This content explores the historical and contemporary landscape of secret societies, examining their origins, rituals, alleged influence, and the persistent allure of mystery and conspiracy surrounding them. It delves into specific examples like Skull and Bones and the Illuminati, alongside broader themes of ancient cults and their enduring impact.
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they're highly secretive they have
knowledge they keep to themselves they
operate consistently and they practice
ancient mysterious rituals
they are secret societies
our secret societies a hotbed of evil
they are certainly the subject of
countless conspiracy theories
they are accused of pursuing a Sinister
objective of seeking to Rule the World
perhaps as many claim they rule it already
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time and again people sense perfidious
conspiracies everywhere but which of
their suspicions are well founded and
which are based on mere fiction created
by successful authors like Dan Brown
good fraternities have existed for
thousands of years their members are in
our midst everywhere
join us as we delve into the dark
parallel world of secret societies [Music]
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is a historian from gertingen in Germany
he is about to embark on a search for
traces of the most influential and most
Aman schutler from gota is investigating
the background of the legendary
Illuminati a mysterious secret society
Andreas Henson from Heidelberg wants to
find out what influence the ancient
an April night on the east coast of
America life for a young man is about to
he has been selected by its members to
join a secret organization that is
extremely elitist
the orders initiation process is bizarre [Music]
system [Music]
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the ritual is repeated every April and
this secret society is based in Yale the
distinguished American University in
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foreign [Music]
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has come to Yale where many of America's
how much truth is there in the rumors
surrounding the mysterious student organization
but even experts puzzle over what
one major question is how does this
fraternity manage to remain so secretive
in today's media Society especially
where many people are so communicative
it's striking that so little is known
about the order's practices its rituals
and also its membership that's most
the fraternities activities are said to
be diabolical the society's only goal it
is claimed is absolute power
every student would love to be asked to
join because membership is the
springboard to a career anyone who is
selected receives strange instructions
leave the Harkness Tower tomorrow
evening at the time of greed and go
along the High Street southwards you
must not carry metal nor sulfur nor
glass on your person take the right hand
book in your left hand and knock three
remember what you have heard here
but be silent
for a novice things will soon change
forever he will become a member of a
secret society at the center of the
my invisal is familiar with many of the
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Alexander Robbins is about to reveal
more to him
she herself studied in Yale
after graduating she made a detailed
investigation of the fraternity and
it took Robin's years to find out
anything about skull and bones
I talked to more than 150 members of
Skull and Bones however more than twice
that many yelled at me or harassed me or
hung up on me because they do not and
they are not supposed to talk about what
goes on inside I did get threats from
some members of the society
that made me both uncomfortable and also
more intrigued why were they so
protective of this organization
the Brotherhood of death as it is known
shuts itself off completely from the
outside world
so information can still be obtained
the archives in Yale's University
Library contain documents from the early
days of skull and bones
the secret society is 180 years old
that much is certain it is said to have
built up a key position for itself in
the U.S power structure and established
its members and party and Government
Office in Industry and in the Secret Service
Service
up until 1970 its index of members was
open to public inspection but since then
an entire panopoly of Secrets weird
customs and abstruse rituals was thought
up by William Russell the student who
In 1832 Russell studied in Germany for a
year where it said was initiated into a
student fraternity of which Skull and
Bones was a branch the numbers 322 are
always found beneath its logo
they could be a reference to one of the
fraternity's models Athenian orator
demothenese his rhetoric is legendary
Alexandra Robbins knows more she has
brought Marian fusel to an old
forbidding building on the campus of the
elite University
known as the tomb this is the
headquarters of Skull and Bones
the interior is said to contain
the inside of the Tomb is lined with
skeletons and skulls it's almost like an
obsession with death and the reason they
do that is because they have this phrase
in the two Memento Mori remember that
you must die they like to pretend that
they are a part and above the rest of
Skull and Bones has cultivated this
self-perception right from the start
its members rise to the very Pinnacles
of power like George Walker Bush for example
when Bush contested the presidency with
Democrat John Kerry it was a battle
between two bonesmen you both were
members of Skull and Bones a secret
society at Yale what does that tell us
not much because it's a secret
you were both in Skull and Bones the
secret society
it's so secret we can't talk about
only rarely do bizarre aspects of the
society become public knowledge
inside the tomb members are said to have
their own Standard Time which differs
from hours by five minutes
it's believed that Cutlery which once
belonged to Adolf Hitler is preserved here
here [Music]
the Iron Ring of silence is ideal for
Hollywood fiction departments with Matt
Damon and the leading role the manifold
activities of Skull and Bones were
portrayed in the film The Good Shepherd
it tells of rounds of confessions in the Tomb
Tomb
biographical details and sexual
proclivities had to be shown in graphic detail
it wasn't an accident my father killed himself
no matter how insignificant every detail
of members confessions is recorded in
Black Books
they are the actual secret behind the
success of the fraternity it is the fear
of publication that bonds members
together for the CIA skull and bones is
a wonderful reservoir for suitable
employees that at least is what is claimed
claimed
very few can free themselves from this
intimate embrace
so with psychological dependence on the
confraternity one of the secret
the boundaries between sets between
secret religious or secret political
societies are becoming blurred Naturally
by exposing personal secrets and
personal weaknesses perhaps this Society
exerts power over its members they know
something it's like secret knowledge
within this group with which they could
damage someone who say wanted to leave
secret societies always create a
counterworld to what they regard as
and they seek contact with power
they themselves strive to exercise it
Marian fusel has come to the heart of
the United States the world superpower
for conspiracy theorists Washington DC
is honeycombed with secret societies
and it is not only bonesmen who are
found in the top echelons of the U.S government
government
their skull and bones is said to compete
who laid the foundation stone for the capital
capital
another fraternity is said to have
infiltrated the U.S Administration in
conspiracy theorists claim that the New
World Order is even immortalized on the
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Bears the words novus ordo seclorum
Latin for New Order of the ages [Music]
those words are also found on every one
dollar bill
so is this secret society so powerful
that it can print the symbols of its
Dominion on the most important banknote
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since 1862 the design of the American
currency has been in the hands of the
and in all the years since then the
appearance of the one dollar bill has
hardly changed
only the security features are regularly upgraded
upgraded
the United States prints 35 million
banknotes every day
five million of which are the legendary
one dollar bill
does a secret society really have its
fingers in the currency Pie as the
Murray and fusel has come to meet his
colleague Professor Robert Hieronymus an
Professor Hieronymus has made a close
study of the one dollar bill which
differs from every other currency in the world
world
the Eye of Providence the symbol of
13 stars above the eagle 13 steps are
said to correspond to the hierarchy of
The Secret order
and last but not least a tiny animal an
owl a symbol of wisdom all just pure coincidence
coincidence
Benjamin Franklin was a great teacher
about educating people about our country
and he had felt very strongly that he
could teach what was important about
America through its currency because
everyone was handling it and would look
at it and they knew symbols
was Benjamin Franklin perhaps involved
with the ominous secret society that
uses the same symbols as a one dollar bill
thank you Marian fusel wants to know more
does a conspiracy really exist or is it
merely a product of the imagination of
those who suspect a secret behind
fusel's research has brought him into
contact with an old book in it the
historian has found a familiar symbol
the owl on the American one dollar bill
the owl was once revered by a
particularly secret society a Sinister
order known as the Illuminati
written in this medieval looking font
the name Illuminati is an ambigram a
word that reads exactly the same upside down
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things are ascribed to the Illuminati
material that has been handled
skillfully by successful authors like
Umberto Rico and Dan Brown
but who actually were the Illuminati
They too had to take a vow of silence
they were forbidden to speak openly
about the society's rituals and aims
here too different levels of hierarchy
exist not three as in the case of the
Freemasons but as many as 13.
and a neophyte has to pass through them
all before he can be made privy to the
greatest secrets
the Brethren are encouraged to spy on
and denounce one another
in this way Renegades can be quickly
recognized and neutralized
allegedly structured like a cotter party
the order it said focuses primarily on
political Intrigue and diversion [Music]
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the Illuminati have long stored people's
imagination of figuring and literature
the cinema and other media for many
years some people even claim that the
Illuminati still exist today and
clandestinely control politics business
the quiet town of Ingolstadt this is
where the legend of the Illuminati
and the years leading up to the French
Revolution there was also foment in
rural Bavaria
it was a time of radical change
people were seeking answers to pressing
in Ingolstadt Adam weishab taught
ecclesiastical law and practical philosophy
philosophy
he was the only secular Professor his
colleagues were all priests
frustrated with church dogma and
spiritual stagnation weishaupt wanted to
pets were filled with the ideas of the
Enlightenment but there was also great
uncertainty as to how they might be implemented
implemented
within a few years an enraged mob would
spill blood
Adam weishaupt welcomed the first signs
of change in France but he rejected violence
violence
what he had in mind was something
different Vice hopped wanted to
undermine the state from within and he
sought to achieve this with the help of
a secret society
the first people he convinced of his
idea of a perfect state were his students
students
his vision was of a state modeled in
Athens one based on reason a concept
totally in line the ideals of the Enlightenment
wanted to set up a secret government a
monstrous idea even today [Music]
secret societies were also a Melting Pot
for Hot Heads for revolutionaries for
people who nurtured highly unusual ideas
and who could express themselves within
a fraternity without having to suffer
persecution people who could also
discuss and try things out perhaps on a
small scale that was a major motive for
in the troubled times the preceded the
French Revolution secret societies also
flourished in Germany
and the newly founded Illuminati made
full use of the situation
they set up countless lodges and
attracted hundreds of new members
their number included Johann Wolfgang
fangerta the most famous writer of his day
philosopher godfreed Heda
and influential educationalist Heinrich pestalozzi
pestalozzi
the Illuminati were well aware of the
high risk of opposing absolute rulers
but they shared Vice hub's passionate
rejection of throne and altar
weishop was convinced of his idea above
all though he was convinced of himself
opinionated weishaupt was seen as
narcissistic and domineering
with his fraternity he wanted nothing
less than to change the world does still assisting
assisting [Music]
the Supreme figure amongst the
Illuminati demanded absolute loyalty
from his members [Music]
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from their records how clandestinely the
Illuminati operated in those days
stored at friedenstein Palace in gota
they provide valuable insights into the
inner life of the order [Music]
perhaps my and fossil will discover here
why the Illuminati gave themselves Greek
cover names and why they introduced
historian Hermann schutler has
deciphered and studied encoded
Illuminati documents a domineering
character Adam weishaupt had a weakness
for the ancient Athenians and their
ideas he valued their Democratic
principles that is why he chose the
Athenian owl as the symbol of his order
it stood for wisdom [Music]
the Illuminati believed that they were
experiencing the dawn of a new era
and they wanted to participate in this
positive transition in English Hub
forged a plan that was simply audacious
but he was successful he had tapped the
pulse of the age [Music]
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change in society in the church in the
state can only be achieved with a longer
term project thus Vice house wanted to
educate people so his was an educational
project right from the start but it
would take time weishaupt said that 200
years could well pass before success was
achieved before the enlightenment Triumph
Triumph
the secret organization grew in size in
its Heyday the Illuminati had around 2
000 members all of them high-ranking
representatives of society Vice hopped
specifically poached his men from the
Freemasons despite its Rich tradition
many large Brethren found their
Association Dole the new secret society
the launches were run with unsparing
strictness like in Skull and Bones
members had to lay bare their private
lives a requirement some were at odds with
with
the Illuminati it seems were very strict
and hierarchy oriented many people were
put off by this
for example refused to join even though
friends of his were Illuminati so
sometimes the society also had this
off-putting effect on people someone
with the status of a prince of poets was
not going to subordinate himself to a
mediocre illuminatus in a secret society
too that is simply asking too much
the bigger and more influential the
organization grew the more resistance it
faced the absolutist rulers hit back
and those in power were helped by accident
accident
in 1785 one of the order's couriers was
taking secret papers to France when he
was struck by lightning and killed
on his body the police found a list of members
members
only 10 years after being founded the
Illuminati were banned membership now
carried the death penalty [Music]
thank you
fearing for his life Adam weishaupt fled
from Ingolstadt to gota disguised as a Craftsman
but did this really mean the end of the Illuminati
Illuminati
if so why do people still nurture
thoughts of them [Music]
that's perhaps because before he fled
Vice Hub succeeded in achieving another
major coup he established contact with
foreign [Music]
knows of three letters written to
Benjamin Franklin in them the Illuminati
asked for permission to set up a colony
in Elysium their code name for the
United States
but the old Illuminati records make no
mention of what reaction the request
received the letters fuel fantastic
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what if a number of Illuminati had
escaped to the new world to implement
their ideas there
would it not then have been possible for
them to influence politics in the United States
and couldn't the Illuminati then also
have printed their symbols on the
American one dollar banknote
water yes no Theory seems too abstruse
yeah Marion Fussell has taken another
close look at the one dollar bill on
which the owl is portrayed the sacred
animal of the Athenians and the
identification symbol of the Illuminati [Music]
printed in Roman numerals is the year
1776 the year in which the Illuminati
Eye of Providence over the pyramid is a
symbol which allegedly was also used by
the secret society Novus Odo secloro
means the New Order of the ages in other
words it clearly states the goal of the Illuminati
Illuminati
why the number 13 is found everywhere
the secret society had 13 hierarchical levels
levels [Music]
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I don't believe the secret societies
have the power nor the interest to be
able to rule any country on this planet
instead you have corporate Powers
multi-billions trillions of dollars
Within These corporate structures The
Stance adopted by the U.S authorities is
unambiguous conspiracy theories are all
nonsense the symbols they say have a
harmless historical background and
nothing to do with the Illuminati
1776 for example was the year when the
American Declaration of Independence was
written but one thing is certain the
Illuminati are no figment of the imagination
imagination [Music]
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their founder Adam Vice Hub created the
secret society to undermine the ruling
class in order to seize power himself
but he wasn't alone in this there were
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back then they too operated
clandestinely but their meetings are
said to have taken a very different
pattern from those of the Illuminati
the rosicrucians were said to possess
all the knowledge in the world and the
potential to give people salvation [Music]
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the healthy
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the history of this mysterious Society
can be traced back to a legend
in the book farmer fraternitatus which
appeared in 1614 it is stated that the
members of a secret society had
discovered the intact body of its
deceased founder his name Christian rosenkowitz
rosenkowitz [Music]
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rosenkoits was made privy to ancient Mysteries
Mysteries [Music]
never existed but the character was
cleverly chosen because it embodies the
ideals and goals of the Rose equation
order in an exemplary way for every
member the figure of Christian
hosenkoids is a kind of spur on the path
to understanding so it was well suited
to motivating people to join the
in the early 17th century the
rosicrucians wanted to free Society from
the confines of its narrow order through
diligent Bible study and Alchemy and
this Epoch between medieval religiosity
and Nation science Alchemy the art of
making gold was very much in Vogue
the 30 Years War was brewing people
everywhere felt insecure they were
questioning the Christian view of the world
world
science offered more plausible explanations
explanations [Music]
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this was the perfect breeding ground for
the Alchemists tried to preserve this
magical world to carry it over into the
new world also via secret societies they
held firm to the belief that there was a
secret form of knowledge of fifth state
of matter a quintessence a philosopher's
stone all those terms date back to the
time of the Alchemists
in the 17th century the ideas of the
Rosa Christians proved more and more
people appealing not only in Germany but
throughout Europe including Cambridge
Cambridge in those days was Isaac Newton
one of the fathers of modern Natural Science
Science
but he could not resist the lure of
pre-scientific alchemy [Music]
Newton's study in Trinity College Bears
witness to this double life [Music]
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during the day do
serious research
but at night he turned Alchemy hoping to
find the mysterious Philosopher's Stone
and make gold
secretly the scientific genius was very
taken by the ideas of the rosicrucians
later Newton Newtons made a member of
the legendary Royal Society
which had many rosa Christians in its
governing body [Music]
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a Mecca of scientific rigor today the
Royal Society has its headquarters in
the heart of London
no one has any idea that it was Rosa
Christians and Alchemists who thought of
historian Marian fusel is looking for
information on the history of the rosicrucians
rosicrucians
he has been promised the assistance of
the Royal Society [Music]
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stored in a specially secured archive in
the basement is a historical treasure
thank you
This brilliant thinker saw the world we
live in as a puzzle God left mankind to solve
solve
for Newton this involved not only
natural phenomena and Heavenly Bodies
but also ancient civilizations and
mysterious writings simply everything in fact
Newton of course we understand as being
a great uh British scientist for his
work on gravity and the laws of motion
so we get very excited when we find new
Mutant manuscripts it doesn't tell you
very much about science but it tells you
quite a bit about Newton
like the rosicrucians Newton was
convinced that Divine Mysteries are
inherent in nature the rosicrucians even
speculated on the means by which
in London Marian fossil has been allowed
to see what Newton wrote at Trinity
College after nights of experimenting
it's the legendary scientist's main
alchemistic work foreign
foreign [Music]
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symbols signs and formula abound
whether Newton himself was a member of
the rosicrucians is a matter of dispute
but his work shows how captivated he was
by the ideas of the secret society [Music]
it's generally fascinating that someone
who is seen as the epitome of the
Scientific Revolution and the early
Enlightenment should show as deep in
interest in alchemy and occult science
as Isaac Newton all in all Newton seems
to have left behind more manuscripts
dealing with Alchemy and the hidden Arts
so to speak than actual mathematical and
the Rosa Christians still reside in
since Newton's time the aor
the Ancient Order of rosicrucians has
changed today it presents itself with a
Elias Rubinstein is the Grand Master of
the rosicrucians he cultivates the
here in the temple they perform their
rituals but what exactly do they engage
in the battle between the church science
and esotericism ended long ago so what
or whom are modern day rosicrucians
s are simple we are working for the
freedom of mankind thus rosicrucian
Doctrine is intended for everyone not
just for some Elite Class the basic
issues we work with are for the whole of mankind
at the end of a long road an Insight is
gained into the secret knowledge of mankind
mankind
at one time those in power also felt
drawn to it
at schoenborn Palace Emperor Joseph II
is said to have met with the inner
circle of the rosicrucians for meditation
meditation [Music]
but there is also a dangerous side to
esoteric sex have abused rosicrucian
ideas time and again
in the 1990s members of the order of the
solar Temple committed mass suicide in
Canada and Switzerland
over 70 people died
a suicide statement said we shall return
because the rosy cross is Immortal my
infusel knows that the followers of the
cult were convinced that their death
merely meant transition to a better
world the general public had no idea
what took place within the sect which
had sealed itself off from the outside world
naturally the concealment and mystery
that surround many secret societies are
also highly suitable for manipulating
members they offer sex leaders in
particular a way of securing even more
power and of invagling members to do all
kinds of things they might perhaps not
want to
in this respect secrecy is always an
ambivalent issue it protects the society
Legend has it that Christian rosenkoits
drew his secret Knowledge from the
wisdom of the ancient Egyptians a
civilization countless secret societies
refer to
some secret key to knowledge lie hidden
a thousand years ago a cult emerged
traces of which are still visible today
even in Germany
the mysteries of Isis and Osiris
the Nile is at the center of a saga that
dates back to Egypt's very Beginnings
after a long search Isis found the body
of her husband Osiris he had been
drowned in the Nile by his brother and
hacked to pieces
ice has put all the body parts together
again and magically breathed new life
into Osiris [Music]
Isis was a kind of Superwoman and super mother
mother
and precisely that is the secret behind
the cult's success
from Egypt it spread throughout the
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the Isis cult was sensuous
so often women were also present in the temples
temples
this sensuousness was previously unknown
to the Romans and the temple novices
were ritually sprinkled with water
after this purification they experienced
a Mystic Journey Through the realm of
the dead and to Heaven returning to
Earth as Divine creatures
rebirth was a major theme as it later
was with many other secret societies
the Isis cult was appealing and it
became increasingly popular
Isis adherents established countless
temples throughout the Roman Empire [Music]
they survived relics that have been
found provide an insight into the
the mysterious import from Egypt caused
a fuhrer among the normally so prosaic Romans
Romans [Music]
in Rome Maya and thistle has met his
colleague Andreas Henson
thank you
Henson is an expert on Ancient cults
very little of the once pompous Isis
Temple has survived
this marble foot was part of a huge
statue the Egyptian goddess was also a
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the easiest coil between the often the
Ice's cult clearly served an important
need it dealt with the question of what
happens to the soul after death and the
best way to prepare the soul for the Hereafter
Hereafter
people were fascinated by the rich
symbolic language
by symbols they didn't really understand
and by the Exotic character of the
culture in that respect the Romans were
the Isis cult established itself on all
levels of society its success stemmed
from the fact that women felt
particularly at ease in an Isis Temple
because in Isis communities men and
women were regarded as equals quite
astonishing in the male-dominated world
of Rome
exotic Origins complex mystically
charged rituals there is no doubt that
Isis the mother of all had just what it
people found solace in their mystery
cult they sought salvation from a
doleful existence the hope of a blessed
life after death played an important role
even on entering a secret society people
experienced something akin to a rebirth
they became a new person they assumed
new characteristics they belonged to a
totally new Circle their old life was
left behind thus the ritual of rebirth
as practiced in the Isis cult for
example and in other Cults is a
Perpetual element of religions secret
in the end however the Isis cult could
not withstand The Challenge from Christianity
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354 all Pagan Cults were banned in the
Roman Empire from then on Christianity
was to be the sole religion for its citizens
citizens
yet one cultural Legacy of Isis remains
Andreas Henson has brought Marian fusel
to the Church of Santa Maria so
promenava which is decorated with
Freemason symbols
the image of Isis holding the infant
Horus lives on in pictures of the Virgin
Mary holding the Infant Jesus
the mystic ideas of Isis priests also
the ancient mystery Cults often served
as point of reference for secret
societies which came later like the
Freemasons and the Illuminati who tried
repeatedly to extend their own history
back to ancient Traditions they clearly
saw this as an important way of
authenticating their own history if
societies could refer to ancient models
and traditions that would to a certain
degree bolster the dignity and Prestige
of their own project through to the
golden bones Illuminati
Illuminati
rosicrucians Freemasons Isis disciples
secret societies bear many names for
thousands of years they have also been a
part of human civilization
they operate in our midsts meeting needs
which otherwise cannot be met
they are surrounded by a wall of Silence
which results in secret societies
themselves being the biggest Enigma of all
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