Down the rabbit hole I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich the Earl of Sandwich. Sandwich is a word used all over the world correct? who is this guy? He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge,[3] and spent some time travelling, initially going on the Grand Tour around Continental Europe before visiting the more unusual destinations of Greece, Turkey, and Egypt which were then part of the Ottoman Empire.[4] This led him later to found a number of Orientalist societies.[5 Sandwich was also made ambassador to the Dutch Republic during the talks. Using the resources of the British secret service, Sandwich was able to outmanoeuvre his French counterpart by intercepting the latter's secret correspondence.[11] His service at Breda drew him to the attention of the influential Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who lobbied for him to be given high office when he returned home. The modern sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporaneous travel book called Tour to London by Pierre-Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table[29] but Sandwich had many bad habits, including the Hellfire Club, and any story may be a creation after the fact.[30] Black Masses became attached to the club, beginning in the late Nineteenth Century when human sacrifices became part of the rituals. Once an individual willingly or unwillingly participated in a murder, his initiation was complete. He was now a member for life in Hellfire Societe and each additional heinous and depraved act sucked him deeper into the pit, never to escape. While members were afforded wealth and privilege that few in this world would ever experience, it came with a steep price… the individual’s soul. The power and wealth of these clubs became massive as they continued to acquire businesses and corporations all over the world. The traditions were handed down from generation to generation and history documented their involvement.
The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in Richmond to determine secession from the United States. John C. Breckenridge, John Janney, Henry Lewis Benning, Jeremiah Morton and John Smith Preston were all in favor of secession. It was no coincidence that they were all members of the Hellfire Socialite and civil war was their primary intention.
Let me grasp this, https://www.thelanesarmoury.co.uk/shop.php?code=20870 A Parish history from 1925 stated that members included "Frederick, Prince of Wales, the Duke of Queensberry, the Earl of Bute, Lord Melcombe, Sir William Stanhope, K.B, Sir John Dashwood-King, bart., Sir Francis Delaval, K.B., Sir John Vanluttan, kt., Henry Vansittart, afterwards Governor of Bengal, (and Paul Whitchead the poet". Meetings occurred twice a month, with an AGM lasting a week or more in June or September. The members addressed each other as "Brothers" and the leader, which changed regularly, as "Abbot". During meetings members supposedly wore ritual clothing: white trousers, jacket and cap, while the "Abbot" wore a red ensemble of the same style. Legends of Black Masses and Satan or demon worship have subsequently become attached to the club, beginning in the late Nineteenth Century. Rumours saw female "guests" (a euphemism for prostitutes) referred to as "Nuns". Dashwood's Club meetings often included mock rituals, items of a pornographic nature, much drinking, wenching and banqueting. It has a cast bronze polished pistol-grip style hilt, decorated with relief rococo swags beneath a relief face of a demonic type beast on both sides, upon the offset pommel, each surmounted with the demons face, with its mouth open, the pommel also bears a grotesque face. It is terminated with a most unusual form of downswept, inverted cruciform quillon cross guard.
Ok so down the Hellfire rabbit hole https://www.thevistapress.com/hellfire-societe-thomas-calabrese/ we find them destroying the Hearst empire with the help of the D. Rockefeller, J. Paul Getty, Andrew Carnegie, Leland Stanford, Henry Ford, Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. Pierpoint Morgan. usual suspects. But he was saved (temporarily) by The Warriors of the Six Spears were King Leonidas of Sparta personal bodyguards or their descendants in some way, who were the enemies of the Hellfire Club. then In the 1950’s, Hellfire Societe member Congressman Joseph McCarthy used the strategy of accusing people of despicable criminal behavior and treasonous activity of which he was the greatest offender. McCarthy became the most visible public face in a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of Communist subversion. He alleged that numerous Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities and film industry. His reckless demagogic and unsubstantiated accusations destroyed numerous lives and ripped our country apart.
The ‘Warriors of the Six Spears convinced select Senate members to condemn McCarthy on December 2, 1954. After his censure, McCarthy continued his senatorial duties for another two and a half years, but his career as a major public figure had been unmistakably ruined. His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or were received with conspicuous displays of inattention. The press that had once recorded his every public statement now ignored him, and outside speaking engagements dwindled to almost nothing. McCarthy had always been a heavy drinker, but after the censure he drank more than ever. When he was not drunk on whiskey, he was on the ‘so called wagon,’ which meant he indulged heavily on beer and morphine. McCarthy died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. His death certificate listed the cause of death as ‘Hepatitis, acute, cause unknown.’ Only members of the ‘Warriors of the Six Spears’ knew that he died from an overdose of alcohol and narcotics while alone one evening in his home.
After digging around this hellfire club, Illuminati secret society story pop culture starts to jumo into scene
Comics
In the Marvel Comics comic book series The X-Men, the Hellfire Club (1980) is an ancient club for the rich and hedonistic with Regency Era trappings that has branches all over the world, concealing the "Inner Circle", a powerful and influential criminal organization that has played a prominent role in various story lines since its introduction during the Dark Phoenix Saga.
Neil Gaiman named a debauched bar in the underworld "The Hellfire Club" in his comic book series The Sandman (1989–1996).
The Hellfire Club and Dashwood play a role in the comic Hellblazer.
The Hellfire club is features in at least two numbers of Italian comic book series Martin Mystère.
Drama
The 2001 audio play Minuet in Hell features the Hellfire Club led by a descendant of Sir Francis Dashwood.
Film
The 1960 film The Hellfire Club starring Keith Michell and Peter Cushing depicts Dashwood's organisation.
The 2002 film Demonlover features a website called Hellfire Club, an interactive torture site on the dark web which broadcasts sadomasochism live.
In the 2011 film X-Men: First Class, the Hellfire Club is infiltrated by CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) suspecting communist activity. Once inside, she discovers that U.S. Army Colonel Hendry is colluding with Sebastian Shaw to turn the Cuban Missile Crisis into a full-scale nuclear war.
The 1999 Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut includes a scene strongly resembling a Hellfire Club, in which masked members of societal elite participate in rituals including chants, while engaging in orgy-like sexual activities.
Television
The Avengers episode "A Touch of Brimstone" (1966) had Steed and Mrs. Peel infiltrate a modern incarnation of the club whose pranks were expanding to destroy the government.
The Blackadder the Third episode "Ink & Incapability" (1987) begins with a scene in which the Prince Regent mentions having drunk at the "naughty Hellfire Club" the previous night.
The Hellfire Club makes an appearance in "Deliverance", a 2014 episode of the TV show Sleepy Hollow.
In the Gotham episode "The Blind Fortune Teller" (2015), the Hellfire Club is said to be a "Satanist cult that committed a string of ritual murders."
The Hellfire Club is investigated on Season 6, Episode 8 of Ghost Adventures, a television show on the Travel Channel that investigates paranormal hotspots.
The first chapter of the fourth season of the Netflix original series Stranger Things is titled "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club". The Dungeons and Dragons club that the character Eddie Munson runs is named "The Hellfire Club".
A 19th century version of the Hellfire Club is revealed to be the overarching villains in the first season of the Irish-Canadian TV series Dead Still.
Music
Hellfire Club, released on 6 April 2004, is the sixth album by German power metal band Edguy.[51]
In 2011, rapper Nocando founded the record label Hellfyre Club. On EP Catcher of the Fade, the label's rappers made reference to Dashwood.[52]
The 2020 album by thrash metal band Gama Bomb references the Hellfire Club in the song "Lords of the Hellfire Club".
The Electric Hellfire Club was an American industrial metal band mixing elements of glam metal, techno, gothic rock, and psychedelia. The band's lyrics contain tongue-in-cheek references to sin, violence, sex, devil worship, and similar themes. The band also made use of sampling, mainly from low-budget horror films.
The Hellfire Club could be a place for characters like Tony Stark to confront their darker sides, and highlight the small good remaining in villains like Kingpin. It could be the perfect showcase for morally flexible figures like Emma Frost, heroes with a willingness to do hard things for the greater good. The club could serve as a unifying presence across the Marvel Universe, allowing it to become a place for crossovers to flourish. It could even become the ultimate peaceful meeting place for the heroes and villains alike, a setting where character dynamics and bargains are more powerful than super-strength or laser eyes. The concept of the Hellfire Club becoming more of a morally flexible Marvel staple instead of a consistent X-Men threat is exciting and deserves to continue even after their current mission resolves.
Down the rabbit hole I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich the Earl of Sandwich. Sandwich is a word used all over the world correct? who is this guy? He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge,[3] and spent some time travelling, initially going on the Grand Tour around Continental Europe before visiting the more unusual destinations of Greece, Turkey, and Egypt which were then part of the Ottoman Empire.[4] This led him later to found a number of Orientalist societies.[5 Sandwich was also made ambassador to the Dutch Republic during the talks. Using the resources of the British secret service, Sandwich was able to outmanoeuvre his French counterpart by intercepting the latter's secret correspondence.[11] His service at Breda drew him to the attention of the influential Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who lobbied for him to be given high office when he returned home. The modern sandwich is named after Lord Sandwich, but the exact circumstances of its invention and original use are still the subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporaneous travel book called Tour to London by Pierre-Jean Grosley formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained Lord Sandwich at the gambling table[29] but Sandwich had many bad habits, including the Hellfire Club, and any story may be a creation after the fact.[30] Black Masses became attached to the club, beginning in the late Nineteenth Century when human sacrifices became part of the rituals. Once an individual willingly or unwillingly participated in a murder, his initiation was complete. He was now a member for life in Hellfire Societe and each additional heinous and depraved act sucked him deeper into the pit, never to escape. While members were afforded wealth and privilege that few in this world would ever experience, it came with a steep price… the individual’s soul. The power and wealth of these clubs became massive as they continued to acquire businesses and corporations all over the world. The traditions were handed down from generation to generation and history documented their involvement.
The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in Richmond to determine secession from the United States. John C. Breckenridge, John Janney, Henry Lewis Benning, Jeremiah Morton and John Smith Preston were all in favor of secession. It was no coincidence that they were all members of the Hellfire Socialite and civil war was their primary intention.
Let me grasp this, https://www.thelanesarmoury.co.uk/shop.php?code=20870 A Parish history from 1925 stated that members included "Frederick, Prince of Wales, the Duke of Queensberry, the Earl of Bute, Lord Melcombe, Sir William Stanhope, K.B, Sir John Dashwood-King, bart., Sir Francis Delaval, K.B., Sir John Vanluttan, kt., Henry Vansittart, afterwards Governor of Bengal, (and Paul Whitchead the poet". Meetings occurred twice a month, with an AGM lasting a week or more in June or September. The members addressed each other as "Brothers" and the leader, which changed regularly, as "Abbot". During meetings members supposedly wore ritual clothing: white trousers, jacket and cap, while the "Abbot" wore a red ensemble of the same style. Legends of Black Masses and Satan or demon worship have subsequently become attached to the club, beginning in the late Nineteenth Century. Rumours saw female "guests" (a euphemism for prostitutes) referred to as "Nuns". Dashwood's Club meetings often included mock rituals, items of a pornographic nature, much drinking, wenching and banqueting. It has a cast bronze polished pistol-grip style hilt, decorated with relief rococo swags beneath a relief face of a demonic type beast on both sides, upon the offset pommel, each surmounted with the demons face, with its mouth open, the pommel also bears a grotesque face. It is terminated with a most unusual form of downswept, inverted cruciform quillon cross guard.
Ok so down the Hellfire rabbit hole https://www.thevistapress.com/hellfire-societe-thomas-calabrese/ we find them destroying the Hearst empire with the help of the D. Rockefeller, J. Paul Getty, Andrew Carnegie, Leland Stanford, Henry Ford, Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. Pierpoint Morgan. usual suspects. But he was saved (temporarily) by The Warriors of the Six Spears were King Leonidas of Sparta personal bodyguards or their descendants in some way, who were the enemies of the Hellfire Club. then In the 1950’s, Hellfire Societe member Congressman Joseph McCarthy used the strategy of accusing people of despicable criminal behavior and treasonous activity of which he was the greatest offender. McCarthy became the most visible public face in a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of Communist subversion. He alleged that numerous Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities and film industry. His reckless demagogic and unsubstantiated accusations destroyed numerous lives and ripped our country apart.
The ‘Warriors of the Six Spears convinced select Senate members to condemn McCarthy on December 2, 1954. After his censure, McCarthy continued his senatorial duties for another two and a half years, but his career as a major public figure had been unmistakably ruined. His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or were received with conspicuous displays of inattention. The press that had once recorded his every public statement now ignored him, and outside speaking engagements dwindled to almost nothing. McCarthy had always been a heavy drinker, but after the censure he drank more than ever. When he was not drunk on whiskey, he was on the ‘so called wagon,’ which meant he indulged heavily on beer and morphine. McCarthy died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. His death certificate listed the cause of death as ‘Hepatitis, acute, cause unknown.’ Only members of the ‘Warriors of the Six Spears’ knew that he died from an overdose of alcohol and narcotics while alone one evening in his home.
After digging around this hellfire club, Illuminati secret society story pop culture starts to jumo into scene
Comics
In the Marvel Comics comic book series The X-Men, the Hellfire Club (1980) is an ancient club for the rich and hedonistic with Regency Era trappings that has branches all over the world, concealing the "Inner Circle", a powerful and influential criminal organization that has played a prominent role in various story lines since its introduction during the Dark Phoenix Saga. Neil Gaiman named a debauched bar in the underworld "The Hellfire Club" in his comic book series The Sandman (1989–1996). The Hellfire Club and Dashwood play a role in the comic Hellblazer. The Hellfire club is features in at least two numbers of Italian comic book series Martin Mystère. Drama
The 2001 audio play Minuet in Hell features the Hellfire Club led by a descendant of Sir Francis Dashwood. Film
The 1960 film The Hellfire Club starring Keith Michell and Peter Cushing depicts Dashwood's organisation. The 2002 film Demonlover features a website called Hellfire Club, an interactive torture site on the dark web which broadcasts sadomasochism live. In the 2011 film X-Men: First Class, the Hellfire Club is infiltrated by CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) suspecting communist activity. Once inside, she discovers that U.S. Army Colonel Hendry is colluding with Sebastian Shaw to turn the Cuban Missile Crisis into a full-scale nuclear war. The 1999 Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut includes a scene strongly resembling a Hellfire Club, in which masked members of societal elite participate in rituals including chants, while engaging in orgy-like sexual activities. Television
The Avengers episode "A Touch of Brimstone" (1966) had Steed and Mrs. Peel infiltrate a modern incarnation of the club whose pranks were expanding to destroy the government. The Blackadder the Third episode "Ink & Incapability" (1987) begins with a scene in which the Prince Regent mentions having drunk at the "naughty Hellfire Club" the previous night. The Hellfire Club makes an appearance in "Deliverance", a 2014 episode of the TV show Sleepy Hollow. In the Gotham episode "The Blind Fortune Teller" (2015), the Hellfire Club is said to be a "Satanist cult that committed a string of ritual murders." The Hellfire Club is investigated on Season 6, Episode 8 of Ghost Adventures, a television show on the Travel Channel that investigates paranormal hotspots. The first chapter of the fourth season of the Netflix original series Stranger Things is titled "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club". The Dungeons and Dragons club that the character Eddie Munson runs is named "The Hellfire Club". A 19th century version of the Hellfire Club is revealed to be the overarching villains in the first season of the Irish-Canadian TV series Dead Still. Music
Hellfire Club, released on 6 April 2004, is the sixth album by German power metal band Edguy.[51] In 2011, rapper Nocando founded the record label Hellfyre Club. On EP Catcher of the Fade, the label's rappers made reference to Dashwood.[52] The 2020 album by thrash metal band Gama Bomb references the Hellfire Club in the song "Lords of the Hellfire Club". The Electric Hellfire Club was an American industrial metal band mixing elements of glam metal, techno, gothic rock, and psychedelia. The band's lyrics contain tongue-in-cheek references to sin, violence, sex, devil worship, and similar themes. The band also made use of sampling, mainly from low-budget horror films.
The Hellfire Club could be a place for characters like Tony Stark to confront their darker sides, and highlight the small good remaining in villains like Kingpin. It could be the perfect showcase for morally flexible figures like Emma Frost, heroes with a willingness to do hard things for the greater good. The club could serve as a unifying presence across the Marvel Universe, allowing it to become a place for crossovers to flourish. It could even become the ultimate peaceful meeting place for the heroes and villains alike, a setting where character dynamics and bargains are more powerful than super-strength or laser eyes. The concept of the Hellfire Club becoming more of a morally flexible Marvel staple instead of a consistent X-Men threat is exciting and deserves to continue even after their current mission resolves.
https://www.cbr.com/xmen-hellfire-club-remix-new-illuminati-marvel-comics/
Purportedly, Ben Franklin attended the club when he was in Europe.