Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Eye In The Pyramid
Appendix Nun: Additional Information About Some of the Characters
The Eye In The Pyramid
BOOK ONE: VERWIRRUNG
The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies.
–Ishmael Reed,
THE FIRST TRIP, OR KETHER
The Purple Sage opened his mouth and moved his tongue and so spake to them and he said:
The Earth quakes and the Heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains. Indeed do many things come to pass.
–Lord Omar Khayaam Ravenhurst, K.S.C., "The Book of Predications."