D2MG@SDSUMUS (Kurt Evans) (01/13/90)
For the past couple of days, I've been listening to a series of cassettes, *Hidden Messages in Rock*, by Evangelist John Muncy. Near the end of the series Muncy alluded to the album *Kilroy Was Here* by Styx. This was the first rock album I really got hooked on, so I was snapped to attention. At the beginning of the song "Heavy Metal Poisoning," the following phrase is backmasked: "Annuit Coeptis Novus Ordo Seclorum." A rough translation from Latin renders, "Announcing the birth (inception) of a new world (secular) order." This phrase is found on the back of the U.S. one-dollar bill. It surrounds the 13-level pyramid with the cornerstone missing and topped off by the all-seeing eye. It is a symbol that has long been associated with a secret organization called the *Illuminati*. In his autobiography, *The Satan Seller*, Mike Warnke (former Satanist high priest) testifies to this organization's control over the heirarchy of the Satanic church. "MDCCLXXVI," or 1776, is engraved in the foundation of the pyramid. The Illuminati was founded in 1776. I had seen this symbol in a campus newspaper (Christian) called *The Forerunner*. The article was in the November issue and was titled "The Roots of America's New Age." I conjecture that Christians in America are not fewer than they were back then--just generally less aggressive. Satan has apparently been here at least as long as Jesus has. God still rules, Kurt