It is an interesting history. But is it well established in peer-reviewed journals -- with a broad consensus of historians supporting this history?
--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <peterklutz@> > wrote: > > > > > > 11:11? > > > > Is this grid idea a freemasonic / Illuminati attempt to reinforce > some > > satanist ritual they plan to enact at these times?>> > > Heh heh. > 11.11 GMT would be 5.11am on God's Longitude, which runs right > through Washington DC. 5.11 seems to have no significance, because > George Washington, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and others were > all FreeMasons (and Jefferson was as good as - he idolized Sir > Francis Bacon of Elizabethan times, who was the founder of the > Rosicrutians, a Masonic offshoot). George Washington was inaugurated > as President of US by the Freemason Grand Master of New York city. > He read a Masonic oath when he was inaugurated. These founders made > a deliberate and calculated decision about where exactly DC would be > built. Washington DC lines up in a straight line with the other 4 > other cities of the Revolutionary period in the North East: Boston, > Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York. If you follow that line through > the 5 cities, around the globe, it creates a great circle which goes > EXACTLY through Stonehenge in England. > > Coincidence? Maybe, but bear in mind that Jefferson et al, > practically idolized Francis Bacon (for good reasons), and Bacon had > conspired with Sir Walter Raleigh to set up the "New Atlantis", as > the Masons called their ideal world (based on knowledge and equality > supposedlyÂ…and also architectural and Earth-Leyline principles). It > is almost certain that the pragmatist, anti-papist, and rationalist, > Queen Elizabeth I, was involved, because Bacon was her close > confidant and friend (most of the time) and she encouraged his work. > Bacon worked with Dr. John Dee a mathematician/scientist who > believed in the significance of "God's Longitude", (at 77 degrees > West of Greenwich). Dee was also a close consultant to Queen > Elizabeth I, and worked closely with her on many projects. Dr. Dee > immersed himself intensely in Hermetic Gnosticism (which is a direct > ancestor of Freemasonry, and was an ancient Jewish esoteric > tradition completely imbibed in the ancient Judaic knowledge and > practices that go back to the Egyptians.), and, along with Bacon and > Raleigh, set about to "capture" the Masonic/Gnostic Holy grail of > God's Longitude" at 77 degrees West of Greenwich (where Washington > DC was built) > > Bacon helped fund Raleigh's expedition through his Rosicrutian > order, (which I believe was based in the Grand Lodge of the Masons > for England at the time, but need to check that). Raleigh's > expedition, (not long after the fundamentalist Puritans landed at > Plymouth Rock because their form of fundamentalist extremism - "If > you're not with us, you're against us" - would not be tolerated in > England under Elizabeth I ) is said to have failed, but the Masonic > principle of setting up the New Atlantis continued to be perpetrated > successfully. > > Interestingly, the anti-slave owning British had protected the > British colonies in America from the intolerant papist regimes, of > France and Spain, and were war weary, when the Englishman George > Washington led the rich slave owning Founders, to win their > independence and right to own slaves (which fueled and served the > American economy well), but what is interesting is the French > participants who became Masons, and fought for US, the main ones > being the general Lafayette, and Washington's gunpowder maker, > Dupont. Dupont had left France because since France had been > weakened by their defeat by the British, their ill-regarded > aristocracy was under pressure from the people, and the French > version of the Freemasons. Dupont was associated with aristocracy so > he left France just in time, when aristocrats were getting their > heads chopped off. The main Masonic lodge in Washington DC today is > called the Lafayette-Dupont Grande Masonic Lodge. Later, the > purported Freemason Napolean, tried to take over Europe and crown > himself Emporer, but he was defeated by the British. However, the > cousin of the current Queen of England is the Duke of Kent and he is > the figurehead for the British Freemason society, and QE II's > husband is apparently a freemason. GW Bush and others were part of a > sub-group of the Masonic order (of which there are many sub-groups), > called the Skull and Bones, and on the 400th anniversary the Puritan > extremists landing at Plymouth rock the Queen came to check on > things. :-) > > The Founders of the US, after the papist regimes of France and > Spain, helped them defeat the British, then set about creating a > political system that was much like the British one that already > existed. Many Americans today seem to think they defeated a King, > King George, but Britain had a so-called "Republic" system long > before the Revolutionary War. Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan, had > strengthened the land-owning gentry as a governing body and a > Republic, almost a century before the founding of the American > Republic, and had weakened the Royal power completely. By the time > of Englishman George Washington's win over the British Republic's > rule, the King (King George 4th) was a powerless figurehead. Then > the Founders of US created a system just like the British one > whereby only Landowners could vote, but no figurehead as such. The > difference was that Britain had outlawed slave ownership, but the > newly independent Americans kept that right for themselves. Apart > from that the political system was no different from the one that > had existed in Britain for 100 years or more at the time. A King was > not defeated, a Republic with a Parliament was defeated in Eastern > US (but nowhere else), by the intollerant Catholic regimes of France > and Spain in aid of the fledgling Republic british renegades in the > Americas > > There is more. Before WW II, there was a plot by rich industrialists > who supported Hitler (Bush's grandfather being one of them) to > conduct a military coup to overthrow the US Government and institute > a Fascist-like state. Some of the plotters appear to have links with > Freemasonry or at least ancestral links. It was a Quaker, Smedley > Butler, ( Quakers are somewhat like Buddhists in many ways, they > walked out of government en masse in Philidelphia, when the > government there refused to give citizen rights to, and end the > oppression of Native Americans ) who exposed the plot against > Roosevelt's government, but even though the government investigation > agreed with the claim by Butler, the charges were dropped. It is > said that Bush's grandfather was a member of the plotters and had > sent money to the emerging National Socialists (Hitler's Fascist > movement) in Germany. According to the Guardian newspaper in Britain" > > " The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files > in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a > director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism." > "His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets > were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led > more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought > in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at > Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy." > http://infowars.com/print/Bush/grandfather_helped_nazi.htm > > The founder of the Mormons was Freemason, and Mitt Romney is a > Mormon. Bush and Kerry were Skull and Bones brothers. Winston > Churchill was a FreeMason Grand Master, and GW Bush is related to > Churchill and to the British Royal Family. Weird huh? > > This is the tip of the iceberg of the strange history of > Freemasonry. I am not interested in this as a conspiracy theory, but > it is some fascinating history. > > OffWorld >
