American Revolution

Every gun touting American knows the patriotic history of the American Revolution and the quest for independence. Where their ancestors, tired of old world British monarch and rule, broke free from their shackles and formed the United States of America, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. It is important not to take away this image. The majority of those brave men (and women) truly were fighting for the very freedom this website is fighting for. The concept of a constitutional republic, that protects the people’s unalienable rights from tyrants is something all nations should be aiming for.

However the formation of America is not as clear as many would like to believe. Not only were a group of unelected Freemasons instrumental in the American Revolution, but luminary banker Meyer Rothschild and the royal house of Hesse profited from the conflict.

Despite popular belief the Revolutionary war was not just a battle between the 13 colonies and the English. American colonies fought more privately contracted mercenaries than they did legitimate English soldiers. This private army was Hessian (German), which was controlled by Meyer Rothschild‘s associate Prince William of Hesse. The Hesse-Cassel’s attributed a portion of their vast wealth to the loaning out of young men for the slaughter (kinda like Blackwater in Iraq), and the American Revolution increased this wealth, as the Hessians were sent over to reclaim the colonies for the Royals. Many of these young men were petty criminals forced to conscript or lower classes looking to make a buck.

Rothschild, who was making his way up the financial ladder at the time was responsible for the transfer of funds from England to Prince William, with a a payment for these mercenaries. However instead of paying the young men what they deserved for laying down their lives, he kept some of it for himself. To cut a long story short William was forced to flee from the French and Rothschild was entrusted to look after his finances. It is this $3 million of blood money from the British and perhaps other capital from the Prince’s vaults that would help set up Rothschild’s sons around Europe. He would never have had enough finance to set up a new world banking empire otherwise. It is therefore believed that one of the factors that helped the American colonies to win their freedom was that some of the private mercenaries gave up. They had not been paid their fair share. Not even brainwashed soldiers will fight a foreign battle for nothing. Many deserted and started new lives for themselves in the United States, others were captured, put to death or imprisoned.

Although this is theoretical and in hindsight, if Rothschild had adequately supported the private mercenaries morally and financially, giving them a fighting opportunity to raise the flag for the English, it would have been much harder to gain financial dominance of the new world, because he’d still be answering to old world British Monarch. The Rothschilds were manipulating the manipulators, hedging and diversifying the destiny of men like they were an investment.

At the same time perhaps the Royals were aware of the shift in mass perception against them and wanted America to develop under the illusion of independence, with a shadow hand from England guiding and poised for a takeover further down the line. It’s certainly a viable theory when applied to the the secret society networks that actually did guide America in secret from its inception and the royal bloodlines that we uncovered in the previous article, who have had the monopoly over the Presidency. Either way the ruling classes were not severed entirely by the American Revolution.

The real fight and spirit for independence from the general populous is admirable and inspiring, but it’s worth considering the powers behind the revolt. The very fact that 9 signers of the Deceleration of Independence, 13 signers of the Constitution, 33 of George Washington’s Generals and 50 of the 55 Constitutional Convention members were all documented Freemasons, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Washington himself gives rise to the notion that America may never have truly been free. Washington himself said “I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society,” in reference to Freemasonry, and evidence shows that he was initiated in 1752, in to the Lodge at Fredericksburg, Virginia. What’s hard to discern is who’s interests they were working for – the betterment of mankind, their own personal lust for power, or even a secret plot directed from the old world? We may never know, but here’s something to ponder.

The Freemason Logo

The head of the revolutionary army was a member of a secret society, who was fighting the privately contracted soldiers of another member of the same Masonic society. Although they weren’t necessarily in cahoots, where does that leave the average militia or solider on both sides? Were the people really being represented or were they doing the bidding of an intellectual elite.

There were many powerful Freemasons in Europe and the United States during the Revolution; there are many around the world today. This doesn’t necessarily suggest a global masonic plot because there is no overriding Freemason council, but what role did the Mason’s play in the founding of America and was it sinister? It was certainly an unelected role whatever their aim.

Brief History of the Freemasons:

Modern Speculative Masonry took flight during the early 1700s in England when four guilds united to establish an order to this modern philosophical society. Prior to this order Masonry had been a union of professional stonemasons that shared the secrets of their architecture and great structural accomplishments, allegedly dating back to the building of King Solomon’s Temple. This is why the symbol is a square and compass, in regard to geometry. Indeed if we go back to our Ancient Babylonian friend, King Hammurabi, his code book specifically makes mention of masons and stonecutters.

During Antiquity Masons and other builders were highly respected members of society. They weren’t only responsible for building shelter for the population, but were also tasked with building great temples and monuments fit for religious worship. This important job could only be given to the most skilled workers, so they would have to go through initiations and strenuous degrees of study before joining the brotherhood. This knowledge was sacred and was by no means to be discussed with non-initiates out of respect for its teachings. Professional Masonry would continue through 16th century Scotland, where immigrants brought it over to England.

In modern times, instead of focusing on the actual trade of stone-masonry, which was becoming less important (ask Dave at the builder’s yard), initiates would wear metaphorical regalia and practice rituals based on social philosophy. Instead of building physical structures they would be charitable and build successful communities.

Today masonry Blue Books, through the use of symbol and ritual ceremony, teach concepts of morality, brotherly love and charity. It is not promoted as a religion and many devout religious believers are Freemasons. To join one must declare their faith in a creator, but whomever that may be is at the discretion of the initiate. Freemasons tend to call the creator the great Architect, in reference to their stonemason roots, but each man worships their own personal deity and it appears fairly innocent at these lower levels.

There are traditionally 3 degrees of teaching, starting with the entered apprentice and ending with the 3rd degree master mason, each with their own masonic aprons. During the 3rd degree Freemasons are probed with several revealing questions. This is where the saying “giving someone the third degree” comes from. Scottish Rite Masonry carries its own higher degree known as the 33rd degree and there are rumors and some evidence of several other stages of teaching in different lodges around the world, each with more elaborate secrets and rituals. However higher levels and corrupt offshoots are not officially recognized and any attempt to link them is criticized by the greater Masonic community.

Freemason Apron

The rituals themselves can be deemed quite bizarre by the general public. Freemason Dr. Robert Lomas told the London Times that at his initiation he was ordered to strip and put on “rough linen pyjamas” in the ladies lavatory by a man wearing a lambskin apron and holding a sword. There was a “contorted question and answer session”, during which he was asked to twist his body into strange positions while blindfold in a masonic temple, his trousers and sleeves rolled up, and at the completion of the ceremony the blind was ripped off and, half-blinded by the intense brightness in the room, he saw 40 white-gloved freemasons who clapped once to signify the end of his initiation.

Freemason Lodge

The master of his lodge, wore an elaborate V-shaped collar of blue and white, the floor was covered in a white shroud, and a five-pointed star was shining on the eastern wall of the room, illuminating a skull and two crossed thigh bones. (The Skull & Bones Society will be discussed later).

Typical charity raffle by Freemasons

Despite these strange ceremonies, for many today’s Freemasonry is just a pointless chore passed down from their fathers or forced on them by their business contemporaries. To others it’s a social gathering like going to the game or a traditional gentleman’s club. Some study its teachings deeply and look to benefit themselves morally, yet there are definitely those that use it as a tool of corruption or as hierarchical system to groom people in to power or for other backhanded purposes. It is these people that have bastardized the society, just like those that murder in the name of religion. Governments and churches have noticed this bastardization over the years and have condemned masonry because of it secrecy and the possibility of using its web of members for criminal means.

Due to its secrecy there have also been many charges against the society, claiming it to be devil worship and evil.

During the French Revolution British Parliament nearly outright banned the gathering of all societies that take oaths of obligation to each member outside the normal order of open society. A strong anti-masonic Christian and political movement brewed in the US during the early 1800s after the murder of William Morgan, who went against oath and exposed its secrets. The P2 Lodge in Italy has been shrouded in controversy, linking it to organized crime, banking and Vatican city. Eight Popes have outlawed Freemasonry and even throughout the 80s regular Catholics faced excommunication for being Freemasons. In the UK, Freemasons working in powerful positions, such as judges and police officers must disclose that they are a member of the Freemasons so they don’t have conflict of interest with their work. This rule is trying to be overturned however.

Indeed Masonry has a bad rap in many circles. It also has a lot of followers in popular culture; mainly those that fantasize about its secrets and wrongdoings. With movies like National Treasure documenting the rise of Masonry in America and the best selling books from Dan Brown, Masonry is very much back in the limelight and lodges have seen an increase in membership.

It seems the main arguments against Masonry come from Churches that see it as heresy, and those that oppose its secrecy and networking abilities, such as governments and worried members of the general public that fear their democracy is being subverted. Why should people in positions of power take part in secret gatherings away from the democratic people, whether their intentions are good or not?

US Presidents George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, were/are all Freemasons.

George Washington in Masonic regalia

Canada has had 6 Freemason Prime Minsters and the UK has also had several, including George Canning and Winston Churchill. Tony Blair is rumored to be an honorary Mason from his days practicing law, although he is not officially recognized or listed at any lodges. Blair would have been condemned during his time as Prime Minster if any concrete proof had surfaced. There are several photos showing him partaking in the “second knuckle” handshake and various other masonic gestures, but the majority of these can be demonstrated by accident and therefore do not prove anything beyond doubt. Mason or not his actions prove that he is a corrupt war criminal and has supported a push towards global governance.

An exhaustive list of royalty, military, members of government, movie stars, pop stars, sportsmen, news media professionals, medical professionals and business men, the world over, have also been Freemasons. So what is the general public supposed to think when they hear all of these prominent people are part of a secret society? It is this fraternal secrecy that had been deemed important during the early days of antiquity that has stuck with the society even though there isn’t a trawl and brick in sight. This is causing all sorts of resentment and appears to have lead to very real corruption by its brothers.

By the mid 18th century Freemasonry had spread right around Europe and in to the United States, but it had deviated greatly from the original concept. No one lodge was identical to another. French Freemasons had more degrees of teaching than German Freemasonry, and American Masons had different ideals from British Masons. The best way to describe it would be an internet message board, where thousands of people exchange ideas and opinions in different forums, despite being under one website. In this case the website was Masonry and the forums are the lodges and halls. Long gone were the days when men would meet and actually discuss & teach the fine art of stone-masonry and building. It had become social, a place to discuss political ideologies and new ways of thinking. The square and compass symbol was no longer about designing architecture. So what were they designing?

Due to its oaths of secrecy, lodges therefore became the perfect meeting grounds for intellectuals to discuss radical ideas and spread controversial doctrines. Many could care less about the ceremonies and pointless garments. Businessmen and politicians began abusing the relationships they forged under sacred ritual to promote their private interests. The Freemasons had been infiltrated by radicals and scoundrels and these types of people would help make up the society’s numbers for years to come.

“I found that the Lodges had become the haunts of many projectors and fanatics, both in science, in religion, and in politics, who had availed themselves of the secrecy and the freedom of speech maintained in these meetings, to broach their particular whims, or suspicious doctrines, which, if published to the world in the usual manner, would have exposed the authors to ridicule, or to censure.”
John Robison – Proofs of a Conspiracy.

Europe, especially France and Germany became the first home for radical thinkers with the rise of the Enlightenment movement and the move from religious dogma and monarchy to the age of reason and scientific thinking.

John Robison continues, “Free Masonry imported from England has been totally changed in every country of Europe, either by the imposing ascendancy of French brethren, who are to be found every where, ready to instruct the world; or by the importation of the doctrines, and ceremonies, and ornaments of the Parisian Lodges…When English Free Masonry was carried into Germany It spread rapidly, and the simple topic of Brotherly love was sufficient for recommending it to the honest and hospitable Germans. But it soon took a very different turn.”

Illuminati Founder Adam Weishaupt

However the American branch of Masonry carried over by the founding fathers hadn’t fallen too far from the British tree and does not appear to have been infiltrated. There were never any documented grandiose plots to take over the government or evil oaths to destroy religion as would emerge in Bavaria, Germany with the Illuminati; the colonies were founded on Puritan and Christian values and generally speaking those are the same values held by most of the powerful Masons of the time. In fact when the Bavarian Illuminati did try its hand at spreading their doctrines in the new world George Washington condemned the group.

“It is not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more satisfied of this fact than I am. The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavored to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter. That Individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects; and actually had a separation of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.”

In other words he recognized their presence but didn’t think the American Freemason lodges had adopted their teachings.

Nonetheless the Masonic brotherhood was without a doubt the wheel that steered the American revolution and the public’s perception of the time; just like our news media will propagate the Government’s plans today. Whether right or wrong, the Freemason founding fathers took it upon themselves to decide America’s immediate destiny and this is where the controversy comes in to play. Did they have a right as a Brotherhood to plot the future of the nation behind closed doors, whether they had good intentions or not?

One such event that was planned in the covered lodges of the Masons to spark a public reaction was the 1773 Boston Tea Party. It is then Ironic that the Tea Party Protests around the US in 2009 were plagued with accusations of “staged events” and infiltration.

It was the brethren of the St. John’s Lodge, St. Andrews Lodge and the Green Dragon Tavern that carried out the stunt. They delivered a message far and wide that there was to be a protest opposing the British tax on Americans for tea and that everyone should congregate at the harbor. When the masses turned up to see what all the excitement was about two Masons, Brother Paul Revere and Brother Joseph Warren rallied the crowds and prevented the East India Company vessel (owned by the private British CROWN) from unloading the tea. Brother William Molineux had been leading small protests and gatherings advocating anti-tax sentiment for the past month, so the public were gradually coming round to the idea of sending a message to the British.

For over two weeks the ships and crew were held at gunpoint from unloading the tea. Due to a law that stated they couldn’t return to England without unloading the tea and obtaining the tax, they did not leave the harbor either. It was a stalemate, garnering significant interest from all around the continent. When all eyes were on the harbor a group of Masons in Native Indian disguises to hide their identities from British prosecution, raided the ships and dumped the boxes of tea in to the Boston harbor.

This staged event by Freemasons over a fairly insignificant tax on tea has become an iconic event in American history and provided one of the catalysts for the War of Independence and American Revolution. Following the tea party Britain closed the port and applied several sanctions that would ferment revolutionary action. Without the Masons America might still be a British Colony. The deceleration of independence didn’t just grow out of thin air, it was written by Freemasons. That being said, was it the Freemason’s decision to make? Did they really do it for independence?

It is no secret that the great seal of the United States, the dollar bill and many buildings are covered in Masonic and ancient symbolism. Novus Ordo Seclorum (New Order of the Ages) is written quite clearly on the face of the dollar bill. Was a sinister New World Order planned by Freemasons from the very beginning, maybe even with old world British knowledge, or was it simply a homage to the new world and its freedom, only to be hijacked later on by bankers and crony capitalists? Although the answer is never conclusive, to assess the claim it is interesting to look at the Freemasons behind the birth of America and their individual characters.

Benjamin Franklin was a well connected Mason, this is not disputed. In his book “Bloodlines of the Illuminati” Fritz Springeimer shows a document revealing Franklin’s initiation in to the Nine Sister’s Grand Orient lodge of France, along with Thomas Jefferson. So not only was he a founding American Mason, but also connected across the pond in France with the highly influential Masonic DuPont family and the more radical ideas being spread through Europe. He was also a Freemason brother in England, Scotland and Ireland. If anyone knew how to network the lodges of Freemasonry it was the balding diplomat Ben Franklin.

It wasn’t all about maintaining friendships with overseas nations though. He was also definitely high up in the ranks of vice, with strong evidence suggesting he was a member of one particular divergent club, and may have even been involved in satanic sacrifice.

As The History Channel revealed to the masses in their Secrets of the Founding Fathers production, “Franklin used his Masonic connections to forge alliances in boardrooms and bedrooms”. He was still very much entrenched in old England’s scandalous ruling class. So completely defiant of his Puritan upbringing he took part in Sir Francis Dashwood’s Hell Fire Club, a secret community of powerful parliamentary and wealthy men that would drink, have prostitutes and partake in sexual orgies under occult ritual, in the West Wycombe catacombs below the church. Elites still practice this type of behavior today.

Franklin and Dashwood

The members did not refer to themselves as the Hellfire Club. Instead they used several of what some would call religious mockeries, including the Brotherhood of St. Francis of Wycombe, the Order of Knights of West Wycombe and the Monks of Medmenham. They were all “brothers” that would sexually taint their “nuns”. With the rise of the printing press the group was also involved in the early days of erotic literature and pornographic art.

In fact the whole estate grounds of Dashwood’s is laid out in such a way to resemble the lying down of a naked women, with a tunnel “opening” and a domed shaped building at the “hood” called the temple of Venus or Lucifer. In many ways it links back to the Ancient Babylonian worship of Ishtar the God of fertility and her temple of prostitutes during harvest. The elaborate caves and secret chambers below the West Wycome church leave little to the imagination. It was a whore house.

Dashwood Estate

You could mark this up to harmless fun, as most mainstream researchers do. Although when you count up the many secret societies over the years that partook in strange occult and sexual rituals, including modern day clubs like Bohemian Grove, you begin to see that as well as engaging in questionable sexual and religious behavior, theses same men also plot and discuss world policy away from the democratic public. You can let a few speeding tickets or extra-marital escapes slide, but when the future of everyday citizens is decided behind closed doors by consistently dishonest social deviants and occultists, it’s time to connect ALL the dots of their corruption.

Franklin was a known drunk, who often held his meetings in taverns and once wrote the letter “How to Choose A Mistress,”. He is quoted as writing the limerick “Virtue and Safety in Wine Drinking is found, while all that drink water deserve to be drowned.” All just a laugh?

It seems Franklin was not simply having fun. Politician Lowry, H. Graham suggested in his book that Franklin had these connections because he was working as a spy against the British. However honorable spies do not have dead bodies dug up from beneath their home.

Yes, in 1998 while restoring Franklin’s London home the skeletal remains of six children and four adults were discovered, some decapitated and others with drilled holes clearly visible. What crimes had gone on here? It’s possible they were illegal grave robberies, used for scientific reasons and re-buried out of sight. At the other end of the scale it is possible they were murders. The Hell Fire club’s motto was “Do What Thou Wilt”. Maybe conducting mock sacrifice and religious blasphemy was only the tip of the iceberg for the adulterous drunk? We may never know. What we do know is this was one of the highly respected founding father Freemasons and leading figure in the American Revolution.

So it appears the American Revolution and those behind it isn’t as clear as many patriots like to think.

(The above article is not meant to be an attack on the founding fathers, American Revolution or Freemasonry…it’s simply here to provoke thought about the construct of power and how it relates to the average person. Beyond Franklin I think the founding fathers really were about creating a free world).