Mystery Babylon Claims Timeline

Study note: every point on this timeline is a claim made by William Cooper in the Mystery Babylon radio series (WWCR, 1993). They are documented here as claimed in the series, for study and source-checking. Listing a claim is not an endorsement of it.

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All 111 claims by era

The full dataset behind the timeline. Each entry gives the approximate date Cooper assigns to the claim, the claim as documented from the broadcast, the entities involved, and a link to the episode study page.

Antiquity Before 800 BC

  1. c. 10000 BC (Prehistory) Cooper claims mankind's first religion was astro-theology, the worship of the sun and moon by prehistoric man. Entities: astro-theology, sun worship, moon worship. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  2. c. 10000 BC (Prehistory) Cooper claims the first tool-using primitive human was symbolically the first priest of the Mystery Schools, who began initiating others into secret knowledge. Entities: Mystery Schools, priesthood. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  3. c. 10000 BC (Legendary prehistory) Cooper claims the mystery tradition came into Egypt through an Atlantean Mystery School symbolized by Isis. Entities: Atlantis, Isis, Egypt. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  4. c. 5000 BC (Ancient Egypt) Cooper claims the Egyptians possessed for seven thousand years the secret of surrounding their mummies with a dynamic protective force, quoting Dr. Mardus via Manly P. Hall. Entities: Egypt, mummies, Dr. Mardus, Manly P. Hall. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  5. c. 4000 BC (Biblical primeval history) Cooper claims the Mystery Schools teach that an unjust God held man prisoner in the Garden of Eden and that Lucifer, through his agent Satan, freed man with the gift of intellect. Entities: Lucifer, Satan, Garden of Eden, Mystery Schools. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  6. c. 4000 BC (Biblical primeval history) Cooper claims the first-murder scene in the film 2001 symbolizes Cain's murder of Abel following the gift of intellect. Entities: Cain, Abel, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  7. c. 4000 BC (Ancient Egypt) Cooper claims the Mystery School and Freemasonic calendar counts 6,000 years, matching the span he attributes to Egyptian-inspired civilization. Entities: Freemasonry, Mystery Schools. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  8. c. 3000 BC (Ancient Egypt) Cooper claims Horus, the early morning sun, was pictured in Egypt as the newborn infant savior more than 3,000 years before Christianity began. Entities: Horus, Egypt, sun worship. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  9. c. 3000 BC (c. 3000 BC) Cooper claims the Marriage Feast of Canaan story is over 5,000 years old, predating the New Testament wedding-at-Cana account by 3,000 years. Entities: Canaan, Marriage Feast of Canaan, New Testament. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  10. c. 3000 BC (Pharaonic Egypt) Cooper claims the essential elements of the Christian story were codified into religious dogma with the coming of the Pharaohs in Egypt. Entities: Egypt, Pharaohs, sun worship. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  11. c. 3000 BC (Ancient Babylon to Egypt) Cooper claims the Egyptians inherited their religion from ancient Babylon, including the worship of Baal, whose name he derives from Ba (sun) and al (God). Entities: Babylon, Egypt, Baal. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  12. c. 2500 BC (Ancient Egypt) Cooper claims the murder of Osiris was set on the seventeenth of Athyr with the sun in Scorpio, and that these numbers recur with hidden meaning in the secret societies. Entities: Osiris, Typhon, Mystery Schools. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  13. c. 2000 BC (Ancient Babylon) Cooper claims the Mystery Religion originated in ancient Babylon and has been practiced in secret ever since. Entities: Babylon, Mystery Religion. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  14. c. 2000 BC (Ancient Babylon) Cooper claims all major secret societies, including Freemasonry, the Templars, Skull and Bones, and the Illuminati, descend from one ancient Mystery Religion. Entities: Freemasonry, Knights Templar, Skull and Bones, Illuminati, Mystery Schools. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  15. c. 2000 BC (Ancient Egypt) Cooper claims the Egyptian year originally held 360 days, matching the degrees of a circle, before five epact days were added to the calendar. Entities: Egyptian calendar, Thoth. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  16. c. 2000 BC (Ancient Egypt) Cooper claims initiates of the ancient Mysteries were known as the Brotherhood of the Snake and are shown in Egyptian hieroglyphics wearing a snake emblem on the forehead. Entities: Brotherhood of the Snake, Egypt. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  17. c. 2000 BC (Ancient Mesopotamia) Cooper claims the Mystery School began as the priestly college of Nimrod at Babylon, scattered when Seth, son of Noah, defeated Nimrod and cut his body to pieces. Entities: Nimrod, Seth, Babylon. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  18. c. 1600 BC (c. 1600 BC (Egyptian original)) Cooper claims the Old Testament potter passages in Jeremiah and Isaiah copy an Egyptian story of the god Khnemu fashioning man on a potter's wheel 1,000 years earlier. Entities: Khnemu, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Egypt. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  19. c. 1000 BC (Pre-Christian antiquity) Cooper claims ancient solar religions held that the sun stands still for three days at the winter solstice and is born again on December 25, the origin of the Christmas date. Entities: winter solstice, December 25, sun worship, Southern Cross. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  20. c. 950 BC (Ancient Israel) Cooper claims Hiram Abiff returned home to Tyre after the Temple of Solomon was completed, contradicting the Masonic legend of his murder. Entities: Hiram Abiff, Temple of Solomon, Tyre. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).

Classical 800 BC to 476 AD

  1. c. 700 BC (c. 700 BC (Book of Isaiah)) Cooper claims Isaiah 14:12, describing Lucifer fallen from heaven, could be called the first UFO sighting in the history of the world. Entities: Isaiah 14:12, Lucifer, UFO. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  2. c. 600 BC (Ancient Babylon) Cooper claims the astronomers of Babylon divided the sky into twelve houses, the origin of the zodiac and of the recurring number twelve in the Bible. Entities: Babylon, zodiac, astrology. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  3. c. 570 BC (Babylonian captivity) Cooper claims the Jews learned the ancient solar religion during their captivity in Babylon, reflected in the celebration of Passover. Entities: Babylonian captivity, Passover, Judaism. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  4. c. 550 BC (Classical Greece) Cooper claims Thales of Miletus, in old age, directed Pythagoras to study with the Egyptian priests as the source of all wisdom. Entities: Thales, Pythagoras, Egypt. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  5. c. 535 BC (Classical Greece) Cooper claims Pythagoras spent twenty-two years in Egypt being initiated into all the Mysteries of the gods, citing Iamblichus. Entities: Pythagoras, Iamblichus, Egypt. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  6. c. 420 BC (Classical Greece) Cooper claims Democritus secured the foundation of his doctrine of atoms from the priests of Egypt. Entities: Democritus, Egypt. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  7. c. 380 BC (c. 400 BC) Cooper claims Plato was initiated into the Mysteries inside the Great Pyramid, lying in the sarcophagus for three days and three nights and emerging as a god. Entities: Plato, Great Pyramid, initiation. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  8. c. 380 BC (Classical Greece) Cooper claims Plato was initiated into the Mysteries in the Great Pyramid, lying three days and three nights in the sarcophagus. Entities: Plato, Great Pyramid, Egypt. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  9. c. 100 BC (Ptolemaic Egypt) Cooper claims, citing E.A. Wallis Budge, that Egyptians had already lost the meaning of the word Osiris before the Christian era. Entities: E.A. Wallis Budge, Osiris, Egypt. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  10. c. 30 AD (Roman Empire) Cooper claims the fish symbol of the Age of Pisces refers to Christianity, the dominant force of that astrological age. Entities: Age of Pisces, Christianity. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  11. c. 100 AD (Roman era) Cooper claims Horus was later given the name Iesos or Iesus, meaning holder of the light, and that the Roman Latin interchange of I and J produced the name Jesus. Entities: Horus, Iesus, Jesus, Latin. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  12. c. 100 AD (Roman Empire) Cooper claims Plutarch was an initiated priest of the Mysteries at Delphi who deliberately veiled the secret meaning of the Osiris myth in his first-century essay. Entities: Plutarch, Delphi. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  13. c. 200 AD (c. 200 AD) Cooper claims Tertullian and other early church fathers stated that the four gospels correspond to the four seasons of the round calendar. Entities: Tertullian, four gospels, church fathers. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  14. c. 325 AD (Roman Empire) Cooper claims the Vatican is a perversion of the Mysteries established by a pagan Roman emperor who worshiped the sun. Entities: Vatican, Roman Empire, Constantine. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  15. c. 400 AD (Late Antiquity) Cooper claims Synesius wrote his treatise On Providence while still an initiate of the pagan Mysteries, before his conversion to Christianity. Entities: Synesius, On Providence. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).

Medieval 477 to 1500

  1. c. 1110 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims a mysterious order called the Prieure de Sion appeared on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in 1110 and recruited nine knights to search the passages beneath for ancient relics. Entities: Prieure de Sion, Temple Mount, Jerusalem. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  2. c. 1118 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims the Knights Templar order was founded by nine knights in 1118 as a branch of the ancient Mystery Religion of Babylon rather than as a Christian order. Entities: Knights Templar, Hugh de Payens, Jerusalem. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  3. c. 1118 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims the Templar order was founded in Jerusalem in 1118 on the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon in the aftermath of the First Crusade. Entities: Knights Templar, Jerusalem, Temple of Solomon. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  4. c. 1119 AD (Middle Ages) Cooper claims the Knights Templar brought the Mysteries from the Middle East to Europe and were never originally part of the Catholic Church. Entities: Knights Templar, Catholic Church. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  5. c. 1128 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims the Templar order was approved at the Council of Troyes on January 31, 1128, with Pope Honorius assigning the plain white mantle. Entities: Knights Templar, Council of Troyes, Pope Honorius II, Bernard of Clairvaux. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  6. c. 1129 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims the Templars formed part of a Christian contingent allied with the Assassins in an attempt to take Damascus in 1129. Entities: Knights Templar, Assassins, Damascus. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  7. c. 1133 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims that by 1133 King Alfonso of Aragon and Navarre had willed his entire country to the Templar order. Entities: Alfonso I of Aragon, Knights Templar. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  8. c. 1146 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims Pope Eugenius III ordered the red cross added to the Templar mantle in 1146. Entities: Pope Eugenius III, Knights Templar. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  9. c. 1153 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims that at the siege of Ascalon in 1153 the Templar Master Bernard de Tremelai claimed the sole right to enter the breach so his order could take the spoil, and the garrison killed the Templars who entered. Entities: Bernard de Tremelai, Knights Templar, Ascalon. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  10. c. 1163 AD (Medieval Persia) Cooper claims that in 1163 Hasan II summoned the Ismailis to Alamut, abolished the bonds of religious law, and declared himself the Hidden Imam. Entities: Hasan II, Assassins, Alamut, Ismailis. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  11. c. 1176 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims Saladin invaded Assassin territory in 1176 after surviving assassination attempts, then agreed to a truce under which no Assassin ever again attacked him. Entities: Saladin, Sinan, Assassins. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  12. c. 1187 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims Templar Grand Master de Ridfort was a key figure in the mistakes that led to the fall of Jerusalem in 1187. Entities: Gerard de Ridefort, Knights Templar, Jerusalem. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  13. c. 1203 AD (Medieval Persia) Cooper claims Jalaludin adopted a cloak of public Islamic orthodoxy, was acknowledged by half the orthodox monarchs of Islam, and died in 1203 after twelve years leading the Assassins. Entities: Jalaludin, Assassins. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  14. c. 1214 AD (Medieval Scotland) Cooper claims a genealogy beginning with King William the Lion of Scotland, who died in 1214, runs through the Templar banker Robert Roos and the Plumpton, Standish, Prescott, and Fay families in an unbroken line to President George Bush. Entities: William the Lion, Robert Roos, Bush family, Knights Templar. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  15. c. 1256 AD (Medieval Persia) Cooper claims Mongol forces under Halaku broke Assassin power in Persia and killed the last leader Rukneddin, after which surviving members were ordered to conceal their faith and await a signal. Entities: Mongols, Halaku, Rukneddin, Assassins. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  16. c. 1260 AD (Medieval Middle East) Cooper claims the Mamluk sultan of Egypt defeated the Mongols in 1260, restored the fortress of Alamut to the Assassins, and employed the sect as the arrows of the Sultan of Egypt. Entities: Mamluks, Assassins, Alamut, Egypt. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  17. c. 1296 AD (Crusades) Cooper claims the Egyptian sultan pushed the resident Crusaders and military orders out of the Holy Land by 1296, after which the Templars moved their base to Cyprus. Entities: Knights Templar, Egypt, Cyprus, Holy Land. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  18. c. 1307 AD (1307) Cooper claims the original 'October surprise' was the mass arrest of the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307. Entities: Knights Templar, France, Philip IV. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  19. c. 1307 AD (Late Middle Ages) Cooper claims every Templar in France was arrested at dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, on the orders of King Philip IV, who wanted the Templar treasure to finance his wars. Entities: Philip IV of France, Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  20. c. 1307 AD (Late Middle Ages) Cooper claims the Templar fleet that vanished during the 1307 suppression became the pirates who sailed under the skull and crossbones flag. Entities: Knights Templar, pirates, skull and crossbones. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  21. c. 1308 AD (Late Middle Ages) Cooper claims Edward II delayed English arrests until January 1308, after the papal bull of November 22, 1307, giving Templars three months to go underground with their treasure and records. Entities: Edward II, Pope Clement V, Knights Templar, England. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  22. c. 1314 AD (Middle Ages) Cooper claims the murdered Master Builder of Masonic ritual, Hiram Abiff, actually represents Jacques de Molay, the last Templar Grand Master. Entities: Jacques de Molay, Hiram Abiff, Knights Templar, Freemasonry. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  23. c. 1314 AD (Late Middle Ages) Cooper claims fugitive Templars fled to Scotland, where the papal order was never published, and fought for Robert the Bruce against the King of England. Entities: Knights Templar, Robert the Bruce, Scotland. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  24. c. 1362 AD (Medieval England) Cooper claims the medieval French roots of Masonic ritual terms prove the secret society existed in the fourteenth century, before English courts dropped French in 1362. Entities: Freemasonry, England, Knights Templar. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  25. c. 1381 AD (Medieval England) Cooper claims the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was organized in advance by a secret Great Society based in London, not a spontaneous uprising. Entities: Great Society, Peasants' Revolt, London. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  26. c. 1381 AD (Medieval England) Cooper claims the 1381 revolt's commander Walter the Tyler bore the title of the Masonic lodge sentry, linking the rebellion to early Freemasonry. Entities: Wat Tyler, Freemasonry, Peasants' Revolt. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  27. c. 1495 AD (1490s (Leonardo's Last Supper)) Cooper claims the painting of the Last Supper depicts the twelve houses of the zodiac in four seasonal groups of three around the sun. Entities: Last Supper, zodiac, Leonardo da Vinci. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).

Early Modern 1501 to 1788

  1. 1534 (16th Century) Cooper claims Ignatius Loyola headed the Alumbrados in Spain, was arrested by Dominican monks under the Inquisition, and emerged from a papal audience as head of the new Jesuit Order. Entities: Ignatius Loyola, Alumbrados, Jesuits, Inquisition. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  2. 1624 (Renaissance to 19th Century) Cooper claims Francis Bacon wrote about Atlantis and that American Freemasons established Atlanta as the new Atlantis. Entities: Francis Bacon, Atlantis, Atlanta, Freemasonry. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  3. 1717 (Early modern Europe) Cooper claims Freemasonry revealed itself publicly in 1717 and immediately began drawing papal condemnations. Entities: Freemasonry, London. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  4. 1744 (18th Century) Cooper claims Samuel Squire's 1744 translation of Plutarch's Isis and Osiris remains the version most quoted by Egyptologists. Entities: Samuel Squire, Plutarch. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  5. 1776 (18th Century) Cooper claims the Jesuits trained Adam Weishaupt, a professor of canon law at Ingolstadt University, who formed the Bavarian Illuminati and sent agents into the lodges of Europe. Entities: Adam Weishaupt, Jesuits, Illuminati, Ingolstadt University. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  6. 1776 (18th Century) Cooper claims the founders, whom he describes as Freemasons, deliberately signed the Declaration of Independence in July because Osiris was born in the seventh month. Entities: Declaration of Independence, Freemasonry, Osiris. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  7. 1776 (18th Century) Cooper claims the Illuminati was formally founded on May 1, 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, a Jesuit-trained professor of canon law, but neither began nor ended with him. Entities: Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt, Jesuits. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  8. 1782 (18th Century) Cooper claims the all-seeing eye of Horus appears on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. Entities: Great Seal of the United States, Horus, Freemasonry. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).

Modern 1789 to present

  1. 1810 (19th century) Cooper claims the French consul at Aleppo found in 1810 that Persian Assassins recognized Shah Khalilullah, a reputed descendant of the fourth Grand Master of Alamut, as their divinely inspired chief. Entities: Shah Khalilullah, Assassins, Aleppo. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  2. 1846 (19th Century) Cooper claims Pope Pius IX condemned communism in November 1846 as contrary to natural law and destructive of property and society. Entities: Pope Pius IX, communism. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  3. 1848 (19th Century) Cooper claims Karl Marx was a hack writer hired by the Mystery Religion of Babylon to write the Communist Manifesto, co-authored with Engels in 1848. Entities: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto, Mystery Babylon. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  4. 1865 (19th Century) Cooper claims Albert Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite from 1850 to 1891, founded the Ku Klux Klan and B'nai B'rith. Entities: Albert Pike, Ku Klux Klan, B'nai B'rith, Scottish Rite. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  5. 1866 (19th century) Cooper claims an 1866 Bombay court ruling by Sir Joseph Arnold proved the Aga Khan's direct descent from the fourth Grand Master of Alamut and identified the Khoja community as members of the ancient Assassin sect. Entities: Aga Khan, Khojas, Joseph Arnold, Bombay, Assassins. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  6. 1870 (19th Century) Cooper claims Albert Pike was a friend of Giuseppe Mazzini, whom he describes as ruler of the European branch of the Illuminati. Entities: Albert Pike, Giuseppe Mazzini, Illuminati. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  7. 1875 (19th Century) Cooper claims Helena Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and that Albert Pike was one of its earliest members. Entities: Helena Blavatsky, Theosophical Society, Albert Pike. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  8. 1884 (19th to 20th Century) Cooper claims the Washington Monument, the Vatican courtyard obelisk, the Dealey Plaza obelisk, and the Syon House obelisk all represent the phallus of Osiris and the Lost Word of Freemasonry. Entities: Washington Monument, Vatican, Dealey Plaza, Freemasonry, Osiris. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  9. 1884 (19th century) Cooper claims Pope Leo XIII's 1884 bull Humanum Genus condemned Freemasonry for espousing religious freedom, separation of church and state, and elected government. Entities: Pope Leo XIII, Humanum Genus, Freemasonry. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  10. 1886 (1886) Cooper claims the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by Masonic France and wears the corona of the sun as its crown. Entities: Statue of Liberty, France, Freemasonry. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  11. 1910 (Early 1900s) Cooper claims Aleister Crowley asserted the same theurgic powers as the ancient Egyptian priests, showing the magical tradition was passed down through the ages. Entities: Aleister Crowley, theurgy, Egyptian magic. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  12. 1915 (20th Century) Cooper claims the headquarters of the Masonic temple in the United States stands exactly thirteen blocks from the White House. Entities: House of the Temple, Washington D.C., Freemasonry. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  13. 1917 (20th Century) Cooper claims Colonel Edward Mandell House, advisor to Woodrow Wilson, maneuvered America into World War I in hope of establishing a New World Order. Entities: Edward Mandell House, Woodrow Wilson, World War I. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  14. 1922 (1922) Cooper claims, reading Manly P. Hall, that the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 was followed by a chain of deaths attributed to the pharaoh's curse, including Lord Carnarvon. Entities: Tutankhamen, Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter, Egypt. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  15. 1923 (1923) Cooper claims, reading Manly P. Hall, that panic over the Tutankhamen curse drove British collectors to flood the British Museum with Egyptian antiquities in 1923. Entities: British Museum, Tutankhamen, Lord Carnarvon. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  16. 1933 (20th Century) Cooper claims Adolf Hitler's National Socialism was a religion with a hidden purpose, the creation of the superman and a new world order. Entities: Adolf Hitler, National Socialism. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  17. 1933 (20th Century) Cooper claims the 1933 Humanist Manifesto's call for international wealth redistribution is socialism authored by the worshipers of Mystery Babylon. Entities: Humanist Manifesto, Mystery Babylon. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  18. 1948 (20th Century) Cooper claims the Protestant theologians responsible for the rapture doctrine were Freemasons who control the World Council of Churches. Entities: World Council of Churches, Freemasonry, rapture doctrine. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  19. 1948 (20th century) Cooper claims George Bush was initiated into the Skull and Bones society, also called the Russell Trust and the Brotherhood of Death, in the tomb at Yale. Entities: George H. W. Bush, Skull and Bones, Russell Trust, Yale. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  20. 1963 (20th Century) Cooper claims John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, a thesis he promised to prove at his March 15, 1993 San Diego lecture. Entities: John F. Kennedy, Scottish Rite, Freemasonry. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  21. 1968 (1968) Cooper claims the film 2001: A Space Odyssey was a coded message to initiates of the Mystery Schools rather than entertainment for general audiences. Entities: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, Mystery Schools. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  22. 1968 (1968) Cooper claims Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick are members of the Mystery Schools, evidenced by the symbolism of the film 2001. Entities: Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  23. 1968 (20th Century) Cooper claims an Associated Press dispatch of July 26, 1968 reported Nelson Rockefeller promising to work toward creation of a new world order as president. Entities: Nelson Rockefeller, Associated Press. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  24. 1970 (20th Century) Cooper claims the New Age mantra AUM, taught by visiting gurus, conceals the three-lettered word of Freemasonry. Entities: New Age movement, Freemasonry, AUM. Source: Episode 4: Osiris and Isis Pt 2 (aired 1993-02-17).
  25. 1970 (20th Century) Cooper claims Zbigniew Brzezinski's book Between Two Ages named 1976 or 1989 as target dates and that the plan began exactly on schedule. Entities: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  26. 1975 (1975) Cooper claims the Pleiadian contact story of Billy Meier in Switzerland is a deception that shows the Mystery Religion's emergence inside the UFO movement. Entities: Billy Meier, Pleiadians, UFO movement. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  27. 1975 (20th Century) Cooper claims Henry Kissinger, quoted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of April 18, 1975, spoke of America's decisive role in the new order taking form. Entities: Henry Kissinger, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  28. 1976 (20th Century) Cooper claims 32 senators and 92 representatives signed the Declaration of Interdependence introduced January 30, 1976, calling all 124 traitors. Entities: Declaration of Interdependence, United States Congress. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  29. 1980 (1980) Cooper claims Barbara Honegger, associated with the 1980 'October surprise' allegations, was a plant. Entities: Barbara Honegger, October surprise. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  30. 1980 (20th century) Cooper claims the phrase now is time from John Ball's 1381 letters reappeared as the spark phrase of the French Revolution and as the Reagan and Bush campaign slogan of 1980. Entities: John Ball, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, French Revolution. Source: Episode 13: The Skull and Bones (aired 1993-03-08).
  31. 1984 (1984) Cooper claims the sequel film to 2001, in which the surviving astronaut returns as a teacher saying 'something wonderful' happened, signaled to initiates that the coming transition leads to utopia. Entities: 2010 (film), Mystery Schools. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  32. 1988 (Late 1980s) Cooper claims George Bush, asked at a press conference whether he was a Christian, answered in born-again language Cooper links to ancient Egyptian rebirth symbolism. Entities: George Bush, born again. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  33. 1989 (20th Century) Cooper claims George H.W. Bush's commencement address at Texas A&M on May 12, 1989 echoed the long-standing world order language of earlier planners. Entities: George H.W. Bush, Texas A&M University. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  34. 1992 (1992) Cooper claims the world in 1992-93 is 1,992 years into the Age of Pisces and is therefore living in the 'last days' of that astrological age. Entities: Age of Pisces, astrology, last days. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).
  35. 1992 (20th Century) Cooper claims his organization, the Citizens Agency for Joint Intelligence (CAJI), has infiltrated Masonic lodges with informants taught a non-binding form of the oath. Entities: CAJI, William Cooper, Freemasonry. Source: Episode 3: Osiris and Isis (aired 1993-02-16).
  36. 1993 (1993) Cooper claims secret technology is a minimum of 50 to 100 years ahead of the publicly known state of the art. Entities: classified technology. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  37. 1993 (1993) Cooper claims the priests of the ancient Mystery Religions are in charge of world affairs at the time of broadcast, ruling from the shadows as the Guardians of the Secrets of the Ages. Entities: Mystery Schools, Guardians of the Secrets of the Ages. Source: Episode 0: The Dawn of Man (aired 1993-02-11).
  38. 1993 (1993) Cooper claims his organization CAJI placed members inside Masonic lodges and verified the broadcast's claims from within at the time of broadcast. Entities: CAJI, Freemasonry. Source: Episode 2: Antiquities (aired 1993-02-15).
  39. 1993 (20th century) Cooper claims he predicted major terrorist attacks on New York City beginning in 1989, fulfilled by the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Entities: William Cooper, World Trade Center, New York City. Source: Episode 11: The Assassins and The Templars (aired 1993-03-02).
  40. 1999 (20th Century) Cooper claims the planners intend the entire New World Order structure to be in place by the year 1999. Entities: New World Order. Source: Episode 5: The NWO and Freemasonry (aired 1993-02-18).
  41. 2010 (After 2010 (projected)) Cooper claims that according to astrology the sun enters the Age of Aquarius sometime after the year 2010, the source of the term New Age. Entities: Age of Aquarius, New Age movement, astrology. Source: Episode 1: Intro to Mysteries (aired 1993-02-12).