MALLEUS ILLUMINATUS: THE ILLUMINATI HAMMER

An excerpt

Posted by Anthony Harmon

Friday, November 13, 2009

The following is an excerpt from a fictional interview conducted between a novelist known as Jessie Dalton and Edison Adams, the protagonist in the upcoming Charles Copeland novel, Malleus Illuminatus: The Illuminati Hammer.

Please remember that everything you read here is a fictional account.

The following interview takes place at Boundary Peak Island Federal Research Facility, 20 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. The intended time frame is summer of 2012.
 

Jessie Dalton: Good morning, Edison. It�s good to see you.

Edison Adams: Good morning, Jessie. It�s good to see you as well. I hope the flight to the island went well.

Jessie Dalton: It did. It was my first time in a helicopter, which felt weird, but it was fun at the same time. Would it be all right with you if I recorded these interviews? It would make it so much easier for me to transcribe for myself later.

Edison Adams: That would be fine. Are you nervous?

Jessie Dalton: I would be lying if I said I wasn�t just a little bit nervous. But I�ve conducted interviews with some pretty high profile criminals in the past, so I hope this will all go as smoothly as the rest have.

Edison Adams: As you can see from my restraints, I will not be able to move from my chair, so let me assure you that I am no threat to you.

Jessie Dalton: Right. Well, I will say I had reservations about doing this interview in a live setting, but I have to admit that your etiquette is perfect.

Edison Adams: If I choose to leave you with a single memory of our time together, it is that I made you feel at ease. Consider yourself my guest, if you will.

Jessie Dalton: (I turn on the digital voice recorder then) Well, thank you, Edison.

Edison Adams: Think nothing about it. Now then, off we go. Interview away, young lady.

Jessie Dalton: Okay. It is presently about one-thirty in the afternoon. You�re scheduled to fly back to the Hague early tomorrow morning to stand trial for twenty-one new counts of premeditated murder. What�s going through your mind? What thoughts have you had in the last few days?

Edison Adams: I have given to thoughts of how the world got to the place it is in now. All I think about these days is that, if only people had not become so caught up in everyday trivialities and meaningless fluff, if they had used their free time more wisely and investigated my claims many years ago, maybe the world would not be in the chaotic state of affairs it�s in now. But then I realize that all I can do is plant the seeds of informative fact. They must germinate on their own, and only after that can the trees of knowledge be harvested. I did what I did. I often find it difficult to realize it was not up to me to make the world see the ruling forces for what they are. My job was to lay my claims and, later, to act on them.

Jessie Dalton: (I unzip my briefcase then, reaching inside to retrieve a manila file folder more than three inches thick) For the record, your acting on your claims led you to be convicted of killing four thousand, two hundred and fifty-six people. All of them were men. Is there a reason why all of your victims were male, and all members of elite families?

Edison Adams: For the record, contrary to what you said, I was never convicted of anything. Whatever that folder shows you, nowhere in it will you find any record of conviction. I entered an all-encompassing plea of guilty on all counts against me. But yes, I was adjudicated guilty for the crime of violations of the laws or customs of war, including murder of civilians. And yes, the total number stands at four thousand, two hundred and fifty-six. I must correct you on another part of the record, however. None of my victims were people, at least not in the dictionary definition. They were all merciless predators who deserved to suffer the most violent deaths imaginable. And that is what I gave them. All of them. Yes, they were all male, and they were all members of elite families. To set the record straight, they were all members of the Ancient Order of the Bavarian Illuminati. They were enemies of mankind, vile, pathetic wastes of otherwise perfectly good carbon, and they were all treated as such.

Jessie Dalton: How did it all happen? Take me back. What are the antecedents of the behavior we�ve seen from you?

Edison Adams: Some people are inherently incapable of standing idle while such injustice rules mankind.

Jessie Dalton: You were raised in what many might consider to be a broken home, in a highly dysfunctional family. You were violent as a child. Are there extenuating reasons for all of that?

Edison Adams: Are there extenuating reasons for wolf cubs to grow up to become the perfectly efficient killing machines they were born to be? After all, can an animal that knows no other law than that of the law of the jungle be held to higher standards than any other animal that fails its society and goes rogue, killing for sport instead of self sustenance? All animals possess the ability to kill. Especially man. Our species has been the most efficient destroyer since its very inception. So when one of us becomes exceptionally violent, acting out in ways that society deems unacceptable, that individual stands little chance of moving through life in anything even remotely resembling ... the right direction. That�s not to say that I�m offering excuses for my behavior. In no way will I ever excuse myself from deserving punishment for my actions. What I�m attempting to offer is simply the account of a single individual pushed to the point where nothing was left to be lost.

Jessie Dalton: Can you walk me through some of the things that were running through your mind when you were still a child?

Edison Adams: I never had what you would call a childhood, at least not in the traditional sense. I read a lot when I was very young. From my first experience of being able to read, I found that it was something I couldn�t get enough of. The simple action of opening up a book felt, to me, like I was uncovering new information which had been hidden from me until then. And in very many cases, I found that to be true. Much of what I read had been hidden, from me as well as from every other individual who has ever lived or ever will. I became fascinated with the accounts told in nursery rhymes ... not the stories themselves, mind you ... the accounts of oftentimes quite literal events which happened long ago and were then passed on through time as legends and myths, as if they never did happen. Having been born in what was then communist East Germany, living under Soviet rule, reading was all I saw fit to do. I very quickly climbed the ranks of reading at the level of children my age at the time to reading at a first grade level and then, within months, I found myself reading books that children who were ten and eleven-years-old should have been reading. By the time I turned six I had gotten into high school age material, and that was when I discovered that many, many of the stories told to us through nursery rhymes were not stories at all, because I had found out where and how to locate historical accounts of the information presented in Mother Goose fables. It wasn�t long before I began discovering the truth behind stories that society as a whole tells its children in order to entertain them, and worse, to lull them into going to sleep. It was at that point when I decided to question everything I had ever read by digging much deeper than what we are shown on the surface of things told to us or taught to us through books. And then, on my eighth birthday, my uncle Friedrich gave me a very well worn out book that changed my life. It involved something called the illuminated ones, which I quickly came to learn were the Illuminati. And from there, I learned as much about the Illuminati as quickly as I was able. So whatever was going through my mind as a child was vastly different from the normal thoughts of everyday children I went to school with. And it fascinated me, even at that young age, to see children go to school and soak in the pre-planned curriculum fed to them as infallible truth, never aware that there was at least someone out there in the world who had to sit down and decide what it was that children would go to school each day and learn about.

Jessie Dalton: So it would be fair to say that the things you read about as a child, about the Illuminati, fueled your fantasies of becoming an apex predator?

Edison Adams: At first, no. When I first began discovering the Illuminati and many other secret societies, I was enthralled at the level of arcane knowledge they possessed and I wanted all of it for myself as well. So in a very real sense, you could say I had stepped right onto the path of illumination, which would have led eventually to my direct involvement with the Illuminati. Later in life I was offered the opportunity to join various secret societies, all of which I turned down, but I can�t say with any honesty whether or not I would have accepted those opportunities if they had been presented to me when I was still just a boy. What fueled my fantasies, as you so aptly phrased it, to become the perfect apex predator, was that when I found The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, even though scholars I talked to claimed the protocols were forgeries, I compared them to Karl Marx's Manifesto for the Communist Party, as well as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and Confederate General Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma and found consistencies relating one to all of the others, so much that I concluded that, in the end, they were all saying the very same thing. By then my family and I had emigrated to America, and American libraries became my home away from home. I rode my bike into Boston one day in the summer of 1964 to discuss my findings with a professor at Boston University and he advised me that I had found a trail which someone my age should avert at all cost. When I asked him why, as any boy would, he told me that the information I would discover would not only change the way I viewed society and world history, but it would also mark me as someone the Illuminati would consider to be an enemy. There and then, that very day, even before my ride all the way home from Boston, having confirmed my finding that the protocols and Marx's work and Hitler's ramblings and Pike's revelations were intricately interconnected, I realized that because so few people ever become privy to the truth I had found, it became my responsibility to do everything within my power to ensure that the things discussed and very clearly outlined in those books would never be allowed to take place. So, as a consequence, you may ask which came first, my episodes of childhood violence, or the unleashing of an inner monster I hadn�t even known was within myself until I began learning about things that are not meant to be discovered. And if you were to ask me just that, my answer would have to be that I don�t know. I suppose one preexisted, but which one is a mystery even to me. And before you act on your obvious desire to ask, yes, I do consider the car crash that killed both of my parents to be anything but some freak accident. And since I was already an emerging monster at that point in my life, it only stood to reason that my natural order of progression would be to make the jump from monster to psychopath.

Jessie Dalton: What about after that? What I mean is, you had gone just about as far as you could go in your young adult life when your parents were killed. Was joining the Army kind of a last resort decision, something you decided to do in order to escape the road you were on at the time?

Edison Adams: My decision to join the army was a two-pronged attack. First, doing such a thing would keep me out of trouble and divert me from the direction my life was headed in at the time. If I had done things any differently, I�m quite sure I would have resorted to a life of crime, and that was something I wanted to avoid. Second, my time in the army would train me for the very things stated in Pike's dogma, the protocols, the communist manifesto and Hitler's crap. All of those "teachings" were clearing the way for a global war the likes of which has never been witnessed on Earth, and I figured that if something of that magnitude was bound to happen, either by dumb chance or by any measure of behind the scenes orchestration, I had damn well better become as polarized to oppose it as I could.

Jessie Dalton: How long did you serve before you decided to start killing members of the Illuminati?

Edison Adams: I enlisted in the army in 1968, when I was seventeen, went to Officers Candidate School immediately following basic training and then off to the jungles of Viet Nam shortly thereafter for five tours of combat, came home when it was clear that we would never be allowed to use necessary force in order to win that war, and served in peacetime until 1981, which was when I began killing. So in total, I had served thirteen years before I became what I am. Call it my incubation period, if you will.

Jessie Dalton: Do you remember what pushed you over the edge? Was there a single incident that made you decide that there was no other way around not killing?

Edison Adams: There was a series of events leading up to a single catalyzing event which showed me what my role would be for the remainder of my life. If you want me to go into further detail regarding any of these events, please let me know and I would be more than happy to explain in greater detail. I met and instantly fell head over heels in love with Ruth Eisen in the spring of 1973 while I was on leave in London, England. I remember very vividly telling her that anytime she ever wanted me to visit her, all she had to do was say the word and I would take whatever time off I could and I would fly to London. This was something that became quite a regular occurrence. It seemed as if I had a standard period of service in Viet Nam which was always punctuated by my jaunts to London. What I was not aware of at the time was that, while visiting Ruth, I was also making my name well known among certain social circles throughout London which, later, would prove to offer opportunities I would never have gotten had I not met Ruth. For example, I mentioned earlier that I had been offered acceptance in advance if I should ever have chosen to become a freemason. Those opportunities and many others were offered because of the people I began meeting when I started dating Ruth. I thought nothing of it at the time, but the day I asked Ruth to be my wife, two men at the restaurant where I had proposed who had overheard my proposal approached me and offered me an envelope containing what they called a congratulatory wedding gift. When we got to my hotel room, Ruth told me that the two men were close friends of her family and asked what was in the envelope. I told her I didn�t know, opened it up, and found twenty thousand dollars in cash inside, along with a note that read, This is the first step of your journey into an eternal understanding of the Brotherhood of the Order. I had no idea what that meant and, frankly, I didn�t care at the time. All that mattered was the fact that I was about to marry the love of my life. But later, on the day of our marriage, I got a phone call from one of the men from that day with the envelope, and he instructed me that after the wedding a limousine would pick us up, drive us to a honeymoon suite that neither of us knew anything about, and that during our two week stay there I would be offered the next step to take in my journey ... a journey I knew nothing about. We went along with the program and ended up staying at a castle in Tring, England, where we were treated like royalty. A few days later, I was asked to join a group of men in another wing of the castle and, feeling obliged, I agreed. At this meeting, I was introduced to some of the most powerful people in the financial world. I was not asked to do any favors and I was not offered anything at that first meeting. However, after Ruth and I went on to our new life as newlyweds at our new home in Massachusetts, as the years passed, the favors started flooding in. It is at this point where I should tell you that the favors were so unjust that, having denied performing even a single one, I would prefer not discussing them. I will tell you, however, that I was repeatedly asked to perform acts of high treason against the United States of America, and I mention that so that you have a barometer by which to measure the severity of the things I was asked to do. Again, if you would like to know more, I will oblige. It is, however, subject matter I feel best not discussing. Later, when Ruth gave birth to our twin daughters on Independence Day of 1980, another phone call came, in which it was suggested that if I kept refusing to do the favors asked of me by some of the men I had met in England, I might live to regret it. And very shortly after that, Ruth was murdered in our home and ... our daughters were abducted. A suspiciously shortened investigation stated that a neighborhood punk had been the one to carry out the murder but it offered no explanation for the abduction and absolutely no motive whatsoever. A note was found nailed to Ruth's back which read, "Your daughters will make fine test subjects. Do not search for them or they will fall to the same fate as your bitch."�

   (Edison pauses then, staring out the only window in the interview room, then adds:)

   No neighborhood punk kid would leave that kind of note.

   (He pauses again, remaining silent for nearly five minutes. I ask him if we should end this particular portion of the interview process. He answers no, leans forward against the table, looks me directly in the eyes, and continues)

   It only took me forty-eight hours to figure out who murdered my wife and kidnapped our daughters. Oh, it took me nearly two years to track down all of the accomplices involved, but once I did ...

   (He pauses yet again, and this time I swear I felt his stare reaching inside my soul. Then he continues)

   I became more than just the protector of my wife and daughters. I became ... an unrelenting, merciless beast.

Jessie Dalton: Would it be accurate to call that calculated vengeance?

Edison Adams: (Edison maintains silence for more than a minute, returning his gaze to the window before continuing) It would be more than fair to call it that. 

Jessie Dalton: After you committed your first murder of an Illuminati member, what was the emotional effect? What happened to you in the days right after that?

Edison Adams: I will admit here that I found a feeling of indestructibility that seemed to envelope me in the immediate days following the first murder. I had left home anyhow, and headed straight to England to begin the hunt for everyone involved in the murder of my wife and the disappearance of my daughters. I had vowed silently to go to any lengths to track down my little girls, even if doing so led to my own death. As for those involved in killing my wife, the exhilaration of having slaughtered an actual Illuminati member made it that much easier to go ahead with hunting and killing thousands more.

Jessie Dalton: You hadn�t known that you were capable of such savageness before that?

Edison Adams: Oh, I always knew it, even from my first memories as a child. I had just never used it with such ferocity before, so I was a bit unaware of the totality of what I was capable of.

Jessie Dalton: Outside these walls, the new government has decided to allow access to you to more than one hundred reporters and they all desperately want to talk to you. Yet you chose me to tell your story, for which I feel honored. I must tell you that. During our last phone conversation you mentioned that there were a number of warnings you wanted to issue to every living person on Earth. Would you like to get into all of that right now or do you want to cover other subjects first?

Edison Adams: I think that would be a line of subject material that would be better suited for the latter portions of our interviews. What your readers need to know first, as sort of a prologue, are all the details that led up to how the world got to where it is today.

Jessie Dalton: Okay. What do you think your life might�ve been like had your parents not been killed in the accident and if you had never discovered the Illuminati plans?

Edison Adams: As I stated before, because of some of the choices I had made as an adolescent and then as a teenager, I�m quite sure my life would have taken a far worse turn than it did. Finding out about the Illuminati didn�t have very much effect on that aspect. For me, the damage had already been done for quite a while before all of that.

Jessie Dalton: I need to ask the obvious question here, while I still have the nerve to do it. As far as the families of your victims are concerned, is there anything you would say to the children who you left without fathers?

Edison Adams: As a matter of fact, I think this would be an appropriate time to do just that. From here on out, until the end of this reply, consider what I say to be a verbatim approach I want to convey to those children.

   (The interview room door opens then. An orderly dressed in United States Air Force olive drab uniform enters, replaces the empty coffee pot with a fresh one, checks Edison's restraints and the bars covering the window, and then leaves. Edison continues. Because of this brief interruption I choose to transcribe all of Edison's reply from here on in quotations)

   To the children of my four thousand, two-hundred and fifty-six victims, I feel no further obligation.

Jessie Dalton: Do you feel any remorse for the things you did?

Edison Adams: Not at all.

Jessie Dalton: One of the murders you committed was that of William Winthorpe Weston Rothschild. Many governmental leaders now consider that to have been the murder that sparked the Illuminati to increase the pace of their plans for total global domination. The new Prime Minister of Australia has said publicly that if the Illuminati had not been forced to speed things up, they might well have adopted a "domination by governance" approach to global government. He has been quoted as saying that your actions are the direct cause for the Illuminati to alter their plans and start mass incineration of millions of people. A case could be made for you having caused global genocide by instigation of the Illuminati. Is there anything you would like to say in response to such claims?

Edison Adams: Yes, there is. To anyone who might think or feel that way, I will tell you right here, right now, that the mass slaughter of perhaps one billion people by the Illuminati is nothing compared to what they had planned. They admit in their own writings that they had every intention of exterminating more than ninety per cent of the population of planet Earth. They stated openly that their plan included exact start and end dates and what was to be accomplished by a given time in a highly calculated timeline. Part of that timeline included building gas chambers in what they planned to call "emergency centers"�throughout the world, which they actually began building in America as far back as the 1970s. Race specific biological weapons were devised, cultivated, and stored for use against whole sections of society, which is to say that their plans included mass aerial dispersal of biological weapons designed to affect certain races while leaving others unharmed. This would have made it possible to exterminate large portions of people considered to be unfit for life in the coming new age, under the emerging global government they were erecting. Entire races were targeted for extinction. The remaining population was then to be forced into highly dense mega-cities that the Illuminati called, in their own publicly available documents, human habitats. Following the near total destruction of society, the final stages were to have put into place ... a global tyranny over the masses, ruled by the very few. Humanity would have ended, having been replaced by an eternal serfdom. No savior was to arrive in the nick of time to rescue the human species. No armada of extraterrestrial craft was to whisk the survivors to safety. And no return to individual freedom would ever be tolerated. In short, mankind would have been caged for all eternity in over crowded mega-cities, and any individual found to have been speaking out against the new global government would have been executed without benefit of a trial ... on television ... before a live audience. All of these claims were published and made available for the public, so as to identify the point at which those plans could be put into operation. The Illuminati had always expected waves of opposition to their plans ... even revolt ... but they published their plans nonetheless, as the means by which to gauge the point at which an acceptable level of opposition would not inhibit the execution of those very plans to exterminate nearly every living person on Earth. So, to say that I am somehow responsible for the Illuminati having sped up their plans for global genocide is to blame me for having carried out the Illuminati's plans. That would be both unfair and untrue. My actions, slaughtering thousands of members of the Illuminati, directly led to portions of their plans to be executed, but at a much more diminished rate than that which they, themselves, stated was their own intent. They wanted more than nine out of every ten living humans to die. Yet my actions caused their plans to go awry, guaranteeing failure and ensuring the survival of more than five billion people. I can do only that. I can�t ensure the safety of anyone, including my own self. That much is up to you. And it is with that statement that I remind you all that, to remain safe and free, you must carry on where I left off. You must be the sword of vengeance now. The time for action is now over, for me. You must stand on your own now, and be your own savior. This is your time. Whatever tomorrow brings, it must be made to ensure the gift of individual freedom, which is the most precious of all gifts you can give yourselves. From this day forward, mankind's destiny lies within his own grasp, not in the iron clutches of tyrants, not in the ambiguous teachings of religious zealots masquerading as leaders, not in the scars of history. Your future lies ahead, awaiting your direction of it. Stand this day and conquer those who would, if given the chance again, obliterate freedom. For the good of all mankind, show no mercy in destroying what remains of the Illuminati. By doing so, you will guarantee the brightest of all possible futures for yourselves as well as for all of those whose futures are not yet written. It will be a future free of tyranny. It will be unwritten until you decide how it will be written. And it will be yours forever.  

Jessie Dalton: (Now it�s me who pauses. Edison's reply brings tears to my eyes, and for a long moment I�m too choked up to utter a sound. When I finally do suffocate the overwhelming charge of emotion, I continue, but not without a hint of passion in my tone) Do you think the punishment fits the crime, as the saying goes, in your case?

Edison Adams: Yes. In my case, yes. For every individual who follows after me, however, I feel they should not suffer any punishment at all. The world needs to be freed from the control of the Illuminati once and for all. And if that means the savage murder of all remaining Illuminati members by the people they worked for millennia to enslave ... so be it.

Jessie Dalton: There is a tremendous sense of hero worship among the general public all around the world regarding the things you�ve done. I�m well aware that you have access to television and the internet, so you must already know all about that. Do you draw strength from the fact that billions of people across the globe now consider you to be something of a defender of the human species?

Edison Adams: What I draw strength from now is the beautiful fact that, for once, the human family is able to decide its own fate, free from the global reach of a scant few thousand who�ve made all of the decisions for mankind for the past several thousand years. If the human family should decide that being controlled by tyrants is better than freedom and return the globe to Illuminati rule, then that is their choice. But now, for the first time in human history, it is the free choice of the people to make on their own. And for that alone ... I will never apologize.

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