Asian Secret Societies (the Dragon Family) Want Their Gold Back; the Western Secret Societies Blew Up the World Trade Center So That They Wouldn't Have to Give It Back

The Dragon Family, which is a group of several wealthy and secretive Asian families, has executed an elaborate sting operation where a vast international alliance of 117 countries now has a legal way to end the financial tyranny of the Old World Order.

A lawsuit was filed on November 23, 2011, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York which could end the secret government that has ruled Western civilization for at least the past 300 years. The lawsuit was filed by Neil Keenan, acting as representative of the Dragon family. This filing is the result of extensive evidence gathering by international police and law-enforcement agencies including Interpol, the CIA, the Japanese Security Police, Eastern European secret services and has the backing of the Pentagon as well as the armed forces of Russia and China.

The lawsuit claims that close to $1 trillion was stolen by, among others, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and the UN, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the Italian government, Giancarlo Bruno and the Davos World Economic forum and others believed to include many of the owners of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.

This is a civil claim arising out of the concerted, knowing, malicious scheme and international conspiracy engaged in by the Defendants for the designed purpose of defrauding plaintiff Keenan, the designated Agent of his Principal, the "Dragon Family," for the express purpose of expropriating, stealing and converting certain negotiable financial instruments lawfully owned by the Dragon Family and entrusted to Keenan in early 2009. The ultimate defendants in this legal action are believed to be the same cabal behind the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and many other major international crimes.

This particular lawsuit was triggered by the illegal detainment of two Japanese citizens, Akihiko Yamaguchi and Mitsuyoshi Watanabe, as well as the seizure of $134.5 billion in bonds they were holding in Italy on June 3, 2009.

The roots of this case go back to between 1927 and 1938, when, under arrangements made between T.V. Soong (Finance Minister of China) and Henry Morgethau, Secretary of the Treasury, the United States Government purchased some 50 million ounces of silver and leased vast amounts of gold from the Nationalist Chinese Government, known as Kuomintang. For all the treasure handed in, certificates were given to those who surrendered their precious metals. Many of the bonds seized are backed with the Chinese gold taken by the Federal Reserve Board during those years and never returned to its legal owners.

In 1998, the Chinese owners of the gold sued the Federal Reserve Board, and said “Give us back our gold.” The Federal Reserve Board people argued that they didn’t have to give back the gold. They said they had paid in full because they gave a bunch of gold to Chairman Mao in the 1970s when the United States renewed relations with communist China. The International Court of Justice said “You guys have to give back the gold you took.” They said “Okay.” The first shipment of gold they were supposed to give back was due to be sent back on September 12th, 2001. And of course, as you know, the World Trade Center got blown up on September 11th. The gold that was in the basement went missing. Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, the company that was handling the paperwork, was blown up [658 employees, which represented nearly 70 percent of its workforce, were in the office that morning — none made it out alive]. Building 7, where the Treasury police and all these people were, was blown up — and all the paperwork there was blown up. Basically, they were saying, “We’re not giving back the gold!” There was this massive gold cache underneath the World Trade Center, and they snuck it out — it was shipped to California and then I believe to Paraguay.

So China must have known they got rolled. When they saw the World Trade Center come down, they must have suspected something immediately! Of course they knew! They said “These bastards aren’t going to pay us back. They’re trying to start World War III.” And what happened was they quintupled the U.S. military budget with this fake War on Terror. And you’ve got this Patriot Act, which is five inches thick of paper that just spontaneously showed up. Which is identical to the Nazi constitution. The Chinese know that they’ve been rolled — that this gold has once again been stolen. China wants to get their gold back. In the meantime, the Rockefeller faction in the U.S.…are building up their military; they’re trying to get the Western countries on a full, militarized basis to prepare for World War III. They want to reduce population and they want to wipe out the Chinese. And they don’t want to lose control. They don’t want to lose power. They still have their Messianic, fascist, cultist beliefs that they are destined to rule humanity. The Israeli newspapers openly referred to China and Russia and Iran as Magog, and the G5 and G7 as Gog. They were trying to get all these countries to kill each other. They were trying to start World War III.

It leads one to reason that charges were placed in the World Trade Center when it was constructed… I believe it was constructed in the 1970s. President Bush’s brother was in charge of security at the World Trade Center. There was all sorts of construction going on there.

This exposes an absolutely incredible through-line that shows more compellingly than any other motive I’ve ever heard of why, specifically, the World Trade Center came down.

If you want to see an Engineered Doomsday, watch "A New Standard for Deception" by Kevin Ryan (video above), a top UL Scientist -- a 9/11 shock & ah and its closeness to Hitler's Reichstag Building fire.

Below is a synopsis of a December 12, 2011, interview with Benjamin Fulford, former Asia-Pacific bureau chief for Forbes Magazine, by David Wilcock, which can be read in its entirety in the article that follows.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA PICKED UP THE STORY AS OF DECEMBER 5, 2011  

A vast, 111-page legal complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Dan McCue was the first mainstream journalist to cover this story in Courthouse News Service:

An American expatriate in Bulgaria claims the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the Office of International Treasury Control and the Italian government conspired with a host of others to steal more than $1.1 trillion in financial instruments intended to support humanitarian purposes.

The 111-page federal complaint involves a range of entities common to conspiracy theorists, including the Vatican Illuminati, the Masons, the "Trilateral Trillenium Tripartite Gold Commission," and the U.S. Federal Reserve. Other defendants include UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Giancarlo Bruno, who is identified as head of the banking industry for the World Economic Forum, Italy's ambassador to the UN Cesare Maria Ragaflini, Ray C. Dam, president of the Office of International Treasury Control, and David A. Sale, the deputy chief of the council for the cabinet of the OITC.

In his remarkable complaint, Neil Keenan claims that the U.S. government [received] enormous amounts of money — delivered in gold and other precious metals— from the Dragon Family many years ago, and that the money was placed into the Federal Reserve System for the benefit and underwriting support of the dollar, "which was to become and currently remains the global reserve currency"…

"During the course of its existence over the last century, the Dragon family has accumulated great wealth by having provided the Federal Reserve Bank and the United States Government with asset assignments of gold and silver via certain accounts held in Switzerland, for which it has received consideration in the form of a variety of Notes, Bonds and Certificates such as those described … that are an obligation of the Federal Reserve System.

"The Dragon family abstains from public view and knowledge, but, upon information and belief, acts for the good and better benefit of the world in constant coordination with higher levels of global financial organizations, in particular, the Federal Reserve System," Keenan claims.

Keenan says that with accrued interest the instruments are now worth more than $1 trillion. He says the family designated him as its principal in an effort to select certain registered and authorized Private Placement Investment Programs (PPPs) for the benefit of unspecified global humanitarian efforts.

Keenan claims he was entrusted in 2009 with billions of dollars in bonds by the Dragon Family, which is a group of several wealthy and secretive Asian families. These financial instruments included U.S. Federal Reserve notes worth $124.5 billion, two Japanese government bonds with a combined face value of $19 billion, and one U.S. "Kennedy" bond with a face value of $1 billion.

[These instruments, contained in a suitcase, were stolen as two Japanese agents attempted to cross the border from Italy into Switzerland with them.]

Keenan seeks the return of the stolen instruments, punitive damages and court costs on multiple claims of fraud, breach of contract and violation of international law.

According to Wilcock:

One of the most interesting paragraphs in the entire complaint is:

"Upon information and belief, these Bonds [held by the Dragon Family] have values ranging in the many Thousands of Trillions of United States Dollars, a relatively small portion of which is involved in the claims giving rise to this action. Each of these currencies, such as the DFFI [Dragon Family Financial Instruments] involved in this action, was and remains duly registered within the Federal Reserve System — and are directly verifiable by the Federal Reserve through its efficient verification system and screening process."

The bottom line is that the Dragon Family intended for these bonds [the $1.1 trillion carried by the two Japanese agents] to be stolen. They represented only a small percentage of the overall asset base [the Dragon Family's total U.S. bonds are worth Thousands of Trillions of Dollars]… all of which is clandestinely registered within the Federal Reserve and the Bank of International Settlements!

This was an elaborate sting operation that has brought us to where we are today — where a vast international alliance of 117 countries now has a legal way to end the financial tyranny of the Old World Order.

COMPETING SECRET SOCIETIES, EAST AND WEST

Seven shiploads of Chinese gold were sent to the United States in 1938. The Chinese were given lots of U.S. government bonds, with astronomical denominations, in exchange for that gold. 

Well, here’s Taiwan – this little tiny country which has so much economic power. The Taiwanese took a lot of the treasure with them when they fled China. They have a museum in Taiwan which is very famous. There are some hills behind the museum. Every year they change the display in the museum. They’ve been doing that for 50 years. They haven’t even begun to make a dent in displaying all the treasures they have hidden in those hills. This is the ancient imperial treasure of China. And that’s just one of the many treasure hordes that are out there. That’s why China seems to be always trying to invade them and get it back.

About 85 percent of the world’s gold ended up in Asia over the past [few] thousands of years. Part of what World War II was about was a grab for this gold. What happened was the Western powers — the Western oligarchs, let’s call them — planned to take all the gold out of private hands in the world. This is in the 1930s. Remember, in 1934, Roosevelt banned the private ownership of gold. The Federal Reserve confiscated everybody’s gold. In 1944, they had the Bretton Woods agreement. At this agreement, the gold-backed international financial system was set up.

Most of the gold that was not being controlled by the Western powers was removed from the market. It was blacklisted, or hidden in caves, or buried in sunken ships at the bottom of the ocean. It was taken off-market. This is a question of control. So in 1944, Britain, France and the United States were given a fifty-year control over the global financial system. A fifty-year mandate. They were supposed to develop and modernize the planet. The military-industrial complex guys, instead of developing the planet, wanted this cold war between the Soviet Union and the West. This was part of this Gog / Magog plan.

In 1955, the non-aligned nations — that’s a 77-nation group, including China, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, India — said this is crazy. We don’t want to be part of this Cold War. They had the historical rights to most of the Asian treasure.

The point is that 77 nations [the non-aligned nations] said they wanted to finance a Marshall Plan for Asia and Africa — to modernize these regions. They pooled their treasure to finance this. The Hilton Green Memorial was the treaty where they wanted to finance a Marshall Plan for developing Asia and Africa and the rest of the world. And they had as their asset base these black-listed gold funds that were in Thailand. And the signatory to all this money was President Sukarno of Indonesia, who happened to be related to most of the royal families — at least in Asia. So that’s why Indonesia, then. It’s because he had a blood connection to these folks.

When the Cuban Missile Crisis came, and the world nearly went to all-out nuclear war, a guy named Benjamin Freedman came out. He basically admitted these insane Gog-Magog plans [were real]. Kennedy and a lot of people in the U.S. said “All right, this is crazy. We don’t any more of this secret society craziness.”

Kennedy agreed to work with the non-aligned nations to end the Cold War, and to finance the development of Africa and Asia. To keep the military industrial people happy, he was going to send a man to the moon — and do that kind of stuff.

They [the Sabbateans, the Cabal, the people who own the Federal Reserve Board] are trying to create this war so they can take over the planet. Kennedy got gold from Indonesia. He put out Kennedy bonds and notes — dollar bills that were controlled by the U.S. Department of Treasury, not the Federal Reserve Board. Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110 (just days before he died), and the U.S. Treasury Secretary was stripped of the power to issue silver notes. Kennedy probably did this because the Treasury Secretary was being controlled by the Federal Reserve. Kennedy probably felt that silver-backed dollars would be a stopgap against inflation and the creation of “bubble money” by the Federal Reserve. His assassination, just days later, did not appear to be a coincidence. [If Fulford’s sources are right, Executive Order 11110 was only the first visible phase of Kennedy’s plan to defeat the Federal Reserve and ultimately use Asian gold as collateral for a new financial system.]

"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence… Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed." - President John F. Kennedy, April 27, 1961

Kennedy was killed. Then Sukarno was driven from power. By the military-industrial complex. By the Cabal, as I call them. The people who own the Federal Reserve Board. These Sabbatean sectists.

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Military-Industrial Complex Speech, 1961

The Asian societies didn’t have the military power to designate a new signatory that would bring these blacklisted funds online and create a new currency that would compete with the dollar. What they did is they went underground. They didn’t sign over anything. We have Sukarno’s nephew. He has signed over the rights to us now.

What happened was that in 1968, they [Henry Kissinger, the Rockefellers and all these people: the Bushes, the people behind the murder of Kennedy, the members of this Sabbatean cabal] set up a fake heir. A fake signatory. They set up a fake heir [who would allegedly gain the rights]…They forged the rights to use that money as a basis for issuing currency. For creating dollars.

They didn’t have the historical rights to 85 percent of the world’s gold that was owned by the Asians — but they faked the rights. They forged documents to claim they had the rights. So they wanted to repatriate this gold they had taken out of the market before Bretton Woods was convened. Some of it was laundered by BCCI, Chase Manhattan Bank, Black Eagle Trust and a few other of these groups. It was this gold, illegally laundered from these Asian stashes, that financed the black ops and the various secret doings. So this gets back to the 1930s, where the Japanese troops were confiscating gold from the Kuomintang. That was taken either to the Philippines or to Japan. At first to Japan, and then when it got too iffy, they transported it over to the Philippines. That was kept in some kind of private storage that was totally offline. It was hidden. There are about 125 known sites where it was hidden.

The story we’ve all been told about how all the gold ever mined in history could fit into one or two Olympic swimming pools… is a total lie. There’s at least nine times or ten times more off-market gold than there is officially tradable gold. Some of it, like I say, was laundered by the CIA types to finance various things.

In 1994, the Bretton Woods mandate expired. Before that, they stole the money from the foreign holdings, the dollar holdings of the Soviet Union. The Bretton Woods conference was in 1944. They already knew what was going to be the result [from World War II]. That’s open history. Bretton Woods is an open secret. The mandate expired in 1944 after a 50-year term; it wasn’t renewed.

In 1994, about 200 countries said the promises were not kept. They said, “Hey, France, United States and Britain, you didn’t modernize the world, you didn’t keep your promises.” So there has been no real agreement at the top of the global financial system since then. So the only reason why it hasn’t changed any faster is they don’t have the military muscle to do anything about this. Clinton authorized 100-to-1 financial gambling practices. These guys were thinking, “The hell with it. We’re just going to start World War III and get ourselves out of this mess by killing everybody.” They turned the financial system into extreme gambling. They obviously knew this could have apocalyptic effects, under certain circumstances, but that was the whole point. They used these confiscated gold accounts from the Kuomintang to back that up.

Now what happened was in 1998, the Chinese sued the Federal Reserve Board. They said “Hey. You’ve got to give us back our gold. “We have these contracts. We gave you the gold. The sixty years is up. Give us back the gold!”

1938 was when the seven shiploads of gold were sent to the United States from China. They gave the Chinese all these Federal Reserve bonds, promising to give the gold back in 60 years. The Chinese have elaborate documentation [of this], which is why this whole lawsuit is taking place.

The Japanese invasion did come to a ferocious head in 1937-38. So this was done by the U.S. military to protect the Kuomintang gold from the Japanese army. Which was actually the Rothschilds.

They had this plan to start this whole Gog and Magog thing again. This time the plan involved starting a limited nuclear war between Iran and Israel. They were going to use that war as an excuse to set up martial law in the G7 countries. They’ve been trying it for quite a long time now — ever since 2001, even before.

What happened was that the Pentagon realized through their game scenarios that if they started all-out World War III, 90 percent of humanity would die — including most of them. So they didn’t want to go along with it. The Pentagon has systematically sabotaged these plans. They constantly prevented attacks on Iran. They stopped Israeli air raids. They invaded Georgia to stop an Israeli attack on Iran from there. They didn’t want to start World War III, because they realized it was insanity. [The South Ossetia war… was an Israeli air base that was designed to attack Iran and start this whole thing.]

The Asian secret societies set up a sting operation. What happened now was a counter-plot. They sent these people [the two Japanese agents, Yamaguchi and Watanabe, who attempted to cross the border from Italy into Switzerland in June 2009] to cash a trillion dollars’ worth of these bonds that were given to them by the Feds. The Asian secret societies control enough gold that if it were repatriated, it would be thousands of trillions of dollars — that’s what it says in the legal document…They created a sting operation with these guys… together with the CIA guys who they used to work with in Southeast Asia, who don’t want the 'Powers that Were' to still be running the show. They realized they were insane and incompetent. They were one level below these guys and knew that they were crazy.

These guys were detained on the border in Italy with 134.5 billion dollars in 1934 bonds. [As I revealed at the beginning of this article, the first thing you want to watch is this Fox News report, from Glenn Beck, about the scandal.] The guys’ names are Yamaguchi and Watanabe. I was involved because I got called by the P2 Freemason lodge. I talked to some of the Italian Treasury police who arrested them. First of all, they said the bonds were forgeries — but neither Yamaguchi nor Watanabe were arrested. They were let go. Then the Italians said that there was a trial, but there is no record of a trial. There is no record of these bonds being officially confiscated. We do have evidence that Prime Minister Berlusconi tried to cash them. We do have evidence that Ban Ki-Moon, the head of the UN, came forward and said “We’ll give you 100 million dollars to go away and forget about this whole thing.” [This is incorrect. Keenan emailed me after this was posted and said it was Giancarlo Bruno who offered a one-time payment of 100 million.]

In other words, we can prove that the head of the UN, the UN, the Davos World Forum and Prime Minister Berlusconi, among others, were involved in this theft. This is all provable in a court of law — which is why we went through a lawsuit.

These bonds were generated in 1934 by the Federal Reserve. But, in 1934, they made sure that if China ever actually tried to use these bonds, they would appear fraudulent when they were attempted to be cashed. There are deliberate typos. And the numbers themselves are astronomical.

We’ve revealed something in this interview that I’ve never heard you say publicly before. The amount of gold that is here [is huge]… all of the confiscating of the Roman Empire [as well as the Spanish conquistadores], pulled it out of these ancient places where it already was. It somehow all made its way over to China because of silk trading, and this and that, and opium.

You’ve got to understand that there are two financial systems in the world. The stuff that’s on the books, in there… according to the official government statistics, the world GDP is 63 trillion dollars. And then we have these bonds that are supposedly worth 371 trillion dollars. There’s a disconnect. The total amount of bonds held by the Dragon Family are worth 371 trillion dollars. The 85 percent of the world’s gold and treasure.That’s how much it was assessed at. So this is the stuff that was blacklisted — prior to Bretton Woods. [The 371 trillion dollars is the value of one large treasure site in Malaysia* Kuomintang asset base; the full number is in the many thousands of trillions.]

This is what Sukarno’s nephew gave us power of attorney to sue over. And that power of attorney was specifically given to Neil Keenan, as cited in your document, and Keith Scott. That power of attorney was granted just to say “Hey, you guys stole gold and treasure that doesn’t belong to you.”

What makes this lawsuit scary to the people who run the financial system is they have the legal right now to open what is known as a “Black Screen.” You’ve got to remember that 95 percent of the money in the world exists only as numbers in a computer. Only five percent of it exists as cash money. Unless you withdraw the money, it’s just in a computer. But otherwise what you get is a book entry with numbers. There’s high-level codes that allow you to punch in… you go through the secret stuff, you punch in your access code and whatever. Then you type in a billion dollars, and bingo — there’s a billion dollars. Now that’s a pretty nice little thing to have your hands on. You can see why these guys [the Sabbateans] don’t want to give it up. Not the Western powers, but the Sabbateans who are above and behind the Western powers. I’m talking about the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds and all these kinds of people.

So these black screens are part of the same financial system that was created by Bretton Woods. It’s the ultimate high-tech computer network where the money is all supposedly hidden. The problem is because no one was in charge at the top, and there was no agreement, different groups started creating ridiculous numbers. I’ve heard that there are now quintillions of dollars that they’ve tried to put into the system. And that’s like 33 orders of magnitude more than there is of real world economy. So the system is broken. It has mathematically malfunctioned at the highest level.

It’s my understanding that as a result of Bretton Woods, central banks were forbidden from directly trading with one another. Part of Bretton Woods was that these people were supposed to deposit 80 percent of the yield, as this money was created out of thin air, into humanitarian relief programs. The problem is that if they open these screens — and we have the access codes now — they will realize that the money wasn’t used mostly for humanitarian purposes. It was stolen and used for military-industrial purposes.

The Book of Maklumat is one of several physical account entries that would allow people to open up this can of worms and prove that money was stolen. There are many copies of it hidden all over the place now, of course, because it’s such a sensitive issue. But who has the jurisdiction to go after these guys? That’s the problem! We are in kind of uncharted territory. We don’t have the structures right now. The United Nations are run by a bunch of gangsters. A lot of the world leaders have been bribed and blackmailed into obeyingthese people.

But if the Euro and the dollar become bankrupt, people are going to be really pissed — and those changes could happen pretty quickly. The Euro is already bankrupt. You can see the IMF, which is supposedly the highest financial body on Earth, is saying they don’t have any money. When Russia was bankrupt, it was the IMF that bailed them out. And now the so-called IMF doesn’t have money. That’s because they don’t have a legal mandate. It expired in 1994. They’re just a bunch of people claiming to have the right. No one gave it to them. That means these non-aligned nations are not accepting the bubble money that’s being created in the computers anymore. They are not accepting that equity. It’s all being blacklisted — kept out of the system. That’s why the dollar hasn’t… you haven’t had hyperinflation in the United States. That money is not being put into the system. Otherwise, all these numbers announced by the Fed — if you do the math, there should be hyperinflation, but there isn’t — because it’s not being allowed into the system. It is a mess — but here’s the real point.

The creation of money, in a way, is the process of deciding what we as a species will do in the future. And it’s being controlled by religious fanatics who wanted to carry out Old Testament prophecies. It’s really wacko and mind-boggling. Most of us ordinary humans, like any Miss America candidate, or pretty well any guy you pick off the street, will say, “End poverty, stop environmental destruction, and make everyone rich and happy.” Stuff like that. It’s not rocket science. What we want in the future is not what the current set of leaders has in mind. They want World War III and killing four billion people, and the rule of an elite over a slave population. We don’t want that!

So there’s this massive amount of gold that could put us back on a gold standard, where currency is tethered to something of real value.

The Chinese are still using a system similar to the old Japanese system, which is why they still have fast economic growth!

I don’t think we want a centralized control network. But we do need to make sure that anything that does exist is disciplined by reality. It has to be based in something real. It shouldn’t be some guy with a computer, some powerful oligarch with a computer punching numbers and acting like God — which is what we have now. The fact of the matter is that the European countries, the United States and Australia have been getting more stuff from the rest of the world than they have been giving. The only export they have is “Financial Products,” which is basically bubble money. And weapons.

So if we can get these scumbags out of power in the Federal Reserve Board and free the people, the potential for a boom such as has never been seen before is right there. It’s ready! We have to let the old system collapse. But these guys are not going to go quietly into the night. They are threatening war still. They are still trying to attack Iran. I’ve had reports now that they are planting nuclear bombs in the seabed off the shore of Tokyo to create another tsunami here. One of the enforcement arms that could come into play, now that a wedge has been driven with this lawsuit, is the Pentagon. The good guys in the Pentagon could at some point actually do mass arrests at gunpoint of most of the House of Representatives and the Senate… these guys have private accounts in the Vatican Bank and they have been bribed.

by Manly P. Hall
1901-1990

From Lectures on Ancient Philosophy—An Introduction to
the Study and Application of Rational Procedure:
The Hall Publishing Company, Los Angeles, First Edition 1929, pp 397-417

FREEMASONRY is a fraternity within a fraternity—an outer organization concealing an inner brotherhood of the elect. Before it is possible to intelligently discuss the origin of the Craft, it is necessary, therefore, to establish the existence of these two separate yet interdependent orders, the one visible and the other invisible. The visible society is a splendid camaraderie of "free and accepted" men enjoined to devote themselves to ethical, educational, fraternal, patriotic, and humanitarian concerns. The invisible society is a secret and most august fraternity whose members are dedicated to the service of a mysterious arcanum arcanorum. Those Brethren who have essayed to write the history of their Craft have not included in their disquisitions the story of that truly secret inner society which is to the body Freemasonic what the heart is to the body human. In each generation only a few are accepted into the inner sanctuary of the Work, but these are veritable Princes of the Truth and their sainted names shall be remembered in future ages together with the seers and prophets of the elder world. Though the great initiate-philosophers of Freemasonry can be counted upon one's fingers, yet their power is not to be measured by the achievements of ordinary men. They are dwellers upon the Threshold of the Innermost, Masters of that secret doctrine which forms the invisible foundation of every great theological and rational institution.
The outer history of the Masonic order is one of noble endeavor, altruism, and splendid enterprise; the inner history, one of silent conquest, persecution, and heroic martyrdom. The body of Masonry rose from the guilds of workmen who wandered the face of medieval Europe, but the spirit of Masonry walked with God before the universe was spread out or the scroll of the heavens unrolled. The enthusiasm of the young Mason is the effervescence of a pardonable pride. Let him extol the merits of his Craft, reciting its steady growth, its fraternal spirit, and its worthy undertakings. Let him boast of splendid buildings and an ever-increasing sphere of influence. These are the tangible evidence of power and should rightly set a-flutter the heart of the Apprentice who does not fully comprehend as yet that great strength which abides in silence or that unutterable dignity to be sensed only by those who. have been ''raised'' into the contemplation of the Inner Mystery. [p 398]

The Thule Society (/ˈθjuːliː/; German: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ("Study Group for Germanic Antiquity"), was a German occultist and völkisch group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend. The Society is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), which was later reorganized by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party). According to Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, the organization's "membership list... reads like a Who's Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in Munich", including Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart, and Karl Harrer.^[19] However, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, contends that while Hans Frank and Rudolf Hess had been Thule members, other leading Nazis had only been guests of the Thule or entirely unconnected with it.^[20][21] While the ideology of the Thule Society and that of Hitler's regime agreed in philosophy, according to Johannes Hering, "There is no evidence that Hitler ever attended the Thule Society."^[22]

Origins[edit]

The Thule Society was originally a "German study group" headed by Walter Nauhaus,^[23] a wounded World War I veteran turned art student from Berlin who had become a keeper of pedigrees for the Germanenorden (or "Order of Teutons"), a secret society founded in 1911 and formally named in the following year.^[24] In 1917 Nauhaus moved to Munich; his Thule-Gesellschaft was to be a cover-name for the Munich branch of the Germanenorden,^[25] but events developed differently as a result of a schism in the Order. In 1918, Nauhaus was contacted in Munich by Rudolf von Sebottendorf (or von Sebottendorff), an occultist and newly elected head of the Bavarian province of the schismatic offshoot, known as the Germanenorden Walvater of the Holy Grail.^[26] The two men became associates in a recruitment campaign, and Sebottendorff adopted Nauhaus's Thule Society as a cover-name for his Munich lodge of the Germanenorden Walvater at its formal dedication on 18 August 1918.^[27]

Beliefs[edit]

A primary focus of Thule-Gesellschaft was a claim concerning the origins of the Aryan race. In 1917 people who wanted to join the "Germanic Order", out of which the Thule Society developed in 1918, had to sign a special "blood declaration of faith" concerning their lineage:

"The signer hereby swears to the best of his knowledge and belief that no Jewish or coloured blood flows in either his or in his wife's veins, and that among their ancestors are no members of the coloured races."^[28]

"Thule" ((Greek): Θούλη) was a land located by Greco-Roman geographers in the furthest north (often displayed as Iceland).^[29] The term "Ultima Thule" ((Latin): most distant Thule) is also mentioned by the Roman poet Virgil in his pastoral poems called the Georgics.^[30] Although originally Thule was probably the name for Scandinavia, Virgil simply uses it as a proverbial expression for the edge of the known world, and his mention should not be taken as a substantial reference to Scandinavia.^[31]

They identified Ultima Thule, said by Nazi mystics to be the capital of ancient Hyperborea, as a lost ancient landmass in the extreme north: nearGreenland or Iceland. These ideas derived from earlier speculation by Ignatius L. Donnelly that a lost landmass had once existed in the Atlantic, and that it was the home of the Aryan race, a theory he supported by reference to the distribution of swastika motifs. He identified this with Plato's Atlantis, a theory further developed by Helena Blavatsky, an occultist during the second part of the 19th century.^{[citation needed]}