The Real History of Secret Societies
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Secret Societies: The Never-Ending Story
2019-08-16
Taking an in-depth look at The Order, FEAR (Forever Enduring, Always Ready), the Silver Legion of America (Silver Shirts), and others, Professor Spence demonstrates how so many of these secret societies begot, influenced, or resulted in other ones, keeping the tradition going and suggesting that there are hundreds, if not thousands, more that have remained secret.
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Terrorism's Long Trail of Secret Cells
2019-08-16
From the 1920 Wall Street bombing to the events of 9/11, see where secret societies have embraced terrorism as a mind game throughout history. Most secret orders are more or less harmless, but Professor Spence peers inside some which have used violence to further their agendas, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Army Faction, the Weathermen, and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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Secret Societies for Aging Swingers
2019-08-16
Professor Spence introduces you to a crazy-sounding story about Aleister Crowley's secret society, Ordo Templi Orientis, as he debates the merits of truth around it. From there, hear some fantastical stories about UFOs, the Priory of Sion, the American Heraldry Society, the Society of St.
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Bohemian Grove, Bilderbergers, and Elites
2019-08-16
Get to know the elite secret societies that only recruited members who were already (or would likely be) rich or influential, including the Bohemian Club, the Schlaraffia, the Sath-Bhai or Asiatic Brethren, the FOGC, the Skull & Bones Society, and more. These primarily men-only clubs are rumored to have dabbled in black arts, unusual rituals, and conspiratorial agendas.
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From the KKK to the Black Shriners
2019-08-16
Professor Spence turns his focus to the United States and uniquely American secret societies, including the sham group known as the U.S.
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Italy's Secret Government: The P2 Lodge
2019-08-16
Propaganda-Due, or P-2 , an Italian pseudo-Masonic organization, has been tied to a number of shady crimes and mysteries, including corruption, bribes, and even murder. Yet it was made up of senior military and police officers, parliament members, journalists, and the heads of all three of Italy's intelligence agencies.
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Japan's Black and Green Dragons
2019-08-16
Examine how the Black Dragons had a huge impact in pushing Japan into fanaticism, militarism, and a devastating war. Then, explore additional Asian-based groups, including the Green Dragons and the Genyosha (or Dark Ocean), and how they dabbled in everything from major bombings to a plan to assassinate Charlie Chaplin.
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Red Octopus: The Communist International
2019-08-16
Discover how some politically driven secret societies have far-reaching impact, as Professor Spence dives into a period of time when America was full of Soviet espionage and clandestine communist activity. Through a number of interlinked histories, he demonstrates how the Communist party relied on proven secret-society techniques, such as selective recruitment and fanatical loyalty.
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Aleister Crowley, Occultism, and Espionage
2019-08-16
In this episode that focuses on the worldwide impact of Aleister Crowley, Professor Spence highlights the murky connections between secret societies, occultism, and espionage. You may be surprised to see the number of world-changing events Crowley (credited with being "the wickedest man in the world") had his hands in.
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Mafia! Criminal Secret Societies
2019-08-16
Do criminal gangs really qualify as secret societies? Yes: They're selective in membership, require oaths and initiations, and members usually advance through grades or ranks.
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Debunking the Elders of Zion
2019-08-16
Professor Spence opens the door on secret-society conspiracy that permeated across countries and decades, with each iteration more complicated and bizarre than the last. The Learned Elders of Zion never actually existed, but to this made-up secret society was attributed a real-life protocol to take over the world, which caused (and continues to cause) incalculable harm and religious intolerance.
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Ireland's Secret War for Independence
2019-08-16
The Irish Republican Army was a tightly organized secret society battling the greatest power on Earth, the British empire. But they were not the first secret society to practice resistance in Ireland.
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The Freemasons
2019-08-16
The Freemasons don't hide their existence. However, they did popularize the idea of secrecy: adopting a clandestine set of identifying factors, ensuring their rituals and initiations are complicated and intimidating, and even having a term for outsiders or non-members.
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The Illuminati
2019-08-16
Explore the roots of the 28-year-old Adam Weishaupt's secret society, the Order of Perfectibilists, which later became the Order of the Illuminati, or, in German, the Illuminatenordern: The Order of the Enlightened. Discover how Weishaupt envisioned nothing less than A New World, which necessitated destruction of Christianity and all other forms of religion.
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The Rosicrucians
2019-08-16
Professor Spence introduces you to The Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis, which might be the first commercially marketed secret society. During the early 20th century, the mystical order's grand imperator, H.
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The Medieval Cathars
2019-08-16
Professor Spence starts with the 1244 fall of Montsegur, which most history books note as the Cathars' last stand as an organized movement. Yet, as Professor Spence demonstrates, this influential group shows up over and over throughout history.
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The Islamic Assassins
2019-08-16
Travel to a historic empire that stretched from Anatolia to Central Asia as you get to know The Assassins, whose roots reach back at least as far as the beginning of Islam in the 7th century. See how assassin," our generic term for professional killer, is linked to the asaiyun, who were notably the cause of 200 years of terrorism and murder.
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Ancient Mystery Cults
2019-08-16
Travel back to Ancient Greece to hear what we know of the Eleusinian Mysteries, among the most ancient and prestigious of the Greco-Roman world. This first secret society, which had endured for almost 2,000 years, counted among its members the likes of Socrates, Plato, Plutarch, and Cicero.
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Synarchy, Schemers, and Vichy France
2019-08-16
The 1930s saw economic crisis, the rise of Hitler, Stalinist terror, and the general decline of democracy. Were the events coincidence or consequences?
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Adolf Hitler and the Thule Society
2019-08-16
Start with the history of the smaller secret societies that were popping up all over Germany at the end of the 19th century. Then look at how the larger societies and individuals, which have already been covered, will weave through the background of Hitler's rise to power.
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Bolsheviks, Masons, and Russian Revolution
2019-08-16
Were the Bolsheviks a political movement or a secret society? Dive into this question as you survey the rich history of governmental secret societies who combated revolutionary conspiracies with their own conspiracies.
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Masonic Revolutions in America and France
2019-08-16
Professor Spence looks at the secret societies behind the Boston Tea Party and Bastille Day. Explore the roles that the Sons of Liberty, the Society of the Friends of the Constitution (the Jacobins), the Nine Sisters Lodge, and other groups played in these important revolutions and learn how Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other Founders were involved with secret groups.
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The Knights Templar
2019-08-16
Uncover the story behind the Knights Templar: a military monastic order founded during the Crusades who persevered through time to become the subject of so much rumor, speculation, and outright fantasy that it's almost impossible to separate fact from fiction. Are they guardians for a holy bloodline?
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Secret Societies: The Underworld of History
2019-08-16
Willa Rhoads was 16 when she died. The discovery of her body five years after her death opened the door to a public awareness of the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, also known as the Blackburn Cult.
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Small-Town Secrets
2019-08-16
Get a brief introduction to the realm of secret societies you will study throughout this series as seen through the personal experience of Professor Spence in his home town of Taft, California. Often demonized by their enemies and misunderstood by outsiders, many secret societies have become the stuff of myths and conspiracy theories.
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