Theos-Talk Archives (February 2002 Message tt00667)

In the early 1990s, student of "The Ascended Masters", Milton William 
Cooper of St. Johns, Arizona, wrote a compendium for the conspiracy 
millenarian movement with the apocalyptic title Behold a Pale Horse 
(1991)

While serving on a submarine in the Pacific, Cooper had his first 
sighting of an enormous flying saucer, which emerged from the ocean 
and flew into the clouds. Although the saucer was repeatedly seen by 
other crew members and officers, Cooper alone was allegedly 
threatened with imprisonment for any future disclosure of what he had 
seen. From 1968 onward, he was assigned to Naval Intelligence with a 
high security clearance. Here he discovered the existence of a high-
level conspiracy against the citizens of the United States. He was 
convinced that Naval Intelligence had participated in the 
assassination of John E Kennedy, and by 1972 he had amassed 
disturbing classified information on UFOs, the navy, the secret 
government, the coming ice age, Project Galileo, and the plan for the 
New World Order.I

Following his honorable discharge in 1975, Cooper attempted to leak 
this kind of information to the press. He claims that the hidden 
powers were quick to suppress him. His car was forced off a cliff in 
California by a black limousine, after which two men climbed down to 
the wreckage. As one bent to feel his carotid pulse, the other asked 
if he was dead. When the first replied that he soon would be, the 
other expressed satisafaction that the job was done. A month later, 
Cooper was forced into another accident by the same mysterious car. 
This time he lost a leg. He was visited in hospital by two men who 
threatened him with a final accident if he persisted in trying to 
publicize secret information. Combined with his shocking discoveries 
of covert actions on the part of the military and the government, 
these near-fatal encounters utterly convinced Cooper of the realities 
of global conspiracy and cover-up. While continuing to collect 
material, he determined to expose the truth of this plan to enslave 
mankind in a New World Order. This intention was realized by the 
publication of his book, described by Cooper as "closer to that truth 
than anything previously written."

Behold a Pale Horse is a chaotic farrago of conspiracy myths 
interspersed with reprints of executive laws, official papers, 
reports and other extraneous materials designed to show the looming 
prospect of a world government imposed on the American people against 
their wishes and in flagrant contempt of the Constitution. The first 
chapter comprises an allegedly secret government memorandum 
entitled "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars." First discovered in an IBM 
copier at a surplus sale in July 1986, this document has become a hot 
favorite among the conspiracy cults. 

Here we learn that the elite decided in 1954 to exploit operations 
research, computer technology and finance to model a wholly 
predictable and manipulable society in order to transfer wealth from 
the undisciplined and irresponsible many to the worthy and 
intelligent few. Inferior mass education would keep the people 
undisciplined and ignorant, while the trivial concerns of media and 
banal entertainments would render them confused, disorganized and 
distracted. The piece is written in a technical jargon that likens 
social and economic engineering to electronics to suggest that all 
individuals in a society can ultimately be programmed, for "people 
who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals 
[without] intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks 
on the table by choice and consent:"

Bill Cooper identifies the document as a formal declaration of war by 
the Illuminati against the citizens of the United States. He asserts 
that peaceful citizens are justified in taking any measures, 
including violence, to identif~ counterattack and destroy the 
enemy. " The second chapter, "Secret Societies and the New World 
Order," represents Cooper's own investigations and reflections on the 
global plot against independence and liberty. The roots of the 
Illuminati conspiracy are traced to an ancient Brotherhood of the 
Snake and thence through the Templars and the Freemasons. Cooper 
believes that most modern secret societies are really one society 
with a single purpose. A monolithic conspiracy to enslave mankind is 
masked by their apparent variety and plurality:

The Order of the Quest, the JASON Society, the Roshaniya, the 
Qabbalah, the Knights Templar, the Knights of Malta, the Knights of 
Columbus, the Jesuits, the Masons, the Ancient and Mystical Order of 
the Rosae Crucis, the Illuminati, the Nazi Party, the Communist 
Party, the Executive Members of the Council on Foreign Relations, The 
Group, the Brotherhood of the Dragon, the Rosicrucians, the Royal 
Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, the 
Bilderberg Group, the Vatican, the Russell Trust, the Skull & Bones, 
the Scroll & Key, the Order are all the same and work towards the 
same ultimate goal of a New World Order."


Bri.