeini and, Iran appears on the flow chart I
have. My understanding is they want to provoke a conflict between
Islam and the West so they can consolidate their control over the
Muslim and Christian worlds before finishing world conquest by taking
over China and India."

CONCLUSION

????? says a meeting is being arranged with Russia's Vladimir

Putin to make sure the KGB also cooperates in this plan to snatch the
eye out of the pyramid.

"So far, I have told the Illuminati that they are no longer allowed
to murder Japanese politicians. I now plan to extend this protection
to all politicians in the West. If the illuminati assassinate or
attempt to assassinate Ron Paul, Barak Obama or any politician, may
God have mercy on their souls."

"Since I am a peace-loving, laid-back _ _ _ _ _ _ suddenly put in a

situation of great responsibility, I feel I must act as a servant of
the weakest people and creatures on the planet. I have also been
negotiating in secret with the Illuminati in the hopes of arranging
for them to cede power without any bloodshed in exchange for a general
amnesty.

"I do believe we now have a real chance to end the New World Order
and start the New Age. The New Age would be one where war, poverty and
environmental destruction would only be found in the history books."