AREA 51 ~ DREAMLAND ~ GROOM LAKE
BILDERBERG GROUP
BLACK HELICOPTERS
BLAVATSKY, HELENA PETROVNA
CROWLEY, ALEISTER
HAARP
HITLER
SPEAR OF DESTINY
THULE SOCIETY
MAJESTIC 12 ~ JASON SOCIETY
MEN IN BLACK
MONTAUK PROJECT
MYSTERY SCHOOLS - SECRET SOCIETIES
BLACK SUN - FEATHERED SUN
FREEMASONS
GOLDEN DAWN
HOLY GRAIL
ILLUMINATI
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
BAPHOMET
BLACK ISIS
MARY MAGDALENE
ORDER OF SKULL AND BONES
PRIEURE DE SION
ROSSLYN CHAPEL
SKULL OF SIDON - SKULL AND CROSSBONES
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
RENNES LE CHATEAU ~ THE MEROVIAN KINGS
ROSICRUCIANS
SACRED GEOMETRY
SWASTIKA
THOTH - HERMES TRISMEGISTUS
VRIL SOCIETY - DARK MATTER
PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
PROJECT SILVERBUG
ROSWELL
TRACKING ~ TAGGING PEOPLE ~ 666 MARK OF THE BEAST
UNDERGROUND FACILITIES ~ BASES ~ TUNNELS
The Order of Skull and Bones
The Secret Origins of Skull & Bones
The story begins at Yale, where three threads of American social history -- espionage,
drug smuggling and secret societies -- intertwine into one.
Elihu Yale was born near Boston, educated in London, and served with the British East
India Company, eventually becoming governor of Fort Saint George, Madras, in 1687.
He amassed a great fortune from trade and returned to England in 1699. Yale became
known as quite a philanthropist; upon receiving a request from the Collegiate School in
Connecticut, he sent a donation and a gift of books. After subsequent bequests, Cotton
Mather suggested the school be named Yale College, in 1718.
A statue of Nathan Hale stands on Old Campus at Yale University. There is a copy of that
statue in front of the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Yet another stands in front
of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (where George H.W. Bush ('48) went to
prep school and joined a secret society at age twelve).
Nathan Hale, along with three other Yale graduates, was a member of the "Culper Ring,"
one of America's first intelligence operations. Established by George Washington, it was
successful throughout the Revolutionary War. Nathan was the only operative to be
ferreted out by the British, and after speaking his famous regrets, he was hanged in 1776.
Ever since the founding of the Republic, the relationship between Yale and the
"Intelligence Community" has been unique.
In 1823, Samuel Russell established Russell and Company for the purpose of acquiring
opium in Turkey and smuggling it to China. Russell and Company merged with the
Perkins (Boston) syndicate in 1830 and became the primary American opium smuggler.
Many of the great American and European fortunes were built on the "China"(opium)
trade.
One of Russell and Company's Chief of Operations in Canton was Warren Delano, Jr.,
grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt. Other Russell partners included John Cleve Green
(who financed Princeton), Abiel Low (who financed construction of Columbia), Joseph
Coolidge and the Perkins, Sturgis and Forbes families. (Coolidge's son organized the
United Fruit company, and his grandson, Archibald C. Coolidge, was a co-founder of the
Council on Foreign Relations.)
William Huntington Russell ('33), Samuel's cousin, studied in Germany from 1831-32.
Germany was a hotbed of new ideas. The "scientific method" was being applied to all
forms of human endeavor. Prussia, which blamed the defeat of its forces by Napoleon in
1806 on soldiers only thinking about themselves in the stress of battle, took the principles
set forth by John Locke and Jean Rosseau and created a new educational system. Johan
Fitche, in his "Address to the German People," declared that the children would be taken
over by the State and told what to think and how to think it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel took over Fitche's chair at the University Of Berlin in
1817, and was a professor there until his death in 1831. Hegel was the culmination of the
German idealistic philosophy school of Immanuel Kant.
To Hegel, our world is a world of reason. The state is Absolute Reason and the citizen
can only become free by worship and obedience to the state. Hegel called the state the
"march of God in the world" and the "final end". This final end, Hegel said, "has supreme
right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the state." Both
fascism and communism have their philosophical roots in Hegellianism. Hegellian
philosophy was very much in vogue during William Russell's time in Germany.
When Russell returned to Yale in 1832, he formed a senior society with Alphonso Taft
('33). According to information acquired from a break-in to the "tomb" (the Skull and
Bones meeting hall) in 1876, "Bones is a chapter of a corps in a German University....
General Russell, its founder, was in Germany before his Senior Year and formed a warm
friendship with a leading member of a German society. He brought back with him to
college, authority to found a chapter here."
So class valedictorian William H. Russell, along with fourteen others, became the
founding members of "The Order of Scull and Bones," later changed to "The Order of
Skull and Bones".
The secretive Order of Skull and Bones exists only at Yale. Fifteen juniors are "tapped"
each year by the seniors to be initiated into next year's group. Some say each initiate is
given $15,000 and a grandfather clock. Far from being a campus fun-house, the group is
geared more toward the success of its members in the post-collegiate world.
The family names on the Skull and Bones roster roll off the tongue like an elite party list
-- Lord, Whitney, Taft, Jay, Bundy, Harriman, Weyerhaeuser, Pinchot, Rockefeller,
Goodyear, Sloane, Stimson, Phelps, Perkins, Pillsbury, Kellogg, Vanderbilt, Bush, Lovett
and so on.
William Russell went on to become a general and a state legislator in Connecticut.
Alphonso Taft was appointed U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of War (a post many
"Bonesmen" have held), Ambassador to Austria, and Ambassador to Russia (another post
held by many "Bonesmen"). His son, William Howard Taft ('87), is the only man to be
both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The Secrets of the Tomb
The Order flourished from the very beginning in spite of occasional squalls of
controversy. There was dissension from some professors, who didn't like its secrecy and
exclusiveness. And there was backlash from students, showing concern about the
influence "Bones" was having over Yale finances and the favoritism shown to
"Bonesmen."
In October of 1873, Volume 1, Number 1, of The Iconoclast was published in New
Haven. It was only published once and was one of very few openly published articles on
the Order of Skull and Bones.
From The Iconoclast
"We speak through a new publication. because the college press is closed to those
who dare to openly mention 'Bones'....
"Out of every class Skull and Bones takes its men. They have gone out into the
world and have become, in many instances, leaders in society. They have
obtained control of Yale. Its business is performed by them. Money paid to the
college must pass into their hands, and be subject to their will. No doubt they are
worthy men in themselves, but the many, whom they looked down upon while in
college, cannot so far forget as to give money freely into their hands. Men in Wall
Street complain that the college comes straight to them for help, instead of asking
each graduate for his share. The reason is found in a remark made by one of
Yale's and America's first men: 'Few will give but Bones men and they care far
more for their society than they do for the college....'
"Year by year the deadly evil is growing. The society was never as obnoxious to
the college as it is today, and it is just this ill-feeling that shuts the pockets of nonmembers. Never before has it shown such arrogance and self-fancied superiority.
It grasps the College Press and endeavors to rule it all. It does not deign to show
its credentials, but clutches at power with the silence of conscious guilt.
"To tell the good which Yale College has done would be well nigh impossible. To
tell the good she might do would be yet more difficult. The question, then, is
reduced to this -- on the one hand lies a source of incalculable good -- on the other
a society guilty of serious and far-reaching crimes. It is Yale College against Skull
and Bones!! We ask all men, as a question of right, which should be allowed to
live?"
At first, the society held its meetings in hired halls. Then in 1856, the "tomb", a vinecovered, windowless, brown-stone hall was constructed, where to this day the
"Bonesmen" hold their "strange, occultish" initiation rites and meet each Thursday and
Sunday.
On September 29, 1876, a group calling itself "The Order of File and Claw" broke into
the Skull and Bones' holy of holies. In the "tomb" they found lodge-room 324 "fitted up
in black velvet, even the walls being covered with the material." Upstairs was lodge-room
322, "the 'sanctum sanctorium' of the temple... furnished in red velvet" with a pentagram
on the wall. In the hall are "pictures of the founders of Bones at Yale, and of members of
the Society in Germany, when the chapter was established here in 1832." The raiding
party found another interesting scene in the parlor next to room 322.
From "The Fall Of Skull And Bones"
"On the west wall, hung among other pictures, an old engraving representing an
open burial vault, in which, on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped about
a fools cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar's
scrip, and a royal crown. On the arched wall above the vault are the explanatory
words, in Roman letters, 'We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, Wer Bettler Oder,
Kaiser?' and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; 'Ob
Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich."
The picture is accompanied by a card on which is written, 'From the German Chapter.
Presented by D. C. Gilman of D. 50'."
Daniel Coit Gilman ('52), along with two other "Bonesmen," formed a troika which still
influences American life today. Soon after their initiation in Skull and Bones, Daniel
Gilman, Timothy Dwight ('49) and Andrew Dickinson White ('53) went to study
philosophy in Europe at the University of Berlin. Gilman returned from Europe and
incorporated Skull and Bones as Russell Trust, in 1856, with himself as Treasurer and
William H. Russell as President. He spent the next fourteen years in New Haven
consolidating the order's power.
Gilman was appointed Librarian at Yale in 1858. Through shrewd political maneuvering,
he acquired funding for Yale's science departments (Sheffield Scientific School) and was
able to get the Morrill Land Bill introduced in Congress, passed and finally signed by
President Lincoln, after being vetoed by President Buchanan.
This bill, "donating public-lands for State College for agriculture and sciences", is now
known as the Land Grant College Act. Yale was the first school in America to get the
federal land scrip and quickly grabbed all of Connecticut's share at the time. Pleased by
the acquisitions, Yale made Gilman a Professor of Physical Geography.
Daniel was the first President of the University of California. He also helped found, and
was the first president of, John Hopkins.
Gilman was first president of the Carnegie Institution and involved in the founding of the
Peabody, Slater and Russell Sage Foundations.
His friend Andrew D. White, was the first president of Cornell University (which
received all of New York's share of the Land Grant College Act), U.S. Minister to Russia,
U.S. Ambassador to Berlin and first president of the American Historical Association.
White was also Chairman of the American delegation to the first Hague Conference in
1899, which established an international judiciary.
Timothy Dwight, a professor at Yale Divinity School, was installed as president of Yale
in 1886. All presidents since, have been either "Bonesmen" or directly tied to the Order
and its interests.
The Daniel/Gilman/White trio was also responsible for the founding of the American
Economic Association, the American Chemical Society and the American Psychological
Association. Through their influences on John Dewey and Horace Mann, this trio
continues to have an enormous impact on education today.
Networks of Power
In his book "America's Secret Establishment," Antony Sutton outlined the Order of Skull
and Bones' ability to establish vertical and horizontal "chains of influence" that ensured
the continuity of their conspiratorial schemes.
The Whitney-Stimson-Bundy links represent the "vertical chain".
W. C. Whitney ('63), who married Flora Payne (of the Standard Oil Payne dynasty), was
Secretary of the Navy. His attorney was a man named Elihu Root. Root hired Henry
Stimson ('88), out of law school. Stimson took over from Root as Secretary of War in
1911, appointed by fellow Bonesman William Howard Taft. Stimson later became
Coolidge's Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, Hoover's Secretary of State, and
Secretary of War during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.
Hollister Bundy ('09) was Stimson's special assistant and point man in the Pentagon for
the Manhattan Project. His two sons, also members of Skull and Bones, were William
Bundy ('39) and McGeorge Bundy ('40) -- both very active in governmental and
foundation affairs.
The two brothers, from their positions in the CIA, the Department of Defense and the
State Department, and as Special Assistants to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson,
exercised significant impact on the flow of information and intelligence during the
Vietnam "War."
William Bundy went on to be editor of Foreign Affairs, the influential quarterly of the
Council on Foreign Affairs (CFR). McGeorge became president of the Ford Foundation.
Another group of "Bonesmen" is the Harriman/Bush crowd. Averil Harriman ('13),
"Elder Statesman" of the Democratic Party, and his brother Roland Harriman ('17) were
very active members. In fact, four of Roland's fellow "Bonesmen" from the class of 1917
were directors of Brown Brothers, Harriman, including Prescott Bush ('17), George
Bush's dad.
Since the turn of the century, two investment bank firms -- Guaranty Trust and Brown
Brothers, Harriman -- were both dominated by members of Skull and Bones. These two
firms were heavily involved in the financing of Communism and Hitler's regime.
Bonesman share an affinity for the Hegellian ideas of the historical dialectic, which
dictates the use of controlled conflict -- thesis versus anti-thesis -- to create a predetermined synthesis. A synthesis of their making and design, where the state is absolute
and individuals are granted their freedoms based on their obedience to the state -- a New
World Order.
Funding and political maneuvering on the part of "Bonesmen" and their allies helped the
Bolsheviks prevail in Russia. In defiance of federal laws, the cabal financed industries,
established banks and developed oil and mineral deposits in the fledgling U.S.S.R.
Later, Averil Harriman, as minister to Great Britain in charge of Lend-Lease for Britain
and Russia, was responsible for shipping entire factories into Russia. According to some
researchers, Harriman also oversaw the transfer of nuclear secrets, plutonium and U. S.
dollar printing plates to the U.S.S.R.
In 1932, the Union Banking Corporation of New York City had enlisted four directors
from the ('17) cell and two Nazi bankers associated with Fritz Thyssen, who had been
financing Hitler since 1924.
From "George Bush; The Unauthorized Biography"
"President Franklin Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley,
signed Vesting Order Number 248 [11/17/42] seizing the property of Prescott
Bush under the Trading with Enemy Act. The order, published in obscure
government record books and kept out of the news, Note #4 explained nothing
about the Nazis involved; only that the Union Banking Corporation was run for
the 'Thyssen family' of 'Germany and/or Hungary' -- 'nationals ... of a designated
enemy country.'
"By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the Union Banking
Corporation were legally 'front men for the Nazis', the government avoided the
more important historical issue: In what way 'were Hitler's Nazis themselves
hired, armed, and instructed by' the New York and London clique of which
Prescott Bush was an executive manager? ...
"4. New York Times, December 16, 1944, ran a five-paragraph page 25 article on
actions of the New York State Banking Department. Only the last sentence refers
to the Nazi bank, as follows: 'The Union Banking Corporation, 39 Broadway,
New York, has received authority to change its principal place of business to 120
Broadway.'
"The Times omitted the fact that the Union Banking Corporation had been seized
by the government for trading with the enemy, and the fact that 120 Broadway
was the address of the government's Alien Property Custodian."
After the war, Prescott went on to become a U. S. Senator from Connecticut and favorite
golfing partner of President Eisenhower. Prescott claims responsibility for getting Nixon
into politics and takes personal credit for bringing Dick on board as Ike's running mate in
1952.
Name Roster of the Secret Establishment
There were so many "Yalies" in the OSS that Yale's drinking tune, the "Whiffenpoof
Song",became an "unofficial" song of the OSS. Many in the OSS were "Bonesmen" or
belonged to theother Yale senior societies.
Robert Lovett ('18), Harriman's childhood friend, had been tapped into Skull & Bones by
Prescott Bush's cell of '17 and was a director at Brown Brothers, Harriman.
From "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
"On October 22, 1945, Secretary of War Robert Patterson created the Lovett
Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the government on the postWorld War II organization of U.S. intelligence activities.... The new agency
would 'consult' with the armed forces, but it must be the sole collecting agency in
the field of foreign espionage and counterespionage. The new agency should have
an independent budget, and its appropriations should be granted by Congress
without public hearings. Lovett appeared before the Secretaries of State, War, and
Navy on November 14, 1945.... Lovett pressed for a virtual resumption of the
wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS).... The CIA was established in 1947
according to the prescription of Robert Lovett, of Jupiter Island."
Gaddis Smith, a history professor at Yale, said, "Yale has influenced the Central
Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the
atmosphere of a class reunion." And "Bonesman" have been foremost among the
"spooks" building the CIA's "haunted house."
F. Trubee Davison ('18) was Director of Personnel at the CIA in the early years. Some of
the other "Bonesmen" connected with the intelligence community are:
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Sloane Coffin, Jr. ('49)
V. Van Dine ('49)
James Buckley ('44)
Bill Buckley ('50)
Hugh Cunnigham ('34)
Hugh Wilson ('09)
Reuben Holden ('40)
Charles R. Walker ('16)
Yale's 'unofficial' Secretary of War, Robert D. French ('10)
Archibald MacLiesh ('15)
Dino Pionzio ('50), CIA Deputy Chief of Station during Allende overthrow
William and McGeorge Bundy
Richard A. Moore ('3?)
Senator David Boren ('63)
Senator John Kerry ('66)
George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush tapped Coffin, who tapped Buckley.
Some other prominent Bonesmen include
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Henry Luce ('20), Time-Life
John Thomas Daniels ('14), founder Archer Daniels Midland
Gifford Pinchot ('89), President Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser ('96)
Harold Stanley ('08), founder of Morgan Stanley, investment banker
Alfred Cowles ('13), Cowles Communication
Henry P. Davison ('20), senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust
Thomas Cochran ('04) Morgan partner
Senator John Heinz ('31)
Pierre Jay ('92), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
George Herbert Walker, Jr. ('27), financier and co-founder of the NY Mets
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Artemus Gates ('18), President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific,
TIME, Boeing Company
William Draper III (50), the Defense Department, UN and Import-Export Bank
Dean Witter, Jr.('44), investment banker
Senator Jonathan Bingham ('36)
Potter Stewart ('36), Supreme Court Justice
Senator John Chaffe ('47)
Harry Payne Whitney ('94), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment banker
Russell W. Davenport ('23), editor Fortune Magazine, created Fortune 500 list
Evan G. Galbraith ('50), Ambassador to France and Managing Director of Morgan
Stanley
Richard Gow ('55), president Zapata Oil
Amory Howe Bradford ('34), husband of Carol Warburg Rothschild and general
manager for the New York Times
C. E. Lord ('49), Comptroller of the Currency
Winston Lord ('59), Chairman of CFR, Ambassador to China and assistant
Secretary of State in the Clinton administration
Ever since Nixon re-established America's political relationship with China, many of our
ambassadors to that country have been Bonesmen, including George Bush, the first Chief
U. S. Liaison Officer to the Peoples Republic of China.
China and the Opium Wars
Why all this interest in China? Well, China, among other things, is one of the largest
producers and users of opiates in the world.
For a while, in the 1800s, the Yankee Clippers in Connecticut and Massachusetts were
the fastest ships on the ocean. Speed was crucial to the opium trade; whoever made the
trip from Turkey/India to Macao/Hong Kong/Shanghai first got the most for their goods.
During the Opium Wars, the U.S. chose to stand on the sidelines and cheer for the
English and French, knowing that treaty obligations would bring the U.S. a share in the
spoils. Russell and Company was at times the only trading house operating in Canton and
used the opportunity to developed strong commercial ties and handsome profits.
Powerful national interests were behind the drug trade, because American traders were
badly in need of some article the Chinese would buy, since by this time the seal breeding
grounds had been nearly wiped out. If the Chinese had not bought opium from
Americans, then United States imports of silk, porcelain and tea would have to paid in
precious coin, which was in short supply. In 1843, when the Port of Shanghai was
opened, Russell and Co. was one of its earliest traders.
In 1903, Yale Divinity School set up a program of schools and hospitals in China. Mao
Zedong was among the staff. During the intrigues of China in the 1930s and '40s,
American intelligence called upon the resources of "Yale in China", and George Bush's
cousin and fellow "Bonesman" Reuben Holden.
After stints as UN Ambassador and Chairman of the Republican National Committee for
the beleaguered Richard Nixon, George Bush was sent to look after the "China trade".
The Bush family is still very much involved in the economic activities of "Red" China.
Many researchers contend that George Bush has been with CIA since the early 1950s,
and that one of his jobs was to consolidate and co-ordinate the worldwide narcotics
industry, the largest industry on Earth. Some say that one of the reasons behind the
Vietnam "Police Action" was a cover for the consolidation of the "Golden Triangle".
The War on Drugs: An "Intellectual Fraud"
Before the Vietnam "War", the Golden Triangle was run by French Intelligence and
Corsican mobsters. After the French bailed out and America moved in, the triangle was
run by U.S. intelligence, with aid from Sicilian mobsters. This narcotics network is well
documented in "The Politics of Heroin in S. E. Asia" by Alfred McCoy, "The Great
Heroin Coup" by Henrik Kruger and "Double-Cross" by Sam and Chuck Giancana.
Vice-President George Bush, as Chairman of President Reagan's cabinet-level working
group and as Director of the National Narcotics Interdiction System, was the highest U.
S. governmental official involved in the "war on drugs".
Frances Mullen, Jr., former head of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), called Bush's
efforts "an intellectual fraud" and "a liability rather than an asset". Soon after these
statements, Mullen resigned and the resultant General Accounting Office (GAO) report
was buried.
In July, 1985, the suppressed GAO paper reported that there were "no benefits from the
National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, directed by George Bush. In fact, the
overall effect was to encourage supply...."
Monika Jensen-Stevenson, a "60 Minutes" producer, quit her job after the CBS news
program refused to air the story she had uncovered relating to the covert drug trade. Her
book, "Kiss The Boys Goodbye", details how our intelligence community used the
apparatus of the POW/MIA governmental agencies as a cover for the trafficking of
opiates from the "Golden Triangle".
President Reagan appointed Reform Party founder and Texas billionaire Ross Perot to the
President's Advisory Council on Foreign Intelligence. Reagan made Perot a special
presidential investigator, looking into America's POW and MIAs from the Vietnam
"War".
Ross took the job to heart and spent considerable time and money in pursuit of the quest.
He was given special clearance and access. He asked questions and interviewed everyone
he could find.
From "Kiss The Boys Goodbye"
"Relations between Bush and Perot had gone downhill ever since the VicePresident had asked Ross Perot how his POW/MIA investigations were going.
'Well, George, I go in looking for prisoners,' said Perot, 'but I spend all my time
discovering the government has been moving drugs around the world and is
involved in illegal arms deals.... I can't get at the prisoners because of the
corruption among our own people.'
"This ended Perot's official access to the highly classified files as a one-man
presidential investigator. 'I have been instructed to cease and desist,' he had
informed the families of missing men early in 1987."
The wholesale importation of cocaine into the U.S. during "Iran/Contra" is also well
documented. George Bush, is known "to be in the loop" with many of the players keeping
in contact directly with his office.
Also, there has been much speculation as to the use of the off-shore rigs, pipelines and
other assets of Zapata Offshore being used for narcotic trans-shipments.
Narcotics such as cocaine and heroin cannot be manufactured without the precursor
chemicals. One of the largest makers of these precursor chemicals is the Eli Lilly
Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The Quayle family is a large stockholder, and George
Bush has been on the Board of Directors. Eli Lilly is also the company that first
synthesized LSD for the CIA.
George Bush, Skull & Bones and the JFK Assassination
George Bush, Skull & Bones and the JFK Assassination
George Bush, Skull & Bones and the JFK Assassination
Rodney Stich's book "Defrauding America" tells of a "deep-cover CIA officer" assigned
to a counter-intelligence unit, code-named Pegasus. This unit "had tape-recordings of
plans to assassinate Kennedy" from a tap on the phone of J. Edgar Hoover. The people on
the tapes were "[Nelson] Rockefeller, Allen Dulles, [Lyndon] Johnson of Texas, George
Bush and J. Edgar Hoover."
Could George Bush be involved in the JFK assassination?
In 1963, Bush was living in Houston, busily carrying out his duties as president of the
Zapata Offshore oil company. He denied the existence of a note sent by the FBI's J.
Edgar Hoover to "Mr. George Bush of the CIA." When news of the note surfaced, the
CIA first said they never commented on employment questions, but later relented said
yes, a "George Bush" was mentioned in the note, but that it was "another" George Bush,
not the man who took office in the White House in 1988.
Some intrepid reporters tracked down the "other" George Bush and discovered that he
was just a lowly clerk who had shuffled papers for the CIA for about six months. He
never received any interagency messages from anybody at the FBI, let alone the Queen
Mary.
It is also worth noting that a CIA code word for Bay of Pigs was Operation Zapata, and
that two of the support vessels were named Barbara and Houston.
Many say that George Bush was high up on the CIA ladder at the time, running
proprietorial vehicles and placed in a position of command, responsible for many of the
Cubans recruited into "service" at the time. All through the Iran-Contra affair, Felix
Rodriguez, the man who captured and had Che Guevara killed for the CIA, always
seemed to call Bush's office first.
From The Realist (Summer, 1991)
"Bush was working with the now-famous CIA agent, Felix Rodriguez, recruiting
right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion of Cuba. It was Bush's CIA job to
organize the Cuban community in Miami for the invasion.... A newly discovered
FBI document reveals that George Bush was directly involved in the 1963 murder
of President John Kennedy. The document places marksmen by the CIA. Bush at
that time lived in Texas. Hopping from Houston to Miami weekly, Bush spent
1960 and '61 recruiting Cubans in Miami for the invasion....
"George Bush claims he never worked for the CIA until he was appointed
Director by former Warren Commission director and then president Jerry Ford in
1976. Logic suggests that is highly unlikely. Of course, Bush has a company duty
to deny being in the CIA. The CIA is a secret organization. No one ever admits to
being a member. The truth is that Bush has been a top CIA official since before
the 1961 invasion of Cuba, working with Felix Rodriguez. Bush may deny his
actual role in the CIA in 1959, but there are records in the Bay of Pigs invasion of
Cuba that expose Bush's role..."
On the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, referred to in the media as the 'smoking gun'
conversation, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, were discussing how to stop
the FBI investigation into the CIA Watergate burglary. They were worried that the
investigation would expose their connection to 'the Bay of Pigs thing.' Haldeman, in his
book "The Ends of Power", reveals that Nixon always used code words when talking
about the 1963 murder of JFK. Haldeman said Nixon would always refer to the
assassination as 'the Bay of Pigs'.
On that transcript we find Nixon discussing the role of George Bush's partner, Robert
Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for Nixon. On the tapes Nixon keeps
referring to the 'Cubans' and the 'Texans.' The 'Texans' were Bush, Mosbacher and Baker.
This is another direct link between Bush and evidence linking Nixon and Bush to the
Kennedy assassination."
Motives for the Conspiracy
So, why would an intelligence agency/secret society want to smuggle drugs and
assassinate JFK?
Well, they make a lot of money, and they garner intelligence assets through their
participation. There's also the rationale that the world is a seamy and unseemly place, and
if you're going to be the 'big boy' on the block, you better know what's going on. And
what better way of knowing than by running it yourself? There are also some who
theorize that the covert drug trade fits with plans to destabilize American families and
society. Through demoralizing and fracturing the body politic, they can impose their will
using psychological warfare and the political alchemy of the Hegellian dialectic.
James Shelby Downard's article, "Sorcery, Sex, Assassination and the Science of
Symbolism ," an underground classic, links American historical events with a wild,
numerological, grand occult plan "to turn us into cybernetic mystery zombies". The
assassination of JFK, this article contends, was the performance of a public occult ritual
called The Killing of the King, designed as a mass-trauma, mind-control assault against
our U.S. national body-politic.
During Operation Sunrise, Operation Blowback, Operation Paperclip and others,
thousands of Nazi scientists, researchers and administrators were brought to the United
States after World War II. Many were "smuggled" into the country against direct, written,
orders from President Harry S. Truman.
Project Monarch was the resumption of a mind-control project called Marionette
Programming, which started in Nazi Germany. The basic component of the Monarch
Program is the sophisticated manipulation of the mind, using extreme trauma to induce
Multiple Personality Disorder.
Mr. Downward feels that the perpetrators purposefully murdered JFK in such a way as to
affect our National identity and cohesiveness -- to fracture America's soul. Even the
blatancy of their conspiracy was designed to show "their superiority" and "our futility".
There have been studies that show a correlation between the JFK assassination and the
rise in violence in society, distrust of government and other extensions of social ills.
The Illuminati - Subverting the Body Politic
Why this attack against our body politic?
In 1785, a bolt of lightning struck a courier en route to Paris from Frankfort-on-the-Main.
A tract written by Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati, "Original Shift in Days of
Illuminations," was recovered from the dead messenger, containing the secret society's
long-range plan for "The New World Order through world revolution".
The Bavarian Government outlawed the society and in 1787 published the details of The
Illuminati conspiracy in "The Original Writings of the Order and Sect of the Illuminati."
In Adam Weishaupt's own words:
"By this plan, we shall direct all mankind in this manner. And, by the simplest
means, we shall set all in motion and in flames. The occupations must be so
allotted and contrived that we may, in secret, influence all political transactions."
There is disagreement among scholars as to whether or not the Illuminati survived its
banishment. Nevertheless, the group had been quite successful in attracting members and
had allied itself with the extensive Masonic networks.
The Illuminati was publicly founded May 1, 1776 at the University of Ingolstadt by
Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law. It was a very "learned" society; Weishaupt drew the
earliest members of his new order from among his students.
On December 5, 1776, students at William and Mary College founded a secret society,
Phi Beta Kappa. A second chapter was formed, at Yale, in 1780. The anti-Masonic
movement in the United States during the 1820s held groups such as Phi Beta Kappa in a
bad light. Because of pressure, the society went public. This is noted by some researchers
as the direct cause of the appearance of Yale's Order of Skull and Bones.
In "The Cyclopedia Of Fraternities", a genealogical chart of general Greek-Letter college
fraternities in the United States, shows Phi Beta Kappa as "the parent of all the fraternal
systems in [American] higher education." There is only one "side" lineal descendant: the
Yale chapter of 1780. The line then continues to Skull and Bones in 1832, and on through
the other "only at Yale" senior societies, Scroll & Key and Wolf's Head.
Phi Beta Kappa is the "first three Greek letters, for 'Philosophia Biou Kubernetes' or
'Love of wisdom, the helmsman of life'." A skull homophone is scull, a quick, gliding
boat and part of Skull & Bones first nomenclature.
John Robison, a professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University in Scotland and
a member of a Freemason Lodge, said that he was asked to join the Illuminati. After
study, he concluded the purposes of the Illuminati were not for him.
In 1798, he published a book called "Proofs Of A Conspiracy":
"An association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all the
religious establishments and overturning all the existing governments.... the
leaders would rule the World with uncontrollable power, while all the rest would
be employed as tools of the ambition of their unknown superiors."
"Proofs of A Conspiracy" was sent to George Washington. Responding to the sender of
the book with a letter, the president said he was aware the Illuminati were in America. He
felt that the Illuminati had "diabolical tenets" and that their object was "a separation of
the People from their government."
In "Proofs Of A Conspiracy", Robison printed the ceremony of initiation of the "Regent
degree" in Illuminism. In it "a skeleton is pointed out to him [the initiate], at the feet of
which are laid a crown and a sword. He is asked 'whether that is the skeleton of a king,
nobleman or a beggar.' As he cannot decide, the president of the meeting says to him,
'The character of being a man is the only one that is importance'".
This is, essentially, the same as the writing in the Skull & Bones "tomb":
"Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser? Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode
gleich."
Which reads:
"Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's
the same in death."
Is the Order of the Skull & Bones part of the Illuminati?
When a person is initiated into Skull & Bones, they are given a new name, similar to the
practice of the Illuminati. And many recorded Illuminati members can be shown to have
contact and/or strong influences with many of the professors that taught "Bonesmen" in
Berlin.
When a secret society conspires against the sovereignty of a king, they need to organize,
raise funds, make their plans operational, and hopefully bring them to fruition.
Could we have in the United States a secret society that has used the "National Security
State" as a cover for their nefarious plans?
From "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
"That September [1951], Robert Lovett replaced Marshall as secretary of defense.
Meanwhile, Harriman was named director of the Mutual Security Agency, making him
the U.S. chief of the Anglo-American military alliance. By now, Brown Brothers,
Harriman was everything but commander-in-chief.
"A central focus of the Harriman security regime in Washington (1950-53) was the
organization of covert operations and 'psychological warfare.' Harriman, together with his
lawyers and business partners, Allen and John Foster Dulles, wanted the government's
secret services to conduct extensive propaganda campaigns and mass-psychology
experiments within the U.S.A., and paramilitary campaigns abroad....
"The Harriman security regime created the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB) in 1951.
The man appointed director of the PSB [was] Gordon Gray.... Gordon's brother, R.J.
Reynolds chairman Bowman Gray Jr., was also a naval intelligence officer, known
around Washington as the 'founder of operational intelligence.' Gordon Gray became a
close friend and political ally of Prescott Bush; and Gray's son became for Prescott's son,
George, his lawyer and the shield of his covert policy."
So you have the Whitney/Stimson/Bundy clan and the Harriman/Bush boys wielding a
tremendous amount of influence on the political, economic and social affairs of America
and the world. Then you have Prescott Bush's buddy Richard Nixon as an activist vicepresident. Then, a nation-chilling assassination, some time under LBJ with the Bundy
boys keeping things in line, then Nixon as President with "Bonesmen" aides Ray Price
('51) and Richard A. Moore. Some time out for a Trilateralist-Democrat-patsy president,
followed by Prescott's son as an activist vice-president under Reagan. Next, we get a
Skull and Bones president who declares a "New World Order" while beating up on his
business partner, Saddam Hussein.
After twelve years of Republican administrations, Bush passes the reins to his drug
smuggling buddy from Arkansas, Bill Clinton, who studied at Yale Law School.
According to some researchers, Clinton was recruited as a CIA operative while a Rhodes
Scholar at Oxford. Could this be the "old Hegallian historical dialectic process"?
World History: Plan or Accident?
Will we get another failed Democratic administration? A scandal as disgraceful as
Nixon's fall? When Robert P. Johnson (William Barr) told Clinton in a bunker in
Arkansas that "you are our fair-haired boy, but you do have competition for the job you
seek. We would never put all our eggs in one basket. You and your state have been our
greatest asset.... Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to you, that unless you fuck up and do
something stupid, you are number one on our short list for shot at the job you always
wanted."
So, you have William Casey -- CIA Director, George Bush's campaign manager and
Sovereign Knight of Malta -- speaking through the proxy of George Bush's last Attorney
General to George's rival in the 1992 federal elections. Is it all just a show and sham for
U.S. hoi polloi?
Perhaps so, if there exists the type of control over the electoral process as told by Mae
Brussell and the suppressed book "VoteScam," written by Jim and Ken Collier:
"...Your vote and mine may now be a meaningless bit of energy directed by
preprogrammed computers-which can be fixed to select certain pre-ordained candidates
and leave no footprints or paper trail.
"In short, computers are covertly stealing your vote.
"--For almost three decades the American vote has been subject to government-sponsored
electronic theft.
"--The vote has been stolen from you by a cartel of federal "national security"
bureaucrats, who include higher-ups in the Central Intelligence Agency, political party
leaders, Congressmen, co-opted journalists and the owners and managers -- of the major
Establishment news media, who have decided in concert that how America's votes are
counted, by whom they are counted and how the results are verified and delivered to the
public is, as one of them put it, 'Not a proper area of inquiry.'
"--By means of an unofficial private corporation named News Election Service (NES),
the Establishment press has actual physical control of the counting and dissemination of
the vote, and it refuses to let the public know how it is done."
Is the American electorate subjected to cyclic propaganda, pre-selected candidates and
winners, and psychological warfare to alienate Americans from the institutions
established to serve them by the Constitution? Are the Democratic and Republican
National Parties used for a Hegellian experiment in controlled conflict?
Pamela Churchill Harriman, Averil's wife, is one of the Democratic Party's biggest fundraisers. She once gave Bill a job as director of her "PAM PAC" when he was defeated for
governor in 1980. Bill paid her back by appointing her as Ambassador to France.
Another Harriman/Bush friend, Eugene Stetson ('34), was an assistant manager for
Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers, Harriman's New York office. He organized the H.
Smith Richardson Foundation. The foundation, in the late 1950s, participated in the
MKULTRA, the CIA's domestic covert psychological warfare operation. The Richardson
Foundation helped to finance the testing of psychotropic drugs, including LSD, at
Bridgewater Hospital in Massachusetts, the center of some of the most brutal MKULTRA experiments.
During the Iran-Contra operations, the H. Smith Richardson Foundation was a "private
donors steering committee," working with the National Security Council to co-ordinate
the Office of Public Diplomacy. This was an effort to propagandize in favor of and run
cover for the Iran-Contra operations, and to coordinate published attacks on opponents of
the program.
The H. Smith Richardson Foundation also runs the Center for Creative Leadership at
Langley to "train leaders of the CIA," as well as another center near Greensboro, North
Carolina, that trains CIA and Secret Service Agents. Almost everyone who achieves the
military rank of general also gets this training.
This is just the tip of an iceberg. You also have eugenics and population control,
suppressed history and technology, yearly retreats, profitable partnerships with brutal
dictators, deals with "terrorists", the involvement of the Knights of Malta, war-mongering
and profiteering, mind-control, secret societies for teens, ritual magic and more -- all
spinning the dark threads in the web of conspiracy that our spinning blue ball has gotten
caught in.
We've got a whole new crop of "Bonesmen" coming up, including George H.W. Bush's
son George W. Bush ('68), Governor of Texas.
When Don Schollander ('68), the Olympic gold-medalist and only known Skull and
Bones member living in Portland, was contacted by Willamette Week reporter John
Schrang regarding his involvement in the Order, he said, "It's really something I can't talk
about."
Not wouldn't, but "couldn't".
In wake of Antony Sutton's first ground-breaking exposes of the Order, the Sterling
Library at Yale has refused to allow any other researchers access to the Russell Trust
papers.
Daniel Gilman, like most Bonesmen, makes no mention of Skull & Bones or the Russell
Trust in his memoirs or biographies.
So, are we all just 'fodder" for a secret society with satanic overtones that is attempting to
form a one world government with themselves at the helm? Or is the Order of Skull and
Bones just a bunch of frat boys from Yale? Wanna bet your future on it?
(c) Copyright Little Red Hen
In 2000 George W. Bush became President of the US. His actions seem part of a greater
plan that takes humanity to its next evolution but bringing it full circle in the middle east.
I seehim as a pawn in a game.
It is now September 2004 - and all indications point to Bush be re-ellected though most
people oppose his policies in all areas.
MYSTERY SCHOOLS & SECRET SOCIETIES
ANCIENT MYSTERY SCHOOLS
There does exist..........
The Guardians of the Seed of Creation - DNA - Knowledge
Encoded within the Seed
The Teachers and Healers
The Protectors of the Bloodline
The Record Keepers - The Watchers
The Conspirators
BLACK SUN
Black Sun - Feathered Sun
- An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols - The Feathered Sun - the Black
Sun is a Plains Indian symbol with stylized feathers pointing both inwards and outwards;
inward towards the center and outward to the circumference; it combines the symbols of
the sun and the eagle and depicts the universe; the center; solar power; radiation of
power; majesty - the spiral movement of consciousness - Sacred Geometry.
The Black Sun represents a solar eclipse signaling the end of the cycle of time.
Hoag's Galaxy - Blue Stars around the core of a Galaxy
Bottom of Form
FREEMASONS
FREEMASONS
Many of the founding fathers of the United States, had a belief in divine guidance, though
they did not speak openly about it. They were deeply committed to ancient secret
societies and protecting the secrets knowledge of our creation. Today we know it as
Sacred Geometry.
Sacred Geometry
The universe is created by a consciousness which manifests in physical reality
through a geometric blueprint that we call Sacred Geometry which repeats over and
over giving the illusion of linear time.
GEOMETRIC PATTERNS
SECRED GEOMETRY Bruce Rawles
SCIENCE & PHYSICS Dan Winter
Meru Foundation Stan Tenen
SECRET OF THE HEBREW LETTERS Stan Tennen
GOLDEN RATIO - GOLD=ALCHEMY - CONSCIOUSNESS - PHI RATIO
The golden ratio is a number, approximately 1.618, which when considered as a
ratio posseses many interesting properties. It was studied by ancient
mathematicians due to its frequent appearance in geometry. Shapes defined by the
golden ratio have long been considered aesthetically pleasing in western cultures,
reflecting nature's balance between symmetry and asymmetry. The ratio is still used
frequently in art and design. The golden ratio is also known as proportio divina,
sectio aurea, the golden mean, golden section, golden number or divine proportion.
CONTINUED - WIKIPEDIA
GOLDEN MEAN - FUSION ANOMALY
GOLDEN MEAN AND PHI
GOLDEN MEAN SPIRAL AND THE MERKABA
GOLDEN RATIO - PHI
PHI - THE GOLDEN NUMBER
SACRED GEOMERTY AND THE ARCHDOME = GOLDEN MEAN
SACRED GEOMETRY AND THE GREAT PYRAMID
Linking The Great Pyramid to the Human Form Charles Henry
The Great Pyramid, The Golden Ratio and The Royal Cubit
Geometry of the Great Pyramid
SACRED GEOMETRY IN ARCHITECTURE
The term "sacred geometry" is used by archaeologists, anthropologists, and geometricians
to encompass the religious, philosohical, and spiritual beliefs that have sprung up around
geometry in various cultures during the course of human history. It is a catch-all term
covering Pythagorean geometry and neo-Platonic geometry, as well as the perceived
relationships between organic curves and logarithmic curves.
Rennes le Chateau
Sacred Geometry in Building
Sacred Geometry and Stones
Sacred Places - Sacred Geometry
Sacred Geometry and Labyrinths
The Use Of Domes
The Prehistoric Alignment of World Wonders
SACRED GEOMETRY IN DANCE
SACRED GEOMETRY AND THE MEVLEVI SUFI ROUND DANCE
RELIGIOUS DANCING OF THE SUFI MUSLIMS
SACRED GEOMETRY IN ART
M.C. ESCHER:
GALLERY ESCHER'S WORLD - TESSELATIONS - DIGITAL MATH
CHARLES GILCHRIST
SACRED GEOMETRY AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
SACRED GEOMETRY AND CROP CIRCLES
These men acquired the knowledge while in Europe their souls having moved from
ancient Egypt to the European continent. Whether they realized it or not, their quest to set
this knowledge into the foundation of the US was encoded into the blueprint of why they
were born and what they came here to do.
It is like a game in which these players came to the shores of a new world to create in the
fashion of a pattern that repeats through history - as all things in our reality recycle based on the concept of time and space - the Golden Mean Spiral of Consciousness Geometry - a programmed illusions based on the concept of spiral energies or Time.
The knowledge of our creation has always been available to humanity.
In the duality of third dimensional reality created by electromagnetic energies - hence
polarity - poles and pole shifts - good/evil - yin/yang/ male/female - polarity of soul and
physical - Groups were created - the Protectors/ Warriors/, the Record Keepers, and the
Guardians.
The Freemason of years gone by - were Guardians. They guarded the sacred knowledge
and incorporated into the physical creation of the US - just as it was encoded into the
geometric blueprint of ancient Egypt - by the Priests and the creational forces that create
our reality as if computer designed.
The messages are there - when one is ready to find them.
The philosophy of the Freemason's is a mystical approach to things. Dating back to our
founding fathers many of whom belonged to the Masonic Orders, believed in higher
vision in the affairs of humanity.
George Washington was a Freemason - a Grand Master. Presidents who were
Freemasons. When Washington dedicated the United States capitol he used the Masonic
symbolism.
Masonic influence is evident in the architecture of Washington, DC where pyramids,
pillars, and Numerology are repeated in nearly every official building. They follow the
the sacred geometry of creation of our reality, as do most things we create.
The floor plan of the Capitol Mall was designed from the blueprint of the floor plan of a
Masonic Temple - an East-West rectangle attached to an unfinished triangle. The lodge
Master would reside at the cap of the triangle, where the Capitol stands today.
All of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, were Freemasons, with the
exception of one man.
The symbols on the dollar bill relate to the Masonic notions of the founders. The allseeing eye comes from the Masonic symbology. The concept of the pyramid with its
missing capstone links with the ancient mystery school teaching of ancient Egypt.
The Masonic beliefs of the founding fathers were passed down to successive generations
of government leaders. Freemasonry exists to this day.
Masons Among Us
March 11, 2004 - MSNBC
In the wake of an accidental killing, a historian explains who the Freemasons are, what
they do and why conspiracy theorists seem drawn toward them.
Induction ceremonies aren't supposed to go this way. William James, 47, was
killed’Äîshot in the face’Äîduring his induction at a Masonic lodge in Patchogue, N.Y.,
Monday. The shooter, a 76-year-old World War II veteran named Albert Eid, was
supposed to fire a .22-caliber handgun with blanks at the pledge, but instead grabbed the
.32-caliber gun with live rounds he was carrying in his other pocket. A freak accident,
claim the Masons (James' induction ritual was also to have involved large rat traps, a sixfoot replica guillotine and a plank he would have been forced to walk.) But instead of
everything proceeding cloaked in the usual secrecy, the Patchogue's Southside Masonic
Lodge No. 493 flung its umbrella organization, the Freemasons, into a very unsecret
national spotlight.
The modern incarnation of Freemasons dates back to 1717 with the founding of the first
Grand Lodge of England. The organization is rooted in the guilds of medieval
stonemasons who would pass their trade secrets on to each other through handshakes and
passwords that served as proof of their skill level. Freemasons, frat boys of the post-Bacc
set, played a visible role in the American Revolution, the Constitutional Congress and the
signing of the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin, George Washington and
Andrew Jackson were all Masons. So were Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Duke
Ellington. Al Gore is a Mason. The symbols on U.S. currency are Masonic allusions that floating eyeball-pyramid thing, forexample, symbolizes Hiram Abiff, the builder of
King Solomon's temple. It is perhaps little wonder that conspiracy theorists and satirists
are drawn to the secret society like bears to honey. "The Simpsons" famously spoofed the
fraternal order in its Stonecutters episode, featuring a song that included the lyrics: "Who
keeps the metric system down?/We do! We do!/Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who
keeps the Martians under wraps?/We do! We do!"
But is the group that brought the modern world fez-doffing Shriners really something to
fear, or even scorn? Steven C. Bullock, author of "Revolutionary Brotherhood"
(University of North Carolina Press 1996) has found historical significance in the group,
but little that points to anything sinister. Bullock, a professor at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in Massachusetts, recently spoke with Newsweek's Brian Braiker about
Freemasonry's role in forming the American democratic system, what Masonry is about
today and whether conspiracy theorists might’ just might’ on to something. Excerpts:
Who are the Freemasons?
They're a fraternal society. The traditional Masonry is by and large about men; it uses
secret rituals and meetings that are closed to outsiders to teach morality, encourage
charity, learning to a certain extent and certainly to encourage fellowship.
So why the secrecy?
It comes out of craftsmen organizations [with] the roots in the 1600s and early 1700s, but
there are these texts and these traditions get passed along. You didn't want outsiders in
there because you were doing things that were supposed to be secret: Part of it is setting
wages, setting prices and things. You want to have a chance to discipline people who
were doing bad things that you don't want to get out. And then later on, the secrecy is part
of its appeal to a great extent. The point of the rituals is they are a transformation from
one status to another. If this is something which can come in and look at, it's not going to
have the same impact on a person who is going through it.
A lot of our presidents have been Freemasons, all the signers of the Declaration of
Independence Yeah, there's a lot of that talk. There' s a lot of conspiracy theories. A lot of that is really
overblown. Compared to the proportion of Masons in the country, they are very
disproportionately represented in presidencies and all those Revolutionary meetings.
So why is that?
I think because Masonry tended to attract people who were relatively well-to-do, who
were more cosmopolitan than average, who were higher status than others. That began to
change maybe since World War II or the 1930s with greater openness. More people had
been allowed to join. In the eighteenth century and nineteenth century, they were really a
high powered group. To a great extent that there are these theories is that they were pretty
powerful people. Then in the 30s really does it really challenge this fraternal model. The
Depression makes people less interested in these voluntary association. Masonry is really
the only one that comes out of World War II with any kind of success. The Oddfellows
still exist, but they're falling away very rapidly. The Masons actually continued to grow
into the 1960s.
Membership rates in civic groups have been declining across the boards for a while now.
Has that been the case for the Freemasons as well? Yeah, it's been a huge decline for the
Freemasons as well. I think there were about 4 millions Masons in the 1960s nationwide;
now it's like 1.8 million. So in just 40 years or so, it's been cut in half.
What kind of feedback have you gotten from them about your book?
They've been very pleased. I was pretty nervous about that. They’Äôre sort of like an
ethnic group that feels a little embattled. They're very nervous about somebody coming in
and not taking them very seriously and embarrassing them.
Well, in light of what happened on Monday, why on earth should they be taken
seriously?
As a historian, I think the point is they have this incredible history going back nearly 300
years and attracting really some of the most important people in American history from
Ben Franklin to George Washington to Andrew Jackson to Theodore Roosevelt to Harry
Truman to Duke Ellington to Jesse Jackson. An amazing number of people have found
that this is something significant for them.
Just going through that list names, it's no wonder that some people jump to There's sort of a fear there, yeah. I can see the secrecy business is hard for us to
understand. It's been hard for people for 300 years. In a way, it would have been better
for me as a historian if they were trying to take over the world. It would have made a
better story.
As an outsider, do you think there's a chunk of the story you might have missed?
I don't really think so. I think some Masons think there is. I've never had the experience
of going through the ritual itself, but it's amazing how much stuff is available. The rituals
which are meant to be secret were easily available even in early America.
Rituals such as?
The 'First Degree' is you are dressed in an odd sort of way and you are blindfolded and a
Mason knocks on the door for you’ you're outside, so symbolically you are not part of the
group. You come in, you are made to repeat some sort of obligation [along the lines of] I promise not to repeat the secrets of Masonry. I will be a good brother; I'll do the right
things. I think this is still true, but they used to take a compass - the kind you use for
drawing circles - and the point is pressed against your breast to suggest that this is really
serious. It's designed to make you feel ill at ease, out of sorts, to feel disoriented. And
then at a certain moment they ask, "What do you desire?" You say "More light." Very
symbolic. Then your blindfold is opened up, you see the lodge and your brothers for the
first time.
Can you talk a little about the philanthropy of Masons, like the Shriners Hospitals? And
what's with the fez?
A lot of money goes through Masonry and goes out. Every year, more than $80 million a
year in charitable giving. There's a fair amount of volunteering going on as well. There's
a whole series of Masonic organizations. There's the lodge itself, which people often call
the Blue Lodge - that's the basic three degrees. Then there are further degrees you can
take.
Shriners are a group within Masonry. It's the most popular one; the one we know the
most about. They're a late nineteenth century group founded with the dual purpose of just
the enjoyment of hanging around and doing fun things with other men. And the other part
of it is the charity. They push that very far too with the whole network of hospitals.
[They're] sometimes called the Playground of Masonry wearing fezzes and things. I think
you have a little more silliness involved with them.
What was the role that the Masons played in the Revolution?
They didn't take on the Revolution as their pet cause. Masons were divided on the
Revolution as they do in all things. Benedict Arnold was actually a Mason.
Yet a lot of the men you named were big players in the Revolution. A lot these people
become the Founding Fathers. [Masonry] spreads to a great extent through the
Continental Army, the official army of the Revolution. I think Masonry comes out of the
Revolution with this reputation of being this huge part of the Revolution. They come to
symbolize the ideas of the Revolution, that we are a country that is based upon equality;
that no one is better than anyone else. It doesn't matter what religious group you belong
to, it doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what political affiliation you
have, you're still a brother.
And then after the Revolution, they seem everywhere in politics. There are some hints
that sometimes in the nineteenth century that this was sort of used as people knew you as
a Mason and therefore you're more likely to be elected. Some of these big states in the
years after the revolution where there wasn't this culture of a statehouse yet, Masonry
becomes a way of building those ties and figuring out how you make connections with
the state. A huge number of the early governors were Masons because you're building ties
at a time when it's very difficult to make connections if it's more than a day or two away
by horse.
They get so big that even an anti-Masonic political party emerges in the 1830s. After the
Revolution it expands enormously. Masons became sort of symbolic figures of the
Revolution and are called upon to dedicate all these public buildings. The cornerstone of
the U.S. Capitol is dedicated with a Masonic ceremony. Virtually every small town in
America has a lodge by the 1820s. Masonry becomes a way for people to establish
yourself, to do business, to make connectionswith people. So on the one hand Masonry
after the Revolution becomes a way of identifying yourself with the values of the
Revolution, on the other hand it's something you can do for your own benefit. In the
1820s those things are really in tension and it's all set off by a guy in upstate New York,
William Morgan, who tries to publish a book with all the rituals in them.
The Masons around there are driven to distraction by it and a number of them get
together and kidnap him, take him to Fort Niagara and, who knows, he's never seen
again. I tend to believe he was murdered. It's a different world now. It is, although you
kind of wonder when you see this stuff at this lodge here. It's sad. The [shooter] is in his
seventies - a World War II vet - because the average age is really very high these days.
It's up in the 60s I think in every state.
GOLDEN DAWN
Golden Dawn Society
At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, of a secret
"initiatory" society of Rosicrucian inspiration formed and was called the Golden Dawn.
Its members included some of the most brilliant minds in the country.
The Golden Dawn, founded in 1887, was an offshoot of the English Rosicrucian Society
created twenty years earlier by Robert Wentworth Little, and consisted largely of leading
Freemasons. The latter society had about 144 members, including Bulwer Lytton, author
of The Last Days of Pompeii.
The Golden Dawn, with a smaller membership, was formed for the practice of
ceremonial magic and the acquisition of initiatory knowledge and powers. Its leaders
were Woodman, Mathers and Wynn Westcott (the "occultist" mentioned by Toulet in his
letter of 1900).
It was in contact with similar German societies, some of whose members were later
associated with Rudolf Steiner's famous anthroposophical movement and other influential
sects during the pre-Nazi period. Later on it came under the leadership of Aleister
Crowley, an altogether extraordinary man who was certainly one of the greatest
exponents of the neo-paganism whose development in Germany we have noted.
S.L. Mathers, after the death of Woodman and the resignation of Westcott, was the Grand
Master of the Golden Dawn, which he directed for some time from Paris, where he had
just married Henri Bergson's daughter.
HOLY GRAIL
The legend and mystery of the Holy Grail is such that it captivates those who hear of
it. It has been a source of mystery down through the ages. Those who would search
it out for its truths will always be touched by the knowlege that the search brings
with it.
The quest to find the Holy Grail is one of the most enduring myths in Western
European literature and art.
Joseph of Arimathea was said to have acquired the sacred cup that Jesus touched to
his lips at the last supper.
It is written that after the last supper, the events of history found Christ being tried,
and then crucified.
Joseph of Arimathea received permission from Pontius Pilate to take the body of
Christ to his own tomb for burial. Joseph is said to have gathered the blood of the
fallen Christ in that same chalice.
The cup was taken by Joseph of Arimathea to what is now Great Britain and it
remained in his possesion until he died, where it was handed down to succeeding
generations of his family.
It was believed to be kept in a mysterious castle surrounded by a wasteland and
guarded by a custodian called the Fisher King, who suffered from a wound that
would not heal. His recovery and the renewal of the blighted lands depended upon
the successful completion of the quest.
In some texts it is written that at some point in time the Knights Templar acquired
possession of the Holy Grail. Some believe that the grail may have been taken to
Nova Scotia by the Templars in 1398.
The final resting place can only be speculative as there are so many paths the grail
could have taken.
Some believe it to be in the Chalice Well in Glastonbury put there by Joseph of
Arimathea. The search for the vessel became the principal quest of King Arthur and
his Knights of the Roundtable - the Sword in the Stone - Excalibur - and the magic
of Merlin.
And so it was written....about a sacred bloodline .....
Sarah and Alexander
Spear of Destiny
Hitler - The Blood/Bloodline of Jesus - Crucifixion
ILLUMINATI
Illuminatti - EYE
Illuminati is a Greek word meaning Illumination a name given to those who submitted to
Christian baptism. Those who were baptized were called Illuminati or Illuminated /
Enlightened Ones by the Ante-Nicene clergy, on the assumption that those who were
instructed for baptism in the Apostolic faith had an enlightened understanding.
The Alumbrados, a mystical 16th-century Spanish sect, were among the societies that
subsequently adopted the name Illuminati.
Later, the title of Illuminati was used by a secret society founded in 1776 by Adam
Weishaupt, a former Jesuit and professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. It
that aimed to combat religious thinking and encourage rationalism.
Many people believe that the Illuminati have been plotting to take over the world since
the time of its creation. To me Illuminati does exited - an may in some form still exist. It
is all part of the conspiracy games men play. The reality / program in which we exist has
always been based on those who have the power and knowledge, those who say they do,
and those who try to control it.
Knowledge is truly of the light - Illuminati - not meant to be control and bring fear - not
meant to be hidden and revealed by the timetable of certain groups, but has always been
there for humanity to see. It is about humanity's understanding that we are spirits / soul
sparks from a greater source of light - Illuminated Ones - who are having a physical
experience in which they are seeking to find our spiritual essence.
Is it a game? All of our reality is a game of experience - created by a grid program - or
matrix - in which your consciousness forever moves and you make choices as to what
game it wants to play - experience at any given moment in time. This depends or your
soul's needs as well as those you wish to experience. Everything is all about experience.
Most functional people will stay away from the conspiracy and cover-up games as we are
all on a path into spiritual awareness anyway as planetary frequency is returning to higher
levels of consciousness. Many of the dysfunctional souls are here to experience the game
of conspiracy - with its little intrigues and perks - far more interesting than staying in
balance in 3D and leading a normal productive life.
Like a board game - the object is to win. How does one win? Play a good game, out
maneuver your opponent, and end up in control. Our reality has always been a duality,
those who want control vs. those who must fight for freedom. (The warrior
Now along comes a man named Adam Weishaupt, who creates a game for world
domination. After his time, his philosophies would be passed down to other who like this
sort of game and it would perpetuate. These are predominately men - lower frequency
game - based on lower frequency emotions of fear, hatred, power, domination. As your
soul evolves - you let go of lower frequency emotions - and move to more productive
emotions/ frequencies. You do this when your soul gets tired and bored of the games.
About the Illuminati - specific knowledge is sketchy. Naturally it would work its way
into political arenas as those are the souls who came into our reality to control and change
destinies and be winners at their game.
The energies for the creation of secret societies goes back to the ancient priesthoods of
Egypt, when the sacred knowledge of humanity's creation was hidden by those who
sought control. They became the priesthoods.
These souls soon moved into Europe - again playing conspiracy games - the knighthoods
developing - brotherhoods and other clandestine groups. Curious games. Yet the clues
about who we are as a race - our inception and destiny were always there.
It would take till the 21st century for the truths to be revealed as human consciousness
moves back into higher frequency and lower frequency emotions / game fail.
Europe has always been a place to play out the the games of royalty and power. Germany
of course being the strongest pulse in the 20th century as Hitler made a bid for world
power. He lost the game - at least in the reality in which I am writing this! Who knows
what may have occurred in parallel realities?
Back to Germany...on its way into world domination..also with karmic ties to Egypt - as
the souls are the same - they just moved out of Egypt of ancient timelines and into
Germany in more modern lifetimes - same souls - playing new games!
The Order of the Illuminati was established with some unspecified ties to the Masonic
lodges of Germany; as a secret society within a secret society, the Illuminati have
produced at least as many myths as verifiable facts. The sympathies and beliefs of
Weishaupt himself, for instance, have been claimed by countless groups -- atheists,
Cabalists, rationalists, democrats, socialists, anarchists. Some trace the Illuminati back to
the Knights Templar, to Gnostic cults, to ancient Egypt, and even to Atlantis. In the
1790s, some credited (or blamed) the society with manipulating the American and French
Revolutions. In the United States, Federalists encouraged people to believe Thomas
Jefferson and the Democratic Republican Party were controlled by the Illuminati in
Europe.
It is not strictly necessary to disentangle fact from fiction, since the influence of the Order
was greater in legend than in fact. But several things can be stated about the Illuminati
with some degree of certainty. The two central figures in the organization were
Weishaupt and Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwid Baron Von Knigge. The Order promoted
a belief in deism and a doctrine of spiritual perfection: the society was in fact first known
as the Order of Perfectibilists.
At their height, the Illuminati claimed over two thousand members, not only in Germany
but in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and Italy,
including Goethe, Herder, and many other prominent nobles and reformers. But the
Bavarian government cracked down on the Illuminati and other secret societies in 1784
for allegedly plotting a massive overthrow of Europe's monarchies, although it was
unable to squelch them entirely.
By the end of the eighteenth century, however, the Illuminati had effectively disbanded,
although legends of their continued existence (and influence) persist into the twentieth
century (among, for instance, members of the John Birch Society). Perhaps some of this
confusion is owing to the fact that over time, the word Illuminati came to be used more
expansively for many enthusiasts of Enlightenment, including the followers of Emmanuel
Swedenborg.
Does the Illuminati exist in the 21st century? I am sure there are remnants of the
organization still around - just as there are Neo-Nazis. Those souls still need to play their
games. The organization of the 18th century would have to be different in method and
madness - in the 21st century. Old paradigms always fall away while new ones take their
place.
We live in a 3D reality created by electromagnetic energies - which means polarity North/South - Positive/Negative. Reality is ever-changing. The games of humanity will
always persist - the opposites doing battle - the duality of it all - yet in the end that which
separates the poles - the north/south of the magnetics - merge - like looking at a tube with
north and south ends. The tube is clogged. That represents the games humanity plays.
The games/clog are clearing out- which means we are merging north/south - our
polarities - which is the pole shift people are waiting for.
As the games end - and most of us sense this change - humanity moves to higher
frequency - this means we move our consciousness faster than the speed of light - and go
beyond the duality. We now see the truth. We understand the nature of our creation - we
become enlightened - for we are the Illuminati - the Enlightened Ones.
And so the games perpetuate with one group or another. Chose your game and see how it
plays out!
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
The Knights Templar
The Knights Templar
The Templar Knights - or Poor Knighst of Chrsit were a monastic order of knights
founded in 1112 A.D. to protect the pilgrims along the path from Europe to the Holy
Lands (Jerusalem). They took a vow of poverty which was rare for knights which had to
supply themselves with a horse, armor and weapons.
Their seal became two knights on one horse to show how poor they were. There were
also other various interpretations of the seal. They became very powerful and influencial
in European political circles since Pope Innocent II exempted the Templars from all
authority except the Pope.
Because the Knights Templars regularly transmitted money and supplies from Europe to
Palestine, they gradually developed an efficient banking system unlike any the world had
seen before. Their military might and financial acumen caused them to become both
feared and trusted. Because of their unselfish defense of the Holy Lands and their
monastic vows, they amassed great wealth through gifts from their grateful benefactors.
They soon had an army and a fleet as well as surplus money. Since the Knights had taken
a vow of poverty they re-invested the money and lent.
The Knights Templar were the earliest founders of the military orders, and are the type on
which the others are modeled. They are marked in history, by their humble beginning, by
their marvellous growth, and by their tragic end.
Their Humble Beginnings
Immediately after the deliverance of Jerusalem, the Crusaders, considering their vow
fulfilled, returned in a body to their homes. The defense of this precarious conquest,
surrounded as it was by Mohammedan neighbours, remained.
In 1118, during the reign of Baldwin II, Hugues de Payens, a knight of Champagne, and
eight companions bound themselves by a perpetual vow, taken in the presence of the
Patriarch of Jerusalem, to defend the Christian kingdom. Baldwin accepted their services
and assigned them a portion of his palace, adjoining the temple of the city; hence the title
"pauvres chevaliers du temple" (Poor Knights of the Temple).
Poor indeed they were, being reduced to living on alms, and, so long as they were only
nine, they were hardly prepared to render important services, unless it were as escorts to
the pilgrims on their way from Jerusalem to the banks of the Jordan, then frequented as a
place of devotion.
The Templars had as yet neither distinctive habit nor rule. Hugues dePayens journeyed to
the West to seek the approbation of the Church and to obtain recruits. At the Council of
Troyes (1128), at which he assisted and at which St. Bernard was the leading spirit, the
Knights Templars adopted the Rule of St. Benedict, as recently reformed by the
Cistercians. They accepted not only the three perpetual vows, besides the crusader's vow,
but also the austere rules concerning the chapel, the refectory, and the dormitory.
They also adopted the white habit of the Cistercians, adding to it a red cross.
Notwithstanding the austerity of the monastic rule, recruits flocked to the new order,
which thenceforth comprised four ranks of brethren: the knights, equipped like the heavy
cavalry of the Middle Ages; the serjeants, who formed the light cavalry; and two ranks of
non-fighting men: the farmers, entrusted with the administration of temporals; and the
chaplains, who alone were vested with sacerdotal orders, to minister to the spiritual needs
of the order.
Their Marvelous Growth
The order owed its rapid growth in popularity to the fact that it combined the two great
passions of the Middle Ages, religious fervour and martial prowess. Even before the
Templars had proved their worth, the ecclesiastical and lay authorities heaped on them
favours of every kind, spiritual and temporal. The popes took them under their immediate
protection, exempting them from all other jurisdiction, episcopal or secular. Their
property was assimilated to the church estates and exempted from all taxation, even from
the ecclesiastical tithes, while their churches and cemeteries could not be placed under
interdict.
This soon brought about conflict with the clergy of the Holy Land, inasmuch as the
increase of the landed property of the order led, owing to its exemption from tithes, to the
diminution of the revenue of the churches, and the interdicts, at that time used and abused
by the episcopate, became to a certain extent inoperative wherever the order had churches
and chapels in which Divine worship was regularly held. As early as 1156 the clergy of
the Holy Land tried to restrain the exorbitant privileges of the military orders, but in
Rome every objection was set aside, the result being a growing antipathy on the part of
the secular clergy against these orders. The temporal benefits which the order received
from all the sovereigns of Europe were no less important.
The Templars had commanderies in every state. In France they formed no less than
eleven bailiwicks, subdivided into more than forty-two commanderies; in Palestine it was
for the most part with sword in hand that the Templars extended their possessions at the
expense of the Mohammedans. Their castles are still famous owing to the remarkable
ruins which remain: Safed, built in 1140; Karak of the desert (1143); and, most
importantly of all, Castle Pilgrim, built in 1217 to command a strategic defile on the seacoast.
In these castles, which were both monasteries and cavalry- barracks, the life of the
Templars was full of contrasts. A contemporary describes the Templars as "in turn lions
of war and lambs at the hearth; rough knights on the battlefield, pious monks in the
chapel; formidable to the enemies of Christ, gentleness itself towards His friends."
(Jacques de Vitry). Having renounced all the pleasures of life, they faced death with a
proud indifference; they were the first to attack, the last to retreat, always docile to the
voice of their leader, the discipline of the monk being added to the discipline of the
soldier. As an army they were never very numerous.
A contemporary tells us that there were 400 knights in Jerusalem at the zenith of their
prosperity; he does not give the number of sergeants, who were more numerous. But it
was a picked body of men who, by their noble example, inspirited the remainder of the
Christian forces. They were thus the terror of the Mohammedans. Were they defeated, it
was upon them that the victor vented his fury, the more so as they were forbidden to offer
a ransom. When taken prisoners, they scornfully refused the freedom offered them on
condition of apostasy. At the siege of Safed (1264), at which ninety Templars met death,
eighty others were taken prisoners, and, refusing to Deny Christ, died martyrs to the
Faith. This fidelity cost them dear. It has been computed that in less than twocenturies
almost 20,000 Templars, knights and serjeants, perished in war.
These frequent hecatombs rendered it difficult for the order to increase in numbers and
also brought about a decadence of the true crusading spirit. As the order was compelled
to make immediate use of the recruits, the article of the original rule in Latin which
required a probationary period fell into desuetude. Even excommunicated men, who, as
was the case with many crusaders, wished to expiate their sins, were admitted.
All that was required of a new member was a blind obedience, as imperative in the
soldier as in the monk. He had to declare himself forever "serf et esclave de la maison"
(French text of the rule). To prove his sincerity, he was subjected to a secret test
concerning the nature of which nothing has ever been discovered, although it gave rise to
the most extraordinary accusations. The great wealth of the order may also have
contributed to a certain laxity in morals, but the most serious charge against it was its
insupportable pride and love of power.
At the apogee of its prosperity, it was said to possess 9000 estates. With its accumulated
revenues it had amassed great wealth, which was deposited in its temples at Paris and
London. Numerous princes and private individuals had banked there their personal
property, because of the uprightness and solid credit of such bankers. In Paris the royal
treasure was kept in the Temple. Quite independent, except from the distant authority of
the pope, and possessing power equal to that of the leading temporal sovereigns, the order
soon assumed the right to direct the weak and irresolute government of the Kingdom of
Jerusalem, a feudal kingdom transmissible through women and exposed to all the
disadvantages of minorities, regencies, and domestic discord.
However, the Templars were soon opposed by the Order of Hospitallers, which had in its
turn become military, and was at first the imitator and later the rival of the Templars. This
ill-timed interference of the orders in the government of Jerusalem only multiplied the
intestine dessentions, and this at a time when the formidable power of Saladin threatened
the very existence of the Latin Kingdom. While the Templars sacrificed themselves with
their customary bravery in this final struggle, they were, nevertheless, partly responsible
for the downfall of Jerusalem.
To put an end to this baneful rivalry between the military orders, there was a very simple
remedy at hand, namely their amalgamation. This was officially proposed by St. Louis at
the Council of Lyons (1274). It was proposed anew in 1293 by Pope Nicholas IV, who
called a general consultation on this point of the Christian states.
This idea is canvassed by all the publicists of that time, who demand either a fusion of the
existing orders or the creation of a third order to supplant them. Neven in fact had the
question of the crusaders been more eagerly taken up than after their failure. As the
grandson of St. Louis, Philip the Fair could not remain indifferent to these proposals for a
crusade. As the most powerful prince of his time, the direction of the movement belonged
to him. To assume this direction, all he demanded was the necesary supplies of men and
especially of money. Such is the genesis of his campaign for the suppression of the
Templars.
It has been attributed wholly to his well-known cupidity. Even on this supposition he
needed a pretext, for he could not, without sacrilege, lay hands on possessions that
formed part of the ecclesiastical domain. To justify such a course the sanction of the
Church was necessary, and this the king could obtain only by maintaining the sacred
purpose for which the possessions were destined.
Admitting that he was sufficiently powerful to encroach upon the property of the
Templars in France, he still needed the concurrence of the Church to secure control of
their possessions in the other countries of Christendom. Such was the purpose of the wily
negotiations of this self-willed and cunning sovereign, and of his still more treacherous
counsellors, with Clement V, a French pope of weak character and easily deceived. The
rumour that there had been a prearrangement between the king and the pope has been
finally disposed of. A doubtful revelation, which allowed Philip to make the prosecution
of the Templars as heretics a question of orthodoxy, afforded him the opportunity which
he desired to invoke the action of the Holy See.
Their Tragic End
In the trial of the Templars two phases must be distinguished: the royal commission and
the papal commission. Philip the Fair made a preliminary inquiry, and, on the strength of
so-called revelations of a few unworthy and degraded members, secret orders were sent
throughout France to arrest all the Templars on the same day (13 October, 1307), and to
submit them to a most rigorous examination. The king did this, it was made to appear, at
the request of the ecclesiastical inquisitors, but in reality without their co-operation. In
this inquiry torture, the use of which was authorized by the cruel procedure of the age in
the case of crimes committed without witnesses,was pitilessly employed. Owing to the
lack of evidence, the accused could be convicted only through their own confession and,
to extort this confession, the use of torture was considered necessary and legitimate.
There was one feature in the organization of the order which gave rise to suspicion,
namely the secrecy with which the rites of initiation were conducted. The secrecy is
explained by the fact that the receptions always took place in a chapter, and the chapters,
owing to the delicate and grave questions discussed, were, and necessarily had to be, held
in secret. An indiscretion in the matter of secrecy entailed exclusion from the order. The
secrecy of these initiations, however, had two grave disadvantages. As these receptions
could take place wherever there was a commandery, they were carried on without
publicity and were free from all surveillance or control from the higher authorities, the
tests being entrusted to the discretion of subalterns who were often rough and
uncultivated. Under such conditions, it is not to be wondered at that abuses crept in.
One need only recall what took place almost daily at the time in the brotherhoods of
artisans, the initiation of a new member being too often made the occasion for a parody
more or less sacrilegious of baptism or of the Mass. The second disadvantage of this
secrecy was, that it gave an opportunity to the enemies of the Templars, and they were
numerous, to infer from this mystery every conceivable malicious supposition and base
on it the monstrous imputations. The Templars were accused of spitting upon the Cross,
of denying Christ, of permitting sodomy, of worshipping an idol, all in the most
impenetrable secrecy. Such were the Middle Ages, when prejudice was so vehement that,
to destroy an adversary, men did not recoil from inventing the most criminal charges.
It will suffice to recall the similar, but even more ridiculous than ignominious accusations
brought against Pope Boniface VIII by the same Philip the Fair. Most of the accused
declared themselves guilty of these secret crimes after being subjected to such ferocious
torture that many of them succumbed. Some made similar confessions without the use of
torture, it is true, but through fear of it; the threat had been sufficient. Such was the case
with the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who acknowledged later that he had
lied to save his life. Carried on without the authorization of the pope, who had the
military orders under his immediate jurisdiction, this investigation was radically corrupt
both as to its intent and as to its procedure.
Not only did Clement V enter an energetic protest, but he annulled the entire trial and
suspended the powers of the bishops and their inquisitors. However, the offense had been
admitted and remained the irrevocable basis of the entire subsequent proceedings. Philip
the Fair took advantage of the discovery to have bestowed upon himself by the University
of Paris the title of Champion and Defender of the Faith, and also to stir up public
opinion at the States General of Tours against the heinous crimes of the Templars.
Moreover, he succeeded in having the confessions of the accused confirmed in presence
of the pope by seventy-two Templars, who had been specially chosen and coached
beforehand. In view of this investigation at Poitiers (June, 1308), the pope, until
thensceptical, at last became concerned and opened a new commission, the procedure of
which he himself directed. He reserved the cause of the order to the papal commission,
leaving individuals to be tried by the diocesan commissions to whom herestored their
powers.
The second phase of the process was the papal inquiry, which was not restricted to
France, but extended to all the Christian countries Europe, and even to the Orient. In most
of the other countries -- Portugal, Spain, Germany, Cyprus -- the Templars were found
innocent; in Italy, except for a few districts, the decision was the same. But in France the
episcopal inquisitions, resuming their activities, took the facts as established at the trial,
and confined themselves to reconciling the repentant guilty members, imposing various
canonical penances extending even to perpetual imprisonment. Only those who persisted
in heresy were to be turned over to the secular arm, but, by a rigid interpretation of this
provision, those who had withdrawn their former confessions were considered relapsed
heretics; thus fifty-four Templars who had recanted after having confessed were
condemned as relapsed and publicly burned on 12 May, 1310.
Subsequently all the other Templars, who had been examined at the trial, with very few
exceptions declared themselves guilty. At the same time the papal commission, appointed
to examine the cause of the order, had entered upon its duties and gathered together the
documents which were to be submitted to the pope, and to the general council called to
decide as to the final fate of the order. The culpability of single persons, which was
looked upon as established, did not involve the guilt of the order. Although the defense of
the order was poorly conducted, it could not be proved that the order as a body professed
any heretical doctrine, or that a secret rule, distinct from the official rule, was practised.
Consequently, at the General Council of Vienne in Dauphiné on 16 October, 1311, the
majority were favourable to the maintenance of the order. The pope, irresolute and
harrassed, finally adopted a middle course: he decreed the dissolution, not the
condemnation of the order, and not by penal sentence, but by an Apostolic Decree (Bull
of 22 March, 1312). The order having been suppressed, the pope himself was to decide as
to the fate of its members and the disposal of its possessions. As to the property, it was
turned over to the rival Order of Hospitallers to be applied to its original use, namely the
defence of the Holy Places. In Portugal, however, and in Aragon the possessions were
vested in two new orders, the Order of Christ in Portugal and the Order of Montesa in
Aragon.
As to the members, the Templars recognized guiltless were allowed either to join another
military order or to return to the secular state. In the latter case, a pension for life, charged
to the possessions of the order, was granted them. On the other hand, the Templars who
had pleaded guilty before their bishops were to be treated "according to the rigours of
justice, tempered by a generous mercy".
The pope reserved to his own jugment the cause of the grand master and his three first
dignitaries. They had confessed their guilt; it remained to reconcile them with the
Church, after they had testified to their repentance with the customary solemnity. To give
this solemnity more publicity, a platform was erected in front of the Notre-Dame for the
reading of the sentence.
But at the supreme moment the grand master recovered his courage and proclaimed the
innocence of the Templars and the falsityof his own alleged confessions. To atone for this
deplorable moment of weakness, he declared himself ready to sacrifice his life. He knew
the fate that awaited him.
Immediately after this unexpected coup-de-theatre he was arrested as a relapsed heretic
with another dignitary who chose to share his fate, and by order of Philip they were
burned at the stake before the gates of the palace. This brave death deeply impressed the
people, and, as it happened that the pope and the king died shortly afterwards, the legend
spread that the grand master in the midst of the flames had summoned them both to
appear in the course of the year before the tribunal of God.
Such was the tragic end of the Templars. If we consider that the Order of Hospitallers
finally inherited, although not without difficulties, the property of the Templars and
received many of its members, we may say that the result of the trial was practically
equivalent to the long-proposed amalgamation of the two rival orders. For the Knights
(first of Rhodes, afterwards of Malta) took up and carried on elsewhere the work of the
Knights of the Temple.
This formidable trial, the greatest ever brought to light whether we consider the large
number of accused, the difficulty of discovering the truth from a mass of suspicious and
contradictory evidence, or the many jurisdictions in activity simultaneously in all parts of
Christendom from Great Britain to Cyprus, is not yet ended. It is still passionately
discussed by historians who have divided into two camps, for and against the order.
To mention only the principal ones, the following find the order guilty:
Dupuy (1654), Hammer (1820), Wilcke (1826), Michelet (1841), Loiseleur (1872), Prutz
(1888), and Rastoul (1905); the following find it innocent: Father Lejeune (1789),
Raynouard (1813), (1846), Ladvocat (1880), Schottmuller (1887), Gmelin (1893), Lea
(1888), Fincke (1908). Without taking any side in this discussion, which is not yet
exhausted, we may observe that the latest documents brought to light, particularly those
which Fincke has recently extracted from the archives of the Kingdom of Aragon, tell
more and more strongly in favour of the order.
In June of 1311, the English Inquisition came across some very interesting information
from a Templar by the name of Stephen de Strapelbrugge, who admitted that he was told
in his initiation that Jesus was a man and not a god. Another Templar by the name of
John de Stoke stated that Jacques de Molay had instructed that he should know that Jesus
was but a man, and that he should believe in 'the great omnipotent God, who was the
architect of heaven and Earth, and not the crucifixion'.
These are the articles on which inquiry should be made against the Order of the
Knighthood of the Temple.
Firstly that, although they declared that the Order had been solemnly established and
approved by the Apostolic See, nevertheless in the reception of the brothers of the said
Order, and at some time after, there were preserved and performed by the brothers those
things which follow:
Namely that each in his reception, or at some time after, or as soon as a fit occasion could
be found for the reception, denied Christ, sometimes Christ crucified, sometimes Jesus,
and sometimes God, and sometimes the Holy Virgin, and sometimes all the saints of
God, led and advised by those who received him. Item, that they told those whom they received that he was a false prophet.
Item, that he had not suffered nor was he crucified for the redemption of the human race,
but on account of his sins.
Item, that neither the receptors nor those being received had a hope of achieving salvation
through Jesus, and they said this, or the equivalent or similar, to those whom they
received.
Item, that they made those whom they received spit on a cross, or on a representation or
sculpture of the cross and an image of Christ, although sometimes those who were being
received spat next [to it]. Item, that they sometimes ordered that this cross be trampled
underfoot.
Item, that brothers who had been received sometimes trampled on the cross.
Item, that sometimes they urinated and trampled, and caused others to urinate, on this
cross, and several times they did this on Good Friday.
Item, that some of them, on that same day or another of Holy Week, were accustomed to
assemble for the aforesaid trampling and urination.
Of 138 Templars questioned in Paris during October and November, 105 admitted that
they had denied Christ during their secret reception into the order, 123 that they had spat
at, on, or near some form of the crucifix, 103 that they had indecently kissed, usually on
the base of the spine or the navel, and 102 implied that homosexuality among the brothers
was encouraged (although only 3 admitted directly engaging in homosexual relations).
This immediate and virtually unanimous confession of guilt on the part of the Templars,
including the Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, and the Visitor, Hughes de Pairaud, cast a
pall over the order from which it never recovered. Although the confessions were
extracted by torture and later denied before papal inquisitors, the Templars had sentenced
themselves out of their own mouths.
Jacques de Molay
On March 19th, 1314 the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay,
was burned at the stake. De Molay is said to have cursed King Philip and Pope Clement
as he burned at the stake asking both men to join him within a year. Clement died only
one month later and Philip IV seven months after that.
In France thirty-six brethren died, and out of 138 examined 123 confessed to the least
nauseating charge, spitting on the crucifix, for medieval man was accustomed to swearing
oaths under duress and then obtaining absolution once he was safe. Even Jacques de
Molay stooped to this stratagem, humiliated by a charge of homosexuality which he
furiously denied.
At Carcassone two brethren agreed they had adored a wooden image called Baphomet
while a Florentine Templar named it 'Mahomet' and another brother said it had a long
beard but no body. Royal agents hunted frantically for Baphomet and 'discovered' a
metal-plated skull suspiciously like a reliquary.
The course of the trials in England, Aragon, Navarre (ruled by Philip the Fair's eldest son,
Louis), Majorca, Castile, Portugal, Italy and Germany demonstrates incontestably that
only in France or in territories under French influence were there substantial confessions
to the alleged crimes. In England and Aragon, whose laws of procedure forbade the use
of torture, confessions came only after the papal inquisitors had taken over and
introduced torture.
The sole exception was the admission of the English Templars to a belief in the power of
absolution exercised by the Grand Master and regional preceptors in chapter, which
Barber [The Trial of the Templars] convincingly explains as a consequence of Templar
confusion over the changing definition of absolution in the thirteenth century, to which
Templar practice did not conform.
The sharp distinction in obtaining confessions between countries that did and did not
employ torture makes entirely plausible Barber's conclusion that 'it would now be
difficult to argue, as some nineteenth-century historians did, that the Templars were
guilty of the accusations made against them by the regime of Philip the Fair.
In England, if the Templars would confess to the sin of a layman granting absolution and
swear their own condemnation of the Templar heresies charged in the papal encyclicals,
they could perform a minor penance and be free men, back in the bosom of the Church.
That was too good a bargain to pass up, and most of the English Templars agreed.
They made their confession in public, then were sent into monasteries to perform their
penances. With that done, a few went into the Hospitallers, but most returned to secular
lives, with meager pensions based on what the Church felt was the minimum amount
required by a monk for food and clothing.
- Catholic Encyclopedia
WIKIPEDIA
Knights Templar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Seal of the Knights. The two riders have been interpreted as a sign of poverty or the duality of
monk/soldier.
The first of the military orders, the Knights Templar or Poor Knights of Christ were
founded in 1118 in the aftermath of the First Crusade to help the new Kingdom of
Jerusalem maintain itself against its defeated Muslim neighbors, and to ensure the safety
of the large numbers of European pilgrims that flowed towards Jerusalem after its
conquest.
Contents [hide]
1 Organization
2 History
2.1 Banking
2.2 Ruin
2.3 Heresy and pardon
3 Modern orders and claims of descent
4 Myths
5 Grand Masters from 1118 to 1314
6 Places associated with the Knights Templar
7 Related articles
8 External links
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Organization
The Templars were organized as a monastic order, following a rule created for them by
Bernard of Clairvaux, the founder of the Cistercian Order. The Templars were wellconnected and quickly became prime movers in the international politics of the Crusades
period. In time, they were endowed with several extraordinary Papal bulls (see Omne
Datum Optimum) that permitted them, among other things, to levy taxes and accept
tithing in the areas under their direct control, facilitating their quick rise to institutional
power.
There were four divisions of brothers in the Templars:
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the knights, equipped as heavy cavalry
the sergeants, equipped as light cavalry and drawn from a lower social class than
the knights
farmers, who administered the property of the Order
the chaplains, who were ordained priests and saw to the spiritual needs of the
Order.
At any time, there were approximately 10 people in support positions for each Knight.
There were brothers devoted only to banking, as the Order was often trusted with
precious goods by participants in the Crusades.
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History
Their name alludes to their historical headquarters in the Mosque of Omar (a.k.a. "Dome
of the Rock") on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This they renamed Templum Domini.
Represented on one of their seals, the structure was believed to be a remnant of the
Temple of Jerusalem, and was the model for many Templar churches in Europe, for
example the Temple Church in London.
Besides Palestine, the order also fought in the Spanish and Portuguese Reconquista. They
were given extensive possessions and castles in frontier land. At one point, they were to
inherit the kingdom of Aragon, jointly with other military orders.
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Banking
The Knights involvement in banking over time grew into a new basis of money as
Templars became increasingly involved in banking activities. It is some indication of
their powerful political connections that the Templars' involvement in usury did not lead
to more controversy within the Order and the church at large.
The Templars' political connections and awareness of the essentially urban and
commercial nature of the Outremer communities naturally led the Order to a position of
significant power both in Europe and the Holy Lands. Their success attracted the concern
of many other Orders and eventually that of the nobility and monarchs of Europe as well,
who were at this time seeking to monopolize control of money and banking after a long
chaotic period in which civil society, especially the Church and its lay Orders, had
dominated financial activities. The Templars' holdings were extensive both in Europe and
the Middle East, including, for a time, the entire island of Cyprus.
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Ruin
On October 13, 1307, what may have been all the Knights Templar in France were
simultaneously arrested by agents of Philip the Fair (Philippe le Beau), to be later
tortured into admitting heresy in the Order. One view is that Philip, who seized the
treasury and broke up the monastic banking system, simply sought to control it for
himself. This, and the Templars' original banking of assets for suddenly-mobile
depositors, were two of many shifts towards a system of military fiat to back European
money, removing this power from Church Orders. The Hospitallers of St John of
Jerusalem and of Rhodes and of Malta, seeing the fate of the Templars, were also
convinced to give up banking at this time.
Many kings and nobles supported the Knights at that time, and only dissolved the order in
their fiefs when ordered so by Pope Clement V. Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots, had
already been excommunicated for other reasons and was therefore not disposed to pay
any heed to Papal commands. As a result many of the order fled to Scotland and also to
Portugal, where the order name was changed to "Order of Christ" — believed to have
contributed to the first naval discoveries of the Portuguese.
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Heresy and pardon
However, there had been a debate about whether the accusation of religious heresy was
not, by the standards of the time, entirely without merit. Under torture, some Templars
"admitted" to homosexual acts, the worship of heads and/or a mystery known as
Baphomet. Their leaders later denied the admission and for that were executed. Some
scholars discount this as a typical forced admission during the Inquisition while others
argue that these accusations were in reality due to a misunderstanding of arcane rituals
held behind closed doors which had their origins in the Crusaders’ bitter struggle against
the Saracens. These included "denying Christ and spitting on the Cross three times", as
well as "kissing other men’s behinds".
According to some scholars, and recently recovered Vatican documents, these acts were
intended to simulate the kind of humiliation and torture that a Crusader might be
subjected to by the Saracens if captured. According to this line of reasoning, they were
taught how to commit apostacy "with the mind only and not with the heart." As for the
accusations of head-worship and trying to syncretize Christianity with
"Mohammedanism", some scholars argue that the former referred to rituals involving the
alleged relics of Saint Euphemia, one of Saint Ursula's 11 maidens, Hughes de Payens
and John the Baptist rather than pagan idols while the latter is ascribed to the chaplains
creating the term "Baphomet" through the Atbash cipher to mystify the term "Sophia"
(Greek for "wisdom"), which was equated to the concept of "Logos" (Greek for "Word").
This is a highly controversial interpretation, and is largely based on conjecture.
Conspiracy theories related to the suppression of the Knights Templar often go far
beyond the suggested motive of simply seizing property and consolidating geopolitical
power. It is the Catholic Church's position that the persecution was unjust, that there was
nothing wrong with the Templars, and that the Pope at the time was manipulated into
suppressing them. In 2001, Dr. Barbara Frale found the Chinon Parchment in the Secret
Vatican Archives, a document that shows that Pope Clement V secretly pardoned the
Knights Templar in 1314.
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Modern orders and claims of descent
The Templars play strongly in both the ritual and foundation of various branches of
modern Freemasonry. The Scottish Rite, which was formed in France in the 18th
Century, includes references to the Templars in many of its ritual degrees -- primarily the
section known as "Council of Kadosh" (degrees 19-30) and the final two degrees (31 and
32) known as the "Consistory".
Frank S. Land was serving in the DeMolay Council of Kadosh in post-World War I
Kansas City when he developed the idea for a fraternity for boys. Thus, another modern
Masonic organization related to the Templars was born in 1919 -- the Order of DeMolay.
While not directly descended from the Templars, Jacques de Molay, the last of the Grand
Masters and for whom the order is named, is firmly entrenched in many of its rituals.
While the only requirement to join Scottish Rite is to be a Mason in good standing,
DeMolay does require a its members to profess a belief in God and the Bible is a part of
its ritual altar. However, there are DeMolays from a wide variety of monotheistic faiths.
Another branch of Masonry however, York Rite, does require its members to be of
Christian faith. Among the three branches of the York Rite is a branch called The
Commandery of Knights Templar. York Rite and Chivalric Masonry claim to be insipired
by the Templars but not direct descendents of them. Here also, the Templars are firmly
enshrined in the orders and rituals.
While some historians and authors have tried to draw a link from Freemasonry and its
many branches to the Templars no such link has been claimed by these organizations nor
proven.
However, an ecumenical Christian chivalric society named the Sovereign Military Order
of the Temple of Jerusalem was founded in 1804, with the support of Napoleon, that is
dedicated to charitable works and antiquarian research. This order operates on the basis
of the traditions of the medieval Knights Templar. It is probably the modern organization
that most effectively reclaims the spirit of, but does not assert any direct descent from the
ancient order. In 2001, the United Nations granted the Order of the Temple a special
consultative status.
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Myths
The rapid succession of the last direct Capetian kings of France between 1314 and 1328,
the three sons of Philip IV the Fair, led many to believe that the dynasty had been cursed
– thus the name of "cursed Kings" (rois maudits). It is said that Jacques de Molay, the
last master of the order, cursed King Philip while lying on his execution pyre.
Lately, fringe researchers and aficionados of esotericism have claimed that the order
stored secret knowledge, linking them to the Rosicrucians, the Hashshashin, the Priory of
Sion, the Rex Deus, the Cathars, the Hermetics, the Gnostics, the Essenes, and ultimately
lost teachings or relics of Jesus, Solomon and Moses. The Order of the Solar Temple is
an example of a neo-Templar group that claimed to be a recipient of this esoterica.
However the order was always surrounded by legends concerning secrets and mysteries
handed down to the select from ancient times. Perhaps most well known are the those
concerning the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant and secrets of building.
Some sources say the Holy Grail was found by the order and taken to Scotland during the
scourging of the order in 1307 and that it remains buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel. These
stories were first invented by 18th and 19th century romanticists and then by 20th century
novelists.
Perhaps the most numerous legends are those concerning the Ark of the Covenant, the
chest which contained various sacred objects of ancient Israel including Aaron's rod and,
most notably, the tablets of stone inscribed by Moses with the Ten Commandments.
These myths are connected with the long occupation by the order of the temple mount in
Jerusalem. Some sources record that they discovered secrets of the master masons who
had built the original and second temples secreted there along with knowledge that the
Ark had been moved to Ethiopia before the destruction of the first temple. Some allusion
to this is made in engravings on the Cathedral at Chartres, often considered to be the first
example of what came to known as the gothic style of architecture, great influence over
the building of which was had by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who was also influential in
the formation of the order. Further links to both the search by the order for the Ark and to
its discovery of ancient secrets of building are suggested by existence of the monolithic
Church of St George in Lalibela in Ethiopia, which stands to this day and whose
construction is attributed to the Knights Templar. There is also an underground church
dated to the same period in Aubeterre in France.
Lastly, there is growing speculation surrounding the possibility that the Knights Templar
may have undertaken pre-Columbian voyages to America.
Recent interest in Templar mythology has been sparked in large part to its prominent role
in Dan Brown novel and bestseller, The Da Vinci Code (2003).
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Grand Masters from 1118 to 1314
1. Huguens de Payns (1118-1136)
2. Robert de Craon (1136-1146)
3. Everard des Barres (1146-1149)
4. Bernard de Tremelay (1149-1153)
5. André de Montbard (1153-1156)
6. Bertrand de Blanchefort (1156-1169)
7. Phillipe de Milly (1169-1171)
8. Odo (Eudes) de St Amand (1171-1179)
9. Arnaud de Toroge (1179-1184)
10. Gérard de Ridefort (1185-1189)
11. Robert de Sablé (1191-1193)
12. Gilbert Horal (1193-1200)
13. Phillipe de Plessis (1201-1208)
14. Guillaume de Chartres (1209-1219)
15. Pierre (Pedro) de Montaigu (1219-1230)
16. Armand de Périgord (???-1244)
17. Richard de Bures (1245-1247)
18. Guillaume de Sonnac (1247-1250)
19. Renaud de Vichiers (1250-1256)
20. Thomas Bérard (1256-1273)
21. Guillaume de Beaujeu (1273-1291)
22. Thibaud Gaudin (1291-1293)
23. Jacques de Molay (1293-1314)
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Places associated with the Knights Templar
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Castle of Almourol in Portugal
Kolossi Castle in Cyprus
Temple Church in London
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Acre, Palestine
Albigensian Crusade
Geoffrey de Charney
History of Freemasonry
Knights Hospitaller
Knights of St Thomas
Rosslyn Chapel
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Templars in England
Teutonic Knights
The Marriage of the Virgin
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DeMolay International (http://www.demolay.org)
FS AncientMysteries News: Vatican File Shows Pope Pardoned Massacred
Knights (http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/amkt.htm)
Masonic Bodies from The Lodge Room
(http://www.thelodgeroom.com/bodies.html)
Scottish Rite Freemasonry (Northern Masonic Jurisdiction - USA)
(http://www.supremecouncil.org)
Skeleton in the Armor (http://www.frpd.org/historical/skeleton.htm)A Fall River
police report on a Templar relic in New England
Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (http://www.osmth.org/)
Templar History Magazine (http://www.templarhistory.com/)
York Rite Freemasonry (http://www.yorkrite.com)
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Sacred Stone makes trees and flowers bloom
April 6, 2004
One of the strangest archaeological artefacts I ever saw is housed at a secret address in
Kilbarchan.
It's the stone head of a black-skinned, pre-Christian goddess which surfaced near the
majestic West Church in the picturesque Renfrewshire village.
Although the beautiful red sandstone kirk is just over a century old, it occupies the site of
the pre-Reformation St Catherine's Chapel.
Equally enigmatic - and carved on an ancient stone wall surrounding the snowdropsilvered tombstones in the graveyard - is the sword of a Knight Templar thought to be a
member of the Craufurd family, of nearby Auchenames Castle, who served in the 12th
and 13th century Crusades to regain the Holy City of Jerusalem for Christendom.
The sculpted sword - which signifies a Templar burial sepulchre - and the wizened stone
head are inextricably linked.
After 200 years of valiant Christian service, the Templars were brutally suppressed
between 1307 and 1314 by an unholy alliance of the Church and French king Philippe IV.
Their political and ecclesiastical masters believed the Knights were too powerful and
wealthy. So they accused the brave brotherhood of heretical religious observances,
including the worship of enchanted human heads.
At an Inquisition in 1308, the Knights Templar were accused of 'having idols, namely
heads, that they adored these idols, said they could save them, and that the heads could
create riches, make trees, flower and land germinate'.
It was believed the sculpted heads were inspired by the dark-skinned Egyptian Goddess,
Isis, consort of Osiris, the dying-and- resurrecting vegetational god, and mother of Horus,
who was the reborn Osiris and identifiable with the Egyptian Pharaohs.
It was alleged the Templars were introduced to the Isis Earth Mother cult, with its
promise of resurrection after death in battle, during the Crusades.
Perhaps the mysterious stone head was brought to Renfrewshire from the Holy Land by a
Knight Templar - possibly a Craufurd of Auchenames - commemorated by the sculpted
sword at the village's medieval graveyard.
Today, the fields and woods around the elegant church in Kilbarchan are fragrantlyfloriated by springtime daffodil, crocus, cherry, celandine and coltsfoot blossoms.
It seems the sacred stone head still makes trees flower in the luxuriant land where an
entombed Knight Templar awaits the trumpet call of resurrection in the Earth Mother's
bosom.
Knights Templar to use latest imaging in search for Grail
January 6, 2003 - Independent.co.uk
For centuries the intricately carved stones of Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh have
tantalised historians, archaeologists and devoted Christians. A labyrinth of vaults beneath
the 15th-century home of the Knights Templar is reputed to contain dozens of holy relics,
including early gospels, the Ark of the Covenant, and the fabled Holy Grail.
More than 550 years after the first foundation stones were laid, modern technology is
about to put the legend to the test.
A group of Knights Templar, successors to the warrior monks who sought asylum from
the Pope by fleeing to Scotland in the early 14th century and fought for Robert the Bruce
at Bannockburn, are to make a "non-invasive" survey of the land around the chapel. They
will use the latest ultrasound and thermal imaging technology in the hope of finding
evidence of the existence of the vaults. "The plan is to investigate the land around the
chapel to a depth of at least 20ft," said John Ritchie, Grand Herald and spokesman for the
Knights Templar.
"The machine we are using is the most sophisticated anywhere and is capable of taking
readings from the ground up to a mile deep without disturbing any of the land.
"We know many of the Knights are buried in the grounds and there are many references
to buried vaults, which we hope this project will finally uncover." Rosslyn Chapel, or the
Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew as it was to have been, was founded in 1446 by Sir
William St Clair, third and last Prince of Orkney. Built as a celebration of Christ, it is
also a monument to craftsmanship.
Bristling with flying buttresses and gargoyles in the highest Gothic style on the outside,
the interior is carved with scenes from the Bible, the fall of man, the expulsion from the
Garden of Eden, the birth of Christ, the crucifixion and the resurrection.
"Rosslyn is an amazing building. It is a book in stone but, because the symbolism which
is written into the chapel is in a medieval language, we haven't even cracked the
introduction page yet," Mr Ritchie said.
Pillars and arches are covered with hundreds of exquisitely carved leaves, fruit, animals
and figures. Some curious carvings are said to depict cactus and sweetcorn, chiselled
before Columbus set foot in America in 1492.
"There is a whole series of stuff on each section of the chapel, which relates to a different
period of time," Mr Ritchie added. "We have to go back to the 15th century and read it
with a medieval eye to understand what it all means. All these symbols relate to events in
history. It is a book created in stone, which brings in all the apostolic religion, laid over
by an astrological form which tracks the seasons, and the plants in the seasons."
Both the Freemasons and the Knights Templar claim the ornate stonemasonry of the
church is a secret code which, if broken, will reveal the whereabouts of treasures.
One theory suggests that one of the ornate columns, known as the Apprentice Pillar, may
contain a lead casket in which is hidden the legendary cup used by Christ at the Last
Supper and later used to collect his blood, the so-called Holy Grail.
"Once we understand the introduction page we will begin to understand what this book in
stone means," Mr Ritchie added. "We hope to start as soon as possible and get a load of
readings from it. We hope to at least find this burial place and maybe the Holy Grail
itself."
Rosslyn Chapel, History, Hauntings and Mystical Connections
The chapel has been described as a 'Tapestry in Stone' - some of the most impressive
stone carving in Scotland if not Europe -the Apprentice Pillar - said to have been carved
by an apprentice to the master mason.
BAPHOMET
The Baphomet
Allegedly a goat-headed devil figure
Central to the accusations brought against the Knights Templar, was the accusation that,
they worshipped an idol named Baphomet, which is said to have taken the form of a head
or sometimes a Black Cat. The truth behind this mythos varies with various scholars.
The Baphomet is one aspect of the Templars mythos, could generate so many theories as
to its true origins is amazing. The interest in the Baphomet has survived over 600 years
and taken many forms. The opinions on the Baphomet vary greatly from scholar to
scholar and mystic path to mystic path. The purpose of this section is to shed some light
on some of the theories and the connection, if any, to the Knights Templar.
Mistakingly some describe the Templars as Devil worshipping Occultists, while
historians of the twentieth century were of the belief that the Templars were party to the
machinations of a corrupt government and church. It remains to be seen what the
common consensus of this century will be regarding the order.
Twentieth century historians may have believed in innocence, the Baphomet mythos did
survive as is indicated by the following dictionary definition: "Baphomet was the deity
worshipped by the Knights Templar, and in Black Magic as the source and creator of
evil; the Satanic goat of the witches' Sabbath and one of the names adopted by Aleister
Crowley."
The image of the Baphomet is as varied as the explanations as to its etymology. A listing
of some of the more common descriptions of it.
An idol with a human skull
Ahead with two faces
With a beard - Without a beard
With the heads of a cockerel
With the head of a man
With the head of a goat and the body of a man
Wings and cloven feet
The upper body of a woman (maternity)
A candle on its head - a symbol of revelation combining male sexual potency with the
four elements and intelligence
Theories on the etymology of the Baphomet are many. To some it is believed to be a
corruption of the Moslem prophet "Mahomet" or in English Mohammed. The Templars
fought along side Moslem Assassins during their time and it is held that they may have
adopted Islamic beliefs. This doesn't really hold water to anyone familiar with Islam as
the religion forbids all forms of idolatry.
Another train of thought is that Baphomet is really a joining of two Greek words meaning
absorption into wisdom. In either case the fact remains that the Templars were accused of
practicing their initiations and rituals in front of a large idol of the demon Baphomet.
How did this belief come to be? Since King Philip of France sought to own the vast
Templar wealth, he along with his puppet Pope Clement V had the Templars captured
and tortured. During these tortures they made many confessions, among these, the
disclosure that they had worshipped an idol said to be the Baphomet.
Were these claims true? Perhaps we'll never know. Jacques de Molay, who had earlier
confessed his and the Templars guilt slowly burned at the stake insisting the order was
innocent of all but one offence, that of allowing torture to cause them to lie and confess
untruths.
Schonfield showed that by applying the Hebrew Atbash code to the name
Baphomet, the name Sophia [Shvpia], female wisdom, is revealed. Sophia
is equated with Isis by Plutarch.
The number 58 is less puzzling if one remembers that five (5) is the
number of the pentagram and eight (8) is indicative of Isis. We may now
complete the simple equation which exposes her secret number: 5 X 8 =
40 = 58 - 18 ISIS
The numbers 5 and 8 are also exhibited in the beliefs of the 'Brothers of
the Rose Cross', where the rose is constructed with a centre of five petals,
surrounded by eight petals.
- David Wood, Genisis
Isis' magic was allied to the wisdom of the Egyptian god Thoth. His wife
or consort, Nehemaut, was known to the Gnostics as Sophia.
By this analysis, therefore, when the Templars worshipped Baphomet
what they were really doing was worshipping the principle of Wisdom.
- Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal
Public indignation was aroused by charges of worshipping the devil in the
form of an idol called Baphomet. Baphomet was the Templar symbol of
Gnostic rites based on phallic worship and the power of directed will. The
androgynous figure with a goat's beard and cloven hooves is linked to the
horned god of antiquity, the goat of Mendes.
- Peter Tompkins, The Magic of Obelisks
Some confessed that they had also worshipped an idol in the form of a cat,
witch was red, or gray, or black, or mottled. Sometimes the idol worship
required kissing the cat below the tail. Sometimes the cat was greased with
the fat from roasted babies. The Templars were forced to eat food that
contained the ashes of dead Templars, a form of witchcraft that passed on
the courage of the fallen knights."
- John J. Robinson, Dungeon, Fire and Sword
They bestowed worship in their chapter on a heathen idol, variously
described as to its physical characteristics, but known as a 'Baphomet',
which etymologically was the same word [in Old French] as 'Mohammed'.
[Once or twice the form Mahomet is actually used by witnesses in the
trial.] Like so many persecuted heretical groups of the past, they were said
to hold their chapters only secretly and at night.
It was impossible for the Templars to have 'picked up in the East' the
practice of worshipping an idol bearing the name of the Prophet
Mohammed, since no such idol existed anywhere in the Levant, even
among breakaway sects such as the Ismailis or the Druse. The idea that
Muslims were idolaters was itself a part of another system of 'smears', the
pejorative representation of the oriental world by western Christians."
- Peter Partner, The Murdered Magicians
Probably relying upon contemporary Eastern sources, Western scholars
have recently supposed that 'Bafomet' has no connection with Mohammed,
but could well be a corruption of the Arabic abufihamat (pronounced in
the Moorish Spanish something like bufihimat). The word means 'father of
understanding.' In Arabic, 'father' is taken to mean 'source, chief seat of,'
and so on. In Sufi terminology, ras el-fahmat (head of knowledge) means
the mentation of man after undergoing refinement - the transmuted
consciousness.
- Idries Shah, The Sufis
During the Inquisition evidence there are several references to members of
the order receiving on initiation a little cord that had been in contact with
the 'head'.
Based upon the idol's description as a "demon" having "very fiercelooking face and beard", the idol very likely could have been Asmodeus,
the "daemon guardian" who helped Solomon build his Temple. A statue of
the demon guards the door of the parish church at Rennes-le-Château.
"The Templars' stronghold in Jerusalem, the site of their foundation, was
finally overrun by the Moslems in 1244. Thirty-three years later the
victorious sultan, Baibars, inspected their castle and is recorded to have
discovered inside the tower 'a great idol, in whose protection the castle had
been placed: according to the Frank who had given it its name [this is an
unreadable word, made in diacritic letters]. He ordered this to be destroyed
and a mihrab [Moslem prayer niche] constructed in its place."
- Ian Wilson, The Shroud of Turin - The Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ
During The Trial of the Templars in 1307 Brother Jean Taillefer of Genay
gave evidence. He "was received into the order at Mormant, one of the
three perceptories under the jurisdiction of the Grand Priory of
Champagne at Voulaine. He said at his initiation 'an idol representing a
human face' was placed on the altar before him. Hughes de Bure, another
Burgundian from a daughter house of Voulaine, described how the 'head'
was taken out of a cupboard, or aumbry, in the chapel, and that it seemed
to him to be of gold or silver, and to represent the head of a man with a
long beard. Brother Pierre d'Arbley suspected that the 'idol' had two faces,
and his kinsman Guillaume d'Arbley made the point that the 'idol' itself, as
distinct from copies, was exhibited at general chapters, implying that it
was only shown to senior members of the order on special occasions.
The treasurer of the Paris temple, Jean de Turn, spoke of a painted head in
the form of a picture, which he had adored at one of these chapters.
Nearly all the brethren agreed that the head was bearded and had long hair,
and the Templars, like the majority of their contemporaries, regarded long
hair as effeminate, so the length of the 'idol's hair was remarkable for this,
if for no other reason.
- Noel Currer-Briggs, The Shroud and the Grail
It is possible that the head idol was intended to represent the severed head
of John the Baptist, based on allegations that he was revered by the Order.
The Templars took part in the sack of Constantinople during the Fourth
Crusade in 1203-4. Robert de Clari described the opulence and numerous
relics at the sacred chapel of the Boucoleon Palace, amongst them
supposedly the head of John the Baptist. An egregore is a magical entity
that is artificially created by the focused thoughts and desires of a medium
(analogous in many ways to Tibetan tulpas.) Supposedly a medium or
statue could then serve as a tenant for the egregore, nourished by the
sexual life-powers of the members.
"The Egregora does exist in the so-called 'astral plane' and it is a demon,
that is to say, an illusory entity. It is not a true Microcosm, but a gestalt of
vitalized shells, a focus for everything that is negative, defeatist, maudlin,
bigoted, introverted in human nature - a morass completely hostile to
progress and to the spiritual evolution of mankind.
The representation of the egregore as bust recalls the ancient literary
tradition of animated statues or Salome, who wanted the head of John the
Baptist, probably to master his visionary powers. The classic prototype of
such an egregore is Baphomet, the alleged egregore of the Templars, who
was (as the Roman Emperor of the Gods) likewise worshipped in the form
of a bust. In the secret statutes of the Templars, Baphomet was besought
with the introduction to the Qu'ran and dismissed with the 24th chapter of
the Book of Sirach.
- P. R. Koenig, Too Hot to Handle
Another possibility as to the identity of the Baphomet may lie with
Nicodemus, who in the Gospel of John who brought spices for Christ's
burial. He is also mentioned in the apocryphal Evangelium Nicodemi (4th
C.) as a ruler of the Jews who testified in Christ's favor. The Interpolation
in the First Continuation of Chrétien's Perceval (12??) tells of the flight of
Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea to England and includes the
following intriguing passage:
Another possibility for the origin of the Head relates to the imagery on the
first Grand Master's shield, which consisted of three black heads on a gold
field. After about two hundred years, it is plausible that this head imagery
could have worked itself into the legend of the Baphomet. According to
more than one account, the Head was the actual skull of Hugues de Payen,
which was preserved as an object of veneration.
- Forrest Jackson, The Baphomet in History and Symbolism
We found indisputable evidence for the charge of secret ceremonies
involving a head of some kind. Indeed the existence of such a head proved
to be one of the dominant themes running through the Inquisition records.
Among the confiscated goods of the Paris preceptory a reliquary in the
shape of a woman's head was found. It was hinged on top, and contained
what appeared to have been relics of a peculiar kind."
- Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
Herodotus (4:26) speaks of the practice in the obscure Issedones of gilding
a head and sacrificing to it. Cleomenes of Sparta is said to have preserved
the head of Archonides in honey and consulted it before undertaking an
important task. Several vases of the fourth century BC in Etruria depict
scenes of persons interrogating oracular heads. And the severed head of
the rustic Carians which continues to 'speak' is mentioned derisively by
Aristotle."
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown ofthe Bicameral Mind
A similar tradition could be found in the Celtic cult of the severed head which figured
predominently in Peredur, a Welsh romance about the Holy Grail.
A great lady of Maraclea was loved by a Templar, a Lord of Sidon; but
she died in her youth, and on the night of her burial, this wicked lover
crept to the grave, dug up her body and violated it. Then a voice from the
void bade him return in nine months time for he would find a son. He
obeyed the injunction and at the appointed time he opened the grave again
and found a head on the leg bones of the skeleton (skull and crossbones).
The same voice bade him 'guard it well, for it would be the giver of all
good things', and so he carried it away with him.
- Ward, Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods
BLACK ISIS
Black Isis - The Black Virgin
As all things in our reality have positive and negative polarities - so too does the feminine
icon Isis. All souls contain a side that is in the light and that which is dark. This reflects
the emotionals aspects of third dimension - love very fear and hate.
Isis is a metaphor for the feminine aspect in all of us. Therefore Isis is portrayed as
having dual aspects of Light - the goddess - and Dark which links with magic, illusion,
time, and alchemy of consciousness, the Trickster, Merlin, etc.
Coming from Egypt she would be portrayed as a dark skinned woman - though in modern
times she is fair.
All feminine archetypes in all mythologies - are linked to one soul - be they goddesses,
priestesses, Mary, aliens entities, etc. They are all the same soul essence.
Isis was a magician, possibly the archetype for the high priestess of the
tarot. She learned her magic from Thoth, although according to some
legends she obtainedher powers from Ra himself by tricking him into
revealing his name to her, thus acquiring his full magical knowledge.
- Murray Hope Practical Egyptian Magic
The ankh [the looped cross of Egypt] which Isis carries as supreme
initiatrix may account for some of the oddly-shaped scepters carried by the
Black Virgins who, like Isis, often favor the color green. Their greeness
and blackness points to the beginning of the opus whose secret, according
to alchemists, is to be found in 'the sex of Isis'.
The Templars, imprisoned and awaiting death in the Castle of Chinon
composed a prayer to Our Lady acknowledging Bernard to be the founder
of her religion. In addition to the numerous hymns and sermons he
addressed to her, he wrote about 280 sermons on the theme of the Song of
Songs, the epithalamion of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, whose
versicle 'I am black, but I am beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem' is the
recurring refrain of the Black Virgin cult.
- The Cult of the Black Virgin
ISIS
Isis is the feminine archetype for creation - the goddess of fertility and motherhood. She
has gone by many names and played many roles in history and mythology - as goddess
and female creator.
In the duality of our reality - she represents our feminine aspects - creation - rebirth ascension - intuition - psychic abilties - higher chakras - higher frequency virbations love and compassion. She is the Yin energies - the mother nurturer - the High Priestess the Goddess of all mythological tales - to other female icons in the mythos of creation.
She is the essence of the feminine energy which is part of us all.
Isis - the iris of the eye - the eye of Horus Isis linked with Sirius - eye of Ra - the source
of creation. Osiris - 'O'=completion of the work of Isis of this level.
The Ennead - Pantheon of Egyptian Gods
Human and semihuman forms of some of the chief Egyptian deities: 1) Horus, son of
Osiris, a sky god closely connected with the king. 2) Set or Seth, enemy of Horus and
Osiris, god of storms and disorder. 3) Thoth, a moon deity and god of writing, counting
and wisdom. 4) Khnum, a ram god who shapes men and their kas on his potter's wheel.
5) Hathor, goddess of love birth and death. 6) Sobek, the crocodile god, Lord of the
Faiyum. 7) Ra, the sun god in his many forms. 8) Amon, a creator god often linked with
Ra. 9) Ptah, another creator god and the patron of craftsmen. 1O) Anubis, god of
mummification. 11) Osiris, god of agriculture and ruler of the dead. 12) Isis, wife of
Osiris, mother of Horus and Mistress of Magic.
Isis was the daughter of the God Geb (Earth) and the Goddess Nut (Sky) according to
Heliopolitan genealogy.
The Osiris Legend
This myth is filled with metaphors based on the creational patterns of Sacred Geometry.
You must read beyond what is given to understand the true meaning.
The Legend of Osiris is one of the most ancient myths in Egypt, and it was central to the
ancient Egyptian state religion. The myth establishes Osiris' position as god of the dead
and lord of the underworld, and Horus' (and thus all the pharaohs) right to kingship. It
also demonstrates the powers and duties of the other major gods as well as setting up the
Great Adversary, Set also known as Seth. Yet oddly enough, we have yet to find a
complete version of the story. What we have has been cobbled together over many years
from many different documents and sources.
According to Niel Gaiman the legend is one of the Great Stories. The Great Stories are
part of the core human experience and never change except in the most superficial ways.
They defy any attempts to rewrite them with drastic changes, always returning to their
original forms. The setting might be modified depending on who's telling it, the
characters have different names, but fundamentally, it's still the same story. A version of
the Osiris myth exists in every culture: the just king murdered by his cruel brother, only
to be avenged by the prince who follows in his father's footsteps. Sometimes the dead
king is rewarded for his upright ways and gains great reward in the next life. We find its
echoes in nearby civilizations such as the Greeks and Romans, in far-off Japan and
China, in Christianity, even in Shakespeare, where the avenging prince is named Hamlet.
In the beginning, there was the mighty god Ra and his wife Nut. Nut was in love with the
god Geb. When Ra found out about this union he was furious. In his rage, he forbid Nut
to have children on any of the 360 days that currently made up the year. Nut was very
sad.
She called on her friend, Thoth, to help her. He knew that Ra's curse must be fulfilled, but
he had an idea. Thoth engaged the moon goddess, Silene, in a wager. At the time, Silene's
light (the moon) rivaled the light of Ra (the sun). Thoth was victorious, he was rewarded
with one seventh of Silene's light. This is why the moon now wanes each month. Thoth
took this light and added five days to the calender, bringing the year from 360 days to
365. This gave Nut 5 days on which she could have children, while at the same time
obeying Ra's commandment. On the first of these days, Nut gave birth to Osiris. On the
second day Horus was born, Seth on the third, Isis the fourth, and Nephthys on the fifth
day. At the time of Osiris' birth, a loud voice was heard all over the world, saying, "The
lord of all the Earth is born."
Osiris grew and became a mighty king. He went about the job of civilizing his people. He
taught them agriculture and animal husbandry. He gave them a code of laws to live by
and showed them the proper ways in which to worship the gods. Egypt became a mighty
land under his kind and gentle rule. His subjects gladly worshiped the ground on which
he walked. When Egypt was civilized, Osiris left to bring his teachings to other lands.
While Osiris was away, he left his wife, Isis, in charge. She ruled the country in the same
fashion. But Osiris had an enemy, his bitter and jealous brother, Seth.
Seth began scheming against the great king. He aligned himself with Aso, the queen of
Ethiopia, and 72 other conspirators. But nothing could be done while Isis ruled the
country, her authority was unquestionable.
Upon Osiris' return, an evil plot was put into motion. Seth secretly acquired the
measurements of Osiris and began having a wonderfully decorated box built to fit those
measurements. When the box was finished, Seth had a great feast to which he invited
Osiris and the 72 conspirators. Having absolutely no evil in him, Osiris suspected
nothing.
When the feasting was done, Seth had the box brought out. He offered it as a gift to
anyone whom the box fit. One at a time they tried to fit into the box until it was Osiris'
turn. He layed in the box suspecting nothing. The conspirators slammed the lid, nailed it
closed, and poured molten lead in the seam to seal his fate. They threw the great chest
into the Nile river. Osiris was never seen again, walking in the land of the living.
Isis was not afraid of Seth. She searched all of the Nile for the box containing her beloved
husband. Finally she found it, lodged in a tamarisk bush that had turned into a mighty
tree, for the power of Osiris still was in him, though he lay dead. She tore open the box
and wept over the lifeless body of Osiris.
She carried the box back to Egypt and placed it in the house of the gods. She changed
herself into a bird and flew about his body, singing a song of mourning. Then she perched
upon him and cast a spell. The spirit of dead Osiris entered her and she did conceive and
bear a son whose destiny it would be to avenge his father. She called the child Horus, and
hid him on an island far away from the gaze of his uncle Seth.
She then went to Thoth, wise Thoth, who knows all secrets, and implored his help. She
asked him for magic that could bring Osiris back to life. Thoth, lord of knowledge, who
brought himself into being by speaking his name, searched through his magic. He knew
that Osiris' spirit had departed his body and was lost. To restore Osiris, Thoth had to
remake him so that his spirit would recognize him and rejoin. Thoth and Isis together
created the Ritual of Life, that which allows us to live forever when we die. But before
Thoth could work the magic, cruel Seth discovered them. He stole the body of Osiris and
tore it into 14 pieces, scattering them throughout Egypt. He was sure that Osiris would
never be reborn.
Yet Isis would not despair. She implored the help of her sister Nephthys, kind Nephthys,
to guide her and help her find the pieces of Osiris. Long did they search, bringing each
piece to Thoth that he might work magic upon it. When all the pieces were together,
Thoth went to Anubis, lord of the dead. Anubis sewed the pieces back together, washed
the entrails of Osiris, embalmed him wrapped him in linen, and cast the Ritual of Life.
When Osiris' mouth was opened, his spirit reentered him and he lived again.
Yet nothing that has died, not even a god, may dwell in the land of the living. Osiris went
to Duat, the abode of the dead. Anubis yielded the throne to him and he became the lord
of the dead. There he stands in judgment over the souls of the dead. He commends the
just to the Blessed Land, but the wicked he condemns to be devoured by Ammit.
When Seth heard that Osiris lived again he was wroth, but his anger waned, for he knew
that Osiris could never return to the land of the living. Without Osiris, Set believed he
would sit on the throne of the gods for all time. Yet on his island, Horus, the son of Osiris
and Isis, grew to manhood and strength.
The depiction of the seated holding or suckling the child Horus
is reminiscent of the iconography of Mary and Jesus.
Many believe Mary, mother of Jesus, was an incarnation of Isis.
Set sent many serpents and demons to kill Horus, but he defeated them. When he was
ready, his mother Isis gave him great magic to use against Seth, and Thoth gave him a
magic knife.
Horus sought out Seth and challenged him for the throne. Seth and Horus fought for
many days, but in the end Horus defeated Seth and castrated him. But Horus, merciful
Horus, would not kill Seth, for to spill the blood of his uncle would make him no better
than he. Seth maintained his claim to the throne, and Horus lay claim himself as the son
of Osiris. The gods began to fight amongst another, those who supported Horus and those
who supported Set. Banebdjetet leaped into the middle and demanded that the gods end
this struggle peacefully or Maat would be imbalanced further. He told the gods to seek
the council of Neith. Neith, warlike though wise in council, told them that Horus was the
rightful heir to the throne. Horus cast Seth into the darkness where he lives to this day.
And so it is that Horus watches over us while we live, and gives guidance to the Pharaoh
while he lives, and his father Osiris watches over us in the next life. So it is that the gods
are at peace. So it is that Set, wicked Seth, eternally strives for revenge, battling Horus at
every turn.
When Horus wins, Maat is upheld and the world is at peace.
When Seth wins, the world is in turmoil. But we know that dark times do not last forever,
and the bright rays of Horus will shine over us again.
In the last days, Horus and Seth will fight one last time for the world. Horus will defeat
Seth forever, and Osiris will be able to return to this world.
On that day, the Day of Awakening, all the tombs shall open and the just dead shall live
again as we do, and all sorrow shall pass away forever.
It is said that this battle of good verses evil still rages, but some day, Horus will be
victorious and on that day, Osiris will return to rule the world.
The Osiris Legend and Precession
The Osiris Legend and the Tree of Life
Isis is the mistress of words and the Goddess of Nature.
Her original headdress was an empty throne chair belonging to her murdered husband,
Osiris. As the personification of the throne, she was an important source of the Pharaoh's
power. Her cult was popular throughout Egypt, but the most important sanctuaries were
at Giza and at Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile delta.
Other symbols linked with her include the tat, knot or buckle, and the sustrum (rattle).
Isis was a magician, possibly the archetype for the high priestess of the tarot. She learned
her magic from Thoth, although according to some legends she obtained her powers from
Ra himself by tricking him into revealing his name to her, thus acquiring his full magical
knowledge.
Isis later had an important cult in the Greco-Roman world, with sanctuaries at Delos and
Pompeii. To the Greeks she was known as Demeter - to the Romans as Ceres.
Her Latin epithet was Stella Maris, or Star of the Sea.
The symbol of Isis in the heavens was the star Sept (Sirius), which was greatly beloved
because its appearance marked not only the beginning of a new year, but also announced
the advance of the Inundation of the Nile, which betokened renewed wealth and
prosperity of the country.
Isis was regarded as the companion of Osiris, whose soul dwelt in the star Sah - Orion.
She was the light-giver at this season of the year and was called Khut.
As the mighty earth-goddess her name was Usert.
As the Great Goddess of the Underworld she was Thenenet.
As the power which shot forth the Nile flood, she was Sati, and Sept.
As the embracer of the land and producer of fertility by her waters she was Anqet.
As the producer and giver of life she was Ankhet.
As the goddess of cultivated lands and fields she was Sekhet.
As the goddess of the harvest she was Renenet.
As the goddess of food which was offered to the gods, she was Tcheft, and lived in the
Temple of Tchefau.
As the great lady of the Underworld, who assisted in transforming the bodies of the
blessed dead into those wherein they were to live in the realm of Osiris, she was Ament the "hidden" goddess. As Ament she was declared to be the mother of Ra.
In this last capacity she shared with Osiris the attribute of 'giver of life,' and she provided
food for the dead as well as for the living.
At a comparatively early period in Egyptian history Isis had absorbed the attributes of all
the great primitive goddesses, and of all the local goddesses such as Nekhebet, Uatchet,
Net, Bast, Hathor, etc., and she was even identified as the female counterpart of the
primeval abyss of water from which sprang all life.
It is manifestly impossible to limit the attributes of Isis, for we have seen that she
possesses the powers of a water goddess, an earth goddess, a corn goddess, a star
goddess, a queen of the Underworld, and a woman, and that she united in herself one or
more of the attributes of all the goddesses of Egypt known to us.
Her cult spread from Alexandria to all the Mediterranean countries, especially Greece
and Rome, after the fourth century BC, and reached a peak in the third century BC. The
cult died out in Rome after the institution of Christianity. The last Egyptian temples to
Isis were closed around 550 AD.
Her godson Rameses II, later became one of the most glorious rulers of Egypt. He was
also Egypt's most famous builder, but it was his valor as a young man in the battle of
Kadesh which inspired one of the world's first epic poems.
THE TEMPLE OF ISIS
The Isis Temple on Philae - built in the 30th Dynasty on an island in the Nile - originally
faced a neighboring island, Biga, which was reserved for the priesthood of Osiris and was
believed to be the first land to have emerged from the primordial chaos as well as
supposedly being one of the burial places of Osiris.
Looking out from the temple sanctuary, or Holy of Holies, where the goddess resides.
The sanctuary was thought to be the source of the waters of life and was once separated
from the rest of the temple by a curtain.
Looking out from the temple sanctuary, or Holy of Holies, where the goddess resides.
The sanctuary was thought to be the source of the waters of life and was once separated
from the rest of the temple by a curtain.
The first pylon (the wall surrounding the entrance) is 18 metres high and 45 metres wide.
The base stones represent the stones which appear as the waters of life recede.The small
door in the west section of the pylon leads to the Birth House. At right angles to the pylon
is the Gate of Ptolemy. The main portal in the center dates from Nectanebo II.
The second pylon shows pharoah(Neos Dionysos) offering sacrifice to Horus and Hathor;
in the smaller scenes (above) he offers a wreath to Horus and Nephthys and incense
before Osiris, Isis and Horus.
ISIS IMAGES
Isis is often depicted with a throne on her head and with wings,
meaning ascension,
linked with the Phoenix the female bird of resurrection.
MARY MAGDALENE
Mary Magdalene
Mary is more than one person. Like the energies of the Mythologies - such as the
Egyptian goddess Isis - much has been written about who Mary is and what
occurred in her timeline.
Mary Magdalene was the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus.
Tradition has labeled her a prostitute, but there is nothing in the Bible to support
this view and much to dispute it.
Many ideas about Magdalene persist today, whether or not the biblical text and
historical resources confirm them. For example, early church fathers incorrectly
identified her with the sinful woman who anointed Christ's feet at the house of
Simon the Pharisee. Others believed she was Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha and
Lazarus.
Who really was Mary Magdalene? Apparently her status in early Christianity was
as high. The Bible gives us clues about her importance. After his resurrection, Jesus
first appeared to Mary Magdalene not Peter, according to the Gospel of John. Mary
Magdalene announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord." In other scriptures,
her name is first in the list of witnesses (Mk. 16:1-11; Mt. 28:1; Lk. 24:10; Jn. 20:1118; 1 Cor. 15:5-8).
The Gnostic Gospel of Mary adds evidence that Mary was a strong Christian leader.
This nonbiblical manuscript was discovered in Egypt the middle of the twentieth
century. It suggests that Peter was jealous of Mary.
Clearly Jesus and Mary had a special relationship. A familiar scene in art and music
is her encounter with Christ that first Easter morning. She does not recognize the
man to whom she speaks until he calls her by her name.
Artists have often recreated the scene when Jesus says, "Do not hold on to me" (Noli
Me Tangere) in the Gospel of John. Two examples are on this page. The popular
hymn, "I Come to the Garden," was also inspired by the story of Jesus' appearance
to Mary that first Easter morning.
Recently scholars have suggested that Mary was the one whom Jesus loved and that
she wrote the Gospel of John. For centuries, Christians have wondered about the
identity this person beloved by Jesus. Tradition says it was the disciple John; parts
of John itself support this opinion. Others, using scholarly analysis, ask, What if the
beloved disciple were Mary? These views are both provocative and controversial.
Probably we will never know many details about Mary Magadalene. We can be
sure, however, that Mary was a significant leader early Christianity.
Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Mary was a women who loves and dares. In the story of Jesus, she first appears
when an angel announces that she will bear a child. Her response is to boldly sing,
"My soul magnifies the Lord!" This song, known as the Magnificat, praises God
who brings down the mighty and raises up the lowly. Mary could be very tender as a
mother is to her child but also very strong.
Mary's strength and concern for the downtrodden is revealed in Mexico, where she
is called "Our Lady of Guadelupe." Typically Our Lady of Guadelupe is imaged as
a woman wearing a crown and starry robe standing on a crescent moon held up by
a cherub. The sun glows behind her, suggesting the image of the woman clothed in
the sun from the Book of Revelation. Her name may derive from the Aztec Nahuatl
word coatlaxopeuh (pronounced quatlasupe) -- the one who crushes the serpent.
According to Roman Catholic tradition, Mary appeared centuries ago (1531) in
Central Mexico to Cuauhtlatoatzin (Juan Diego), an Aztec and a Christian convert.
He reported that a beautiful woman surrounded by light as bright as the sun
appeared to him and requested that a church should be built on that location. (See a
painting of Juan Diego by Jose de Ibarra, 1743.)
Mary revealed herself, not to a member of the church hierarchy but to one who was
poor, not to a European but to an indigenous person. Roman Catholics of Mexico,
especially those who are among the many living in poverty there, treasure this
powerful image of "Our Lady of Guadelupe." They see her as a champion of the
poor and oppressed, a defender of children, and even a dragon-slayer (the dragon or
"beast" is symbol of the devil).
Mary is known by a variety of titles in Latin America. The Marian
Library/International Marian Research Institute lists these:
Argentina: Our Lady of Luján
Bolivia: Our Lady of Copacabana
Brazil: Our Lady "Aparecida" (who appeared)
Chile: Our Lady of Carmel of the Maipú
Columbia: Our Lady of Chiquinquirá
Costa Rica: Our Lady of the Angels
Cuba: Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre
Dominican Republic: Our Lady of "La Altagracia"
Ecuador: Our Lady of Quinche
El Salvador: Our Lady of Peace
Guatemala: Our Lady of the Rosary
Honduras: Our Lady of Suyapa
Mexico: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Nicaragua: Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of El Viejo
Panama: The Immaculate Conception
Paraguay: Our Lady of the Miracles of Caacupé
Peru: Our Lady of Mercy
Puerto Rico: Our Lady of Divine Providence
Uruguay: Our Lady of the Thirty Three
Venezuela: Our Lady of Coromoto Honduras: Our Lady of Suyapa
- Jesus and Courageous Women
Some people link Mary to the Holy Grail and the Knights Templar. Secular books
with names such as Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Woman With the Alabaster Jar
expand on traditions that she committed sexual sins. They claim that Jesus married
her and fathered one or more children. These books are based on fiction, not fact.
below is quoted information from that text.
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In popular Christian tradition Mary Magdalene is a prostitute who
finds redemption by apprenticing herself to Jesus. And she figures
most noticeably in the Fourth Gospel, where she is the first person to
behold Jesus after the Resurrection. In consequence she is extolled as
a saint, especially in France - where, according to medieval legends,
she is said to have brought the Holy Grail.
The Magdalene is not, at any point in any of the Gospels, said to be a
prostitute. When she is first mentioned in the Gospel of Luke, she is
described as a woman 'out of whom went seven devils'. It is generally
assumed that this phrase refers to a species of exorcism on Jesus' part,
implying the Magdalene was possessed. But the phrase may equally
refer to some sort of conversion and/or ritual initiation.
The cult of Ishtar or Astarte - the Mother Goddess and 'Queen of
Heaven' - involved, or example, a seven-stage initiation [the seven
veils]. Prior to her affiliation with Jesus, the Magdalene may well have
been associated with such a cult. Migdal, or Magdala, was the 'Village
of Doves', and there is some evidence that sacrificial doves were in
fact bred there. And the dove was the sacred symbol of Astarte.
- Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
In some versions of history, Magdelene is viewed as the mother of the
Merovingian Dynasty. Mary Magdalene was the redeemed sinner who
was the first to see Christ after his Resurrection. Through her
redemption from sin and her unique knowledge of the Risen Christ,
she was regarded by the occult initiates of the Middle Ages as a
medium of secret revelation. Those initiates had chosen the planet
Venus as her symbol in the cosmos.
- Henry Lincoln, The Holy Place
Long ago her name was Isis, Queen of the benevolent springs, Come
to me all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give your the
rest.. Others knew her as Magdalene with the celebrated vase full of
healing balm. The initiated know her to be Notre Dame Des Cross.
- Le Serpent Rouge
Mary Magdalene had her surname of Magdala, a castle, and was born
of right noble lineage and parents, which were descended of the
lineage of kings. And her father was named Cyrus, and her mother
Eucharis. She with her brother Lazarus, and her sister Martha,
possessed the castle of Magdalo, which is two miles from Nazareth,
and Bethany, the castle which is nigh to Jerusalem, and also a great
part of Jerusalem, which, all these things they departed among them.
- Legenda Aurea (published in Genoa in 1275)
She was also high priestess of the Temple of Ishtar at Magdala, and as
such she would have been the keeper of the doves. She is linked with
Benjamite, the tribe which was ostracized because they were of the
line of Cain. So too was Hiram Abiff, architect of the Temple of
Solomon.
- David Wood, Genesis
The idea that Mary [Jesus' mother] had been an adultress never
completely disappeared in Christian mythology. Instead, the
character of Mary was split into two: Mary the mother of Jesus,
believed to be a virgin, and Mary Magdalene, believed to be a woman
of ill repute.
The idea that the character of Mary Magdalene is also derived from
Miriam the mythical mother of Yeishu, is corroborated by the fact
that the strange name 'Magdalene' clearly resembles the Aramaic
term 'mgadla nshaya' meaning 'women's hairdresser'. Because the
Christians did not know what the name 'Magdalene' meant, they later
conjectured that it meant that she had come from a place called
Magdala on the west of Lake Kinneret. The idea of the two Marys
fitted in well with the pagan way of thinking. The image of Jesus
being followed by the two Marys is strongly reminiscent of Dionysus
being followed by Demeter and Persephone.
- Hayyim ben Yehoshua, The Myth of the Historical Jesus
PRIEURE DE SION
Prieure de Sion
The Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion, or Priory of Zion, is said to be the cabal behind
many of the events that occurred at Rennes-le-Chateau. According to the Prieure's own
documents, its history is long and convoluted. Its earliest roots are in some sort of
Hermetic or Gnostic society led by a man named Ormus. This individual is said to have
reconciled paganism and Christianity. The story of Sion only comes into focus in the
Middle Ages.
In 1070, a group of monks from Calabria, Italy, led by one Prince Ursus, founded the
Abbey of Orval in France near Stenay, in the Ardennes.
These monks are said to have formed the basis for the Order de Sion, into which they
were folded in 1099 by Godefroi de Bouillion.
Cutting of the Elm at Gissors
For about one hundred years, the Order of the Temple - Knights Templar - and Sion were
apparently unified under one leadership, though they are said to have separated at the
cutting of the Elm at Gisors in 1188.
In 1188 AD King Phillip II of France and King Henry II of England (with his heir
Richard the Lion Hearted at his side) met on the sacred field at Gisors. This site in France
was where kings had come for centuries to debate, forge alliances, and sometimes do
battle. A huge elm tree in the middle of the sacred field was the central symbol - an
ancient elm thought to be almost 800 years old at that time, so huge that nine men joined
hand to hand could not encircle it.
Phillip and Henry were not on good terms; war between England and France was in the
air, and Henry was making a claim on France. Phillip informed Henry that the elm would
be cut down; Henry and Richard planned to defend it. A battle ensued, Richard was
slightly wounded, the French army stormed the field with superior manpower while the
English fled and took refuge in the nearby chateaux of Gisors. Phillip chopped down the
elm, and retained France for himself. Henry thus did not conquer France but went home
and ruled England, passing it on to Richard the Lion Heart followed by his other son,
John.
I see the cutting of the elm as a metaphor for - Elm=Tree of Life. Cutting - split in the
bloodline - or DNA. This was all linked to alchemy.
Other theories...
The Cutting of the Elm at Gisors did more than just split the Templars off from its parent
Order, it defined the boundary line between the Plantagenets on one side, supported by
the Templars, and the Capetians on the other, supported by Sion. This division would
eventually produce not just the destruction of the Templars by the French King, Philip III
and his puppet Pope, Clement V, but the catastrophe of the Hundred Years War between
France and England.
The elm at Gisors represented the Merovingian bloodline, and the battle was about the
claim to the right to rule. Henry II was the grandson of Fulk V, King of Jerusalem. But
this title was bestowed through marriage to the daughter of the previous King of
Jerusalem, Baldwin, who did have a direct male succession from the Merovingian Kings.
Henry II's claim to France was based on obscuring the truth; his claim to blood descent
was untruthful but politically worth making if the facts could be obscured. However, in a
more relevant light, his son Richard did embody a true claim, because his mother,
Eleanor of Aquitaine, was descended from Charlemagne and therefore Clovis, one of the
first Merovingian Kings. The Plantagenets established their Merovingian heritage only
through Eleanor of Aquitaine; it was valid for Richard to make the claim (though he
couldn¹t because he wasn¹t yet king), but not for Henry II - even though his grandfather
had married the daughter of a legitimate lineal male descendant of the Merovingian line
and thus became the third King of Jerusalem after Godfroi and Baldwin.
This is why King Phillip of France wanted to symbolically cut the cord for Henry and
Richard: Phillip, too, was descended from Charlemagne. Only two, but more like three,
females stood in the decent line between Phillip and the Merovingian Kings. (Male
descent was preferred in royal successions.) He believed his claim on France was more
pure than the Plantagenet usurpers. (Not true, since Eleanor's other line back through
Bernard Plantevelue was probably all male.) Thus the elm at Gisors, ancient symbol of
genetic branching and direct continuity, was cut as a statement to Henry II: 'Go away,
France is mine!" The outward visible symbol of the vine transplanted from the Holy Land
was no more. The knowledge thereafter was hidden, though preserved by the Templars
and, later, by the Priory of Sion.
The Templar order was then destroyed by King Phillipe Le Bel of France, in 1307. Sion
appears to have been at the nexus of two French antimonarchical movements, the
Compagnie du St.-Sacrament of the 17th century - acting on behalf on the Guise-Lorraine
families - and the Fronde of the 18th, as well as behind an attempt to make the Hapsburgs
emperors of all Europe in the 19th - the Hieron du Val d'Or. It appears that there are vast
connections between Sion and numerous sociocultural strata in European thought Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Arthurian and Grail legends, Arcadianism, Catharism,
chivalry, etc.
Yet this mysterious secret society brought itself to light in 1956 and is listed with the
French directory of organizations under the subtitle "Chivalry of Catholic Rules and
Institutions of the Independent and Traditionalist Union, which in French abbreviates to
'circuit' - the name of the magazine distributed internally among members. Depending on
what statutes one considers, Sion either has 9,841 members in nine grades, or 1,093
members in seven, with the supreme member, the Nautonnier or Grand Master of the
Order being, till 1963, Jean Cocteau.
While it is believed the head has been Pierre Plantard de St.-Clair up until recent times,
he claims to have left that post in 1984, so it is not clear who runs the organization at this
time. But whoever he is, he has had illustrious predecessors: Jacques DeMolay, Leonardo
de Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Claude Debussy, among others! Plantard, in any case, seems
to have enjoyed the ear of many influential persons in contemporary French politics deGaulle, Marcel Lefebvre, Francois Ducaud-Bourget, Andre Malraux, and Alain Poher,
and others, many of whom appear to know him from his efforts with the Resistance
during the Vichy occupation. Despite its registry, however, the organization remains
untraceable, its given address and number leading to dead ends which might lead one to
wonder why the government never bothered to verify the information.
Some interesting things have come to light about the Prieure recently. One is that the
Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina (GLA), the highest body of Swiss Freemasonry (akin to the
Grand Lodge of England), may have been the recruiting body for the Prieure. But the
GLA is also said by some to be the meeting place of the 'Gnomes of Zurich' who are said
to be the Power Elite of Swiss bankers and international financiers. The GLA is said by
David Yallop to be the body which controlled the P2 Masonic Lodge in Italy.
P2 controlled the Italian secret police in the 1970s, took money from the CIA and KGB,
may have had a hand in the kidnapping of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades, had 900
agents in other branches of the Italian government and the highest positions of the
Vatican, bombed a train station and tried to blame it on the Communists, used the
Vatican Bank to launder Mafia drug money, fomented fascist coups in South America,
and is most likely linked to the arch-conservative Knights of Malta and Opus Dei in the
Vatican.) P2's Lucio Gelli may have had a role in the death of John Paul I, and perhaps
even the assassination attempt on John Paul II.
One of the most interesting people to write about the Prieure may be Michael Lamy. He
claims that Jules Verne was a member of both the Prieure and the Illuminati. Further, he
maintains that the Prieure's politics must be understood as Orleanist, which he describes
as "aristocratic, anarchistic, and Nietzchean." Perhaps it all becomes most clear when
Lamy reveals to the reader that the true secret of the village of Rennes-le-Chateau is that
the extinct volcano Mount Bugarach leads down into the hollow earth to a realm of
supermen.
Ean Begg feels it is connected with many of the Black Virgin sites all over Europe.
Certainly, if the organization's full name is the Prieure de Notre Dame du Sion, and if it is
site of Orval is connected to the worship of the bear-goddess Arduina, venerated by the
Sicambrian Franks of the area and their Merovingian kings, then this may be the case.
There are hints, of course, that Notre Dame is not the mother of Jesus, but Mary of
Bethany AKA Magdalene a princess of the tribe of Benjamin, which is itself notorious
for an outbreak of goddess-idolatry in the period of the Judges. That Mary may also be
the one also known to the Gypsies of the south of France as one of the three 'Maries-dela-Mer,' whom they call 'Sarah the Egyptian', the sun-burnt one.
Sailing and Grailing to Nova Scotia
The Money Pit Mystery - Oak Island
A bizarre story has to do with the Money Pit Mystery
on Oak Island just off Nova Scotia.
According to Michael Bradley, some of the keepers of the Holy Grail may have come to
the New World long before Columbus. He believes that some of the Templars may have
fled to Canada after the dissolution of their order, carrying the Grail. The Money Pit has
more often been associated with pirates' buried treasure, but as many know, the Jolly
Roger flag's skull-and-crossbones icon has long been associated with Masonic and
Templar legends.
Zeno Map - 1398
The so-called Venetian Zeno Map shows a knight with a sword standing where Nova
Scotia is. In 1398 Prince Henry Sinclair, his Venetian navigators Antonio and Nicola
Zeno, and three hundred Knights Templar, left Orkney in twelve ships.
They sailed to the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland then on to Nova Scotia and New
England. This is the story of the "Zeno Narrative," a document that records and maps the
travels and explorations of Prince Henry Sinclair with his companions to the New World,
ninety four years before Christopher Columbus made his epic voyage. Prince Henry
Sinclair was born in 1345, at Rosslyn Castle, and was the descendant of the Saint Clair /
Gisors a Norman family that was granted the Barony of Rosslyn, Midlothian, Scotland in
the 12th century.
The Sinclairs of Scotland are hereditary lords of Rosslyn Chapel and are said to be
descended from the Scots Guards, a clique loyal to the Stuart dynasty, which in turn are
thought to have contained converted members of the Templar Order who fought with
Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, and to have provided the basis of Freemasonry. In the
Money Pit on Oak Island, a mysterious stone inscription was found: Forty feet below two million pounds are buried. Every company that has tried to locate this treasure has
failed.
Along with the supposed visits of Prince Madoc of Wales and St. Brendan of Ireland,
Prince Henry the Navigator's trip to the New World with the Zeno brothers makes it one
of numerous European pre-Columbian voyages. The Zeno map, along with those culled
by Viking travelers, may have even helped Columbus make his way across the Atlantic.
Sinclair liked all that he saw about in this new world and decided to stay. Many of the
members of his expedition wanted to return home. He allowed them to leave and kept
two of the smaller boats for himself, and those who chose to remain with him. He
established a base here and started exploring the lakes, rivers and inlets of the area.
Sinclair's base may have included a castle, which was built on the peninsula between the
now named the Gold and Gaperau Rivers.
At the mouth of each of these rivers are islands - both named Oak Island and both being
the only Islands in Nova Scotia with Oak Trees. At the confluence is a mysterious ruin,
which is was Sinclair's fortress or old castle.
He became fast friends with the local Indians, the Micmacs, and is believed that he was
called 'Glooscap' by them, the name of the white God of their ancient lore. And
supposedly they loved him almost as if he were a god.
Sinclair and his party remained in Nova Scotia for almost a year. Over the winter months
they had built a larger ship and when spring came they sailed south.
They sailed to present day New England, just north of Boston. Their relations here with
the Indians were very good. While here one of his party and supposed cousin Sir James
Gunn died. He was buried near the summit of Prospect Hull in current day Westford,
Massachusetts. A grave marker in the style of the Templars was hand chiseled onto a
rock slab. The image on the rock is of a Knight Templar, bearing the arms of the Gunn
Clan on his Shield. Sinclair sailed back to Scotland, where he died in 1401 while having
problems with English invaders.
It appears that there may be strands connecting Rennes-le-Chateau and the New World
Orders. Ultimately, the Rosicrucian ideas behind the American experiment may have
deeper Arcadian roots.
Bradley hints, but does not come out and say, that what is beneath the Money Pit is the
Grail.
It is not the only weird trail in the Rennes mystery. One researcher insists that the
inventor Barnes Wallis was one of the most recent Grand Masters of Sion.
Others have even found connections to the so-called Baconian Theory, which suggests
that Sir Francis Bacon authored Shakespeare's plays. Bacon's works suggest a
Rosicrucian experiment taking place in the New World.
Fanthorpe seems to believe that ultimately Rennes-le-Chateau may be a Doorway unto
the Invisible or a gateway to other dimensions, through the Emerald Tablet which he
speculates may have been a tesseract (3-dimensional representation of a 4-dimensional
figure).
Bloodlines - Magic - Ormus
Lincoln and his co-authors fashioned a theory that Christ had descendents who legged it
to the south of France where they intermarried with the royal Franks to found what
eventually became the mystical Merovingian Dynasty. Ergo, the real mission of the
Templars and Priory of Zion: to safeguard not just the treasure of the Crusades, but to
preserve the Grail, which appeared in medieval texts as 'Sangraal' or 'Sangreal' translated to mean 'sang real', or 'royal blood'. In other words: the dynastic legacy of
Christ, literally.
The Merovingians were considered in their day to be quasi-mystical warrior-kings vested
with supernatural powers. The Merovingians traced their ancestry back to the Benjamites
who, according to legend, fled from Israel to Arcadia in Greece.
The earliest roots of the Prieure de Sion were founded in some sort of Hermetic or
Gnostic society led by a man named Ormus. This individual is said to have reconciled
paganism and Christianity. The story of Sion only comes into focus in the Middle Ages.
In 1070, a group of monks from Calabria, Italy, led by one Prince Ursus, founded the
Abbey of Orval in France near Stenay, in the Ardennes. These monks are said to have
formed the basis for the the Order de Sion, into which they were 'folded' in 1099 by
Godfroi de Bouillion. He was one of the leaders of the First Crusade who had recaptured
Jerusalem. They claim that it was this Order that lay behind Hugues of Champagne and
the founding of the Templars.
The avowed and declared objective of the Prieure de Sion is the restoration of the
Merovingian dynasty and bloodline - to the throne not only of France, but to the thrones
of other European nations as well. By dint of dynastic alliances and intermarriages, this
line came to include Godfroi de Bouillion, who captured Jerusalem in 1099, and various
other noble and royal families, past and present.
Godfroi was, by legend, a member of the Grail Family, and by lineage a Merovingian and
apparently, rightful King of Jerusalem by his descent from David. It is clear that he was
aware of this. When he left for the first crusade, he sold all of his property. He intended
to stay in Jerusalem. Godfroi was close to de Payen and the count of Champagne, and
Baudoin his brother was integral to the founding of the Templars.
One might therefore term Godfroi de Bouillon as a sort of 'king of kings', or at least a
maker of kings, since he founded the Order of Sion that could crown Kings of Jerusalem.
To the south of Jerusalem looms the 'high hill' of Mount Sion. By 1099 an abbey had
been built on the ruins of an old Byzantine basilica at the express command of Godfroi de
Buoillon. According to one chronicler, writing in 1172, it was extremely well fortified,
with its own walls, towers and battlements. And this structure was called the Abbey of
Notre Dame du Mont de Sion.
In 1979, M. Plantard had said to us, quite categorically, that the Prieure was in possession
of the treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem, plundered by the Romans during the revolt of
A.D. 66 and subsequently carried to the south of France, in the vicinity of Rennes-leChâteau. The treasure, M. Plantard stated, would be returned to Israel when the time is
right.
At some point the treasure had passed from the Merovingians to the Priory of Zion. the
Templars took the treasure from the Holy Land to the French Cathars, who, on the eve of
their destruction by the church, squirreled the lucre away in the Pyrenees.
For about one hundred years, the Order of the Temple (Knights Templar) and Sion were
apparently unified under one leadership, though they are said to have separated at the
'cutting of the elm' at Gisors in 1188.
Near the end of the thirteenth Century a separate detachment of Templars was sent from
the Aragonese province of Rossillon to the Rennes-le-Chateau area in southern France
[the old Cathar stronghold]. This fresh detachment established itself on the summit of the
mountain of Bezu, erecting a lookout post and a chapel. Alone of all the Templars in
France, they were left unmolested by Philippe le Bel's seneschals on October 13, 1307.
On that fateful day the commander of the Templar contingent at Bezu was a Seigneur de
Goth. And before taking the name of Pope Clement V, the archbishop of Bordeaux King Philippe's vacillating pawn - was Bertrand de Goth. Moreover, the new pontiff's
mother was Ida de Blanchefort, of the same family as Bertrand de Blanchefort [the fourth
Grand Master of the Order of the Temple]. Was the pope then privy to some secret
entrusted to the custody of his family?"
Whether is was the intrigues and the Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century, the
insurrection known as the Fronde in the seventeenth century or the Masonic conspiracies
of the eighteenth century, successive generations of precisely the same families were
implicated, operating in accordance with a single consistent pattern.
In documents dating from 1619, it was stated to have incurred the displeasure of King
Louis XIII of France, who evicted them from their seat at Orleans and turned the
premises over to the Jesuits. After that, the Prieure de Sion seemed to vanish from the
historical record, at least under that name, until 1956, when it appeared again, registered
in the French Journal officiel.
The castles of Templar Chateau of Bezu, the Chateau of Blanchefort and Rennes-leChateau are each located on a mountain top. Together, with the high spots of two other
peaks, the locations form a perfect pentagon (five equal sides) some fifteen miles in
circumference. Like Rennes-le-Chateau "the village church dates back to at least the time
of the Visigoths, some thirteen centuries ago. The church is dedicated to Saint
Magdalene.
The early astronomers saw the Earth as the center of the universe, around which the Sun,
the stars and the planets revolved. Each planet forms its own pattern of movement around
the Sun as seen from the Earth. For the ancient watchers of the heavens, those differing
patterns of movement allowed them to draw geometric shapes based on the positions of
each planet when it was aligned with the Sun.
Only one planet describes a precise and regular geometric pattern in the sky - and that
planet is Venus, the heavenly counterpart of the earthly Mary Magdalene - and the
pattern that she draws as regular as clockwork every eight years is a pentacle.
There can be no doubt that churches, calvaires, castles and obscure ruins - almost every
structure of note upon the map -form an intricate web of alignments which intersect with
perfect regularity on the zero Paris- meridian. The distance covered by three of those
division is the circle radius measure. Each point is separated from the next by exactly one
third of 933.586 poles.
The accepted definition of a pole - also known as the Rod or Perch- is now 5.5 yards.
All of the measurements and placements of the buildings follow the patterns of the sacred
geometry.
This all leads back to the Hermetic studies - Hermes - who was Thoth - Ancient
Egyptians - Alchemy - Ark of the Covenant - Tree of Life - Qabbalah.
The boat of Isis was positioned in the constellation of Argo. Specifically, in Egypt this
constellation was named Sothis or Soth-Isis, the Star of Isis. Furthermore, in the Egyptian
legends this vessel represented the female organ of generation. The Ark of the Covenant
of the ancient Israelites is believed to have been modelled after the ceremonial ark of Isis.
It has been alleged that Hughes de Payens, first Grand Master of the Knights Templar,
had been inducted into the Johannites, a sect which chose John the Baptist as their
prophet. According to the dossiers secrets, each of the alleged Grand Masters of the
Prieure de Sion took the name Jean in succession (supposedly influencing the name
chosen by Pope John XXIII). One of the Grand Masters on the list, Leonardo da Vinci,
displayed a strong interest in John the Baptist. Another, Sir Isaac Newton, became
preoccupied with the writings of the Apocalypse, then attributed to John the Evangelist.
According to the dossiers secrets, the following individuals were amongst the Grand
Masters:
René d'Anjou (1418-80) - a major impetus behind the Renaissance through his literacy
and influence on Cosimo de'Medici setting up bastions of esoteric, Hermetic principles the 'underground stream'. Legend records that the d'Anjous were descended from Ann the
Jew, daughter of Joseph of Arimathea, who supposedly carried the Davidic blood line
and settled in western France. Later, the D'Anjou branched into the Houses of De Guise
and De Lorraine. René d'Anjou was related to the king of France by marriage and
remained a trusted ally during the war with England. On paper, René was one of the most
powerful men in Europe. Unfortunately, after the failure of his Italian campaign, he was
nothing more than a patron of the arts and collector of books. René was co-sponsor of the
Arcadia revival in the late 15th century.
Through his patronage of art, literature and the advancement of knowledge Rene is one of
the most important figures of the formative years of the Renaissance. It was directly as a
result of Rene's influence that Cosimo de Medici sent agents out to look for ancient texts,
which resulted in the revival of Neoplatonic and Hermetic thought.
Nicholas Flamel (1330-1418) the most famous of the alchemists said, "the Paris notary
Nicolas Flamel claimed that he dreamed of an occult book, subsequently found it, and
succeeded in deciphering it with the aid of a Jewish scholar learned in the mystic Hebrew
writings known as the Kabbala. In 1382 Flamel claimed to have succeeded in the 'Great
Work' (gold making); certainly he became rich and made donations to churches.
One alchemical symbol that is widely acknowledged by modern scholars is that of an old
bearded man, the back of whose head shows a young woman looking into a mirror. A
statue with this image graces the exterior of Nantes cathedral, as does a bearded king with
the body of a woman, in the porch at Chartres that depicts the Queen of Sheba.
The hermaphrodite is a pure alchemical symbol, representing the perfect balance
achieved in the Great Work, and the perfect being, in which the alchemist himself is
transformed and transmuted spiritually - and, as many believe, physically as well. It was
a 'consummation devoutly to be wished' and had little, if anything, to do with sexuality as
we understand it today.
The Great Work was an explosion of the potential into the actual, where they mystical
quest takes on concrete form. As the alchemists said, 'as above, so below' - this process
was believed to make spirit into matter and transmute one sort of matter into another. It
made a man into a god.
Revered by men like Newton, Flamel was the discoverer of The Sacred Book of
Abraham the Jew, Prince, Priest, Levite, Astrologer and Philosopher to that Tribe of Jews
who by the Wrath of God were Dispersed amongst the Gauls which became one of the
most famous works in Western esoteric tradition.
Leonardo de Vinci (1510-19) - Having little formal education, Leonardo enthusiastically
accepted Nicholas's [of Cusa] new worldview [of an universe with no limits in space, no
beginning or ending in time] as a justification for rejecing the outmoded authority of the
'pharisees - the 'holy friars' and of his 'adversaries' Plato and Aristotole.
For the first time since the Ionians, he put forward a conception of science that was
wholly secular, in no way based on religious doctrines or philosophy. In Leonardo the
craftsman, scientist, and inventor are merged into one.
Leonardo was left-handed; he was a strict vegetarian- he sought the company of
alchemists and necromancers; he worked on a Sunday and only attended Mass when at
court. The only surviving sculpture that involved Leonardo in its making is the statue of
John the Baptist in the Baptistry in Florence, on which he collaborated with the utmost
secrecy with Giovan Francesco Rustici, a known necromancer and alchemist.
And Leonardo's last painting was 'John the Baptist', showing him with the same halfsmile as 'The Mona Lisa', and pointing straight upwards with the index finger of his right
hand.
This in Leonardo's work is a sign always associated with John: in the 'Adoration of the
Magi' a person stands by the elevated roots of a carob tree - John's tree, symbol of
sacrifical blood - while making this gesture. In his famous cartoon of St. Anne the subject
also does this, warning an oblivious Virgin.
The disciple whose face is perhaps accusingly close to Jesus' in 'The Last Supper' is also
making this gesture. All these gestures are saying 'remember John'.
Johann Valenin Andrea (1637-54) - "the creator of the semi-secret Christian unions and
author of the Rosicrucian manifestos, a Hermetic allegory which also evokes resonances
with the Grail Romances and the Knights Templar.
At this time, with the eclipse of the House of Lorraine, the Priory transferred its
allegiance to the more influential Stuarts after Frederick of the Palatinate married
Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I of England. Frederick created a culture, a
'Rosicrucian' state with its court centered on Heidelberg.
Robert Boyle (1654-91) - part of the "Invisible College" of dynamic English and
European minds which became the Royal Society after the restoration of the monarch in
1160 with the Stuart ruler, Charles II as its patron and sponsor. His two closest friends
were Isaac Newton and John Locke who met regularly with him to study alchemical
works.
In the ancient world alchemy was referred to simply as 'the sacred art'. It flourished in the
first three centuries A.D. in Alexandria, where it was the combined product of glass and
metal technology, a Hellenistic philosophy of the unity of all things through the four
elements (earth, air, water, fire), and 'occult' religion and astrology.
The essential principle was that all things, both animate and inanimate, were permeated
by spirit, and that the substances of the lower world could, through a synthesis of
chemical operations and imaginative reasoning, be transmuted into higher things of the
spiritual world - things not subject to decay.
Napoleon Bonaparte - Sion appears to have been at the nexus of two French antimonarchical movements, the Compagnie du St.-Sacrament of the 17th century (acting on
behalf on the Guise-Lorraine families) and the Fronde of the 18th, as well as an attempt
to make the Hapsburgs emperors of all Europe in the 19th- the Hieron du Val d'Or.
-The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
PRIEURE DE SION - PART 2
In 1796 Napoleon was one of three revolutionary 'Directors' heading the government.
Another 'Director' was Abbe Sieyes, who knew of certain genealogical researches that
had been undertaken by one Abbe Pichon. Pichon had access to the royal archives
captured by the revolutionary government, where some important genealogies had been
hidden away, and he discovered that a direct descent from Dagobert II had been
maintained up to then.
Abbe Seiyes urged Napoleon to marry Josephine Beauhamais because she was a
Merovingian descendant, and to adopt her two children by a previous marriage who were
of this anciently royal stock. In 1798 on the way to Egypt, Bonaparte detoured to capture
Malta and the treasure held by the Knights of Malta.
During second world war in France, a recent grand master of the Prieure de Sion, M.
Plantard, was grand master of Alpha Galantes. "He hinted that beneath its pro-Vichy and
Petainist patina, Vaincre [the journal of Alpha Galantes] contained coded messages and
instruction which would have been decipherable only to the Resistance.
Vaincre had been printed by Poirier Murat, Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, holder of
the Medaille Militaire and officer in the French Resistance. According to Vaincre and
Alpha Galantes, chivalry was to be the instrument of national renewal for France: 'a
chivalry is indispensable because our country cannot be reborn except through its
knights.'
In the fifth issue of Vaincre, dated 21 January 1943, a great German, one of the Masters
in our Order" is quoted as saying: "It is therefore with total confidence that I depart to
perform my mission; for while not deluding myself about the perils I run in discharging
my duty, I know that until my last breath my watchword will consist in recognition of
Alpha and fidelity to its chief.
This statement is ascribed to Hans von Moltke, a career diplomat and also a cousin of
Claus von Stauffenberg. Helmut James von Moltke, together with Peter Yorck von
Wartenburg, was the leader of the so-called Kreisau Circle, the civilian wing of the
German Resistance to Hitler.
Both Alpha Galantes and the Kreisau Circle were intent on youth movements and on
mobilizing the resources of European youth. Both insisted on a moral and spiritual
renewal an opposition, in Moltke's words, based on fundamental principles.
Both were essentially chivalric in their orientation. And both were dedicated to the
eventual creation of a United States of Europe.
During the Second World War, while Poher was doing something heroic in the
Resistance to win the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre, and while Plantard
[future Nautonnier of the Priory of Sion] defied the Nazis and suffered torture for it, the
Cross of Lorraine was adopted as the symbol of the Free French forces under Charles de
Gaulle.
This cross, having two cross-bars instead of one, originated with the ancient French
house of Anjou, where Guiot found his tale about Percival. It was later adopted by the
Merovingian-descended rulers of Lorraine in the old Sicambrian heartland on the Rhine.
Napoleon Bonaparte - Sion appears to have been at the nexus of two French antimonarchical movements, the Compagnie du St.-Sacrament of the 17th century (acting on
behalf on the Guise-Lorraine families) and the Fronde of the 18th, as well as an attempt
to make the Hapsburgs emperors of all Europe in the 19th- the Hieron du Val d'Or.
In 1796 Napoleon was one of three revolutionary 'Directors' heading the government.
Another Director was Abbe Sieyes, who knew of certain genealogical researches that had
been undertaken by one Abbe Pichon. Pichon had access to the royal archives captured
by the revolutionary government, where some important genealogies had been hidden
away, and he discovered that a direct descent from Dagobert II had been maintained up to
then.
Abbe Seiyes urged Napoleon to marry Josephine Beauhamais because she was a
Merovingian descendant, and to adopt her two children by a previous marriage who were
of this anciently royal stock. In 1798 "on the way to Egypt, Bonaparte detoured to capture
Malta and the treasure held by the Knights of Malta.
During second world war in France, a recent grand master of the Prieure de Sion, M.
Plantard, was grand master of Alpha Galantes. "He hinted that beneath its pro-Vichy and
Petainist patina, Vaincre [the journal of Alpha Galantes] contained coded messages and
instruction which would have been decipherable only to the Resistance. Vaincre had been
printed by Poirier Murat, Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, holder of the Medaille
Militaire and officer in the French Resistance. According to Vaincre and Alpha Galantes,
chivalry was to be the instrument of national renewal for France: a chivalry is
indispensable because our country cannot be reborn except through its knights.
Napoleon Bonaparte - Sion appears to have been at the nexus of two French antimonarchical movements, the Compagnie du St.-Sacrament of the 17th century (acting on
behalf on the Guise-Lorraine families) and the Fronde of the 18th, as well as an attempt
to make the Hapsburgs emperors of all Europe in the 19th - the Hieron du Val d'Or.
In 1796 Napoleon was one of three revolutionary 'Directors' heading the government.
Another Director was Abbe Sieyes, who knew of certain genealogical researches that had
been undertaken by one Abbe Pichon. Pichon had access to the royal archives captured
by the revolutionary government, where some important genealogies had been hidden
away, and he discovered that a direct descent from Dagobert II had been maintained up to
then.
ROSSLYN CHAPEL
Rosslyn Chapel
Rosslyn Chapel, or the Collegiate Chapel of St Mathew as it was to have been, was
founded in 1446 by Sir William St Clair, third and last St Clair Prince of Orkney. It is in
fact only part of the choir of what was intended to be a larger cruciform building with a
tower at its centre.
More than thirty-seven collegiate churches were built in Scotland between the reigns of
James I and James IV (1406-1513). They were secular foundations intended to spread
intellectual and spiritual knowledge, and the extravagance of their construction depended
on the wealth of their founder.
After Sir William died in 1484, he was buried in the unfinished Chapel and the larger
building he had planned was never completed. But the foundations of the nave are said to
have been excavated in the nineteenth century and found to extend ninety-one feet
beyond the Chapel's original west door, under the existing baptistry and churchyard.
What was built however is extraordinary enough, 'This building, I believe, may be
pronounced unique, and I am confident it will be found curious, elaborate and singularly
interesting, impossible to designate by any given or familiar term' wrote Britton on his
Architectural Antiquities of Britain (1812), adding somewhat despairingly that its 'variety
and eccentricity are not to be defined by any words of common acceptation.'.
The principal authority on the history of the Chapel and the St Clair family is Father
Richard Augustine Hay, Canon of St Genevieve in Paris and Prior of St Piermont. He
examined historical records and charters of the St Clairs and completed a three volume
study in 1700, parts of which were published in 1835 as A geneologie of the Sainteclaires
of Rosslyn. His research was timely, since the original documents subsequently
disappeared.
Of the founder Father Hay said this: 'Prince William, his age creeping on him, came to
consider how he had spent his times past, and how he was to spend his remaining days.
Therefore, to the end, that he might not seem altogether unthankful to God for the
benefices he received from Him, it came into his mind to build a house for God's service,
of most curious work, the which that it might be done with greater glory and splendour he
caused artificers to be brought from other regions and foreign kingdoms and caused daily
to be abundance of all kinds of workmen present as masons, carpenters, smiths,
barrowmen and quarriers... the foundation of this work he caused to be lain in the year of
our Lord 1446, and to the end, the work might be more rare, first he caused draughts
[plans] to be drawn upon eastland boards [imported Baltic timber], and he made the
carpenters carve them according to the draughts thereon and he gave them to for patterns
to the masons, that they might cut the like in stone and because he thought the masons
had not a convenient place to lodge in...he made them build the town of Rolsine that is
now extant and gave everyone a house and lands. He rewarded the masons according to
their degree, as to the Master Mason, he gave nearly £40 yearly, and to everyone of the
rest, £10...
Sir William's son and successor to the Barony of Rosslyn, Sir Oliver St Clair, roofed the
choir with its stone vault but did no more to fulfil his father's original design.
The Chapel was generously endowed by the founder, with provision for a provost, six
prebendaries and two choristers, and in 1523 by his grandson, also Sir William, with land
for dwelling houses and gardens. On February 26th ,1571, however, just forty-eight years
after his last endowment, there is a record of the provost and prebendaries resigning
because of the endowments being taken by 'force and violence' into secular hands as the
effects of the Reformation took hold.
The Presbytery records of Dalkeith reveal that in 1589 William Knox, brother of John
Knox and minister of Cockpen, was censured 'for baptizing the Laird of Rosling's bairne'
in Rosslyn Chapel, which was described as a 'house and monument of idolatrie, and not
ane place appointit for teiching the word and ministratioun of ye sacrementis'.
The following year, the Presbytery forbade Mr George Ramsay, minister of Lasswade,
from burying the wife of a later Oliver St Clair in the Chapel. The St Clairs had not yet
succumbed to the Reformation and remained Roman Catholics.
This Oliver St Clair was repeatedly warned to destroy the altars in the Chapel and in1592
was summoned to appear before the General Assembly and threatened with
excommunication if the altars remained standing after August 17th, 1592. On August
31st, the same George Ramsay reported that 'the altars of Roslene were haille demolishit'.
From that time the Chapel ceased to be used as a house of prayer and soon fell into
disrepair.
In 1650, during the Civil War, Cromwell's troops under General Monk attacked the castle
and his horses were stabled in the Chapel.
On December 11th, 1688, shortly after the protestant William of Orange had landed in
England and displaced the Catholic James II, a mob from Edinburgh and some of the
villagers from Roslin entered and damaged the Chapel. Their object was to destroy the
furniture and vestments, which were now regarded as Popish and idolatrous.
The Chapel remained abandoned until 1736, when St James St Clair glazed the windows
for the first time, repaired the roof, and relaid the floor with flagstones. The boundary
wall was also built at this time.
When Dorothy Wordsworth visited the Chapel on September 17th, 1807, she remarked:
'Went to view the inside of the Chapel of Roslyn, which is kept locked up, and so
preserved from the injuries it might otherwise receive from idle boys, but as nothing is
done to keep it together, it must, in the end, fall. The architecture within is exquisitely
beautiful.'
Further repairs to the Chapel were undertaken at the beginning of the nineteenth century
and in 1861 it was agreed by James Alexander, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn, that Sunday services
should begin again. He instructed the Edinburgh architect David Bryce to carry out
restoration work. The carvings in the Lady Chapel were attended to, stones were relaid in
the crypt and an altar established there. The Chapel was rededicated on Tuesday April
22nd, 1862, by the Bishop of Edinburgh and the Bishop of Brechin preached from the
text, 'Our Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine
honour dwelleth' (Psalms xxvi, v8).
The Reverend R. Cole, then resident military chaplain at Greenlaw Barracks near
Penicuick, became private chaplain to the Earl. Lady Helen Wedderburn, daughter of the
7th Earl of Airlie, who lived nearby at Rosebank, organised a subscription from which
some of the interior fittings were provided.
In 1880-1, Francis Robert, 4th Earl of Rosslyn, added the apse to serve as a baptistry with
an organ loft above. The work is by Andrew Kerr. The Earl also filled the baptistry arch
with the handsome oak tracery which you see today, decorated with his crest. Together
with the two Chapel doors, this is the only wood used in the construction of the building.
The cost of the work was seven hundred and fifty eight pounds, eight shillings and six
pennies, with a further thirty four pounds and eighteen shillings to Andrew Kerr for fees.
Kerr told the Earl that a party of visitors 'had remarked that it was wonderful that such
young men should be entrusted to execute such carving,' to which the estate factor 'very
coolly replied, that it was not wonderful here, as the finest pillar in the Chapel was the
work of an apprentice boy.'
The Earl was happy with the work and in a letter to Kerr on November 16th, wrote: ' I
must say that the author pronounces your building a complete success.'
In 1915, a report on the fabric by Sir Robert Lorimer observed: ' The stone work of the
Chapel is in fairly good order and requires very little done to it... a few of the stones are
crumbling but not to the extent to cause any alarm. The condition of the roof is not
satisfactory... and there are a number of gaps and cracks all over.' He recommended that
the exterior of the roof be covered with asphalt and this was carried out.
In 1942 the Chapel was almost closed for a second time when a government official
called Robertson wrote to the Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin MP, 'that the
Episcopalian Church at Roslin was almost empty every Sunday... on a recent Sunday
there was a congregation of only two, and apart from the Clergyman's labour there must
be other workers employed in cleaning and looking after the church and I suggest that
steps are taken to close it down.'
A copy of the letter was sent to Gwilym Lloyd George MP, the Minister of Fuel, who in
turn wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland in the following terms; 'I enclose a copy
of a letter from David Robertson which causes me considerable embarrassment, who am
I, a Welshman, that I should do anything that might imperil the eternal salvation of one
Scottish Episcopalian. In any case, from the fuel point of view, I doubt whether I would
be justified in securing a small economy of fuel in this world at the possible cost of a
disproportionate expenditure of it on myself in the next.' The Chapel remained open.
Further work was carried out by Anthony 6th Earl of Rosslyn, in the 1950's when the
crypt roof was repaired and the interior carvings cleaned by hand over a period of several
years. He also added the stained glass windows in the baptistry. A report of May 1954
from the Ancient Monuments Branch of the Ministry of Works records that 'surfaces
covered with green algae will be scrubbed down with stiff bristle brushes... using a
solution of .880 ammonia and water. Water will then be used copiously until the surfaces
are clean and free from dirt and vegetation. Flaky patches will be sealed off... Hollow
areas in ornament will receive special treatment by grouting... and when the surfaces are
thoroughly dry they will be hardened with silica fluoride of magnesium at a rate of 1lb
per two gallons of water.'
This work was in accordance with the thinking of the time but not, unfortunately, with
current conservation philosophy. The effect of the magnesium fluoride - a cementitious
slurry - was to seal the internal surface of the masonry with an impermeable coating, so
that the stone became saturated with water containing soluble pollutants. In addition, the
coldness of the wet stone encouraged condensation. A report in 1995 confirmed that
damage was occurring and that humidity in the Chapel was very high. It recommended
that steps should be taken to dry out the saturated masonry, remove if possible the
cementitious coating, and restore the permeability of the richly carved inner surfaces of
the Chapel.
In March 1997, a free-standing steel structure was erected to cover the Chapel. It will
enable the stone fabric of the roof vaults to dry outwards, away from the carved interior
surfaces. In due course the bituminous felt, asphalt and concrete coverings of the stone
roof vaults will be removed to assist this process. Stone and mortar repairs to the external
walls, pinnacles, and buttresses, renewal of the rainwater disposal arrangements, repairs
to the stained glass, and appropriate repair and conservation of the interior are all
required. The coverings over the stone vaulted roofs will be renewed in lead and ways of
removing the cementitious slurry are being investigated, in order that this magnificent
building can be preserved for future generations to use and admire.
The year 2000 saw the Trust embark on a second phase of work. Funded jointly by The
National Heritage Lottery Fund, The Eastern Scotland European Partnership, Historic
Scotland and the Rosslyn Chapel Trust, this phase has a number of elements. Essential
stabilisation works to the east boundary walls will protect the Chapel. A new roof of
Caithness slate has been placed over the existing Crypt roof, and the Priest's Cell and two
more modern buildings beside the Crypt have been made functional. The stairs to the
Crypt have been repaired and the access to the Crypt is now both safer and more of an
experience. Work has also been carried out to improve the electrical services in the
Chapel, repairs to the wooden screen at the west end, and our interpretation of Rosslyn's
story.
It is known that the Templars fled to Scotland, too, after the dissolution of
1312, and it is known that some found refuge among the Saint-Clairs of
Rosslyn in Midlothian. There is a Templar cemetery there.
-Michael Bradley, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic
We encountered repeated references to the Sinclair family - Scottish
branch of the Norman Saint-Clair/Gisors family. Their domain at Rosslyn
was only a few miles from the former Scottish headquarters of the Knights
Templar, and the chapel at Rosslyn - built between 1446 and 1486 - has
long been associated with both Freemasonry and the Rose-Croix. In a
charter believed to date from 1601, moreover, the Sinclairs are recognized
as 'hereditary Grand Masters of Scottish Masonry'. This is the earliest
specific Masonic document on record.
-Baigent and Leigh, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
Rosslyn Chapel is decorated inside with carvings of Masonic
significance...and botanical significance. Arches, lintels, pillar bases and
such like are mostly covered in decorative but highly detailed plant motifs,
with many different species represented.
Two of the motifs resemble the aloe cactus and maize cobs, plants
indigenous to the New World and supposedly unknown to Europe before
the sixteenth century.
Everywhere there were manifestations of the 'green man', the Celtic figure
that represented fertility. Over a hundred 'green men' have been counted
but it is believed that there are even more subtly peeping out of the
vegetation.
The symbolism is Egyptian, Celtic, Jewish, Templar and Masonic in
profusion. A star-studded ceiling, vegetative growth coming form the
mouths of the Celtic Green Men, entangled pyramids, images of Moses,
towers of the Heavenly Jerusalem, engrailed crosses and well as squares
and compasses. The only certain Christian imagery was in later Victorian
alterations: the stained glass windows, the revolting baptistery and a statue
of the Madonna and child.
Recalling the legend of Hiram Abif, high up in the corner where the south
and west walls meet, and level with the organ, is a head with a severe gash
on the right temple and in the opposite side of the west wall is the head of
the person who killed him.
William St Clair himself masterminded the whole construction of the
building from its inception to his own death in 1484, just two years before
it completion; furthermore, he personally supervised every tiny detail of
the work...William St Clair had brought some of Europe's finest masons to
Scotland for this great project, building the village of Rosslyn to house
them.
From the outside, Rosslyn is a representation in stone of the Heavenly
Jerusalem as depicted in Lambert's copy, with towers and a huge central
curved, arched roof. Inside the Rosslyn shrine, the layout is a
reconstruction of the ruin of Herod's Temple, decorated with Nasorean and
Templar symbolism. In the north-east corner we found a section of the
wall carved with the towers of the Heavenly Jerusalem complete with the
Masonic compasses, styled exactly as they are shown on Lambert's scroll.
As we looked directly upwards from the organ loft, we could see that the
arched roof had a running series of keystones down its length, just like the
one the Royal Arch degree describes as found in the ruins of Herod's
Temple.
In Rosslyn, we observed that the fourteen pillars had been arranged so that
the eastern eight of them including Boaz and Jachin, were laid out in the
form of a Triple Tau. The formation and the proportions were exactly as
the Royal Arch degree depicts today.
- The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus
The famous Grail Seeker Trevor Ravenscroft claimed in 1962 that he had
finished a twenty year quest in search of the Grail at Rosslyn chapel.....His
claim was that the Grail was inside the Prentice Pillar (as it is known) in
this chapel. The chapel is often visited now by Grail Seekers and many
references to the Grail can be found in its stonework and windows. Metal
detectors have been used on the pillar and an object of the appropriate size
is indeed buried in the middle. Lord Rosslyn adamantly refuses to have the
pillar x-rayed.
- Chris Thornborrow, An Introduction to Current Theories about The Holy Grail
Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas believe that the small crypt of the
Rosslyn shrine was the lower middle chamber where the masons received
their wages. Before the vaults were sealed off when the chapel was
completed, twenty Templar knights were buried there in full armor.
- Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
The vaults themselves may yet be far more than a simple tomb, other
important artifacts may be contained therein. The one recorded action of
the Lords Sinclair that apparently contradicts their well earned reputation
for chivalry and loyalty may also be explained if the vaults are opened, for
it is just possible that some clue as to the whereabouts of certain treasures
of great historical interest may also be discovered."
- An Illustrated Guide to Rosslyn Chapel
The Companion's Jewel of the Royal Arch is a double triangle, sometimes called the Seal
of Solomon, within a circle of gold; at the bottom is a scroll bearing the words, Nil nisi
clavis deest - 'Nothing is wanting but the Key', and on the circle appears the legend, Si
tatlia jungere possis sit tibi scire posse - 'If thou canst comprehend these things, thou
knowest enough'.
-Royal Arch Degree
Knight and Lomas speculate that the reconstructed treasure vaults of
Herod's temple are located below the main floor of the Chapel. An Seal of
Solomon (Star of David) can be constructed from the alignment of pillars
between the entrance and Triple Tau formation.
At the very center of this invisible Seal of Solomon, in the arched roof
there is a large suspended boss in the form of a decorated arrowhead that
points straight down to a keystone in the floor below. It is, we believe, this
stone that must be raised to enter the reconstructed vaults of Herod's
Temple and recover the Nasorean Scrolls.
Rosslyn is not a free interpretation of the ruins in Jerusalem; as far as the
foundation plan is concerned, it is a very carefully executed copy. The
unfinished sections of the great western wall are there, the main walls and
the pillar arrangements fit like a glove and the pillars of Boaz and Jachin
stand precisely at the eastern end of what would be the inner Temple. The
spot we identified as being at the center of the Seal of Solomon turned out
to correspond exactly with the center point of the medieval world; the
middle of the Holy of Holies; the spot where the Ark of the covenant was
placed in the Temple at Jerusalem.
- The Hiram Key: Pharaohs,Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus
Knights Templar to use latest imaging in search for Grail
January 6, 2003 - Independent.co.uk
For centuries the intricately carved stones of Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh have
tantalised historians, archaeologists and devoted Christians.
A labyrinth of vaults beneath the 15th-century home of the Knights Templar is reputed to
contain dozens of holy relics, including early gospels, the Ark of the Covenant, and the
fabled Holy Grail.
More than 550 years after the first foundation stones were laid, modern technology is
about to put the legend to the test.
A group of Knights Templar, successors to the warrior monks who sought asylum from
the Pope by fleeing to Scotland in the early 14th century and fought for Robert the Bruce
at Bannockburn, are to make a "non-invasive" survey of the land around the chapel. They
will use the latest ultrasound and thermal imaging technology in the hope of finding
evidence of the existence of the vaults. "The plan is to investigate the land around the
chapel to a depth of at least 20ft," said John Ritchie, Grand Herald and spokesman for the
Knights Templar.
"The machine we are using is the most sophisticated anywhere and is capable of taking
readings from the ground up to a mile deep without disturbing any of the land.
"We know many of the Knights are buried in the grounds and there are many references
to buried vaults, which we hope this project will finally uncover." Rosslyn Chapel, or the
Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew as it was to have been, was founded in 1446 by Sir
William St Clair, third and last Prince of Orkney. Built as a celebration of Christ, it is
also a monument to craftsmanship.
Bristling with flying buttresses and gargoyles in the highest Gothic style on the outside,
the interior is carved with scenes from the Bible, the fall of man, the expulsion from the
Garden of Eden, the birth of Christ, the crucifixion and the resurrection.
"Rosslyn is an amazing building. It is a book in stone but, because the symbolism which
is written into the chapel is in a medieval language, we haven't even cracked the
introduction page yet," Mr Ritchie said.
Pillars and arches are covered with hundreds of exquisitely carved leaves, fruit, animals
and figures. Some curious carvings are said to depict cactus and sweetcorn, chiselled
before Columbus set foot in America in 1492.
"There is a whole series of stuff on each section of the chapel, which relates to a different
period of time," Mr Ritchie added. "We have to go back to the 15th century and read it
with a medieval eye to understand what it all means. All these symbols relate to events in
history. It is a book created in stone, which brings in all the apostolic religion, laid over
by an astrological form which tracks the seasons, and the plants in the seasons."
Both the Freemasons and the Knights Templar claim the ornate stonemasonry of the
church is a secret code which, if broken, will reveal the whereabouts of treasures.
One theory suggests that one of the ornate columns, known as the Apprentice Pillar, may
contain a lead casket in which is hidden the legendary cup used by Christ at the Last
Supper and later used to collect his blood, the so-called Holy Grail.
"Once we understand the introduction page we will begin to understand what this book in
stone means," Mr Ritchie added. "We hope to start as soon as possible and get a load of
readings from it. We hope to at least find this burial place and maybe the Holy Grail
itself."
Rosslyn Chapel, History, Hauntings and Mystical Connections
The chapel has been described as a 'Tapestry in Stone' - some of the most impressive
stone carving in Scotland if not Europe -the Apprentice Pillar - said to have been carved
by an apprentice to the master mason.
SKULL OF SIDON - SKULL AND CROSSBONES
The Legend of the Skull Of Sidon
The Skull and Cross bones have long been known to have Masonic connections. It was
commonly used as a symbol on Masonic Grave sites in the past. The Skull and
Crossbones, Masonic or not point out to us all, our own mortality and eventual death.
This image of mortality was believed to figure in Templar ritual. Now while this claim in
and of itself seems quite believable, one of the legends of how it came to be is not.
It is well known that the order of the Templars were monastic in nature and therefore
forbidden to have involvement with women.
The legend of the Skull of Sidon states that a great lady of Maraclea was loved by a
Templar who was a Lord of Sidon. She died suddenly. On the night of her burial, he
supposedly crept to her grave, dug up her body and violated it.
Then a voice from the void bade him return in nine months time for he would find a son.
He returned at the appointed time, opened the grave again and found a head on the leg
bones of the skeleton (skull and crossbones).
The same voice bade him 'guard it well, for it would be the giver of all good things', and
so he carried it away with him.
It became his protecting genius, and he was able to defeat his enemies by merely showing
them the magic head. In due course, it passed to the possession of the order.
This tale can be traced back to a twelfth century author named Walter Mapp, although the
story at this time is not connected with the Templar Knights. However, at the time of
their trials 1307-1314 it was well woven into the Templar legend. In fact it was called
upon during the actual trials of the Templars.
Edward Burman in his book Supremely Abominable Crimes tells of an Antonio Sicci, an
apostolic notary from Vercelli, Northern Italy. Sicci recounts to the inquisitors the tale of
the Lord of Sidon which he claimed he learned while working for the order in the Holy
Land. His accusation and recounting of the tale is similar to that quoted in Baigent and
Leigh's book.
As ridiculous as this tale seems in modern times, it was easily bought during the period.
The inquisitors and theologians would have picked up on the fact that the woman of the
piece was Armenian by background. This they would have connected with the Armenian
Church and its Paulician sects. The Paulicians and the Bogomils were practitioners of
Catharism which the church had all but wiped out during the Albigensian Crusade. Since
the church believed the Cathari to be practitioners of the Black Mass and necromancy,
the woman's Armenian background would make the story guilty by association.
- The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
The Teutonic Order (usually, hospitale sancte Marie Theutonicorum Jerosolimitanum the Hospital of St. Mary of the Germans of Jerusalem or der orden des Düschen huses the order of the German houses, in the sources) was one of the three major knightly or
military orders that originated and evolved during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The Templars and Hospitallers are the other major orders.
The Castle
The military orders were "true orders" of the Roman church governed by regulations
similar to those governing monks, generally variants of the Benedictine or Augustinian
Rules. For most purposes, they were technically answerable only to the pope. They did
have some feudal responsibilities to lay and other clerical entities as dictated by
circumstances of place and time. Large numbers of knights became monks but often were
found in military fortifications rather than monasteries. The members of most orders took
vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Origins of the Teutonic Order
According to tradition, early in the twelfth century a wealthy German couple built a
hospital in Jerusalem at their own expense to care for poor and sick pilgrims who spoke
German. The hospital and an accompanying chapel were dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
This story is similar to the traditions of the origin of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
founded by Amalfitans. The German hospital apparently was affiliated with the Hospital
of St. John, at least, in the observance of the rule of St. Augustine. After Saladin's
conquest of Jerusalem in 1187, there are no more records of the German hospital there.
There was no indication that the German hospital ever had a military mission.
During the siege of Acre during the Third Crusade (probably 1190), Germans from
Lübeck and Bremen established a field hospital for German soldiers reportedly using
ships' sails as cover from the elements. Duke Frederick of Swabia placed his chaplain
Conrad in charge of the hospital and soon transformed the organization into a religious
order responsible to the local Latin bishop. Although some scholars question its
authenticity, Pope Clement III (1187- -1191) apparently approved the Order on February
6, 1191. The Order was taken under Pope Celestine III's (1191--1198) protection on
December 21, 1196, with the name of the "Hospital of St. Mary of the Germans in
Jerusalem." The name is possibly the only connection with the earlier German hospital
although some argue a more direct relationship with the earlier hospital.
A ceremony purportedly held on March 5, 1198, altered the Order's raison d'etre. The
patriarch of Jerusalem, the king of Jerusalem, the head of the crusading army, and the
masters of the Templars and the Hospital of St. John attended the celebration establishing
the Teutonic Knights as a military order. A bull by Pope Innocent III (1198--1216) dated
February 19, 1199, confirmed the event and specified the Order would care for the sick
according to the rule of the Hospitallers. It would conduct its other business by following
the Templar rule and would wear the Temple's distinctive white cloak. Its black cross
would differentiate the Teutonic Order from the Temple.
Internal Structure
During the first twenty years of its existence, the institutional structure of the Order
developed and stabilized. The Teutonic Order followed the lead of the Templars and
Hospitallers by creating a system of provinces. Unlike monastic orders composed of
independent abbeys, the Teutonic Knights had a hierarchical chain of command with
commanderies (house, Kommende) at the lowest level. Provinces or bailiwicks (Ballei,
Komturei) were parts of "countries" that composed the Order as a whole. Its first
independent rule was adopted in 1264.
The officials governing the Teutonic Order at the various levels were commander
(Komtur, preceptor) at the local level, province commander (Landkomtur), national
commander (Landmeister), and grand master (Hochmeister, magister). The highest
leadership positions (including grand master, grand commander [Grosskomtur], marshal
[Ordensmarschall], draper or quartermaster [Trapier], hospitaller [Spittler], and treasurer
[Tressler]) were elected by the general chapter.
Membership of this mostly German-speaking order was composed of various, distinct
classes: knights, priests, and other brothers (lay brothers, sisters, and "familiars"). There
was a large number of people who supported the professed members of the Order,
ranging from auxiliary knights to slaves. The highest ranking were secular knights,
serving for free. Turcopoles (Greek for "son of Turk") were originally probably lightlyarmed, half-breed cavalry whose name applied to Turkish mercenaries employed in the
Byzantine army, later the term was adopted by the military orders. There were attendants
called squires (knechte), and sergeants-at-arms. Footsoldiers were usually coerced from
the local peasantry. Sister-aids (halpswesteren) were employed as domestics as were
halpbrüderen; they took religious vows. Married and single lay domestics also were
employed by the Order. Artisans and laborers (e.g., gardeners, carpenters, masons)
worked for charity or wages. Many serfs and slaves were owned by the Order.
Rapid Expansion
From the outset, the possessions and wealth of the Teutonic Order grew astoundingly fast
and its numbers skyrocketed, especially under Grand Master Hermann von Salza (c.
1210--1239). Von Salza was successful in gaining many favors for the Order because he
was a confidante to both the German emperor Frederick II (1211--1250) and the popes.
His immediate successors also did well. Between 1215 and 1300, one or more
commanderies were founded each year, usually through gifts.
The Teutonic Order was invited into Greece (1209), Hungary (1211), and Prussia (1226)
by secular rulers to perform military duties on their behalf. In the Peloponnesus the
Frankish Prince of Achaia provided fiefs near Kalamata for the Teutonic Knights in
return for military service; there are traces of the Order's continuous service there until
1500. The Hungarian King Andrew II (1205--1235) expelled the Order in 1225 when it
became strong and may have threatened his rule. The conquest of Prussia began in 1230
(after the Order's Grand Master was named prince of the Holy Roman Empire) and lasted
until 1283.
In addition to the Holy Land and these other "theaters of war," the order's members could
be found elsewhere in the Mediterranean and western Europe: Armenia, Cyprus, Sicily,
Apulia, Lombardy, Spain, France, Alsace, Austria, Bohemia, the Lowlands, Germany,
and Livonia. Only in the frontier areas (the Holy Land, Armenia, Greece, Hungary,
Prussia, Spain, and Livonia) was military service required of members.
By 1221 the German Order was given the same privileges as the Templars and
Hospitallers by Pope Honorius III (1216--1227). Both senior orders fought the autonomy
of the Teutonic Order until about 1240. The German Order may not have quite equaled in
wealth and possessions the other two military orders which were more than 80 years
older, but it became the only other order to rival them in international influence and
activity.
The Baltic
After the crusaders were defeated at Acre in 1291, the Teutonic Order moved its
headquarters to Venice, a long-time ally. In 1309, the Order moved again, this time to
Marienburg in Prussia. Here the Order had subdued the pagan inhabitants and established
a theocratic form of government.
The position of the knights in the Baltic region had been strengthened in 1237 when a
knightly order in Livonia, the Brothers of the Sword (Schwertbr(der), joined the Teutonic
Order. The history of the German knights in Prussia and Livonia is one of almost
perpetual revolts, uprisings, raids, conquests, victories, and defeats. Many secular knights
from western Europe (e.g., Chaucer's knight in the Canterbury Tales) would go to the
Baltic to help the Order in "crusading activities" for a season or more. The Grand
Master's prizes and feasting for especially heroic knights became legendary and reminds
one of various aspects of King Arthur's knights of the Round Table.
During the fourteenth century, dozens of towns and about 2000 villages were created in
Prussia by the Order. The Order was successful in trade. For example, as a Hanseatic
League participant, it provided western Europe with some of its cheapest grain.
The nations of Poland and Lithuania, perennial enemies of the Order, became stronger
and stronger in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. In 1410 at Tannenberg,
the Order was crushed in a battle against a coalition led by these powers. The result was a
bankrupting of the Order and significant reduction in its military and political
capabilities. In 1467, the whole of western Prussia was ceded to Poland and the eastern
part acknowledged the suzerainty of the king of Poland.
1525 to 1797
Martin Luther's (1483-1546) Reformation affected the Teutonic Order significantly. In
1525, Grand Master Albrecht von Brandenburg converted to the Lutheran faith. He then
was enfoeffed by the Polish king as Duke of Prussia. As a medieval, crusading entity, the
German Order essentially ended at this time.
In 1526, the Teutonic Order master of the German lands became the "Administrator of
the Grandmastery in Prussia and Master in German and Romance Countries."
Mergentheim became the main seat of the Order.
There was a great deal of confusion in Germany in the aftermath of the Reformation, its
resulting wars, and the political changes. The bailiwicks of Saxony, Messe, and Th(ringia
became Protestant until Napoleonic times. The office of Landkomtur alternated among
Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic leaders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The
bailiwick of Utrecht was Calvinist until modern times. A new rule was adopted in 1606 in
an attempt to accommodate the changes in the Order.
In European affairs, from time to time, the Order still participated militarily. Some 1000
troops were raised to help the Austrians against the Turks. After 1696, there was a
regiment of the "Grand and German Master." But the numbers and wealth of the Order
dwindled. Little other military activity is recorded.
The French Revolution and After
As the anticlerical French government expanded its political control in the 1790's, the
Order lost its commanderies in Belgium and those west of the Rhine (1797). Many east of
the Rhine were lost in 1805. In 1809, Napoleon dissolved the Order in all countries under
his dominion, leaving only the properties in the Austrian Empire.
Even in Austria, the Order had to exist secretly for a number of years until 1839 when
Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I reconstituted the Order as the Order of the Teutonic
Knights (Deutscher Ritterorden). The mission fulfilled by the Order was mainly the
caring for wounded soldiers.
In 1866, the "Honorable Knights of the Teutonic Order" was founded. Knights were
required to provide annual contributions for hospitals. The Marianer des Deutschen
Ordens, for women, was created in 1871.
In 1914, some 1,500 sponsors from the Austrian nobility supported the caregiving efforts
of the Order. During World War I, the Order took care of about 3,000 wounded soldiers
in their facilities.
In 1923, masters of the Order were allowed to come from among the clerics rather than
the "knighthood" for the first time. Under National Socialist rule, the Order was dissolved
in Austria in 1938 and Czechoslovakia in 1939. The leaders of the Third Reich abused
the history of the Teutonic Order. After World War II, the Order began anew in
Germany. Its possessions in Austria were returned. In Italy, the Order had changed little.
A great deal of support for the caretaking and missionary Order has been found in
Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium, and even in North and Central America. The Order's
headquarters, treasury, and archives are now located in Vienna, Austria.
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Eric Opsahl
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS: PART 2
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS
This table contains dates and events that highlight the origins and development of the
Teutonic Knights throughout its history; also included are significant events in medieval
history that may not be directly associated with the Teutonic Knights but give perspective
to the history of the order. Please note that this table is still under construction. If your
browser does not support tables, choose this text-only version.
1070 - Possible founding date of the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem by Amalfi
merchants
1098 - Crusaders of First Crusade captured Jerusalem
1113 - Hospital of St. John recognized by papal bull as separate order
1118 - Hugh of Payens of Burgundy and Godfrey of Saint Adhemar, a Fleming, with
seven other knights were credited with founding the Templars whose headquarters was
on or near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
1126 - Hospital of St. John displayed possible military attributes; its "constable" was
cited in sources
1127 - Possible date of the founding of the German Hospital of St. Mary in Jerusalem
1128 - Probable circulation of St. Bernard of Clairvaux' Liber ad milites templi de laude
novae militiae
January 1129 - Council of Troyes recognized the Temple as an order
1131 - King Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre attempted to turn over the kingdom to the
Templars, Hospitallers, and Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in his will
1143 - Two sources of Pope Celestine II mention a German hospital in Jerusalem in some
kind of dispute with the Hospital of St. John; the German hospital was put under the
supervision of the Hospital of St. John
1147-1149 - Second Crusade
1160's or 1170's - John of W•rzburg mentioned the German hospital in Jerusalem in his
Description of the Holy Land
1172 - German monk Theodorich wrote Guide to the Holy Land
1176 - Sophia, Countess of Holland, was buried in the German hospital in Jerusalem
May 1, 1187 - Hospitallers and Templars defeated by the Muslims at Nazareth
July 4, 1187 - Battle of Hattin lost by crusaders; Hospitallers, Templars, and the "flower
of the nobility" devastated
Oct. 4, 1187 - Jerusalem surrendered to Saladin
1190 - Third Crusade featured the German Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, King
Richard I of England, and King Philip II of France; the crusaders lay siege to Acre;
Germans from L(beck and Bremen probably established a field hospital named after the
previous German hospital of St. Mary in Jerusalem
September, 1190 - King Guy of Jerusalem awarded Teutonic Order or "Teutonic
Knights" a portion of a tower in Acre; the bequest was re-enforced on Feb. 10, 1192; the
order perhaps shared the tower with the English Order of the Hospital of St. Thomas
Feb. 6, 1191 - Questionable bull of Pope Clement III approving the German hospitaller
order at Acre
July 12, 1191 - Siege of Acre ended in crusader victory
Apr., 1195 - Count Palatinate Henry of Champagne provided Teutonic Knights the house
of Theodore of Sarepta in Tyre
Mar., 1196 - Count Palatinate Henry conferred possessions in Jaffa (Joppa) on Teutonic
Knights
Dec. 21, 1196 - Pope Celestine III took the "Hospital of St. Mary of the Germans in
Jerusalem" under his protection
1196 - Hermann von Salza may have accompanied Landgraf Hermann von Th•ringen to
the Holy Land
May 20, 1197 - German emperor Henry VI gave the Teutonic Knights a hospital in
Barletta, Italy
July 18, 1197 - Henry VI gave Teutonic Knights a church and cloister (of the Holy
Trinity) in Palermo, Sicily
March 5, 1198 - Teutonic Knights established as a military order in a ceremony in Acre's
Temple which was attended by the secular and clerical leaders of the Latin Kingdom
1198 - First military action of the Teutonic Knights with King Amalric II of Jerusalem;
Amalric gave them (in August) a tower in Acre, formerly belonging to the Order of St.
Nicholas
Feb. 19, 1199 - Bull of Pope Innocent III confirmed the Teutonic Knights' wearing of the
Templars' white mantle and following of the Hospitallers' rule
August 1200 - Teutonic Knights paid the sons of Theodore of Sarepta 200 besants for the
house in Tyre to complete the 1195 deal
1202 - Gerold of Bozen gave the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Bozen
1202-1204 - Crusading effort led by Boniface of Montferrat diverted from Palestine or
Egypt to Constantinople with influence of Venetians and pretender to the Byzantine
throne
April, 1204 - Fall of Constantinople to the Latin crusaders
Early, 1205 - William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin conquered Patras,
Andravida, Pundico Castro, Modon, and Coron in the Morea; Battle of Koundoura won
by William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin with about 600 men over 5,000
Byzantine Greeks
1206 - Statutes of Margat adopted by the Hospitallers in annual chapter meeting
1207 - Famous singing contest held at the Wartburg; St. Elizabeth of Hungary and
Hermann von Salza possibly attended
1208 - Teutonic Knights "marshal" appears in the sources; indicates the military nature of
the order
1208-1229 - Albigensian Crusade in France
Early, 1209 - Geoffrey Villehardouin, Prince of Achaia, in dividing up the Peloponnesus
in his capital of Andravida, gave the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights four
knightly fees; the Teutonic Knights' fee is near Kalamata
1209 - Teutonic Knights side with Hospitallers and barons in Acre against the Templars
and prelates; origin of long-standing opposition between the Templars and Teutonic
Knights
Oct. 3, 1210 - Probable date of election of Hermann von Salza as grand master of the
Teutonic Knights; the date coincided with the date of the marriage in Tyre of John of
Brienne to Mary; it was also the date of John's coronation as King of Jerusalem
September 1211 - Frederick II chosen king in Germany
1211 - Burzenland settled by the Teutonic Knights with the authority of Hungary's King
Andrew II
July 1212 - Peter II of Aragon defeats the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa
1212 - Adomadana given to the Teutonic Knights by King Leo of Armenia
1212 - Children's Crusade: spring - German phase; June - French phase
Sept. 12, 1213 - Simon of Montfort wins the battle of Muret; Peter II killed
Feb. 24, 1214 - King Leo of Armenia granted Teutonic Knights Amudain, the castle of
Sespin, and more
Nov., 1215 - Innocent III called the Fourth Lateran Council; new crusade proclaimed;
Hermann von Salza probably at the Fourth Lateran Council representing his order
1215 - Frederick II crowned in Aix-la-Chapelle; took the cross
1215 - Magna Carta signed in England
1215 - Dominican Order founded
Feb. 18, 1216 - Innocent III issued a bull of protection for the Teutonic Knights
Dec., 1216 - Hermann von Salza attended Frederick II's court in Nuremberg; first
meeting between the Teutonic Knights' grand master and the emperor
Feb., 1217 - Hermann von Salza received possessions in Sicily from Frederick II while at
Ulm
Jun.24, 1217 - Frederick II granted the Teutonic Knights the same status as the Templars
and Hospitallers in the Kingdom of Sicily
1217-1221 - Fifth Crusade
May - Aug. 1218 - Crusading army lands in Egypt; Hermann von Salza at Damietta;
Saphadin died (1199-1218); al-Kamil, his son, became caliph (1218- 1238); crusaders
captured Damietta
1218 - 1219 - Patriarch of Jerusalem, church officials, Templars and Hospitallers advised
Pelagius not to accept peace terms of Sultan al-Kamil to surrender Jerusalem; contrary
advice offered by King John of Jerusalem, Earl Ranulf of Chester, and the German
leaders
Spring, 1220 - Hermann von Salza went to Acre with King John of Jerusalem
Nov., 1220 - Hermann von Salza was with Frederick II in Italy; first identified by name
as Hermann von Salza in documents; Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor by
Honorius III
1220 - Leopold VI of Austria presented the Teutonic Knights the site of the castle of
Montfort near Acre
Jan. 9, 1221 - Honorius III gave privileges to the Teutonic Knights; as an order, they now
were on the same level as the Templars and the Hospitallers
Jan - Apr, 1221 - Hermann von Salza was in Italy; 57 privileges were given by Honorius
III to the Teutonic Knights (Honorius III granted 113 to the Teutonic Knights during his
pontificate)
Mid-April, 1221 - Hermann von Salza accompanied the duke of Bavaria and other
German nobles to Damietta; arrived in May
Aug. 30, 1221 - Battle of Mansurah; crusaders surrendered in Egypt (Templars led the
rearguard action); peace treaty; Hermann von Salza and the master of the Temple held as
hostages by the Muslims
1222 - "Golden Bull" of Hungary, first issue
1223 - Hermann von Salza negotiated with the pope over Gunzelin; later in the Holy
Land, he arranged the marriage for the emperor (?)
1224 - Hermann von Salza was involved in the Treaty of Dannenberg
Nov., 1225 - Frederick II married Isabella (Yolande) of Brienne and claimed the throne
of Jerusalem; Hermann von Salza was present
1225 - Teutonic Knights forcibly expelled from Burzenland by king Andrew II; Conrad
of Masovia requested aid from the Teutonic Knights in Prussia
1226 - "Golden Bull of Rimini" from Frederick II for the Teutonic Knights giving them
wide-ranging authority in the name of the empire in Prussia
1227 - Montfort rebuilt---renamed Starkenberg
Sep., 1228 - Frederick II arrived in the Holy Land accompanied by Hermann von Salza
Feb. 18, 1228 - Frederick II took control of Jerusalem from the Egyptian Sultan al-Kamil
by treaty; Hermann von Salza with Frederick
Mar. 12, 1228 - Hermann von Salza sent a letter to Gregory IX from Joppa informing him
about the treaty
Mar. 18, 1228 - Frederick II crowned King of Jerusalem in the church of the Holy
Sepulcher in Jerusalem; then held high court in the house of the Hospital of St. John
Apr., 1229 - Peace of Paris ended Albigensian Crusade
Apr., 1229 - Frederick II gave Teutonic Knights former house of Germans in Jerusalem;
also a house that once belonged to King Baldwin located in the Armenian street near the
church of St. Thomas (plus a garden and six acres of land)
May 1, 1229 - At odds with the Templars and Ibelins, Frederick II departed Acre; feared
losing Apulia to John of Brienne
1229-1244 - German Hospital of St. Mary in Jerusalem expanded
1230 - Kulm recognized by Pope Gregory IX as belonging to the Teutonic Knights
1231 - Teutonic Knights' Hermann Balke advanced into Prussia
1231 - Gautier of Brienne gave the Teutonic Knights Beauvoir
1231 - St. Elizabeth of Hungary died at Marburg; later was canonized (1234)
1234 - Teutonic Knights won the battle at Sirguna, Prussia
1234 - Pope took control of Prussia; leased it to the Teutonic Knights
Spring, 1235 - Dobriner Order incorporated into Teutonic Knights; approved by
Frederick II and Gregory IX
Sept., 1235 - Andrew II of Hungary died; Bela IV succeeded him (until 1270)
Dec. 23, 1236 - Gregory IX taxed the Peloponnesus to support crusading ventures;
preceptor of the Teutonic Knights identified in the Morea as one of three collectors of the
tithing effort
1237 - Frederick II's second Lombard campaign; Hermann von Salza at Battle of
Cortenuova
1237 - Teutonic Knights and Swordbrothers unite
Jul., 1237 Geoffrey II of Achaia gave the Teutonic Knights a hospital in Andravida
1238 - Frederick II's third Lombard campaign; Hermann von Salza's health failed
March 1239 - Hermann von Salza died in Salerno and buried in Barletta; Frederick II
excommunicated
March 1239 - Robert de l'Isle donates property (Villegrot) near Veligosti to the Teutonic
Knights
Apr. 9, 1241 Battle of Liegnitz; Mongols defeat army of Poles and Germans including
Hospitallers, Templars, and Teutonic Knights
April 5, 1242 - Russians under Alexander Nevsky defeat the Teutonic Knights on Lake
Peipus
1244 - Muslims recapture Jerusalem
Oct. 31, 1246 - Innocent IV transferred the Hospital of St. James to the Templars
1257 - Julian of Grenier, lord of Sidon, donated a fortress called Cave of Tyron to the
Teutonic Knights (about 12 miles east of Sidon) signifying the order's role in Holy Land
was expanding
1257-1261 - Teutonic Knights bought large land complex (called Souf or Schuf)
northeast of Sidon from Julian Grenier, lord of Sidon for 23,000 crusader besants
Oct. 16, 1258 - Peace treaty among the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights
signed in Acre
1258 - Teutonic Knights buy a manor from John de la Tour, constable of Sidon, and two
manors from John of Schuf and assumed the responsibility for defense north of Acre
July 1260 - Teutonic Knights routed at Durben; Prussians revolted
1261 Teutonic Knights bought fief made up of several manors called Schuf from Andrew
of Schufe
May, 1263 - All Teutonic Knight possessions near Sidon lost to Muslims after Baybars
won battle of Sidon
1290 - Teutonic Knights complete a 30‹year effort to control Prussians
May 18, 1291 - Fall of Acre; Hospitaller and Templar headquarters moved from Acre to
Cyprus; Teutonic Knights headquarters moved from Acre to Venice
1306 - Hospitallers began conquest of Rhodes
Nov. 28, 1309 - Trial of Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Templars (in Paris)
1309 - Hospitallers' headquarters moved from Cyprus to Rhodes
1309 - Teutonic Knights' headquarters moved from Venice to Prussia
May 16, 1312 - Hospitallers awarded Templars' estates throughout western Europe,
Cyprus, and Greece
Mar. 15, 1314 - Jacques de Molay, Templar grand master, and Preceptor of Normandy
burned at the stake in Paris
Sep. 9, 1320 - Teutonic Knight commander in the Morea died in battle against the Greeks
near the fortress of St. George
1348 - Plague devastated the Byzantine Empire
1376 - 1381 - Hospitallers leased the Principality of Achaia from Joanna of Naples for
4,000 ducats per year
1383 or 1384 - Strife between Hospitallers and the Teutonic Knights in the Peloponnesus
1387 - Rudolf Schoppe, preceptor of the Teutonic Knights in the Morea, became the field
deputy of Pedro Bordo de San Superan
1391 - List of Moreote fiefs included the Hospital of St. John and the Teutonic Knights
1401 - Jacob of Arkel, preceptor of the Teutonic Knights in the Morea, rewarded with
vineyards at Modon and Coron by the Venetians
1402 - Source identified a number of Teutonic Knight monasteries in the Morea
including St. Steven in Andravida
1410 Teutonic Knights defeated at Tannenberg; bankrupted
May 21, 1433 - Teutonic Knight procurator John Nichlausdorf in Rome reported he
protested to the Byzantine representative the loss of properties in the Morea
Apr. 27, 1435 - Teutonic Knights' representative at the Council of Basel asked the return
of possessions in the Morea from the Byzantines
1435-1437 - Johann Franke attempted to purchase Mostenitsa
1500 - Turks conquered Modon from the Venetians and expelled the Teutonic Knights
from the Peloponnesus
RENNES LE CHATEAU ~ THE MEROVIAN KINGS
The Mysteries of Rennes-Le-Chateau
As with the Great Pyramid - Rennes Le Chateau is linked to the bloodline - the keepers of
the sacred information - the blueprint with the architecture of this reality - and where we
are going. People would visit here to activate their DNA and thus remember .... who they
are and why they are here as we evolve through the alchemy of time.
Rennes Le Chateau, is located in Languedoc, France an unspoiled area of southern
France. There are many mysteries surrounding Rennes Le Chateau that link with the Holy
Grail, the Ark of Noah, the Ark of the Covenant and the treasures of the Temple of
Solomon. These mysteries have baffled researchers for hundreds of years.
THE LANDSCAPE - GEOMETRY
There are 40 square miles of sacred landscape geometry surrounding Rennes Le Chateau.
According to one researcher, it may be laid out in the shape of a "Ship of the Dead" with
a helmeted warrior borne to sea.
Yet another thinks that the Paris Meridian may have been drawn so that it quite
deliberatelypasses, ley-fashion, straight through Rennes Le Chateau, Arques, and
Conques.
Others see links between the site and Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland or Shugborough Hall in
Staffordshire,England.
WHO IS BERENGER SAUNIERE?
Much of the mystery surrounding Rennes Le Chateau stems from its priest, Berenger
Sauniere who died of mysterious circumstance in 1917 at age 65.
Sauniere became unaccountably rich after taking up residence at Rennes Le Chateau in
1885.
Many authors have speculated on how he got his wealth - though there is no proof.
Regardless of the theories Sauniere certainly did pretty well for a Parish priest - of a very
small Parish. He constructed the 'Villa Bethania' and the 'Tower Magdalene' which he
housed his extensive and apparently expensive library.
"Les Bergers d'Arcadie" a painting by Nicolas Poussin
This painting shows Arcadian shephards around a tomb containing the mysterious
inscription "Et in Arcadia Ego'. This tomb appears to be a virtual replica of one not too
dissimilar to it right outside of Rennes Le Chateau. Three intrepid historians searched far
and away for others to help decipher the puzzle.
Sauniere died in 1917, leaving the secret of where he got his fabulous wealth to his
housekeeper, Marie Dernaud, who promised to reveal it on her deathbed - but sadly she
had a stroke which left her paralyzed and unable to speak before her death in 1953.
Speculation was rife on the source of the parish priest's money. Was it the lost treasure of
the Templars or the Cathars in the area? Might it have been buried Visigothic gold? Or
was he blackmailing the Church with some terrible secret? The evidence that points to the
last possibility is that Sauniere's confession before his death was so shocking that the
priest who heard it denied him absolution and last rites.
The mystery is rendered greater by a series of parchments found by the cleric in 1891,
which contained an easily discovered cipher. They were apparently written by his
predecessor, Abbe Antoine Bigou, confessor to Marie d'Hautpoul, in 1781. The same
cipher appears on her tombstone. The parchments were, on the face of it, Latin
transcriptions of passages from the Gospels, but they contained deeper mysteries.
Sauniere also appears to have left certain other "clues" in the highly unusual redesign of
his church and of the other structures in the area.
Hidden within those Latin parchments were two messages in French:
This treasure belongs to Dagobert II King and to Sion and he is there dead.
Shepardess no temptation that Poussin Teniers hold the key peace 681 by the
cross and the horse of God I complete this Daemon guardian at midday blue
apples.
It is known that Berenger Sauniere took his parchments to the Abbe Bieil, of the
seminary of St. Sulpice, which was where the Abbe's nephew Emile Hoffet launched the
Catholic Modernist rebellion which would eventually land Modernist works on the
Vatican's "banned" list. Saint Sulpice's feast day, January 17th, is the date of Sauniere's
sudden stroke. He was the bishop of Bourges, on the Paris Meridian, and in his seminary
is an obelisk with a copper line marking the exact point of the alignment.
Nothing is as it seems with the Rennes Le Chateau mysteries.
The Magdalene's heirs married into the Visigoth families of the time and gave birth to the
sacred Merovingian ruling family. The Visigoths of the area might have themselves been
descended from the House of Benjamin, which had fled to the Arcadia region of Greece,
and thence north into France, a thousand years earlier.
The Merovingians were not wiped out by the Carolingian usurpers, and their lineage
survives in some of the other royal families of Europe; apparently the goal of the secret
society entitled the Prieure du Sion is a Merovingian restoration in France.
According to authors Leigh, Lincoln, and Baigent, it seems to encompass the dissolution
of the Templars, the downfall of the Cathars, the bizarre Rosicrucian manifesto, and other
political intrigues of French history.
For it seems that Sion has a grievance against the Church, who betrayed the Merovingian
dynasty and crowned its destroyers. If Sauniere was an agent of Sion, it might explain
why he was denied absolution.
There are a few grisly murders that have taken place in the area to add to the air of
mystery. One was that of the old priest Jean-Antoine-Maurice Gelis. Toward the end of
his life he became a paranoid hermit and recluse; the only person he would admit to his
presbytery was his niece, to bring him food.
Despite his absurd precautions, someone surprised him on All Saints' Eve in 1897,
bashed him with some fire tongs, delivered four blows from an ax, and then reverently
laid the corpse on the ground with the hands crossed over the chest. Whoever it was
ransacked the room but took no money.
A team of researchers found three corpses in Sauniere's garden in 1956, all of them shot.
Were they World War II victims? Or something else? Noel Corbu, who took care of
Marie Denarnaud after her paralyzing stroke, and who may have learned of something
from her incoherent dying whispers, was killed in a horrendous car crash in 1953 that
some suspect was not an accident.
Sauniere's "heart attack" in 1917 came on the suspicious date of January 17th (St.
Anthony's Day) and there are hints that the coffin had been ordered in advance. A courier
who carried the secret dossiers found by Sauniere, Fakhur el Islam, was found dead on
train tracks just outside of Melun, East Germany, in 1967.
Perhaps the most enigmatic elements mentioned in the text as decoded by Lionel
Fanthorpe is the phrase "Blue Apples at Noon." The code in the parchments is only
decipherable through the use of the "knight's tour" - a logic puzzle wherein one "jumps" a
knight to every square on a chess board, once and only once. It is a puzzle which has only
one solution - as does the code, clearly. But the use of chessboard imagery at Rennes-leChateau is striking.
Clearly, to some degree, the puzzle lies in the layout of the redesign of Sauniere's church,
and his other building projects. The village parish church had been dedicated to the
Magdalene in 1059; during the restoration, he found the mysterious parchment
(supposedly) in a hollow Visigothic pillar underneath the altar stone. A statue of the
demon Asmodeus guards near the door. The plaques depicting the Stations of the Cross
contain bizarre inconsistencies. One shows a child swathed in Scottish plaid.
Another has Pontius Pilate wearing a veil. St. Joseph and Mary are each depicted holding
a Christ child, as if to allude to the old legend that Christ had a twin. Other statues are of
rather esoteric saints in unusual postures: St. Roch displays his wounded thigh (like the
Grail King Anfortas), St. Anthony the Hermit holds a closed book, St. Germaine releases
a bevy of roses from her apron, and the Magdalene is shown holding a vase. Sauniere's
library and study, the Tour Magdala, is placed precariously over a precipitous chasm at a
place where one would be foolish to build such a permanent structure, unless...
THE MEROVIAN KINGS
Until recently, little was known about the Merovingian kings, as they inhabited that
historical epoch derided as the Dark Ages. The founder of the royal line, Merovech, was
said to be of two fathers - his mother, already pregnant by King Chlodio, was seduced
while swimming in the ocean by a Quinotaur, whatever that was, and Merovech was
formed somehow by the commingling of Frankish blood and that of the mysterious
aquatic creature. Like the Nazoreans of old, the Merovingian monarchs never cut their
hair and bore a distinctive birthmark - said to be a red cross over the shoulder blades.
Their robes were fringed with tassels which were said to carry magical curative powers.
They were known as occult adepts, and in one Merovingian tomb was found such items
as a golden bull's head, a crystal ball, and several golden miniature bees. Strangely, many
skulls of these monarchs appear to have been ritually incised; i.e., trepanned.
The Sicambrians, ancestors of the Franks, were known as the "people of the Bear" for
their worship of the bear-goddess Arduina. The word "Arcadia" comes from Arkas,
patron god of that area of Greece, the son of the nymph Callisto, sister of the huntress
Artemis. Callisto's constellation is also known to many as Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
The name "Arthur" comes from the Celtic arth, related to "Ursus" -- namely, "bear." In
legend, the Merovingians were said to be descended from the Trojans, and Homer reports
that Troy was founded by a colony of Arcadians.
The "Prieure documents" claim that the Arcadians were descended from Benjamites
driven out of Palestine by their fellow Israelites for idolatry. "Arcadia" was also known
as the source of the River Alphaeus, the "underground stream" which figures so
prominently in Coleridge's poetry and in esoteric literature.
The Merovingians were "sacred kings" who reigned but did not rule, leaving the secular
governing function to chancellors known as the Mayors of the Palace. It was one of these
Mayors, Pepin the Fat, who founded the dynasty that came to supplant them -- the
Carolingians.
One of the great Merovingian kings, Clovis, struck a deal with the newly nascent Roman
church. He would subdue their enemies, the Arian Visigoths and the pagan Lombards, in
return for baptism into the faith and recognition of his right to rule a new Roman empire
as "Novus Constantinus."
Yet one of his descendants, Dagobert II, was murdered by a lance pierced through his eye
(or poison poured in the ear -- accounts vary) at the orders of Pepin. The church endorsed
the assassination, flatly betrayed its pact with Clovis, and in turn recognized the family of
usurpers as legitimate, culminating with the crowning of Charlemagne as Holy Roman
Emperor. It was thought that the Merovingian lineage was extinguished; in any case it
was excised from the history books.
But there is some evidence that Dagobert's son, Siegebert IV, survived and that a
Merovingian principality continued to be ruled in Septimania by Guillem de Gellone, a
descendant -- and ancestor -- of Godfroi de Bouillon.
If the Prieure documents are to be believed, the Merovingian lineage persists to this day,
largely due to efforts to preserve it through intermarriage.
The significance of such alliances is the key.
Dagobert married the daughter of the Visigothic Count of Razes, giving his descendants
hereditary title to the lands surrounding Rennes-le-Château.
The Arch-Cabal
The Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion, or Priory of Zion, is said to be the cabal behind
many of the events that occurred at Rennes-le-Chateau. According to the Prieure's own
documents, its history is long and convoluted. Its earliest roots are in some sort of
Hermetic or Gnostic society led by a man named Ormus. This individual is said to have
reconciled paganism and Christianity. The story of Sion only comes into focus in the
Middle Ages. In 1070, a group of monks from Calabria, Italy, led by one Prince Ursus,
founded the Abbey of Orval in France near Stenay, in the Ardennes.
These monks are said to have formed the basis for the Order de Sion, into which they
were "folded" in 1099 by Godfroi de Bouillion. For about one hundred years, the Order
of the Temple - Knights Templar - and Sion were apparently unified under one
leadership, though they are said to have separated at the "cutting of the elm" at Gisors in
1188. (The Templar order was then destroyed by King Phillipe Le Bel of France, in
1307.)
Sion appears to have been at the nexus of two French antimonarchical movements, the
Compagnie du St.-Sacrament of the 17th century - acting on behalf on the Guise-Lorraine
families - and the Fronde of the 18th, as well as behind an attempt to make the Hapsburgs
emperors of all Europe in the 19th -- the Hieron du Val d'Or. It appears that there are vast
connections between Sion and numerous sociocultural strata in European thought Roscicrucianism, Freemasonry, Arthurian and Grail legends, "Arcadianism," Catharism,
chivalry, etc.
Yet this mysterious secret society brought itself to light in 1956 and is listed with the
French directory of organizations under the subtitle "Chivalry of Catholic Rules and
Institutions of the Independent and Traditionalist Union," which in French abbreviates to
'circuit' -- the name of the magazine distributed internally among members. Depending on
what statutes one considers, Sion either has 9,841 members in nine grades, or 1,093
members in seven, with the supreme member, the "Nautonnier" or Grand Master of the
Order being, till 1963, Jean Cocteau.
While it is believed the head has been Pierre Plantard de St.-Clair up until recent times,
he claims to have left that post in 1984, so it is not clear who runs the organization at this
time. But whoever he is, he has had illustrious predecessors: Jacques DeMolay, Leonardo
de Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Claude Debussy, among others! Plantard, in any case, seems
to have enjoyed the ear of many influential persons in contemporary French politics -deGaulle, Marcel Lefebvre, Francois Ducaud-Bourget, Andre Malraux, and Alain Poher,
and others, many of whom appear to know him from his efforts with the Resistance
during the Vichy occupation. Despite its registry, however, the organization remains
untraceable, its given address and number leading to dead ends -- which might lead one
to wonder why the government never bothered to verify the information.
Some interesting things have come to light about the Prieure recently. One is that the
Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina (GLA), the highest body of Swiss Freemasonry (akin to the
Grand Lodge of England), may have been the recruiting body for the Prieure. But the
GLA is also said by some to be the meeting place of the "Gnomes of Zurich" who are
said to be the Power Elite of Swiss bankers and international financiers. The GLA is said
by David Yallop to be the body which controlled the P2 Masonic Lodge in Italy.
(P2 controlled the Italian secret police in the 1970s, took money from the CIA and KGB,
may have had a hand in the kidnapping of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades, had 900
agents in other branches of the Italian government and the highest positions of the
Vatican, bombed a train station and tried to blame it on the Communists, used the
Vatican Bank to launder Mafia drug money, fomented fascist coups in South America,
and is most likely linked to the arch-conservative Knights of Malta and Opus Dei in the
Vatican.) P2's Lucio Gelli may have had a role in the death of John Paul I, and perhaps
even the assassination attempt on John Paul II.
One of the most interesting people to write about the Prieure may be Michael Lamy. He
claims that Jules Verne was a member of both the Prieure and the Illuminati. Further, he
maintains that the Prieure's politics must be understood as "Orleanist," which he
describes as "aristocratic, anarchistic, and Nietzchean." Perhaps it all becomes most clear
when Lamy reveals to the reader that the true secret of the village of Rennes-le-Chateau
is that the extinct volcano Mount Bugarach leads down into the hollow earth to a realm of
supermen.
Ean Begg feels it is connected with many of the Black Virgin sites all over Europe.
Certainly, if the organization's full name is the Prieure de Notre Dame du Sion, and if it is
site of Orval is connected to the worship of the bear-goddess Arduina, venerated by the
Sicambrian Franks of the area and their Merovingian kings, then this may be the case.
There are hints, of course, that "Notre Dame" is not the mother of Jesus, but Mary of
Bethany AKA "Magdalene" a princess of the tribe of Benjamin, which is itself notorious
for an outbreak of goddess-idolatry in the period of the Judges. That Mary may also be
the one also known to the Gypsies of the south of France as one of the three "Maries-dela-Mer," whom they call "Sarah the Egyptian," the sun-burnt one.
Sailing and Grailing Across the Atlantic
The most bizarre chapter in the story of Rennes-le-Chateau may have to do with the
Money Pit mystery on Oak Island just off Nova Scotia. According to Michael Bradley,
some of the keepers of the Grail may have come to the New World long before
Columbus. He believes that some of the Templars may have fled to Canada after the
dissolution of their order, carrying the Grail. The Money Pit has more often been
associated with pirates' buried treasure, but as many know, the "Jolly Roger" flag's skulland-crossbones icon has long been associated with Masonic and Templar legend.
The so-called Venetian "Zeno Map" of the 15th century shows a knight with a sword
standing where Nova Scotia is. (The Sinclairs of Scotland are "hereditary lords of
Rosslyn Chapel" and are said to be descended from the Scots Guards, a clique loyal to the
Stuart dynasty, which in turn are thought to have contained converted members of the
Templar Order who fought with Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, and to have provided
the basis of Freemasonry.)
In the Money Pit on Oak Island, a mysterious stone inscription was found: "Forty feet
below - two million punds are buried." Every company that has tried to locate this
treasure has failed.
Along with the supposed visits of Prince Madoc of Wales and St. Brendan of Ireland,
Prince Henry the Navigator's trip to the New World with the Zeno brothers makes it one
of numerous European pre-Columbian voyages. The Zeno map, along with those culled
by Viking travelers, may have even helped Columbus make his way across the Atlantic.
Recently, a UFO "contactee" in Canada who calls himself only "Guardian" speculated
wildly about some "Brotherhood of the Grail" being operative there for centuries.
Geographically speaking, there are in fact two Oak Islands, surrounding a central river, at
the confluence of which is a mysterious ruin, which appears to be a fortress or old castle.
It does appear that there may be strands connecting Rennes-le-Chateau and the New
World. Ultimately, the Rosicrucian ideas behind the American experiment (as
documented by Manly Palmer Hall) may have deeper "Arcadian" roots. Bradley hints,
but does not come out and say, that what is beneath the Money Pit may be the Grail.
It is not the only weird trail in the Rennes mystery. One researcher insists that the
inventor Barnes Wallis was one of the most recent Grand Masters of Sion. Yet another
feels it is worth pursuing the origins of the Cajun people of Louisiana.
Others have even found connections to the so-called "Baconian" theory, which suggests
that Sir Francis Bacon authored Shakespeare's plays. Bacon's works suggest a
Rosicrucian experiment taking place in the New World.
Fanthorpe seems to believe that ultimately Rennes-le-Chateau may be a "doorway unto
the invisible" - a gateway to other dimensions, through the Emerald Tablet which he
speculates may have been a tesseract (3-dimensional representation of a 4-dimensional
figure).
The Visigothic kingdom of Rhedae was in the area, and the Visigoths are known to have
seized at least some portion of the treasure of the Temple (taken by the Romans during
the Jewish Revolt of 70 CE) when they sacked Rome in the 5th century CE. Could that
treasure have been the Ark of the Covenant, concealed at Rennes?
Alternatively, the Copper Scroll of the Dead Sea sect the Qumran Essenes- suggested
some of the Temple treasure was hidden before the Roman invasion.
Could the "Nestorian" Christians of the area have concealed the Ark and given it to the
Templars for safekeeping? Or could it have been hidden in Solomon's Stables underneath
the Mosque of Omar, where the Templars are known to have excavated? Might the Ark
have been the item "smuggled" out by two Cathars under highly dangerous circumstances
right before their brethren fell at Montsegur?
The Ark may not have been an extraterrestrial "power source," as some authors have
claimed, but if it is the possession of Sion, it is an explosive secret, to say the least. Sion
has claimed that they have items "which will be returned to the government of Israel,
when the time is right."
ROSICRUCIANS
ROSICRUCIANS
The Order of the Rose and the Cross
The Rose is the Flower of Life.
The Cross is the 'X' As is Above - So Is Below - The Emerald Tablets of Thoth.
The brotherhoods protected the secrets until now...
the evolution of consciousness through the spiraling ladder of DNA.
The Rosicrucians are a legendary and secretive order dating from the 15th or 17th
century, generally associated with the symbol of the Rose Cross, which is also used in
certain rituals of the Freemasons. Several modern societies have been formed for the
study of Rosicrucianism and allied subjects, but in no sense are they directly derived
from the "Brethren of the Rosy Cross" of the 17th century, though they are keen
followers thereof.
History and Origins
According to the legend, the Rosicrucian order was founded in 1407 by a German named
Christian Rosenkreuz (1378 - 1484), who studied in the Holy Land under various occult
masters. During his lifetime, the order was alleged to be small, consisting of no more than
eight members. When Rosencreuz died in 1484, the order died out, only to be "reborn" in
the early 17th century. This legend is accepted to varying degrees by modern
Rosicrucians, with some accepting it as literal truth, others seeing it as a parable, and yet
others believing Rosenkreuz to be a pseudonym for some more famous historical figure
(Francis Bacon is often suggested.)
According to a lesser known legend found in Masonic literature, the Rosicrucian order
was created in 46 C.E. when an Alexandrian Gnostic sage named Ormus and his six
followers were converted by Mark, one of Jesus' disciples. From this conversion,
Rosicrucianism was born by fusing primitive Christianity with Egyptian mysteries.
Rosencreuz would therefore only have been initiated into and become the Grand Master
of an already existing order instead of being its founder.
In point of fact, what was known in the early 17th century as the "Society of
Rosicrucians" (Rosenkreuzer) was most likely a number of isolated individuals who held
certain views in common (which apparently was their only bond of union). There is no
trace of a society holding meetings, or having officers. So far as the numerous works are
concerned, it is evident that the writers who posed as Rosicrucians were moral and
religious reformers, and utilized the technicalities of chemistry (alchemy), and the
sciences generally, as media through which to make known their opinions. Their writings
included a flavour of mysticism or occultism promotive of inquiry and suggestive of
hidden meanings discernible or discoverable only by adepts.
The publication of The Fama Fraternitas of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross
(1614), The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity (1615), and The Chymical
Marriage of Christian Rosenkreuz (1616) caused immense excitement throughout
Europe, and they not only led to many re-issues, but were followed by numerous
pamphlets, favourable and otherwise, whose authors generally knew little of the real aims
of the original author (and doubtless in not a few cases amused themselves at the expense
of the public). It is probable that the first work was circulated in manuscript form about
1610, according to historical records, but if so, there was no mention of the cult before
that decade. In fact, research indicates that all three documents, including the concept of
the Rosicrucian Order, were probably the creation of theologian Johann Valentin Andrea
(1586-1654). He subsequently described Rosicrucianism as a Ludibrium.
The authors of the Rosicrucian works generally favoured Lutheranism as opposed to
Roman Catholicism. Others, like John Heydon, admitted they were not Rosicrucians, but
under attractive and suggestive titles to their works sought to make Hermeticism and
other curious studies more useful and popular, and succeeded, for a time at least.
Other famous persons considered to be rosicrucianists were: Raimundo Lulio, Newton,
Miguel Servet (well-known defender of the freedom of conscience) Leibnitz, Leonardo
da Vinci, Descartes, Paracelso, Beethoven.
The curious legend, in which the fabulous origin of the so-called society was enshrined
(Christian Rosenkreuz had discovered the secret wisdom of the East on a pilgrimage in
the 15th century), was so improbable, though ingenious, that the genesis of the
Rosicrucians was generally overlooked or ignored in the writings of the time. And it is
because those strange legends that it's hard to really know how the rosicrucianism started,
many of their legends being more metaphorical. For example the opening of Rosenkreuzs
tomb is thought to be only a way of refering to the cicles in nature.
Influence on Freemasonry
The influence that Rosicrucianism had in the modernizing of ancient Freemasonry early
in the 18th century must have been slight, if any, though it is likely that as the century
advanced, and additional ceremonies were grafted on to the first three degrees,
Rosicrucian tenets were occasionally introduced into the later rituals. So far, however, as
the real foundation ceremonies of Craft Masonry are concerned, whether before or after
the premier Grand Lodge was formed, it is most unlikely that such a society as the
Freemasons would adopt anything of a really distinctive character from any other
organization.
The Term
Rosicrucian is a term that is also used to describe an idea, icon, person or group that is
either Gnostic Christian or simultaneously Christian and trans-Christian. For example, a
cult that centers around the Virgin Mary yet openly or secretly identifies her to the Virgo
constellation of the Zodiac.
SWASTIKA
Swastika
Hitler took his 'swastika' symbol from a sacred Native American symbol.
He reversed its direction.
The Swastika = 4 = 4th Dimension = Time
The word B>Swastika comes from the Sanskrit words su, meaning well, and asti,
meaning to be.
An ancient symbol, the swastika was used in various forms by many civilizations all over
the world.
It was the sign of Thor's hammer for Scandinavians.
It was used by early Christians as an alternative cross to avoid persecution, and by later
Christians as a decorative emblem. It was widespread among Native American peoples.
It appeared in ancient Oriental, Egyptian, and Irish cultures.
Its origins are unknown, but its first use might have been as a solar calendar illustration.
Indians associate the swastika with good luck and protection from wrath. They mark it on
doors, walls, shrines, and their own bodies. It can represent the sun, the god Vishnu, or
the world-wheel - alchemy wheel - karmic wheel - wheel of time.
It is one of the 24 auspicious marks in Jainism.
In the late nineteenth century, the swastika symbolized a movement celebrating Germanic
culture, heritage, and nationalism. By 1912, this movement began to take on anti-Semitic
undertones. Later, Adolph Hitler chose the swastika to be the symbol of the Nazi Party.
The Nazi swastika was a clockwise pointing swastika, whereas most Buddhist versions
are counterclockwise.
There are many other historically documented uses of the swastika as a totem, a
decoration, or a good luck "charm" in ancient civilizations including the Mesopotamians,
Hindu, Native Americans (both North and South) and Scandinavians.
In ancient times, the direction of the swastika was interchangeable as can be seen on an
ancient Chinese silk drawing.
Some cultures in the past had differentiated between the clockwise swastika and the
counter-clockwise sauvastika. In these cultures the swastika symbolized health and life
while the sauvastika took on a mystical meaning of bad-luck or misfortune.
But since the Nazis use of the swastika, some people are trying to differentiate the two
meanings of the swastika by varying its direction - trying to make the clockwise, Nazi
version of the swastika mean hate and death while the counter-clockwise version would
hold the ancient meaning of the symbol, life and good-luck.
Swastika - (Sanskrit "good luck" or "well-being", literally "it is good"). The name and
first use of the swastika was first mentioned in the Vedas, the holy texts of Hinduism.
However, while its name is Vedic, it appears in art and design throughout human history,
symbolising many different things; such as luck, Brahma, the Hindu concept of samsara,
or Surya (the sun). The swastika is used primarily as a symbol by Hindus, but transferred
to followers of other Indic religions like Buddhists Jainists. In the West, the Swastika is
most easily identified as the symbol of the Nazis, who believed that the early Aryans of
India, from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang, were the prototypical white
invaders, and thus saw fit to co-opt the sign as a symbol of white unity. It has come to
signify fascism outside of India due to its history in World War II. - Continued
...Wikipedia
From The Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters
The swastika symbol represents the path of the migrations of the Hopi clans.
The center of the cross represents Tuwanasavi or the Center of the Universe which lay in
what is now the Hopi country in the southwestern part of the US. Tuwanasavi was not the
geographic center of North America, but the magnetic or spiritual center formed by the
junction of the North-South and the East-West axws along which the Twins sent their
vibratory messages and controlled the rotation of the planet.
Three directions (pasos) for most of the clans were the same: the ice locked back door to
the north, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Only 7 clans-the Bear, Eagle, Sun, Kachina, Parrot, Flute and Coyote clans-migrated to
South America to the southern paso at it's tip. The rest of some 40 clans, having started
from somewhere in southern Mexico or Central America, regarded this as their southern
paso, their migration thus forming a balanced symbol.
Upon arriving at each paso all the leading clans turned right before retracing their routes.
The Swastika Stone
The Swastika Stone is an Iron Age - Rock Carving.
The stone is found in the moors near Ilkley in West Yorkshire.
The stone overlooks the valley of the River Wharfe, and is identical to some of the
'Camunnian Rose' designs in Val Camonica, Italy - nine cup-marks in a cross shape,
surrounded by a curved swastika-shaped groove. The Ilkley carving also has an
'appendage' off the east arm - a cup surrounded by a curved hook-shaped groove. It is
unique on the moor (which is covered in hundreds of cup-and-ring type carvings)
although there is an unfinished swastika design (more angular, without cups) on the
nearby Badger Stone.
One of the lines of cups on the Swastika Stone is less than a degree off magnetic northsouth. One naturally looks north from the stone, as it is on a rocky outcrop on the north
side of the moor. Was it associated with the Pole Star with which its cups align? Why
then does its shape describe a clockwise motion, whereas the stars turn anti-clockwise
around the pole?
Perhaps the design relates to the shamanic practice of ascent up the 'Pillar of the World'
(to use the Lapp term). Numerous Siberian and northern European peoples documented
by Mircea Eliade see the Pole Star as the summit of a pole holding up the sky (seen as a
tent). Eliade notes similar beliefs about the Pole Star in Ancient Saxon, Scandinavian and
Romanian myths. If, then, one imagines the Swastika design to be the base of a Pillar of
the World, the implicit motion of the design makes sense. Something that appears to turn
anti-clockwise when looking up from the bottom of a pole will, if it slides down the pole
and is viewed from above, appear to turn clockwise.
The Swastika Stone may map the turning sky down onto the ground, forming the bond
between 'levels' that is so central to shamanic cosmology.
Also, the 'appendage' cup, in relation to the central cup, would have only been a couple of
degrees off the summer solstice sunrise during the period 2000BCE - 100CE (covering
most of the likely times at which the glyph was carved. The 'hook' groove, if imagined to
turn with the swastika, would 'haul' the cup-sun across the sky. This seems to strengthen
the swastika-sky connection.
(I should note that I do not support the idea that cup-and-ring patterns are maps of stellar
constellations. Perhaps some involved rudimentary attempts at this, but no one has found
accurate correspondences in any existing patterns. They seem to me to be more generally
concerned with access points to alternate realities).
With the Pole Star/Pillar of the World ideas in mind, one could see some cup-and-ring
markings as being related. The 'tail' grooves could be the Pillar reaching up to the cuppole, surrounded by rings of revolving stars. Some local cup-and-ring markings, like
those on the Panorama Stone, have 'ladders' instead of 'tail' grooves. This image further
supports the shamanic interpretation of the petroglyphs, as ladders are among the most
frequently occurring representations of shamanic ascent to other worlds. Human figures
atop ladders appear in !Kung San rock art related to trance-state ascension.
Cup-and-ring style petroglyphs in the British Isles are usually dated to the Bronze Age
(because some are included in, or in the proximity of, Bronze Age burials) or the
Neolithic (because of comparable carvings on Irish passage graves from that period - see
also Richard Bradley's recent work 'Signing the Land' for arguments dating this style of
prehistoric art to the Neolithic).
The Swastika Stone is arguably associated with this style of rock art, due to its use of
cup-marks, but I have recently come to see it as most likely originating in the Iron Age,
or even during Roman occupation. This is because of Verbeia, a Romano-Celtic goddess
revered by the Roman troops stationed in Ilkley (then Olicana). Verbeia is often accepted
as being a version of the Celtic spring/fire goddess Brigid, who is still associated with
swastika-like symbols in Ireland. Also, the Roman cohort which set up her altar were
recruited from the Lingones, a Gaulish Celtic tribe.
Apparently Romano-Celtic coins have been found in Gaul bearing swastika-like designs.
It seems tempting to think that the Lingones cohort carved the Swastika Stone when they
were here, but this would surely be unusual. Or perhaps the recruited Celtic/Roman
troops were influenced in their choice of 'genuis loci', Verbeia, by the native Celts of
West Yorkshire, the Brigantes (whose name derives from the goddess Brigantia, related
to Brigid), who may have already carved the stone.
The Swastika may map the turning sky down onto the ground, forming the bond between
'levels' that is so central to shamanic cosmology.
The swistika is found as a religious and ornamental symbol in ancient Egypt. The
excavations undertaken recently by the Turkish Government at Aladja-Hoyuk uncovered
the so-called standards made out of Swastika symbols. These metallic articles were
buried along with corpses during the 22nd century B.C. Probably these were kept there to
ensure the safety and well-being of the deceased. In Lycaonia, on a Hittite monument, it
appears as an ornament on the border of the robe of a person engaged in offering
sacrifice. In the designs on jars excavated in Cappadocia, spirals, Swastikas and Crosses
are found. All these vases belong to the Hittite age, about 2200-1200 B.C. Swastika,
called as 'flyfot', was a popular artistic and sacred symbol throughout the Teutonic age in
Europe. It appeared on jewels and weapons, not only of Gallic, but also of German and
Scandinavian people. When placed beside a human head, it represented God. In company
with the thunderbolt and the wheel it is seen inscribed on the altars of the Gallic-Roman
period. It is regarded as the sacred symbol in Roman England. It adorned the floor of the
thresholds of the famous Roman villa excavated at Lullingstone in Britain.
Swastika is marked on a number of early Christian tombs. It was an archaic custom to
mark the tombs with this symbol or to place vases with Swastika symbols in tombs. It
was performed to ensure the safety of the departed soul or to fend off demonic spirits.
Subsequently, the Swastika was replaced by the Cross. Swastika has been discovered at
several locations in the New World. It was considered as an auspicious sign by some of
the original inhabitants of America. Swastika is found in monumental remains of the
primitive Mexicans and Peruvians and on objects exhumed from prehistoric burial
mounds within the limits of the USA.
It was revived by Hitler when he made it the national emblem of Nazi Germany. He
believed that this ancient Aryan sign brought prosperity and victory. It has been the
sacred symbol of the Buddhists and the Jains. It bears the name of Swastika when the
limbs are bent towards the right, and Suavastika when they are turned to the left. It is
believed that the first represents Lord Ganesha, while the second represents goddess Kali.
According to the other school of thought, the first stands for the sun, for light and life; the
second stands for night and destruction. Indians inscribe it on the opening page of their
account books. In ceremonies associated with marriages, mundan, the worship of luxmi
etc the Swastika is worshipped as the symbol of Ganesha. It is marked along with the
sign of Navagrahas.
Swastika is one of the eight types of yogic seats mentioned in the Vayaviya-samhita of
the Shiv Purana. The discovery of Swastika in almost all parts of the globe has given rise
to so many interpretations.
Certain authorities believe that Ganesha on his Vahana, the rat, symbolized a sun-god,
overcoming the animals. Which, in archaic mythology was a sign of night. The cult of
sun worship is probably the most primitive one. The sun brings joy, light and life for
mankind. People belonging to the Indus Valley civilization believed in sun worshipping,
which is evident from the discovery of a number of signs and symbols associated with the
sun. These signs are found on several so-called punch marked coins that have been
excavated from many places in India. These are called Vishnu Chakras. Vishnu*s
incarnations are said to have killed their enemies by using these chakras. Krishna*s
Sudarshan Chakra can be referred to in this connection. Like Indra, Vishnu is said to have
subdued serpents. Krishna defeated Kalinaga while Vishnu is depicted as reclining on
Sesnaga, who has one thousand hoods.
According to Vayu Purana, "the lord of serpents, who lives on the Devakuta mountain,
has one hundred hoods and is marked with the Chakras (Swastika) of Vishnu." According
to the same source, Brahma was practicing severe penance, as a result of which sweat
came from his body which gave rise to the serpent world, which had marks of Swastika
on them. It is interesting to note that on prehistoric bowls found at Sammarra, serpents
are shown as moving around the sun. Being a symbol of the sun, the chakra represents
life and movement, which transform the dwarf into the giant or the microcosm into
macrocosm or again the centre into its diameter.
Aladja-Hoyuk, which is identified with the Hittite city Ariana, was the seat of the cult of
sun god. The Buddhists inherited reverence of Swastika from the belief that Lord Buddha
is the incarnation of Vishnu, and carried it to Tibet, China, Japan and Korea. Swastika is
found on the images of the lord. It is seen on the footprint of Lord Buddha. In China,
swastika found a place among written characters, where it contains the notion of
abundance, prosperity and long life. In Japan, it represents the number 10,000. The
Chinese empress Wu (684-704 A.D.) decreed that it should be used as sign for the sun.
The seal of the Harappan period shows a man carrying a manger with propitiatory
offering for a tiger standing in front of him. On the reverse the same inscription is
repeated, besides a row of five Swastikas as auspicious symbols signifying security and
good luck.
According to K.N. Shastri, the sealing was obviously an amulet against possible dangers
arising from the depredations of tigers. Ideas and beliefs migrate with traders, soldiers
and migrants. The ancient western Asia had trade relations with the people of the Indus.
Valley. It is evident from the discovery of Indus Valley seals in Mesopotamia at the level
dating between 2300 and 2000 B.C. Some particular seals found in Crete proved to be of
exactly of the same material as those found in the Indus Valley. The figures of animals
and birds with fish in their beaks appearing on vases found from the tombs in Sammarra
(dating 4000 B.C.) are significantly similar to that painted on potteries found from tombs
in Harappa.
The pipal tree (Ficus religiosa) was regarded as sacred both in Harappa and Elam (It may
be due to the fact that this is the only plant in the plant kingdom which releases more
amount of oxygen day and night, than any other plant). These instances prove that
Palestine, Elam and Harappa had close trade and cultural relations. The appearance of the
Swastika on vases belonging to this period proves that the symbol of Swastika was
traveling from one place to other along with the normal merchandise.
The Swastika was a very popular symbol in ancient Turkey, where it was frequently
applied by the smiths of Anatolia. It is interesting to note that two kinds of Swastikas, one
revolving to the right and other to the left have been excavated from a tomb in AladjaHoyuk. These could be interpreted as the rising and setting the sun. The Swastika is
found on the megalithic pottery from Kunnatur, Coorg and Coimbatore. It has also been
traced on a red ware belonging to the Chalcolithic phase on the site of Rangpur. These
instances prove that the sacredness of the Swastika was the most primitive belief in India.
It seems that the people of the Indus Valley, who inherited this symbol, believed in sun
worship and spread this cult to Elam.
Mesopotamia and Asia Minor or the people of these countries got it from Indians
migrants even before the prosperous settlements of the Indus Valley came into being. A
scene of Swastika worship is found in the rock paintings of Paria Bari. It is mentioned in
the Puranas that the masses worshipped the solar deity in its symbolic forms of disc,
wheel, lotus and Swastika.
The discovery of the Swastika in the New World should not be explained away by the socalled theory of independent origin. It may have been carried to the New World by Asian
Traders in the most archaic times. Some historians claim that long before the voyage
undertaken by Columbus, America was discovered by the Phoenicians, and the Chinese.
The discovery of images, said to be of the Lord Buddha, in America is really a significant
event.
- Source: The Mystique of Swastika
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THOTH - HERMES TRISMEGISTUS
Thoth Mystery School
The Mystery of Hermes Trismegistus, the "three-times great", - Emerald Tablets of
Thoth was described by Greek and Roman mystics in documents loosely attributed to the
Egyptian God Thoth. Three references the third dimension - the physical plane.
Thoth or Tehuti, was the scribe of the Gods, the inventor of writing, and was usually
depicted in hieroglyphics with the head of an Ibis bird. Thoth wrote the story of our
reality - the Hall of Records - The Akashic Records - the Grid Programs - the ancient
mystery school teachings - the mystery schools - information that would be hidden until
the end of this cycle called Time - the creation of our physical reality through Sacred
Geometry - the blueprint of consciousness - evolution through DNA.
It is sometimes thought that Thoth was the architect of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It is
said that below the Giza plateau lies a network of tunnels containing the real history of
Egypt, including the mystical history of the temple initiates. The central truth of these
records is permanently inscribed on Emerald Tablets of Thoth that have yet to be
discovered.
These secrets are encoded in our DNA - not recorded in the physical. Emerald and gold alchemy of consciousness - revolution of consciousness.
Channeling Thoth - Metaphors and Messages
This saying, attributed to Thoth as being the most fundamental truth of our conscious
minds, is the basis of the outer Hermetic teaching. The idea is that the world is a mirror of
heaven a reflection. The divine patterns found here are a reflection of those in the worlds
above. Everything that is understandable here has meaning because its pattern is
represented in the divine. That's the inner foundation of language and writing in the
purely symbolic sense.
That is just what Thoth created an inner connection between the divine light patterns and
the outer forms it takes. This conscious connection doesn't come easily, in fact it must be
accompanied by skills for accepting deep abstraction. We may call it a "new idea" or
"concept", but it1s the ability to visualize patterns in the light and realize the meaning in
life. We take for granted how much of this ability we have inherited from the ancient
past.
Mystically, Thoth realized the great 'Scroll of Light', and began to inscribe upon it the
glyphs of his world - his language of truth. So powerful was the resonance of this
language that it could be understood by those who heard him speak, and stood in his
presence.
Thoth could draw pictures of these ideas so clearly that they brought up expansive images
in the minds of his comrades they could "read" these pictures as reminders of what he
had said to them. They were learning to travel in his space of truth, learning his
"language" defined by his work as a mystic light traveler. The same is true today. We call
it memory. It is a shared experience of inner light.
On the plane of light the mnemonic glyphs of language appear as standing resonators of
meaning. By traveling through these energetic monoliths you come to know the meaning
of language and its purpose in the history of consciousness.
This constellation of micro-portals dots the dimensional landscape like the Scroll of a
Player Piano the Scroll of Thoth. As you travel along the surface you re-play the
information that is stored in the Halls of Amenti. There you find the Emerald Tablet of
Hermes Trismegistus. It is cut from pure Beryl stone of radiant mind-glass. Beryl is
colorless in pure form and it is the many different impurities that give beryl its varied
coloration. Not many realize that an emerald is the green variety of beryl and aquamarine
the blue variety.
If you find this stone, and decipher it, you will see that it is a map of the hallways
underneath the Earth. The hallways branch in every direction, but twelve are the most
prominent. Is it said that if you follow each hallway to its end, you will find another
emerald tablet, making thirteen in all. Decipher all the tablets, learn the lessons they
contain, and Thoth will personally appear to greet you!
This is the Philosopher's Stone - the alchemy of time and consciousness.
EMERALD TABLET - PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
THULE SOCIETY
Thule Society
The Thule-Gesellschaft (Thule Society) was founded August 17, 1918, by Rudolf von
Sebottendorff. He had been schooled in occultism, Islamic mysticism, alchemy,
Rosicrucianism and much else, in Turkey, where he had also been initiated into
Freemasonry.
Its original name was Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (Study Group for
German Antiquity), but it soon started to disseminate anti-republican and anti-Semitic
propaganda.
A movement to promote Thulian ideas among industrial workers and to offset Marxism,
was formed in August 1918 - the Workers' Political Circle with Thulist Karl Harrer as
chairman.
From this came the German Workers' Party in 1919.
A year later this became the NSDAP under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. It had
members from the top echelons of the party, including Rudolf Hess and Alfred
Rosenberg, though not Adolf Hitler. Serbottendorff stated, "Thule members were the
people to whom Hitler first turned and who first allied themselves with Hitler."
The swastika flag adopted by the NSDAP was the brain-child of another Thulist, Dr
Krohn.
Its press organ was the Münchener Beobachter (Munich Observer) which later became
the Völkischer Beobachter (People's Observer). The Thule Society is known to be closely
connected to the Germanenorden secret society.
The Germanenorden was a secret society in Germany early in the 20th century. Formed
by several prominent German occultists in 1912, the order, whose symbol was a swastika,
had a hierarchical fraternal structure similar to freemasonry. It taught to its initiates
nationalist ideologies of nordic race superiority, antisemitism as well as occult, almost
magical philosophies. Some say that the Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (later the Nazi Party)
when under the leadership of Adolf Hitler was a political front, and indeed the
organisation reflected many ideologies of the party, including the swastika symbol. The
Thule Society, another secret society with similar ideologies and symbols was also
closely linked to this.
With the victory of the Nazi Party, the occult tradition was carried on in the Third Reich
mainly by the SS, who Reichsfuhrer, Himmler, was an avid student of the occult. An SS
occult research department, the Ahnernerbe (Ancestral Heritage) was established in 1935
with SS Colonel Wolfram von Sievers at its head. Occult research took SS researchers as
far afield as Tibet. Sievers had the Tantrik prayer, the Bardo Thodol, read over his body
after his execution at Nuremberg.
National Socialism and the Third Reich represented a major attempt by high esoteric
Adepts to re-establish a Culture based on the Laws of Nature, against the entrenched
forces of anti-Life. Nothing that ambitious had been tried since the founding of the
American Republic by Masonic adepts.
The Thule Society inner circle beliefs ...
Thule was a legendary island in the far north, similar to Atlantis, supposedly the
center of a lost, high-level civilization. But not all secrets of that civilization had
been completely wiped out. Those that remained were being guarded by ancient,
highly intelligent beings (similar to the "Masters" of Theosophy or the White
Brotherhood).
The truly initiated could establish contact with these beings by means of magicmystical rituals.
The "Masters" or "Ancients" allegedly would be able to endow the initiated with
supernatural strength and energy.
With the help of these energies the goal of the initiated was to create a race of
Supermen of "Aryan" stock who would exterminate all "inferior" races.
On April 6, 1919, in Bavaria, left wing socialists and anarchists proclaimed the Bavarian
Soviet Republic. The brains of the revolution were a group of writers who had little idea
of administration. Life in munich grew chaotic. The counter-revolutionary forces, the
whites, composed of various groups of decommissioned soldiers known as "Frei Corps",
equipped and financed by the mysterious Thule Society, defeated the Bavarian Soviet
within a matter of weeks.
Many other decommissioned soldiers waited out the turbulence in barracks, pfc Adolph
Hitler among them. After the Bavarian Republic had been defeated by the Whites, in
May, Hitler's superiors put him to work in the post revolution investigating commission.
His indictments injected ruthless efficiency into the kangaroo courts as he fingered
hundreds of noncommissioned officers and enlisted men who had sympathized with the
communist and anarchists. He was subsequently sent to attend special anticommunist
training courses and seminars at the University which were financed by the Reichswehr
administration and by private donors from the Thule Society.
This led to an assignment in the intelligence division of the postwar German army, to
infiltrate groups that could organize the working classes while the communists were
weak. On a September evening, 1919, Hitler turned up in the Sternecker Beer Hall where
members and friends of the budding German Workers Party had gathered. He quietly
listened to the presentation by engineer Gottfried Feder, a Thule Society member, who
talked about jewish control over lending capital. When one of the other group members
called for Bavaria to break away from the rest of Germany, Hitler sprang into action. The
astonished audience stood by while his highly aggressive remarks and compelling oratory
swept through the room. After Hitler had finished his harangue, party chairman and
founder, Anton Drexler, immediately asked him to a meeting of the party's steering
committee held a few days later. He was asked to join the committee as its seventh
member, responsible for advertising and propaganda.
Back in 1912, several German occultists with radical anti-semitic inclinations decided to
form a "magic" lodge, which they named the Order of Teutons. the main founders were
Theodor Fritsch, a publisher of an anti-semitic journal; Philipp Stauff, pupil of the racist
Guido Von List, and Hermann Pohl, the order's chancellor. (Pohl would drop out three
years later to found his own bizarre lodge, the Walvater Teutonic Order of the Holy
Grail.) The Order of Teutons was organized along the lines of the Free Masons or the
Rosicrucians, having differing degrees of initiation, only persons who could fully
document that they were of pure "aryan" ancestry were allowed to join.
In 1915, Pohl was joined by Rudolf Blauer, who held a Turkish passport and practiced
sufi meditation. He also dabbled in astrology and was an admirer of Lanz Von Liebenfels
and Guido Von List, both pathologically anti-semitic. Blauer went by the name of Rudolf
Freiherr Von Seboottendorf. He was very wealthy, although the origin of his fortune is
unknown. He became the Grand Master of the Bavarian Order and he founded the Thule
Society, with Pohl's approval, in 1918.
After the Bavarian communist revolution of 1918, the Thule Society became a center of
the counterrevolutionary subculture. An espionage network and arms caches were
organized. The Thule Club rooms became a nest of resistance to the revolution and the
Munich Soviet Republic.
Journalist Karl Harrer was given the job of founding a political "worker circle". He
realized that the workers would reject any program that was presented to them by a
member of the conservative "privileged" class. Harrer knew that the mechanic Anton
Drexler, who was working for the railroads, was a well-known anti-semite, chauvinist
and proletarian. With drexler as nominal chairman, Harrer founded the German Workers
Party in January 1919
The German Workers Party was only one of many associations founded and controlled
by the Thule Society. The Thule was the Mother to the German Socialist Party, led by
Julius Streicher, and the right-wing radical Oberland Free Corps. It published the Munich
observer, which later became the National Observer. Hitler became the most prominent
personality in the party. He caused Harrer to drop out, and he pushed Drexler, the
nominal chairman, to the sidelines. He filled key positions with his own friends from the
Thule Society and the Army. During the summer of 1920, upon his suggestion, the party
was renamed the National Socialist German Worker Party (NASDAP). The new name
was intended to equally attract nationalists and proletarians.
To go along with the new name his mass movement also required a flag with a powerful
symbol. Among many designs under consideration, Hitler picked the one suggested by
Thule member Dr. Krohn: a red cloth with a white circle in the middle containing a black
swastika.
Hitler wanted to turn the German Workers Party into a mass-conscious fighting party, but
Harrer and Drexler were hesitant, due in part to their woeful financial situation. The
Thule Society was not yet supplying very much money and no one seemed to know how
to build up a mass party. Hitler arranged two public meetings in obscure beer halls, and
he drafted leaflets and posters, but there was no real breakthrough.
All of this changed dramatically at the end of the 1919 when Hitler met Dietrich Eckart.
Most biographers have underestimated the influence that Eckart exerted on Hitler. He
was the wealthy publisher and editor-in-chief of an anti-semitic journal which he called
In Plain German. Eckart was also a committed occultist and a master of magic. As an
initiate, Eckart belonged to the inner circle of the Thule Society as well as other esoteric
orders.
There can be no doubt that Eckart - who had been alerted to Hitler by other Thulists trained Hitler in techniques of self confidence, self projection, persuasive oratory, body
language and discursive sophistry. With these tools, in a short period of time he was able
to move the obscure workers party from the club and beer hall atmosphere to a mass
movement. The emotion charged lay speaker became an expert orator, capable of
mesmerizing a vast audience.
One should not underestimate occultism's influence on Hitler. His subsequent rejection of
Free Masons and esoteric movements, of Theosophy, of Anthrosophy, does not
necessarily mean otherwise. Occult circles have long been known as covers for espionage
and influence peddling. Hitler's spy apparatus under Canaris and Heydrich were well
aware of these conduits, particularly from the direction of Britain which had within its
MI5 intelligence agency a department known as the Occult Bureau. That these potential
sources of trouble were purged from Nazi life should not be taken to mean that Hitler and
the Nazi secret societies were not influenced by mystical and occult writers such as
Madame Blavatsky, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Guido Von List, Lanz Von
Liebenfels, Rudolf Steiner, George Gurdjieff, Karl Haushofer and Theodor Fritsch.
Although Hitler later denounced and ridiculed many of them, he did dedicate his book
Mein Kampf to his teacher Dietrich Eckart.
A frequent visitor to Landsberg Prison where Hitler was writing Mein Kampf with the
help of Rudolf Hess, was General Karl Haushofer, a university professor and director of
the Munich Institute of Geopolitics. Haushofer, Hitler, and Hess had long conversations
together. Hess also kept records of these conversations. Hitler's demands for German
"Living Space" in the east at the expense of the Slavic nations were based on the
geopolitical theories of the learned professor.
Haushofer was also inclined toward the esoteric. as military attache in Japan, he had
studied Zen-Buddhism. He had also gone through initiations at the hands of Tibetan
Lamas. He became Hitler's second "esoteric mentor", replacing Dietrich Eckart. In
Berlin, Haushofer had founded the Luminous Lodge or the Vril Society. The lodge's
objective was to explore the origins of the Aryan race and to perform exercises in
concentration to awaken the forces of "Vril". Haushofer was a student of the Russian
magician and metaphysician Gregor Ivanovich Gurdyev (George Gurdjieff).
Both Gurdjeiff and Haushofer maintained that they had contacts with secret Tibetan
Lodges that possessed the secret of the "Superman". The lodge included Hitler, Alfred
Rosenberg, Himmler, Goring, and Hitler's subsequent personal physician Dr. Morell. It is
also known that Aleister Crowley and Gurdjieff sought contact with Hitler. Hitler's
unusual powers of suggestion become more understandable if one keeps in mind that he
had access to the "secret" psychological techniques of the esoteric lodges. Haushofer
taught him the techniques of Gurdjieff which, in turn, were based on the teachings of the
Sufis and the Tibetan Lamas- and familiarized him with the Zen teaching of the Japanese
Society of the Green Dragon.
in the latter half of the previous century, intriguing hints about Tibetan secret teachings
had been carried to the west by Helena Blavatsky, who claimed initiation at the hands of
the Holy Lamas themselves.
Blavatsky taught that her Hidden Masters and Secret Chiefs had their earthly residence
in the Himalayan region.
As soon as the Nazi movement had sufficient funds, it began to organize a number of
expeditions to Tibet and these succeeded one another practically without interruption
until 1943. One of the most tangible expressions of Nazi interest in Tibet was the party`s
adoption of its deepest and most mystical of symbols - the swastika.
The swastika is one of mankind's oldest symbols, and apart from the cross and the circle,
probably the most widely distributed. It is shown on pottery fragments from Greece
dating back to the eighth century b.c. It was used in ancient Egypt, India and China. The
Navaho indians of North America have a traditional swastika pattern. Arab-Islamic
sorcerers used it. In more recent times, it was incorporated in the flags of certain baltic
states.
The idea for the use of the swastika by the Nazis came from a dentist named Dr. Friedrich
Krohn who was a member of the secret Germanen order. Krohn produced the design for
the actual form in which the Nazis came to use the symbol, that is reversed, spinning in
an anti-clockwise direction. As a solar symbol, the swastika is properly thought of as
spinning, and the Buddhists have always believed the symbol attracted luck.
The Sanskrit word svastika means good fortune and well being. According to Cabbalistic
lore and occult theory, chaotic force can be evoked by revers- ing the symbol. And so the
symbol appeared as the flag of Nazi Germany and the insignia of the Nazi party, an
indication for those who had eyes to see, as to the occult nature of the Third Reich.
- The Unknown Hitler Wulf Schwartzwaller
VRIL SOCIETY - DARK MATTER
Vril Society
In November of 1996 I received a video about World War II Germany pre and post - and
a secret organization named Vril its name linked to Atlantean time lines and one of its
language - composed of sounds and clicks.
The video mentioned that - in Germany at the turn of the century and particularly after
WW I many secret societies developed. One of these groups was the Vril Society.
In 1917 four members of the Vril society met in a cafe in Vienna. There was one woman
and three men. The woman was a 'spiritual medium'. They met under a veil of mystery
and secrecy. They discussed secret revelations, the coming of the new age, the Spear of
Destiny, the magical violet black stone, and making contact with ancient peoples and
distant worlds.
Their source of power was the Black Sun, an infinite beam of light which - though
invisible to the human eye - exists in anti-matter.
The Vril emblem became the Black Sun - a secret philosophy thousand of years old
provided the foundation on which the occult practioners of the Third Reich would later
build. The Black Sun symbol can be found in many Babylonian and Assyrian places of
worship. They depicted the Black Sun - the godhead's inner light in the form of a cross.
This was not much different from the German's Knight's Cross.
The woman allegedly channeled information from aliens after which the Thule was
crteated. they went on to build something called the Vril Machine. It allegedly was a
saucer shape interdimensional time travel machine. Their first flight was allegedly in
1934.
Much of their work was done in the Black Forest.
Thule Society members were allegedly the first group to attempt the back-engineering of
an extraterrestrial spacecraft. "A German writer, John Von Helsing, describes the
discovery of a crashed saucer in the Black Forest in 1936 and says that this technology
was taken and combined with the information the Vril Society had received through
channeling and was made into a further project called the Haunebu.
German aircraft historian Henry Stevens states, "Haunebu 1 was allegedlythe first large
flying saucer developed in Germany. According to plans allegedly obtained from
classified German SS files, the Haunebu 1 was approximately seventy-five feet in
diameter and probably lifted off for the first time in August 1939, a few weeks before the
outbreak of World War II.
- Reference Sightings: UFOs
AREA 51 ~ DREAMLAND ~ GROOM LAKE
AREA 51....GROOM LAKE....DREAMLAND
There's a lot of media coverage about Area 51 having facilites where they develop UFO's
based on technologies received from aliens.
Most of this business about Area 51 in the Nevada desert has been reported for years - by
various branches of the media. We have seen it on TV and on film. Many people who
study metaphysics investigate the ares and many stories of what goes on has been told to
me in confidence and by observers. One thing is clear - something is out there that is top
secret. It is not the only top secret run base in the US. There are others. Those who search
them out - also have interesting stories. Does Area 51 harbor alien grays and UFO's thereby developing advance technologies? It would seem to. Uness someone has a
current personal encounter to report - these are the old files....
Groom Lake is a top secret military base in the middle of Nevada. It is in grid number 51
of the areas of the Nevada Test Site, thus, Area 51. The United States Air Force Flight
Test Center, based at the famous Edwards AFB, controls the base. It is a flight test center
for classified aircraft and other exotic weapons. The base was supposedly created in 1954
as a place to test the secret U-2 spyplane that was used to fly reconnasance missions over
the Soviet Union. It was laster redesigned to accomodate the SR-71, A-12 and D-21
drone.
They supposedly have experimental stealth aircraft was tested there and along with the
full scale F-117a. Later, in the 1980s, the bases size has doubled and the length of the
runway increased to 27,000 feet. Mysterious lights began to appear over the airspace of
the base and armed guards with M16 assault rifles strictly enforced the border.
Today, the government has closed numerous viewpoints that have direct views of
anything that goes on at the base. The location where the picture above was taken was
closed. In 1989, a physicist named Bob Lazar claimed that he worked at a base south of
Area 51 and also claimed that Area 51 was testing extremely advanced aircraft. Since
then, Area 51 has been thought to be the test center of captured UFOs because of the
lights in the night sky.
'Area 51' Last of the Secret Military Bases
Scripps Howard News Service - January 2000
Many people who believe in UFO's also believe "Area 51" is where the Air Force keeps
its stockpile of captured flying saucers. And maybe an autopsied alien body or two.
Others believe the military base in the southern Nevada desert is the testing grounds for
America's most secret military machines, everything from the F-117 stealth fighter to
electromagnetic pulse weapons that would make Buck Rogers nervous.
What is certain is that there is something out there in that moonscape property north of
Las Vegas. Officially designated the "Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range" on
Nevada maps, the federally protected territory in Nye, Lincoln and Clark counties covers
an area equal to Rhode Island and Connecticut combined.
What also is certain is that more than 1,850 federal civilian workers are employed in
mostly well-compensated jobs at several ultra-high-security facilities in and near the
range, according to a Scripps Howard News Service analysis of government payroll
records maintained by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. "This really is one of
the last big secret military bases in the United States.
In 1997 the Air Force last year conceded the existence of the base and its position along
dried-up Groom Lake when it released a publication that suggested experimental Cold
War-era aircraft could have been mistaken for flying saucers. At a Pentagon press
briefing, Air Force Col. John Hanes was asked about Area 51. Whatever they do in the
Nellis Bombing Range, they continue to do it under the Clinton administration.
There were exactly 2,000 civilian employees of the departments of Defense, Army, Navy,
Air Force and Energy in the Nellis Bombing Range area as of Sept. 30, 1992. Five years
later, and despite massive job layoffs ordered by President Clinton as part of his
government reinvention policies, there were 1,851 employees still working there.
The payroll records show that the Department of Eergy, which has control of the nation's
stockpile of nuclear bombs, employs 32 people in the town of Mercury, Nev., the only
city inside the bombing range. This town can be found on most maps but is not counted
in the U.S. Census. Some or all of these people may be employed as part of Energy's
Yucca Mountain project, a plan to open an underground repository to deposit America's
used nuclear fuel.
Non-government military observers for several years have s aid they believe that
hundreds, or thousands, of military and civilian workers who are employed in the desert
facilities take daily flights from Las Vegas airfields into the base. The computer records
appear to confirm this.
The Department of Energy officially employs a total of 448 people in the Las Vegas area,
even though there are no known federal projects in the city that could justify such
employment. The Air Force has 1,068 civilian employees there, some of whom certainly
work at Nellis Air Force Base.
But more suspect are the 166 civilian employees of the departments of Defense and
Army, the 156 Environmental Protection Agency workers, the 10 Federal Emergency
Management Agency employees and at least two representatives of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission staff. Some of these people work in the still classified operations
conducted inside the bombing range. Among the most popular occupations for this
workforce are "miscellaneous administration," "secretary," "general engineering,"
"general physical sciences" and "management programming."
The average salary for the Department of Energy personnel last year was nearly $59,000
a year, well above average for a federal employee. The payroll for all of the civilian
workers in the area totaled $80.6 million. The analysis found that federal cutbacks that
have removed nearly 16 percent of the civilian federal workforce and about 20 percent of
the military during the Clinton administration has been especially mild in the area around
Groom Lake. Slightly more than 7 percent of this civilian federal workforce in southern
Nevada declined from 1992 to 1997.
For the past several decades, the Air Force has officially denied the existance of
Area 51. A recent statement reads as follows: "There are a variety of facilities
throughout the Nellis Range Complex. We do have faciliities within the complex
near the dry lake bed of Groom Lake. The facilities of the Nellis Range Complex are
used for testing and training technologies, operations, and systems critical to their
effectiveness of U.S. military forces. Specific activities conducted at Nellis cannot be
discussed any further than that."
Area 51 is a secret Air Force base secluded deep within a wide-ranging tract of
restricted government land in the remote Nevada desert. It is 100 miles northnorthwest of Las Vegas.
To drive there one must drive on Interstate Highway 375 now renamed
"Extraterrestrial Highway".
There is a famous blackmail box on the road. It looks like any ordinary mailbox. It
marks the crossroads that lead to a large secret military complex. People come from
all over to watch pecular lights streaking across the skies like nothing they have ever
seen before. Some report craft flying at approximately 10,000 miles per hour, that
suddenly stop dead.
The alleged source of these UFO's is hidden behind the mountains along a dry lake
bed. A top secret base known as Dreamland or Area 51. It has a five mile long
runway. Every day at least 1,000 workers commute to the base from Las Vegas on
it's own private airline.
Some report that "black projects" are worked on there. "Black project" means
"black budget" - the public does know about this spending....or these projects. I
have also read that much of the money comes from drug trafficing from South
America.
The super secret SR 71 spy plane and the stealth fighter were reportedly developed
and tested here. Some people contend the military uses the base to study downed
and captured alien craft, even aliens themselves, eventually using the alien
technology in American military projects.
What scares many people and investigators is that the government can use this
blanket claim of national security to hide anything and everything which is what
they have been doing in Area 51.
The secrets of Area 51 are increasingly well protected. The Air Force gained control
of the best vantage points over looking the base and closed them to the public.
Heavily armed men in white jeeps and camouflaged uniforms drive well beyond the
boundaries of the base onto public land reported detaining and intimidating anyone
who gets too close. Many people have been harassed some even arrested apparently
with no legal authority because these people won't say who they are. As usual the
government has nothing to say!
Most Detailed Images Ever of Top-Secret U.S. Air Base Show Major Expansion
April 23, 2000 - space.com
Detailed images of Area 51 just released may not show evidence of little green men,
but they do show that the super-secret Air Force base has grown significantly over
the years.
"I want to see flying saucers as much as anyone," said Federation of American
Scientist¹s John Pike, who ordered the 1-meter (3.2-foot) images, the most detailed
to date, from Thorton, Colorado-company Space Imaging. Instead, the photos -captured over the past few months -- show that the area has significantly expanded
since the first images were snapped of the infamous site over 30 years ago.
"It¹s interesting to contemplate what is going on there. It seems as though there is
tons of money going in there and nothing is going out," he said.
Runway at Area 51
n particular, the photos show a runway that is about 3,800 meters (2.36 miles), or
about 42 football fields, long. That¹s even longer than the runways for the world¹s
largest commercial aircraft.
The barracks - home of people who live on the base
The images also show a burgeoning growth in the area, including a complete
rebuilding and expansion in size of the housing complex for base personnel over the
past 30 years. In addition, there are new support facilities.
The munitions storage area
A geometrically-shaped munitions storage area is also identified.
The aircraft hangar
And four aircraft hangars are visible off the runway. Conspiracy theorists have long
believed that one of these hangars, dubbed Hangar 18, is the holding area for the
alien bodies and captured alien technology taken from crash sites.
These high-resolution images, captured by Space Imaging¹s IKONOS satellite on
April 2, were released less than a week after Raleigh, North Carolina-based Aerial
Images unfolded its series of 6.6-foot (2-meter) photos of the mysteriously secretive
area over the Web, crashing the site for days.
Though the public's ravenous appetite for these images was made obvious this past
week, Pike¹s purpose for getting these photos was different.
Pike said the request was a test to see how long it would take to gain access to these
images and how they may be used by military agencies around the world.
"This is an interesting case study that enables us to explore in practical rather than
theoretical terms just what is this 'Brave New World' we¹ve entered into."
This so-called 3.3-foot (1-meter) resolution technology once was available only to
intelligence agencies through their own spy satellites. But it has been estimated that
by the year 2003, at least 11 companies in five countries will have high-resolution,
remote-sensing cameras in orbit.
That sort of commercial technology in space worries government officials because
they believe such detailed imagery could encourage industrial espionage, terrorism
or more cross-border military attacks in the developing world.
But Pike seemed unfazed by the impact of this imagery on national security.
Because it took 2 months to get the images, he said the technology would only be
useful during peacetime for monitoring specific regions instead of during wartime,
when the military may need to target a strategic area.
"The war may already be over before you get your picture," Pike said.
Space Imaging's Mark Brender argued that obtaining images doesn't always take so
long. "We can turn stuff around in 24 hours," he said. When twin tornadoes
touched down in Texas on March 28, for example, Brender says that within a few
hours they were evaluating the images and ready to release them to the public
within 24 hours.
"We can produce images very shortly for natural disasters and crisis, " he said.
Area 51 -- 75 miles (121 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas occupies about 150
square miles (390 square kilometers) of a dried up lakebed in the Great Basin
Desert, Nevada. It was named after the grid it occupies on an old Nevada map and
came into existence in 1955 when aerospace company Lockheed Martin landed
there to test the U 2, a high-altitude surveillance plane.
The top-secret base later became a proving ground for several generations of hightech prototypes, including the F 117-A Stealth fighter.
The shroud of secrecy thickened once the Air Force bought up about 9,000 acres of
land around the base to prevent the public from getting too close. In August 1994,
an Air Force official admitted the base existed, saying the Air Force has "facilities
within the complex near the dry lakebed of Groom LakeŠused for testing, training
technologies, operations and systems critical to the effectiveness of U.S. military
forces."
Ufologists have long believed that unidentified flying objects from other planets are
entrenched in underground bases in the region and insist alien autopsies are being
conducted there. But, conventional wisdom says the base is likely a center for supersecret operations dealing with sophisticated military aircraft.
BILDERBERG GROUP
Bilderberg Group
The Ultimate Conspiracry - 50th anniversary
June 3, 2004 - BBC
The Bilderberg group, an elite coterie of Western thinkers and power-brokers, has been
accused of fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. As the organisation marks its
50th anniversary, rumours are more rife than ever.
Given its reputation as perhaps the most powerful organisation in the world, the
Bilderberg group doesn't go a bundle on its switchboard operations.
Telephone inquiries are met with an impersonal female voice - the Dutch equivalent of
the BT Callminder woman - reciting back the number and inviting callers to "leave a
message after the tone".
Anyone who accidentally dialled the number would probably think they had stumbled on
just another residential answer machine.
Leiden in Holland, the inauspicious base of the Bilderberg group
But behind this ultra-modest façade lies one of the most controversial and hotly-debated
alliances of our times.
On Thursday the Bilderberg group marks its 50th anniversary with the start of its yearly
meeting.
For four days some of the West's chief political movers, business leaders, bankers,
industrialists and strategic thinkers will hunker down in a five-star hotel in northern Italy
to talk about global issues.
What sets Bilderberg apart from other high-powered get-togethers, such as the annual
World Economic Forum (WEF), is its mystique.
Not a word of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed outside. No reporters
are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted.
The shadowy aura extends further - the anonymous answerphone message, for example;
the fact that conference venues are kept secret. The group, which includes luminaries
such as Henry Kissinger and former UK chancellor Kenneth Clarke, does not even have a
website.
In the void created by such aloofness, an extraordinary conspiracy theory has grown up
around the group that alleges the fate of the world is largely decided by Bilderberg.
In Yugoslavia, leading Serbs have blamed Bilderberg for triggering the war which led to
the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic. The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the
London nail-bomber David Copeland and Osama Bin Laden are all said to have bought
into the theory that Bilderberg pulls the strings with which national governments dance.
And while hardline right-wingers and libertarians accuse Bilderberg of being a liberal
Zionist plot, leftists such as activist Tony Gosling are equally critical.
A former journalist, Mr Gosling runs a campaign against the group from his home in
Bristol, UK.
"My main problem is the secrecy. When so many people with so much power get
together in one place I think we are owed an explanation of what is going on.
Mr Gosling seizes on a quote from Will Hutton, the British economist and a former
Bilderberg delegate, who likened it to the annual WEF gathering where "the consensus
established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide".
"One of the first places I heard about the determination of US forces to attack Iraq was
from leaks that came out of the 2002 Bilderberg meeting," says Mr Gosling.
But "privacy, rather than secrecy", is key to such a meeting says Financial Times
journalist Martin Wolf, who has been invited several times in a non-reporting role.
"The idea that such meetings cannot be held in private is fundamentally totalitarian," he
says. "It's not an executive body; no decisions are taken there."
As an up-and-coming statesmen in the 1950s, Denis Healey, who went on to become a
Labour chancellor, was one of the four founding members of Bilderberg (which was
named after the hotel in Holland where the first meeting was held in 1954).
His response to claims that Bilderberg exerts a shadowy hand on the global tiller is met
with characteristic bluntness. "Crap!"
"There's absolutely nothing in it. We never sought to reach a consensus on the big issues
at Bilderberg. It's simply a place for discussion," says Lord Healey.
Formed in the spirit of post-war trans-Atlantic co-operation, the idea behind Bilderberg
was that future wars could be prevented by bringing power-brokers together in an
informal setting away from prying eyes.
"Bilderberg is the most useful international group I ever attended. The confidentiality
enabled people to speak honestly without fear of repercussions.
"In my experience the most useful meetings are those when one is free to speak openly
and honestly. It's not unusual at all. Cabinet meetings in all countries are held behind
closed doors and the minutes are not published."
That activists have seized on Bilderberg is no surprise to Alasdair Spark, an expert in
conspiracy theories.
"The idea that a shadowy clique is running the world is nothing new. For hundreds of
years people have believed the world is governed by a cabal of Jews.
"Shouldn't we expect that the rich and powerful organize things in their own interests. It's
called capitalism."
Bilderberg Group
Nexus Magazine - 1996
The conspiracy theory writers have repeatedly linked one powerful global elite, the
Bilderberg Group, with the ultimate take-over of the world. Members of the Bilderberg
together with their 'sister' organisations-the Trilateral Commission (known also as the
"Child of Bilderberg") and the Council on Foreign Relations -are charged with the postwar take-over of the democratic process. The measures implemented by this group so far
prove the control of the world economy through indirect political means.
The constitution of several democratic monarchies of the Western Europe bans members
of their royal families from playing an active role in the political process. However, the
Bilderberg meetings provide this exact forum and platform for them.
"This unprecedented period of European cooperation is more than a product of simple
nation-state diplomacy. One of the key institutions that has fostered unity and
cooperation with the Atlantic Community beyond the old concepts has been the
Bilderberg Group."
"I tell you frankly that I am deeply alarmed today over the possibility that a right-wing
reaction may draw some sections of capital so far away from our traditions as to imperil
the entire structure of American life as we know it."
These comments by Pasymowski and Gilbert two decades ago may seem out of phase
with the current events in former Yugoslavia, but, in terms of the continued stability of
the "European State", they have proven to be largely accurate. Warfare has been removed
from the intra-European systems as a means of controlling and directing nationalistic
goals and ideas.
Even in the case of former Yugoslavia, one observes that the current state of war has
resulted from Tito's and the Soviet Union's demise. Consequently, the lid has been lifted
on rivals and racial memories which had been artificially kept in place for previous
decades. The several proto-states which make up the former Yugoslavia were not part of
the economic and social development programs which evolved in Western Europe. As we
would see, the way in which the rest of Europe evolved and developed was very
different, and for very particular reasons.
Whether co-incidence or not, it is equally ironic that the current Chairman of the
Bilderberg, Lord Carrington, was the first UN-appointed representative to bring peace to
the war-torn Yugoslavia.
ORIGINS
The single most important personality connected with the birth and creation of the
Bilderberg Group is Joseph H. Retinger (also known as L'Eminence-His Grey Eminence).
Retinger had a colourful, lifelong career that raised him to the top of the world power
élites.
At his funeral in 1960, Sir Edward Bedington-Behrens said: "I remember Retinger in the
United States picking up the telephone and immediately making an appointment with the
President, and in Europe he had complete entrée in every political circle as a kind of right
acquired through trust, devotion and loyalty he inspired."
Retinger, as a Catholic, was viewed by many as an agent of the Vatican, acting in liaison
between the Pope and the Father-General of the Jesuit order.
One of Retinger's renowned achievements in European politics was the founding of the
European Movement, leading to the establishment of the Council of Europe on 5th May
1949. With its headquarters in Strasbourg, the Council Executive Committee provided
Retinger his first major platform for his expansive ideology.
From his earlier days at the Sorbonne, Retinger believed in greater European unity, both
in military and economic terms. It was also at the same time when his interest in the
guidance of the Jesuit order manifested itself. He spent a great deal of his time fulfilling
these ambitions. He suggested to Premier Georges Clemenceau a plan to unite Eastern
Europe-involving the merging of Austria, Hungary and Poland as a tripartite monarchy
under the guidance of the Jesuit order. <{? Clemenceau, doubtful of the Vatican-inspired
plan, rejected Retinger's proposal outright. This plan labelled Retinger, thereafter, as a
Vatican agent.
Retinger's activities were not limited to uniting Europe. Through his several trips to
Mexico he played a key role in the creation of a trade union movement in the 1920s.
Due to his unprecedented success, and by gaining the Mexican Government's trust,
Retinger convinced them to nationalise the US oil interest in Mexico. In the process,
Retinger conducted the secret negotiations with Washington for the Mexican
Government.
Retinger also had an active war career. He was the political aide to General Sikorski, and
served for the London-based Polish Government-in-exile. In addition, at the age of 58, he
parachuted into German-occupied territory outside Warsaw for some sabotage missions.
Due to his high-profile career, in the 1950s he was able to create contacts with numerous
high-ranking military officials and political leaders. His main aim was to unite the world
in peace. His peace dividend was to be under the control of supernational, powerful
organisations. He believed that such organisations would be immune from short-term
ideological conflicts erupting between governments.
To Retinger, it was insignificant what dominated the economic ideology of a country. He
believed these differences could be brought into line by powerful multinational
organisations dictating and applying powerful economic and military policies, thereby
creating a union and a bond between the nations.
Retinger's personal 'left-wing' views from his heady days convinced him that many
leaders of newly born socialist and communist nations would be prepared to talk to him.
Additionally, his Church background gave him an arena for dialogue with people from
the middle-ground connections in international relations.
Nevertheless, Retinger knew that control of the world affairs cannot be achieved without
US participation. In pursuit of this ideology, he began a campaign for the creation of an
Atlantic Community. This would make the development of Europe an important political
aim for the American politicians, thereby preventing their retreat into political isolation.
Retinger, with this in mind, set out his carefully calculated move by involving one of his
close and powerful friends, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Prince Bernhard, at the
time, was an important figure in the oil industry and held a major position in Royal Dutch
Petroleum (Shell Oil), as well as Société Générale de Belgique-a powerful global
corporation.
In 1952 Retinger approached Bernhard with a proposal for a secret conference to involve
the NATO leaders in an open and frank discussion on international affairs behind closed
doors. The meeting would allow each participant to speak his mind freely because no
media representative would be permitted inside; nor would there be any news bulletin
about the meeting or the topics discussed. Furthermore, if any leaks occurred, the
journalists would be discouraged from writing about it.
Prince Bernhard fully supported Retinger's proposal for an international meeting.
Consequently, they formed a committee to organise a plan. In 1952, Bernhard
approached the Truman administration and briefed them about the meeting. Despite a
positive reception, it was not until the Eisenhower administration when the first
American counterpart group was formed.
The two key role-players in the US group were General Walter Bedell Smith (Director of
the CIA) and C. D. Jackson. Both (European-American) groups working interactively set
out to fulfil Retinger's initial plan. From the outset, the American group was heavily
influenced by the Rockefeller family, the owners of Standard Oil-competitors of
Bernhard's Royal Dutch Petroleum. From then on, the Bilderberg business reflected the
concerns of the oil industry in its meetings.
According to Bilderberg's draft document of 1989:
"Bilderberg takes its name from the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland, where the
first meeting took place in May 1954. That pioneering meeting grew out of the concern
expressed by many leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that Western Europe and
North America were not working together as closely as they should on matters of critical
importance. It was felt that regular, off-the-record discussions would help create a better
understanding of the complex forces and major trends affecting Western nations in the
difficult post-war period."
Retinger's main aim in creating Bilderberg had other more important, inherent aspects
than an informal gathering of a group of the world's élite. It has been suggested that
Bilderberg meetings ultimately would have implemented group dynamics techniques in
the shape of a low- key international thinking group with the purpose of sensitising the
less enlightened of its membership towards the new transitional diplomacy of the Cold
War.
The first meeting witnessed the gathering of ideologies, poles apart. The issue of
McCarthyism was reaching its peak in the United States. European participants,
exasperated with the McCarthy propaganda, saw in their American counterparts a clear
political shift towards an ultra-right-wing fascist state. Memories of World War II still
fresh in their minds, the Europeans found the concept rather repulsive.
C. D. Jackson (a member of the CFR), in an attempt to regain the international delegates'
confidence, stated:
"Whether McCarthy dies by an assassin's bullet or is eliminated in the normal American
way of getting rid of boils on body politics, I prophesy that by the time we hold our next
meeting he will be gone from the American scene."
Nevertheless, McCarthyism proved to be a source of embarrassment for the US delegate.
OTHER GROUPS
The concept of Bilderberg was not new. Although similar groups were already in
existence at the time, none attracted and provoked global myths the way Bilderberg has.
Groups such as Bohemian Grove, established in 1872 by San Franciscans, played an
equally significant role in shaping post-war politics in the US.
"It was at the Grove, it is said, that the Manhattan Project was set up and that Eisenhower
was selected as the Republicans' candidate for 1952."
The Ditchley Park Foundation was established in 1953 in Britain with the same aim.
Two years earlier, in 1952, Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had suggested
the idea of a NATO command-post exercise (a paper drill; no movement of forces) to
train army divisional commanders. General Eisenhower, who was then NATO's
European Commander, accepted it. As a result, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers
in Europe Exercise-SHAPEX-was created. Ever since, an annual meeting has been held
in SHAPE headquarters near Mons, Belgium, and the subject has been broadened to
incorporate a wide array of topics.
The historical review of these groups reflects a sudden flourishing trend, and the
realisation by the world's leaders of the need for creation of, at times, such overt
concepts. The idea of establishing such élite groups did not die with the birth of
Bilderberg.
In 1957, the first of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs took place.
Pandit Nehru offered to host the first meeting. The founder members were personalities
such as Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein. Scientists from the United States and Soviet
Union were regular participants in this East-West gathering of élites. Britain is known for
its active participation and role in this group.
Pugwash proved particularly valuable at the time when the relation between East and
West was at a stalemate. Many significant topics were discussed in this forum. Ways of
monitoring arms control agreements, nuclear disarmament, and reduction of East-West
tensions were always on the top of the agenda. In the 1970s Pugwash embraced a range
of issues including biological, chemical and conventional arms control, environment and
development problems as well as conflicts around the world.
One of the latest groups is the Williamsburg, better known as the Asian Window. Its first
meeting was financed by the late John D. Rockefeller in 1971, and continues to date. It
brings together the Asian leaders and the Americans. Williamsburg has been particularly
effective for discussing Vietnam, or the Indonesian corruption, or supposedly nonexistent Japanese exchange controls. Different experiences of trade with China and
Russia, or how Singapore has a lower infant mortality than America, have been some of
the topics in the Williamsburg forum.
Nonetheless, none of these groups-including the Council on Foreign Relations and the
Trilaterals-commands the influence the Bilderberg has obtained in shaping and dictating
global policies.
CHAIRMAN
"The first [Bilderberg] meeting was convened under the chairmanship of H. R. H. Prince
Bernhard of the Netherlands, who served as chairman for twenty-two years. He was
succeeded by Lord Home of the Hirsel, former Prime Minister for the United Kingdom,
who chaired the meetings for four years.
At the 1980 meeting, Lord Home turned over the chairmanship to Walter Scheel, former
President of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1985, Mr Scheel resigned, and was
succeeded by Lord Roll of Ipsden, President of S. G. Warburg Group plc. At 1989
meeting, Lord Roll turned over the chairmanship to Lord Carrington,"who still chairs the
meetings.
CHARACTER OF BILDERBERG MEETINGS
"What is unique about Bilderberg as a forum is - the broad cross-section of leading
citizens, in and out of government, that are assembled for nearly three days of informal
discussion about topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and
the international economy; the strong feeling among participants that, in view of the
differing attitudes and experiences of the Western nations, there is a clear need to develop
an understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated; and the privacy of these
meetings, which has no purpose other than to allow leading citizens to speak their minds
openly and freely.
"In short, Bilderberg is a recognised, flexible and informal international leadership forum
in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced."
In further recognition of this aspect, Paddy Ashdown, the Leader of the Liberal Party and
a participant in the 1989 Bilderberg meeting, wrote to me:
"In view of the recent events right across Europe, this has turned out to have been an
exceptionally useful opportunity to meet and discuss with many of the most expert people
in the world on international relations. I found it a very stimulating and informative
gathering."
But others, such as Prince Charles, Lord Callaghan and Sir Edward Heath, were rather
shy in their responses.
PARTICIPANTS
There are usually 115 participants in each annual meeting. Eighty are from Western
Europe and the remainder from North America. From this mixture, one-third are from
government and politics, and the remaining two-thirds from industry, finance, education
and communications. All the participants claim to attend the meeting in their private
capacity and not as officials-though this claim, in the wake of the outcome of subsequent
meetings, has proven to be highly questionable.
Participants are invited to the Bilderberg meeting by the Chairman, following his
consultations and recommendations by the Steering Committee membership, the
Advisory Group and the Honorary Secretaries-General. This approach ensures a full,
informed and balanced discussion of the agenda items. The individuals are chosen based
on their knowledge, standing and experience. The previous participants maintain that, at
the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken and no policy statements are
made.
FUNDING
The costs of the annual meetings are usually the responsibility of the Steering Committee
members of the host country. But, the expenses of maintaining the Bilderberg meetings
are covered entirely by private subscriptions. Although the meeting reports are published,
nevertheless they are strictly for the participating members only. No reports are made
available to the media.
BLACK HELICOPTERS
BLACK HELICOPTERS
People sometimes report being observed or chased by black helicopters. They are
unmarked and generally fly late at night. They are completely flat black in color and they
show no identification whatsoever. The windows are tinted, preventing observers from
seeing inside.
While sometimes seen in conventional traffic patterns, they commonly fly very low, just
above treetop altitude, even over residential areas.
In a few ground sightings, the occupants of the helicopters have been described as men
wearing black uniforms carrying automatic weapons.
Many people have linked them to the Men in Black who are connected to a New World
order, UFO sightings and strange disappearances of humans.
Black helicopters have been reported all across the United States.
BLAVATSKY, HELENA PETROVNA
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
1831-1891
This is allegedly Madame Blavatsky with Ascended Masters Kuthumi, El Myora, and
Saint Germain.
Helena Blavatsky was a great authority on theosophy, the doctrines of which she
professed she derived from the fountainhead in Tibet.
She was born of Russian nobility and later became the secretary of the Theosophical
Society. Also, she was referred to as HPB. She did much to spread Eastern religious,
philosophical and occult concepts throughout the Western world.
Her father Peter von Hahn was in the Russian army. Shortly after he married Helena
Andreyevna he was called into war and his wife returned to her parent' home when their
daughter Helena was born. Helena Andreyevna wrote novels concerning restricted
Russian women and was called the George Sand of Russia.
She died when Helena was twelve, but later Helena would say that her mother had died
when she was a baby. The question is why did Helena Blavatsky deny the existence of
her mother in her childhood. It is true that she grew from a sickly baby into a problem
child subjected to hysteria and convulsions. When dying her mother observed sadly, "Ah
well, perhaps it is best that I am dying, so at least I shall be spared seeing what befalls
Helena. Of one thing I am certain, her life will not be that of other women, and she will
have much to suffer."
This statement that her mother died when she was a baby seems to suggest that there was
strife between the mother and daughter. It indicates a conflict between the wills. That
Helen resented her mother's long absences, her intimate friendships in the bohemian
world of letters, and felt it as a desertion of the home and herself. Her mother seemed to
have hurt her pride.
Helena's childhood was not the usual one. She displayed neurotic behavior from almost
infancy by walking and talking in her sleep at four, exhibiting morbid tendencies, and
loving the weird and fantastic. One of her earliest recollections was macabre in nature. At
Ekaterinoslav, the countryside was said to be haunted with russalkas, green-haired
nymphs living in willow trees along the river banks.
Whenever her nurses crossed her Helena threaten to have the russalkas tickle them to
death. One day when Helena was four she was walking by the river bank with one of her
nurses while a serf-boy of fourteen followed them and annoyed Helena by pulling her
perambutor. She them imitated one of her father's roars threatening to have the russalkas
tickle the boy to death. The boy being scarred, took to his heels over the river bank. He
was not seen again until fishermen discovered his dead body weeks later. Helena's family
supposed he had accidentally stepped into a sand-pit whirlpool. But, the household surfs
knew otherwise; they knew that the four-year-old girl had withdrawn her protection from
the boy and delivered him over to the russalkas. It is significant that HPB should later
accuse herself of homicide at the age of four, and the victim a boy ten years her senior.
Her memory of this incident is not surprising when view in perspective with other
incidents of her childhood. Those who took care of her, besides her parents, were serfs
and women who had learned and believed in superstitions. At the time Old Russia was a
hothouse for superstitions. It was alive with tales of wolves, monsters, ghosts, leshes,
brownies and goblins which were thought to manipulate human lives.. Even though the
educated people accepted Russian Orthodoxy, along with its icons filling every room,
priests and sacraments, their serfs still kept alive the Empire's pagan religion among
themselves. The nurses of Helena, or Lelinka as they affectionately called her, believed
these superstitions. Furthermore, Lelinka, being born in the seventh month of the year,
was called a sedmitchka, a word that is difficult to translate but is connected with the
number seven.
According to legend it was believed that supernatural beings could be placated or even
controlled by people like Helena. On the night of her birthday the servants would carry
the little girl around the house and stables while sprinkling holy water and repeating
magical incantations to appease the domovoy, a goblin in the form of an old man who
lived behind the stove and played tricks whenever displeased. Some thought each
household had one. Supposedly such activities were not known by her mother or
grandparents. If they did know about them, initially they refused to assign any
importance to them until later.
It was not that the household servants thought that Helena was special, she showed it. She
threw temper tantrums whenever she did not get her way. Finally, as she later recalled,
the family members noticed her abnormalities and she was exorcised many times, but the
rituals proved to no avail. Even scolding and punishments failed to change her outrageous
unacceptable behavior. She fail to change as a child because, it seems, after the servant
boy drown, plus the attention she was receiving, she felt she was powerful and
invulnerable, and increasingly believed that mighty forces would carry out her wishes. A
belief that seemed to permeate her life.
Her only happy childhood memories seem to be between six and twelve in her father's
army camps. She was petted and spoiled as the enfant du regiment. She tyrannized over
her father's orderlies whom she preferred to her female nurses and governesses. While
being pampered she managed to pickup a smattering of knowledge about shamans and
magic which she put to good use later in life.
After the death of their mother, at age 28, Helena with her sister and brother lived with
their maternal grandparents. The grandmother, Helena Palovna de Fadeev, was a princess
of the Dolgorkurov family, and a famous botanist. So from her mother and grandmother
HPB inherited her characteristics of stubbornness, a fiery temper, and a disregard for
social norms, all of which she amplified.
Helena's first love affair, at age 16, had been with Prince Alexander Galistin, cousin to
the Viceroy of the Caucasus. At the time her grandfather served as his Imperial
Councilor. Her interest in the Prince was because of his interest in occultism and magic.
She later claimed the affair ended on the Prince's death, but he jilted her.
When 17 she married General Nicephore Blavatsky. There are several stories for this
marriage, but it seems to be that a governess had scolded Helena for her temper tantrums,
saying she could not even get an old man to marry her. To prove the governess wrong,
and to divert attention from her unhappy affair with Prince Galistin she married
Blavatsky, who she called old and about seventy or eighty. Actually he was around forty
when they married and outlived her. After three unhappy months of a honeymoon, HPB
managed to escape from the General's bodyguards and return to her grandfather who was
not glad to see her. Her quickly shipped her off to her father, now retired and living near
St. Peterburg, in charge of a maid and three men servants, all of whom she escaped. Her
father traveled two thousand mile for nothing to meet her in Odessa. Helena was aboard
an English bark, some say eloping with the skipper, sailing for Constantinople.
The years between 1848-1858 are known as Helena's vagabond years. The actual events
are rather sketchy. The important thing to HPB, at least, was the two years she was in
Tibet studying with the Lama. In 1856, according to her version, while in India she met a
Lutheran minister who was with two mystics. None had passports or proper
identification. The mystics did not enter Tibet, but the minister, although not permitted in
the country, did travel a good way with the party to a mud hut. Helena wore a mysterious
disguise supplied by a Tartar shaman. At a hut they met the Chief Lama who would not
allow them admittance until Helena showed him a carnelian talisman given to her as a
child by a high priest of a Calmuck tribe.
Within the hut, which was a great hall, they witnessed a reincarnation ceremony. A fourmonth-old baby laid on a carpet in the center of the hall. "Under the influence of the
venerable lama, the baby rose to its feet and walked up and down the strip of carpet,
repeating, `I am Buddha, I am the old Lama, I am his spirit in a new body.'" The three
men accompanying Helena were terrified. The minister said his blood ran cold because
the infant's eyes "seemed to search his very soul."
Some believe that HPB fabricated the reincarnation story because similar descriptions
could be found in Abbe Huc's Recollection's of Travel in Tartary, Tibet and China
Further they reasoned, her reason for the story was for psychological importance,
showing she had traveled in Tibet where other men could not, and her talisman had
admitted them to see the ritual; however, it must be remembered these were her critics.
When returning to Russia Helena agreed to return to Nicephore Blavatsky on the
condition that she would be required to see him as little as possible, which she did. Also,
at this time her grandfather Andrey Fadeyev was 71 and retiring from the Viceroy's
Board of Caucasus. He usually retired early and Helena's two cousins, both unmarried,
came to the Fadeyev home in Taiflis to entertain while seances were held. At the time the
many of the Russian intellectuals were beginning to be fascinated with the paranormal.
Helena made a big impression. Her cousin Sergei Witte wrote, "My cousin did not
confine the demonstrations of her power to table rapping, evocation of spirits, and similar
mediumistic hocus-pocus. On one occasion she caused a closed piano in an adjacent
room to emit sounds as if invisible hands were playing upon it. This was done in my
presence, at the insistence of one of the guests."
It seemed that the lady's activities included more than hold seances. A young baron from
Estonia, Nicholas Meyendorff who was an ardent Spiritualist, found HPB delightful.
Meyendorff was a closed friend of D. D. Home, in fact, he considered Home as a brother,
so he confided his affair with HPB to Home. He insisted she divorced Blavatsky and
marry him, or so the lady later claimed.
It seems Meyendorff later said Helena was unfaithful. From latter correspondence, in
1886, to her biographer it seems that Meyendorff was correct. About this time
unexpectedly Agardi Metrovich appeared sometime in the early 1860's. He was an opera
singer accompanied by a female singer who it seems was his wife. Metrovich had know
Helena and her family previously. It seems he now wanted her back. He was almost sixty
in 1861, and had about begged an engagement from the Italian Opera of Tiflis was one of
the worst in Europe. He was on a decline in his career.
It is somewhat of a puzzle how Helena managed living with her husband, lover
Meyendoroff, and Metrovich at the same time while holding seances in her grandfather's
home. But, the fact is that she became pregnant and a child was born. The only existence
of the child's birth date is on a passport dated August 23 "(Old Style)" 1862. It designated
him as an infant, leaving speculation he was born in 1862, or late 1861. His name was
Yuri, and he was deformed.
He was born in the settlement of Ozurgety which had a military surgeon. Helena settled
there buying a house to escape the scandal her pregnancy had caused in Tiflis. All men
she knew denied fathering the child, but Blavatsky continued her monthly allowance.
Helena referred to him as "the poor crippled child," while Meyendorff's relatives said he
had a hunchback. Whether the handicap resulted from a birth defect or an accident cause
by the military physician unaccustomed delivering babies is not known.
After the birth Helena suffered, or arranged, a nervous breakdown. The significance of
which is that she describes a dual personality:
"When awake and myself, I remembered well who I was in my second capacity, and what
I had been and was doing. When someone else, i.e., the personage I became, I know I had
no idea of who was H. P. Blavatsky! I was in another far-off country, a total different
individuality from myself, and had no connection at all with my actual life."
Yuri was about five years when Helena took him Bologna trying to help him. It is known
that Metrovitch accompany them. But, the journey proved fruitless and the child died.
They buried him in a small town in Southern Russia under Metrovitch's name; the latter
saying that "he did not care."
Even though Helena had reason to detest Russia, she could not bury her son on foreign
soil. This among other things illustrated that she dearly loved the child. It had been
difficult for her to keep the child, and easier for her to have abandoned him as an orphan,
but this she did not do. She did everything she could for him. Although later she denied
he was her child. When taking him to visit her father, she wrote that her father suspected
her of wrongful sexual conduct and she produced evidence from two doctors that she was
unable to bare children. Perhaps she did this more for Yuri's sake than her own, because,
it is thought, she could not bear for anyone to think ill of her son. She also claimed Yuri
was an illegitimate child of Meyendorff and a friend of hers. The stories she told got so
tangled that her biographer. Alfred Sinnett, omitted Yuri altogether.
However, the child seems an important factor in her life; otherwise, why would she have
cared for him approximately five years? Her career in the paranormal was of great
concern to her. Factors concerning the child outweighed this. Yuri, ironically, resembled
the little hunchback invisible which she had played with in her own childhood. She,
herself, described Yuri as "the only being who made life worth living, a being whom I
loved according to the phraseology of Hamlet as `forty thousand fathers and brothers will
never love their children and sisters.'" Later she wrote to Metrovitch, "'I loved one man
deeply but still more I love occult science,' but the one she loved `more than anything
else in all the world,' or anything, was Yuri."
It was later after Yuri's death that Helena confided in writing to her cousin Nadyezha
Fadeyev of her rejection of Christianity, "the Russian Orthodox god had died for her on
the day of Yuri's death." Although, she had never been at peace with Christianity, "there
were moments when I believed deeply that sins can be remitted by the Church, and that
the blood of Christ has redeemed me, together with the whole race of Adam." Yet it
should be noted toward the end of Helena's life, as with so many others, the
encroachment of fragments of an earlier religious experience are seen. Increasingly in her
writings she used words like the Holy Cause, with their ecclesiastical flavor, phrases
reminiscent of the childhood religion which she had rebelled against all of her life. She
was humbling her pride to join the host of other rebel spirits who creep back to the
sanctity of the Holy Church.
She even admitted when in Paris she had in secrecy slipped off to the Russian Cathedral.
In secrecy was correct, because even though in her heart toward the end her life her
confidence in her Mahatmas and the occult may have decrease or fallen away, in public
her concern was to insure the realty of her Masters Morya and Koot Hoomi and all the
hierarchy for her followers. She apologized for the mistakes and misrepresentations in
her works but not for the Masters who had dictated her books. The faults of the books she
laid on others.
After 1869 both the Fadeyev and Witte families had dwindled. Adey Fadeyev had died at
81. The families pooled their assets and moved to Odessa where Helena and Metrovitch
joined them. It was tough going for everyone, but Helena, in her flighty manner, tried
starting several small businesses, but in the perilous times they all failed. Metrovitch still
trying to make a comeback got an engagement with the Italian opera of Cairo, so he and
Helena sailed for Egypt.
It was during their voyage that Metrovitch lost his life in an explosion of gunpowder and
fireworks which the ship was carrying. Helena was one of seventeen passengers out of
400 which survived. She latter said Metrovitch died trying to save her life, although there
are other versions of his death which are not connected with the explosion at all. Anyway
Helena thought that Metrovitch would want her to go on. She went to Alexandria with
help of the Greek government funds.
It is thought she buried Metrovitch's remains there, and then proceeded to Cairo when she
became a medium by teaming up with another woman. The relationship in Cairo lasted
for some time, then both went back to Odessa. However, Russia did not provide the
stimulation which Helena longed for, and she tired of quarreling with her aunts whom she
said did not understand her. She saw other people and then went to Paris. It was there she
heard of the enthusiasm for Spiritualism that was spreading in the United States. She
almost immediately sailed, saying that it was "my mysterious Hindu" that ordered her "to
embark for North America, which I did without protesting."
She did not travel first class though. On the dock at Le Havre she by chance met a
German peasant and her children who had been sold bogus tickets. Helena gave the
woman and children her deluxe passage and traveled herself in steerage because that was
all she could then afford. She, like millions of other poor emigrants, and rebellious
aristocrats traveled to America, the land of opportunity and hope. It was her second
chance.
As with thousands of other immigrants Helena's second chance did not come easy, but
she was determined to obtain it. It was July, 1873 when she reached New York. As did
other single women, she first lodged in a home for woman that was a tenement house that
had be made into a cooperative by the 65 occupants. The landlord introduced Helena to
the owners of a shirt-and-collar factory where she tried selling elaborate designs to the
owners. The designs were good but she was bad at selling, so it was Odessa all over
again.
HPB was penniless but said that she had wrote home to her relatives for money and
expected to receive it from the Russian Council at anytime. This is how she survived in
the home. She managed to divide the home into two groups, those not liking her and
those that did. She entertained the latter group with stories of her life and by holding
seances on Sunday nights. This seemed to work until a newspaper took a dislike to her
and accused her of using hashish and opium.
Soon after this her father died and she received $500 of her modest inheritance which
went fast. She moved into a smart hotel and began to live Bohemian again in a cooperate
flat with three journalists, two men and another woman. Then a new phenomenon
appeared. Ordinary photographs left in a wooden box overnight were found in the
morning to be tinted with water colors by spirits. Although impressive, the others
occupants became skeptical of HPB's powers. Then one night they watched the Madame
leave her room in night clothes, carrying paint and brushes to assist the spirits.
Following this HPB worked whenever she could, one job was in a sweatshop making
artificial flowers, and accepting charity from whomever gave it. This continued until
June, 1874 when she met Clementine Jerebko and her husband who has just arrived from
Caucasus. She had known them both in Russia. The Jerebkos had just bought farmland on
Long Island and HPB agreed to join in the adventure by buying in at $1,000. By the end
of the first month all parties knew it was a disastrous decision. Clementine agreed to
return Helena's money after the farm been sold by auction, but three days later she and
her husband disappeared. Helena tried pursuing them by hiring a creditable law firm
which took the case to court.
The next important event in her life occurred ten days after Henry Steele Olcott's first
article on the Eddy seances appeared in New York, on October 14, 1874, when she
introduced herself to Olcott at the remote Chittenden, Vermont farm. Immediately she
claimed to be a spiritualist who had spend fifteen years in the cult, but it soon became
apparent that she had come to see Olcott.
During the next ten days Helena exhibited her techniques. Her seances accompanied
those of the Eddy Brothers. Although Olcott was not a Spiritualist, he had a keen interest
in the phenomena. Each night the seance began at ten minutes to seven. The procession
of apparitions began drifting in and out of the Eddy cabinet on the schedule of every one
to five minutes.
The appearances of Honto and the Indians were slightly dim compared to Madame
Blavatsky's peopled apparitions. "Hassan Aga," the wealthy merchant wearing a black
Astarkhan cap and tasseled hood who said three times he had a secret to revel, but never
did; "Safer Ali Bak," the man that guarded Helena for Nicephore Blavatsky in Erivan,
now appearing as a Kurd warrior carrying a feathered spear; a Circassian noukar who
bowed, smiled and said, "Tchock yachtchi (all right); a giant muscular black man in
white-and-gold-horned headdress, a conjurer who she had met in Africa.
Also, there were less exotic phantoms such as an old woman in a babushka, whom
Helena said was Vera's nurse; and the portly man in a black evening suit and frilled white
shirt, around whose neck hung a Greek cross of St. Anne suspended by a red moiré
ribbon with two black stripes.
"Are you my father?" she asked, confessing later that she was trembling.
The apparition approached her and stopped, "Djadja," he answered reproachfully.
HPB knew that Olcott was enthused with her performance, although his articles about her
would not be published for several weeks, she decided much could be achieved in the
meantime. She with another medium rushed back to New York. When Olcott mentioned
putting his collection of articles that appeared in the Graphic into a book she volunteered
to translate them into Russian for the Psychisen Studien or some other Russian journal.
Olcott was thrilled with the idea.
She did like Olcott, but still considered him childish and gullible. She knew, even though
she had warned him that William Eddy's spooks were not necessarily proof of spirit
entities, that Olcott was "in love with the spirits," as she put it. Nevertheless, they
continued working together. HPB had feelings for Olcott, but they were not mutually
shared at first. Olcott considered her androgynous. He just did not see her as an attractive
sexual person, even though she was in her earthly, sensual manner.
It was at this time that she engaged in a confrontation with a New York neuropathologist,
Dr. George Beard, who claimed in the Daily Graphic that the Eddy brothers were frauds
and that Colonel Olcott had been blinded by a handful of bad magicians' tricks. HPB had
two reasons to be upset by the article. First, her first real success in Spiritualism might be
thwarted; and secondly, the article questioned Olcott's integrity as a serious investigator.
If this went unchallenged it would dash any hopes of selling any translations of his
articles. This episode became a fight between Beard and Helena, but took an unexpected
turn when she was recognized by both the Spiritual Scientist and Daily Graphic. The
editor of the former said he would publish all she could write. In an interview with the
Graphic she gained so much publicity that Helena Blavatsky was known throughout the
New York area.
But, as usual, her troubles were not over. She had tried to sell the Russian translation of
Olcott's articles through Andrew Jackson Davis who admired her as a medium, a friend
of Alexander Aksakov who could get the articles in the Psychisen Studien. In his reply to
Davis, Aksakov said that he had heard of Madame Blavatsky, and she was a powerful
medium, but her communications show moral flows. Toward Davis Helena appeared
casual, and Davis thought his friend didn't know her as well as he did. However, Helena
suspected Aksakov had heard rumors and hastily sent a letter to him pleading with him
not to exposed everything to Davis. It is later noted that Alsakov did receive some of the
translations, but he never printed them, nor did any other publication.
Fearing that Aksakov revelations would come down upon her at any time Helena was in a
desperate period. She still conducted seances, hoping for the best. She still needed
financial support. The man, Henry Olcott, she wanted was unavailable to her. Olcott was
supporting an estranged wife and two children, also his law practice had been neglected
during his Spiritualism investigations. Michael Betanelly was available and wanted to
marry her to look after her, he said he would expect no martial privileges of her.
Betanelly was friend to both Helena and Olcott. It was Betanelly who had written a letter
to Olcott, on Helena's behalf, verifying the Georgian that materialized during a seance at
Chittenden. The letter was to served to disprove Dr. Beard's accusations aimed at Olcott
and also give Olcott more creditability. The truth was that Betanelly knew nothing about
Spiritualism when writing the letter.
Helena and Betanelly were married on April 3, 1875. They had not told Olcott, when he
heard of the marriage he called it "a freak of madness." He later said he had ridiculed her
for marrying a man so much younger than herself and unequal to her mental capacity.
However, Helena already had her defense planned: she said, " their fates were linked by
karma, and the marriage was her punishment for `awful pride and combativeness.'" She
added that Betanelly had threaten suicide if she did not marry him. Helena assured Olcott
the marriage would not be consummated; although her reason was not clear, it would
seem she did so because of her interest in Olcott. Olcott believed her. It may have been a
non-sexual marriage, but it is doubtful her entire relationship with Betanelly was nonphysical.
Helena's main concern seemed to always lie in Olcott. To her he was always essential to
the Spiritualist movement. Later many would say she broke up his marriage, even though
the Spiritualists eventually denied it, it is a fact they met shortly before his divorce. But it
seemed they just collaborated, with HPB being dominate, at first, intimacy would come
later. HPB dictated Olcott's writings and where to send them. Before the establishment of
the Theosophical Society there was the founding of the Miracle Club. This was a club
where members were admitted to seances conducted by the club medium David Dana,
brother of Charles Dana editor of the New York Sun, and suggested by HPB. Members
were forbidden to disclose their experiences or the address of the meeting place. The club
only lasted a few weeks because David wanted to be paid, which HPB did not agree to.
The failure of the Miracle Club, however, sparked the founding of the Theosophical
Society. The membership itself, with the enthusiasm of HPB, did not disperse. In striving
to find a common purpose Olcott scribbled a hasty note asking, "Would it not be a good
thing to form a society for this kind of study?" The phrase this kind of study referred to
subjects such as the Egyptian mysteries and the kabbalah which had been discussed in a
lecture previously given to an informal group by J. H. Felt, an architect and engineer. He
had said, "the dog-and hawk-headed figures of Egyptian hieroglyphics were accurate
pictures of elementals, the spirits who convey messages at seances."
The infant society was eagerly formed in September1875. It was co-founded by Olcott
along with William Q. Judge. Its name was furnished by Charles Sotheran who was of
independent means, a high Mason, a Rosicrucian, and a student of the kabbalah. Sotheran
thought the name of the Miracle Club was too cheap; he considered Egyptological
Society, too limited; looking through a dictionary, he found the word theosophy, a word
that was unanimously agreed on at the next meeting because it seemed to express esoteric
truth as well as covering the aspects of occult scientific research, both of which were
goals of the Society. Because of Olcott's love for red tape and Helena's ritualism the
Society included all of the pomp originally planned for the Miracle Club. There was the
policy of secrecy, each member wrote F.T.S (Fellow, Theosophical Society) after their
name, and recognized each other by secret signs, most of which were borrowed from
Egyptian occultism and the Grand Lodge of Cairo
CROWLEY, ALEISTER
Aleister Crowley
Edward Alexander (Aleister) Crowley was born October 12, 1875 in Leamington,
Warwickshire, England.
In his autobiography Crowley claimed he was remarkable from the moment of his birth.
He bore on his body the three most important distinguishing marks of a Buddha.
He was tongue-tied, and on the second day of his incarnation a surgeon cut the fraenum
linguae. He had also the characteristic membrane, which necessitated an operation for
phimosis three lustres later. Lastly, he had upon the centre of his heart four hairs curling
from left to right in the exact form of a Swastika. - The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
He was considered by many to be a great Magician, Magus, and Prophet - though some
thought he was mentally unstable.
His ideas are a combination of ancient mystery school teachings dating back to ancient
Egyptian studies.
He just put a new twist to it just as healer today but a new twist to old techniques. They
are all the same - just spoke differently and allowing from more freedom of the soul as
we move toward self-awareness as spirit having a physical experience.
His parents were members of the Plymouth Brethren, a strict fundamentalist Christian
sect. As a result, Aleister grew up with a thorough biblical education and an equally
thorough disdain of Christianity.
He attended Trinity College at Cambridge University, leaving just before completing his
degree.
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Shortly thereafter he was introduced to George Cecil Jones, who was a member of the
'Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn'.
The Golden Dawn was an occult society led by S.L. MacGregor Mathers which taught
magic, Qabbalah - Alchemy - Tarot - Astrology - the answers are written in the stars
created by Thoth.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn had many notable members including A. E.
Waite, Dion Fortune, and poet W. B. Yeats.
Its influence on the development of modern western occultism was profound.
Hermetic stems from the Greek God Hermes - who was Merlin the Magician the
Egyptian God Thoth, among others. These were the roles of the Trickster as well.
Crowley was initiated into the Golden Dawn in 1898, and proceeded to climb up rapidly
through the grades. But in 1900 the order was shattered by schism, and Crowley left
England to travel extensively throughout the East.
There he learned and practiced the mental and physical disciplines of yoga,
supplementing his knowledge of western-style ritual magick with the methods of Oriental
mysticism.
In 1903, Crowley married Rose Kelly. They went to Egypt on their honeymoon.
After returning to Cairo in early 1904, Rose (who until this point had shown no interest
or familiarity with the occult) began entering trance states and insisting to her husband
that the god Horus was trying to contact him. As a test, Crowley took Rose to the Boulak
Museum and asked her to point out Horus to him. She did.
'The Stele of Revealing' is an Egyptian painted wooden tablet from the 26th dynasty,
depicting Horus receiving a sacrifice from the deceased, a priest named Ankh-f-nkhonsu. Crowley was especially impressed by the fact that this piece was numbered 666
by the museum, a number with which he had identified since childhood. Soon after
discovering the Stele in a museum in Cairo, Crowley received the mystical
communication known as 'The Book of the Law'. Much of what Crowley discovered in
the 'Stele of Revealing' set the stage - or formed the basis for his channeled verses.
The upshot was that he began to listen to Rose, and at her direction, on three successive
days beginning April 8, 1904, he entered his chamber at noon and wrote down what he
heard dictated from a shadowy presence behind him.
Law of Thelema
These culminated in April when Crowley entered a state of trance and wrote down the
three chapters of 220 verses which came to be called The Book of the Law (also known
as Liber AL and Liber Legis). Among other things, this book declared: The word of the
law is Thelema and "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law".
This book heralded the dawning of the new aeon of Horus - resurrection - the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn which would now be governed by the Law of Thelema.
Thelema ("THEL-ay-mah") is a Greek word meaning "will" or "intention". It is also the
name of a new spiritual philosophy which has arisen over the past several hundred years
and is now gradually becoming established worldwide.
Crowley declared that the new age would bring about a change in the conciousness of
humanity. This means that less people are going to be inclined to join the established
religions, such as Christianity, Judiasm, Hinduism, and so on. There is nothing wrong
with these beliefs, but I think Crowley meant that people would find new religions and
practices.
Thelema espouses the idea that everyone has their own destiny, and that each is
responsible for finding and fleshing out that destiny. This is the real basis for magick.
When one is responsible for him or herself, one is truly free.
Thelema also says that "The only sin is Restriction", now that doesn't mean that you can
just run around breaking the law and doing whatever you want, but that you should do
everything necessary to find and do your true will. This also sheds light on the opening
and closing statements of most Thelemic documents "Do what thou wilt shall be the
whole of the Law.", and "Love is the Law, Love under Will".
These statements say that you should achieve the freedom necessary to believe what you
want, and to be yourself (true self) even under duress.
'Love is the Law' does not mean that physical love. This is the Love for yourself and all
of humanity, good, bad, or indifferent. Do you have what it takes to truly Love yourself
and others? Such is a long, hard process. Will, again, is your True Will. This means that
you should achieve freedom and Love under the guidance of your True Will. Do all this
(which may take many lifetimes), and you cannot go wrong.
Once you find your True Will, and take total responsibility for yourself, then you are
capable of anything. You are in control, and then the piece of the Divine that lies within
you can come forth.
One theory holds that each chapter of the Book of the Law is associated with a particular
aeon of human spiritual evolution. According to this view, Chapter One characterizes the
Aeon of Isis, when the archetype of female divinity was paramount. Chapter Two relates
to the Aeon of Osiris, when the archetype of the slain god became prominent, and the
world's patriarchal religions became established. Chapter Three heralds the dawning of a
new aeon, the Aeon of Horus, the child of the Isis and Osiris. It is in this new aeon that
the philosophy of Thelema will be fully revealed to humanity, and will become
established as the primary paradigm for the spiritual evolution of the species.
Some of the essential elements of belief in Thelema are:
"Every man and every woman is a star."
This is usually taken to mean that each individual is unique and has their own path in a
spacious universe wherein they can move freely without collision.
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." and "thou hast no right but to do thy
will."
Most Thelemites hold that every person possesses a True Will, a single overall
motivation for their existence. The Law of Thelema mandates that each person follow
their True Will to attain fulfillment in life and freedom from restriction of their nature.
Because no two True Wills can be in real conflict (according to "Every man and every
woman is a star"), this Law also prohibits one from interfering with the True Will of any
other person.
The notion of absolute freedom for an individual to follow his or her True Will is a
cherished one among Thelemites. This philosophy also recognizes that the main task of
an individual setting out on the path of Thelema is to first discover his or her True Will,
giving methods of self-exploration such as magick great importance. Furthermore, every
True Will is different, and because each person has a unique point-of-view of the
universe, no one can determine the True Will for another person. Each person must arrive
at the discovery for themselves.
"Love is the law, love under will."
This is an important corollary to the above, indicating that the essential nature of the Law
of Thelema is that of Love. Each individual unites with his or her True Self in Love, and
so empowered, the entire universe of conscious beings unites with every other being in
Love.
Of course, with the emphasis on freedom and individuality inherent in Thelema, the
beliefs of any given Thelemite are likely to differ from those of any other. In the
Comment appended to 'The Book of the Law' it is stated that:
"All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for
himself."
Although Thelema is sometimes referred to as a "religion", it accommodates the full
range of individual beliefs, from atheism to polytheism.
The important thing is that each person has the right to fulfill themselves through
whatever beliefs and actions are best suited to them (so long as they do not interfere with
the will of others), and only they themselves are qualified to determine what these are.
Astrum Argentium or Silver Star
In 1906 Crowley rejoined George Cecil Jones in England, where they set about the task
of creating a magical order to continue where the Golden Dawn had left off. They called
this order the A.A. - Astrum Argentium or Silver Star, and it became the primary
vehicle for the transmission of Crowley's mystical and magical training system based on
the principles of Thelema.
In 1910 Crowley was contacted by Theodore Reuss, the head of an organization based in
Germany called the 'Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).' This group of high-ranking
Freemasons claimed to have discovered the supreme secret of practical magick, which
was taught in its highest degrees.
Apparently Crowley agreed, becoming a member of O.T.O. and eventually taking over as
head of the order when Reuss suffered a stroke in 1921. Crowley reformulated the rites of
the O.T.O. to conform them to the Law of Thelema, and vested the organization with its
main purpose of establishing Thelema in the world. The order also became independent
of Freemasonry (although still based on the same patterns) and opened its membership to
women and men who were not masons.
Later days of Crowley's life
Crowley spent the rest of his life developing the philosophy of Thelema as revealed by
the Book of the Law. The result was a voluminous output of commentary and works
relating to magick, mysticism, yoga, qabalah, and other occult subjects. Virtually all of
this writing bears the influence of Thelema as interpreted and understood by Crowley in
his capacity as prophet of the New Aeon.
Aleister Crowley died in Hastings, England on December 1, 1947. However, his legacy
lives on in the Law of Thelema which he brought to mankind (along with dozens of
books and writings on magick and other mystical subjects), and in the orders A.'. A.'. and
O.T.O. which continue to advance the principles of Thelema to this day.
Aleister Crowley's The Book of Thoth
The Continuum is the sum of all the interwoven world-lattices. An
amalgam of the infinitely many worlds, The Continuum is so named
because it fills superspace, forming a dense, continuous volume.
The Keepers assert that the Continuum is the only solid thing in existence,
but they affirm this with a wink, knowing that the worlds that make up this
solid are themselves porous, filled only with arranged absences. [If you
read this column - you know that Z/Thoth often winks!]
The Continuum is fragile. Universes are not static systems. The lattices are
perpetually expanding or collapsing, pursuing their localized cycles of
evolution. Just as a skyscraper or suspension bridge must endure the
oscillations of wind and temperature change, the Continuum must be able
to absorb and compensate for the movement of the universes it contains.
A bridge is constructed with expansion gaps to accommodate such
movement, and so, too, does the Continuum possess an expansion gap. It
is like a great hole, a core drilled through the strata of every single
universe.
The presence of this gap that allows the Continuum to remain flexible.
Without it, in such a tightly woven web of interlocked grids, system-wide
fractures would occur, total collapse, oblivion - an event foreseen by the
Keepers in the Uncreation Myth.
Because it lies at the intersection of all the lattices, the gap is a part of
every universe - the one point through which access to other worlds is
possible, like an elevator that runs among the floors of a building, yet
belongs to none of them.
The Keepers call this gap the Synapse.
HAARP
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HAARP stands for High Frequency Active Aural Research Project, at joint effort of the
Air Force and the navy at an isolated base near Gakona, Alaska.
It uses 72 foot tall antennas---360 of them---spread out over 4 acres.
HAARP zaps the upper atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam.
It is an advanced model of an 'ionospheric heater'. (The ionosphere is the electricallycharged sphere surrounding Earth's upper atmosphere. It ranges between about 40 to 600
miles above Earth's surface.)
Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope: antennas send out
signals instead of receiving. HAARP is the test run for a super-powerful radio wave
beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating
those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto Earth and penetrate
everything-living and dead.
HAARP publicity gives the impression that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research
Program is mainly an academic project with the goal of changing the ionosphere to
improve communications for our own good. However, other US military documents put it
more clearly: HAARP aims to learn how to "exploit the ionosphere for Department of
Defense purposes". Communicating with submarines is only one of those purposes.
Press releases and other information from the military on HAARP continually downplay
what it could do. Publicity documents insist that the HAARP project is no different than
other ionospheric heaters operating safely throughout the world in places such as
Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Tromsø, Norway; and the former Soviet Union. However, a 1990
government document indicates that the radio frequency (RF) power zap will drive the
ionosphere to unnatural activities:
"...at the highest HF powers available in the West, the instabilities commonly studied are
approaching their maximum RF energy dissipative capability, beyond which the plasma
processes will 'run away' until the next limiting factor is reached."
If the military, in cooperation with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, can show that
this new ground-based "Star Wars" technology is sound, they both win. The military has
a relatively inexpensive defence shield and the university can brag about the most
dramatic geophysical manipulation since atmospheric explosions of nuclear bombs. After
successful testing, they would have the military megaprojects of the future and huge
markets for Alaska's North Slope natural gas.
Looking at the other patents which built on the work of a Texas physicist named Bernard
Eastlund, it becomes clearer how the military intends to use the HAARP transmitter. It
also makes governmental denials less believable. The military knows how it intends to
use this technology, and has made it clear in their documents. The military has
deliberately misled the public through sophisticated word games, deceit and outright
disinformation.
The military says the HAARP system could:
* give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse effect of atmospheric
thermonuclear devices (still considered a viable option by the military through at least
1986);
* replace the huge Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) submarine communication system
operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with a new and more compact technology;
* be used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system that was once planned for the
current location of HAARP, with a more flexible and accurate system;
* provide a way to wipe out communications over an extremely large area, while keeping
the military's own communications systems working;
* provide a wide-area Earth-penetrating tomography which, if combined with the
computing abilities of EMASS and Cray computers, would make it possible to verify
many parts of nuclear nonproliferation and peace agreements;
* be a tool for geophysical probing to find oil, gas and mineral deposits over a large area;
* be used to detect incoming low-level planes and cruise missiles, making other
technologies obsolete.
The above abilities seem like a good idea to all who believe in sound national defence
and to those concerned about cost-cutting. However, the possible uses which the HAARP
records do not explain, and which can only be found in US Air Force, Army, Navy and
other federal agency records, are alarming. Moreover, effects from the reckless use of
these power levels in our natural shield-the ionosphere-could be cataclysmic, according
to some scientists.
HAARP HISTORY
The patents described below were the package of ideas which were originally controlled
by ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI), a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield
Company, one of the biggest oil companies in the world. APTI was the contractor that
built the HAARP facility. ARCO sold this subsidiary, the patents and the second phase
construction contract to E-Systems in June 1994.
E-Systems is one of the biggest intelligence contractors in the world, doing work for the
CIA, defence intelligence organisations and others. US$1.8 billion of their annual sales
are to these organisations, with $800 million for black projects-projects so secret that
even the United States Congress isn't told how the money is being spent.
E-Systems was bought out by Raytheon which is one of the largest defence contractors in
the world. In 1994 Raytheon was listed as number 42 on the "Fortune 500" list of
companies. Raytheon has thousands of patents, some of which will be valuable in the
HAARP project. Twelve patents are the backbone of the HAARP project, and are now
buried among the thousands of others held in the name of Raytheon.
Bernard J. Eastlund's US Patent #4,686,605, "Method and Apparatus for Altering a
Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere", was sealed for a
year under a government secrecy order.
The Eastlund ionospheric heater was different: the radio frequency (RF) radiation was
concentrated and focused to a point in the ionosphere. This difference throws an
unprecedented amount of energy into the ionosphere. The Eastlund device would allow a
concentration of one watt per cubic centimetre, compared to others only able to deliver
about one millionth of one watt.
This huge difference could lift and change the ionosphere in the ways necessary to create
futuristic effects described in the patent. According to the patent, the work of Nikola
Tesla in the early 1900s formed the basis of the research.
What would this technology be worth to ARCO, the owner of the patents? They could
make enormous profits by beaming electrical power, without wires, from a powerhouse
in the gas fields to the consumer.
For a time, HAARP researchers could not prove that this was one of the intended uses for
HAARP. In April 1995, however, Begich found other patents, connected with a 'key
personnel' list for APTI. Some of these new APTI patents were indeed a wireless system
for sending electrical power.
Eastlund's patent said the technology can confuse or completely disrupt airplanes' and
missiles' sophisticated guidance systems. Further, this ability to spray large areas of Earth
with electromagnetic waves of varying frequencies, and to control changes in those
waves, makes it possible to knock out communications on land or sea as well as in the
air. The patent said:
"Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the
Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level,
particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better
controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of
nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes...
"...it is possible not only to interfere with third party communications but to take
advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even
though the rest of the world's communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is
used to disrupt another's communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this
invention as a communication network at the same time.
"...large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that
missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction...
"Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind
patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a
lens or focusing device. ... molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so
that positive environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the
molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can
be chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc. concentrations in the
atmosphere could be artificially increased..."
Begich found 11 other APTI patents. They told how to make "Nuclear-sized Explosions
without Radiation", power-beaming systems, over-the-horizon radar, detection systems
for missiles carrying nuclear warheads, electromagnetic pulses previously produced by
thermonuclear weapons and other "Star Wars" tricks. This cluster of patents underlay the
HAARP weapon system.
Related research by Begich and Manning uncovered bizarre schemes. For example, US
Air Force documents revealed that a system had been developed for manipulating and
disrupting human mental processes through pulsed radio-frequency radiation (the stuff of
HAARP) over large geographical areas. The most telling material about this technology
came from writings of Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Adviser to US
President Carter) and J. F. MacDonald (science adviser to US President Johnson and a
Professor of Geophysics at UCLA), as they wrote about use of power-beaming
transmitters for geophysical and environmental warfare.
The documents showed how these effects might be caused, and the negative effects on
human health and thinking. The mental-disruption possibilities for HAARP are the most
disturbing. More than 40 pages of the book, with dozens of footnotes, chronicle the work
of Harvard professors, military planners and scientists as they plan and test this use of the
electromagnetic technology. For example, one of the papers describing this use was from
the International Red Cross in Geneva. It even gave the frequency ranges where these
effects could occur-the same ranges which HAARP is capable of broadcasting.
The following statement was made more than 25 years ago in a book which Brzezinski
wrote while a professor at Columbia University:
"Political strategists are tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behaviour.
Geophysicist Gordon J. F. MacDonald-specialist in problems of warfare-says accuratelytimed, artificially-excited electronic strokes 'could lead to a pattern of oscillations that
produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the Earth... In this way, one
could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large
populations in selected regions over an extended period...' No matter how deeply
disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behaviour for national
advantages, to some the technology permitting such use will very probably develop
within the next few decades."
In 1966, MacDonald was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee and
later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. He published papers
on the use of environmental control technologies for military purposes. The most
profound comment he made as a geophysicist was:
"The key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to
which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of
energy."
While yesterday's geophysicists predicted today's advances, are HAARP program
managers delivering on the vision? The geophysicists recognised that adding energy to
the environmental soup could have large effects. However, humankind has already added
substantial amounts of electromagnetic energy into our environment without
understanding what might constitute critical mass. The book by Begich and Manning
raises questions. Have these additions been without effect, or is there a cumulative
amount beyond which irreparable damage can be done? Is HAARP another step in a
journey from which we cannot turn back? Are we about to embark on another energy
experiment which unleashes another set of demons from Pandora's box?
As early as 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski predicted a "more controlled and directed society"
would gradually appear, linked to technology. This society would be dominated by an
elite group which impresses voters by allegedly superior scientific know-how. Angels
Don't Play This HAARP further quotes Brzezinski:
"Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to
achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public
behaviour and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Technical and
scientific momentum would then feed on the situation it exploits," Brzezinski predicted.
His forecasts proved accurate. Today, a number of new tools for the "elite" are emerging,
and the temptation to use them increases steadily. The policies to permit the tools to be
used are already in place. How could the United States be changed, bit by bit, into the
predicted highly-controlled technosociety? Among the 'stepping stones' Brzezinski
expected were persisting social crises and use of the mass media to gain the public's
confidence.
In another document prepared by the government, the US Air Force claims:
"The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wide-ranging and can
be used in many military or quasi-military situations... Some of these potential uses
include dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at
military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare. In all of these
cases the EM (electromagnetic) systems would be used to produce mild to severe
physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. In addition, the ability
of individuals to function could be degraded to such a point that they would be combatineffective. Another advantage of electromagnetic systems is that they can provide
coverage over large areas with a single system. They are silent, and countermeasures to
them may be difficult to develop... One last area where electromagnetic radiation may
prove of some value is in enhancing abilities of individuals for anomalous phenomena."
Do these comments point to uses already somewhat developed? The author of the
government report refers to an earlier Air Force document about the uses of radiofrequency radiation in combat situations. (Here, Begich and Manning note that HAARP
is the most versatile and the largest radio-frequency radiation transmitter in the world.)
The United States congressional record deals with the use of HAARP for penetrating the
Earth with signals bounced off the ionosphere. These signals are used to look inside the
planet to a depth of many kilometres in order to locate underground munitions, minerals
and tunnels. For 1996 the US Senate has set aside US$15 million to develop this ability
alone: Earth-penetrating tomography. The problem is that the frequency needed for
Earth-penetrating radiations is within the frequency range most cited for disruption of
human mental functions. It may also have profound effects on migration patterns of fish
and wild animals which rely on an undisturbed energy field to find their routes.
As if electromagnetic pulses in the sky and mental disruption were not enough, Eastlund
bragged that the super-powerful ionospheric heater could control weather. Begich and
Manning brought to light government documents indicating that the military has weathercontrol technology. When HAARP is eventually built to its full power level, it could
create weather effects over entire hemispheres. If one government experiments with the
world's weather patterns, what is done in one place will impact everyone else on the
planet. Angels Don't Play This HAARP explains a principle behind some of Nikola
Tesla's inventions-resonance-which affects planetary systems.
Bernard J. Eastlund's US Patent #4,686,605, "Method and Apparatus for Altering a
Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere", was sealed for a
year under a government secrecy order.
The Eastlund ionospheric heater was different: the radio frequency (RF) radiation was
concentrated and focused to a point in the ionosphere. This difference throws an
unprecedented amount of energy into the ionosphere. The Eastlund device would allow a
concentration of one watt per cubic centimetre, compared to others only able to deliver
about one millionth of one watt.
This huge difference could lift and change the ionosphere in the ways necessary to create
futuristic effects described in the patent. According to the patent, the work of Nikola
Tesla in the early 1900s formed the basis of the research.
What would this technology be worth to ARCO, the owner of the patents? They could
make enormous profits by beaming electrical power, without wires, from a powerhouse
in the gas fields to the consumer.
For a time, HAARP researchers could not prove that this was one of the intended uses for
HAARP. In April 1995, however, Begich found other patents, connected with a 'key
personnel' list for APTI. Some of these new APTI patents were indeed a wireless system
for sending electrical power.
Eastlund's patent said the technology can confuse or completely disrupt airplanes' and
missiles' sophisticated guidance systems. Further, this ability to spray large areas of Earth
with electromagnetic waves of varying frequencies, and to control changes in those
waves, makes it possible to knock out communications on land or sea as well as in the
air. The patent said:
"Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the
Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level,
particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better
controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of
nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes...
"...it is possible not only to interfere with third party communications but to take
advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even
though the rest of the world's communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is
used to disrupt another's communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this
invention as a communication network at the same time.
"...large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that
missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction...
"Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind
patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a
lens or focusing device. ...molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so
that positive environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the
molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can
be chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc. concentrations in the
atmosphere could be artificially increased..."
Begich found 11 other APTI patents. They told how to make "Nuclear-sized Explosions
without Radiation", power-beaming systems, over-the-horizon radar, detection systems
for missiles carrying nuclear warheads, electromagnetic pulses previously produced by
thermonuclear weapons and other "Star Wars" tricks. This cluster of patents underlay the
HAARP weapon system.
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HITLER
Adolph Hitler - (1889-1945)
Hitler was the founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazism), and German dictator,
b. Braunau in Upper Austria.
The son of Alois Hitler (1837-1903), an Austrian customs official, Adolf Hitler dropped
out of high school, and after his mother's death in 1907 moved to Vienna. He twice failed
the admission examination for the academy of arts. His vicious anti-Semitism (perhaps
influenced by that of Karl Lueger ) and political harangues drove many acquaintances
away. In 1913 he settled in Munich, and on the outbreak of World War I he joined the
Bavarian army. During the war he was gassed and wounded; a corporal, he received the
Iron Cross for bravery. The war hardened his extreme nationalism, and he blamed the
German defeat on betrayal by Jews and Marxists. Upon his return to Munich he joined a
handful of other nationalistic veterans in the German Workers' party.
In 1920 the German Workers' party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers,
or Nazi, party; in 1921 it was reorganized with Hitler as chairman. He made it a
paramilitary organization and won the support of such prominent nationalists as Field
Marshal Ludendorff . On Nov. 8, 1923, Hitler attempted the ³beer-hall putsch,² intended
to overthrow the republican government. Leading Bavarian officials (themselves
discontented nationalists) were surrounded at a meeting in a Munich beer hall by the Nazi
militia, or storm troopers, and made to swear loyalty to this ³revolution.² On regaining
their freedom they used the Reichswehr [army] to defeat the coup. Hitler fled, but was
soon arrested and sentenced to five years in the Landsberg fortress. He served nine
months.
The putsch made Hitler known throughout Germany. In prison he dictated to Rudolf Hess
the turgid Mein Kampf [my struggle], filled with anti-Semitic outpourings, worship of
power, disdain for civil morality, and strategy for world domination. It became the bible
of National Socialism. Under the tutelage of Hitler and Gregor Strasser , aided by Josef
Goebbels and from 1928 by Hermann Goering , the party grew slowly until the economic
depression, beginning in 1929, brought it mass support.
To Germans burdened by reparations payments to the victors of World War I, and
threatened by hyperinflation, political chaos, and a possible Communist takeover, Hitler,
frenzied yet magnetic, offered scapegoats and solutions. To the economically depressed
he promised to despoil ³Jew financiers,² to workers he promised security. He gained the
financial support of bankers and industrialists with his virulent anti-Communism and
promises to control trade unionism.
Hitler had a keen and sinister insight into mass psychology, and he was a master of
intrigue and maneuver. After acquiring German citizenship through the state of
Brunswick, he ran in the presidential elections of 1932, losing to the popular war hero
Paul von Hindenburg but strengthening his position by falsely promising to support
Chancellor Franz von Papen , who lifted the ban on the storm troops (June, 1932).
When the Nazis were elected the largest party in the Reichstag (July, 1932), Hindenburg
offered Hitler a subordinate position in the cabinet. Hitler held out for the chief post and
for sweeping powers. The chancellorship went instead to Kurt von Schleicher , who
resigned on Jan. 28, 1933. Amid collapsing parliamentary government and pitched battles
between Nazis and Communists, Hindenburg, on the urging of von Papen, called Hitler to
be chancellor of a coalition cabinet, refusing him extraordinary powers. Supported by
Alfred Hugenberg , Hitler took office on Jan. 30.
Germany's new ruler was a master of Machiavellian politics. Hitler feared plots, and
firmly believed in his mission to achieve the supremacy of the so-called Aryan race,
which he termed the ³master race.² Having legally come to power, he used brutality and
subversion to carry out a ³creeping coup² to transform the state into his dictatorship. He
blamed the Communists for a fire in the Reichstag on Feb. 27, and by fanning antiCommunist hysteria the Nazis and Nationalists won a bare majority of Reichstag seats in
the elections of Mar. 5. After the Communists had been barred, and amid a display of
storm trooper strength, the Reichstag voted to give Hitler dictatorial powers.
From the first days of Hitler's ³Third Reich² (for its history, see Germany ; National
Socialism ; World War II ) political opponents such as von Schleicher and Gregor
Strasser (who had resigned from the Nazis) were murdered or incarcerated, and some
Nazis, among them Ernst Roehm , were themselves purged. Jews, Socialists,
Communists, and others were hounded, arrested, or assassinated. Government, law, and
education became appendages of National Socialism. After Hindenburg's death in 1934
the chancellorship and presidency were united in the person of the Führer [leader]. Heil
Hitler! became the obligatory form of greeting, and a cult of Führer worship was
propagated.
In 1938, amid carefully nurtured scandal, Hitler dismissed top army commanders and
divided their power between himself and faithful subordinates such as Wilhelm Keitel .
As Hitler prepared for war he replaced professional diplomats with Nazis such as
Joachim von Ribbentrop . Many former doubters had been converted by Hitler's bold
diplomatic coups, beginning with German rearmament. Hitler bullied smaller nations into
making territorial concessions and played on the desire for peace and the fear of
Communism among the larger European states to achieve his expansionist goals. To
forestall retaliation he claimed to be merely rectifying the onerous Treaty of Versailles.
Benito Mussolini became his ally and Italy gradually became Germany's satellite. Hitler
helped Franco to establish a dictatorship in Spain. On Hitler's order the Austrian
chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated, and the Anschluss amalgamated Austria
with the Reich. Hitler used the issue of ³persecuted² Germans in Czechoslovakia to push
through the Munich Pact , in which England, France, and Italy agreed to German
annexation of the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia (1938).
Hitler's nonaggression pact (Aug., 1939) with Stalin allowed him to invade Poland (Sept.
1), beginning World War II, while Stalin annexed Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to the
USSR and attacked eastern Poland; but Hitler honored the pact only until he found it
convenient to attack the USSR (June, 1941). In Dec., 1941, he assumed personal
command of war strategy, leading to disaster. In early 1943 he refused to admit defeat at
the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd ), bringing death to vast numbers of German
troops. As the tide of war turned against Hitler, his mass extermination of the Jews,
overseen by Adolf Eichmann , was accelerated, and he gave increasing power to Heinrich
Himmler and the dread secret police , the Gestapo and SS ( Schutzstaffel ).
By July, 1944, the German military situation was desperate, and a group of high military
and civil officials (including Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and Karl Goerdeler)
attempted an assassination. Hitler escaped a bomb explosion with slight injuries; most of
the plotters were executed. Although the war was hopelessly lost by early 1945, Hitler
insisted that Germans fight on to the death. During the final German collapse in Apr.,
1945, Hitler denounced Nazi leaders who wished to negotiate, and remained in Berlin
when it was stormed by the Russians.
On Apr. 29 Hitler married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun, and on April 30 they
committed suicide together in an underground bunker of the chancellery building, having
ordered that their bodies be burned. Hitler left Germany devastated; his legacy is the
memory of the most dreadful tyranny of modern times.
- Encyclopedia.com
Hitler's Forgotten Library
By Timothy W. Ryback - the director of the Salzburg Seminar, a forum for global
dialogue on issues of contemporary concern, and the author of The Last Survivor:
Legacies of Dachau.
The books that constitute the Hitler Library were discovered in a salt mine near
Berchtesgaden haphazardly stashed in schnapps crates with the Reich Chancellery
address on them by soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division in the spring of 1945. After a
lengthy initial evaluation at the U.S. military "collecting point" in Munich the books,
numbering 3,000, were shipped to the United States and transferred in January of 1952 to
the Library of Congress, where an intern was assigned to uncrate the collection.
"The intern did what we call 'duping out,'" says David Moore, a German-acquisition
assistant at the Library of Congress. "If a book was not one hundred percent sure, if there
was no bookplate, no inscription to the Führer, he didn't keep it." According to Moore,
duplicate copies were sent to the exchange-and-gift division and then either went to other
libraries or found their way onto the open market; the non-duplicate books that could not
be fully authenticated were absorbed into the Library of Congress's general collection.
The 1,200 volumes that survived the "duping out" joined the rare-book collection on the
third floor of the Jefferson Building, where they were unceremoniously identified by a
large cardboard signdangling on a string from a ceiling pipe that read, "Hitler Library.
This bay only. Please replace books to proper location."
The sign has since been removed, the books relocated several times, and the collection
euphemistically renamed the Third Reich Collection. The books can be ordered, five at a
time, from the main desk in the rare-book reading room. When I first visited the
collection, in April of 2001, fewer than half of the 1,200 books had Library of Congress
numbers, and only 200 of those were listed in the online catalogue; the remaining
thousand titles were listed alphabetically by author on yellowing cards in an oldfashioned wooden card catalogue, many still identified by the provisional numbers
assigned them in the early 1950s. Jerry Wager, the head of the rare-book reading room,
told me at the time, "Processing this collection has not been a high priority for us"; he
also said that the books had been relocated yet again in recent months.
"We routinely move collections to make better use of existing space and to accommodate
new acquisitions," he said. A genteel man in his mid-fifties with a flawlessly manicured
white beard, Wager is a master of discretion. When I asked about the Hitler collection's
new location, he replied, "For security reasons we don't reveal where collections are
located in the vault." He is equally circumspect about scholars who have previously
studied the collection, simply noting that the books are requested only a few times each
year, and generally by people looking for specific volumes rather than for an opportunity
to study the collection as a whole.
Scholarly neglect of the Hitler Library derives in good part from an early misperception
that its historical or biographical importance was limited. "Spotchecks revealed little in
the way of marginal notes, autographs, or other similar features of interest," an internal
Library of Congress review determined in January of 1952. "Indeed, it seems that most of
the books have never been perused by their owner." Gerhard Weinberg, a leading
authority on the Nazi era and one of the first scholars to explore the collection, confirms
this initial assessment. "I was a newly minted Ph.D., and this was my first job beyond
graduate school," Weinberg told me not long ago. "I was compiling information for the
Guide to Captured German War Documents.
The books had only recently been uncrated, and I was intrigued by what I would find
there." To Weinberg's disappointment, the Hitler Library appeared to consist mostly of
presentation copies from authors or publishers. "There were few clues that many of these
books had been part of his personal library, and even less evidence that he had read any
of them," Weinberg says.
In 2000 Philipp Gassert and Daniel Mattern reached a similar conclusion. Beginning in
1995 Gassert, an assistant professor of history at the University of Heidelberg, and
Mattern, the senior editor at the German Historical Institute, in Washington, D.C.,
systematically reviewed every volume in the collection. In the spring of 2001 Greenwood
Press published the results of their research, The Hitler Library, a 550-page bibliography
that lists each book alphabetically, with its author, page count, and call number. Also
included are transcriptions of all handwritten dedications, some brief descriptions of
marginalia, and an indication of which books contain the Führer's bookplate an eagle, a
swastika, and oak branches between the words EX LIBRIS and ADOLF HITLER.
The Hitler Library provides the first comprehensive road map through the collection, but
at times it leads readers astray.
Most significant is overlooked marginalia. In one reference Mattern and Gassert note
correctly that the Hitler Library contains two identical copies of Paul de Lagarde's
German Essays, but they don't mention marginalia, despite the fact that in one volume
fifty-eight pages have penciled intrusions the first on page 16, the last on page 370. Given
that Lagarde belongs to a circle of nineteenth-century German nationalist writers who are
believed to have had a formative influence on Hitler's anti-Semitism, the marked
passages are certainly worth noting.
Sometimes writing along the side of a page is recognizably in Hitler's jagged cursive
hand. For the most part, though, the marginalia are restricted to simple markings whose
common "authorship" is suggested by an intense vertical line in the margin and double or
triple underlining in the text, always in pencil; I found such markings repeatedly both in
the Library of Congress collection and in a cache of eighty Hitler books at Brown
University.
Hitler's handwritten speeches, preserved in the Federal German Archives, show an
identical pattern of markings. In one anti-Semitic rant Hitler drew three lines under the
words Klassenkampf ("class struggle"), Weltherrschaft ("world domination"), and Der
Jude als Diktator ("the Jew as dictator"); one can almost hear his fevered tones.
Hitler's habit of highlighting key concepts and passages is consonant with his theory on
the "art of reading." In Chapter Two of Mein Kampf he observed,
A man who possesses the art of correct reading will, in studying any book,
magazine, or pamphlet, instinctively and immediately perceive everything
which in his opinion is worth permanently remembering, either because it
is suited to his purpose or generally worth knowing ... Then, if life
suddenly sets some question before us for examination or answer, the
memory, if this method of reading is observed ... will derive all the
individual items regarding these questions, assembled in the course of
decades, [and] submit them to the mind for examination and
reconsideration, until the question is clarified or answered.
In these marginalia one sees a man (who famously seemed never to listen to anyone, for
whom "conversation" was little more than a torrent of monologues) reading passages,
reflecting on them, and responding with penciled dashes, dots, question marks,
exclamation points, and underscorings‹intellectual footprints across the page. Here is one
of history's most complex figures reduced merely to a reader with a book and a pencil.
Though Kubizek's reminiscences, first published in the 1950s, are in many ways suspect,
his depiction of the future Führer as a bibliophile has been amply corroborated. One of
Hitler's first cousins, Johann Schmidt, recounted for a Nazi Party history of the Führer
that when Hitler spent summers with relatives in the tiny Waldviertel hamlet of Spital, he
invariably arrived with "lots of books in which he was constantly busy reading and
working."
Hans Frank, Hitler's personal lawyer and the "governor" of Nazi-occupied Poland,
recalled before his 1946 execution at Nuremberg that Hitler carried a copy of
Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation with him throughout World War I.
During his incarceration after the failed 1923 Munich putsch, Hitler was regularly
supplied with reading materials by friends and associates. He once referred to his time in
Landsberg Prison as his "university paid for by the state." During a bout of prison blues
in December of 1924 he received a package from Winifred Wagner, the daughter-in-law
of the composer Richard Wagner and one of the few people who addressed Hitler with
the familiar du.
It contained a book of Goethe's poetry from the Wagner family library. The 358-page
volume, now at the Library of Congress, contains meditative classics such as "Across All
Peaks" and "Evening Song," accompanied by handsome full-page pen-and-ink drawings.
The inside cover bears a handwritten inscription: "Adolf Hitler, this picture book taken
from the book garden of Eva Chamberlain, for your enjoyment in serious lonely hours!
Bayreuth, Christmas 1924."
Books seem to have been the gift of choice for Hitler on virtually every occasion. The
Hitler Library contains scores of books bearing inscriptions for Christmas, his birthday,
and other festive occasions. A book titled Death and Immortality in the World View of
Indo-Germanic Thinkers is inscribed for Hitler by the SS chief Heinrich Himmler on the
occasion of "Julfest 1938" Nazi circumlocution for Christmas. I also discovered books
from the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl‹two on the Berlin Olympics and an
eight-volume set of the complete works of the nineteenth-century German philosopher
Johann Gottlieb Fichte in a rare first edition. Given that Hitler had charged Riefenstahl
with filming the Olympic Games, the presence of the first two volumes was
understandable; the Fichte was more puzzling.
When I called on Riefenstahl, who lives outside Munich and had just marked her
hundredth birthday, she referred me to her published memoirs, in which she devotes a
chapter to the Fichte volumes. According to that account, in the spring of 1933 the thirtyyear-old filmmaker approached Hitler about the plight of several Jewish friends. "I have
great esteem for you as an artist, you have a rare talent," Hitler replied, according to
Riefenstahl. "But I cannot discuss the Jewish problem with you." Mortified by his rebuke
(Riefenstahl says she felt herself go faint), she later sought to make amends by sending
Hitler the Fichte. Bound in white leather with gold embossing, the books bear the
inscription "Meinem lieben Führer in tiefster Verehrung ['To my dear Führer with
deepest admiration'], Leni Riefenstahl."
Fed by gifts and his own acquisitions, Hitler's library swelled dramatically in the late
1920s and early 1930s. In his 1925 tax declaration Hitler listed his total personal assets at
a paltry 1,000 marks, and claimed "no property" other than "a writing table and two
bookcases with books."
By 1930, however, as sales of Mein Kampf bolstered his income, book buying
represented his third largest tax deduction (after general travel and transportation): 1,692
marks in 1930, with similar deductions in the two years following. More telling still is the
five-year insurance policy Hitler took out in October of 1934, with the Gladbacher Fire
Insurance Company, on his six-room apartment on the Prinzregentenplatz, in downtown
Munich.
In the letter of agreement accompanying the policy Hitler valued his book collection, said
to consist of 6,000 volumes, at 150,000 marks half the value of the entire policy. The
other half represented his art holdings.
By the late 1930s Hitler had three separate libraries for his ever-expanding collection. At
his apartment he removed a wall between two rooms and installed bookshelves. For the
Berghof, his Alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden, Hitler built a second-floor study with
handmade bookcases; color photographs of the finished space show an elegant setting
with Oriental carpets, two globes, and bookcases fitted with glass doors and brass locks.
Herbert Döhring, who managed the Berghof from 1936 to 1943, told me that the library
could accommodate no more than 500 or 600 volumes. "He reserved this space for the
books he really cared about," says Döhring, who helped Hitler to sort the books. "He used
to have me send the rest to a storage facility in Munich or to the new Reich Chancellery
in Berlin."
For his official Berlin residence Hitler had his architect, Albert Speer, design a vast
library that occupied the entire west wing. "Inventory records of the Reich Chancellery
that we found at the Hoover Institution at Stanford suggest that by the early 1940s Hitler
was receiving as many as four thousand books annually," Daniel Mattern told me. In
Munich, Gassert and Mattern also discovered architectural sketches for a library annex to
the Berghof that was intended to accommodate more than 60,000 volumes. "This was a
man with a lot of books," Mattern says.
SPEAR OF DESTINY
Spear of Destiny
Hitler's successes as Nazi dictator have given way to a number of occult theories. One of
the most common of these is the story of the Spear of Destiny.
Also called the Holy Lance, this spear was believed to have been the weapon used to
pierce the side of Jesus Christ at the Crucifixion.
Legend has it that whoever possesses the lance will rule the world.
The lance appears both in factual history and in fiction.
In the Wagner opera Parsival, Klingsor was a despicable adversary of the Knights of the
Holy Grail.
The fiend sought to capture the Spear of Destiny from them and use it in his practice of
black magic.
In history, no figure was more feared than the black magician Landulph II of Capua. He,
too, was obsessed with the power of the Spear of Destiny.
Hitler identified the similarities between Wagner's character and the magician. He saw
their struggles as parallel to his own quest for the holy icon.
To Hitler, the blood purity of the Grail Knights and the maniacal quest of Klingsor and
Landulph for the spear was the blueprint for world conquest by Nazi power.
Hitler believed he would one day fulfill a historic destiny. How he would do this was not
clear until he was 21.
While in the Hapsburg Treasure House in Vienna, Austria, Hitler heard the words which
he said were to change his whole life.
A museum tour guide stopped in front of a display of an ancient spear and told of a
legend that whoever possessed it would hold the destiny of the world.
The guide said the spear was supposedly the one which a Roman Centurion thrust into
the side of Jesus Christ at the Crucifixion. After the group departed, Hitler stepped
forward for a closer look.
"I knew with immediacy that this was an important moment in my life, and yet I could
not divine why an outwardly Christian symbol should make such an impression on me,"
he said later.
After his initial experience with the Spear of Destiny, Hitler studied the history of the
ancient relic. He was intrigued and amazed at its incredible story.
For more than 1,000 years, the spear had been a symbol of power to the emperors of the
Holy Roman Empire. Century after century, the legend of the Spear had been fulfilled for
good or evil.
Constantine the Great claimed the spear guided him through providence.
The Frankish General Karl Martel used the spear in battle.
Emperor Charlemagne lived and slept within reach of the spear, and attributed 47 battle
victories to its powers.
In all, 45 emperors over 1,000 years claimed the Spear of Destiny as a possession.
Hitler decided he had to possess it.
Over the next three years, he made countless trips to the museum to gaze in awe at the
spear.
He recalled that one day as he stood in front of the display, he went into a trance.
"I slowly became aware of a mighty presence around it -- the same awesome presence
which I had experienced inwardly on those rare occasions in my life when I had sensed
that a great destiny awaited me."
In 1933, when Hitler rose to power, his 25-year obsession to possess the spear could be
realized.
In April, 1938, he marched his army into Vienna and took possession of the spear and
took it to Nuremberg. One year later, he invaded Poland.
On April 30, 1945, the same day Hitler supposedly killed himself, the American army
invaded Nuremberg and took possession of the spear.
In the months that followed, America unleashed the most destructive force ever known to
man: the atomic bomb.
While in possession of the Spear of Destiny, America became the undisputed ruler of the
world.
The spear now once again resides in the Hapsburg Treasure House Museum in Vienna.
MAJESTIC 12 ~ JASON SOCIETY
MAJESTIC 12
MJ-12 is allegedly an ultar top secret Research and Development organiztions - a secret
part of the government - involevd with Intelligence Operation. It was allegedly
established by President Truman on September 24, 1947 in light of the events at Roswell,
New Mexico, where a UFO allegedly crashed and gray aliens/alien hybirds were
captured.
The group also know as The Majestic Twelve Operation, Majestic 12, Majic 12,
MAJCOM or MJ-12 was created under an executive order on September 24th , 1947. The
panel was empowered to review all available evidence and data collected by the
government, military and intelligence agencies.
MJ-12 was a 'Committee' set up inside the NSC. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed
the Secret Executive Order, "Order Number 54-12". (NSC=National Security Counsel)
This committee able to take appropriate action without congressional oversight. The MJ12 group worked closely with the Joint Intelligence Committee, the Air Technical
Intelligence Center and Intelligence Advisory Committee. Projects connected to or spun
off from MJ-12 were PROJECT SIGMA, PROJECT SIGN which was said to have
evolved into PROJECT GRUGE. It can make a person feel uneasy that such an
organization was formed outside of the normal channels of our democratic process, that
the citizens of the United States work so hard to fund and keep together. Its manifestation
set precedents for much of the double-dealing and covert activities that run so rampant
within United States Government political system today.
Amongst the MJ-12 documents there is information about UFO crashes and recoveries,
connected military installations, scientific facilities, laboratories, locations of wreckage
storage, experiments with advanced technology and labs wherein secret operations took
place.
MJ-12 was the President's special panel to investigate the UFO/alien phenomena and
participate in capture of unidentified space vehicles. The President was briefed on a
weekly activity in what was called 'Current Intelligence Review'. The group also dealt
with the social impact on personnel directly exposed to any given recovery or incident as
well as the effects if this information if it ever went public. The line up of the MJ-12
committee members varied from document to document that I dug up. My conclusion
was that there were different committee members depending on the date the document
surfaced. One of the names that was consistent in most of the document rosters was Dr.
Vannevar Bush, who himself and James V. Forrestal created the committee with the
approval of President Truman. The other cast of characters consisted of U.S military
generals, scientists, a Shell Oil executive and, on a few documents, Professor Albert
Enstein and Warner von Brauns names came up as being associated with the project.
A conference was held in September of 1947 to discuss approximately 1200
memorandums and intelligence's reports of UFO incidents. The conference consisted of
National Security officials and leaders of private industry for the purpose of other world
visitations. Points were made about the technological and economic standpoints of
advanced life forms. They went as far as having concern for the division of celestial
bodies and the distribution of ownership. The potential of anarchy and the peaceful
arbitration of such cases arising. There was the notion of United Nations having to deal
with the problems related to extraterrestrials, and how profound changes in traditional
concepts on this planet would occur if intelligent life-forms were uncovered. There was
also concern of how international law would deal with the occupation by celestial peoples
at certain location on our planet.
Military and other personnel involved with any of the operations had a "Need To Know"
access with proper security clearance. One document stated that the Roswell security had
gone well, but a few Military Police had suffered nervous breakdowns and one suicide.
Some of the documents inform military officers on the political and psychological impact
on personnel directly involved with recovery, transport, research and storage of any
UFO/alien related materials, and how official appraisal and evaluations of the situations
at said facilities are to be reported back on a regular basis.
There was also an official procedure established for how civilians were debriefed and
warned of consequences of talking to the press. And the secrecy established seems to
almost be working. What was interesting was the mention of an information leak about
the secret UFO recovery operation at Roswell and their concern that it had gotten to a
Massachusetts representative named John F. Kennedy. There was a strict regulation to
detain civilian witnesses for interrogation to satisfy intelligence requirements in the
interests of national security.
The government perspective and policy was and is control and denial. One of the
documents stated that the objective was to control the public's mind - which was in
actuality to control the press. The policy is to enforce strict denial of anything surfacing
from Roswell and any other UFO incident. There was also what they called a "controlled
release" to the media, done in such a fashion to discredit any civilian investigations. They
felt it was better to debunk than to verify and minimize the chance of cultural breakdown
and reduce possible loss of status quo. During any such incident the standard procedure is
to debrief any civilian and military witnesses and to give news reporters an effective
cover story.
The justification of concealing the evidence of extraterrestrial life was in part listed on a
memorandum called Political Considerations. The committee felt, because of the
conditions in Europe shortly after WWI, that going public with the information would be
damaging if not fatal to the world structure. The debate led to the opinion that: 1) Public
trust of political institutions could deteriorate. 2) Institutions of higher learning would
come into question on the certainty of scientific knowledge. 3) National security and the
Armed Forces would be put in jeopardy due to the possibility of public fear and disorder.
4) History and religion would suffer the most damage causing social and psychological
upheaval. 5) Political repercussions in the United States containing the threat of
communism. 6) Exposure might be perceived as a trick to manipulate the public's mind.
Even still some of their opinions were completely blacked out of the documents.
Some of the documents expressed grave concern that there seemed to be a connection
with routine military flights, experimental aircraft malfunctions and disappearances
associated with UFO sightings. In some cases aircrafts had disappeared with atomic
bombs aboard which were never recovered. The military went to great lengths to protect
systems from potential jamming. Jamming would happen regularly in many experimental
aircraft when UFO's were seen in the area. UFO sightings at or near military facilities
brought up many issues.
One document contained multiple reports of the complete disappearance on men and
equipment. It stated that disappearances were rare but warranted consideration and the
UFO hypotheses seemed to be the only explanation. It went on to state that 4000 soldiers,
weapons and equipment (horses included) disappeared during the Spanish war. In 1885
about 600 French colonial soldiers vanished without a trace. In 1939 over 2900 Chinese
Nationalists troops were reported missing though campfires and mess tents were
undisturbed. These statistics seem to give the MJ-12 group unsure feeling about the
potential UFO/alien threat.
A meeting was called to address the issue of preparing the Airforce in case of a UFO
attack, there had been so many UFO sightings over the United States. Theodore von
Karmon who chaired the meeting persuaded the panel to establish a separate panel free
from pentagon control to deal with this scenario.
The government was not unfounded, the Roswell wreckage opened a very large can of
worms for it to deal with. It was the conclusion that the Roswell UFO crash incident was
the result of two unidentified interplanetary objects having a mid-air collision. At first
there was speculation that the crashed craft was a well-elaborated hoax by the Russians,
but that was quickly ruled out. There was a summary assessed by the (IPU) Interplanetary
Phenomena Unit.
Their final conclusion was that further investigation should be expanded outside the
realm of contemporary science. It was also the recommendation that the appropriate
budgets be allocated for future assignments that the unit may be called on to perform, and
that the investigation needs to continue. Perhaps the budget funded projects such as
PROJECT SIGN and PROJECT GRUDGE as the research arm. As well as retrieval
operations that ran under the names of PROJECT STORK, PROJECT MOON DUST and
tactical personnel known as the BLUE TEAM.
The most disturbing part of the Roswell investigation was the bodies found not far from
the crash site which were recorded as having been dissected. Oddly enough, a paper
documenting the investigation noted there were animal parts discovered inside the craft.
The document stated that judgement had been reserved on these issues.
During the Roswell clean up operation one of the technicians was overcome and
collapsed when he attempted the removal of one of the alien bodies. These aliens were
termed "Extraterrestrial Biological Entities ", or "EBE" during that period. Another
technician went into a coma four hours after placing another EBE in a rubber body bag.
Three of the personnel had symptoms of illness and were rushed to Los Alamos
Laboratory for observation. Later all three died of seizures and profuse bleeding. All
three were wearing protective suits. Two of them came in contact with the body fluids
from the alien occupants. The other had come in contact with debris near the propulsion
reactor.
The autopsies of the dead people were non-conclusive. It was believed that they had died
from some form of toxins/ or highly contagious disease. Tissue samples were stored at
Fort Detrick, Maryland, with two major concerns. First, they feared possibility of a largescale outbreak of an alien virus that they felt wholly inadequate to deal with. And second,
the release of airborne radiation over New Mexico, which was justifiable concern.
Several monitoring flights over the area indicated high levels of radioactivity over and
around the crash sight. The dead alien bodies were said to have been sent to Randolph
Field, Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio and the AKC Laboratories at the Sandia Facility in
New Mexico.
The preliminary technical evaluation of the wreckage debris came up with these findings:
1) The crafts fuselage was found to withstand over 150,000 pounds per square inch. 2)
The metal was also able to withstand extreme heat. 3) There were no visible sign of
fasteners, welds, rivets, or fillings holding the fuselage together. 4) There were no wings,
flaps, or stabilizers. 5) There were no intakes or exhaust. 6) Within the control panel there
were no knobs, switches, buttons, levers, balls, nor foot pedal observed inside the craft.
The degree of engineering sophistication found at the Roswell crash site had never been
seen in this country. All evidence pointed to this being a product of an advanced culture
from another planet that is much older than ours, and has used science and intellect for
interplanetary space travel. The power supply for the propulsion system is what was
referred to as a neutronic engine with a series of coils and magnets connected to it.
The following elements were found to exist inside its power source: hydrogen-fluoride
gas, water, uranium tetra-fluoride, magnesium, potassium, aluminum, plutonium, silver,
beryllium, a compound similar to lead, and a plastic like material. Its mode of operation
is unknown, but navigation is speculated to occur from a flat metallic panel, and viewed
from a TV-like monitor. The absence of provisions and storage units suggest that the
craft was probably a short-range reconnaissance vehicle. On one of the reports there was
reference made to a current study at MIT of mirco-electronics (integrated circuitry) taken
from the wreckage that they felt might give them a strategic advantage.
One of the documents covered the on-going research of what was coined "advanced
technology". It states that the data found at the crash site at Roswell lead to the building
of atomic engines as well as radical propulsion studies. The propulsion system from the
UFO wreckage were was being reverse engineered. In more recent documents there is a
project in which its mission was to communicate with aliens. This was known as
PROJECT SIGMA and PROJECT SNOWBIRD. In one particular document it stated that
the project met with positive success when in 1959 the United States established
communications with aliens.
No matter what conclusion you come to from the information presented herein seems
clear that the U.S. Government is withholding the truth UFO related information. Perhaps
the real reasons for the cover up are not even mentioned in the documents. Not because
the truth purposefully being hidden by the U.S. Government, but because the agenda of
the foreign visitors is not to be seen. And the extent they will go to cover their own tracts
is beyond mankind scope of perception at this point.
The NSC called this group the "54-12" committee which gave the President responsibility
of approving all "Black" covert projects. This committee has undergone several changes
over the years, and since then, has been called the "Special Committee"; the "303
Committee" and currently the "40 Committee". It is described as the "Directorate" of the
NSC. The "40 Committee" (PI-40) has access to advanced technology and teams to
cover-up, "the cover-ups". In the past, this committee was headed by Dr. Henry
Kissenger (Code name: "The Overseer")
OPERATION MAJORITY
Operation Majority is the name of the operation responsible for every aspect, project and
all consequences of Alien presence on earth.
MAJESTY was listed as the code name for the President of the United States for
communications concerning this information.
GRUDGE
GRUDGE contains 16 volumes of documented information collected from the beginning
of the United States investigation of the Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's) and
Identified Alien Crafts (IACs). The project was funded by the CIA, (confidential funds,
non-appropriated) and money from the illicit drug trade. (It was rumored in the higher
echelon's of the Air Force that participation in the illegal drug trade was justified in that it
would identify and eliminate the weak elements of our society.)
The purpose of GRUDGE was to collect all scientific, technological, medical and
intelligence information from UFO & IAC sightings as well as contacts with Alien Life
Forms. This orderly file of collected information has been used to advance the United
States Air Force Space Program, (ULTRA TOP SECRET).
THE JASON SOCIETY
The Jason Society (Jason Scholars) - Former President Eisenhower commissioned a
secret society known as the Jason Society (or Jason Scholars) under the leadership of the
following; Director of Central Intelligence, Allen Welsh Dulles, Dr Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 until 1976, and Dr. Henry Kissenger,
leader of the scientific effort, to sift through all the facts, evidence, technology, lies and
deceptions and find the truth of the Alien question. The society was made up of thirty two
(32) of the most prominent men in the USA.
MJ-12 is the name of the secret control group inside the Jason Society. The top 12
members of the 32 members of the Jason Society were designated as MJ-12. MJ-12 has
control of everything. They are designated by the code J-1, J-2, J-3, etc. all the way
through the members of the Jason Society. The director of Central Intelligence was
appointed J-1 and is the Director of the MJ-12 group. MJ-12 use to only be responsible to
the President of the United States (not true anymore). The actual cost of funding the
Alien connected projects is higher than anything you could imagine! Believe it or not,
MJ-12 runs most of the worlds illegal drug trade. This was done to hide funding and thus
keep the secret from congress and the people of the United States. It was justified in that
it would identify and eliminate the weak and undesired elements of our society.
A secret meeting place was constructed for the MJ-12 group in Maryland and is only
accessible by air. It contains full living, recreational, and other facilities for the MJ-12
group and the Jason Society. It is code named "The Country Club". The land for The
Country Club was donated by the Rockerfeller family. Only those with ULTRA TOP
SECRET - MAJI clearances are allowed to go there.
MAJI - Majority Agency for Joint Intelligence. All information, disinformation, and
intelligence is gathered and evaluated by this agency. This agency is responsible for all
disinformation and operates in conjunction with the CIA, NSA, DIA, and the Office of
Naval Intelligence. This is a very powerful organization and all Alien projects are under
its control. MAJI is responsible only to MJ-12. MAJIC is the security classification and
clearance of all Alien connected material, projects, and information.
MAJIC - means MAJI controlled (MAJI plus controlled = MAJIC)
NOTE: MJ-1 is the classification for the director of MAJI, who is the director of the CIA
and reports only to the President. Other members of MAJI are designnated MJ-2, MJ-3,
etc. This is why there is some confusion about references of MJ-12, the group or MJ-12
the person.
Designation for MJ-12, the group are MAJI or MAJIC Designation in official documents
about MJ-12 means the person only.
In 1947, PROJECT SIGN was created to acquire as much information as possible about
UFO's, their performance characteristics and their purposes. In order to preserve security,
liason between Project Sign and MJ-12 was limited to two individuals within the
intelligence division of the Air Material Command whose roll was to pass along certain
types of information through channels. Project Sign evolved Project Grudge in December
of 1948. Project Grudge had an overt civilian counterpart named PROJECT BLUE
BOOK, with which we are all familiar. Only "Safe" reports were passed to Project Blue
Book.
MJ-12 was originally organized by General George C. Marshall in July 1947 to study the
Roswell-Magdalena UFO crash recovery and debris. Admiral Hillenkoetter, director of
the CIA from May 1, 1947 until September 1950, decided to activate the "Robertson
Panel," which was designed to monitor civilian UFO study groups that were appearing all
over the country. He also joined NICAP in 1956 and was chosen as a member of its board
of directors. It was from this position that he was able to act as the MJ-12 "Mole", along
with his team of other covert experts. They were able to steer NICAP in any direction
they wanted to go. With the "Flying Saucer Program" under complete control of MJ-12
and with the physical evidence hidden away, General Marshall felt more at ease with this
very bizarre situation. These men and their successors have most successfully kept most
of the public fooled up to the present, including much of the western world, by setting up
false experts and throwing their influence behind them to make their plan work, with
considerable success until now.
Within 6 months of the Roswell crash on July 2, 1947 and the finding of another crashed
UFO at San Augustine Flats near Magdelena, New Mexico on July 3, 1947, a great deal
of reorganization of agencies and shuffling of people took place. The main thrust behind
the original "Security Lid", and the very reason for its construction, was the analysis and
attempted duplication of the technologies of the discs. The activity was headed up by the
following groups.
1. The Research and Development Board (R&DB)
2. Air Force Research and Development (AFRD)
3. The Office of Naval Research (ONR)
4. CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence (CIA-OSI)
5. NSA Office of Scientific Intelligence (NSA-OSI)
No single one of these groups knew the whole story. Each group was to know only the
parts that MJ-12 allowed them to know. MJ-12 also operates through the various civilian
intelligence and investigative groups. The CIA and FBI are manipulated by MJ-12 to
carry out their purposes. The NSA was created in the first place to protect the secret of
the recovered flying discs, and eventually got complete control over all communication
intelligence. This control allows the NSA to monitor any individual through mail,
telephone, telexes, telegrams, and now through on-line computers, monitoring private and
personal communications as they may desire.
MAJIC PROJECTS
SIGMA is the project which first established communications with the Aliens and is
responsible for communications.
PLATO is the project responsible for Diplomatic Relations with the Aliens. This project
secured a formal treaty with the aliens.
AQUARIUS is the project which compiled the history of the Alien presence and
interaction on Earth and the HOMO SAPIENS.
GARNET is the project responsible for control of all information and documents
regarding the Alien subjects and accountability of their information and documents.
PLUTO is a project responsible for evaluating all UFO and IAC information pertaining to
space technology.
POUNCE project was formed to recover all downed and/or crashed craft and Aliens. This
project provided cover stories and operations to mask the true endeavor, whenever
necessary. Covers which have been used were crashed experimental aircraft,
construction, Mining, etc. This project has been successful and is ongoing today.
NRO is the National Recon Organization based at Fort Carson, Colorado. It's responsible
for security on all Alien or Alien Spacecraft connected to the projects.
DELTA is the designation for the specific arm of NRO which is especially trained and
tasked with security of all MAJI projects. It's a security team and task force from NRO
especially trained to provide Alien tasked projects and LUNA security (Also has the
CODE NAME: "Men In Black" [MIB]). This project is ongoing.
BLUE TEAM is the first project responsible for reaction and/or recovery of downed
and/or crashed Alien craft and/or Aliens. This was a U.S. Air Force Material Command
project.
SIGN is the second project responsible for collection of intelligence and determining
whether Alien presence constitutes a treat to the U.S. National Security. SIGN absorbed
the BLUE TEAM project. This was a U.S. Air Force and CIA project.
REDLIGHT was the project to test fly recovered Alien craft. This project was postponed
after every attempt resulted in the destruction of the craft and death of the pilots. This
project was carried out at AREA 51, Groom Lake, (Dreamland) in Nevada. Project
REDLIGHT was resumed in 1972. This project has been partially successful. UFO
sightings of craft accompanied by Black Helicopters are Project REDLIGHT assets. This
project is now ongoing at AREA 51 in Nevada. (Believed to have moved to Mexico at
this time for testing).
SNOWBIRD was established as a cover for Project Redlight. A "Flying Saucer" type
aircraft was built using conventional technology. It was unveiled to the press and flown
in public on several occasions. The purpose was to explain accidental sightings or
disclosures of Redlight as having been Snowbird crafts. This was a very successful
disinformation operation. This project is only activated when needed. This deception has
not been used for many years. This project is currently in mothballs, until it is needed
again.
BLUE BOOK was a U.S. Air Force, UFO, and Alien Intelligence collection and
disinformation project. This project was terminated and its collected information and
duties were absorbed by project Aquarius. A classified report named "Grudge/Blue Book,
Report Number 13" is the only significant information derived from the project and is
unavailable to the public.
MEN IN BLACK
Men In Black
The Men In Black - or MIB's as they are sometimes called are a group that supposedly
show up to harass or intimidate witnesses of UFO sightings and related phenomena the
government does not want the public to know about.
They usually make vague or sometimes specific threats to stop witnesses from talking or
sharing information. They confiscate any physical proof of UFO related sightings-- such
as photos, artefacts, or audio / video recordings.
They wear their trademark black suit and perhaps a black overcoat. The fabric of their
clothing has been described as strangely "shiny" or thin, but not silky -- almost as if they
have been cut from a new type of fabric.
Some report that the MIB all look alike.
Their often mechanical behavior has caused them to be described by some as being like
robots or androids.
Their voices are monotone and their faces emotionless. They speak in a dull monotone
voice, like a computer, and are dark-complected with high cheekbones, thin lips, pointed
chin, and eyes that are mildly slanted.
They usually travel in 3's, but are sometimes alone.
The are usually seen driving black mint-condition late model luxury cars such as
Cadillacs or Lincolns. Their cars often operate with the headlights off, but ghostly purple
or greenish glows illuminate the interior. Unusual insignia have been seen emblazoned on
the doors and the license plates are always unidentifiable or untraceable.
Many have reported seeing these vehicles after a reported UFO sighting, ET abduction,
or crop circle finding.
Some people believe the MIB are government agents. Some people believe that are
extraterrestrials.
There have been reports of MIBs following people around in black helicopters.
The first reported occurrence of Men in Black was allegedly Albert K. Bender, the editor
of a flying saucer publication called the "Space Review".
In the October 1953 issue he placed an announcement stating that he had come across
information that would solve the flying saucer mystery but could not print it because he
was ordered not to. He ended the announcement warning others in UFO research to be
very cautious.
He then stopped publication. Later in an interview Bender stated that three men wearing
dark suits had ordered him to stop publishing UFO material, and that he had complied
with the order because he had been "scared to death" of them. He later published a book
called Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black.
In his book, The UFO Silencers, Timothy Beckley has attempted to provide an overview
of important and representative MIB encounters. According to Beckley, MIB have been
with us for many hundreds of years, speculating that such diverse characters from the
history of witchcraft and folklore as the Elizabethan Black Men, the Native American
Black Man and late nineteenth century reports of malevolent traveling salesmen, might
have been manifestations of what we now know as Men in Black.
According to John Keel, the MIB often state that they are representatives of the Nation of
the Third Eye.
George Hunt Williamson (an early MIB contactee) in his book Other Tongues, Other
Flesh, states that secret societies allied with Sirius use the Eye of Horus as an insignia.
This symbol has also been seen on the MIB. The secret societies believe that there is a
Great White Lodge on earth. They call it Shamballa -- and consider it to be the spiritual
center of the world. Theosophists such as Alice Bailey say that the Great White Lodge is
on Sirius.
This is confirmed by Stephen Jenkins, author of the book The Undiscovered Country,
who was told by Buddhist priests that Shamballa was located in the constellation of
Orion. If the All-Seeing-Eye is a symbol of Sirius' earth-allies and the MIB wear that
symbol, and if Shamballa represents the Great White Lodge on Earth -- then the MIB are
emissaries of Shamballa. The entrance to Shamballa on Earth is usually placed in the
trans-Himalayan region. Some assert it is in the heart of the Gobi Desert (where there
have been allegations of crashed disks and bases).
According to the explorer Nicholas Roerich, there are caves in the Himalayan foothills
that have subterranean passages. In one of the these passages, there is a stone door that
has never been opened, because the time for its opening has not yet arrived.
MONTAUK PROJECT
Montauk Experiment
Interview From "The Metaphysical Experience"
Preston, Ellie, Duncan
The Philadelphia experiment originally began back in the 1930's in Chicago with three
people. Dr. John Hutchinson Sr., who was the Dean of the University of Chicago,
Nickola Tesla, and Dr. Kurtenaur, who was an Austrian physicist who was on staff at the
University.
They decided to do something with the speculation regarding the concept of things and
people being invisible. This subject had been discussed for several year. They got
together and did some research at the University of Chicago around 1931 or 1932. In
1933 the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton was formed and the project was
transferred there in 1934. One of the people on staff at the Institute was Dr. John Erich
Von Neumann, who was from Budapest Hungary. He got his degree in chemistry in 1925
and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1926. He taught in Europe for about four years and
transferred to the United States. He taught at the graduate level for three years and was
invited to join the Institute.
Other people at the Institute included Albert Einstein, who left Germany in 1930. He
went to the California Institute of Technology for three years and taught there and then
went to the Institute upon their invitation and acceptance. A lot of other people showed
up there as time went on. The project expanded about 1936. In the meantime, Tesla was
named director of the project. He was a friend of president Franklin Roosevelt, whom
Tesla met in 1917 when FDR was secretary of the Navy.
Tesla was asked at that time to do some work for the government for the war effort,
which he did. He accepted and became director of the invisibility project until he
resigned in 1942. In 1936, after intensive study, they decided to have an initial test of
their work. They achieved some partial invisibility. The Navy and everyone else was
encouraged to continue the work, and the Navy supplied money for research.
Scientists were coming to the United States from Germany until 1939, when the war with
Germany was started.
In 1940, after research using Tesla's approach, they decided they were ready for a full test
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They had a small ship and a tender ship at each side. One
ship provided the power and the other supplied the drive for the coils. They were
tendered to the test ship by cables. The idea was that if anything went wrong they could
cut the cables or sink the test ship. Everything worked and the project was declared a
success.
The important point about the 1940 test is that there was no one on board the test vehicle.
It was strictly a dry run with no people. This is important because of what happened later.
Other people came on board. Thomas T. Brown joined the project because of his
expertise in electrogravity effects. He had the task of solving the problem of the German
magnetic mines that were affecting allied shipping and Naval efforts. This led into a
parallel project which involved the use of deguising coils and cables to explode the mines
at a distance from the ship.
The Navy wanted several people to keep an eye on the tests. That is how I got involved.
Keeping technical commentaries. Let's look at Nickola Tesla.
In 1879 his father died and his first year at college ended. He came to the United States
in1884. He had enormously intuitive insight. He had a perfect track record. Before
coming to the US he had known Robert Oppenheimer, who later worked with the
development of the atomic bomb, and Dr. David Hilbert, the mathematician who devised
equations for Hilbert Space, which described multiple space or multiple realities
mathematically.
These equations for multiple space became very important in the project. Dr. von
Neumann met Hilbert in 1927 and retained a lot of what he had learned. With that, Von
Neumann developed other new systems of mathematics. Von Neumann was considered
to be one of the most outstanding mathematicians in this century. Some think he was
better than Einstein. Another mathematician involved was Dr. John Levinson, who was
born in 1912. He died in 1976. He published three books on mathematics. Levinson
developed the so-called Levinson Time Equations. with all this behind them, the group
had all they needed to proceed with the project.
After the successful 1940 test, the Navy decided to give the project unlimited funds and
to classify the project. In 1942 Tesla was given a ship and a crew for a full sized test.
Tesla got a battleship. Tesla and Von Neumann didn't agree on some things. Tesla
insisted that they were going to have a very severe problem with personnel. Tesla wanted
more time but the NAVY wouldn't agree. Tesla made periodic announcements in the late
1930's and early 1940's about his contact with off planet species. He was in contact with
the outside, who agreed that there was a problem with the people. He decided to sabotage
the 1942 test in an attempt to stop the project. He de-tuned the equipment so nothing
would work. The test failed. Tesla then turned the project over to Von Neumann in
March 1942 and left the project.
Von Neumann went to the Navy and requested time to study the problem to determine
what had gone wrong. Von Neumann decided to make changes in some of the equipment.
He decided he would need a special ship that was designed from the ground up. The
Eldridge was selected. The equipment was built into the ship. They put all the equipment
on the ship. October 1942 arrived. They selected 33 volunteers for the crew, who arrived
after graduation in December 1942. We still have a picture of the class.
After the ship was out of drydock work began. In May of 1943 von Neumann installed a
third generator. It would never synchronize with the other two. It went out of control one
day and zapped one of the men. Von Neumann pulled out the third generator (installed
because Tesla had convinced Von Neumann of the potential problem with people) and
went back to the original design. In mid June, the ship had sea trials. On July 22, 1943,
they had the test. The ship between radar and optically invisible. They discovered people
very disoriented. The Navy pulled the crew off and consulted Von Neumann, who
requested more time again from the Navy. The Navy, after consultation with higher-ups,
announced that the drop dead date was on the 12th of August, 1943. Von Neumann
voiced his concern that it wasn't enough time.
The Navy decided that it just wanted radar invisibility and not optical invisibility. The
equipment was again modified by Von Neumann. August 12th arrived. We knew things
were not right. The test began, and for about a minute everything was all right. The ships
outline could be seen in the water. There was suddenly a blue flash and the ship
disappeared entirely. No radio communication was possible. It was gone. In about three
hours it came back. One of the masts was broken.
Some personnel were partially embedded in the steel deck. Others were fading in and out.
Some disappeared entirely. Many were insane. The Navy extracted the crew and
proceeded with four days of meetings to decided what to do about the problem. They
decided there would be one more test with another dry run without personnel. They
conducted the dry run using about 1000 feet of cable attached to another ship. In late
October 1943 the test occurred. The ship disappeared for about 20 minutes. When it
returned, they found equipment missing. Two transmitter cabinets and one generator was
missing. The cabinet with the zero-time reference generator was intact. At that point, the
Navy stripped the ship and stopped the project. The Eldridge served in the war and was
turned over to Greece at the end of the war.
The important thing is that there were two tests that were exactly 40 years apart to the
day. It was a 40 year separation in hyperspace. Now, the Earth itself has a biorhythm that
peaks on a 20 year cycle on August 12th. It "just happened" to peak and provided the
connecting link through the fields of the Earth for the two experiments to lock up in
hyperspace. Walk-in efforts are aided if they occur during this peak.
The ship was pulled into hyperspace. We were inside the ship and knew something was
drastically wrong with the test. We tried to shut it off but it wouldn't shut off. We ran out
on deck and jumped over the side of the ship. We jumped overboard but ended up in a
time tunnel which ended at Montauk, Long Island on August 12th, 1983. At night.
We were found very quickly and taken down stairs, where Von Neumann greeted us. He
expected us. It was a bit of a shock. We had just been in 1943 and now we were in 1983
looking at Von Neumann as an old man. He said that there was a hyperspace lockup and
that we had to go back and shut off the generators on the ship or the hyperspace rift
would keep increasing and possibly engulf the planet. He had been waiting 40 years for
us to arrive.
Montauk sent us back and we smashed the equipment with axes. The ship returned to its
original point in space and about three hours later in time. From 1943 on, Von Neumann
didn't know what happened. He had modified earlier equipment in 1943 to where he had
a full blown time machine. The Germans also were working on time travel, and had it
working in 1945 just before the end of the war. This is all a matter of record.
After the Navy decided to shut down the project in 1943, Von Neumann was sent to work
on the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos until that was over. In 1947 there were major
changes in the Department of Defense. Someone in the new structure decided to dig up
the Philadelphia project to see if they could find out what went wrong. They asked Von
Neumann to "take another look" at the project. He agreed.
There is another matter. Starting about August 6th, 1943, UFOs appeared over the
Eldridge for about six days. They were there during the test. One of the UFOs was sucked
up into hyperspace with the Eldridge and it ended up in an underground facility in
Montauk in 1983. It contained a charging device which some aliens made us go back and
get for them, as they didn't want humans to have it. We don't know who they were. Pruett
was concerned about an alien invasion.
Also, Von Neumann was called by the government to come and assist in the examination
of a crashed UFO in 1947 at Aztec. Another crash occurred at Aztec about a year later.
The first crash had greys on it and none survived. At least one occupant survived the
second crash. The radar systems unintentionally brought down the craft. Radar was used
intentionally after that until the aliens got wise to it.
The occupant of the second crash was not a grey, and Von Neumann got to talk with it.
Von Neumann asked it what the answer to the invisibility problems could be. He learned
that he had to go back and do his homework in metaphysics. The nature of the problem
was that the personnel on the ship were not locked to the zerotime reference of the ship.
Humans are normally locked to the point of conception as a time reference, not a zerotime reference. The time stream lock allows the person to flow in synch with the system
so interaction is possible.
Time locks are fragile. All the power of the project disrupted the time-locks of the people
on the deck on the ship. When the ship came back in time, the people didn't come back to
the same reference.
Von Neumann realized that he needed a computer, as well as some knowledge of
metaphysics in order to be able to lock the time reference of the people to the time
reference of the ship. He built a computer in 1950 for the purpose. It was ready to be
installed in 1952 and a test was performed in 1953 that was successful. They didn't go
floating off into space when it was over. At this point, the Navy canceled Project
Rainbow and changed the name to project Phoenix.
Alot came out of the negative effects of the Rainbow project. Some of it led to mind
control research programs in the Phoenix project. The invisibility research produced
some Stealth technology as well as other highly classified projects.
In 1983, they decided to apply mind control to all participants in these projects in an
effort to cover them up. They had also been working on another project: age regression.
Now, Tesla had sought back in the 1940's to develop equipment that could help the
members of the crew after they lost time-lock . The government developed it into the age
regression program. It was physical age regression. A person retained the memory they
had from the older age.
Tesla's theory was that if you took the individual's time-lock and moved it forward in
time than you would remove aging. That's what happened. It took between 30 and 60
days for the body to complete the change to the new time reference.
When our astronauts first landed on the moon in 1969 they were greeted by a fleet of
disks sitting on the rim of a crater. The astronauts asked their superiors if they knew
about these disks. They were told "yes", that they were American disks. The astronauts
were angry at being used as public relations men by the government.
Well, the aircraft combines two aspects for invisibility. One of the aspects relates to the
construction and coating applied to the surface. The other aspect relates to an electronic
type of invisibility package which is a result of work done on the Philadelphia experiment
years ago. Also, the stealth has a secondary drive system which is very advanced and
allows it to fly in space. The assistant director of NASA admitted that this came straight
out of alien technology. He admitted this to the public.
There are breaks in the government secrecy programs that are starting to show up. More
and more people are getting totally disgusted with government activities and attitudes and
they are beginning to talk.
The Phoenix Project was a project that evolved out of the Philadelphia Project. It was a
project that the Navy did in the 1930's and 1940's in an attempt to make ships invisible.
They threw the switch one eventful day and the ship went into hyperspace. They had all
sorts of problems with the people on the boat. It was a huge success as well as a huge
failure - then they shelved it. Around 1947 it was decided to re-activate the project and it
was moved to Brookhaven National Laboratories with Dr. John Von Neumann and his
associates. Out of Phoenix I came Stealth technology. It also produced all sorts of
energetic little toys like the radiosonde.
The radiosonde was a little white box that they attached to a balloon and sent up into the
atmosphere. The government told people that it involved gathering weather data. It used a
very unusual type of pulse modulation. In most cases they used a CW (continuous wave)
oscillator and pulsed the signal. This turned out to be a very efficient conversion of
electrical energy to etheric energy. They were designed up at Brookhaven National Labs.
I started to talk to people at Brookhaven and ran into a retired gentleman who used to
work there. He told me that the design was originally done by Wilhelm Reich.
The story goes that in about 1947 Wilhelm Reich handed the US Government a weather
control device, a device that would do DOR-busting. Reich thought that if he could
decrease the amount of DOR that storms would not be so violent. (DOR is the result of
orgone energy coming into contact with an enclosed radioactive source). Deadly Orgone
Energy is DOR. The government sent the device up into a storm and it did reduce the
intensity of the storm. They worked.
The Montauk Project was a combination of Wilhelm Reich's work and the Philadelphia
Experiment. There were two separate projects going on in Phoenix One. You had the
invisibility aspect and you had the development of Wilhelm Reich's weather control.
Toward the end of the Phoenix project, by using some of Wilhelm Reich's concepts and
some of the transmission schemes used from the "radiosonde" project, they found that
you could combine the two -factors and use them for 'Mind Control'.
The people who were running it went to the military and proposed that they could use it
to "influence the minds of the enemy". The military loved the idea, and let them use the
old Montauk Air Force Base. Among the equipment requested was an old SAGE radar
unit, which was on the base. The base was shut down and everything was auctioned off.
The group then moved in from the Brookhaven Labs. That began what we call Phoenix
Two. They spent the first ten years from about 1969 to about 1979, researching pure
mind control.
The first part of the mind control project was to take an individual and stand them about
250 feet away from the antenna. The SAGE radar had a peak pulse power of .5 MW. The
antenna had a gain of 30db. That means an effective radiated power of at least a gigawatt.
It was nominally a gigawatt. Can you imagine what that would do to people? I think its
amazing these people are still here. It does things like burn out brain functions, create
neurological damage, scar lungs from heat, etc. They tried this with a number of people
and there were few survivors. The subjects were often indigent people they grabbed off
the streets.
The project was controlled by Dr. John Von Neumann and Jack Pruett. About 30 people
worked there. It was a joint project...Air Force & Navy. Original funding came from the
Nazi government funds. In 1944 there was an American troop train that went through a
French railroad tunnel carrying $10 billion in Nazi gold which they had found.
It was $10 billion at the 1944 price of $20 per ounce. The train was blown up in the
tunnel. It killed 51 American soldiers. The gold turned up ten years later at Montauk.
This has been verified. That money was used to finance the project for many years as the
value of gold went up.
They spent all of it and ran out of money. That's when they tapped on ITT, who funded it.
ITT was owned by Krupp in Germany. In terms of personnel, many of the civilians and
scientists there were all ex-Nazi's who came from Germany both before and after the war
ended.
The project was under US Government surveillance. The intelligence community knew
what was going on and the CIA monitored everything, as did other government
intelligence agencies. The field of players who actually operated on the base was small,
between 30 and 50.
The funding was entirely private. After 1983, Senator Goldwater found out about it and
started an investigation. He couldn't find any trace of government funding. Pruett was the
metaphysical director of the project. He was Air Force. After he left Dr. Herman C.
Untermann took over. They had an electronics expert, Dr. Mathew E. Zerrett, who came
over from Germany in 1946 with Werhner von Braun. Probably the reason that they ran
out of money is that they had a total of 25 bases around the United States to support. The
last of the bases shut down August 12, 1983. The base at Montauk, where all the stations
got their zero-time reference from, shut down and the other two remaining bases went
down with it.
Other experiments included time travel. No one has picked up a tangible future beyond
2012 AD. There is a very abrupt wall there with nothing on the other side. A working
time vortex was created to the future.
At one point a creature came through and everyone went into a panic. They shut the
transmitter off. The creature ate people and equipment. They had to go back and shut
down the unit in Philadelphia in order to shut off the unit in the future so they could stop
this creature in 1983. This was on August 12,1983. The vortex locked on to the 12
August 1943 test and formed a loop.
MONTAUK PROJECT - JOHN QUINN INTERVIEW
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
Montauk Experiment
Interview From "The Metaphysical Experience"
Preston, Ellie, Duncan
The Philadelphia experiment originally began back in the 1930's in Chicago with three
people. Dr. John Hutchinson Sr., who was the Dean of the University of Chicago,
Nickola Tesla, and Dr. Kurtenaur, who was an Austrian physicist who was on staff at the
University.
They decided to do something with the speculation regarding the concept of things and
people being invisible. This subject had been discussed for several year. They got
together and did some research at the University of Chicago around 1931 or 1932. In
1933 the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton was formed and the project was
transferred there in 1934. One of the people on staff at the Institute was Dr. John Erich
Von Neumann, who was from Budapest Hungary. He got his degree in chemistry in 1925
and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1926. He taught in Europe for about four years and
transferred to the United States. He taught at the graduate level for three years and was
invited to join the Institute.
Other people at the Institute included Albert Einstein, who left Germany in 1930. He
went to the California Institute of Technology for three years and taught there and then
went to the Institute upon their invitation and acceptance. A lot of other people showed
up there as time went on. The project expanded about 1936. In the meantime, Tesla was
named director of the project. He was a friend of president Franklin Roosevelt, whom
Tesla met in 1917 when FDR was secretary of the Navy.
Tesla was asked at that time to do some work for the government for the war effort,
which he did. He accepted and became director of the invisibility project until he
resigned in 1942. In 1936, after intensive study, they decided to have an initial test of
their work. They achieved some partial invisibility. The Navy and everyone else was
encouraged to continue the work, and the Navy supplied money for research.
Scientists were coming to the United States from Germany until 1939, when the war with
Germany was started.
In 1940, after research using Tesla's approach, they decided they were ready for a full test
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They had a small ship and a tender ship at each side. One
ship provided the power and the other supplied the drive for the coils. They were
tendered to the test ship by cables. The idea was that if anything went wrong they could
cut the cables or sink the test ship. Everything worked and the project was declared a
success.
The important point about the 1940 test is that there was no one on board the test vehicle.
It was strictly a dry run with no people. This is important because of what happened later.
Other people came on board. Thomas T. Brown joined the project because of his
expertise in electrogravity effects. He had the task of solving the problem of the German
magnetic mines that were affecting allied shipping and Naval efforts. This led into a
parallel project which involved the use of deguising coils and cables to explode the mines
at a distance from the ship.
The Navy wanted several people to keep an eye on the tests. That is how I got involved.
Keeping technical commentaries. Let's look at Nickola Tesla.
In 1879 his father died and his first year at college ended. He came to the United States
in1884. He had enormously intuitive insight. He had a perfect track record. Before
coming to the US he had known Robert Oppenheimer, who later worked with the
development of the atomic bomb, and Dr. David Hilbert, the mathematician who devised
equations for Hilbert Space, which described multiple space or multiple realities
mathematically.
These equations for multiple space became very important in the project. Dr. von
Neumann met Hilbert in 1927 and retained a lot of what he had learned. With that, Von
Neumann developed other new systems of mathematics. Von Neumann was considered
to be one of the most outstanding mathematicians in this century. Some think he was
better than Einstein. Another mathematician involved was Dr. John Levinson, who was
born in 1912. He died in 1976. He published three books on mathematics. Levinson
developed the so-called Levinson Time Equations. with all this behind them, the group
had all they needed to proceed with the project.
After the successful 1940 test, the Navy decided to give the project unlimited funds and
to classify the project. In 1942 Tesla was given a ship and a crew for a full sized test.
Tesla got a battleship. Tesla and Von Neumann didn't agree on some things. Tesla
insisted that they were going to have a very severe problem with personnel. Tesla wanted
more time but the NAVY wouldn't agree. Tesla made periodic announcements in the late
1930's and early 1940's about his contact with off planet species. He was in contact with
the outside, who agreed that there was a problem with the people. He decided to sabotage
the 1942 test in an attempt to stop the project. He de-tuned the equipment so nothing
would work. The test failed. Tesla then turned the project over to Von Neumann in
March 1942 and left the project.
Von Neumann went to the Navy and requested time to study the problem to determine
what had gone wrong. Von Neumann decided to make changes in some of the equipment.
He decided he would need a special ship that was designed from the ground up. The
Eldridge was selected. The equipment was built into the ship. They put all the equipment
on the ship. October 1942 arrived. They selected 33 volunteers for the crew, who arrived
after graduation in December 1942. We still have a picture of the class.
After the ship was out of drydock work began. In May of 1943 von Neumann installed a
third generator. It would never synchronize with the other two. It went out of control one
day and zapped one of the men. Von Neumann pulled out the third generator (installed
because Tesla had convinced Von Neumann of the potential problem with people) and
went back to the original design. In mid June, the ship had sea trials. On July 22, 1943,
they had the test. The ship between radar and optically invisible. They discovered people
very disoriented. The Navy pulled the crew off and consulted Von Neumann, who
requested more time again from the Navy. The Navy, after consultation with higher-ups,
announced that the drop dead date was on the 12th of August, 1943. Von Neumann
voiced his concern that it wasn't enough time.
The Navy decided that it just wanted radar invisibility and not optical invisibility. The
equipment was again modified by Von Neumann. August 12th arrived. We knew things
were not right. The test began, and for about a minute everything was all right. The ships
outline could be seen in the water. There was suddenly a blue flash and the ship
disappeared entirely. No radio communication was possible. It was gone. In about three
hours it came back. One of the masts was broken.
Some personnel were partially embedded in the steel deck. Others were fading in and out.
Some disappeared entirely. Many were insane. The Navy extracted the crew and
proceeded with four days of meetings to decided what to do about the problem. They
decided there would be one more test with another dry run without personnel. They
conducted the dry run using about 1000 feet of cable attached to another ship. In late
October 1943 the test occurred. The ship disappeared for about 20 minutes. When it
returned, they found equipment missing. Two transmitter cabinets and one generator was
missing. The cabinet with the zero-time reference generator was intact. At that point, the
Navy stripped the ship and stopped the project. The Eldridge served in the war and was
turned over to Greece at the end of the war.
The important thing is that there were two tests that were exactly 40 years apart to the
day. It was a 40 year separation in hyperspace. Now, the Earth itself has a biorhythm that
peaks on a 20 year cycle on August 12th. It "just happened" to peak and provided the
connecting link through the fields of the Earth for the two experiments to lock up in
hyperspace. Walk-in efforts are aided if they occur during this peak.
The ship was pulled into hyperspace. We were inside the ship and knew something was
drastically wrong with the test. We tried to shut it off but it wouldn't shut off. We ran out
on deck and jumped over the side of the ship. We jumped overboard but ended up in a
time tunnel which ended at Montauk, Long Island on August 12th, 1983. At night.
We were found very quickly and taken down stairs, where Von Neumann greeted us. He
expected us. It was a bit of a shock. We had just been in 1943 and now we were in 1983
looking at Von Neumann as an old man. He said that there was a hyperspace lockup and
that we had to go back and shut off the generators on the ship or the hyperspace rift
would keep increasing and possibly engulf the planet. He had been waiting 40 years for
us to arrive.
Montauk sent us back and we smashed the equipment with axes. The ship returned to its
original point in space and about three hours later in time. From 1943 on, Von Neumann
didn't know what happened. He had modified earlier equipment in 1943 to where he had
a full blown time machine. The Germans also were working on time travel, and had it
working in 1945 just before the end of the war. This is all a matter of record.
After the Navy decided to shut down the project in 1943, Von Neumann was sent to work
on the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos until that was over. In 1947 there were major
changes in the Department of Defense. Someone in the new structure decided to dig up
the Philadelphia project to see if they could find out what went wrong. They asked Von
Neumann to "take another look" at the project. He agreed.
There is another matter. Starting about August 6th, 1943, UFOs appeared over the
Eldridge for about six days. They were there during the test. One of the UFOs was sucked
up into hyperspace with the Eldridge and it ended up in an underground facility in
Montauk in 1983. It contained a charging device which some aliens made us go back and
get for them, as they didn't want humans to have it. We don't know who they were. Pruett
was concerned about an alien invasion.
Also, Von Neumann was called by the government to come and assist in the examination
of a crashed UFO in 1947 at Aztec. Another crash occurred at Aztec about a year later.
The first crash had greys on it and none survived. At least one occupant survived the
second crash. The radar systems unintentionally brought down the craft. Radar was used
intentionally after that until the aliens got wise to it.
The occupant of the second crash was not a grey, and Von Neumann got to talk with it.
Von Neumann asked it what the answer to the invisibility problems could be. He learned
that he had to go back and do his homework in metaphysics. The nature of the problem
was that the personnel on the ship were not locked to the zerotime reference of the ship.
Humans are normally locked to the point of conception as a time reference, not a zero-
time reference. The time stream lock allows the person to flow in synch with the system
so interaction is possible.
Time locks are fragile. All the power of the project disrupted the time-locks of the people
on the deck on the ship. When the ship came back in time, the people didn't come back to
the same reference.
Von Neumann realized that he needed a computer, as well as some knowledge of
metaphysics in order to be able to lock the time reference of the people to the time
reference of the ship. He built a computer in 1950 for the purpose. It was ready to be
installed in 1952 and a test was performed in 1953 that was successful. They didn't go
floating off into space when it was over. At this point, the Navy canceled Project
Rainbow and changed the name to project Phoenix.
Alot came out of the negative effects of the Rainbow project. Some of it led to mind
control research programs in the Phoenix project. The invisibility research produced
some Stealth technology as well as other highly classified projects.
In 1983, they decided to apply mind control to all participants in these projects in an
effort to cover them up. They had also been working on another project: age regression.
Now, Tesla had sought back in the 1940's to develop equipment that could help the
members of the crew after they lost time-lock . The government developed it into the age
regression program. It was physical age regression. A person retained the memory they
had from the older age.
Tesla's theory was that if you took the individual's time-lock and moved it forward in
time than you would remove aging. That's what happened. It took between 30 and 60
days for the body to complete the change to the new time reference.
When our astronauts first landed on the moon in 1969 they were greeted by a fleet of
disks sitting on the rim of a crater. The astronauts asked their superiors if they knew
about these disks. They were told "yes", that they were American disks. The astronauts
were angry at being used as public relations men by the government.
Well, the aircraft combines two aspects for invisibility. One of the aspects relates to the
construction and coating applied to the surface. The other aspect relates to an electronic
type of invisibility package which is a result of work done on the Philadelphia experiment
years ago. Also, the stealth has a secondary drive system which is very advanced and
allows it to fly in space. The assistant director of NASA admitted that this came straight
out of alien technology. He admitted this to the public.
There are breaks in the government secrecy programs that are starting to show up. More
and more people are getting totally disgusted with government activities and attitudes and
they are beginning to talk.
The Phoenix Project was a project that evolved out of the Philadelphia Project. It was a
project that the Navy did in the 1930's and 1940's in an attempt to make ships invisible.
They threw the switch one eventful day and the ship went into hyperspace. They had all
sorts of problems with the people on the boat. It was a huge success as well as a huge
failure - then they shelved it. Around 1947 it was decided to re-activate the project and it
was moved to Brookhaven National Laboratories with Dr. John Von Neumann and his
associates. Out of Phoenix I came Stealth technology. It also produced all sorts of
energetic little toys like the radiosonde.
The radiosonde was a little white box that they attached to a balloon and sent up into the
atmosphere. The government told people that it involved gathering weather data. It used a
very unusual type of pulse modulation. In most cases they used a CW (continuous wave)
oscillator and pulsed the signal. This turned out to be a very efficient conversion of
electrical energy to etheric energy. They were designed up at Brookhaven National Labs.
I started to talk to people at Brookhaven and ran into a retired gentleman who used to
work there. He told me that the design was originally done by Wilhelm Reich.
The story goes that in about 1947 Wilhelm Reich handed the US Government a weather
control device, a device that would do DOR-busting. Reich thought that if he could
decrease the amount of DOR that storms would not be so violent. (DOR is the result of
orgone energy coming into contact with an enclosed radioactive source). Deadly Orgone
Energy is DOR. The government sent the device up into a storm and it did reduce the
intensity of the storm. They worked.
The Montauk Project was a combination of Wilhelm Reich's work and the Philadelphia
Experiment. There were two separate projects going on in Phoenix One. You had the
invisibility aspect and you had the development of Wilhelm Reich's weather control.
Toward the end of the Phoenix project, by using some of Wilhelm Reich's concepts and
some of the transmission schemes used from the "radiosonde" project, they found that
you could combine the two -factors and use them for 'Mind Control'.
The people who were running it went to the military and proposed that they could use it
to "influence the minds of the enemy". The military loved the idea, and let them use the
old Montauk Air Force Base. Among the equipment requested was an old SAGE radar
unit, which was on the base. The base was shut down and everything was auctioned off.
The group then moved in from the Brookhaven Labs. That began what we call Phoenix
Two. They spent the first ten years from about 1969 to about 1979, researching pure
mind control.
The first part of the mind control project was to take an individual and stand them about
250 feet away from the antenna. The SAGE radar had a peak pulse power of .5 MW. The
antenna had a gain of 30db. That means an effective radiated power of at least a gigawatt.
It was nominally a gigawatt. Can you imagine what that would do to people? I think its
amazing these people are still here. It does things like burn out brain functions, create
neurological damage, scar lungs from heat, etc. They tried this with a number of people
and there were few survivors. The subjects were often indigent people they grabbed off
the streets.
The project was controlled by Dr. John Von Neumann and Jack Pruett. About 30 people
worked there. It was a joint project...Air Force & Navy. Original funding came from the
Nazi government funds. In 1944 there was an American troop train that went through a
French railroad tunnel carrying $10 billion in Nazi gold which they had found.
It was $10 billion at the 1944 price of $20 per ounce. The train was blown up in the
tunnel. It killed 51 American soldiers. The gold turned up ten years later at Montauk.
This has been verified. That money was used to finance the project for many years as the
value of gold went up.
They spent all of it and ran out of money. That's when they tapped on ITT, who funded it.
ITT was owned by Krupp in Germany. In terms of personnel, many of the civilians and
scientists there were all ex-Nazi's who came from Germany both before and after the war
ended.
The project was under US Government surveillance. The intelligence community knew
what was going on and the CIA monitored everything, as did other government
intelligence agencies. The field of players who actually operated on the base was small,
between 30 and 50.
The funding was entirely private. After 1983, Senator Goldwater found out about it and
started an investigation. He couldn't find any trace of government funding. Pruett was the
metaphysical director of the project. He was Air Force. After he left Dr. Herman C.
Untermann took over. They had an electronics expert, Dr. Mathew E. Zerrett, who came
over from Germany in 1946 with Werhner von Braun. Probably the reason that they ran
out of money is that they had a total of 25 bases around the United States to support. The
last of the bases shut down August 12, 1983. The base at Montauk, where all the stations
got their zero-time reference from, shut down and the other two remaining bases went
down with it.
Other experiments included time travel. No one has picked up a tangible future beyond
2012 AD. There is a very abrupt wall there with nothing on the other side. A working
time vortex was created to the future.
At one point a creature came through and everyone went into a panic. They shut the
transmitter off. The creature ate people and equipment. They had to go back and shut
down the unit in Philadelphia in order to shut off the unit in the future so they could stop
this creature in 1983. This was on August 12,1983. The vortex locked on to the 12
August 1943 test and formed a loop.
MONTAUK PROJECT - JOHN QUINN INTERVIEW
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
PROJECT SILVERBUG
PROJECT SILVERBUG
The US military was testing and flying UFO design aircraft in the 40's and 50's. These
were sophisticated designs were code named 'Silverbug'.
Near the end of WWII the allied forces had gained superiorty over the Germans. Or so it
seemed. The Germans were looking for a superior craft. The SSE and Vril societies were
building craft that looked like UFO's and were capable of vertical take-off's and landings
because most of their runways had been destroyed.
The project was headed by Dr. Richard Metha, known today as the Father of
Saucerology. He was hired by the German air force to build a saucer shaped craft that
could vertically ascend and shoot down allied planes with rockets. Supposedly the war
ended before Metha developed his ship.
The American government recruited some of the German scientists after the war to go to
Canada and continue their work. Dr. Metha was one of these men. He work on a secret
aircraft project at AVROW Aeronautics in Canada. These were saucer type flying
machines. The US had as many as 35 saucer projects with vertical lift off and descent.
The most highly classified was known by code name "Silverbug". These saucers were
designed to 2300 miles per hour at an altitude of 80,000 feet. Though designed in 1955
the papers describing these design were not declassified until 1995. For over 40 year
America's #1 top flying saucer project was top secret.
In the 1950's in Canada AVROW revealed the AVROCAR to the public.
Project Silverbug
- Randall Whitcomb
Project Silver Bug was the American "Black" project version of the Avro Aircraft Canada
Y-2/ Private Venture 704 project that was revealed to the United States Air Force in
1955.
Project Y-2 was begun by the Canadian John Frost, who was apparently in the loop on
Nazi Saucer programs and was quite fascinated by them. It involved a "radial flow jet"
engine design which was simply radical for 1955. As late as 1976 people were
copyrighting ideas essentially identical to this 1955 design (see US Patent # 4,193,568).
This aircraft was listed as being capable of over 80,000 feet and Mach 3 and able to hover
at up to 18,000 ft. without using afterburners.
Due to newspaper leaks in the mid 50's a cover story for the Y-2/Silver Bug program was
leaked to "Look" magazine which, while broadly similar, disinformed the public as to the
radical engine (substituting many small conventional jets for the single radial flow) and
the control systems to be used.
Later in 1958 Avro Aircraft Ltd. was contracted to build a somewhat similar, small
ground-cushion vehicle reminiscent of the "Look" magazine item for the USAF and US
Army. I too am convinced that this "Avrocar" was constructed only for disinformation
purposes while Y-2 went "Black" as a means of providing the US Gov't with "plausible
deniability" and also the possibility of telling those who saw "flying saucers" that it was
only that Avro vehicle.
At any rate, the Y-2 later Silver Bug item was an entirely other matter. It clearly DID go
Black and the incredible performance projected by educated engineers for it really prove
WHY it has been such a secret. The Saucer shape give natural "all aspect" stealth, the
radial flow engine is capable of producing incredible thrust in an aerodynamically
appealing shape, and the vertical take off and landing abilities gave the US the possibility
of underground basing. All of these features provided the possibilty of "Cold War"
winning technology in the 1950's! Clearly they didn't want the Soviets possessing any or
suspecting their existence until they developed technology that could reasonably be
expected to counter "stealth."
The strongest evidence that Avro built something to resemble Y-2 comes from 5.4
million dollars spent on Avro's own "Private Venture 704" including about 2 million
dollars from the USA up to 1957. The Avrocar project was commenced after this time
and used only 4 million or so to completion. Avro stated themselves that the first step in
responding challenge of developing the Y-2 was to build the engine and the control duct
system. Clearly this is where the first 5.4 million dollars went. With all that money came
rumours and the Avrocar would be a great way to dispel them.
Meanwhile with the Avrocar, the project used a much less sophisticated arrangement in a
much slower and lower flying design. It did prove the control system devised for the Y2/PV 704/Silver Bug and provided publicly acceptable "proof" of the flying saucer
design. It was also used to proved "proof" that the concept was not feasable.
The intial test flights revealed it was underpowered, unstable and could not transition to
proper forward flight. Interestingly, recent films show the solved the instability problem.
There is testimony on the record that they also finished doing modifications required to
allow the craft to transition to forward flight (after which it was expected to be capable of
300 mph). This is the date the US money disappeared and the project was terminated with
all drawings, tooling, and flying examples taken to the USA. The examples at Wright
Patterson and in the Smithsonian are NOT the final Avrocar version but early
development models that were far from successful.
ROSWELL
ROSWELL, NM - UFO CRASH - July 1947
Something crashed - or was shot down - in Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947. A few
days later government security was set up tight around the farm on which the crash
occurred. Something was taken away in trucks. Witnesses saw the crash. Many saw the
wreckage and the bodies. Through the years they have come forward. Films and
documentaries have been made about the crash.
Various books based on eye-witness accounts have been written. The Day After Roswell By Colonel Philip J. Corso
Colonel Corso's background:
Military officer during World War II and Army intelligence officer on General Douglas
MacArthur's staff during the Korean War; member of the President Eisenhower's
National Security Council as a Lt. Colonel for four years; head of Foreign Technology in
Army Research and Development at the Pentagon in the early 1960s, where he was in
charge of the Roswell Files, the cache of UFO parts and information which "an Army
retrieval team ... pulled out of the wreckage of a flying disk that had crashed outside the
town of Roswell in the New Mexico desert in the early-morning darkness during the first
week of July 1947."; retired from the Army in 1963 with nineteen medals and ribbons;
then served as National Security specialist staff to U.S. Senators James Eastland and
Strom Thurmond; and subsequently has worked as a consultant and contracts
administrator in the private sector.
Revelations:
Col. Corso tells that there were five extraterrestrials, 4-1/2 feet tall with greyish-brown
skin, four-fingered hands and oversized hairless heads, found at the Roswell UFO crash
site, two of them still alive. One tried to run away and was shot by nervous soldiers. The
other was still alive but dying when he arrived in the back of an Army truck at Roswell
Army Air Field. He was Post Duty Officer at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1947, the night a
shipment of Roswell artifacts arrived from Fort Bliss. Colonel Corso examined the
shipment, which included one of the dead extraterrestrials preserved in a thick light-blue
liquid. The shipment was destined for what is now called Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio. Corso speaks about serving in President Eisenhower's National Security
Council, and seeing the memos about the Roswell incident and the "goods" retrieved
from it.
The Colonel divulges how he spearheaded the Army's supersecret reverse-engineering
project that "seeded" extraterrestrial technology at American corporations such as IBM,
Hughes Aircraft, Bell Labs, and Dow Corning - without their knowledge. He describes
the devices found aboard the Roswell craft, and how they became the precursors for
today's integrated circuit chips, fibre optics, lasers, night-vision equipment, super-tenacity
fibers (such as Kevlar plastic armor), and classified discoveries, such as psychotronic
devices that can translate human thoughts into signals that control machinery, Stealth
aircraft technology, and Star Wars particle-beam devices. He also discusses the role that
extraterrestrial technology played in shaping geopolitical policy and events; how it
helped the United States surpass the Russians in space; spurred elaborate Army initiatives
such as SDI (Star Wars Projects), Project Horizon (to place a military base on the Moon),
and HARP; and ultimately brought about the end of the Cold War.
Colonel Corso also said that captured UFOs were/are kept at Norton, Edwards and Nellis
(Area 51) Air Force Bases. He said a UFO Working Group was set up by President
Truman in September, 1947, a group some call MJ-12, and that it has functioned ever
since. In the 1950s two crude prototypes of antigravity craft were constructed, but were
powered by crude human nuclear fission generators, and were inefficient and leaked
radiation. He says that the Star Wars program was always primarily to prepare for war
against the extraterrestrials in case of invasion.
Corso was one of the ultraconservative Cold Warriors who continually feared a
Communist takeover. The military and political groups he allied with adopted the same
outlook on the extraterrestrial Visitors, fearing them as some invasion force that had to be
repulsed by a crash program of back-engineering Star Wars weapons from captured UFO
technology. His reactionary Strom Thurmond conservatism, lumping extraterrestrials
with Communists as insidious potential invaders, distorts his otherwise clear and factual
portrayal of events in the decades after Roswell.
What Corso Didn't Reveal:
Since Colonel Corso was U.S. Army, he was not privy to developments in the Navy and
Air Force, which also received some of the Roswell technology for back-engineering
purposes. We know separately, from sources like Ben Rich of Lockheed-Martin and
retired Colonel Steve Wilson of USAF's Project Pounce, that the Air Force ultimately
developed manned antigravity flying discs and triangular craft, Stealth technology
including radar and optical invisibility, killer- laser satellites, and electromagnetic-pulse
low-frequency microwave cannons to shoot down UFOs.
Colonel Corso died in June 1998 of heart failure.
Alleged Roswell UFO Glyphs
Alleged ET hand prints
THE CRASH IN ROSWELL NEW MEXICO - GREY ALIENS
TRACKING ~ TAGGING PEOPLE ~ 666 MARK OF THE BEAST
Tracking, Tagging, People - 666 Mark of the Beast
Reversed 666 become 999=36=Closure
666 Other Alphabets
666 Watch
Huamn chips more than skin deep
UNDERGROUND FACILITIES ~ BASES ~ TUNNELS
Underground Facilities - Bases - Tunnels
I have read about underground bases in the south western part of the United States,
particularly Dulce, New Mexico and Nevada. I have also heard about underground tunnel
system that run in mazes under the surface of the planet. Most people connect these
tunnel with ET's and covert government activities. There is allegedly exist cities built by
different governments and those left behind by ancients who lived here thousands of
years ago. We will probably never know the truth. As a remote viewer - I can tell you that
many of these facilities do exist.
MOUNT WEATHER
Underground government bases also exist for various reasons. One of the them is
nicknamed Mt. Weather and is just outside of Washington, DC. Mount Weather and
Underground Bases.
Article about these bases:
Few Americans--indeed, few Congressional reps--are aware of the existence of Mount
Weather, a mysterious underground military base carved deep inside a mountain near the
sleepy rural town of Bluemont, Virginia, just 46 miles from Washington DC. Mount
Weather --also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations-is buried not just in hard granite, but in secrecy as well.
In March, 1976, The Progressive Magazine published an astonishing article entitled The
Mysterious Mountain. The author, Richard Pollock, based his investigative report on
Senate subcommittee hearings and upon "several off-the-record interviews with officials
formerly associated with Mount Weather." His report, and a 1991 article in Time
Magazine entitled Doomsday Hideaway, supply a few compelling hints about what is
going on underground.
Ted Gup, writing for Time, describes the base as follows: "Mount Weather is a virtually
self-contained facility. Above ground, scattered across manicured lawns, are about a
dozen buildings bristling with antennas and microwave relay systems. An on-site sewagetreatment plant, with a 90,000 gal.-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding 250,000 gal. of
water could last some 200 people more than a month; underground ponds hold additional
water supplies. Not far from the installation's entry gate are a control tower and a
helicopter pad. The mountain's real secrets are not visible at ground level."
The mountain's "real secrets" are protected by warning signs, 10 foot-high chain link
fences, razor wire, and armed guards. Curious motorists and hikers on the Appalachian
trail are relieved of their sketching pads and cameras and sent on their way. Security is
tight.
The government has owned the site since 1903; it has seen service as an artillery range, a
hobo farm during the Depression, and a National Weather Bureau Facility. In 1936, the
U.S. Bureau of Mines took control and started digging.
Mount Weather is virtually an underground city, according to former personnel
interviewed by Pollock. Buried deep inside the earth, Mount Weather was equipped with
such amenities as:
- private apartments and dormitories
- streets and sidewalks
- cafeterias and hospitals
- a water purification system, power plant and general office buildings
- a small lake fed by fresh water from underground springs - a transit system
- a TV communication system
Mount Weather is the self-sustaining underground command center for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The facility is the operational center - the hub
- of approximately 100 other Federal Relocation Centers, most of which are concentrated
in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. Together this
network of underground facilities constitutes the backbone of America's "Continuity of
Government" program. In the event of nuclear war, declaration of martial law, or other
national emergency, the President, his cabinet and the rest of the Executive Branch would
be "relocated" to Mount Weather.
What Does Congress Know about Mount Weather?
According to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights hearings in 1975,
Congress has almost no knowledge and no oversight --budgetary or otherwise--on Mount
Weather. Retired Air Force General Leslie W. Bray, in his testimony to the
subcommittee, said "I am not at liberty to describe precisely what is the role and the
mission and the capability that we have at Mount Weather, or at any other precise
location."
Apparently, this underground capital of the United States is a secret only to Congress and
the US taxpayers who paid for it. The Russians know about it, as reported in Time: "Few
in the U.S. government will speak of it, though it is assumed that all along the Soviets
have known both its precise location and its mission (unlike the Congress, since Bray
wouldn't tell); defense experts take it as a given that the site is on the Kremlin's targeting
maps. " The Russians attempted to buy real estate right next door, as a "country estate"
for their embassy folks, but that deal was dead- ended by the State Department.
Mount Weather's "Government-in-Waiting":
Pollock's report, based on his interviews with former officials at Mount Weather,
contains astounding information on the base's personnel. The underground city contains a
parallel government-in-waiting: "High- level Governmental sources, speaking in the
promise of strictest anonymity, told me [Pollock] that each of the Federal departments
represented at Mount Weather is headed by a single person on whom is conferred the
rank of a Cabinet-level official. Protocol ven demands that subordinates address them as
'Mr. Secretary.' Each of the Mount Weather 'Cabinet members' is apparently appointed by
the White House and serves an indefinite term ... many through several Administrations.
The facility attempts to duplicate the vital functions of the Executive branch of the
Administration."
Nine Federal departments are replicated within Mount Weather (Agriculture; Commerce;
Health, Education & Welfare; Housing & Urban Development; Interior; Labor; State;
Transportation; and Treasurey) as well as at least five Federal agencies (Federal
Communications Commission, Selective Service, Federal Power Commission, Civil
Service Commission, and the Veterans Administration). The Federal Reserve and the
U.S. Post Office, both private corporations, also have offices in Mount Weather.
Pollock writes that the "cabinet members" are "apparently" appointed by the White
House and serve an indefinite term, but that information cannot be confirmed, raising the
further question of who holds the reins on this "back-up government." Furthermore,
appointed Mount Weather officials hold their positions through several elected
administrations, transcending the time their appointers spend in office. Unlike other
presidential nominees, these apppointments are made without the public advice or
consent of the Senate.
Is there an alternative President and Vice President as well? If so, who appoints them?
Pollock says only this: "As might be expected, there is also an Office of the Presidency at
Mount Weather. The Federal Preparedness Agency (precursor to FEMA) apparently
appoints a special staff to the Presidential section, which regularly receives top secret
national security estimates and raw data from each of the Federal departments and
agencies. What Do They Do At Mount Weather?
1) Collect Data on American Citizens
The Senate Subcommittee in 1975 learned that the "facility held dossiers on at least
100,000 Americans. [Senator] John Tunney later alleged that the Mount Weather
computers can obtain millions of pieces of additional information on the personal lives of
American citizens simply by tapping the data stored at any of the other ninety-six Federal
Relocation Centers."
The subcommittee concluded that Mount Weather's databases "operate with few, if any,
safeguards or guidelines."
2) Store Necessary Information
The Progressive article detailed that "General Bray gave Tunney's subcommittee a list of
the categories of files maintained at Mount Weather: military installations, government
facilities, communications, transportation, energy and power, agriculture, manufacturing,
wholesale and retail services, manpower, financial, medical and educational institutions,
sanitary facilities, population, housing shelter, and stockpiles." This massive database fits
cleanly into Mount Weather's ultimate purpose as the command center in the event of a
national emergency.
3) Play War Games
This is the main daily activity of the approximately 240 people who work at Mount
Weather. The games are intended to train the Mount Weather bureaucracy to managing a
wide range of problems associated with both war and domestic political crises.
Decisions are made in the "Situation Room," the base's nerve center, located in the core
of Mount Weather.
The Situation Room is the archetypal war room, with "charts, maps and whatever visuals
may be needed" and "batteries of communications equipment connecting Mount Weather
with the White House and 'Raven Rock'-- the underground Pentagon sixty miles north of
Washington--as well as with almost every US military unit stationed around the globe,"
according to the Progressive article. "All internal communications are conducted by
closed-circuit color television ... senior officers and 'Cabinet members' have two consoles
recessed in the walls of their office."
Descriptions of the war games read a bit like a Ian Fleming novel. Every year there is a
system-wide alert that "includes all military and civilian-run underground installations."
The real, aboveground President and his Cabinet members are "relocated" to Mount
Weather to observe the simulation. Post-mortems are conducted and the margins for error
are calculated after the games. All the data is studied and documented.
4) Civil Crisis Management
Mount Weather personnel study more than war scenarios. Domestic "crises" are also
tracked and watched, and there have been times when Mount Weather almost swung into
action, as Pollock reported: "Officials who were at Mount Weather during the 1960s say
the complex was actually prepared to assume certain governmental powers at the time of
the 1961 Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. The
installation used the tools of its 'Civil Crisis Management' program on a standby basis
during the 1967 and 1968 urban riots and during a number of national antiwar
demonstrations, the sources said."
In its 1974 Annual Report, the Federal Preparedness Agency stated that "Studies
conducted at Mount Weather involve the control and management of domestic political
unrest where there are material shortages (such as food riots) or in strike situations where
the FPA determines that there are industrial disruptions and other domestic resource
crises."
The Mount Weather facility uses a vast array of resources to continually monitor the
American people. According to Daniel J. Cronin, former assistant director for the FPA,
Reconnaissance satellites, local and state police intelligence reports, and Federal law
enforcement agencies are just a few of the resources available to the FPA [now FEMA]
for information gathering. "We try to monitor situations and get to them before they
become emergencies," Cronin said. "No expense is spared in the monitoring program."
5) Maintain and Update the "Survivors List"
Using all the data generated by the war games and domestic crisis scenarios, the facility
continually maintains and updates a list of names and addresses of people deemed to be
"vital" to the survival of the nation, or who can "assist essential and non-interruptible
services." In the 1976 article, the "survivors list" contained 6,500 names, but even that
was deemed to be low. Who Pays for All This, and How Much?
At the same time tens of millions of dollars were being spent on maintaining and
upgrading the complex to protect several hundred designated officials in the event of
nuclear attack, the US government drastically reduced its emphasis on war preparedness
for US citizens. A 1989 FEMA brochure entitled "Are You Prepared?" suggests that
citizens construct makeshift fallout shelters using used furniture, books, and other
common household items.
Officially, Mount Weather (and its budget) does not exist. FEMA refuses to answer
inquiries about the facility; as FEMA spokesman Bob Blair told Time magazine, "I'll be
glad to tell you all about it, but I'd have to kill you afterward."
We don't know how much Mount Weather has cost over the years, but of course,
American taxpayers bear this burden as well. A Christian Science Monitor article entitled
"Study Reveals US Has Spent $4 Trillion on Nukes Since '45" reports that "The
government devoted at least $12 billion to civil defense projects to protect the population
from nuclear attack. But billions of dollars more were secretly spent on vast underground
complexes from which civilian and military officials would run the government during a
nuclear war." What is Mount Weather's Ultimate Purpose?
We have seen that Mount Weather contains an unelected, parallel "government-inwaiting" ready to take control of the United States upon word from the President or his
successor. The facility contains a massive database of information on U.S. citizens which
is operated with no safeguards or accountability. Ostensibly, this expensive hub of
America's network of sub-terran bases was designed to preserve our form of government
during a nuclear holocaust.
But Mount Weather is not simply a Cold War holdover. Information on command and
control strategies during national emergencies have largely been withheld from the
American public. Executive Order 11051, signed by President Kennedy on October 2,
1962, states that "national preparedness must be achieved... as may be required to deal
with increases in international tension with limited war, or with general war including
attack upon the United States."
However, Executive Order 11490, drafted by Gen. George A Lincoln (former director for
the Office of Emergency Preparedness, the FPA's predecessor) and signed by President
Nixon in October 1969, tells a different story. EO 11490, which superceded Kennedy's
EO 11051, begins, "Whereas our national security is dependent upon our ability to assure
continuity of government, at every level, in any national emergency type situation that
might conceivably confront the nation."
As researcher William Cooper points out, Nixon's order makes no reference to "war,"
"imminent attack," or "general war." These quantifiers are replaced by an extremely
vague "national emergency type situation" that "might conceivably" interfere with the
workings of the national power structure. Furthermore, there is no publicly known
Executive Order outlining the restoration of the Constitution after a national emergency
has ended. Unless the parallel government at Mount Weather does not decide out of the
goodness of its heart to return power to Constitutional authority, the United States could
experience an honest-to-God coup d'etat posing as a national emergency.
Like the enigmatic Area 51 in Nevada, the Federal government wants to keep the Mount
Weather facility buried in secrecy. Public awareness of this place and its purpose would
raise serious questions about who holds the reins of power in this country. The
Constitution states that those reins lie in the hands of the people, but the very existence of
Mount Weather indicates an entirely different reality. As long as Mount Weather exists,
these questions will remain. Mount Weather's Russian Twin.
By Patricia Neill
Matrix Editor Email
On April 16, 1996, the New York Times reported on a mysterious military base being
constructed in Russia: "In a secret project reminiscent of the chilliest days of the Cold
War, Russia is building a mammoth underground military complex in the Ural
Mountains, Western officials and Russian witnesses say.
Hidden inside Yamantau mountain in the Beloretsk area of the southern Urals, the project
involved the creation of a huge complex, served by a railroad,a highway, and thousands
of workers."
The New York Times article quotes Russian officials describing the underground
compound variously as a mining site, a repository for Russian treasures, a food storage
area, and a bunker for Russia's leaders in case of nuclear war.
It would seem that the Russian Parliament knows as little about Russian underground
bases as the Congress knows about Mount Weather in the United States. "The (Russian)
Defense Ministry declined to say whether Parliament has been informed about the details
of the project, like its purpose and cost, saying only that it receives necessary military
information," according to the New York Times.
"We can't say with confidence what the purpose is, and the Russians are not very
interested in having us go in there," a senior American official said in Washington. "It is
being built on a huge scale and involves a major investment of resources. The
investments are being made at a time when the Russians are complaining they do not
have the resources to do things pertaining to arms control."
Where's the Money Coming From?
The construction of the vast underground complex in Russia may very well become a
cause of concern to the Clinton Administration. The issue of ultimate purpose for the
complex, whether defensive (as with Mount Weather) or offensive (such as an
underground weapons factory) is not the only issue Mr. Clinton has to worry about.
The real cause for concern is that the US is currently sending hundreds of millions of
dollars to Russia, supposedly to help that country dismantle old nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, the Russian parliament has been complaining to Yeltsin that it cannot pay
$250 million in back wages owed to its workers at the same time that it is spending
money to comply with new strategic arms reduction treaties.
Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that "It seems the nearly $30 billion a
year spent on intelligence hasn't answered the question of what the Russians are up to at
Yamantau Mountain in the Urals. The huge underground complex being built there has
been the object of U.S. interest since 1992. 'We don't know exactly what it is,' says
Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's international security mogul. The facility is not
operational, and the Russians have offered 'nonspecific reassurances' that it poses no
threat to the U.S."
U.S. law states that the Administration must certify to Congress that any money sent to
Russia is used to disarm its nuclear weapons. However, is that the case? If the Russian
parliament is complaining of a shortage of funds for nuclear disarmament, then how can
Russia afford to build the Yamantau complex?
America's Secret Bases Still Operational
August 5, 1998 - Scripps Howard News Service
The underground installations, ultra-secure manufacturing plants and once-secret
laboratories America needed to wage the Cold War are still intact despite federal
downsizing policies that have gutted many other military and civilian programs.
The Clinton administration during its first five years increased the staff at the massive
Cheyenne Mountain Air Force and Army complex in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
That famous underground vault where thousands of military strategists and technicians
were, and still are, prepared to fight World War III is undergoing a $1.7 billion
renovation to improve its computer systems that track missiles and orbiting space
vehicles.
Nearly as healthy are the Department of Energy installations still used to assemble,
refurbish and maintain the estimated 10,000 warheads in the United States' nuclear
stockpile. And more hale than ever are the four major national laboratories that
discovered atomic fission, the much more destructive nuclear fusion and the means to
develop them into history's most dangerous weapons.
A Scripps Howard News Service study of federal civilian payroll records at 10 of these
facilities found that employment at these institutions has declined about 8.8 percent
during the Clinton administration. That's only about half of the manpower reductions
made throughout the military and in the rest of the civilian government.
The so-called "peace dividend" predicted by former President George Bush has come in
modest drabs to the Cold War's high technology infrastructure under Clinton. The 10
military bases, laboratories and production facilities in the Scripps Howard study still
maintained 25,191 workers in 1997. But taxpayers received little benefit from these cuts
because many of the jobs that remained are among the highest paid in the federal
government. The study found that the total payroll at these 10 facilities grew during this
five-year period from $994.5 million to $1.14 billion, or a 15 percent rise.
Only one facility, the White Sands Missile Testing Range in New Mexico, experienced a
modest decline in civilian payroll costs. Total employment at Cheyenne Mountain rose
by 12 civilian jobs during this period, increasing from 6,646 workers in 1992 to 6,658 as
of Sept. 30 last year. This small increase makes the vast underground complex one of the
few U.S. military bases to increase in size during the 1990s.
Birmingham said the base still watches for the launch of any high-altitude missile system
anywhere in the world, and monitored Iran's launch of an intermediate range ballistic
weapon last month. The center also tracks more than 8,500 objects in earth orbit to warn
manned space flights of possible collision threats, and assists the Justice Department and
U.S. Customs in illegal drug interdiction programs by trying to track aircraft suspected of
carrying narcotics. In addition, Cheyenne Mountain operates military communication and
navigation satellites that have become vital to Western armies. "Space support basically
allowed U.S. forces to perform that famous 'left hook' operation (during the Persian Gulf
War.) The Iraqis assumed no one could navigate that well in the desert.
The Scripps Howard manpower study found that the huge Department of Energy research
facilities: Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Argonne National Laboratory
near Chicago, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California and New
Mexico's Los Alamos - have survived despite White House downsizing policies.
These facilities were privatized decades ago and are operation centers for commercial
research contractors. Even so, Department of Energy employees who remain to monitor
the work performed at the labs have suffered only modest declines, dropping from 1,961
federal workers in 1992 to 1,615 employees last year. The overall employment at these
laboratories is much, much larger. Only 77 workers at Los Alamos, N.M., are directly
employed by the Department of Energy. But the vast lab facility managed by the
University of California employs about 10,000 non-government works.
The overall contract work at these facilities grew as the labs conducted increasingly
diverse research into basic physics with applications for industry and other non-defense
government agencies. But their original mission of designing nuclear warheads,
apparently, also has not suffered despite international agreements like the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty.
The arms race with Russia is, officially, over. But the construction, assembly and
development facilities that built the warheads and test the delivery systems continue with
slightly reduced staffs. Total employment declined by 8 percent at the Savannah River
Site in South Carolina, which produces bomb-grade uranium; the Pantex Plant in Texas,
which assembles warheads; the Redstone Arsenal complex in Alabama ,which produced
Cold War missile systems and continues to design weapons for the U.S. Army; and the
several secured facilities scattered across the Nellis Air Force Bombing range in southern
Nevada, home of the Nevada Test Site. These four groups of facilities employed 14,182
civilian workers in 1992 and 13,045 as of last year.
The Scripps Howard study is based upon civilian payroll records maintained by the U.S.
Office of Personnel Management and obtained by the Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The records provide information about 2.2 million
federal employees as of Sept. 30, 1992 and for the 1.8 million employed on the same date
last year.
PART 2
NORTH WALES
During the summer of 1998, cave explorers using scientific equipment were able to
confirm that a linked cave system some 15 miles in length exists underground in North
Wales. Several years ago a researcher by the name of Frank D. Adams wrote on the
results of his personal scientific experiments which may prove that giant cavities exist in
granite at depths of more than 11 miles, conclusions which have also been supported by
Louis V. King, a mathematician who calculated that, at normal temperatures, a cavity
would exist at a depth of between 17.2 and 20.9 miles. The authors' findings are also
supported by the discovery of "16 Rouse Belts" which give planes of fracture penetrating
the globe.
Something of an extreme claim to some, perhaps, was that of Dr. Ron Anjard in an article
in the Summer, 1978 issue of Pursuit Magazine, in which he claimed personal knowledge
of 44 underground cities beneath the surface of North America, six of which are
supposedly located on the West Coast. His information allegedly comes from anonymous
American Indian sources.
When we relate this to the large number of migration legends (to and from cavern realms)
which exist among the native Amerindians, then we may conclude that certain tribes
possibly still retain intimate knowledge of underground civilizations related to them via
distant ancestral links.
Some of the elders of these different tribes, others have suggested, may in fact maintain
present contact with several of these cavern civilizations. There are a few indications that
some such 'tribes' literally moved underground as a result of the encroaching Anglosaxon
civilization upon the America's. Similar allegations are made in relation to South and
Central America as well.
Interviews with survivors of a mine explosion in Dec. 26, 1945, known as the "Belva
Mine Disaster", appeared in the December 1981 - January 1982 issues of newspapers in
Pineville, Kentucky and elsewhere. The interviews revealed that some of the trapped men
saw a "door" in one of the walls open, and a man dressed like a "lumberjack" emerged
from a well-lighted room.
After assuring the men that they would be rescued, the strange visitor returned to the
room and closed the door. These "lumberjack-like" entities have been described by
miners in other parts of the country and in other nations as well. There seems to be some
confusion as to whether they are physical or paraphysical entities.
A somewhat similar incident allegedly took place several years ago near Shipton,
Pennsylvania. Of the three victims of this particular mine disaster, only two were rescued.
However both described a similar para-physical encounter with strange 'men' who entered
the caverns and gave light to the two trapped miners and told them that they would be
rescued. They were uncertain whether the entities were humans or supernatural beings
however, as much of their collective "hallucination" contained both physical as well as
supernatural elements. The bluish "light" which illuminated the room, they said, was real,
but other holographic-like visuals that appeared on the walls, when touched by their
hands, either disappeared or revealed solid rock behind
NEW YORK CITY
R. L. Blain-Sanders, in an article titled 'Tunnels and Caverns Beneath New York City,'
which appeared in the Fall, 1981 issue of Shavertron, described the author's knowledge
of a large triangular system of tunnels utilized by a 'Masonic lodge', deep below the
surface of New York City. Could this have any connection to the other 'rumors' to the
effect that cavernous regions exist below Manhattan? For instance, in 1962 Con Edison,
while drilling a test hole in the north of East River Park, New York City, broke through
to open space about 200 feet below. Also, there are the allegations of Morris Doreal that
the Church of St. John the Divine in New York was built over ancient tunnels leading to a
dome-shaped city abandoned by antediluvian 'Atlanteans' and later, apparently, reestablished by post- deluvians. Then we have the accounts of thousands of people who
have literally and mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth in and around New
York City.
Raymond Bond, in an article titled 'Subterranean Saucers -- Global Network of UFO
Bases', which appeared in Saga's UFO Annual 1980 (Brooklyn, N.Y.), described caves
within Mt. Sombrero in the Tampica area of Mexico, from which sounds resembling
those made by 'hydroelectric generating equipment' can be heard. Also, inhabitants of the
interior of Mt. Kilimanjaro were also described. Kilimanjaro is one of the highest peaks
in Africa.
MARYLAND
Articles in the Washington Star-News, July 25, 1973 and Aug. 15, 1973, tell of the
discovery of an unexplored network of ancient, artificial tunnels during construction of a
parking lot in Crofton, Maryland. Subsequent construction covered the tunnel entrances
before the system could be completely investigated.
BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA
Leon Davidson, in an early issue of Flying Saucers Magazine, spoke of a large network
of "underground tunnels in the California desert, at Camp Irwin, near Barstow." This may
tie-in with an item related by a Los Angeles municipal water director, as related in an
early issue of Richard Toronto's Shavertron letter-zine, stating that this water director
knew of 5 large underground rivers which ran beneath the Mojave desert, and that dietraces showed that at least one of these emptied into the Pacific ocean through openings
in the continental slopes (One source stated that such a river exited in the Gulf of
California).
Other sources speak of a "Kokoweef" river-system which is alleged to lie below
Kokoweef peak just east of Fort Irwin, which looked- -according to it's alleged
discoverer, a Mr. Earl Dorr, and a few "Indians" who also claimed to have been in it--like
a "Grand Canyon" underground. It allegedly consists of a river chasm generally 500 ft.
wide and over a thousand feet high-deep, sided by steep tiered-shelved underground
cliffs, huge stalactites and cataracts. Also, the alluvial sands on the 'beaches' along the
river, which allegedly hold a large percentage of gold dust, are said to be several feet
deep. The entrance to this cavern was allegedly dynamited shut by Mr. Dorr to protect
anyone else from getting to "his" gold. There is in fact evidence that Dorr did dynamite
shut the lower level of 'Kin Sabe' cave in Kokoweef Peak, and there are present-day
attempts to break through into this underground system. The water of the river allegedly
rose and fell with the tides, suggesting that a very large body of water might exist
upstream, that is if Dorr's account as well as the accounts of the Indians were not
fabricated).
The municipal water director, according to the Shavertron article, spoke with a man who
claimed that he was hired several years ago by the government to look for water sources
for Ft. Irwin. He alleged to have explored an old mine in the area and found that deep
down, the shaft intersected with an ancient earth fault or chasm- like cave which
continued horizontally for a considerable distance. This government employee followed
the chasm and allegedly emerged onto the bank of a huge underground river-cave over a
quarter of a mile wide! The tremendous water flow-- possibly originating from the waters
that apparently disappear beneath the Great Basin, the Nevada and Mojave deserts? could have 'fed' the water needs of all of Southern California.
Paul Doerr (not to be confused with Mr. Dorr referred to above), in issue number 6 of his
Newsletter Unknown, related the tradition concerning a race of human giants which,
according to stories in the Carolinas islands and especially Papua, allegedly went
underground in ancient times. Once inhabitants of a lost island-continent called
"Chamat," they will, according to legend, one day emerge. This legend is wide-spread
throughout Malaysia, which incidentally contains the largest "officially recognized"
cavern chamber, the "Sarowak Chamber" on the island of Borneo in the Malaysian
islands. It is said to be 230 ft. wide by 980 ft. long and nowhere less than 270 ft. high,
large enough to easily hold within itself the two previous contenders for the world's
largest official chamber - Carlsbad's "Big Room" in New Mexico and the "Salle de la
Verna" in the Pierre Saint- Martin caverns in France. Yankee stadium could fit in one end
of the Sarowak chamber with room to spare! The same issue of Unknown also reports on
the discovery of massive caverns in Toulumne Co., California, by three Oakland miners.
The caverns were so extensive that a man would have to "take grub for a week, and plan
to explore for a month."
EGYPT
Dr. Earlyne Chaney, in an article titled 'Odyssey Into Egypt, in her occult-oriented
magazine Voice of Astara (May, 1982) tells of a discovery she and researcher Bill Cox
was shown in Egypt. These were two tunnels, neither of which had been fully explored.
One was in the temple of Edfu between Luxor and Cairo in the ruins of El Tuna Gabel;
and the other near Zozer's Step Pyramid at Cairo near Memphis-Saqqarah, within the
tomb of the Bull, called "Serapium". The Egyptian government sealed both tunnels
because of fears of certain archaeologists who alleged that they "lead too deeply down
into the depths of the earth," and because they found the earth to be "honeycombed with
passages leading off into other depths," and the possibility of explorers becoming lost.
If such labyrinths do exist, then it may explain one story which alleged that men dressed
like "ancient Egyptians" have been seen deep in unexplored tunnels near Cairo, as well as
possible confirmation of the story which appeared in Nevada Aerial Research's Leading
Edge publication to the effect that the U.S.(?) Government secretly maintains a huge base
within a cavern of tremendous size (several miles in diameter) beneath the desert sands of
Egypt. Could this tie in with the vaque references to a subterranean society(s) referred to
by certain people 'in the know' which is/are known as the 'Phoenix Empire' and/or the
'Gizeh People'?
In 1993 I interveiwed researcher and author William Hamilton III on my TV talk show
'The Metaphysical Experience'. Bill is the author of Cosmic Top Secret. His researcher
has led him to discover underground government bases in the south western part of the
US.