"The powerful Skull and Bones Order is both Masonic in its death imagery, a datum which is known, also quintessencially kabbalistic, an important fact currently concealed. In the Zohar the 'Hard Skull' is a controlling symbol in which it is said that 'inside this skull lie ninety million worlds moving with it, relying upon it.' The Zoharic Hard Skull of Adam Kadmon is code for the solid rulership of the Cryptocracy wich maintains a necromantic Death Order rooted in the symbolism of the Skull..." (Heimbichner, The Kabbalah of the Cryptocracy, Paranoia magazine, issue 41, Spring 2006)

Almost all of the occult societies that spawned the occult revival of the 19th century were spawned by active Freemasons. The Skull and Bones society is no exception, as author William H. Kennedy, author of "Lucifer's Lodge", points out in the text below.

this text is from: "The Skull and Bones Society"

by William H. Kennedy,

author of "Lucifer's Lodge"

"Founded at Yale in 1832 the Skull and Bones Society (aka The Order) came in the wake of President John Quincy Adams purging of Freemasons from government jobs who, the President felt, had inordinate power in American political life. As a means to continue the Freemasonic tradition in the power structure of the United States, a Yale student went to Germany and secured a charter from some unnamed university Masonic-like secret society. A legal entity called the Russell Trust was set up as the parent organization of the Skull and Bones Society and this corporation owns all the land on which Yale University rests and could technically evict this Ivy League institution from its home. This is the reason Yale University refuses to even speak of The Order and professors and instructors are ordered never to comment to the press about the Skull and Bones.

The Skull and Bones is headquartered in a bizarre building in the center of Yale’s campus in New Haven called the Tombs. The structure has an eerie quality and looks very much like a mausoleum. It is reported that the interior part of the building is decorated with coffins and real human skulls including that of the Native American leader Geronomo. Potential initiates meet twice a week for elaborate dinners. Members are called Bonesman. Even these high society Satanists cannot get away from Nazi practices. Since the late 1940s members of The Order use a silver cutlery set once owned and used by Hitler himself. It was stolen by a Bonesman who served in Europe at the end of WW2.

The teachings of the Skull and Bones are really not too far away from Crowley's ideas and both have their roots in Masonic influenced secret societies."