You can start this story at almost anytime in recorded history.

The destruction of the Cathars, Rothschild hoodwinking the entire London Stock Exchange into thinking Napoleon had won so he could scoop up the country’s hastily dumped portfolios for pence on the pound, replacing Lincoln’s greenback law with the National Banking Act... anywhere.

But those examples are safely distant.

History only seems to come into focus after about a hundred or more years, when the dirty laundry has been well and truly blown clean. By then, we’re already fucked.

And as ‘The Project’ collapses into increasingly toxic clusters of orcs, it occurs to me it is worth, in Gandalf’s words, risking a little more light. The ‘official’ narrative of what’s going on in the world is now so utterly preposterous, so top-heavy with barely concealed bullshit, that I find it truly, truly astounding that anyone can sit in front of a cable news programme with a straight face or a bullethole-free TV screen.

Secret societies, for instance, emerged a few centuries ago in central Europe as a means of enabling the powerful to operate under the radar of the church and the crown. The mystical crap is largely a cover... Where else could the scions of the ruling families speak privately but behind oaths that, if broken, would lead either to the stake or the guillotine? As a social technology for communication and concealment, they remained highly useful right up to... and possibly beyond... the rise of Nazi Germany.

You see, It’s the tech that continues, rather than the connections.

There is no ancient order playing a centuries-spanning game with the ultimate goal of world domination. There is, however a persistent need for the great and the good to conceal their ever-shifting alliances. Just as the continued use of the horse as a system of transport for thousands of years is not a ‘conspiracy theory’, the accumulation of more wealth and power among fewer and fewer people is also not a ‘conspiracy theory’... it is an unfortunate result of the gravity inherent in western capitalism.

The tech tumbles down, the adherence to a convenient worldview tumbles down, ‘the grand plan’ does not tumble down. This is a fundamental point and misunderstanding it can send you quite insane.

Some of the points we will cover may look paranoid out of context, but what makes me more paranoid is how we have come to lack a context. Again, we return to the difference between ‘facts’ and ‘theories’. Almost the entire emphasis will be on a very chaos magic interpretation of Popperian ‘facts’... ie we will only cite research that can be traced to primary sources wherever possible. You may or may not string them together as you like.

For what it’s worth, after my experience in Spain late last year, I will tell you right now that I personally believe these dark, shifting collaborations extend into the non-physical... but it’s up to you whether you want to wander into -or more likely happen upon- your own Lovecraftian story. Such things will not be discussed here.

Sidebar: it does, however, fascinate me that contemporary western occultism can display such a sad, trainspotty obsession with the lineage of grimoiric demons and stress over the most precise ways in which we ‘should’ contact ‘them’... but little thought is actually given to what these things do when they’re not appearing in your living room. Beings that apparently command vast ghost armies and give nightmares to kings are just... what? Sitting patiently in the metaphoric drive-thru window just waiting to help you get that 5% pay rise? Or are they skinriding the brutal oligarchs bringing destruction and penury upon the world just for the lulz? Are you sure you’re even interesting enough to warrant a demon prince’s attention?