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Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea

The Illuminatus! Trilogy

The Eye In The Pyramid

Book One: Verwirrung

The First Trip, or Kether

The Second Trip, or Chokmah

The Third Trip, or Binah

Book Two: Zweitracht

The Fourth Trip, or Chessed

The Fifth Trip, or Geburah

The Golden Apple

Book Three: Unordnung

The Sixth Trip, or Tipareth

The Seventh Trip, or Netzach

Book Four: Beamtenherrschaft

The Eighth Trip, or Hod

Leviathan

Book Four: Beamtenherrschaft Continued

The Ninth Trip, or Yesod

Book Five: Grummet

The Tenth Trip, or Malkuth

The Appendices

Appendix Aleph: George Washington's Hemp Crop

Appendix Beth: The Illuminati Cyphers, Codes, and Calendars

Appendix Gimmel: The Illuminati Theory of History

Appendix Daleth: Hassan i Sabbah and Alamount Black

Appendix Tzaddi: 23 Skidoo

Appendix Vau: Flaxscrip and Hempscrip

Appendix Zain: Property and Priviledge

Appendix Cheth: Hagbard's Abdication

Appendix Lamed: The Tactics of Magick

Appendix Yod: Operation Mindfuck

Appendix Kaph: The Rosy Double-Cross

Appendix Teth: Hagbard's Booklet

Appendix Mem: Certain Questions That May Still Trouble Some

Appendix Nun: Additional Information About Some of the Characters

The Eye In The Pyramid

BOOK ONE: VERWIRRUNG

The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies.

–Ishmael Reed, Mumbo-Jumbo

THE FIRST TRIP, OR KETHER

From Dealey Plaza To Watergate…

The Purple Sage opened his mouth and moved his tongue and so spake to them and he said:

The Earth quakes and the Heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains. Indeed do many things come to pass.

–Lord Omar Khayaam Ravenhurst, K.S.C., "The Book of Predications." The Honest Book of Truth

It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton. On April 1, the world's great powers came closer to nuclear war than ever before, all because of an obscure island named Fernando Poo. By the time international affairs returned to their normal cold-war level, some wits were calling it the most tasteless April Fool's joke in history. I happen to know all the details about what happened, but I have no idea how to recount them in a ma

For instance, right now, I am not at all whimsical or humorous. I am angry. I am in Nairobi, Kenya, and my name is, if you will pardon me, Nkrumah Fubar. My skin is black (does that disturb you? it doesn't me), and I am, like most of you, midway between tribalism and technology; to be more blunt, as a Kikuyu shaman moderately adjusted to city life, I still believe in witchcraft-I haven't, yet, the folly to deny the evidence of my own senses. It is April 3 and Fernando Poo has ruined my sleep for several nights ru