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Secret Societies Part 3: Discovery of the Americas

From the Vatican to the Protestant Reformation - the Explorers, Bankers, and Renaissance Thinkers who Shaped the (Brave) New World

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Adrian Davidson
Nov 19, 2025
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In fourteen hundred ninety-two,
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

And according to new evidence — he may have been a Sephardic Jew.


America is at the center of nearly every major modern conspiracy theory.

Well, America and Israel.

In case you missed the earlier articles, this is my third installment in a series on secret societies, and it will focus on the history of America, its Christian foundation, and its Freemason and occult underpinnings.

I have also written a primer on the entire history of the world and its religions, which can be found here. In this article, I detail what happened in the Garden of Eden and antediluvian activities between humans and fallen angels that created the basis for these secret societies in the first place.

In my first installment on secret societies, I detailed their 5,000+ year history and explained how all major secret societies have been rooted in a mystery religion that is directly opposed to God.

In my second article, I introduced the modern families, organizations, and goals of the interconnected secret societies, including the Rothschilds, the Illuminati, and the New World Order. Specifically, I discussed how every major war since the French Revolution has been part of an orchestrated effort to destroy nations and create a one world government run by a collection of wealthy, international bankers.

History of the World (Part 3)

To reiterate from my first three articles on this topic, the mystery religion evolved from the events of the Garden of Eden — which actually, really happened here on Earth, and is not a metaphor. The mystery religion purportedly passes down the secret knowledge that humans obtained when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and when one-third of the angels defected from God. This knowledge initially flourished throughout humanity and was not a secret — until, one day, God looked around and realized He was totally fed up with the proliferation of wickedness, so He decided to flood the earth to destroy all of creation (Genesis 6:5-7).

In the biblical and historical timeline, the mystery religion emerged post-flood with the Tower of Babel — which was humanity’s attempt to regain the antediluvian knowledge and power that they had, using a unified language to build a tower to heaven.

The mystery religion revolves around preserving and passing down this sacred knowledge to those who are initiated through rituals, displaying their religion through symbols encoded in plain sight. The knowledge, activities, and worship of these institutions typically include paganism/polytheism, sacred geometry, math, astronomy/astrology, tarot, divination, alchemy, and more.

In the modern day, this mystery religion has resulted in a group of wealthy international bankers working to create a one world government so that they have full control of the world’s resources.

This article will focus on America’s role in this overarching story of the history of the world.

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Brave New World

So, back to Columbus.

In the 1400s, Christianity (comprised of Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy) was the dominant faith of Europe. But the blending of pagan wisdom and Christian prophecy was all the rage across the continent — especially present in the Italian Renaissance that birthed many of the initial explorers to the Americas.

By all historic accounts, Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci — two of the early explorers to the American continents — were Catholic. But they were not exempt from seeking secret, esoteric, occult wisdom. In fact, seeking hidden knowledge in the forms of ancient maps that were making the rounds in Florence is the sole reason we know their names today.

The mainstream story is that Columbus set sail for America in search of a shorter passage to the East Indies in support of establishing new trade routes. But the real story is that Columbus saw himself as an instrument of divine prophecy.

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