* There's the Hellfire Club of the 18th century, on which 'crazy' old hunter thompson wrote:
By the second half of the century, there was a whole new focus for the gentlemen's clubs—the worship of sex and extravagant public decadence. This was the time of the infamous Hellfire Club, which included among its inner circle the Prince of Wales, the Lord Mayor of London, Benjamin Franklin, the crazed Earl of Sandwich, the monstrous Earl of Bute, then prime minister of England. These people didn't fool around. They raised the orgy to an art form unknown since Caligula or even the fiendish Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan, who begat a long line of rapists and treacherous sex maniacs who were said to lament the fact that the human body had so few orifices to penetrate that they were forced to create new ones with their own daggers in order that the whole clan could swarm on a victim at once.
* Order of the Solar Temple
* Francis D. Shelden and North Fox Island
* Italian ‘Bunga Bunga’ parties attended by Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi,
* Argentinian model Natacha Jaitt, found dead after allegations of elite pedophile ring in the country.
* Westminster paedophile dossier
* the Profumo 'affair', a 1960s case which mirrors the Epstein one.
* the Finders, which a number of members here have be doing great work on.
* This alternative views episode, 'boys for sale', https://archive.org/details/AV_126_127- ... V-126.mpeg
* NXIVM
* Dutroux in Belgium, the most glaring modern example
* Epstein
Wondering if others have theories on the origins of this behavior? I traced it back, as best i could, to the perpetuation of Canaanite traditions into Greek ones through the poet prophet Orpheus, where child sacrifice rituals picked up a child sex aspect too, before becoming woven within traditions of the progenitor elite secret societies in Rome, such as the cult of Mithras, which would later culminate in Freemasonry that has had a pervasive, or had until the mid 20th century, infiltration of its membership across all modern high power institutions. There is more on this here, but it's 12,000+ words and can be summarized, without the evidence, simply as:
Canaanite child substitution sacrifice Into Greek pedophilia mystery cults into Roman elite secret societies into 18th century Freemasonry(certain sects only, using Freemasonry as a cover organization to hide within) into high powered modern institutions/ elite colleges whose students "study the Greek classics" and join secret Greek inspired fraternities.
This leaves out a massive chunk of history though, spanning from the decline of the Roman empire and the formative period of Western Civ under the feudal system and European monarchy. Which is where the whole occult aspect comes into play through certain sects of Gnosticism.
Do people think this is a modern phenomenon, an ancient tradition, or somewhere in between? The further back in time one goes, the more far-fetched their theory sounds. But like all traditions, this one must have an origin, and I'm interested in differing points of view.