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00:01Since the dawn of civilization, the powerful have conspired to twist the course of history, to suit their own designs.
00:11Like puppeteers, a few shadowy figures could still be pulling the strings of destiny from billions.
00:18Those who cry conspiracy are usually mocked at, for sometimes the truth is so obvious it goes unnoticed.
00:25Are those merely paranoid fantasies, cooked up to feed the appetite of paperback readers and web surfers, but which bear
00:34no relation to reality?
00:35Or are we living out some perfectly executed plan?
00:39Wars, revolutions, social movements, terrorist attacks.
00:45Everything is given an official explanation, but perhaps nothing is what it seems to be.
00:50Let's dare to unveil the incredible world of secret societies.
00:57United States of America, the most powerful nation of all time.
01:02A good friend to have, a terrible enemy to confront.
01:06But the world champions of democracy may be hiding a dirty little secret, because they may well be the first
01:12ever Masonic country.
01:13A nation built on secret alliances, yet still their very own citizens remain unaware.
01:19As does the entire world.
01:25In the world.
01:52Among those who instigated the American Revolution,
01:54the French Revolution and the Latin American Wars of Independence,
01:57a startling number were either paid up Freemasons or sympathetic to Freemasonry.
02:03But particularly in the case of the United States,
02:06the Masonic influence didn't stop once independence had been achieved.
02:11Freemasonry also later participated in the planning and development of this country's political infrastructure
02:16and in the management of it up to modern day.
02:19Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on one's opinion about Freemasonry.
02:23So first, we should understand what Freemasonry is all about.
02:29Freemasonry is a secret brotherhood whose origins go back to the builders' guilds of the Middle Ages.
02:36Mason in French means bricklayer.
02:39It was born out of the need of these craftsmen to aggressively protect their skills
02:44and by doing so, to maintain their status and livelihoods.
02:49In addition, their secrecy helped save their brethren from official persecution
02:55since many of the Masonic ideals clashed head-on with those of the Church in Rome.
03:03By the end of the Middle Ages, Masonry had evolved into Freemasonry,
03:08or free and accepted Masons.
03:12Free for not admitting slaves or serfs into their ranks,
03:16and accepted for now accepting not only builders,
03:20but also anyone who swore allegiance to their rules.
03:26Freemasonry became an anti-clerical, an anti-monarchical and secret society
03:31that kept many of the symbols and rituals of the original builders' guilds.
03:37Though it became a civilian social organisation,
03:40with avowedly humanistic objectives,
03:43on many occasions, its operations were secret
03:46and unmistakably political.
03:52For centuries, Freemasonry was officially persecuted
03:55by the Church and the establishment.
03:57However, many nobles and clergymen did in fact belong to this secret society.
04:02Its ability to attract even those who were supposed to be against it
04:06made Freemasonry all that more intriguing and disturbing.
04:11The origins of Freemasonry in the United States go back to 1682,
04:17when Scotsman John Skeen, an active member of the Scottish Aberdeen Lodge,
04:22took residence in the American colony of New England.
04:26Three years later, he was made Deputy Governor of West Jersey.
04:30Jonathan Belcher, who was Royal Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire,
04:35became a Freemason in London in 1704,
04:37and boasted of being the first Freemason to be born in the United States.
04:45By 1776, what we now call the United States
04:49were barely 13 small colonies crowded upon the East Coast.
04:53They had been founded by English Protestant Puritans,
04:55the famous Pilgrims,
04:57who had been expelled from England by the powerful Anglican Church.
05:01The rest of the country was a rich and vast terrain
05:04inhabited exclusively by native tribes,
05:07an unexplored land that was more often than not conquered at gunpoint.
05:13This was an era where men worked,
05:16fought, and dreamed,
05:18while God watched them from the pulpit,
05:21or so they believed.
05:22In that rugged landscape,
05:25within a social structure dominated by the Puritans,
05:28the first Freemasons began to disseminate the revolutionary ideas
05:32that they had brought from Europe.
05:34Ideas of religious freedom,
05:35independence,
05:38silence,
05:39rationalism,
05:40and humanism.
05:43The emerging American Freemasons
05:46were strongly influenced by the Rosicrucians,
05:48another secret society
05:50that was created in Germany in the early 15th century
05:53for the study of the hidden arts.
05:55The American Freemasons
05:57adopted many of the Rosicrucians' mystical ways,
06:00as well as their Greek and Egyptian symbols.
06:03symbols that can be seen
06:04in many American national emblems today.
06:08The Rosicrucians claim to have founded
06:10their first American lodge in 1694
06:14in Philadelphia,
06:16when William Penn,
06:17the Quaker who founded the first American community
06:20to advocate total religious liberty,
06:23Pennsylvania,
06:25invited Johann Jacob Zimmermann's
06:27Chapter of Perfection
06:29to leave Germany and join them.
06:33Zimmermann,
06:34a Rosicrucian,
06:36believed that Christ would return in the year 1700.
06:40So in 1694,
06:42they built an observatory on American soil
06:45to watch for the return of the Lord.
06:49To Zimmermann's regret,
06:51Jesus did not show up,
06:53and the Rosicrucians subsequently dispersed
06:55around Pennsylvania.
06:56Some of them became wandering spiritual healers
06:59who used amulets and stage ceremonies
07:02to ensure good crops
07:04and to drive away bad luck.
07:08In 1717,
07:09the Great Lodge of England was founded.
07:12It claimed authority over all other lodges
07:15in the English colonies.
07:17But the American lodges rejected the right
07:20of the Great Lodge
07:21to exert control over them,
07:23and they did not recognize its authority.
07:26The Great Lodge of England countered this
07:29by encouraging the creation of several other
07:31faithful lodges in the colonies.
07:35It's important to point out
07:36that the uprising of the American Masonic lodges
07:39against the English ones
07:40predates the American Revolution
07:42by many years.
07:43Therefore,
07:44whether this was planned or not,
07:46they became the very first bearers
07:48of revolutionary thought.
07:49As they grew in number,
07:51the vision of independence
07:52spread across the whole country.
07:54In 1776,
07:56the United States declared their independence,
07:58and soon after,
07:59their constitution was adopted.
08:01The contribution of Freemasonry
08:03in these events was fundamental,
08:05since many brethren were involved.
08:10In 1732,
08:13Benjamin Franklin was initiated
08:15into the Turn Tavern Lodge
08:17in Philadelphia.
08:20That same year,
08:22James Oglethorpe,
08:24founder of the Savannah Colony,
08:26which would later become the state of Georgia,
08:28created the Solomon Lodge.
08:31It was here that the two men
08:33destined to become
08:33the first Jewish-American Freemasons.
08:37Moses and Daniel Nunes
08:38were initiated.
08:41Regardless of their origin,
08:43these English and native lodges
08:45spread like wildfire
08:46throughout the country,
08:48fuelled by the prestige
08:49that came with being a member of them.
08:51In 1740,
08:52most respectable men
08:53in the New England colonies
08:54either were
08:55or wanted to become
08:57Freemasons.
08:59In 1773,
09:01a group of outraged Mohawks
09:03staged a protest
09:05against what they considered
09:07unfair English custom duties
09:08by dumping overboard
09:10the tea cargo
09:11of three ships.
09:13It was the famous
09:14Boston Tea Party.
09:17Today,
09:17it is suspected
09:18that many of those
09:18supposed Mohawks
09:20were in fact disguised
09:21Freemasons
09:22who belonged to
09:24the St. Andrew's Lodge
09:24of Boston,
09:26a lodge that curiously
09:28did not convene that night.
09:31The church was particularly
09:32infuriated
09:33by the fact that
09:34many Freemasons
09:35supported deism,
09:37a Christian philosophy
09:38that believes in a personal God
09:40and upholds
09:41a purely rational
09:42interpretation of Scripture,
09:45discrediting revelation.
09:48According to deistic principles,
09:50the Bible holds many truths,
09:52and wisdom,
09:54but it is not inspired by God.
09:58Deists also deny
09:59that Jesus is the Son of God
10:01and claim that faith
10:02is no substitute
10:03for observable facts.
10:07They do not believe
10:09in prophets
10:09or miracles.
10:13God can only be known
10:15through experience
10:17and knowledge.
10:19For the Church of England,
10:21as well as for the Puritans,
10:24deism was clearly
10:24a heresy
10:26that had to be wiped out.
10:31The persecution
10:32of heretic Freemasons
10:33was relentless,
10:34but nothing could stop them.
10:36Soon,
10:36the British colonies
10:37in America
10:38would take their first
10:39great steps
10:39towards liberty,
10:40and in their footsteps,
10:42the trace of Freemasonry
10:43could be clearly seen.
10:46Freemason and revolutionary ideas
10:48blended well.
10:50Masonic principles chimed
10:52for the American culture
10:53of the era,
10:54steeped as it was
10:55in notions of fraternity,
10:57liberty,
10:58and equality.
11:01Pennsylvania was a particularly
11:03fertile breeding ground
11:04for Freemason.
11:07Since its inhabitants
11:08considered it
11:09to be the promised land,
11:11those who had suffered
11:12persecution in Europe.
11:15Here, Freemason symbols
11:16even appeared on crockery
11:18and home furniture.
11:22Although Freemasons
11:24were in favour of equality,
11:25slavery was still in existence
11:27in the United States,
11:28and they did not
11:29accept black people.
11:30So those freed slaves
11:33began to found
11:33their own lodges.
11:34Such was the case
11:36of the Prince Hall Lodge.
11:39In 1775,
11:41while still under British rule,
11:43the most worshipful
11:45Prince Hall Grand Lodge
11:47was created in Boston
11:48as a segregated chapter
11:50for free blacks,
11:52named after an emancipated slave,
11:54Prince Hall.
11:56During the War of Independence,
11:58many of these black Freemasons
12:00including Prince Hall
12:01joined the Revolutionary Forces
12:03and fought with the Continental Army
12:06against the British.
12:08Today, the Prince Hall Fraternity
12:10has over 4,500 lodges worldwide,
12:14with a membership
12:15of over 300,000 Freemasons.
12:20In 1776,
12:22the United States of America
12:24declared their independence,
12:25and soon after,
12:26their constitution was adopted.
12:28The contribution of Freemasonry
12:30in these events
12:31was fundamental,
12:32since many brethren
12:33were involved.
12:35But it didn't end there.
12:36Freemasonry's involvement
12:38went a lot deeper,
12:39and it was at the foundation
12:40of the whole governmental system.
12:42So one wonders
12:44what previous oaths
12:45had the Freemason
12:46founding fathers taken
12:47before placing their right hand
12:49on the new constitution,
12:50and how much of what
12:51has been built since
12:53was done to protect
12:54the interest of the Freemasons.
12:5716% of the signatories
12:59of the Declaration of Independence
13:01were Freemasons.
13:04A quarter of the signatories
13:05of the Articles of Confederation
13:07were Freemasons.
13:09And a third of the signatories
13:11of the Constitution
13:11were Freemasons.
13:14By the time George Washington
13:16took the oath of office
13:17as first president of the USA,
13:19a third of the governors
13:21of the original colonies
13:22were Freemasons too.
13:25Freemason John A.C. Muhlenberg
13:28was the first speaker
13:29of the House of Representatives.
13:32Freemasons John J. Blair
13:33and William Cushing
13:35were justices
13:36in the first Supreme Court.
13:39Close to 46% of the officers
13:41of the Continental Army,
13:43or Independence Army,
13:45were Freemasons,
13:47as were almost half
13:48of their 78 generals.
13:51Now, if we heed
13:52to the Freemasonry's ideals
13:53of liberty and fraternity
13:55and focus on its positive contributions,
13:58maybe it wouldn't matter
13:59if the United States
14:00is a Masonic country.
14:01However, we are speaking
14:03of a secret society
14:04that for centuries
14:05has practiced strange rituals
14:07and taken mysterious oaths
14:09and whose practices
14:10have all taken place
14:11behind closed doors.
14:13So what if the most important
14:14democracy in the world
14:15really responded
14:17to the interests
14:17of small groups of people
14:19whose actual goals
14:20are kept secret
14:21from its own citizens?
14:23How much of the phrase
14:24all men are equal
14:25under the law
14:26remains true
14:27when we discover
14:28that the architects
14:29of this great democracy
14:30belong to societies
14:32whose members
14:32protect each other
14:33and won't even
14:34let their own women join?
14:37After the declaration
14:38of independence,
14:40American lodges
14:41declared their own independence
14:42and stopped concealing
14:44their existence.
14:46They began to open
14:47headquarters in public buildings
14:48for all to see.
14:50This increased
14:51their popularity.
14:54Masonic halls
14:55were often used
14:56for social
14:56and civil gatherings
14:57since they were usually
14:59the best venues in town.
15:01In spite of their declared
15:03non-political affiliation,
15:05Masonic lodges
15:06indeed became active
15:07in politics
15:07and often operated openly
15:10and side by side
15:12with the established
15:13political parties.
15:17Today we can see
15:18numerous traces
15:19that confirm
15:19the presence
15:20of Freemasonry
15:21in America.
15:22They are in plain view
15:23all around us
15:24from the more conspicuous
15:26Masonic temples
15:27to the lesser known symbols
15:29that are incorporated
15:30in its very own currency.
15:32And that is only
15:33the tip of the iceberg.
15:34What is actually
15:35below the surface?
15:36What is it
15:37that these symbols mean?
15:39That almost 300 million
15:40citizens swear by
15:41every day?
15:42What is the true ideology
15:44of the most powerful
15:45country in the world?
15:46And how does it
15:47affect their actions?
15:48And where
15:49will it lead them?
16:09In the early 18th century,
16:11Freemason became
16:12particularly strong
16:13and influential
16:14in North America,
16:15where it played a key role
16:17in the creation
16:17of what today we know
16:19as the United States
16:20of America.
16:22Many of the USA's
16:24founding fathers
16:25were Freemasons,
16:27among them
16:27Benjamin Franklin.
16:30Franklin was a printer,
16:33scientist,
16:34inventor,
16:35politician,
16:36and diplomat.
16:37In 1726,
16:39upon returning
16:40from England,
16:41he founded
16:42his own secret society,
16:44the Leather Apron Club.
16:47He was later
16:48initiated a freeman
16:49in a Philadelphia lodge
16:50and published
16:51the first American book
16:53on Freemasonry
16:54in 1734,
16:56the year that he was
16:58named Provincial Grand Master
16:59of the Grand Lodge
17:01of Pennsylvania.
17:03In 1755,
17:06Franklin participated
17:07in the inauguration
17:08of the first Masonic Hall
17:10in Philadelphia.
17:13Without a doubt,
17:15Franklin was fully committed
17:16to the cause.
17:17But which cause was that?
17:19American?
17:19Masonic?
17:20Both, perhaps.
17:22Another famous American
17:23Freemason
17:24was George Washington,
17:26and a statue of him
17:27can still be seen today
17:28posing as a Baphomet,
17:30a Masonic icon
17:31related to Lucifer.
17:33A mere coincidence,
17:34or does this have
17:35a more significant meaning?
17:37So what is the statue
17:38trying to tell us?
17:39The neoconservatives
17:41and ultra-religious groups
17:42in the USA today
17:43should perhaps ask themselves
17:45what exactly
17:46are they celebrating
17:47on the 4th of July?
17:49George Washington
17:51was initiated in 1752
17:53while still a youth
17:55in Friedrichsburg, Virginia.
17:57The following year,
17:59he obtained the rank
17:59of Master Freemason.
18:02He took the oath of office
18:04as first President of the USA
18:05in the Federal Hall
18:07on Wall Street.
18:09using a Bible loaned
18:10by the neighbouring
18:11St. John's Number One Lodge.
18:15Centuries later,
18:16another GW,
18:18George W. Bush,
18:20swore on the same Bible,
18:23though he does not admit
18:24to being a Freemason.
18:27In May 1791,
18:29George Washington
18:30announced the creation
18:32of the new country's
18:33capital city,
18:35which would rise
18:36on the banks
18:36of the Potomac River.
18:39A month later,
18:41a group of Freemasons
18:42gathered in the town
18:43of Alexandria
18:44for a ceremony
18:45in which they laid
18:46the foundation stone
18:47of the city
18:48that would soon be called
18:49Washington, D.C.,
18:51and whose design
18:52would be influenced
18:53by Masonic symbolism.
18:56On September 18, 1793,
19:01George Washington,
19:02wearing the leather apron
19:03and ruff for Grand Master,
19:06laid the foundation stone
19:07of the capital,
19:08a building that has
19:10all the hallmarks
19:11of Masonic architecture.
19:14The capital of the United States
19:16of America
19:17is perhaps the city
19:18with the most symbolism
19:19in the world.
19:20The design of its buildings,
19:22statues and monuments
19:24are true to the Freemason principles
19:26upon which the city
19:27was founded.
19:30The first blueprints
19:32of the capital
19:32were drawn up
19:34in August 1791
19:35by French engineer
19:37Pierre-Charles L'Enfant.
19:39L'Enfant worked together
19:40with the American civil engineer
19:42and astronomer
19:43Andrew Ellicott,
19:45who charted the land
19:46in 1790
19:48under the directions
19:49of Thomas Jefferson
19:50and George Washington.
19:53Except for Jefferson,
19:55they were all Freemasons.
19:58In L'Enfant's blueprints,
20:00the three most important buildings,
20:03the Capitol,
20:04the White House,
20:05and Washington's monument,
20:07the Obelisk,
20:09form a right-angled triangle
20:10where the hypotenuse
20:12is Pennsylvania Avenue
20:13between the White House
20:15and the Capitol.
20:16The set square
20:18is the Masonic symbol
20:19by excellence.
20:24It's worth asking
20:25why American symbols
20:26do not portray anything American,
20:28for example,
20:29the Obelisk.
20:30Although it stands out
20:31in an unmistakable way,
20:33few question
20:34why this Egyptian symbol
20:35stands dominantly
20:36in the heart of the city
20:37rather than something
20:38a little more American.
20:40The answer is obelisks,
20:42like many other Egyptian constructions,
20:44such as pyramids,
20:45are hermetic symbols,
20:46and therefore both Masonic
20:48and especially Rosicrucian.
20:52True to their origins as builders,
20:55Freemasons always gave fundamental importance
20:58to architectonic symbols.
21:02To this day,
21:03there are those who assert
21:04the intersection
21:05of Massachusetts Avenue,
21:07Rhode Island Avenue,
21:09Connecticut Avenue,
21:11Vermont Avenue,
21:13and K Street Northwest
21:14form a Pythagorean Pentagram
21:17or Five-Point Star,
21:20a design scheme
21:21which many evangelists
21:23and other conservative groups
21:24are believed to be satanic.
21:27We can conclude
21:29that Washington, D.C.
21:31is, right from its foundational design,
21:34a symbolic evocation
21:36of Masonic principles.
21:39In the early 19th century,
21:42America was swarming
21:42with Masonic lodges
21:44and their members
21:45were all important people
21:46in the community.
21:47Now, if the Brotherhood
21:48had done so much
21:49for the American Revolution,
21:50if their principles
21:52were so innocent
21:53and they enjoyed
21:54widespread influence
21:55and social prestige,
21:56why did the lodgers
21:57still remain so secretive?
21:59What did they have to hide
22:01once free from the monarchy
22:02and the Church of England?
22:04Perhaps the many Freemasons
22:05that are studied
22:06in American history textbooks today
22:08could have provided us
22:09with the answers.
22:12In 1801,
22:14John Marshall,
22:16previously Grand Master
22:17of Virginia,
22:18was named Chief Justice
22:20of the Supreme Court.
22:24In 1804,
22:26Lewis and Clark,
22:27both Freemasons,
22:30left St. Louis
22:30to explore the Pacific Coast,
22:33becoming the first pioneers
22:36and in the process
22:37claiming land
22:38that belonged to Native Americans
22:39in the name of the United States
22:42and presumably Freemasonry.
22:47Freemason Stephen Austin
22:49established the first
22:51Anglo-American colony
22:52in the Mexican state
22:53of Texas.
22:57Andrew Jackson
22:58was the first president
23:00of the USA
23:01to previously have been
23:03Grand Master
23:03of his own state.
23:05He was in office
23:07from 1829
23:08to 1837.
23:12However,
23:13in this
23:13its most active period,
23:15Freemasonry
23:16was infiltrated
23:17by a sect
23:18who had disturbing objectives,
23:20the Illuminati
23:21of Bavaria,
23:22who were,
23:23or still are,
23:24a mysterious organization
23:25who were capable
23:26of infiltrating
23:27one of the oldest
23:28brotherhoods in the world
23:29to manipulate it
23:31for their own needs.
23:53Freemasonry
23:54was undoubtedly
23:54the starting point
23:55for many of the most
23:57progressive ideas
23:58of the 18th century.
24:00In the American continent,
24:02the Old European Brotherhood
24:04found a fertile soil
24:05for its anti-menarchic
24:07and anti-clergy ideas
24:09to flourish.
24:11Freemasonry
24:12had a direct
24:12and profound influence
24:14on the independence movements
24:16of Argentina,
24:17Chile,
24:18Ecuador,
24:19Peru,
24:21Venezuela,
24:22Colombia,
24:23and, of course,
24:25the United States
24:25of America.
24:29Up to this point,
24:30we can say
24:31that beyond
24:31the typical criticism,
24:33Freemasonry's role
24:34in American history
24:35was positive.
24:37In 1776,
24:38in Germany,
24:39the Order of Illuminati
24:40of Bavaria
24:41was founded.
24:42This was an organization
24:44created by a megalomaniac
24:45that very soon
24:46infiltrated
24:47almost all
24:48the European Freemasonry
24:50and perhaps
24:50the American lodges too.
24:53The Illuminati
24:54proposed putting
24:55an end to religion
24:56and all established government
24:58to create
24:59a new world order.
25:00When they were exposed,
25:02people began to panic
25:03and the whole of Freemasonry
25:05was subject to suspicion.
25:07And from this,
25:08it would never fully recover.
25:11In 1776,
25:13just a few months
25:15before the American
25:16Declaration of Independence,
25:18the Order of the Illuminati
25:20was founded in Bavaria,
25:22in what is today
25:23part of Germany.
25:26Their founder
25:27and driving force
25:29was Adam Weishaupt,
25:31an eccentric idealist
25:33and a true megalomaniac
25:36who, inspired
25:38by the ideas
25:38of Rousseau,
25:39went in a quest
25:40to satisfy
25:41his own
25:42vaulting ambitions.
25:46Just like
25:47the great philosopher,
25:49Weishaupt upheld
25:50that man should embrace
25:51his pure,
25:52natural state
25:53and govern himself.
25:56But unlike Rousseau,
25:58Weishaupt advocated
26:00the dissolution
26:00of the state,
26:01the abolition
26:02of private property
26:03and the banning
26:04of all religions.
26:06He wants to recast
26:08all existing societies
26:09and cultures
26:10into a single,
26:12secular order,
26:14one that he himself
26:15would rule.
26:17Adam Weishaupt
26:19intended to be
26:19a true world dictator.
26:23The Order of the Illuminati
26:25spread throughout here
26:26and grew strong
26:27among Freemasons
26:28and the nobility
26:29until they were eventually
26:31discovered
26:32and their ambitions
26:33thwarted,
26:34or so it was believed
26:35at the time.
26:37However,
26:38it is suspected
26:39that years later
26:40the French Revolution
26:42and its subsequent
26:43phase of terror
26:44were carefully staged
26:46and managed
26:47by the Illuminati.
26:49In 1798,
26:51their presence
26:52was reported
26:52in America,
26:54causing the infamous
26:55New England Illuminati panic.
26:58If since 1776 the Illuminati
27:01had infiltrated Freemasonry,
27:03one could ask
27:04how many of the founding fathers
27:06were Illuminati
27:07as well as being Freemasons?
27:09This possibility
27:11was perfect ammunition
27:12for the enemies
27:13of Freemasonry.
27:16With the Declaration of Independence,
27:18the United States
27:19established
27:20freedom of working.
27:22The religious
27:23and conservative
27:24sectors were furious
27:25and an anti-Masonic
27:27campaign
27:27was soon up and running.
27:30The New England
27:30Illuminati panic
27:31could have been
27:32a manufactured propaganda
27:33campaign
27:34designed to nullify
27:36the actions
27:36of the founding fathers.
27:38Or it could have been genuine.
27:41The fact remains
27:42that John Adams,
27:44the second President
27:45of the United States,
27:47designated May the 9th
27:49as a day of fasting
27:50and worship
27:51to implore the Heaven's mercy
27:54and blessing
27:56for the imperiled nation.
27:58After this statement
28:00from Adams,
28:00the paranoia
28:01of the Illuminati
28:02became hysteria.
28:03The prestigious
28:04Reverend Jedediah Morse
28:05of Boston
28:06devoted three months
28:07of sermons
28:08to condemn
28:08what he called
28:09a conspiracy
28:10to attack
28:11their true religion
28:11and liberty.
28:12He held the Illuminati
28:14responsible
28:14of attempting
28:15to destroy the system,
28:16unleash chaos
28:17and take control
28:18of the world.
28:20Morse based his theories
28:22on those of
28:22Scottish Freemason
28:23John Robison
28:25who maintained
28:26that the Illuminati
28:27who attacked
28:29thrones and altars
28:30had already established
28:31themselves
28:32in the United States.
28:34Morse's sermons
28:35along with the wide
28:37circulation
28:38of Robison's books
28:39and those of
28:40Abbott Augustin
28:41Baruel
28:41stoked the hysteria
28:43and provoked
28:45sensationalist
28:46newspaper stories.
28:48In the end,
28:49no hard evidence
28:51of an Illuminati
28:51conspiracy
28:52could ever be found.
28:55However,
28:56there is one
28:56curious fact.
28:58Thomas Jefferson
28:58himself,
28:59one of the founding
29:00fathers of the
29:01new nation,
29:02defended the Illuminati
29:03in writing.
29:04From that moment on,
29:05he would be accused
29:06himself of being
29:07one of the
29:07infiltrators in
29:08America.
29:11After reading
29:12one of the books
29:12by Burwell,
29:14Jefferson wrote
29:14a letter to
29:15Bishop Madison
29:16saying that
29:18Adam Weishaupt
29:19believes in the
29:20indefinite
29:21perfectibility
29:22of man,
29:23he thinks that he
29:24may in time
29:25be rendered
29:26so perfect
29:26that he will
29:28be able to
29:28govern himself
29:29in every
29:30circumstance
29:31so as to
29:32injure none,
29:33to do all the
29:34good he can,
29:35to leave
29:36government no
29:37occasion to
29:38exercise their
29:38powers over him,
29:40and, of course,
29:41to render
29:42political government
29:43useless.
29:46This, you know,
29:47is not far removed
29:48from our own
29:49ideals.
29:53Was Thomas
29:54Jefferson an
29:55Illuminati?
29:56His enemies
29:57immediately used
29:58this letter
29:58against him.
30:00The Federalist
30:02Party hit back
30:03and accused
30:04the Democratic
30:05Republican Party
30:06headed by
30:07Jefferson and
30:08Madison
30:09of being
30:10puppets
30:11controlled by
30:12the Illuminati.
30:13The truth
30:14perhaps will
30:15never be known,
30:16but it is
30:17worth pointing
30:18out that
30:19Jefferson's
30:19and Madison's
30:20Party is the
30:22direct ancestor
30:23of the modern
30:24Republican and
30:25Democrat parties
30:26that have
30:27dominated the
30:28US political
30:28system since
30:30the Civil War.
30:32The design of
30:33the Great Seal
30:33of the USA
30:34itself is covered
30:35with Masonic
30:36symbols, some
30:37even dare say
30:38Illuminati
30:38symbols, and
30:39this seal is
30:40printed, of all
30:41places, on the
30:42dollar bill, the
30:43very currency that
30:44rules the world.
30:46The Great Seal
30:47of the US was
30:48created in 1782, and
30:51due to its
30:51Masonic symbolism, it
30:53has been accused of
30:54being both Illuminati
30:55and Satanist by
30:57various conservative
30:58and religious
30:59groups.
31:00One side shows the
31:01American-born eagle.
31:03The original design
31:04had a phoenix,
31:06another Masonic
31:06symbol.
31:08Above the eagle can
31:09be seen 13 stars
31:11inside a circular
31:12design, representing
31:14a new constellation.
31:17The stars are five
31:18pointed of pentagrams,
31:21a Masonic and
31:22hermetic symbol.
31:24It is often linked
31:25to Satanic worship.
31:27The layout of the
31:28pentagrams forms a
31:29hexagram, or Star of
31:30David, another
31:32Kabbalistic and hermetic
31:34symbol.
31:35On the right
31:36claw, 13 arrows.
31:39On the left, an olive
31:40branch, with 13 leaves.
31:43Across the breast of the
31:44eagle, a shield, with 13
31:47stripes.
31:49Why 13?
31:50Maybe because this was the
31:51number of the original
31:52American colonies, or maybe
31:55because this is the number
31:56of Illuminati degrees.
31:58But the most curious
31:59details on the reverse
32:01side of the sea, where
32:03there is a truncated
32:04pyramid with 13 steps.
32:07The capstone bears the
32:08symbol of the great
32:09architect of the universe,
32:11the all-seeing eye.
32:14Underneath the pyramid
32:15reads, Novus Ordo
32:18Seclum, or New
32:20Secular Order.
32:23Strikingly similar to the
32:24Illuminati's manifesto
32:26for a new world order.
32:28It is also possible to
32:30draw a pentagram, whose
32:31vertices rest on letters
32:32M, A, S, O, A, and
32:37the all-seeing eye.
32:39These letters spell both
32:40Mason, as well as
32:42A-O-N-S-M, that could
32:45stand for Ancient Order,
32:47Noble Mystic Shrine, an
32:50order appendant to
32:51Freemasonry.
32:52The pyramid itself is a
32:55typical Masonic symbol.
32:57The year 1776, in Roman
32:59numerals, corresponds to
33:01that of the Declaration of
33:02Independence, but also to
33:04the year in which the
33:06Order of the Illuminati
33:07was founded.
33:08A pluribus unum means
33:11from all, one.
33:12A phrase that has been
33:13associated with the
33:15Illuminati plans of world
33:17domination under a single
33:19government.
33:22What part of this is mere
33:23chance?
33:24How much just fantasy?
33:26And what is actually true?
33:28Who can say?
33:29Though we cannot forget that
33:31most of these accusations
33:32came from the ultra-
33:34conservative sectors,
33:35similar to those that still
33:37prevail in the United States
33:38today.
33:39People who are over-sensitive,
33:41phobic, and paranoid, and
33:43fans of the traditional sport
33:45of witch-hunting.
33:46The panic generated by
33:48Morse's sermons finally
33:50dissipated, but less than
33:52three decades later, a
33:53massive anti-Masonic
33:54paranoia was unleashed, and
33:57this time its members would
33:59be pursued relentlessly.
34:20In September 1826, in the small
34:24town of Batavia, in New York
34:26state, a man named William
34:28Morgan would disappear.
34:31He was a former Freemason
34:32and a swindler, who had
34:34threatened to write a book
34:35revealing the secrets of the
34:37secret society.
34:38Up until then, many anti-Masonic
34:40books had been published, but
34:42all of them had been written
34:43by outsiders.
34:45Morgan's book promised to be
34:46the first one written by an
34:48insider, and one which would
34:50reveal some of their deepest
34:51secrets.
34:55The Freemasons of Batavia first
34:57tried to burn down the print,
34:59and then managed to have Morgan
35:00accused of petty crimes.
35:03Finally, they abducted him, and
35:05carried him to Fort Niagara,
35:07Lake Ontario, ordering him to
35:09cross the border into Canada.
35:11They said they gave him $500, a
35:14horse, and told him to head
35:16north, and never come back.
35:19Morgan was never seen again.
35:24Without doubt, the Freemasons'
35:26reaction was horrific, but those
35:28were wild times, and America was
35:30a wild country.
35:31Many suspected that the only
35:32journey that Morgan made was to
35:34the bottom of the lake.
35:35The fact remains that nobody saw
35:37him alive again, and the episode
35:39ended in a suspicious trial that
35:41unleashed the wrath of the
35:42population, and a witch hunt
35:44followed.
35:45Twenty-six Freemasons were
35:47accused, and six of them faced
35:49trial, although not for murder.
35:53The verdicts were very lenient.
35:55It was widely believed that the
35:58district attorney and the judges
36:00were the Freemasons.
36:02This caused a wave of
36:04demonstrations, began moving, and
36:07spread all over the country.
36:09Public opinion was once again
36:11in flame.
36:15In the long run, the book was
36:17finally published by a daring
36:18associate of Morgans.
36:20The paranoid and scandalous tone
36:22of the book made it an immediate
36:23bestseller.
36:24The average American already loved
36:26to imagine conspiracies and
36:28speculate about invisible enemies.
36:30Suddenly, the honourable and
36:32prestigious society became a
36:34sinister sect in the public eye.
36:37On St. John's Day, 3,000 people went to the
36:41headquarters of the Batavia Lodge,
36:43attacked the Freemasons, and looted the
36:46premises.
36:48In every town and village, lists were
36:51published, denouncing the local
36:53Freemasons.
36:54In the years that followed, anti-Masonic
36:57sentiments spread all over the United
36:59States.
37:01In the 1832 presidential election, the
37:04anti-Masonic party came in third, with
37:088% of the votes going to its calendar,
37:10William Wirt, a former Freemason.
37:16Freemasonry stood accused of being
37:17anti-democratic, anti-American, and
37:20anti-Christian.
37:22A cloud of suspicion was cast over all
37:24the country regarding Freemason congressmen,
37:26judges, and public servants.
37:29It would not be the last time that a
37:31ghost enemy would be created in times of
37:34elections.
37:37Between 1827 and 1837, Freemasons dropped
37:43in numbers, from 100,000 to 40,000.
37:51Of the 500 active lodgers in New York,
37:54only 75 remained.
37:57Many went underground and abandoned their
38:00annual banquets and parades.
38:04But Freemasonry had thick roots that ran
38:07deep.
38:07In just a few years, thanks to a certain
38:09Albert Pike, it made an amazing comeback.
38:12And since that new resurgence, its members
38:15would once again reach the highest positions
38:17in American society.
38:20Albert Pike was a brilliant intellectual.
38:22In 1850, he was initiated into the Western Star Lodge,
38:27number two of Little Rock, Arkansas,
38:30and went on to accumulate more than 130 Masonic degrees.
38:34It has been said that Pike was an Illuminati,
38:38and also one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan.
38:41There is little evidence to support either of these claims.
38:45It is also said that together with Giuseppe Mazzini,
38:48a great Italian Freemason leader.
38:51He had planned three world wars,
38:53at the end of which the Illuminati would take over world power.
38:58This assertion is also unproven,
39:00but quite popular in websites and books.
39:04Pike brought about a Masonic resurgence
39:07through many union-like fraternities
39:09and other forms of Masonic social organisations,
39:12such as mutual benefit funds.
39:14These became prosperous business ventures,
39:16quite popular with the American middle class,
39:19and made Freemasonry popular once again.
39:22In 1885, the Statue of Liberty was presented
39:26to the United States by France
39:28to celebrate the former centennial in 1886.
39:32There are those who say
39:34that it was really a gift from the Freemasons
39:36of the Great Orient of France
39:38for the centennial of the First Masonic Republic.
39:42The two explanations are not mutually exclusive.
39:45The statue holds aloft the torch of illumination,
39:49or the flaming torch of reason,
39:52that symbolises the sun.
39:54Its official name is Liberty Enlightening the World.
39:58It was designed by a Freemason sculptor
40:01named Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
40:04The French engineer who built it
40:06was also a Freemason,
40:08Gustave Eiffel,
40:10who also built the tower
40:11that bears his name in Paris.
40:13The foundation stone was laid
40:15in a Masonic ceremony
40:17organised by the New York lodgers in 1884.
40:22The Statue of Liberty is a perfect example
40:25of how Freemasonry can conceal its messages
40:28in clear sight of all.
40:30For more than a century,
40:32hundreds of thousands of immigrants
40:34from all over the world,
40:36and hundreds of millions of tourists
40:38have greeted and admired,
40:41without knowing it,
40:43a Masonic symbol of illumination.
40:46At the beginning of the 20th century,
40:48Freemasonry was once again
40:50a powerful force in the United States.
40:52The days of persecution were long gone.
40:54Many of the key government jobs
40:56were back in their hands.
40:58Among them,
40:58the Oval Office in the White House.
41:01Theodore Roosevelt,
41:03president from 1901 to 1909,
41:06was master of the Lodge Mitingcock,
41:08number 806 of Oyster Bay, New York.
41:13William Howard Taft,
41:15president between 1909 and 1913,
41:19was grandmaster of Ohio Freemasonry.
41:24Warren G. Harding,
41:26president from 1921 to 1923,
41:29was a degree 33 Mason
41:31in Ohio fraternity,
41:33number 26.
41:36With the Great Depression of the 30s,
41:38the Brotherhood lost almost 600,000 members.
41:41However, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
41:43a Freemason himself,
41:45brought the country back
41:46from the brink of disaster.
41:47The Freemasons' prestige kept growing.
41:52The growth of Freemasonry
41:54lasted until well into the early 1960s.
41:57From its ranks emerged presidents and senators,
42:00including Harry S. Truman,
42:02president from 1945,
42:04to 1953.
42:07He had attained the rank of grandmaster
42:09of Missouri Freemasonry,
42:11the highest degree in the organization.
42:14The last president
42:16to be an acknowledged Freemason
42:18was Lyndon B. Johnson,
42:20who was initiated as a Mason in Texas,
42:23and whose time in office
42:24lasted from 1963 to 1969.
42:28Johnson stepped up into office
42:30following the murder
42:31of the first ever Catholic president
42:33of the USA,
42:34John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
42:39And then suddenly,
42:41Freemasonry lost its popularity.
42:42No longer was it a subject of conversation,
42:45except for books on conspiracies
42:46and dubious websites.
42:48Had Freemasonry gone out of fashion,
42:50or was it just taking a break
42:52after a job well done?
42:54It's hard to believe
42:55that a secret society
42:57which has influenced
42:58the creation and development
42:59of the most powerful state on earth,
43:02whose presence is felt
43:03in all of that state's national symbols,
43:07has been reduced
43:08to a mere social circuit,
43:10where citizens in exotic clothes
43:12practice secret rituals
43:13that alternate with bingo events
43:15and themed balls.
43:19Today, fundamentalist groups,
43:21such as tele-evangelists,
43:23ultra-conservative Christians,
43:26and elected but totalitarian leaders,
43:29seem to flourish
43:30as they once did in the Middle Ages.
43:33It stands to reason
43:34that their historic arch-enemy,
43:37Freemasonry,
43:39would not yield ground that easily.
43:43Was or is Freemasonry
43:45a state within a state,
43:46a shadow government,
43:47and do they dominate the world
43:49by dominating its most powerful nation?
43:51The United States is a country
43:53with the most accessible
43:54public information on earth.
43:56However, it was built brick by brick,
43:58law by law,
43:59following the secret principles
44:00of a hermetic society
44:02that doesn't even open
44:03its rituals to the public.
44:05A large percentage
44:06of the country's leading men
44:07were or are Freemasons.
44:09In the land of opportunity
44:10where all are supposedly
44:11equal under the law,
44:13how does belonging
44:14to this special brotherhood
44:15help you in any way?
44:16How many American symbols
44:17really represent something
44:19different to what citizens believe?
44:21The vast majority
44:23of American citizens
44:24hold a job,
44:25pay their mortgage,
44:26watch the news at eight,
44:27and most of them even vote
44:29when they are required to.
44:30They live under the illusion
44:31that they control
44:32their own destiny
44:33and the destiny
44:34of their families.
44:35Meanwhile,
44:36the all-seeing eye
44:37watches attentively
44:38from the very currency
44:40that they all work
44:41so hard to attain.
44:54The history of the world
44:54In the land of the world
44:59of a planet.
44:59And the thing
45:05in a place
45:06is the first
45:11ölk
45:12in a world
45:12in a world
45:12in a world
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