mP, your source says this about halos depicted in art:
Sense of "light around the head of a holy person or deity" first recorded 1640s.
This is suspiciously close to around the time the Illuminati came into being. And halos (or even suns) aren't necessarily Illuminati symbols in the first place. The sun is a pretty common and universal symbol, whereas the pyramid is not.
Solar worship? Really? Unforunately, the concept of the "sun of God" only works in the English language. This "Christ Conspiracy" theory doesn't fit so well in other languages.
The obelisk is definitely important to the Illuminati, but one could argue that the Vatican obelisk is of only sentimental value and not of veneration or worship.
"The legend says that in the Vatican Circus innumerable Christians, including St. Peter, were sentenced to death and that the reason this obelisk was later overturned, unlike all others in Rome was to be considered as the last witness of the martyrdom of St. Peter."
I don't necessarily agree with the Popes' decision to retian this phallic symbol, but perhaps they thought by memorializing it capstoned by a cross (victory over Satan and death) was a good idea. Look at the Church built over the site where the Illuminati Bolsheviks murdered the Russian Tsar (St. Petersburg), for example. Also, the obelisk wasn't built from scratch but was re-rescurrected.
The Egyptologist Labib Habachi gives the most accepted reason in his book, "The Obelisk of Egypt" (1977 Charles Scribner's Sons):
"Legend has it that in the Vatican Circus innumerable Christians, including St. Peter, were put to death and that the reason this obelisk was not later overturned as were all the others in Rome was that it was looked upon as the last witness to the martyrdom of St. Peter."
As for the Jesuits, you should know that the founder of the Illuminati—Adam Weishaupt—was a Jesuit himself. Obviously then we know the Jesuits were among the first to be compromised by the Illuminati, the Church soon to follow. Does that automatically mean that the Jesuits and the Church were Illuminist to start with? Of course not. As I said earlier, Illuminism was a corruption of the Catholic confession. Illuminism was the first systematic, organized form of espionage.
Author E. Michael Jones explains the revolutionary source and function of Illuminism thus:
"The means to this revolutionary end involved first finding the adept among the powerful: 'Seek out also those who are distinguished by their power, nobility, riches, or learning, nobiles, potentes, divites, doctors, quaerite, - Spare no pains, spare nothing in the acquisition of such adepts. If heaven refuse its aidance, conjure hell. Flectere si nequeas superos Acheronta movebo.' Then after identifying the adept's dominant passion through study and the adept's confession, manipulating that passion as an instrument of control: 'Study the peculiar habits of each; for men may be turned to anything by him who knows how to take advantage of their ruling passion.'
Weishaupt admired Igantius of Loyola, and so the Illuminati were in many ways an imitation of the Jesuits, and their recruiting and control practices a parody of the Spiritual Exercises. Where faults are identified by the Jesuit superior through examination of conscience to be then confessed and their power over the novice thereby broken, the Illuminist parody of the examination of conscience first ferrets out dominant passions to be preserved and manipulated by the Illuminist controller, rather than extirpated through repentance and confession. Examination of conscience in the Illuminist sense of the word is used by the Illuminist confessor as an instrument of control. Once the adept had confided his vices to his superior as part of the initiation rite, his passions will be used as a way of controlling him. If he discovers the ploy and objects, his past sins will be used against him in a form of blackmail that is in many ways demonic perversion of the seal of the confessional...."
—E. Michael Jones, Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, 2000, pg. 88-89
Obviously, this also describes the inner workings of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic movement, which, unlike we have been told, is a sophisticated system of control, not sexual liberation. In other words, sexual liberation and liberalism are based on lies.
