Movie "Zeitgeist": Illuminati Critique or Psy Op?
September 15, 2007
By Henry Makow Ph.D.
Throughout history, paganism and true religion have struggled for the soul of mankind. This age-old battle is drawing to a close with a magnificent victory for paganism.
For the naïve populace, this collective deathmarch is masked as "secular humanism," and "modernism."
It is directed and financed by Illuminati central bankers, who are the leaders of cabalistic secret societies associated with Freemasonry and Communism.
Their aim is to redefine reality so that the human race will serve them instead of God. This is the essence of the "New World Order."
In this perspective, it is hard to decipher the movie "Zeitgeist" which has received wide exposure on the Internet reaching beyond the conspiracy conscious.
The film is divided into three parts.
Parts II and III are generally excellent exposures of the Illuminati-controlled banking system and the Illuminati-instigated 9-11 attacks. The film shows how the latter provided the excuse for fascism and how the Illuminati intend to enslave us.
The puzzle is Part I: a vicious, gratuitous attack on Christianity comparing it to the frauds of 9-11 and the Federal Reserve. The film argues that Christ was created in the mold of numerous pagan sun gods that predate him, and the historical Christ never actually existed. Stealing from Jordan Maxwell and citing Achaya, Rimpoche and John Lennon, "Zeitgeist" intones a New Age mantra: "Religion divorces man from nature. It is slavery. They use religious myths to control and manipulate society."
This is essentially the pagan message. Since they want God's job, the Illuminati's primary goal has always been to destroy Christianity. Another recent psy-op is Mother Teresa's confession (in letters) that she had grave doubts about her faith for most of her life. This story was front-page news in the Illuminati Zionist press where the Catholic Church is always fair game.
Is "Zeitgeist" also a psy-op? Why not hide an Illuminati message in an excellent anti-Illuminati documentary? After all, the 9-11 and Fed information is already out there. What better way to turn the young generation against religion?
I don’t think this is deliberate on the part of the filmmakers. The Illuminati generally fund people who already are unwitting agents of their agenda.
More interesting to me is why so many smart people have such a problem with Christ's teachings. Why does the Gospel of Brotherly Love arouse so much hate?
Yes the church has been subverted and has discredited Christ. But surely we can separate Christ's teachings from the people who fail to represent them.
RELIGION
Christ's teachings give the lie to Zeitgeist's claim that he is another pagan symbol. Unlike Christ, Horus et al did not express the Spirit of God.
Millions of people experience the Sprit of God directly. They can confirm that Christ indeed is a messenger of God. I am a (non observant) Jew and do not belong to any Christian church but even I can see this. So can Muslims and Hindus who also honor Christ.
Before I talk about Christ's teachings, I want to speak about religion in general.
Try not to zone out as you've been programmed to do.
True religion differs from paganism in that it is essentially moral in character. It is concerned with what is true and good, what is right and wrong. It worships (serves) God; not nature, not the sun. It is basically a spiritual discipline designed to attune us to God's presence and will. By necessity, it is otherworldly, i.e. it rejects the priorities of this world, mainly power, money and sex.
Instead it teaches us to aspire to spiritual ideals such as truth, justice, peace, love and beauty as the ultimate reality. Love of God makes us seek these ideals.We know God when they are self-evident to us.
(The popular image of God -- a Santa Claus who watches over us and answers our prayers -- is the straw man atheists create. How easy to reject such a juvenile concept.)
Whether we are atheists or not, we cannot escape God. God is NOT nature. God is a moral dimension. Everything we do, everything that happens to us, falls along a spectrum of good to evil. We can't escape that.
In fact, we so love God that we are always striving for some kind of ersatz "good" (often leading to some very real evil.)
We were put on earth to do God's will, i.e. discern and implement what is genuinely Good. We have to be Good in order to feel good. If we don’t, we bear the consequences and have only ourselves to blame.
We have no trouble recognizing when we are hungry. Our stomach tells us. But when we are despondent, we cannot seem to trace the problem back to our soul because we're not supposed to have a soul.
The soul is as real as the stomach and the proof is that our hunger for purpose, harmony and meaning is just as great, and much more durable than our hunger for pizza.
Spiritual hunger is what defines us as "human." Without the ability to distinguish right and wrong, we are little more than animals. The Illuminati want to define us as animals, so they can exploit or destroy us.
When a culture no longer fosters a free discussion of what is true and good; when there is no longer a consensus and desire to achieve these ideals; it is marked for extinction.
CHRIST'S TEACHING
"Zeitgeist" says that Horus and numerous other Sun Gods were born on Dec. 25, died on a cross, had 12 disciples, rose after three days etc. etc.
Did they also teach us to love our neighbor, that God is Love, that all men are brothers, and to treat others as you would have them treat you? Did they teach:
"No man can serve two masters...Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." (Matt 5:24)
"Be ye therefore perfect as your Father who art in heaven is perfect." (Matt 5: 48)
"God is a Spirit and we must worship Him in spirit and in truth." (John 4:24)
"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.." (Matt 5:44)
Did they teach worldly denial and escape from the prison of the ego?
"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Matt 16:27)
CONCLUSION
"Zeitgeist" seems to disguise an essentially pagan New Age message in a credible attack on the Illuminati. While decrying two Illuminati frauds, it is perpetuating a third one. Along with religion, it also assails nation and race in passing, 3 out of the 4 on the Illuminati hate-list. (No mention of family.)
Just because we reject the juvenile concept of God, we still have souls that intuit immanent Truth and Purpose. Hopefully viewers of "Zeitgeist" will recognize that faith in God answers a very real spiritual hunger.
"Seek and ye shall find."
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Related: Ken Adachi nailed "Zeitgeist" back in July.
Andreas said (September 18, 2007):
Read your review of the Zeitgeist movie and then watched it. I'm not going to comment on Part I, except to point out a lot of what they claim I have read elsewhere, most memorably from David Icke.
However Part II about the Federal Reserve and income tax just has numerous glaring errors in it. First of all, while the Federal Reserve banks are owned by private banks, under law, they are obligated to sweep all of their profits into a surplus fund (subject to a 6% cumulative, tax-free dividend on paid-in capital). Prior to 2000, the law stated:
“During fiscal years 1997 and 1998, any amount in the surplus fund of any Federal reserve bank in excess of the amount equal to 3 percent of the total paid-in capital and surplus of the member banks of such bank shall be transferred to the Board for transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury.â€
Currently, the law does not provide what happens to the surplus fund - it simply provides that in 2000, $3.752 billion was to be transferred to the U.S. Treasury. Since there is no authorization to distribute the surplus fund to the member banks, unless of course the banks are embezzling, the amounts are accumulating in the surplus fund, which used to be used to back issuance of Federal Reserve notes but the purpose of which currently is less clear to me.
But in any event, the primary holder of US treasury bonds, contrary to the intimation of the video, is not the Federal Reserve banks - rather, private institutions (such as pension funds, etc.) and foreign governments hold the bulk of the US treasury obligations. For example, the New York fed holds approximately $775 billion in US treasury obligations, but the remainder is held by other institutions and governments, including intra-governmental obligations of approximately $3.8 trillion (primarily the Social Security trust fund).
While the debt-based money system is of course subject to criticism - and the video's observation that the debt-based money system creates an ever-escalating cycle of debt that can, except for bankruptcy or loan forgiveness, never be repaid is true - to imply that the stockholders of the Federal Reserve banks are the beneficiaries of the interest payments is plainly false. This type of sensationalism infects the entire segment.
Also the claims about the income tax not being legally required is patently absurd. Section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) imposes an obligation on individuals to pay tax on "taxable income", which is defined very broadly in Section 63 of the IRC. One might argue that the IRC is unconstitutional but you can argue that about 95% of the federal government and, in any event, that is a different argument than the bogus one that there is no legal requirement to pay taxes. Indeed a number of tax protestors, including Larken Rose, have been convicted.
It is time that these types of easily disproven claims stop being made. People should conduct better research. Unfortunately making such stupid arguments tends to taint other arguments made.
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Robert replies:
The mechanism by which the Fed acts as a money machine for the elites is a bit complicated and it is true that the source of their profit isn't from the interest on government debt. That wouldn't give near enough money. The true source is the pyramiding of the debt. Here is a link that gives an excerpt from The Creature From Jekyll Island, chapter 10 The Mandrake Mechanism. I think this would succinctly explain it.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jekyll.htm