Bohemian Grove: America’s Occult Establishment

Brandon Semrow, Liberty Sentinel, 8/24

Saturday, July 13, 2024, is a day that will not be forgotten any time soon! It will be remembered as the day that Donald Trump was shot at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. People will always remember where they were when they learned that Trump survived the assassination attempt with a wound to his right ear. While the entire world was caught up in the hysteria of what happened, there was another major event going on behind the scenes at the Bohemian Club just north of San Fransisco. Throughout the years, the Bohemian Club has been the subject of much controversy, leaving the American public wondering what has been going on in secret for so long.

The Bohemian Society was started by stage actor Harry Edwards after the Civil War, in 1878, located at 20601 Bohemian Ave, Monte Rio, California. As its website states, “The Bohemian Club is a private association whose members shall consist of gentlemen who are connected professionally with Literature, Art, Music, or the Drama and also those gentlemen who, by reason of their demonstrated love or appreciation of these objects, their temperament, intellect, and their commitment to participate in Club activities, make them worthy companions in artistic fellowship.” The website states that “TV stars such as Art Linkletter, Merv Griffin, singers Bing Crosby and Phil Harris have starred in past shows as well as other notable stars.” It is also notable that prominent politicians including former speakers of the house Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, as well as former secretary of state Colin Powell were recently in attendance. Its history is filled with controversy, making people wonder what is going on when 2,500 of the most prominent men get together in secret.

Over the decades there have been reports of multiple strange things taking place at the Grove, including very odd homosexual behavior. Ronald Reagan, a regular attendee, is known to have called it the most “faggy” place. Similar claims were also made by others including former presidential advisor David Gergen. A Washington Times article from June 11, 1993 said the following, “Presidential counselor David Gergen resigned yesterday from the all-male Bohemian Club, three days after saying he would not run around naked at its annual Bohemian Grove encampment…”

Journalist Philip Weiss snuck into Bohemian Grove, and he wrote an article detailing his experiences called “Masters of the Universe Go To Camp: Inside the Bohemian Grove”, which was published in the November 1989 issue of Spy Magazine. In it he states, “Indeed, I was able to enjoy most pleasures of the Grove, notably the speeches, songs, elaborate drag shows, endless toasts, pre-breakfast gin fizzes, round-the-clock “Nembutals” and other drinks — though I didn’t sleep in any of the camps or swim naked with likeminded Bohemians in the Russian River at night….You know you are inside the Bohemian Grove when you come down a trail in the woods and hear piano music from amid a group of tents and then round a bend to see a man with a beer in one hand and his penis in the other, urinating into the bushes. This is the most gloried-in ritual of the encampment, the freedom of powerful men to pee wherever they like, a right the club has invoked when trying to fight government anti-sex discrimination efforts and one curtailed only when it comes to a few popular redwoods just outside the Dining Circle…..At this point some hamadryads (tree spirits) and another priest or two appeared at the base of the main owl shrine, a 40-foot-tall, moss-covered statue of stone and steel at the south end of the lake, and sang songs about Care. They told of how a man’s heart is divided between “reality” and “fantasy,” how it is necessary to escape to another world of fellowship among men. Vaguely homosexual undertones suffused this spectacle, as they do much of ritualized life in the Grove….The peeing is ceaseless and more than a little exhibitionistic. Everyone talks about it. Bohemian reminiscences describe such bizarre initiation rites as escorting new members to the redwood at which one of the founders “did his morning ablutions.” The Owl Hoots, which are poster-size cartoons racked up each day near the Camp Fire Circle, are filled with pissing pictures….Wine gets passed around (though members must sign for the bottles on a chit). Old friends move among the tables, kissing one another, and a ruddy Bohemian gets up on a bench and, as his friends cheer him on, removes his cap and opens his mouth to sing. Great intimacy is achieved in song….The physical aspect of Bohemian male bonding can’t be overlooked. Even 100-year-old Grove annals have a homoerotic quality, with references to “slender, young Bohemians, clad in economical bathing suits.” Nudity was more common then. Today AIDS has put a damper on the Grove’s River Road pickup scene….”

It is telling that since Calvin Coolidge, Donald Trump is the first Republican president not to attend Bohemian Grove. Trump and Coolidge apparently refused to be a part of the establishment swamp made up of Presidential cabinets, CEO’s, big oil, heads of intelligence agencies, banking, and media who regularly attend. According to the Washington Post, Secretaries of State Alexander M. Haig, George P. Shultz and James A. Baker III, Defense Secretaries Caspar W. Weinberger and Richard B. Cheney; and Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady have all attended. With all those prominent men in attendance, it is easy to see how important Bohemian Grove can be for a pollical career! In his autobiography Richard Nixon said, “If I were to choose the speech that gave me the most pleasure and satisfaction in my political career, it would be my Lakeside Speech at the Bohemian Grove in July 1967. Because this speech traditionally was off the record it received no publicity at the time. But in many important ways it marked the first milestone on my road to the presidency. It was an emotional assignment for me and also an unparalleled opportunity to reach some of the most important and influential men.”

The Bohemian Club claims to be a “refuge from decision-making and other pressures.” Their motto is “Weaving spiders come not here”, implying that it serves a purely social purpose and conducting business is not allowed. In his article Philip Weiss goes on to say, “The club says it serves as a “refuge” from the strivings of the marketplace, and though it’s true that actual deal-making is discouraged, I heard business being done on all sides.” This should not be surprising, as the Grove became famous when word leaked out about a Manhattan Project meeting that took place there in September of 1942. This meeting is what led to the development of the atom bomb. In attendance were a number of high-ranking military officers, the president of Harvard University, and representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric. A few years later the founders of the United Nations Conference attended the Bohemian Club as well.

If what has been revealed so far isn’t strange enough, every year at the Grove attendees take part in an occult ceremony called the Cremation of Care. Dressed in black robes and holding torches, they march through the forest carrying a human effigy and place it on an altar. They then burn the effigy on the altar in front of a forty-foot statue of and owl, which some believe is affiliated with the pagan god Moloch. Philip Weiss witnessed this entire bizarre ritual. In his article published in Spy Magazine he details the whole encounter, including a word for word account of the ceremony:

 “The Owl is in his leafy temple. Let all within the grove be reverent before him. Lift up your heads oh ye trees and be lifted up ye everlasting spires, for behold here is Bohemia’s shrine, and holy are the pillars of this house,” the speaker declares, standing beneath the gargantuan stone owl. “We shall read the sign. Midsummer sets us free! Ye shall burn me once again! Not with these flames! Which hither ye have brought from regions where I reign. Ye fools and priests, I spit upon your fire! O Owl! Prince of all mortal wisdom, Owl of Bohemia, we beseech thee, grant us thy counsel.… O Great Owl of Bohemia! We thank thee for thy adjuration. Be gone detested care! Be gone! Once more, we banish thee! Be gone dull care! Fire should have its will of thee! Be gone dull care! And all the winds make merry with thy dust. Hail, fellowship’s eternal flame! Once again, Midsummer sets us free!….Then the crypt of Care was poled slowly down the lake by a black-robed figure in a black gondola, accompanied by a great deal of special effects smoke. Just as the priests set out to torch the crypt, a red light appeared high in a redwood and large speakers in the forest amplified the cackling voice of Care: “Fools! When will ye learn that me ye cannot slay? Year after year ye burn me in this Grove…. But when again ye turn your feet toward the marketplace, am I not waiting for you, as of old?”

 With that, Care spat upon the fires, extinguishing them. The priests turned in desperation to the owl. “Oh thou, great symbol of all mortal wisdom, Owl of Bohemia … grant us thy counsel!” Every year there are new wrinkles on the cremation ceremony. The big improvement this year was to project a sort of hologram onto the owl’s face so that its beak seemed to move. Also, it was Walter Cronkite talking. (Cronkite camps in Hill Billies along with George H.W. Bush, William F. Buckley Jr. and former astronaut and ex-Eastern Air Lines chairman Frank Borman.) Cronkite, as the owl, said that the only way Care could be cremated was to use fire from the Lamp of Fellowship before him, an “eternal” gas flame that burns day and night while the encampment is on.”

Members of the Bohemian Club are known to wear clothing that has the owl on it, whether it’s a tie, belt buckle, or shirt, signifying the owl’s importance. It is notable that the Owl of Minerva was an emblem used by the Bavarian Illuminati in their “Minerval” degree. The Illuminati were a secret society founded by Adan Weishaupt in 1776, which procured men in prominent positions into their ranks, and conspired to bring about the French Revolution through the Jacobin movement. The Illuminati were eventually outlawed and known members were prosecuted, which leads some to believe that they went out of existence. In the following years, laws were passed outlawing the secret society three more times. If the Illuminati had indeed ceased to exist, why did they need to pass laws outlawing them three more times? Adam Weishaupt said the following regarding if they were ever discovered, “If they discover us, conceal our real objective by profession or benevolence. If our real objective is perceived, pretend to disband and relinquish the whole thing, but assume another name and put forth new agents.”

George Washington had the following to say after being warned about the influence of the Illuminati, “It is not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am.” Could the Bohemian Society be a branch of the Bavarian Illuminati that has survived to the present day? It is entirely possible. Either way, what goes on with the Cremation of Care ceremony each year should make anyone question the principles of those in attendance.

Infowars founder Alex Jones snuck into Bohemian Grove in the year 2000. He released a documentary titled Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove. It can be viewed at the following link: https://banned.video/watch?id=5ebc5477244ac5001d2386ff When Alex first gets to Monte Rio he talks with locals about the Cremation of Care ceremony, and most are hesitant to believe that what is rumored to happen is actually true. Alex documents the full Cremation of Care ceremony on video, proving that what happens is not just a rumor! Later Alex is shown standing across from the Capitol building in Austin TX, with someone dressed in a robe like what was worn during the Cremation of Care ceremony. Alex begins shouting into a megaphone about how George Bush, the current Governor of Texas and Republican presidential nominee, dressed in a robe and participated in an occult ritual. (It is notable that not only were George Bush as well as his father George H.W. Bush, and Grandfather Prescott Bush attendees at Bohemian Grove, but they were also members of Skull and Bones, the secret society at Yale University.) Occult expert Texe Marrs said the following about the Cremation of Care ceremony, “There had to be in my belief, an occultist, a deep occultist who designed each of the elements of this ceremony. It wasn’t just a bunch of guys sitting together at a bar and said, hey let’s have a good time, the Cremation of Care, and why don’t we do this or that. I believe it was purposely designed, each element in its turn for what they did. No doubt about it!” This would explain why Alex went to such lengths to expose George Bush’s participation!

A group of young journalists infiltrated the Bohemian Club this year by getting hired in various jobs. This allowed them access to the entire retreat, and the journalist with the handle @dancer was able to video the Cremation of Care ceremony. The ritual starts with the speaker calling on the “spirit of the grove”. This is followed by a procession of robbed men carrying torches through the woods. Next a human effigy is carried to a boat which travels to the other side of the lake so it can be placed on the altar and sacrificed to the stone owl. The video can be viewed here:https://rumble.com/v58jdg4-full-2024-bohemian-grove-cremation-of-care-ceremony.html

President John F. Kennedy warned us about secret societies in his speech that he gave at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on April 27, 1961. He stated, “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.” The idea of elites gathering together in secret to plan major events is something that some might dismiss as some so-called “conspiracy theory”. It can now be substantiated that this is happening and has been happening at Bohemian Grove for generations; Something that would properly be called a conspiracy fact. Taking into account President Kennedy’s warning about secret societies, we must ask ourselves if anyone who attended Bohemain Grove is someone that can be trusted.

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