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You've heard bits and pieces, and alot of conjecture, but here is exactly what we have learned from the giant release of files about Jeffrey Epstein.Don't let this stuff slip off into oblivion. Keep the outrage alive.

For millennia, alchemists obsessed over the Philosopher's Stone, throwing untold amounts of money in to trying to turn lead into gold. But in the 19th century, a highly organized network of occultists, bankers, and secret societies finally figured out how to do it using debt, bullets, and global war.In this deep dive, continuing on our timeline of the occult, we look at the first half of the 19th century, where the foundations of the modern world were laid. From Emanuel Swedenborgs conversations with aliens to Franz Mesmer pioneering the psychological science of mass trance states, but most importantly how the Sabbatean-Frankist movement infiltrated European Freemasonry to establish the "Nascent Dawn" lodge and build the capital for a new universal religion.From countless European revolutions, to the British Empire's Christian Zionism and the Opium Wars in China, this occult financial network successfully conquered the world and ensured that the worlds capital now flowed through them.

The Count of Saint Germain. Most people have never heard of him, but to those who have, the name generally elicits one of three reactions.  To someone who hears his name thrown about on the peripherals, it likely induces a roll of the eyes.  To the conspirituality crowd of today, he is a literal god. An immortal Ascended Master living in a hidden city under Mount Shasta, guiding the spiritual evolution of humanity. A key Master in Helena Blavatski’s Theosophy that is worshipped still today as the central figure in the American offshoot of Theosophy, the I Am Activity. But to the initiated elites of the 18th and 19th centuries, he was the man. The man who walked into the Palace of Versailles dripping in diamonds, speaking every language perfectly, telling wild stories about being immortal while holding a bottle of the elixir of life. He was revered as an adept in the occult, a master alchemist, a Rosicrucian, and had the ability to walk into any secret society of the day and receive an honorary spot amongst the leadership. But all these people, no matter the opinion they have on him, all share one thing in common. Nobody is sure who he actually was or what he was doing. This is part 4 in our timeline of the Prisca Theologia, but this episode is going to be different. This wont be a sweeping overview of 100 years of Hermetic influence, this time we’re going to be more singularly focused. This story is the beginning of the inevitable outcome that was always going to happen once the church lost it’s grip on information and the secret societies of Europe reached critical mass. This is a story about one mysterious, immortal man, a secret society from Bavaria called the Illuminati, The French Revolution, and what they all have to do with each other. 00:00 - Introduction to The Count of St Germain02:35 - Recap of previous 3 episodes07:58 - Benjamin Franklin, Arthur St Clair and The American Revolution12:30 - Adam Weishaupt and the Illuminati25:17 - The Count of St Germain30:40 - Count St Germain in France39:35 - Count St Germain in Russia45:50 - Count St Germain in Germany47:15 - The Knights and Brothers of St John the Evangelist from Asia in Europe (The Asiatic Brethren)48:59 - The Convent of Wilhelmsbad and the merger of the Templar Rite of Strict Observance, The Asiatic Brethren and the Illuminati with the blessing of The Count of St Germain.52:00 - The Death of The Count of Saint Germain53:00 - The Rebirth of The Count of Saint Germain57:11 - Questioning the Immortality of the Comte de Saint Germain01:01:47 - Francis II Rákóczi01:04:29 - Gian Gastone de' Medici01:08:02 - The Rákóczi War Chest01:10:14 - Who was the Count of Saint Germain?01:13:27 - The Elixer of Life01:16:18 - Giacomo Casanova01:19:48 - What was the Elixer of Life?01:25:33 - In Summary01:28:44 - Giuseppe Balsamo01:31:01 - Count Alexandro Cagliostro01:32:20 - High Egyptian Masonry01:33:33 - The Affair of the Diamond Necklace01:37:12 - Cagliostro's Letter to the French People01:39:35 - Cagliostro's Confession01:42:14 - The Ghost of St Germain01:45:11 - Who was the Ghost of St Germain?01:49:23 - The Illuminati makes their move01:50:47 - The Jacobins take over01:52:08 - The Directory takes over01:52:30 - Napoleon Bonaparte01:54:33 - Napoleon takes over01:56:01 - The Great Game begins01:57:17 - The Black Nobility02:00:23 - Napoleon takes over again02:01:06 - Napoleon defeated, Rothschild buys Britain.02:02:31 - Setting the board for next time.

To the masses, "Black Magic" meant summoning demons. To the elite, it was the earliest form of psychological warfare, espionage, and social engineering. In this deep-dive (part of our Prisca Theologia series), The Dirt Unit uncovers how a decentralized network of occultists, alchemists, and spies quietly engineered the modern world. From John Dee's Enochian angels demanding radical moral inversion, to the Vatican's Jesuit intelligence network, to the Sabbatean infiltration of European aristocracy, this is the hidden history of statecraft. Discover how Sir Francis Dashwood’s notorious Hellfire Club used ritualized blackmail to control the British Parliament, how Benjamin Franklin utilized these underground networks to secure the American Republic, and how the Royal Society hijacked Captain Cook’s scientific voyage to claim the Great Southern Land.

The Renaissance wasn’t just an artistic revival; it was a highly organized, heavily financed effort by the banking elite to recover the lost magic of antiquity. In Part 2 of The Prisca Theologia, The Dirt Unit tracks the occult timeline from the halls of the Vatican to the birth of the British Empire. We explore how the Medici family funded the translation of ancient Hermetic texts, how the Orsini family weaponized the Vatican, and how figures like Botticelli and Da Vinci embedded divine geometry into their masterpieces. The timeline then shifts to England, where Queen Elizabeth’s astrologer, John Dee, and spymaster Francis Bacon used Enochian magic, cryptography, and Rosicrucian philosophy to engineer the British Empire and lay the foundations for the modern scientific state The Dirt Unit, esoteric history, Prisca Theologia, occult origins of the Renaissance, Medici family Neoplatonism, Orsini family Vatican, Marsilio Ficino, Christian Kabbalah, Pico della Mirandola, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Malleus Maleficarum witch trials, John Dee astrologer, Queen Elizabeth I John Dee, Enochian magic Edward Kelley, Monas Hieroglyphica, Sir Francis Bacon New Atlantis, William Shakespeare Francis Bacon, Rosicrucian manifestos, origins of speculative Freemasonry, Rosslyn Chapel, Sinclairs, The Royal Society of London, Elias Ashmole, Hermeticism, alchemy and early science

Episode 1: The Hermetic Order Strip away the modern political buzzwords, the internet rumors, and the contemporary paranoia, and you are still left with a substantial, ancient web of hidden history. In this foundational episode, we begin the attempt to demystify the origins of the world's most enduring esoteric traditions. We start at the beginning: tracking human survival from the cataclysms of the Ice Age and the Younger Dryas, and examining how early spiritual beliefs evolved in tandem with the stars. By following the precession of the equinoxes through the Astrological Ages, we explore the radical shifts in human theology, from the primordial Earth Mothers of the Paleolithic to the hierarchical Sky Gods of the Bronze Age. But this is not a story about the magic of the stars. It is a historical analysis of the power of belief, the pursuit of hidden knowledge, and how the elite classes have historically weaponized philosophy to govern. From Zoroaster’s invention of linear time and Plato’s "Noble Lie," to the pharmacological rituals of the Egyptian priesthood and the birth of Hermeticism, we trace a continuous thread of occulted knowledge. We follow this philosophical lineage as it is preserved by Islamic scholars and Sufi mystics during the European Dark Ages, before being absorbed by the Knights Templar. Finally, we examine how this ancient framework drove the Age of Discovery and ultimately laid the physical and ideological groundwork for modern Freemasonry. Topics covered in this episode: • The Younger Dryas and the theology of the Astrological Ages (Virgo to Pisces) • The discovery of gold and the rise of the agricultural god-kings • Zoroastrianism, dualism, and Plato’s philosophical architecture • The Kemetic origins of alchemy and the use of psychoactive botanicals in ancient rites • Hermes Trismegistus and the suppression of the Book of Enoch • The Sabians, the Hashshashins, and the preservation of esoteric science • The Knights Templar, Baphomet, and their geopolitical monopoly • Prince Henry the Navigator, Prester John, and the esoteric motives behind the Age of Discovery • Rosslyn Chapel and the birth of the Scottish Masons

Last year we put out an episode called 'Immanentizing the Eschaton'. We looked at the three underlying eschatologies driving conflict between Iran, Israel and the USA. Fast forward to February 2026, the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, and it's made most people epically furious. But im not satisfied we really went deep enough, so now that things have boiled over again let's go deeper. Turns out these modern doomsday cults didn't evolve organically. They were manufactured. Join us as we track the geopolitical bloodlines of the apocalypse back to the 19th-century drawing rooms of the British Empire. From the linguistic grift that hardwired "Gog and Magog" into the American consciousness, to the English Masonic lodges that birthed radical Islam. And if that's not enough for you don't worry, there's so much more to come. Keywords: The Dirt Unit, Middle East War 2026, Geopolitics, Iran, Israel, Christian Zionism, Twelver Shia, IRGC, Eschatology, Third Temple, Red Heifer, Gog and Magog, Scofield Bible, British Empire, Operation Ajax, Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Council for National Policy, End Times prophecy, OSINT analysis, US Foreign Policy.

Brendan and Daniel discuss the intricate web of influence surrounding Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, exploring their connections, strategies, and the broader implications for global politics. They discuss Bannon's role in destabilizing governments, the targeting of the administrative state, and the chaotic nature of information dissemination in today's world. The conversation highlights the dark side of political influence and the challenges of navigating a landscape filled with misinformation and conspiracy theories. Read the full conversation here: https://medium.com/@daniel-ed-morrison/jeffrey-epstein-was-using-steve-bannon-to-achieve-his-political-vision-for-the-world-21dbd07dac4f

A look at the year so far with a focus on Venezuela, Iran and the Freedom Movement.

In the third chapter of our investigation, we map the birth of the modern privatized intelligence networks. This is the story of "The Men Who Sold The World." From 1995 to September 10th, 2001, a new form of power consolidated itself in the shadows. Elite spies from MI6 and the CIA left the public sector to found corporate intelligence empires like Hakluyt and Diligence, becoming the unaccountable army for a global oligarchy centered around firms like The Carlyle Group. We follow their trail of manufactured chaos, from the terror of the Moscow apartment bombings to the deep, tangled relationships between their patrons in the Khashoggi network and the rising threat of Osama bin Laden. We expose how this same machine executed a political coup in Florida during the 2000 election, ensuring their man was in the White House for the crisis they knew was coming. And we are forced to ask: where was Jeffrey Epstein in all of this? Was his network of sexual blackmail merely a coincidence, or was it the social and political glue that held this entire dark enterprise together? Keywords for search: The Epstein Files, The Men Who Sold The World, Hakluyt, Diligence LLC, Carlyle Group, Private Intelligence, Corporate Spies, Moscow Apartment Bombings, Chechen War, Adnan Khashoggi, Osama bin Laden, Brooks Brothers Riot, 2000 Election, George W Bush, Al Gore, Strategy of Tension, Prelude to Crisis, Jeffrey Epstein Documentary, Ghislaine Maxwell, The Dirt Unit Podcast.

Part 2 of The Dirt Unit's deep dive into the Jeffrey Epstein network. In this episode, "The Council & The Crown," we expose Epstein's calculated infiltration of the American and British establishments during the critical period of the mid-1990s. We uncover the real story behind Epstein's membership in the elite Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), his deep connections to the Clinton White House, and his relationship with Britain's Prince Andrew. We also investigate the dark history of his New York mansion and the operational significance of Ghislaine Maxwell's role in connecting Epstein to the highest levels of power. This is the story of how a private intelligence operation, born from the ashes of the Iran-Contra and BCCI scandals and funded by the mysterious "Mega Group," successfully captured key nodes of Western power. Keywords for search: The Epstein Files, Jeffrey Epstein documentary, Who was Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, The Council & The Crown, Bill Clinton Epstein, Donald Trump Epstein, Prince Andrew, Council on Foreign Relations explained, CFR conspiracy, deep state, intelligence operation, Leslie Wexner, The Mega Group, Franklin Scandal, Lolita Express, private intelligence, Adnan Khashoggi, Robert Maxwell, Mossad, CIA, MI6, The Dirt Unit Podcast.

To understand the monster, you must first meet his makers. Part 1 of The Epstein Files is a journey into the swamp that created him. We uncover the interconnected worlds of Adnan Khashoggi, the arms dealer who brokered secret wars; Robert Maxwell, the spy who ran a media empire; and Roy Cohn, the political fixer who taught a generation how to wield power. This is the story of a failing, privatized deep state and the new, more ruthless machine that was built from its ashes. This is the story of Jeffrey Epstein's apprenticeship, and, as it happens, Donald Trump's.

Last episode we explored the eschatological underpinnings of Iran, Israel and the USA driving them toward conflict in the Middle East, but it left us with a burning question.. What's the deal with the Temple? For millennia, this sacred space has been a source of immense spiritual power and wealth. Join us as we lay out it's entire history, from its genesis with King Solomon, to its capture by the warrior-banker monks of the Knights Templar, all the way through the empires that have risen and fallen fighting to possess it. This is the story of the world's most contested piece of real estate.

Ok, buckle up, leave your preconceived notions at the door and let's have a proper look at the underlying elephant in the room in the conflict between Israel, Iran and America. This is a look at the mainstream explanations of the conflict from each side, combined with the Religious Zionism, Christian Zionism and Shia Islam, side by side, what they believe and what steps they are each following in an attempt to bring about the end times. It's gonna end fine, I swear.

We looked at the rise and fall of the East India Company, but what came next? This episode, we tunnel into the diamond-encrusted heart of imperial ambition. The life, times, and frankly terrifying wills of Cecil Rhodes, a man who didn't just want to annexe countries, but the future itself. Discover how his dream of a secret society to ensure Anglo-Saxon global dominance was taken up by the formidable Alfred Milner and his "Kindergarten," evolving into the influential Round Table groups. We'll trace the money trail back to the ancient Square Mile – the City of London – and yes, we'll be mentioning the Rothschilds. It's the hidden architecture of early 20th-century power, laid bare. Grab your shovel.