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100 Books in One Year #46: Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs

Cannonball Read / Brian Prisco

Book Reviews | February 16, 2009 | Comments (10)

Do not read this book.

It’s great. It’s outstanding. But you might not be prepared for it. I don’t say that as some sort of dare. This is not a challenge or slight against your intellect, or some doubt against your capabilities. You might not be prepared to accept what the book’s talking about.

Rule by Secrecy deals with conspiracy theory. It was written in 2000, so it’s before the events of 9/11. (I can imagine Mr. Marrs has quite a bit to say on that topic.) It basically tracks the history of Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and the Priory of Sion, and it’s influences on world events through secret organizations and behind the scenes dealing. It’s sinister and frightening, because it’s all plausible. In fact, it presages the whole depression that were going through now.

Essentially, the wealthy control everyone. They are playing all sides, often against each other, and they’ve been doing it forever. It makes me never want to vote, to take all my money and move to a farm in Montana.

It tracks back to the Da Vinci Code territory — Jesus and Mary Magdalene and the Merovingians, crossing paths with Pagels and Baigent et al, and the other folks I’ve been reading. This is primarily what I mean when I say this might not be the entry to your study of the world. Not that you aren’t ready to believe the stuff. Because it gets further out there.

Towards the end, it gets into biblical study, and the origins of life on the planet. This part deals more with extraterrestrials. I’ve read less into Mu and Atlantis than I’d like, but Marrs puts forth the most intriguing premise of how we got here.

It’s kind of a depressing book, because at the end, it makes you think to yourself, why bother? Life is pre-ordained and out of your control. Major media, government — worldwide and in the Americas, religion — it’s all controlled behind the scenes by banking and secret societies. And though Marrs is hopeful that by getting the word that will be enough to combat, by virtue of what’s been going on since the book’s release, it makes me feel less like there’s a point to fighting back.

I just hope Obama is a symbol that they don’t hold all the strings. But the last president that escaped their control was Kennedy. And…yeah.

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Posted by: oliver at February 16, 2009 10:48 AM

Jim Marrs is a gret "conspiracy" writer. It was his book Crossfire: The Plot to Kill Kennedy that Oliver Stone's JFK was based in part. The problem I find with most of Marrs' books is that the first 2/3 or so is great, compelling and well researched, and then the final 1/3 of the book goes into la-la land speculation. In my opinion, this often just destroys what came before it and makes you think Marrs is just some kook who can't just stick to the facts for the entire length without pulling some crackpot theory out that he's held for too long.

Of course, maybe he has to do this to get his books out there. Maybe by helping destroy his well researched theories with some cockamamie nonsense, the powers that be let it all slide by. But you should pay attention to this guy (he did recently release a 9/11 book, by the way) because he's much closer to the real way the world works that 99% of the other authors out there.

Posted by: B-Unit at February 16, 2009 10:52 AM

Are you serious? Jim Marrs? Seriously? Doesn't he quote David Icke in this book? Doesn't David Icke believe that the queen of England is a reptilian humanoid? Jim Marrs is a fucking crackpot. If this stuff scares you and you believe that this is the way 'the real world works' I guess there is nothing I can say. Jesus. Jim Marrs Pajiba? WTF?

Posted by: rationalvoice at February 16, 2009 1:30 PM

I have a hard time with these too...I think evil in the world is far simpler than having to explain it with secret cabals. Although, I'm more than certain that there ARE secret cabals simply because the rich have become so bored they feel they need the spice (they're probably a lot like a dungeons and dragons meeting actually, but with champagne instead of mountain dew).

Also, I have some healthy questions about 9-11, solely because I really don't see how it was any sort of plane that hit the pentagon. I'm fairly confident that was a missile, but then where does that place the rest of the questions/answers? Do I think that dumb ass Bush was leading some huge scam? Not likely, but perhaps there were other motivations at play from other players alongside the terrorist reality, yeah?

For the most part, I think the issue of money and control and evil is a matter of perspective - like buying a 16th pair of $300 shoes instead of mosquito netting for African malaria prevention. Are you evil for getting the shoes? Depends upon your perspective, right? Is it evil to have and enjoy having and planning to have more if you have $500 in the bank, or only when you have $500 million?

I feel so stupid about this part of my comment, but I really like listening to M.I.A.'s paper planes right now (slow to watch slumdog, but loved it - and I think the India backlash against it's authenticity is pretty dumb, because I certainly am not taking on the Red/Green Show as representative of ME even though I'm Canadian. Red Green sucked though). So, back to the point - I really get how the vast majority of the world would see me as a rich, deceptive, 'have' when I see myself as a depressed, lower east side 'working poor'.

I am still smart enough to be very thankful though. Your evil cabals bore me, because even velvet will reek of B.O. after a while, and we all lose our charms in the end.

Posted by: replica at February 16, 2009 3:30 PM

Jim Marrs is a professional conspiracy monger. He embraces every conspiracy du jour, such as 9/11 being an inside job, cranks out a book, and flogs it on Coast to Coast AM and at conspiracy friendly conventions. His books are hack compendiums of junk that was debunked years ago.

Posted by: Peter L. Winkler at February 16, 2009 6:15 PM

Oh, put that shit under 'fiction' and get on with your life.

Posted by: wwhvd at February 17, 2009 6:59 AM