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cannot afford to make Governor Crow into a viable candidate at this time. We’re too close to our goal now,” Rutland said sharply.
    â€œI understand,”Lowe assured him.“I want this just as much as you do.”
    â€œJust remember, the Society makes no allowances for failure,”
    Rutland said.

    Rutland represented a group that had actually been formed nearly three hundred years earlier in Europe, and the group from which they sprang had been formed centuries before that—when the Roman Empire was little more than a few loosely knit tribes.
    The original group had been known as Druids. They were the titled gentry of Middle East traders who had developed from tribes of roving bandits. The Druids became a vicious, secret society dedicated to the preservation of their members at all costs. Nothing was beyond their order of “ethics,” including murder, kidnapping, and slavery.
    Later the Druids took on a nearly supernatural aura in the minds of the simple people they dominated. Their wealth and power made it possible for them to operate outside the confines of the law. Those who opposed them would simply disappear, never to be seen or heard from again. Thus, rumors circulated that the Druids had the power to make people vanish. As the stories were told from generation to generation, they were elaborated and exaggerated. Eventually the Druids were equated with demons and various gods.
    So similar were the men who inherited leadership in each successive generation, they seemed to be the reincarnated images of their predecessors. Thus also began the legend of eternal life within the Druids: reincarnation. In truth, it was the intense dedication to a single organization and centuries of exacting training that kept the group so uniform and strong. But it was the legends that served the purposes of the men who served the organization and were therefore preserved and promoted.
    As Europe developed into the dominant economic center of the civilized world, the Druids saw their influence waning because few Europeans were interested in or impressed by the superstitions of the Middle East. To extend their influence in Europe, the Druids changed their name to the Freemasons and adopted many of the same rituals and religious traditions practiced within the Christian churches. These rituals, mixed with Eastern mysticism, resulted in almost instant acceptance.
    Immediately many of the leaders of society were wooed into the order of the Freemasons, and they in turn brought in many of the second social level who were anxious to associate with the elite. From the Freemasons, a small group of world leaders emerged, dedicated to the establishment of a worldwide order, known as the “Illuminati,” or “the enlightened”; later they would be known only as the “Society.” Each member of this group was carefully chosen from the larger group of Freemasons. Each represented the highest level of authority within his particular discipline. Thus the group contained not only political figures, but also religious, economic, academic, and military leaders.
    The group flourished from just after the time of Christ until the fifteenth century in Europe. When the New World was discovered and the pathways to America opened up, leading members of the Freemasons were sent with the earliest pilgrims to ensure their foothold on the new continent.
    By the time of the Revolutionary War in America, most prominent American leaders were counted among the Freemasons. As centuries passed, countries came and went, along with their rulers, but the Masons continued to flourish. Eventually the movement in America spread to the common man and millions of working class people were recruited to the order of the Freemasons, thus ensuring their acceptance in a democratic society.
    But always at the top, unknown to all but the very few, was the ruling body known as the Society. This group made decisions determining which wars