What does archaeology have to do with politics and big business? Everything. This next statement, written in boldface, may sound absurd to you; but please keep reading, then look at the photographic evidence in this article, then draw your own conclusion:

By controlling major academic institutions and the mass media, a vastly wealthy elite group of powerful corporate families is successfully hiding historical and spiritual truths of our ancient past. The goal of this group is to maintain a secretive global system of economic and political tyranny that their forefathers established more than a century ago that was once termed the “Invisible Government” by influential American leaders.

More specifically, this elite are concealing the fact that there once existed a highly-sophisticated “Golden Age” civilization on earth in remote prehistory. This Golden Age civilization ended abruptly, but left behind a powerfully-advanced spiritual doctrine that was later inherited by the world’s first known civilizations, all children of the Golden Age.

The world’s first cultures inherited and practiced this “Universal Religion” via the now-academically-taboo process called “hyperdiffusionism,” a pejorative 20th century term recently invented by the establishment media and academia:

“Hyperdiffusionism — the theory that all cultures originated from one [Golden Age] culture. Hyperdiffusionists deny that parallel evolution or independent invention took place to any great extent throughout history, they claim that…all cultures can be traced back to a single culture.”

— Wikipedia

By denouncing, and thus debilitating, any academic study even remotely related to the so-called “hyperdiffusionist” model of history—a model that was widely accepted by scholars of past centuries, who called the Golden Age civilization “Atlantis”—the elite have successfully kept the Universal Religion out of our reach. In doing so they have prevented us from accessing a deep, self-empowering body of wisdom that has the potential to stir a paradigm shift in humanity which would endanger their global hegemony.

The present article relates a single example of hyperdiffusionism in the ancient past. It’s a revealing look at how the ancient culture of the Mayans, a highly-advanced civilization that flourished on the Yucatán Peninsula in southeastern Mexico, is mysteriously similar to a parallel culture on the other side of the globe, the ancient Balinese, who flourished on the tiny island of Bali in Southeast Asia. What you are about to see is evidence of the Universal Religion on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, apparently handed down by the same Golden Age civilization.

Establishment scholars say the Mayans and the Balinese were never in contact, since they were separated by the Pacific Ocean, which these scholars say was impassible by the ancients. Yet these  scholars never offer to explain the profound parallels the two cultures shared. Here are 12 examples of these parallels:

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#1 – Stepped Pyramids (With Temples On Top)

BALINESE (LEFT): The Mother Temple of Besakih, or Pura Besakih, is the most important, the largest and holiest pyramidal temple in Bali, Indonesia, and one of a series of Balinese temples. It has stepped terraces, resembling a stepped pyramid.

MAYAN (RIGHT): This stepped pyramid, called the High Priest’s Temple or Ossuary, has four sides with staircases on each side. The sides of the stairways are decorated with interlaced feathered serpents. Pillars associated with this building are in the form of the Toltec feathered serpent and human figures.

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#2 – Twin Dragons / Serpents Balusters Running Down Temple Sides

BALINESE (LEFT): The last stage of Besakih temple is called Stairway to Heaven, and it is made of twin serpent / dragon balustrades that run down the full length of the stairway. At the bottom of the stairway their mouths are open.

MAYAN (RIGHT): The pyramid of El Castillo features plumed serpents that run down the sides of the northern balustrade. At the bottom of the stairway their mouths are open. During the spring and autumn equinoxes, the late afternoon sun strikes off the northwest corner of the pyramid and casts a series of triangular shadows against the northwest balustrade, which creates the illusion of a feathered serpent “crawling” down the pyramid.

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#3 – Sacred Corbel Arch Architecture

BALINESE (LEFT): This corbel arch from a temple complex in Ubud is constructed by offsetting successive courses of stone (or brick) at the springline of the walls so that they project towards the archway’s center from each supporting side, until the courses meet at the apex of the archway. Often, the last gap is bridged with a flat stone.

MAYAN (RIGHT): Notable throughout Maya architecture is the corbel arch, which directs the weight off of the lintel and onto the supporting posts. The corbel vault has no keystone, as European arches do, making the Maya vault appear more like a narrow triangle than an archway. Often, the last gap is bridged with a flat stone.

Renowned 19th century Mayanist Augustus Le Plongeon, who has since been discredited because of his hyperdiffusionist idea that the world’s first cultures were children of a much older civilization named Atlantis, believed that the universality of the corbel arch in Antiquity was strong evidence of hyperdiffusionism:

“…Augustus Le Plongeon, a pioneering Mayanist, renowned for having made the earliest thorough and systematic photographic documentation of archaeological sites in Yucatan…

…for Le Plongeon, the most important evidence of cultural diffusion was the Mayas’ corbelled arch.  The arches… he believed, had proportions that related to the “mystic numbers 3.5.7″ which he stated were used by ancient Masonic master builders…Those same proportions, he also noted, were found in tombs in Chaldea and Etruria, in ancient Greek structures and as part of the Great Pyramid in Egypt…

Throughout his writings, including “The Origins of the Egyptians” published posthumously in 1913, he compares modern and ancient Maya and Egyptian ethnography, linguistics, iconography and religious practices…He was basically on the right track methodologically, and he did make a number of intriguing observations and analogies…”

—Lawrence G. Desmond, Augustus Le Plongeon: A Fall From Archaeological Grace

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#4 – Parallel “Fearsome” Deities At Temple Entrances

BALINESE (LEFT): Note the face, right hand, left hand, and left foot. This fearsome looking Balinese deity marks the entrances to Balinese temples. He has a torch in his left hand, huge teeth and fangs, long hair, a beard, and a fearful expression. In the bottom photo you can see his left foot points out to the left while his right hand is close-fisted just below his chest, elbow out—similar to the Mayan photo.

MAYAN (RIGHT): Note the face, right hand, left hand, and left foot. This fearsome looking “howler monkey god” statue marks the entrances to Mayan temples. The howler monkey god was a major deity of the arts—including music—and a patron of the artisans among the Classic Mayas, especially of the scribes and sculptors. He holds a torch in his left hand, has huge teeth, long hair, a beard, and a fearful expression. In the bottom photo you can see his left foot points outward to the left while his right hand is close-fisted just below his chest, elbow out—similar to the Balinese photo.

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#5 – Sculpted Stone Serpents

BALINESE (LEFT): Balinese serpents carved in stone protrude from the sides of temples. The serpent is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols; it represents fertility or the creative life force. As snakes shed their skin through moulting, they are symbols of rebirth, transformation, immortality, and healing. The ouroboros is a symbol of eternity and continual renewal of life.

MAYAN (RIGHT): Mayan serpents carved in stone protrude from the sides of temples. The serpent was a very important social and religious symbol, revered by the Mayans. The shedding of their skin made them a symbol of rebirth and renewal. The chief Mesoamerican god, Quetzalcoatl, was represented as a feathered serpent. The Vision Serpent was also important. During Mayan rituals participants would experience visions in which they communicated with the ancestors or gods. These visions took the form of a giant serpent which served as a gateway to the spirit realm. The ancestor or god who was being contacted was depicted as emerging from the serpent’s mouth.

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#6 – Spiritual Energy Harnessed Through Hand Gestures

BALINESE (LEFT): Notice the yoga-style position of the hands of Acintya (Statuette of Acintya, Bali Museum) the chief deity of the ancient Balinese religion. An important aspect of the ancient worldwide practice of yoga is the subtle but key practice of hand, body and eye postures, to invoke certain flows of energy and create certain states of consciousness, called in India “yoga mudras” or “hand yoga gestures.”

MAYAN (RIGHT): Stela at Copan of king Waxaklahuun Ub’aah K’awiil, believe to have been erected December 5, 711. Note the position of his hands as compared to Acynta. Hand yoga gestures generally work by preventing the dissipation of prana (life-force) from the fingertips.  In order to do this, one brings the fingers together in various ways, which helps create certain subtle energy circuits.  These circuits then channel prana along particular pathways to affect the mind/body complex in specific ways.

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#7 – Frightening Faces Above Doorways (With Recessed Lintels)

BALINESE (LEFT): Many Balinese temples depict faces of deities—often grotesque or scary visages— above the main doorway. Note how the top of the doorway steps inward in successive steps. In one sense, these were used as apotropaic symbols, having the power to prevent evil or bad luck and to scare away evil spirits. The doorways and windows of buildings were felt to be particularly vulnerable to evil. On churches and castles, gargoyles or other grotesque faces and figures would be carved to frighten away evil and other malign influences.

MAYAN (RIGHT): Many Mayan temples depict faces of deities—often grotesque or scary visages— above the main doorway. Note how the top of the doorway steps inward in successive steps. Some scholars believe these to be masks. The Mayan’s created masks showing the faces of snakes and various animals and these masks were quite common.

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#8 – Twin Elephant Deities

BALINESE (LEFT): An elephant head at the entrance to a Balinese temple. The elephant here may or may not predate the practice of Hinduism on the island. In Hinduism, the most widely worshiped Hindu god deity is Lord Ganesha: The Elephant God. He represents “perfect wisdom” and is considered to be the “remover of obstacles” and “bestower of prosperity.” He combines the natures of the two most intelligent beings—man and elephant.

MAYAN (RIGHT): An elephant head on a Mayan sculpture. Elephant heads are prominent in art and sculpture throughout the ancient Americas. This is a bit of a mystery, since elephants were supposed to have disappeared from America about 10,000 years ago as the Ice Ages waned. Scholars in the past who subscribed to diffusionist theories believed the elephant imagery was created by the Mayans either because they themselves originated in the Old World or because they had seen elephants first hand after traveling there themselves. It is also possible that cultures in the Americas are far more ancient than scholars realize, and stretch back to a time when elephants were still living in the Americas.  British surgeon and sinologist. W. Perceval Yetts (1878 – 1957) wrote:

“So far back as 1813 doubts were thrown on the autochthony attributed to Maya culture, and about ten years ago the famous anatomist Professor G. Elliot Smith revived some of the old arguments and fortified them with many ingenious speculations of his own…to prove that a certain motive used in Maya design was derived from the Old World. The motive is well displayed twice on a carved monolith at Copan…and Professor Smith champions the identification of these two forms as heads of elephants, and, above all, as heads of Indian elephants.”

—W. Perceval Yetts, Elephants and Maya Art

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#9 – Monster Temples With Massive “Mouth” Entrances

BALINESE (LEFT): This is the Goa Gajah temple, also called Elephant Cave. On the façade of the cave is an enormous zoomorphic mask with the entrance to the temple as its mouth. Next to this figure in relief are various menacing creatures and demons carved in the rock at the cave entrance. The primary figure was once thought to be an elephant, hence the nickname Elephant Cave. The site is mentioned in the Javanese poem Desawarnana written in 1365. An extensive bathing place on the site was not excavated until the 1950s. These appear to have been built to ward off evil spirits.

MAYAN (RIGHT): Uxmal: Pyramid of the Magician. On the façade of the pyramid entrance is an enormous zoomorphic mask with the entrance to the temple as its mouth. Next to this figure in relief are various menacing creatures and demons carved in the rock at the entrance. Linda Schele (1942 – 1998) an expert in the field of Mayan epigraphy and iconography, wrote:

“The façades of Maya architecture served as a stage front for ritual and carriers of important religious and political symbolism…One of the most impressive techniques was to treat the entire façade as a great monster head with the door as its mouth, as on…the Pyramid of the Magician at Uxmal…People entering such buildings appeared to be walking into the gullet of the monster.”

—Linda Schele, The Iconography of Maya Architectural Façades during the Late Classic Period

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#10 – Chakana Cross Symbols

BALINESE (LEFT): Scholars have mostly ignored this esoteric spiritual symbol that repeats on Balinese stone monuments, here shown on the Bali Pavilion of Taman Mini. But in Andean culture (Incas, pre-Incas) it’s well-known as “Chakana,” which stands for “Inca Cross.” The Chakana symbolizes for Inca mythology what is known in other mythologies as the World Tree (i.e., the Tree of Life). A stepped cross, with three steps on each side, it is made up of an equal-armed cross indicating the cardinal points of the compass and a superimposed square

MAYAN (RIGHT): Chakana symbols similar to those created by the Incas and pre-Incas of the Andes in Peru exist throughout Mayan art and architecture where they held the same religious meaning and served the same spiritual purpose. As in Bali, the Chakana takes the form of a stepped cross, with three steps on each side. It is made up of an equal-armed cross indicating the cardinal points of the compass and a superimposed square.

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#11 – Third Eye Dot Between Eyes On Forehead

BALINESE (LEFT): The Balinese sculpted faces and wood carvings at left display the Third Eye dot in the forehead, symbolic of the ancient “Third Eye” explained in the religions, mythologies and spiritual systems of indigenous cultures around the world. The Third Eye is available to all of us and we can open it and use it to see the “inner soul,” which is who we really re (i.e., we are the soul, not the body). You can learn more about the Third Eye here.

MAYAN (RIGHT): Mayan stone faces at right display the Third Eye dot in the forehead, symbolic of the ancient “Third Eye” explained in the Mayan religion. You can learn more about the Third Eye here.

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#12 – “Triptych” Three-Door Temples—With Accent On Center Door

BALINESE (LEFT): The Triptych three-in-one temple is common throughout Bali, visible on countless temples all over the island. The Triptych pattern relates the central teaching of the indigenous Balinese religion, which is related to the Third Eye. You can learn more about this religion symbolized by the Triptych here.

MAYAN (RIGHT): The Triptych three-in-one temple is common throughout Mexico, visible on countless Mayan, Aztec and other cultural temples all over the Yucatan. The Triptych pattern relates the central teaching of the indigenous Mayan religion, and pre-Columbian religion in general. You can learn more about this religion symbolized by the Triptych here.

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Why Scholars Fail To Study The Parallels

These are 12 major parallels still visible in the ruins of the ancient Balinese and ancient Mayan cultures—twin civilizations that developed on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean who scholars say were never in contact and who scholars believe developed independently of each other. The parallels shared here point to a far different story than scholars tell. The evidence indicates a much deeper relationship shared by the ancient Balinese and ancient Mayans.

Yet establishment scholars are completely ignoring these parallels, not out of spite or because they are purposely trying to cover something up; but because they are being controlled to do so in a way so subtle that even they themselves aren’t unaware of it.

How?

These scholars—mainstream historians and archaeologists—are fundamentally honest and hard-working people who perform the extraordinarily laborious task of unearthing artifacts from our ancient past. When they say “there’s no mystery in the past” and “hyperdiffusionism is an outdated model of history” it seems clear that they themselves genuinely believe it; they’re not trying to deceive the public in any way.

The problem is that they are locked into a particular paradigm that sees our society as the apex and pinnacle of the human story. They view history as a straightforward evolutionary process that went from primitive cavemen through a gradual development into agriculture and then down into the Greeks, Romans, the Middle Ages, and finally the Enlightenment and beginning of Science, all ending with our highly technological civilization of today, which in their minds is the “supreme” one.

They are 100% locked into this “evolutionary” idea of how history works, and so it’s very difficult for them to accept that deep in the remote past there existed a civilization or Golden Age that was even higher than we are, and that was able to do things that we cannot. This is the lens through which they view reality, and so they dismiss any anomalous evidence or find plausible explanations for any evidence that does not jive with this reality.

Moreover, being a “scholar” or an “academic” is a job, a profession, which is part of a larger structure. If you want to get a job as a “scholar” or “academic” you absolutely need to buy into its mindset; buy into the paradigm. If you don’t buy in then you simply won’t get hired, and you won’t climb the ladder and move up. Thinkers and researchers who might have wilder or different or more extra ordinary ideas of the past are thus weeded out so that the ones who are left are those who have bought into the existing paradigm.

Thus, no scholar dares challenge the “established” model against hyperdiffusionism, that is, if he or she wishes to get published or win research grants or move along in the profession. This is the simple way in which research into the human past is being controlled by forces we can’t see and most of us don’t understand.

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In Conclusion

This is a very brief look at highlights of the parallels common to two ancient civilizations separated by the Pacific ocean. Like a jig-saw puzzle, the missing pieces of these twin cultures separated by the Pacific Ocean can be put together to reveal a common ancestry.

Scholars of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century believed they understood this ancestry. According to their research, in the dimness of remote Antiquity, in an age so prehistoric it is now lost to time and memory, there once existed a spiritually-advanced “Golden Age” civilization which far surpassed our own modern society culturally and spiritually. The world’s first cultures were all children of this Golden Age “Mother Culture,” and we can still see traces of it today in the many similarities shared by those civilizations that we understand to be the world’s first cultures.

The trouble is, if you mention this Golden Age culture to scholars by using the words “hyperdiffusion,” “Atlantis” or “Lost Civilization,” then not only have you lost their ear, but you’ve lost the ear of most people who hinge on every word the academics say (without thinking for themselves). Hyperdiffusionism is bubkis; that’s the academic line, and if you don’t tow it you’re through.

Richard Cassaro is the author of the groundbreaking new book Written In Stone: Decoding The Secret Masonic Religion Hidden In Gothic Cathedrals & World Architecture:

Ancient Greek gold disk with swastikas at Greece’s
Otagon Museum dates to the 8th century B.C.

Hinduism—with its exceptionally high spiritual concepts of the Eternal Soul, Reincarnation, Karma, Yoga, the Third Eye, and Nirvana (concepts that many whites are mysteriously embracing today)—is the lost religious tradition of Europe, long before Christianity and the Hebrew Bible arose 2,000 years ago and took its place. This is not a racist conjecture or unsupported opinion; it’s a fact grounded in academia.

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Swastikas Found On Ruins Across Ancient Europe

All ancient European cultures—i.e., the Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, Gauls, Celts, etc. —practiced the same high spiritual religion of Hinduism. We can still see this religion’s central symbol, the swastika, all over European ruins, visible in this 1898 Yale University study:

The Swastikas Of Ancient Europe from a 1898 Yale University study.

Ancient Swastika on a Minoan pottery piece from Crete.

Ancient Roman Mosaic with swastika.

Small terracotta jug with swastika, from Crete.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Most people today associate Hinduism with India. This is correct. But Hinduism was not born in India. It was brought into India, according to scholars. Before settling in Europe, scholars believe the nomadic “Aryans” (or white race) invaded ancient India from the north, bringing Hinduism with them and introducing Hinduism into the subcontinent, where it has existed ever since.

(NOTE: We’re taught in school that the term “Aryan” signifies Hitler’s supposed belief in a blond-haired, blue-eyed “master race.” But this is a lie, plain and simple. Historically, “Aryan” has always meant “white people,” i.e., Europeans. For hundreds of years before World War II, university scholars across the world used “Aryan” to denote “whites.” Do a simple search in Google books and you’ll see.)

Hinduism is still practiced across India today. But Europe suffered a different fate. The introduction of Christianity two thousand years ago cut the Caucasian race off from its indigenous Hindu religious roots, plunging Europe into the Dark Ages from which Europeans and white people in general have tried—but in many ways failed—to emerge.

Learn more about the hidden origins of the swastika and the white race in the new book Written In Stone by Richard Cassaro:

This secret origin of Hinduism and the white race is unlocked in a simple, fascinating chronicle known in academic circles as the ancient “Aryan Invasion of India” model of history. Again, this is no fringe theory; it is accepted by a vast majority of the world’s scholars, archaeologists, professors and academics.

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The Aryan Invasion of India

Scholars now for centuries have believed that prehistoric India—the land of the swastika, which is the key symbol of Hinduism—was once home to two races: the light-skinned Aryans and the dark-skinned Dravidians.

The Aryan invasion theory posits that the Dravidians were the native people of India long ago, and at a certain point were invaded from the north by a sophisticated Caucasian race of nomadic warriors, the Aryans. The victory of the Aryans was quick and complete, and they chose to stay, abandoning their nomadic lifestyle and settling amongst the natives. The Aryans taught the Dravidians their advanced Aryan culture and religion, the key symbol of which is the swastika, eventually leading to the dominance of their culture and language over the northern part of the subcontinent. The Aryans instituted the caste system and established themselves as the dominant caste in order to protect their white skin and keep their blood pure. These Aryans, according to historians, are the ones who composed the sophisticated Vedic writings; these writings form the heart of the religion of Hinduism.

From India, the Aryans eventually migrated westward into Europe, creating the high cultures that evolved into Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, and so on. Every Caucasian in America who can trace family roots to Europe is a descendant of these historical Aryans.

Again, this is not an opinion, it is pure scholarship. In Barbarian Tides, a 1982 publication from the highly respected Time-Life Books library, we are told:

“These people, the Aryans, would bestow their social institutions on the Indian subcontinent and spawn a unique spiritual culture, Hinduism.”

“The caste concept sprang from the Aryans’ extreme race consciousness: the very word they used for “caste” meant “color.”

This has an interesting consequence that many Westerners would not hit upon at first: Long before Christianity, most Caucasians in Europe were practicing the religion we now call Hinduism. If the Aryans brought Hinduism to India, and the Europeans are descended from Aryans, as the chronology necessitates, then consequently all European ancestors, at some point in time, practiced a form of Hinduism.

Of course, most Westerners today realize the swastika is sacred among Hindus who live in India; it is visible on Indian temples, altars, religious scriptures, used in Hindu weddings, festivals, and ceremonies, and painted on houses, clothing and jewelry.

SWASTIKAS IN INDIA

Hindu temple in India featuring swastikas.

Indian musician with swastika guitar.

Hindu temple in India featuring swastikas.

However, most Westerners are unaware that the swastika was once ancient Europe’s most important and prolific religious symbol.

SWASTIKAS IN ANCIENT EUROPE

Swastika from ancient Gaul. Musée gallo-romain, Lyon, France.

Ancient Roman mosaic floor decorated with swastikas in La Olmeda, Spain.

Artemis with swastikas. Greece, circa 700 B.C.

Shortly after the real-life groundbreaking discovery of the mythical Troy in the 1870s by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), he found a multitude of artifacts bearing the swastika in the city’s ruins. Having consulted with two leading Sanskrit scholars, Emile Burnouf and Max Müller, Schliemann became convinced it was a central Aryan religious symbol. Burnouf, a French Orientalist,  felt that the swastika was proof not only of the westward migration of Aryan tribes from India, but of the symbol’s connection to the sophisticated ancient Aryan religion—Hinduism.

In his 1896 book, The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol and its Migrations, Thomas Wilson, former curator of the Department of Prehistoric Anthropology in the U.S. National Museum, wrote of the swastika:

“Some authorities are of the opinion that it was an Aryan symbol and used by the Aryan peoples before their dispersion through Asia and Europe. This is a fair subject for inquiry and might serve as an explanation how…as a sacred symbol…the Swastika might have been carried to the different peoples and countries in which we now find it by the splitting up of the Aryan peoples and their migrations and establishment in the various parts of Europe.”

—Thomas Wilson

By the 20th century, swastika images were being discovered on artifacts all across Europe, designed into mosaics, friezes, sculptures, and paintings, used by the Etruscans, Romans, Scandinavians, Sabines, Phrygians and Greeks.

Outside of Europe, the swastika was found in some Mesopotamian city-states, on Hittite and ancient Iranian relics, and used by the indigenous Bön faith of Tibet. The swastika is also important in Buddhism and Jainism—modern offshoots of the prehistoric religion of Hinduism—adorning temples, and forming a repeating pattern in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese art.

The Dalai Lama with Swastikas.

Swastika on Japanese Buddhist temple.

Swastika on Japanese Buddhist temple.

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Revival Of The Swastika In Europe – “God Is Dead”

Soon after Schliemann’s discovery, the swastika became en vogue among whites in Europe, many of whom began to denounce Christianity en masse and to see the swastika as an authentic emblem of their European ancestry. The movement spread to whites across the world:

The Edmonton Swastikas, Canada 1916

Boys swastika basketball team, San Francisco, 1908.

English author and Freemason Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
used the swastika on the dust jackets of his books.

Actress Clara Bow wearing swastikas in the 1920s.

Coca Cola made a swastika-shaped watch fob.

At the time, the writings of the influential 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) were also helping to bring the swastika into circulation. Nietzsche is famous for his impassioned denouncement of biblical monotheism. “God is dead” was his famous proclamation in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883).

What did Nietzsche mean by this provocative sentence “God is Dead”?

Nietzsche charged that the Christian religion ascendant in the West since Roman times has been a magnificent hoax perpetrated by “the Jews” (as he put it), designed to put them into a position of power, influence, and authority. The Jewish aim, he believed, was to elevate the Hebrew God into the world’s God by establishing the New Testament religion onto the foundations of their Old Testament tradition:

“…Christianity can be understood only in terms of the soil out of which it grew—it is not a counter-movement to the Jewish instinct, it is its very consequence… even today the Christian can feel anti-Jewish without realizing that he himself is the ultimate Jewish consequence…”

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche’s teachings fit right in with the anti-Semitic and racially charged atmosphere of 19th and early 20th century “white Europe,” which was fast becoming uncomfortable with what it now considered its unauthentic Jewish (Semitic) ancestry. Nevertheless, Nietzsche’s work is no anti-Semitic rant; his work offers important insight into how the biblical Old Testament (and it’s “God,” Yahweh) has been unnaturally grafted onto European history, cutting whites off from their ancestral and indigenous Hindu religion.

As early as the Renaissance, many Europeans were already unwilling to continue in the biblical tradition, which they now perceived as alien to their ancestry. By the 19th century, European scholars and laymen had begun to rediscover their own religious heritage. This anti-Judeo/Christian movement gained tremendous ground among scholars, academics, and intellectuals, like Aldous Huxley, who always distrusted monotheism. In his article ‘One And Many’ Huxley says that:

“monotheism, as we know it in the West, was invented by the Jews”

—Aldous Huxley, One And Many

Followers of the Abrahamic or Semitic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam did not use the swastika. The Semitic people had a very different religious, cultural, and linguistic history from the Indo-Europeans (called Indo-European because the Aryans settled in India before migrating into Europe); the Semitic religions present in Europe, via Christianity, are much younger than the religion suggested by the swastika.

Learn more about the hidden origins of the swastika and the white race in the book Written In Stone by Richard Cassaro:

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Sanskrit, Europe’s Mother Tongue

The whole “Aryan invasion” model arose after the English philologist Sir William Jones (1746-1794) recognized similarities between the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit and the more modern European languages, including Latin and Greek, the Germanic, Celtic and Slavic languages.

Scholars found that Sanskrit was in fact the “mother-tongue” from which these and indeed all of Europe’s languages had evolved. European languages are now called “Indo-European” in honor of their “Indo” or “Indian” (Sanskrit) origin. Other researchers soon built on Jones’ work, showing that the Avestan and Armenian languages were also based on Sanskrit.

The term “Aryan” derives from the ancient Indian (Vedic Sanskrit) and Persian (Avestan) term arya for “noble.” The Aryan tribes in India called their land Aaryaa varta or Aryan expanse. The Aryans in Iran similarly named their land Airyanem Vaejah, or Iranian Expanse, today known as Iran, which is a variant of “Aryan.”

Westerners unaware of Iran’s Aryan ancestry often lump it in with surrounding Arab states based on their shared religion of Islam. Iran, however, is distinct in many ways, having retained much of its national, racial and cultural identity for thousands of years. Describing the Iranians, the famous 5th Century B.C Greek Historian Herodotus wrote:

“In ancient times… they were renowned as Aryans among themselves and their neighbors.”

—Herodotus

The 6th Century BC King of Persia, Darius the Great, in an inscription in Naqsh-e-Rostam says:

“I am Darius the great King… A Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage …”

—Darius The Great

About two-thirds of Iran’s current population is described as “Caucasian,” descended from ancient Aryan tribes who pushed through Iran and continued westward into Europe from northern India. The remaining one-third is considered Turks and Arabs.

The Shah had the title Arya-Mehr, which means “Light of the Aryans.” An ancient Iranian tradition comparable to India’s caste system and still in practice today is the rule against interracial marriage. Aryan Iranians are prohibited by their families—and in some cases by communal law—from marrying non-Aryans.

Famous German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1832) believed Jones’ linguistic discovery was proof of the westward migration of the ancient Aryans. Norwegian Sanskritist Christian Lassen (1800-1876) agreed, pointing out that ancient Aryans, like modern high caste people of India, had a lighter complexion. German lexicographer Jacob Grimm (1785- 1863), who compiled ancient Aryan myths now called “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” (i.e., Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Rapunzel), asserted that these stories were used for millennia as vehicles for transporting incredibly advanced spiritual teachings across time.

These renowned thinkers had a powerful influence in Europe, where they exerted a tremendous impact on the German philologist and Orientalist Max Muller (1823–1900), one of the 19th century’s most celebrated scholars.

Muller wrote:

“The Aryan nations…stand before us in history as the principal nations of northwestern Asia and Europe. …They have perfected society and morals; and we learn from their literature and works of art the elements of science, the laws of art, and the principles of philosophy. …these Aryan nations have become the rulers of history, and it seems to be their mission to link all parts of the world together by the chains of civilization…”

—Max Muller

By the 1800s the British were already using this model for the political purpose of justifying their occupation and colonial rule of India, which began in the early 1600s and ended in 1947.

Several writers and historians had traced the origins of the Aryans to the Caucasus Mountains region; these mountains bridge Europe and Asia, and from this idea the term “Caucasian,” invented by German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), came into widespread use.

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The Great “Flood” That Sank Atlantis

Some scholars traced the Aryan homeland just east of the Caucasus to Tibet, the so-called “roof of the world,” where many scholars believed the floodwaters that destroyed Atlantis (yes, Atlantis) sent Atlantean refugees into high-altitude Tibet, where they remained safe for generations. The Aryans slowly arose here, according to this idea, to become the direct descendants and blood inheritors of the Atlanteans. Interestingly, the world-famous German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), describing Tibet, said:

“…this is the highest country. No doubt it was inhabited before any other and could even have been the site of all creation and all science. The culture of the Indians, as is known, almost certainly came from Tibet, just as all our arts like agriculture, numbers, the game of chess, etc., seem to have come from India.”

—Immanuel Kant

Scholars, thinkers, and philosophers once accepted this chronicle as fact. In Cosmic Memory, for example, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the famous Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, and social thinker, wrote:

“The greatest part of the Atlantean population declined, and from a small portion are descended the so-called Aryans who comprise present-day civilized humanity.”

— Rudolf Steiner, Cosmic Memory

Steiner’s pre-Nazi era sentiment reflects the widespread European belief of his day. This may surprise some Americans familiar with Steiner’s reputation as an innovative educator. Today there are over one hundred “Steiner schools” throughout North America plus dozens in other countries, serving hundreds of thousands of students.

The Greek philosopher Plato first named Atlantis in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, in the fourth century B.C. He spoke of it as a sophisticated antediluvian empire that flourished for eons on a now submerged continent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from which its name is taken. Plato maintained that the Atlanteans possessed a highly spiritual wisdom religion, which enabled them to “see” their own divine and eternal “soul” inside the physical body. According to him, seeing the “soul within” allowed the Atlanteans to harness its higher powers.

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Plato asserted that a memory of these powers is preserved in the fantastic abilities attributed to the “gods” of Greek and Roman mythology; instead of being actual gods, they were mortals endowed with amplified perceptions due to their connection with their eternal soul (think here of Christ and Buddha). In time, however, the Atlantean kingdom grew weak due to their materializing tendencies, weak enough that they began to lose touch with the inner divinity that granted them such power. Plato wrote:

“For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin. …they reckoned that qualities of character were far more important than their present prosperity. So they bore the burden of their wealth and possessions lightly, and did not let their high standard of living intoxicate them or make them lose their self-control…But when the divine element in them became weakened…and their human traits became predominant, they ceased to be able to carry their prosperity with moderation.”

—Plato

Plato goes on to explain that the end of Atlantis came some several thousand years ago, when a series of natural disasters sank their continent into the sea. A handful of survivors escaped the devastation, spreading to different parts of the world and taking their pyramid-building religion with them. Until fairly recently, most scholars believed that ancient civilizations, separated by both time and space, built pyramids and pyramidal monuments in honor of their mother culture, Atlantis:

Even today this theory is still widely held and debated. Pyramids can be found in India, China, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Ireland and many other places. Such diverse structures with similar purposes seem to indicate a connection; if there was no communication between the cultures during their development, there must then be a common source.

Skeptics point to the disparity in “pyramid-ages” around the world (scholars believe Old World pyramids were built thousands of years before New World pyramids). However, New World scholars are continuously pushing back the date of pre-Columbian pyramids and it seems only a matter of time before the dates run parallel; even if they were not, the similarity of construction, intention, and purpose of the Old and New World pyramid structures makes the idea of such an exact coincidence unlikely at best.

Most pre-World War II scholars agreed that the world’s pyramids were connected to Atlantis. They saw the Flood myths common to various cultures as proof of Atlantis’ end, parallel legends of a worldwide catastrophe after which man and civilization were forced to begin anew; they saw the legends as stemming from a dim cultural memory of that Atlantean Flood. From this catastrophe a general digression occurred—not just a cultural confusion of tongues; a digression in the physical Atlantean “race” itself. The Atlantean capacity to “hold the vision” of the “soul within” had become lost. Only the “idea” of the eternal soul remained—and it is still with us even today.

There also occurred a slow but inevitable demise of the entire Atlantean race itself, according to these thinkers. Over the course of thousands of years, the race died out, and the “Aryan” or “white” race arose in its place.

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In Conclusion

The swastika’s connection to the Aryan race (or, to use a newer term, “Caucasian” race) is clear, but modern events, contradictions, and misconceptions have perverted the swastika’s original meaning, especially its semantic association. Scholars, anthropologists, linguists, and scientists have understood that the swastika is evidence of the unified and highly spiritual Aryan peoples of European prehistory.

The question is: Why is this history purposely being hidden? Why is it not taught in schools? Is it because of the direct connection to Atlantis? Is Atlantis being covered up by the Elite who don’t want the world to know of its past existence, for then perhaps the masses will ultimately uncover the ancient religion of the “soul”…and realize the truth of man’s inner divinity and innate spiritual powers?

Adolf Hitler’s ideas on all things Aryan were apparently no different than those of mainstream European scholars and laymen in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries; unfortunately, the atrocities he and the Nazis committed under the symbol of the swastika have left modern audiences with a very negative semantic association. As a result, there has been a “censorship” of this magnificent spiritual symbol that has plunged, and continues to plunge, late 20th century and early 21st century peoples (i.e., us) in the dark as to its magnificent origins and spiritual meaning.

Left: American 45th Division WWI. Right: Adolf Hitler with swastika.

So what does the Swastika symbol really mean? What did it symbolize in the minds of the ancients who used it? How can this symbol empower each one of us today?

In Part II, we examine:

-19th and 20th century academic research into the Atlantis/Aryan connection
-the swastika’s true ancient meaning that we are gods temporarily living in a human body
- how whites have been cut off from Hinduism by the Bible, Judaism and Christianity

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Geometric mosaic depicting ancient Roman
swastikas. Roman-Germanic Museum, Cologne, Germany.

We saw in Part 1 how swastikas found on ancient European artifacts has convinced scholars that prehistoric Europeans practiced Hinduism—long before Christianity swept through and overtook the continent.

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The Aryan Invasion Of India

Early in India’s prehistory, scholars believe, massive groups of Aryans from Central Asia, possibly Tibet—whom most scholars say were Caucasians or “whites”—invaded the Indian sub-continent. Trekking eastwards in successive waves these Aryan tribes reached the fertile Gangetic plain, where they established a new society that would become the foundation of Hinduism as we know it. The native Indians, called “Dravidians,” were pushed slowly southwards by the Aryan incursions.
The results of this cultural clash can be seen still today, with southern India appearing quite different to its northern counterpart, both in terms of language and traditions. As discussed, the Aryans spoke “Indo-European”, the language that scholars assert forms the basis of all the European languages; from this, many scholars also assert that these same Aryans were the first Europeans as well.

Records of the Aryan invasion are found in the Vedas, the oldest extant body of Hindu literature, written down between 2000 and 1000 BC. Veda in Sanskrit means “body of knowledge.” Scholars believe the Vedas derive from an oral tradition brought by the Aryans.

It is in the Vedas that we first learn of the archaic hierarchical caste system that divides Hindu culture into four distinct groups plus the Untouchables. From India, the Aryans migrated westward into Europe, creating the high cultures that evolved into Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, and so on. Every Caucasian in America who can trace family roots to Europe is a descendant of these historical Aryans.

Thus, before Christianity, most Caucasians in Europe were practicing Hinduism. If the Aryans brought Hinduism to India, and the Europeans are descended from Aryans, as the chronology necessitates, then consequently all European ancestors, at some point in time, practiced a form of Hinduism, with its high spiritual concepts of the Eternal Soul, Transmigration, Karma, Yoga, the Third Eye, and Nirvana.

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Hinduism – The Religion Of The Ancient Aryans

We see evidence of this in how the swastika, the central symbol of Hinduism, is visible on ancient European ruins and artifacts:

Ancient Iliou Melathron mosaic in Athens, Greece.

We read in Barbarian Tides, a 1982 publication from the highly respected Time-Life Books library, that “Aryans” (a term used by pre-Nazi era scholars to describe the “white” inhabitants of Europe) introduced “Hinduism” onto the Indian sub-continent before settling in Europe:

“These people, the Aryans, would bestow their social institutions on the Indian subcontinent and spawn a unique spiritual culture, Hinduism.”

—Time-Life Books library, 1982

Writing a century before this Time-Life book was published, William Henry Goodyear (1846 – 1923), a noted American archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator (and son of Charles Goodyear of Goodyear Tires) wrote in his book Grammar of the Lotus:

“…the Swastika was an “Aryan emblem”… The supposition that the Aryan Hindus carried the Swastika with them to India is…perfectly tenable, since it belongs to early prehistoric art of Europe…”

—William Henry Goodyear, Grammar of the Lotus, 1891

William Henry Goodyear was the first curator of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Around this time, in 1876, we read in the book A School Manual of Modern Geography, written by John Richardson, Vicar of St. Mary’s Hospital in Essex, London:

“Aryan Hindus…in very early times…separating from the great family in the highlands of Central Asia, crossed the Himalayas, descended into the plains of the Indus and Ganges, overran a great part of the peninsula, and introduced the civilization and religion which are now dominant in India.”

—John Richardson, A School Manual of Modern Geography, 1876

John Richardson (1810 – 1888)

In his 1881 book, A Short Manual of the History of India, Sir Roper Lethbridge, a British academic and House of Commons member, wrote a chapter subtitled “The Conquest of India by the Aryan Hindus” wherein he explains:

“The accounts…of the early Aryan invaders…are mainly derived from an examination of the Hymns of the Vedas, the most ancient religious books of the Aryans…

…the invaders of India…belong to a race (called Aryan or Indo-European) which included the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Persians, and most of the modern nations of Europe, such as the English, Germans, French, and many others.

—Sir Roper Lethbridge, A Short Manual of the History of India, 1881

These quotes show the long-standing and currently held academic belief that “Aryans” brought Hinduism into India and then Europe. While Christianity replaced Hinduism in Europe, Hinduism remained active in India.

So the question is: Why is this fascinating history of the white race and religion of Hinduism being censored today by virtually every segment of authority in Western society?

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The Forbidden History Of The White Race

Aryan Hinduism is being kept hidden on purpose, it seems. It’s not taught in schools or universities. Not explained in movies, mainstream books, on TV, on the radio, in newspapers or magazines, or by the mass media. The fact that you are unaware of it is itself evidence of a cover-up.

“Censored” symbol around an 1898 Yale University
study showing “The Swastikas Of Ancient Europe.”

Even more strange is how whites identify with the Jewish religion, instead of their ancestral religion of Hinduism. We are all taught the biblical stories of Moses and the Ten Commandments, the Exodus from Egypt, the arrival into the Promised Land, the kingship of David and Solomon, and so on. Jewish history has been unnaturally grafted onto the European psyche in a way that makes Europeans identify with Jewish ancestry as if it were their own; in other words, whites are raised Jewish. Why?

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The reason is because there seems to be something hidden but powerful in Aryan history that the elite powers who rule the world find threatening. If we trace the Aryan roots back further into the depths of time we hit-upon exactly what this “forbidden zone” is. It’s a treasure-trove of spiritually uplifting and self-empowering wisdom, and it’s based on what we may call the “Aryan / Atlantis connection.”

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The Aryan / Atlantis Connection

This Aryan / Atlantis connection was brought into the modern era by the famous Russian mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), founder of “The Theosophical Society” in New York City in 1875. Her magnum opus, The Secret Doctrine, was published in 1888 and had tremendous worldwide impact. Her influence on Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, which is virtually overlooked by historians, completely altered the course of the 20th century.  Note the swastika on her organization’s logo:

Left: Helena Blavatsky. Right: Logo of the Theosophical
Society, New York City, 1875. Note the swastika.

Ignoring the Biblical “God-made-man-in-six-days” concept, Blavatsky asserted the antiquity, primacy, and universality of the so-called Doctrine of the Fall of Man and His Descent into Matter, which forms the root doctrine of much of eastern thought (Hinduism, Buddhism), Greek philosophy, and modern western esoteric and occult circles.

It teaches that beneath the flesh men and women are “gods” or “eternal souls” that have fallen into the “material world” from our higher “spiritual home” in the heavens back to which the soul must eventually return. During its descent, the soul has put on a thick vesture of clothing in the form of a physical body, so that it no longer recognizes its own inner, eternal, and divine nature.

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

—C.S. Lewis

“Man is a god in the body of an animal according to the pronouncement of ancient philosophy…”

—Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn

“A man is a god in ruins.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to Blavatsky, the soul’s Fall is a “leftover wisdom” from the highly-sophisticated antediluvian civilization of Atlantis.  As we saw in Part 1, the Greek philosopher Plato first named Atlantis in the fourth century B.C., referring to it as a now-submerged island kingdom that once flourished in the Atlantic Ocean.

Plato maintained that the Atlanteans possessed a highly spiritual wisdom-religion, which enabled them to “see” their own “soul” inside the physical body. Seeing the “soul within” allowed the Atlanteans to harness its higher power, until slowly their “human” part began to overtake their “divine” part:

“…the divine element in them became weakened…and their human traits became predominant, and they ceased to be able to carry their prosperity with moderation.”

—Plato, Timaeus and Critias

While scholars of Blavatsky’s day had traced the origins of the Aryans to the Caucasus Mountains region—from which the term “Caucasian”, invented by German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), came into widespread use—Blavatsky traced the Aryan homeland east of the Caucasus to Tibet, the so-called “roof of the world,” where she spent years researching her books. The Floodwaters that overtook Atlantis, she claimed, sent Atlantean refugees into high-altitude Tibet, where they remained safe for generations. The Aryans slowly arose here to become the direct descendants and blood inheritors of the Atlanteans.

Map of the Aryan Invasion of India from their theorized homeland.

Interestingly, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), describing Tibet a century before Blavatsky, tells us that:

“…this is the highest country. No doubt it was inhabited before any other and could even have been the site of all creation and all science.

The culture of the Indians, as is known, almost certainly came from Tibet, just as all our arts like agriculture, numbers, the game of chess, etc., seem to have come from India.”

—Immanuel Kant

Blavatsky saw the Flood myths—parallel legends of global catastrophe after which man and civilization were forced to begin anew—as stemming from a dim cultural memory of the sinking of Atlantis. From this catastrophe a general digression occurred. Not just a cultural confusion of tongues; a digression in the physical Atlantean “race” itself. The Atlantean capacity to “hold the vision” of the “soul within” became lost. Only the “idea” of the eternal soul remained—and it is still with us even today. Over the course of millennia, the Atlantean race died out; Blavatsky maintained that the “Aryan” or “white” race arose in its place.

This Aryan / Atlantis history was supported by 19th and early 20th century scholars and intellectuals. The famous Austrian philosopher, educator, and social thinker, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), wrote:

“The greatest part of the Atlantean population declined, and from a small portion are descended the so-called Aryans who comprise present-day civilized humanity.”

—Rudolf Steiner, Cosmic Memory

Rudolph Steiner

American congressman Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (1831 – 1901) wrote a chapter titled “The Aryan Colonies From Atlantis” in his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, where he said:

“Did the Aryan…race come from Atlantis?”

“The center of the Aryan migrations (according to popular opinion)…was Armenia. Here too is Mount Ararat, where it is said the ark rested—another identification with the Flood regions, as it represents the usual transfer of the Atlantis legend by an Atlantean people to a high mountain in their new home.”

“The Greeks, who are Aryans, traced their descent from the people who were destroyed by the Flood, as did other races clearly Aryan…herein we find another evidence of relationship between the Aryans and the people of Atlantis.. the Greeks, an Aryan race, in their mythological traditions, show the closest relationship to Atlantis…We have seen that Zeus, the king of Atlantis, whose tomb was shown at Crete, was transformed into the Greek god Zeus.”

“There is another reason for supposing that the Aryan nations came from Atlantis. We find all Europe… occupied by nations recognized as Aryan.”

—Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, 1882

Ignatius Loyola Donnelly

During the slow demise of the Atlanteans and rise of the Aryans, which occurred over a period of millennia, two physiological changes or mutations occurred, according to Blavatsky, one of which is very important.

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The Aryan / Atlantean “Third Eye”

The Atlanteans were several feet taller than us today, but lost their stature as their spirituality faltered. The second and more significant mutation prevented the new Aryan race from lucidly “seeing” the “soul within.” This left their descendants—modern humans—unable to see or recognize our own inner divinity. Blavatsky believed the Atlanteans once possessed this mysterious ability due to the existence of an enigmatic, luminous organ inside the brain that she called the “Cyclopean Eye” or “Third Eye.”

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A strange and beautiful appendage, it is associated with the forehead above and between the two eyes. As our two eyes see outward at material things, this single Eye sees inward at spiritual matters—like the soul. When the Atlanteans devolved into the Aryans, the Third Eye atrophied. Blavatsky wrote:

“…the “third eye” was once a physiological organ, and…later on, owing to the gradual disappearance of spirituality and increase of materiality (spiritual nature being extinguished by the physical), it became an atrophied organ.”

—Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 1888

Though atrophied, Blavatsky insisted that we modern humans, like our Atlantean ancestors, can still access this forgotten organ; some 19th and early 20th century scientists identified this organ as the obscure pineal gland, described as follows:

“A small…conical appendage of the brain of all craniate vertebrates that in a few reptiles has the essential structure of an eye…postulated to be a vestigial third eye, an endocrine organ, or the seat of the soul…”

—Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) called the pineal gland the “seat of the soul.” Single “Eye” and “Third Eye” portraits stretch back many thousands of years, appearing in ancient myths, sculptures, engravings, and paintings worldwide.

Ancient Cyclops Mosaic with Third Eye in the Villa Romana, Sicily.

Readers familiar with Hinduism will recall the Third Eye as having a long history in India, where it is known as the “urna” or “trinetra,” marked by a dot in the middle of the forehead above and between the eyes. Though mystics and adepts often speak of its mysterious occult powers, on a simpler level it denotes spiritual insight, providing one with a vision of his or her inward soul—one’s true eternal being:

Bodhisattva statue from the 3rd century found in present-day
Afghanistan. Note the Third Eye symbolized by the forehead dot.

Is Aryan Hinduism forbidden from our view to keep us from learning of the Aryan / Atlantis link and from rediscovering our inherent Third Eye powers? Are the elite seeking to keep us from awakening our Third Eye, Nature’s way of allowing us to see our “soul within,” recognize our godhood, and realize our full potential?

The Third Eye is used extensively in the east, appearing in varied disciplines; it is used in meditation practices like Yoga and Ch’an Buddhism as well as martial arts like karate, qigong, and aikido. It forms the pinnacle of Hinduism’s Kundalini Yoga teaching, with its famous “chakra” system; the Third Eye or “ajna” chakra is the sixth of seven chakras and is awakened when we balance our solar “pingala” channel on our body’s right side with our lunar “ida” channel on our body’s left side:

Kundalini Yoga, the Third Eye yoga. Note the on sun the
right-hand side and moon on the left-hand side.

Though Easterners are quite familiar with the Third Eye, its wisdom is totally foreign to the West. Has there been a conscious effort to conceal it?

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The “Third Eye” Secret Of The Freemasons

Incredibly, the design of a sun on the right, moon on the left, and single Eye in the middle is featured on the regalia, drawings, and artifacts of the Freemasons, the oldest Secret Society in Western history. The single Eye—i.e., the Third Eye—is usually drawn centered between the sun (pingala) and moon (ida):

Masonic Tracing Board, 1820

Is the Masonic Fraternity a storehouse of lost ancient Third Eye wisdom from Atlantis? Was the Masonic Fraternity created in response to the rise of Christianity as a way of protecting Aryan / Atlantean Third Eye wisdom?

The Masons have long been rumored to be guarding a blasphemous and heretical secret from Antiquity. Consider the sudden persecution of the Masons by the Catholic Church, beginning in the early 1700s.

“… after the example of our predecessors, we intend to turn our attention to the Masonic society, to its whole doctrine, to its intentions, acts, and feelings, in order to illustrate more and more this wicked force and stop the spread of this contagious disease …”

—Pope Leo XIII, Humanum Genus

This condemnation would seem to indicate that the Masons are heretics, possessors of some sort of religious doctrine that contradicts official Church canon. For many 19th and 20th century thinkers and academics, the Third Eye is precisely that doctrine:

“…the All-seeing eye…This is the eye of freemasonry, the third eye. While I am credibly formed that few Masons understand their own symbols, the fact remains that they use them…”

—Dr. George Washington Carey, The Wonders of the Human Body,1918

“The Order of Freemasonry acknowledges the ‘All Seeing Eye’ as the Eye of Great Wisdom.’ This ‘Great Wisdom’ is said to offer those who seek the sacred mysteries an understanding of illumination, inner vision, and intuitive knowledge. Contact with this great wisdom occurs through the ‘Third Eye’ (pineal gland) located inside the forehead.”

—Dr. Joye Jeffries Pugh, Eden, 2006

“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the ‘all seeing eye’ pierces through, and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn’t indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn’t detect.”

—Mark Twain, Famous American Author and Freemason, 1899

“The Great Pyramid is a central occult symbol that is often depicted with the “all-seeing-eye” or “third eye” inside it. In this form it is the symbol of mystical Freemasonry.”

—John Bowlt, Wendy Salmond, and Marie Turbow, The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov, 1874-1971

“The All-Seeing Eye…also emblematic of the…third eye of the human being…has been found amid the ruins of every civilization….”

—Grace Morey, Mystic Americanism, 1924

Famous Freemason and former Harvard student Albert Pike (1809-1892) believed true Freemasonry represented something akin to the ancient doctrine of the Aryan race—a fact not widely recognized. Pike, a pillar of American Masonry, is best known for his 1871 book, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. But few realize he penned two other noteworthy books that examine ancient Aryan spirituality: Aryan Deities and Worship as Contained in the Rig-Veda, and Irano-Aryan Faith and Doctrine as Contained in the Zend Avesta.

“The world owes all its correct and profound conceptions of the Deity, and its knowledge of the existence of the human soul, to the great Aryan race.”

—Albert Pike, Irano-Aryan Faith and Doctrine as Contained in the Zend Avesta

Albert Pike (1809-1892).

Like Pike, a Freemason and medical doctor named J.D. Buck (1838 – 1916) was interested in the Aryan history of India, Iran, and in Eastern religions in general. He wrote in his Mystic Masonry:

“The real source from whence the Ancient Wisdom came was…Old India, the Mother of Civilizations and Religions, and of the esoteric or concealed wisdom.”

—Dr. J.D. Buck, Mystic Masonry

Dr. Buck also gave a physical description of the Third Eye and connected its “mastery” to Freemasonry’s third degree of “Master Mason”:

“It has been called “The Third Eye.” The Ancient Hindus called it the Eye of Siva…It is atrophied, and therefore dormant in the average individual…The Eye of Siva is, in fact, an All-Seeing-Eye; for it practically annuls Space and Time as concepts on the physical plane…

A real Master [Mason], then, has the Eye of Siva; the pineal gland, dormant in others, is active in him…”

—Dr. J.D. Buck, Mystic Masonry

If Buck is correct, and practicing an Eastern “occult” art was part of Masonic adherence, then Masonry’s forced secrecy in Europe becomes clear. Due to the power and brutality of the Inquisition, as well as its stated goal to destroy heretics, the Masons had no choice but to hide themselves in order to preserve their Third Eye traditions, knowledge, and rites.

Otherwise said, the Third Eye is the “great secret” of true Freemasonry, and the Freemasons were a persecuted sect precisely because their Order was established to safeguard the Third Eye religion of their ancient Aryan Hindu ancestors, who remembered it from Atlantis.

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Hitler And The Third Eye

Interestingly, having accepted many of Blavatsky’s ideas, Germany’s occult leaders—who rose to power decades after Buck and Pike died of old age—also acknowledged the Third Eye, and even believed Blavatsky’s explanation of its ancient Atlantean origins. Descriptions of the Eye can be found in the writings of several Nazi leaders. Hitler made an indirect reference to it in Mein Kampf:

“…all the human culture, all the results of art, science, and technology that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan. …he alone was the founder of all higher humanity… He is the Prometheus of mankind from whose bright forehead the divine spark of genius has sprung at all times…”

—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925

Hitler’s belief in the Third Eye was affirmed by Hermann Rauschning, the former National Socialist Senate President of Danzig. In Hitler Speaks (London, 1939), Rauschning wrote:

“To have “magic insight” was apparently Hitler’s idea of the goal of human progress…There was the eye of the Cyclops, or median eye, the organ of magic perception of the Infinite, now reduced to a rudimentary pineal gland. Speculations of this sort fascinated Hitler, and he would sometimes be entirely wrapped up in them.”

—Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks

Adolf Hitler

Further evidence of his Third Eye belief is set forth in the book Hitler’s Secret Conversations, a transcription of confidential dialogues and discussions that took place at his headquarters from July 1941 to November 1944, which were recorded for posterity. Hitler said:

“In all the human traditions…one finds mention of a huge cosmic disaster…In my view the thing is explicable only by the hypothesis of a disaster that completely destroyed a humanity which already possessed a high degree of civilization. The fragments of our prehistory are perhaps merely reproductions of objects belonging to a more distant past, and it’s by means of these, doubtless, that the road to civilization was discovered anew…”

—Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Secret Conversations

Hitler’s belief in the Third Eye proves just how influential Blavatsky’s writings really were in Germany before Hitler’s rise to power. Many of his ideas exactly parallel Blavatsky’s, including the swastika logo, the idea of the Aryan race’s primacy and antiquity, and a highly sophisticated and forgotten antediluvian civilization.

Nazi teams of anthropologists, archaeologists and occult scholars were dispatched to the far East, India, and Tibet to uncover evidence of Aryan history. Their researches formed the basis for the Indiana Jones movies, in which Nazi officers are depicted searching in forgotten lands for lost artifacts and treasures.

Though she had by now passed away, Blavatsky’s theories—she described the “Hindu Aryans” as “the most metaphysical and spiritual people on earth”—had become validated in the eyes of many 19th and 20th century Europeans. For them, it was the “Aryan” who introduced the highly spiritual Vedic religion, Hinduism, to India; and it was the Aryan who dutifully remembered his ancient, ancestral “Third Eye” practice, the natural human organ through which one is put into contact with one’s eternal soul.

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Decoding The Swastika

Blavatsky’s ideas reached Hitler and the Nazis indirectly through a Viennese poet and occult icon of pre-Nazi Germany named Guido Von List (1848 – 1919),  according to Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, a scholar of Western Esotericism at the University of Exeter.

Guido Von List (1848 – 1919).

Like Blavatsky, List was convinced that the ancient Aryans had created a highly sophisticated spiritual capital throughout Europe. He credited them with constructing Europe’s unusual megalithic and Cyclopean architecture, based on a mysterious “technique” they had inherited from their Atlantean ancestors, which involved tapping the strength of the “god within” by awakening the “Cyclopean” or Third Eye.

Stonehenge, a magical megalithic monument in present day England.

Following the opinion of the Italian philosopher and Freemason Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who was burned alive by the Inquisition for refusing to recant his heretical Gnostic views, List believed that the Old Testament, upon which the ethical, moral, religious, and social values of the Western world are based, is a false teaching that has covered up the authentic and far richer Aryan Hinduism, a “spiritual” past now almost forgotten.

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) great mind put to death.

For List, the influence of the Old Testament in Europe overshadowed the original Hinduism brought by the Aryans. The rise of the all-powerful Catholic Church then gave European Hinduism its final deathblow. According to Goodricke-Clarke:

“…List was attracted to the ideas of Giordano Bruno…Bruno had proclaimed that Judaism and Christianity had corrupted the ancient and true religion…which had enjoyed considerable popularity amongst the Neo-Platonists of the Renaissance. Bruno also wanted a new dispensation based on the rediscovered ancient gnosis.”

—Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism, 1992

For List, as for Bruno, the Old Testament is not an accurate account of human history; instead, the Old Testament has been superimposed over human history. Because Europe and the West have wholeheartedly accepted the Bible, as if it were the heritage of all mankind (and not just the history of one small group, the Hebrews), Westerners have failed to recognize a far greater history, and a far richer spiritual wisdom—the key symbol of which is the swastika.

The word “Swastika” comes from the Sanskrit “su” (good) and “asti” (being), meaning “good being.” The emblem is formed by crossing two symmetrical but opposing “S” runes—the runes being a mysterious ancient alphabet once used in Northern Europe—putting their two congruent shapes in perfect equilibrium.

Swastika, ancient symbol of the balance of opposites.

List claimed that the ancient Aryans saw in the twin opposing “S” signs of the swastika the doctrine of “balanced duality” (i.e., Sun vs. Moon, Day vs. Night, Light vs. Dark, Hot vs. Cold, Dry vs. Wet, Male vs. Female, Positive vs. Negative, etc.). Blavatsky too believed the swastika’s twin “S” signs symbolize all the “paired opposites” in the material world, much like China’s yin & yang or Freemasonry’s sun and moon:

“The double sign is, as every student of Occultism knows, the symbol of the male and the female principles in Nature, of the positive and the negative…”

—Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

She explained that crossing the two S’s means unifying opposites or balancing them by giving them a common center—in other words, self-realization by finding one’s center (point in the middle) between the twin “S” opposites (duality).

This is precisely the sacred formula for awakening the Third Eye—the balancing of opposites (i.e., balance of the sun and the moon, of ida and pingala, Boaz and Jachin, etc.). English writer and journalist Perceval Landon (1868-1927), describing his turn of the 20th century travels in Tibet, explained:

“…the swastika…surmounted by a rudely drawn symbol of the sun and moon…marks every main doorway in the country.”

—Perceval Landon, Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet, 1905

Swastika in Tibet, flanked by sun and moon, from the Iron
Age (1300 BC – 600 BC). From www.tibetarchaeology.com

After arriving in India with the Aryans, the swastika later moved into China and Japan with the spread of Buddhism (an offshoot of Hinduism) in the centuries leading up to Christ. This is why the Buddha—whose 6th Century BC appearance came long after the movement of the Aryans and the spread of Hinduism—is depicted with the swastika, meditating in the crossed-legged lotus position with an awakened Third Eye (the bindi dot) on his forehead. In other words, by using the swastika Buddha balanced his solar and lunar halves, awakening his Third Eye (“Buddha” means he who has awakened):

The Buddha with swastika on his heart and awakened Third
Eye dot on his forehead—communing with his “soul
within”—the pinnacle teaching of Aryan Hinduism

There is, of course, much more behind the symbolism of the swastika, but it’s basic meaning is to teach us how to find our center within or “god within” and awaken our Third Eye, an act which reveals the fullness of our inner being where all contradiction and conflict—all opposites—vanish, and where the veil of the material world is temporarily lifted, revealing the Self or “soul within” us and allowing us to tap its power to achieve spiritual liberation.

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In Conclusion

The origin of the white race is more than just a “taboo” topic for academics today; it is completely forbidden and outlawed. The fact that you know so little about this subject, and so little about the ancient prehistoric Hindu religion of Europe, is evidence of this. A number of 18th, 19th and early 20th century scholars and archaeologists believed that the white or Aryan race is descended from the lost civilization of Atlantis. This belief once formed mainstream academic opinion.

The elite don’t want the masses to understand the historical academic belief in a possible Aryan / Atlantis link because the Third Eye doctrine we will find there removes the Old Testament “God” from the spiritual equation completely by empowering man with the strength of his own divinity.

As you will find when you read Written In Stone, the ideas in this essay are not racist, but intended to spark a curiosity in whites regarding the ancestral spiritual system that they have been cheated out of; indeed white ignorance of their spiritual origins is the great problem and crisis in the world today. All men and women have spiritually and physically the same origin, and mankind is essentially of one and the same essence:

If you think you know the meaning of the Three Wise Monkeys symbol, maybe you better think again.

We’re taught by the Elite (i.e., the mass media and their corporate sponsors) that it stands for feigning ignorance to the misconduct of others rather than exposing their misconduct:

“In the Western world the phrase is often used to refer to those who deal with impropriety by looking the other way, refusing to acknowledge it, or feigning ignorance.”

—Wikipedia

The trouble is, “turning a blind eye” to the misconduct of others is not the symbol’s true authentic or original Eastern spiritual meaning. This is a false and corrupted “substitute” meaning.

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The Symbol’s Original Ancient Significance

The symbol’s original ancient significance has been hidden from us (by the powers that shouldn’t be) for good reason: The truth is far more potent, more self-empowering, more magical, and more spiritually uplifting than the Elite want the masses to know.

“Mahatma Gandhi’s one notable exception to his lifestyle of non-possession was a small statue of the three monkeys.”

—Wikipedia

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the world’s most beloved heroes.

Mizaru, covering his eyes, sees no evil. Kikazaru, covering his ears, hears no evil. Iwazaru, covering his mouth, speaks no evil. Together the three embody the proverbial principle to “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.”

But what exactly does this mean?

Let’s take the first phrase: “See no evil.” It means just what it says: “See no evil,” or don’t look upon anything that is evil. Don’t look at evil, don’t watch or gawk at evil, don’t crave evil, don’t let evil enter into your system, not even for a moment.

Why not?

Ever drink old milk? Eat rotten meat? Bad cheese? When you swallow it, you digest it. And when you digest it you get sick from it. Your body absorbs it, and when your body realizes it’s no good your body needs to release it quickly, in some way.

It’s the same with evil. When we see evil, we digest it, and when we digest it the evil becomes a part of us. We then need to release it in some way, which often has a negative result.

For many, this idea that “seeing” evil is equivalent to “digesting” evil may sound like rubbish. But there is a powerful and profound principle at work here. To use a simple comparison, it’s a proven fact that seeing violence in the media (i.e., TV, movies, video games) makes us think and act more violently:

“Literally thousands of studies since the 1950s have asked whether there is a link between exposure to media violence and violent behavior.  All but 18 have answered, ‘Yes.’   The evidence from the research is overwhelming.  According to the AAP, ‘Extensive research evidence indicates that media violence can contribute to aggressive behavior, desensitization to violence, nightmares, and fear of being harmed.’ Watching violent shows is also linked with having less empathy toward others.”

—University of Michigan Health System (website)

Seeing violence causes us to act more violently. Similarly, when we “See Evil” we internalize it. And when we internalize evil, it becomes a part of us, which means eventually the evil needs to find its way out. If it does not exit, the evil wreaks havoc on our bodies and minds.

Thus, the ancient directive to “See No Evil” is a wise maxim that seeks to protects us from evil by warning us not to “see” it in the first place.

A 17th century carving over a door of the famous Toshogu shrine in Nikko, Japan.

The next phrase, “Hear No Evil,” rests on the same principle. When we hear evil, it becomes part of us. Our body absorbs it like a sponge. Again, it’s like ingesting rotten food; the body can’t hold it, and it needs to come out.

“Speak No Evil” is a bit different. Seeing and hearing are two of our five senses (along with touching, tasting, and smelling). But speaking is not a sense. Seeing and hearing both involve taking something into our body, while speaking involves pushing something out.

So the tenet “Speak No Evil” differs from the other two. In a sense, it can be seen as the outcome of the other two. In other words, if you “See No Evil” and you “Hear No Evil” you will then “Speak No Evil” because you will be pure. It’s the 1 + 1 = 2 formula.

The question is: Why is this simple wisdom being kept hidden from us? Hidden so well that many Americans will scoff at the authentic explanation of the Three Wise Monkeys just provided?

Those who scoff should realize that this wisdom is ancient, and can be traced back 2,500 year to a wise code of conduct followed by multiple high civilizations in China, India, Japan and elsewhere. Its wisdom has been adopted by great thinkers like Confucius:

“Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety”

—Confucius, c. 500 BC

We find similar ideas in other remote religions and spiritual systems. One example is Buddhism’s “Noble Eightfold Path,” which is the Buddha’s practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from suffering, attachments and delusions; and which finally leads to understanding the truth about all things:

Right Understanding
Right Thoughts
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Concentration

In ancient Zoroastrianism (c. 1200 BC), the term “Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta,” expressed the main idea of the religion. It stood for the maxim: “good thoughts, good words, good deeds.”

“From their infancy Japanese boys have one special precept instilled into their minds. It is: “See no evil: hear no evil; speak no evil.”

—Our Young People, St. Johns Institute For Deaf Mutes, 1910

“There are three monkeys…They are resolved to “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.” They are intent upon guarding the whole output and input and intake of life from the taint of wrong.”

—Charles Reynolds Brown, The Religion of a Layman, 1920

“‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.’ ; ‘Think evil and you create evil,’ are universal world-old proverbs.”

—Leonard Stuart, The Cosmic Comedy, 1919

“O’er the door of the sacred Temple
They sit in their wisdom the three –
The little deaf Monkey,
The little dumb Monkey,
The Monkey who will not see;
With their eyes shut to evil,
Ears that hear only the right,
Lips that are dumb to scandal,
They sit in their silent might”

—Unknown

“…I recommend…the observance of a commandment that existed before either Christian or Jew existed.

Thou shalt make a covenant with thy senses,
With thine eye, that it beholds no evil.
With thine ear, that it hear no evil.
With thy tongue, that it speak no evil.
With thy hands that they commit no evils.

—Thomas Paine, Federal City, Lovett’s Hotel, 1802

How admirably simple and pure this philosophy is. To turn one’s back on destructive negativity, to guard one’s eyes from images and impressions that are not constructive to one’s spiritual growth.

This philosophy, which was certainly adopted by Gandhi as a universal truth, likens the mind to a white sheet, which only retains its pure color when associated with others who are like-mindedly pursuing spiritual ideals—who refuse to expose their minds and the minds of others to “the lower order of things.”

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Hidden By The Elite

Why, then, is the mass media increasingly pushing so much evil on us? Why are we being bombarded by evil, violence and fear on all sides? Forced to take it in, like so much old milk, rotten meat, and bad cheese?

Hollywood movies are getting more twisted, evil, and sinister.

Hollywood movies force us to violate the ancient “See No Evil” maxim.

Children’s video games are getting more violent, bloody, raw:

Left: Image from a violent children’s video game. Right: Children acting out violence at Columbine.

Television stations are broadcasting more and more disturbing and graphic programming.

Evil images and sounds from TV programs are stored in our brains. When the set goes off, they haunt our thoughts—consciously and unconsciously—and burst forth in misbehavior.

Music has been getting more violent for decades, much of it gratuitous, in terms of lyrics, album covers, videos and associated artwork:

The music industry, owned and operated by the Elite, is promoting violence to the younger generations.

Add to this all the poisonous evil that’s force-fed to us on all the TV and Cable News broadcasts. Every day the news at the top of the hour on all stations sounds the same: “Ten dead, six raped, four shot, two killed, one burned—bombs, Arab terror, hatred, race violence, corruption, mass arrests, sinking economy, gender warfare and al Qaeda.”

Watching the TV news forces evil, violence, fear and negativity on us.

When we watch the News we’re seeing and hearing evil all the time. We’re bombarded by it. How does it make you feel? Sad, scared, nervous, angry, depressed, and so on. Right?

Now, what if you found out that this Evil is being aimed at you…on purpose? The Elite are indeed doing this to us on purpose. Their goal is to destabilize society and prevent us from being empowered. At the same time, they are hiding the ancient wisdom of “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” from us, effectively robbing us of the main tool / teaching we need to defend ourselves.

Like many a great wisdom, the ancient teaching warning us to “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” has been subtly turned upside-down, and is now being used as a weapon against us. The maxim has been spun into a tool of perversion—”See Evil, Hear Evil, Speak Evil”—a control mechanism that blocks light, halts spiritual growth, and impedes the gentle and gradual revelation of ever-higher spiritual truth, wisdom, and realization.

The evil that’s being force-fed to us is much more damaging than we can imagine. It’s having more of a negative effect than we realize. It’s creating cancer in our bodies. In our minds. We’re constantly exposed to tremendous evil, and because we don’t realize the damage it’s doing to us we are not consciously trying to release it. Worse, we are willing participants in its consumption, not out of choice, but because we believe it’s normal, having been born and raised into society, into this system. We don’t realize it has all been purposely design to destabilize us mentally and physically, keeping the Elite in control and keeping the masses sick, suppressed, scared and subservient.

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Fighting The Powers That Shouldn’t Be

What can we do to fight against it?

Turn off the TV! Stop supporting Hollywood! Stop buying movie tickets! Don’t buy magazines. Newspapers. Resist watching the news. Spread the word—and warn the youth especially—that the system is rigged, the game is tilted.

Make sure you know that there are many positive ways of releasing the evil that we consume. Exercise (physical and mental) meditation, writing, reading, jogging, singing, biking. Even sex. In antiquity, the Olympics were founded so that city-states and kingdoms could release pent-up anger and hostility and evil against each other in a positive even joyous way.

The ancients held Olympic games to channel the evil they felt toward one another constructively. Today that wisdom has been lost.

Yes, there is real evil in the world (terrorists with bombs, murders with guns, laws that take away our freedoms, and genuine economic difficulties). But always remember that evil and fear are really only happening “out there” and not “in you.” All the negative things that are happening “out there” are out of our control until we can control what’s happening inside us. This starts with controlling our feelings and reactions to outside events. We have the power to change these events and that power lies in changing ourselves. As such, we each possess immense power.

As soon as you feel fear, recognize it as only a thought and consciously ask yourself: Why am I afraid? Is the cause of fear an immediate threat to your safety or well being? If not, then it is completely illusory and should be discarded. More times than not, we fear things that our minds invent. Things that may happen in the future, but haven’t yet actually happened to us. If we allow this fear to persist, we will likely attract the very things we fear. Push past these thoughts and concentrate, in fact meditate, on exactly the positive things you wish to occur instead of the outcomes you dread.

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In Conclusion

The authentic ancient meaning of the Three Wise Monkeys has been censored, banned, and secreted away from you. Having originated in the East, the symbol’s meaning has been changed by the “powers that shouldn’t be” in the West, and now the Three Wise Monkeys icon stands for something that is totally alien to its nature.

If you want to see real change in your life, you may want to print a photo of the Three Wise Monkeys symbol and keep it by your desk or in your car. Buy an icon of the Three Wise Monkeys and carry it around with you, like Gandhi did. Evil perpetuates itself like a cancer. Once you cut it out, you will kill the cancer.

Richard Cassaro is author of the controversial new book:

Brian Kilmeade, award-winning “journalist” at Fox News.

Before we start, let’s be clear: Fox News journalist Brian Kilmeade is not an “evil” monster. We Americans tend to “love” and “hate,” to label people “good” and “bad,” “right” or “wrong.” It’s part of the mind-control spell we are under—a spell cast on us by the Elite through television, movies, the mass media, and our dumbed-down State-run education system.

So this article is not meant to inspire hatred. Kilmeade seems like a good father, good husband, good son and good friend. He seems to have a good sense of humor and he’s loyal to his convictions, which is admirable in anyone.

But, with that said, we need to take a look at all the poison Brian Kilmeade is pushing on our friends, families, colleagues, children, even ourselves. As a reporter for Fox news, his statements are skewed, his opinions are intolerable, even unbelievable, and the fact that he holds an unelected position of authority where he is allowed to influence masses of Americans with his fear-driven messages is incomprehensible.

Here are 6 brief video-clips which show how Brian Kilmeade’s brand of journalism—and, by extension, the Fox news style of journalism—is far from objective:

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VIDEO #1 – Kilmeade Calls For Terrorist Car Bombings In The Middle East

This is perhaps the most despicable thing Kilmeade has ever said on Fox news. On August 8th 2007, Brian Kilmeade openly and criminally called for terrorist car bombings in Iran. In doing so, he put himself in the same exact category as the worst terrorist who ever lived. No better. No worse.  It’s unbelievable but true. Here is the video:

The fact that these words came from an award-winning journalist is heartbreaking. Worse, this man has children of his own. Does Kilmeade not care how many innocent children will die in random car bombings in Iran should his advice be followed?

Imagine if a news anchor somewhere in the world (let’s say Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, or any of the other countries America has recently bombed) called for car bombings in New York City “to teach Americans a lesson”? How would Kilmeade feel about that journalist? For me, that journalist would be a criminal. And so for me Kilmeade is a criminal too.

Kilmeade should be held-to-account for his actions and ultimately taken off the air because of his words. Americans can and must demand better standards than this from our news stations.

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VIDEO #2 – Kilmeade Mocks U.S. Navy Seal And Former Governor Jesse Ventura During An Interview

Kilmeade mocked and chastised U.S. Vietnam war veteran and former governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura on the air during a so-called “interview” which in truth sounded more like an “attack.” As you may know, Jesse Ventura has questioned the truth about 9/11, saying that perhaps the Bush administration lied about what they knew and when they knew it. See the clip below.  Remember, Jesse Ventura is a guest on Kilmeade’s show:

When people show a lack of respect for others, it often reveals a lack of respect for themselves, at least on some level. Ventura obviously holds his own here against not only Kilmeade but against Gretchen Carlson’s giggling (reminiscent of Junior High School) to the point that Kilmeade walks off in frustration—very arrogantly and unprofessionally.

Ventura could have walked off too, as he was clearly under fire during this fair and balanced “interview.” But he didn’t cut and run. He stayed and answered questions even though he was in essence being mocked for his views. Some journalism. Bravo Ventura.

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VIDEO #3 – Kilmeade: “Not All Muslims Are Terrorists, But All Terrorists Are Muslims”

Inane. Foolish. Racist. Bigoted. This next one of Kilmeade’s statements is just unreal. It’s hard to imagine that anyone can be this stupid. But there’s no need to imagine it, just click the play button and you’ll see:

This type of fear-driven “reporting” is very powerful. It pumps fear into one group of people (non-Muslims) directly teaching them to hate another (Muslims). Many Americans buy into the “all terrorists are Muslims” rhetoric because many Americans are scared and unable to think for themselves, so they repeat the things they see on the news and read in newspapers. How many times have you heard Americans say things like “we should just bomb all the Arab countries from the face of the earth”?

The trouble is, that’s the fear-inside-them talking. As someone who is not an Arab but who has visited Arab countries, I can promise you that people from the Middle East are among the kindest, gentlest most loving and family-oriented people in the world. Caring, honest, loving, kind-to-strangers, healthy and wise.

Bombing such people would make us terrorists (NEWS FLASH: most people in the world think we Americans are terrorists already because we let our government bomb innocence). Perhaps it’s time we take a stand.

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VIDEO #4 – Kilmeade Attacks Another Guest: Jeneane Garofalo

I’m not a Jeneane Garofalo apologist. But watch in this next clip how Jeneane tries to explain her reasoning as hard as she can against the onslaught of the mindless attack conducted by Brian Kilmeade.

This “interview” took place in February 2003, about a month before the Iraq War began and just after the worldwide protests of the impending U.S.-led invasion. Just as he was with Jesse Ventura, Kilmeade won’t allow a full reply or time for a reasoned response, showing why Fox is not as “fair and balanced” as they claim:

What Jeneane had to say afterward:

“The only time I’ve ever lost my cool is on Fox and Friends—this alleged morning news show on Fox. One of the first things one of the morning crew said to me was, “Boy, Saddam must love you.” I’m not going to put up with that shit. I don’t need to take that on a television program. You booked me, and you have a choice: You can either respect the guests you book, or book a guest you can respect. But I’m not going to come on there and have you make such an inflammatory statement. So I lost my cool.”

—Jeneane Garofalo

Of course, we all know the Iraq war went south quickly. It cost 4,500 Americans their lives (so far)  not to mention all the injured who lost vision, hearing, arms, legs, and more. The war has cost untold Iraqi deaths and suffering. Finally, it cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars and we never found weapons of mass destruction.

“The most recent major report on these costs come from Brown University in the form of the Costs of War project, which said the total for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan is at least $3.2-4 trillion.”

—Wikipedia

We should think about all of this senseless waste of life and limb and suffering and financial costs as the hawks in the media and the government begin to beat the war drum on Iran. We should think of all the innocent Iranian children who are alive today but will be dead tomorrow before we begin bombing.

Iranian children. In harm’s way right now. Alive today. But what about tomorrow?

Perhaps we should consider “talking to” and “trading with” these countries, not bombing them. I have several Iranian friends. All wonderful, kind, caring, family-oriented people.

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VIDEO #5 – Kilmeade Disses Then Dismisses U.S. Senator Carl Levin

This is just plain wrong. Conceited. Disrespectful. The level of arrogance in this next clip is stunning. Pay particular attention to the last few seconds of the interview. Note how Kilmeade dismisses Senator Levin. Again, disrespect of others is a sign of lack of self-respect, which Kilmeade seems to suffer from, at least on some level:

Seeing this makes one feel as though Kilmeade is some rich kid whose uncle owns a big part of Fox news, and so Kilmeade gets to work there, and Kilmeade knows he can do whatever he wants because Uncle Kilmeade is sitting in charge. I’m not interested in knowing how Kilmeade got the job—because the real power behind Fox is hidden—but I’d bet the truth is something like this. I mean, you saw the video, is this real Journalism?

Of course, taking a bit of a tough stance when questioning our elected officials is always acceptable, even commendable, when the circumstances warrant it. But this goes far beyond tough questions. Kilmeade is obnoxious, he doesn’t allow time for a reasoned response, and he mainly injects his opinion without listening to and acknowledging the point Levin is trying to make. He’s just arguing with the guy and telling Levin where he can go.

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VIDEO #6 – Kilmeade Caught Lying To Cover Up The Iraq War

This short clip is self-explanatory. Kilmeade’s caught in a lie, trying hard to twist the facts. This is the story of Journalism on Fox news, and on all the American news channels for that matter:

Seeing this clip brings to mind the phrase: “History is written by the victors.” We should remember this in the years to come when the U.S. / Iraqi wars (1990 – present, from the day the Persian Gulf War started) is written into U.S. history books as the “Era of Liberation” for the Iraqis—rather than the “Days of Death for Millions of Children,” which is what it really was. The Iraqis are no better off now than they were before. They are much worse off in fact.

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In Conclusion

In these few clips, we’ve seen enough to realize that Brian Kilmeade is not a Journalist, at least not in the idealistic sense of the word. Not fair. Not balanced. He’s also not a monster nor a wicked evil man. He’s just a guy who is not too smart, not too respectful, and very arrogant. He seems to be either 100% fear-driven or else he is 100% pushing a hidden agenda given to him by the higher-ups at Fox news (which agenda is to support the military-industrial complex).

Kilmeade is probably a good father, a good husband, and a good man (in some ways). But the Journalism he practices looks a lot like the Jerry Springer show. Don’t be surprised if in the near future Fox puts an audience into the studio so that each time Kilmeade slams a guest on the show the audience can cheer “Brian!” “Brian!” “Brian!” “Brian!”

Brain Kilmeade needs to be removed from the airwaves, and we can do this by boycotting Fox news, which it’s high time we did. It’s not easy for me to speak out like this, because it breaks my heart to know that maybe one day Kilmeade’s children or parents might read this article. But we all need to start speaking out loud about what we know is wrong, about what we know is fear-based, hate-based bigoted and biased Journalism, if this country and this world is going to become a better place for all of us and for the younger generations.

Richard Cassaro is the author of Written In Stone:

The healing and nourishing properties of any fruit or vegetable reflected in, and ultimately revealed by, that fruit or vegetables’ outer physical shape, form, or “signature” in relation to the human body.

Chief Seattle was in perfect touch not only with his inner divinity but also with his outer animal nature, unlike many of us today.

Although its authenticity has been questioned, Chief Seattle’s speech (see video and text excerpts below) has become known worldwide as the most beautiful statement on the environment ever made.

Yet many people fail to see that it’s much more: It’s a treasure of native American wisdom that reveals the great “secret” of life on earth. This secret was known to all native America Indians and to all ancient and indigenous peoples.

What is the secret?

The secret is that Nature is endowed with divinity and spirituality. More importantly, we are too—but we fail to see it (i.e., our inner “soul” is divine).

In a 1984 interview with journalist Bill Moyers, mythologist Joseph Campbell narrated parts of Seattle’s speech for a documentary the two were producing titled The Power of Myth. Here is a 90-second video clip of that beautiful and powerful narration.

CHIEF SEATTLE’S SPEECH, 1852

“The president in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is strange to us.

Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers.

Each ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water’s murmur is the voice of my father’s father. The rivers are our brothers. They carry our canoes and feed our children.

If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does it to himself.

Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires? The end of living and the beginning of survival.

When the last Red Man has vanished with this wilderness and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any spirit of my people left?

We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother’s heartbeat. So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children and love it, as God loves us all.

One thing we know: there is only one God. No man, be he Red Man or White Man, can be apart. We are brothers after all.”

—Chief Seattle

In his profound and poetic words, Seattle gives us a glimpse of the indigenous Indian “divinity-in-nature” worldview. Also conveyed is the native American belief that man in his innate nature is divine.

But Seattle’s words are also prophetic; he seems to predict our own calamitous situation today “when the buffalo are all slaughtered…when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men…when the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires.” He calls it “the end of living and the beginning of survival.”

Did Seattle have a vision of America in 2012?

I’m not talking about the recent economic downturn or the 2012 doomsday scenarios. I’m talking about how we’ve removed ourselves almost entirely out of Nature, and, as a result, we have lost our connection to our Mother, and to who we really are inside.

We may attribute the origins of our estrangement from Nature to the influence of the Hebrew Bible which teaches us that Nature was created for us to exploit. The attitude of some modern scientists is also to blame. Science approaches the natural world with a view to understanding it and ultimately controlling it and making it serve us.

By contrast, ancient and indigenous cultures like the American Indians did understand the workings of Nature; they did recognize and respect the influence of the sun and moon, the regularity of the seasons, and the weather portents—good or bad—written in the sky. They respected the flow of Nature and they knew that Nature is greater than man; that it is only in Nature that we can find our true spirituality.

Ancient and indigenous peoples worldwide recognized that Nature is divine, just like Man.

Having removed ourselves from Nature, Americans seem to have now ceased to “live” and begun only to “survive,” just like Chief Seattle predicted would happen. Most of us don’t even realize it. The American lifestyle—the constant pursuit of money, luxury, fancy cars, big homes, entertainment, and different bodies than we were born into—is in many ways contrary to Nature. Yet the American people aren’t to blame; the American lifestyle is being “dictated” by the mass media and the corporate sponsors of the mass media. Americans are simply buying into it.

If Seattle was alive today, he would probably tell us that we have lost the way and that we are far from home (our Natural home); but it’s hard for us to see this.

“The next day we were very happy to see things changing from the normal atmosphere of snow, ice rock…And then we saw this river and I saw a green spot there…[It was like] I was in a 5 star hotel—I had water, I had grass to eat, and I realized what simple things we need to be happy and how we demand lots more than what we need in life.”

- Roberto Canessa, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Survivor, his thoughts on his appreciation of life after encountering green grass and a freshwater stream for the first time in 72 days

The greatest irony is that we think we are free. We think because of our technology that we live in the greatest era in human history, when in reality we may very well be living in the darkest of ages. It takes a strong mind to see this, an “awakened” and “freed” mind to see how our departure from Nature has really meant exactly what Seattle said it would: The end of living and the beginning of survival.

The greatest minds of history certainly understood the basis of this idea. They knew that Nature is closer to spirituality than any dogma, religion or written word of man, and that it is only by returning to Nature that we can find the inner peace that all of us seek:

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

—Albert Einstein

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

—Henry David Thoreau

“The union of heaven and earth is the origin of the whole of nature.”

—I Ching

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

—Aristotle

“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.”

—Saint Bernard of Clarivaux

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

—Rachel Louise Carson

“The richness I achieve comes from nature—the source of my inspiration.”

—Claude Monet

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them.”

—John Ruskin

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

—Walt Whitman

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

—William Wordsworth

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

—Aldous Huxley

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

—Theodore Roethke

Nature speaks a universal language that everyone can understand, no matter what part of the earth a person lives on, or what faith, nationality, political persuasion, age, profession, or income. Nature holds the great secret to life.

“If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it.  People would walk around it, marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between the pools.  People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around on the surface of the ball, and at the creatures in the water.  The people would declare it precious because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt.  The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to behold it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be. People would love it, and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.

—Joe Miller

The next time you feel stress, worry, fear, loneliness, grief…then go outside and find a place in Nature where you can see trees, a stream or river, the sky, the sun, the clouds. Walk in it, sit in it, admire it, touch it, stay for a while and reconnect. Only then will you see life as it should be, amidst the simple beauty and majesty of Nature. Your fear will melt away and the right path will present itself before you.

Many people have since questioned the details of Seattle’s speech. The doubters of its authenticity don’t realize that the view itself is what’s authentic and that’s what is important.

As for the greatness of Chief Seattle, even the white settlers knew it; Seattle, Washington was named after him.

Richard Cassaro is the author of Written In Stone:

Something is very seriously wrong with women today. If you don’t see it, you’re not paying attention. American and Western women are bogged down by worry, sadness, depression, emotional and physical anxiety, health problems and illnesses like never before.

The mass media is not reporting this sad truth to any great degree. But if you keep your eyes open you can see something is wrong, and you can even find bits and pieces of evidence of this mysterious mass illness in newspapers, magazines, and on television:

“A recent study finds that one in four women age 45 to 59 take anti-depressants.”

— USA TODAY

“The United States is rapidly falling behind the rest of the industrialized world when it comes to life expectancy, and no demographic is facing a more rapid decline in life expectancy than women. According to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, the life expectancy of the American woman is not just growing too slowly…it is actually declining.”

—Travis Waldron, Thinkprogress.org

“It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder—seven million women and one million men.”

—Press TV

“Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia.”

— South Carolina Department of Mental Health

“One in 200 American women suffers from anorexia.”

—South Carolina Department of Mental Health

“One in four women aged between 45 and 64 now experience some form of mental disorder—an increase of 20 per cent in the last 15 years.”

—The Telegraph

These statistics are a clear indication of a growing epidemic, like symptoms pointing to an underlying disease. What’s going on here?

The answer, according to those who study this type of data, is related to the fact that more women are working now than ever before. This is a direct result of the feminist movement that swept America in the 1960s -1990s.

“…The Feminist Movement, or the Women’s Liberation Movement, is a period of feminist activity in the United States which began during the early 1960s and lasted through the late 1990s.”

—Wikipedia

Of course, women having careers and getting the same education as men is a great thing, no doubt. But the problem lies in the fact that not only are today’s women working full-time, but they are also fulfilling their traditional role at home as moms, wives, and daughters of aging parents. As work hours increase, along with financial stresses due to the recent economic downturn, many women are having a tough time coping:

“Middle aged women trying to juggle careers, children and elderly relatives are suffering from depression and anxiety more than any other social group, NHS figures show.”

—The Telegraph

“Mental health charity ‘Mind’ said women in their 40s and 50s were becoming increasingly affected by trying to manage the responsibilities of family, home and work…This particular age group was probably reared by their stay-at-home mothers and they are almost certainly now working mothers, who face the financial pressure of being part of a two income family…”

—The Telegraph

The mass media tells us that thanks to the post-60s feminist movement women now have freedoms and opportunities that make them almost equal to men. We hear this adulation of feminism repeated by many journalists, industry leaders, and university professors. At first glance the idea appears correct and plausible. But is it really true? Have women really come all that far? Are women really better off now than ever before?

The statistics don’t support it, at least when it comes to health. But there’s more to the story.

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Secret Social Engineering of the ‘Modern Woman’

Before we go any further, let’s be clear. This is not an article about how women aren’t equal to men, or how women belong barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Women are tougher and stronger, smarter and more intuitive than men in many ways. Women should be praised for putting up with the infantile behavior of most men.

George Carlin (1937 – 2008) was one of the greatest philosophers and social thinkers of the 20th century.

Women have helped shape American culture, not just in the past decades, but since the first pilgrims landed on North American shores. From the beginning, women have assumed leadership roles in politics, science, education, literature, medicine, and as informed citizens.

But in the past decades American and Western women have undergone a sudden transformation; a shift has occurred, so blatant and profound that it’s a wonder so few sociologists have recognized and written about the gravity of its implications.

Somehow in the past decades society—fueled by the mass media and the big corporations that sponsor them—has taken the age-old storybook dream of women which is THIS:

The Cinderella story.

And they have turned that dream into THIS:

Young women are taught that a good career should be their central ambition.

Yet, the trouble is, this is not the reality for all but the smallest handful of women. For all the idealism of the mass media and the university advertisements urging higher education, the fact is that women’s lives are actually turning into THIS:

Women’s health statistics show  that women are having a harder time not just at work but in life now more than ever before.

What’s more, a large percentage of American women work in retail. So the “dream” that American women are being sold…if you want to get even deeper into reality…really looks more like THIS:

Many more women than men work in retail, yet barely any of them make it into the top jobs.

The result is where we are today, where children suffer the most, the victims of unprecedented divorce, nuclear families, both parents working (decreasing family time), financial worries, stress, etc. The “working woman” has been achieved at the sacrifice of traditional family values.

Even worse, the so-called liberation of women has  fundamentally changed women’s behavior. No longer reliant on “family” (either the family they are born to or the family they help create) for their well-being, women are becoming more aggressive, more sexually promiscuous, more hardened and jaded, less empathetic, less sympathetic.  In essence, they are becoming more masculine.

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Modern Woman vs. Traditional Woman

Let’s compare the Modern Woman with the Traditional Woman:

MODERN WOMAN

• Doesn’t want kids “right away” or even “ever”
• Likes to have sex with multiple partners and feels empowered by this
• Drinks alcohol more than ever before
• Does drugs more than ever before
• Enjoys showing her body in various states of undress
• Acts out more aggressively than ever before, indirectly teaching children aggression is ok

TRADITIONAL WOMAN

• Seeks good husband
• Desires to have children
• Believes primary goal in life is to raise children, and willing to sacrifice for children
• Does not seek sex from anyone other than husband
• Exhibits kind and gentle behavior to create a community / society suitable for rearing children

Which version of “woman” seems right to you? If you are a woman, which version resonates more with your heart? If you are a man, which woman fits your ideal mother, wife, sister?

The Traditional Woman looks like this:

Nancy Davis (later Nancy Reagan) posing for a publicity photo, 1950. Few women in the world have exhibited as much class and style.

By comparison, the Modern Woman looks like this:

Young American girls are taught by television that getting drunk, acting aggressively, and having sex with multiple partners, including other women, is fun.

You may agree that the Traditional Woman in the example above, as opposed to the Modern Woman, is smarter, stronger, classier, more intelligent. What we haven’t figured out is that the Modern Woman is not just evolving naturally, as it may seem; instead, she is intentionally being created or socially engineered.

“Social engineering is a discipline…that refers to efforts to influence popular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, whether by governments or private groups.”

—Wikipedia

That is to say, the mass media and their corporate sponsors are “selling” the Modern Woman to young women today. They seem to be trying to create a Modern Woman out of the younger generations; a Modern Woman who is the polar opposite of the Traditional Woman.

How and why are the Elite doing this?

Let’s start with the ‘how.’ Their M.O. is simple: They are using the main hypnotizing tool available to them—television and the mass media in general. Just look at a handful of the horrifyingly debased TV shows that the big corporations are selling to young women:

• MOB WIVES
• REAL HOUSEWIVES
• JERSEY SHORE
• SEX IN THE CITY
• JERRY SPRINGER
• STEVE WILKOS
• MAURY POVICH

These TV shows have a negative influence on young women and young men, and they have a negative impact on society over time.  Add to this the fact that women are made to feel inadequate by the mass media by repeated exposure to printed ads, magazines, television shows, and movies that feature excessively thin, beautiful, young and flawless models. We all know that this blatant in-your-face marketing of such impossible-to-achieve standards of beauty only hurts young women and older women alike:

So why does the mass media continue doing it? There is only one word to describe this ongoing assault on women—sinister. The media creates an ultimate standard of worth, and women judge themselves against this standard, consciously or not. All of this leads most young women and women in general to believe that they are inadequate.

“In 1985, three in ten (30%) American women said that they were unhappy with their overall physical appearance, a figure that increased to nearly one in two (48%) by 1993.”

— Maggie Wykes, Barrie Gunter, If Looks Could Kill

Sure, we’re told that sexy women sell products. But is it possible that the mass media is not so much interested in moving products than it is interested in purposely making women feel inadequate so that women look elsewhere in their lives for fulfillment (i.e. their careers)?

If you think it’s crazy to believe women can be manipulated and influenced by the mass media or by big corporations on a mass scale, then watch this 4-minute video clip from the award winning British television documentary The Century of the Self. Here we are shown how in the 1940s one major corporation successfully hatched a plot to encourage women to start smoking cigarettes—something most women would never have dreamed of until then:

Here we are shown how one big corporation created the idea that if a woman smoked it made her more powerful and independent—an idea that still persists. The goal of the big corporation was to sell more cigarettes. They used the media to help them achieve this goal simply by implanting “an idea” into women’s minds.

Is it possible, then, that the mass media and their corporate backers have also encouraged women to enter the workforce? Was the feminist movement, the catalyst that pushed women into the workforce, socially engineered by the big corporations for profit?

To find the answer, let’s watch the 3-minute video clip below. Former presidential hopeful Aaron Russo (1943 – 2007), friend of 1%-er Nick Rockefeller (of the Rockefeller Dynasty), tells how Rockefeller admitted to him that the feminist movement was socially engineered to push women into the workforce to increase tax revenues and corporate profits:

This information is jaw-dropping. Many believe Russo was murdered because of the things he revealed about Nick Rockefeller and the Rockefeller’s secret plans.

The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—of the women’s liberation movement (feminism) is still being felt in every corner of society.

Because of women entering the workplace en masse in the 1960s – 1990s, the price of homes and vehicles skyrocketed. The big corporations could now charge more for homes and vehicles because working women created the dual income household.

We can see how the paradigm has shifted by watching old black and white TV shows like Leave it To Beaver that depict a one-income family. Dad comes home from work at 4 pm to have dinner with his family. They enjoy a nice home, a nice car, and a big green lawn. This was how Americans lived.

By contrast, today’s moms and dads shuffle their kids off to daycare early in the morning and drive angrily to work in order to get the two incomes they need just to keep their heads above water, and to stave off the banks from repossessing their homes, cars, and their lives. Family time and family values have been traded for an inorganic collection of wood, nails, steel, rubber and a cool new GPS tracking device.

Today women are forced to work, like it or not, victims of the economy created by the feminist movement (which has indirectly hurt traditional American society and family values). The vast majority of women are stuck in low-paying, dead-end jobs that contribute to their feeling of depression, sadness, anger, confusion, and so on.

Today, families are having less children than ever before, a clear sign that women are in distress:

“Continuing a 12-year decline, the U.S. birth rate has dropped to the lowest level since national data have been available, according to statistics just released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).”

—About.com (2012 stats)

Also, more women are having children out of wedlock—further evidence of the social engineering of the Modern Woman:

“More than one-third of all births were to unmarried women.”

—About.com (2012 stats)

So how can we fight against the social engineering of women? How can we help women fight the disease afflicting them? Perhaps it may help if we realize that women were never really oppressed to begin with. Women have always been respected, loved and valued first and foremost in the home…

“The man may be the head of the house, but the woman is the neck. And the neck can turn the head any way she wants.”

—My Big Fat Greek Wedding

“A happy wife is a happy life.”

—Proverb

Women have long been important contributors to the arts and sciences, and to civilization as a whole; yet this fact seems to be downplayed by the mass media, as it doesn’t fit the perception of reality the media wants the younger generations to believe. Rather than teaching young women that they are equal to men, and that matriarchal societies once existed all over the world and still exist (search “Mother Goddess” societies as an example) they hide this truth. Instead the media urges women to feel inferior to men by reporting on “glass ceilings” for women and the like, egging women on to want to engage in gender warfare and planting a seed in their minds that spawns into their feeling and desire to want to compete with men.

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Famous Women In History

Do these pre-feminism movement women look like they were oppressed?

Left: Queen Cleopatra (69 BC – 30 BC) of Egypt. Right: Queen Nefertiti (1370 BC – 1330 BC) of Egypt. Both women lived long before the feminist movement.

Left: Catherine de Medici (1519 – 1589) was Queen consort of France. Right: Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855) was an English novelist and poet.

Left: Golda Meir (1898 – 1978) was Prime Minister of Israel before the feminist movement. Right: H.P. Blavatsky (1831 – 1891) became famous for her occult books. Was either woman oppressed?

Left: Khadīja bint Khuwaylid (555 – 619) was the first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.  Right: Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997). Both lived liberated and extraordinary lives.

Left: Amelia Mary Earhart (1897 – 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Right: Mahalia Jackson (1911 – 1972) was an extraordinary gospel singer.

Left: Ma barker (1873 – 1935). Right: Annie Oakley (1860 – 1926). Neither one needed a feminist movement to make history.

Left: Ma Joad in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” represents a typical working matriarch of post-colonial America. Right: Clara Barton (1821 – 1912) was a pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian. She is best remembered for organizing the Red Cross.

Lucille Ball (1911 – 1989) was an American film and television executive, and star of various sitcoms.

If women were so oppressed before the feminist movement of the 1960s – 1990s, then how could she have achieved all she did in the early 1950s?

You won’t find women’s names among the signers of the Constitution. With few exceptions, they have been largely ignored by historians and textbooks on early American history. Nonetheless, there have been women doctors, lawyers, preachers, teachers, writers, and singers. In every case they made important contributions to America’s early years.

To believe women were oppressed by men before they were liberated by the feminist movement of the 1960s – 1990s is a baseless and even sinister dream implanted in our minds by the mass media and their corporate backers; and this dream has now turned into a nightmare not only for most women, but for all of us, and more importantly for our children, who are paying the price.

The good news is that women seem to be awakening to all of this. Using their natural intuition—women have always been more in touch with their intuition than men—women are realizing that somehow someone or something is pushing them off center.

Something has gone tragically wrong, and while most women can’t quite put their finger on exactly what’s broken there is a clear sense that something is off. We see this in a new study by More Magazine, which shows that even despite the idealism of women in the workplace, women are less ambitious than they were 10 years ago. More’s third annual workplace report surveyed U.S. women about their attitudes toward their jobs.

• A whopping 43% of women said they were less ambitious than a decade prior
• 73% say they wouldn’t apply for their boss’s job
• 38% say they don’t want the politics, pressure and responsibility of a high-power position

This decline in ambition, More says, is not new—the findings cite data from several nationwide studies by the Families and Work Institute that show that the percentage of women ages 35 to 44 that wanted a job with more responsibility fell from 40% to 35% between the years of 1992 and 2008.

Clearly, women are beginning to question the messages being fed to them by the mass media and their corporate backers. Women are asking questions, looking for answers, and pretty much making the same realizations described in the present article. Hopefully the trend continues.

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In Conclusion

The feminist movement of the late 20th century was a fraud. It was socially engineered by the Elite 1% from behind a hidden curtain, with the goal of pushing women into the workforce. With women working, the big corporations have earned more money than ever before.

The Elite achieved this end by implanting an idea into women’s minds—that they are suppressed by men and that in order to beat men and show their equality to men they need to compete with men in the workplace. Unfortunately, women are being spread too thin, as they are also fulfilling their traditional roles.

As a result, women are suffering more now than ever before, and many are having fewer children (and even no children) because of it. The storybook dream of women—to find prince charming and live happily ever after—has been transformed into the quest to earn money and compete with men in the workplace. The result is a society where tremendous burdens fall on the shoulders of women, where the State is raising children instead of devoted mothers, and where women’s overall health is failing like never before.

Richard Cassaro is author of the ground-breaking new book:

The mysterious “First Coming” of Christ in Egypt. Like Jesus, the more ancient god “Osiris” (Asar) was a bearded shepherd with long hair carrying a cross signifying “life” after death.

For thousands of years before Christianity, the ancient Egyptians transformed the corpses of their beloved deceased into the image of a bearded shepherd with long hair—the same image we associate with Christ. The reason they did this, according to Egyptologists, is so they could follow in his resurrection from the dead!

The Egyptian name of this Christ-like resurrected Savior whom the Egyptians sought to follow was Asar (“Osiris” in Greek) and the extent and ramifications of his parallels to the later “Christ” figure of history have not yet been truly grasped by scholars or Egyptologists.

Just look at the images below; note the distinctly “Christ-like” features on the anthropomorphic coffins of both King Tut and King Psusennes, two well-known pharaohs. Both of their coffins bear the same exact image, namely a bearded shepherd with long hair—the same image attributed to Christ later in history!

Above: Anthropomorphic Egyptian coffins with Christ-like dimensions, formed by the headdress (long hair), plaited beard (beard), and shepherd’s crook.

The Egyptian headdress (called the nemes headdress) clearly symbolizes long hair, as it was tied into a ponytail in the back of the head, as is often done with long hair:

Left: Nemes headdress, tied into a ponytail.

The beard on the Egyptian chin is reminiscent of the beard of Christ. Most pictures portray Christ as bearded.

Egyptian coffins also display a shepherd’s staff in the left hand; the staff later became a Christian symbol. Jesus described himself as the “Good Shepherd” of the human flock, and portraits of Christ show him holding the shepherd’s staff.

The shepherd’s staff was depicted in the hands of Osiris in Egyptian artwork, thousands of years earlier. In literature his epithets Sa and Asar-Sa mean “Shepherd” and “Osiris the Shepherd.”

It should also be noted that Christ is described in the gospels as using the flail to chase money-changers from the temple. In Egypt, the flail was held in the opposite hand of the crook, the two forming a balanced cross at the chest:

For thousands of years countless Egyptian Pharaohs went to their graves wearing the headdress and beard, and holding the shepherd’s staff.  They were transforming their outward appearance into the image of Osiris to follow his resurrection.

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Religion of Resurrection

E.A. Wallis Budge  (1857 – 1934), one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists, said:

“The central figure of the ancient Egyptian Religion was Osiris, and the chief fundamentals of his cult were the belief in his divinity, death, resurrection, and absolute control of the destinies of the bodies and souls of men. The central point of each Osirian’s Religion was his hope of resurrection in a transformed body and of immortality, which could only be realized by him through the death and resurrection of Osiris.”

—E.A. Wallis Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection

Early in Egyptian history it was a religious custom to bury the dead kings in the image of Osiris. Later the upper classes and eventually the common masses were given an Osirian burial.

The Osirian burial; the goal was to be entombed in the image of Osiris.

Henri Frankfort, a former professor of Preclassical Antiquity at the University of London, explained:

“It may be well to emphasize that the identification of the dead with Osiris was a means to an end, that is, to reach resurrection in the Hereafter.”

—Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods

Interestingly, the name “Osiris” (Ausar) in hieroglyphics contains the silhouette of a bearded man with long hair—the same exact image engraved on the anthropomorphic coffins!

The name Asar (Osiris) in Egyptian hieroglyphs features the image of a bearded man with long hair.

What is the meaning of this fascinating riddle? Looking at this ancient Egyptian funerary custom through the more modern eyes of our Christian past it almost seems as if Osiris was a kind of “First Coming” of Christ on earth. The Egyptians were clearly the first Christians in the sense that they believed in “life” after death by following in the footsteps of their resurrected Savior.

Incredibly, this “life” after death was expressed by the ankh cross, another symbol with a significant counterpart in Christianity!

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Cross of Life

The ankh was the most revered and prolific emblem in Egypt. It was inscribed on tombs and temples and it was depicted in the hands of gods, kings, priests, viziers, ordinary citizens, and their children. No one knows its origins. Its meaning of “life” after death is strikingly similar to the meaning of Christ’s crucifix, also symbolic of “life” after death.

(Jesus’ Doctrine of Eternal Life is a recurring theme in the New Testament. In John 11:25 Jesus says: “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”)

It should be noted that symbolists see in the ankh the outline of a crucified man: the circle represents his head, the horizontal line his two arms, and the vertical line his legs nailed to the cross as one.

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Day of Judgment

After his resurrection Osiris became judge of the souls of the dead. In this position he held the power to grant life in heaven to those who behaved righteously on earth.

Osiris as Judge of the Dead on the Day of Judgment, from The Papyrus of Hunefer, 1285 BC.

Wallis Budge explained:

“the belief that Osiris was the impartial judge of men’s deeds and words, who rewarded the righteous, and punished the wicked, and ruled over a heaven which contained only sinless beings, and that he possessed the power to do these things because he had lived on earth, and suffered death, and risen from the dead, is as old as dynastic civilization in Egypt…”

—Wallis Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection

The Day of Judgment is a central tenet of the Christian religion. The souls of the deceased shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Those who have followed his teachings during their lives shall be deemed righteous and be admitted to heaven. II Corinthians 5:10 says:

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat [emphasis added] of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”

Depictions of Christ and Osiris as judge are remarkably similar. Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment has many common features to the Day of Judgment etched on Egyptian papyri and carved on tomb walls.

Jesus as Judge of the Dead on the Day of Judgment, from The Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo 1512.

In the Egyptian ceremony the heart of the deceased, symbolic of his virtue, moral character, and earthly deeds, was laid on a set of scales and weighed against a single feather representing maat, the divine law. If the scales balanced, the deceased was allowed to pass into heaven.

As judge, Osiris was always portrayed in the seated position, a posture that parallels the New Testament’s descriptions of the judgment seat of Christ.

What are we to make of these striking similarities? Did Christian scholars simply “borrow” images and symbols of Osiris from the Egyptian religion? Or does this evidence reveal a profound and hitherto undiscovered recurring “Messianic Phenomenon” that has been affecting the course of human civilization? By uncovering the similarities common to the Egyptian and Christian religions are we, in fact, re-discovering the sacred blueprints of an ancient Messianic tradition that has been attempting to accelerate man’s cultural and spiritual development since the beginning of history?

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Myth vs. Fact

No one knows the origin of the Osiris story. The first written accounts of Osiris come down to us from sources outside Egypt by way of ancient historians such as Diodorus Siculus (1st C. BC), Herodotus (5th C. BC), and Plutarch (1st C. AD). These classical writers describe Osiris as a semi-divine king who abolished cannibalism, taught men and women to live according to the law of maat, improved their morality, and, filled with love for mankind, set out on a quest to travel the world and bring the benefits of civilization to other cultures. Their commentary continues with mythological descriptions of the murder of Osiris by a jealous brother named Seth; his rebirth, accomplished by the magic of his sister/wife, Isis; and his second death, caused again by Seth, who dismembered his body and scattered the pieces up and down the Nile. After the utter destruction of Osiris his son, Horus, defeats Seth in an epochal battle thereby vindicating his murdered father.

The myth of Osiris seems to take place half in our world and half in an enchanted world of magic and make-believe. This element of fiction is responsible, in part, for the misconception that Osiris was a fictional being. The facts left among the ruins of ancient Egypt tell an entirely different story. The Osirian religion sparked a renaissance among the ancient Nile-dwellers the effects of which impacted every facet of their primitive society. It instilled in them a high moral code, a sense of good and evil, and an inclination toward brotherly love and admiration unprecedented in human history and unparalleled by any other ancient nation.

It also fostered a highly advanced philosophy. Osiris worshippers realized the human body was neither perfect nor permanent. But they were also convinced death was not the end of their being. There was an eternal, spiritual element within them that would rise – resurrect – from the body and exist in a higher spiritual realm, provided their behavior was in accordance with a high moral code (maat). Consequently, they never became too attached to the things of this world. This is precisely the same philosophy expressed in the true religion of Christianity (i.e., not the Church’s version), sparked by the life, death, and resurrection of the Christian Savior.

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Osiris The Phoenix

The Egyptians likened the spirit of Osiris to a heavenly bird, much like Christianity portrays the soul of Jesus as a white and shining dove. The Egyptians called the bird Benu, the Greeks called it the Phoenix. According to legend this magnificent creature miraculously appears in the eastern sky during fixed points in history to announce the start of a new world age. When it appears the bird mysteriously sets itself ablaze and is suddenly consumed by fire and ashes. However, it arises triumphantly from death renewed and rejuvenated.

Scholars unanimously believe the phoenix was a symbol of Osiris. German Philologist Adolf Erman explained “the soul of Osiris…dwells in the bird Benu, the phoenix….” 4 A passage from the Coffin Texts supports this observation:

“I am that great Phoenix which is in On. Who is he? He is Osiris. The supervisor of what exists. Who is he? He is Osiris.”

—Egyptian Coffin Texts, R.O. Faulkner Translation

The attributes of Osiris as phoenix are the same attributes associated with the Christian Messiah. Both the phoenix and the Messiah appear in the eastern sky (the star of Bethlehem arose in the east heralding the newborn King). Both rise from the dead. Both embody the theme of life after death through resurrection. Both herald the star of new ages. (Christ’s appearance initiated the current age: BC/AD.) Finally, and perhaps most importantly, both are associated with the promise of a destined re-appearance (Christians are currently expecting Christ’s re-appearance, i.e., the Doctrine of the Second Coming).

What is the significance behind the parallels common to the phoenix and the Messiah? Does the phoenix myth enshrine wisdom of the appearances of a recurring Savior in human history, a Savior whose life, death, and resurrection was purposely designed to accelerate the development of human culture? Is there a powerful and well-guarded tradition expressed in the myth of Egypt’s enigmatic phoenix? A tradition that is now on the verge of being re-discovered?
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The “FIRST TIME” of Osiris

The Egyptians associated the first appearance of the phoenix with a golden age in their founding history known as Zep Tepi, the “First Time.” They were convinced the foundations of their civilization were established during this remote and glorious epoch. R. T. Rundle Clark, former professor of Egyptology at Manchester University, commented on the ancients conception of the First Time:

“Anything whose existence or authority had to be justified or explained must be referred to the ‘First Time.’ This was true for natural phenomena, rituals, royal insignia, the plans of temples, magical or medical formulae, the hieroglyphic system of writing, the calendar – the whole paraphernalia of the civilization…All that was good or efficacious was established on the principles laid down in the “First Time” – which was, therefore, a golden age of absolute perfection…”

—R. T. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt

The First Time seems to have been the period during which Osiris reigned as foremost king of Egypt. It was during this era that he established law (maat) and initiated worship of Ra, Egypt’s monotheistic God. Rundle Clark explained:

“The reign of Osiris was a golden age, the model for subsequent generations.”

—R. T. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt

Maat and monotheism, the “model for subsequent generations” set forth by Osiris, was the driving force behind Egyptian culture for thousands of years.

What exactly does the phrase “the First Time” mean? Could it possibly be an arcane reference to the first appearance–the First Coming–of the Christian Savior on earth? Was there a Messianic guiding force behind the rise of Egyptian culture?—The same Messianic guiding force that has inaugurated the empire of Christendom? Was the “First Time” an era during which an ancient Messianic tradition was established? —A tradition aimed at revealing cultural wisdom, law, and spiritual truth to mankind during different historical epochs? Is the Third Time almost upon us again? Is the Savior machine about to activate once again, perhaps for the third and final time?

Richard Cassaro is author of the new book Written In Stone:

The renowned Skull & Cross Bones symbol.

Today the Skull & Cross Bones is a symbol warning danger or poison. However, in its true esoteric meaning it is a symbol of unimaginable power and spirituality.

As with the lucky number 13, we have been tricked—by the elite families who own the biggest corporations and run the most heavily armed governments—out of understanding this symbol’s true meaning.

What is the deeper meaning behind the Skull & Cross Bones?

The great unknown secret behind the Skull & Cross Bones is that it is not a symbol of death, but of life. It was used by ancient priests and priestesses worldwide, from the Mayans in Mesoamerica to the Etruscans in Europe:

Above: 3,000 years ago the ancient Etruscans and ancient Mayans (twin civilizations that developed separately) both created Skull and Bones images.

Everywhere in Antiquity the Skull & Cross Bones symbol conveyed the same exact meaning. By the Middle Ages, intellectuals in Europe were calling it “Memento Mori,” which is Latin for “Remember you are mortal” and “Remember you must die.”

This is a reminder of the temporary nature of human life, and the inevitability of death. Thoughts of death remind us of the transient nature of earthly pleasures, which are fleeting; this contemplation opens the door to the soul within, which is the eternal life within each of us.

The art of attaining spiritual heights by contemplating directly upon a Skull & Cross Bones was never completely forgotten; it became common among occult groups, like the Freemasons.

Above: A Skull & Cross Bones is featured in the Masonic “Chamber of Reflection.”

“…a symbol of mortality and death. As the means for inciting the mind to contemplation… the skull and the crossbones are used in the Chamber of Reflection …”

– Albert Mackey (1807 – 1881), Secretary General of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States

According to occult wisdom, when we contemplate death we look deeply within ourselves. By “reflecting” in this manner we find a hidden treasure within us in the form of eternal “life,” which ancient civilizations like the Egyptians celebrated using a cross symbol:

Above: Ankh cross, associated with eternal life and life after death.

The degree of the treasure we find is equal to the amount of “work” or “reflection” we put in.

“The camel gets down on his knees and says, ‘Put a load on me’…But when the camel is well loaded, it struggles to its feet and runs out into the desert, where it is transformed into a lion — the heavier the load that had been carried, the stronger the lion will be.”

– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (1904 – 1987)

When an initiate reflects extremely deeply, an amazing thing is discovered. The initiate acquires the knowledge (gnosis)  that he or she is an eternal being or soul, endless and divine.

“You don’t HAVE a soul, you ARE a soul. You HAVE a body.”

— C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)

Furthermore, one learns that this soul—which is our true eternal nature—is really  a “god” who has temporarily fallen down into the present world (the physical plane); fallen down into believing that we are actually the temporary mortal creature.

The Fall of Day by William Rimmer, 1869. This is a portrait of you. You are an eternal god or spirit who has temporarily fallen down into, and is temporarily living in, the material world.

The truth is that we are not the mortal creature (who will die). We are the eternal god.  But we have amnesia of our godhood! We have manifested (we are manifesting) this temporary life on earth, as if it were a dream.

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily.
Life is but a dream.

—Wisdom Rhyme

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

—Shakespeare

Because we can’t see that our true nature is divine, the same as the Nature of the universe, we live cut off from this wisdom—first by the veil that separates the material world from the invisible spiritual world, and second by the elite powers mentioned earlier. However, don’t be fooled, we are the microcosm and we are the macrocosm too!

Think of the saying: As above, so below. We are not just the below (the creature), we are the above too (the universe, the god). Everything we see in “Nature” is really our own Nature; it’s Our own Creation, we are our own creation, and we are perfect.

Above: Man is not just the microcosm (the animal reflection) he is the macrocosm too (the god causing the reflection)!

Earth is divine also.  The ancients all believed so. This idea is called animism and it is found in all the ancient religions.

“The Kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the earth but men do not see it.”

— The Gospel of Thomas

Time is divine too, since it is a part of Creation. Hence the image of an hourglass with wings. For all the ancient cultures, wings were a symbol of divinity and eternity:

Above: Hourglass with wings. In one of its meanings it signifies the fact that Time is Divine.

As time runs out for the mortal creature, death will come. This is the teaching not only of the hourglass, but of the Skull & Cross Bones symbol. Though death comes, we will survive death, because we are all powerful, all circular, all knowing. We are gods. We created death.

“The Skull and cross bones are a continual reminder that the spiritual nature obtains liberation only after the philosophical death of man’s sensuous personality.”

—Albert Pike (1809 – 1891), eminent and influential Freemason

For a true sorcerer the Skull & Cross Bones is a reminder that we are the great power in the heavens that has created our own mortal body on earth. We are in heaven right now, but we are dreaming that we are alive on earth. When death comes, the dream will be over, and we will awaken to this truth.

In Hebrew the word Shekinah translates to “God dwells in us.” In other words, “God” is not the old man “upstairs” as we’ve been led to believe. God is not someone or something outside of you. YOU are God. YOU are that old guy up there. It’s a part of YOU that you’ve been cut off from.

By Philippe Halsman, in collaboration with Salvador Dali, 1951

Thus, the Skull & Cross Bones was used in graveyards, catacombs and crypts to remind us not just of our mortality…but of our immortality; of our true God nature.

Above: Many stone tombs in Europe depict the Skull & Cross Bones symbol and bear inscriptions (epitaphs) which provoke the reader to consider his or her mortality…and immortality.

The Skull & Cross Bones motif was used by many American college fraternities, sororities and secret societies founded in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The most well-known example of this usage is the Skull & Bones society, a secret society at Yale University which derives its very name from the symbol.

Skull and Bones secret society, Yale University, Connecticut.

An uninvited “guest” to the tomb reported seeing:

“On the west wall, 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 script, and a royal crown (17,18). 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 English translation of the German words reads as follows:

“Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.”

And what does that mean?

This is first a reference to the fact that we are all equal in life, and equal in death as well. Second it teaches that you will live many lives, because you are an eternal deity living in heaven, dreaming of these temporary lives. YOU are the fool, YOU are the wise man, YOU are the beggar and YOU are the king! However, since none of these lives are permanent, none of them are real. The only thing that is real is your eternal reincarnating soul.

Other well-known college fraternal organizations which use the skull and bones in some capacity in their public symbols include, but are not limited to: Dom-I-Necher, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa Sigma, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Zeta Beta Tau Fraternities and Sigma Sigma Sigma and Chi Omega Sororities. 

Other fraternal groups also use the skull and crossbones in their symbolism and/or in their secret fraternal rituals. These groups include the Knights of Columbus as well as the Knights Templar degree of Freemasonry.

Left: Still-shot of a scene from the movie The Wizard of Oz, inside Professor Marvel’s wagon (remember, he is the Wizard). We see a large skull centered over the doorway (1939). The message? Contemplating on the skull opens the door to higher wisdom. Right: 3° Tracing Board featuring skull and cross bones by W. Bro. Josiah Bowring, Oil on panel, 1819.

Knowing that we are both the Creator and the Created, the old Pagans were fond of saying, “Carpe Diem” or “Seize the day,” which tells us to “eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die.” So live life today, while it is here, while you are alive.

This favorite 3-minute clip from the movie Dead Poet’s Society expresses this idea beautifully:

The Pagan saying “Carpe Diem” evolved among medieval Europeans into the idea of Danse Macabre:

The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut

“no matter one’s station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. They were produced to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in Paris dating from 1424-25.”

-Wikipedia

Beginning in the later seventeenth century, undertakers supplied the living with objects concerning the recently deceased. Printed ephemera, such as the funeral invitation below featuring the Skull & Cross Bones capped with a winged hourglass (denoting the spiritual and eternal nature of life and death) were common.

In past centuries, soldiers were taught the true meaning of the Skull & Cross Bones to help prepare them for battle. German armies used the Skull & Cross bones many times.

In the image above we see the Totenkopf, a German word for the deathman´s head. This is an old symbol of momenti mori. It consists usually of the skull and the mandible of the human skeleton. It can also include two crossed longbones (femurs).

A modern memory of the idea of life after death expressed in the Skull & Cross Bones is present in small isolated pockets throughout Europe, which even today have not fully been converted to Christianity:

“Our remaining Gaelic Speaking communities are scattered around Ireland and some 25 years ago the Government funded a Gaelic speaking Radio and later TV network primarily to encourage and foster the language.

The radio is intimate and twice daily they give a ‘death notice’ round up where they give the latest deaths in the various communities, together with the funeral arrangements. The literal translation  from the Gaelic for the death announcements is …

‘Gone on The Journey Of Truth Today’ is Johnny Bradley etc…

Death is regarded as just that, “The Journey,” into truth where all illusion and delusion eventually must shed until the ‘entity’ is aware of just who and what they were and should be.”

- Donal O’Siodhachain, Bardic Poet, 2011

Representations of Memento Mori appear in very early Classical literature. Sophocles (circa 429 BCE) says the following in Oedipuis the King, which shows he believed the soul lives on after death—an idea common to virtually all of the great Greek philosophers:

“Let every man in mankind’s frailty

Consider his last day; and let none

Presume on his good fortune until he find

Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”

— Sophocles

We see the eternal nature of Time in the following image of a Triptych made of human skulls. The Triptych is a symbol of life, the skull is a symbol of death. Combining the two shows that death and life are one, created by the same Creator. The message is simple: You are the Creator and you are the Created:

Above: Triptych formed by skulls in The Cemetery of the Capuchin Fathers in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Rome, Italy.

Here we see the preserved remains of 4,000 Capuchin friars on display. These remains have been sculpted into a powerful and monumental work of art, with skulls and bones being used for alters, chandeliers, and ornamental wall designs. The intention here is not to scare but to inspire prayer, contemplation, deep thoughts, and meditation; in other words, “awakening” to the true higher Self that survives death.

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IN CONCLUSION

The symbol of the Skull & Cross Bones did not originally stand for poison. Unfortunately, today it does because the powers that be in the world are trying to cover up its true meaning; this an effort to keep the masses down, disempowered, and ignorant as to the true nature of human existence.

THE TRUE MEANING OF THE SKULL & CROSS BONES IS:

- Symbol of our passing mortality
- Reminder of how quickly time passes, so you should “Seize the Day” as we will be dead soon
- Call to enjoy life
- Though death will come, we will survive death
- We are death and we are life, we are an eternal god in this moment (and every moment) dreaming that we are alive on earth. The god is the reality, the life here on earth is the dream.

Of course, there is more to the Skull & Cross Bones symbol than has been revealed here. Read more in the newly released book Written in Stone:

The healing and nourishing properties of any fruit or vegetable reflected in, and ultimately revealed by, that fruit or vegetables’ outer physical shape, form, or “signature” in relation to the human body.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function—and they look exactly like human kidneys:

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop brain function:

The cross section of a Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye. And science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to the eyes and aid in the general function of the eyes:

Celery looks just like bones. Celery specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23 percent sodium and these foods are 23 percent sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. Foods like celery replenish the skeletal needs of the body:

Avocadoes target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female—they look just like these organs. Avocadoes help women balance hormones, shed unwanted birth weight, and deter cervical cancers. It takes exactly nine months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit:

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility:

Slice a Mushroom in half and it resembles a human ear. Mushrooms have been found to improve hearing, as mushrooms are one of the few foods that contain vitamin D. This particular vitamin is important for healthy bones, even the tiny ones in the ear that transmit sound to the brain:

Our lungs are made up of branches of ever-smaller airways that finish up with tiny bunches of tissue called alveoli. These structures, which resemble bunches of Grapes, allow oxygen to pass from the lungs to the blood stream. A diet high in fresh fruit, such as grapes, has been shown to reduce the risk of lung cancer and emphysema. Grape seeds also contain a chemical called proanthocyanidin, which appears to reduce the severity of asthma triggered by allergy:

Ginger, commonly sold in supermarkets, often looks just like the stomach. So its interesting that one of its biggest benefits is aiding digestion. The Chinese have been using it for over 2,000 years to calm the stomach and cure nausea, while it is also a popular remedy for motion sickness:

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics:

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries:

The Doctrine of Signatures may sound strange to us, but its wisdom is ancient, rediscovered in modern times. Of course, in modern America we’ve been taught by the big corporations to buy “processed foods,” rather than to buy local fresh vegetables and cook them ourselves.

Left: Inexpensive processed foods we find everywhere—in the supermarket, schools, government institutions, etc. Right: Expensive natural foods that can only be found in the supermarket.

Americans have no time for cooking; most are busy working and consuming en masse, according to the messages drilled in by television, radio, newspaper, the news, culture, society. The resultant omnipresence of cheap, high-calorie, nutrient-poor processed foods (or “food like substances”) in homes, schools, government institutions and food programs, and on every street corner creates default food choices that drive obesity.

These subsidized, cheap, low-quality foods are heavily marketed and consumed by our ever-widening population with an obesity rate approaching three out of four Americans. The more Americans eat, the fatter they become. And the fatter they become the more they develop heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a myriad of other chronic ailments. This is a big score for big pharma. The sicker our population becomes, the more medications are sold for high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, and many other lifestyle driven diseases. In essence, big food and big pharma profits by creating a nation of sick and fat citizens.

This structure is built into the very fabric of our economy and culture. It could be called the medical, agricultural, food industrial complex. It is nothing short of sheer violence against us—the social, political, economic and environmental conditions that foster and promote the development of disease. However, by using this wisdom of the Doctrine of Signatures we can take more of a proactive role regarding our health. We are our best own doctor and dietician, we just need to believe it.

The Doctrine of Signatures was made popular in modern times by a Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher named Paracelsus (1493-1541) who scholars consider to be the father of modern chemistry. Paracelsus noted how the qualities of plants are often reflected in their appearance. He thus theorized that the inner nature of plants may be discovered by their outer forms or “signatures.” He applied this principle to food as well as medicine, remarking that “it is not in the quantity of food but in its quality that resides the Spirit of Life”—a belief familiar to those who choose to eat organic food while also being justifiably concerned over Genetically Modified substitutes that lack the “life force,” or spirit.

The “Doctrine of Signatures” enjoyed a revival in the 1600s after Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), a master shoemaker in the small town of Görlitz, Germany, began writing on the subject. At 25 years old, he experienced a sublime mystical vision where he saw the true relationship between man and his Creator—that man is both the Creator and the Created.

Richard Cassaro is the author of Written In Stone:

The Invisible Government stays in power and enslaves the common man and woman via a “System” of influence and control; a System so subtle and far-reaching most people can’t see it.

This System has 7 main tentacles:

#1 -  BANKING: We live under the tyranny of an international BANKING scheme designed to regulate our currency and keep the common man poor and the rich man wealthy.

#2 – POLITICS: We are given the illusion of freedom of choice but in reality we live under a dual party POLITICS system, with Republicans and Democrats being twin faces of the same corrupt coin—ensuring no meaningful change.

#3 – EDUCATION: We and our children are put through an ineffective and dumbed-down EDUCATION system that limits our minds, so that regardless of the strength of any given teacher, we are all taught the same mind-limiting curriculum.

#4 – PHARMACEUTICALS: We suffer under and indeed are purposely poisoned by a horrific and money-hungry PHARMACEUTICALS market that first creates the diseases—real or imagined—then advertises and sells us the “cure.”

#5 – ARMAMENTS: We live in the shadow of a massive ARMAMENTS industry, which spreads fear and endorses war for profit; a united populace is not good, it would destabilize the armaments industry.

#6 – RELIGION: We are taught to blindly follow watered-down RELIGIONS that divide the masses. The Western religions encourage people to seek “out there” for divinity and spiritual eternity, when in reality divinity and spiritual eternity exist within us already. The Invisible Government hides this truth.

#7 – MASS MEDIA: The Invisible Government brainwashes us by television, and we’re taught to listen to and trust the corporate news MEDIA; we were long ago “sold” the illusion that there’s a group of journalists and editors fighting on our side; sadly, they pedal mostly lies, deception, superficiality, and fear.

These 7 Sinister Tentacles of control by the Invisible Government were established long ago. The term “New World Order” is a misnomer; the Invisible Government has been around for a long time.

Today the System works smoothly—because no one suspects it exists; this despite the warnings of former presidents, senators, governors, mayors, and benevolent world leaders:

President Theodore Roosevelt

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”

—President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919), An Autobiography, 1913

In 1922, John Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918 – 1925, said in a speech:

Mayor John Hylan, New York City.

“The warning of Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over City, State, and nation… It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection.

…They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.

These… interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.”

—Wikipedia

The 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, wrote:

“Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

—Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913

John Edgar Hoover (1895 – 1972), the first director of the FBI of the United States, said:

John Edgar Hoover

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”

—J. Edgar Hoover, The Elks Magazine, 1956

President Kennedy was killed trying to fight against the Invisible Government:

President Kennedy

“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.”

—President John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)

The Invisible Government’s 7-tiered System has not been designed for us; it has been designed so that a few families, corporations, and governments are able to control all the wealth, power, and natural resources, while the common man is fed just enough to survive so he doesn’t revolt in the streets.

A small group of families (c. 1000) constitute the Invisible Government. They run the System their grandparents and great grandparents created. Many names are familiar—Rockefeller, Lehman, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rothschild, Guggenheim.

So are the names of the financial institutions they use to enslave us—GE, General Motors, Chevron, Du Pont.

And the political institutions as well—Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Royal Institute of International Affairs.

These families, corporations and organizations own the governments, banking systems, and all the financial institutions; they own the land and all the natural resources, which they’ve privatized out of our reach. They own Wall Street and all major commerce. They dictate what everything costs, including how much interest you’ll pay on loans, how much rent you’ll pay, what mortgagee terms you’ll receive, what your car payments will be, grocery bills, university fees, even the price you pay for a shirt, a meal, and a movie.

The fact that all this is hidden is no accident. We were meant to live in ignorance by the System’s designers; and this ignorance and its restrictions inhibit us physically, and, more important, spiritually. And we believe the lie that we’re free, because we’re told this lie all along.

In Part 2 of 2, we will examine each one of these seven tentacles one step further.

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#1 – BANKS: By Controlling Money, They Control You

If you think bankers are evil, you are definitely onto something. Not the tellers or low-level managers, but the decision makers and higher ups—like “Mr. Potter” in Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life:

Above: Mr. Potter is portrayed as the typical heartless banker in the timeless classic “It’s A Wonderful Life.”

Kafka didn’t just invent Potter’s character out of thin air; he clearly used a working model—bankers!

“Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.”

— J. Edgar Hoover, FBI

Banks enslave us in a number of ways. One way is by using fiat currency setup by the Federal Reserve Board in 1913; many famous and important people have since condemned the Fed as “evil,” “unconstitutional” and “illegal”:

“The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money.”

— Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1923

“We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.”

— Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)

“In the U.S. today, we have in effect two governments. We have the duly constituted government, then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve, operating the money powers which are reserved to congress by the Constitution.”

— Congressman Wright Patman, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, in a speech on the House floor in 1967

You can read here about how the Fed has illegally hijacked the right to print money from the American people.

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole… Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world’s money…”

— Professor Carroll Quigley (Renowned, late Georgetown macro-historian. Mentioned by former President Clinton in his first nomination acceptance speech), author of Tragedy and Hope.

Banks enslave us in other ways as well. One way is by saddling us with perpetual debt and then charging high interest on that debt—even though they know that the majority of Americans are not properly educated to understand the nature of debt, interest, etc.

The banks make it easy for people to get into debt, always tacking on charges and fees. A $40,000 college loan could cost you 400% in interest over the years. Can’t pay? The interest charges will just keep on coming.

The banks will seize your possessions, cars, homes, bank accounts. They’ll garnish your wages and use any kind of sneaky scare tactics. Of course, they don’t mention any of this in their advertising, where they present themselves as caring, kind, smart, friendly, and basically as pure as the driven snow. They are masters at the art of deception.

Foreclosure is another neat bank trick. Make no mistake, the banks want to foreclose on you. And why not? More money for them. The banks will resell your house and property for a nice profit. Can’t make your final car loan payment? They’ll repossess it and resell it and make a ton of money in the process.

Banks stole homes and farms during the Depression of the 1930s. The government did nothing to alleviate the suffering so Americans began to idolize some of the government-thumping bank robbers, like the good-old Mr. John Dillinger.

Above: John Dillinger

Another scheme the banks use to steal our money is by feeing us to death with endless penalties (the death of a thousand pin pricks). If you’ve ever bounced a check, you don’t need to be told this. The bank has a policy to re-post the check over and over again, charging a $30 overdraft fee every time. Pretty smart, since the check just continues to bounce. Refuse to pay and the banks will take it right out of your account.

The Invisible Government owns all the banks, federal reserve banks, and central banks in the world. Yes, the world. The Invisible Government is also tied to another lucrative and shady industry—pharmaceuticals.

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#2 – PHARMACEUTICALS: The Sickening Truth—Profits Before People

Pharmaceuticals are big business. Yet pharmaceuticals are killing Americans. It’s been called “pharmageddon.”

“…’pharmaceuticals’ refers to medicines composed of small, synthetically produced molecules, which are sold by large, fully integrated drug manufacturers. The largest…Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck…are known as “Big Pharma”… During 2007, brand pharmaceutical manufacturer sales in the United States reached $228 billion and generic pharmaceutical manufacturer sales hit $58.5 billion.

—The MBA Career Bible, By Vault Editors

Unfortunately, the damage that pharmaceuticals are doing to human health, human wealth and possibly even human offspring is incalculable. We see headlines like the following all the time:

“Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. is pulling its arthritis drug Vioxx from the market after a study confirmed earlier concerns that it raises the risk of heart problems, including heart attacks and stroke. Vioxx is currently used by 2 million people worldwide and has been used by more than 84 million people around the world, according to Merck.”

—NPR, 9/30/2004

As with the banks, there seems to be only a handful of “evil” people at the very top of the big pharmaceutical companies who are making decisions that are harming the masses and the nation.

(This was also true at Enron, for example, where a few greedy executives stole everything at the expense of investors and workers. The same could be said of the FDA, where a few key bureaucrats make decisions that override the good sense of the FDA’s drug safety scientists.)

To some extent, the nature of the corporation itself is to blame, a machinery that supersedes any good intention of any single employee or decision maker. Put quite simply: Corporations exist to make profits. That means drug companies exist to sell pharmaceuticals. The more pharmaceuticals sold, the more profits made. Thus the battle-cry of Pfizer and Merck—who have to answer to shareholders—is “Make more money,” not “Serve the public good.”

“Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits…Yet the Republicans’ prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.”

—Congressman Jim Clyburn

With this in mind, it’s clear that the drug reps, drug scientists, drug marketing experts, etc., are just following orders given to them by their superiors, simply to keep their jobs. They don’t see (or don’t want to see) that they have helped expand disease and increased human suffering.

As time progresses, this should become clear to some if not many of these pharmaceutical employees. As more research exposes the dangers of pharmaceuticals, hopefully an awakening will occur. They will realize that injecting children with endless vaccinations, flu shots, and more is not natural.

War has been declared on our children. Are we strong enough and smart enough to fight back?

Let’s take the following product as an example:

Pharmaceuticals like these are among the most sinister of all, because they are aimed at very young women, who are often naive, easily-manipulated, impressionable and usually unsuspecting.

Women’s monthly periods are healthy and natural—they are one of the most healthy and natural things in the world in fact. Wise ancient cultures all tied the woman’s menstrual cycle to the moon’s cycle since time immemorial; and don’t fool with Mother Nature. Yet these ads try to entice young women out of menstruating naturally / normally.

Products like these are the most sinister; they are aimed at young women, who are inexperienced and impressionable. The advertisers know it’s a deep desire of young women to feel empowered, wise, and confident (i.e., from girl to woman) and they sell this image to these girls in the ad, and in the product itself.

Young girls think taking this drug is OK; after all the FDA has approved it, right? And aren’t, like, the smartest people in the world working for the FDA? And hasn’t this drug been around for, like, a zillion years? Most of them think so (according to a study the present author conducted).

Unfortunately, these young women never suspect, and can’t even fathom, the type of greed and selfishness that has been introduced into their midst.

What unseen dangers lie ahead for these innocent young girls when they grow up and want a family? What terrible fate lies ahead for America as a result of this tampering with Nature? It’s all just one big medical experiment.

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#3 – ARMAMENTS: War For Profit, Instead of Feeding People

“The arms industry is a global industry and business which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology and equipment . It comprises government and commercial industry involved in research, development, production, and service of military material , equipment and facilities…Departments of government also operate in the arms industry, buying and selling weapons, munitions and other military items.”

— Wikipedia

On January 17, 1961, in his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the establishment of the “military-industrial complex,” where decision-makers profit from the wars they start:

“…we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions…We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United State corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience….We…must not fail to comprehend its grave implications…In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties…”

— President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1961)

Unfortunately, President Eisenhower’s advice went unheeded. Just ask Dick Cheney, America’s former Vice President. He and his friends at Halliburton are a very recent and very visible example of leaders profiting financially from the wars they create.

“Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000 and has received stock options from Halliburton…In the run-up to the Iraq war, Halliburton was awarded a $7 billion contract for which ‘unusually’ only Halliburton was allowed to bid.”

— Wikipedia

Of course, Cheney and crew are only one example in a sea of others. Armaments is big business, make no mistake.

“Global arms sales reached new heights, according to a recent report by a think tank in Sweden. Despite the global recession, the sales, both domestic and exports, of the world’s most profitable arms-producing companies increased by nearly $15 billion from 2008 to 2009, reaching a total $400 billion in arms sales throughout the world — the highest amount ever. Other estimates put that figure as high as $1 trillion.…Companies in the United States make up nearly half of world sales…”

—Thriving Arms Industry, The Japan Times, 2/27/2011

Not only does the proliferation of weapons and armaments swallow the wealth of nations—wealth that could be better spent on programs aimed at feeding, housing, educating, and so on—but it poses a threat to world peace by brainwashing us into fearing and hating each other. Think about it. All of us have grown up living in the shadow of war, fearing the Soviets, fearing the Arabs, and wanting them all to just go away. This type of constant fear and terror distorts our psychological mindset and distorts the mindset of our children, whether we realize it or not.

To get a better sense of this, please watch this interesting 2-minute clip from Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine documentary:

Simply put, the Invisible Government has created an armaments industry just so it can profit from it—this at the expense of world peace and humanity’s spiritual development.

“When a country decides to invest in arms, rather than in education, housing, the environment, and health services for its people, it is depriving a whole generation of its right to prosperity and happiness. We have produced one firearm for every ten inhabitants of this planet, and yet we have not bothered to end hunger when such a feat is well within our reach.”

— Oscar Arias Sanchez President of Costa Rica (awarded Nobel Peace Price in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars across Central America)

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#4 – RELIGION: The Opiate of the Masses

Most Americans, even if they don’t go to Church or read the Bible, believe in God. They inherited this belief from parents and grandparents. Sure, it’s comforting to believe that we have a “Father” in heaven who loves and watches over us, and who will receive us when we die. But have you ever thought about the “illogic” of the “God” story?

In the following 2-minute clip, the late comedian and social critic George Carlin explains with humor the incredible nature of the God story:

[See post to watch Flash video]

As a lifelong spiritual seeker and truth seeker, the present author found it hard to give up belief in God. After all, what else is there? Atheism? Wrong!

What was found after a lifetime of travel, research, and study is that the “God” idea that we have today in the West is actually a watered-down version of a much more ancient, a much more universal, and a much more accurate spiritual truth; a truth that is more Eastern in its tone and philosophy. In essence, what was found was that the “God story” is really a distortion (created by the Invisible Government, and perpetuated in Hollywood films like The Ten Commandments) of a much greater narrative.

Not wanting us to know this “much greater narrative” the Invisible Government has put the “God story” in place to help keep us down, blind, sleeping and disempowered.

“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”

—Karl Marx

You can learn more about this much more ancient narrative—and its chief symbol, the Swastika—here.

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#5 – MASS MEDIA: Disinformation, Manipulation, Propaganda, Mind Control

The Invisible Government uses the mass media to control us. The term “mass media” is multifaceted. Here we’ll use it to describe the following two forms of media:

-News Media (TV news, newspapers, magazines)
-Television (shows, sports, commercials)

TV NEWS MEDIA

The main national networks, NBC, CBS, and ABC, as well as most if not all of the smaller cable channels, are owned, funded, and controlled by an interconnected network of large corporate conglomerates and international banking interests, which manipulate and filter out news that does not fit their corporate agenda.

“One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change.”

—David Barsamian, Journalist, Publisher

“The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.”

— Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US media and foreign policy critic

The U.S. Media is dominated by 6 huge global corporations. These 6 corporations rule the newspapers, television, and radio:

(The following information comes from FreePress.net)

2009 revenues: $157 billion
General Electric media-related holdings include a minority share in television networks NBC and Telemundo, Universal Pictures, Focus Features, 26 television stations in the United States and cable networks MSNBC, Bravo and the Sci Fi Channel. GE also owns 80 percent of NBC Universal. On January 18, 2011 the Federal Communications Commission approved Comcast’s take-over of a majority share of NBC-Universal from General Electric. However, General Electric still has a 49% ownership stake in NBC-Universal.

2009 revenues: $36.1 billion
The Walt Disney Company owns the ABC Television Network, cable networks including ESPN, the Disney Channel, SOAPnet, A&E and Lifetime, 277 radio stations, music and book publishing companies, production companies Touchstone, Miramax and Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, the cellular service Disney Mobile, and theme parks around the world.

2009 revenues: $30.4 billion
News Corporation’s media holdings include: the Fox Broadcasting Company; television and cable networks such as Fox, Fox Business Channel, National Geographic and FX; print publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and TVGuide; the magazines Barron’s and SmartMoney; book publisher HarperCollins; film production companies 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Blue Sky Studios; numerous websites including MarketWatch.com; and non-media holdings including the National Rugby League.

2009 revenues: $25.8 billion
Time Warner is the largest media conglomerate in the world, with holdings including: CNN, the CW (a joint venture with CBS), HBO, Cinemax, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT, America Online, MapQuest, Moviefone, Warner Bros. Pictures, Castle Rock and New Line Cinema, and more than 150 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Marie Claire and People.

2009 revenues: $13.6 billion
Viacom holdings include: MTV, Nickelodeon/Nick-at-Nite, VH1, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Atom Entertainment, and music game developer Harmonix. Viacom 18 is a joint venture with the Indian media company Global Broadcast news.

2009 revenues: $13 billion
CBS Corporation owns the CBS Television Network, CBS Television Distribution Group, the CW (a joint venture with Time Warner), Showtime, book publisher Simon & Schuster, 30 television stations, and CBS Radio, Inc, which has 130 stations. CBS is now the leading supplier of video to Google’s new Video Marketplace.

The purpose of this ownership is to control public opinion.

“The press … traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.”

—Sam Donaldson, ABC Correspondent

“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.”

—Mark Twain

“A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.”

—Joseph Pulitzer

” To keep information from the public is the function of the corporate media.”

—Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

“There is no such thing in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it… The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country…”

—John Swinton, Newsman and former editor at The New York Times

TELEVISION

Television itself has become the great indoctrination tool of our age, and one of the greatest indoctrination tools ever devised. Television has changed human perception as well as the whole cultures of nations. Most of your ideas and opinions and the things you emulate and mimic come from Television, though you probably don’t realize it.

Television is power. Television is hypnosis. Television is propaganda. Television is being used to condition you. When watching, your mind becomes open to suggestion. Your opinions are shaped. Your patterns of thinking are formed, already neatly packaged for you. Your perception of reality is molded.

You are told what to think, not how to think. You are told what is important, rather than looking inside yourself to see what “YOU” feel is important. You are told what is relevant. What to believe. How to speak, what phrases to use, and how to say what and when.

Public opinion in general is engineered through television, because you follow the “herd” instinct for fear of standing alone. Billions are spent on TV advertising precisely because the messages “reach” you, and reach you with a vengeance!

Sure, TV advertising exists also so you can buy individual products sold mostly by the big corporations (i.e., Do you or anyone you know have enough money to advertise on the “big” networks? Of course not!). But besides this there’s also a deeper programming going on here; a programming that also seeks to target America’s children.

American children watch four hours of television daily on average.  Unfortunately, most of this programming is violent or dumbed-down. Studies show this causes greater aggressiveness in children, and greater stupidity; children become “immune” or numb to the horror of violence, imitate the violence they observe on TV, and gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems.

This is because creating a “confused,” “mal-adjusted” and “dumbed down” American child also seems to be on the agenda of the Invisible Government. Having a divided and less intelligent public makes their job of dominion and imperial control much easier.

At least one study shows that fast-paced TV shows like Sponge Bob are to blame.

Fast-paced cartoons like Sponge Bob confuses kids.

Researchers chose “SpongeBob” for its frenetic pace: The show switches scenes on average every 11 seconds, as compared with PBS cartoon (public television) which switch only twice a minute.

“After watching the programs, the preschoolers were asked to do four different “executive function” tasks that test cognitive capability and impulse control, such as counting backwards, solving puzzles , and delaying gratification by waiting to eat a tasty snack until told to do so. Compared with those who were drawing and those watching PBS, the “SpongeBob” kids performed significantly worse on the tasks, the researchers said.”

—Lauren Effron

And then, of course, there are shows like The Real Housewives, Bridalplasty, Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire, and so on. Children watch these shows and believe the people who appear on them are normal. Unfortunately, today these types of people are indeed normal, because American culture and society has devolved so quickly. However, anyone with self-respect and dignity knows in their mind and feels in their heart that the Jerry Springer Show dehumanizes humanity. Same with Maury Povich, Steve Wilkos, and the rest.

These images are poison to us, mentally, physically, spiritually.

All of us are too good for Jerry Springer. All of us, even the people who appear on the shows. These programs debase humanity by glorifying the basest of human nature and human instinct, the animal part of us, our lowest qualities. Why not glorify the highest in humans, instead of the lowest, and let’s see what heights we might reach?

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#6 – EDUCATION: The Deliberate Dumbing-Down of America

Nowhere has the flight from normality, quality, and decency that’s plaguing American life today been more obvious than in our schools and universities.

Education is meant to give students the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic, reason, and evidence. Yet we’ve fallen so steeply and so quickly from this ideal that it’s frightening.

The American educational system, from grade school to grad school, has long been in decline; even more scary, this decline seems to be happening on purpose. Mind-limiting textbooks, watered-down requirements and simplistic test grade scales are to blame; not to mention the fact that many teachers are poorly trained and many schools cause social maladjustment, moral confusion and alienation. Just look at the surreal level of gun-violence, aggressiveness, and bullying.

Most of the blame can be laid at the feet of the trainers of teachers, the writers of textbooks and the educational “policy people” in the government who influence them. The result is that the U.S. educational system cranks out students the way Detroit cranks out Buicks. Students are more programmed to memorize meaningless dates and names, and to conform to economic and social norms; they are not really taught how to think.

Even worse, public schools, which are coercively financed and administered, regard children as property of the state. This undermines parental love and authority.

Would you allow this to be done to your children?

Then, there’s college, the biggest farce going. In four years, kids learn how to master the art of drinking, having sex, and doing drugs, but not much else. Sure there is some “learning” taking place, but whether or not this learning is merely a natural part of human development (i.e., all animals learn things in a four-year period, like bears, cheetahs and dolphins) is a question that has yet to be raised, let alone answered.

Parents no longer esteem the great “arts” and “sciences” of the ages, but now send their kids off to learn a trait that will “make them a lot of money.” Why is making a lot of money an idea imprinted on the minds of the young? The answer is because it is this same idea that has been imprinted on the minds of the parents. The parents were dumbed-down first; now their children are even dumber.

Of course, college has become outrageously expensive. Why? Because not long ago the brilliant idea emerged on the part of the Invisible Government that if Americans want a real education, they should be billed for it. Today’s high school graduates have only the equivalency of a 6th grade education when compared to other countries. College thus became a necessary and lucrative industry. After all, why give away something for free when you can charge for it? That’s what America’s “leaders” realized a long time ago, and it’s sickening.

If you want to know who to blame for all this, the answer is: BLAME THE GOVERNMENT!

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#7 – POLITICS: How And Why The Government Is Not Your Friend

When we think “Government” we think “friend.” But “enemy” is more like it! Politicians are owned by the Invisible Government, lock, stock and barrel. Just look up words like “special interest” and “lobby.” Politicians look after their own interests, power, and elections. They’re not worried about you, but about themselves.

Worse, we’re led into the trap of believing there’s a two-party system, “Republican” and “Democrat.” In reality these are the same animal; twin sides of the same coin.

Don’t be a Republicrat. Stand apart. Think for yourself.

“In the United States, both the Republican and Democratic Parties, with only a few prominent exceptions, have been and are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.”

—University of Illinois Professor Robert McChesney and The Nation correspondent John Nichols

” I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 – 1859, French political thinker and author of Democracy in America

In 1922, John Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918 – 1925, said in a speech:

“The warning of Theodore Roosevelt has much timeliness today, for the real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over City, State, and nation… They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.”

—Wikipedia

The late great George Carlin said it best in this 3 minute clip. These 3 minutes of film are perhaps equally as valuable as a four year education in an American university, so if you are young and open-minded please pay close attention:

We “think” we are “free” and we “think” we have “choice” because we’re “told” this every day in school and by the mass media. But it’s a big lie. We have no choice.

100 senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices—545 human beings out of 300 million Americans—constitute our government. There isn’t a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to these 545 people. Yet all of them spend much of their time and energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

It must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair; if the budget is in the red; if there are troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s because they want it that way. Or, better, the big money and lobbyists behind them do.  And these big money and lobbyists are the messengers of the Invisible Government.

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In Conclusion

Banks, Pharmaceuticals, Armaments, Religion, Education, Media and Politics—these are the seven sinister tentacles of the Invisible Government. Today’s counterculture kids talk about the New World Order; but it’s really the “Old” World Order. It’s a System of control setup long ago by a small elite group of families who control all the wealth in the world. It has brainwashed us all and continues to enslave us. The Invisible Government has created  a national and international culture of fear—using a broad range of tactics (some based on ancient wisdom) aimed at subverting an individual’s control of his or her own thinking, ideas, behavior, emotions, or decisions. Their goal is clearly to maintain wealth, power and hegemony over the world for themselves and their offspring.

Richard Cassaro is the author of:

Left: Freemason George Washington wearing Masonic apron with Third Eye in the center: Right: Luminous Third-Eye-In-A-Triangle forms the Great Seal of the U.S.

America’s Founders—who were either Freemasons or familiar with the Order’s principles—memorialized the fraternity’s “Lost Secret” in the icons of The Great Seal of the United States.

This “Lost Secret” is an ancient Universal Religion, now lost to time, but still visible in the ruins of the first civilizations, where we see a clear and consistent pattern of pyramids and disembodied Eye symbols:

PHOTO OF RUINED PYRAMID OF THE SUN + SINGLE EYE WALL CARVING, TEOTIAHUACAN, MEXICO

PHOTO OF RUINED PYRAMIDS + SINGLE EYE ART SYMBOL, SAQQARA, EGYPT

PHOTO OF RUINED PYRAMID + SINGLE EYE ART SYMBOL, OHIO MOUND CULTURE, OHIO, USA

PHOTO OF RUINED PYRAMID + SINGLE EYE ART SYMBOL, NAZCA CULTURE, NAZCA, PERU

PHOTO OF RUINED EL CASTILLO PYRAMID + SINGLE EYE “OLLAN” ART SYMBOL, CHICHEN ITZA, MEXICO

PHOTO OF RUINED PYRAMID + SINGLE THIRD EYE ART SYMBOL, SICILY, ITALY

PHOTO OF RUINED PYRAMID OF THE SUN + SINGLE THIRD EYE ART IN TRUJILLO, PERU

As shown by the researches of past scholars, combined with powerful discoveries revealed in the new book Written In Stone: Decoding The Secret Masonic Religion Hidden In Gothic Cathedrals and World Architecture, these symbols point to a “Universal Religion” that was once practiced globally.

Practitioners focused on trying to open a luminous and mystical “Third Eye,” said to be hidden in the human forehead.

This Third Eye is believed to be the remnant organ from a higher, more sophisticated, and more spiritual form of humanity that lived on earth during an antediluvian “Golden Age,”  attested to by the ancients and by classical historians as “Babel,” “Shambhala” and “Atlantis.”

As “postdiluvian” humans we still have access to this atrophied organ of our ancestors, which was identified by some 19th and 20th century scientists as the pineal gland:

“A small usu. conical appendage of the brain of all craniate vertebrates that in a few reptiles has the essential structure of an eye, that functions in some birds as part of a time-measuring system, and that is variously postulated to be a vestigial third eye, an endocrine organ, or the seat of the soul…”

—Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

The “Seat of the Soul” is how French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) described the pineal gland; he called it the bridge that connects man’s soul to his body.

Readers familiar with Eastern religions will recall the Third Eye as having a long history in India, China, and Southeast Asia, where Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism hold sway.

More than a “religious” idea, the Third Eye is an archaic “spiritual” custom.

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Third Eye Bindi Dot On The Hindu Forehead

The Third Eye, called “urna” or “trinetra,” is marked by a dot in the middle of the forehead, above and between the eyes.

With two eyes closed you can open your Third Eye—the dot on the forehead—and see your spiritual inner Self or soul within.

In the East, Awakening Our Third Eye is achievable through Yoga, and particularly Kundalini Yoga, which teaches the existence of the so-called ajna chakra or Third Eye chakra.

Kundalini in ancient Sanskrit means “illumination,” “enlightenment,” and refers to the light you experience when you awaken your Third Eye and remember who you are (i.e., commune with your soul within).

This “union with God” was considered blasphemy in the Christian West for a thousand years, punishable by death under the Inquisition.

Above Left: Awakening the Third Eye through Kundalini Yoga. Above Right: The Caduceus, popular throughout medieval Europe, is an arcane symbol of Kundalini Yoga.

Tradition holds that the proper way to activate the Third Eye is to “balance” two “opposite” channels in the body (ida and pingala) around a central vertical axis / spinal cord called the sushumna.

This balance of opposites creates a third force that unites the opposites and awakens the Third Eye and allows you to see your true essence, your Self, who you are.

“You don’t HAVE a soul, you ARE a soul. You HAVE a body.

—C. S. Lewis

This third force of “center” and “balance” is the number Three, the AOUM sound, chanted by Eastern mystics. The AOUM symbol is shaped like the number Three itself—as scholars say—denoting the balance of opposites:

Above: The Aum symbol is shaped like the number 3, which is also the chief number of the Freemasons.

The number 3 is also the chief number of the Freemasons:

“…in Freemasonry the number three is the most important…and we find it pervading our whole ritual …”

—Jeremiah How, The Freemason’s Manual, 1881

“Everywhere among the ancients the number three was deemed the most sacred of numbers…

In all the mysteries, from Egypt to Scandinavia,we find a sacred regard for the number three…

In Freemasonry, the ternary is the most sacred of all the mystical numbers.”

—Albert Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1879

The Third Eye is used extensively in the east, appearing in varied disciplines (Yoga, Ch’an Buddhism, Karate, Qigong, and Aikido). The idea of the Third Eye, however, is quite foreign to the West. Despite living in the “information age” of globalization, it is still treated as something strange and alien, an enigma unique to the Eastern religions.

How is this possible? Could it be that there has been an intentional effort to conceal it?

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Freemasonry’s Great “Third Eye” Secret

The image of a single Eye is common to Western Secret Societies. A single Eye is one of the key symbols in Freemasonry. The Eye is visible on Masonic temples and aprons, among other places, but it does not stand for God; it stands for the hidden Third Eye in your forehead.

The Eye is also featured on Masonic “Tracing Boards,” age-old instructional designs that are present in all lodges, used to teach initiates (see below).

Dating back more than two centuries, the “Tracing Board” is one of the last vestiges of authentic untouched and unchanged Masonic wisdom.

Above: The “Masters Carpet,” from The Masonic Monitor in 1820, includes Freemasonry’s key symbols: the Sun, Moon, and Mystical Eye.

We are immediately drawn to the single disembodied Eye at the top and center of the portrait.

But few of us notice the two sides, right and left, marked by the twin pillars capped by sun and moon; in Kundalini Yoga, the Ida and Pingala channels.

Isn’t the message here that we have a powerful Third Eye hidden in our foreheads? And that we can awaken this central Eye?

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The Geometric Third Eye” Triangle

Isn’t the Masonic All-Seeing-Eye-in-the-Triangle over a truncated pyramid reminiscent of the ancient pyramids and Third Eye symbols in ruins worldwide?

In her fascinating 1924 book, Mystic Americanism, the obscure American author Grace Morey explained:

“The All-Seeing Eye…emblematic of the pineal gland or third eye of the human being…has been found amid the ruins of every civilization upon the globe, thereby attesting the fact of a universal religion over all the earth at some remote period. As we now restore this universal religion, we set the All-Seeing eye upon the pyramid.”

Above: The obverse of the Great Seals shows how “Awakening Our Third Eye” was the Universal Religion of the world’s ancient pyramid cultures.

Masons call the single Eye the “all-seeing Eye” but have little understanding of what this means. Others oversimplify it by calling it the “Eye of God”; either way, these modern descriptions provide us with little enlightenment.

More than a handful of authors and researchers have set forth the thesis that the All-Seeing-Eye signifies man and woman’s Third Eye, available for us to use.

Famous American Author and Freemason Mark Twain, writing in 1899, referred to the All Seeing Eye not as the Eye of some distant heavenly deity or “old man upstairs,” but as a tangible gift that any person can use:

“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the ‘all seeing eye’ pierces through, and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn’t indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn’t detect.”

Freemason Dr. Buck (1838-1916) gave a physical description of the Third Eye and connected its “mastery” to Freemasonry’s third degree of “Master Mason”:

“It has been called “The Third Eye.” The Ancient Hindus called it the Eye of Siva, and it should be borne in mind that Siva is the third person in the Hindu Trinity…It is atrophied, and therefore dormant in the average individual…The Eye of Siva is, in fact, an All-Seeing-Eye; for it practically annuls Space and Time as concepts on the physical plane…

A real Master [Mason], then, has the Eye of Siva; the pineal gland, dormant in others, is active in him…”

If Buck is correct, and practicing this “occult” system was part of Masonic adherence, then Masonry’s forced secrecy in Europe becomes clear. Due to the power and brutality of the Inquisition, Masons had no choice but to hide themselves in order to preserve their traditions, knowledge, and rites.

The Freemasons, by implementing Third Eye “magic,” ran the risk of being executed by the Church for heresy, and is thus the ultimate, obvious reason for Masonic secrecy. As many Westerners now believe, the lengths to which the Inquisition persecuted perceived “heretics” reflected the desire of the Church to retain much of its hegemony over the masses. The church hierarchy knew that if heaven could be attained by every individual, then what import do priests, churches, and scriptures possess?

In his 1918 book, The Wonders of the Human Body, Dr. George Washington Carey tells us:

“…the All-seeing eye…This is the eye of freemasonry, the third eye. While I am credibly formed that few Masons understand their own symbols, the fact remains that they use them…”

The idea that the so-called “All Seeing Eye” is really the Third Eye continues today.

In their well-researched book, The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov,1874-1971, published by Rutgers University Press in 2000, scholars John Bowlt, Wendy Salmond, and Marie Turbow explain:

“The Great Pyramid is a central occult symbol that is often depicted with the “all-seeing-eye” or “third eye” inside it. In this form it is the symbol of mystical Freemasonry.”

In her 2006 book, Eden, contemporary author of the esoteric, Dr. Joye Jeffries Pugh, explains:

“The Order of Freemasonry acknowledges the ‘All Seeing Eye’ as the ‘Eye of Great Wisdom.’

This ‘Great Wisdom’ is said to offer those who seek the sacred mysteries an understanding of illumination, inner vision, and intuitive knowledge. Contact with this great wisdom occurs through the ‘Third Eye’ (pineal gland) located inside the forehead.”

Freemasonry is often called a “Science of the Soul”; it is likely, then, that such an inward-facing order is in fact a repository for instructions on how to awaken the Third Eye, endowing an initiate with powers born of his own eternal nature.

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In Conclusion

Today, unfortunately, Freemasonry derides and disassociates itself from these ideas; the Third Eye and any related mystical / esoteric concepts are dismissed and pejoratively labeled “the occult”. Why?

The answer is simple; it is because these doctrines appear to remove the Old Testament “God” from the equation completely, by empowering man with the strength of his own divinity. This does not sit well with many modern Freemasons, but, as we now know, many highly trained and educated Masons of the past, including several noted authors and scholars, were convinced that such Third Eye ideas were integral to their order and that the modern system of Freemasonry is in fact corrupted.

Desperate that mankind should never lose sight of this knowledge, and yet knowing that its truths were forbidden in the atmosphere of intellectual intolerance that marked the Dark and Middle Ages, the Freemasons designed Third Eye gnosis into the architectural facades of churches, castles and cathedrals all over the world, as demonstrated in Written In Stone:

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Above: The Federal Reserve Bank (courtesy DeesIllustration.com)

Know why the TV News is always bad and sensational?

Because it’s a TV show; it needs to get high ratings so the station can sell advertising space—you know, the commercials. If the news was good, no one would watch. So the news is always bad because it’s good for business.

Just like the news, the banks exist to make money. But how do banks make money?

“It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

— Henry Ford (1863-1947)

The answer is, the banks make money by lending money (i.e making “debt loans,” like a loan shark) even to bad credit risks. F or the banks, DEBT = MONEY. Banks make more money by making more loans. The more loans the banks make, the more money they make. Hence the birth of credit cards.

Above: Political cartoons showing the credit card enslavement of the masses.

Now, the banks themselves don’t have money. Sure, people put their money in banks, but the volume of money people put into the bank is far less than the amount the banks “loan out.”

So where, then, does the money come from? The money comes from the Federal Reserve Bank, a central bank, and here is where you need to pay attention; here’s where the “evil” part comes in.

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The Federal Reserve Is A Private Company

The Federal Reserve is a non-U.S. government company founded in 1913 and headquartered in Washington D.C. In other words, it is a private bank…a private bank owned by private stockholders (i.e., do not let the name “Federal” fool you.) The Federal Reserve loans…not gives, loans…the banks money. The banks have to pay it back with interest.

Where does the Fed get their money? The United States Mint prints more money upon the request of the Fed. However, the problem is that this is unconstitutional. Our treasury is supposed to create our money, but since the year 1913 the Fed controls the printing of America’s money. They print the money, then they loan it to the government, then they charge the government interest, and then the government taxes you to pay for it.

“We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.”

— Congressman Louis T. McFadden, 1932

Let’s look a bit closer at this hideous and dastardly system, and then we will reveal the ugly and selfish men behind it.

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How Inflation Is The Bank’s Weapon

Long ago, people bartered. They traded things they had for things they wanted. But bartering created problems. Since everyone agreed that gold is valuable, the idea came about for everybody to trade gold for things they need.

The price was set for gold and now it was very easy to conduct commerce because people could trade gold for all the things they needed. As people accumulated more wealth they needed a “vault” or a “bank” with armed guards to protect the gold. A small fee was charged for protecting the gold and that’s how the first banks appeared and made money.

It sounds simple, and it was. So, if you had 100 gold bars, you went to the bank and they gave you an I.O.U. on paper for 100 gold bars. Instead of carrying around heavy gold, everyone started trading their I.O.U.s with each other, because everybody knew the I.O.U. was as good as gold. Anytime you wanted you could go to the bank and give your I.O.U.s back in exchange for gold. This is how paper money came about; paper money is nothing but an I.O.U. It all made sense, and all was good. At least for a while.

Then greed set in. The banks realized that if they didn’t play by the rules they could trick the people and steal their money. How the banks did it…and still do it today…is simple. It’s called “inflation.” That’s when goods and services start to cost more, slowly over time.  Here are some 1955 prices. Compare these to today’s prices:

Gas: $.23
Bread $.18
Postage stamp: $.03
Sirloin chops: $ .69 lb.
Pot Roast: $.43 lb.Eggs, doz.: $.61
Coffee: $.93 lb.
Milk, ½ gal. $.43
Apple cider,½ gal.: $.49
Potatoes, 10 lb. bag: $.53
Potato Salad, pint: $.29
Gum Drops, 1½ lb. pkg: $.29

Of course, inflation is bad for the masses, because the I.O.U’s they hold in their hands are worth less and less with each passing year until they are worth nothing. While bad for the masses, inflation is good…no, great…for the banks! This is no accident; inflation is not a “natural” phenomenon, it is planned and orchestrated by the central bank, the Fed.

“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce . . . And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few   powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”

— President James A. Garfield (1831-1881)

That’s not all. As we said, banks make more money by making more loans. So the Federal Reserve prints more I.O.U.s without any more gold backing it, loans them out for interest, makes a tremendous profit, and nobody is the wiser.

In short, evil thieving bankers discovered how to turn worthless paper into gold. Thus was invented the ultimate way to steal real money and enslave all the peoples and even all the nations on earth.

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it’s issuance.”

—President James Madison (1751-1836)

Needless to say, this discovery of the bankers has been kept a closely guarded secret. It was never intended for you to see. The scientific name for it is “fractional reserved banking.” It has the ability to enslave people and destroy nations.

Above: Political cartoon depicting the enslavement of the masses by the Federal Reserve system.

Who are the men behind the Federal Reserve?

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The Rothschild Dynasty

One family in particular, the Rothschilds, are often associated with the Federal Reserve.

In 1773, a wealthy goldsmith named Mayer Amschel Bauer (1743-1812), who later changed his name to Rothschild which means “red shield,” concocted this “banking” scheme.

“The Rothschild family…known as The House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds) is a European family of German Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses from the late eighteenth century…It has been argued that during the 19th century, the family possessed by far the largest private fortune in the world, and by far the largest fortune in   modern world history.”

— Wikipedia

As Bauer grew in power, he dispatched each of his five sons to a major city in Europe to establish a branch of the Rothschild banking firm.

Son #1 – Amschel – Remained in Frankfurt and propelled Germany to financial success under Bismarck.

Son #2 – Salomon – Went to Vienna, Austria and became a leader in the Austria-Hungary Empire.

Son #3 – Nathan Mayer – Went to England where he took control of the Bank of England.

Son #4 – Carl – Went to Naples where he became the most powerful man in Italy through his banking skills.

Son #5 – James Jacob – Went to Paris where he established the central bank. He was credited with dominating the financial destiny of the nation of France.

By 1850, the House of Rothschild represented more wealth than all the families of Europe combined.

Left: Guy de Rothschild on the cover of Time Magazine, 1963. Right: The Rothschild clan, not a smile among them.

The one example most often cited by scholars—and history books—as evidence of the dishonesty of the Rothschild family is the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent purchase of the nation of England for pennies on the dollar. Here’s how it unfolded…

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The Rothschild Theft of England

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday June 18, 1815.  There were vast fortunes to be made—and lost—on the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo. The Stock Exchange in London was at fever pitch as traders awaited news of the outcome. If Napoleon lost, England would hold the balance of power in Europe. If England lost, France would be undisputed master of all she surveyed on the European front.

Nathan Rothschild, who watched the battle unfold, knew that with this information he could make a fortune. He later paid a sailor a big fee to take him across the English Channel in bad weather.  When Nathan arrived in London, before anyone else, he began selling securities and bonds as if in a panic, knowing he was being watched closely. In this way he deceived the other investors into believing that Napoleon won the war, so they began to sell their securities too. What they were unaware of is that Rothschild’s agents were buying all the securities that were being sold in panic. In one day, the Rothschilds literally bought control of England for a small fraction of its true worth.

“…the wealth of the Rothschilds consists of the bankruptcy of nations.”

—Frederick Morton, The Rothschilds

Later, Nathan Rothschild would be quoted as saying:

“I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The  man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the  British    Empire and I control the British money supply.”

—Nathan Rothschild

Of course, what we don’t read about in our history books is the way in which not just England but America too has been manipulated, and is being manipulated, by these international bankers.

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The Rothschild Takeover of America

Indeed they tried to gain domination over the U.S. many times, but they failed because Jefferson and the patriots pledged to stop them and their evil plan whatever the cost may be.

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”

—President Thomas Jefferson

The first attempt at creating a central bank in America only lasted 20 years and was shut down. But the bankers tried again against President Andrew Jackson, who was up for the challenge.

“You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to route you out and by the eternal God I will route you out.”

– President Andrew Jackson

After surviving an assassination attempt, Jackson finally defeated the bank in 1836. When asked on his deathbed what was the greatest accomplishment in his life, Old Hickory replied:

“I killed the bank.”

—President Andrew Jackson (in reference to defeating the Rothschild-backed national bank that attempted to assert control over the U.S. economy)

Those were his last words.

Above: Cartoon depicting Jackson “killing” the Central Bank, 1833.

With real money backed by real gold, America experienced the greatest boom in any nation’s history. Things were great and the American people flourished.

But the bankers, greedy for more power and wealth, were planning to once and for all take control of the finances of the United States. And here’s how they finally succeeded…

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Birth of the Federal Reserve

As the story goes, in 1910, a secret meeting was held on the J.P. Morgan estate on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. It consisted of ten attendees, the richest men in America at the time.

The realization here came about that in order for the scheme to work the people must believe that the bank is owned and run by the U.S. government. Toward this end, they baptized their new bank “Federal”…as in the “Federal” reserve!

The group struck on December 23rd, 1913 when most of the U.S. congress had already gone home for the holidays. They presented their treasonous act to their newly elected accomplice in the White House, Woodrow Wilson, who had fortuitously already agreed to sign it before he was even elected.

The Fed now has the exclusive power to print America’s money. They loan this money to our banks and our government at interest, putting immediate debt on our own money, printing more and more so each dollar they print becomes worth less than the one before.

“The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money.”

—Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., 1923

And just as the Catholic Church had its muscle in the form of the Inquisition, so does the Federal Reserve; it’s called the IRS. The IRS is how our government must now pay back debts to the Fed. Your taxes do not go to your government. What’s more the IRS and the Fed’s inflation work together. They aren’t just taxing gain, they are taxing their inflation. It’s the greatest theft in human history.

“Let me issue and control a Nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.”

—Amschel Bauer Mayer Rothschild

The higher they make the inflation, the more of your income they take. It’s thievery, deceit and slavery. You’re not paying taxes on any more, you are paying taxes on the same and now you have less!

“The banks—commercial banks and the Federal Reserve—create all the money of this nation, and its people pay interest on every dollar of that newly created money. Which means that private banks exercise unconstitutionally, immorally, and ridiculously the power to tax the people.”

— Congressman Jerry Voorhis (1901 – 1984)

So where are our country’s leaders who can stop this? Why hasn’t anyone in recent history risen to the challenge? Surely they could not have all been bought off? Surely there are some who, with love for the masses and a burning desire to free the people, tried to stop the international bankers, right?

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John F. Kennedy Freedom Fighter

The answer is yes. The last president to stand up to them was President John F. Kennedy.

Above: John Kennedy died a martyr fighting for our freedom from the Federal Reserve.

Kennedy knew all about what was going on, and he even warned the American people and the world public about it in a speech that he gave at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961, before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, in which he sought the media’s help in fighting what he called this “conspiracy”:

“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.

…And so it is to the printing press—to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news—that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”

—John F. Kennedy

This is the last president to stand up to the Fed. On June 4, 1963, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110. This executive order empowered the U.S. Treasury to issue real money without the Fed. It would have broken the chains of enslavement and freed the American public. Kennedy’s plan to dismantle the Federal Reserve system was underway. Six months later, John F. Kennedy went to Dallas and was brutally executed live before a world audience—a warning for anyone else who might come along and challenge the bankers.

Above: Famous frame from the Zapruder film showing John Kennedy being struck in the throat by the initial shot. Jacqueline Kennedy would later write: “And I kept saying, Jack, Jack, Jack, and someone was yelling “he’s dead, he’s dead.” All the ride to the hospital I kept bending over him, saying “Jack, Jack, can you hear me, I love you, Jack.”

The new president, Lyndon Johnson, threw out Kennedy’s order. And since JFK, no president has dared confront the secret powers behind the Federal Reserve.

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Highly symbolic and deeply esoteric, the Triptych enshrines a lost “Sacred Science” wisdom-teaching, which has the potential to alter our understanding of Western civilization and change the course of history.

It’s a little known and unexplainable fact that the Incas straightened entire sections of streams and rivers, including a two-mile span of the meandering and often turbulent Urubamba River:

Above: Two photos showing two separate spans of the artificially-straightened Urubamba river.

The Incas also built massive, endless super-highways along much of South America’s West Coast—roads that go on and on for endless miles, and that appear so eerily straight they seem scribed by the hand of a giant architect.

Above: Pre-Inca roads transformed into a modern-day Peruvian highway. The line runs eerily straight for miles, almost to the horizon!

By the 1300s, the Incas has become experts at brain surgery and were performing operations on the skull at a much higher success rate—better than 85 percent—than later surgeons in Europe, who were lucky to save 25 percent of their patients.

Above: Inca and pre-Inca examples of successful brain surgeries.

The Incas were also exceptional horticulturalists. Their ingenious stone terraces tamed the steep Andean slopes, transforming precipitous terrain into fertile farmland. In many cases, entire mountains were terraced, including 13,000 ft. high Peruvian slopes:

Above Left and Right: Terraces at Machu Picchu. Right: Llama decorations created by stones
in the terraces at Choquequirao.

Terracing technology, along with a permanent system of irrigation, the selection of seeds, and the invention of a calendar for planting and harvesting, provided ideal conditions for the genetic manipulation of food—another enigma. By some estimates, more than half of the foods the world eats today were developed on the terraces of Andean farmers, including 20 varieties of maize.

Another amazing accomplishment can be seen in the hundreds of architectural stone masterpieces the Incas created. One example is the legendary Sacsayhuaman, a breathtaking archaeological site made with megalithic stones precisely cut and placed in ominous jigsaw-like patterns called “polygonal.”

Left: The gigantic stones of Sacsayhuaman. One stone block is 28 ft. high and weighs 300 tons (same weight as 300 cars). Right: The Stone of Twelve Angles. More than a ‘structural’ purpose, what ‘symbolic’ meaning does this artwork hold?

Spanish chronicler Garcilaso de la Vega was so amazed he said Sacsayhuaman seems to have been “made by some form of magic—built by demons rather than men!” Conquistador Francisco Pizarro’s secretary Pedro Sancho remarked that anyone seeing the site’s massive stones and ominous geometric patterns “would say that they cannot have been placed there by human hands.”

Another mystery is the strange “Nazca Lines,” massive geo-glyphs etched as if by giants onto the arid moonscape of Peru’s southern desert. More than 15,000 geometric and animal-like patterns criss-cross the pampas like a vast puzzle. Incredibly, their forms can only be discerned from high in the air, leaving scholars mystified as to how—and why—such precision was completed long before the documented invention of human flight.

Above: Nazca shapes etched into the pampa include a monkey, bird and spider.

Yet another mystery lies in the unique and now-famous mountain plateau called Markawasi, 80 km northeast of Lima. Geologically unlike any of the surrounding Andes, Markawasi is home to a mysterious stone forest comprised of a series of enigmatic and massive carved effigies, including mind-boggling winged sphinxes, elephants, camels, and other animals, many of which never existed on the continent.

One example is shown below:

Above: The so-called “Face of Time” (i.e., the “Monument of Humanity”), a 60-foot tall sphinx-like stone sculpture of a young man whose visage slowly ages as the sun transits the sky. The image draws a symbolic parallel to the day “aging” from the sun’s rise to the sun’s evening death.

Another enigma exists in how the Incas and pre-Incas captured natural forces in their buildings and landmarks, giving the appearance of magic.  In the 2 minute video shown below (taped by the present writer at Ollantaytambo, Peru, in 2002) we catch a glimpse of this apparent magic, which marks evidence of a high technology. As you can see, the mere touch of a finger inexplicably displaces the water’s flow, an oddity that awes and perplexes modern visitors!

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Above: The magic fountain at Ollyantaytambo.

The Incas had no written language, no iron tools, no wheeled vehicles, no cranes or lifting devices. But, somehow, between the years 1000 and 1532 AD, they created a metropolitan and agricultural empire that encompassed more than half the West Coast of South America. At its peak, Tawa-Inti-Suyu, or Land of the Four Quarters, as the Incas called their kingdom, was the largest on Earth.

Who were these mysterious master stonemasons and builders, and why does their bizarre technology look like something from the distant future, rather than the primitive past?

The answer is, the Incas were the inheritors of a rich ancestral tradition that stretched back many generations and even thousands of years. The Incas and the pre-Incas before them possessed a high spiritual wisdom the depth and power of which is unknown to modern Western cultures. Their advanced spirituality endowed the Incas with what we might today describe as “superhuman” skills and abilities, including psychic power, clairvoyance, mind of matter, self-healing and an understanding of the laws of gravity, nature and astronomy that has not yet been uncovered in our “modern” civilization.

(It should be noted that the ancient high spiritual wisdom of Europe—the pan-European pre-Christian Pagan wisdom—was similar to the Andean wisdom described here. However, Europe’s ancestral wisdom was forbidden during the period in Christian Europe called “dark ages,” when Europe’s peoples suffered both cultural and spiritual deterioration following the decline of Rome. Consequently, we in the West have lost the tradition, it having been supplanted by basic Christianity.)

For the Incas, the art of awakening the hidden spiritual powers latent within every human being was looked upon as a potential we all possess. Furthermore, it was believed that as humans it is our duty to unlock this potential. Any modern shaman in Peru will tell you this. The art and duty of fulfilling our spiritual potential was known under different names, phrases and analogies, one of which was the “Awakening of the Puma.”

Inca and pre-Inca monuments all over the Sacred Valley of the Incas record “in stone” this spiritual act of awakening the puma. Look at the image below. This single massive monolith (both photos show the same monolith from different angles) stands at the modern-day archaeological site of Qenko, Peru, not far from the once-great Inca capital city of Cuzco. On June 21st (the day of the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere) sunlight hits the monolith and casts an almost wolf-like shadow against the massive rock outcrop behind it, an absolutely breathtaking phenomenon called “the Awakening of the Puma” by native guides and shamans.

Above: Archeological monument that records the “awakening of the puma” in stone.

At the same time, and at the same archaeological site, sunlight strikes two stone circles (below left) located atop a prominent part of the outcrop, and forms another “Awakening of the Puma.”

Above: The awakened Puma published by a native Andean guide, James Arevalo Merejildo (Chaski), in his book The Awakening of The Puma.

Fascinating! But what exactly does the awakening of the puma mean? What once happened or regularly happens on this particular day that the Incas regarded as sacred?

Native shamans and guides say the awakening of the puma is a reference to the awakening of greater intuitive faculties inside every human being that allow us to achieve and maintain for long periods of time higher levels of consciousness. These faculties are awakened, according to the shamans and guides, by a kind of “alignment” between our outer, material bodies (lower self) and our inner, eternal, spiritual souls (higher Self).

The Incas had awakened the puma, which means they were empowered by these higher faculties. They recognized their inner eternity and divinity and were thus able to create monuments that, even to this day, many, many years after their creation, still leave visitors with the same curious look of awe in their faces and wonder in their eyes.

“Awakening the Puma” is similar to the Eastern concept of awakening our Third Eye, a method of self-illumination whereby one “sees” the higher Self (the soul) within the physical body (lower self) by balancing the opposites. By awakening the puma within you, you are awakening your true Self (capital “S,” which stands for the “soul”) and seeing past your false self (lowercase “s,” which stands for the “body”). We all have the potential within us to “awaken the puma,” and when we do so we begin to operate not from the standpoint of the lower self (i.e., “I’m a powerless and temporary animal living on a planet”) but from the standpoint of the higher Self (i.e., “I’m a powerful and eternal god living in heaven but having a dream that I’m a powerless and temporary animal living on a planet”).

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream.

Operating from this higher standpoint endows us with the ability to realize that we are each a divine “god” already, and that we have special powers—powers that no mortal man or woman possesses. The “Christs” and “Buddhas” of history recognized this. They recognized their godhood while on earth. To a lesser degree there were many who approach the same level as Christ / Buddha. In recent memory, Ghandi comes to mind, and so does Napolean, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln; all of them were familiar with the spiritual principles underlying the Master Path.

This high wisdom and spirituality has become lost in our modern world, save for some aspects of the Eastern religions and save for a few signs and symbols still retained by many Western secret societies (like the Freemasons); yet if we look to the ancient cultures that are native to every land, they all once possessed the wisdom and instruction. Modern “religions” tend to disguise the vast wisdom of the native cultures, and so we have lost the ability once held by our ancestors, which inevitably leads to the high technology of the Inca and pre-Inca cultures.

It is the opinion of the present author that modern institutions of every kind (i.e., banks like the Federal Reserve Bank, big pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, big corporations like Macy’s, organized religions like Catholicism, and places of higher learning like universities) exist to prevent us from rediscovering this true wisdom. A certain villainous elite has control right now of the ancient secrets, but they are not sharing them with the populace. They are instead using the symbols and the wisdom as tools against us, with the goal being to economically and mentally enslave the masses (via the banks, big pharmaceutical companies, the spread of mass consumerism, religion, and a dumbed-down and misguided education system).

When men and women everywhere finally realize the true eternal and divine power we hold within, then these malevolent institutions will lose their leverage. People will realize they don’t need big pharma, because they already have the power to heal within them; they will realize they don’t need to buy all the latest clothes and accessories from Macy’s to make them happy; that they don’t need a priest or bishop to commune with their divinity; that an education is not based on “getting a high-paying job” but something deeper and more rewarding; and that we have been made to live in a society that in many respects lacks the unifying spirit of “love” and “cooperation,” these having been replaced by the divisive forces of “fear” and “competition.”

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The worlds oldest Secret Society has lost its most precious possession—a profound Sacred Science handed down from Antiquity.

Few Westerners know of its existence, and most governments want to suppress it, because the Sacred Science relates a Secret of Three that has the potential to usher in a new era of spiritual awakening on the planet.

Fearing this day would come, the medieval Freemasons of old—who were the builders of Europes towering churches, castles and cathedrals—wisely protected their wisdom by encoding it into the architecture of these buildings, where it remains concealed today.

Above: The Burgos Cathedral is a Gothic-style cathedral in Burgos, Spain. Begun in 1221, it is famous for its vast size and unique architecture. Do ancient secrets lay hidden here?

Rumors have for centuries swirled that the Freemasons are in possession of a “great secret.”

“It is always understood that the Freemasons have a secret which they carefully conceal…”

—Thomas Paine, The Origins of Freemasonry, 1818

This secret is said to be an ancient Pagan wisdom-teaching, a highly advanced and life-changing “Sacred Science” they inherited from Antiquity. In Tolstoy’s War & Peace, a Freemason says:

“The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on which it rests…is the preservation and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery… which has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man – a mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends.”

—Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, 1869

Many say the medieval Freemasons encoded their secret into the art and architecture of the churches, castles, and cathedrals they constructed, without the Church’s knowledge.

“It is generally believed in occult circles that… medieval masons had inherited esoteric knowledge… and that this knowledge was incorporated into the sacred architecture of the cathedrals.”

—Michael Howard

If indeed the Masons inherited an ancient Pagan doctrine, and if they encoded its wisdom into cathedral architecture, it amounts to heresy, and would constitute a direct threat to the Church.

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Catholic Church VS. Freemasons

Interestingly, the Church very abruptly turned about-face in their support of the Masons: far from hiring them, they instead started to call for the death of the Masons in the 1700s. Starting with Pope Clement XII (b. 1652 – d. 1740), the Church began hammering the Masons with encyclicals and other documents calling for their destruction:

“The purpose and aim of the Masonic sect having been discovered from plain evidence is easy to understand…to try to revive after eighteen centuries, the manners and institutions of Paganism. …we intend to turn our attention to the Masonic society…to illustrate more and more this wicked force and stop the spread of this contagious disease…”

- Pope Le0 XIII, Humanum Genus Encyclical (Condemnation of Freemasonry)

This about-face is curious: what pagan evidence was uncovered by the Holy See?

This “rift” has not exactly been mended. As recently as 1983, then little-known Cardinal Ratzinger—today Pope Benedict XV—wrote:

“The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion.”

–Cardinal Ratzinger, Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

In the past two centuries brief inquiries have been made into the idea of pagan wisdom encoded in Masonic architecture. In 1831, Victor Hugo, author of the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, explained:

“…from remotest antiquity…the human race has employed architecture as its chief means of writing…Sometimes an entrance, a front, or even an entire church presents a symbolic meaning wholly foreign to religion, or even hostile to the Church…Only the initiated can decipher these mysterious books.”

—Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

In 1910, American architect and writer Claude Bragdon (1866–1946) wrote:

“In Mediaeval Europe…fragments of the Secret Doctrine—transmitted in the symbols and secrets of the cathedral builders—determined much of Gothic architecture.”

—Claude Bragdon, The Beautiful Necessity

These two quotes are not absurd, baseless claims: both Bragdon and Hugo were celebrated men in their time. Their Masonic / Gothic cathedral research, however, was limited.

Left: Architect Claude Bragdon, 1866 – 1946, designed New York Central Railroad Station, Rochester, NY. Right: Victor Hugo, 1885, author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The subject lay more or less dormant until 1926,when French alchemist and hermeticist Fulcanelli published Le Mystere des Cathedrales naming alchemical secrets in French cathedrals. The work is detailed but dense, and has been criticized as very difficult to follow (a quality he himself seems to have intended).
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New Gothic Cathedral Secrets Discovered

In the present article, we’ll defiantly outline a complete Pagan doctrine written in cathedral stone, and supported by facts. The doctrine will show that Masonry is a Pagan organization with a Sacred Science that runs counter to the Catholic Church.

Look at the three Notre Dame cathedrals below:

The Western facade of all three are almost identical, sharing these unique qualities:

1) pair of twin towers on top
2) giant rose window in the center
3) three-door entrance

This repeating pattern has gone unrecognized by any professor or scholar, and thus far no one has pointed it out, named it, or explained its symbolism. This repeating Western facade, however, is nothing less than a “Cathedral Code”: a message from the Masons themselves, encoded in stone and concealed in plain sight.

The Masonic Tracing Board is a mystery to today’s uninformed Masons.

This Tracing Board is an enigma to modern Masons, esoteric authors, and even occult research: they are unsure of its purpose and unaware of its symbolism. The Tracing Board, however, actually holds the key to the Gothic Western facade and the lost secret of the Freemasons encoded within.

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Tracing Board Is The Gothic Cathedral Blueprint

The true meaning of the Tracing Board is, in fact, that it is a blueprint of that same Western facade above. It is the blueprint behind that facade, and in fact shares every resemblance:

The Twin Pillars on the Masonic Tracing Board (left) are identical to
the Twin Towers of the Gothic Cathedral (right).

A century ago author and Freemason Walter L. Wilmshurst (1867 – 1939), one of very few modern-day Masons who understood Masonry profoundly, explained:

“The [Twin] Pillars…have been incorporated into Christian architecture. If you recall the construction of York Minster or Westminster Abbey, you will recognize the pillars in the two great towers flanking the main entrance…”

—W.L. Wilhmshurst, The Meaning of Masonry, 1922

Left: Westminster Abbey, London, England. Right: York Minster, York, England

What do the Twin Pillars on the Tracing Board signify? Why is there a sun over the Jachin pillar and a moon over the Boaz pillar? Is this what each one stands for?

Mainstream Masonry’s explanation for the Twin Pillars are that they are called “Jachin” and “Boaz”, and that they once decorated King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. While this story may be true, it neglects to explain the sun and the moon (which, in fact, are never mentioned in any Masonic explanation) and also makes no reference to the fact that the pillars predate Solomon and even Judaism by thousands of years.

• The Right-Hand Pillar is capped by the Sun
• The Left-Hand Pillar is capped by the Moon

This duality of the Sun/Moon is critically important: The world’s first cultures all perceived the Sun and Moon as “perfect opposites” or perfect “pairs of opposites.” Indeed, Mother Nature has placed the Sun & Moon at odds and on opposite sides of the polarity spectrum:

The SUN stands for DAY, but the MOON means NIGHT.
During the Day it’s HOT, but at Night it’s COLD.
The Day is filled with LIGHT, but the Night is filled with DARKNESS.
During the Day it’s DRY, but at Night it’s MOIST.

Note the naturally occurring pairs of opposites. By this chain of associations…SUN/MOON, DAY/NIGHT, HOT/COLD, LIGHT/DARK…the Sun and the Moon engender and denote all the “pairs of opposites” in the visible universe!

This “pairs of opposites” wisdom is the lost key to all the Mystery schools in history (Perennial Philosophy, Hermetic Teachings, Philosopher’s Stone, etc. and so on). The “pairs of opposites” can be witnessed in the natural mechanics of the moon: they each spend half the day up, and though the Sun is far larger than the moon they appear the same size because the moon is much closer. These natural pairings are strong evidence towards the sun and the moon as being equal but opposing natural symbols.

The sun and full moon appear the same size in our sky.

It is, of course, a cornerstone of Ancient and Masonic philosophy that has since been lost: that these celestial bodies have been placed thus on purpose, for our benefit, with the goal being to teach us the power of opposites.

Wilmshurst said that the Twin Pillars on the Tracing Board, which are capped by the Sun and Moon:

“…stand for what is known…as the “pairs of opposites.” Everything in nature is dual and can only be known in contrast with its opposite…”

—W.L. Wilmshurst, The Meaning of Masonry

In The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Freemason Manly Hall (1901 – 1990) explained:

“Jachin–the white pillar of light…Boaz–the shadowy pillar of darkness. …These two pillars respectively connote also the active and the passive…the sun and the moon…good and bad, light and darkness.”

—Manly Hall

As author Warren Kenton tells us, the twin columns of France’s Chartres Cathedral are capped with iron plates of the sun and moon.

“Erected by the masons…the west front of each church had two towers representing the twin columns…the masculine and feminine aspects, the active and passive forces, flowing down from Heaven. Called, in Chartres Cathedral, the sun and moon towers…”

—Warren Kenton

Note how Kenton here mentions the “masculine and feminine aspects.” That’s because man and woman also fall into this “pairs of opposites” category. In the early 20th century, renowned architect Claude Bragdon wrote:

“…man, like the sun, is lord of day; he is like fire, a devastating force; woman is subject to the lunar rhythm; like water, she is soft, sinuous, fecund…

The Masonic guilds of the Middle Ages were custodians of the esoteric… The north or right-hand tower (“the man’s side”) was called the sacred male pillar, Jachin; and the south, or left-hand tower (“the woman’s side”), the sacred female pillar, Boaz…”

—Claude Bragdon

Looking at the Grand Master Certificate of the “heretic” Giordano Bruno below, we see a “male” pillar crowned by the Sun on the right side and a “female” pillar crowned by the moon on the left:

16th century “heretic” Giordano Bruno’s Grand Master Certificate,
featuring a Male right-hand side pillar balanced by a Female left-hand side pillar.

This is the same “pairs of opposites” symbolism encoded in the twin towers of the Western facade of Gothic cathedrals:

The Twin Columns on the Gothic Cathedral symbolize male and female,
as well as all the other “pairs of opposites” in the physical world.

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Man’s Body Is Half Sun & Half Moon

Though the pairs of opposites has been explained, the addition of masculine and feminine symbolism adds a deeper meaning: why did the Masons build a “male” right hand tower and a “female” left hand tower?  It is for the simple reason that the great wisdom of the “pairs of opposites” doctrine lies not only in the fact that the universe is composed of “pairs of opposites”; the great wisdom lies in the fact that, like the universe, Man is also formed by opposites. “As above, so below” is a phrase used by many without grasping its deeper meaning: Man lives inside the universe, not separately from it, and thus our physical bodies are made of the same “pairs of opposites” as the universe.

“Our life is a mingled yarn, good and evil together…” —Shakespeare

The Gothic facade seen above is not only a depiction of the polarity of the universe, it is a symbol of the polarity in the physical human body as well: We have two hands, two arms, etc. and so forth, split into symmetrical halves—the sun and the moon.

“Man has been called the microcosm, or little world, in contradistinction to the macrocosm, or great world…by reason of a supposed correspondence between the different parts and qualities of his nature and those of the universe.”

—Albert Mackey, An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

The human body’s bilaterally symmetrical appearance are a product of the duality of the universe: the right side is the sun side, male and warm: the left side is the moon side, cold and female.

Like the universe in which he lives, Man too is formed by opposites.

No human, of course, is completely male or completely female despite physical gender, and we all possess both masculine and feminine traits.

“Though essentially a unit, there is a well marked division into right and left…two arms, two legs, two ears, two eyes…Moreover, the terms of such pairs are masculine and feminine with respect to each other, one being active and the other passive.”

—Claude Bragdon, The Beautiful Necessity

In his 1909 The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand, widely cited by scholars, French sociologist Robert Hertz explained:

“The axis which divides the world into two halves, one radiant and the other dark, also cuts through the human body and divides it between the empire of light and darkness.”

— Robert Hertz

Famous Freemason Manly Hall Wrote:

“In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms… …the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.”

—Manly Hall

The following portrait appeared in an esoteric manuscript of unknown origin traced back to the 1400s.. It is a two-headed human with a male on the right holding the sun and a female on the left holding the moon:

Esoteric portrait identifying the true makeup of a human being (1400s).
This is YOU! You are half male and half female, a fact science has yet to rediscover.

While many are unaware of the symbolism behind this portrait, in reality it is a symbolic, esoteric portrait of man.

The famous magician Harry Houdini—who was a dedicated Freemason—says in The Metaphysical Magazine:

“…the Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half…”

— Harry Houdini

You, me, all of us are formed of the “pairs of opposites,” and it infiltrates every aspect of our lives. In a sense, this explains the “devil” on our left and “angel” on our right shoulders:

The age-old symbolism of an angel on our right shoulder and devil
on our left shoulder is rooted in the esoteric doctrine that
our bodies are composed of pairs of opposites.

It does, in fact, explain all the ideas of duality our society has about humans: demons and deities, sinners and saints, etc. and so forth. We are a pair of opposites wrapped up in one human package, and according to esoteric philosophy this enables us to accomplish extraordinary feats. To do so, however, we must first realize that the “pairs of opposites” are in fact related to the Trinity, and this evidence is encoded into the cathedral facade as well by the three door entrance.

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Masonic Number Three—The Triptych

Much like the “Cathedral Code”, this three door entrance has never been investigated or explained. Let’s call it a “Triptych”—this Triptych is directly connected with the twin towers above it.

The Twin Towers are symbolized on the ground by the
Triptych’s twin outer doors, which signify “opposites.”

The twin towers terminate (or rise up) from the Triptych’s outer doors. The doors are, like the towers, a pair of opposites, and are encoded in both ancient and modern architecture, as evidenced by the very modern building below:

A massive Triptych graces the facade of Rockefeller Center. Above the door on the right is
a male, above the door on the left is a female, and a ‘god’ sits above the center door.

The male and female figures atop the doors of opposites are, of course, pairs of opposites themselves:

The Triptych design that graces the entrance of Rockefeller Center matches the
Masonic symbolism of Sun (right), Moon (left), and the Spiritual Eye (center).

But what symbolism lies behind that third door? We know already, from the evidence above, the meaning behind the dual outer doors: what is the esoteric meaning beside the door they juxtapose?

The answer is, in fact, a major part of Freemasonry’s lost secret: the secret is symbolized by the sacred Masonic number three, and the answer is that the third door represents you. That god in the center of that Triptych above represents man’s soul, the eternal Self that is not physical, the Self that every human body, or “pair of opposites”, contains within it.

The metaphor here being, of course, that the two opposing halves contain a higher element: a third element inside, the soul.

You don’t HAVE a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body.”

—C. W. Lewis

The body, the physical, two-sided part, is material and temporary, composed of the same pairs of opposites as the material world in which it lives. The soul, however, is not thus subjected: it lives free of the laws of the physical universe, a teaching echoed in the biblical tale of the Garden of Eden where Man falls to the lower world after eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (good and evil being opposites).

“…the fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality…was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil…This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands …”

—Joseph Campbell

The Self or soul, then, has fallen from its higher spiritual home in the heavens and has landed in the material world of opposites:

“According to this mystic doctrine…all souls have pre-existence and have descended from the spiritual world into the earthly prison of the body…”

—John Yarker, Arcane Schools

What this teaching implies is that humans are in fact divine already: they existed before the birth of the body and will survive after it. Having fallen, however, the soul is now imprisoned inside a material body that mimics the duality of the universe in which it lives.

“Man is a god in the body of an animal according to the pronouncement of ancient philosophy…”

—Alvin Boyd Kuhn

The word “imprisoned” is accurate because your body is not your true home but an imperfect and transitory vehicle. The body imprisons the soul because it requires care and constant maintenance. To survive, it must continually:

• Breathe
• Eat
• Drink
• Maintain A Constant Temperature
• Fight Disease

A body can endure for decades, but death will eventually come to it. For the ancients, the fall into this fragile human body is a tragedy:

“…the Platonists in general believed in a pre-existent state, in which all souls had sinned, and thus lost their wings, whereby they were once capable of ascending, and so they sunk into these bodies partly as a punishment for former follies.”

—Olinthus Gregory, The Fall of Man and the Depravity of Nature

The end result of this particular consequence is, unfortunately, the loss of the true Self and the true origin entirely: the soul has descended so deeply into the material world that it has lost sight of the eternal “god within”.

“A man is a god in ruins.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul is thus imprisoned in these conditions over which it has no control, but it is not completely powerless. The soul is eternal, a trait that imbues it with its own inherent powers: powers that can be exercised in the material world. Though the soul is in a fallen state, the powers it has were never lost, merely covered up and unrecognizable.

Masonry exists not only to reveal to Man the presence of his inner soul, but to help him rediscover its higher powers—powers that have been covered up by the body.

We can see this entire concept carved on an ancient statue that still sits in ruins in the Elephantine Caves of Bombay, India. Note how the statue forms a three-in-one design, with a male on the right (sun, Jachin pillar) and female on the left (moon, Boaz pillar) flanking a “god” in the center (the eternal, spiritual you).

Above: The Mask of Eternity, as described by Joseph Campbell. Elephantine Caves, India.

Press play on the one minute video below and watch how the illuminated 20th century professor of mythology, the brilliant Joseph Campbell, analyzed this ancient Triptych-like statue:

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As Joseph Campbell tells us in this video, we are all-powerful beings. To spark these powers…to turn these powers “on”…you need to employ the actual formula of the number Three. That is, you need to “reconcile” or “balance” your twin bodily opposites. This forms the basis of the lost secret of Freemasonry:

“…only by the reconciliation of opposing forces is the Pathway made to true occult knowledge and practical power…”

—Israel Regardie, The Eye in the Triangle

In other words, you need to “join” your male “right-half” and your female “left-half,” the twin sun and moon pillars:

“…Join the male and the female and you will find what you are seeking…”

—Aphorisms of Zosimus

Once the twin opposing forces have been balanced or reconciled, then the true “soul within” is revealed. This three-in-one practice of uniting the opposites through the middle path is an ancient exercise, virtually unknown in the West and now the exclusive province of the Eastern religions:

“Unfortunately our Western mind, lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, nor even a name, for the union of opposites through the middle path, that most fundamental item of inward experience…

…It is at once the most individual fact and the most universal, the most legitimate fulfillment of the meaning of the individual’s life.”

—Carl Jung

Carl Jung

This “union of opposites through the middle path”, described by Jung, is the secret of the Triptych entrance on Gothic cathedrals. It forms the lost wisdom of the Masons as well as being the deeper meaning behind the famous Masonic number “Three”.

The Triptych very elegantly conveys the ancient occult wisdom of the practice outlined above, and its arcane Pagan wisdom, as mentioned, runs counter to the mainstream Christian belief that every human being’s soul and body are created at the very moment of our birth on earth.

The Masons did not just encode this secret into the High Gothic cathedrals; they also adorned castles, lodges, temples, and multitudes of other buildings with the Triptych entrance, embedding their secret for future generations.

Above: Masonic temples with Triptych entrances

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In Conclusion

In conclusion, the “lost secret” of the Freemasons is far from being lost, and in fact is embedded into the very stones of the buildings they created: it is an ancient Pagan doctrine, predating Christianity. It is a doctrine dealing with the eternal Self and the duality of the material world and body; specifically, the balancing of the duality to find the middle way, the ultimate secret behind the Masonic number Three encoded into the Triptychs of Gothic cathedrals.

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Above: The “pattern of three” discovered encoded into the architecture of various federal buildings in Washington D.C.

Interestingly, of all the popular books that describe Washington DC’s Masonic architecture, none reveal a key discovery that seems to be the work of America’s Masonic founders.

It is a well-known fact that the Founding Fathers were themselves Freemasons, and that Washington, DC was designed and constructed by Masonic architects who embedded their beliefs and symbolism on the city’s layout and buildings.

While scholars freely admit that Masonic symbolism appears in the facades of such landmarks as the Capitol, the Library of Congress, and the White House, they have failed to recognize the true extent to which Masonic architecture is embedded within the city, as well as having failed to grasp the deeper esoteric meaning of the Masonic symbolism and message the Masons sought to convey with their architecture.

Top: Lincoln Memorial. Bottom: Jefferson Memorial. Both memorials show clear and irrefutable evidence of the “three pattern.” Furthermore, in both architectural masterpieces, the man being memorialized is framed in the center space or doorway.

There can be no doubt that the pattern of three revealed here is purely Masonic, for a number of reasons. First of all, the number three is special to Freemasons:

“…in Freemasonry the number three is the most important  and universal in its application of all the mystic numbers, and we find it pervading our whole ritual …”

—Jeremiah How, The Freemason’s Manual, 1881

“Everywhere among the ancients the number three was deemed the most sacred of numbers…In all the mysteries, from Egypt to Scandinavia, we find a sacred regard for the number three…It was…a general character of the mysteries to have three principal officers and three grades of initiation. In Freemasonry, the ternary is the most sacred of all the mystical numbers.”

—Albert Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1879

“The number 3 is very important in Masonry and the occult…Thus we have three degrees, three great lights, three lesser lights, three principle officers, three assistant officers, three sets of three working tools, three steps… three who rule a lodge, three Grand Masters, and three orders of architecture.”

— John T. Lawrence, Perfect Ashlar and Other Masonic Symbols, 1912

The power and mystical importance of three is clearly evidenced by a famous “Masonic” opera, The Magic Flute, created by Mozart (1756-1791) who was a Freemason initiated into a Viennese lodge called “Zür Wohltätigkeit” in 1784. Mozart encoded the number three into the fabric of this opera, which historians call his “tribute” to Freemasonry. The New York Metropolitan Opera Guild’s entry on Die Zauberflöte says:

“The number three certainly has Masonic significance. The Zauberflöte libretto abounds in trinities: three ladies bearing three spears cutting a serpent into three pieces (!), three boys…three priests, three slaves. Three sets of chords in that most Masonic key -E flat, with three flats in the signature- begin the opera’s overture, and are interspersed throughout…”

–The New York Metropolitan Opera Guild, Die Zauberflöte

More evidence for the Masonic link to the number three lies in the fact that countless Masonic lodges and temples throughout the U.S. display the same pattern of threes as all the landmark DC buildings:

Above: The “pattern of three” is clearly visible on Masonic lodges and temples throughout the U.S.

The same architectural “threes” can be seen on the facades of U.S. post offices, courthouses, state capital buildings, and other landmarks and government buildings in big and small cities across America; for further proof, simply look for this three pattern on post office buildings, banks, meeting halls, and other official buildings: most towns in the U.S. have at least a few of these buildings adorned with a pattern of three.

The number three, however, is a curious choice: what is so important about the number three that it has been encoded not just on federal buildings in the nation’s capital, but on buildings throughout the nation?

The reason, quite simply, is this: inside that three pattern is encoded the “lost secret” of the Freemasons, and you can learn more about the Masonic “lost secret of three” here:

Or visit: www.DeeperTruth.com

Above: On the one hand the stones look ancient, archaic, and showing signs of age. On the other, the pyramid’s straight line underscores a wisdom and power far in advance than anything we have at present.

In 1996, while living in Egypt, I was studying the pyramids when it occurred to me that the straightness of the slope of the pyramid that you see in the picture above was amazing.

How can this be? After thousands of years?

The moment I took that photograph was a turning point in my studies; it was the evidence that made me certain that the ancients were far superior to modern civilizations in their abilities, skills, wisdom, and understanding. I have failed to understand how the Egyptians and other ancient cultures, such as the Mayans, are now thought of as primitive: civilizations that are devoid of advanced science, relevant long ago but no longer useful to modern societies. The opposite, in fact, is clear to me: the evidence of the pyramids suggests to me that these ancient civilizations were, in the most important respects, far more advanced than ourselves.

This impossible structure helped me to study the philosophies and spiritual traditions of the ancients from a different perspective, a perspective that approached them as cultures with wisdom to give instead of cultures who have nothing to offer. Through this new lens, I came to realize a guiding principle behind these ancient cultures is a doctrine of immortality, the idea that human beings are of a divine origin and capable of recognizing our true eternal powers through our own efforts. The focus of my work since then has been to recover this common idea from the ancient cultures and return their serious study to academia.

The straightness of the pyramid’s line is an analogue to a mysterious phenomenon in nature: the straightness of the horizon on the ocean, pictured below. It seems almost as if the pyramid builders harnessed a force of gravity in such a way as to incorporate it into the pyramid’s construction so that the pyramid perpetually renews itself in a self-leveling manner:

Above: The ocean’s horizon is probably the straightest line in Nature (or, rather,
it appears to be to the human eye). Compare its line to the pyramid’s slope.

The thorny problem that faces modern Egyptology is this: they have lost touch with the mysteries of Egypt, unwilling to accept the fact that the true Egypt does not make much logical sense with the currently established academic model. Unfortunately, they pretend that it does in order to avoid losing face instead of looking into the ancient wisdom that exists in the culture itself.

If you are interested in studying mysteries, Egypt, and other phenomena of this sort, don’t be dismayed: current academic scholars have thus far shown a distinct distaste of the study of these alternative mysteries, and it is only through our own efforts that we shall change this outlook.

The pyramids seem to have been designed to last for millions of years. Is it possible, then, that the pyramids are millions of years old?

Stone is not flesh and blood; the Gothic cathedrals, delicate though they might be, have lasted already a thousand years upon their carefully balanced stones.

With this in mind, one thousand years is not much time at all for something as massive and high—as an Egyptian pyramid. Indeed, the construction of the pyramids is so remarkable that the apex of the pyramid of Khafre looks almost new (the damage done was done by man; Egyptians used to strip stones from the pyramids to build homes in Cairo):

Left: Pyramid of Khafre, casing stones. Right: Bent Pyramid, casing stones. In both cases, the stones look brand new, except for the damage done by the hand of man.

The pyramids are dated to about five thousand years ago, and as we can see in the casing stones above that time has done virtually no harm to the pyramids. It is not an unreasonable assumption that ten thousand years could pass with little harm done as well; depending on many other factors, it’s even possible the pyramids could endure well over one hundred thousand years.

Where the stones are exposed and not protected by the outer casing, some weathering has unfortunately occurred. Areas with the casing stones, however, have protected the pyramid incredibly well; stones thus protected seem to have little to no wear.

Yes, I have no doubt, the pyramids of Egypt were designed to last for millions of years. The ancient Arabian proverb “All things fear time, but time fears the pyramids” is no exaggeration.

Learn about it. Live it. Feel it. Wake up to it. Earth is a very strange place, and Egypt is even more strange.

“I am Horus, and I traverse millions of years.”

—Egyptian Book of the Dead

I shall have more to say about this in the future.

To read more, buy my new book Written in Stone.

The Masonic Square & Compasses with a “G” in the middle,
capped by the Mind’s Eye (Third Eye) in the Triangle.

Most Freemasons, when asked the meaning of their Square & Compasses logo, state:

“Both…are architect’s tools…to teach symbolic lessons…”

—Wikipedia

However, the Square and Compasses logo has a meaning that goes much deeper than merely teaching lessons. Notice how the Compasses tool on top draws a “circular” shape:

The Square tool on the bottom draws a “square” shape:

When placed together, as in the logo of the Freemasons, the Compasses tool and the Square tool form a square and circle:

The square and circle shapes are related in Euclid’s 47th problem of “Squaring The Circle,” said to be the primary goal of the Masonic craft.

Squaring the circle, however, does not in this case refer to a mathematical problem: it is a spiritual reference to man’s instinctive quest to harmonize our physical and spiritual natures.

Since Antiquity, the square has represented the physical body. The circle, on the other hand, has always represented the soul.

The Square & Compasses thus symbolize Man’s state as an eternal soul manifesting in a temporary body. The circle is our spiritual side that cannot be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. It is our true, inner, and perfect Self, the part we feel when we close our eyes and think “me”.

“In Renaissance poetry generally, the circle was a symbol of perfection and…a symbol of the human soul.”

—J. Douglas Canfield, University of Arizona

The Compasses, however, are bounded by the Square; our circle is bounded by our body. Think here of a four-sided square, and of how we experience Nature in “fours”:

• The Four Cardinal Points (North, South, East, West)
• The Four Seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall)
• The Four Elements (Earth, Air, Water, Fire)
• The Four States of Matter (Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma)

Four represents the imperfect, physical body, as well as earthly desires and carnal appetites that “weigh” the body down. Human life is vulnerable and temporary, in stark contrast with the invulnerable and permanent soul.

“There is one sign which has never changed its meaning anywhere in the civilized world—the Compass and the Square. A sign of the union of the body and soul.”

—Deman Wagstaff, Wagstaff’s Standard Masonry (1922)

“…the compasses stand for…the spiritual side of man, while the square appertains to the material world…the square represents matter. In the case of the compasses… they represent…the Spiritual.”

—J. S. Ward, Interpretation of Our Masonic Symbols

“A man is a god in ruins.”

—Emerson

Above: William Rimmer, Evening, Fall of Day (1869). This is an esoteric portrait that depicts the history of what has happened to each one of us when the “god within” or “soul within” Incarnated as Man.

We are fallen angels, sparks of the divine now experiencing the material world, as William Rimmer’s wonderfully esoteric portrait “Evening, Fall of Day” illustrates.

We have all fallen and descended into matter, which is the material world in which we now live. The two tools Square and Compass symbolize Man’s “double nature” after the Fall:

“The Compass, as the Symbol of the Heavens, represents the spiritual portion of this double nature of Humanity…and the Square, as the Symbol of the Earth, its material, sensual, and baser portion.”

—Albert Pike, Morals & Dogma

Interestingly, many scholars and philosophers have remarked upon this type of symbolism in the Square & Compasses:

“According to this mystic doctrine…all souls have pre-existence and have descended from the spiritual world into the earthly prison of the body…”

—John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, late 1800s

“…ancient mythicism considered and named those souls incarnated on earth as “the dead.” “To die” was to incarnate; “death” was…the “tomb” of the flesh.”

—Alvin Kuhn, mid 1900s

“The human body is the “tomb of transformation” ; the grave into which the soul descends for the purpose of working out its own salvation, for transforming and improving itself, and ascending out of it the stronger and wiser for the experience.”

—W.L. Wilmshurst, early 1900s

The Greek philosophers understood this concept and even went as far as to say the soul is “imprisoned” in the body, because the body must be cared for, and must constantly:

• Breathe
• Eat
• Drink
• Maintain A Constant Temperature
• Fight Disease

The body cannot endure forever, and will eventually be destroyed by death, at which point the soul is free again.

The soul, though trapped in the human body as we are today, is far from powerless. Because it is eternal, the soul comes complete with its own inherent powers—powers that can be rediscovered and exercised right here in the material world.

Though in a “fallen state” the soul never lost these powers; they have merely been “covered up” by the body, rendering them unrecognizable.

Masonry exists not only to reveal to Man the presence of his inner soul, but to help him rediscover its higher powers, powers that have been covered up by the very body he inhabits.

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The Vitruvian Man

The recognition of these inner powers is the key to squaring your circle, or becoming a god living on earth as a mortal rather than a mortal striving to become a god. This idea is what the ancients call the Vitruvian Man:

Above: Leonardo da Vinci’s world-renowned Vitruvian Man (1487).

Note how da Vinci draws The Vitrivian Man inside a squared circle: he understood the implications of the Masonic doctrine.

Da Vinci was not the only famous artist to create a Vitruvian Man, neither was he the only artist to associate it with both a circle and square:

From Top Left to Right Bottom: Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1435-1515); Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) Cesare Cesariano, Vitruvian Man (1521)Francesco Giorgi, Vitruvian Man, (1525); One Euro Coin; Francesco Giorgi, Vitruvian Man, (1525); Francesco di Giorgio, contemporary of Leonardo, Vitruvian Man; Albrecht Durer, Study on anatomy and geometrical proportions (1528)

The Vitruvian Man lives in a perfect state of balance, enjoying a well-intentioned life, esoteric, stable, kind, capable and abundant. The circle is his eternal soul. The square is his temporary body. He knows this; he is illuminated into its gnosis.

The great Freemasons of past eras were Vitruvian Men, including Washington and Franklin. This is because they understood Freemasonry, unlike the modern Freemasons who have lost the depth and symbolism of their tradition.

Notice the massive circle behind Washington:

Above: The Apotheosis of Washington is a masterful piece of artwork that appears inside the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.

This apotheosis is not “man becoming a god” or “Washington becoming a god.” That’s a critical misinterpretation. It’s more like “man realizing he is a god already”, a soul manifesting as a body—or, in symbolic terms, a circle surrounded by a square.

This “heretical thinking” of Freemasonry is much different than mainstream Christianity; which is why the Freemasons have historically been a Secret Society.

All of this Square and Compass wisdom is based on ancient wisdom, and not just from one ancient culture. The Egyptians and Chinese, two ancient cultures that scholars believe were never in contact, both used a circle symbol to denote the “soul within”:

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Left: Egypt’s Aten glyph is formed by a circle with a dot in the center. Right: China’s ancient Yin Yang symbol is a circle with twin fish symbols inside.

The Tai Chi is the eternal Self. The Self sprouts “pairs of opposites” during manifestation—the twin fish symbols inside, one black the other white.

The Egyptian Aten is the eternal Self also. It was often drawn as a winged disk (see below) sprouting twin serpents and wings.

Both the Tai Chi and Aten symbolize our perfect eternal “soul within” or circle within. Both symbols often appeared above the main entrance to temples and important religious and spiritual buildings in ancient Egypt:

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Above: Egypt’s “winged sun-disk” (Aten) by Secret Societies like the Freemasons, Spiritists, Theosophists, and Rosicrucians.

They symbolize the perfected, eternal soul, a state that every human being must achieve (i.e., Buddhahood, Christhood)

“For the Egyptians, the meaning of life was to recognize that we are not the physical body that incarnates in world of matter, but the still, silent soul “point” within the body that predates the body and that survives the body’s death.

“The circle…represents the omniscient state of the soul when it has attained full consciousness, is liberated, and lives apart from matter.”

—Thomas Wilson, Swastika the Earliest Known Symbol and Its Migrations

This idea is conveyed in the Gothic cathedral facade—the rose window in the center, which symbolizes the perfect circular “soul within” us.

“the rose window is… a representation of perfection, balance and harmony of the purified soul”

—Michael S. Rose

Note how in Rose Windows the Square and Circle are blended together, the “squaring of the circle,” the goal of every Freemason:

Above: Exterior shot of the southern rose window (a gigantic, circular stained glass window) of the Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Paris

Above: Exterior of the west rose window, carved in the 12th century

Above: Detail of the Gothic facade of the Orvieto Cathedral, the rose window.

Masonic buildings are sacred structures of initiation, encoded with intricate patterns and artwork that speak to squaring the circle; they are heavily laden with a language of symbolism that modern scholars have yet to decode.

It’s not just the Gothic cathedrals. In all Masonic buildings we see the interplay of squares and circles. This is a constant Masonic geometric theme, the spiritual / divine light (our soul) manifesting in the physical / material world (our body).

Above: These pictures showing Masonic square and circle symbols interlaced were taken inside of Reid Hall, a Masonic-built castle which was constructed in 1864 and is now home to Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.

These are not just squares and circles. These are squares and circles in balance, united in harmonious rhythm, a reunion of opposites.

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In Conclusion

This article, then, has laid bare the lost secret of Freemasonry: It is that man is both a Square (body) and Compass (soul). This secret, once a common doctrine in the ancient pagan cultures, had to be hidden away and kept secret from the Holy Inquisition for fear of reprisal.

Its wisdom teaches the forbidden doctrine that each of us deep down is a “god” encased in matter, a soul inside a body. We can clearly see our body; but the Compass teaches us about the part we can’t see, the soul. This is the whole idea of initiation into a lost sacred wisdom.

The Compass & Square symbolize—they are symbols of—your soul and your body. Your Soul inside your body. You can learn more by reading Written In Stone:

Left: Scholars credit the Khmer Empire (9 – 13 AD) with building Baksei, as well as dozens of other temples and complexes in the region. Based in what is now Cambodia the empire flourished from the 9th to the 13th century. Right: The Temple of the Masks in present-day Mexico.

The temples are strikingly similar, but the builders of each were completely unrelated to each other: the Khmer and the Mayans were separated by the Pacific ocean, yet the Khmer’s Baksei (left) and the Mayan’s Temple of the Masks (right) are nearly identical. This is evidence of a deeper symmetry of religion, cultures, and traditions that are the same despite the vast distance separating the two cultures, a difference scholars have thus far ignored.

The correspondences in just these photos alone are remarkable: the number three, for example, seems to be the focus of both stepped pyramids, which have three main platforms or steps. Additionally, there is a fourth, smaller step located atop the third step in both pyramids, reachable by a much smaller set of stairs:

The stairways leading to the temple tops of both pyramids are extremely steep, to the point that tourists visiting both of these temples often require a long rope stretching from the top of the monuments to the bottom. This precaution, a necessary one, alleviates much of the danger of climbing such steep stairways:

There are still many other parallels shared by the Maya and Khmer cultures. Both employed corbelled arches in their architecture. These corbelled arches seem to have served both a symbolic as well as functional purpose.

Furthermore, the cultures also created parallel stone sculptures with similar stylized patterns. Perhaps most amazing of all, however, is that both cultures clearly shared the same religion, separated by the vast Pacific but nevertheless written into the stone architecture of their respective temples:

In addition to the pyramids, Triptych temples are found on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, a fact not yet understood by academia.

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Does the Mercedes Benz logo make you think “luxury,” “style,” “class,” and “comfort”?

Above: The Mercedes Benz logo, famous worldwide.

This may be what it means today, but for thousands of years it had a far different meaning. It was the “Triquetra” of the Druids and Celtics, who knew it’s great secret: The symbol’s natural shape has the ability to stimulate the human psyche and awaken spiritual powers within us when we look upon it.

The Triquetra was principally a ceremonial device in neolithic Europe, used in magic, ritual and religious incantation. Superimposing the Triquetra over the Mercedes logo immediately produces a very obvious parallel:

Left: Mercedes logo. Right: The Triquetra is the Latin tri (“three”) combined with quetrus (“cornered”). It was found on runestones in Northern Europe and on early Germanic coins.

The Triquetra has appeared in numerous Pagan works, starting with Pagan artwork and temples and later moving to Gothic cathedral walls. Mercedes has taken this logo and induced a semantic shift in the symbolism of the logo, disconnecting it from our inner quest for self and linking it to a product (in this case, a car).

It is, of course, conceivable that this is coincidence: some have argued that the Mercedes logo is in fact a “wheel-and-spoke” symbol, related to tires. This argument, however, is invalidated by the fact that the current logo was crafted from the merging of Daimler and Benz’ logos in 1926. Daimler’s logo, before that merger, was a Triquetra without any recognizable parallel to a tire; it was only later on that the logo was altered to its current shape, well after the original embedding of the Triquetra.

The Triquetra can also be seen in another car company’s logo, that of Mitsubishi:

Left: The Mitsubishi logo, which goes back to 1870. Right: Ancient European Triquetra.

“Mitsubishi. “Mitsu” means “three” and “hishi” means diamond. Altogether the word means three diamonds, shown in the logo.

Coincidence is possible, of course, but unlikely: the founders of Mercedes and Mitsubishi understood the power behind these symbols and harnessed it to control consumers.

Psychologists and mythologists like Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell have long taught that symbols like this continue to have a pull on the human mind. They are deeply embedded in our cultural consciousness, with a meaning that is long forgotten but continues to affect us by circumventing logic and reason by tapping into a more primal source within us. Marketers have known the link of these icons to a consumer’s raw emotions for years, dating back to over a hundred years ago. Even if they themselves do not know the original meaning behind an esoteric symbol, they intuitively understand its affect on people and shift that feeling into their products and thus unconsciously associating these ancient symbols with their own products in the minds of consumers.

Once learned and associated, the symbol’s identity and the emotions it elicits become ingrained in the mind forever, drawing us in again and again, entering the deepest unconscious of our unsuspecting thoughts.

Above: The show Charmed reveals a human memory of the magic of the Triquetra logo and “power of three”—the exact same “magic” Mercedes has draped around itself.

The power of esoteric marketing is launching products to new heights; it demonstrates a complete mastery of geometry, poetry and prose. These ancients arts move people to action by stirring an unconscious, cultural feeling that manifests itself into people buying into the Triquetra logo- in this case, embedded in the products of Mercedes and Mitsubishi.

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Secret Oil Company Logos

Let’s now look at another occult logo phenomenon in the auto industry—Oil companies and gasoline stations.

• Texaco
• Shell
• Sunoco
• Amoco
• Chevron
• Gulf
• Mobil

These are all familiar names. However, each one possesses an ancient, esoteric, mystically-charged logo, a ready-made symbol.

“See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who’ve cared for you all of your life.”

—Henry Hill, Goodfellas

All of these logos have an inherent power in them due to the ancient symbols they co-opt: they are so effective at influencing people, in fact, that it may seem that the use of them transcends effective marketing into the realm of mind-control.

The explanation of the symbols will come shortly, but first we must understand why these symbols are so effective. The effectiveness of these symbols depends on an understanding of Carl Jung’s theory of the “collective unconscious”. This idea, in brief, posits that humans have a genetic memory of ancient memories of humanity; a remembrance of the same rites of passages, ideas, images, etc. and so forth. These memories are shared and often take form as symbols; examples include suns symbolizing warmth, or skulls symbolizing death. He calls these embedded symbols “archetypes”, and they are a part of our makeup. According to Jung, we know them not from personal experience but from the thousands of years of experience from our ancestors.

These corporate logos, then, take advantage of these archetypes. They lie at the core of every one of us, and the big oil corporations obviously seem to know this. Let’s take the shell symbol for example, which is the logo of the Shell Oil Company:

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SEA SHELL

Top, From Left to Right: Shell corporate logo; Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”; Aphrodite in a sea shell from Amisos, now in the Louvre. Bottom, From Left to Right: Shell design in architecture on NYC building; ancient shell coin. shell atop a doorway on a bank in Buffalo, NY; shell design inside the LDS Church.

Seashell: Seashells are almost universally loved, strewn along beaches like sea jewels that children (and even adults) collect daily. Few realize, however, that for a great deal of human history shells played a vital role for man; they were used in everything from money to art. Stone Age people used seashells to adorn their jewelry, homes and boats. In tropical countries, many tribes used shells as money. The Incas buried seashells with their dead. Throughout history, architects and artists have incorporated shell motifs and symbolism into their work. Gothic cathedrals and the famous Alhambra in Spain are one example. Shells have been found to decorate deities in the ruins of Pompeii:

Above: The ancient people of Pompeii, Italy adorned their holy figures with shells.

As a result of these ancient uses, shells are embedded in our collective unconscious as a positive symbol.

In Greek and  Roman myth shells were the mystic symbol of prosperity and regeneration and, in their association with the sea, the source of fertility. We all came from the sea, as we all came from our mother’s womb; the shell thus became symbolic of the mythic birth of the goddess (i.e., Venus, Aphrodite, etc.).

For this reason, the shell was representative of the Female Deity in pagan worship, and was associated with:

• love
• birth
• rebirth
• manifestation
• reproduction
• all things we think of when we think of the sea romantically

In Roman mythology, Venus, the goddess of love and fertility, was said to be created from the foam carried ashore atop a scallop shell. Many paintings of Venus depict a scallop shell to identify her. One example is Botticelli’s classically inspired The Birth of Venus or “Venus on the half-shell.”

Decorative shellwork rises to prominence in the 17th century, whenEuropean nobility, inspired by palaces like Medici’s Bobole Gardens in Florence and the Villa d’Este outside Rome, commissioned artists to recreate similar marvels on their own estates. The seashell and other sea themes are the most prevalent motifs in French Rococo Style.

The seashell is linked to Spain’s famous Way of St. James (a.k.a. “the road to Santiago”) which has existed for thousands of years. It was one of the most important Christian pilgrimages in medieval times, together with Rome and Jerusalem.

“The scallop shell is the traditional emblem of James, son of Zebedee, and is popular with pilgrims on the Way of St. James to the apostle’s shrine at Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Medieval Christians making the pilgrimage to his shrine often wore a scallop shell symbol on their hat or clothes..”

—Wikipedia

Above: Scallop shells, symbol of “El Camino de Santiago” (Way of St. James) pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain.

While many are familiar with the Way of St. James, few remember that it was actually constructed over the ruins of a much older, now-forgotten holy pilgrimage route. This older route was a fertility pilgrimage, undertaken by young couples hoping to bear children, and the scallop shell, true to its ancient meaning, is believed to have been carried by the pilgrims on this route. The Christians continued this tradition in part, but dedicated the road to St. James.

Above: Evolution of the Shell logo over the past century.

Thus, the Pagan seashell symbol is part of us, our “collective unconscious.” It has positive connotations to us, just like the next symbol we’re going to take a look at, the diamond:

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PERFECT DIAMOND

Top, From Left to Right:  Corporate Sunoco logo; diamond symbol atop outdoor stairway at Reid Hall, Manhattanville College; Temple of Borobudur diamond. Bottom, From Left to Right: esoteric Masonic design found in the books by René Guénon; letter of the ancient runic alphabet called “ingwaz”; diamond-lattice pattern in Chan Chan, Peru;  outside floor tiling, West porch, Reid Hall, Manhattanville College; Navajo rug, stylized diamond pattern with designs in red, gray, tan and black.

Diamond.

The diamond symbol occurs in every era, culture, religion, esoteric sect, and spiritual tradition. Diamonds have been treasured as gemstones since very early times. Diamond is from the Greek word “adámas” or “proper”, “unalterable”, “unbreakable”, “untamed.”A diamond lasts forever, as we’ve learned from De Biers, and operative Freemasons incorporated the diamond pattern into the design of the buildings they constructed, including churches, castles, and cathedrals.

The diamond is both earthly and lasts forever, symbolizing eternity and a higher world state of being human can achieve- an apotheosis that culminates in gaining higher spiritual and physical ability:

• “the most sacred body” (wujud al-aqdas) and “supracelestial body” (jism asli haqiqi) in Sufism
• “the diamond body” in Taoism and Vajryana
• “the light body” or “rainbow body” in Tibetan Buddhism
• “the body of bliss” in Kriya Yoga
• “the immortal body” (soma athanaton) in Hermeticism
• “the superconductive body” in Vedanta
• “the radiant body.” in Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism
• “the Glory of the Whole Universe” and “the golden body” in the alchemical tradition
• “the astral body” according to alchemist Paracelsus
• “the immortal body ” (soma athanaton) in the Hermetic Corpus,
• “the solar body” in some mystery schools
• “the diamond body of the temple of God” in Rosicrucianism
• “the luminous body or being” in ancient Egypt
• “the indwelling divine potential” (fravashi or fravarti) in Old Persia
• “the perfect body ” (soma teilion) in the Mithraic liturgy

The “Diamond Body” or vajra deha is a Tantric term that describes the process of refining the physical body through the practices of hatha yoga. It is a continuous refinement of the body until it is so light and airy that it has become a spiritual form upon the earth. It is achievable only by surrendering the limited perceptions of the body and moving to a higher state of knowledge.

The process is metaphorically analogous to the intense heat and pressure needed to form a diamond; the physical body is pushed to such a degree that it is cleansed and refined to a stronger and purer form. In this system, the method is supposed to not only bring the practitioner to the ultimate level of consciousness but also give them magical powers, including immortality itself.

Famous Indian guru and metaphysical leader Sri Aurobindo called this “divine body” the ultimate stage of human evolution. He believed a kind of “deathless condition” resulting from transubstantiation of the fleshly body could be attained by meditation, effort and divine grace.

According to this doctrine, the seeds of this immortal form, the Diamond Body, lie in potential within us; all humans possess this transformative ability to morph into an eternal being. A parallel can be drawn with the transformation of the caterpillar to the butterfly:

“Is it possible that the human body acts as a cocoon for a higher, more complex longer lived form which has the potential for immortality?”

—Dr Mitchell E. Gibson

This parallel was not lost to our ancestors, either: the diamond symbol in the form of a butterfly (see below) is common to native peoples indigenous to North America, Canada, and Mexico. Many of the Indian nations identify the butterfly with “immortality.”

Above: Native American butterfly symbol in the shape of a diamond.

The diamond butterfly motif conveys the element of rebirth, revitalization, and metamorphosis, encompassing all of these ideals and deeper symbolic meanings into one poignant symbol

Clearly, the diamond symbol has been with man for untold ages and thus holds a place in our “collective unconscious,” whether we realize it or not; it is one of the more powerful symbols in the human collective unconscious- Its presence in the Sunoco logo (as well, interestingly, in the Triquetra of Mitsubishi) is anything but coincidence.

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TORCH / ETERNAL FLAME

Top, From Left to Right:  Amoco logo; back of dime; steel gate around Yale’s Society of Book and Snake, the fourth oldest secret society at Yale University. Bottom, From Left to Right: Replica of Statue of Liberty’s torch; Statue of Liberty; TriStar pictures flame; Olympic torch.

Torch / Eternal Flame. The torch is, by modern standards, a rather antiquated technology, having been supplanted by electricity. For our ancestors, however, the torch represented light and life for thousands of years (and, symbolically, immortality and eternal enlightenment), a very positive symbol in the collective unconscious.

One of the most well-known is the Olympic torch. The Olympic torch is the torch of Promethus and thus the torch that gave fire to man, a very positive image in keeping with the torch’s symbolic meaning of enlightenment:

Above: Prometheus stealing fire.

Prometheus was a champion of mankind who stole fire from Zeus and give it to mortals. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day.

Above: Image on the side of Rockefeller center. A torch down the middle, a man to the right, a woman to the left. This is all a clear reference to the doctrine of opposites.

The modern American dime has the torch of illumination. The Statue of Liberty holds a massive torch. When held up above the head, a torch symbolizes life and the regenerative power of flame. Many universities and colleges, in their symbols and emblems, celebrate torches. In England in the first half of the twentieth century, a torch was used as the road sign indicating a school, which is a place of enlightenment.

The ancient Greeks viewed fire as sacred and torch relays existed in ancient Greece first as nighttime religious ceremonies and later as quasi-religious sporting events. Today carrying a torch for someone can mean nurturing an enduring love or lust for someone out of reach.

The torch, then, is a very positive symbol meaning life and enlightenment in our spiritual unconscious; a deeper meaning that could be easily co-opted (and has been) by major corporations seeking to influence consumers.

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CHEVRON SHIELD

Top, From Left to Right:  Chevron corporate logo; U.S. Coat of Arms close-up; U.S. Coat of Arms. Bottom, From Left to Right: Castilla y León shield; shield atop the southern facade of Reid Hall at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY; ancient Roman shield.

Shield.

A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to block an attack, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a blow from a weapon. Shields have been in use since prehistory, making them a very integral part of our collective unconscious. The shapes of shields vary, of course, depending on time and place; shield designs can be anything from round to square or scalloped. Often shields were decorated with a painted pattern or an animal representation and these designs developed into systematized heraldic emblems.

As a symbolic icon, the shield is a positive, defensive symbol that has connotations of spiritual defensiveness and fortitude.

“The symbolic significance of the shield amounts to a simple transposition of its defensive function to the spiritual plane.”

—Juan Eduardo Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols

The theory behind the spiritual defense is simple: Negativity in spiritual form can be just as damaging as physical harm. Fear, anger, depression, negative people/places, arguments, all of these can cling to us and cause problems over time. Spiritual cleansings reduce the harm that negative energy has on our lives.

One type of shield that is pertinent here is the coat of arms, especially considering it seems to be the type of shield depicted in the Chevron logo above. The coat of arms is a special type of shield because it was unique to families; many families passed down their unique coat of arms on their shields through many different generations, imbuing the coat of arms with a familial distinction in addition to its purely defensive one.

We don’t use shields today, but the shield has for thousands of years been used by humans all across the world. It thus holds a very powerful and positive place in our collective unconscious.

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SOLAR HALO (Egypt)

Top, From Left to Right:  Gulf corporate logo; Horus with solar halo; Horus with solar halo; Japanese flag; Bottom, From Left to Right: Horus with solar halo; Horus with solar halo.

Solar Halo.

Sun symbolism (also known as “sun worship”) can be found throughout recorded history and prehistory. The solar halo in particular is a very ancient symbol, used in reverence and memorializing by ancient cultures throughout the world, especially that of ancient Egypt.

The sun’s symbolism is quite obvious: the sun gives heat and light, both necessary to life. As a result of this extraordinary life-giving power, solar deities are often considered powerful and strong, even supreme (Ra in Egypt, for example); they carry different names and are associated with many different aspects.

The sun is depicted as a circle (i.e., the perfect circle)  which, with no beginning and no end, has always signified eternity, or the eternal soul within. This brings sun gods like Ra an immediacy that Judaic gods do not have, a sense that the sun god is inside you. The sun is also a wheel or chariot, metaphors for your soul and its incarnation or manifestation in the world, as in these examples:

• Trundholm sun chariot of the Nordic deity, Sol, drawn by Arvak and Alsvid
• Greek Helios riding in a chariot (also Phaeton)
• Sol Invictus depicted riding a quadriga on the reverse of a Roman coin
• Vedic Surya riding a chariot drawn by seven horses

In ancient Egyptian symbolism, the sun is drawn as the “aten” symbol; its wings signify ascension, or the spiritual uplifting of the soul, the goal of human life. Its twin serpents depicted as perfectly symmetrical signify duality in perfect balance, the way in which to achieve this spiritual ascension:

In ancient Egyptian religion, the sun disk became a primary symbol of Ra, the sun. The sun disk was carved over the doorways of many Egyptian tombs and temples, and it appears on many papyri. The sun disk is often shown being carried on the wings and head of Horus.

The forty-four story Gulf Tower in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (the former corporate headquarters of the Gulf Oil Company) is shaped like an Egyptian pyramid! The tower is named for the Gulf Oil Corporation, which was one of the leading multinational oil companies of its time, and which has the Egyptian sun symbol as its logo.

The symbolism is very apparent in the Gulf logo; for those who are skeptical or unconvinced, however, we need only look to the Gulf Tower in downtown Pittsburgh. The top of the tower is built in a “stepped pyramid” fashion, like the Egyptian temples; a connection that takes Gulf’s logo from the realm of coincidence to the realm of likelihood.

The connotations of the sun oas an immensely positive symbol remain strong in the collective consciousness, and many artists, authors, and composers have put the beauty and warmth of the sun in their work. The Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh created landscapes that expressed his joy with bright sunshine. The American poet Emily Dickinson wrote a poem called “The Sun,” in which she described the rising and setting of the sun. The Russian composer Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov included a beautiful song, “Hymn to the Sun,” in his opera The Golden Cockerel.

With all of this in mind, Gulf Oil uses the sun symbol in its logo because man is attracted to the sun and its power, and has been for millennia. Somewhere deep inside you, you are in awe of, and you have love for, the tremendous power of the sun.

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PEGASUS

Top, From Left to Right: Mobil Oil Corporate logo, the Pegasus; Pegasus flying, Greek Bronze, 300-268 BC; Parthian era bronze plate depicting Pegasus (“Pegaz” in Persian), excavated in Masjed Soleyman, Khuzestan, Iran. Bottom, From Left to Right: Bellerophon and the Chimera, edge of an Attic red-figure epinetron (thigh-protector used by a woman when weaving), ca. 425–420 BC (photo by Marsyas); Ancient Greek Silver Stater, Pegasus Coin Pendant Circa 480 – 450 BC; ancient Greek coin from Corinth c 360 BC.

Pegasus.

The Pegasus is one of the most famous mythological creatures in Greek mythology. He is a winged divine horse, white in color, and has symbolized speed, power, and swift transport since prehistory. Additionally, Pegasus symbolizes the immortality of the soul, serviing as a carrier and protector of the spirit in journeys to the astral plane.

Pegasus is closely linked to various Greek gods like Poseidon / Neptune (emotion);  Athena / Minerva (heavenly wisdom); Zeus / Jupiter (guidance and creativity).

From the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, the Pegasus was a symbol of wisdom and especially of fame. In the 19th century, he became a symbol of poetry and a muse from which poets draw inspiration.

The Pegasus symbol itself is a unique combination of horse and wing symbolism; horses are a potent symbol from almost every world religion and mythology. Many view the horse as a symbol of strength, virility, and lust; wings, on the other hand, represent prayer, contemplation, and the soul’s ability to transcend the weight of earthly burdens.

The Winged Horse or Pegasus, then,  symbolizes the heightened power of man’s natural forces, an innate capacity for spiritualization and for inverting evil forces into good. As a Christian and religious symbol, the Pegasus was adopted from the attribution as the mount of Apollo, the God of pure light, beauty and truth to be included in the symbolic fauna of Christ.

Left: TriStar Pictures logo is a Pegasus. Right: Reader’s Digest Pegasus.

To summarize, it is clear that the big oil companies have used powerful and iconic ancient human symbols for their logos. They all have done so for the same reason: Because these corporations have always known that it’s easier to attract humans to their products by draping themselves in ready-made symbols of power and positivity, than to start from scratch.

The shell (Shell), diamond (Sunoco), torch (Amoco), shield (Chevron), sun (Gulf), and pegasus (Mobil) are all ancient symbols that we, as an ancient race, recognize—not in our conscious minds, but in our “collective unconscious.”

In Part II we will look at the Texaco logo, which is yet another corporate logo (oil company logo) that’s patterned after another ancient emblem, the pentagram (also known as “pentacle.”)

Note: This is Part II of a two-part series. If you have not read Part I, please do so before reading this article! It has information and explanations that you might need to understand this article in full.

Left: The ancient / occult pentagram symbol. Right: The pentagram in the Texaco logo.

In Part 1, we saw how the big multinational oil corporations use ancient iconic symbols as their logos. The seashell (Shell), diamond (Sunoco), torch of victory (Amoco), shield (Chevron), solar halo (Gulf), and pegasus (Mobil) are all ancient icons that we humans have known and recognized for thousands of years. These symbols are embedded in our collective unconscious as positive symbols, and the corporations have co-opted these symbols to influence and attract customers unconsciously, fully aware that these symbols are inherently attractive to us.

We spoke briefly on each of those logos before, but there is one that deserves a deeper look: here we will focus on the Texaco logo, which is yet another corporate oil company logo that is patterned after an ancient emblem, the pentagram or pentacle.

The pentagram is one of the most curious emblems of esotericism, especially because of its shunning: while the rest of the symbols spoken of in Part I are inherently positive, comforting symbols, the pentagram has always been considered a talisman of power and shunned by the majority of people in fear for thousands of years.

The pentagram appears in many corporate logos. How many pentagram stars can you count above?

A great many people in the world hold the mistaken belief that the Pentagram is an “evil” symbol, representative of the Judeo-Christian “Devil” or “Satan.” In truth, the symbol has nothing to do with the Bible and/or Judeo-Christian conceptions of good and evil.

The Pentagram instead symbolizes the makeup of man: his inner spiritual side and his outer physical side.

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Pentagram

Top, From Left to Right: The Texaco logo is a pentagram; Christ as a Pentagram, from Valeriano Bolzan, Hieroglyphica (Basel, 1556); Ancient representation of the Chinese five phases, or elements (Wǔ Xíng). Bottom: From Left to Right: Man inscribed in a pentagram, from De occulta philosophia libri tres by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486 – 1535).

A pentagram (also known as a pentalpha, pentangle, pentacle, or star pentagon) is a five pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. The word comes from the Greek word pentagrammon meaning “five lined” or “five lines”.

The true origin of this symbol is unknown, and has been lost in time. It does, however, stretch back to prehistory: we know that ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Babylonians all used symbolic depictions of the pentagram in their arts. The association of magic with the pentagram was evident in these historic uses of the pentagram and continues to be a strong symbolic meaning behind the pentagram; many practitioners of Neo-pagan faiths wear pentagram jewelry, and Wiccans use the pentagram as a symbol of faith.

Not surprisingly, the pentagram has associations with Freemasonry, one of the world’s oldest and most powerful initiatic orders, and perhaps the purest inheritor of the metaphysical and symbolic wisdom of the ancient, pre-Christian cultures:

Left: The Masonic Blazing Star is one of the most important symbols of Freemasonry. Right: The Masonic Blazing Star above the doorway of a building in France. The Blazing Start makes its appearance in several of the Degrees. In the instructions of 1735, it is detailed as a part of the furniture of a Lodge, with the explanation that the “Mosaic Pavement is the Ground Floor of the Lodge, the Blazing Star, the Centre, and the Indented Tarsel, the Border round about it!”

In the 28th Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Blazing Star denotes a Freemason, who, by perfecting himself in truth and knowledge, becomes like a blazing star, shining brilliantly in darkness.

This is an interesting description, especially because of the phrase “blazing star” applied to a man. This “substituted secret” echoes an element of truth; namely, that truth that the pentagram symbolizes Man himself. Masonic scholar Rex Hutchins asserts that the pentagram:

“…is the symbol of the Divine in man… The five-pointed star with a single point upward represents the Divine. It also symbolizes man for its five points allude to the five senses, the five members (head, arms and legs) and his five fingers on each hand, which signify the tokens that distinguish Masons.”

Before we delve more deeply into the powerful connection between man and the pentagram, it will be beneficial to take a quick look at an interrelated meaning of the pentagram- its use in ancient magic.

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Occult Properties of the Pentagram

The subject of the magical use of the pentagram is vast, and, in many ways, still unchartered. We find this interesting quote on Wikipedia:

“The five-pointed star is representative of the four primal elements (earth, air, fire and water,) and traditionally a fifth, called spirit. The circle binds them together to create life. When pointing up, the pentagram can represent spirituality’s dominance over the material (pentagram) bound inside the laws of the cosmos (circle). The upside-down facing pentagram, meanwhile, represents the physical world ruling over the spiritual, and has therefore been associated with dark magic. Other sources point to its origin in Chinese five-elementphilosophy, as the natural balance between fire, water, earth, wood, and metal. This theory states that the direction it ispointing has nothing to do with good or evil, but rather the upside-down facing circle is for banishing. The circle is again forthe concept the power within is bound by, this time for the circle of life.”

—Wikipedia

“The Pentagram has a long history of occult use. It was by use of a poorly constructed Pentagram that Mephistopheles was able to manifest in the circle of Faust! Magical grimoires of the western esoteric tradition are replete with examples of pentagrams being used as protective and evocatory talismans, or as the seals of circles of the Art which were traced on the floor of the ritual chamber. Literally thousands of examples are extant from the works of Trithemius, Dr. John Dee, Heinrich Agrippa, Kircher, Bruno, and many others, which show the hermetic and kabalistic applications of the Pentagram in ceremonial ritual use.”

—Gregory H. Peters, The Sacred Pentagram

Perhaps one of the most evocative descriptions of the occult powers of this symbol comes from the magician Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), who writes of the Pentagram in his book Transcendental Magic:

“The Pentagram expresses the mind’s domination over the elements and it is by this sign that we bind the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the spectres of water, and the ghosts of earth.  It is the Star of the Magi, the burning star of the Gnostic schools, the sign of intellectual omnipotence and autocracy.  Its complete comprehension is the key of two worlds—it is absolute natural philosophy and natural science.  Its use, how¬ever, is most dangerous to operators who do not completely and perfectly understand it.  All mysteries of magic, all symbols of the gnosis, all figures of occultism, all Qabalis¬tic keys of prophecy, are resumed in the sign of the Pentagram, which Paracelsus pro¬claims to be the greatest and most potent of all.”

—Eliphas Levi

In the previous article we examined the way in which ancient icons hold a permanent place in our “collective unconscious.” The pentagram is one of those icons, and is arguably one of the most powerful. It is clear from the research above that our ancestors understood and used the pentagram to tap the full extent of its power. As their descendants, we recognize the power of the symbol through our collective unconscious even if we have forgotten its true power and meaning.

We are alone in our forgetfulness. Multinational corporations seem not to have forgotten. By using the pentagram in their logos, multinational corporations show that they understand the power and truth behind the pentagram, using it to attract consumers instead of giving it to the people.

In January 2010, the present writer was asked to deliver a lecture at the Masonic Lodge in Manhattan, NY. Having accepted, a 25-minute speech was prepared and presented, which details the symbolism of the number 5 as it is connected to the “pentagram,” one of Freemasonry’s oldest and most powerful symbols.

A handout was distributed with the following images.

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Five As The Symbol of Man

Left: Man is a pentagram star, from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres. Middle: The pentagram, a star that shines. Right: Pentagram in the center of the Rose Window of the Cathedral of Exeter in England. The three images above ultimately depict the occult secret behind the number Five. The secret is that five is the number of man in the shape of a pentagram. This relates the ancient Secret Doctrine that man is a star, an eternal soul that shines; that deep down beneath the physical, corporeal body, we are powerful beyond ways we’ve never imagined.

Below is a copy of the speech, which has been edited to fit the present format.

LECTURE BY RICHARD CASSARO. DELIVERED IN JANUARY 15, 2010 AT THE MASONIC HALL IN MANHATTAN, NY:

Tonight we’ll examine the symbolism of the number five; what it means and what it stands for.

Some authors will tell you five is important because in Judaism the Torah contains five books, which are collectively called the five Books of Moses, the Pentateuch. In Christianity, Christ suffered five wounds on the Cross. There are five pillars of Islam (faith, prayer, alms, pilgrimage, fast) while Muslims pray five times a day.

But this in and of itself is not wisdom; noting similarities between religions will not alone help you to understand the world around you. Instead we must look deeper to the reasons five is so prevalent among religions; we must instead realize that they are not independent discoveries but rather memorials or pointers indicating a hidden treasure of symbolic meaning buried beneath the number five.

What deeper truth, then, is behind the number five? How does understanding the esoteric symbolism behind the number five endow a person with more “light” or understanding in the Masonic philosophy?

Simply put: the number five is the human number, the number that symbolizes man and his potential. Man has four limbs and a head, five digits on each  hand and toe, five senses, etc. and so forth. The number five is embedded in man, and has been taught as such by the ancient mystery schools of Egypt and Babylon.

The human body has five appendages (2 legs + 2 arms + head). We have 5 fingers and 5 toes. To ancient geometers, our 5-fold symmetry meant that the universe, too, had a 5-fold nature, since man was believed to be a microcosm of the universe.

Symbologist Juan Eduardo Cirlot tells us:

“Traditionally, the number five symbolizes man after the fall, but, once applied to this order of earthly things, it signifies health and love. Esoteric thinking sees this, not as the effect but, in fact, as the cause of man’s five extremities with the number five inscribed also on each hand and foot. This association of the number five with the human figure, common during the Romanesque period, is found all over the world, from England to the Far East. Agrippa of Nettesheim, depicted the image of man with arms and legs apart and related to the pentagram.”

—Juan Eduardo Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols

The pentagram is one of the most remarkable and sacred symbols in geometry for precisely this reason. Geometry is, of course, a key to Freemasonry; geometry is one of the ideas that the letter “G” in Freemasonry symbolizes, along with gnosis. This is evident in the incredibly sophisticated buildings that the medieval operative Masons built, intertwining geometry with gnosis to leave buildings that are living testaments to the ancient quest to find the inner, eternal Self:

The Pentagram, then, is one of the most complex and potent magical emblems on the planet. It is a five-pointed star that is drawn with five straight strokes; interestingly, it can also be drawn unicursally, or without picking up your pen from the page.

In studying this image, note carefully the man inside the pentagram. The Vitruvian Man, as discussed earlier, was overlain over a pentagram precisely because the pentagram holds a distinct resemblance to man. Just as your arms look similar to each other but different to your legs, the same holds true for the pentagram: the two arms of the pentagram look exactly like each other but different than the two legs, and vice versa:

The pentagram as the perfect symbol of man. The two “arms” of the pentagram match man’s arms. The two “legs” of the pentagram match man’s legs.

This, of course, teaches us something very important about the pentagram: if geometry is part of the fold of Creation, as Masonic philosophy tells us it is, then the pentagram is no less than the template of man. It is not just the same shape but is in fact one and the same with Man himself.

In essence, then, the pentagram is a core component of Masonic philosophy, in particular its quest to shine and perfect human knowledge: the attribution of “blazing star” to high order Masons is no mistake. Humans themselves are stars, deep down, and humans shine eternally because Geometry is an eternal law and constant of the universe itself.

This star I’m talking about is your eternal soul, plain and simple. As C.W. Lewis tells us:

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

—C.W. Lewis

Again, “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

Every soul is a star that shines—this is ancient wisdom.

“Every man and every woman is a star.”

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

As Masons, your philosophy dictates that you are like a great light beneath your physical body, animating it and making it glow with light and life. This is the ancient teaching of the number five and the pentagram; that humans, as stars, are powerful beyond measure, an ideal every Mason must reach after revealing his belief in his own eternal soul:

“…I charge you to regard your apron as one of the most precious and speaking symbols our Order has to give you…Remember that you first wore it with the flap raised, it being thus a five-cornered badge, indicating the five senses, by means of which we enter into relations with the material world around us (our “five points of fellowship” with the material world), but indicating also by the triangular portion above, in conjunction with the quadrangular portion below, that man’s nature is a combination of soul and body.”

—W. L. Wilmshurst, The Meaning of Masonry

“In Masonry, Five is a sacred number… In the Third Degree, we find reference to the five points of fellowship, and their symbol, the five pointed star.”

—Albert Mackey, An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

The more you can envision this Masonic truth—the fact that beneath your head, two arms, and two legs you are a blazing star—the more you can take control of your body…and shape your own destiny.

This is, of course, a difficult concept to grasp, especially in Western cultures that try to disassociate with the soul and explain the world with only science, labeling those who believe in souls foolish and unprofessional. The record the ancient civilizations have left us, however, speaks differently: they believed in the soul and have left us the symbolic records, like the pentagram and the ankh, in order for us to recover what was once common knowledge.

The concept of the soul, to us, is alien: as a modern society we have disowned it, as mentioned above. The founders, however, had not, and as Masons left us their legacy as well. Evidence for this abounds; consider, for example, the massive pentagram embedded in DC’s architecture- it is a pentagram of crossroads with its head as the White House:

The now-famous pentagram design formed by the intersecting streets in Washington DC, with the ‘head’ of the pentagram pointing directly to the White House.

The flag as well is a Masonic symbol, embedding 50 pentagrams in its design; the US coat of arms contains them as well:

The Pentagon is implicitly a pentagram, since a pentagon forms the interior of a pentagram. The symbolic meaning of the pentagon symbol is similar to that of the pentagram, but deep enough to deserve its own lecture. Suffice it to say, however, that there is enough evidence to see that the founding fathers and the builders after them understood the power of the pentagram and encoded it in the US government’s symbols and architecture.

Interestingly, there are many well-established governments across the world that have long known and understood this power also, which is why a pentagram appears on their national flags:

PAKISTAN

CHILE

GHANA

NEW ZEALAND

MOROCCO

ETHIOPIA

CHINA

THE EUROPEAN UNION

THE PHILIPPINES

SINGAPORE

TURKEY

SOMALIA

BOZNIA / HERZOGOVINA

NORTH KOREA

VIETNAM

PANAMA

GRENADA

SOLOMON ISLANDS

ALGERIA

CAPEVERDE

BRAZIL

All of these nations clearly have pentagram symbols on their flags. At one point in their history, the leaders of these countries discovered the ancient meaning, sacred geometry and occult power of the pentagram.

The most likely origin of this wisdom was through Freemasonry, which spread throughout the world in centuries past. The connection between leaders of countries and Freemasonry is well-documented by historians; our own government provides evidence of this global connection.

Unfortunately, it is not always benevolent parties that understand the power behind the pentagram and other esoteric symbols. Large multinational corporations have subverted the power of the to attain their greatest good, not yours; they are using this symbolism to increase their profit margin instead of using this esoteric wisdom to teach and empower the masses with their own metaphysical power.

I have a handout that shows a sample, a small sample, of just some of the big corporations that use the pentagram:

Small sample of corporate pentagram logos.

It is very likely you’ve never noticed the large amount of pentagrams used in the logos of big corporations. To use a clichéd phrase, they are using its magic against you and your unconscious mind, tapping into and exploiting what 20th century psychologist Carl Jung called the “collective unconscious”:

“My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”

—Wikipedia

The pentagram appeals to our “collective unconscious” because our ancestors, since ancient times all the way down through and into the 21st century, have all had experiences with this symbol. A deep and ancient part of your mind or brain knows this symbol, because your forefathers knew it, even though you personally have not had a personal experience with it.

There is much more about the pentagram that we simply don’t have enough time to discuss and delve into here. As mentioned earlier, there is an endless amount of magic and ritual that goes along with the pentagram. Also sacred geometry:

Pentagons and Pentagrams exhibit self-symmetry and infinite fractal expansion. Fractal geometry is evident whenever a part of something resembles the whole. (ie. twigs look like branches, which look like trees, which look like large twigs, which look like branches etc….). Fractal geometry is found throughout plant life and minerals. A seed of a plant contains enough data to construct an entirely new plant. And, in fact, a single strand of an animal’s DNA contains enough data to construct the entire animal (this is why cloning is possible). The fractal symmetry of the pentagon and pentagram is illustrated below

I would like to leave you with one final thought.

If you look again at the handout, you’ll see one example of how operative Freemasons sometimes built pentagrams into the rose windows of Gothic cathedrals.

Pentagram in the center of the rose window on the western facade of Exeter Cathedral in England (c. 1400).

The exclusively Masonic art of reading churches and cathedrals for meaning has been lost in modern times; the rose window and pentagram, is a complex symbol that denotes our soul and the power behind it, a blazing star flowing from the spiritual world into physical existence.

The Freemasons encoded this tremendous secret here into the architecture. They did it to preserve for posterity the true meaning of the pentagram. They did it to uplift man. Their motives were clearly the direct opposite of the motives of today’s big corporations.

Many of these operative Freemasons were our ancestors. They cared and tried to get it right for us, which they seem to have done. Funny how, in today’s world, the youth believe the Freemasons are bad and the big companies like Macy’s are good.

The operative Masons, then, were indeed “good”. They decorated their Gothic cathedrals with rose windows and pentagrams for a reason, a message to both current viewers and later generations that spoke to the Masonic doctrine of the soul and self: a message that the body may die, but the soul will shine on.

Thus, in closing, I would like to leave you with this. When you see the number five or a pentagram, please say to yourself: “Hey, that’s man, body and soul…that’s me, body and soul!”

I AM MAN, I AM THE PENTAGRAM.

Beneath my body, I have a soul, I am a star, an eternal star that shines. I have lived, but I will die. I will sleep, but I will awake, I will die, but I will live.

Thank you all for listening and goodnight.

The Triptych three-in-one design, visible on the Tomb’s façade, is actually an ancient “code” that symbolizes an ancient religion once practiced worldwide in Antiquity.

Above: Different views of Chartres Cathedral.

Chartres Cathedral, built in the 12th century, is both one of the greatest and most controversial achievements of Western architecture. Few people understand that Chartres is in many ways just as mysterious and baffling as the Great Pyramid of Giza. Over the centuries, several writers have commented that Chartres is not a Christian monument:

“It feels like heresy to say so, but there is something not quite Christian about Chartres Cathedral. Or perhaps one should say that it is somehow super-Christian, a place that connects the central spiritual tradition of the western world to a more ancient, strange and mysterious narrative.

—Philip Ball – Universe of Stone, A Biography of Chartres Cathedral

Much has been written about the supposed “magical” and “alchemical” power of Chartres cathedral to bless, purify, and transform its visitors; it almost seems as if the monument contains some sort of strange, powerful energy:

“Chartres seems to pose as many riddles as the Sphinx.”

—John James

The magic starts upon your first approach to Chartres; the first thing you see is its overpowering size and girth, in comparison to the surrounding wheat fields. The impact is indescribable.

“From a distance it [Chartres] seems to hover in mid-air above waving fields of wheat, and it is only when the visitor draws closer that the city comes into view, clustering around the hill on which the cathedral stands.”

—Wikipedia

As you come closer, you start to see the massive building stones Chartres was built with:

“The enormous size of the blocks of stone will strike the attention of the most casual visitor, but others will note the union of massive simplicity with perfect grace…the finest work of the kind in France.”

—J. L. J. Masse

The lack of steel tools and modern engineering would seem to make raising enormous stone blocks difficult if not impossible. However, it’s not only the size of the stones but also their complex shapes and the way in which they fit together perfectly with little or no mortar that defies explanation:

“The stonecutters, masons and sculptors of the Gothic age redefined what could be done with stone. Some of the blocks at Chartres are on such an awesome scale that it makes your legs tremble just to look at them… the blocks comprising the great arches of the vaulting often have highly complex shapes that have been made with stunning precision….”

—Philip Ball,  Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral

It’s typical to see phrases like “awesome scale” and “stunning precision” when reading about the pyramids of Egypt. But a (comparatively) modern building like Chartres?

History informs us that the builders of Chartres had suddenly and mysteriously made rapid and unprecedented breakthroughs in technology, allowing them to reach heights then unheard of in Europe. These technologies include:

• POINTED ARCH (1st great innovation)
• FLYING BUTTRESS (2nd great innovation)
• RIBBED VAULT (3rd great innovation)

What’s going on here?

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Taller Than Liberty

Upon approaching the Western facade, the first aspect of the monument that makes itself known is how tall the twin towers actually are. The right tower is 349 feet tall, and the left is 377, making them taller even than the Statue of Liberty, from the ground to the top of the statue’s torch!

Left: Chartres Cathedral, France. Right: Statue of Liberty, NYC.

Visitors to Chartres often remark that it seems to be communicating some sort of message, a feeling that is not surprising at all: in medieval construction, buildings were very often designed to communicate esoteric wisdom and ideas:

“…the history of architecture is the history of writing. Before the printing press, mankind communicated through architecture. From Stonehenge to the Parthenon…Rows of stones were sentences…while Greek columns were “hieroglyphs” pregnant with meaning.”

—Rob Zaretsky, Victor Hugo and Architecture

If Chartres is indeed a message in stone, then what is it saying?

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Twin Towers “Sun” & “Moon”

Let us begin deciphering the message with the Twin Towers, those mysterious towers that many cathedrals seem to share:

Above: The so-called “Notre Dame cathedrals” were all built
during the same medieval era (c. 1200). All depict the
Twin Towers in the same position.

Both of Chartres towers are capped by iron emblems; the north tower has a sun and the south tower has a moon:

Above: The Twin Towers at Chartres are called the “Sun and Moon towers.”

These symbols are the first sign of the Pagan heresy encoded into Chartres, a direct reference to the ancient Pagan “doctrine of opposites”: an idea that everything in the universe is composed of diametrically opposed twin powers:

“Erected by the masons…the west front of each church had two towers representing the twin columns…the masculine and feminine aspects, the active and passive forces…Called, in Chartres Cathedral, the sun and moon towers…”

—Warren Kenton, Introduction to the Cabala

“These giant towers, indeed, and their aerial pinnacles are not twin sisters, but rather, it might seem, sister and elder brother, with their points of resemblance and their points of difference.”

—Cecil Headlam, The Story of Chatres

These towers in fact parallel a pair of “Twin Pillars” highly revered by the Freemasons, the organization credited with the planning and construction of the Gothic cathedrals.

The Twin Pillars, visible below on the important Masonic document called a “Tracing Board,” are named “Jachin” and “Boaz”—Jachin being the right-hand tower (crowned with the sun) and Boaz being the left-hand tower (crowned with the moon).

Above: The Twin Towers at Chartres, capped by the sun and the moon, match perfectly the Twin Pillars on the Masonic Tracing Board, which are also capped by sun and moon.

Crowned by the Sun and the Moon the Twin Towers on the cathedral, like the Twin Pillars on the Tracing Board, signify the pagan “pairs of opposites” doctrine:

• The SUN means DAY. The MOON means NIGHT.
• In the DAY it’s HOT. In the NIGHT it’s COLD.
• The DAY brings LIGHT. The NIGHT brings DARK.
• The DAY is DRY. The NIGHT is WET.
• And so on, down the line.

These naturally occurring pairs of opposites form the “lost key” to all the Mystery schools in history (Perennial Philosophy, Hermetic Teachings, Philosopher’s Stone, Alchemy, and so on.) The doctrine of opposites teaches us that we live in a world of both light and darkness, right and wrong, good and evil.

Freemason Manly Hall (1901 – 1990) explained:

“Jachin, the white pillar of light…Boaz, the shadowy pillar of darkness…These two pillars respectively connote also the active and the passive…the sun and the moon…good and bad, light and darkness.”

—Manly Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

In the early 20th century, genius architect Claude Bragdon wrote:

“…man, like the sun, is lord of day; he is like fire, a devastating force; woman is subject to the lunar rhythm; like water, she is soft, sinuous, fecund…The Masonic guilds of the Middle Ages were custodians of the esoteric… The north or right-hand tower (“the man’s side”) was called the sacred male pillar, Jachin; and the south, or left-hand tower (“the woman’s side”), the sacred female pillar, Boaz…”

—Claude Bragdon, The Beautiful Necessity

The existence of a male and female pillar on Chartres and the other High Gothic cathedrals reveals that the Freemasons believed in this Pagan doctrine of duality. This duality has since ancient times been symbolized by the number TWO.

Just as man is not apart from the universe, but lives inside it, the human body was also believed by the ancients to be dual, with the right-side half being “solar” and the left-side half being “lunar”:

Above: The ancients believed man’s physical body mimics the duality of the universe in which man lives. Learn more here.

The Kabbalah and Gnosticism teach that by balancing or “reconciling” these opposing forces in our bodies, one can “awaken”; feminine energy can and must be used as the activator of the masculine.  When there is polarity there is tension, and it is said that within this tension a miraculous transformation within ourselves occurs, like the change a caterpillar makes when turning into a butterfly.

“…only in and by the reconciliation of opposing forces is the Pathway made to the true occult knowledge and practical power…”

—Temple of the Golden Dawn Initiation Ceremony

When we balance out the twin opposing forces (male / female, etc.) within our minds and bodies—which “balance” is symbolized by the number THREE—an alchemical reaction activates or awakens a mystical Third Eye latent within us.

“…in every man there is an Eye of the Soul which…is far more precious than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.”

—Plato, The Republic

Once awakened, this Third Eye ventures inward. During this introspection, a powerful transformation takes place. One discovers or “sees,” using this Third Eye, a conscious “deity” held captive within, an eternal deity that is one’s Self. This deity, that we term the “soul,” is in fact a god who has fallen from a higher spiritual realm and now finds himself far from home.

“A man is a god in ruins.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The seeker discovers he is this god, and to his dread learns that, due to his fallen state, this god is now encased in an animal’s body that mimics the duality of the universe. By balancing the opposites, however, he can open his Mind’s Eye; in doing so he learns that he can perceive, and then act from, his true higher Self or soul at the center of his dual physical nature.

“…Join the male and the female and you will find what you are seeking…”

—Aphorisms of Zosimus

“He who aspires to be master of his fate and captain of his soul must walk upon these opposites in the sense of transcending and dominating them, of trampling upon his lower sensual nature and keeping it beneath his feet in subjection and control.

His object is the development of his innate spiritual potencies….”

—W.L. Wilmshurst

The lighting of a bulb by tying a metal rod to both ends of a battery is a wonderful metaphor for the Third Eye; in Hinduism, for example, the concept of the Third Eye is achievable through Kundalini Yoga and meditation on key energy points in the human body. Note the Third Eye “dot” on the forehead:

Left: Great Buddha Kamakura, Japan, with Third Eye “dot” on forehead. Right: Kundalini Yoga, which involves activating the Ida and Pingala Channels, male and female in union, to awaken the Third Eye.

Kundalini is an ancient Sanskrit term denoting “illumination” or “enlightenment” one experiences during the discovery of the soul, and Kundalini Yoga is dedicated to the practice of opening the ajna chakra, or Third Eye.

Although virtually unknown in the West, Kundalini is said to be responsible for man’s spiritual and religious awakenings throughout history and in all parts of the world. In the days of old it constituted part of “the work” of Secret Societies, like Masonry.

“…the All-seeing eye…This is the eye of freemasonry, the third eye. While I am credibly formed that few Masons understand their own symbols, the fact remains that they use them…”

—Dr. George Washington Carey, The Wonders of the Human Body

Above: Masonic Twin Pillars (sun and moon) in balance, causing the awakening of the Third Eye, depicted single and in the center.

The Third Eye, according to this doctrine, is no longer in full working order in daily life. Awakening the Third Eye requires understanding the pairs of opposites and finding one’s center between them. This is heretical in a Western context; it is a “union with God” and was punishable by death for longer than a thousand years in Europe.

Similar ideas of harmonizing, uniting, reconciling and balancing opposites exist in all cultures, and these ideas are always associated with a single Third Eye:

Third Eye drawings throughout history, in different parts of the world. From left to right: Mexico sculpture; Egyptian eye of Ra; 16th century steel helmet with mask from Iran; stone drawing on wall at Teotihuacán, Mexico.

“Unfortunately our Western mind, lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, nor even a name, for the union of opposites through the middle path, that most fundamental item of inward experience…

…It is at once the most individual fact and the most universal, the most legitimate fulfillment of the meaning of the individual’s life.”

—Carl Jung

Masonic apron with emblem depicting Third Eye balancing over opposing sun and moon symbols.

Returning to Chartres, we note that between the male and female pillars we find a magnificent and very meaningful piece of architecture: a giant Rose Window, which we shall see symbolizes none other than a giant Eye.

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Rose Window

All Gothic cathedrals have rose windows, which find their origin in the Roman oculus. Oculus, the Latin word for eye, is still used to refer to other round windows, openings, and skylights in other edifices.

The truly astounding part of this, however, is how similar the Gothic Rose Window is to the single Eyeball. The central pupil, iris, the rings, etc. and so forth are strikingly parallel: the rose window is in and of itself a symbol for the eye.

“It is when the sun, already sinking in the west, looks the cathedral almost full in the face. Its rays, becoming more and more horizontal…while the great central rose window glares like the eye of a Cyclops…”

—Victor Hugo

This rose window sits perfectly in the center between the twin towers, or the pairs of opposites, just as your soul sits perfectly in the center between the twin sides of your dual body (your right or “sun” half and left or “moon” half): this immediately recalls the metaphor of the Third Eye described above, inside the duality of male and female. Prince Charles, speaking of Chartres’ design, describes it thusly:

“The entrance into the building is through the West front, which comprises two soaring towers, one with the symbol of the Moon upon it and one, a significant number of feet taller, bearing the symbol of the Sun… And beneath them sits one of the most spectacular of all rose windows, symbolizing the uniting of the apparent duality represented by the symbols of the Sun and the Moon. This unifying process is even built into the way the pilgrim was expected to journey around the cathedral.”

—Prince Charles, Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World.

The concept of the union of opposites and the number three is also prevalent in small architectural details:

Left: Trefoil in Gothic architecture. Right: Long predating the Gothic cathedrals, an Ancient Priest-king from Mohenjodaro wears trefoil and a circular amulet on his forehead depicting the Third Eye.

In architecture, a trefoil is an ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, used in Gothic architecture to represent the form of a three-lobed leaf.

Returning to the Rose Window, we can see that no matter how simple or flamboyant the window, it is always depicted as circular. The circle is a perfect form, and is thus a symbol of eternity as well as a symbol of the eternal “soul within” or “god within” each of us.

Yet another way to look at the rose window is as a Buddhist symbol, similar to the Eastern “Wheel of Dharma” or “Wheel of Law,” a symbol denoting the Buddhist path to enlightenment.

Associated with this concept is the medieval idea of the Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, which refers to the capricious nature of Fate. The goddess Fortuna spins the wheel at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel; some suffer while others gain, and Fortuna is always a woman, sometimes blindfolded, spinning the wheel.

Fortuna sits at the center of her Wheel, observing the rotation of four figures on its rim: above her, below her, to her left and to her right.

Countless writers have also described the entire Rose Window concept as a sacred mandala, leading one to their very center of all Being, which is their own inner being; the center of their own eternal, Inner Self. The word mandala means “circle.” Following Jung, they affirm the rose window represents the “expression of human aspiration towards wholeness and coherence.” Mandalas have existed in Eastern religion and philosophy for centuries:

Left: Tibetan Buddhist thangka painting, a mandala. Right: The Rose Window at Chartres.

In eastern philosophy, there are different paths to reach the divine, represented by gates at the cardinal points of the mandala. The goal, the quest, is to attain the center.

If you let your eyes glide along the tracery of the rose window at Chartres, while you slowly take in the geometric patterns, you can slowly awaken to a very calm or meditative Self. It’s almost like prayer, but to your own center.

It is possible that awareness of this ancient yet highly sophisticated occult wisdom enabled the builders of Chartres to carve and create the cathedral with an almost superhuman skill and ability, the same that raised the pyramids, Baalbek, and Stonehenge; it stands to reason, then, that Chartres itself would be encoded and embedded with this wisdom, an esoteric gift from the Masons to the Western world.

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Magic Labyrinths

Left: Mandala. Middle: Labyrinth at Chartres. Right: Labyrinth at Chartres.

The Rose Window on the outside of Chartres is connected with another mysterious phenomenon inside the cathedral—the labyrinth. Constructed in the second decade of the 13th century, the labyrinth is 12.9 (12.3) meters in diameter and fills the width of the nave.

Much has been written about the purpose of this labyrinth, but little contemporary documentation survives. The labyrinth symbolizes the long tortuous path of life, and the goal to find the spiritual soul or “center” (the Self) within the lower material body (the self); the center is the peace, whereas the outer circle represents the ups and downs of fortune. The labyrinth also depicts the reincarnating soul on the road to nirvana (the center).

Interestingly, the Ra symbol of Egypt and Freemasonry, the circumpunct, can be seen as a labyrinth. It stands for the you, the human; you must reach the center, where the rose is, to find your inner, eternal Self. The center is the dot in the center of the circle, the real higher Self inside the false, material body or lower self. The outer circle represents that body, enclosing the divine soul and separating it from the outside.

Above: Egypt’s aten hieroglyph as compared to the Labyrinth at Chartres. The labyrinth can be looked upon as the “key” or guide that teaches us how to read the “Ra” hieroglyph. Follow the path to find your Rose at your center, and live from that source.

Of course, the Aten of Ra and the Eye of Ra were interchangeable in Egypt; the Eye of Ra was the Third Eye and Aten of Ra was the Inner Soul. The same is true of the rose window at Chartres. It stands not only for the single Third Eye between opposites, but also the soul within the body that one sees when one awakens one’s Third Eye:

Above Left: Eye of Ra. Above Right: Aten of Ra. Egyptologists are of the mistaken opinion that these represent the sun in the sky. In fact, the Eye of Ra is your Third Eye, and the Aten of Ra is your soul within” which your Third Eye “sees” when activated.

In all labyrinths, the entrance and the exit are one. This of course brings us back to the unity of opposites; the entrance and exit are where the lower and higher selves meet.

The clergy destroyed these fascinating and sacred labyrinths because they were fearful of this ancient Pagan wisdom. As self-empowering wisdom, it was a threat to their hegemony; they reveal paths to power that any human being can follow without the aid of a priest. Fearing this loss of control, the Church began a systematic destruction of the labyrinths and all of these pagan symbols.

Take a closer look in the center of the labyrinth at Chartres. There sits a rose with six petals. What’s more, this rose seems to be at the center of the circle, where the horizontal and vertical axes formed by the labyrinth meet. Interestingly, the Rosicrucians, a Secret Society like the Freemasons who built Chartres, had as their central symbol a rose at the center of the Cross, just like this one:

Left: Labyrinth at Chartres. Notice the “rose” in the center of the cross, an elaborate pattern built with geometric precision by master architects.

Now notice how the Rose at the center of the labyrinth at Chartres forms a Hexagram (a right-side-up triangle combined with an upside-down triangle) a symbol for the balance of opposites.

It is thus easy to see how affixing a rose upon the crossing can come to mean a resolution of conflict, a union of opposites. This is the secret formula of THREE which leads to an awakening of the Third Eye. With time, the rose in the center, or “us”, grows more beautiful; it becomes wiser and stronger. This is the significance of the rose cross of the Rosicrucians, and both the Confraternity of the Rose Cross and the Order of the Milita Crucifera Evangelic (CR+C and OMCE, respectively).

Interestingly, the Chartres labyrinth is situated at the Western end of the nave and has the same dimensions as the rose window, which is the same height on the facade as the labyrinth is away from the West wall. If you folded the cathedral onto itself spatially, the rose window depicting Our Lady would line up and cover the maze. They both have the same purpose: to call us to the center of our own being. Watch the following brief video where the brilliant professor Keith Critchlow, co-founder of the Temenos Society, explains more:

This is quite eye-opening: it explains that the rose window and the labyrinth actually stand for the same thing. They stand for a Mandala, the sign of Ra, and symbolized a message to find the inner, eternal Self within.

From Left to Right: Mandala, Circumpunct, Labyrinth, Labyrinth, Rose Window. Walking among the turnings, one loses track of direction and of the outside world, and thus quiets the mind.

Each of the images is an image of the human; the Circle is the wheel of fortune, sometimes up and sometimes down, but the center is the real and eternal You; the higher Self. Attaining the center is the goal of the Mandala, and aten, and circumpunct: the goal of the labyrinth, the key that solves the riddle of the Eye of Ra. It is a symbolic pilgrimage; people walk the path ascending toward salvation or enlightenment. The labyrinth at Chartres is not a maze. Mazes are places where one gets lost; labyrinths are places where people are found.

Labyrinths and Mazes are of pagan origin. Labyrinths and Mazes have a history that can be traced back over 4000 years. The earliest examples, found carved on rocks, all have the same design—the classical labyrinth symbol:

Prehistoric labyrinth petroglyph, Pansaimol, Goa, India

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In Conclusion

This evidence, then, points strongly to Chartres cathedral being much more than a regular Catholic edifice. It is instead an exceptional marvel of high initiation, encoded with symbols that teach knowing candidates with the play of natural forces; it is a building that has embedded within it an ancient wisdom that predates Christianity, and endures as a crucible for the spiritual transformation of those who choose to look.

Countless mysteries still abound. Among the most pressing, perhaps, is why don’t modern scholars of the West acknowledge the role of the operative Freemasons here? Indeed this subject seems completely glossed over. Buildings of such complexity and elegance are rare even in modern times, and we would be hard pressed even now to find architects with the architectural skill and craftsmanship to create such amazing, detailed monuments.

Yet it seems clear that the Freemasons fit the bill as creators of the Gothic cathedrals. Look at the photo below. On the left, a group of magical builders. On the right, a group of magical buildings:

SUPERHUMAN MONUMENTS, CREATED BY SUPERHUMAN BEINGS
On the left, a group of magical builders. On the right, a group of magical buildings.

The designers and builders of Chartres did not design it with a wholly Christian idea in mind: instead they built Chartres to be a sacred shrine to their Masonic wisdom, imbuing it with the secret symbols and messages necessary to push visitors up onto heightened states of consciousness and awareness. Chartres is a sanctuary of alchemical transformation, an initiation machine fueled by a Pagan wisdom and guided by revolutionary engineering; the builders of Chartres forever changed how the world looks at art, but also may have changed how it looks at itself as well.

What seems apparent here as well is that the Masonic builders were experiencing a near-superhuman breakthrough of some kind, an achievement of wisdom and knowledge that enabled them to build a cathedral previously unknown to the world. They found their heaven inside themselves, their inner Self, and they used this knowledge to express what they discovered in the very stones of Chartres.

The breakthroughs they had made, spiritually, reflected in their architecture, their design, the breakthroughs, masonry, sculpture, and overall craftsmanship. They were extra-ordinary humans who, in turn, created extraordinary monuments; their spiritual breakthroughs and triumphs are directly reflected by their architectural breakthroughs and triumphs.

What you have read here is merely the tip of the iceberg. In Written In Stone, you can find more evidence that the great Gothic Cathedrals were Hermetic libraries in stone which encoded the Alchemical doctrine of the soul into the fabric of the monument, written into the art and architecture for all to read.

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“…patterns in architecture don’t prove a single thing. You are trying to tie religion and aesthetics together and it doesn’t work. The three arches don’t symbolize anything, they are there for structural integrity and aesthetic appeal.”

My response is the following: In Victor Hugo’s novel Notre Dame de Paris, the antagonist Frollo, compares an ordinary book upon his table with the grat Notre Dame cathedral, saying “This will kill that”.

“That” is the cathedral, “this” is the book and the machine that produced the book on his desk: the printing press. “Small things overcome great ones,” Frollo laments, “the book will kill the building.”

For Frollo — or, rather, Hugo — the history of architecture is the history of writing. Before the printing press, mankind communicated through architecture. From Stonehenge to the Parthenon, alphabets were inscribed in “books of stone.”  Rows of stones were sentences, Hugo insists, while Greek columns were “hieroglyphs” pregnant with meaning.

The language of architecture climaxes in the Gothic cathedral, of which many have Triptych entrances, symbolizing the balance of opposites to find the Middle Way.

It is this same balance of opposites that was commemorated in the Triptychs of all ancient cultures. I’ll leave you with the following collage of ancient photos I designed called “Seven Mayan Triptychs,” all of them saying the same thing, long before the Gothic cathedrals were built…balance between opposites, symmetry of twin antipodes, equilibrium and centering between contraries, as I describe and show in vivid depth and detail in my upcoming book Written In Stone:

Left: The magnificent ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, one of the most magical and spiritual places on earth, are filled with pine cone symbolism. Right: Antithetical animals flank an enlightened bodhisattva at Angkor Wat.

The majestic stone ruins of Angkor Wat are a marvelous sight to behold. Immense towers shaped like pine cones silhouetted against the sky rise out of the lush green jungle in a way that defies the imagination. The pine cone shaped towers are often cited by scholars:

“The individual spires at Angkor have a…pine-cone profile…”

—Benjamin Rowland, The Art and Architecture of India

The question, however, is the significance of the pine cones: it seems unlikely such a distinctive feature would appear with no rhyme or reason. What is the significance of these pine cones to Angkor’s ancient buildings?

Also never explained is another Angkor Wat phenomenon called “antithetic animals.”  In the example shown in the image above we see a pair of twin, symmetrical elephants facing each other, an image that is often glossed over or unexplained.

Interestingly, similar antithetical animal art appears on other famous ancient archaeological “pine cone” relics. For example, at the ancient Roman pigna (Italian for pine cone) sculpture shown below, a massive bronze pine cone is flanked by twin antithetical peacocks.

Above: Built by the Romans, this 1st century Roman bronze sculpture, called the “Pigna” (“pine cone”), was once an ancient fountain.

The Pigna sculpture sits in a Vatican courtyard called the Court of the Pine Cone, and is today considered the largest pine cone statue in the world.

The parallels do not end there, however: the Egyptian staff of Osiris (c. 1224 BC) not only depicts antithetical cobras but has them rising up to meet at a pinecone:

Above: The pine cone staff of Osiris. Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy, 1224 BC.

What is the symbolic meaning of these pine cones, and how do the antithetical animals factor into their overall meaning? What is the deeper secret these apparently inscrutable images hide?

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Third Eye / Pineal Gland

The answer to this is that pine cones, throughout history, have symbolized the “pineal gland”, or “Third Eye”, and by association the esoteric act of awakening it. This gland is said to lie at the geometric center of the brain, and considered by some as the biological Third Eye; the French philosopher Descartes famously referred to the pineal gland as the Seat of the Soul.

The pineal gland is given the following definition in Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary:

“A small usu. conical appendage of the brain of all craniate vertebrates that in a few reptiles has the essential structure of an eye, that functions in some birds as part of a time-measuring system, and that is variously postulated to be a vestigial third eye, an endocrine organ, or the seat of the soul…”

Above: The pineal gland is shaped like a tiny pine cone, hence its name.

The pine cone symbolism is not lost on ancient cultures; in India, Hindu tradition teaches followers to awaken the Third Eye by activating their “seven chakras”. It is an ancient exercise, still practiced today, called Kundalini Yoga; it is claimed to directly affect human consciousness, develop intuition, increase self-knowledge, and unleash one’s creative potential. Interestingly, the esoteric symbol of kundalini yoga is the caduceus- a symbol that features two antithetical serpents.

Left: The caduceus staff, carried by Hermes in Greek mythology. In ancient Rome it was depicted in the left hand of Mercury. Right: A visual representation of the practice of Kundalini yoga, the ultimate goal of which is to awaken the Third Eye hidden in the human forehead.

Kundalini is the spiritual energy or life force present in every human being, located at the base of the spine. To awaken the Third Eye, the kundalini energy must be summoned to the forehead, where it expands and thus awakens the Third Eye. The energy is said to travel along the ida (left) and pingala (right), up the central pole or sushumna. This is the process esoterically depicted by the caduceus symbol of two antithetical snakes spiraling up a central staff.

“…the caduceus, the rod of power…In India it is a stick of bamboo with seven knots…which represents the spinal column with its seven centers or chakras…It also indicated the spinal cord…while the serpents were symbolical of the two channels called in Eastern terminology Ida and Pinagala; and the fire enclosed within it was the serpent-fire which in Sanskrit is called kundalini.”

—C.W. Leadbeater, Freemasonry and its Ancient Mystic Rites

Thus, antithetical animal art associated with the pine cone—twin elephants in Indonesia, twin peacocks in Rome, twin serpents in Egypt—is really an allusion to the ida and pingala channels (the antithetical twin serpents on the caduceus). The central sushumna is, in turn, symbolized by the third, centered drawing (often a pine cone) which on the caduceus is the main rod running north south.

Many ancient cultures incorporated images of the pine cone into their spiritual art and architecture, and they all also created antithetical animal art. Pagan gods of Babylon, Egypt, Mexico and Greece were associated with the pine cone, and the staffs of these gods were often adorned with the pine cone.

Left: Sumerian God Marduk with pine cone in hand. Right: Dionysus, the Romans Bacchus, carried a “Thyrsus” topped with a pine cone.

Even the natural behaviors of the pine cone have an esoteric meaning: as it ripens, the pine cone slowly opens to release its mature seeds. This process is symbolic of the expansion of consciousness that accompanies the opening of the pineal gland and the awakening of the Third Eye. The metaphor is a valuable and stimulating mental lesson of an esoteric phenomenon that cannot otherwise be seen or explained since it occurs inside the brain:

Left: Bronze pine cone symbol in Aachen cathedral in Aachen, Germany. Middle: Roman pine cone statue in the Piazza Venezia, Italy. Right: Ripening pine cones.

Readers familiar with Eastern religions will recall the Third Eye as having a long history in India, China, and Southeast Asia, where the religious traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism hold sway. More than a “religious” idea, the Third Eye is an archaic “spiritual” custom that transcends religions.  It is known variously as “urna” and “trinetra,” and often marked by a dot in the middle of the forehead between the two eyes.

Above: The Third Eye between the eyebrows of the Buddha. Awakening his Third Eye permitted the Buddha to understand the forces of existence and their manifestation in the chain of causality.

The Third Eye has been called by various names throughout history, including the “inner eye,” “mind’s eye,” “eye of the soul,” and “eye of reason.” The portrait of a single “Eye” is, in fact, an archetypal image that stretches back many thousands of years in human history. It appears again and again in myths, sculptures, engravings, and paintings in ancient cultures across the world. It was often depicted throughout ancient Egypt as a single disembodied Eye, the Eye of Ra:

The Eye of Ra, a disembodied Eye signifying the Third Eye of illumination.

The Third Eye was commonly described by ancient mystics who experienced the divine light.

“.. in every man there is an Eye of the soul which…is far more precious than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen…The Eye of the soul… is alone naturally adapted to be resuscitated and excited by the mathematical disciplines.”

—Plato, Republic

A superficial “tapping” of the Third Eye is not difficult. Close your eyes and, without moving them, “look” at an object you know is close to you. You are seeing with your Third Eye. To elevate spirituality and awaken dormant powers, the Eye must be turned inward. Western occult tradition agrees with ancient Eastern texts affirming that turning the Eye inward endows us with:

·    higher consciousness
·    a deeper understanding of life and death
·    a newfound ability to control the future
·    a sense of peacefulness and bliss
·    extrasensory, clairvoyant, intuitive and psychic abilities
·    expanded perception
·    enhanced capacity for self-healing
·    stress reduction
·    calmness and clarity
·    newfound sensitivity

Mystery writer Stephen King’s The Shining touched on this concept. In King’s novel, “shining” meant tapping one’s higher psychic powers. Unfortunately, today ideas like the Third Eye and related mystical and/or esoteric concepts are frowned upon, pejoratively labeled “the occult.”

The question, however, is why the West has been so ill-informed of this Third Eye and its unlocking even as the Eastern traditions have incorporated them into their practices. The answer to that is the rise of Christianity in the west; the practice and idea of an “inner god” or “Third Eye” to awaken runs afoul of traditional Christian teachings. These wisdoms, forced underground, became the origins for secret societies that passed on these esoteric wisdom; one of these societies was the Freemasons.

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Third Eye In The Masonic Triangle

In modern times, famous authors, painters and poets have described the Third Eye and pineal gland as being nothing less than the “lost secret” of Freemasonry. In his 1918 book, The Wonders of the Human Body, Dr. George Washington Carey tells us:

“…the All-seeing eye…This is the eye of freemasonry, the third eye. While I am credibly formed that few Masons understand their own symbols, the fact remains that they use them…”

—Dr. George Washington Carey, The Wonders of the Human Body

In her fascinating 1924 book, Mystic Americanism, the obscure American author Grace Morey explained:

“The All-Seeing Eye…also emblematic of the pineal gland or third eye of the human being…has been found amid the ruins of every civilization upon the globe, thereby attesting the fact of a universal religion over all the earth at some remote period. As we now restore this universal religion, we set the All-Seeing eye upon the pyramid.”

— Grace Morey, Mystic Americanism

It comes as no surprise, then, that pine cones appear regularly throughout Masonic decoration. They are depicted in Masonic art, they hang from the ceilings of Masonic Lodges, and they are etched in stone on Masonic-constructed buildings throughout the world. A large Masonic design on the side of the Whitehall Building in the New York Financial District depicts two enormous intertwining snakes spiraling up to a pinecone (which is striking similar to the Staff of Osiris).

Above: A caduceus depicting a pine cone appears on the Whitehall Building in New York City.

Pine cones also adorn ritual instruments used by Freemasons inside Masonic lodges:

“The tops or points of the [Masonic] rods of deacons are often surmounted by a pine-cone or pineapple.”

—Albert Mackey

” Operative Masonry, in the fullest meaning of that term, signifies the process by which the Eye…is opened. E. A. Wallis Budge has noted that in some of the papyri illustrating the entrance of the souls of the dead into the judgment hall of Osiris the deceased person has a pine cone attached to the crown of his head. The Greek mystics also carried a symbolic staff, the upper end being in the form of a pine cone, which was called the thyrsus of Bacchus. In the human brain there is a tiny gland called the pineal body, which is the sacred eye of the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops. Little is known concerning the function of the pineal body, which Descartes suggested (more wisely than he knew) might be the abode of the spirit of man. As its name signifies, the pineal gland is the sacred pine cone in man – the eye single…”

—Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages

The Third Eye has been hidden in plain sight in the West, masked as the term “all seeing eye” and superficially said to be the eye of the Jewish deity. For this reason, Masons refer to it as the “all-seeing eye of God”, when in reality it’s the awakened Third Eye.

Masonic Lodge, Prague 18th Century, depicting a Third Eye inside a luminous triangle.

The term “all-seeing eye” in and of itself is indeed correct; but it’s not the all-seeing-eye of the Hebrew God; it is the all-seeing eye of you, the pineal gland that we all have.

Many highly trained and educated Masons who lived during the 20th century, including several noted authors and scholars, were convinced that the all-seeing Eye was not the Eye of the Bible’s God, and that the modern system of Freemasonry we’ve inherited, based on the Hebrew Bible, is in fact corrupted.

It is interesting to note that the famous American Author and Freemason Mark Twain, writing in 1899, referred to the All Seeing Eye not as the Eye of some distant heavenly deity or “old man upstairs,” but as a tangible gift that any person can use:

“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the ‘all seeing eye’ pierces through, and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn’t indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn’t detect.”

Interestingly, there is evidence that Hitler was aware of and understoo pine cone symbolism. One of the front panels on his desk displays clear pine cone symbolism:

Picture of Hitler’s desk. See the Left panel. A deity is flanked by staffs at the end of which are a pine cone.

Adolf Hitler believed in the Third Eye. This fact is affirmed by Hermann Rauschning, the former National Socialist Senate President of Danzig. In Hitler Speaks (London, 1939), Rauschning wrote:

“To have “magic insight” was apparently Hitler’s idea of the goal of human progress…There was the eye of the Cyclops, or median eye, the organ of magic perception of the Infinite, now reduced to a rudimentary pineal gland. Speculations of this sort fascinated Hitler, and he would sometimes be entirely wrapped up in them.”

—Hermann Rauschning

It seems that, almost 100 years ago, Hitler knew things about the Third Eye that most Americans are only now starting to rediscover.

The Third Eye can be seen above the French Declaration of Human Rights in a 1789 painting, and is on the back of the one dollar bill; it floats above an Egyptian pyramid, itself a clear and obvious Masonic image:

Left: The Third Eye in the triangle is visible above the French Declaration of Human Rights. The Third Eye in the triangle above a truncated pyramid on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States.

Is it possible, then, that the pineal gland has been overlooked in Western society intentionally, so as to rob the masses of its power? Is it possible that the Third Eye is the lost secret of authentic Freemasonry, lost at some point in the mid 1800s?

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To Conclude

The pine cone symbol, then, alludes to the Third Eye: it abounds in ancient art and architecture, a symbolic representation of our now-dormant window to the world.

While knowledge of the Third Eye and the practice of awakening the Third Eye continued strong in the East, it began to die in the West at the start of Christianity. Consequently, Secret Societies like the Freemasons were established to protect Third Eye knowledge, initiate new members into its wisdom, and keep the practice alive. This explains why the image of a single Eye is common to Western Secret Societies, whose constituents possessed exceptionally philosophical, active, creative, and spiritual minds. A single Eye is one of the supreme and sacred emblems in Freemasonry.

The Third Eye seems strange, even downright alien to us in the West, even today, despite our living in the “information age” of globalization. The fact that the Third Eye is so unknown, so strange and so alien to our way of thinking is something of an enigma. The reason is because there seems to have always been, and there continues to be, a conscious effort to conceal it by a powerful elite who don’t want the masses to discover its secrets.

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#1 – The ancient pyramid cultures all built temples with “Triptych” facades. Evidence exists that can show how these temples all symbolized the pinnacle of all their ancient religions, a mysterious Sacred Science of the Soul.

#2 – The Triptych and the Sacred Science it symbolizes form the great secret of modern Secret Societies, like the Freemasons (true Freemasons). Medieval Freemasons encoded the Triptych into the architecture of Europe’s high Gothic cathedrals.

#3- The Triptych is the Great Secret of all the esoteric Secret Societies, not just the Freemasons. The Skull & Bones and the Shriners exhibit Triptych symbols clearly encoded in the facades of their headquarters / temples. All knew the Sacred Science:

Above: A massive gift-bag marked “the world’s largest store” emblazoned with Macy’s ancient Pentagram logo. Macy’s is the crown jewel of Federated Department Stores, a group of the nation’s most profitable stores.

The Macy’s story is usually painted in the corporate media as a storybook American business dream come true. But the truth is far different, far more sinister.

Macy’s is hypnotizing the masses and distorting America’s culture—and yet its atrocities go unnoticed, unseen. Few understand the deep damage it has done, and continues to do.

This “mind control” of the masses can be seen in 7 main ways:

#1 – Pentagram Logo - Macy’s has adopted the ancient Pentagram for its logo. The symbol is powerful beyond comprehension. Instead of using it to teach spiritual principles, the company is using it to control the minds of the masses.

#2 – Magic Colors - Macy’s uses red and white in most of its advertising, promotions, coupons, television commercials and more. These are the same colors the Nazis used. Why? Because both Macy’s and the Nazis knew that red and white are two colors that naturally attract the masses.

#3 – Magic “Believe” Slogan – Macy’s has coupled their Pentagram logo with a powerful “Believe” slogan. The two go side-by-side in ancient systems of magic (as we shall see).

#4 - Macy’s High Holy Days - Macy’s has hijacked and co-opted Thanksgiving and Christmas, and is now attempting to do the same with the 4th of July, changing the inherent meaning of these holidays and transforming them into “days of shopping.”

#5 – Movies That Shape American Culture – Macy’s is using movies and films to plant the seeds of consumerism on the unsuspecting American mind.

#6 - Archetypical Images – Macy’s has somehow come to possess ancient knowledge regarding archetypical images that attract the unconscious mind and they have “installed” those images throughout its stores.

#7 – Occult Symbols Encoded In Architecture – Macy’s uses ancient occult symbols throughout the architecture of its stores to attract the masses who are unconsciously drawn to these symbols.

Any credible sociologist would agree that Macy’s Department Store played a significant historical role in transforming Christmas into a grossly commercial enterprise. That same sociologist might say things started spiraling downward from there.

The “focal point” was the first Thanksgiving Day parade  in 1924.  The parade started in Harlem in upper Manhattan and went all the way down to Macy’s midtown store on Herald Square. At the end of it was Santa Claus, who held court at Macy’s 34th Street store up until Christmas Day, happy to listen to children of all ages requesting toys of all kinds.

Above: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924 shows a float with Santa bearing the Macy’s pentagram logo.

What this did was it associated Christmas with gift-buying. This was something new in the American experience. This association of Christmas with gift-buying peaked at the end of World War II, when the masses began celebrating the post-war peace by gift-buying like never before.

Shortly after, in 1947, the movie Miracle on 34th Street told the tale of a kind old man hired to be the store Santa Claus at Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square. He believed he was Santa and the movie convinces you so, as he works miracles on-screen, including having R.H. Macy shake hands with his arch-enemy Gimbel.

The biggest miracle of all is how suddenly the holiday became associated not with any spiritual introspection, as it has been previous, but with gift-buying. This is partly how “We The People” have become unwitting servants to an empire beyond comprehension.

But how can this be? Macy’s is “America’s store.” Macy’s gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside.

The reason is because Macy’s has successfully indoctrinated us to think this. They are using advanced marketing and advertising techniques.  Most people have no idea how to defend against this. So they believe what Macy’s wants them to believe. Macy’s only cares about its bottom line; this in and of itself isn’t intrinsically evil. The bad part is that Macy’s is using powerful spiritual tools to turn you into a fear-driven consumption junkie, rather than revealing to you the true spiritual meaning of these tools and how they can help you evolve and grow.

So, why is this evil? It’s a dog eat dog world out there, no? Isn’t America all about capitalism and consumption?

America’s founders didn’t think so, and there is a distinct practical difference between “marketing” and “mind control”; Macy’s is now able to control consumers actions at will. That’s not really nice, is it?

And Macy’s is performing admirably in this regard. A recent (2011) headline described Macy’s latest earnings: “Macy’s profits jump 50 percent in fourth quarter, more than double for full year“. Not too shabby. A strange profit report, especially considering the current recession. The article explained: “Department store chain Macy’s Inc. reported that its fourth-quarter profits jumped 50 percent to $667 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011, up from last year’s $445 million.” The truth is, a bad economy means little to America’s mind-controlled populace; a populace with little understanding of their inner powers but too much understanding of superficial matters.

So how exactly is Macy’s controlling the minds of the masses?

The answer is, Macy’s understands the cornerstone of all marketing—that “perception is reality”; how a product is “perceived” counts more than how “useful” or “functional” it is.

To see this, let’s first look at two different big corporations for a moment, Disney and Mercedes. Strictly speaking, one is an amusement park and the other sells cars. Their advertising, however, sells something else: Disney sells dreams of enchantment and childhood fantasies come true. Mercedes sells the idea of luxury, higher class, wealth, taste and status.

Above: Does Mercedes just sell cars? Does Disney just sell rides?

Consumers have dreams, but it’s the big corporations who plant the seeds of those dreams and then sell that dream to the consumer via marketing and advertising.

When people think of Volvo, they think “safety”; this is no accident.  In 1927 the company’s founder committed to this idea, and today Volvo owns the concept of “automotive safety” in popular cultural consciousness, even though some other cars have scored higher in automotive safety tests. Volvo has even evolved the “safety” idea by instituting and describing in their marketing their quest for “preventative” safety, like testing airbags, model designs, crumple zones, and so on; a quintessential example of planting the dream seed and then delivering it.

These examples, then, form the base of our inquiry into Macy’s particular brand of mind-control. We have been talking of dreams; what dream comes to mind when we think of Macy’s?

The answer is, quite simply— magic. Macy’s magic will make our lives better, more interesting, more vivacious; it will make our pain go away. We can even see this in the company’s logo, the pentagram star, which is a powerful, ancient magical emblem. Macy’s wants us to believe in its magic, which magic the company uses to empower us to feel like each and every one of us is a glowing “star”—when we shop at Macy’s.

Here are seven subtle ways Macy’s makes us believe in this dream—a dream that lives and moves and has its being completely in our minds:

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#1 – MAGIC PENTAGRAM

To see how Macy’s seeks to associate itself with “magic” in our minds, we need look no further than the company’s pentagram logo, which is often coupled with a slogan that reads “the Magic of Macy’s”:

Above: Macy’s magic pentagram, along with its magic slogan.

This slogan has been in use for quite some time. Most people don’t realize it, but the word “magic” is related to Macy’s “star” logo, a symbol with a long history of “magic,” going back to ancient times:

“Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient Greece and Babylonia, and are used today as a symbol of faith by many Wiccans, akin to the use of the cross by Christians… The pentagram has magical associations, and many people who practice Neopagan faiths wear jewelry incorporating the symbol…The pentagram has associations with Freemasonry…”

— Wikipedia

The pentagram has long been associated with mystery and mysticism. In the ancient tradition of magic, the pentagram is used to channel good energy, banish bad energy, offer protection, and bring desired outcomes depending how and where it is used. It is the simplest form of star shape that can be drawn unicursally—with a single line—hence it is sometimes called the Endless Knot. Other names are the Goblin’s Cross, the Pentalpha, the Witch’s Foot, and the Devil’s Star.

Used throughout history, the pentagram has many “magical” meanings and associated contexts:

• The pentagram dates back to c. 3500BC at Ur of the Chaldees in Ancient Mesopotamia where it was symbolic of imperial power
• Amongst the Hebrews, the symbol was ascribed to Truth and to the five books of the Pentateuch
• In Ancient Greece, it was called the Pentalpha, being geometrically composed of five A’s
• To the Gnostics, the pentagram was the ‘Blazing Star’
• For the Druids, it was a symbol of the divine
• In Egypt, it was used to symbolize the higher spiritual plane
• The Pagan Celts ascribed the pentagram to the underground
• Medieval Christians attributed the pentagram to the Five Wounds of Christ
• The Christian Emperor Constantine I used the pentagram, together with the chi-rho symbol in his seal and amulet.
• In the legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the pentagram was Sir Gawain’s glyph, inscribed in gold on his shield, symbolizing the five knightly virtues

In Hermeticism the upright pentagram is drawn as though in complete resemblance to the shape of man, with his legs and arms outstretched; indeed an illustration attributed to Agrippa or to Tycho Brae (1582) depicts the similarity of proportion in this image. Later, the pentagram came to be symbolic of the relationship of the head to the four limbs and hence of the pure concentrated essence of anything (or the spirit) to the four traditional elements of matter (quintessence).

Above:    Expressing the saying “Every man and every woman is a star,” we can juxtapose Man on a pentagram with head and four limbs at the points.

“Every man and every woman is a star.”

—Aleister Crowley

The pentagram was well known throughout history as a spiritual symbol that transcends the logic of the mind and goes directly to the Will. It was used to aid in the development in spirituality. In the great ancient system of Freemasonry, every soul is symbolized by the Blazing Star, which is a pentagram. This is to remind us that beneath our physical flesh each one of us is a star that shines. That is to say, we are more than a physical body we see in the mirror; we are an eternal soul, a divine star underneath it. The women’s branch of Freemasonry uses the five pointed “Easter Star” as its emblem.

Left: The Masonic Blazing Star written in stone above the doorway of a building in France. Right: The Masonic Blazing Star is one of the most important symbols of the Craft.

The number ’5′ in general has always been regarded as mystical and magical, yet essentially human:

• We have five fingers/toes on each limb extremity.
• We commonly note five senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.
• We perceive five stages or initiations in our lives: birth, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood and death.

Now that we have seen the pentagram’s meanings and symbolism as well as its spiritual connection to humanity, we can see why for over 150 years, the pentagram star has been used everywhere in Macy’s marketing. Often it appears by itself filling an entire newspaper ad and even the entire TV screen, especially around the holidays, and the Macy’s marketing department uses this ancient magical emblem to control the thoughts of consumers.

At left, Miss Helen Olstein was in the center of the star in a scene from a 1927 production by Macy’s employees, Red Star Revue. She was queen in the parade in 1926 and 1927.

Rather than enlightening Americans as to the true meaning of the Pentagram (i.e., that it can be used for spiritual introspection and development)  Macy’s uses it for the more nefarious purpose of material gain; notice its use in the Macy’s commercials below:

While not the only big corporation to use the pentagram in advertising, they are one of the oldest and most successful to do so, even going so far as to understand how important the colors of the star are to successfully indoctrinate the people.

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#2 MAGIC COLORS (RED & WHITE)

Why is the pentagram always red or white? Red and white are a powerful combination, potent colors that have a tremendous impact on the human psyche and are thus used by Macy’s marketing:

In Nazi Germany, Hitler made sure that the colors red and white (and black, which is also used by Macy’s) formed the basis of the country’s swastika flag:

“In Mein Kampf, Hitler discussed at length his selection of colors for the swastika flag. He decided to use black, white and red because they had “the most brilliant harmony in existence”…Hanfstaengl later tried to get Hitler to change the colors…Hitler informed him that…he had learned…that “there is only one colour with which to attract the masses and that is red.”

—Sherree Owens Zalampas, Adolf Hitler: A Psychological Interpretation Of His Views On Architecture …

It’s worth noting here that Hitler was an accomplished and talented artist, with deep knowledge of colors and their juxtaposition, along with other design elements. It should not be surprising to believe, then, that in fact Hitler knew and understood how these colors affected his citizens on both a conscious and unconscious level. Many cultures see white and red as incredibly profound colors, especially in combination.

Japan is an example. Red and white are the colors of the Japanese flag; the red signifies the sun, the white signifies the spiritual source “from which” and “on which” the sun and all other life manifests:

Above: The Japanese national flag (kokki) has a red circle on a white background.

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#3 – MAGIC “BELIEVE” SLOGAN

Of course, just filling your advertising with colored pentagrams won’t by itself achieve a goal of consumer influence. In keeping with a stated goal of “perception is reality”, you must also entice the viewer to believe in the magic offered by the symbol. Every great scholar of magic, from Crowley to Evola, stresses that magic is useless without belief. As a result, Macy’s advertising machine must instill belief as well.

Toward this end, in much of Macy’s marketing we see the same one-word instruction over and over again, in which Macy’s commands men, women and children to believe:

Macy’s marketing needs you to believe in their magic in order to be successful, and so they run a “Believe” campaign side-by-side with their symbol in order to associate the two in the minds of viewers.

“Believe” draws not only on the brand’s association with the Thanksgiving Parade in New York City and the film Miracle On 34^th Street, but harks back to the 1897 New York Sun editorial, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” Designed to highlight Macy’s special connection to the holiday season, it is rooted in Macy’s brand heritage, whose “DNA is really imbedded in this holiday tradition, particularly with Santa,” according to marketing VP Martine Reardon.

Above: A modern Macy’s ad revisits an 1800s New York Sun editorial.

Besides television and print ads, Macy’s is now using social media to maximize their holiday campaign. The retailer has hosted a “Tell Us Why You Believe” contest, encouraging individuals to “share their thoughts about what they believe in and why they believe” in the form of short essays, photos and videos posted on the Macy’s “believe” website. This sort of content gathering is highly effective on two fronts; not only do they collect vital information for future marketing campaigns, but they know that getting a consumer to articulate why they believe is more effective than telling the consumer to believe. Active indoctrination is more effective than passive, and so social networking is a valuable tool for their marketing department on multiple levels.

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#4 – MAGIC HOLY DAYS (HOLIDAYS)

Not many would argue that Christmas is now a time for shopping and not for spiritual reflection. Beginning as early as October Americans are bombarded with Christmas advertising everywhere. Children and adults alike compile lengthy wish-lists of the latest available products, and adults are faced with the pressure of fulfilling such requests in order to make the holiday special and to keep children believing in Santa.

And all of this comes at a high price, financially and spiritually: Many Americans have come to associate the holiday season with high stress as they scramble amid chaos to shop, buy, wrap, and return. Suicide rates increase and so does depression across all ages and all walks of life. This current-day conception of Christmas is indicative of a significant change in holiday celebrations in the U.S. over time, and could hardly be said to be an improvement from the previous celebrations of Christmas that stressed spirituality and time with loved ones.

Macy’s is, above all, the originator of this commercialized Christmas. By virtue of its timing, the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade claims to celebrate two holidays, Christmas and Thanksgiving. In truth, however, the parade is about advertising: Companies sponsor the parade and as a result are given license to insert their insignia and mascot into the parade. Far from being a cheerful holiday event, this parade is a part of advertising campaigns and designed to generate publicity and profits through spectacle.

The parade also benefits New York City. During this popular weekend, hotels provide a variety of different packages that promote the parade as well as one of the biggest shopping days of the year, the sinister “Black Friday” which comes the day after.

Above: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade began as a marketing ploy and has continued in this vein ever since. Macy’s owns Christmas; and Thanksgiving. When you wake up Thanksgiving morning, what do you see on TV?

Over the course of its long  history, the parade has been recorded on TV, in newspapers, magazines, books, art, and film. These representations have the power to influence people’s perceptions of the parade as well as their perceptions of Macy’s, Thanksgiving and Christmas, pop-culture, history, and the American way of life.

Above: LIFE magazine has released two separate commemorative books on the parade.

The parade is carefully inserted not just into the minds of New York City’s people but Americans everywhere: Every year, before the show, feature stories and timely articles grace the pages of The New York Times and other newspapers and magazines leaking out details about the balloons, floats and even celebrities who will be attending. ads appear within newspapers to remind potential-spectators of the event, offering tips on when to arrive and how to select the best viewing locations. All of this serves to stir excitement and anticipation in parade-goers and the general public.

Even after the parade, Macy’s does not release its hold on viewers: there are TV and print reviews of the parade after the fact, summarizing the event and its highlights.

Above: Besides Thanksgiving, Macy’s is hijacking another important holiday by sponsoring the annual N.Y.C. 4th of July fireworks display. The event is a tradition for many Americans, and is televised each year on NBC, the same network that televises the Thanksgiving Day parade.

Of course, of all the celebrities that take part in the Thanksgiving Day Parade spectacle, we can’t forget Santa Claus, the “king” of the hour. He is a small but important feature of the parade, a culmination of the entire process:

Above: Jolly old Santa Claus, the king of the Thanksgiving Day parade and a poster-child for gift-buying and commercialism.

Santa, though he originated as Saint Nicholas, has since become a decidedly secular figure. More importantly, Santa has come to reign as the archetypal symbol of holiday marketing, as he stands for gift-giving and hence gift-purchasing. His presence is ubiquitous in American holiday ads, and has been for decades.

This sort of image exploitation is common in massive undertakings of public perception; the organization that is doing the exploitation takes a well-known symbol and replaces the semantic identity of the symbol; people recognize the symbol as one to be trusted, and so people more readily accept the changed message because the symbol is one they have been conditioned to trust.

In fact, all of these ideas regarding Santa Claus and the singular role of Macy’s in commercializing not only Christmas but American society in general is starting to be realized and discussed by scholars:

“…Christmas window displays of manufactured goods became a part of the promotion of Christmas buying and gift-giving (Snyder 1985). Numerous other department stores also began to promote Christmas gifts heavily at about this time (Schmidt 1991). Between 1880 and 1920, Waits (1978) found that popular American magazine advertising in November and December began to encourage the purchase of manufactured gifts…Santa Claus featured prominently in these ads… It’s not surprising that Santa became a fixture in department stores, which slowly realized that exploiting the growing Christmas emphasis on children was good business. If Santa is the god of materialism, what better place to enthrone him than in the department store which did so much to foster consumer culture.”

—Daniel Miller, Unwrapping Christmas

Of course, there is one “special” day out of the year that has become synonymous with, and almost as popular as, Christmas. The day is called “Black Friday”, and it is a day of excessive consumption. There are reports of shoppers sleeping in tents outside, rushing and trampling other shoppers in an attempt to get the best deal before it sells out. By Christmas, in fact, Americans spend almost $150 billion, or $500 for each man, woman, and child.

The corporations take it one step further, however, by linking economic prosperity with Christmas: Christmas is portrayed as good or bad depending on the amount Americans spent that year in shopping, or our “economic forecast”. It seems as though American families cannot have an enjoyable Christmas if retail sales are disappointing. In effect, the corporations have succeeded in making their interest your own; your Christmas cannot be good if their Christmas is not profitable.

So we have, then, the process by which Macy’s undermined the holy days to their own benefit; they cleverly co-opted a known symbol, and through a process of semantic shifting used Santa to create a culture of gift-giving that directly links the amount and quality of gifts, and subsequently the profits of these corporations, to a good or bad Christmas for the end consumer.

It may not seem like it, but this corporatization of Christmas—and, in turn, the general commercialization of the entire American society into a nation of consumers—was accelerated by, and is promoted heavily in, the film Miracle on 34th Street.

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#5 – MAGIC “MIRACLE” ON 34TH STREET

How can anyone say anything bad about Miracle on 34th Street? It’s a great movie, with wonderful characters and a deep, touching story. The problem with the movie, however, is it allowed America to turn a spiritual day into a day of mass consumption and materialism, causing America to be less than it once was and far less than what it has the potential to become.

For one thing, the role of Santa Claus in the film helps consecrate (make sacred) Macy’s and facilitate the spirit of spending with little concern for cost.

“Miracle on 34th Street completely disconnects Christmas from its original Christian meanings and significance. From the opening scenes, Christmas is presented as an almost purely commercial spectacle and secular family ritual, driven by individuals’ willingness to share in the fantasy of Christmas giving, Santa Claus, and personal dreams come true. Taking place in New York, the global capital of the emerging post-WWII transitional economy, Christmas and its rituals are designed, staged and managed by corporate capital (Macy’s) and the state (New York City and State) to sustain and/or increase consumer spending. The Thanksgiving Parade is an elaborate consumer spectacle, in part dedicated to commemorate Thanksgiving; but, to a larger degree, it is aimed at launching the Christmas shopping season. Warmed up with images of Santa and his reindeer, big business invokes consumers to spend the next two days after Thanksgiving and few weeks up to Christmas mobbing the department stores in a media-managed frenzy of personal-consumption.

—Diane Christine Raymond, Sexual Politics and Popular Culture

A less immediately-apparent theme in Miracle on 34th Street is the occult doctrine of the reconciliation of opposites, which is the key to occult wisdom:

“…only by the reconciliation of opposing forces is the Pathway made to true occult knowledge and practical power…”

—Israel Regardie, The Eye in the Triangle

“…Join the male and the female and you will find what you are seeking…”

—Aphorisms of Zosimus

The doctrine of the union of opposites is all-pervasive in Miracle on 34th Street from the first scene to the last. There are no less than three “sets” of opposites united in the film:

- The lead man (John Payne as Frederick M. Gailey) and lead woman (Maureen O’Hara as Doris Walker)
- Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle) and the girl (Natalie Wood as Susan)
- Macy’s and Gimbels

We see this “union of opposites” idea personified in the following timeless poster, where “pairs of opposites” are neatly balanced, symmetrically and in proper ratio:

First, we have Doris Walker and Fred Gailey, the strong male and female powers of the film. The movie creates a dichotomy in the characters by giving the leads opposite gender characteristics; Doris Walker is more “masculine”, a strong character who disagrees with Fred Gailey’s “idealistic binge”. Gailey, on the other hand, is more “feminine”: is softer and gentler, a romantic who gives up his stable job to defend Kris Kringle. The two opposites meet and fall in love, otherwise known as reconciling.

Another opposite pairing occurs with Kris Kringle and young Susan. Besides the male / female difference, Santa is old yet young at heart,while the little girl is young but old at heart.He is youthful for his age, she seems far beyond her years. The two reconcile by showing the other person their world, which helps the other in the transformation each one makes in the picture. The two become eternal friends.

Above: This film spawned three remakes (1959, 1973 and 1994) and a Broadway musical.

The third and final set of opposites that are united in the film are not so evident—that of Macy’s and Gimbels. Remember, the heads of these twin opposing forces actually shake hands with Kris Kringle in between them.

Note carefully how these opposites interact- it’s natural, right, and good for the first two pairs to reconcile; the movie lulls the viewer into the “reconciliation is good” phenomenon, and by doing so lead the viewer into believing the “reconciliation” between Macy’s and Gimbel’s is good and just. We love and support Doris and Fred, Kris and Susan- the “union of opposites”, used here to great effect, compels us to love and support Macy’s and Gimbel’s as well.

To believe that all of this has been setup to somehow sway the mind of the American public into feeling empathy and even love for Macy’s Department Store may seem a stretch to normal every day people—but not to those occultists and esoteric minded men and women who understand the power of the “union of opposites” doctrine and see how this doctrine was used in the film to subliminally attract and capture our hearts.

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#6 – MAGIC IMAGERY

All this information may seem daunting; we have so far gone over how Macy’s has co-opted the pentagram and Santa Claus as symbols and, in conjunction with some colors and ideas well-known to occultists, has turned Christmas from a spiritual day into a member-holiday of the “holiday season” in order to increase their profits and maximize revenue. Their marketing techniques do not stop there, however: In addition to the pentagram, Macy’s uses other age-old symbols to help us “believe” and buy into its myth and magic. There are too many Macy’s images to describe and delve into here, but we need one example still to illustrate the point: the famous “Photo With Santa Claus”.

We all remember as children the delight and wonder of getting our picture taken with Santa Claus. Some of us as adults still take part in the tradition. Macy’s knows the power of this memory. What Macy’s has done at its flagship store in NYC is to create a background behind their Santa Claus that mimics an ancient archetypical scene—the Tree of Life.

In the photos below, which were taken at Macy’s, look past Santa and the people and notice the background of the chair they are sitting on. This is no ordinary chair, it’s a magical chair that has special power, as we’re about to learn:

Above: Getting our picture taken with Santa taps into a timeless memory we all remember. Macy’s knows this.

First, look at the Christmas Tree in the middle, directly behind the centered Santa. This is the Tree of Life, an ancient and universal idea in Antiquity eventually adopted by the Hebrews and put in the biblical Book of Genesis.

A potent symbol of rebirth, Christmas Trees are a vestige of the pagan practice during the winter solstice of bringing greenery into the home (evergreen trees, plants, and leaves) to symbolize life in the dead of winter and the arrival of the winter solstice, which occurs in the northern hemisphere between December 21st and 22nd, and which signals the triumphant return of light. This celebration represented the end of the long, dark winter days and the beginning of the return of the light and its promise of spring.

The tree you see behind Santa Clause is the same Tree of Life that comes from ancient cultures. Those two reindeer flanking the Christmas Tree are even evident in ancient artwork. Shown below, we see them as symmetrical animal figures:

Left: Phrygian Terracotta 6-7th. Century BC.  Anatolian Civilization Museum/ Ankara.

The two animals on the side are immediately evocative of the “union of opposites” mentioned above. Two animals on either side of the Tree represent the “pairs of opposites,” while the Tree of Life in the center represents the third power that unites the opposites in eternal and spiritual reconciliation, the same idea represented in the film “Miracle on 34th Street”, further highlighting Macy’s use of esoteric and occult symbols to further their indoctrination.

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#7 – MAGIC FLAGSHIP STORE

Clearly, the indoctrination described has been working: Macy’s has posted record profits, and has accrued enough wealth to own an entire city block in Manhattan, in an area with some of the most expensive real estate in the world!

The R. H. Macy and Company Store is the flagship of Macy’s department stores, located on Herald Square in Manhattan, NYC. The building has been the world’s largest department store since 1924. As of 2011, the store has stood at the site for 110 years.

Every year Macy’s decorates the storefront windows of its flagship store in Manhattan with holiday themes and people come from far and wide to stand on the sidewalk and gaze at the dream-like scenes. Christmas windows have now become a traditional part of New York City during the holidays.

The architecture of the building, however, is as important as its storefront windows, perhaps more so: The architecture is mystifying and subliminally attractive, conveying an unconscious message to all that gaze upon it.

Above: The occult owls, esoteric Triptych windows, pagan caryatids, and the ancient magical pentagram star.

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In Conclusion

Macy’s remains one of the most famous stores in the world, immortalized in people’s unconscious as the “store with a heart,” and synonymous in many minds with quality brands at affordable prices. But if we dig deep we will find that Macy’s is preventing us from finding our true inner Selves.

The human race has been asleep, and has dreamed that property and money are the true wealth of our nation, sacrificing men, women and children to the chimerical idea that danced in visionary splendor throughout their brains. The result of this is to be seen in the uneasiness that prevails everywhere. But humanity is slowly waking up and beginning to realize that it, itself, is the most precious thing on earth.

When we realize that big corporations like Macy’s have been responsible for singing us to sleep, only then will the masses learn and understand the true meaning of Macy’s.

Few Westerners know of its existence, and most governments want to suppress it, because the Sacred Science of Three has the potential to trigger a revolutionary new era of spiritual awakening.

The medieval Freemasons—builders of Europes churches, castles and cathedrals—understood the Sacred Science of Three and encoded it into the buildings they designed and constructed, where it remains hidden in plain view today.

Now, peer behind the veil and discover the real-life Secret of the Freemasons, revealed in stone. See how the Secret is rooted in the religions, traditions, symbolism, iconography and architectural ruins of ancient cultures worldwide.

Top Left: Owl on Merchants Building on Broadway at 4th Street in NYC. Top Right: Detail on the Catford Broadway Theatre, London. Bottom Left: Owl depicted on the façade of the Woolworth Building in Manhattan, NYC. Bottom Right: Owl on a bridge of the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut.

This secret society, using the owl as its trademark, could very well be exerting a hidden yet continuous and measurable influence on world affairs, undetected by scholars, journalists, and historians; its members, possibly those same scholars and journalists, are well-versed in mystical traditions, ancient mystery teachings, and eastern philosophies.

Their involvement and existence is hidden, but if we look back in time and connect all the fraternal orders that have owl logos, we begin to see a lineage of the same Owl society operating for centuries.

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Chronicle of the Secret Owl Society

Above: Is this the society’s hidden timeline?

If indeed there is a S.O.S. moving through history, then its most recent manifestation is at the mysterious “Bohemian Grove,” a 2,700-acre campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue in Monte Rio, California. It belongs to a private San Francisco-based men’s art club known as the Bohemian Club, a confederation of the world’s most powerful men who visit the grove in mid-July each year to perform a Pagan ritual at the foot of a giant owl, dressed in robes and chanting incantations.

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Sacred Owl

Left: Built in the 1920, this forty-foot owl statue stands near the lake at the Grove. Since that time it has served as the site of the yearly Cremation of Care Ceremony. Right: Early 1900s. Very tall and very old Redwood trees — some over 1,200 years old.

Interestingly, the Bohemian Club has received very little press coverage since its inception in 1872. Though the Club itself is shrouded in secrecy, the bulk of what transpires at the Grove is somewhat documented; it appears to be a mixture of the American summer camp, a power ancient Pagan ritual, and the classical Greek symposium. Greek paganism is certainly an element, with a series of “Grove Plays” called “High Jinks” and “Low Jinks” performed at the Club.

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Famous Bohemians

George H. Bush
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Henry Kissinger
Casper Weinberger
Dick Cheney
Malcom Forbes
Stephen Bechtel
James Baker
David Rockefeller
Tom Johnson
William Randolph Hearst Jr.
Jack Howard
Charles Scripps
Walter Cronkite

Add to this list a host of prominent CEOs and business leaders, most of them conservative, many of them from California, 99 percent of them white men.

Left: Summer, 1967 at Owls Nest Camp with two future U.S. presidents: Ronald Reagan, Harvey Hancock (standing), Richard Nixon and Glenn Seaborg. Right: Painted portrait of Haig Patigian with Bohemian Owl in background, by Peter Ilyin (1927). Online Archive of California.

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Occult Meaning of the Cremation of Care Ritual

The apex of the Bohemian Grove’s rituals is the Cremation of Care ceremony, devised in 1893 by a member named Joseph D. Redding, a lawyer from New York. G.W. Domhoff, a sociologist, obtained access to the Bohemian Club’s records and membership and was able to conduct extensive research into the organization and their activities, including details surrounding the Cremation of Care ceremony.

Above: The “Cremation of Care” Ritual. Present here are America’s corporate leaders, dressed in robes, burning their collective conscience at the feet of a statue of a 40-foot owl. (Photo Courtesy of Sonoma County Free Press)

According to Domhoff, on the first Saturday of the camp,  this elaborate ritual is held just after dinner, the main theme of which is the celebratory burning of an effigy of “Dull Care” at the bottom of a forty-foot stone owl. The ceremony involves the poling of a small boat across a lake containing an effigy of Care (“Dull Care”). Dark, hooded individuals receive the effigy from the ferryman which is placed on an altar and, at the end of the ceremony, is set on fire. Domhoff notes that  , “this is the body of Care, symbolizing the concerns and woes that afflict all men during their daily lives.”

The occult meaning of this ceremony is quite obvious: these men carry the cares of the world and use a symbolic ritual to cast it off. The remaining time at the Club represents a careless period, or vacation of sorts, during which time no business is conducted. By “cremating” care, they expunge the negative energy of such emotions as worry, fear, and anxiety; it is the goal and magical effect of the ritual, which could more properly be called the “Cremation of worry” or “Cremation of negative energy.”

The pertinent evidence to the present article, of course, is the fact that the ceremony takes place next to a 45 foot (14m) high concrete owl statue, symbolizing knowledge and wisdom. The voice of the owl during the ceremony is former newsman Walter Cronkite, himself a member of the Bohemian Club, and music and fireworks accompany the ritual for dramatic effect.

“More than 100 Bohemians take part in the ceremony as priests, acolytes, torch bearers, brazier bearers, boatmen, and woodland voices, but despite many flowery speeches, they can’t get the fire started. . . the perplexed Bohemians must turn to the mighty Owl for advice: “O thou, great symbol of all mortal wisdom, Owl of Bohemia, we do beseech thee, grant us thy counsel,” intones the High Priest. An aura of light creates a glow around the Owl’s head, and then the big bird reveals its wisdom. The High Priest must light the pyre with the flame from the Lamp of Fellowship, located conveniently enough on the “Altar of Bohemia” at the base of the Shrine …”

— William Domhoff, The Progressive, January 1981 “Bohemian Bigwigs Perpetuate Canaanite Cult”

Taking part in the ceremony increases the chance of a certain outcome: the same stress-release and cleansing of negative energy expected from a vacation. They have created a magic ritual, using the power of fellowship and love, to help cleanse the bad energy from the group. Magical thinking applies here: they believe they have done it, and so they have.

It doesn’t seem to be a location of secret dealings, per se. What actually seems to happen instead is that friendships are made here, truly flowering and blooming in contrast to the ideas of secret or backdoor dealings.

“… my Lakeside Speech at the Bohemian Grove in July 1967…this speech…was off the record it received no publicity…But in many important ways it marked the first milestone on my road to the presidency.”

— President Richard Nixon, Memoirs (1978)

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Weaving Spiders Come Not Here

The Bohemian Club’s motto is quite interesting. It is “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here”, a line from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and it directly contradicts the conspiracy theorists’ claim of secret deals and backdoor negotiations. The line’s connotation is that webs, or deals and plans, cannot be hatched here; instead, the camp is entirely focused on the “Bohemian Spirit”, the term used to signify the camp’s ideals of pleasure, friend, freedom, and awakening.

Left: Metal bas relief owl and inscription  on the brick wall at 624 Taylor, San Francisco, CA. Right: The  words above Taylor Street say, ”Weaving Spiders Come Not Here.” The word “weaving” means “planning” and this stands in direction opposition to the occult purpose of the Cremation of Care ceremony, the centerpiece of the Grove.

The spider’s connection with creation and illusion are ancient and myriad; the Greeks associated her with the Fates, and the Indians with Maya, the weaver of illusion; the Scandinavians associated her with the Norns, the women who wove the threads of life, and Native Americans believed that the Spider wove the first alphabet.

In this sense, the creative acts of the spider are a message to us. As the spider weaves its web, so too we must weave our own lives. When the spider appears to us it means we should take a step back and begin to think about the choices we are making and the life that we are constructing.

Spiders are feminine. They are connected to Ishtar, Atargatis, Athene, the Fates, the Norns, Holda, Inktomi, Kokyangwuti, Tsitsicnako and Sussistanako and Neith. Some Native American tribes believed the spider was the weaver who created the world and saw her as a symbol of creative female energy. Like women, spiders are in many ways very delicate and gentle creatures. If you held a tarantula while standing and dropped it, the fall would break her and she would die. Most spiders are only aggressive when threatened and many are very shy, avoiding confrontations, and they combine gentleness, strength, and balance to survive.

Thus, “weaving spiders come not here” is very pertinent. Spiders, as a feminine symbol, cannot come to an all masculine retreat. They also symbolize creation, another aspect that has no place in the Grove: the Club is there for the destruction or cremation of care, and destruction is creation’s opposite. The Club is not creating anything; they are careless of toils, temporarily suspending their caring and worries. This is magic in its purest form.

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The Mystical Owl

The spider motto is interesting, but tangential to our purpose: though part and parcel of the Club’s symbology, the Owl is the overarching thread here and to it we shall return. The Owl’s role in the Club is as the totem to whom sacrifice is made for the purpose of helping humans rid themselves; this has been established, and it underscores the rituals and symbolism of the Bohemian Club.

According to occultists, the owl is the most mysterious, magical, and powerful bird of the forest.  The owl is considered a “learning lesson” for human beings, and a spiritual symbol found throughout the world; Australia, China, Greenland, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, and Sweden are all linked by cultural or mythical traditions that give spiritual significance to the owl.

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Companion Of Witches

For the ancient Egyptians, Celtics, and Hindus owls were connected to guardianship of the underworlds, and protection of the dead. In this light, the owl was ruler of the night and seer of souls. A misunderstanding of this necessary relationship gave the owl negative associations with death. Because of their wings (which give owls the ability to fly away from earth and shuffle off this ‘mortal coil’) birds in general are considered by many cultures to be messengers between the earthly and spirit realms.

Note: While there is a concept of death involved here, it’s only “death” in the sense of being an open doorway from physical to spiritual; more precisely, from the temporary material world we live in now back to the spiritual source from whence we came, and are now traveling toward. To transcend death we must realize that we are a higher eternal Self (soul) incarnated in a lower, temporary self (body). Since humans do not realize this, we are, in a sense, “imprisoned” in the body, and must transcend it to free ourselves and realize our own inner divinity.

A “resurrection” back to the true Self is needed, as it were. And for there to be a resurrection, there has to be a sacrifice. This sacrifice is care, the ego, the lower bodily self (lowercase “s”).

The concept of death is very important in the mystical traditions of the Secret Societies. It is, however, the death of the lower self, and not the soul, that is being affirmed: this death is in fact a doorway back to the Self, revealing the soul inside.

“Verily, verily I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit.”

- John 12:24

Greek philosopher Socrates explains how, by becoming unbalanced by worrying over the cares and woes and pleasures and pains of this world, we are distancing ourselves from our own true inner nature, which is the “soul within” or “god within”:

“Because every pleasure and every pain provides, as it were, another nail to rivet the soul to the body and to weld them together. It makes the soul corporeal, so that it believes that truth is what the body says it is…

…it is always full of body when it departs, so that it soon falls back into another body and grows with it as if it had been sewn into it.  Because of this, it can have no part in the company of the divine, the pure and uniform.”

—Socrates

According to all mysticism, occultism and ancient authentic religions, we are gods laying on a log beside a stream in heaven, resting and dreaming this dream of life. And when we awake we’ll have realized that life was but a dream, and many ancient cultures believed this.

“Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.”

—Children’s Song

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

—Shakespeare

A very good example of this is the ancient Egyptian culture. Today’s Egyptologists say the Egyptians were preoccupied with death. This is far from the truth; though the Egyptians seemed to have a strong culture and ritual surrounding death, it was the death of the body and not of the soul; it was this eternal life they were celebrating, symbolizing the eternal soul with the Ankh cross.

In practically every ancient culture, solitary nocturnal creatures are symbolic of these ideas, of inner-knowing, psychic ability, and intuition; all of which are traits of the soul within, not the physical body. The owl itself knows that life is just a dream. The owl is wise, and always deeply connected with magic, shamanism, and heightened senses throughout the ages. They are sometimes thought of as “cats with wings”, sharing similar characteristics with cats, who are of course the familiars of witches and sorcery (interestingly, owls tend to be the familiars of male mages or wizards):

Here’s a quick-list of owl symbolic meanings:

• Wisdom
• Mystery
• Transition
• Messages
• Intelligence
• Mysticism
• Protection
• Brilliance
• Intuition
• Unconscious
• Transition
• Longevity
• Reincarnation

Native America

Native Americans associated owls with wisdom and foresight, and identified them as keepers of sacred knowledge. The bird’s ability to see at night was legend among the Native Americans, and this attribute would be invoked during ceremonies when an oracle of secret knowledge was required.

Left: Egyptian Owl. Right: Native American Owl

The shamans would call upon Owl medicine for insight into the truth of ill intent, and Plains Indians wore owl feathers to protect against evil spirits. The Cree believed the Boreal Owl was a summoning to the spirit world, and the Apache held a similar belief. To this day, Native American spiritual traditions cast the owl symbol as one meaning vision, viewed with respect and associated with the souls of deceased ancestors.

Africa and Australia

African cultures viewed the owl similarly to the Native Americans, heralding them as messengers of secrets as well as the bird of sorcerers, witches, and warlocks; in Madagascar they dance on the graves of the dead, and to the Aboriginal Australians they are companions to medicine people.

Middle and Far East

In some middle and far eastern cultures, the owl is a sacred guardian of the afterlife, ruler of the night as well as a seer and keeper of souls transitioning from one plane of existence to another. The owl is still considered a witch’s companion, sharing unique spiritual communication between them, and even sharing the same secret powers of the night.

Europe

In Celtic tradition, the owl represents wisdom, clairvoyance, stealth, initiation, change and detachment. During medieval times in Europe, owls were believed by many to be witches and wizards, shape-shifters in disguise. It was fabled that owls were actually priestesses (witches) and wizards in different form. To this day the owl is considered a witch’s familiar (an animal soul-spirit linked to a spiritual person via a unique, communicative bond).

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Ancient Owls

Left: Prehistoric owl image from France. Right: Ancient vessel from China, 200 BC

In Greek mythology, the owl is firmly linked with Athena, the Goddess of wisdom (and in later times, of battle). She is pictured with her owl on her shoulder, and some say this is why the owl has come to be associated with wisdom; the scientific name for the owl is even “Athene Noctua”. The city of Athens, Athena’s patron city, had an owl on its coins:

Left: Owl, Acropolis, Athens c.500 BC. Right: The owl money of ancient Greece.

And so it is clear that the owl has, for thousands of years, symbolized our wisdom, spirituality, our intuitive self, and our connection to the source of our eternal Self. It is undoubtedly a powerful occult and esoteric symbol, which brings us back to our original point: Is there a Secret Society who uses the owl as their symbol, and is the Bohemian Club their current incarnation? Many conspiracy theorists point out the existence and secretive nature of the Club, but few dig deeper into the Club’s history. Is the Bohemian Club an independent phenomenon, or is it actually the most recent manifestation of a much bigger and older society?

With these questions in mind, we turn to look at another organization similar to the Bohemian Club, and parallel in some ways: the National Press Club, whose logo features an owl on it as well.

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National Press Club Owl

Above: The National Press Club is said to have been established in 1908 by thirty-two newspapermen. Their logo features a large owl perched on a book in front of the capitol building.

The NPC is said to have been established in Washington DC in 1908, soon after elites and journalists on the West Coast established the Bohemian Club. Most presidents have lectured here, and both Carter and Reagan announced their candidacies for president here.

“Through its doors have come presidents, premiers, kings and queens, Cabinet secretaries, senators and House members, movie stars and sports heroes, titans of business and finance – just a who’s who of the 20th and the 21st centuries. Here they have found a willing audience of reporters waiting to grill them with questions, interpret what they say and send the news around the world.”

—National Press Club website

Mystical symbolism in NPC’s logo reveals influence from Bohemian Grove’s Owl Shrine. But is there a link? If so, what exactly is the connection?

Unlike the Bohemian Grove, there are no known “occult” ceremonies attached to the NPC. However, unique and mysterious owl symbolism is certainly present here.

Above: Famous journalist Helen Thomas at NPC (Photo Courtesy of Terry Hill).

A March 28, 2010 article titled Owls Honor Helen Thomas; Everyone has a Hoot said things like:

“Helen Thomas, dean of the White House press corps, was inducted into the Order of the Owls Thursday night during the Spring Hoot of the Club’s Silver Owls.”

• “The ceremonial award bestowed on Thomas recognizes “birds of a unique species, weathered and wise, who have nested at the National Press Club and demonstrated that they give a hoot for Washington journalism.”
• “Mae Scanlan, wife of Golden Owl Tom Scanlan, produced a batch of parodies for both the Silver Owls and the Owlets quartets. The young members responded with “We’ll be Loving You, Owl-ways.”
• “Ten new Golden Owls (members of 50 years) were recognized, along with 40 Silvers (members for 25 years).”

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Walt Disney Owl Mystery

The owl symbol is also prevalent among Walt Disney’s most important films. It is said that an owl in one form or another mysteriously appears in every Disney picture. Not only that, but the owl even appears “clandestinely” in at least one Disney picture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). When Snow White enters the cottage of the seven dwarfs, the esoteric owl imagery is overwhelming. It’s worth watching.Within a 20 minute time span owl “backgrounds” appear many dozens of times.

Left: Owl symbols form the landing at the top of the stairs. Right: Owl symbols form the stairs.

Left: The image of a flying owl forms the top of a coat-rack. Right: The image of owls forming the staircase.

Left: Two owls appear above the doorway.  Right: An owl forms part of a wall-support.

Above: An owl forms part of the headboard of one of the dwarf’s beds

It is said that as a teenager Disney joined the Order of DeMolay, a Masonic youth organization. He is widely quoted as saying:

“I feel a great sense of obligation and gratitude toward the Order of DeMolay for the important part it played in my life. Its precepts have been invaluable in making decisions, facing dilemmas and crises. DeMolay stands for all that is good for the family and for our country. I feel privileged to have enjoyed membership in DeMolay.”

— Walt Disney

There are many more interesting esoteric connections between Disney and Masonry and the Occult. For example, here is an image of Disney at the center of an occult Triptych, the architectural three-in-one pattern which relates the pinnacle of Masonic perennial wisdom, and which is only now being rediscovered:

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The Schlaraffia Owl

Established in Prague, Bohemia, 1859, thirteen years before the Bohemian Club, the Schlaraffia was a group of actors, writers, artists and musicians (similar to the Bohemian Club); and they too (like the Bohemian Club) use an owl as their talisman.

This society, called Schlaraffia, is a fraternal body with lodges spread globally, on every continent. Artists, writers, teachers and academics in the famously elite city of Prague founded the Schlaraffia society in 1859. Its aim was to become a place where men could cast their worries away and revel in art, humor and friendship.

Customs, pomp and ceremony from medieval times are used at Schlaraffia sessions, the group maintains a relationship to civic societies of the Medieval Age. The Society’s talisman is an owl, called UHU in German, said to be the emblem of wisdom. The Greeks and Romans believed the owl implied prudence and wisdom.

“Schlaraffia is a worldwide German-speaking society…The Schlaraffen…meet in midwinter (October 1 – April 30) once per week in their Schlaraffen castle (equipped in the style of a knight’s tavern from the Middle Ages) for “Sippungen” (gatherings which take place in the fixed ceremonial form of a knight’s play)…

Reychs currently exist in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, South Africa and Austrailia… The approximately 280 “reychs” (local clubs) stay in close contact with one another. Each Schlaraffe is always welcome in every reych in the world.

The total number of Schlaraffen amounts to about 11,000…Their ‘mascot’ is the eagle owl…symbolizing wisdom, virtue and humor (the owl itself presents knowledge and wisdom) and they bear some resemblance to Freemasons.”

—Wikipedia

Of the three goals of Schlaraffia, the most important one is the sincere friendship that glues the membership. Similar to the Bohemian Club’s concept of destroying “Care” (“the release of everyday mundane concerns for the brotherhood of Bohemian friendship” [Phillips, op. cit., p. 46]), the Schlaraffia say: “As soon as he [the Schlaraffian] enters a ‘castle’ [or 'Temple'] and comes under the rule of Uhu, the great horned owl of Minerva, he is expected to forget all foolish things of everyday life.”

The place of the Schlaraffia assemblies is called Burg.  The ornate meeting room is dominated by a throne and wall hangings that include banners, coats of arms and crests. A prospective member is greeted by men attired in cloaks heavily decorated with medals, wearing helmets and carrying swords.

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Mysterious Yale Owl Architecture

At about the same time as the Shlaraffia’s founding, a mysterious and inexplicable array of owl symbols and images began appearing quietly, prominently and distinctly in the stones and brickwork architecture at Yale University.

Above: Owl images written into the stone architecture of Yale University’s campus.

Yale University is a private Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the country. Yale is widely considered one of the most prestigious and selective universities in the world.

Above: Owl images written into the stone architecture of Yale University’s campus.

Mysterious, looming towers, massive rock walls covered with ivy, grotesque stone carvings leering from the eaves: most of the buildings at Yale look like they belong in the 11th century. But Yale was established in 1701—not exactly the Middle Ages—and this makes the neo-Gothic architecture that dominates Yale’s campus only a few hundred years old.

Above: Owl images written into the stone architecture of Yale University’s campus.

As we can see, images of owls are literally everywhere embedded in the stone. But, why? What does the owl stand for? What does it symbolize? The easy answer, of course, is that the owl is a symbol of “wisdom,” which is embodied by the university.

But is it possible that there’s more going on here?

It is said that Yale hired architect James Gamble Rogers (1867 – 1947) to give the school an older feel. The University sought to imitate Britain’s venerable Oxford and Cambridge Universities: established bastions of academic prestige.

Above: Owl images written into the stone architecture of Yale University’s campus.

Although the Gothic style which dominates the rest of the campus was intended to inspire fear and awe in cathedral-goers of yore, it has a distinctly 20th-century twist at Yale:

“Stone sculpture built into the walls of the buildings portray contemporary college personalities such as a writer, an athlete, a tea-drinking socialite, and a student who has fallen asleep while reading. Similarly, the decorative friezes on the buildings depict contemporary scenes such as policemen chasing a robber and arresting a prostitute (on the wall of the Law School), or a student relaxing with a mug of beer and a cigarette. The architect, James Gamble Rogers, faux-aged these buildings by splashing the walls with acid, deliberately breaking their leaded glass windows and repairing them in the style of the Middle Ages, and creating niches for decorative statuary but leaving them empty to simulate loss or theft over the ages.”

— Wikipedia

Unlike most neo-Gothic architecture, which is built with steel frames and merely reinforced with stone exteriors, Yale’s Gothic buildings are, for the most part, built with solid stone instead. This tells us that the stonemasons (i.e., read “Freemasons”) who designed and built Yale’s buildings were advanced, perhaps even gifted. The 216-foot Harkness Tower was once the tallest free-standing stone structure in the world, before worried architects decided to reinforce it.

Above: Owl images written into the stone architecture of Yale University’s campus.

Is it possible that the owl symbols rampant in the art and architecture of Yale have a deeper, more esoteric meaning? Are the Yale owls actually symbols of a S.O.S. that was there at the very beginning of this now-famous Ivy League institution? Is the owl in the architecture somehow connected to the later institutions of the Bohemian Club and the National Press Club?

TO BE CONTINUED

Here’s a screenshot:

I’ll post some more details soon.

Meanwhile, I haven’t updated my page lately, but that’s because I’ve been busy working hard on a bunch of new material that’s coming really soon, including:

• finishing my book, Written In Stone
• getting book reviews and endorsements
• renovating this website (as you can tell, it’s kind of homemade looking, but not for long)
• creating some new videos
• writing new articles that deal with topics surrounding the Triptych

I’ll be back with a new post soon.

They did this because the Shriners organization—the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (commonly known as Shriners and established in 1870 is an appendant body to Freemasonry)—has the same ultimate purpose and meaning of the Freemasons, from whom it spun off.

This purpose is to quietly—or, better, “secretly”—preserve the ancient Triptych’s meaning, and to carry this powerful meaning into modern times.

What is the ancient Triptych, and what does it stand for?

If you’ve been following my blog you already know that I’ve discovered that the ancient Triptych—a three-in-one architectural pattern formed by three arches or doorways, with the center arch or doorway larger than the two flanking it—symbolizes an enigmatic “Sacred Science” wisdom-teaching that was once mysteriously shared by history’s earliest civilizations.

Here is an example of the Triptych architectural pattern, this one’s from ancient Rome:

Here is an example of the Triptych from ancient China:

(A Temple of Confucius or Confucian temple is often described as a temple devoted to the memory of Confucius and the sages and philosophers of Confucianism.)

Here is an example of the Triptych from ancient Mexico:

(These Corbel Arches in Tonina were built by the Mayans.)

Here is an example of the Triptych from ancient Persia:

(The Caliphal Palace was built by the caliph al-Mu`tasim in 836, and finally abandoned about 895. It is one of the largest imperial palaces to have survived from ancient times.)

To see more examples of ancient Triptychs all around the world visit www.DeeperTruth.com

Now, with these ancient Triptychs fresh on your mind, notice how a powerful “modern” Triptych forms the front of the main headquarters of the Shriners headquarters in Washington DC:

(The Shrine of North America has been a part of the Washington Downtown area since 1886.)

Below is another example of “Triptych” Shriner architecture. This is the famous Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, now an important historical landmark:

(The Fox Theatre—often marketed as the Fabulous Fox—in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the grand movie palaces built in the United States in the 1920s.)

There are plenty more examples of modern-day Triptychs built by and connected to the Shriners Organization.

Why did the Shriners use the Triptych?

Because the Shriners organization is just like the Freemasons—established to preserve and protect the same ancient Sacred Science wisdom-teaching.

This Sacred Science is not for everyone; it endows seekers (if they’ve been suitably prepared) with the knowledge (gnosis) and ability “see” their soul inside their own body…and become illuminated by the experience of their own true immortality and eternal divinity.

The practice is akin to awakening your Third Eye, which you can learn more about here: http://www.deepertruth.com/journal/article-2.html

For more, visit www.DeeperTruth.com and download my free PDF Report: Breaking The Cathedral Code.

I’m not talking about American history, European history, or even Western or Eastern history.

I’m talking about “human history” as we know it.

It’s the “key” secret that “fascinated” and even “inspired” the world’s most ancient cultures (Americas, Europe, Oceana, Asia, Africa).

What’s the secret?

The cathedral-building Freemasons knew the secret and they expressed it symbolically using two identical (twin) columns, which you can see here:

Their names in (modern) Freemasonry are “Boaz and Jachin,” with Boaz on the left and Jachin on the right.

As the story goes, these two pillars were erected on either side of the entrance to King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, which was built by King Solomon c. 10^th B.C.E. according to God’s instructions.

The symbolic significance of these twin pillars is not touched upon in Freemasonry, yet most modern authors say that in the original Hebrew of the Old Testament the word Jachin (the right hand pillar) means he will establish and Boaz (the left hand pillar) means strength.

You won’t hear anything even close to this explanation from me simply because I don’t believe any of it.

In fact, I call this a “substitute secret.” It was invented as a cover-up and it continues to be published in books and websites by an unsuspecting public.

My research uncovers the true meaning of the twin pillars, which predate Solomon, the Jews, and even the Old Testament books by thousands of years.

What’s their real meaning?

The answer is that the Twin Pillars form the foundation of an ancient “Sacred Science” once known worldwide.

This Sacred Science was encoded by the operative Freemasons into the design and architecture of the world’s most famous Gothic cathedrals.

And you can read all about it here:  http://www.deepertruth.com/journal/article-1.html

The question I posed is…

How did the Triptych find its way onto the Salt Lake Temple?

The answer is simple: The founder of the Mormon Religion, Joseph Smith, Jr., was a (speculative) Freemason. In fact, it’s well-known that his entire family was active in Freemasonry as early as 1816.

Now, generally speaking, there are two schools of thought regarding the Mormon Religion.

One view is held by scholars, the other is held by Mormons.

Mormons believe every word of the LDS church; scholars, on the other hand, ignore the entire history of the Mormon movement.

I believe the discovery of the Triptych on the Salt Lake Temple is provocative and powerful enough to open up a third school, a third point of view.

This third camp looks at the entire Mormon movement from a totally new perspective—from the angle of Joseph Smith’s involvement in Freemasonry, and from the point of view that Joseph Smith may have understood the “Secret” of the Triptych architectural pattern (the “Secret” of the ancient Sacred Science of true Freemasonry) as evidenced by the Triptych design on the Salt Lake Temple (see www.DeeperTruth.com):

Today, the impact of Freemasonry in Mormon Church doctrine remains the subject of intense debate, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a longstanding policy of maintaining no official position on Freemasonry.

However, many researchers have uncovered profound parallels and links between the two movements in practice, structure, and symbolism, which go back to the church’s origins.

(One example is that many features of the church’s temple endowment ceremony as established by Smith parallel rituals and ceremonies practiced in Freemasonry.)

In the early 1800s, when the Mormon Church was headquartered in Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith and several of his followers—including his first four successors as church president—were already Freemasons.

When the church relocated to Utah in the 1840s after Smith’s death, there was even talk of forming a “Mormon Grand Lodge.” (This was ultimately rejected by church President Brigham Young.)

In my upcoming book, Written In Stone (www.DeeperTruth.com), I provide more parallels and more information on this emerging and mysterious Mormonism / Masonry connection.

I will discuss more in future blog posts, and I plan to visit and videotape Masonic architectural elements of the Triptych on Salt Lake Temple.

If this subject interests you, make sure to download my FREE PDF Report titled Breaking The Cathedral Code: Freemasonry’s Triptych Secret Revealed (by visiting www.DeeperTruth.com)

Next post coming soon.

Articles and even entire books have been written on the subject.

However, the most powerful and mysterious connection between these two movements has not yet been recognized.

This connection is the following:

A massive—Masonic—Triptych graces the façade of the Salt Lake Temple, the best-known temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

Salt Lake Temple, UTAH

If you don’t follow this blog regularly, here’s a brief overview of the Triptych…

I’ve uncovered evidence that the Triptych architectural pattern holds an ancient, symbolic meaning.

I’m writing a book called Written In Stone describing my discovery of the “Triptych” and the ancient wisdom it enshrines.

The Triptych graces the facades of ancient temples all over the world (see www.DeeperTruth.com).

This is because ancient cultures all knew the Triptych symbolizes a powerful and highly spiritual Sacred Science teaching, which they all once shared (exactly how is immaterial).

Even more interesting, modern Secret Societies, like the Freemasons, seem to have been very well-versed not only with Triptych design but also with the ancient Sacred Science wisdom it symbolizes.

As evidence of this, the (operative) Freemasons built the Triptych design into the portals of Gothic cathedrals:

So how, then, did the Triptych make its way onto the façade of the famous Salt Lake Temple?

Salt Lake Temple, UTAH

Stay tuned for more soon.

As always, my main goal here is the rediscovery of the ancient Triptych and how it symbolizes a powerful Sacred Science wisdom, now lost.

But every now and then I come across a jewel of knowledge worth mentioning, which in some way is tangentially related to the Triptych.

One example is a brief poem by Joe Miller. It’s called “If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.”

I think that if you can align yourself with this type of thinking, you can realize the secret of the Triptych—that you are powerful beyond what you’ve been brought up to believe, and that unimaginable energy is available to you right here and now (and has been all along) if only you have the ability to see it.

Remember, you are endowed with an imagination for a reason. It’s to envision things like what this poet is saying. And, with that vision, to tap that deep eternal power that’s within you.

Here’s the poem. Enjoy.

“If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it.

People would walk around it marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between.

People would marvel at the bumps on it and the holes in it.

They would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas.

The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of
the ball and at the creatures in the water.

The people would declare it as sacred because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt.

The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be.

People would love it, and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives could be nothing without it.

If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.”

First, please review the mosque photos in my two prior posts.

Note the powerful and undeniable THREE-IN-ONE architecture on their facades.

Here is an example:

Khudasia Mosque

Look at the THREE domes and the THREE doorways.

See how the dome and doorway in the center is larger than the two flanking?

I call this THREE-IN-ONE architecture a “Triptych.”

These mosques clearly depict the same Triptych architecture that European Freemasons designed into the facades of Europe’s Gothic cathedrals.

Scholars have not yet recognized it, but mosque Triptychs are the mystical creations of “Arabian Freemasons”—just as cathedral Triptychs are the work of medieval European Freemasons.

My new book, Written In Stone, reveals how operative Freemasons purposely encoded Triptychs into cathedral architecture to secretly symbolize a powerful and ancient “Sacred Science of Three” they inherited from Antiquity. (Visit www.DeeperTruth.com).

So, with this in mind, the discovery of Triptychs on mosques indicates something very interesting:

As European Freemasons encoded the Triptych into cathedral architecture to symbolize the ancient worldwide “Sacred Science of Three”…so Arabic Freemasons encoded the Triptych into mosque architecture to denote the same.

After my previous post went live, I received a few emails from readers who identified themselves as Freemasons, questioning my conclusion that Freemasonry made its way into Arabia.

It’s a great question with a simple answer.

In fact, a well-known mainstream author named Albert Gallatin Mackey (1807 – 1881) wrote on this subject.

Keep in mind that back in the 1800s when Mackey was writing, the word “Mohammedan” meant “Muslims”:

“Nearly all of the old Mohammedan buildings in India, such as tombs, mosques, etc., are marked with Masonic symbols, and many of these structures, still perfect, were built in the time of the Mogul Emperor Akbar, who died in 1605. Thus Masonry must have been introduced into India from Middle Asia by the Mohammedans hundreds of years ago.”—Albert Mackey

Mackey clearly believed that Masonry was “introduced into India” by Muslims “hundreds of years ago.”

Mackey also gives us an important clue as to the possible source of Muslim Masonic architecture—the Mogul Emperor Akbar.

Now, rather than making you read a long, drawn-out explanation of history, I’d prefer to ask you to conduct your own study into the so-called “Mogul” Empire, also spelled “Mughal” (1526–1858).

Study its culture, analyze its art and architecture, and see if you can identify the Moguls as a Triptych-building people, as possessors of the Sacred Science from Antiquity.

(To understand what I mean by “Sacred Science,” visit www.DeeperTruth.com).

As you study the Moguls, I think you’ll see them as a family lineage of builders in stone—in a word, “Freemasons”—who were initiates of Triptych / Sacred Science wisdom.

That is to say, the Moguls appear to have been authentic Freemasons who knew the truth behind the ancient Triptych / Sacred Science.

And they knowingly replicated this Triptych / Sacred Science wisdom in the architecture they designed and constructed.

Let me leave you with one wonderful example, to get you started.

The Mogul Emperor Akbar (who, as Mackey tells us in the quote above, died in 1605) was a close relative to a man named Shah Jahan.

Now, the name “Shah Jahan” means nothing to you, right? That is, until you realize he was the builder of the great Taj Mahal.

With its three giant domes arranged in an ominous Triptych design, the Taj Mahal forms one of the most mysterious and incredible Triptychs on earth:

Flanking the Taj Mahal are a pair of mosques, both of which have three massive Triptych domes, as well as a clear Triptych portal entryway:

This is clear evidence that the Triptych was known to Arabic peoples, and was encoded into mosque architecture.

Amazingly, the two mosques flanking the Taj Mahal actually form a Triptych, along with it.

The two mosques are precise mirror images of each other.

Finally, here’s a snippet of text from a book called Freemasonry in the Eastern Hemisphere by Ray V. Denslow.

Denslow was master of Trenton Lodge No. 131, Missouri, and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri in 1931:

“Freemasonry in India is no new venture. That there were societies of operative Masons there long before the British occupation is evident by the signs and symbols which are easily seen on many of the ancient forts, temples and tombs.”— Ray V. Denslow

Denslow also writes:

“A very interesting book on the subject entitled Indian Masons’ Marks of the Mogul Dynasty, has been written by Bro. Gorham.”

Now, I don’t want to get into a deep explanation of this book or these marks.

My point for this post, and for my two previous blog posts, is simply to suggest that an “Arabian” form of Freemasonry surely existed, though scholars don’t recognize it.

As evidence, we find Triptych architecture in mosques all over Arabia, just as we find Triptych architecture in cathedrals throughout Europe.

Why? Because there’s a deeper meaning behind the Triptych; it symbolizes a lost ancient Sacred Science perpetuated by the Freemasons.

Stay tuned for more evidence that reveals how the Triptych (and the Sacred Science it symbolizes) is the real-life Lost Symbol of the Freemasons.

Or visit www.DeeperTruth.com for more.

Before you read this post, scroll down a bit and look at the small group of mosque photos I put together.

Can you see a strange, recurring pattern in the architecture?

(HINT: Think of the number THREE.)

I’m presenting these mosque photos because, in the last ten days I received two emails about my last post, both from skeptics.

One was a university instructor.

He says the “Triptych” three-in-one doorway (that I pointed out on cathedrals and mosques) is “happenstance, random, accidental, not symbolic of anything…”

He felt I was a victim of my own desire “to see something there that really isn’t there.”

He added, “To point to a few mosques that have three doors at their entrance, and to link this to the Gothic architecture of Christianity, insinuating an international, intergenerational, and interfaith conspiracy on the part of the builders, well, that’s far-fetched.”

First, I don’t think it’s far-fetched at all because Freemasonry is exactly an “international, intergenerational, and interfaith conspiracy” (or, instead of “conspiracy” let’s say “Secret Society”).

What’s more, we already have evidence of the existence of the Freemasons; we already have evidence that at one time the Freemasons built religious structures; we already have evidence that the Order accepts all religions (and is not partial to any one in particular); and we already have evidence that these Freemasons built using “Triptych” architecture.

Sure, we don’t yet have evidence that “Freemasons” built mosques.

But the Triptych discovery I’m pointing out on the facades of mosques—which parallels Gothic cathedral Triptychs—will soon change that.

(NOTE: This is why I’m writing Written In Stone—to break ground on this new discovery; to illuminate the idea that Freemasons encoded the Triptych into all types of buildings worldwide with the intention of memorializing a “Sacred Science of the Soul,” which is an eternal reality that transcends individual myths and religions.)

Just think about it…The Freemasons built the Gothic cathedrals, according to scholars, right?

And the Freemasons have historically encompassed all the religions—not just Christianity—right?

So, then, how much of a stretch is it to consider that the Freemasons are at the heart of all the world’s religious building traditions?—not just Christianity?

And how much of a stretch is it to believe that the operative Freemasons once understood an eternal doctrine of “truth” (an ancient “Sacred Science”) that’s more valuable than individual religions, and which they sought to preserve for posterity in the symbolic language of architecture? (i.e., not just Christian architecture, but in architecture all over the world).

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here are a few thousand words in support of my thesis…

The following photos depict Mosques with Triptych entrances. It is my belief that the builders of these mosques were operative (Arabic) Freemasons encoding a deeper wisdom in the architecture.

Now, remember, this is not all the evidence I have of the Triptych / Sacred Science encoded in Mosques, it’s just a simple blog post:

Mosque of the Three Doors, Kairouan

Noyabaad Mosque

Bourguiba Mosque

Solo (Surakarta) Mosque Entrance

Taramati Masjid, Golconda Fort Freemasons

Red Mud Mosque - Triptych Freemasons

ramadan-at-badshahi-mosque-Freemasons gothic

Qairwin Mosque

Khan Mohammad Mirdhas Mosque

Grand Ummayad Mosque

Ancient Babri mosque

All of these mosques show clear evidence of “Triptych” three-in-one architecture.

—The same Triptych three-in-one architecture I’ve been able to link to the world’s most famous (and mysterious) Gothic cathedrals…

—The same Triptych three-in-one architecture I’ve been able to link to dozens of ancient civilizations across the world…

The Triptych has a DEEPER MEANING, a SYMBOLIC PURPOSE, a HIDDEN WISDOM…as you’ll see.

And the solution lies in the most mysterious and important of all the Masonic numbers—Three.

For more, visit www.DeeperTruth.com.

But, the trouble is, when you actually read the book, watch the program or skim the article, you end up no closer to actually understanding Freemasonry than before, right?

My research and discoveries are different.

Note how I added the second part: Freemasonry’s Lost Secret Found “Encoded Into Gothic Cathedral Architecture.”

What architecture?

For starters—and, remember, no one else in the world has ever showed you this before—I’ve uncovered the fact that many famous gothic cathedrals share the same architectural facade:

Not impressed?

Well, I think you should be.

Just ask yourself: Why?

Why did the builders—history’s “operative Freemasons”—use this particular pattern?

Does this mysterious design somehow hold a hidden meaning?

There’s clearly a repeating blueprint at work here, no doubt.

But what exactly does this repeating blueprint mean? Is it just a randomly chosen design?

Or is there a deeper “meaning” or “message” or even “warning” behind this pattern?—Some kind of “riddle” or “secret” written in stone?

I’ve studied this blueprint for more than ten years, and I’ve deciphered its hidden meaning, a riddle intended by the builders/designers.

It’s perhaps the strangest secret I’ve ever come across.

Over the next several weeks, months, and even years I’ll be revealing everything I’ve learned concerning this mysterious and ancient design (which I call a “Cathedral Code” on www.DeeperTruth.com).

And, in a very short time, you’ll learn and understand exactly what the “Lost Secret” of Freemasonry really is—unlike those History Channel programs and BBC website links which promise the world and deliver next to nothing.

This is because it is precisely the Lost Secret of Freemasonry that has been encoded in the architecture here.

You’ll also see how the pinnacle of this secret lies in every cathedral’s powerful Triptych “three-door” entryway:

As an Italian boy raised Catholic, I assumed the Triptych entrance stood for “Father, Son, Holy Spirit”—the so-called “Holy Trinity.”

But, several years ago, while traveling abroad I realized that this Triptych entrance stands for something much different, something much more mysterious and much more powerful and esoteric.

For example, the Triptych is present not just in Christianity (Christian architecture) but in Islam (Islamic architecture) as well—as literally thousands of Triptych entrances to Mosques indicate:

And this is only the start…

For more, visit my www.DeeperTruth.com website.

Also, please stay posted to this blog as I unravel Gothic cathedral architecture in a way that I feel 98% of scholars have missed.

The Masonic builders of the Gothic cathedrals were surely trying to tell us something with the Triptych architecture, and with the entire cathedral itself.

This secret wisdom is by far the most important thing you’ll ever learn, whether you’re a doctor, astronaut, physicist or mystic.

I promise you that everything I show you from here on in will be rooted in scholarship, grounded in reason and written in stone.

So stay tuned. There’s lots more to come…

According to this idea, the Freemasons have for centuries been secretly plotting world domination (i.e., a “New World Order”).

I’ve been asked if my upcoming book, Written In Stone (www.DeeperTruth.com), is related to this subject.

The answer is no.

Instead, my research reveals how the ‘Great Secret’ of the Freemasons has been Written In Stone—written into the stone architecture of churches, castles, cathedrals and other Masonic buildings worldwide—by the Freemasons themselves.

That is to say, the operative Freemasons encoded the same message, over and over again, in all of the medieval buildings they constructed.

The message they encoded relates instructions on how to understand and master an ancient Sacred Science of the Soul now lost to the Western world.

With this in mind, I’ve made a list of 10 Powerful Facts about the history of the Freemasons, in response to some of the questions I’ve been asked.

Here goes:

#1 – The Freemasons are one of a few Secret Societies carrying Ancient Wisdom across the ages. A glimmer of this ancient wisdom is still visible in their signs, symbols, and ceremonies, though much of it has been distorted (while some has remained intact).

#2 – This Ancient Wisdom of the Freemasons once formed a universal “Worldwide Religion” (or “Sacred Science”). Pyramids are a key symbol of this Sacred Science. But, even more important than pyramids, Triptych three-door temples form the pinnacle of this Sacred Science. This is why we find the ruins of pyramids and Triptych temples worldwide:

Even more than pyramids, the triptych three-door entry is evidence of a Universal Wisdom once shared worldwide.

Think for a moment about what this means. Imagine it; the world was united in ancient times  by the same body of spiritual wisdom.

#3 – In honor of the ancients, the medieval Freemasons carved the Triptych (symbol of the Sacred Science) into the architecture they created—cathedrals, castles, churches, abbeys and other important buildings. We can see this in the Triptych entry of Gothic cathedrals:

From left to right, the Triptych entryway of Reims, Notre Dame, and Laon.

#4 – These medieval Freemasons understood that modern religions carry pieces of the Sacred Science. However, they also understood the religions have served to “cover up” the truth about the Sacred Science (especially the so-called big three Western religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam).

#5 – The closest thing available today to the authentic Sacred Science of the Freemasons is found in a mix of Gnosticism, Hinduism, Sacred Geometry, and ancient Greek and Sicilian philosophy (Plato, Socrates and Pythagoras).

#6 – The Freemasons “changed” in the mid 1800s, during which time the heritage and truth about the Sacred Science was stripped from the Order. The Freemasons became an “eating and drinking society” with a newfangled creed focusing on Faith, Hope and Charity. Ever since then, the spirit of true Freemasonry has been lost.

#7 – Modern Freemasonry is not authentic because it has been painted in terms of the religion of Judaism. For example, the Masonic holy book is now the Bible. The “God” of the Bible is thought by most Masons to be the Great Architect of the Universe (key figure in Masonic ritual). Masonic symbolism is now centered around the “Temple of Solomon,” which once stood in Israel. There’s more. All this serves to confuse rather than enlighten Masons on the Order’s founding secret—the ancient Sacred Science, and the powerful unified history of humanity.

#8 – Most Masons today are neither part of a grand conspiracy, nor interested in the true esoteric meaning of Freemasonry. They’ve joined either for the social conviviality or to further their own careers. I once read that modern Freemasons can barely organize a picnic, let alone put together and fulfill a plan for world domination.

#9 – The Masonic “G” symbol absolutely, positively DOES NOT stand for the “God” of the Bible. Instead, it denotes “Geometry,” which is the Sacred Science of the authentic operative Freemasons. (Read Plato’s dialogues on Geometry for more). To believe the “G” symbol stands for “God” is to completely misunderstand the true history of the Freemasons and the purpose of the Craft.

#10 – A key Masonic architectural symbol is the Triptych. It’s nothing short of the real life “Lost Symbol of the Freemasons” (to borrow from Dan Brown). The Triptych appears on all things Masonic, in honor of the Sacred Science.

For example, here is a Masonic Temple with Triptych entrance:

Modern-era Secret Societies that have been “spun off” from the Freemasons use the Triptych. We see this in the Triptych entryways of their headquarters. One example is the Skull & Bones, founded at Yale University in the early 1832:

A powerful Triptych appears on the facade of the Skull & Bones headquarters in New Haven, CT.

Another is the Ancient Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, founded in 1870, headquartered in Washington D.C.:

Headquarters of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Washington D.C.

Both of these headquarters have Triptych entryways.

Stay tuned for much more coming soon.

Since my last video post, The Masonic Wisdom Hidden In Gothic Cathedrals, I’ve started to receive a few emails (a couple from Freemasons) asking about Freemason symbols and their meaning.

Not sure where all the traffic is coming from, but I’m definitely being “found” online (I’m still trying to fix up my sites before putting out any Press Releases or doing any marketing.)

But I’m certainly glad people are interested.

However, rather than spend 30 minutes replying to individual emails, I think it’s better that I think carefully about the answers and then either create an article or video reply.

So stay tuned, as I promise to provide as much info as I can. I’ve only just begun!

(I’ve gotten a couple of questions about the Jachin & Boaz pillars. For the true meaning of these Masonic icons, please visit www.DeeperTruth.com and read my PDF REPORT if you haven’t already done so. I give a pretty deep explanation of the pillars in there, and how they symbolize the “pairs of opposites” (Day/Night, Sun/Moon, Warm/Cold, and so on).

Stay connected, I’m going to be putting more out soon.

Very well known, but very poorly understood, even by scholars.

What secrets does it hold? What mysteries does it enshrine?

The answer is, the Masonic Square & Compass relates a powerful ancient wisdom, now lost.

It’s the symbol of man—of you and me.

More specifically, it symbolizes both our outside and inside.

But what exactly does that mean, our outside and inside?

It means every human being is made up of two parts.

There’s the part we see when we look in the mirror each day.

But there’s also a part that we don’t see.

The part you see is your body, but the part you don’t see is your soul.

The Square symbolizes your body, the part you see.

The Compass symbolizes your soul, the part you don’t see.

When placed together, the Compass & Square is designed to teach us that we’re more than just the body (the part we see).

Deep down underneath it all, we are an eternal soul (which we don’t see).

It’s that simple, that powerful.

This is not an opinion, not a hope, not a religion.

It’s an eternal truth, a wisdom unchangeable.

And it forms the basis of a profound Sacred Science, which once informed Freemasonry.

As Deman S. Wagstaff, author of Wagstaff’s Standard Masonry (1922) explained:

“There is one sign which has never changed its meaning anywhere in the civilized world—the Compass and the Square. A sign of the union of the body and soul.”

(I can give similar quotes from a dozen other books.)

Now, let’s delve a bit further.

Let’s start with the Compass, which appears atop the Square.

The Compass symbolizes your soul or spiritual side, the part you don’t see.

The Compass, as an instrument, draws a Circle:

With no beginning and no end, the circle signifies eternity.

The circle has signified eternity among cultures far and wide for thousands of years.

The Compass is higher of the two.

This is because the soul is higher than the body.

The soul is spiritual and eternal. It was never born and never does. It is pure being.

According to the pronouncements of ancient philosophy, the soul existed before the body and survives the body’s death.

In the heights of the soul are our highest and noblest qualities.

Now, let’s turn to the Square.

The Square is the lower of the two. It is depicted beneath the Compass.

The Square represents the body, which is physical and temporary.

The body was born a short time ago and will soon die a horrible death.

In the depths of the body lie our lowest desires and carnal appetites.

The Square, as an instrument, draws a four-sided square.

The four-sided square is an age-old symbol of the material world, where the physical body is born and dies.

The number four and the square has always epitomized the material world:

• The Four Cardinal Points (North, South, East, West)
• The Four Seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall)
• The Four Elements (Earth, Air, Water, Fire)
• The Four States of Matter (Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma)

When placed together, the Compass & Square convey the once-secret teaching that we are more than just the animal body we now find ourselves clothed in; the aging egotistical animal we see in the mirror each day.

There is a spark of divinity within us, which is the eternal soul beneath our animal body—the spiritual part of us that animates the body and that departs when the body dies.

Notice how the Masonic Compass (our soul) is always drawn with its point toward the heavens as though falling from the sky, while the Square or body is drawn with its point toward the earth as though emerging from the earth.

This is because, according to the ancients, when we are born the soul falls from our true home and eternal source in the divine heavens. It falls into a human body—a body that arises here on earth.

In Western religion this story is known as the “Fall of Man And His Descent Into Matter” (Matter being the material world in which we now live).

The Compass & Square, when placed together, convey exactly this Fall of Man teaching.

The Compass & Square denote Man’s “double nature” after the Fall—a soul inside a body.

In Morals & Dogma, Freemason Albert Pike wrote:

“The Compass, as the Symbol of the Heavens, represents the spiritual portion of this double nature of Humanity…and the Square, as the Symbol of the Earth, its material, sensual, and baser portion.”

This knowledge pertaining to the Body and Soul of man forms the foundation of a tremendously advanced “Sacred Science” that was once common to all the ancient empires on earth, from the Egyptians to the Incas—a Sacred Science that is nothing less than the Lost Wisdom of Freemasonry.

(For more on this, visit www.DeeperTruth.com and download my PDF report.)

Here are some more interesting thoughts:

“According to this mystic doctrine…all souls have pre-existence and have descended from the spiritual world into the earthly prison of the body…” —John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, late1800s

“…ancient mythicism considered and named those souls incarnated on earth as “the dead.” “To die” was to incarnate; “death” was…the “tomb” of the flesh.” —Alvin Kuhn, mid 1900s

“The human body is the “tomb of transformation” ; the grave into which the soul descends for the purpose of working out its own salvation, for transforming and improving itself, and ascending out of it the stronger and wiser for the experience.”
—W.L. Wilmshurst, early 1900s

The Greek philosophers went as far as to say the soul is “imprisoned” in the body, because the human body is not the true home of the soul but an imperfect and transitory vehicle.

The body imprisons the soul because the body must be cared for. In order to survive, the body must constantly:

• Breathe
• Eat
• Drink
• Maintain A Constant Temperature
• Fight Disease

Even if the body can endure for decades, death will eventually destroy it.

The soul is thus imprisoned in these conditions over which is has no control.

However…the soul is not completely powerless.

Because it is eternal, the soul comes complete with its own inherent powers—powers that can be rediscovered and exercised right here in the material world.

Though in a “fallen state” the soul never lost these powers; they have merely been “covered up” by the body, rendering them unrecognizable.

As CS Lewis tells us:

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Again: You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Masonry exists not only to reveal to Man the presence of his inner soul, but to help him rediscover its higher powers—powers that have been covered up by the body.

Let me repeat. Masonry exists not only to reveal to Man the presence of his inner soul, but to help him rediscover its higher powers—powers that have been covered up by the body.

And this rediscovery is by way of the Sacred Science of true Freemasonry, which is symbolized by the Compass & Square.

Of course, we can’t get into any of it here. Suffice for now for us to recognize that the Compass & Square are a doorway to parts unknown, about our world, our lives, ourselves.

We know we have a body, a Square. It’s clear. We see it in the mirror each day.

But the Compass teaches us about the part we can’t see, the part we can’t touch, hear, taste or feel—the higher “soul within” or “god within,” which is who we really are.

And it’s this part that is more powerful than we can imagine. Remember, our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

If you want more light in Masonry you won’t ever get it without first knowing that the Compass & Square symbolize—they are symbols of—your soul and your body.

Your soul inside your body.

Did you think you were going to learn more about ancient mysticism, the Freemasons, and the meaning of life?

What if I told you that you can find everything you need to know about these topics and much more, in the next few minutes?

Would you follow my lead?

Over the past two decades, I’ve made incredible leaps and bounds into the lost wisdom of the Freemasons, and I’m now prepared to begin sharing my findings with the world.

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For over ten years I’ve been working on a very special project. You can read more about it here: www.DeeperTruth.com

Several years ago I found a “message” encoded in the architecture of the world’s Gothic cathedrals:

There’s clearly a common blueprint at work here, visible on all the world’s Gothic cathedrals.

What does this blueprint mean? Is it just a random design? Or is there a deeper “meaning” or “message” or even “warning” behind this pattern?—legible only in symbolic form?

I’m certain I understand the message intended by the builders.

I’ve created this blog (www.RichardCassaro.com) because I want to share my findings with you.

In the coming weeks, months, and years I’ll be revealing everything I’ve learned about this mysterious and ancient Cathedral Code.

I believe that, if it ever became widely known, the info contained here would change the way we look at the world, history, and even ourselves.

And the best part is, you don’t really have to be a scholar to understand this information.

I promise to tell you more soon. I’m very excited about this. There will be a lot more to come in the near future.

What I am sharing with you has completely changed my life and I think it could change yours too.