Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

appeared in many underground organizations; it now surfaced in the Victorian Age. Witchcraft
became widespread, even in the highest circles of society, with its rituals emphasizing
mind-altering drugs, plants, and Satanic jewelry. Orgies and blood sacrifices were discreetly
carried out in the heart of the London slums, and on remote ancestral estates. One of the more
publicized of these groups was the Hermetic Society of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1887 by
three members of the Rosicrucian Society. All three were masons of high degree, and well known
as cabbalists-Rev. A. F. A. Woodford, Dr. Wynn Westcott, a London coroner, and a Scot named
Sam Liddell Mathers. The group was soon joined by William Butler Yeats, the poet, and Aleister
Crowley, who was to become known worldwide for his practice of black magic. The purpose of
the Hermetic Society was to worship the Ten Sephiroth, that is the Kabbalah, so that. they could
then be endowed with magic powers, and could call on supernatural forces as their allies. The
members set up Degrees as follows: Neophyte, four degrees; Under Order, four degrees; and the
Third Order, four degrees.
Yeats, the leading Irish poet, later claimed that he had joined the group in order to counter the
black magic of Crowley with his own white magic. Crowley is famed as the most dedicated
Satanist of the twentieth century. He once baptized a toad with the name of Jesus Christ, and
then slowly crucified it, reveling in its agonies. He is said to have taken part in 150 ritual murders,
most of whom were children. The victims were usually killed with a silver knife. In his
"Confessions," he writes, "In Mexico I was known by the name of Beast 666. I had an introduction
to an old man named Don Jesus Medina, a descendant of the great Duke of Armada fame, and
one of the highest chiefs of Scottish- ' Rite Freemasonry. My Quabalistic knowledge being already
profound by current standards, he thought me worthy of the highest initiation in his power to
confer; special powers were obtained in view of my limited sojourn, and I was rushed rapidly
through and admitted to the 33rd and last degree before I left the country." Thus the leading
Satanist of this century was confirmed as a 33rd degree Mason!
Madame Blavatsky became famous as the organizer of Theosophy. She developed the society
after a sojourn in India; the Indian chapters later came under a cloud because of the arrest of its
members for the practice of homosexuality. She then moved to Great Britain, where she founded
the Theosophical Society there, the precursor of the American group of that name. She also
founded the Hermetic Society. Her chief assistant in the Theosophical Society, a cabbalistic
organization, was Mrs. Annie Besant, who is also well known as one of the founders of the
Fabian Society in 1884. The co- founders of the Fabian Society were all Freemasons; they were
George Bernard Shaw, Lord Haldane, Ramsay MacDonald, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The
group took its name from the Roman General Fabius, who was celebrated for his deliberate and
long-range strategy. The Fabian plan was to wait, as Fabius Cunctator had waited to attack
Hannibal, to wait for the right moment. In England, the Fabians proposed to use the Roman
general's strategy to gradually impose a tyrannical Socialist government upon the people of
England through devious long-range planning. This conspiratorial approach won for the Fabians
the nickname, "the Jesuits of Socialism." As part of their strategy, in 1890, Annie Besant became
the chief agitator in the English textile industry, which was centred in Lancashire.
During the 1930s, the Fabians organized a strike force called PEP, the initials of Political and
Economic Planning. It was headed by Israel Moses Sieff, the multi-millionaire head of the giant
retail empire, Marks and Spencer. In 1931, Sieff distributed a document to leading members of
PEP, which was labeled "Strictly Confidential." The program outlined included such items as
"Whether we like it or not, the individualist farmer will be forced by events to submit to
far-reaching changes of outlook and methods. He will receive instructions as to the quantity and
quality of his produce. [This was implemented soon afterward as the Pig Marketing Board. Ed.]
He will be less free to make marketing and arbitrary decisions a-s-to his own business .... Planned
economy must clearly-involve drastic increases in inroads upon the right of ownership of land.
What is required ... .is transfer of ownership of large blocks of land." This program of PEP was
later presented as a textbook drawn up by G. D. H. Cole, "Principles of Economic Planning," in
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