The Premier World Empire

Babylon is Akkadian "babilani" which means "the Gate of God(s)" and it became the capital of the land of Babylonia. The etymology of the name Babel in the Bible means "confused" (Gen 11:9) and throughout the Bible, Babylon was a symbol of the confusion caused by godlessness. The name Babylon is the Greek form of the Hebrew name Babel. Babylon lies in the land of Shinar as revealed in the Bible (Gen 10:10) and its general location has never been disputed. Babylonia was situated in the area known as Mesopotamia (Greek for "between the rivers"). Mesopotamia was in the Near East in roughly the same geographical position as modern Iraq. There is evidence that man has lived in this area of Mesopotamia since the beginning of civilization. The first records indicate that Babylon was established as a city around the 23rd century BC. Before this it was a provincial capital ruled by the kings of the city of Ur. Then came the migration of the Amorites.

 The Bible reveals that all false systems of religion began in the land of Babylon and will have their consummation from the spirit of Babylon in the last days. It is interesting to note that every organized system of religion in the world today has traces of ancient Babylon. The Bible records in Genesis 10:10, that, after the great flood, all men spoke one common language and a man named Nimrod built a city and established a common religion. Nimrod was a descendant of Noahs son, Ham. Genesis 11:1-9 describes the building of the city and its famous tower "whose top may reach unto heaven." It is interesting that the materials used to build the Tower of Babel were the same as those employed for the construction of the great ziggurat of Babylon and similar ziggurats, according to ancient building inscriptions. Nimrod married his mother, Semiramis. That beautiful but abandoned queen of Babylon was not only herself a paragon of unbridled lust and licentiousness, but in the Mysteries which she had a chief hand in forming, she was worshipped as Rhea, the great "MOTHER" of the gods, with such atrocious rites as identified her with Venus, the MOTHER of all impurity, and raised the very city where she had reigned to a bad eminence among the nations, as the grand seat at once of idolatry and consecrated prostitution.

 The Apocalyptic emblem of the Harlot woman with the cup in her hand was even embodied in the symbols of idolatry, derived from ancient Babylon, as they were exhibited in Greece; for thus was the Greek Venus originally represented, and so it is that in our own day, and so far as appears for the first time, the Roman Church has actually taken this very symbol as her own chosen emblem. Around 2000 BC Hammurabi emerged as the ruler of Babylonia. He expanded the borders of the Empire and organized its laws into a written system, also known as the Code of Hammurabi. About this time Abraham left Ur, an ancient city located in lower Babylon, and moved to Haran, a city in the north. Later, Abraham left Haran and migrated into the land of Canaan under God's promise that he would become the father of a great nation (Gen 12). Alongside of Babylonia there must also be a mention of Assyria, which bordered Babylonia on the north. Assyria's development was often intertwined with the course of Babylonian history. About 1270 BC, the Assyrians overpowered Babylonia. For the next 700 years, Babylonia was a lesser power as the Assyrians dominated the ancient world.

 Around 626 BC, Babylonian independence was finally won from Assyria by a leader named Nabopolassar. Under his leadership, Babylonia again became the dominant imperial power in the Near East and thus entered into her "golden age." In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II, the son of Nabopolassar, became ruler and reigned for 44 years. Under him the Babylonian Empire reached its greatest strength. Using the treasures which he took from other nations, Nebuchadnezzar built Babylon, the capital city of Babylonia, into one of the leading cities of the world. The famous hanging gardens of Babylon were known to the Greeks as one of the seven wonders of the world. The Persians, under Cyrus the Great, captured Babylonia from Nebuchadrezzar's last successor Nabonidus in 539 BC. Thereafter, Babylonia ceased to be independent, passing eventually in 331 BC to Alexander the Great, who planned to make Babylon the capital of his empire and who died in Nebuchadrezzar's palace. After Alexander's death, however, the Seleucids eventually abandoned Babylon, bringing an end to one of the greatest empires in history.

The Land of Shinar

Nimrods kingdom originally covered Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Then, this was expanded to include Asshur (Assyria), Nineveh, and the cities of Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen (Gen. 10:10-12). Nimrods kingdom was not legitimate before God, the divinely appointed ruler should come from the line of Shem, not from the descendants of Ham (cf. Gen. 9:24-27). Nimrod therefore was not qualified to rule all the descendants of Noah; it contradicts the curse heaped upon the descendants of Ham. After the overthrow of Nimrod, the kingdom he built remained (cf. Gen. 14:1-9). This started the battle of allied nations! Later, Abraham slaughtered the four (4) kings allied with Babylon and inaugurated the giving of tithes as part of the practices under the Abrahamic Covenant (Heb. 7:1-10)!

In 587 BC, the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem and carried the leading citizens of the Kingdom of Judah as prisoners to Babylon. The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah had foretold that the Jews would be free to return home to Jerusalem after 70 years. The Lord had encouraged His people through Ezekiel and Daniel who were also captives in Babylon. During this 70 year period of captivity, the Persians conquered Babylonia, and the Babylonians passed from the scene as a world power. Throughout the long period of Babylonia history, the Babylonians achieved a high level of civilization that made an impact on the whole known world. Sumerian culture was its basis, which later Babylonians regarded as traditional. In the area of religion, the Sumerians already had a system of gods, each with a main temple in each city. The chief gods were Anu, god of heaven; Enlil, god of the air; and Enki or Ea, god of the sea. Others were Shamash, the sungod; Sin, the moon-god; Ishtar, goddess of love and war; and Adad, the storm-god. The Amorites promoted the god Marduk at the city of Babylon, so that he became the chief god of the Babylonian religion, starting around 1100 BC. Babylonian religion was temple-centered, with elaborate festivals and many different types of priests, especially the exorcist and the diviner, who mainly were trained to drive away evil spirits. Babylonian literature was mainly dominated by mythology and legends. Among these was a creation myth written to glorify their god Marduk. According to this myth, Marduk created heaven and earth from the corpse of the goddess Tiamat. Another work was the Gilgamesh Epic, a flood story written about 2000 BC. Scientific literature of the Babylonians included treatises on astronomy, mathematics, medicine, chemistry, botany, and nature.

THE QABBALAH
Kabalah (Heb.) The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of the middle ages derived from the older secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which were combined into a theology after the time of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. All the works that fall under the esoteric category are termed Kabalistic. (Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary, p. 168) The dictionary defines the Medieval Latin cabala as derived from the Hebrew word qabbl which means received doctrine, tradition, from qibbl, to receive. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Cabalists claimed to have received these oral traditions, not from ancient Chaldeans, but from the Patriarchs and Prophets by the power of the Holy Spirit. Cabala comprised originally the entire traditional lore, in contradistinction to the written law (Torah), and therefore included the prophetic and hagiographic books of the Bible, which were supposed to have been received by the power of the Holy Spirit rather than as writings from Gods hand... Each received doctrine was claimed as tradition from the Fathers...to be traced back to the Prophets or to Moses on Sinai... The chief characteristic of the Cabala is that, unlike the Scriptures, it was entrusted only to the few elect ones;

 The Tanaim, which meant teacher of the law, were the Scribes, the rabbis whom Blavatsky identified as the first Kabalists. From the ranks of the Scribes evolved the sect of the Pharisees. According to Occult Theocrasy, by Edith Starr Miller, the creators of the Cabala were the Pharisees, who had formed their sect in Babylon during the captivity and functioned as a secret society after the Jews returned to Israel. The secret doctrine of Babylon remained the oral tradition of the Pharisees until they committed it to written form: The Pharisees were, as it were, a class whose tendency was to form a kind of intellectual aristocracy among the Jews. At first, they formed a sort of brotherhood, a haburah, the members being called haburim or brothers. They were a subversive element, aiming at the overthrow of the Sadducean High-priesthood, whose members prided themselves on their aristocracy of blood and birth, to which the Pharisees opposed an aristocracy of learning. The war raged by the latter extends over a long period of time, and the rivalry was bitter...

Roman Catholicism: JudeoFreemasonry

Exposes of Roman Catholicism almost never disclose the hidden hand of JudeoFreemasonry which today controls the Vatican. There is, in fact, a long history of Jewish infiltration of the Catholic Church. However, the astonishing number of correspondences between Roman Catholicism and Judaism as defined by the Mosaic Law, which have analogues in Eastern Orthodoxy as well, attest to the fact that the Roman Catholic Church was probably a Judaized form of Christianity from its inception: Sacerdotal system: Priests as mediators between God and men (cf. Levitical priesthood) Pontifex Maximus (cf. Jewish High Priest) College of Cardinals (70) / seventy elders of Moses Confession of sins to priest for forgiveness (Lev.5:5) Daily Sacrificial system (Daily sacrifice of the Mass/Daily burnt offering) (Heb.10:11) Altars for sacrifices Altar vessels of gold and silver Vestments for priests Offertory (cf. Offerings)

Church buildings for worship (cf. Temple) Liturgy (cf. service of the Temple) Sunday obligation (cf. Sabbath-keeping) Saturday Mass (Sabbath) Holy days of obligation (cf. Jewish feasts) Dietary Regulations Works-based salvation (cf. Mosaic Law) Sacrament of infant baptism (cf. Rite of Circumcision) Wafer-only Communion (cf. Manna/Shew Bread) Sacrament of Confirmation (cf. Bar/Bat Mitzvah) Burning of candles and incense (Exodus 30) Holy water (cf. Jewish rites of purification)

This partial catalog of Jewish traditions leads to the conclusion that Roman Catholicism represented not only a front for apostate Judaism but a vehicle for converting Christians, without their knowledge, to the very religious system that rejected Jesus Christ and His Gospel.

 How did the rites and traditions of Judaism creep into the Church at Rome? The Jewish community in Rome dates back to the Maccabees, who had cordial relations with Rome and received pledges of Roman friendship and protection. Jewish culture, in fact, prospered in Rome during the early centuries of first millennium, even to the extent that Jews held government positions and received favored treatment from the Caesars. The Jewish community in Rome is known to be the oldest Jewish community in Europe and also one of the oldest continuous Jewish settlements in the world, dating back to 161 B.C.E. when Jason ben Eleazar and Eupolemus ben Johanan came as envoys of Judah Maccabee. Other delegations were sent by the Hasmonean rulers in 150 and 139 B.C.E. From the second half of the first century C.E., the Roman Jewish community became firmly established. A majority of the community were shopkeepers, craftsman and peddlers, but other Jews became poets, physicians and actors. Satiric poets of the time, such as Juvenal and Martial, depicted the raucous activities of the Jewish peddlers and beggars in their poetry. Evidence has been found that twelve synagogues were functioning during this period... The Jewish position in Rome began to deteriorate during the reign of Constantine the Great (306-336), who enacted laws limiting the rights of Jews as citizens...

 Judaizers played a major role in the formation and establishment of the Roman Catholic Church, if indeed Roman Catholicism was not wholly a Jewish construct. The abovementioned Jewish liturgical customs, which started in Rome, may have found their way into the Roman Catholic Mass, spreading throughout the world as Roman Catholicism became the official religion of the Roman Empire and spread its Judaizing tentacles around the globe. The Eucharist was always celebrated at the end of a service of lessons, psalms, prayers, and preaching, which was itself merely a continuation of the service of the synagogue. So we have everywhere this double function; first a synagogue service Christianized, in which the holy books were read, psalms were sung, prayers said by the bishop in the name of all (the people answering 'Amen' in Hebrew, as had their Jewish forefathers), and homilies, explanations of what had been read, were made by the bishop or priests, just as they had been made in the synagogues by the learned men and elders (e. g., Luke, iv, 16-27)... The likeness between the prayers of thanksgiving (ix-x) and the Jewish forms for blessing bread and wine on the Sabbath (given in the 'Berakoth' treatise of the Talmud; cf. Sabatier, 'La Didache', Paris, 1885, p. 99) points obviously to derivation from them.

 During the Inquisition, which started in Spain in 1478, multitudes of Jews were forced to renounce Judaism and to embrace Catholicism; these were called Conversos or converts. However, although conversos went through the motions of the Roman Catholic religion, most remained Jews inwardly and practiced their Jewish rites in the privacy of their homes. Other Jews, called Marranos (swine), feigned conversion but practiced Catholicism outwardly, while practicing Judaism, or Cabalism, privately. A number of Marranos took positions in the clergy. The motive of the former was self-preservation; the latter, destruction of the Church and all things Christian. Altogether, the result of these parallel operations was the Jewish occupation of the Church and its transformation into Mystery Babylon (Babylon being the point of origin of the Jewish system of Gnostic occultism which evolved into the Cabala).

The lasting victory of the Jewish-Freemasonic and Jewish Communist revolution since the end of the 18th century up to our days isto be attributed to that neither the Holy Catholic Church nor the separated Churches have fought effectively against the Jewish Fifth Column, which has smuggled itself into their bosom. This Fifth column is formed by the descendants of the Jews who in earlier centuries were converted to Christianity and seemingly held in enthusiastic manner to the religion of Christ, while in secret they preserved their Jewish belief and carried out clandestinely the Jewish rites and ceremonies. For this purpose they organized themselves into communities and secret synagogues, which were active centuries-long in secret. These apparent Christians, but secret Jews, began centuries ago to infiltrate the Christian society, in order to attempt to control it from within. For this reason they sowed false doctrine and differences of opinion and even attempted to gain control of the clergy in the different churches of Christ. In the Middle Ages, the Popes and Councils were successful in destroying the Jewish revolutionary movements which appeared within Christianity in the form of false teaching and which were introduced by seeming Christians but by Jews in secret. The latter then recruited upright and good Christians for the arising heretical movement by persuading the latter in a crafty way. The secret Jews organized and controlled in secret manner the movements, which were the creative and driving-force of wicked false teachings, such as those of the Catarensers, of the Patarines, of the Albignensians, of the Hussites, of the Illuminati and others.

 The first known Illuminati order (Alumbrado) was founded in 1492 by Spanish Jews, called 'Marranos,' who were also known as 'crypto-Jews.' With violent persecution in Spain and Portugal beginning in 1391, hundreds of thousands of Jews had been forced to convert to the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. Publicly they were now Roman Catholics, but secretly they practiced Judaism, including following the Talmud and the Cabala. The Marranos were able to teach their children secretly about Judaism, but in particular the Talmud and the Cabala, and this huge group of Jews has survived to this very day. After 1540 many Marranos opted to flee to England, Holland, France, the Ottoman empire (Turkey), Brazil and other places in South and Central America. The Marranos kept strong family ties and they became very wealthy and influential in the nations where they lived. But as is the custom with all Jewish people, it did not matter in what nation they lived, their loyalty was to themselves and Judaism. (How the World Government Rules the Nations)

In 1492, the year of the founding of the original Illuminati, Spanish Roman Catholics expelled the last of the Muslims and Jews from Spain. The reason for the Spanish Inquisition is buried under a mile high of propaganda remonstrating against the anti-Semitism of the Catholic Church. From 1000 to 1200 A.D., the magical/mystical system known as Cabala was developed by mainly Sephardi (African) Jews, especially in Spain. The Inquisition was not directed against the Jews for practicing Judaism, but for being practitioners of witchcrafteven ritual human sacrifice and Tantric sex magick, for the Cabala has erotic elements to it. Also in 1492, Christopher Columbus was funded by Jews to explore the New World in search of a homeland for the persecuted Jews. On August 2 (the Druid feast of Lugnasha) of 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, sponsored by Leonardo da Vinci (Grand Master of the Prieur de Sion from 1510-1519) and funded by wealthy Merovingian families like the Medici. According to Occult Conspiracy by Michael Howard, Columbus was associated with a political group that supported the ideas of Dante, one of the alleged Grand Masters of the Order of the Rosy Cross, who is known to have used codes and ciphers in his writings, a practice associated with membership of a secret society. Columbus voyages of discovery were sponsored by Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo de Medici, both initiates of secret societies, who found the explorer wealthy patrons among European Royalty and aristocracy. (p.,74) Besides Leonardo da Vinci and the Medici, Christopher Columbus was financed by the House of Anjou, another Jewish family, and specifically, Rene d'Anjou, who was Grand Master of the Prieur de Sion from 1418-1480.

The Rothschild and Vatican

Early in the 19th century the Pope came to the Rothschilds to borrow money. The Rothschilds were very friendly with the Pope, causing one journalist to sarcastically say Rothschild has kissed the hand of the Pope... Order has been reestablished. The Rothschilds in fact over time were entrusted with the bulk of the Vaticans wealth. The Jewish Ency., vol. 2, p. 497 states, It is a somewhat curious sequel to the attempt to set up a Catholic competitor to the Rothschilds that at the present time (1905) the latter are guardians of the papal treasure. Researcher Eustace Mullins writes that the Rothschilds took over all the financial operations of the worldwide Catholic Church in 1823. Today the large banking and financial business of the Catholic Church is an extensive system interlocked with the Rothschilds and the rest of the International Banking system. (lluminati Bloodlines, p.154)

Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits

In 1491 San Ignacio De Loyola was born in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa, Spain. His parents were Marranos and at the time of his birth the family was very wealthy. As a young man he became a member of the Jewish Illuminati Order in Spain. As a cover for his crypto Jewish activities, he became very active as a Roman Catholic. In 1539 he had moved to Rome where he founded the Jesuit Order, which was to become the most vile, bloody and persecuting order in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1540, the current Pope Paul III approved the order.

The Jesuits and the Rothschild

...the Jewish Cabalistic leaders were able to establish a control over all world banking through the Rothschild family, and...the political power was captured through the work of Adam Weishaupt. Here is how it was done: Meyer Amschel (a rabbinically trained German Jew who later took the name Rothschild) was firmly established in the German city, Frankfurt am Main, with an emerging banking house as early as 1764. The leader of the Cabala at that time, Jakob Frank (a Polish born Jew with the family name of Leibowicz) lived in the German city of Offenbach (just south of the city of Frankfurt) from 1773. Johann Adam Weishaupt (from a Jewish family that had converted to the Roman Catholic Church) was at Ingolstadt in 1770, a German city in Bavaria. With these three men, the stage was set to ignite a hell fire that would forever bring changes to the world. At this point in time, it is not known who 'supervised' these three Jewish men, but it is obvious that someone directed their efforts. On May 1, 1776, just two months before the Declaration of Independence in America, the Order of Illuminati was founded by Weishaupt. At this time Weishaupt was 28 years old, Amschel was 32 years old and Frank was 50 years old. Meyer Amschel financed Adam Weishaupt and Jakob Frank laid the cabalisic theological foundation for the Order of the Illuminati.