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Part Two: A Complete History of the Illuminati

Behind the Bastards

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Is It Really a Magpie? Is That the Cuckoo?

This sort of thing happens a lot with these like esoteric groups and these secret societies and orders. Like this style of growing your own little weird cult is very consistent. So it's entryism. It's like the communist tendency of entryism. This brings in hundreds of new members. And one of these new members is a 28 year old diplomat from Hanover named Adolf Knig. He describes himself as a child as stricken with our era's greatest disease, a yearning for secret connections and orders. As a little boy, he'd actually created his own Secret Society and invited his friends to join. They'd worn silver crosspendants and drawn up a list of bylaws. I think

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