An Introduction to
the Order of Skull & Bones
“ONLY AT YALE”
My senior year, I
joined Skull and Bones, a Secret Society, so secret, I can’t say anything
more.”
-George W. Bush
Adjudicated 43rd
President of the United
States
How the Order CONTROLS EDUCATION
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Education
Memorandum Number
Three: The Illuminati Connection
We need to trace three historical
lines in modern education: the first we looked at in Memorandum Number Two, the
development of the LOOK-SAY method of reading, its abandonment and its later
adoption around the turn of the century.
Another line is the import of the
experimental psychology of Wilhelm Wundt into the United States by the Order. This we
shall examine in Memorandum Number Four.
For the moment, we want to
briefly trace the influence of Johan Friedrich Herbart, a major German
philosopher of the early 19th century. There was at one time in United States a
National Herbart Society for the Scientific Study of education to adapt
Herbartian principles to American education. Later, this became just National
Society for the Study of Education. You don’t hear too much about Johan
Friedrich Herbart today, but his influence survives in the so-called “enriched”
school curricula and in current educational methodology.
Our purpose in this memorandum is
twofold: to show the Hegelian aspects of Herbartian theory and to trace
Illuminati connection. There is no direct connection to The Order. However, in
a subsequent book, we will trace The Order to the Illuminati and this section
will then fall into a logical place.
Herbart was an educational
theorist as well as philosopher and psychologist, and strongly influenced
Wilhelm Wundt. For Herbart, education had to be presented in a scientifically
correct manner, and the chief purpose of education for Herbart is to prepare
the child to love properly in the social order of which he is an integral part.
Following Hegel, the individual is not important. The mere development of
individual talent, of individual fitness, mental power and knowledge is not the
purpose of education. The purpose is to develop personal character and social
morality, and the most important task of educator is to analyze the activities
and duties of men within society.
The function of instruction is to
fulfill those aims and impart to the individual socially desirable ideas.
Morality for Herbart, therefore, is what is good for society, following the
Hegelian theory.
Herbartians favor grouping of
subjects around a core topic, i.e. the grouping of history, social science and
English literature. This enable the teacher to more easily draw out those
notions useful to the objective.
All of these ideas we can
recognize in today’s educational philosophy came into American education
through Herbartian gropus.
The Illuminati Connection
Johan Herbart studied at the University of Jena Switzerland ,
Herbart came into contact with Johan Pestalozzi.
What is interesting about these
names, and they comprise the most important influence on Herbart, is that they
are either known members of the Illuminati or reputed to be close to the
Illuminati Order.
Let’s take each name in turn:
-Johan Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)
was “Damascus
pontifex” in the Illuminato.
-Johan Fichte, we have already
noted in the previous volume, was close to the Illuminati and pushed by Goethe
((“Abaris”) for the post at the University
of Jena
-Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
was known in the circle but not reliably recorded as an Illuminati member.
-Johan Wolfgang Goethe
(1749-1832) was “Abaris” in the Illuminati.
We have even more precise
connection for another prominent Illuminati, Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi
(1746-1827), a Swiss teacher of some renown living at Interlaken , and known as “Alfred” in the
Illuminati Code.
Before Herbart completed his
doctorate, just after the turn of the 19th century, he spent three
years at Interlaken in Switzerland . Out
of his contact with Pestalozzi came a book on Pestalozzi’s educational
theories, mush of which rubbed off onto Herbart. The book is Pestalozzi’s Idee Eines ABC Der Anschaung Untersucht Und
Wissenschaflisch Asugefuhrt (Pestalozzi’s idea of an ABC of the sense
impression). This book has been translated and we reproduce a copy of the title
page of the 1896 New York
edition. This is not insignificant. It’s a commentary by a prominent influence
on today’s education upon an Illuminati book.
Why Is The Illuminati Connection Significant?
The Illuminati was founded May 1,
1776 by Professor Adam Weishaupt of the University of Ingolstadt
During its time, the Illuminati
had widespread and influential membership. After suppression by the Bavarian
Government in 1788 it was quiet for some years and then reportedly revived.
The significance for this study
is that the methods and objectives parallel those of The Order. In fact,
infiltration of the Illuminati into New England
is known and will be the topic of a forthcoming volume.
So far as education is concerned,
the Illuminati objective was as follows:
“We must win the common people in
every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by
open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity and toleration of their
prejudices which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.”
As Rosenbaum has pointed out in
his Esquire article, the Illuminati
ceremony has similarities to The Order. For example, John Robison in Proofs of a Conspiracy: 1. “The
candidate is presented for reception in the character of slave; and it is
demanded of him what has brought him to this most miserable of all conditions.
He answers – Society – the State – Submissiveness – False Religion. A skeleton
is pointed out to him, at the feet of which are laid a Crown and a Sword. He is
asked whether that is the skeleton of a King, a Nobleman or a Beggar?
As he cannot decide, the
President of the meeting says to him, “the character of being a man is the only
one that is of importance”. Finally, in conclusion, we can trace the foundation
of three secret societies, in fact the most influential three secret societies
that we know about, to the Universities. The Illuminati was founded at University of Ingolstadt All Souls College - Oxford
University in England , and the Order was founded at Yale University
in United States .
The paradox is that institutions
supposedly devoted to search for truth and freedom have given a birth to
institutions devoted to world enslavement.
Memorandum Number Four: The Leipzig
The link between German
experimental psychology and the American educational system is through American
psychologist G. Stanley Hall, in his time probably the foremost educational
critic in the U.S.
The Hall family is Scotch and
English and goes back to the 1630s, but Hall was not a Yale graduate, and at first
sight there is no connection between Hall and The Order.
On the other hand, Hall is a good
example of someone whose life has major turning points and of probing the
turning points, we find The Order with its guiding hand. The detail below is
important to link Hall with The Order. It is an open question how much Hall
knew, if he knew anything at all, about The Order and its objectives.
After the graduation from Williams College ,
Hall spent a year at the Union Theological Seminary, New York . Our “Addresses” books for The
Order do not give church affiliations for members citing the ministry as their
occupation. We do know that Rev. Henry Sloan Coffin (’97) was Associate
Professor of Practical Theology at Union from 1904-1926 and President of Union
Seminary from 1926 to 1945, but we cannot trace any members at Union before 1904.
Fortunately, Hall was an
egocentric and wrote two long, tedious autobiographies: Recreations of a Psychologist and Life and Confessions of a Psychologist. This is how Hall described his
entry to Union in the latter book (pp. 177-8).
“Recovering from a severe attack
of typhoid fever the summer after the graduation and still being very uncertain
as to what I would be and do in the world, I entered Union Theological Seminary
in September 1867”.
…
Hall at Antioch
College
Hall returned to the United States from Germany in 1871, and by design or
accident, find himself under the wing of The Order.
Again, the detail is important. There
are two versions of Hall’s life immediately after returning from his first trip
to Germany .
According to Hall’s Confessions, he
became tutor for the Seligman banking family in New York ,
and was then contacted by James K. Hosmer, Professor at Antioch
College , Yellow Springs – Ohio . Hosmer asked, and
this is very unusual, if Hall would like his professorial post at Antioch . Said Hall: “I
gladly accepted”.
There is another version in
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, which states: “In 1872 he (Hall)
accepted a professorship at Antioch
College , Ohio
In any event, Hall went to Antioch , a “liberal” Unitarian College Antioch College G. Stanley Hall was the core
of The Order.
Horace Mann, whom we met in
Memorandum Two as the promoter of “Look-Say” reading, was the first President
of Antioch (1853-1860). The most prominent trustee of Antioch College
Furthermore, Cincinnati
– Ohio , at
that time was the center for a Young Hegelian movement, including famous left
Hegelian August Willich, and these were well known to Judge Alfonso Taft.
In brief, while at Antioch College
in Yellow Springs – Ohio ,
Hall came under the influence of four groups:
a)
the legend of
Horace Mann, a hero of modern education movement;
b)
the Unitarian church which will enter our later
reports;
c)
a Hegelian discussion group comprised of left
Hegelians; and
d)
the co-founder of The Order Alfonso Taft. And Hall also
knew William Howard Taft, also member of The Order (’78) and future President
and Chief Justice of the United States
Hall stayed four years at Antioch , than took off again for Europe, while Alfonso
Taft went to Washington , D.C. England , and then went on to Germany , to Leipzig and Wilhelm Wundt. He became the
first of a dozen Americans to receive a Ph.D. in psychology (a new field) under
Wundt.
The Hegelian Influence on Hall
So between 1870 and 1882, a span
of twelve years, Hall spent six years in Germany . As Hall himself comments,
“I do not know of any other
American student of these subjects, (i.e. philosophy and psychology) who came
into even the slight personal contact it was my fortune to enjoy with Hartmann
and Fechner, nor of any psychologist who had the experience of attempting
experimental work with Helmholtz; and I think I was the first pupil of Wundt.
The twelve years included in this span, more than any equal period, marked and
gave direction to modern psychology…”
Who were these four German philosophers
who so influenced Hall?
Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906),
a prominent philosopher. Hartmann’s views on individual rights are entirely
contrary to our own, i.e. “The principle of freedom is negative… in every
department of life, save religion alone, compulsion is necessary… What all men
need is rational tyranny, if it only holds them to a steady development,
according to the laws of their own nature.”
There isn’t too much difference between
Hegel and Hartmann on idea of social progress. Individual freedom is not
acceptable to these philosophers, man must be guided by “rational tyranny”.
Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887).
Fechner disliked Hegel, who Fechner said, “unlearn men to think”. However,
Fechner was mainly interested in psycho-physics, i.e. in parapsychology:
“…he was particularly attracted
to the unexploited regions of the soul and so he became interested in
somnambulism, attended séances when table tapping came into vogue”.
Herman L. F. von Helmholtz
(1821-1894) was undoubtedly Germany ’s
greatest scientist in the 19th century and was rooted in Kant, the
predecessor of Hegel.
For Helmholtz:
“The sensible world is a product
of the interaction between the human organism and an unknown reality. The world
of experience is determined by this interaction, but the organism itself is
only an object of experience and is to be understood by psychology and
physiology.”
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920),
Professor of Philosophy at University
of Leipzig United States .
…
(ANTONY
C. SUTTON: America ’s
Secret Establishment – an Introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones; изд. TRINE Day Updated Reprint –
2002 год. www.TrineDay.com)
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