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Although the Illuminati were officially disbanded in 1785, they did not disappear; throughout the past 200 years, they have been observing the profane world carefully, and occasionally intervening (as they did
in Sarajevo in 1914, St. Petersburg in 1917, Manhattan in 1929 (to divert attention from a rather unpleasant
affair off the coast of New England) and Dallas in 1963 to name a few cases. Their contacts with the
Unknown Superiors continued in specially constructed buildings, originally in Germany but later in
Washington. During the 1920s and 1930s there occurred a potential problem; a young writer named Howard Phillips Lovecraft published many stories which contained allegories to Illuminated history (for
example, Joseph Curwen's invocation of "Yogge-Sothothe" in an underground complex in the 18th century). It is believed that Lovecraft's father was a Grand Orient Freemason. The Illuminati, however, persuaded Lovecraft to join their cause and faked his death in 1937 (Have you ever wondered why his grave is not marked?) Another incident occurred on Octobr 21, 1967, when occultists attempted to "raise" the Pentagon; they were given permission to approach it but prevented from completely encircling it. However, in 1975, a crisis developed that threatened the very foundation of the Illuminati.
A book, claiming to be a fantasy novel, appeared. This book was mostly fiction; however, it hinted at
the secrets of the Illuminati (even going as far as using Lovecraft's term "Yog-Sothoth" for the Unknown
Superior). To this day it is not known whether the authors were renegade Illuminati or whether the
information was acquired from informers within the
organisation. The book was called Illuminatus!
Immediately, the Illuminati convened an emergency meeting in Cesme, Turkey. There they discussed a
contingency plan to restructure the organisation and to move the Pentacle of Invocation to a new
location. They decided on setting up a small computer company in one of the smaller cities of the United States as a front. That year, Microsoft Corporation was founded.
But why did the Illuminati select a software company and not, say, a company that manages investments or makes kitchen appliances? The answer lies in symbolism (Perhaps because of their invlovement in mystick arts such as the Cabala, the Illuminati have always had an affinity for symbolism). There is a recurring legend about a device in the form of a human head which could answer yes/no questions (some link this device to the Knights Templar and their god Baphomet; others claim that Pope Sylvester, who lived in the
tenth century, brought such an object back from India, where he met the "Nine Unknown Men"). This device is extremely suggestive of a
computer of some sort, and if it did exist in anything more than hermetic allegory, it could not have been manufactured by any human civilisation of the time whose existence is known. Hence, the Illuminati decided to use a computer company as a front.
It has been already speculated that the name of the founder, Bill Gates, is a code much as "Adam Weishaupt" was a code. Apart from being the name of a magician in Aleister Crowley's novel, "Moonchild", Gates is a reference to the Unknown Superior and the gateway between ordinary reality
and the Invisible World; Lovecraft himself referred to Yog-Sothoth as "the Gateless Gate". By the same
token, IBM can be said to stand not for "International Business Machines" but rather for "Iacobus Burgundus
Molensis", or Jacques de Molay, the last overt Grand Master of the Knights Templar, whose name was
borrowed by the Bavarian Illuminati for one of their ciphers. One must also not forget that a Microsoft
network administration tool currently under development is named Hermes, after the god of alchemy, and that a line in Umberto Eco's novel, _Foucault's Pendulum_ reads, quite clearly, "Microsoft-Hermes".