In his “On to the Next One” video, Hova wears devil horns, incorporates a goat skull (representing the goat-headed demon Baphomet) and employs symbols of Freemasonry.

Though many fans made the connection, and talked about how it noticeably wasn’t shown on TV, other fans chimed in clarifying the symbol was of Rocnation, Jay-Z’s music agency she’s signed to. There are different perspectives of why people believe in these theories, and they’re not necessarily mutually exclusive – so the simplest form of explanation is that people who believe in conspiracy theories are suffering from some sort of psychopathology. The favorite symbol of Daft Punk — often used as a gigantic DJ booth during their shows — is none other than a triangle. In a Fourth of July discourse entitled The Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis, Dwight quoted from Revelation 16 to caution his listeners and eventual readers about “unclean teachers” who were educating innocent people in “unclean doctrines.This system would correct the current imbalance in German Freemasonry, where masonic ideals of equality were preserved only in the lower three "symbolic" degrees. Aside from the usual homophobia/xenophobia/attacks on Beliebers, were quite a few mentions of the Illuminati. Beyoncé’s rumored affiliation with the Illuminati is so prevalent it has been parodied by Reductress. Product placement has reached parodic heights recently in music - you need only look to the bizarre collaboration between Example and Elastoplast for affirmation of this fact.

This is a very good presentation by Mark Devlin, in which he shows in great detailhow Satanic and Illuminati symbolism are used in the entertainment industry.

Who believes it: The part of the venn diagram where Michael Moore, Britney Spears, and Us Weekly fans overlap. When he began speaking out against the Vietnam war, which had great financial benefits for many corporations, the Illuminati orchestrated a scenario in which it would be easy for King to be killed.

Weishaupt responded by privately slandering his perceived enemies in letters to his perceived friends. With the ratification of the Constitution fresh in the minds of most Americans, and upheaval ongoing across the Atlantic in the form of the French Revolution, the late 18th century was a volatile time. But recently, conspiracy theorists claim his infamous slap on Chris Rock was an Illuminati humiliation ritual. Printed sermons were followed by newspaper accounts and these figured in the partisan political discourse leading up to the 1800 U.John Fea is Distinguished Professor of American History at Messiah University and author of Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump.

I followed the link in one of these comments and landed at a number of conspiracy theory blogs, such as this one, which is devoted to uncovering the "esoteric meaning" of music videos. The lack of a coherent alternative to the two strains of mysticism allowed the Illuminati to present themselves as a credible option. Knigge's initial plan to obtain a constitution from London would, they realised, have been seen through by the chapter. That's quite a bit of time to fill, especially given that Countdown is only on for what, like 35 minutes? They wanted to bring chaos back into society to shake things up, and “the way to do that was to spread disinformation.The Illuminati have a role in Horrid Mysteries, as in Montague Summers' introduction to a later reprint of it. Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson is a three-book science fiction series published in the 1970s, which is regarded as a cult classic. It’s hardly instigated the mind-blowing epiphany – the realisation that it’s all fake – which the proponents of Discordianism had originally intended.