PowerCosmosAll-Seeing Eye
All-Seeing Eye
Also called: Eye of Providence
A Western Christian icon of an eye ringed by rays, representing God's omniscience.In this narrative, it is a surveillance signal carved by a secret society, and a trace of the body's own inner eye.
Established facts
The all-seeing eye is an eye-and-rays icon from the Western Christian art tradition known as the "Eye of Providence." The Great Seal of the United States (adopted 1782) shows this eye above an unfinished pyramid.The design appeared on the back of the one-dollar bill in 1935, under President Franklin Roosevelt.The pyramid's 13 courses stand for the 13 states at independence.Freemasonry also uses the "Eye of Providence" as a symbol of God's omniscience.The actual symbol of the Bavarian Illuminati of 1776 was not an eye but the "Owl of Minerva."
In this narrativeThe eye on the dollar bill
The all-seeing eye and pyramid on the Great Seal were placed there by the founders in 17821.It is said to have meant "God watches over the new republic"1.The design did not appear on currency until 1935, during Roosevelt's New Deal era1.This picture inverts that timeline and reads the all-seeing eye as a signal a secret society smuggled in.The order in which the design entered circulation matters less here than the eye shape itself as evidence.
In this narrativeGod, or Satan
33rd-degree Freemason Manly P.Hall wrote that the all-seeing eye symbolizes God1.One branch of this picture flips that line into evidence of Satan worship1.It treats the idea that a person can become divine by realizing spiritual truth as pride1.The symbol also turns up mixed into Netflix shows and K-pop1.Here the source branches further, from Freemasonry and New Age thought toward a Jewish-conspiracy reading1.This site does not follow that branch.
In this narrativeThe real symbol was an owl
A Namu Wiki rebuttal article points out that the all-seeing eye was never actually the Illuminati's symbol1.The real emblem of the 1776 Bavarian Illuminati was the "Owl of Minerva"1.It also notes that HAARP was already shut down back in 20141.Even so, online writing keeps stitching a single eye shape to international institutions and pop culture at large.Once the symbol is corrected, the eye-shape story keeps spreading anyway.
In this narrativeThe pineal gland as archetype
Another branch of this picture holds that the all-seeing eye originally drew an organ of the body.The Egyptian Eye of Horus is a side-view drawing of the pineal gland and pituitary gland1.Under that reading, the eye on the dollar bill is not a government symbol but a body symbol.The two branches explain the same icon in opposite directions.
Connected concepts
- Pineal Gland →The all-seeing eye is the Eye of Horus, and the Eye of Horus is the pineal gland.One symbol folds back into a body story.
- Freemasonry →The all-seeing eye is the "Eye of Providence" motif Freemasonry uses.One symbol connects to the secret society.
- Illuminati →Online writing treats the all-seeing eye as the Illuminati's symbol.The eye has taken the place of the real symbol, the owl.
- New World Order →The image of a watching eye extends into the imagined single world government watching over everyone.