skull and bones (The Order of Death, The Order, Cooperation Star, The Eulogian Club, and Lodge 322)

On the beautiful campus of Yale University, there is a small Greek temple-like building with several narrow windows closed all year round, and the whole building is shrouded in a mysterious color. This inconspicuous building is the most mysterious and mysterious in the United States. It's never open to the outside world, and it has always maintained its own peculiar color and elite style, and it also has a chilling name called "skull and bones". Skull and bones has extremely mysterious membership rules, and what is even more daunting is its membership list. From this skull and bones, there are three American presidents, two Supreme Court justices, and countless American congressmen and senior cabinet officials. After 172 years of reproduction, skull and bones's members are almost everywhere, from the White House, Congress, cabinet ministries, the Supreme Court and even the Central Intelligence Agency.

Nowadays, when US President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Kerry are fiercely competing for the US presidency, Americans are surprised to find that although the two presidential candidates come from different parties and have different political views and programs, they all keep an amazing secret. They are all members of skull and bones. Kerry joined the club in 1965, and Bush entered skull and bones two years later. The mysterious skull and bones began to surface.

The mysterious building of Yale campus

There are many secret alumni associations in the famous Ivy League schools, and April and May are the time for these alumni associations to recruit new members every year. Yale in May is full of spring scenery, which may be the most beautiful season on Yale campus. Flowers are blooming everywhere, and the ancient campus is full of vitality. Freshmen all like to play Frisbee together on the grass at this time, or play the stereo all night and have a carnival in the open space on campus. However, there is a group of people who don't bother to have fun. They are eager to get a pass and join a secret organization, so that they can even rise to the top. In 1965 and 1967, as new members, Kerry and George W. Bush were introduced to the same secret homecoming. When they entered this organization, they had already got a ticket to the top of American power. This organization is skull and bones. It is also the most mysterious and powerful of more than a dozen secret student union organizations in Yale.

There is a brown rock building with a unique appearance and a style similar to a Greek temple on the HighStreet of Yale University in the United States. This is the headquarters of skull and bones. The three-storey building has a basement, and the vines on the outer wall of brown strips are coiled. Members call it the "tomb", and many helicopters can be parked on the roof of the building. A famous saying is engraved on the side wall of the "tomb": "Who is an idiot and who is a wise man? Whether it is a beggar or a king, the final destination is death. " The door here is locked all the year round. Want to knock on it? If you are not a member of this reunion, even if you stand outside the door for three days and three nights, you will not be moved. Outsiders know nothing about its interior and the activities of its members. It is said that the only time the "tomb" was invaded by outsiders was in 1876. All this makes skull and bones more mysterious.

adhere to the tradition of aristocratic elites

every spring, 15 new members (Bones Men, Knights of Eulogia, Boodle Boys, GB DBS-great bones of the Boodle) are welcomed in the clubhouse in skull and bones. According to the membership requirements set by William Huntington Russell (189-1885), the founder of skull and bones, the selected members must meet a series of almost harsh standards: first, they must come from a rich family in the eastern United States, and it is best to immigrate from Britain with noble blood. Secondly, we should have a good education, and it is best to go to a noble boarding school in middle school. Third, be fond of sports, be competitive, and preferably have military service experience. Skull and bones's candidate is a third-year student of Yale University, who just joined skull and bones in the year of graduation. In the early days of skull and bones, there were racial and gender restrictions. For example, Jews and blacks could not join the club, and women could not join the club. However, with the changes of the times, skull and bones's restriction of admitting only white men as members was hit in the late 198s. Skull and bones finally admitted Yale girls in 1991.

Alexandra Robbins, an American journalist who once risked her life to report on skull and bones and wrote The Secrets of the Tomb, once described skull and bones in an interview: "skull and bones is very organized and small. Only 15 people join the club every year, which means that there are only about 8 skull and bones members alive at any time. Although the number is small, these people hold great power. Many skull and bones members are at the top of the pyramid of American economic and political power. "

Weird initiation ceremony

"It's really like a grave, with no windows, and the granite wall makes you forget it at a glance. And I used to live next to this building, and I almost pass by here every day. As soon as the initiation ceremony is held, you can hear strange and creepy shouts coming from that building. " Ron rosenbaum, a columnist of new york Observer, who has investigated skull and bones, wrote.

The emblem of "skull and bones" is a creepy skull sign with Arabic numerals "322" written on it. This organization believes in a legend. It is said that in 322 BC, when the Greek orator Debustini died, the goddess of eloquence ascended to heaven with her. This society therefore calls itself the Eloquence Club, and believes that the Eloquence Goddess has returned to the world in 1832. 322 therefore became the code of this organization.

when new members enter the door for the first time, they will go through a complicated and strange initiation ceremony. At the orientation meeting in skull and bones, an elderly "skull and bones" member will lead new members into the mysterious Room 322, which is also called the Inner Temple. A group of people dressed in strange clothes were shouting around the new members. Then an older member of skull and bones will put a skull on the shoulder of a new member and say in a low voice, "Will you accept skull and bones all your life?" After answering yes, he officially became a member of skull and bones. Early members must wrestle naked in the mud, which is said to mean "death in the old world" and "rebirth in the new world". All members who join the membership must agree with and devote themselves to the purpose of seizing state power and creating a "new world order" through various means. One of the main purposes of the association is to help its members gain power and wealth.

The secret passage to the power pyramid

Once you become a full member, you will get a ticket to the upper class in the United States, because new members will not only be taught how to step into the state power institutions, but also get a roster of previous skull and bones members when they graduate. Rows of names on the roster are simply ladders to power and road to riches.

Because the people who took part in the "skull and bones" are basically famous American families, including the Bushes, Ponties, harriman, Lord, Philps, Rockefeller, Taft, goodyear, Payne and Whitney. Therefore, the association has been encouraging everyone to intermarry as much as possible, so as to maintain the purity of "blue blood" (that is, aristocratic blood) and to jointly build the power and wealth alliance of "skull and bones Dynasty". After Bush was elected president, he selected five skull and bones members to join the cabinet, including William Donaldson, who was the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He joined skull and bones in 1953. Like the current President George W. Bush, he also swore to obey skull and bones's commandments and keep all secrets about skull and bones.

In fact, there are a lot of similar student organizations in American universities, but skull and bones has unique characteristics. Once members of skull and bones join the club, they will remain members for life and keep all secrets strictly. It is said that members of skull and bones must leave the room immediately after outsiders bring up the topic of skull and bones, so as to avoid leaking secrets. Moreover, skull and bones is extremely rich in financial resources. It is said that every new member will receive $15, when joining the club. In addition, the most remarkable place of skull and bones is that a large number of skull and bones members have become the elites of American politics, finance and academia in the past hundred years.

skull and bones elite spectrum:

William H. Taft (member of 1878)

He was the 27th president of the United States from p>198 to 1912, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1921 to 193 (the only person who was both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court in American history), and he was also the trustee of the Carnegie Institution of the United States. In his hands, "skull and bones" entered its first golden age.

henry stimson (member of 1888)

A famous American strategist and implementer of the first golden age of "skull and bones". From 1911 to 1913, he served as Minister of the Army. From 1928 to 1929, he served as governor-general in the Philippines. Secretary of State from 1929 to 1933. During his more than 3 years in politics, he served seven American presidents, namely, theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Hulbeart Hoover, franklin roosevelt and Truman. Stimson is simply a political tumbler with hot power. In his hands, the big family in "skull and bones" officially started the creation of the dual structure of politics and business in American society, and the influence of Whitney family (railway and arms industry), Ponty family (railway and financial industry) and harriman family (railway and financial industry) was truly integrated and strengthened.

George Bush (member of 1948)

That is, George H.W. Bush, the main member of the Bush family in the skull and bones, was the president of the United States from 1988 to 1992, and his son george walker bush (member of 1968) is the current president of the United States. George Bush's father, Prescott bush, was a member in 1917, and George Bush's uncle, George Hulbeart Bush, was also a member of skull and bones (1927).

Avolol harriman (member of the class of 1913)

As a major member of the harriman family, a famous railway family in the early United States, Avolol harriman served in many positions, from the American ambassador to the Soviet Union during World War II, to the American officials in the State Council, and then to the chief American negotiator in the Vietnam War armistice negotiations.

Robert A. Lovett (Member of 1918)

He was once the Secretary of Defense, the Treasury Secretary and the Secretary of State of the United States, and he was one of the most powerful figures in the history of skull and bones, who dominated American politics for nearly 4 years.

Henry Luce (member of the class of 192)

The founder of the publishing empire of Time & Life in the United States and the famous advocate of the doctrine of "American Century".

Henry P. Davison (member of 192)

The main partner of Morgan Stanley investment bank in the United States and the behind-the-scenes leader of American financial network.