Almost from the very beginning, a mystique grew up around Skull and Bones, as might be expected in a university community that suddenly has within its confines a “secret society.” Professors objected because of its secrecy in a nation that prizes its recognition of equality and its contempt of elitism.Īs early as 1873 a New Haven newspaper published an article that condemned the society as an “obnoxious, deadly evil” with an increasing “arrogance and self-fancied superiority.” It was the same vine-covered, windowless brownstone hall where Skull and Bones still holds its mysterious occult rites. presidency in 1909 and later became chief justice of the Supreme Court,the only person to have achieved both positions. His son, William Howard Taft (1887),was elected to the U.S.
attorney general,then secretary of war,ambassador to Austria,and ambassador to Russia. William Russell (1833) rose to the military rank of general and became a state legislator in Connecticut. The initiates’ vows have to do with support of one another in the achievement of worldly and highly material success after graduation. Skull and Bones is not your typical beerswilling,goof-off fraternity. Each fortunate initiate is gifted with $15,000 and a grandfather clock. The society,which Russell formed with Alphonso Taft (class of 1833),exists only at Yale,and only fifteen juniors are selected by senior members to be initiated into the next year’s membership. He called it the “Order of Scull and Bones,” later changed to Skull and Bones. Russell also returned to Yale with the notion of establishing a chapter of a corps in Germany. Neither Hitler’s fascism nor Lenin’s communism would quarrel with the precepts of Hegelianism. The state has supreme rights over individuals, and individuals must recognize that their supreme duty is to the state. In Hegel’s worldview, the state is Absolute Reason and individuals must give their total obedience to it. When William Huntington Russell returned to Yale from his studies in Germany in 1832, his head was filled with the philosophy of reason as taught by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel at the University of Berlin. Its members assure outsiders that Skull and Bones is simply a college fraternity that taps fifteen rich boys each year to undergo an initiation that’s nothing but “mumbo-jumbo.” Conspiracists are certain that the occult-based secret society worships the absolute power of the state and the New World Order.
0 kommentar(er)
