The Skull and Bones Order is the oldest student secret society in the United States. It is called "the cradle of the American elite, which decides the fate of the world." Bush Sr., Bush Jr. and the current US Secretary of State John Kerry came out of it.
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People tend to strive to realize their own exclusivity. And nothing fuels vanity more than an important secret that only you know. This makes it possible to feel like an elite. But for the steadfastness of faith, brothers of interest are needed. So, the instigator and the closest supporters stray into a group and form secret societies - organizations whose members are united by a common idea, secret rituals and some knowledge that they supposedly have, and which make them a priori higher than all other people.
Similar orders can appear in any country, in any class and in any age category. It may be just a bunch of close friends who have convinced themselves of their own exclusivity, or it may be a serious organization whose influence extends not only to the immediate environment, but also to entire countries. In the conditions of modern globalization - to the whole world.
History knows many examples of secret orders, about which everyone knows, but about which nothing is known - Masons, Illuminati, Skull and Bones.
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Skull and Bones is one of the oldest student secret organizations, founded at Yale University in 1832. Its creator, senior student William Russell, according to one version, brought the idea from Germany, where he studied for some time. According to another, according to the Yale Daily News, it was his answer to another prestigious student club "Phi Betta Kappa", which did not accept him as an adherent. In any case, the initiative was a success. In 1833, William Russell, along with future US President William Tufter and thirteen other closest associates, opened the doors of their first and permanent residence, "The Graves", for the first members of the society, who came from the Anglo-Saxon Protestant nobility.
True, "opened the doors" - it is loudly said. The order accepts only 15 new members annually, no more, no less. According to journalist and Yale graduate, Alexandra Robbins, Skull and Bones is considered one of the smallest student organizations: "If only 15 new adherents are recruited every year, then no more than 800 members of society live in one era."
But that doesn't make Skull and Bones insignificant. 800 people are enough to "rule the world", if they all occupy important leadership positions and are always ready to contribute to the growth of their "brothers". It is no accident that they say that America is ruled by the "Skull and Bones": in the apparatus of George W. Bush, including himself, there were six members of this order. In turn, there are no coincidences among them either - they are all born leaders. One of the main conditions for admission to the order is leadership in your own campus. It is not for nothing that Skull and Bones is called the cradle of the American elite, and its members are called the rulers of the fate of mankind.
The public's interest in Skull and Bones is fueled by the vow of silence of its members, among whom there are no former ones. Everything connected with the order is tightly classified. Its adherents are forbidden to give out any information on pain … Who knows? Unknown.
The most interesting thing is that for 175 years of the order's existence, no one has violated the ban, at least it was not made public. George W. Bush wrote in his autobiography: “In my senior year, I joined the Skull and Bones Society. It is so secret that I cannot say anything more about it."
But the forbidden fruit is sweet. Especially if it is always in sight - the Skulls and Bones residence is located right in the middle of the campus of America's largest Yale University. And the echoes of their initiation rite are heard every spring in the residents of nearby hostels. The book by Alexandra Robbins presents the story of a Yale graduate journalist Rosenbaum, who describes the terrible screams coming from the "Grave" during the initiation ritual.
Don Quixote and screams at night
By the way, about rituals. There are many rumors about the terrible sadistic rites and orgies that its members perform. In general, the very name and coat of arms of the society, which depicts a “dead head” (skull with crossed bones) with the mysterious number 322, do not imply any positive associations. Corresponds to the sinister reputation and the building of the order - a three-story mansion with a gloomy appearance in the "Greek-Egyptian" style with narrow slits instead of windows. Therefore, there are no less rumors about the interior decoration. than about the order itself.
Rumor has it that in addition to the medieval decor, in the style of which the interiors of the "Grave" (as the members of the order call their residence) - with hunting trophies, dummies in armor and other military relics - the residence is decorated with skeletons of famous historical figures. Among them, for example, the remains of Madame de Pompadour - the mistress of Louis XV of Bourbon, who died in 1764; the skull of the famous leader of the North American Apache tribe, Geronimo, allegedly dug up by a novice, Prescott Bush, who presented it as a gift to his older brothers. Who knows, maybe it is there that the remains of Yaroslav the Wise, now disappeared from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, are kept.
But these are all, of course, just rumors. At least none of the "barbarians" (as members of society call the uninitiated) do not know about this. In fact, it is even amazing how much the Order manages to maintain conspiracy, being in the center of the American student environment - in the middle of Yale University's old "New Heaven" campus.
Little is known about the initiation rite, which is described as reminiscent of the mythical Vedic Sabbath of the Middle Ages. Allegedly, in order to become an adherent of the order, at least in the past, one had to strip naked at night in front of all members of society, then lie down in a sarcophagus and tell everyone present about his sexual experience, fantasies and perversions. Necessarily in all details. Thus, the new converts became "hostages" of the silence of their new comrades. Then came the group beatings and intimidation of the newcomer.
A similar ritual was filmed by the aforementioned Rosenbaum in 2001. True, the quality of the video is not brilliant, the only thing that can be seen on it is people in Halloween costumes who shout loudly and wave their hands at a person lying in a coffin. According to Alexandra Robbins, who managed to find out some details from the most talkative members of society, there are figures of the Devil, Don Quixote and the Pope in the ritual. With shouts and beatings, the novice is brought to the “knight without fear and reproach” and the initiate is put on his knees, after which Don Quixote blesses him with the words: “By the power given to me by our order, I proclaim you a knight of Eulogia” (in honor of the Greek goddess of eloquence).
Dynasty "skulls"
Despite their strange and old-fashioned rites, the Skull and Bones have an influence to be reckoned with. As Alexandra Robbins writes, this is a kind of incubator for the American elite. Many key figures in US history emerged from there - senators, secretaries of state, attorneys general, chiefs of intelligence services, presidents of the Supreme Court, directors of major multinational companies and banks. Three American presidents were members of the society, and the connection with the Bush family in the order is almost genetic. Representatives of three generations in a row became his adherents: Bush the grandfather (1917), Bush the father (1948) and Bush the son (1967), joined them and their relatives: James Smith, Jonathan James and George Derek.
The American press has repeatedly said that all three generations of the Bushes came out of the same "Grave". John Kerry also came out from there. Once the public even demanded that Bush Jr. and Kerry renounce ties with the Order, considering it incompatible with their high position, but neither one nor the other reacted in any way to the demands and flatly refused to talk about "Skull and Bones".
The fact that many influential people in America belong to one secret order inadvertently suggests a worldwide conspiracy and puppeteers who decide the fate of the world. For example, the American economist Anthony Sutton, who devoted 15 years to studying the mechanisms of the "Grave", stated in his work "The Order of the Skull and Bones: Secret Power" that 16 main names - the "patriarchs" of the Order, which make up its ideological and financial, make the weather in American politics, economics and on the ideological front. According to him, in the world they have no analogues in terms of the degree of influence.
