William Cooper claims that the world has been secretly governed since the dawn of man by the priesthood of a single hidden religion, which he calls, after Revelation 17, Mystery Babylon. Its ultimate object of worship is Lucifer, "the light", identified with the intellect. Through his agent Satan, Lucifer gave man the "forbidden knowledge" in Eden with the promise that "man himself will become God".
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- 228,000 BC – 2010
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Who answers to whom
7 tiers in all: Lucifer at the top, then New World Order, Mystery Babylon, Freemasonry, down to Sheeple at the base. Every line on the chart is a relationship Cooper states.
Every tier, top to bottom
555 profiles across 8 tiers. The most crowded is T2, mystery babylon: the mystery schools and their lineage, with 256.
10 lineages of power
122 links tracing how power passed down, earliest first. Pick a lineage to follow it all the way.
- —Lucifer
- —First Priest of the Mystery Schools
- —Nimrod
- —Seth, son of Noah
- —Haram at Mecca
- —Ismailis
- —Abode of Learning
- 1090Assassins
- —Lamech
- —Hermes Trismegistus
- —Nimrod
- —Hebrews
- 1118Knights Templar
- 1307–08Hidden Templars
- 1381Great Society
- 1717Freemasonry
- —Knights Templar
- 14th c.Knights of the Holy Grail
- 1516Rose Cross Order
- 16th c.Martin Luther
- —Roman Empire
- 55–68 ADNero
- early 4th c.Constantine?
- —Council of Nicaea
- —Votan
- —Quetzalcoatl
- —Priesthood of the Feathered Serpent
- —Nezahualpilli
- 1875Theosophical Society
- 1888Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
- 1908Guido von List
- 1911Guido von List
- —Knights Templar
- 16th c.Roshaniya
- 1776Illuminati
- 1848Karl Marx
- —Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
- —Theosophical Society
- 1924-11-11Lucis Trust
- —Arcane School
567 dated events
From 228,000 BC to 2010. The busiest era is 1946–1999. Select an era to open it on the timeline.
Where it happens
The source. Nimrod's first kingdom (Babel, Erech, Akkad, Calneh, in Shinar), the Tower of Babel, the college of sun priests, and the Jews' captivity, where they learned the religion.
Spiritual command. Lucifer, through his agent Satan, directs Mystery Babylon, the mystery schools, the illumined priesthood and the New World Order.
Read how it all connects → Methods of control"This was the secret of the mysteries, this and nothing else". Fear, fasting, darkness, drumming, symbolic death and debilitation make the initiate's mind plastic, so implanted ideas resist counter-influence.
Read the methods → Goals and endgameCooper says the Great Work aims at "the destruction of the church, the state, and the enslavement of the mob, which is all of us". The initiates would re-establish the golden age of priest-kings, a "benevolent despotism".
Read the endgame →The most cited
2,288 names in all, 555 with a full profile. These come up most often.
Who ultimately rules? Cooper most often places a council of wise men / elders behind a puppet leader at the top.
Read the notes → Compared with David Icke527 names appear in both worldviews. See where each author puts the same player.
Compare Cooper × Icke → SourcesThe Mystery Babylon series on his shortwave program The Hour of the Time, 1992–1994. Every claim cites the broadcast hour it comes from.
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