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EPISODE · May 25, 2026 · 1H 40M

#52 Prisca Theologia 3: Secret Societies

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To the masses, "Black Magic" meant summoning demons. To the elite, it was the earliest form of psychological warfare, espionage, and social engineering.In this deep-dive (part of our Prisca Theologia series), The Dirt Unit uncovers how a decentralized network of occultists, alchemists, and spies quietly engineered the modern world. From John Dee's Enochian angels demanding radical moral inversion, to the Vatican's Jesuit intelligence network, to the Sabbatean infiltration of European aristocracy, this is the hidden history of statecraft.Discover how Sir Francis Dashwood’s notorious Hellfire Club used ritualized blackmail to control the British Parliament, how Benjamin Franklin utilized these underground networks to secure the American Republic, and how the Royal Society hijacked Captain Cook’s scientific voyage to claim the Great Southern Land.

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