Look at Marat's death mask and you'll see the answer.

And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. Revelation 17:5

Let us study history with the Bible as the first and last filter, and in doing so, uncover not only the physical MYSTERY religions of the world, but the mindset of the mysteries written on the forehead.

Let us begin with freemasonry, see their connection with the woman, find which other groups are connected in their web, discover what the ideological thread binding them together is, and see who the spider, which slowly but surely ensnares the world in this very same web, is.

Albert Pike, former elder and leader of freemasonry, says the following in the guidebook to freemasonry, his book, "Morals and Dogma":

Masonry, like all the religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those who are unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it. So masonry jealously conceals its secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray.

The MYSTERY religions, branded under different signs, symbols, and colours, are delivering a mindset, which they call truth and light, to the world. As we just read, this mindset is one ensconced in deceit. Pike admits, in his own words, what the higher degrees of freemasonry jealously guard as their light:

Strange and mysterious name given to the spirit of darkness! Lucifer, the son of the morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!

Having an idea of the contents within their package, let us first discover the outward adornments, the branding and advertisements, which may change as the colours of a chameleon, but beneath this variable appearance lies the invariable venom of the serpent.

Richard Levy in "Antisemitism: A historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution says":

The Jacobins currently terrorizing France, Barruel argued in his preface, could not have appeared out of thin air...The principal authors of the conspiracy, he claimed, were Voltaire, Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert, and King Frederick of Prussia, who had secretly planned to destroy Christianity...These “sophists” had formed an alliance with the Freemasons, whose antireligious conspirital origins Barruel traced back to the medieval Knights Templars. The final and most utterly evil group in this triple conspiracy, however, were the Bavarian Illuminati, under their satanic leader Adam Weishaupt. Jacobinism had emerged out of the union of these three groups.

Jacobinism, under its founder Adam Weishaupt, a Jesuit doctor of papal canon laws at Ingolstadt University in Bavaria, adopted the Phrygian cap (!! read about the black obelisk of Jehu and Shalmaneser III, about Mithraism, about roman liberti) and became the driving force of the French Revolution. The Illuminati Order was preceded in the 1500’s in Spain by the Alumbrados, started by a group called the Marranos.

The founder of the Jesuit Order, Ignatius of Loyola, was a Marrano. Freemasonry, who Pike traces to the Knights Templars, are associated not only with royalty, but with the founding of the Illuminati, Jacobinism, and Jesuitism. What do the Jesuits represent? Will we discover that they, too, "jealously conceals [their] secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray"?

In the center of Rome, at the very heart of the beast, is the mother church of the Jesuits. Dedicated to Ignatius Loyola and pictured in the Church of the Gesù, is this statue of a woman armed with the lightning of Zeus in her hand, striking at Protestants. In an inscription in the Temple of Pergamos, housing the seat of Satan (Revelation 2:13), where the Babylonian Priesthood carried the title of Pontifex Maximus before conferring it to Rome on the 25th of December, is a description of Zeus, another name in Satanic worship, as their saviour. Not pictured but on the opposite side of this statue is a woman holding a golden cup in her hand, just as in St. Peter’s, just as with the woman atop the beast (Revelation 17:4). Next Door to the Chiesa is the Supreme Counsel of the Masonic Lodge of Italy. Signed with triple dots after each letter of the RSAA "Supremo Consiglio Giurisdiozone Massonica Italiana" is the signature of the jesuits in their connection with masonry.

The jesuits are not only the heart of roman catholicism, and the school masters of the world, but along with all other secret societies, are the veins through which the blood of Satanic doctrine flows. After WWII, when studying the formation and documents of the UN, their doctrine is completely Satanic in origin. Blavatsky and theosophy, with Alice A. Bailey as her protege, in an open alliance with jesuitism, masonry, rome, and the ilk, are the under writers of the united nations doctrines, and therefore are the under writers of the world's curriculum.

With the jesuits, freemasons, knights templars, knights of malta, druidic orders, theosophists, new agers, spiritualists, charismatic movement, eastern mysticism, etc. all as the harlot daughters dispensing the wine, the doctrine, of the woman riding the beast, let us have Albert Pike tell us about the purpose and formation of communism through three supposed letters written to Italian politician Giuseppe Mazzini, 1871:

The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia, and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the “agentur” of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.

The political alliances of England on one side, and Germany on the other, forged between 1871 and 1898 by Otto von Bismarck, co-conspirator of Albert Pike, were instrumental in bringing about the First World War. This conspiracy reaches the highest levels of governments around the world.

The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed, and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.

Nazism and Zionism were not publicly known terms in 1871, but both movements were created by the Weishaupt Illuminati, co-conspirators of Masonry who first coined the word communism, and its ideology, four years prior to its teaching. After WWII, at the Potsdam Conference with Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, a large portion of Europe was simply handed over to Communist Russia, while the aftermath of the war with Japan swept the tide of Communism into China.

The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the 'agentur' of the 'Illuminati' between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion. We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.

Communism is a tool used in Hegelianism in order to control the mind. But what is Hegelianism, or the Hegelian Dialectic? Let us have a Hegelian publisher in the modern education system, John Dewey, reveal the function of the dialectic in his book “German philosophy and politics”, saying:

War is explicit realization of ‘dialectic,’ of the negation by which a higher synthesis of reason is assured. It effectively displays the ‘irony of the divine Idea.’ It is to national life what the winds are to the sea, ‘preserving mankind from the corruption engendered by immobility.’ War is the most effective preacher of the vanity of all merely finite interests; it puts an end to that selfish egoism of the individual by which he would claim his life and his property as his own or as his family's.

In other words, the Hegelian Dialectic leads to war, which produces enough pain and hardship to create the ultimate synthesis of ideas, a wanting of peace and “normalcy” no matter the personal cost. The hegelian dialectic is used to put an end to all individuality, to destroy freedom of conscious, by creating the conditions to establish a world under the roman catholic “common good”.

Conflict between thesis and antithesis brings about a synthesis, a new historical situation, which is according to the direction of the ones pulling the strings behind the curtains. In karl marx’s ‘Das Kapital’, capitalism is posed as the thesis, with communism as the antithesis.”

When we take a look at the history of Marxism in Russia, and Nazism in Germany, we find that the two ideologies, the two players in this Hegelian agenda, were funded by the same people from the west. Every single political or administrative decision around the world is controlled in order to maintain the hegelian dialectic. Once the proper circumstances for synthesis are in place, the dialectic between political “right” and political “left” ceases, and a synthesis of the two takes its place.

This is a battle for the minds. Each of these groups pushes mindset to the world. Whether Jew or Greek, Roman Catholic or American, Hindu or Buddhist, Atheist or New-Ager, the three lies of the serpent are the uniting banner for each and every group of the world. Read the beliefs of any system of the world and we will find that in any of these groups, and yes this includes the Christianity of the world and the Judaism of the world, that the teachings of Satan are the uniting banner, the hegelian synthesis.

But there is another rallying call being made: while the world unites in battle against the risen Word, God Himself, there is a call to come out and be separate:

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Revelation 18:4-5

Two wonderful series to go through this history under the lens which only the Bible provides, are as follows: https://archive.org/details/walter-veith-total-onslaught-series https://archive.org/details/rekindling-the-reformation-walter-veith-series.

The Great Controversy is also a must-read to better understand this conflict in its entirety.