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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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.
Are you seriously quoting Wikipedia as an authoritative source? Seriously?
According to the tinfoilers WE'RE WATCHING THEM, TOO!
LOL.
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!
Not surprising in the age of "culture of symbolism over substance".
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.
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?
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.
PING to post #70.
an electric carpet? LOLOL
Thank you for the ping, UB!
Horses wearing white gloves are then roped onto electrified carpets- what a shocking scenario.
Very funny, UB!
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.
This “related video” by the music group “The Freemasons” was more enjoyable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZ69M5a1I0&feature=related
> 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...
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