Ewige Blumenkraft

Since "flower power" is a modern concept advanced by hippies, it is likely that Shea and Wilson intended this as a joke, although, characteristically, they never say so.

They attribute the disclosure of this slogan to an article by Shea written under the pseudonym "Sandra Glass" in the magazine TeenSet for March 1969.

Another possibility is that the rose and lotus flower are an important symbol of spiritual development in both the western and eastern mystery schools.

quotes Glass as claiming that the phrase figured in an incident involving Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

cites Simon Moon—a fictional character from Illuminatus!, as well as one of Robert Anton Wilson's pen names—as the source of its background information on the Illuminati.