Adepts of Hermes - Illuminati: New World Order

This blog is NOT part of a government conspiracy.

Illuminati was/is a card game by Steve Jackson. The game is very tongue-in-cheek, letting you play with flying saucers, men in black, crystal skulls, and everything in between. Sadly, there are select individuals who take the game far too seriously, probably because they believe in flying saucers, men in black, crystal skulls, and everything in between. But that's not what I'm here to talk about.

Hermes was the Greek messenger god, his side job including escorting the dead to the underworld. I have no idea who the Adepts of Hermes are, the only links I'm finding referencing the game. They're probably just some generic secret organization who wanted to sound cool. In the red seal on the card art, in the middle of the pentagram, is the caduceus, a staff depicted with two snakes entwining around it. You most often see this symbol in the field of medicine. According to legend, Hermes invented the lyre and then traded his invention with Apollo, who gave him the caduceus in return.

There are other symbols on the seal, the pentagram inside a pentagon. Since government buildings often take geometric shapes, this must be a clear reference to the Pentagon being part of the Adepts of Hermes. There is also a pyramid with an eye, which Nicholas Cage in National Treasure taught us was a Masonic symbol! It all fits, and I am certainly not being sarcastic right now. I love looking at conspiracy theories and wacky pseudosciences, just because of the rich mythology they form. I don't believe a word of it, but I still find the stories they make up entertaining.