Hidden Hand

Hidden Hand is or was a pseudonymous self-proclaimed Illuminati insider and Earthly representative of Lucifer, who, on the web forum Above Top Secret for a week in 2008, made claims and answered questions on a bunch of conspirituality topics under said pseudonym. Hidden Hand is among the more successful such online personalities in the genre, in terms of gaining a following and being widely read after such a brief appearance; the hoax was apparently quite a hit.
Hidden Hand (hereafter HH) refers to and builds on the Ra Material or Law of One, among other things, while turning things around in a different direction. "Lucifer" is claimed to be a sixth-density social memory complex (a kind of group soul), in Ra's terms, and buddies with that of Ra yet distinct from it. Curiously, Lucifer is said to be the group soul of those from Venus, while Ra as channeled in the 1980s also claimed to be the group soul of those from Venus; this apparent contradiction is left unresolved.
==The dialogue==
HH displays psychological cunning in the way that the messages in the forum conversation are written, in setting the tone and then laying out rules of engagement, in appealing to well-established tropes, and requesting that expressions of disbelief be withheld and people suspend judgment until the conversation is over. The obliging conspiracy theorist crowd quickly began to help build the sort of reading together with HH which makes it easy for those who want to believe to sustain a suspension of disbelief. After it got going, HH further flattered the crowd.
==The Family==
HH claims to be a member of "the Family", which consists of smaller houses and bloodlines, and in the whole of which all marriages are arranged and outsiders are never included. This has apparently been the case ever since prehistoric times, maintained to the present, all across the world. And naturally, the prominently placed people of the Family wielding influence all around the world are largely unknown to the people and not the figures usually thought to be the most powerful.
Basically, the Family rules the world because it was given the mission of doing so by a higher god, and absolutely everything they do is done because it is their divine duty to do it. They always simply obey in all they do, throughout their lives, for the highest good. It's all part of the grand intelligent design for this world.
But why? Supposedly the lowly planetary designer Yahweh created an inefficient world in terms of spiritual evolution because he left free will for humanity out, so Lucifer and other parts of the heavenly bureaucracy sent a team to the rescue, to help humanity evolve by giving them the choice of being negative or "evil". Compared to the Ra Material, this version of Earth history sticks closer to the Bible in describing humanity's plight, in order to then turn things around and say that the ultimate baddies are here to help.
==="We do it because we love you"===
A core idea in HH's teaching is that all these shadowy secretive high-level conspirators, plotting to increase negativity and suffering and mayhem on Earth, are doing it out of love for us. It's a little like an abuser saying, "this hurts me more than it hurts you", but not exactly the same. They suffer and struggle to be nasty sorts, but not on an Earthly level where they rather like it, but on a higher level where all is just and loving and moving towards all ultimately turning out well for all, whether soon or after more cosmic cycles.
Apparently, in order to succeed in helping us all – out of love, naturally – they must create a whole lot of negativity on Earth, to the extent of inspiring lots of people to "progress" into truly deep negativity and ascend to a negative higher realm, where a new negative Earth will be created, a terrible world for terrible beings who live there to take being terrible to a whole new level. Thereafter, a full long cycle of cosmic spiritual evolution later, all will be fine and well.
Of course, people could instead choose the opposite, and become such that they truly have it in them to create a heavenly new Earth of love and greatness, living there in the spirit of Jesus and even performing all manner of miraculous feats, but HH claims that such an alternative will be far less popular. Moreover, echoing the Ra Material (from which most of HH's concepts of spiritual evolution have been lifted), most people are pretty apathetic and will neither become angelic nor demonic, but rather just fail to become much of anything, and thereafter repeat history in a long series of new incarnations.
There's an obvious problem with this three-way millennialist rapture fantasy, though – in both versions, the Ra version and the HH version, and also various other similar visions that have been spread on the web. Nothing happened around 2012, and the other big predictions were also bogus. History simply goes on, and no one went poof. The world didn't die either, it'll just get a little bit rougher ahead with global warming and such.
==Failed predictions==
Beyond the lack of a splitting of the world and its inhabitants into different realms around 2012 or so, HH was off to a good start as a failed prophet much sooner. HH predicted that with the then-ongoing 2008 financial crisis, shortly afterwards there would be far worse financial mayhem, including the replacement of the old US dollar as currency, and a new "Union of Nations" would also come about. Thereafter even more dramatic things were soon to arrive, with disruptive solar activity and dramatic rises in sea level beginning as early as 2010. As for more local mayhem, "San Francisco and Damascus, will be uninhabitable by the end of 2010, possibly even sooner."
In the usual New Age manner, however, there's a catch-all explanation offered for why some things may be wrong in the predictions made. "Again, it depends upon certain 'forces' at play, and which timelines are activated. […] Thought is creative energy, focused. You get exactly what you put out." Humanity is apparently creating the world it is living in with all its problems by being focused on what it's focused on, at the level of what people fill their minds with, and the Family makes extensive use of the mainstream media to make the world as negative as possible in order to create the negative future they want. Kind of, if it ends up better for humanity at large then it can be explained as humanity having been too positive to make the dreams of the Family come true.
Some who believe in the Mandela effect suggest that HH may have been right in the prediction about the three-way reality split, and that we in this reality – having all failed to ascend either way – are now all on a replica Earth instead of the original, sloppy copying (or maybe intentional alteration) explaining the Mandela effect.Hidden Hand - Self-proclaimed “Illuminati Insider” Talks About 3D Replica Earth, /r/Retconned, Aug 06, 2018A primer on the Mandela Effect: Insider (2005), Hidden Hand (2008), Illuminator13 (2009), and Sagittarius Earth, /r/endoftheworld, Jul 06, 2020
==Imitators and their spin-offs==
There have been plenty of others on web forums making grand claims about belonging to various clandestine and/or sinister groups, though often they're unsuccessful in convincing their audience and may mainly end up being questioned and mocked. However, there have been at least two online characters who've tried somewhat successfully to imitate or follow up on Hidden Hand's dialogue, claiming to represent groups similarly in the know, with privileged access to related information. (It's not certain that they and Hidden Hand are all truly separate persons.)
Wes Penre, who runs the website Illuminati News and has compiled the discussions held by these characters into articles, has written about Hidden Hand and others from the perspective of a believer.Article #5: Who is Hidden Hand?, Wes Penre, Videos and Articles by Wes Penre, March 9, 2019
Imitation also likely goes the other way; there have been similar discussions and "revelations" prior to HH in 2008. A more purely conspiracy-focused "ruling bloodline member" question and answer session (which seems to have become less of a lasting hit) was held by "Insider" on the web forum Godlike Productions in 2005.Revelations of an Elite Family Insider, 2005
===Illuminator13===
Roughly a year later, another member of Above Top Secret called Illuminator13 claimed to be in the know and, if not in the Family itself, then at least in touch with it, and had a follow-up dialogue of sorts."Illuminator13 – Opportunity Knocks Again", Wes Penre, News From Behind The Scenes, March 7, 2010 (Archived) However, Illuminator13 seems to have had a less compelling message (in substance as well as in style), meeting with a more negative and incredulous response, and being mocked for his bad grammar and spelling. The discussion is meandering and lacks a clear central point.
===Eracidni Murev Te===
This character (who used et verum indicare backwards for a handle), appeared roughly 10 years after Hidden Hand, this time on the web forum Godlike Productions. Holding a discussion somewhat like that of Hidden Hand, Eracidni Murev Te (hereafter EMT) denied being the same person when asked about it, while claiming to be from a differently-oriented organization that is more engaged in record-keeping than in politics and influencing the world, and not tasked with making the world more negative. Apparently, the Family of Hidden Hand is the "counterpart" of this other, smaller organization, which also doesn't have Lucifer as its group soul but rather another one.The New “Hidden Hand” Thread 2018, Wes Penre, December 9-11, 2018 (Archived) – obviously updated after December 11, as it contains forum contents from December 6–14Complete Eracidni Murev Te Dialogue, alastair.games/eracidni.html (Archived) – includes a few later posts at the end not in Wes Penre's compilation.
According to EMT, the plans of the sinister Family failed, life on Earth becoming more positive rather than more negative. When the discussion was held in 2018, most people on Earth had supposedly graduated into a positive fourth-density Earth–– ascending that way over time, in a mostly invisible way, and people supposedly already experiencing and sharing love in ways the world hasn't seen for tens of thousands of years.
EMT, like HH, draws upon the Ra Material, while making some claims that contradict it at the level of details. For example, EMT claims that the "blue avian" aliens dreamed up by Coorey Goode and David Wilcock were the 3D form of Ra, while the Ra channeling has it that Ra looked like slender and delicate golden humanoids.
==See also==
* 2012 apocalypse
* Illuminati
* Ra Material or Law of One
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