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As promised, at the end of the last episode, today I'm going to connect and close the gaps opened up in last week's story. About Carol Quigley's book, tragedy, and hope, the Stanley Monteith lecture, Cecil Rhodes, and Secret Societies. You might find it worth listening to the previous podcast if you haven't already done so, but I don't think it's absolutely necessary.
I was relating the connection between Cessle John Rhodes, founder of Radesha, a book by Carol Quigley called Tragedy Anne Hope, which was about secret societies and conspiracies. As discussed in a 1997 lecture given by Stanley Montice. It was very clear that Doctor Montice had little time for Cecil Rhodes. Who was our national hero when I was at school because I grew up in Rhodesia, and I wanted to find out why. There is, first of all, a big mystery about tragedy and hope.
It was published and well received in 1966, The publisher was McMillan Anne Co. And within months of publication, they were either taken over or combined with another publishing company, the name lives on, even now. But the plates for the first half of the book mysteriously disappeared. And time passed, a lot of time passed. The original in full, was 1348 pages long. It was about the role of power in society Anne I've read that originally it was intended for academic use.
That is as a textbook for students. And even that it was banned for a time in the United States because of its popularity, I suppose, or the sensitivity of the information within it.
So due to the missing plates, years elapsed between the printing of the first and second editions, and Quigley made numerous attempts to find out what had happened to the missing first section Obviously, there was a lot more to publishing books in those days because there were no, word processors and storage and all the things we take for granted these days. Eventually, the publishers admitted to Mrs. Quidley that the plates had been lost.
And so the book has never been reproduced in its entirety. So this is all interesting and relevant because Quidley's own interests lay in exposing the unseen Anne and seek societies that rarely run governments and non governmental agencies, such as the CIA, the FBI, mi5, mi6, and so on. Quite clearly, It was felt back in the 1960s that he had exposed far too much sensitive information to the general public.
Even so, to be honest, I suspect that the detail must have gone over the heads of many of those who read it. Others who were ahead of the curve in the latter decades of 20th century, such as Bill Cooper, Ed Griffin Anne our own David Ike, in the UK, met with little success in their attempts to shake people out of their apathy In short, to wake up and smell a coffee and take some kind of action. Oh, this is fascinating stuff.
But it won't be happening for years years yet, has been the general consensus, I suspect, until the COVID fee yasco provided the rude awakening to jolt folks out of their comfort zones. So I had been watching this twenty five year old lecture given by Stanley Monteith. On the subject of Professor Quidley's book, tragedy, and Hope, he had known Carol Quidley personally, and was delivering his own perspective on the book.
The mystery of the missing plate, and indeed this idea that there's an invisible government running America and the world. Doctor. Monteith comments that since 1953, every head of the Federal Reserve, most secretaries of state, most directors of the CIA, and 7 of the last presidents as of 1997 had come via the CFR. So what is the CFR?
Well, It stands for the Council of Foreign Relations, and it developed from the round table which was a secret society that enjoyed enormous power and influence at the very beginning of the last century. It's Quigley's hypothesis that it was Cecil Rhodes of Radija Fame. Who was responsible for the societies coming into being. Quigley was a liberal, and he had no great objection.
To this idea of control by a secret society, and after all, the idea was not new There have been secret societies we know about going right back to the Samarians, and possibly the best known secret society today, is the masons, which has an elaborate and very, very secret Anne structure, where those on the lowest levels generally have no idea of the existence of the higher levels far less how to get there You will send the ranks, apparently, only by invitation, not by application.
And therefore, only if you are assessed by others as being suitable. At each level, you are sworn by blood oaths, which get more and more horrifying and gruesome, that you will maintain secrecy and carry out whatever you are ordered to do. We know that numerous famous people have made it to the highest level, which is known as the 33rd degree in the Scottish right, Walt Disney was a famous level 33, Duke of Kent, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin Roosevelt, Jay Ed Gahouva, and numerous Rockefeller.
And it's been said, and Nelson Mandela was as well. Oh, and incidentally, I don't believe the guy that came out of prison was the original Nelson Mandela that went in I don't like what I've read about these upper levels of the masons, but there's no question that a lot of good is achieved by large members in the bottom 3 ranks, which is about as high as most members aspire to rise Cecil Rhodes was a mason. And when I heard that, I was concerned.
But I haven't turned up any evidence of great enthusiasm or high achievement in this exclusive club. He joined when he was fairly young as many do, and indeed it could be that the Organization Anne pyramid structure inspired him to model his secret society for the furtherance of the British empire, on the tried and tested masonic pyramid structure.
I have to admit to a certain amount of bias where roads is concerned, and I genuinely believe that he founded his secret society with the best of intentions. Bear in mind that rather naturally, Americans hated the very idea of the British empire, they achieved their independence in 17 76, and outwardly, at least they cut ties with the old country and with the monarch. So Doctor. MonTeith refers to roads as the ultimate villain and mastermind, and I contend that this is more than a little unfair.
However, I have learned that it's absolutely true that Rhodes formed a secret society. Anne it was originally called the Society of the elect. It was specifically for the furtherance of the British empire. Anne this is unusual amongst secret societies because the, the raison Detra for a secret society is not usually declared. And back in 18 91, when the society was birthed, times were very different.
Rhodes was highly ambitious, and he was channeling all his ambition away from himself personally and into the expansion of the British Empire because he thought of it as a truly benevolent enterprise. Rhodes had already amassed great wealth from his diamond mining and gold mining ventures in South Africa. Because he was in there right at the start Anne with a natural aptitude for business and strategic partnerships.
I think I once read that his initial endeavors might have been financed by Roth's Child Money which is a big red flag, but actually so what? They were bankers. So they also will have made a small, or more likely a large fortune out of those new gold and diamond mining. Venturers. Rhodes formed the BSA C, which is the British South Africa company. To push north across the Great Limpopo River to the largely unknown lands between South Africa and Kenya both of which were, British colonies.
His dream was to create a strip of British empire all the way from the cape in the south to Cairo in the north. And he used his own company's money to finance the venture. So the federation of Radesha Anne Niasaland was the result his name was honored, and why wouldn't it be? And in the 1960s, this became Zambia Malawi, Anne Southern Radisha, which was just across the border from South Africa, became known as just Radisha. Southern Rhodesia had never been just an average colony.
It had achieved self government in 1923, and it operated largely autonomously. Ever since, Rhodesia naturally wanted independence when Zambia and Malawi were granted theirs, but the Brits never recognized that they were a special case, already with 3rd generation white settlers resident there just like in South Africa. And this led to the unilateral declaration of independence or UDI in 1965.
And to 15 years of hostility between Radesha and Britain, including sanctions, of Corbin, and an ever escalating terrorist war, where the black gorilla fighters were financed up by 2 factions. The communists and the Marxists because there were 2 main tribes involved. The story has a very unhappy ending, which I will conclude shortly, but what has all this to do with secret societies?
Well, everything is connected And if Carol Quigley is right Anne I think he is about what happened to Rhodes society, The connections lead right up through the world wars to the push for 1 world government that's facing us today. So why did Rhodes found that society? Why was he convinced it would be a force for good? Apparently, it all traces back to a lecture that he attended at Oxford University in 18 7 He'd already been to South Africa at that stage, but he was visiting the UK.
The lecture was given by John Ruskin, on the topic of empire, and the responsibility of British nobility. Rhodes was a grammar school boy himself. He was attending Oxford possibly as a mature student, if not a visitor, aged about 27. And the Ruskin lecture was all based on ideas from Plato's Republic, a world government that overcomes the failings of democracy where the elite classes are in charge because they are best fitted to the task.
Rhodes took these ideas back to Africa where his other great inspiration came from King Solomon's Minds. And within a very few years, his enormous wealth had already been amassed. He formed his society of the elect in 1876, with himself at the head, and 3 others, Milner, Sted, and Brett, who was later, Lord Isha, as his inner core left tenants. He bequeathed vast sums to this society in his will. Anne he died in 1902 aged only forty 9, but the society most certainly lived on.
It became the round table in 1909 with Milner still at the helm Anne lord Isha was there as well, and he was now an adviser to the king. The round table was the dominant force orchestrating World War 1, which killed off a whole generation of young men in Britain. So at the Paris Peace conference, Milder Anne Co reached out to their American cousins, Anne that was the birth of the council for Corbin relations. So it did start with Rhodes's society but it's not what roads had in mind.
The book, tragedy, and hope sets out how control of our banks corporations, foundations, and even governments lies hidden from view. Along with other intentions, such as keeping banking's biggest secret how credit is formed by magicing money out of nothing over and over again Anne charging extortionate interest to the unsuspecting mugs who borrow it. How everyone was to be numbered at birth, and therefore taxed, how elections would be held where the outcome was planned in advance.
And it wouldn't matter anyway which side won because both sides would be controlled by the same masters. So is Rhodes's money behind the movement towards a new world order. I regret to say that it looks that way. And I can only say that this book tragedy and hope, appears to me to be all tragedy and no hope. I think It's an object lesson in the law of unintended consequences. Cecil Rhodes must be revolving in his grave. As he reflects on what his money has been used for.
What happened to his country, Rhodesia? How it became Zimbabwe in 1980 after the very first of the obviously rigged elect an election skillfully rigged by the British who wanted rid of a problem. They wanted rid of a little rebellious colony in Southern Africa that no one cared about, except for the people who lived there. The Brits put the Marxist controlled Machona Drive in Charge. Under Robert Mugabe, which led to the almost immediate slaughter of over a million from the losing Matabini side.
That was communist backed. My family left essentially as refugees, as my folks lost everything and had to start over as 40 somethings. I'll just finish with these Lovely words penned by Rajyard Kipling, who was a personal friend of Cecil Rhodes. And the words can be seen at the Rhodes Memorial in the Cape province of South Africa. The intense and brooding spirit still shall quicken and control. Living he was the Anne, and dead, his soul shall be her soul.
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