Secret Handshakes Of The Illuminati

By Zen Gardner

The secret hand signs of Illuminists are thought to work magic, to evoke supernatural beings, and, of course, to communicate messages. For example, the higher degree Mason, Rosicrucian, or other Illuminist can discern at what ritual level a brother in the Craft is ‘at by testing his handshake, or grip. It is, therefore, an important mode of recognition. The commonly used phrase, “Get a grip,” has Masonic origins.

The handshake, or grip, is a sign of unity, oneness of purpose and allegiance or devotion to joint cause. It is considered a bond, or seal, of acknowledgment between Illuminist brethren. The Masonic authorities speak of a “mystic tie” or spiritual union. Certainly, demon powers do congregate together and enjoy one another’s foul company.

The God of Fidelity

The Illuminist handshake, the clasping or joining of hands, can have many meanings. Its simplest is as a symbol of fidelity. Interestingly, Dr. Cathy Burns, in her informative expose, Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star, notes that even at this basic level, the Illuminist is signifying allegiance to a deity other than the Christian God.

The instructions issued the candidate of the Entered Apprentice, or First Degree, of Freemasonry include these given here.

Notice that the candidate is asked, “How shall I know you to be a Mason?” His answer:

“By certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my entrance.”

Then, when he is asked,

“What are tokens?,” he replies, “Certain friendly or brotherly grips, by which one Mason may know another in the dark as well as in the light.”

(Duncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitor, p. 42)

For example, Dr. Burns quotes Albert Mackey, 33°, former Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, who admits:

The right hand has in all ages been deemed an emblem of fidelity, and our ancient brethren worshipped Deity under the name of Fides or Fidelity, which was sometimes represented by two right hands joined…

Numa was the first who erected an altar to Fides under which name the Goddess of Oaths and Honesty was worshipped.1

Burns points out that this reference to the worship of the Roman pagan Goddess is literally repeated by the initiate in the very first degree of the Masonic ritual.

In volume 1 of Albert Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, a large section is devoted to a discussion of the hand and hand signs. Mackey states:

“In Freemasonry, the hand as a symbol holds a high place…The same symbol is found in the most ancient religions and some of their analogies to Masonic symbolism are peculiar.”

Mackey revealingly says that the hand is deemed important “as that symbol of mystical intelligence by which one Mason knows another in the dark as well as in the light.”

He goes on to discuss the use of the hand in such ancient Mystery Religions as Mithraism and in worship of the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian Gods. He notes that the tradition of the red seal attached to important documents is a throwback to the ancient use of the bloody hand as a way of authenticating documents.

Examples of Grips and Handshakes

I have included in this section of Codex Magica drawings of a number of Masonic handshakes taken from official Masonic publications and from other objective sources. In addition to Freemasonry, there are scores of Illuminati secret societies and many have their own unique handgrips and signs.

Moreover, the Mormon Church, the Sufi Muslim Brotherhood, and even the notorious Mafia have their own identifying handgrips and signs. In the pages that follow in this chapter, you’ll see a large number of well-known persons sharing handgrips and handshakes that clearly are Masonic and Illuminist.

Subject to Interpretation

It is true that a handshake can be a questionable thing in its interpretation. All of us have attempted handshakes when greeting old friends and meeting new acquaintances. Sometimes your hand and theirs do not quite meet and clasp as you and they intended. It might be the fit of the hands due to the relative difference in size of each person’s hands; or perhaps the distance between the two persons’ bodies, causing a longer or shorter reach; or some other factor (Maybe the individual is short or tall, is just not good at shaking hands, etc.)

I have done my best to take all these uncontrollable factors into consideration here and I include only what I believe to be indisputable Masonic and Illuminist handshakes, tokens, and grips. Naturally, one must especially consider who is shaking whose hand — and whether the person is known to be an Illuminist, a Mason, a Rosicrucian, an O.T.O. adept, or so forth. With these caveats in mind, let us take a look at the secret handshakes of the Illuminati. But first this brief article by Christopher Story.

(NOTE: The following article by Englishman Christopher Story was originally published in the Economic Intelligence Review, (Westminster, England) and was reprinted in Des Griffin’s Midnight Messenger (May/June 2004). It is reprinted here for the reader’s interest.)

Handshake Diplomacy: An Outbreak of the “Grips” “They are out of the gate, and nothing will stop them.” This description, by one of the sharpest of our informants, with the hectic pace associated with the imposition of the New Underworld Order, sums up the way the world is being turned upside down “as we speak.” That’s why the press is publishing all these “grips.” And the newspaper editors have shown themselves to be only too willing to oblige.

A huge photograph showed Tony Blair, our Fabian revolutionary Prime Minister, shaking hands with Adrian Nastase, the son of Illie, a leading Communist who “survived” the fall of Ceausescu. The Romanian Prime Minister is shown doing a five-knuckle grip (five-point degree), indicating to those whom Lenin called “the interested” that he’s “a member of the club.” Masons call their handshakes “grips” —hence the saying, “Get a grip.”

Let’s “get a grip” with what’s going on here. All of a sudden, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic have taken to publishing large photos of our “chosen ones” indulging in various manifestations of Masonic “grips.” There was that Kerry-Clinton handshake published in The Washington Times in March.

In that instance, Clinton was demonstrating, for those “in the know,” just who was boss, and how high up in the geomasonic stratosphere he is (right at the top). The “grip” in question was a Ma-Ha-Bone Lion’s Paw Grip, which leaves the junior party in no doubt who’s in charge (and in pain as a consequence).

On 26th March, British newspapers carried an enormous picture of Tony Blair’s “grip moment” with Libyan dictator, Muammar Qadhaffi. Before proceeding, it needs to be said that these close-ups of Qadhaffi’s face reveal this man to be burdened with the most evil physiognomies on record —far nastier than those of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein combined: in fact Saddam looks quite benevolent beside this creature.

For his part, Blair looked extremely uneasy, his eyes watery, and his faced tensed up after what may have been some unspeakable encounter or other about which the record is silent (worse case scenario). Beneath the main picture, The Times had taken the trouble to provide us with three smaller close-ups of the “grip moment”-the newspaper’s management being clearly signed up, in advance, to the significance of these New Underworld Order handshakes.