--- 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. :-) > >
Most of what I said are scholarly facts, and can be easily checked OffWorld > --- 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 > > >
