The Bohemian Club members
| “ | Weaving Spiders Come Not Here. | „ |
| ~ The Bohemian Club's motto |
The Bohemian Club is a private and aristocratic secret society that is believed to worship Moloch. It is considered to be the most powerful secret society in the world and is revealed to be part of the Illuminati.
Overview[]
Founded in 1872 from a regular meeting of journalists, artists, and musicians, it soon began to accept and recruit some of the most influential businessmen and entrepreneurs as permanent members, as well as offering temporary membership to university presidents (notably Berkeley and Stanford) and military commanders who were serving in the San Francisco Bay Area. Even Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, was implied to be a member of the Bohemian Club.
The Bohemian Club was absorbed into the Illuminati alongside the Brujería and together they are known as the Judeccian Triad that oversees the world and its systems or operations. To carry out their interests, they employ a breed of highly-trained assassins known as Talons. With the dismantling of the Illuminati after the Apocalypse and the destruction of the Brujería after the American Gothic event, the Bohemian Club is the last of the triad that stands.
The Bohemian Club and Moloch were involved in the forceful acquisition of one humanoid girl named Meri who is in fact a child of Spawn and Gaia. The Bohemian Club wanted to use Meri's power to force society to regress back to prehistoric times, ridding the world of modern technology and man-made creations allowing them to have absolute control over civilization as a whole. Moloch saw this as a means to have humanity worship him as their new god.
Description[]
Ceremony[]
Every year, the club hosts a two-week-long (three weekends) camp at Bohemian Grove, which is notable for its illustrious guest list and its eclectic Cremation of Care ceremony which mockingly burns "care" (the normal virtues of life) for Moloch with grand pageantry, pyrotechnics, and brilliant costumes, all done at the edge of a lake and at the base of a forty-foot "stone" owl statue (actually made of concrete).
In addition to that ceremony, devised by co-founder James F. Bowman in 1881, there are also two outdoor performances (dramatic and comedic plays), often with elaborate set design and orchestral accompaniment. The more elaborate of the two is the Grove Play, or High Jinks; the more ribald is called Low Jinks. More often than not, the productions are original creations of the Associate members, but active participation of hundreds of members of all backgrounds is traditional.
Membership[]
A number of past membership lists are in public domain, but modern club membership lists are private. Some prominent figures have been given honorary membership, such as Richard Nixon and William Randolph Hearst. Members have included some U.S. presidents (usually before they are elected to office), many cabinet officials, and CEOs of large corporations, including major financial institutions. Major military contractors, oil companies, banks (including the Federal Reserve), utilities, and national media have high-ranking officials as club members or guests.
Many members are, or have been, on the board of directors of several of these corporations; however, artists and lovers of art are among the most active members. The club's bylaws require ten percent of the membership be accomplished artists of all types (composers, musicians, singers, actors, lighting artists, painters, authors, etc.). Due to their worship of a monolithic carving of an owl, all the members of the club wear a porcelain owl mask that completely covers their faces. The Talons, which were humans once sacrificed in the Bohemian Grove and given extraordinary physical abilities, are mutated and appear to actually be human/owl hybrids.