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Secret Societies

Secret Societies Part 1: The Original Pyramid Scheme

The E! True Hollywood Story of the Cabal that Runs the World

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Adrian Davidson
Oct 02, 2025
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The public has long been fascinated with conspiracy theories and secret societies.

While the majority of my content focuses on sharing health information, by far the most common questions I get are about the details of various conspiracy theories.

“Hey, is X in the club? But he/she is my favorite singer/actor/political pundit :(“

“Is the government lying about Y?”

“Do you think Z actually died?”

The challenge with engaging with these theories, and evaluating them critically, is that they are deliberately obscured to the point that questioning them makes the critical thinker look crazy. Our world is full of scripted events that are actually happening, orchestrated by the world’s second oldest religion. This is a live action, immersive Hollywood experience.

We live in The Truman Show.

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Unfortunately, not everyone is aware that we live in The Truman Show. Truman himself was not aware, even though the whole town — including his wife — was in on it.

But the whole world doesn’t have to be in on it for a hidden hand to script and manufacture our culture. It only takes a handful of actors to influence the masses to unwittingly play along, shaping society.

I could write tens or hundreds of thousands of words on this topic. And, I probably will eventually.

But for now — we need to start at the beginning.

History of the World (Part 1)

This could be a very lengthy article, but I am attempting to keep it short and sweet, and as simple as possible so it can serve as a primer for those who don’t yet understand this very complex topic.

I am starting with explaining an overview of the origin and history of the secret societies that shape and influence society. A significant portion of this article will remain free, while some of the seedier details towards the end will be put behind a paywall.

If you missed my first article on the history of the world and the evolution of religions, I highly recommend starting with this article to understand the foundational history. It’s free (and it’s long). You can read it here.

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Baseline Assumptions

Let’s start with some baseline assumptions about world history as we dive in to the power structures that actually run humanity.

  • The first assumption is that the Bible is a history book, and that it is true. Not just a metaphor, but historically and chronologically accurate. There have been centuries of debate on the details of this, and you can review some of my thoughts on this point in the article above, but for the sake of brevity, I am going to stay big picture on this point in this article.

  • The second assumption is that the majority of the events of the Bible can be overlayed on our known history as shown in the World History Timeline of major empires below. Again, there is a lot of debate over the details of this, which I am not going to get into here. But for the sake of this discussion, let’s assume the below summarizes the evolution of human civilization immediately following the great flood.

World History Timeline: The Rise and Fall of Nations

I have previously written, at length, about the history of the world from a biblical perspective, and created what a timeline of biblical chronology would look like as it carried into the modern day, detailed below. Again, this is further discussed in detail in my initial article on world history. That summary is detailed below.

Biblical Historical Timeline

In these two timelines, we can pinpoint the origin of the secret societies that have carried into modern day.

Dawn of Civilization & Origin of Secret Societies

To understand the secret societies is to understand the history of world empires and religions.

In the world timeline shown above, it all begins in the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Babylonian mystery schools at the dawn of civilization — roughly 5,000 years ago.

In the biblical timeline, it begins at the Tower of Babel — which also occurred roughly 5,000 years ago, in the city of Babylon, which is in modern-day Iraq.

The Tower of Babel was humanity’s post-flood attempt to regain the antediluvian unified knowledge and power that they had — using a unified language to build a tower to heaven.

The secret societies as they exist today are an attempt to once again speak the same language — through the use of symbols and rituals — and elevate themselves to a god-like status.

The Tower of Babel, Genesis 11:1-9

11 At one time all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words. 2 As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.

3 They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) 4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”

5 But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building. 6 “Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!7 Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”

8 In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.

This mystery religion morphs and emerges through every subsequent empire — from the Greeks to the Romans to modern day.

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