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Feb. 8, 2024 - The Leo Zagami Show
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The Origins of Islam, Baphomet, and Secret Societies
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- Here we are.
The Leo Zagami Show is back on Wednesday with Exploring the Illuminati Occult, Part 48 with Leo and Chrissy Zagami!
Today, a very particular episode.
This might generate some controversy, but it's definitely going to be something that I think the serious students, those who want to really understand about the Illuminati, need, absolutely.
So, here we go!
Oh, it's the dance!
It's the dance!
You missed this dance, guys?
Ooh, I missed it.
Exploring the Illuminati Occult Part 48, The Origins of Islam, Baphomet, and Secret Societies.
What is all this going to be about?
We made it through the snow, you see.
We made it through the storm, yes.
California was hit very badly.
At least nine people died.
May they rest in peace.
This unfortunately happens here in America.
Sometimes we have some wild weather.
In California we're not really used to all this water, but it seems in the last year and a half we have water in abundance.
So this gives us an oasis here.
The dry, deserted climate that was announced with the global warming and never materialized here in California, at least.
It's changing.
It's changing.
It's kind of a London weather.
It's becoming quite cold, I must say.
So that's great.
We can save money on the air conditioning.
Absolutely.
And we want to thank, first of all, our sponsors.
Christy, who are today's sponsors?
Okay, so we have Marsha Walls, Bruce Kodish, Malgorizata Minza, and Frederick Winfield.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for supporting today's initiative.
It was really something I wanted to do, to test the ground, to see if people still enjoy the dance macabre and what goes with it.
So here we go with a very complex show, in a way, but also a very revealing show, especially if you are interested in the history of secret societies, because secret societies
are a phenomenon of great antiquity, like I wrote in Volume 1, but they generate from the Middle East, Egypt, Syria, those areas are at the center of the development of the secret societies that will also lead to the birth of the Knights Templars, the Freemasons and whatnot, so at least that's what a lot of scholars tend to think.
So here we go with, of course, first of all, talking about Islam, not an easy subject and also quite a controversial one.
At the moment, we are divided here with this new world disorder in two factions because before the Knights Templars, the Illuminati, were kind of driving both factions against each other.
They still do, in a way, they still do.
But today, let's say, at least in appearance, the Shiite faction is closer to Russia and China, while instead the Sunni faction is, of course, promoted and embraced by The United States of America and these factions tend to fight a lot but today we're going to discover what generated all this hate.
So let's start with this brief history of the Islamic faith, Christi, because there is at least the doctrine of Islam has three dogmas.
Monotheism, a belief in the prophet, which is, of course, Muhammad, and the law of retribution.
There is also five pillars of Islam.
We're going to talk about them later on, at least traditional Islam, because Islam started with Prophet Muhammad and then continued with another four caliphs, then a kind of loss to another caliphate that took over the Umayyad then a kind of loss to another caliphate that took over But the first caliphate, of course, was considered the best because it was made up of people who either knew Muhammad and fought with him
Oh, either they were relatives, cousins and so on.
So here we have a lot to say about the not so peaceful birth of Islam because Mohammed might have had good intention himself.
Who knows?
God only knows, of course.
But the problem is that after his death, things change quite soon.
However, it's important to understand a little bit the world of Islam.
Of course, we will not include today the Sufi part because that will lead to a Even more extensive, and probably we could discuss it in further episodes.
We want to focus on the birth of Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, Ismailis that came from the Shias, the Nizari, and many other sects, even some that were born out of Islam and then left Islam to create something new, completely new, like the Druzes, for example.
So, where it all started, and here we will discuss also the Alberta Rivera theory, I mean, testimony of a briefing that was held in the Vatican by a certain Cardinal Bea, who was a Jesuit and was central to the Second Vatican Council.
But first of all, I want to start from where it all started, because I know that Alberto Rivera's work is of course very popular among the evangelists.
It was popularized by a cartoon series that was based on religious themes.
But it actually, when you go in and study his work, I mean, You can understand that there is a great preparation.
I mean, so we will definitely also discuss what appeared in Chick tracks in 1988 in the episode The Prophet, because it led to a lot of controversy.
And so this is very important that we can clear up controversies, at least discuss them openly here.
Now, Mohammed came at the establishment of a new religion, but not immediately.
He was basically a left orphan at a very young age.
And at that point, he was brought up by an uncle, and he was actually held in high esteem as a good merchant, an honest merchant.
He was somebody who was a hard worker, was very, like I said, honest and ethically correct for the time.
But what happens?
What happens is that at 25 years of age, things start to change.
And they also start to change when Muhammad marries his first wife.
His first wife was called Khadija.
And Khadija was one of the first converts, of course.
Some say the first convert was Ali.
Then, of course, we have many others who claim to be, depending on the branches of Islam, to be more or less relevant.
However, you see, the wives are always, of course, the first ones.
And in this case, Khadija was a very rich widow.
Who married the rather young Mohammed, who after 20 years started to have these revelations.
What happens here is very important, and why I talk about Khadija and not the other wives at the moment is because the cousin of Khadija was a guy called Waraki bin Nafal, and he was a Christian.
And Warach presumably died in 1610, and so shortly after, Mohammed is said to have received his first engeric revelation, but he had already started a whole preparation, a spiritual preparation, thanks to this Christian Warach Ibn Nafal.
And, in fact, that's also one of the subjects that will be later picked up also by this alleged Jesuit Alberto Rivera for his theory.
However, it's important to go by the Hadiths, which are the traditional, you see, you have the Koran and then you have the Hadiths, which are basically a testimony of the life of the Prophet by scholars which are recognized as legitimate, like the canonical Gospels for the Christians.
These are the canonical writings of the Islamic world.
And in one of them, in particular, By a guy called Muhammad Ibn Nisa and known as Al-Tirmidhi.
He was an influential 9th century Islamic scholar and traditionalist who wrote a book, actually who wrote the Hadiths, right?
One of the canonical Hadith compilation in Sufi Islam called Sadi Al-Tirmidhi.
And in this book we find already a mention of Baraki bin Nafal and his role.
Because the Muslims tend to Say that Barack Ibn Nafal, if you go and search for him on the internet, even on his Wikipedia, you probably find that he was a monotheistic believer, but they never specify he was a Christian believer.
However, in the Hadiths, in the writings of people who are recognized as legitimate, especially Sunni Islam is very strict, so they stuck to the original form of Islam.
Muhammad basically said of Barak in the Sayyid al-Tirmidhi that, do not slander Barak ibn Nafal, for I have seen that he will have one or two gardens in paradise.
So he was an important figure.
Of course, it was the cousin of his first wife.
And he said, "Believe in you, but he died before your advent, This was said by Khadijah to Muhammad.
So, he was probably the first person who really believed even before the actual revelation happened.
So, Aisha, who is instead another wife of the Prophet, a little bit more controversial here.
Here we start getting into the controversial realm, so beware, Aisha is the The scholars of Islam have written and written and written on this topic, so I'm not gonna dedicate my whole show on something like this, which is obviously for you to judge.
And I mean, there is very little that people can say to defend this, but however, If you want to defend it, that's okay, and you can go with it.
However, she is also a figure who was scholarly, intelligent, and inquisitive.
She was the daughter of The guy, Abu Bakr, who will become the first caliph.
So she is the daughter of the future first caliph.
And at the same time, Aisha is basically a very inquisitive figure who likes to study and gives her own testimony, which is reported by another important testimony of the
Life of Muhammad, which is Bukhari, and so these are the words that are said by Aisha about Waraki bin Nafal, and they are basically reports, and they are two different reports.
The first one is by Tirmidhi, the other one by Bukhari.
Let's see what they say.
Christy, here we go!
I know that this is not an easy one, But I'm sure that God will protect you in all your endeavors.
The Prophet returned to Khadija's while his heart was beating rapidly.
She took him in Waraq bin Naufal, who was a Christian convert and used to read the Gospel in Arabic.
Waraq asked the Prophet, what do you see?
where he told him, Rafa said, that is the same angel whom Allah sent to the prophet Moses.
Should I live till you receive the divine message?
I will support you strongly.
As we have just reported, he didn't live to witness anything.
But let's say that soon after the whole manifestation of the Quran.
However, there is also a different version, the version of Alberto Rivera, which we will give, which is very detailed and makes us think that there is a lot of work behind the revelations of Rivera, even if these revelations were then placed on a comic book, which is unusual.
But the revelations are pretty interesting.
So let's go with the second testimony, the one by Bukhari, always about Aisha and what she reports here.
Khadijah then accompanied him to her cousin Barak bin Naufil Assad bin Abdul Uzzah, now the name got even longer, who during the pre-Islamic period became a Christian and used to write the writing with Arabic letters.
He would write, From the Gospel in Arabic, as much as God wished him to write.
He was an old man and had lost his eyesight.
Khadijah said to Waraf, listen to the story of your nephew.
Because also this is very important.
It was the cousin of Khadijah, but it was also the nephew of Muhammad.
All these people were relatives in this context, tribal context in Mecca.
So, Mecca was a very important place.
There was a very important passage for merchants, for people who dealt with business.
You're talking about, you know, people arriving all the way from places like China or whatever.
So here they took, of course, everybody took a cat.
In this long trip.
It wasn't like nowadays, you know?
So every time you pass a province, an empire, whatever, a region that was under the control of somebody, you had to pay.
Now, the tribe there who was in charge of the whole situation will not be so nice to Muhammad after his revelation.
And in fact, here we have from Barak a warning.
God's Apostle described whatever he had seen.
Warak said, This was the same one who keeps the secrets whom Allah had sent to Moses, Angel Gabriel.
I wish I were young and could live up to the time when your people would turn you out, God's apostle asked.
Will you drive me out?
Will they drive me out?
Will they drive me out?
Warak replied in the affirmative and said, Any one man who came with something similar to what you have brought was treated with hostility.
And if I should remain alive till the day when you will be turned out, then I would support you strongly.
But after a few days, Barak died and the Divine Inspiration was also paused for a while.
This is basically the Islamic connection to Christianity and possibly to the Vatican, at least for this very controversial Jesuit.
Now, at this point, I would say that we can put the air conditioning in because we are melting here.
I mean, with the... So here, first of all, I would like to cite a passage, I think, that I find fundamental from the Gospels in this situation and in what we're gonna be basically We are studying today in our work, because today is going to be a very particular show.
So, in this show, we find ourselves reminding of the fruits that Matthew talked, the fruits that the righteous religions, like Christianity...
I want to second because here it's of course very important to get it right.
Matthew 7:15 is very clear on this point.
We can of course use various versions.
Here in front of me I have of course the King James one.
You will know them by their fruits, Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Now it's very important.
You will know them by their fruits and the fruits of Islam have been very controversial.
From the very start.
So we need to discuss them with respect, of course, to people's religious faith.
And for that reason, I wanted to discuss and bring in, of course, Alberto Rivera's revelations.
But let's remember that there was always a controversy surrounding Alberto Rivera because he was born in the Canary Islands.
In the Canary Islands, he came to America.
He told people he was a Jesuit, but then there is people who said he was not a Jesuit.
However, I must say that the guy who promoted him with his cartoons and his publishing company made the effort to, in a way, bring some clarity by publishing some photos.
Now I see if I can find this.
A way to bring in the photos because we have here a lot of problems with the technical side, but let's see if we can.
Maybe I can go on safari here and maybe we'll be maybe I can actually.
open Safari in this Mac if it's possible so I can say.
I managed to open Chrome so at least I can get it going.
Okay, so it's very important here that we understand that what we are about to say is not necessarily 100% verifiable because his testimony was about a secret meeting that was holding the value.
However, However, the character he describes was actually the guy who was one of the most important Jesuits and was a central figure in the Second Vatican Council, and his secretary was Father Malachi Martin.
And to my knowledge, in his lifetime, Father Malachi Martin never really, I mean, never said anything that Rivera was not a Jesuit.
I mean, I might be wrong, but at least to my knowledge, I never heard Malachi Marti talking about Alberto Rivera.
And on this page of Chick Publications, Because it's very important that we make this clear before then, you know, introducing his testimony, because the evangelical world has taken Alberto Rivera's testimony very seriously.
And in this photo, actually, and, you know, you know, I mean, I've been in the Catholic Church all my life, so I know what a Jesuit look like.
And a Jesuit always wears gray, like, like a young Alberto Rivera.
Also, we have him here.
as a Jesuit with young women.
So this guy is not a fraud.
I mean, it seems like he was taken at the parish school in San Lorenzo.
We're talking here about places which I know very well.
So I don't think it's possible to make that kind.
Also because, I mean, Alberto Rivera died a long time ago There was no artificial intelligence, fakes and so on.
So these photos were not generated in that way.
Father Maraki Martin died in 1999, so two years after Alberto Rivera, who died of a mysterious food poison in 1997.
He was poisoned various times and in the end he was basically killed.
Nine years, I think, nine years after the Prophet was published, which was one of six of Jack the Chick's comics.
And in this Prophet, in this comic book called The Prophet, and now I'm going to get Christy to read some of this testimony.
There is an important testimony by Cardinal Bea about the birth of Islam that was They say, generated, created by the Vatican.
Now, so this, of course, we don't have any other sources to confirm, but what is said in this testimony is so detailed that one really thinks about it and it's like quite incredible, the testimony that he brings together.
We said, of course, we talked about it, but now I want to also show you not only Alberto Rivera's A Young Priest, but also the comics repo that we were talking about.
The Prophet Chick publications came out in 1988, and there is, you can find easily the PDF online, probably, to download and so on.
But I just want to show you some of the images of this important comic strip.
I mean, I don't think there has been a comic strip to this day so controversial within the religious environment.
I mean, usually comic strips that talk about religion are judged as quite boring.
And Alberto Rivera's testimony on various issues, including this one, were brought to the attention of this creator of this comic strip, which was very clever also in detailing everything.
He wrote Alberto Double Cross, the Godfather, the Force, the Godfathers for Horseman and the Prophet in 1988.
Which I think was his last one, and it's the one that is judged as probably the more controversial.
And Jack Chick died in 2016, otherwise we would probably have asked him to be on the show.
But definitely it is important, I think, for Christie to read this now that That we have introduced the subject in a way that, you know, we have taken the serious references which can't be, you know, debunked by any Muslims because they're part of the Hadiths.
Now we go instead in the testimony which is alleged.
I have to read the alleged stuff?
Yes.
A wealthy Arabian lady who was a faithful follower of the Pope played a tremendous part in this drama.
She was a widow and named We don't name Khadija.
She gave her wealth to the church and retired to a convent but was given an assignment.
She was to find a brilliant young man who could be used by the Vatican to create a new religion and become the Messiah for the children of Israel.
Khadija had a cousin named Barak.
Who was also a very faithful Roman Catholic and the Vatican placed him in a critical role as Muhammad's advisor.
He had tremendous influence on Muhammad.
Teachers were sent to young Muhammad and he had intensive training.
Muhammad studied the works of St.
Augustine which prepared him for his great calling.
The Vatican had Catholic Arabs across North Africa spread the story of a great one who was about to rise up among the people and to be the chosen one of their God.
So this is very important, but let's move forward because we have more about this alleged testimony given by the Jesuit Cardinal Bea in the presence of Alberto Rivera.
While Muhammad was being prepared, he was told that his enemies were the Jews and that the only true Christians were Roman Catholic.
He was taught that others calling themselves Christians were actually wicked imposters and should be destroyed.
Many Muslims believe this.
Muhammad began receiving divine revelations and his wife's Catholic cousin, Barak, You don't have to continue here because I mean we don't want to read the whole thing, it's a bit too long.
But let's say this, that then Alberto Rivera adds to this incredible account the following.
When Cardinal Beyer shared with us in the Vatican, he said, these writings are guarded because they contain information that links the Vatican to the creation of Islam.
Both sides have so much information on each other that if exposed, it could create such a scandal that it would be a disaster for both religions.
So this is, I repeat, a theory which is prevalent very much in the evangelical world.
We wanted to mention it on the origins of Islam.
We don't know how truthful it is because it was reported by Alberto Rivera.
However, Alberto Rivera showed also His credentials as a Jesuit regarding also his being a priest, not only in the photos, but also in documents that he shared that were judged as authentic.
So we don't really understand here how much credibility we can give to this story, but having studied the whole, because then this testimony goes on, it explains why in the Quran they substituted Isaac with Ishmael as the child that was supposed to be sacrificed to God.
This is a very important key detail of the whole thing.
On top of that, there is the fact that Cardinal Bea says that basically Jesus was included, but only as a prophet, so to build the respect for the Pope.
This is a period in which monotheism was not spread widely.
A lot of countries were still practicing paganism, including Mecca.
That's why at one point after his revelation started he had to abandon and go to 12 Days by Camel, the place which is now called Medina, which is basically the translation of City of the Prophet.
Basically Medina became the place where he lived and will live most of his life.
Though he will go back to Mecca, he will overtake the tribe that kicked him out.
They converted But here the problem starts because you see, okay, Mecca is taken and Mecca, as you know, is the holy place.
It is a holy place where all Muslims have to go because the five tenets of Islam include also a pilgrimage during your lifetime to Mecca.
So what is Islam made of?
It's made of various pillars.
So the pillars of Islam that are fundamental in this are the professional faith, known as the Shahzada.
They believe that there is no God but God, and Mohammed is the messenger of God, which is central to Islam.
And then one becomes a Muslim simply by deciding the phrase with conviction.
So there is not all the bureaucratic administration.
And for that reason, the religion spread like a virus.
Now this was good in a way For some people who said better believing in one god than believing in a bunch of gods, especially because when Muhammad returned to Mecca he destroyed all the statues of all the pagan gods that he said were satanic.
So, Muslim pray facing Mecca.
It's called the Salat.
It's done five times a day.
That is part of the five pillars of Islam.
Then you have the Zakat, which is basically when the Muslims go around and fix a portion of their wealth, of their income, to give to community members in need.
And then there is the fasting, the Sun, which is During the daylight hours of the Ramadan and most people nowadays know about because nowadays Muslims are spread all over the West, so we know what that means.
And then we have, like I said, the Hajj, the pilgrimage, which every Muslim whose health and finances permit, of course, need to visit at least once in their life this cubical stone.
Some say it's a meteorite that was worshipped even in pre-Islamic times, but this generates, with them going around it, a egregore of great power which is guided with prayer, constant prayer in this Kaaba in Mecca.
And of course this is done in specific days, so the Prophet Muhammad believers from all over the world gather around the Kaaba in Mecca on the 8th and 12th day of the final month of Islamic calendar.
Now these are the tenets, but these tenets then, I mean, Muhammad at one point of course dies And what happens soon after he dies?
Well, that is, you know, already, of course, the first caliph that was kind of put together by, was voted, was the father of Aisha.
the first was the father of Aisha.
And then you have the fourth imam, sorry, the fourth caliph of this Rashidun caliphate, which were the first four prophets are called the righteous prophets because they were close which were the first four prophets are called the righteous prophets because they were close to Muhammad, by the relatives, either Now, when we arrive to Ali, that's when
The situation starts getting a little bit strange because what happens is that there is a Yemenite Jew Who helps the birth of Shiite Islam?
So here we have an inclusion of Jewish people, Erev Rabs probably, people who definitely are not welcome in the Jewish faith.
In fact, he's very much criticized.
Who helps not only the rise of Ali, but then the So, here we have the Shiites, but they were not yet Shiites.
was the fourth, we said the fourth prophet and the husband of the daughter of Muhammad Fatima.
So here we have the Shiites, but then we're not yet Shiites.
There were some wars that generated this breakup.
And behind also these wars, there was this Abdul Allah Ibn Sabah, a Yemenite Jew from the Arab tribe, the Umayyad tribe, who converted to Islam during the Uthman reign and wanted to overthrow the caliphate that preceded Ali, and he participated in the Battle of the Camps.
The Battle of the Camel was together, I mean, it wasn't really yet the beginning of the Islamic civil war, but definitely after a few years we have the Islamic civil war that started and probably never ended between all these factions, which started to break up.
The first faction, can I ask you to put more air conditioning?
Because one thing that I understood is when I treat these subjects of great importance, you need to have air just like a computer.
Basically, your brain needs to be cool, otherwise you lose it.
So it's something that absolutely... Alex Jones keeps his studio really cold.
There's like icicles growing off of him.
Yeah, absolutely.
But I completely understand it.
I completely understand.
So, I mean, you understand, I mean, you are, Talking about all these names, you have to remember them, you have to remember the contest, your brain needs to go sharp, and so the cooling, it's like cooling on a computer.
Okay, so the 4th Rashidun Caliph was from 656 to 661, after the Battle of the Camel, Ali.
Having said this, Ali bin Abi Talib, the cousin, son-in-law of Muhammad, had been the flag bearer, the great warrior of Islam who fought like killed six people with one.
I mean, it was a beast.
So the guy managed to arrive to the role of caliph.
But that's when the people from the Quraysh tribe that were actually Mecca before, when they were pagan, started to creep back in and wanted to build their own caliph.
At that point, Muhammad was dead for a long time.
And they thought, well, we want the caliph too.
I mean, we have converted.
Now let's build our own caliphate.
It can not only be the relatives of the prophet in this business, especially after the Battle of the Camel.
Like I said, Abdul Allah bin Sabah, who is considered the first gulat extremist.
Gulat means extremist.
And he was the first one to declare the faith in the Imamato valley.
Now, I find Islam is weak under this aspect, because Islam has not nominated Mohammed God.
He's a prophet.
So by not doing what these people there did with the Council of Nicaea and literally bringing Jesus to the status of God, at that point there is no comparison.
It's just God, Jesus, and that's it.
Instead, with Islam, whomever created Islam, has generated a religion which is weak under this aspect because anybody can come up and say, well, I'm also prophet of equal importance almost, especially I'm also prophet of equal importance almost, especially when you enter the realm of Shia Islam.
Shia Islam becomes the second branch of Islam still to this day, At some points it was extremely powerful.
It was controlling even Mecca and Medina.
It was controlling basically from the Red Sea to Italy.
So that was south of Italy started and the whole the Fatimids controlled everything.
But the Fatimids, how they became so powerful?
Because they came along a little bit later on and it's very important to understand first of all The imamites believe in Shiite Islam because they were Shiite Islam.
Then, of course, what happens with the Shiites?
They believe in something called the Twelver Shiite, which is basically a number of imams, which are not just the concept of Sunni imams.
Anybody can be an imam in Sunni Islam.
But in Shiite Islam, the imam is the ultimate teacher.
And the last imam will be Imam al-Mahdi who lives in occultation and will reappear as the promised Mahdi and basically, when Jesus arrives, he will help him.
So, the Mahdi We'll be there helping Jesus with the non-believers of the Christian faith because remember that Jesus has said, at least in their point of view, he will not trust the Christians because they have betrayed him over and over and over again.
So this is the point of view that they are carrying on.
I'm just giving you Regardless of what we believe ourselves, an insight.
Now, 85% of Shia Muslims are connected to 12-verse Shiism, believing in these various Imams that came along, and the ultimate being the Mahdi.
However, when the founder of the Fatimids came along, he He declared himself immediately muddy.
So that's it.
And I mean, the Rashidun caliph and the caliphs, the fourth, the fifth one lasted very little.
At that point, of course, I told you there was all the competing factions and other caliphates were formed.
But ultimately, when the Shia sect started to expand, something happened because they expanded in places like Persia.
And Persia was fueled with secret societies.
The Zoroastrians, the Manichaeans, the remains of the Essenes, all kinds of secret societies.
And these secret societies wanted to destroy Islam because they went into a lodge, a sort of lodge, you know, actually a lodge was established then in Cairo for this purpose.
And in this lodge, they said, they read the whole Quran and said, okay, this is not holy at all.
We need to destroy this religion, but we will profess this religion.
I mean, this is insane, but this is what happened.
So, nowadays, the big war that you see, still, the Houthis, Shiites shooting the Sunnis that basically represent the Hamas.
Nowadays, for the first time with the Shiites, this is quite incredible.
For the first time, we have a convergence that never happened before.
When the Night's Temples came along, the Shiites will be their allies against the Sunnis, and that's where the sect of the assassins, which was part of Shia Islam, will help them by assassinating people on commission for them.
And the head, the Grand Master, which was initiated first into the Cairo Lodge.
So the Cairo Lodge had nine degrees, and the Cairo Lodge is a very important subject, not touched very much by author's ideas, I think the only one who remotely touched it is Edith Starmiller, and I think also there was another important historian who gave up, because Edith Starmiller, of course, is considered more of a conspiracy theorist, but there is some serious historians that talked about this
Lodge in Cairo.
And now let's talk about, because this arrives to Sicily, arrives to Sicily where the roots of the word mafia include mafi, that means expected to pay in Islamic law the giza, which is basically the money you have to pay if you open a shop, as like, it's the mafia.
That is something, and the Mafir was the name of an Arab tribe that ruled Palermo.
Palermo was very difficult to take over.
The first, you see, the first city that they managed, when they started to take over Sicily, Palermo was definitely the most difficult one, but then they established themselves.
They established themselves already at the time of the second Caliph, Fatah Muhammad.
I mean, just literally a few years after, and the takeover of Sicily was quite weird, the whole thing happened in a very weird way, because the Byzantine Empire, Christian Empire was there, and this is why the Alberto Rivera story has some elements of truth.
When he says that the Vatican used Islam to then conquer the whole of North Africa and south of Italy and control it, in a way the Fatimids became later on, but the first conquerors of Sicily were not Shia Islam, they were Sunni.
They were Sunni and they were actually a group connected to one of the followers, direct followers of Muhammad.
They were known as the Agrabids.
Now, the Agrabids were a dynasty centered in the city of Ifriya, which was very, very important before Cairo raised to power and was known as Al-Maghrib Al-Andana.
Now, it was a historic region more than a city.
There was, of course, a city of reference, but it was a whole region compromising of today's Tunisia, Algeria and Tripolitania.
So that's part of Libya.
Now, this group of Sunni Islamic, they followed officially the Hanafi Sunni Islam, but some people say that they were also connected to the sects that were behind Islam and they were not really Muslim.
However, the Aghlabids conquered parts of Sicily, Southern India, and possibly Sardinia, and made them vassals of the Abbasid Caliphate.
However, when the Fatimids took control of Cairo, and later at that point they took control also of Sicily, But the Aghabites took control of Sicily because they were called in by an internal revolt of Christian Byzantines.
So some people within Sicily were traitors.
They let the Arabs in with all their armies, and at that point, even the ones that were fighting each other within this Shia-Sunni thing, they all came to see, wait, let's raid Sicily, let's all go to the center of the Mediterranean and have a feast.
The Fatimids were very powerful when they rose to power, but they rose to power later on.
But when they rose to power as descendants of Fatim and Halid, that's why they're known as Fatimids, their caliphate, the Fatimid caliphate, became the most powerful caliphate that existed, especially from the 10th to the 12th century after Christ.
Under the rule of the Fatimids, we have basically the whole of the Middle East, Sicily, parts of south of Italy also had constantly been conquered.
There was an emirate of Bari in Puglia.
I mean, you're talking about south of Italy being constantly raided or constantly under the rule of Muslims.
And this happened until the year 1040, when my ancestors from the Normans, the Normans were the German, the Frederick the Great, and then Frederick the Second.
These are the Normans that arrived from Germany, from the Sacred Roman Empire.
They went and said, ah, we had enough with this cold weather in Germany.
Let's go and just up in Sicily, raid Sicily, kick out the Muslims, and re-transform the churches that had been transformed in the meantime in mosques back to churches.
A lot of times in Sicily, you actually in Palermo see churches which look like mosques.
I was wondering.
Yeah, because they were mosques.
So the opposite thing happened, of course, in Istanbul, where the Byzantine Empire led to the Turks.
The Turks became very powerful even before the Ottoman Empire, but they were Sunni and they will be the one that eventually will destroy the Fatimids.
The Turks attacked the Fatimids with Saladin and at that time the Templars were working with the Fatimids.
That also gives us an idea that the Fatimids were very close to the Vatican and very close to the Byzantine Empire because, yes, they had invaded and taken their territory, but then they made so much business.
Cairo, you know, without Cairo, the port of... and then Alexandria and the port.
You can't bring anything from the East.
And so here we have the origins of Islam, but soon you will see also the origins of Baphomet.
So let's go back into the lodge of the Caliph, of the Fatimid Caliphate, because I personally, of course, as a Sicilian, I'm descended from my maternal grandmother, from Normans, Nonna Lydia, from the ones that came And they were actually tutors of the Emperor, so they went there with him in Sicily.
And then actually, which was against the Vatican later on, because the Vatican was signing too much with these Fatimids and all this stuff, and all these Arabs playing always very shady games.
But the island where my grandfather instead, paternal grandfather, comes from is Alicur.
Alicur, because the Rock of Ali, because there were Shiite Muslims who He took base there.
He does.
He looks really... He actually, when I brought him for the first time in Turkey, he had never had been in the Middle East, but Turkey is not the Middle East, but it started getting close.
And we went on the borders with Syria.
Guys, people were just thinking he was a Turk and I don't know what.
I mean, I was like, oh my God, they were just talking to him in Turkey all the time.
And my father was like, I don't understand.
I was laughing.
He was dark.
Yeah, it was pretty dark.
In fact, once, I must say, and I apologize to the people from the Muslim world that might be offended by that.
Oh, I don't even want to hear what you have to say.
No, when I was in France with a kid, I was actually in the town of Besançon, which is the town of the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
We were having dinner and we were kind of knocking on this and this.
And I took the piece out of him and said, they're not opening the thinking you have from Morocco!
my father arrived at my father from Caesarea.
That was in Besançon.
By the way, it was the town, I think, of the last Grandmaster, Jacques de Molay.
So, I mean, it's quite characteristic.
We used to go there almost every year by car, driving from Rome to London.
Going back to the Fatimid dynasty, the British historian and author Charles William Hackerton informs us that there was a figure in this lodge in Cairo.
It was called Doial Doat, the supreme missionary or judge who shared this power with the prince, who was the caliph, and it can be described as a sort of supreme council of the Fatimid Illuminati.
That's where the Shia Islam was Enacting the sabotage towards Islam.
Inside this lodge, Lady Queensborough, Edith Starr Miller, said that basically they were only discussing science and reason.
And there was no religious attitude at all.
They were like pretty pragmatic.
The God of Reason, which is basically the God of the Illuminati.
So this were the basis.
Let's not forget one thing about the Illuminati.
Adam Bechart, for the Minervals, obliged the Minervals to learn the months of the year in Persian.
He was very much close to the Gnostics, as you know, and to the Islamic faith at Ambeyshah.
So this is what we are discussing today.
Exploring the Illuminati occult, it's always relating directly to the Illuminati.
Those sects, those Manichaeans, those Zoroastrians, are the ones that then So, going forward with the Fatimid Caliphate, the meetings were held in a lodge in Cairo, which contained many books and scientific instruments, said also Eckhart Thorne, which was cited by Lady Queensborough.
We find out that the real aim of this mysterious lodge was perfectly in line with today's Illuminati, that are born out of the heresies, collected later on by the Knights Templars, whom embrace in secret a certain form of Shia Islam which was born out of this lodge.
Because there is a guy who a lot of people now know because, of course, especially in American culture, William Barrows and Brian Gysin were pretty obsessed by the holy man of the mountain who everything is true, nothing is true and everything is permitted kind of mentality.
And my grandmother.
So, you know, they were all secret agents.
They were all people who were working either for the British or the American intelligence.
And they were all very much into studying all these forms of religion.
Now, Ismailism, which has seven pillars, was born out of the Twelve Vershia and out of the Fatimids.
Ismailism, basically, after the death of Mohammed ibn Ismail, who was the eldest son of the serf who is considered a serf, they believe that he's the ultimate.
So, you start seeing everybody believing in their own thing here.
It starts to become a little bit chaotic, Islam.
Mohammed, of course, was dead for a long time, so these people were kind of shifting away, apart from those who wanted to maintain the roots of their faith.
And that, to my knowledge, were, of course, the Turks.
The Turks that then will kick the ass of the Fatimids out of every territory in the Middle East.
And then later on, of course, they will give birth to the Ottoman Empire that ruled until the last century.
So for a long, long time, it was really a long...
And there was two...
And this, I mean, in honor of the truth, we have to say that there was a lot of tolerance for Christians also in the period.
But there was periods in which the Christians Now, let's discuss a little bit the birth of the Nizari and then of the Druzes, because these elements are very important for our story.
Nizaris were basically are at the moment the largest segment of Ismaili Muslims, who are the second largest branch of Shia Islam.
Shia Islam is divided in three branches today.
So imagine that.
We're getting confusing here.
I mean, they went from one thing into a million different beliefs.
And then we will discover soon the Druzes, who actually started for Islam and went for their own belief, believing the Prophet was somebody who incarnated from God, who was completely different.
So, I mean, And they don't respect the five tenants of Islam, the Druzes, but they have a very important role in the Middle East at the moment, especially in Syria.
The collection here of secret societies that comes out of Syria, Egypt, and all that area, especially Syria and Iran, that is really the birthplace where the secret societies start to have a certain kind of consistency and then are imitated that is really the birthplace where the secret societies start to have a certain kind of consistency and then are imitated by the Templars, who after seeing the Ash
So the Catholics went to around the Middle East, saw how, especially what was happening with this holy man of the mountains.
So let's discuss.
So Shiite Islam, okay, believes that Ali, the cousin of Mohammed's cousin Sonny Law, would have been the design successor to Mohammed.
One instead, the Sunnis believe it was Al-Baqarah, the father of Aisha, because he was elected.
We explained that this is very complex, so we don't want to confuse people too much because the different Islamic schools and branches have different understanding of Islam.
And there's so many that there has been also some people, even within the secret societies, who were led to confusion, especially in the case of Baphomet.
Baphomet is very important in a story, and it finds a first mention by the Knights Templars, then later on also in the trial of the Knights Templars, but Baphomet is very, very important.
And today, Guys, before the end of the show, I will show you for the first time publicly, to my knowledge, in the English-speaking world, thanks to my late friend Gabriele Mandelkaan, who was the head of a Turkish Sufi Order, the Jiraij, but was also brought up in Italy, was of Afghan descent.
He was actually Jewish, by the way, but he embraced Islam and he gave me the possibility of counteracting the criticism that I was having because I was deeply involved in, you know, trying to find an answer for the correct interpretation of Baphomet.
And I was criticized right and center by these idiots from various academic circles.
But with that, I silenced them one and for all.
So today you will see Baphomet and you will see the real Baphomet and you will understand that in reality what Baphomet was.
But let's take one thing at a time.
And by the way, for those idiots who think that the Islamic people never worship an idol, well, you don't know Islam, because Islam started in a certain way, and as you can see, spread in many different ways.
And one of these different ways was this gentleman who basically gave birth to the Nizari Ismailism.
The Nizaris are a segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second largest branch of Shi'a Islam, which has three factions.
The first faction is the Twelvers, then there is the Ismailis, and then there is a minor faction, which is almost inexistent, but still exists to this day.
So there are three factions, but mainly there is Two factions, which is the Twelvers and the Ismailis.
The Ismailis are still in existence to this day, protected by the British intelligence and their secret societies and Freemasonry.
And here you will understand also why.
The connection is very direct.
So, the Nizaris came into existence back in the time of the holy man of the mountain, with the sect of the Ashashins.
But the sect of the Ashashins was not born yet, because before being born officially out of the Nizari Ismaili order, there was, of course, Hassani Sabbah, the guy in question, who was a religious and military leader, was a member of this lodge in Cairo, was initiated into the ninth degrees.
This initiation is very important because he will replicate this initiation and Marco Polo will talk about it because it included smoking ashish, watching beautiful ladies, and the promise of a paradise in the initiation, which will be like you are prepared and brainwashed to kill.
And that also goes back to 9-11 and the question you gave me.
Because a lot of people of course connect, they say Osama Bin Laden was a Sunni, at least within the Sunni world, but he died, allegedly died, in Pakistan, surrounded by a situation in which there is a lot of Shiites and there is the remaining of the Hashashins.
The Ashashins became the Seekers.
Seekers is another sect.
It was a Jewish sect one century after Christ that started on commission to kill people.
But the Ashashins are known as Ashashins also because of Ashish.
You know, I was seeing it said Order of the Assassins.
It looks like assassins.
Assassins.
Of course, Order of the Assassins.
They lived in a place in the middle of nowhere that was impossible.
A castle that is basically in the banks of the Orontes River in West Central Syria.
Or in other castles, and their castles were pretty impossible to ever get into this castle.
Also, the initiation into this order was pretty fierce, because eventually you will become the Grand Master, but before becoming the Grand Master, you have to kill the Grand Master that preceded you.
That is the ultimate initiation.
So the Ashashins led the Templars to Their creation.
When the Knights Templars were created, they also embraced a certain form of Shia Islam in secret.
And that's where my friend Gabriele van der Kaan, in 2006, he said, Leo, I'm bringing out this knowledge.
I'm not going to live for long after I bring it out.
So he sent me this photo and I'm going to show it to you today, it's the Baphomet, but the real reason is that Baphomet is basically Mohammed on the cross.
Now this is of course, I have that heretic, no Shia Islam, no Sunni, no Islamic person will ever worship an idol.
Yes, but the Nizari did.
The Nizari in secret did, and Hecaton, the historian, writes with astonishing clarity also the birthplace of this knowledge that Sassan-i Sabbah, the holy man of the mountain, got when he was initiated in Cairo, in that lodge.
So the course of instruction was divided into nine degrees in that lodge.
The ninth degree, as a necessary result of the teaching of all the former, taught that nothing was to be believed and that everything was lawful, which is basically the motto.
Egypt especially seems as if predestined to be the birthplace of secular society, says Hecaton, who is a historian, of priests, warriors and fanatics.
It is the region of mysteries.
Kairos has succeeded the ancient Memphis, the doctrine of the Lodge of Wisdom, that of the Academy of Heliopolis.
The throne of the descendants of Fatima was to be surrounded with an army of assassins.
A formidable bodyguard, a mysterious militia was to be raised that should spread far and wide the fame and terror of the Caliphate of Cairo and inflict flatter blows on the border rule of Baghdad and of course of the Sunni.
The missionaries spread widely and in Arabian Syria, partisans were one, to whom the designs of the order were unknown, but who had, with fearful solemnity, sworn blind obedience.
The Fatimids have received in their inner sanctum, connected to this mysterious Persian sects of various kinds, who were actually aiming to destroy the original Islam.
And basically, like Ray D. Queensborough points out, the Arabs made themselves master of Persia in the 7th century, the sects of that country set to work to spread their tenets among Islam in order to undermine it.
This shocking claim is also corroborated by Eckerton, who writes, the Persian sects examined the Quran, pointed out its contradiction, like I said before, and denied its divine origin.
And so arose in Islam in that movement which attacks dogmas and destroys faith and substitutes for blind belief free inquiry.
Now, all this in a context of great great culture and religion also.
We're talking about Persia, Mesopotamia.
These are the basis of our civilization, but also Syria, not only the basis for Islam, but also the basis for Christianity.
St. Paul on the road to Damascus, we're talking about the very fundaments of Christianity.
So in this context, there was various schism.
And at one point, this Nizari came into existence and they went, hidden these places that were impossible to...
And they became professional assassins, sex of professional assassins that will also work later on for the Knights Templars, The Knights Templars copied everything from the Ashashins.
So this is very important.
The Druzes also are said to be derived from the Ashashins and they are also a very important order to this day.
A religion, by the way, not an order.
The order was the order of the Ashashins and the birth of secret societies here as we know them.
The Fatimids were imperialists and so their final goal in this portion of the Sunni caliphate.
And never in the end, Of course they conquered everything, but later on the Turks will punish them and will take everything back and destroy them methodically, as well as killing a lot of Templars who will not convert in front of their eyes.
Now these days the Muslims like to say, oh the Templars were treated well in Egypt, then they were sent back to Europe.
Well, I don't know about that.
Now, the documents, there is some documents found in a Jewish synagogue in Cairo, which I visited.
It's a remains of a Jewish synagogue in Cairo under archaeological, it was Boutros Boutros Ghali who started this archaeological process, because at the center of the most oldest Christian base in the world because the Coptic Christians are the oldest before the Vatican, before everything.
There is basically around all these beautiful churches at the center, there is this synagogue.
Because at the beginning, of course, we are talking about Christians being also Muslims, sorry, being Jews.
And of course, being Jews, they were there at the center.
And the archives of this Jewish synagogue in Cairo, mainly of the 9th to the 12th century, are the most extensive collection of the kind from Medieval Islam, and gives an impressive picture of the economic activity of the time, of the Fatimids, of their relations also with the Byzantine Empire.
And at the same time, we have, of course, The fall of all this, which brought to a methodical eradication of the Shiites from Egypt.
Today, the majority is of course Sunnis in Egypt.
You don't find really the Shiites.
The Shiites you find today in Iran, in Syria, in Lebanon, and in all those countries that are giving us also a lot of problems, of course.
But the Shiites are always being secretly connected with the Illuminati and the Knights Templars and the whole show, who use them as assassins.
So we have a lot of manipulation.
No, don't you think so?
The Lodge of Cairo was also discussed by Nesta Ellen Webster, who describes also the origins of the Druzes.
So we go and describe the origin, because the Druzes are also an important group.
They basically started as something that came from Shia Islam, but then transformed themselves in something completely different.
Because a monster of tyranny and crime, Okay, so I will basically get the description of how the Druzes described the Caliph of the time, whose reign can only be compared to that of Caligula or Nero, she said.
and was raised to the place of a divinity by one Ismail Darazi, a Turk, who in the year 1016 announced in a mosque in Cairo that the caliph should be made an object of worship.
So he said, basically, this guy, you have to worship like he's God.
Of course, this is completely not possible for an ordinary Muslim.
So what happened was that the son of this guy, punish them for what they did.
But they survived because Achim was believed to be the incarnation of divine reason.
And we go back to that lodge, the lodge in Cairo, dedicated to reason.
So when, four years later, He himself proclaimed himself to be a deity and the cult was finally established.
That was the beginning of the Druzes.
But when he started to be cruel, outraged the people, treated everybody like shit, well, one day he was walking along the streets of Cairo and he was killed, disappeared forever.
And at that point, the Sun came in and started to persecute these people who then eventually left, went to Lebanon, went to, later on, went to Syria and became the Druzes.
The thing about the Druze, though, is that they're very influential to this day in the Middle East.
And basically it's a religion monotheistic who believes that that guy was basically God.
So imagine that.
The thing about the Druze, though, is that they're very influential to this day in the Middle East.
They played a key role in Syria.
And they still play a key role in Syria, in the mountains of Syria, because at one point in the 18th century, they had to leave Syria.
Some of them had to leave Lebanon and went to Syria, and then they placed themselves there in what is known as the Mountain of the Druzes.
But also, there is another connection here.
The Druzes have a connection to Freemasonry.
In the 22nd degree of the Ancient Anaseptic Scottish Rite, which is known as Prince of Lebanon or Knight of the Royal Axe, There is a whole complex legend about these people who cut the trees and built Noah's Ark.
The trees were from Lebanon, of course, and they apparently were in the mountains of Lebanon, the ancestors of the Druzes.
So the Druzes started to become also cited very much by Masonic literature.
And for that reason, they have a connection with Freemasonry.
That is regarded important.
But the Druzes are also mentioned by some as having picked up and being also in line with the Nizari and with the Ashashins.
So here I wanted to make you read this by Nesta Ellen Webster, who describes Alakim and the origins of the Druzes in the following way.
Where do you want me to start?
Let's start from this.
A monster of tyranny and crime whose reign can only be compared to that of Caligula or Nero.
I mean, she was probably not yet able to say also somebody who probably we can also easily compare to Hitler because definitely he was an asshole.
Now raised to the place of divinity by one Ismail Darazi, so he was an Ismail, he had a Turk, who in, like I said... 1016 announced in a mosque in Tartu.
Okay, this we already said, so let's go forward.
Hakeem, who believed that divine reason was incarnated in him, four years later proclaimed himself a deity, blah blah blah.
At this point, Hakeem's cruelty, however, had to outrage the people of Egypt so much, That he was murdered by a band of... Malcontents.
Malcontents.
Led, it is said, by his sister, who afterward concealed his body, a circumstance which gave his followers the opportunity to... Declare that the divinity had merely vanished.
In order to test the faith of believers, but would reappear in time and punish apostates.
In fact, he was made to disappear.
He was killed, but nobody ever saw his body ever again.
It was made to literally disappear from the face of the earth because it was like Jesus at that point for the future Druses.
This belief came, the doctrine of the Druses of Lebanon, whom the Razi had won over to the worship of a Kachin.
It is unnecessary to enter into the details of this strange religion, which still persists today in the range of Lebanon.
Suffice to say that, although the outcome of the Ismailis...
The Druses do not appear to have embraced the materialism of Abdullah ibn Mahoum, but who have grafted on a primitive form of nature worship and of sabbism that the whole belief of the Ismaili in the dynasty of Wali and is successful.
So, at one point here, she says, and beyond this, an abstruse, exoteric creed concerning the nature of the supreme deity, God, they declare to be universal reason, which manifests himself by a series of avatars.
So, they abandoned, basically, traditional Islam, the Druzes started their own thing.
However, here also she says, they maintained the nine degrees, I mean, they took a lot, the nine degrees instituted by the Lodge of Cairo.
The Druzes are divided, in fact, into only three profanes, aspirant and wise, so they abandoned some of the degrees and they concentrated on three degrees.
One instead, apparently, The Holy Man of the Mountain went for seven, or some say nine, but picking up the whole system.
As you can see, this lodge in Cairo created a lot of problems, also because the Druzes are said to adapt.
If they live with the Christians, they go to church with the Christians.
If they go with the Muslims, they go with the Muslims.
They are very versatile to survive.
They're a little bit like a Sabbatean Francist.
And that's why also the interesting element, the Druzes, also have modes of recognition which are common to Freemasonry.
The formula of catechism of the Druzes resembles that of Freemasons.
And this is something of importance, of course.
Now, we will go on.
describing the Druzes, but we have also other to describe.
But I would say that the Druzes' important element in the politics of the area came in the 20th century when they took center stage for a rebellion against the French occupation.
So who do you think made them do that rebellion?
The English Freemasons.
The English Freemasons and the American Freemasons led the rebellion against the French.
And then later on, there was an uprising the last two years between 1925 to 1927, the Great Syrian Revolt, and that also was connected to the Druzes.
So the Druzes might be A small, numerically small group still to this day.
But when Syria raised with the Ba'ath Party, which still exists to this day, they are the ones in charge.
They were in charge also of Iraq with Saddam Hussein, but of course he was taken over.
But in Syria, they were very much Collaborating and aiding this revolution because, in a way, their blind belief in reason goes hand-in-hand with socialism and with non-belief in God.
So, one thing, the Druzes always lived within the Shiite world, but still retained and kept for themselves and participate to this day in also protecting the region.
For example, when the Turks took over, the Ottoman Empire took over those areas, they asked the Druze to protect the area for them, like the mercenaries.
Very much the Druzes have been very much in a sort of Gnostic belief system for all the course of their life.
But also they have been slaughtered.
5,000 of them were slaughtered by the Fatimids in one day.
So, I mean, that they took at heart.
That's why they left Egypt and never went back to Egypt.
But at the same time, the Druzes have been also slaughtered in 2018 by ISIS.
ISIS entered the Druze city and killed 258 Druzes.
Because at that point, they must have been, the Druzes maybe were not in line with You know, if the Druzes were maybe still working for the West, or maybe they were simply sacrificial lambs, we don't know that.
So, even though the Druzes are not considered Muslims, because their belief system has developed out of Ismailism, they have basically always been present, and like I said, they have also had some leading roles, especially in the military establishment.
After Saladin conquered and basically the Sunni, the Turks also destroyed all any hope for the Fatimids to re-establish themselves, the Fatimids tried to go back into Jerusalem When Jerusalem was taken from them.
So they managed once, but then after they were eliminated.
And the Templars, in all this, the Templars were actually given a break by Saladin.
They went to Gaza.
Gaza was always controversial, guys.
Gaza was the same Gaza as today, 800 years ago.
Same exact situation.
Always, always a problem.
Gaza basically was a problem.
The Templars were kind of, when this invasion started, they were, you know, their base was on the Temple Mount.
When they founded the Templars, their reality, their new religious reality, it was a military order and it was built with With the canon approval of the Vatican, of course, there was a religious military order.
Hassani Sabbah lived between the year 1050 and 1124.
He was the founder of the Nizari and with the order of the assassins became the main ally.
of the Nizari and with the order of the assassins became the main ally.
So these assassins that mainly were in the seat of Halimut, the eagle's knolls, Marco Polo, you know, the great traveler.
the Great Resurrection, the paradise of Earth, they were described in this way by Marco Polo.
Marco Polo, you know, the great traveler.
Marco Polo describes like this the old man of the mountain and his belief system.
The biggest and the most beautiful gardens imaginable ever.
Every kind of wonderful fruit grew there.
There were glorious houses and palaces decorated with golden paintings of the most magnificent things in the world.
Fresh water, wine, milk and honey flowed in streams.
The loveliest girls versed in the arts of caressing and flattering men played every musical instrument, danced and sang better than any other woman.
So the old man of the mountain kept himself with this mini-paradise where he would initiate his future assassins simply saying to them, you want this in your afterlife?
Well, now go and do this mission and get killed.
That is basically what the Ashashins, the brainwashing ultimately of the Ashashins.
The only ones who managed to stop the Ashashins were eventually the Mongols with Genghis Khan.
The Mongols were serious people.
They came from the other part of the planet, you know, the Mongols with their horses and stuff, and they conquered half of the world.
Actually, the whole of the known world back then almost.
The Mongols were the only one who managed to subdue the Nizari and they destroyed their castles in 1256.
At that point, though, one of them managed to escape And thanks to the collaboration of the West, and eventually also the English, it was given birth to the office of the Aga Khan.
So they went to India, they went to Pakistan, that is where they were.
So imagine they had to leave...
The Mongols subdued the Nizari and the descendants of the old man of the mountain who had taken his successors.
But they survived and basically They survived in the modern, the anglicized Indian, the Aga Khan, whose followers are the moneylenders of Islam.
Now, the profession of moneylenders is explicitly forbidden by Muhammad, so there's no moneylenders in Islam.
But the Ismailis and the Nizaris, they are the only moneylenders.
So that made them very... Nowadays, the Aga Khan, who There is a guy who is the Aga Khan of today, he's like the Pope for the Catholics.
His weight is calculated in diamonds and gold and it's like they are really rich, mega rich.
I would say they control a good chunk of the precious stones A good chunk comes from them.
Now, in the mid-19th century, eight years before the discovery of a treasure of Gnostic, I mean a long time before the famous discovery of those Gnostic writings, Charles William King, who was A British Victorian historian wrote something about the Druzes and the Assassins.
He actually says the Druzes are only the modern representatives of the suppressed Assassins.
So he thinks that the Druzes are, while instead others think that instead they are the ones headed by the Aga Khan because they are actually Nizari Ismailis.
So they were A secret body was born out of this that went in India and East Africa and was called the Khoja.
And from that, they avoided the persecution in Persia and in Syria and all those areas where they were before.
Now, the Druzes are a warrior class, but they abandoned nowadays, a lot of them say to have abandoned the more warmongering thing.
However, this is also said of the Aga Khan and his followers, who have definitely abandoned all their apocalyptic things in exchange of a more business approach, let's say, with their sector.
which is very important.
Now, interesting also that the beliefs of these groups often are coming from the Gnostic period, that often also are found Connected with the Knights Templars.
And here we are, of course, at almost the end of the show.
So here's where we get into the Baphomet and the belief in the Baphomet.
We have, of course, pretty much described a lot of things.
Also, I would like to cite the Scottish natural philosopher and historian, the inventor of the famous kaleidoscope, which is me, with Sir David Brewster, who wrote that almost all the secret associations of the ancients either flourished or originated in Syria and the adjacent countries.
He said this in his The History of Freemasonry Draw from Authentic Sources.
And it was here that the Dionysian artists, the Essenes, the Cassidians arose.
The Cassidians was another branch always Close to the Nizari and all that.
Then we have the Masons which appeared in Europe during the Dark Ages and of course he's also talking about these Syriac fraternities that exist on Mount Lebanon and of course he's talking about the Druzes and the Order of the Nice Tempest therefore was for him formed originally in Syria.
Before they went to Jerusalem and actually founded in March 1119 officially the Nice Templar, they were basically taking a, you know, a nice field trip to the area to see what was on offer.
And in fact, the Templars were inspired, influenced by the Nizeri Ismailis.
They actually There was massive battles, of course, and like I said, the Templars were often assisted by the Nizaris, by all these groups.
Let's say the Shiites became the natural ally of the Templars.
And among these Shiites, there were those like the Nizari who had a completely different idea from Orthodox Islam.
That's where Baphomet comes into the equation.
The death of Mohammed is basically the moment in which Islam grows more and more powerful, but every day becomes more and more fractured.
The Seljuk Turks will eventually take over from the Fatimids.
They will lead to the Ottoman Empire that led to all this.
We have the Ashashins that eventually will be kicked out by the Mongols, but manage to survive.
Some of their elements in the Druze, some of the elements with the Aga Khan.
The assassination methods of the assassins, like I said, were picked up from the Sicarii, who were an ancient Jewish sect that in the first century BC killed on commission.
But they were even more fearless.
And of course, the whole initiation system was very fierce.
So the Ashashins functioned more as a secret society than the Knights Templars, who had also, you know, the Knights Templar were also an official religious order.
So, you know, we went to church, there was a Knights Templar celebrating mass, you were like Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, the whole show.
So there also is a thing that apparently the Ashashins never killed the Jews.
Because there was a lot of Ashashins who apparently were Jews.
Now, during the time when Saladin made the agreement with the Crusaders in 1192, apparently 4000 Jews were among the Ashashins.
Now those Jews were Erev Rav, they were part of those despicable Jews that will eventually lead to the Sabbatean Frankish heresy.
This is obvious.
The Templars lost eventually their position of power that they kept for almost 200 years in the Middle East, on Temple Mount, in Gaza with the little tower there, and their force in control of the whole of the Holy Land.
The Ashashins were their assassins.
Whenever the Sunnis were trying to arrive and invade Jerusalem, they would say, okay, kill their leader, do this, do that.
They were interacting.
So apparently there was also some things that were picked up.
Like, for example, the temples were classified as knights, exqueers, and lay brethren.
The equivalent to the assassins' classification of Refic, Fedai, and Lassik.
The titles of Prior and Grand Prior of the Templars were equivalent to Dai, Daal-Kebir, Gredai, and Shil-Usher, which is basically the equivalent for the Prior and the Grandmaster.
And the clothing of the Ashashins in the temple were almost identical, a red symbol and a white background.
So here, guys, you have to understand that then all this, of course, gets included in the rights of Freemasonry, in particular, the ancient and accepted Scottish right.
The assassination, the Sunni state leaders were, of course, their target.
And at one point, though, there was also a belief system, a belief system centered on a mysterious deity.
And now, welcome to Baphomet Mohammed.
This is, of course, where we were leading all along with our show, because this is Even for the Muslims, something incredible to see.
So, be ready, because this is basically not the Baphomet, Alistair Crowley, who thought that... he actually probably knew the truth, but he liked to think of himself as Baphomet, or Baphomet as Pan, the great god Pan, because for him was The God of Reason.
So you see, there is a connection there.
And there is also a connection with the whole Muslim world, because in the O.T.O., the substitute, here I'm a beef with a Sufi and you have a tent with Muslims arriving when you are a Minerva and the whole show.
So, but this is something that even the O.T.O.
couldn't grasp and I challenged them when Gabriela Mandel-Kahn gave me this.
This is kept in a secret place in Istanbul and it was found in the 1950s in a temple church in Turkey.
That was never made public, this discovery, because of course this is Mohammed on the cross.
And Muhammad should not even ever be depicted for a Muslim, not even drawn.
So it's easy to debunk and say that this is fake.
But guys, here we go.
Because the guy who gave me this information, first of all, the Templars were accused of worshipping a mysterious deity called Baphomet.
The name Baphomet appeared for the first time in July 1098 in a letter at the siege of Antioch.
by the French Crusader Ansemel of Ribébon, who states that the Turks called upon Baphomet, loudly.
As the next day dawned, he says, the inhabitants of Antioch called loudly upon Baphomet, and we prayed silently in our hearts to God.
Then we attacked and forced them all, them outside the city walls.
Raymond of Aguilera, who was a chronicler of the First Crusade, reported that the Trombadours who used in France the term Baphomet for Mohammed, and that Baphomeria was the term for a mosque.
However, for this reason the name Baphomet appeared for sure later in the trial transcripts of the Inquisition.
They said, you know, in 1307 when they arrested the Knights Templar, they said, what are you worshipping?
Now I'm not saying that all the Knights Templar worshipped, and this is very important, The network of the Knights Templar was not as homogeneous as you might think, because they didn't have the internet, they didn't have the connection.
It took years from one part to the other, and churches or bases of the Knights Templar on the north of Europe will never connect with the Middle East.
In their lifetime, maybe one guy will go there, and if they had something like that, it would be kept secret.
However, in the book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, that came out in the 90s, there was also Michael Bage and Richard Ray and Harry Lincoln, who inspired the Dan Brown conspiracy book, The Da Vinci Code.
They talked about the Arabic term abufimamet, which means father of understanding.
that a lot of people think that actually this is the best, is probably the most possible meaning for Baphomet.
Aboufi Amet, actually, father of understanding.
After that, of course, the Templars were something that I discovered with a book.
I mean, apart from the book that I had, because my father and mother brought this Holy Ground and Holy Grail in the 80s, I was very curious to know what it was all about.
But in 1992, I bought another book called The Next Temples and Their Myths by the late historian Peter Partner, and that became the book where I first discovered all the details about Baphomet Mohamed.
That led me to further studies.
And there was also a publication made by the OTO in the middle of the 90s by a certain Frater Baraka, entitled Baphomet Mysteries Solved at Last, but of course they didn't have The cross that I'm showing you guys.
Most of us, says Fr.
Baraka in the OTO in 1995 in an official publication, says, have heard of the Baphomet first encounters from Anton LaVey, or then you have Eliphas Levi, the devil here, you know, Eliphas Levi draws him as a goat.
But in this case, we are talking about something that I also had a very heated debate with the O.T.O.
in 2006, especially with John Farset, who was a prominent member of the O.T.O.
and an author who writes books there, because he was still pushing the erroneous thing, interpretation, and I was like, no, Gabriel Mandelkant has sent me The right interpretation.
So I would like to show you who was Gabriele Mandelkann as a tribute to his life because he was my friend regardless of being an Italian Islamist.
He was a very nice guy who assisted me very much and who I had the honor of having as friend because this guy received awards by all kinds of institutions, prestigious.
He was also a Freemason.
And He was the one who published this cross found and nobody else ever.
He died in 2010 in Milan.
His godfather was the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, which is the guy who tried to, I'm sorry, who was a 33rd degree a bit He was really ahead of the interfaith dialogue when it came to Freemason and Illuminati stuff, so I was very much connected to him, but at that point he helped me by sending me this cross.
He was the head of the Gerai Sufi, he was actually their master, it's written here, and the book in question where he published this cross was published in 2006 and it was Islam, 2006, Dictionary of Religion.
And actually I can show you the page where it was present originally, in his book, in the section dedicated to the Crusades.
So this is the most important revelation that we are giving you today in exclusive here on the Leo Zagami Show to conclude this show which very much brought you to the origins of certain secret societies.
Imagine the influence that they had because I mean Baphomet was discussed by everybody But nobody really had the evidence and this evidence is unfortunately hidden to this day because the Muslims don't want, the traditional Muslims, they don't want the people to know that there was a sect of Muslims that was worshipping an idol.
So I'm going to write the name of the book here for those people who are interested in Let me see if I can find here.
Of course, Gabriele Mandelkann was a historian.
He was also the son of himself, a historian, Yusuf Roberto Mandel, of Turco-Afghan descent, and he was the Sufi guide Sheikh in the Jerai Order.
So a very important figure who, I mean, he had the patience to teach me a lot of things.
And to this day, a lot of the things that I learned from him, I probably would have spent 10 years in a madrasa in some hellhole in the Middle East to learn things from him.
But he was very kind with me.
We had a very sincere friendship up to the end.
And so I spoke with him many times, and he was also very, he was the master of this Italian singer, very popular, called Battiato, whose songs are very popular in Italy, Franco Battiato, but he was also a very, very particular kind of singer.
He was Sicilian, and he was very much into Sufism and stuff, but also into esoterism.
There is also a movie that I found once of Gabriele Mandel-Kahn, However, for those people who want to find this eventual book, I think it's almost impossible to find it because these kind of books, either they sell them for thousands of dollars or euros, they don't make them circulate very easily.
But I want to show you here Now, the Baphomet I also put on the cover of Volume 9, which is a book you need to purchase because you will understand also all the connection with the Gnostic world, which are Jesus and all that.
So it's very important.
I'm going to put the title here of the book.
on the chat for those people who follow us live.
You can go, if you are following us now on Bando Video, you can go on YouTube on one of our channels and on the chat you will find the link to the book Islam Diccionarii delle Religioni came out in 2006.
And I will at this point, let me see, I show you also, of course, Baphomet, I talked about one thing though you can do, if you want, to save your money.
I published in this book, Volume 5, The Cross of Muhammad, and it's here.
For those people who are interested, I published it here.
And I'm gonna now publish an even better version in my future book about this.
Explains you all about Baphomet Mohammed, Volume 5 of my Confessions.
And of course, you should also purchase Christy's book because this gives you an insight.
Next week I'm going to be doing an interview.
Next week, next Tuesday, I'm doing an interview about my books with my friend Lacey.
So we're going to load it here so you guys can watch it.
Absolutely.
And another thing, Crowley was very much connected with Islam.
There will be probably in the future, we will have to do a whole episode on that.
But maybe I will have to continue because this is a very, I mean, we have not discussed, for example, then Because, you see, the Shiites and the Templars, but then later on the Sunnis became involved with the Freemasonry.
We know what happened in Egypt later on with the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood.
We are talking about the roots of today's terrorist systems.
It was important, I think, to clarify all these matters for all of us.
And, of course, Donald, New regulations, two old regulations must be eliminated.
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And you see, today we made an extra show because the sponsors were nice with us.
I wanted to give something extra.
I don't feel like a supreme loser.
Well, I mean, we told people right from the start.
It's just that these shows, these Illuminati ones that he does, exploring Illuminati, it's much harder to do these than to do the news.
And pretty much I sit back and I don't say anything because It's a lot of important stuff that people need to hear.
So I usually just sit back for these and don't say a word.
I usually talk during the news.
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And so that's why we did it for one year.
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Yeah, absolutely, because I mean... He needs incentive to do all his work.
It is like writing a book, writing a show like this one, but also the shows that we broadcast on Saturday.
Yeah.
It's a very important show, the one we do on Saturday, but it's a different format.
We have usually a subject we treat during the course of 60 minutes.
The first 50 minutes, though, are dedicated to the news.
So we see you with the other format, the Leo Zagami Show, on Saturday.
And we get Rambo for the closure.
Of course, we have also different format, different music.
He's sleeping.
I don't want to wake him up.
He's doing snorey.
Oh yeah?
I can't dance with him anyway, so.
Oh yeah?
Okay, so Rambo's over there.
I'll bring him out Saturday.
Okay.
I just want to do the proper dance.
I missed it!
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