The Occult History of Ireland
(A Brief Introduction)
 

(From an interview with Michael Tsarion,
recorded on the Resonance Radio Show, 2006)

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		Almost every time acts of terrorist violence have occurred in Northern Ireland (and regardless of whether it was the IRA or the Protestant paramilitaries who were responsible), the victims have habitually accepted the official reports of what happened. In the case of the Omagh bombing on August 15, 1998, when families did not blithely or blindly accept the made-for-TV spin, and did conduct a private investigation into the reasons for the atrocity, we find the whole propaganda machinery being tossed out the window in no time at all. I recommend the movie Omagh to those readers who are interested in studying the occult history of Ireland. It will serve as a good primer on the subject. While watching the movie, remember that the protagonists were Protestant men and women who believed that their elected government officials would never lie to them and that the police were their best friends. By the end of their traumatic investigations, however, they were able to discern their actual enemy. Shockingly, it was not, as everyone erroneously believed, the IRA.
A must see movie that exposes the British complicity in IRA terrorist attacks. (Watch Trailer)

Indeed, studying the history of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) is both interesting and revealing. It is a study that has, in the end, less to do with politics and more to do with secret orders and hidden agendas. The persistent student eventually becomes aware that, from the earliest times, some of the most notorious and conspicuous founders and leaders of the major Irish rebel bodies were in fact counter-revolutionaries. They were agents of the British establishment. There is evidence to show that this was almost certainly the case with the infamous James Stephens (IRB), John O'Mahony (Fenian Brotherhood), and P. J. Tynan (Invincibles). In our opinion, nothing has changed. We believe that the insidious ploy is still in effect today. Men of this sort, positioned as they were in senior positions of Irish rebel organizations, were not interested in freeing the Irish people. They worked for the contrary purpose, and were, we believe, instructed to make sure that authentic revolutionary movements did not rise to successfully threaten the British establishment or imperial status quo. In our opinion, they were supremely successful. It is our contention that many leaders of terrorist cells throughout the world - be they of the political "left" or "right" - are, in fact, expert fifth columnists, funded and instructed by agents of British Intelligence. Some recent examples are F. W. De-Klerk and Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Boris Yeltsin of Russia, Lech Walesa of Poland, and Robert Mugabe of Rhodesia. This fact remains largely unknown to the masses. It remains unknown to the duped members of the world's many secret societies and terrorist movements.

On the early years of the IRA, my good colleague Jim Cairns wrote the following:

At the start of the Irish "troubles" in 1968/9, there was only one group called the IRA in Ireland, however, a split developed and a separate group of IRA activists was formed, calling itself the Provisional IRA. There is a cloud of uncertainty surrounding the formation of the Provisional IRA in 1969, and there seems to be a deliberate attempt to conceal certain facts. Pro-IRA writers give scanty explanations for the foundation of the Provos, but if one looks hard enough, one discovers some interesting truths. In 1968/9 the IRA, as it was called then, had a very socialist outlook. Its left-wing members saw the protestant Unionists in Northern Ireland as the enemy but they were also very resentful towards the large estate owners in the Irish Republic. In 1969, the IRA in the Republic of Ireland (the 26 Southern Counties) made a number of attacks on the properties of large estates in the west coast of Ireland. These attacks, on private property in Eire, were greatly resented and were seen as a direct threat to the status quo. A group of wealthy and powerful businessmen and property owners saw the need to control and oppose the activities of this left-wing faction within the IRA and they concluded that the best way to do this was to promote and support a new IRA faction, which would be effectively under their wing. Thus, the Provisional IRA was formed in 1969 under the leadership of David O'Connell and an Englishman called John Stephenson, alias Sean McStiophan. With the backing support from these "hidden" establishment figures, the Provisional IRA would soon become the dominant IRA grouping, and the Official IRA (the original IRA with left-wing supporters) soon became eclipsed and declared a ceasefire in 1972 - (Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth)

Thomas Clarke Luby (the co-founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood); James Stephens (the main founder and leader of the IRB), and John O'Mahoney (leader of the Fenian Brotherhood and IRB). Where these men true revolutionaries interested in the freedom of Ireland, or where they part of an intricate plot devised by British Intelligence? (See references below for more info on the early founders and leaders of the IRA.)

One of the first books to deal with the origins and machinations of Ireland's early secret societies was written by Captain H. B. C. Pollard. In his book the author details the origins of the Protestant Orange Order and the many Republican orders. On the creation of the IRA, Captain Pollard wrote:

In 1857 a messenger was sent from New York to James Stephens, then in Dublin, asking him to get up an organization in Ireland on resources provided from the States; and it is clear that Stephens had already cut-and-dried plans in his mind as to how this was to be done. He stated his terms, which were agreed to, and on St. Patrick's Day, 1858, the I. R. B. movement was initiated by Stephens and Luby in Dublin - (The Secret Societies of Ireland, 1922)

He went on to remark:

The model secret society from which the founder drew his ideas and plan of organization was undoubtedly the Carbonari. This society was the lineal descendant of the Illuminati of Weisshaupt, which had such a profound influence on the French Revolution...In point of historical antiquity the Carbonari Society long antedated that of the Illuminati, but it was captured by the latter between 1770 and 1790 - ibid

The founders of the movement were Colonel John O'Mahoney and a barrister, Michael Doheny, both of whom had fled from Ireland for their share in the rising of 1848. Both these men took refuge in France, at that time a hot-bed of secret Carbonarist societies - (on the founders of the IRA)

On the connections between the United Irishmen and the Illuminati, Pollard referred to the researches of R. C. Clifford, the author of The Application of Barruel's Memoirs of Jacobinism to the Secret Societies of Ireland and Great Britain, published in 1798. Pollard wrote:

The influence of Illuminism was noted by the Hon. R. C. Clifford...The United Irishmen, organized in 1791, was, states Clifford based on Illuminism. "The proposals for it are couched in the style and exact terms of the Hierophants of Illuminism."

		From the researches of men such as Baron Avro Manhattan, we know about the extensive power of the Jesuit Order and Opus Dei. We know these cabals serve the interests of the Atonist elites ensconced in London and Vatican City. We know from the findings of experts and whistleblowers how much control the Jesuits, Teutonic Knights, and Knights of Columbus, etc, have over certain ostensibly Catholic terrorist groups, including the IRA. Officially, the Catholic Church frowns upon secret societies. However, in practice it is quite a different story. Moreover, not only have Catholic priests regularly absolved IRA murderers of their heinous crimes, but many priests have served as commanders of IRA divisions. Most if not all of the convicted IRA inmates received regular visits from senior Catholic clergymen who have taken their causes and even bestowed blessings upon their heads. The young patriotic men who felt compelled to join the IRA, knew little about their true enemy, or that their organization is connected to many international criminal syndicates, some of them quite ancient. No, the average IRA member had his attention and ardor artfully channeled elsewhere. So it was through the generations, and so it has remained:
The insignia of the Jesuit Order, emphasizes their connection to ancient Luciferian Solar Cults. The letters IHS represent the ancient Irish god Iesa, the basis for Jesus.

This Irish Catholic organization (The Defenders), similar to that of the Spanish Guarduña, was founded in 1562 by Roger Moore behind whom were French and Spanish Jesuits. According to Captain Pollard, author of "The Secret Societies of Ireland," "The nominal function of the Defenders was the protection of the fugitive priests during the period of proscription…the Defenders soon became a criminal association of law-breakers and banditti" – Lady Queensborough (Occult Theocracy, 1933)

...the Sinn Fein movement made sudden great headway in the ranks of the younger priesthood, and it was current gossip at the time that some sections of the Church held participation in the rebellion to have been sinful, whereas another section, notably backed by Irish members of the Society of Jesus, contested that the ideal which animated the revolutionaries gave moral sanction to their actions – Captain H. B. C. Pollard (The Secret Societies of Ireland, 1922)

		In regards the so-called "opposition" - the Protestant societies - one of the most important for readers to be aware of is the elusive quorum known as the Black Preceptory, that hides itself behind the infamous Orange Order, itself a tentacle of even more elusive British and European orders such as the Illuminati. This is because the so-called Illuminati were not, and are not, anti-royalist, as the propaganda insinuates. They were funded by royalty from day one.  (We have presented the facts on this in our DVD entitled The Irish Origins of Civilization.) Adam Weishaupt (the official founder of the Order of the Illuminati) spent the last forty years of his life residing in the courts of European royals such as the King of Austria, Charles de Lorraine (Grand Master of the Teutonic Order), and other members of the Hapsburg dynasty. His order was backed by royal princes and dukes, and the same thing goes for the Orange Order, the very word "Orange" being a reference to the royal House of Hanover.
The emblem of the Black Preceptory, or Royal Black Institution. Their festival day falls on July 13th. (Click pic for more info.)

The Black Preceptory is also known as the Royal Black Institution, a name that sounds worrisome enough. This quorum includes judges, police executives, clergymen, senior intellectuals and academics, and men who run major corporations in Ireland and elsewhere. The Preceptory's senior members have the power to change government policy on a local and even national level.

They reward selected lieutenants in the public limelight for furthering their agendas and see to it that other men who do not fall into lockstep are removed from professional positions. The Preceptory has the power to cover up heinous politically-motivated crimes, sequester evidence so that complicit "brothers" remain unprosecuted, and prevent official investigations into the criminal activities of their members. Additionally, members of the Preceptory and Orange Order (journalists, reporters, and editors, and so on) can bias reportage in any manner desired.

Alarmingly, the senior privileged members of these elusive fraternities have the power to arrange assassinations and acts of terrorism. For centuries the Orange Order's elite members have furthered their own agendas by fomenting conflict and expertly pitting one ruthless sectarian faction against another. This is an old story when it comes to the provinces of Northern Ireland. We are all privy to the effects of sectarian hatred and bloody violence, but so privy to the causes?

The Orange Order is avowedly Christian - unlike Freemasonry - but it shares the Craft's secret society structure. Its rituals, passwords, grips and signs are based on Freemasonry. Its initiation ceremony apes the first degree Craft ritual with rolled-up trouserlegs, the hoodwink and the poniard to the naked left breast. Two allied Protestant orders, the Purple and the Black, are also based on Freemasonry...the Masonic brotherhood is a substantial behind-the-scenes force in Orange and Unionist politics - Martin Short (Inside the Brotherhood)

In Northern Ireland's 1920 Constitution Freemasonry was awarded special status, as if in recognition of some concealed role in the Province's triumphant struggle to stay in the United Kingdom and out of the Irish Free State - ibid

In the Republic of Ireland, the wealthy and powerful Masonic elites concealed themselves behind societies known to Irish historians as the Clan na Gael, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the Ribbon Order.

My colleague Andrew Power opened the first metaphysical bookshop in Belfast. That is how I ran into him. It was 1983. The first book I bought from him (on my dole money) was William Sterling's Canon. Andy was the only Irish man I had met who did not think I was "bonkers." Sadly, his bookshop did not last long. Later Andy went on to write Ireland: Land of the Pharaohs. He dedicated his book to me and to the researcher Jordan Maxwell. That was a lovely gesture. In the book Andy deals with the occult symbolism of the famous Battle of the Boyne. And what a strange battle it was. Did you know that apparently no one was killed at the Battle of the Boyne? Did you know that not a single bullet, buckle, musket, spear, or body was ever found in the area? Not even with the latest metal detectors. The entire "battle" was an elaborately staged Masonic ritual undertaken so that the political and dynastic power could change hands from the elites in the Stuart dynasty to their cousins in the Hanover dynasty. The site was selected because the river Boyne (named after the goddess Boann) matches the heavenly river - the Milky Way - and because it is a stone's throw from the ancient complex known as Newgrange. Within the tiny chamber of the great cairn of Newgrange - for the three days of the Winter Solstice - the light from the sun and moon unite. In front of the cairn is the original "Stone of Bethel" upon which "Jacob" (the sun) rested his head. The site was extremely sacred to the Megalithic Arya - the nobility of the ancient world. (See our book The Irish Origins of Civilization for more information on this enigmatic megalithic site.)

A Masonic banner being carried through the streets by members of an Orange Lodge, during a 12th of July parade. The image on the banner is of King William III...

...(known as King Billy) riding into the Boyne River during the famous battle between the Houses of Hanover (of Orange), and Stuart in 1690. On that day, however, the King's horse was black and not white. Furthermore, in many murals and depictions of this moment during the battle, the King's sword passes over or between the horse's ears, thus making the horse subliminally appear to be horned unicorn. As author Andrew Power pointed out, this is appropriate symbolism because, astrologically, the white unicorn was the symbol for the northerly sign of Cancer. The red lion symbolized Leo. The King's river crossing was a terrestrial analog to the celestial crossing of the star Sirius over the Milky Way, the heavenly river. The image of this star can be seen on the architecture of most Masonic halls throughout Britain and the world. (See below for links to the House of Hanover and list of British monarchs.)

My revelations concerning Ireland's true history follow on in the tradition of the researchers Conor McDari, Comyns Beaumont and Anna Wilkes. These investigators knew that man's history did not just begin seven to ten thousand years ago. My work, like theirs, deals with the western origins of civilization. It deals with the connections between Ireland and the pre-diluvian continents of Atlantis and Lemuria. Lemuria appears in Irish mythology under the name Murias. It was one of four great landmasses that were destroyed but which were the original homelands of the Irish or, more correctly, Arish, since the name Ireland is a corruption of Ari or Arya Land. The original Aryans were the Druids. Specifically, they were the elders of the Irish race. They were finally annihilated by their Atonist enemies who arrived in Britain approximately 1,000 years BC. In the earliest days, before and after the great cataclysm that destroyed the prediluvian civilization, the Arya spread from the west into Eastern Europe and Asia. Wherever they ventured, they were regarded as great sages. (Click here for more information.) This much is conceded by scholars (past and present) who, firstly, did not realize where the so-called "Celts" originally came from and, secondly, that the term "Celt," as first promulgated by Roman mythmongers, was both inaccurate and prejudicial.

The true Celts were a tall, fair race, warlike and masterful...who spread their dominion both by conquest and by peaceful infiltration over Mid-Europe, Gaul, Spain, and the British Isles. They did not exterminate the original prehistoric inhabitants of these regions - Paleolithic and Neolithic races, dolmen builders and workers in bronze - but they imposed on them their language, their arts, and their tradition, taking, no doubt, a good deal from them in return, especially in the important matter of religion. Among these races the true Celts formed an aristocratic class - T. W. Rolleston (Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911)

In my Atlantis book I deal with some of the amazing "Tolkienesque" leitmotifs from Ireland's ancient legends. One such intriguing anecdote speaks of Formorian King Morc and his great tower made of glass. From his tall tower on Tory Island, this evil king and his brother Conan kept watch over the land of Ireland. This they did by way of a magic lens, a "seeing stone," or great crystal.  In another legend we read of the sun king Lugh (pronounced Lew). This young king did battle with a great Formorian giant by the name of Balor of the Evil Eye. In the story, dated to over five thousand years ago (and thousands of years before the so-called "Israelites" appeared in history), Lugh rode out toward his rival carrying with him his only weapon - a sling. That is right. Lugh struck out Balor's eye with his shot (tathlum), thereby slaying his giant nemesis, the scourge of his people. Now where have we heard that tale before?

Yes, whether we are talking about lost civilizations, the giants of antiquity, Tarot cards, astrology, the minstrel tradition, "Arthurian" legends, Biblical scripture, or modern day political machinations, Ireland's importance can no longer be downplayed or ignored, as has been the case in generations past. In days gone by men were told they'd fall off the edge of the world if they traveled too far west. They were told this preposterous lie because the masters of the great geopolitical game feared the ruination of their own vile empires should Ireland's true reputation become known. Better it was for the tyrants of the world that Ireland's significance be forgotten, and better it would still be for them today. The time has come, however, for the Emerald Isle's true history to be revealed.

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Relevant Books
Secret Societies in Ireland - T. D. Williams (1928)
Secret Societies in Ireland: Their Rise and Progress - Captain H. B. C. Pollard (1922)
Occult Theocracy - Lady Queensborough
Secret Societies and Subversive Movements - Nesta Webster
Inside the Brotherhood - Martin Short
The Brotherhood - Stephen Knight
The Vatican's Holocaust - Avro Manhattan
The Vatican Billions - Avro Manhattan
The Vatican in World Politics - Avro Manhattan
Disappeared off the Face of the Earth - Jim Cairns
The Application of Barruel's Memoirs of Jacobinism to the Secret Societies of Ireland and Great Britain - R. C. Clifford (1798)

Irish Origins Appendices Pages:
http://www.irishoriginsofcivilization.com/appendices_startpage.html

The Irish Origins of Civilization (Books and DVD)
www.irishoriginsofcivilization.com