October 6, 2003 journal,
secrets of the tomb, the Skull and Bones has Geronimo's skull.
The secrets are being revealed by CBS October 5, "I think
there is a deep and legitimate distrust in America for power and
privilege that are cloaked in secrecy, not supposed to be the way we do things
says Rosenbaum. We are supposed to do
things out in the open in America so that any
society or institution that hints that there is something hidden is, I think, a
legitimate subject for investigation. His
investigation is a 30 year obsession dating back to his days as a Yale classmate
of George W. Bush. Rosenbaum is a
self-described undergraduate nerd, was certainly not a contender for
bones. But he was fascinated by its
weirdness. "Its the sepulchral tomblike, windowless,
granite, sandstone bulk that you can't miss.
And I lived next to it," says Ron Rosenbaum. "I passed it all
the time and during the initiation rites, you could hear strange cries and
whispers coming from the skull and bones tomb." Despite a lifetime of
attempts to get inside, the best Rosenbaum could do was hide out on the ledge
of a nearby building a few years ago to videotape a nocturnal initiation ceremony
in the tombs courtyard. "A woman holds a knife and
pretends to slash the throat of another person lying down before them, they're
screaming and yelling at the neophytes. “Robbins says the cast of the
initiation ritual is right out of Harry Potters meets Dracula:" “There is
a devil, a Don Quixote and a Pope who has one foot sheathed in a white mono-gramed slipper resting on a stone skull. The initiates are led into the room one at a
time. And once an
initiative is in sight, the bonesmen shriek at him. Finally the bonesman
is shoved to his knees in front of Don Quixote as the shrieking crowd falls silent. And Don Quixote lifts his sword and taps the
bondsman on his left shoulder and says, “by order of our order, I dub thee knight
of Euloga". CBS 60 Minutes continues “Its a lot of mumbo jumbo, says Robbins, but it means a lot
to the people who are in it.
"Prescott Bush, George W’s grandfather, and a band of bonesmen, robbed the grave of Geronimo, took his skull and
some personal relics of the Apache Chief and brought them back to the tomb. “There
is still a glass case, bondsmen tell me, within the tomb that displays the skull
that they all refer to as Geronimo".
The preoccupation with bones, mortality, coffins, lying in coffins,
standing around coffins, all this sort of thing I think is designed to give
them the sense that its true, life is short", says Rosenbaum. "You
can spend it, if you have a privil-ged background,
enjoying yourself, contributing nothing, or you can spend it making a
contribution". And plenty of
bondsman have made a contribution, from William Howard
Taft, the 27th. President, Henry Luce, the founder
of Time magazine, Averell Harriman, the diplomat and
confidante of the U.S.
presidents. “What is important about the under graduate
years of skull and bones, as opposed to fraternities, is that it embues them with a kind of mission for moral leadership,
says Rosenbaum", and it's something that they may ignore for 30 years of
their life “as George W. seemed to successfully ignore it for quite a long
time. But he came back to it". Mr. Bush, like his father and grandfather
before him, has refused to talk openly about skull and bones. But as a bonesman,
he was required to reveal his innermost secrets to his fellow Bones intimates.
They are supposed to recount their entire sexual histories in sort of a dim, a
dimly-lit cozy room. The other 14
members are sitting on plush couches, and the lights are dimmed," says Robbin. "And there is a fire roaring. And the, this activity is supposed to last
anywhere from between 1 to 3 hours".
The book ‘Secrets of the Tomb’ is now available in paperback at Barnes
and Noble, price 13.95. Let us seek the
true light of Christ. Those who seek Christ
outside of the true Kingdom of God will only find
darkness. There is no secrets in the Kingdom of God.