The illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

anger of the Mayor of Chicago. In the ensuing tumult it was impossible to hear the Mayor’s shouted retort, and there has been much speculation about what he actually said. To me it seemed his lips were forming the words that by this time become frighteningly familiar:
“Ewige Blumenkraft!”
    The further I dig, the wilder the whole picture looks. When are we going to tell George about it?
    Pat
    ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #6
    7/26
    J.M.:
    The John Birch Society has looked into the subject and they have a theory of their own. The first source I’ve found on this is a pamphlet “CFR: Conspiracy to Rule the World” by Gary Allen, associate editor of the Birchers’ magazine,
American Opinion
.
    Allen’s thesis is that Cecil Rhodes created a secret societyto establish English domination of the world in 1888. This society acts through Oxford University, the Rhodes Scholarships and—hold your breath—the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit foundation for the study of International Affairs headquartered right here on Sixty-eighth Street in New York. Seven out of nine of our last Secretaries of State were recruited from the CFR, Allen points out, and dozens of other leading politicians as well—including Richard Nixon. It is also implied, but not directly stated, that William Buckley, Jr. (an old enemy of the Birchers) is another tool of the CFR; and the Morgan and Rothschild banking interests are supposed to be financing the whole thing.
    How does this tie in with the Illuminati? Mr. Allen merely drops hints, linking Rhodes to John Ruskin, and Ruskin to earlier internationalists, and finally stating that “the originator on the profane level of this type of secret society” was Adam Weishaupt, whom he calls “the monster who founded the Order of the Illuminati on May 1, 1776.”
    Pat
    ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #7
    7/27
    J.M.:
    This is from a small left-wing newspaper in Chicago
(The Roger SPARK
Chicago, July 1969, Vol. 2, No. 9: “Daley Linked With Illuminati,” no author’s name given):
    No historian knows what happened to Adam Weishaupt after he was exiled from Bavaria in 1785, and entries in “Washington’s” diary after that date frequently refer to the hemp crop at Mount Vernon.
    The possibility that Adam Weishaupt killed George Washington and took his place, serving as our first President for two terms, is now confirmed…. The two main colors of the American flag are, excluding a small patch of blue in one corner, red and white: these are also the official colors of the Hashishim. The flag and the Illuminati pyramid both have thirteen horizontal divisions: thirteen is, of course, the traditional code for marijuana … and is still used in that sense by Hell’s Angels among others.
    Now, “Washington” formed the Federalist party.The other major party in those days, The Democratic Republicans, was formed by Thomas Jefferson [and] there are grounds for accepting the testimony of the Reverend Jedediah Morse of Charleston, who accused Jefferson of being an Illuminati agent. Thus, even at the dawn of our government, both parties were Illuminati fronts….
    This story later repeats the
Teenset
report that Mayor Daley used the phrase
“Ewige Blumenkraft”
during his incoherent diatribe against Abe Ribicoff.
    Pat
    ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #8
    7/27
    J.M.:
    More on the Washington-Weishaupt theory:
    In spite of the fact that his face appears on billions of stamps and dollar bills, and his portrait hangs in every public building in the country, no one is quite sure what Washington looks like. A “Project 20” script, “Meet George Washington” will be seen tonight at 7:30 on Channel (fill in by local stations). The program offers contemporary portraits of the first President, some of which do not even seem to be the same man.
    This is a press release sent out by NBC on April 24, 1969. Some of the portraits can be found in
Encyclopedia Britannica
and the resemblance to portraits of Weishaupt is