Europa Conspiracy (Babylon Rising 3) (16 page)

September 4

J. M. and I met for lunch. He shared his concerns about what we were doing and about all of the secrecy. He has fears that we may be doing something illegal. We both do not care for the people we have met. They seem evil.

September 29

I
was able to find out details about the father and mother of Calinda Anguis. The father is Carmine Anguis and the mother's maiden name is Kola Matrinka.

October 14

I received a phone call today from the Friends of the New World Order. They were extremely demanding and firm about the secrecy of what we are doing. I am beginning to agree with J. M. We may be doing something illegal.

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October 17

I did some investigating and was able to discover who the egg donor was. Keres Mazikeen.

November 30

I was able to trace down the mother of Keres Mazikeen. She is a lady named Mariana Yakov. She told me her mother's name was Zigana Averna. I am beginning to feel nervous and uncomfortable. J. M. thinks he is being followed.

December 28

The holiday season was uneventful.

January 15, 1968

I have made an amazing discovery. The sperm donor is the famous scientist Alfred Meinrad. It is a very curious situation.

February 7

I was able to uncover information about the great-grand-mother
--
Zigana Averna. She worked for a woman named Alice Bailey.

February 20

A group from the Friends of the New World Order visited our clinic and talked with Calinda Anguis. J. M. and I were not allowed to be in on the conversation. She seemed very agitated after they left.

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March 14

J. M. has found out information about the Friends of the New World Order. He told me that he was very frightened. He told me he would talk about it when he was sure that we would be alone.

March 31

Calinda began contractions around 8:00 P.M.

April 1

The boy is born. The mother and child are doing fine. Members of the Friends of the New World Order came to the hospital. They were very adamant that the boy get the best care possible. They were almost rude to us.

April 29

J. M. has apprehensions about the arrangements with the group. He says that we must talk soon. He sounds very frightened.

May 12

Terrible tragedy--J. M. was killed in an automobile accident. The police said that he was traveling at high speed and could not negotiate a turn in the mountains and drove off a cliff. I am very frightened. J. M. did not like to go to the mountains. He never sped anywhere... always driving under the speed limit. I feel like I must protect myself I don't think it was an accident. I believe that he was murdered. I have decided to send all of my
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notes and papers to my daughter in the United States. I have instructed her to put them in a safe deposit box in an unknown location.

"That does sound very strange, Michael," Isis said thoughtfully. "Who do you think the Friends of the New World Order are?"

"I'm not sure. In my talk with Dr. Anderson before he was killed, he was convinced that they were evil people who had an evil plan of some kind. He even suggested that he might have helped in the birth of the Antichrist."

"You mean the Anti-Christ of the Bible that you're always talking about?"

"The same one," Murphy said, soberly.

Isis had grown up in a household where the myths and religions of the world had an almost tangible presence. Her father, an archaeologist, had such a deep interest in the deities of the ancient world that he had named Isis after not one but two goddesses (her middle name was Proserpina).

Like her parents, however, Isis grew up without any kind of Christian belief.

But Murphy was different from most Christians she had met. There was something about him that was genuine, and intellectual, and attractive. The Ararat adventure had shaken all of her ideas about the Bible and religion. She had actually walked on Noah's Ark--there was no doubt about that at all. She had also helped him find Moses' brass serpent and Nebuchadnezzar's golden statue. They were real, and she could touch them. She was beginning

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to believe that Murphy's faith was real, and the Bible was real, and it frightened her. At some point she would have to make a decision as to whether there is a God or not.

I
need to be open-minded. What if there is a real Antichrist?
The thought made her shudder.

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TWENTY-NINE

"MICHAEL, LISTEN TO THIS. I've been reading some of these other folders."

Murphy looked up.

"This Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky is very interesting," Isis began. "She was born in 1831 and died in 1891. In 1875 she founded the Theosophical Society. Its logo is an alchemical symbol of a circle formed by a snake eating its tail. Inside the snake circle is a symbol of two interlocking pyramids representing the union of heaven and earth. In the center of the pyramids is an Egyptian ankh. At the top of the pyramid is a circle with an inverted swastika inside of it. As you know, the swastika is a well-known occult symbol believed to have originated in ancient India. The words surrounding the snake say: THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN TRUTH. It says that she wrote a book entitled
The Secret Doctrine"

"I've heard of that book," Murphy said, excited. "Adolf Hitler kept a well-marked copy of it beside his

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bed. He was a follower of Madame Blavatsky. That must have been where he got the idea of using a swastika for his military uniforms."

"Dr. Anderson lists that she also wrote another book,
Manual for Revolution"

"Wow! That's something. I've heard of that book too. It was one that Sirhan Sirhan requested while he was in prison for killing Robert Kennedy. This Blavatsky woman had some interesting followers. I've heard it said that she's viewed as one of the greatest occultists in history. She founded Blavatsky Lodge and the Esoteric School."

"It looks like Dr. Anderson did some research on her," Isis said thoughtfully. "He lists that as a child, Blavatsky was restless, impetuous, daring, reckless, and had a fearful temper. He goes on to say that she had a passionate curiosity about the unknown and an unusual interest in the mysterious, weird, and fantastical. She used to scare her playmates by telling them that there were subterranean corridors under their homes that were protected by hunchbacks. It is said that she could cause her playmates to hallucinate. She even claimed to see a Hindu in a white turban. He was her phantom protector. She said that she received her directions from him telepathically. He became her spirit guide."

"She sounds like Shirley MacLaine." Murphy grinned.

"According to Dr. Anderson, she would go into a trance and become a channeler. She was into table rapping, materializations, séances, and had psychic powers and could move objects at will."

Murphy laughed out loud. "She sounds very talented."

"Here's an article that says she led a wild life of

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wandering the world for about ten years. She was shipwrecked on the island of Spetsai sailing from Greece to Egypt. At one point she went abroad disguised as a man and fought under Garibaldi. She was wounded and left for dead in the battle of Mentana in Russia. And she established the Theosophical Society and wrote those books I mentioned. Dr. Anderson quotes her in one of her writings saying
'Lucifer is divine and terrestrial light, the "Holy Ghost" and "Satan" are one and the same.'"

"I think her theology was a little messed up."

"Dr. Anderson goes on to say that Madame Blavatsky heavily influenced two women: Annie Besant and Alice Ann Bailey. Besant was an activist in the feminist movement; she was especially involved in birth control. She was generally looked at as a socialist political radical. For ten years she and Alice Ann Bailey published a monthly magazine entitled
Lucifer."

Murphy made a face. "Today they would probably make the magazine into a television series or at least a Saturday morning cartoon program."

"She was married to Frank Besant at nineteen. He was a clergyman who had traditional views. Those views clashed with her independent spirit, and she left her husband. In the process she rejected Christianity and became an atheist and free thinker. She was instrumental in developing the foundation for the New Age Movement."

Isis turned a page and continued. "Alice Ann Bailey started a number of organizations, including the Lucis Trust, World Goodwill, Triangles, the Ariane School, and New Group World Servers. She compiled twenty-one books with over 10,469 pages of material. She claimed

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that she wrote them while she was in a trance state. They were dictated to her by her spirit guide, Djwhal Khul the Tibetan. It is from her writings that words like 'reincarnation,' 'astrology,' 'meditation,' 'karma,' and 'nirvana' became popularized."

"Boy, those spirit guides really are into literature, aren't they."

"It says that the Lucis Trust was founded in 1922 under the parent name--LUCIFER PUBLISHING COMPANY. Hey, Michael, just listen to some of the famous people who have belonged to the Lucis Trust: Robert McNamara, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Paul Volcker, and George Schultz."

"Huh. Isis, did you know that these very men were part of the Council on Foreign Relations? It's the elite group that influenced the founding of the United Nations. I remember that the Lucis Trust was headquartered for many years at the United Nations Plaza. I believe they've moved to somewhere on Wall Street now."

"What do you think about all this, Michael?"

"It sounds like Madame Blavatsky became an occultist and influenced Alice Bailey, who took her work and expanded on it. She in turn started
Lucifer
magazine and other organizations that continued the occult teachings. Her works and organizations then influenced men who started the United Nations. It doesn't make for a pretty picture."

Murphy picked up another folder. "It sounds like those gals were triple-threat charmers for sure. What do you think they had to do with Dr. Anderson?"

"I'm not sure yet. I've got some more reading to do."

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THIRTY

JOHN BARTHOLOMEW SMILED to himself.
This is the perfect change of pace. No one will even notice us. It's one of the most crowded cities in the world.

He was getting tired of meeting in the castle, and Switzerland was too cold. He wanted to enjoy the sun for a change. Besides, Señor Mendez had made arrangements so everyone could fly into Rio de Janeiro on separate planes. He had rented a large villa beyond Copacabana Beach near Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. It was a secluded spot where they would be alone and could bask in the sun.

How appropriate
, he thought,
to be able to make plans to destroy Christianity, the rule of law, and set the stage for the Antichrist in the shadow of Corcovado Mountain with the giant Christ the Redeemer statue on top. Señor Mendez has a sense of humor.

The meeting began at 10 A.M. on the shady veranda. Jakoba Werner was the first to speak in her thick German

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accent. Her blond hair was tied back in the usual tight bun. "I would like to commend Señor Mendez for his choice of location. The accommodations and the dinner last night were superb."

"I will second that," said Ganesh Shesha. "This reminds me of a presidential palace fifty kilometers outside Calcutta. I used to visit it often."

"Well, I'm sure that we all appreciate the sun rather than the snow," said Bartholomew. "Let me call this meeting to order. You will recall that at our last meeting, you were all given assignments to work on for our sevenfold plan for world governance. I will report on phase one."

Bartholomew passed out a detailed paper outlining the first phase.

"Let me highlight phase one: the relocation of the United Nations. We have begun to plant the suggestion into the minds of key UN leaders to consider moving the United Nations organization from the United States to Babylon in Iraq. We believe that this move will do several things. First, it will please the Europeans that America is losing its influence. Many European countries already resent U.S. policies and politics. They will think that the Americans are getting what they deserve for trying to control the world. Everyone likes to see the 'big dog' have its ego deflated. It will help to isolate the United States from the rest of the world. Second, the move to Iraq will please the Arabs and help to unite them. It will give them a sense of prestige. They'll believe that they are rising in power, and they'll think that they have some control over their future. It will also help to settle the various factions