--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sounds to me as if several people are buying into
> the pre-publication memes being spread by Dan Brown's
> publicists to pave the way for his next best seller. :-)
To follow up, here's some information from Wikipedia.
I just think it's hilarious that people like some of
the folks who are so full of fear on this group are
working themselves up into a full-fledged obsession
based on the work of *publicists* who are spreading
memes to hype the sales of an upcoming book. :-)
"The Solomon Key" is the working title of a unreleased novel
currently being worked on by Dan Brown. According to current
information, "The Solomon Key" will be the third book involving
Robert Langdon, the fictional Harvard University professor,
and will likely take place after the events of "Angels and
Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code." No publication date has yet
been set.
Likely content
There have been a number of educated guesses regarding the content
of "The Solomon Key." While Dan Brown has offered some hints in
interviews, in large part most ideas to the likely content of the
upcoming book come from a marketing strategy used by Brown and his
publishers. On the original jacket cover of "The Da Vinci Code"
were a number of ciphers and symbols, the meaning of which was
made clear when a web quest was posted on Dan Brown's website
that referenced these clues. This competition made clear that the
ciphers referenced the content of the next book from Dan Brown:
"Disguised on the jacket of The Da Vinci Code, numerous encrypted
messages hint at the subject matter of Dan Brown's next book"
>From these clues, it seems that the following will play a part in
the novel:
* The fraternity that is known as Freemasonry
* The Masonic membership of 20 of the 56 Founding Fathers
* The semi-esoteric architecture of Washington, D.C.
* Solomon Kullback, a famous NSA cryptographer
* Robert Langdon as the protagonist
* A look into the history of the United States (this has
since been confirmed by Brown).
It is reported that the book will reference controversial subjects
such as the deist viewpoints of some of the Founding Fathers and
the Skull and Bones secret society. KSL-TV in Salt Lake City ran
a story that in 2004, Dan Brown visited Salt Lake and seemed very
interested in the Masonic nature of the symbols carved on the
outside of the LDS Temple. This relationship, among others, between
Freemasonry and Mormonism may play a role in "The Solomon Key."
Further research into the ciphers left on the dust jacket of "The
Da Vinci Code," and also into Brown's previous sources of information,
suggest that the following are also possible plot devices in "The
Solomon Key":
* The Kryptos sculpture in the complex of the Central Intelligence
Agency in Langley, Virginia (the web quest mentions it by name)
* The Mona Lisa's "right eye" (oeil droit in the web quest),
possibly mixed with esoteric connections to the Eye of Horus (udjat)
and the portrayal of George Washington on the U.S. dollar bill.
* The Great Seal of the United States, which some claim contains
the Illuminati symbol of an eye above an unfinished pyramid.
* The Information Awareness Office, which has as part of its logo
the eye and pyramid mentioned above.
* The House of the Temple, a masonic temple in Washington, D.C.
* The Society of the Cincinnati, a group formed by officers of
the American Revolution who idolized Cincinnatus which (to the alarm
of Thomas Jefferson) mutated into a hereditary support system for
families of the society. At the time, it was widely criticized as
a way of setting up a hereditary nobility in America.
> --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@>
> 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
> >
>
