Name: 5 Most Mysterious & Secretive Societies on the Planet
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You may remember a while back, I showed a video that was supposedly taken inside Bohemian grove

of members from the Bohemian Club performing a strange ritual.

It sparked my interest in secret societies and clubs and their influence on the general public.

One thing I have found is that most so-called secret societies

do not let anyone know a whole lot about what their intentions are.

But on the other hand, there are others who are more vocal with their beliefs

Here are five of the strangest and most secretive societies to have ever been around.

But remember, the real secret societies would never make it to a video like this

because we would have no clue of their existence.

as they are one of the oldest, and largest, non-religious, non-political organizations in the world.

With an estimated six million members worldwide, and a long and complicated history,

the exact date of its creation or its founder is not known.

Although, there are references to Masons as far back as 1390.

Over the years, there have been many high profile members, supposedly including

Winston Churchill, George Washington, King Edward VI and VII, Buzz Aldrin,

as well as the present Queen of England's husband, Prince Philip.

Their meeting places are known as lodgings, and there are thousands of them dotted around the world.

Masons call each other brothers, and membership is restricted to men over the age of 21

who have some sort of faith, since atheists are not allowed to join.

Although it's believed to just be men, it would seem there are currently two separate lodges for women.

To become a Mason, you have to be recommended by a member,

and it's believed candidates are required to participate in two highly secretive rituals of initiation,

named "Herodem of Kilwinning" and "Knight of the Rosy Cross."

These ceremonies are thought to including a noose that is supposed to represent an umbilical cord,

and other acts involving dressing up and basically role-playing events.

They also have secret handshakes which date back to the group's creation that was used to identify other members

and their rank at which they held within the society.

It all sounds very made up, but it isn't.

There is no denying the Freemasons exist, and these rituals and meetings are going on all around you.

While the alleged corruption of masonry is well documented and often covered up,

in England alone, it's said but half a million Masons are disproportionately involved

in banking, politics, policing, and government.

Which is why it's long been thought that the Masons, along with the Illuminati which we can get into later,

have an agenda to take control over the general population,

but there isn't really any evidence, this is the case.

The fact that Freemasons are so elusive and secretive and have been for hundreds of years

would of course lead to all kinds of speculation as to the group's intentions,

and this is why they've been given a bad name.

But the fact is, we really do not know what they are up to.

Although it's believed they are all about good morals,

But you just can't help but wonder, why would all these high-profile

bankers, billionaires, politicians, and celebrities

dress up and perform these rituals and swear an oath to go to the grave with their secrets?

The Thule Society was originally founded in 1911 as a German study group

But when he moved to Munich in 1917, he was contacted by a cultist Rudolf von Sebottendorff,

and the two men joined forces to recruit using the Thule Society as a cover name

for his already established Munich Lodge of the Germanenorden Walvater.

The society that met in secret was to play a significant role in Hitler's rise to power.

The Thule Society believed in Aryan tribes, natural purity, and the racial superiority.

Sebottendorff violently opposed the Jews,

and was obsessed at what he saw as the watering down of the German bloodlines caused by the introduction of Non-Aryans,

and his aim was to recruit men of noble lineage.

The group needed an emblem, and adopted the swastika as a representation of everything it signified.

They hid behind the pretense that it was for the academics

who were interested in the Nordic Sagas and the German myths.

But these innocent agendas were hiding a much darker secret.

It was their obsession with annihilating anyone who is not of true, German roots.

Tallying amongst the high-ranking officers who spoke at their meeting were Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler.

to the newly formed Political German Workers party, which would eventually become known as the Nazis,

and it was Hitler that became one of its early members.

The new Party's beliefs closely mirrored the Thule Society,

and when it was suggested that the German Worker's Party adopt the Swastika as the party emblem, it was readily accepted.

Both the Thule Society, and Hitler and his henchmen,

worked on the means to which a whole race could be reborn,

and it was alleged that it was Thule member Heinrich Himmler who came up with the notion of an entire country of blue-eyed, blond heroes.

In 1933, Hitler assumed the role of Chancellor of Germany,

realizing both the Thule Society and Himmler streams.

But it was at this point that the Thule Society began to flounder, and Sebottendorff was ousted by his own members.

However, the Thule Society's ideas were flourishing, and more frighteningly being made law by Hitler and his Nazi Party.

However, the truth is, it was the highly secretive far-right organization known as the Thule Party, and in particular Himmler,

that set the wheels in motion for the ideology and ultimately the atrocities that became associated with Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Now this one is not as secretive as some of the others,

but judging by some of their beliefs, it could be one of the deadliest.

The Order of the Nine Angels is a Satanic organization that was formed in the UK in the 1960s,

but now it has various salves in other part of the world.

It was largely unhead of for many years, but suddenly attracted attention in the 1980s

when it was mentioned in various books that studied Fascist Satanism,

and has been described as one of the most extreme Satanic groups in the world.

The Order views Satanism as a crusade that aims to create self-superiority and knowledge,

by engaging in tests that allow a person to exceed his physical and mental limits.

Some of these challenges involve spending months living rough in the woods without any human contact,

or choosing particularly challenging and difficult jobs to develop leadership qualities and strong personalities.

This, in turn, they believe will transform society members into a higher, more refined race.

They also condone human sacrifice as a means of eliminating the weak,

aiming to build a new tribal-based, more sinister way of life and disrupt and ultimately overthrow normal society.

If this wasn't bad enough with everything that most of the rest of society would consider evil,

such as terrorism, murder, Internet trolling, gang activity, organized crime, incest, and ritual origins,