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Secrets of the Great Seal of the United States Revealed
Fox News ^ | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | AP

Posted on 02/12/2008 7:18:25 AM PST by Smelly_Fed

WASHINGTON — Conspiracy theorists take note: The myths surrounding one of America's oldest and most enduring national symbols are about to be debunked ... if you believe the government, that is. The keepers of the Great Seal of the United States, the emblem on the back of the US$1 bill, want you to know what it is not. It is not a sign that Freemasons run the country, it has nothing to do with the occult, and it does not contain clues to a fabulous hidden treasure. It is rather the nation's stamp of authority, sovereignty and power, gracing cash and embossing the most important of documents from its home at the State Department, which has held it since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the first secretary of state. Not that the Seal's symbols — the all-seeing eye, the unfinished pyramid, the Latin phrases, the bald eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows and the number 13 — aren't powerful. They are, historians say. Yet their meanings have been misidentified, misunderstood and misrepresented almost since the Continental Congress first commissioned the Seal in 1776. It would be another six years before the original design was approved and another 128 before it evolved into its current form. Along the way, a movement to decipher the Seal's meaning with ancient Egyptian, mystical and otherwise other worldly explanations has gained currency. The Internet age has seen an explosion in such conspiracy theories, many which have now been ingrained in public consciousness through the popular "National Treasure" movie franchise that serves up a combination of Masonic lore and historical myths in blockbuster Hollywood fashion.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; freemasonry; greatseal; marines; masonic; origins; statedept; symbol; symbols; thomasjefferson; treasury
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To: MeanWestTexan

I know, I know.

I guess another bro. kicked Aznar out of office in 3/11.

Thank you for the links to Howard Hunt’s testament. That makes much more sense.


61 posted on 02/12/2008 12:33:12 PM PST by J Aguilar (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: J Aguilar

Are you seriously quoting Wikipedia as an authoritative source? Seriously?


62 posted on 02/12/2008 1:12:19 PM PST by Smelly_Fed
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To: patton
That's okay.

According to the tinfoilers WE'RE WATCHING THEM, TOO!

63 posted on 02/12/2008 3:58:42 PM PST by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. In fact, I'm enjoying every minute of it.)
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To: uglybiker

LOL.


64 posted on 02/12/2008 4:44:18 PM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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To: CutePuppy
The historians are attempting to redefine popular culture. These symbols are from free masonry. And the RINO/Liberal cultural wars dictate that these symbols be decried as neutered!

What utter BS. Freemasons wrote the constitution. Its language is patterned after written free mason ritual.

These historiams are liberal socialist historians with an agenda, educated in the best liberal ivory towers our nation could afford. F' em!

Next thing you know the "rough riders" will simply be an hsitoric reference to condoms.

Utter complete BUNK!

65 posted on 02/12/2008 5:54:43 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
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To: Candor7
The historians are attempting to redefine popular culture. These symbols are from free masonry. And the RINO/Liberal cultural wars dictate that these symbols be decried as neutered!

Not surprising in the age of "culture of symbolism over substance".

66 posted on 02/12/2008 6:40:20 PM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: CutePuppy
of "culture of symbolism over substance>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.,p> Thats right. So we have pink cowboys corn holing each other in Broke Back Mountain and all other conservattive icons being attacked and redefined!

Its such a laugh that people generally do not know just how comprehensive that social movement really is.

I get a laugh out of it. I mean , the pyramid with eye is clearly a masonic symbol , which is predated in its use by the Egyptians as the all seeing eye of Ra, memorialized by a golden cap since removed, on top of the pyramids at Giza, which would refelect the sun. Thus the depiction of a radiant eye on the dollar, coming into US culture through the fraternal order of freemasons, whose culture esconced the entire liberty movement in 1776, and provided secrecy in its structire for the "Sons of Liberty."

Now all that background is UNTRUE? What a laugh these liberal iconoclasts are.

67 posted on 02/12/2008 7:04:36 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
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To: Smelly_Fed

I’d quote the sentence of the Bologna massacre case, but it is in Italian.

BTW, the article in wikipedia is too soft.

Wasn’t P2, in addition to a subversive conspiracy, a masonic lodge linked to the Great Orient of Italy?


68 posted on 02/13/2008 6:03:15 AM PST by J Aguilar (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: J Aguilar

I trust you understand that literally anyone can edit Wikipedia. It’s not an authoratative source for anything.

I suggest you read Jasper Ridley’s “The Freemasons: A History of the World’s Most Powerful Secret Society”, New York, 2001.

Ridley is not a Freemason, but he’s a researcher and writer and has researched the Calvi/P2 controversy and came up with the same conclusion that Discovery Channel recently did in their production on the History of Freemasons — that the P2 controversy and the connection to Freemasonry is certainly fiction. An attempt by anti-masons to cause controversey for masons.

In answer to your second question, yes the P2 lodge was under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient Lodge of Italy, just as all regular Italian lodges would be... they have since been expelled however.


69 posted on 02/13/2008 6:29:55 AM PST by Smelly_Fed
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To: Smelly_Fed
Aw geez! Looks like they really are on to us!
70 posted on 02/13/2008 2:28:20 PM PST by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. In fact, I'm enjoying every minute of it.)
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To: Chode; TheLion; AxelPaulsenJr; jimt; Eric in the Ozarks; oldtimer; pt17; MeanWestTexan; hershey; ...
Oops! forgot to add 'the List'!

PING to post #70.

71 posted on 02/13/2008 10:09:48 PM PST by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. In fact, I'm enjoying every minute of it.)
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To: uglybiker

an electric carpet? LOLOL


72 posted on 02/13/2008 10:20:35 PM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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To: uglybiker
Thank you for the ping, UB!

73 posted on 02/13/2008 10:35:36 PM PST by bd476
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To: uglybiker
Horses wearing white gloves are then roped onto electrified carpets- what a shocking scenario.

Very funny, UB!

74 posted on 02/13/2008 10:45:42 PM PST by bd476
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To: Smelly_Fed
I know you all write books, but number does not mean quality. I mean, most if not all the books that say that 3/11 was masterminded by a mental discapacited can be traced back to masons.

Understand that I cannot trust whoever does not recognize his mistakes -maybe because for him they weren't at all- or keeps thinking that the rest of mortals are stupid.

P2 members carried out the Strategy of Tension in Italy, even before 1976, when it was officialy under the Great Orient.

There was a conspiracy at the highest level, and it was linked to the masonery. That is the Truth.
75 posted on 02/13/2008 11:37:35 PM PST by J Aguilar (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: J Aguilar

Alright well like I said, Ridley isn’t a freemason but I can see there’s no point in discussing this with you.

Anyway, good luck with your conspiracy theory.


76 posted on 02/14/2008 5:35:19 AM PST by Smelly_Fed
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To: uglybiker

This “related video” by the music group “The Freemasons” was more enjoyable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZ69M5a1I0&feature=related


77 posted on 02/14/2008 7:16:01 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Don't blame me; I will write in Thompson.)
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To: Smelly_Fed

> Nice of them to let freemasons off the hook after 225 years. What are the conspiracy theorists going to do with themselves now?

The Brotherhood did well to divert their attention this time. Now our plans for World Domination can continue apace without busybody Conspiracy Theorists getting in the way...


78 posted on 02/14/2008 6:42:45 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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