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Narrator:
WHO ARE THE MYSTERIOUS GROUP

KNOWN AS THE ILLUMINATI?

WHERE DO THEY OPERATE FROM,
AND WHO ARE ITS MEMBERS?

ARE THEY REALLY
SOME SECRET WORLD GOVERNMENT

OPERATING IN THE SHADOWS?

OR IS THE WHOLE THING SIMPLY
ONE HUGE CONSPIRACY THEORY?

Gough: ONE HAS TO CONSIDER
THE STRONG POSSIBILITY

THAT THERE ARE PUPPETMASTERS
ABOVE OBAMA,

ABOVE CAMERON, ABOVE PUTIN,

WHO ARE ORGANIZING
AND INFLUENCING.

Picknett: IT'S TERRIFYING
THAT THERE ARE MILLIONS,

PERHAPS TENS OF MILLIONS,
OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

WHO BELIEVE IN THE ILLUMINATI
AS A FACT.

Prince:
IT'S INCREDIBLY WIDESPREAD,

AND CONSIDERING
THE HISTORICAL DATA,

IT'S SURPRISING
SO MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE

WHAT IS EFFECTIVELY
AN URBAN MYTH.

Theakston: SO, YOU BELIEVE THAT
THEY WERE TRYING TO MATCH THIS

TO THE WAY
THEY'VE LAID OUT PARIS?

Hambling: THEY'VE CREATED
AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE

IN THE MIDDLE OF PARIS.

Butler: IT'S NOW BECOME A SERIES

OF ALL-ENCOMPASSING
CONSPIRACY THEORIES,

BUT THE ILLUMINATI DID EXIST.

Rev. Fanthorpe:
THEY ARE A SECRET SOCIETY

THAT MAKES THINGS HAPPEN IN WAYS
THAT WE KNOW NOT WHAT OF.

THE PENTAGRAM IS AN ANCIENT
SYMBOL OF OCCULT POWER,

WHICH WAS USED TO DESIGNATE
A RITUAL SPACE

INSIDE WHICH
MAGIC WAS PERFORMED.

WHICH IS,
AS WE NOW KNOW IT...

THE CITY OF LONDON.

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Narrator: THE EXISTENCE
OF A SECRET SOCIETY

CALLED THE ILLUMINATI

HAS BEEN RUMORED
FOR WELL OVER A CENTURY.

THEY'RE SAID TO MEET IN SECRET

AND THAT THEIR INFLUENCE
IS FELT ACROSS THE GLOBE...

IN EFFECT,
A SECRET WORLD GOVERNMENT.

IT SOUNDS LIKE A PLOT
FROM A JAMES BOND MOVIE,

BUT COULD IT BE TRUE?

JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON
IS ON A MISSION TO FIND OUT

AND TO SORT THE FACTS
FROM THE FICTION.

Cox: THERE'S CERTAINLY EVIDENCE
OF SEVERAL GROUPS

WHO CALL THEMSELVES
THE ILLUMINATI,

ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE 14th, 15th CENTURY...

THE ENLIGHTENED ONES...

BUT THEY'RE NOT THE ILLUMINATI
THAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT TODAY.

THEY'RE NOT THAT TYPE
OF, YOU KNOW, SECRET SOCIETY

THAT WE ALL THINK ABOUT

WHEN WE HEAR THE WORD
"ILLUMINATI."

Gough: THIS SORT OF CULT
IN THE BELIEF OF THE ILLUMINATI

IS WIDESPREAD TODAY,

AND PARTICULARLY AMONGST
THE YOUNGER GENERATION,

WHO WOULD TELL YOU
THAT EVERYTHING FROM WARS

TO ECONOMY TO WEATHER

TO MARKET CRASHES
TO MISSING PLANES...

ALL THESE THINGS ARE GOVERNED
BY THE PUPPETMASTERS.

Picknett: THE WHOLE ILLUMINATI,

SERIOUS BODY
RULING-THE-WORLD THING,

IN LEAGUE WITH THE DEVIL,

ACTUALLY BEGAN
WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

THEY REALLY JUST WENT FOR IT.

THEY BUILT UP THIS WHOLE MYTH

ABOUT THE ILLUMINATI BEING
IN LEAGUE WITH THE DEVIL...

BEING, YOU KNOW, SATANIC...

AND YOU KNOW, GAVE THEM
AIMS THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE.

WELL, I MEAN, IT WAS BAD ENOUGH,

AS FAR AS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
WAS CONCERNED,

FOR THEM TO HAVE AIMS TO
OVERTHROW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY ADDED TO IT
AND THEY GAVE IT COLOR.

AND THAT IS WHAT STARTED
TODAY'S ILLUMINATI MYTH.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH STARTED IT.

Narrator: THE HISTORY
OF THE ILLUMINATI

IS A LITTLE FOGGY

WHEN IT COMES TO HARD FACTS
AND SOLID RESEARCH.

HISTORICALLY, THE NAME REFERS TO
A SECRET SOCIETY FOUNDED IN 1776

BY A LAW PROFESSOR IN GERMANY
CALLED ADAM WEISHAUPT.

ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WRITINGS,

HE SET IT UP TO OPPOSE
THE CHURCH AND STATE'S POWER,

INFLUENCE, AND PREJUDICE
OVER PUBLIC LIFE.

IT WAS MADE UP OF ACADEMICS,

RENAISSANCE THINKERS,
AND FREEMASONS.

ON THE WHOLE,
IT HAD A POSITIVE AGENDA...

FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM
AND EQUALITY

FOR ALL MEN AND WOMEN...

QUITE RADICAL
IN THE 18th CENTURY.

TODAY, THE ILLUMINATI
IS SEEN BY MANY

AS A CABAL
OF INFLUENTIAL POLITICIANS,

FINANCIERS,
AND OLD EUROPEAN FAMILIES,

WHO SECRETLY CONTROL
THE WORLD OUTSIDE

AND ABOVE ELECTED GOVERNMENTS.

ACCORDING TO THE RUMORS,

THEY MEET IN SECRET
TO CARRY OUT THEIR EVIL PLANS,

WHICH INCLUDE CREATING
FINANCIAL CRASHES,

PRICE FIXING,
AND STARTING WARS AND CONFLICTS.

THEY ARE SAID TO BE
SWORN ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH,

AND MANY ARE
TOP-RANKING FREEMASONS.

IN RECENT YEARS,

THE MAIN SYMBOLS
OF THE ILLUMINATI...

THE ALL-SEEING EYE
AND THE PYRAMID...

HAVE BEEN SPOTTED
IN MUSIC VIDEOS,

LEADING A WHOLE NEW GENERATION
TO BELIEVE

THAT ARTISTS LIKE
JAY-Z, BEYONCé, AND KATY PERRY

ARE PART OF A CONSPIRACY
TO BRAINWASH THE YOUTH OF TODAY

WITH AN ILLUMINATI AGENDA.

Picknett: IN A RIHANNA VIDEO,

THERE'S, YOU KNOW,
SECRET, SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES

ABOUT, "OBEY THE ILLUMINATI."

IN A KATY PERRY VIDEO, YOU KNOW,
WITH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN STUFF

AND LITTLE DOGS
AND MEN TURNING INTO DOGS

AND, YOU KNOW,
HER STRANGE TEETH.

YOU KNOW, THIS IS, ACCORDING
TO VAST NUMBERS OF PEOPLE,

A FACT THAT SUBLIMINAL
"ILLUMINATI" MESSAGES...

SATANIC MESSAGES...

ARE LEACHING OUT
FROM ALL OF THESE SOURCES...

THESE, YOU KNOW,
CRAZY, MODERN SOURCES...

AND INFECTING OUR BRAINS.

Theakston: ARE YOU TELLING ME
THAT LADY GAGA

IS NOT INVOLVED
WITH SOME NEW WORLD ORDER?

NO, SHE'S INVOLVED
IN A NEW WORLD ORDER

THAT CONSISTS OF LADY GAGA.

[ CHUCKLES ]

Rev. Fanthorpe:
WHAT THEY STOOD FOR...

THE, SHALL WE SAY,
RELATIVELY MODERN ILLUMINATI...

WAS TO ALLOW PEOPLE
TO THINK FREELY.

THEY WANTED GENDER EMANCIPATION
AND EDUCATION FOR WOMEN.

THEY WANTED TO GET AWAY FROM
THE DOMINATION OF THE CHURCH.

THE WANTED TO GET AWAY
FROM THE DOMINATION

OF VARIOUS POLITICAL DESPOTS.

AND THEY STOOD, IDEALLY,
FOR FREEDOM.

Narrator: OVER THE YEARS,

THERE HAVE BEEN CONSTANT RUMORS
AND ALLEGATIONS

ABOUT AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
BETWEEN THE VATICAN,

VARIOUS SECRET SOCIETIES,
AND MASONIC LODGES.

VERY LITTLE OF THIS HAS EVER
BEEN CONCLUSIVELY PROVED,

BUT IT ALL CAME TO LIGHT
BACK IN 1982,

WHEN A MAN CALLED ROBERTO CALVI,

WHO WAS ALSO KNOWN
AS GOD'S BANKER,

WAS FOUND HANGED UNDER
BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE IN LONDON.

AUTHOR ROBERT HOWELLS
HAS SPENT YEARS

INVESTIGATING THE SHADOWY WORLD
OF THE ILLUMINATI.

HE BELIEVES
THAT IT DOES STILL EXIST

BUT NOT AS A CENTRAL GROUP...

MORE A MURKY WEB OF SECRET
SOCIETIES AND MASONIC LODGES,

MANY OF WHOM
HAVE HIGH-LEVEL LINKS

TO THE VATICAN, POLITICS,
AND BANKING.

Theakston: DO THE ILLUMINATI
EXIST TODAY?

Howells: THE IDEALS OF THEM,
CERTAINLY.

THIS IDEAL
OF CULTURAL REVOLUTION

AND CULTURAL UPRISING
HAS KIND OF STAYED WITH US.

AND CERTAINLY, PEOPLE LOOK BACK
AT THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

AS A MARKED MOMENT

WHERE THE POPULACE
COULD TURN AROUND AND SAY,

"WE'RE NOT HAPPY
WITH THIS GOVERNMENT.

WE'RE GETTING RID OF IT.

WE'RE NOT HAPPY WITH
THIS OPPRESSION OR THIS RULE,

AND WE CAN RISE UP
AGAINST IT."

SO, AS A SYMBOL OF THAT,
THEY STILL EXIST.

[ SWORDS CLANGING ]

Narrator:
ONE OF THE POPULAR MYTHS

CIRCULATING
FOR THE LAST DECADE OR SO

IS THAT A PRIVATE FOUNDATION
CALLED THE BILDERBERG GROUP

IS REALLY A FRONT
FOR THE ILLUMINATI.

WHO, EXACTLY,
ARE THE BILDERBERG GROUP?

THE BILDERBERGS FORMED
IN THE 1950s

TO BE A KIND OF JOINT GROUP
BETWEEN EUROPE AND AMERICA,

TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION.

AND THEY WERE MADE UP
OF HEADS OF STATES

AND SENIOR MEMBERS
OF THE MILITARY

AND DIFFERENT AREAS
OF BUSINESS AND COMMERCE.

BUT OVER THE YEARS,
BECAUSE THEY MEET IN SECRET,

THEY NEVER PUBLISH
THE MINUTES OF THEIR MEETINGS,

AND THEY CONTAIN
SUCH POWERFUL PEOPLE,

OUTSIDERS
WOULD LOOK UPON THEM

AS A POTENTIAL KIND OF
ILLUMINATI OPERATION...

THIS KIND OF GROUP
OF PEOPLE

THAT ARE PERHAPS TRYING
TO RUN THE WORLD

OR DICTATE
HOW BUSINESS IS DONE.

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

Prince: FOR A LONG TIME,

UNTIL ABOUT, OH,
15 OR SO YEARS AGO,

IT WAS EVEN HARD TO FIND THAT
THE MEETINGS HAPPENED AT ALL.

AND OF COURSE, IT'S A CONSPIRACY
THEORIST'S DREAM.

YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE ALL THESE
RICH AND POWERFUL PEOPLE DOING?

WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?

THEY WOULD SAY
THEY MEET IN PRIVATE.

THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS
WOULD SAY THEY MEET IN SECRET.

AND THE THING IS,

WE DON'T REALLY KNOW
WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT,

BECAUSE THEY NEVER PUBLISH
ANYTHING.

THAT IS THE CONSPIRACY
THEORIST'S DREAM.

[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING ]

Rev. Fanthorpe:
THOSE WHO ARE SUSPICIOUS OF THEM

AND WHO OPPOSE THEM

BELIEVE THAT
THEY ARE CONSPIRATORS

AND THAT WHAT
THEY REALLY WANT TO DO,

IRRESPECTIVE OF
WHAT EFFECT THEY'RE HAVING

ON THE BULK OF HUMANITY,

IS TO RUN THE SHOW.

[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING ]

Gough: ONE HAS TO CONSIDER
THE STRONG POSSIBILITY

THAT THERE ARE PUPPETMASTERS
ABOVE OBAMA,

ABOVE CAMERON, ABOVE PUTIN,

WHO ARE ORGANIZING
AND INFLUENCING.

[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING ]

Narrator: DOES A CODED MESSAGE,

HIDDEN IN A PAINTING
IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT-SULPICE,

REVEAL THE EXISTENCE
OF SOME KEY ILLUMINATI SECRETS?

AND DID THIS SECRET SOCIETY

BUILD AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE
RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF PARIS?

MORE ASTONISHING REVELATIONS

WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY"
RETURNS.

Narrator:
JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON

IS ON THE TRAIL OF THE INFAMOUS
GROUP KNOWN AS THE ILLUMINATI.

ARE THEY REALLY
AN ALL-POWERFUL SECRET SOCIETY

WHO CONTROL OUR LIVES
AND OUR GOVERNMENTS

FROM THE SHADOWS?

OR ARE THEY JUST THE CREATION
OF CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

AND AN OVERACTIVE
WORLD WIDE WEB?

THERE ARE PASSIONATE SUPPORTERS
FOR BOTH POINTS OF VIEW,

BUT A GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE
DO BELIEVE THEY ARE REAL

AND ARE POSSIBLY KNOWN
AS THE BILDERBERG GROUP,

A VERY PRIVATE GATHERING

OF AROUND 150 BUSINESSMEN,
POLITICIANS, AND POWER BROKERS.

Gough: AND ALL EVIDENCE SUGGESTS
THAT THEIR EXISTENCE IS REAL.

THEY'VE MAINTAINED THEIR
ANONYMITY IN THE SHADOWS NOW

FOR HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS,
OF YEARS.

Narrator:
SINCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

DISSOLVED ITS MONARCHY,

PARIS HAS LONG BEEN
ONE OF THE CENTERS

FOR SECRET SOCIETIES,
FREEMASONRY, AND THE ILLUMINATI.

ACCORDING TO THE RUMORS,

CORE MEMBERS OF THESE GROUPS

POSSESS WRITTEN
HERETICAL MATERIAL,

PERHAPS ALTERNATIVE GOSPELS

AND CONTEMPORARY RECORDS
FROM THE 1st CENTURY

THAT WOULD CHALLENGE OUR
ACCEPTED VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY.

ROBERT HOWELLS' RESEARCH
HAS REVEALED

THAT ONE OF THE HOTBEDS
OF THIS HERESY

WAS AT THE CHURCH OF
SAINT-SULPICE,

WHICH IS SAID TO HAVE HOUSED
A WHOLE LIBRARY

OF SO-CALLED HERETICAL TEXTS
AND BOOKS.

IT WAS FOUNDED
BY A CATHOLIC PRIEST,

JEAN JACQUES OLIER,

IN THE 17th CENTURY,

WHO WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF
SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL SOCIETIES.

SO, THERE'S SOMETHING
YOU NEED TO SEE OVER HERE.

OLIER, ON HIS DEATHBED,

SAID THAT CHRISTIANITY

WAS BASED ON A VAST PANOPLY
OF UNTRUTHS.

RIGHT.

HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF
THIS CHURCH IN ITS MODERN FORM.

IT WAS HIM
THAT REBUILT THIS CHURCH.

AND IF WE LOOK
AT THIS PAINTING,

THERE IS A HIDDEN PICTURE
OF OLIER IN THE PAINTING.

HE'S BEEN INCLUDED HERE.

SO, HANG ON. SO, THIS IS
THE GUY WHO BUILT THIS CHURCH?

YES.

AND HE SAID THAT CHRISTIANITY
WAS BASED ON A LIE?

YES, YES.

AND IN THIS PICTURE,
HE HAS HIS HAND TO HIS MOUTH,

WHICH IS A MASONIC SYMBOL
FOR TROUBLE OR PANIC.

AND WHAT'S HE GOT
IN HIS OTHER HAND?

UNDER HIS ARM, HE HAS DOCUMENTS.
HE HAS SCROLLS AND BOOKS.

AND I THINK THAT THE FACT
THAT THIS WAS HIDDEN

IN ONE OF THE FRESCOES
WITHIN THE CHURCH,

I THINK, IS IMPORTANT,

BECAUSE THEY'RE SAYING

THAT SECRETLY
THESE DOCUMENTS...

THAT THIS IS
THE KIND OF EVIDENCE,

THIS IS THE HERETICAL CONTENT
THAT EXISTED AT THE TIME,

IN THIS CHURCH.

AND WE FIND THAT
LATER IN HISTORY,

WHEN CANON LILLEY
WAS HERE IN THE 19th CENTURY

AND STATED THAT HE'D FOUND PROOF
THAT JESUS WAS ALIVE IN 45 A.D.,

THAT HE HAD SURVIVED
THE CRUCIFIXION.

PRETTY POWERFUL STUFF.

FOR A CHURCH,
IT'S INCREDIBLE STUFF.

IT WOULD DESTROY THE CHURCH
IF IT WAS PROVEN.

Narrator: IN FACT,
THE CHURCH AND THE ILLUMINATI

HAVE BEEN CONNECTED
FOR CENTURIES.

IT'S BEEN RUMORED,
BUT RARELY EVER PROVED,

THAT THERE ARE LEADING MEMBERS
OF SECRET SOCIETIES

AT THE VERY HIGHEST LEVEL
IN THE CHURCH.

AND WHEN JAMIE AND ROBERT
WERE NEAR NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL,

THEY SAW A PARADE
OF A SECRET ORDER

MOVING THROUGH THE STREETS.

THERE WERE PRIESTS, A BISHOP,

AND DOZENS OF NONCLERICAL MEN
WEARING THEIR CEREMONIAL CAPES.

BUT WHO WERE THEY?

PROBABLY A MASONIC
OR CHIVALRIC ORDER

CONNECTED TO THE CHURCH
OF NOTRE-DAME.

BUT WHAT WAS STRIKING

WAS THE TIGHT SECURITY
AROUND THE GROUP.

THE PARADE
WAS SURROUNDED BY POLICE

AND SECURITY GUARDS
WITH EARPIECES,

WALKING ALONGSIDE
THE CAPED GENTLEMEN.

Gough: SO, YOU ASK,
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

AND IT GETS A LITTLE DIFFICULT
TO ARTICULATE.

WE HAVE THE BILDERBERG GROUP,
WE HAVE G8,

WE HAVE THESE NOTIONS

OF WHO PRINTS THE MONEY
IN THE WORLD.

YOU LOOK INTO THAT,
YOU FIND IT'S PRIVATELY HELD,

AND YOU WONDER, "WHO?
WHO OWNS THAT?"

SO, THESE PEOPLE...
THEY DO EXIST.

AND ALL EVIDENCE
SORT OF SUGGESTS

THAT THEIR EXISTENCE IS REAL.

THEY'VE MAINTAINED THEIR
ANONYMITY IN THE SHADOWS NOW

FOR HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS,
OF YEARS.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO HOWELLS,

YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO FAR
IN PARIS

TO SEE ILLUMINATI
AND MASONIC INFLUENCE.

IN FACT, ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC
LANDMARKS OF THE CITY,

THE PYRAMID AT THE LOUVRE,

IS PART OF
A MUCH BIGGER STRUCTURE...

A RE-CREATION OF
AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEMPLE.

NOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
ICONIC SYMBOLS OF EGYPT.

IN THE CENTER OF PARIS,
WE HAVE A PYRAMID

THAT PERFECTLY MATCHES
THE ANGLES

OF THE GREAT PYRAMID
IN EGYPT.

RIGHT, OKAY.

THIS WAS BUILT

AS PART OF FRANçOIS MITTERRAND'S
BUILDING PROJECT,

WHERE HE PLACED EGYPTIAN OBJECTS
ALL ACROSS PARIS.

SO, WE HAVE THIS,

WE HAVE OBELISKS,
WE HAVE ARCHES.

THE WHOLE PLACE
IS A PAEAN TO EGYPT.

WE'RE IN WHAT IS A RE-CREATION
OF THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR,

WITH A PYRAMID
AT THE HEART OF IT.

THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR ITSELF
REPRESENTS THE TEMPLE OF MAN,

IN WHICH GOD RESIDES.

THAT LOOKS AMAZING.
THAT'S FANTASTIC.

IT IS.

IT'S A TESTAMENT
TO KIND OF THE FREEMASONS

REDISCOVERING ANCIENT EGYPT
AS A PERFECT TIME,

AS A TIME WHEN EVERYTHING
WAS BUILT TO PERFECTION,

TO THE IDEALS OF A GRAND
ARCHITECT, TO A GOD.

Narrator:
THE PYRAMID WAS COMMISSIONED

BY A HIGH-RANKING FREEMASON...
FRANçOIS MITTERRAND.

AND IT'S CLAIMED
TO HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED

FROM 666 PANES OF GLASS...

THE SYMBOLIC NUMBER OF SATAN
FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION...

THOUGH THE MUSEUM SAYS
THE NUMBER IS REALLY 672.

INTERESTINGLY, THOUGH,

ITS SIDES WERE BUILT
TO MATCH THE SAME ANGLES

AS THOSE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID
AT GIZA.

SO, IS MITTERRAND'S STRUCTURE
JUST AN EYE-CATCHING FOLLY,

LOOKING RATHER OUT OF PLACE

IN THIS 18th-CENTURY
STONE COURTYARD?

OR IS IT SOMETHING MORE?

Theakston: MITTERRAND HAD SOME
PRETTY ESOTERIC IDEAS, RIGHT?

Prince:
IT WAS REVEALED AFTER HIS DEATH,

BY HIS DRIVERS AND STAFF,

THAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY GO
AND VISIT THAT MONUMENT

IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE NIGHT,

JUST BY HIMSELF,

JUST KIND OF MEDITATE
AND CONTEMPLATE THERE.

SO HE WAS KIND OF INTO
SOME VERY, UM...

SAY, FROM AN ANGLO-SAXON
POINT OF VIEW...

SOME VERY WEIRD STUFF.

BUT HE WAS ALSO VERY INTERESTED

IN THINGS TO DO WITH
THE POWER OF THE LAND.

HE SAW HIMSELF AS SOMEBODY

THAT HAD A KIND OF, IN A WAY,
DIVINE RIGHT TO RULE FRANCE.

HE'D SEEN THIS
FROM WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG MAN,

THAT SOMEHOW HE'D BEEN CHOSEN
TO BE THE RULER OF FRANCE.

IT WAS HIS DESTINY.

Howells: SO, WE'VE SEEN
THE PYRAMID IN THE LOUVRE,

AND WE'RE NOW AT THE WESTERN END
OF THE GARDENS OF THE LOUVRE,

AND THIS IS THE OBELISK.

THIS IS AN EGYPTIAN OBELISK
DEDICATED TO RAMSES II.

IS IT ACTUALLY FROM EGYPT?
I CAN SEE THE HIEROGLYPHS.

IT WAS.

IT WAS BROUGHT
FROM THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR,

AND THIS COMPLETES THE TEMPLE
THAT THEY RE-CREATED,

USING THE LOUVRE.

THIS IS
AT THE FAR END OF IT.

IT'S AT THE GATE
THAT WAS THE GATE OF LUXOR,

IN THE SAME POSITION.

IF WE LOOK AT A MAP
OF THE LOUVRE,

WITH THE GARDEN,

SEE THE PYRAMID

AND THE HEAD OF WHAT
WOULD BE CLASSED THE MAN

IN THE FORM OF A TEMPLE.

THE PYRAMID WAS HERE,

AND IF WE COME DOWN
THROUGH THE GARDEN,

WE'RE NOW DOWN HERE
AT THE OBELISK.

AND IF WE SEE
AN ORIGINAL...

AN AERIAL PHOTO
OF THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR...

WE CAN SEE
THE SAME LAYOUT.

OH, YEAH,
SIMILAR LAYOUT.

AND AT THE SAME END, DOWN THERE,
THERE WAS ALSO...

THAT WAS WHERE
THIS OBELISK CAME FROM.

SO, YOU BELIEVE THAT
THEY WERE TRYING TO MATCH THIS

TO THE WAY THEY'VE LAID OUT
PARIS?

THEY'VE CREATED AN EGYPTIAN
TEMPLE IN THE MIDDLE OF PARIS.

Narrator:
IF ROB HOWELLS WAS RIGHT,

AND THE POSITIONING OF THE
LOUVRE PYRAMID AND THE OBELISK

WAS PART
OF A SECRET MASONIC PLAN

TO CREATE A SACRED SPACE
IN THE HEART OF PARIS,

THEN YOU GET A SENSE
OF THE POWER AND INFLUENCE

THAT ITS CREATORS MUST HAVE HAD.

AND WHEN YOU COMPARE THE LAYOUTS
OF THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR

AND THE AREA AROUND THE LOUVRE,

THEN YOU CAN SEE
DISTINCT SIMILARITIES.

Howells:
IF YOU LOOK AT THE PLAN OF PARIS

AND YOU LOOK AT
THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR,

YOU'LL SEE THAT THE LOUVRE
STRUCTURE AND THE GARDENS

ARE LAID OUT ACCORDING
TO THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR.

SO, IN A WAY, THE FREEMASONS
HAVE RE-CREATED EGYPT...

ANCIENT EGYPT...
IN PARIS, IN FULL VIEW,

ALLOWING PEOPLE
TO WANDER IN AND OUT,

LOOKING AT THE "MONA LISA"
AND THE GARDENS,

SIT IN THE GARDENS,
EATING THEIR LUNCH,

NOT AWARE THAT THEY'RE SITTING

IN THE MIDDLE
OF AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE...

A PLACE OF POWER,

A PLACE OF GREAT
SPIRITUAL IMPORTANCE.

AND THIS HAS BEEN CREATED
IN THE MIDDLE OF PARIS.

Theakston:
SO, YOU'RE TELLING ME

THAT THERE'S
SOME KIND OF MAGIC PORTAL

IN THE CENTER OF PARIS?

Picknett:
I'M NOT SAYING I BELIEVE THAT.

I'M SAYING
THAT ANY ESOTERICIST...

AND I'M INCLUDING MITTERRAND,
PRESIDENT MITTERRAND, IN THIS...

TO THEM,
ALIGNMENTS OF BUILDINGS

OR NATURAL FEATURES

OR PATTERNS OR SYMBOLS
INSCRIBED ON WALLS...

THEY'RE NOT JUST
AS WE WOULD SEE THEM,

THEY'RE NOT JUST
INTERESTING.

THEY ACTUALLY MEAN SOMETHING
TO THEM AT A DEEPER LEVEL.

THEY REPRESENT THE DIRECTION
OF A MAGICAL ENERGY FLOW.

AND I KNOW THAT SOUNDS
A BIT "HARRY POTTER,"

BUT, TO THEM,
IT REALLY IS A KIND OF PORTAL

FOR ENERGIES FROM THE GODS,
FROM SPIRITS, OR WHATEVER

TO COME IN THROUGH A PORTAL,
INTO OUR DIMENSION, AND BE USED.

FOR WHAT?

WELL, WHATEVER
THEY WANT TO USE IT FOR.

PRESUMABLY, POWER.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT MOST
PEOPLE WANT TO USE ENERGY FOR.

Narrator: ARE CELEBRITIES LIKE
JAY-Z, BEYONCé, AND RIHANNA

MEMBERS OF THE ILLUMINATI?

AND DID A SECRET CABAL
OF FREEMASONS

REBUILD THE CITY OF LONDON,
AFTER THE GREAT FIRE,

IN THE SHAPE OF A PENTAGRAM?

EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS WHEN
"FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS.

Narrator:
WHO ARE THE ILLUMINATI?

WHO ARE ITS MEMBERS,
AND WHAT DO THEY DO?

ARE THEY REALLY
AN ALL-POWERFUL SECRET SOCIETY

THAT RUNS THE WORLD
FROM THE SHADOWS?

THESE ARE QUESTIONS

THAT JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON
IS SEEKING ANSWERS TO.

SO FAR, HE HAS ALREADY TRACED
THEIR HISTORY

FROM 18th-CENTURY BAVARIA
TO 20th-CENTURY PARIS,

WHERE HE WAS SHOWN EVIDENCE
OF A COVERT PLAN

TO BUILD AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE
RIGHT IN THE HEART OF THE CITY.

AND NOW HE LOOKS
AT THE CULT OF THE ILLUMINATI

AMONG CELEBRITIES.

Butler: STARS AND SUPERSTARS
ARE ALL THOUGHT,

BY ONE PERSON OR ANOTHER,

TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH
THIS ALL-ENCOMPASSING CONSPIRACY

TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD,

AS IF THEY'RE INVOLVED IN SOME
KIND OF VERY DEFINITE SCHEME

TO DISENFRANCHISE
AND DISEMPOWER US.

Narrator:
UNUSUALLY, FOR A SOCIETY CREATED

AT THE TIME
MOZART WAS STILL ALIVE,

THE ILLUMINATI IS BIG NEWS TODAY

IN YOUTH CULTURE
AND SOCIAL MEDIA.

THE INTERNET IS IN A TIZZY

OVER WHAT SOME PEOPLE SEE AS
ITS SATANIC MESSAGES AND IMAGES

BEING USED
BY TODAY'S CELEBRITIES.

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO
THE REAL ILLUMINATI ARE TODAY,

YOU DON'T NEED TO BREAK INTO
THE VATICAN'S SECRET ARCHIVES.

JUST GO TO A CYBERCAFE.

Theakston: WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK
THE ILLUMINATI ARE TODAY?

OH, IT'S ASTONISHING PHENOMENA.
IT'S WORLDWIDE.

I WAS GOING TO SAY
"MAINLY YOUNG PEOPLE,"

BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY I SAY THAT.

I MEAN, IT'S JUST VAST NUMBERS
OF PEOPLE ON THE PLANET TODAY

THINK THE ILLUMINATI EXIST
BEHIND THE SCENES,

IN LEAGUE WITH THE DEVIL...

I MEAN, ABSOLUTELY NOT
A TURN OF PHRASE.

ABSOLUTELY, LITERALLY
IN LEAGUE WITH THE DEVIL,

POSSIBLY WITH DEVILISH ALIENS.

AND THEY BASICALLY
RUN THE WORLD.

THEY'RE TRYING TO ESTABLISH
SOME SINISTER NEW WORLD ORDER.

AND ACCORDING TO ALL
THE BELIEVERS IN THIS THEORY...

'CAUSE THAT'S THAT IT IS...

WHICH THEY ACCEPT
AS TOTAL FACT.

I MEAN, TO THEM,
IT'S NOT A THEORY.

ACCORDING TO THEM,
THESE PEOPLE ARE IN GOVERNMENTS,

THEY'RE IN
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION,

THEY'RE IN
THE FINANCIAL WORLD...

SOME OF US MIGHT AGREE
WITH THAT, TO SOME EXTENT.

BUT THEY'RE THERE
AND THEY'RE REAL,

AND THIS IS A REAL CONSPIRACY

BASED ON A SATANIC PACT,
BASICALLY.

IT'S EXTRAORDINARY
HOW MANY PEOPLE NOW BELIEVE IT.

I MEAN,
IT'S ALL OVER THE INTERNET,

BUT YOU KIND OF
EXPECT THAT TO BE.

BUT JUST TALKING TO PEOPLE,

PEOPLE WHO AREN'T
PARTICULARLY INTERESTED

IN ANY OF THESE SUBJECTS
OR INTERESTED IN POLITICS...

YOU KNOW,
PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE,

STUDENTS WE'VE TALKED TO...

ABSOLUTELY ACCEPT THE ILLUMINATI
AS AN ESTABLISHED FACT,

REALLY JUST BECAUSE

EVERYONE AROUND THEM SAYS
THE ILLUMINATI EXIST.

IT'S INCREDIBLY WIDESPREAD.

AND CONSIDERING THE FACTS,
DATA, THE HISTORICAL DATA,

IT'S SURPRISING
SO MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE

WHAT IS EFFECTIVELY
AN URBAN MYTH.

Gough: THE OBSESSION WITH
THE ILLUMINATI AND THEIR SYMBOLS

HAS REALLY GONE OFF THE SCALE
IN THE LAST 10 YEARS.

TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, THIS SYMBOL

THAT YOU SEE FAMOUS ROCK STARS
AND POLITICIANS USING,

AND IT IS PECULIAR.

BUT, YOU KNOW,
DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING?

PROBABLY NOT.

THE OTHER ONE IS
THE ALL-SEEING EYE,

WHICH, OF COURSE,
APPEARS ON THE DOLLAR BILL,

AND IT REPRESENTS
THE ALL-SEEING EYE

OF THE GRAND GEOMETRICIAN
OF THE UNIVERSE,

ACCORDING TO FREEMASONRY.

BUT NOW YOU SEE THIS
IN LADY GAGA VIDEOS

AND JAY-Z VIDEOS AND RIHANNA.

AND ALL THESE CELEBRITIES NOW,

THEY'RE ALL USING
THE SAME SORT OF IMAGES.

FINE. I MEAN,
THEY ARE COOL IMAGES.

BUT BLOGGERS AND THE SORT OF,
YOU KNOW, FRINGE PRESS

ARE LOOKING AT THIS AND SAYING,

"HA! YOU ARE A MEMBER
OF THE ILLUMINATI,

AND YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
TO PROPAGATE THESE MESSAGES."

BUT IT'S BOLLOCKS.

I MEAN, IT'S JUST COOL IMAGERY
THEY'RE USING TO SELL MUSIC.

Narrator: IN FACT,

THE FURTHER JAMIE DELVED
INTO THE ILLUMINATI,

THE LESS REAL IT ALL FELT.

WITHOUT QUESTION,

THERE WAS A SMALL GROUP OF
FREETHINKING LIBERALS IN GERMANY

BACK IN THE 18th CENTURY,

BUT IT'S LIKELY
THE GROUP ENDED THERE.

SINCE THEN,
THE MYTH OF THE ILLUMINATI

HAS BEEN SLOWLY AND SURELY
BUILT UP

ON THE BACK OF FREEMASONRY,
SECRET SOCIETIES,

PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS,
AND OCCULTISTS

TO CREATE
THE MONSTER WE SEE TODAY.

Butler: WHEN WE LOOK AT
THE PEOPLE'S CONCEPTIONS

OF WHAT THE ILLUMINATI
MIGHT BE IN TODAY'S WORLD,

PEOPLE HAVE ALMOST CERTAINLY GOT
THE SITUATION TOTALLY WRONG.

ALMOST ANY SITUATION
WHICH CAN'T BE EXPLAINED,

ALMOST ANY POWER BASE
IN THE WORLD,

EVEN NOW
DOWN TO STARS AND SUPERSTARS,

ARE ALL THOUGHT
BY ONE PERSON OR ANOTHER

TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
ALL-ENCOMPASSING CONSPIRACY

TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD

IN USUALLY
A VERY NEGATIVE SENSE.

WE PARTICULARLY FIND IT

BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SO SUSPICIOUS
OF BANKERS AND INDUSTRIALISTS.

WE DON'T TRUST POLITICIANS
ANYMORE.

SO ALL THESE PEOPLE
TEND TO GET LUMPED TOGETHER

AS IF THEY'RE INVOLVED IN SOME
KIND OF VERY DEFINITE SCHEME

TO DISENFRANCHISE
AND DISEMPOWER US.

Narrator: PARIS WASN'T
THE ONLY CITY TO BE INFLUENCED

BY SECRET SOCIETIES
AND FREEMASONS.

AFTER THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON

DESTROYED MUCH OF THE CITY
IN 1666,

THE GREAT THINKERS, WRITERS,
ARCHITECTS,

AND ALCHEMISTS OF THE DAY...
MEN LIKE SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN...

SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY
TO REBUILD LONDON

REFLECTING
THEIR ESOTERIC AGENDA.

JOURNALIST DAVID HAMBLING

HAS SPENT YEARS STUDYING
THEIR INFLUENCE ON LONDON,

WHICH REVEALED A SECRET WORLD
OF SYMBOLS, ANCIENT GEOMETRY,

AND THE OCCULT
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.

ONE OF THESE INFLUENTIAL MEN
WAS NICHOLAS HAWKSMOOR,

WHO BUILT A NUMBER OF CHURCHES
IN LONDON,

INCLUDING CHRIST CHURCH
IN SPITALFIELDS.

Hambling:
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THEM

WAS THAT THEY WERE ALL BUILT
ALONG A PARTICULAR PATTERN,

WITH SEPARATION AND ALIGNMENTS
WHICH LINK THEM ALL TOGETHER.

OKAY, SO, THIS IS A MAP
OF THE CITY OF LONDON?

YEAH, THIS IS A MAP
OF THE CITY OF LONDON AREA,

AND WE ARE THERE
AT CHRIST CHURCH, SPITALFIELDS,

AND THEN YOU'VE GOT ST. LUKE'S,
ST. GEORGE'S, ST. JOHN'S.

RIGHT, AND THAT MAKES
A SORT OF STAR.

MAKES A SORT OF PENTACLE.

SO, ARE WE SUGGESTING

THAT HAWKSMOOR DELIBERATELY
BUILT HIS CHURCHES

TO MAKE A SHAPE
OF A PENTAGRAM?

THE PATTERN
AND THE SEPARATION BETWEEN THEM

CERTAINLY MAKES IT LOOK
AS THOUGH

HE WAS TRYING TO PRODUCE
SOME KIND OF DESIGN,

AND THE MOST OBVIOUS WAY
TO JOIN THEM UP

IS INTO A PENTAGRAM
LIKE THAT.

AND WHAT'S THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE PENTAGRAM?

THE PENTAGRAM IS AN ANCIENT
SYMBOL OF OCCULT POWER,

WHICH WAS USED TO DESIGNATE
A RITUAL SPACE

INSIDE WHICH
MAGIC WAS PERFORMED.

AND SO WHAT'S HE TELLING US,
THEN?

WHY THIS SPACE?
DO WE KNOW WHAT WAS...

BASICALLY, HE'S STAKING
SOME KIND OF CLAIM

TO THE AREA
WITHIN THAT SPACE...

WHICH IS,
AS NOW KNOW IT...

THE CITY OF LONDON.
THE CITY OF LONDON.

Narrator: DID A SECRET CABAL
OF FREEMASONS,

LED BY SIR ISAAC NEWTON,

DESIGN AND BUILD
A NEW CITY OF LONDON

BASED AROUND A SACRED PENTAGRAM,
WITH ST. PAUL'S AT ITS CENTER?

AND WAS THE INFAMOUS
JACK THE RIPPER

A MEMBER OF THE ILLUMINATI?

MORE ASTONISHING REVELATIONS
COMING UP

IN THE NEXT PART
OF "FORBIDDEN HISTORY."

Narrator:
JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON

IS ON THE TRAIL
OF THE ILLUMINATI,

PERHAPS THE MOST FAMOUS
SECRET SOCIETY IN THE WORLD.

BUT ARE THEY
THE ALL-POWERFUL PUPPETMASTERS

WHO SECRETLY CONTROL OUR LIVES
FROM THE SHADOWS?

SO FAR, HE HAS TRAVELED TO PARIS

AND SEEN EVIDENCE
OF AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE,

BUILT RIGHT IN THE HEART
OF THE CITY

BY FREEMASONS
IN THE 20th CENTURY,

AND ALSO TO LONDON,
WHERE A SMALL CABAL OF MEN

APPEARS TO HAVE REBUILT
THE CITY AFTER THE GREAT FIRE

AROUND A SACRED PENTAGRAM
ALMOST 300 YEARS EARLIER.

IT'S AN INCREDIBLE STORY,
BUT WHAT'S THE TRUTH?

Hambling: THE NEW JERUSALEM IS
THE SHINING CITY ON THE HILL,

THE EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD
OF A PERFECT, IDEALIZED CITY.

AND AT THE HEART OF THAT

IS A MODERN VERSION
OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE,

WHICH EMBODIES ALL THE WISDOM
IN THE UNIVERSE,

AND THAT IS
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

Narrator: THIS GROUP
KNOWN AS THE ILLUMINATI

MAY NOT HAVE TAKEN OVER
THE WORLD IN THE 17th CENTURY,

BUT IT'S POSSIBLE

THAT SOME OF THEIR MEMBERS
DID REBUILD LONDON,

AND THEIR CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT

WAS UNDOUBTEDLY
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

ACCORDING TO HAMBLING,
IT WAS TO BE AT THE VERY CENTER

OF THE SACRED SPACE
THEY HAD CREATED IN THE CITY...

A NEW JERUSALEM.

Theakston: AH, NOW,
I RECOGNIZE THIS PLACE.

AND IT'S A FAR CRY

FROM THE AUSTERE,
SIMPLE LINES

OF CHRIST CHURCH,
SPITALFIELDS.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

THIS IS VERY MUCH THE HANDIWORK
OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN.

IN FACT, THIS IS
HIS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT

AND POSSIBLY
THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT

OF 17th-CENTURY
ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE...

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL,
HEART OF THE NEW JERUSALEM

THAT THE BUILDERS
WANTED TO CREATE

AFTER
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.

SO, THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY CENTRAL
TO THE ILLUMINATI'S PLAN?

THIS WAS LITERALLY CENTRAL
TO THEIR PLAN OF LONDON.

WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?

THIS IS... AND ST. PAUL'S
LIES AT THE VERY HEART...

ALL RIGHT, OKAY.
SO, THIS IS THE...

OF THE REBUILDING PLAN.

SO, THIS IS WHERE WE STARTED...
CHRIST CHURCH, SPITALFIELDS.

SO, THAT'S WHERE WE STARTED.

HAWKSMOOR'S PENTAGRAM.

HAWKSMOOR'S CHURCHES
SURROUND IT,

AND RIGHT AT THE CENTER OF IT
IS ST. PAUL'S,

THE BEATING HEART
OF THE NEW LONDON.

Hambling: THE NEW JERUSALEM
IS THE SHINING CITY ON THE HILL,

THE EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD
OF A PERFECT, IDEALIZED CITY.

AND AT THE HEART OF THAT

IS A MODERN VERSION
OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE,

WHICH EMBODIES ALL THE WISDOM
IN THE UNIVERSE,

AND THAT IS
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

THAT WAS THE VISION

OF CHRISTOPHER WREN
AND THE OTHERS

WHO WERE TRYING TO REBUILD
THEIR NEW JERUSALEM HERE.

[ BELL TOLLS IN DISTANCE ]

AND THIS PLACE ALSO HAS

A VERY INTERESTING CONNECTION
WITH FREEMASONRY

IN THAT THE FIRST
UNITED GRAND LODGE

WAS ACTUALLY FORMED
RIGHT ON THAT SPOT THERE,

AT THE OLD GOOSE AND GRIDIRON
PUBLIC HOUSE, IN 1717.

AND THAT PROXIMITY TO THE MASONS
IS SIGNIFICANT?

IT'S VERY SIGNIFICANT.

IN MASONIC MYTHOLOGY,
THE VERY FIRST FREEMASONS' LODGE

WAS SET UP IN THE PORCH OF
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.

AND THE FIRST UNITED
GRAND LODGE EVER,

WHICH WAS SET UP
HERE IN ENGLAND,

WAS SET UP
JUST OVER THERE...

SO, IN THE SYMBOLIC TEMPLE
OF SOLOMON IN LONDON.

Rev. Fanthorpe:
IT HAS LONG BEEN SUGGESTED

THAT THERE IS
A VERY CLOSE CONNECTION

BETWEEN THE ILLUMINATI
AND FREEMASONRY.

NOW, I WOULD TEND TO THE VIEW

THAT BOTH OF THEM
ARE VISIBLE TIPS...

THEY'RE THE SURFACES OF
SOMETHING MUCH OLDER AND DEEPER.

FOR WANT OF A BETTER TERM,

I MIGHT USE THE NAME
THE GUARDIANS OR THE GUIDES,

AND THAT THEY GO BACK MILLENNIA,
NOT JUST A FEW CENTURIES.

Prince: ACCORDING TO
THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS,

IT'S THE ILLUMINATI
THAT ARE BEHIND FREEMASONRY.

OR ACCORDING TO SOME,

IT'S THE FREEMASONS
THAT ARE BEHIND THE ILLUMINATI,

BUT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR PICK.

AND THAT COMES ABOUT BECAUSE,

BACK WITH
THE ORIGINAL ILLUMINATI,

THERE WAS A CONNECTION,

BECAUSE THE ILLUMINATI WORKED

BY TRYING TO INFILTRATE
AND TAKE OVER FREEMASONRY.

BUT THAT BECAME KIND OF A GIFT
TO ITS OPPONENTS,

ONCE THE ILLUMINATI
HAD BEEN BROKEN UP, TO SAY,

"THE ILLUMINATI WORKED
WITHIN FREEMASONRY.

THEREFORE, THEY WERE
CONTROLLING FREEMASONRY."

WHEREVER YOU SEE A MASON,
YOU CAN NOW SEE THE ILLUMINATI.

THERE ARE SOME QUITE MAD
BUT VERY FIRMLY HELD BELIEFS

IN, YOU KNOW, FREEMASONRY
AUTOMATICALLY BEING EVIL,

AND THEREFORE, IT MUST BE PART
OF THE ILLUMINATI THING,

AND THAT THEY ALL ARE
BASICALLY IN IT

BECAUSE OF SATANIC NAUGHTINESS
ON A GRAND SCALE

AND WISHING
TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

Narrator: ADJACENT TO
CHRIST CHURCH IN SPITALFIELDS

ARE THE STREETS AND ALLEYS

WHERE THE NOTORIOUS
JACK THE RIPPER

TERRORIZED LONDON PROSTITUTES
IN THE 19th CENTURY.

HAMBLING BELIEVES
THAT THE RIPPER MURDERS

WERE PART OF
A WIDER MASONIC CONSPIRACY

WHICH WERE PART
OF A SECRET OCCULT AGENDA.

IN ESSENCE, JACK THE RIPPER
WAS PART OF THE ILLUMINATI.

Hambling:
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS

AND GRISLIEST MYSTERIES
OF VICTORIAN LONDON

WERE THE JACK THE RIPPER MURDERS
OF 1888,

WHEN A NUMBER OF PROSTITUTES
WERE KILLED

AND HORRIBLY MUTILATED
ALL AROUND THIS AREA.

JACK THE RIPPER
WAS NEVER CAUGHT,

AND THERE ARE MANY THEORIES
ABOUT WHY HE DID WHAT HE DID.

BUT WHAT WASN'T FULLY
APPRECIATED UNTIL RECENTLY

WAS THERE WAS A VERY STRONG
OCCULT CONNECTION

IN THE WAY
THE BODIES WERE MUTILATED,

THE WAY
THEY WERE LAID OUT,

AND THE PATTERN
IN WHICH THEY WERE KILLED.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN...

THE WHEREABOUTS
OF WHERE THE MURDERS HAPPENED?

WELL, IF YOU PLOT
THEIR LOCATIONS ON A MAP...

MM-HMM.

THEY FORM
AN EXACT PARALLELOGRAM.

OKAY, SO,
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR?

YEAH, THOSE ARE THE FOUR
WHO WERE FOUND OUTSIDE.

THERE WAS
THE FIFTH VICTIM,

WHO WAS FOUND INSIDE
UNDER DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES.

BUT WITH THOSE FOUR,

THERE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN
A RITUAL CONNECTION.

SO, IF YOU WERE TO SUPERIMPOSE
THAT ONTO A...

ONTO A MAP.

YOU WOULD GET THAT.

RIGHT. OKAY.
SO, WE ARE HERE.

SO, WHY WAS HE CHOOSING
THESE LOCATIONS?

WHY ARE THESE
SIGNIFICANT?

AGAIN, IT'S TO MARK OUT
A SACRED SPACE ON THE GROUND

FOR WHAT COULD
LOOSELY BE DESCRIBED

AS A BLACK-MAGIC RITUAL,
SO THAT HE COULD GAIN POWER.

SO, WE THINK THAT...

ARE WE SUGGESTING, THEN,

THAT JACK THE RIPPER WAS
A MEMBER OF THE ILLUMINATI?

HE CERTAINLY HAD
AN UNDERSTANDING

OF THE KIND OF PRINCIPLES

THAT THE ILLUMINATI
WERE WORKING WITH.

IF HE WAS A MEMBER
OF THEM,

I WOULD SAY HE WAS
PROBABLY A ROGUE MEMBER

WHO WAS JUST OUT
FOR HIMSELF.

GIVEN
ALL THIS INFORMATION,

DO WE KNOW
WHO HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN?

THERE'S
A VERY STRONG SUSPICION

THAT HE WAS A MAN CALLED
ROBERT D'ONSTON STEPHENSON,

WHO WAS A STUDENT
OF THE OCCULT

AND A JOURNALIST
WHO WROTE A NUMBER OF ARTICLES

ABOUT THE BLACK-MAGIC
CONNECTIONS

OF THE JACK THE RIPPER
KILLINGS.

HE WAS ARRESTED THREE TIMES
FOR THE MURDERS,

BUT THE POLICE
NEVER PROVED ANYTHING,

AND HE WAS RELEASED.

BUT HE REMAINS
ONE OF THE STRONG SUSPECTS.

ONE OF THE THEORIES
WHICH IS ASSOCIATED

WITH THE HORROR
OF THE JACK THE RIPPER KILLINGS

IS THAT THE LACERATIONS

WERE MEANT TO CONFORM
TO A CERTAIN GEOMETRIC PATTERN,

THAT IT WASN'T SIMPLY

THE OLD MASONIC VENGEANCE
FOR OATH BREAKERS,

WHICH IT WAS,

BUT THAT, AT THE SAME TIME,

THERE WAS A GEOMETRICAL ASPECT
OF THE MUTILATIONS

THAT HE CARRIED OUT,

AND THAT HAS
A VERY SINISTER DEPTH TO IT.

JUST EXACTLY WHO WAS THE RIPPER,

AND WHY DID HE USE
THOSE PECULIAR CONFIGURATIONS

ON HIS VICTIMS?

Narrator: A SHADOWY WORLD
OF POWERFUL FIGURES

WHOSE INFLUENCE CONTINUES
TO REACH AROUND THE WORLD,

OR A COLORFUL URBAN MYTH

PERPETRATED BY CONSPIRACY
THEORISTS AND PSEUDOSCIENTISTS?

HOW DO THE KNOWN FACTS

FIT THE THEORIES
ABOUT THE ILLUMINATI?

THE FINAL CONCLUSIONS WHEN
"FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS.

Narrator:
JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON

HAS BEEN ON ONE OF
HIS TOUGHEST MISSIONS YET...

TO UNRAVEL THE TRUTH

ABOUT THE MOST FAMOUS
SECRET SOCIETY IN HISTORY,

THE ILLUMINATI.

ARE THEY REAL,

OR ARE THEY ALL PART
OF A VAST CONSPIRACY THEORY?

MILLIONS OF PAGES ONLINE
SUGGEST CELEBRITIES

LIKE JAY-Z, BEYONCé, AND RIHANNA
ARE MEMBERS TODAY,

AND GROUPS LIKE THE BILDERBERG

ARE BEHIND A SHADOWY
INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY

TO RUN THE WORLD.

HE'S BEEN SHOWN EVIDENCE
IN PARIS AND LONDON

OF THE POWERFUL INFLUENCE
OF FREEMASONS

TO BUILD TEMPLES, CHURCHES,
AND OTHER STRUCTURES

BASED ON SACRED PATTERNS
AND GEOMETRY.

BUT IN THE END,
WHAT DOES IT ALL ADD UP TO?

Rev. Fanthorpe:
THERE ARE INFLUENCES

OTHER THAN THE SIMPLE CAUSE
AND EFFECT THAT WE'RE AWARE OF,

BUT THAT IS MORE
OF A GUT FEELING.

I CAN'T SAY, "OH, YES,

I'M SURE THEY EXIST BECAUSE
OF 'A, ' 'B, ' 'C, ' AND 'D.'"

I'VE GOT NO PROOF THAT THEY ARE
A DANGEROUS SECRET SOCIETY.

BUT WHEN I LOOK AT
ALL THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN,

BOTH POLITICALLY
AND ECONOMICALLY

AND INTERNATIONALLY,

THEN I CAN'T HELP WONDERING
WHY THOSE THINGS HAPPEN.

Narrator: WHEN YOU'RE PRESENTED
WITH THE HARD EVIDENCE

OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN

THE ILLUMINATI'S INFLUENCE
ON LONDON,

IT'S CERTAINLY
A FASCINATING CASE.

BUT HAS THERE REALLY BEEN

A COORDINATED EFFORT
FROM ONE GROUP

TO RUN PEOPLE'S LIVES,
POLITICS, AND ECONOMIES,

EVEN REBUILDING CITIES
FROM THE SHADOWS?

OR ARE SOME PEOPLE JUST TRYING
TOO HARD TO CONNECT ALL THE DOTS

AND CONSTRUCT
A POWERFUL MYTHOLOGY?

Picknett:
MY NEIGHBOR, FOR EXAMPLE,

TOTALLY BELIEVES AS A FACT

THAT THE ILLUMINATI
SECRETLY RUN THE WORLD

AND ARE TRYING DESPERATELY
TO ESTABLISH A NEW WORLD ORDER,

IN WHICH THEY ARE SUCCEEDING
BIT BY BIT,

AND THIS TERRIFIES HER.

OR SHE GETS TOGETHER
WITH ALL HER FRIENDS,

AND EVEN THEIR RELIGIOUS
ADVISERS ARE PUSHING THIS IDEA

THAT THE ILLUMINATI
ARE IN CHARGE.

Theakston:
SO, FOR SOME PEOPLE,

IT'S A VERY REAL
AND A VERY TANGIBLE THREAT.

IT'S VERY REAL,
IT'S VERY TANGIBLE,

AND THE FACT THAT MOST PEOPLE
DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE IT

JUST SHOWS HOW THEY'RE
SLEEPWALKING AROUND...

YOU KNOW, NOT ACKNOWLEDGING

THIS TERRIBLE THREAT
THAT IS HANGING OVER US ALL.

Gough: THESE SOCIETIES TODAY...

LIKE THESE NEO-TEMPLAR
AND, OF COURSE, FREEMASONRY...

WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?

THEY'RE PRIVATE AND SECRETIVE,

AND THAT ALLOWS THEM
TO HAVE SOME FUN

AND PAY HOMAGE
TO AN ANCIENT TRADITION,

BUT THEY'RE HARMLESS.

BUT BECAUSE THEY'RE SECRETIVE,

THEY GET THROWN INTO THIS BUCKET
OF BEING EVIL

AND PART OF THE ILLUMINATI,

AND THEY'RE REALLY NOT.

THEY'RE REALLY HARMLESS.

Cox: THE ILLUMINATI IS SEEN

AS ALMOST LIKE A NEFARIOUS,
DARK, MANIPULATING GROUP

WHO ARE TRYING TO BRING ABOUT
THEIR OWN WORLD AGENDA.

WHAT IF THEY'RE THE OPPOSITE?

WHAT IF THEY ARE A GROUP

THAT ARE ACTUALLY TRYING
TO UPHOLD ANCIENT TRADITIONS,

ANCIENT SYMBOLIC IDEAS

THAT WERE PRE-CHURCH,
PRE THE RELIGIONS OF THE BOOK?

AND WHAT IF THEY ARE TRYING
TO ACTUALLY MAKE US AWARE

THAT SOME OF THESE IDEAS...

THE MEASURE, FOR INSTANCE,
SACRED GEOMETRY...

ARE ACTUALLY WHERE WE FIND GOD

OR WHERE THE REAL SPIRITUAL
ELEMENTS OF LIFE CAN BE FOUND?

Butler: IN MY CONCEPTION

AND THROUGH
A HOST OF DIFFERENT BOOKS,

IT SEEMS TO ME

THAT SOMETHING LIKE
THE ORIGINAL ILLUMINATI

DOES, INDEED, STILL EXIST,

BUT IT'S MUCH MORE SUBTERRANEAN

THAN MOST PEOPLE WOULD THINK
THESE DAYS.

AND IT'S VERY SIMILAR
IN ITS INTENTIONS AND OBJECTIVES

TO WHAT IT WAS BACK IN 1776.

IT SEEKS TO MAKE THE WORLD
A BETTER PLACE.

BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER

THAT THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN IT
ARE EXTREMELY PATIENT.

IN A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING
SEEMS TO HAPPEN IN TWO MINUTES,

THE ILLUMINATI ARE GENERATIONAL
AND MULTIGENERATIONAL.

THEY TAKE THEIR TIME.

BUT THEY ARE, SLOWLY BUT SURELY,
MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

Narrator:
SO, ARE THE ILLUMINATI REAL?

IT'S CERTAINLY HARD
TO DISMISS THEM

SIMPLY AS
A WILD CONSPIRACY THEORY.

THERE DOES SEEM TO BE
SOME EVIDENCE

THAT THERE HAVE BEEN
GROUPS OF POWERFUL MEN

THROUGHOUT
THE LAST FEW CENTURIES

WHO HAVE SOUGHT
TO INFLUENCE EVENTS

AND CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY
FROM THE SHADOWS.

AND ARE THEY STILL DOING IT?

THAT IS THE $6 MILLION QUESTION.