The true 'secret society', an inevitable academic hypothesis? CTC

[chr0naut]

Where to start!

Many secret societies had their origins in fairly mundane groups and novel politico/religious ideologies. Examples of this are the Illuminati which tied anti-monarchism with existing selective membership societies such as Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism.

Freemasonry clearly was founded in the concepts of workers guilds, and although civilizations are often identified by the products that are most enduring, it is unlikely that the true leadership of these societies were simple tradespeople.

It is most logical that the one 'trade' that would have been that of leadership was scribal and academic.

Making lists, using calculations and writing/interpreting religious/legendary texts would be the hand-tools of ancient leadership. Yet there don't seem to be secret societies that focus on these skillsets as primary to their function.

So, what I posit is there is a truly ancient secret society, a distillation of power from age to age, with goals, policies and effects based upon millennia of proven control and that has survived revolutions and wars.

As this group is likely to be scribal, it makes sense to look at items that are considered the technical pinnacle of the skill and art as a logical name.

The publishing of works has for millennia included a summation of the works that is usually located at the end of the those works - a colophon.

Colophon (publishing) - Wikipedia

Colophon is assumed to mean "summit" or "finishing touch" and is entirely appropriate as the name of a secret and powerful group so I will refer to this as:

'the Colophon Cabal Hypothesis'.

I will complete these posts later...

[ReturnofBroccoli]

Where to start!

Many secret societies had their origins in fairly mundane groups and novel politico/religious ideologies. Examples of this are the Illuminati which tied anti-monarchism with existing selective membership societies such as Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism.

Freemasonry clearly was founded in the concepts of workers guilds, and although civilizations are often identified by the products that are most enduring, it is unlikely that the true leadership of these societies were simple tradespeople.

It is most logical that the one 'trade' that would have been that of leadership was scribal and academic.

Making lists, using calculations and writing/interpreting religious/legendary texts would be the hand-tools of ancient leadership. Yet there don't seem to be secret societies that focus on these skillsets as primary to their function.

So, what I posit is there is a truly ancient secret society, a distillation of power from age to age, with goals, policies and effects based upon millennia of proven control and that has survived revolutions and wars.

As this group is likely to be scribal, it makes sense to look at items that are considered the technical pinnacle of the skill and art as a logical name.

The publishing of works has for millennia included a summation of the works that is usually located at the end of the those works - a colophon.

Colophon (publishing) - Wikipedia

Colophon is assumed to mean "summit" or "finishing touch" and is entirely appropriate as the name of a secret and powerful group so I will refer to this as:

'the Colophon Cabal Hypothesis'.

I will complete these posts later...

Vatican assassins en route

We are gonna die now lol why, Chr0naut, why!?!

All joking aside I love it man

[BeyondKnowledge]

So this one is the fault of the printing press. Without printing presses there were not enough books to go around. Even though the literacy rate was quite low, only the rich were able to afford books that were hand copied.

This particular conspiracy sounds like it was possibly invented by the organized church. As they were the ones that made it illegal to make bibles in anything but Latin so very few could actually read them even among the literate.

Is this a conspiracy to cover up an organization or is it a conspiracy to stop the flow of information to the masses? This could have originated ether way. We have two sides with no clear good guy and bad guy.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

So this one is the fault of the printing press. Without printing presses there were not enough books to go around. Even though the literacy rate was quite low, only the rich were able to afford books that were hand copied.

This particular conspiracy sounds like it was possibly invented by the organized church. As they were the ones that made it illegal to make bibles in anything but Latin so very few could actually read them even among the literate.

Is this a conspiracy to cover up an organization or is it a conspiracy to stop the flow of information to the masses? This could have originated ether way. We have two sides with no clear good guy and bad guy.

https://denyignorance.com/Thread-DI-Cons...on-Contest
This is chr0naut's submission to the Conspiracy thread creation contest or CTC
You should make one :)

[ARM1968]

Information. Truth. These have always been dangerous. These have always been controlled, curated even. Now we see it more than ever.

[chr0naut]

So, the name Colophon was actually used for a city state that existed in the Ionian/Ancient Greek sphere of influence. We would think of this as something that is part of the country of Türkiye these days.

This goes to show how big changes will inevitably occur, and the design for any cabal directing the world secretly has to be resilient enough to survive that and the survival of the cabal is vital to the survival of the principals and therefore principles driving the resultant societies.

Colophon was founded 900 years BCE (about 2,926 years ago) and went through invasion and political turmoil again and again. So there was an incentive to maintain the conditions of the city-state despite the shifting chairs of various rulers.

The one thing that defined Colophon ideologically was that it was a timocracy (it was governed by wealth) and as such, it maintained that through changes of leadership, and changes of language, and changes of ideological slant.

In fact, there are, right now, aspects of timocracy that clearly underlie all of the Earth's political systems. So if there were to be a controlling cabal, then timocracy would necessarily be one of its defining precepts.

As an additional bit of weird wordplay, when Colophon eventually shut down as a city, its population moved moved to a nicer spot nearby - closer to the ocean - the port of Notion. Yep, "Notion". It's like they were playing word games! LOL. Just what you'd expect from a strongly academic scribal tradition. LOL.

[chr0naut]

So this one is the fault of the printing press. Without printing presses there were not enough books to go around. Even though the literacy rate was quite low, only the rich were able to afford books that were hand copied.

This particular conspiracy sounds like it was possibly invented by the organized church. As they were the ones that made it illegal to make bibles in anything but Latin so very few could actually read them even among the literate.

Is this a conspiracy to cover up an organization or is it a conspiracy to stop the flow of information to the masses? This could have originated ether way. We have two sides with no clear good guy and bad guy.

The group would have its origins thousands of years before the printing press.

Sumerian tablets, being made of clay, could only be of a certain size before they became too fragile to be handled, and this limited the amount of text they could contain, so very soon it was figured out that you could link two tablets together with an attribution on the back, and repetition of the last sentence from the previous tablet, as the first sentence on the new tablet.

The literary colophon was initially just that - an attribution and identifier of where a document was located in sequence, in a library and in context of all known published works.

So the idea, but not the name, is truly ancient and purely of academic purpose. It meant little to casual readers who would have not even noticed how they got from tablet to tablet, or document to document.

Wiseman hypothesis

[ReturnofBroccoli]

This is so cool lol

[chr0naut]

Mythologies that have been related to Colophon:

(1). Promethius: Perhaps no better descriptor of the psychology, goals and operations of the cabal is the key myth of the Titan, Prometheus.

In the words of Aeschylus’ "Prometheus Bound":

I gave them intelligence,
I made them
masters of their own thought.
I tell this
not against humankind, but only to show
how loving my gifts were …
Men and women looking
saw nothing,
they listened
and did not hear,
but like shapes in a dream dragging out their long lives
bewildered
they made hodgepodge of everything, they knew nothing of making
brick-knitted
houses the sun warms,
nor how to work in wood.
They swarmed like bitty ants
in dugouts
in sunless caves.
They hadn’t any sure signs of winter, nor spring
flowering,
nor late summer when the crops come in.
All their work was work without thought,
until I taught them to see
what had been hard to see:
where and when the stars
rise and set.
What’s more, for them I invented
NUMBER: wisdom
above all other.
And the painstaking, putting together of
LETTERS: to be their memory
of everything, to be their Muses’
mother, their
handmaid!
And I was the first to put brute beasts
under the yoke, fit them out
with pack saddles, so they could take
the heaviest burdens off the backs of human beings.
Horses I broke and harnessed
to the chariot shaft
so that they loved their reins, they showed off
the pride and wealth of their owners.
I, I alone invented
the seawandering
linen wingd
chariots for sailors.
All these devices, I invented for human beings.
….
All human culture comes from Prometheus.

[chr0naut]

Mythical Origin 2: Apollo.

Now, just a disambiguation, I'm not talking about the NASA Apollo missions, I'm talking about the Ancient Greek deity.

Apollo is the son of the uber-god Zeus and the goddess Leto, and the twin brother of the goddess Artemis. He is also the father of Asclepius, the god of medicine.

One of the things Apollo is noted for is that he foretells the future. He is the god of prophecy.

To a certain extent, any cabal needs to plan and anticipate how things will outcome. So, an attribute of successful anticipation of the future would be an essential.

The twist: Xenophanes

Xenophanes was the most highly regarded and famous philosopher from Colophon. In all these people who are devout around him in society, Xenophanes argued against the anthropomorphism of a pantheon of gods with an entirely human dynamic of interactions. He considered that there was, most likely, only a single and non-human supreme deity or deities, whose motivations were inscrutable.

Xenophanes - The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

As such, and with the intellectual superiority of the city, and the cabal's superiority over the city, you can see that it is most likely that the cabal is strongly secular, with the only acknowledgement of 'the gods' being consideration of the ancient stories as being allegorical and mythic.

This placed the cabal as the intellectual pinnacle of their world, with no other authority or rule higher or more virtuous ('moral') and with no moral centre or standard other than themselves, this gives vast latitude to corruption over millennia. They believe that everything they do is right, true and moral and therefore they can do whatever they want and it will always be the best option because they both see and make the future.