When the initiation rites were being conducted, he said, he could hear “strange cries and whispers” coming from the sepulchral, windowless building.Īnother Yale graduate, Alexandra Robbins, claims that in her book Secrets of the Tomb she managed to penetrate the avowed wall of silence that surrounds the society. The columnist said that he actually lived near the “Tomb” and passed it all the time. Bush, admitted to a thirty-year obsession with Skull and Bones. Ron Rosenbaum, author and columnist for the New York Observer, probably spoke for the majority of Americans when he told CBS News (June 13, 2004) that he believed there to be “a deep and legitimate distrust in America for power and privilege that are cloaked in secrecy.” Rosenbaum argued that we are supposed to do things out in the open in America. Bush and John Kerry are members of the secret society, and Bush had brought five fellow Bonesmen to join his administration, the most recent was William Donaldson (1953) to serve as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. had two “Bonesmen” squaring off as presidential opponents. As early as 1873 a New Haven newspaper published an article that condemned the society as an “obnoxious, deadly evil” with an increasing “arrogance and self-fancied superiority.” Almost from the very beginning, a mystique grew up around Skull and Bones, as might be expected in a university community that suddenly has within its confines a “secret society.” Professors objected because of its secrecy in a nation that prizes its recognition of equality and its contempt of elitism. It is the same vine-covered, windowless brown-stone hall where Skull and Bones still holds its mysterious occult rites. presidency in 1909 and later became chief justice of the Supreme Court, the only person to have achieved both positions. His son, William Howard Taft (1887) was elected to the U.S. attorney general, then secretary of war, ambassador to Austria, and ambassador to Russia. William Russell (1833) rose to the military rank of general and became a state legislator in Connecticut. The initiates’ vows have to do with support of one another in the achievement of worldly and highly material success after graduation. Skull and Bones is not your typical beer-swilling, goof-off fraternity. Each fortunate initiate is gifted with $15,000 and a grandfather clock. The society, which Russell formed with Alphonso Taft (class of 1833), exists only at Yale, and only fifteen juniors are selected by senior members to be initiated into the next year’s membership. He called it the “Order of Scull and Bones,” later changed to Skull and Bones. Russell also returned to Yale with the notion of establishing a chapter of a corps in Germany. Neither Hitler’s fascism nor Lenin’s communism would quarrel with the precepts of Hegelianism. The state has supreme rights over individuals, and individuals must recognize that their supreme duty is to the state. In Hegel’s worldview, the state is Absolute Reason and individuals must give their total obedience to it. When William Huntington Russell returned to Yale from his studies in Germany in 1832, his head was filled with the philosophy of reason as taught by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel at the University of Berlin. Its members assure outsiders that Skull and Bones is simply a college fraternity that taps fifteen rich boys each year to undergo an initiation that’s nothing but “mumbo-jumbo.” Conspiracists are certain that the occult-based secret society worships the absolute power of the state and the New World Order. It is a summary of a conspiracy theory, not a statement of fact. The following article is from Conspiracies and Secret Societies.
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