THEY PROMISE YOU SECRET POWER.
THEY SELL YOU EXPENSIVE COURSES.
This public warning is about Dragan Tojagić, Velika loža Nikola Tesla, Akademija tajnih društava and the International Esoteric Academy. Secret societies, irregular lodges and fake chivalric orders are offered here as power, and charged for as a course and a pyramid scheme.
How self-proclaimed “Grand Masters” draw people into pyramid schemes, charge for invented initiations and — once the scam is exposed — disguise it all as the “International Esoteric Academy”.
Anatomy of an illusion
Mysticism and “secret knowledge” on the outside — a bare pyramid for taking money on the inside
Welcome to a world where the human need to belong, to have power and to feel exclusive is turned into a profitable business. Scratch the surface of pompous titles, mystic symbols and promises of ancient secrets, and what remains is not enlightenment. It is a cold, calculated extraction of money. This text lays out the exact mechanism by which manipulators use the veil of “secret societies” to build a classic pyramid fraud.
The bait: an illusion of exclusivity
It begins with a carefully built illusion. Manipulators know that an ordinary person really knows little about actual secret societies, Freemasonry or esotericism. That knowledge comes down to pop culture, films and conspiracy theories. The fraudster uses this. He presents himself as a “Grand Master” or a keeper of secrets, and offers the candidate entry into a “chosen circle” of powerful people. The candidate believes that status will bring business connections, protection and access to ancient wisdom.
The extraction mechanism: “This is not an expense, this is an investment”
Once the candidate swallows the hook, the financial draining begins. Entry into the fake lodge or organization is never free. Manipulators are skilled rhetoricians — they never say you must “pay” for something. They use the language of personal growth: “This is an investment in your future”, “You are investing in a brotherhood that will return it to you many times over”.
Everything is charged for: initiation, fake diplomas, aprons, swords and medals, and then the regular monthly “dues” and compulsory donations for fictitious charity drives. As the candidate advances through invented degrees, the “investments” grow.
Buying time: mysticism as a screen
While the candidate hands over money, what does he get back? Theatrical rituals full of smoke and mirrors, and “secret knowledge” that is really badly copied text from Wikipedia and esoteric forums. The manipulator deliberately drags the process out. Mysticism serves only to buy time. They assure the candidate that he is “not ready yet” for the real secrets and must show greater loyalty (read: hand over more money). By the time the candidate connects the dots, understands the mechanism and sees that behind the curtain there is nothing but emptiness, his money is long gone, and the promised business and spiritual success never arrived. He realizes he is at the bottom of a pyramid whose only purpose is to finance the top.
The top of that pyramid has a name in this warning: Visoko Belo Bratstvo (VBS). The story of who stands at the top, and who finances the floors below, is told in the clip @veliki.majstor on TikTok.
The wall of silence: why do the victims stay quiet?
Here we reach the most insidious part of the scam — the psychology of shame. Manipulators count on the defrauded not going to the police and not speaking in public. When the candidate realizes he has been taken in, the first emotion is not only anger. It is enormous shame.
An inner monologue runs in his head: “They fooled me like a child. I thought I was entering high society, and in fact they robbed me. Better to stay quiet and swallow my pride. If I tell this, society, friends and family will laugh at me and mock me for being naive.”
It is time for it to be heard
That shame and that silence are the manipulator’s main shield. Because of that silence, the fraudsters go on recruiting new “investors” and building their financial pyramids on other people’s delusions. Breaking the illusion is therefore essential. There is no shame in being deceived by a professional manipulator. The shame is in letting them keep doing it to others.
This mechanism has to be brought into the daylight. The truth is the only poison for fake mysticism. It is time to speak, to share what happened, and to say it plainly: behind these closed doors there is no Solomonic knowledge, only an ordinary, banal fraud. It needs to be heard.
