>>5516289 anon's questions and connections on the Palladium / Weaving Spiders dig
Freemasons are faggots. Here's some more reading - since they're faggots and it comes from them, take it with a grain of salt.
History of Paladism
Palladism had been brought to Greece from Egypt by Pythagoras in the5th century, and it was this cult that was introduced to the inner circle of the Masonic lodges. The name, Palladium, was taken from a Masonic order founded in 1720 which died out, only to re-emerge in Charleston under Pike. The Order of the Palladium, or Sovereign Council of Wisdom, had been constituted in France in 1737, and was one and the same as the legendary Palladium of the Templars, better known by the name of Baphomet. In 1801 Isaac Long, a Jew, was said to have carried the "original image" of Baphomet to Charleston, in the United States, and it was alleged that the lodge he founded then became the chief in the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite. He was succeeded in due course by Albert Pike, who, it was alleged, extended the Scotch Rite and shared the anti-Catholic Masonic chieftainship with the Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini. This new directory was established, it was asserted, as the new Reformed Palladium Rite, or Reformed Palladium. Assisted by Gallatin Mackey and others, Pike built the new rite into an occult fraternity with worldwide powers.
In 1870 Pike and Mazzini completed an agreement to create a supreme, Universal Rite of Masonry that would over-arch all the other rites, even the different national rites. It centralized all high Masonic bodies in the world under one head. To this end the Palladium Rite was created as the pinnacle of the pyramid of power. Albert Pike re-wrote the degrees of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry and instituted the Rite of the Palladium to dominate Freemasonry. Pike was said to indulged in the occult. He was the Grand Master of a group known as the Order of the Palladium (or Sovereign Council of Wisdom), which had been founded in Paris in 1737. The highest of the high was the Palladium: an international alliance to bring in the Grand Lodges, the Grand Orient, 33 degrees of the The Ancient and Accepted Rite (Scottish Rite) and the 99 degrees of The Ancient and Primitive Rite (Memphis and Mizraim).
Palladism took the fuel from Adam Weishaupt’s vision for humanity and connected the energy to the pistons of Freemasonry. Those pistons were then driven in rhythm by the Palladium. Candidates are exposed to a five-step programme:
Adoption
Illumination
Conversation
Congress
Union
Modern Illuminati incorporated Memphis-Misraim Freemasonry into their most important, highly secret rite called "The Palladium Rite". Pike created a Palladium Rite which was a secret rite that practiced occultism. This rite was to be kept secret at all costs and only a chose few were selected. The Palladium would be an international alliance of key Masons. Albert Pike created a super-secret, very powerful group within a group called The Palladium Rite. This rite combined the Grand Lodges, Grand Orient, all 99 degrees of Memphiz-Mitzraim, and 33 degrees of the Scottish Rite. Therefore, high-level Freemasonry contains the entire practice of Memphis-Mizraim, and totally controls the separate modern-day Masonic Lodges.
Members of the Illuminist Palladium Rite, who incorporated all of the degrees of the Memphis-Mitzraim are obsessed with esoteric and occult. Foster Bailey calls the spirits that Masons communicate with the "Illuminati" These spirits initiate these higher Masons into becoming light-bearers themselves. The Illuminati…"assist at the unfolding of the consciousness of the candidate until the time comes when he can 'enter into Light' and, in his turn become a Light-bearer, one of the Illuminati who can assist the Lodge on High in bringing humanity to Light." These spirits have various Masons. Higher Masons become Illuminati - which go by several names one of which is "Masters of the Temple." A single illumined person is called an Illuminatus.
The Palladium Rite calls its groups Triangles of Adepts. Members are selected mainly from higher levels of the Scottish Rite and Memphis and Misraim Rites, although the members can come from other Rites too. The Palladium Rite has its own budget. Its power over the Masonic Lodge does not derive from being a part of the power structure, but from the careful selection of Masons that participate in the Palladium Rite and their distribution throughout the various Rites of Masonry and their controlling bodies. The Grand Central Directories (and from there to the Supreme Councils, Grand Encampments, Grand Orients, and Grand Lodges) are the nerve centers of Masonry from which orders emanate. The Palladium Rite is popular among those in positions of power. It is said that the leaders of the Palladium Rite are allowed to visit or join the B'nai B'rith lodges.