There are many people in our society today who still believe that the most expansive and influential bastion of organized crime that exists is either the Mafia, the Cosa Nostra or the international drug cartel. Some think it may be the communist regime in Russia, China or Cuba. Still others will hasten to point their finger at the IRS, the CIA or the Federal Reserve System. Some have even dared to make allusions toward the Roman Catholic Church. While all of these institutions contribute in part their own brand of dubious or criminal activity to the over-all corruption that plagues the world at present, they are but fragments of a much greater and more insidious consortium which is referred to scripturally as "Mystery Babylon, the Great."

To attempt to describe any particular enclave of "Babylon" as being all of "Babylon" is to underestimate "its" true proportions. A comparison can be drawn from the story of the blind men who were asked to give their description of an elephant strictly by feel. Each of them was able to describe only the part which he had touched; to one it seemed to be a snake, the other a tree trunk, and to another a wall, etc., none of which of course can adequately describe the full reality of an elephant.

The principle by which this "Elite" gains its power and maintains it over our present world was established by the founder of the Rothschild dynasty, Mayer Amshel Bauer (Rothschild = Red shield) , a particularly gifted agent for the true "Power Elite", about two centuries ago when he stated: "Permit me to issue and control a nation’s money, and I care not who makes its laws." What this means to us in modern times is that we presently have the best Congress "money can buy". This brilliant scheme contrived by a lone goldsmith in Frankfurt, Germany has come to enslave entire nations by providing control over the world’s monetary systems to a few powerful figures who have been able to keep the people in ignorance about the true function of money. This ignorance is costing the people of the world their freedom.

John Adams, in 1787, had this to say: "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." The responsibility for what he has said here, friends, falls upon us, because this is the precise condition in America today.

In 1905, George Santayana said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." How can we be expected to remember the past if we have no knowledge of it? Recall the warnings of Aldous Huxley as mentioned earlier in the foreword to his book, BRAVE NEW WORLD: "The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."

It could be understood that, one of the first aims of the "Power Elite" would be to take hold of the reins of the educational system. This was achieved simply by acquiring a controlling interest in the firms that publish the texts that influence the studies of history and economics in the high schools and colleges of our nation. Thus, the knowledge which we need to keep us economically and politically free has been withheld from us and this assures that control of our nation will remain in the hands of the "Power Elite".

While much of this may seem unbelievable, it is only because our history texts do not reflect the truth as to the actual causes behind the historical events influencing the formative years of the American nation. It is quite a lengthy tale and worse than one would ever imagine, however, we will not review history in depth, as space will not permit.

Why the above outcome is inevitable is the best hidden secret that exists. How it works is when the "Power Elite", the international banks, and their subordinates, (your home town banker) create the "currency" as a ledger entry in order to make a loan, (See article: SAVE YOUR HOME, Chapter 4, Page 106), for example, one thousand dollars for a year at, lets say, ten percent interest (usury), the amount of the interest, one hundred dollars is not created and is thus not circulated so it, therefore, cannot be repaid. Immediately following this artificially induced economic stimulus will be a diminishing money supply which causes a "shortage pressure" and imminent foreclosure somewhere down the line.

To examine this further, when the credit which is created by the bank is placed into circulation, there is an artificial increase in the supply of money available in the economy and this in turn stimulates an increase in activity economically throughout society. Then, when the original amount of the loan, (the principal) is paid back, the credit issued by the bank is erased and the economic activity is commensurately decreased. At this point it would still be possible to maintain equilibrium in the economic system if there were integrity behind it. However, as the amount of the interest on the loan was never created, it stays in the economy as a deficit, as a claim on some poor borrower’s property. Why is this so? Owing to the fact that if the borrower in the case of this one thousand dollar loan is to be able to pay the one hundred dollars interest, someone else now has to borrow that money into circulation. The "system" is both self-perpetuating and self-defeating. We can see that a never-ending and ever-increasing procession of debt is created whereby the only end result that can be is that eventually ownership of all the nation’s real wealth and property will be in the hands of the "Power Elite" through their financial agents.. (See PUBLIC LAND POLICY IN HAWAI'I - Report No. 3, Chapter 4, Page 113)

This explains why the homes, farms and factories of America are being swallowed up weekly in alarming rates, by the thousands, in bank foreclosures. It also explains the cause of inflation which has caused the present dollar to decrease in value to about ten percent of the value it enjoyed in the early nineteen-forties. The farmers in particular have been singled out for repossession since this is the logical manner in which they can gain control over our food supplies.

Increased taxation is simply a means of accelerating the removal of currency from circulation, which means less money will be available to repay the loans in force. Yet, in such a usurious "Babylonian" economic system, if the government did not continue to borrow more Federal Reserve "credit" into circulation there would be no means of exchange by which we could engage in commerce. Since the debt our government has incurred upon the people of America far exceeds all of the real estate and property value in the country, which we have all "mortgaged" to pay it, we are presently all legally bankrupt. We are already faced with a debt which is impossible to repay.

Robert Hemphill, who was for a number of years the credit manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, had this to say: "If all the bank loans were paid, no one would have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible - but there it is. It (the problem of money *authors note) is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and the defects remedied very soon."

The omnipotent corruption of the Federal Reserve system was revealed in 1933 by Louis T. McFadden, who was then Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency. After two unsuccessful tries, the "Power Elite" finally managed to have him assassinated. He has written: "Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its powers, but the truth is...the "Fed" has usurped the government. It controls everything here (Congress *authors note) and it controls our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will." It should now become clearer to the reader how criminally exploitive our present economic system is and how each of us is enticed into a disadvantaged position by it. For those who may still be having some difficulty in understanding, let us show an analogy.

Monopoly is a game which is familiar to most people and its name is quite apropos. The rules of this game are fitting for the parlor, but if we adjust the rules slightly we can see that it more closely resembles the "real" world of economics. At the beginning, count all the money which is available in the game’s bank. Let us say an amount of ten thousand dollars. Then have a banker lend, not give, an equal amount of twenty five hundred dollars to each of four players. Finally, have each player pay two hundred dollars in interest to the bank each time he passes GO instead of collecting it. It shouldn't take long to figure out who will win the game every time. If you don't believe it, try playing the game by these rules and you will see. Many Americans have already lost the game in real life and many more will follow. The outcome is inevitable.

If no other lesson can be learned from what is presented here, remember this: "If you are in debt you are not free, you are a slave in bondage." You may even be astute enough or lucky enough to have no personal debt, but if you are an American citizen you already owe a share in excess of twenty thousand dollars of the national debt and any property holding you presume to own has already been pledged by your government to repay it.

Is this why we are presently witnessing the unstoppable juggernaut of foreign enterprise displacing American industrial development in our own country? We shall see.

In Proverbs 22:7 the scriptures reveal: "The borrower is servant to the lender." The process by which borrowers (bond slaves *authors note) were to be controlled and governed was laid out in "The Bankers Manifesto" of 1934, part of which read: "Capital must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When, through a process of law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. (The "Power Elite" *authors note) People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people, they can be made to expend their energies in quarreling over questions of little importance to us, except as teachers of the common herd." Read that again!!! This information will not be found in high school or college textbooks. One must dig for the truth, learn to investigate obscure sources, but also check on their reliability. Above all, learn to develop discernment, to recognize what is true and what is untrue, then trust your own perceptions and conscience as you compare your notes against the reality of events around you.

The mind can be an ally or an enemy, depending upon the beliefs we allow to influence it. A belief is simply a mind-set we have become comfortable with because it gives us a sense of security. A belief is different from faith in that faith is the result of knowledge and experience resulting in an inner "knowing", whereas a belief simply fits well with already preconceived notions.

A case in point is the matter of property ownership as opposed to stewardship, particularly of land. The concept of land ownership is a fairly recent idea (Sixteenth Century, A.D.) but it has become so conditioned into the minds of Western man that it controls almost his every attitude and action. It has given him the sense that he is in control of his universe, in a way, that he controls all that he surveys. He does not realize that this conditioned need for control is actually controlling him. The concept of ownership in a society which embodies maturity and integrity takes on a different meaning than that which we are accustomed to understand. The concept of property ownership in the modern Western context is a fallacy which has been introduced by the cunning "Power Elite" who have convinced the masses that ownership is a privilege granted by "them" and that for the mere payment of a tax, the privilege can be maintained. No tax payment - no privilege of ownership. So, rule the "Elite".

In the ancient egalitarian systems of society the concept of stewardship of the land is most predominant. Stewardship implies that the appropriate care of the land justified the person’s use of it. The accepted social persuasion suggested that if you were capable of caring for the land, protecting it and making productive use of it, your efforts to do this should not be challenged or thwarted. These efforts, however, did not always go unchallenged or un-thwarted by marauders and usurpers who did not honor the social agreements of their time. So man eventually evolved a system of government that would guarantee his right to do his day’s work upon the land, in exchange for a fee in the form of taxation.

In its original context, the idea of government was a necessary and sound one, but over the centuries, the marauders and usurpers have managed to find their way into the offices of government bureaucracy and have further managed to legalize and justify the continuance of their own marauding and usurping. Now a land "owner" relinquishes his right to live upon and utilize his land and his right to ownership if he neglects to pay his "fees" for what presently amounts to a non-service. All we have done is given them the right to force us to pay them for the "privilege" to believe their lies.

It is now also quite common to see land that is not in use for anything change owners for nothing but pure profit. In fact, the land remains itself unchanged in any way, all that really happens is that an "idea" is exchanged, a concept transplants itself from one mind to another and it costs someone dearly to make this happen.

In the world as we presently know it there is not a single subject that presides with greater importance in our lives than money. We have been persuaded to divide ourselves into thousands of differing factions from being anti-racist, anti-abortion, anti-communist, anti-this or anti-that, or we sit hypnotized in front of our television sets as our collapsing society presents itself to us in increasing degrees every day. Many choose to escape in alcohol or drugs while others still numbly await the rapture. The diversions are many.

It's quite likely that after toiling half of each year for the "Power Elite" and "Their" government, you have little time to study history or economics. Yet, to re-quote Robert Hemphill: "(Money) is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and the defects remedied very soon."

It is sad to see the degree to which we have deluded ourselves in this modern world into thinking we are in control of things in such a foolish manner. The truth is that in our ignorance of where these concepts originated, we have unwittingly become controlled by them. We are so busy playing a game that someone else designed and foisted upon us that we forget to ask who made the rules and who ultimately wins.

Our elder races, those whom we choose, in our intellectual arrogance, to call primitive, did not fool themselves in such an adolescent manner. They, very intuitively and intelligently, saw themselves as part of the land and as part of a harmonious interplay of activities and events in nature. Modern Western man, in contrast, sees himself as a modifier of nature and he has chosen to interfere with this harmonious interplay of activities and events in nature. He, in his quest to "improve" upon nature, has succeeded in distorting and artificializing almost every aspect of life he has touched. It will be interesting indeed to observe how far he will succeed in his distortion of nature before the pressure and tension he has created snaps it all back into place. What will modern man then find himself the owner/steward of? He may find himself wandering amidst the wreckage and debris of his own fabrications.