Synarchy

Government by secret societies, proposed openly by Saint-Yves d'Alveydre. The proposal, theorists note, reads like a memo that was accepted.

Saint-Yves d'Alveydre proposed 'synarchy' (1880s) — rule by initiated elites across finance, religion, and state — as an ideal; a 'Synarchist Pact' allegedly circulated in Vichy France, investigated in the documented 'Rapport Chavin' (1941), with historians divided on whether an actual movement existed or the report chased a phantom. The node holds the term's double life: a published occult political program, and a wartime French government literally investigating whether it was being run by one.