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What On Earth Will It Take?

Thrive Movement

You want to break the rich man's back.Learn simplicity,live simplicity,and when the rich man taketh away what he controls,seek means around it such as thriftiness and frugal practicality.That beast system that provides for the rich man's table is driven by the wants of the masses,if the masses took in stride what the rich man has denied and sought ways to make attainment irrelevant,he would think twice before inciting the masses to demand fairness and justice.

god bless Greece and her people they gave the world many inventive gifts and she once was a super power she was beautiful but she fell and got back up now she falls again and she will get up. All my love to the Greek people stay strong ,just as Greece fell all those years ago so will the current super power lets hope they learn from their mistakes.

i pay 1.75 euro per litre of gas here in greece... tomatoes cost 2 euros per kilo... How much does petrol fuel and tomatoes cost in slovakia and estonia nowadays? and how much their pension is? Just to straight somethings out before people like you come and judge our ass without knowing shit about anything

Historical Crime Solving 
Non Fiction

Princess Diana: The Hidden Evidence

                              This  is a must to view this video in full to understand how and

                              why Princess Diana Was Murdered and who are the likely

                                    suspects that orgainsed Princess Diana's Murder


Lady Die film

 is presented by Chris Everard and Raphella Houston www.ladydie.com featuring David Icke, Chris Everard, Jon King and John Beveridge.. with testimonies from former UK Intelligence Agents... narrated by Chris Everard..original music by Sci-Fi Buddhas...the Beautiful song performed by Erica Martin.. Executive Producer ... Charley Dupont.. produced by Syalvelin.. Directed by Chris Everard and Raphella Houston ...
The producers invoke fair usage guidelines in the making of this videogramme..
Lady Diane Spencer was plucked from the obscure ranks of the British Aristocracy and became a fairly tale princess... then suddenly in August 1997... Diana's life came to an end...

"...The DAILY Express Newspaper dated the 30th August 1997 had front page headlines...Diana Is Dead... Princess Diana and Dodi Killed In a Car Crash......"

The world stood still as news of Diana's car crash reverberated around the world's media ...but what the official history will not tell you is that on the very day if the fateful car crash in Paris... rumours were circulating that Princess Diana had been assassinated by British Military Intelligence and/or America's CIA ... and/or Israel's Mossad  ...in this film we show you for the very first time the true history of the British Royal Family....whose ancestors have stabbed and slashed their way to power throughout the ages... you will see how Diana was breed from birth for her role to serve the British Royal Family and how Prince Charles callisly continued his love affair with Camilla Parker Bowles...throughout his marriage to Diana .. and how Diana had to search her apartment in Kensington Palace for listening devices placed my MI5, who distributed secretly taped and edited private phone conversations to the mainstream media in order the discredit Diana's public image...for the first time we reveal details of the bungled attempt by MI5 to murder Camila Parker Bowles...just weeks before Diana's car crash...
..we also exclusively reveal that the black mercedes car carrying Princess Diana had previously been stolen ... and that the engine management microchip had been replaced.. so that the car could be controlled remotely.. we also interview the authors of "...Princess Diana- The Hidden Evidence.." MI5 and MI6 agents who had advanced warning of Car Crash of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and their driver... join us now for the quest for the truth and find out how Diana.. The Princess of Wales was murdered by the British Royal Monarchy...
                              Part One :
         Diana and the Masonic Monarchy...

Throughout the centuries the British Royal Family have had a passion for murder and a fascination with the occult..whilst innocent country folk were persecuted for devil worship in medi-evil Britain.. the British Royal Family played host to astrologers, alchemists and magicians..such as Francis Bacon. John Dee and Isac Newton..to this day the British Royal Family patronize various secret societies such as Freemasonry and the Order Of The Garter .. Freemasonry is a global cult which forces members to re-enact murder ... undergo a mock funeral .. and requires all that take part to swear blood curdling oaths ...of allegiance to the Masonic God ... Ya-Bul-On ...Reverend John Lawrence wrote a book called .."Freemasonry Is A Religion ..." ..his conclusions were that Freemasonry is a cult which worships a "Tripanthion God" ...which is definitely not the God of the Holy Bible ....the Masonic God is inspired by the Mythical Spirit of ...BAAL ...the ancient Devil ...as a member of the Royal Family... Princess Diana was surrounded by Freemasons ...Queen Elizabeth the Second is Grand Patroness of English Freemasonry...and the Duke of Edinburgh has been a master mason since 1952...living under the same roof as Diana at Kensington Palace in Britain's most senior Royal Freemason .. The Duke of Kent ....seen in this film leading a grand Masonic Ceremony ... the Duke of Kent was installed as Grand Master of British Freemasonry by the Earl of Scarborough in 1964 ...every Freemason swears blood oaths of allegiance to his fellow brothers ..a Freemason must support his fellow brothers even if he is in full knowledge of wrongdoing by his brethren ... in every strata of British Government there are Masons who will carry out illegal actions such as murder on behalf of the Royal Family...there are over 600,000 Freemasons in England and Wales today ( out of about 60 million people which is about 1% of the total population) .. and a further around 500,000 in Scotland (which only has a total population of around 5 million people so that 10% of the whole population are Freemasons)...many of the them directly serving the British Royal Family in the government, armed forces and in the secret services ... one of the most powerful factions in Freemasonry are the Knights of Malta .. they wear the Maltese Cross around their necks ...as Princess Diana was led up the isle.. she was entering a world dominated by Masonic tradition...

         Diana and the Masonic Monarchy...

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                         Published on 19 Nov 2012

                     "We all knew Diana had been murdered, it is as simple as that"
                              A Message From British Film Director, CHRIS EVERARD:

Published on 19 Nov 2012

"We all knew Diana had been murdered, it is as simple as that"


A Message From British Film Director, CHRIS EVERARD:

Since 1997, I have been investigating the crash which killed Princess Diana, her companion, Dodi AlFayed, the driver, Henri Paul, and massively wounded ex-paratrooper Trevor Rees-Jones. LADY DIE represents nearly ten years of research by myself, DAVID ICKE and the co-authors of the book "Diana: The Hidden Evidence", JON KING and JOHN BEVERIDGE.

A Mercedes S280 of the exact model and year was purchased in order that tests could be made for this documentary. The film has a running time of nearly 4 hours and leaves no stone unturned.


The horrific history of the royal family is exposed, including the faked suicide/murder of Stephen Ward, Prince Philip's links with the Profumo scandal, Occult Cocktail Parties at the Cliveden Estate in the 1960s, the exorcism of Stephen Wards cottage, the double murder of two young princes in the Tower of London, the forced euthenasia of King George in 1936 - his killing was timed to coincide with the morning edition of The Times newspaper - and, of course, the film features a full investigation into the crash which killed Princess Diana.

I assembled a Scotland Yard-style incident board for the making of this documentary, which reveals hitherto unknown information about many of the characters involved in the plot to kill Diana.


The film explores the hand-written note which Diana gave to her butler - and another given for safe keeping to her lawyer - which explicitly said that a fake car crash, one which would result in death, was being planned by people working for Prince Charles.

DAVID ICKE bravely puts forward his research, based on confidantes of Princess Diana, which suggests that the crash in Paris was the beginning of a gruesome occult ritual with the time and place of the crash being chosen carefully to coincide with ancient Satanic Rites. Davids excellent book THE BIGGEST SECRET is also discussed in this film.


What exactly did the Queen mean when she warned Diana's butler PAUL BURREL, that there were "dark and mysterious forces" at work in Britain?


What was Henri Paul doing the hours immediately before he turned up for work on that fateful night?

Why was the SIPA press agency in Paris broken into following the death of a Paparazzi photographer?


Who were the senior MI6 and MI5 agents in the tunnel on the night of the crash?

Why was Klaus Werner deported after standing vigil outside Dianas apartment?

All these questions and much more are answered in this film, which was edited in a constantly moving vehicle and deposited at the DVD factories on the day that the British inquiry heard the father of Dodi AlFayed pronounce that his sons death was a case of Black & White MURDER.


The historical part of this film proves, using extensive photos, newspaper cuttings, film clips and testimonies, that the royal family have stabbed and slashed their way to power throughout the ages.


The producers have invoked FAIR USE guidelines in the making of this film. All proceeds will be used to offer subsidised courses in film making, which will be announced later this year.


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The Unalikes
Prince Philip is not the father
of Prince Harry and Prince William.

Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince
James Hewitt is the father of
Prince Harry.
Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince
Prince Charles is not the father of
Prince Williams.
Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince
King Juan Carlos from Spain
is the father of Prince William.

King Juan Carlos and 
Prince William married 
similar looking women.
Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince
Prince Charles is the father
of Simon Charles Day.


Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince
There is no legitimate bloodline
for the House of Windsor
.

Diana, the mother, is also illegitimate.
Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince
The parents of Princess Diana are 
Hon. Frances and Sir James Goldsmith.
Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince
Diana’s younger brother, 
Charles Spencer, below Diana, 
looks like his father 8th Earl of Spencer, 
who’s over on the left
.
Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince
Diana with her half-sisters 
Alix and Jemima.


Queen Elizabeth II and The Black Prince 
Diana and her half-sisters in the news.

160 years of Illegitimate Monarchy:

How Lionel Nathan Rothschild
usurped the British Throne.



He exiled Queen Victoria’s
firstborn legitimate son
to Portugal.

Queen Victoria, who was already 
married to 
Prince George of Cumberland,
had to marry Prince Albert, who
had to wear a ‘Prince Albert’ - 
a male chastity belt - so he could not 
sire any of her children.
Then Lionel Nathan Rothschild
raped Queen Victoria and
produced nine (9) ‘official’ 
children.
Prince Albert was killed so it would
not be noted that ‘his children’ 
did not look l
ike him.
The Throne has been
usurped by Illegitimates
since Marcos Manoel
the Legitimate and Firstborn 
Son of Queen Victoria, 
was exiled to Portugal.

Through the Laws of Succession
they’ve actually done themselves
out of a legitimate claim to the Throne.

The Commonwealth 
Heads of Government 
need to fully understand 
this story before they can 
vote legitimately:

Queen Victoria’s 
legitimate firstborn son
was taken from her and 
exiled.

She gave Royal Marks
to her only legitimate 
son Marcos Manoel
so that he and his 
descendants can
prove their Rightful
and Superior Claim
to the Throne of the 
United Kingdom.

The Illegitimates
have developed a new 
synthetic drug, which will be 
shipped by Owen G. Glenn. 
The drug is stored in the 
'Owen G. Glenn Building' - 
an Architecture School.

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Transcript from THE HALLETT REPORT NO. 5

 
In the year 2013 it is easier to kill a million people than control a million people
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Zbigniew Brzezinski - Easier to kill a million people than to control them.

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Zbigniew Brzezinski Obama's Top Foreign Policy Advisers, Professor of American Foreign Policy Strategic Analysis and Foreign Policy  National   Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, worked for Ronald Regan as Intelligence advisor, founder and trustee of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Council For Foreign Relations (CFR) and Council for Strategic and International Studies, analysis, mastermind behind the creation of Ben Ladin and the terrorist  Al Queda organisation, international advisor for a number of major corporations, an associate of Henry Kissinger, co-chairman of the Bush Advisory Security Task Force in 1988 ...what a guy...  

states the following belief, conviction and effective advice to Barrack Obama and to Barrack Obama and 

Zbigniew Brzezinski's employers and bosses...Jacob and Evilyn Rothchold and the rest Rothschild International Banking Family and their other evil and criminally insane International Baking Partners and Business associates and elite families

In a Speech Made on November 17th 2008


For the first time in human history  ,.,.for the first time in all of human history.....almost all of mankind is politiclaly awake... andthese new and old major powers...face and yet another .... a novel reality...in some respect unprecidented ... and it is that while the lethality ..the lethality of their power is greater that ever.... their capacity to propose control  ove rthe politicsally awakened masses of the world is at an all time low   an unprecidented    alll time low... I once put it rather pungently ... and I was flatered that the British Foreign Secretary repeated this...as follows ... namely in ealier times ...'.It was easier to control a million people literally...it was easiet to control a million people that physicly to kill a million people ... today it is infinitely easy to kill a million people than control a million people ..it is easier to kill that ot control...

Michael Ruppert gives a lecture of Zbigniew Brzezingski's 1997 book : The Grand Chessboard

 
The secret of 33 degree Freemasonry

 
Zbigniew Brzezinski BLAMED FOR 9/11




Behind Closed Doors-

The power and Influence of Secret Societies

By 

Michael Streeter

The Church of Scientology - 

Fair Game

Ron Hubbard’s (the founder of the Church of Scientology) approach to anyone who disagreed or criticized Scientology – and thhere have been many- could be summed up by his ‘fair game’ policy…This policy was aimed at those who were called ‘Supressive Persons (SP’s). Hubbard believed that about 2,5 percent of the world’s population was an “SP”, this is, someone who wanted to destroy whatever was good or useful in the world.. However, in practice, this meant anyone who was opposed to of Scientology

An example of alleged ‘fair game’ used against those regarded as hostile to Scientology was seen in 2007, during a now notorious BBC investigation into Scientology by reporter John Sweeney.. That investigation is best known for the way in which Sweeney – an experienced journalist who has reported form trouble spots throughout the world – lost his temper during an exchange with a Scientologist spokesman…Sweeney said on the BBC website: “While making our BBC Panorama film “Scientology and me”, I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, been denounced as s “bigot” by star Scientologists and been chased around the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers. Back in Britain strangers have called on my neighbours and my mother-in-law, and someone spied on my wedding and fled the moment he was challenged…

As well as allegedly using such harassment tactics, Scientology has also been accused of trying to curtail freedom of speech on the Internet.  This is a key issue when discussing the impact of the movement on modern society….However, the website run by Andreas Heldal-Lund, in Norway, has continued to publish Scientology material on his website.. He states on his website: ‘After careful consideration I have concluded that these material are being kept secret in order to withhold information form the public, with the sole purpose of deceiving the public as to the true nature of Scientology. I feel it is my moral duty to society to reveal this information to the public in order to alert them as to its nature…Chuck Beatty, who became a Scientologist in 1975 as a young student in Phoenix, Arisona, and stayed for 27 years because he was especially impressed when he learned that, after becom9ing a ‘clear’ and moving on to the higher levels known as ‘Opertating Thetan’ or the ‘OT’ levels, he would learn to ‘zoom around the universe like Falsh Gordon’. He adds: ‘What a perfect idea! Instead of being bound by earth and archaic religions, this was like a space-age religion,’ says Chuck Beatty…’of course, after 27 years you find out that nobody is doing this stuff. It’s a complete fucking scam – it’s outrageous.”

Organisation and structure of The Church of Scientology

The Scientology organization operates through a variety of different bodies throughout the world.. For Ron Hubbard, the group’s structure and discipline was no incidental occurrence, but an integral part of Scientology.. Chuck Beatty was a member of what is called the Sea organization (“Sea Org”). this organisation provides the staff members for the upper echelons of  Scientology, and is known as its religious order, or ‘Vatican’. As Beatty refers to it. According to Scientology’s own description: #Sea org members work long hours and live communally with housing, meals, uniforms, medical and dental care provided by the Church. They participate in Scientology training and auditing during a portion of each day, but otherwise dedicate themselves to furthering the objectives of Scientology through particular functions.’

Long-standing critics of the movement are less kind. ‘Scientology actually has a lot in common with the worst excesses of the Nazis, with the Sea Org playing the role of the Gastapo,’ says Professor Touretzky. ‘It is the  only “church” with its own intelligence branch, called the Office of Special Affairs,” According to Beatty, ‘as well as keeping dossiers on ‘enemies’ of Scientology, this office (where Beatty’s second wife had worked) also circulated the bad press that Hubbard and Scientology attracted in what are called ‘pass arounds’, with the aim of helping them counter negative publicity. Members of the Sea org ( Beatty included) sign ‘billion-year contracts’ as part of their commitment Scientology and the Sea Org…

The Sea Org started life in 1967, when for a period of seven years Scientology was run by Ron Hubbard form on board a boat…in reality the relocation was probably due to the fact that Scientology had been running into problems with various governments around the world, and the sea was one place where the organization could operate without hindrance, ( Operation from the sea could also have been a way of testing potential safe havens). Scientology’s clashed with various governments, parliaments and legal systems go right to the heart of the concerns about the influence of the Scientology

Movement. Following an official report in Australia, for example, the Church of Scientology was banned form operating under that name and as a religion in some states form the mid 1960’s..This ban was overturned in 12983, when a court ruled that the organization was entitles to operate as a religion..

    
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Deep Under Ground Military Bases known as DUMBS


 
Tavistock Society Global manipulation


 
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The Great American Novel- The Theme song for the INL News Film- The Great American Novel


Stuck In Babylon - the Song- for the INL News Film- The Great American Novel


The Entities -  the Song- for the INL News Film- The Great American Novel

 
Illuminati - Freemason- New World Order Video 3



Stephen Knight the author of the Brotherhood who died aged 33 ......18 months after publishing his book

Stephen Knight the author of

the Brotherhood who died aged 33 ......18 months after publishing his book


Illuminated above the Mason's head, the equilateral triangle - all sides and angles the same - 
symbolizes the strength and unity of the parts that make the whole complete


         A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony, After the ritual, the candidate is a fully fledged Freemason

                            
A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony

Christopher added...' Masonic doctors can also be used..'

Christopher continue for about half an hour to list examples of the ways in which corrupt members of the Brotherhood could defeat opposition..'  ... those in power in Freemasons Hall knew something of what went on, but they felt defeated by it and preferred to look the other way rather than take steps to eradicate it...' ... Christopher said... if Christopher and his group failed for force the issue into the open, the organization would become so morally polluted that it would simply cease to exist...' Christopher also said ..we are not solely concerned with the Brotherhood .. it was the victims of those who used masonry as a source of personal power who has to be helped as well...

Christopher also said ..'..only the fighters have a hope of beating the system once it's at work against them' ..'Most people, fighters or not, are beaten in the end, though ,,It's..you see... you finish up not knowing who you can trust..you can get no help because your story sounds so paranoid that you are thought a crank, one of those nuts who think the whole world is a 'conspiracy' against 'them'. It is a strange phenomenon...Bt setting up a situation that most people will think of as fantasy, these people can poison every part of a person's life... if they give in they go under... if they don't give in... it is only putting off the day they go under...because if they fight, so much unhappiness will be brought to the people around them that there will likely come a time when even their own families and close friends turn against them out of desperation.... when that happens ..... and they are without friends where ever they look...they become easy meat... the newspaper will not touch them or their story...

'...There is not defense against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists..'

 

Acknowledgements:

 I am free to name only a small number of the many hundreds of people who have helped me with advice and information for this book.. Most of those who helped did only on the understanding that I would say nothing that could lead to their identification. among there were Freemasons who feared recrimination from other members of the Brotherhood. . Others included government official, politicians, judges, policemen of all ranks, lawyers, churchmen, past and present officers of MI6 and MI6, and people from every sector of society touched on in this book...Without such people a book of this kind could not be contemplated.

  Two men must be singled out: Simon Scott, managing editor of New English Library whose idea this books was an who supported me with unflagging enthusiasm all through the research and writing only to have the project snatched from him at the last moment; and my friend and agent Andrew Hewson who has never, even at the busiest moments, been unavailable.

Thank you Simon and I thank everyone else...all names fully listed in the book..

Proloque;

Freemasonry. although its leaders strenuously deny it, is a secret society. And few of its members- judges, police, politicians and royalty among them - realize that every time they attend a meeting they break the law, and (at least technically) lay themselves open to minimum of two year's imprisonment. Under the Unlawful Societies Ac of 1799 - unlikely, of course, ever to be enforced - Freemasons are permitted to hold meetings if yearly returns providing names, addresses and descriptions of brethren are submitted to local Clerks of the Peace .his is rarely done, so most gatherings in `Masonic Lodges are held in breach of the law.

  In England and Wales alone Freemasonry has more than 600,000 initiates, with a further 100,000 in Scotland and between 50,000 and 70,000 in Ireland..(1984 estimated Figures... Paul Jeffries in his book Freemasons-Inside the World's Oldest Secret Society published in 2005 he states the following Freemason membership: Over 5.9 million Freemasons worldwide; consisting of: England and Wales- over 550,000. Scotland-over 400,000; Ireland over 47,000; Canada and USA- over 4.1 million; Europe-over 80,000; Australasia-over 375,000; `Latin America-over 50,000; Philippines-over 10,000 and other areas (India, Japan, Formosa, Africa, Israel etc)-over 288,000

All the members of this extraordinary Brotherhood are male. All except those who are second-, third-, or fourth-generation Freemasons, who may join at eighteen, are over the age of twenty-one. All have sworn on pain of death and ghastly mutilation No 5 to reveal Masonic secrets to outsiders, who are known

 
US founding father and president George Washington was a dedicated Freemason, and is shown here is his regalia as the Worshipful Master of his lodge


Beehives are an important Masonic symbol referring to industry, dedication, productivity, good works and the power of all pulling together....

The Brotherhood

by Stephen Knight –published 1984

The Dissidents – Chapter 16 _ages 140 to  149

One of my major sources of information was a former Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander of the Thirty-First degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite who has withdrawn form masonry in 1968 for religious reasons.. her agreed to be interviewed by me through a third party concerning his conviction that no active Christian could in all conscience remain a Freemason…

When I met him I learned he was a judge, and a particularly quick-tempered one .. I asked him about the Ancient and Accepted Rite of the Thirty-Third degree, he answered quickly: ‘Nom I dare not go into that’, her said ….’we’d better stick to religion… I thought immediately afterwards how strange it was he had used the words ‘dare not’, Most people said, ‘I’d better not’, or ‘I’d rather not’… I remarked on his used of the world. He said, ‘Anyone in public life has to be cautious.’ ..’Cautious’.. I repeated. “That’s a Masonic word of recognition.”..

He then said, ‘You’ve obviously delved into the ritual, so you know…..’

… ‘Mr Knight, I don’t like this line of questioning. I agreed to speak to you in general terms about why my commitment to Jesus is incompatible with Masonic religion …. I do not wish to be drawn into discussion of matters covered by whatever undertakings I have … taken…

I went on to tell the judge ..’I have heard form quite a lot of contacts about organized action groups of Freemasons that have resulted in the financial or social ruin of certain people, ‘ I said..

The judge replied.. ‘So have I’…’ ..still looking me st5raight in the eye as if telling me this was an important issue and point of fact…’ So have I Mr Knight… No of such happenings which had the backing of official Freemasonry, but of actions which were unofficial, in other words, Masons abusing the Craft for their own ends..’…’You know the answer to that form what I have said.. ‘I have also heard about people who have .crossed’ certain masons and finished up in prison…’ He then stopped me in mid-sentence by placing a finger on his lips ... ’if I told you everything about Freemasonry, being betrayed by its members, it would surprise you… it would make your hair stand on end … I can’t tell you any more..’ he said…then he said.. Give me your phone number, you might hear from someone in a few days…’… His finger went back to his lips and he went to fetch my coat .. as he left he said, ‘God Bless’…

A few days later received as phone call from a man calling himself Christopher whom I ended up having along meeting at his private club and he showed me his papers to show him bona fide ID and Freemason membership… I asked him what a person might have to fear from a group of influential Freemason if circumstances made him, for instance, a threat to them in the business world; or if he discovered they were using masonry for corrupt purposes; or had fallen victim of their misuse of Freemasonry and would not heed warnings not to oppose them…

He replied..’.. It is not difficult to ruin a man,’ he said, ‘And I will tell you how it is done time and time again.. there are more than half a million Freemasonry Craft Brethren (In 1883) just in England and Wales and over 400,000 in Scotland (in 1983) under the jurisdiction of Grand Lodge.. Standards have been falling for twenty or thirty years, it is now too easy to enter the Craft, so many men of dubious moral have now joined the Craft… about 12-13% abuse the Craft for selfish and/or corrupt ends.. (that is about 60,000 in England and Wales and about 40,000 in Scotland)..

Note: Christopher was one of a small and unpopular group within Masonry who sometime in the early 1970’s had decided that either they had to get out of the Brotherhood or they had to do something ‘to stop the rot’, which the ‘blinkered officers of Great Queen Street refuse to admit was there..’

This group wanted pressure brought to bear on those in positions of responsibility within the Brotherhood to put Freemasonry’s house in order.. to instate proper policing, to close down Lodges used for shady dealings and to root out corrupt brethren and expel them, they also wanted the whole business of Masonic secrecy looked into by Grand Lodge, most of them believing that secrecy was more harmful than helpful to Masonry..

 Christopher explained that Masonry’s nationwide organization of men from all walks of life provided one of the most efficient private intelligence networks imaginable, private information on anybody in the country could be accessed very rapidly through endless permutations of Masonic contacts in the police, magistrates, solicitors, bank managers, Post Office staff (‘very useful is supplying copies of a man’s mail’), doctors, government employees, bosses of firms and nationalized industries etc. etc. …. A dossier of personal data could be built up on anybody very quickly.. when the major facts of an individual’s life were known, areas of vulnerability would become apparent…

I asked what action might be taken?..

“ Solicitors are very good at it…Get your name involved in something legal it need not be serious and you have him,, Solicitors are past masters a causing endless delays, generating useless paperwork, ignoring instructions, running up immense bills, misleading client into taking decisions damaging to themselves etc..

‘Masonic police can harass, arrest on false charges, and plant evidence.. ‘ A business man in a small community or a person in public office arrested for dealing in child pornography, for indent exposure, or for trafficking drugs is at the end of the line..’

‘Masons can bring about the situation where credit companies and band withdraw credit facilities form individual clients and tradesmen, said my informant..Banks can foreclose ...

People who rely on their telephone for work can have it cut off for long periods ... Masonic employees of councils can arrange for a person's drains to be inspected and extensive damage reported etc ..this burdening the person with huge repair bills; workmen carrying out the job can 'find' - very conveniently- further damage ..a fair legal hearing is lard to get when a man in ordinary circumstances is in financial difficulties .. legal aid applications can be delayed endlessly...Employers can be given private information about a man who had made himself an enemy of Masonry ... at worst he will be dismissed and/or consistently passed over for promotion....

Christopher added...' Masonic doctors can also be used..'

Christopher continue for about half an hour to list examples of the ways in which corrupt members of the Brotherhood could defeat opposition..'  ... those in power in Freemasons Hall knew something of what went on, but they felt defeated by it and preferred to look the other way rather than take steps to eradicate it...' ... Christopher said... if Christopher and his group failed for force the issue into the open, the organization would become so morally polluted that it would simply cease to exist...'  Christopher also said ..we are not solely concerned with the Brotherhood .. it was the victims of those who used masonry as a source of personal power who has to be helped as well...

Christopher also said ..'..only the fighters have a hope of beating the system once it's at work against them' ..'Most people, fighters or not, are beaten in the end, though ,,It's..you see... you finish up not knowing who you can trust..you can get no help because your story sounds so paranoid that you are thought a crank, one of those nuts who think the whole world is a 'conspiracy' against 'them'. It is a strange phenomenon...Bt setting up a situation that most people will think of as fantasy, these people can poison every part of a person's life... if they give in they go under... if they don't give in... it is only putting off the day they go under...because if they fight, so much unhappiness will be brought to the people around them that there will likely come a time when even their own families and close friends turn against them out of desperation.... when that happens ..... and they are without friends where ever they look...they become easy meat... the newspaper will not touch them or their story...

'...There is not defense against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists..'

 

 

Chapter 28

The Threat To Britain P 297 to 303

  The "Chinaman Report" goes further than drawing attention t the KBG's almost certain use of Freemasonry for placing operatives in positions of authority, most damagingly achieved, so far as we know, such as in the case of Sir Roger Hollis, who was the director-general of the M!% service in the critical years 1956 to 1965 (as convincingly demonstrated by Chapman Pincher in his controversial study of Russia's infiltration of the West's secret services and defenses in his book 'Their Trade is Treachery)'. few people in MI5 now doubt that Hollis was a Russian spy for nearly 30 years and a respected Freemason having joined when he was in Shanghai, China in the 1930's working an international tobacco company along with then spending time in Russia..

(From Chap 27)..Of the many mysteries surrounding Sire Roger Hollis, one of the most baffling is how Hollis  was ever accepted into M!% in the first place, Hollis was quite the opposite of what was required. In MI5, as opposed to MI6, which operates abroad, there is a great reluctance to accept candidates who have travelled widely out of the U,K. In the 1930’s when Hollis was recruited this stipulation was more easily met than it is today. For this reason and other reasons. Hollis was most unlikely candidate to be allowed to join the MI5 organization...Hollis did badly at university, having thrown in the towel in 1926 after only two years, then worked in London for a while and set off for China, Hollis then became stranded with only $10 in his pocket in Malaya, where he got a job with an international tobacco company in Penang and was later transferred to the company's offices in Shanghai. Hollis moved around China for the next nine years, working at Peking, Hangchow and Dairen. After this, Hollis contracted tuberculosis, and travelled to a Swiss sanatorium by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway from Vladivostok. spending some time in Russia All this, especially his time in Russia, should have been an insuperable obstacle to any hopes he had of joining MI5... So it proved.. at first ....Even after Hollis's treatment that his health was not strong enough for Hollis to continue working the tobacco company, so early in 1936 Hollis went back to England....''Even Hollis's friend agreed that Hollis was not particularly talented', wrote Chapman Pincher, who describes Hollis at the time of his return to England as 'basically a broken man': 'Though surprisingly athletic, Hollis was to retain the look of someone who had had contracted tuberculosis and Hollis became progressively round-shouldered that he looked almost hunched...he had no degree, his health was suspect and his experience in China was not likely to be helpful in securing a post in England...the only work Hollis could find at the time was as a clerk-typist. .... However, through an army major Hollis met, Hollis secured an interview with MI5.. Hollis was turned down and told that his experience abroad might be useful to MI6, so Hollis then applied to join MI6, but Hollis was turned down for health reasons from the MI6 service. Then when Hollis applied to join MI5 for the second time later that year nothing had changed as far as Hollis' ability, background and health ,,except the mind of MI5... miraculously....completely against any sort of normality given Hollis had already been turned down by MI5 and MI6 on previous occasions.. Hollis was hired by MI%... it is noted that the director-general of MI5 at the time was Major General Sir Vernon Kell, who happened to be a Freemason ..almost everything against him, Hollis had got into MI5... What is even more remarkable? was the rate in which Hollis was promoted within the MI5 service once Hollis got in... this astonished his colleagues them and still cannot be explained by any of the MI5 officers, current and retired, with whom I (Stephen Knight) have had contact either directly or through intermediaries. this is one of the great mysteries of Sir Roger Hollis.. Even though it was against regulations for any MI5 or MI6 officer to be a Freemason - and this, incidentally, must presumably indicate that membership of Freemasonry was regarded as a threat to security- several MI5 officers were in the Freemasonry Brotherhood - Among them was man called Potter, who was in charge of the huge MI5 card index, which is now computerized... such a man would be good to have as a friend... But is was Freemasonry that got Hollis against all odds into the MI5 service and took Hollis, the unlikeliest of all its officers, to the very top of MI5 .. the likeliest key to the mystery of Hollis is Shanghai and the time Hollis spent there for the British American Tobacco Company in the 1930's... the European community in Shanghai was small.. the English-speaking community was of course smaller and very tight-knit; virtually every Englishman arriving in Shanghai gravitated to the Masonic Hall at 1623, Avenue Road, Shanghai .. Freemasonry had flourished among the British expatriates here and at the previous Masonic Hall at 30 The Bund, Shanghai, since the mid-1800's .. In the 1930's, when Hollis was in Shanghai, the tradition of Freemasonry there was at its zenith.. A man who was not a Mason was at a grave disadvantage in achieving whatever social or professional ambitions he had...Almost everyone I have contacted who knew Hollis, including MI5 officers past and present, has reacted similarly to the suggestion that the former director-general Sir Roger Hollis was a member of the Freemason Brotherhood. - that was just the kind of man, extremely secretive by nature, with few friendships and with small prospect of advancement - who would join Masonry in order to exploit its covert advantages ...Freemasonry, said the contacts, offered the first explanation to the Hollis mystery, his otherwise inexplicable acceptance and his phenomenal rate of promotion.....it is understood that Hollis's immediate predecessor as director-general of the MI5 security service, Sir Dick Goldsmith White, was also a Freemason, who was the only man to have ever been both the head of MI5 and MI6, having moved from MI^ to MI5 in 1956 to take over the MI5 secret service from Sir John 'Sinbad' Sinclair...  Despite his impressive record and qualifications, the unprecedented transfer was viewed by many within MI6 as dangerous and as something which, once again breaking all the traditional rules governing the secure operation of the two services, should never have been allowed. It was Sir Dick Goldsmith White. who on his appointment as MI5 Secret Service Chief, recommended Hollis as his successor to premier Anthony Eden....Hollis' treachery should have come to light in the late 1940's when Sir Percy Sillitoe was director-general of MI5..As A.W. Cockerill, Sillitoe's biographer, points out, 'practically the entire effort of the MI5 Service form 1946 on, and until long after Sillitoe's retirement, was directed at identifying and weeding out Communists from positions in which they posed a threat to national security'. Cockerill states that one of Sillitoe's first actions after getting settled into the job as MI5 chief was to carry out a purge, for which he had something of a reputation in his former career in the police..

'" In the case of MI5m he was primarily interested in the political reliability of his staff, and a number of employees were forced to leave for one reason or another.... Beginning with those whose credentials were 'impeccable', he carried out a systematic security check of the entire establishment, This was a programme in which the internal security officers combed through each personal file as though the person concerned was a newcomer; the individual's history was checked and rechecked, membership in clubs, societies and social organizations was investigated anew to ensure that the service itself was 'clean'..."

  But Sillitoe, without knowing it, was fighting an impossible battle,,, with the man in charge of all the personal records being a member of the Freemasonry Brotherhood, Sillitoe would never be allowed to learn that Hollis's mans of entry to the MI5 Service had been by way of a Masonic Lodge in China and a Masonic Director-General of MI5.. In is an interesting fact that the Freemason Lodge membership lists of the Shanghair Lodges between the wards are among the lost closely guarded secrets of the United Grand Lodge.. Several attempts by concerned Freemason members of the Brotherhood to get try and hold of these files through the ordinary channels have been always blocked ... it is evident that those lists of names contain something so explosive, so potentially damaging to the Brotherhood, that it will not permit them to be examined even by senior Masons,,

Whose name is being concealed???

 If not...Sir Roger Hollis????

Chapter 28: The Threat To Britain continued

The Chinaman Report also expresses concern that British Freemasonry as a whole is, quite unknown to its members, a major target for so-called 'Special Political action' for the KGB, The Chinaman Report states among other things"

" ...sheer prudence demands that the lessons of the P2 affair receive the attention of all who have the interests of the UK and the West at heart, masons and no-masons alike... The affair has so far been to the considerable advantage of the Soviet Union and the Communists, which alone of the political parties ( conveniently) has no known members among the listed names published by order of the Prime Minister,, Has P2 continued its secret growth and unacceptable activities, the inevitable scandal could have brought down with it non-Communist government in Italy ... Yet Italian Freemasonry has been estimated as of the order of under 100,000 - a mere tenth of the supposed UK total for roughly similar population,..."

In the UK he Brotherhood enjoys the inestimable advantage of royal patronage... The Chinaman Report suggested that 'the Italian affair is a serious warning form which important lessons can be drawn ..The UK could well prove very much more vulnerable to exposure of improper activities by a group of Freemasons than is Italy...'

According to the Chinaman Report There are two reasons for this:

",,,First, Masonry so permeates so many revered British institutions form the Crown downwards, that a grave Masonic scandal could in modern circumstances involved popular revulsion against the whole established order ...Government and Business ...

Second, the proportion of Masons to non-Masons in some professions and other walks of life, including areas of Government, appears to have reached a critical point: the point at which people believe themselves obliged to join Freemasonry, no longer voluntarily, but from a feeling of compulsion...."

..This statement is certainly accurate, as my own enquiries have revealed..

.."Masons and non-Masons alike seem increasingly to fear the potential of the fraternity (Freemason) to ruin them (if they in any way upset the Freemason Fraternity or try to take them on in any way)...At such a point it becomes hard to find in certain areas vital to the state an adequate numbers of competent persons who are non-masons to prevent such a vacuum as now threaten Italy were al the officers of the armed forces of General rank named in the P2 documents to be required to retire (because of being exposed and named as members of the P2..

Third, there is much circumstantial evidence that more ruthless elements have joined Freemasonry and are using up the find of respectability that Royal patronage confers to indulge in activities which reputable members would find quite unacceptable were they aware of the extent of the abuse (of Freemasonry)..This of course, is a danger inherent in all secretive societies for their cellular from devised by the founders for the security of the movement, can as readily be used to 'hoodwink" the leadership, who thus become unwitting 'front men' for activities they would never countenance,..."

..The Chinaman Report alludes to the argument that there has not been a Masonic scandal of major proportions in modern times and the contention that should one occur, it could readily be contained by the Brotherhood by mean of both public expulsions and cover-ups. the Chinaman Report continues:

"...This may possibly be so... But British society as a whole is changing rapidly..The established order of things developed over the past thousand years in no longer so widely and so automatically accepted as in even recent past ....Many, of all political hues, consider some of our institutions archaic and in need of reform.. this view is fueled by the loss of national self-confidence and national pride following from the loss of Empire and our very poor showing in the list of advanced industrial societies,, Disrespect for those in authority is already considerable and is increasing at an accelerating rate: such rife dissatisfaction soon comes to seek a scapegoat, such as 'the Establishment' provides... But out institutions - both public and private - seem incapable of reforming themselves and performing the 'aggiornamento' the thoughtful of all moderate persuasions are increasingly coming to expect...

...Against this worsening background it would be rash to suppose that the methods of the pas to contain scandals and irregularities in Masonry ( or indeed in anything else) will still be adequate by, say, the end of the decade. And this is to count without the intentions of the KBG...

The possibility that the KGB has along-term interest in British Freemasonry must be taken seriously..For to any trained intelligence officer, Freemasonry offers an ideal vehicle for the destabilization of the United Kingdom. to make two points:

(1) there has for some time been practically no mention of Freemasonry in the media: for widespread and important a movement this almost amounts to a taboo- any serious, well documented exposure of substantial malpractices could be expected to have a disproportionate shock effect. We are not yet so cynical and so inured to scandal as the Italians.

(2) Second, the KBG - itself growing out of a clandestine movement's seizure of state power, well understands the organization, motivation and other problems of secret societies (particularly of Communication records, and the use of a reputable ''front'') and is thus ideally qualified to exploit Freemasonry for its own ends,,"

  ..here the Chinaman Report constructs, form its thirty-year knowledge of the KGB's political methods and of the inner workings of British Freemasonry -with the P2 conspiracy forming a bridge between the two - a scenario which to my certain knowledge senior official of both MI5 and MI6 regard with utmost gravity. ..the man code-names Chinaman suggest that the most likely method of attack would follow the pattern of P2 - in other words, the KGB, doubtless through Czech intelligence, would attempt to hive off a promising area of Freemasonry and encourage its growth...

"....The more prominent those unwittingly involved, the greater the ultimate effect - provided the top echelon (of Freemasonry) were carefully preserved untainted.. Another phase would be deliberately to encourage and exacerbate existing abuses for personal advancement at the expense of non-Masons.. Arrogance would be inflated to a point where the Masons concerned would become over-confident and incautious ..... the KGB would then obtain and collate documentary and circumstantial evidence in as many spheres of activity as possible ...

...Once sufficient material has been gathered, the KGB would be prepared to wait years if required until directed to mount an exposure at a politically appropriate juncture.. Then the 'fuse' would be lit for example by arranging for a blackmail operation to fail, or a 'Soviet 'defector' to arrive perhaps in the US, and point conclusively to KBG involvement in Masonry ..Media and Government enquiries could then be fed with supplementary evidence garnered for the purpose over the years... Names would be called....Confusion would be sown by including the righteous (chosen for their effectiveness in opposition to Soviet designs) with the guilty (chosen for their publicity value) : in such circumstances lies mixed with incontrovertible truths would be hard to winnow.

  If the right moment for 'ignition' were chosen the disaster could be very great. ...One only need only to remember the effect on each occasion of the news of Fuchs's espionage (Klaus Emil Julian Fuchs, was convicted in 1950 of passing British American atomic research secrets tot eh Soviet Union), the Maclean and Burgess defections, the Philby case, the Blunt exposure and the recent public allegations regarding the late Sir Roger Hollis, to appreciate the effect of well documented exposures at one time of even fifty prominent persons - let alone nearly a thousand as in the Italian P2 case.."

  Chinaman makes it plain that short of information from some formerly well-placed genuine defector, there is no certain means of knowing whether the Soviet Union is operating such a plan..

"..I simply suggest that it is self-evident that the possibility should be taken seriously and appropriate defensive action taken if this has not already been done adequately.."

..I can reveal that no such defensive action has yet been taken because prior to the submission of the Chinaman Report, no one had considered the possible exploitation of Freemasonry. No one knew enough about the Brotherhood for it to present itself as a possibility. Chinaman suggests measures to minimize the effects of any KGB-promoted exposure in two main ways:

 "..(1) First, by ensuring that we are not 'caught' with persons holding certain key delicate positions being Masons ... From my own experience (as well as reports of the P2 case) I would hope for example that the heads of both the MI5 Secret Intelligence Service and the MI6 Security Service are not (again) permitted to be Freemasons, and that  the regulations of these two services now provide for any Masons to declare their adherence to the head of the service concerned personally (as already stated, MI5 officers are banned from joining the Brotherhood, but this has not prevented several MI5 officer from being members of the Freemasonry Brotherhood).. I believe that the same should apply o MI6 Special Branch. Masons who are already members of MI5 and/or MI6 branches of Government could provide a valuable link to Freemasonry in the MI5 and MI6 services, in the service of the State, if they are not so acting already.. In other Government Departments, arrangements could ensure that heads of personnel sections be non-Masons, and that they have a right of access to the Director-General of the Security Service, ..The legal professions- presently the object of increasing public disquiet because of its alleged tendency to protect its own - is a particular problem given the large number of Freemasons (in the legal profession in the United Kingdom)

(2) The Second direction I would concentrate upon would be legislation. It seems to me, for instance, far less likely that any deliberate organized exposure would cause serious and lasting damage to the benefit of the pro-Communist left and the Soviet Union, if all citizens had the legal right, if the elected, to a written assurance that any professional person they consulted is not a member of any secret society, including Freemason and similar or related groupings:  an untrue denial rendering the professional person liable to criminal proceedings.. I appreciate the very great difficulties, but possibly in the not too far distant future in the wake if the P2 affair, some measure along these lines might be passed ... In the Government service Masons in delicate areas would come to know that for security reasons a few positions were closed to the: this too would help shift the balance of advantage..

...Such measures could, I believe, also incidentally lead to a significant improvement in Britain's performance in many places, lessening the possibility that the more dynamic, more forward-looking and better qualified may be passed over to the detriment of government and industrial efficiency ... I repeat, though, that I am well aware that I have not the qualifications for suggesting counter-measures, that I have for setting out the dangers,,,'

..I have discussed the Chinaman Report in general terms and off the record with several high; placed officials and with three former Cabinet Ministers, all of whom told me that if such a report came into their hands when they were in office hey would have initiated an enquiry, IN March 1982, having contacted Foreign ~Secretary Lord Carrington and been assured by him that he was not a Freemason Brotherhood, I was on the point of raising it with him.. The Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands and Britain lost on of its most able ministers.

  And here another link is forged between Licio Gelli (P2 founder and controller), his Overt Masters, and the important task P2 had been created to perform in the continuing programme to destabilize the West, After Licio Gelli's flight from Italy. Licio Gelli did not go hiding beyond the Iron Curtain as suggested by the perspicacious Peter Hebblethwaithe...Most informed sources believed Licio Gelli was in Argentina, where he had exercised so much influence in the past and where, I suggest. Geberal Galtieri was Licio Gelli's new Peron, It cannot be a coincidence that Admiral Emilo Massera, the commander of the Argentine Navy and one of the three-man junta that launched the Falkland invasion, and the commander of the Argentine Fits Army, General Calos Suarez Mason, we`re both secret members of Lodge P2.

Chapter One: Origins

Some Freemasons claim great antiquity for Freemasonry. This is reflected in the Masonic calendar which is based on Archbishop Ussher's seventh-century calculation that the Creation must have taken place in the year 4004 BC/ For convenience, the off four years are ignored and Anno Lucis (in the Year of Light, when Freemasonry is deemed to have begun) is four thousand years ahead of Anno Domini - so a Masonic certificate of initiation bearing the date A.L. 5983 was issued in A.D. 1983. The implication is that Freemasonry is as old as Adam. \ Throughout the eighteen and nineteenth centuries, Masonic writers produced vast numbers of books seeking to show that their movement has a continuous history of many hundreds, even thousands of years. Some claimed that the ancestors of the Brotherhood were the Druid or Culdees; some claimed they were the pre-Christian Jewish Monks, the Essenes, Others insisted that Freemasonry had its origins in the religion of ancient Egypt - an amalgam of the briefly held momotheism of Ikhnaton (c.1375 B.C.) and the Isis-Osiris cult.

 Modern Masonic historians are fare more cautious. It is now accepted that Freemasonry as practiced today goes back no more than three centuries. What is true, though, is that the philosophic, religious and ritualistic concoction that makes up the speculative element of Freemasonry is drawn from many sources - some of them, like the Isis-Osiris myth, dating back to the dawn of history. Rosicrucianism, Gnosticism, the Kabbala, Hinduism, Theosophy and traditional notions of the occult all play a part; but despite the exhaustive literature - one scholar estimates that some 50,000 items of Masonry had been published by the 1950's - it is impossible to determine what comes from where and when, if only because Freemasonry on its lower and more accessible levels is opposed to dogma. There is therefore no alternative statement of what Masons believe or what the Brotherhood stands for in the first, second and third degrees, to which the vast majority of members restrict themselves. Even a 33 degree Mason who has persevered to attain all the enlightenment that Freemasonry claims to offer could not - even if he were freed from his oath of secrecy - provide more than a purely personal view of the Masonic message and the meaning to be attached to Masonic symbolism, since thus remains essentially subjective.

  The comparatively short documented history of Freemasonry as an institution is nevertheless quite extraordinary. It is the story of how a Roman Catholic trade guild for a few thousand building workers in Britain came to be taken over by the aristocracy, the gentry and members of mainly non-productive professions, and how it was turned into a non-Christian secret society enjoying association with offshoot fraternal societies with millions of adherents throughout most of the non-Communist world.

  In many cultures and at many times humankind has been drawn to the esoteric - the conception that the great truths about life and how to control social and natural phenomena are secrets and can only be known to initiates, who pass on their privileged knowledge to the elect from generation to generation. Ad one highly placed Mason told me: ' Truth, to the initiate, is not for everyone, pearls must not be thrown before swine.'

Equally. throughout history men have joined together in secret groups to further purely worldly ambitions. All such groups also involve initiation - the initiation ceremony involving fearful oaths of secrecy. For secrets to remain secrets there must be certain and effective sanctions. Secret societies formed for essentially practical ends have commonly had religious and moral elements. The religious element creates awe and so adds to the effectiveness of the oath of secrecy. The moral element determines the fraternal way that the organization's members threat each other, which might bear small resemblance to the way they treat outsiders.

 Freemasonry is both speculative, philosophic - even religious and mystical -system, and a fraternity of those organized to help each other in material matters. For some Masons it is entirely the former, for other the latter. but for most it is a mixture of the two.

  Masonic historians seem as uncertain as non-Masons about who first saw in the obsolescent mediaeval Christian Masonic guild as organization that could be taken over and converted into a quasi-religious, quasi-secular secret society. What evidence there is indicates that this evolution began very slowly and almost by chance, and that it was only later that the potential of the Masonic guild as a clandestine power base was perceived. In other words, it appears that the original interest of the gentry in the Masonic lodges stemmed from curiosity, antiquarian interest, and a kind of fashionable search for an unconventional, exclusive social milieu - rather like a jet-set fad for frequenting working men's pubs.

..There are a number of reasons why the Masonic guild should have attracted this general interest....

...First, the working (or 'operative') mason's craft guild was ripe for takeover: structured in the heyday of Gothic architecture in the thirteenth century, the craft was dying.. King's College Chapel at Cambridge, perhaps the last truly great English Gothic building, had been completed about 1512...

 ... Secondly, the highly skilled stonemasons of the Gothic age were peculiar in that many were itinerant workers, moving from church site to cathedral site as work was to be found. They had no regular headquarters like other trades, gathering in temporary lodges on site to discuss affairs ...and, as they often did not know each other as did permanent residents of mediaeval towns, they needed some method of recognition, some way of maintaining a closed shop to protect their demanding and highly esteemed profession against interlopers who had not undergone the rigorous apprenticeship necessary to acquire the mason's skills. These, as Professor Jacob Bronowski termed them, were the 'industrial aristocrats'.....

.... There was thus cosmopolitan romance, exclusivity and an organized secretiveness about the mason's guild, which became increasingly moribound as baroque replaced Gothic architecture ... all of this had potential fascination for men of education.......

 Modern Freemasonry probably originated in Scotland... The earliest known instance of a non-stonemason, a gentleman, joining a mason's lodge is John Boswell. Laid of Auchinlech, who was a member of the Lodge in Edinburgh in 1600. Apparently the first English gentleman to join an English Lodge was Elian Ashmore, founder of Oxford' Ashmlean Museum. An antiquarian deeply interested in Rosicrucinism, he joined in 1646, Masonry became so fashionable that as the seventeenth century progressed the 'acceptance' (the collective term for non-stonemasons) became the majority in the Masonic Lodges.

 

For example, in 1670 the Aberdeen Lodge had thirty-none 'accepted' members while only ten remained 'operative' masons. But it was not long before the novelty in participating in the Quaint and venerable doings of artisans wore thin. Men of fashion saw no reason to prolong association with working men, and they began to form their own gentlemen' Lodges.... Freemasonry was launched...

 

... The 'speculative' Masons inherited seven main fundamental points from their 'operative' predecessors:

(1) an organization with the three grades of membership: (a) Apprentice, (b) Fellow or Journeyman, and (c) Master Mason;

(2) A unit termed a Lodge;

(3) Legendary histories of the origins of the Masonic craft set out in the 100-odd manuscripts containing the so-called 'Old Charges', the oldest being the Regius manuscripts of 1390, which was in verse;

(4) A tradition o fraternal and benevolent relations between members;

(5) A rule of secrecy about Lodge doings, although the Old Charges themselves were simply lists of quite ordinary rules for the guild, which members were enjoined to keep 'so help you God'. as befitted a Christian grouping there were no blood-curdling oaths;

(6) A method of recognition, notably the Scottish 'mason word' traced back to 1550: unwritten but variously remembered as Mahabyn, Mahabone, or even Matchpin;

(7) A thoroughly Christian foundation - the Old Charges are permeated with mediaeval Roman Catholicism;

 

With the demise of the original 'trade union' purpose of organization and the eclipse not only of Roman Catholicism due to the Reformation, but also the waning of Christianity with the rise of science, what was left towards the end of the seventeenth century was the framework of a secretive association, likened by authority to a peasant's cottage ripe for extensive development as a luxury weekend home for the well-to-do.

... Serious Masonic historians themselves deplore the lack of documentation about the three or four critical decades before the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 ,,but is was during these years that the course of Freemasonry was to follow set.. it was evidently then that feww men among the small number (possibly only a few hundred in all) of 'accepted' masons must have come to see the potential of a secret society cutting across class divisions to embrace aristocrats, gentry, professional men and elements of the expanding middle class... It was to be a 'brotherhood' which would put a string to pull into the hand of every members, and strings enough in the hands of its shadowy controllers to manipulate events - like puppet masters behind the scenes ..But who these people were and just how consciously they planned or, as some have said, even plotted, is shrouded in mystery ,,, One thing united a majority of politically conscious people at this time: the need to preserve the gain of the Civil War of 1642-1651 - the limitation of the power of the King.. The 'accepted'  Masons of the last quarter of the seventeenth century would appear to have been largely drawn from the type of people most anxious to preserve and to increase the steadily growing influence in society and government if men of quite moderate wealth and standing...

.... William of Orange and his consort Mary in 1688 were invited to become joint sovereigns..

.... When Grand Lodge was founded, George I had been on the throne only three years ..the prominent in Masonry were poised to have a hand in the manipulation of the new Hanoverian dynasty...

...Before the foundation of Grand Lodge in 1717, moves to transform the old guild into a true secret society were well on the way. As the normal trade union business of operative Masonic Lodges dwindled and eventually ceased, so the element of ritual based on the readings of the Old Charges - their legendary stories about the origins of the 'Mason's Craft; and their injunctions to members to obey the traditional rules - was transformed. Lodge ritual, initiations and speculative dissertations became the mail business of actual lodge meetings ... at the same time fraternal conviviality  - which in the old days of operative masonry had probably been confined to a tankard or two after meetings in a local ale house - soon became a major feature of Masonic society... much was eaten, much was drunk, and much was discussed in the privacy of Masonic meeting places (usually taverns) after the rather dry formal doings in Lodge were over... the 'better' the `lodge - in the sense of social class - the 'better' the conversation and the more lavish and expensive the entertainment ,,,Masonry was already on its way to mirroring and reinforcing the class system and the emerging social order based on strictly constitutional monarchy... whatever it was to become overseas, where no Civil War, no Glorious Revolution had yet taken place, Masonry in England was already headed towards a conservative future...The sights of its prime movers were already set on a movement underpinning a type of society admirably suited to its purposes: a stable society with limited social mobility in which a secret inner 'Old Boy' association could provide an environment where considerable benefit could be gained by members who knew how to 'play the Masonic organ'.

,, Formal oaths of secrecy to be sworn by individual initiates appear in a number of Old charges containing 'new orders', but as these were published five years after the establishment of Grand Lodge they are possibly spurious. ,,,either way, no horrific sanctions are mentioned.. even so, the inclusion of an oath in the initiation rituals can be regarded as a crucial step in the creation of a secret society from the old guild...

 

The headquarters of the Brotherhood ( as Freemasonry is generally called) in England and Wales is in London, where the massive bulk of Freemasons Hall squats at the corner of Great Queen Street and Wild Street, like a gigantic elephant's footstool... This is the seat of the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of the 8,000 plus lodges in England and Wales, These Lodges, of which there are another 1,200 odd under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and about 750 under the Grand Lodge of Ireland, carry out their secret business and ritual in a deliberately cultivated atmosphere of mystery in Masonic Temples. Masonic Temples might be purpose built, or might be rooms in hotels or private buildings temporarily converted for Masonic use. Many town halls up and down Britain have private function room, used for Masonic rituals, as does New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police...

.... The Grand Lodges control what is known as ''Craft" Freemasonry, and brethren often refer to the Brotherhood as "the Craft". Craft Freemasonry covers the three degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason..The vast majority of Masons rise no higher than Master Mason, and most are under the impression that there are no higher degrees... Even many masons who go on to become Royal Arch Masons, governed by Grand Chapter, have no idea that the Masonic ladder extends a further thirty rungs above those on the third who believe they had already reached the top of Freemasonry....( it is note that other researchers such as Glen Kealy believe that the ladder goes even higher to a 90 degree mason..however a 33 degree mason can not request to become and/or would not know about the 90 degree mason levels unless selected and told about them......

.... There is an important distinction to be made between 'Freemasonry', which is the Freemason movement as a whole, and 'Freemasons', which describes any number of individual masons .... it has been claimed that Captain William Morgan in American in 1826,Mozart and the Jack the Ripper murders were committed by Freemasons and/or the Brotherhood.. some people today look upon Freemasonry as an underground movement devoted to murder, terrorism and revolution ... and is a worldwide conspiracy and watch.... however... Freemasonry is not a worldwide secret society ..however is a secret society that, originating in Britain, now has independent offshoots  in most of the non-Communist world ...while the British Grand Lodge recognize more than a hundred Grand Lodges ( forty-nine in the USA), they have no control over them, and most reflect the political complexion of the country in which they operate. Far from being revolutionary, there is no organization more reactionary, more Establishment-based, that British Freemasonry. Its members derive benefit from the Brotherhood only so long as the status quo is maintained ... nevertheless, Freemasonry has a potent influence on life in Britain - for both good and ill... the Brotherhood's publicly stated aims are: morality, fraternity and charity ... the average member of the Brotherhood will be eloquent on the generous donations made by United Grand Lodge to charity ...which are quite substantial ... on the other hand, there can be no doubt that many others have suffered because of Freemasonry entering into areas of life where, according to all its publicly proclaimed principles, it should never intrude .... the abuse of Freemasonry caused alarming miscarriages of justice.. it is one of the aims of this book to look at some of the effects of this abuse .... I am free to name only a small number of the many hundreds of people who have helped me with advice and information ...  (for the writing of this book) .... most of those who helped did so only on the understanding that I would say nothing that could lead to their identification... among these were Freemasons, who feared recrimination from members of the Brotherhood ... other included government officials, politicians, judges, policemen of all ranks, lawyers, churchmen, past and present officers of MI5 and MI6, and people from every sector of society touched by this book.....

 

Edited from: The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies Intro: Elias Ashmore:

Elias Ashmore was an English historian, astrologer, alchemist, in 1644, where he became a member of Brasenose

College and studied astrology and mathematics, His studies were interrupted by the final phase of the English Civil War , and he served with distinction in the Royalist cause, helping defend Oxford and Worcester against Parliamentary armies. After the final collapse of the Royalty cause in 1646, Ashmore went to live with relatives in Cheshire, While there in October 16th, 1646, he was initiated into Freemasonry, becoming one of the first two "accepted (speculative) Masons (Masons not employed in the building trades) in England, the other, initiated on the same evening, was his brother-in-law Henry Mainwaring. He remained active in Masonry for the rest of his life and appears to have placed a significant role in its spread in seventeenth-century England...

 

 

 

The Brotherhood

by Stephen Knight –published 1984

The Dissidents – Chapter 16 _ages 140 to  149

One of my major sources of information was a former Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander of the Thirty-First degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite who has withdrawn form masonry in 1968 for religious reasons.. her agreed to be interviewed by me  through a third party concerning his conviction that no active Christian could in all conscience remain a Freemason…

When I met him I learned he was a judge, and a particularly quick-tempered one .. I asked him about the Ancient and Accepted Rite of the Thirty-Third degree, he answered quickly: ‘Nom I dare not go into that’, her said ….’we’d better stick to religion… I thought immediately afterwards how strange it was he had used the words ‘dare not’, Most people said, ‘I’d better not’, or ‘I’d rather not’… I remarked on his used of the world. He said, ‘Anyone in public life has to be cautious.’ ..’Cautious’.. I repeated. “That’s a Masonic word of recognition.”..

He then said, ‘You’ve obviously delved into the ritual, so you know…..’

… ‘Mr Knight, I don’t like this line of questioning. I agreed to speak to you in general terms about why my commitment to Jesus is incompatible with Masonic religion …. I do not wish to be drawn into discussion of matters covered by whatever undertakings I have … taken…

I went on to tell the judge ..’I have heard form quite a lot of contacts about organized action groups of Freemasons that have resulted in the financial or social ruin of certain people, ‘ I said..

The judge replied.. ‘So have I’…’ ..still looking me st5raight in the eye as if telling me this was an important issue and point of fact…’ So have I Mr Knight… No of such happenings which had the backing of official Freemasonry, but of actions which were unofficial, in other words, Masons abusing the Craft for their own ends..’…’You know the answer to that form what I have said.. ‘I have also heard about people who have .crossed’ certain masons and finished up in prison…’ He then stopped me in mid-sentence by placing a finger on his lips ... ’if I told you everything about Freemasonry, being betrayed by its members, it would surprise you… it would make your hair stand on end … I can’t tell you any more..’ he said…then he said.. Give me your phone number,, you might hear from someone in a few days…’… His finger went back to his lips and he went to fetch my coat .. as he left he said, ‘God Bless’…

A few days later received as phone call from a man calling himself Christopher whom I ended up having along meeting at his private club and he showed me his papers to show him bona fide ID and Freemason membership… I asked him what a person might have to fear from a group of influential Freemason if circumstances made him, for instance, a threat to them in the business world; or if he discovered they were using masonry for corrupt purposes; or had fallen victim of their misuse of Freemasonry and would not heed warnings not to oppose them…

He replied..’.. It is not difficult to s=ruin a man,’ he said, ‘And I will tell you how it is done time and time again.. there are more than half a million Freemasonry Craft Brethren (In 1883) just in England and Wales and over 400,000 in Scotland ( in 1983) under the jurisdiction of Grand Lodge.. Standards have been falling for twenty or thirty years , it is now too easy to enter the Craft, so many men of dubious moral have now joined the Craft… about 12-13% abuse the Craft for selfish and/or corrupt ends.. (that is about 60,000 in England and Wales and about 40,000 in Scotland)..

Note: Christopher was one of a small and unpopular group within Masonry who sometime in the early 1970’s had decided that either they had to get out of the Brotherhood or they had to do something ‘to stop the rot’, which the ‘blinkered officers of Great Queen Street refuse to admit was there..’

This group wanted pressure brought to bear on those in positions of responsibility  within the Brotherhood to put Freemasonry’s house in order.. to instate proper policing, to close down Lodges used for shady dealings and to root out corrupt brethren and expel them, they also wanted the whole business of Masonic secrecy looked into by Grand Lodge, most of them believing that secrecy was more harmful than helpful to Masonry..

 Christopher explained that Masonry’s nationwide organization of men from all walks of life provided one of the most efficient private intelligence networks imaginable, private information on anybody in the country could be accessed very rapidly through endless permutations of Masonic contacts in the police, magistrates, solicitors, bank managers, Post Office staff (‘very useful is supplying copies of a man’s mail’), doctors, government employees, bosses of firms and nationalized industries etc. etc. …. A dossier of personal data could be built up on anybody very quickly.. when the major facts of an individual’s life were known, areas of vulnerability would become apparent…

I asked what action might be taken?..

“ Solicitors are very good at it…Get your name involved in something legal it need not be serious and you have him,, Solicitors are past masters a causing endless delays, generating useless paperwork, ignoring instructions, running up immense bills, misleading client into taking decisions damaging to themselves etc etc..

‘ Masonic police can harass, arrest on false charges, and plant evidence.. ‘ A business man in a small community or a person in public office arrested for dealing in child pornography, for indent exposure, or for trafficking drugs is at the end of the line..’

‘ Masons can bring about the situation where credit companies and band withdraw credit facilities form individual clients and tradesmen, said my informant..

People who rely on their telephone for work can have it cut off for long periods, Masonic employees of councils can arrange for a persons drains to be inspected and extensive damage reported etc etc..

 

Chapter 3- Schism and  Reunion

 .... In 1717 Freemasonry enters properly into history,, Four London Lodges alone formed Grand Lodge and owed allegiance to it. What is interesting is that a none too well-off gentleman, Anthony Sayer, was installed as Grand Master, In the beginning the upper classed kept a low profile.. they backed the creation of a central organization welding individual lodges together, but eventually wanted this done before they assumed official public control... Of the four original London Lodges, the first three contained not one 'Esquire' between them, where as Lodge Original No.4 was made up of seventy-one members of whom, in 1724, ten were nobles, three were honourable, four were baronets or knights, and two were generals. .. in 1718, Sayer was replaced after barely a year by George Payne, a 'man of more substance', being a member of Original No 4. But he too had only one year in office  another interim while the upper-class moved in on the small gentry just as the small gentry moved in on the 'operative' artisans a century earlier...

... The third Grand Master was the Reverend John Theophilus Desaguliers, a Doctor of Law, a Fellow of the Royal society and chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales, whom he admitted to the Brotherhood in 1737. He was of French extraction. ,, A head hunter for Freemasonry.... he not only visited Edinburgh to encourage the Scots along the organizational path the London Masons were following , but visited The Hague in 1731, where he admitted the Duke of Lorraine to the Brotherhood. The Duke married Mara Theresa in 1736 and become co-Regent when she acceded to the Austrian throne in 1738... under Joseph II Mozart, Haydn and a host of other notables became Freemasons ...Dr Desaguliers, certainly appears to have sparked the missionary zeal of British Freemasonry which eventually carried the Freemasonry movement to almost every country in the world....Desaguliers too only held office a short time, In 1721 he gave way to the long awaited first noble Grand master, the Duke of Montague, But, unlike his predecessors, Desaguliers was not usurped: the evidence suggests that he was the prototype of the long line of powerful Masonic figures who preferred the shade to the limelight, the reality of power to mere appearances.

 

 

Chapter: 4 Across The Seas and Down the Centuries

The Irish Grand Lodge was formed in 1725 and the Scottish Grand Lodge was formed the following year in 1726. the Scots proved at least as fervent missionaries as the English, As already mentioned. the movement had spread to the Continent at least by the third decade of the eighteenth century, often in very high society. Frederick the Great of Prussia is claimed to have been initiated in 1738, although one must be careful of accepting Masonic claims of membership by the illustrious. There is no proof, for example Christopher Wren, often hailed as one of the brethren, was ever a member. Masonry, its undefined Deism so close to that of Voltairean rationalism, was soon the rage among the pre-revolutionary freethinkers in France: ironically, it may have been planted there by Jacobite exiles around 1725.

  Freemasonry remains a power t be reckoned with in many European countries, France and Germany in particular. The French Grand Master today is Air Force general Jacques Mitterand, the President's brother, and Freemasonry's influence in politics is profound. Francois Mitterand owes much of his success in the 1981 election to influential Freemasons. Masonry has been closely identified with the Socialists for most of the last seventy years. According to Fred Zeller, Grand master of the Grand Orient of France in 1971 and 1973, the 1974 presidential election would have been won by the Socialists had Valery Giscard d'Estang not  become a Freemason and colluded with sympathetic forces in the Brotherhood, which eventually persuaded French Freemasons that it  was  in their best interests to vote for Giscard. He was initiated into the Franklin Rossevelt Lodge in paris the year of the election.

 Italian Freemasonry, later to pay significant role in the unification of the country ( Garibaldi was a Freemason). was established in Rome by Jacobite exiles in 1735 and was already a force by 1750. Masonry among Roman Catholics relates was one reason for the repeated papal condemnations.

 No country was too small for attention: Holland, Switzerland and Sweden all had keen and influential memberships in the eighteen century.  Continental Masonry reached as far as Russia: Tolstoy in War and Peace describes the different motivations of upper-class masons during the Napolionic Wars.

 

Freemasonry crossed the Atlantic to the colonies of the old empire very early on: George Washington's initiation was in 1752, Today, the dollar bill bears not only Washington's likeness, but also the all-seeing-eye symbol of Freemasonry.  washington refused to become head of masonry for the whole of the newly formed United States, and US Freemasonry came to be organized on a state-by-state basis. Today, each US state has its own Grand Lodge, Royal Arch Chapters come under state Grand Chapters, the first mention of Royal Arch appearing in Virginia records of 1753. A few states followed the British lead and spread the Brotherhood abroad, For example, before the Second World War there were Lodges in China under Massachusetts jurisdiction, and it was Massachusetts that warranted the first Canadian Lodge in 1749, The oldest Masonic Lodge room in the USA dates from 1760 and is at Prentiss House, Marblehead, Massachusetts. No fewer than none Canadian Grand Lodges were eventually formed. The United States proved a home form home for the Brotherhood. Eight signatories to the Declaration of Independence- Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Robert Treat Payne, Richard Stockton, George Walton and william Whipple - were proven Masons, while twenty-four others, on less that certain evidence, have been claimed by the Brotherhood. Seventeen presidents have been Masons: Washington, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Garfield. McKinley, both Roosevelts, Taft, Harding, Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford and Ronald Regan, Seventeen Vice-Presidents including Hubert Humphrey and Adlai Stevenson have also been brethren,

 But the British - the founders of masonry - remained throughout the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries the chief propagandists for the movement. Undaunted by the loss of the first empire and with it direct control over American Masonry, the British took masonry with the flag as they created their second empire- the one on which the sun never set.

 For some years membership of the Lodges set up in the empire (grouped in 'Provinces' under English, Scottish or Irish jurisdiction) as confined to Europeans, apart from a handful of Indian princely exceptions. But after 1860. a first Parsees, then other Indians were brought into the Brotherhood. In British West Africa and the West Indies there were 'black' lodges (likely to be where Barrack Obama's relations came from as a long term plan to raise a Mason family dark president of the USA) as well as 'white' Lodges (as in the US), and eventually mixed Lodges were formed.

  Associating the native upper and middle classes on a peculiar, profitable and clandestine basis with their while rulers, some historians believe, did much to defuse resentment of imperial domination. Despite his colour, any man rather better off than the mass of people - who were not sought as members - could, by being a Freemason, feel that he belonged in however humble a way to the Establishment. Just how far masonry reached is shown by the fact that on the small island of Jamaca there were no fewer than twelve Lodges, some in townships of little more than a couple of streets.

 Freemasonry of itself is simply a secret environment tended by its various Grand Lodges, as exclusive society within society, there to be used by its members largely as they wish. Hence its influence, political and social, can be quite different at times and places, In the eighteen masons were thin on the ground, but enough aristocrats, men of fashion and influence, were Masons to give the top masons influence disproportionate to their numbers. And of course royal involvement ensured, as it does today, the impression of total reputability. because of this, Freemasonry has been able to ignore all legislation dating form 1797 concerning secret societies and illegal oaths. Although regarded as subversive in some countries where the environment was less amenable, in eighteenth-century Britain the Brotherhood had the effect already alluded to - of reinforcing the development of constitutional monarchy under which its own establishment could thrive....

The advantages of `masonry, in terms of cult, diversified friendships and straight worldly interest, had become evident to many. with the Union of 1813 the movement began to snowball for the more Masons there are in any area or profession the more important it is to be a Mason f one is not to risk losing out, as a non-member of the 'club', in one's business, one's profession and one's preferment.

 another factor was important: with the Industrial Revolution, social mobility began to increase. And masonry, providing a ladder extending from the lower middle class to the Royal Family itself, offered great advantages to those who could learn how to climb it. There was also the loneliness of the new urban way of life: Freemasonry provided an enormous circle of instant acquaintances in most walks of life.  Then too, the English public schoolboy could continue to be public schoolboy in the intimacy of the Craft.

  At the end of the eighteen century only about 320 English Lodges had been warranted. About twice as many more were formed in the next half of the century, No 1000 in 1864. This number was doubled in the next twenty year, No 2000 being warranted in 1883. The next twenty years maintained tis rate of growth with Lodge no 3000 opening in 1903, in which year Winton Leonard Spencer Churchill, the MP for Oldham, was initiated to a Masonic career that was to last more than sixty years. All this nineteenth explosions resulted essentially from recruitment form the middle and professional classes.

  With the First World War, which led to so many of quite humble background seeking better status, the rate of growth speeded dramatically. Lodge No 4000 was formed in 1919, and No 5000 only seven years later in 1926. The Second World War, for similar reasons, led to another such period of extraordinary rapid growth - Lodge No 6000  being formed in 1944 and Lodge No 7000 in 1950.

  In 1981, Lodge No 9003 was warranted. Even allowing for Lodges that have been discontinued, taking average Lodge membership at around sixty men, a membership of at least half a million can reasonably reliably be estimated for England alone. Official Masonic estimates, as already stated put the total for England and Wales at around 600,000. ( plus according to H. Paul Jeffers around 400,000 in Scotland as well taking the total to over one million Freemasons in England, Wales and Scotland).

    As the recruiting ground for ~Freemasons is primarily the not directly productive middle and professional classes, it is clear that a very high proportion of these people, occupying managers and so on - are Freemasons. In many fields nowadays the disadvantages of being left out of the 'club' are perceived as being too serious for a great many people to contemplate, whatever hey may feel personally about the morality of joining a secret society, or about the misty tenets of speculative Freemasonry.

 

Chapter 5

The Thirty-Third Degree

 

There is an elite group of Freemasons in England over whom the United Grand Lodge has no jurisdiction. These are the brethren of the so-called Higher Degrees, and even the majority of Freemasons have no idea of their existence.

  Most Freemasons who have been raised to the 3rd Degree to become Master Masons believe they are the top of the Masonic Ladder. As novices they were Entered Apprentices. They were the '[assed' as Fellow Craft Masons and finally 'raised' as Masters. The very name Master has connotations of supremity. It Master Masons have ambition it will usually be to achieve office within their Lodge - eventually, with good fortune and the passing of yeas, to become Worshipful master of their mother Lodge ( the Lodge to which they were first initiated into Masonry). Those who have their eyes fixed on higher office will aim for rank in their Provincial Grand Lodge or in the United Grand Lodge itself. But even the Grand Master of all England is only a Freemasons of the 3rd Degree. The three Craft:

3rd Degree -Master Mason

2nd Degree - Fellow Craft

1st Degree - Entered Apprentice

degrees form the entire picture of masonry for most of the 600,000 ' uninitiated initiates' of the Brotherhood in England and Wales.

   The 'Masters', who form the largest proportion of Freemasons, are inmost cases quite unaware of the thirty superior degrees to which they will never be admitted, nor even be mentioned. This is the real picture, with the three lowly degrees governed by a Supreme Council.

 

 These thirty degrees, beginning with the 4th (that of Secret Master) and culminating in the 33rd (Grand Inspector General), are controlled by a Supreme Council whose headquarters are at 10 Duke Street, St James's London SW1. Nobody walking down Duke Street form Piccadilly is likely to suspect the true nature of what goes on inside the building, even if he or she happens to notice the small plate to the right of the entrance which says,

            ' The Supreme Council..... Ring once'

 Built in 1910-11, this imposing Edwardian mansion with fine neo-classical features might easily be taken for a consulate of the headquarters of some private institute.

Nor do people thumbing through the S-Z section of the London `telephone Directory get any clue form the entry sandwiched between Supreme Cleaners and Supreme Die Cutters: 'Supreme Council 33rd Degree ...01 930 1606'

  Nobody looking at that fine but anonymous house from outside could suspect that behind its pleasing facade, beyond the two sets of study double doors and up the stairs, there is a Black Room, a Red Room and a Chamber of Death. To high masons, the house is Duke Street is known as the Grand East.

  members of Craft Freemasonry - that is, all but a few thousand of England's Masons - often argue that Freemasonry is not a secret society but ' a society with secrets'. Although argument is is the end unconvincing, it has its merits. But no such case can be made out for the wealthy society-within-a society based at 10 Duke Street, London.

 

The Thirty-Three Degrees of Freemaosonry

 

 

1st   Degree -      Entered Apprentice

2nd  Degree -     Fellow Craft

3rd   Degree -     Master Mason

4th   Degree -     Secret Master

5th   Degree -     Perfect Master

6th   Degree -     Intimate Secretary

7th   Degree -      Provost and Judge

8th   Degree -      Intendant of the Building

9th   Degree -      Elect of Nine

10th Degree-     Elect of Fifteen

11th Degree-     Sublime Elect

12th Degree-    Grand Master Architect

13th Degree-     Royal Arch of (Enoch)

14th Degree-     Scottish Knight of Perfection

15th Degree-     Knight of the Sword, or of the East

16th Degree-     Prince of Jerusalem

17th Degree-      Knight of the East and West

18th Degree-     

         Knight of the Pelican and Eagle & Sovereign Prince Roe Croix of Heredom

19th Degree-      Grand Pontiff

20th Degree-       Venerable Grand Master

21st Degree-        Patriarch Noachite

22nd Degree-       Prince of Libanus

23rd Degree-             Chief of the Tabernacle

24th Degree-              Prince of the Tabernacle

25th Degree-             Knight of the Brazen Serpent

26th Degree-              Prince of Mercy

27th Degree-              Commander of the Temple

28th Degree-               Knight of the Sun

29th Degree-              Knight of St Andrew

30th Degree-             

                       Grand Elected Knight Kadosh, Knight of the Black and White Eagle

31st Degree-                Grand Inspector inquisitor Commander

32nd Degree               Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret

33rd Degree                Grand Inspector General

 

One of the regulations of ordinary Craft masonry is that no Mason may invite an outsider to join.  Anyone wishing to become a Freemason must take the initiative and seek two sponsors from within the Brotherhood

(This at least is the theory - and United Grand Lodge staunchly maintains that it is the practice. In reality entered apprentices are recruited by existing Masons they know personally- we know this to be a fact).                                                    The position is reversed to the Higher Degrees. Initiation into Scottish Rite Freemasonry is open only to those Master Masons who are 'selected' by the Supreme Council. If a representative of the Supreme Council establishes contact with a Master Mason and concluded that he is suitable, the Candidate will be offered the chance of being 'perfected' and setting the first foot on the ladder to the 33rd Degree. But only a very small proportion, even of the limited  number of Freemasons who take the first step. progress beyond the 18th Degree, that of Knight of the Pelican and Eagle and Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of Heredom. With each Degree the number of initiates diminishes. the 31st Degree (Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander) is restricted to 400 members; the 32nd Degree ( Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret) to 180; and the 33rd Degree - the re-eminent Grand Inspectors General - to only 75 members.

    While Armed Forces are strongly represented in ordinary Freemasonry, the 'Antient and Accepted Rite of the Thirty-Third Degree' is particularly attractive to military men, Grand Inspectors General (I.e. members of the Supreme Council) have included Commander-in-Chief in the Middle east and allied supreme Commander in the Mediterranean in the Second World War; Major-General Sir Leonard Henry Atkinson; Brigadier E,W,C. Flavell; Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Williams; Brigadier General Edward Charles Walthall Delves Walthall; scores more in the last two decades. Before his retirement in 1982 the Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander (the most senior Freemason of the 33rd Degree in England and Wales and head of the Supreme Council) was Major-General sir (Herbert) Ralph Hone, KCMG, KBE, MC, TD, and so on. There is no mention of Freemasonry in his entry in Who's -Who, which lists every other decoration, award and distinction he has earned in his eighty-seven years, although becoming Britain's highest Freemason can have been of no little consequence to him. In Masonic matter he would dispense with all the other abbreviations and simply sign himself, Ralph Hone, 33 Degree. Born in 1896, he is also a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

Major-General sir (Herbert) Ralph Hone, was wounded during the First World War while serving with the British Expeditionary Force, went on to practice as a barrister-at-law in Uganda and Zanzibar in the 1920's becoming Resident Magistrate in Zanzibar in 1928 and Crown Counsel of Tanganyika Territory two years later. In the thirties he was Attorney-General  and Acting  Chief Justice of Gibraltar, and Attorney-General of Uganda between 1937 and 1943. after serving as Chief Legal adviser, Political Branch, and then Chief Political officer, GHQ Middle East, he was appointed to the General staff of the War Office in 1943. After the war he was Chief Civil Affairs Officer in Malaya for a year before becoming Secretary-General to the Governor-General of Malaya and then Deputy Commissioner-General in South-East Asia. In 1949 he was appointed Governor and Commander-in-chief of North Borneo. At the end of five years there he spent seven years as Head of the Legal Division of the Commonwealth Relations Office. This took him into 1961 when he returned to the Bar. Among other posts at home and abroad in the next fourteen years he was a constitutional advisor to R.A, Butler's Advisers on Central Africa,to the South Arabian Government and the Bermuda Government. He was standing Counsel

 to the Grand Bahama Port Authority until hi retirement on 1975 at the age of seventy-five, He succeeded Most Puissant Brother Sir Eric Studd, Bt, OBE, 33 Degree, as sovereign Grand Commander.

 This, then was the man who - at the time 'The Brotherhood' was completed for New English Library - was truly Britain's highest Freemason. whatever might be said of the Duke of Kent, the current Grand Master of Craft Masonry. Page 39 shows the hierarchy over which the Most Puissant Sovereign Grant Commander presides, with the Duke of Kent's sub-hierachy way down low.

Although in 1936, 1947 and 1967 Major-General Sir Ralph Hone held grand rank in the United Grand Lodge, and has achieved distinction in many fields, he is one of that brand of men who attain power without the notoriety or fame. Few of the many hundreds of Freemasons I have interviewed had ever heard of Sir Ralph Hone, and of those few only five knew of him in his secret role as the Highest  Mason of the Highest Degree. These five were all initiates of the Ancient and Accepted Rite: Two Sovereign Princes Rose Croix of Heredom (18th Degree); one of the 180 Sublime Princess of the Royal secret (32nd degree); a 33rd Degree Grand Inspector General; and a former Grand Inspector Inquisitor of the 31st Degree who had renounced Freemasonry in order, he said, to become 'a true and living Christian', But beyond the fact that Major-General Sir Ralph Hone was the preminent member of the Supreme Council, none of them would say any more either about the man himself or about the rituals, the degrees or the administration of the Rite.

 Sir Ralph's successor is Harold Devereux Still, former Grand Treasurer and Junior Grand warden of the United Grand Lodge of England, and Grand Treasurer and Grand Scribe Nehemiah of the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal arch Masons of England. He also attained the rank of Grand Master of the United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta.

   The Brotherhood attracts men of distinction in the judiciary and legal profession, as will be seen later. One such man is His Honour Judge Alan Stewart Trapnell, who was appointed to the Circuit Bench in 1972. he is a Craft Freemason of grand rank, having been Assistant Grand Registrar in 1963. n 1969 he became Assistant Grand Sojourner of the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Freemasons. All these details are listed in the 'Masons Year Book', which is now very difficult for non-Masons to come by, What is not mentioned is that he is a Freemason of the 33rd degree and Grand Inspector General for Middlesex.

   Although Craft Freemasonry is worldwide in the sense that it exists in most parts of the non-Communist world, and even underground in parts of the eastern bloc, it has no international organization. The  Ancient and Accepted Rite of the `thirty-Third Degree is the only cohesive Masonic group run on truly international lines. The Supreme Council in London is one of many Supreme Councils in various parts of the globe, of which the senior is the Supreme Council of Charleston, USA, which effectively operated a worldwide network of Freemasonry in the most powerful positions in the executive, legislature, judiciary and armed forces as well as the industry, commerce and professions of many nations.

  The English working of the Rite - sometimes known by the code name Rose Croix from the title of the initiate to the 18th Degree - differs from the American in one basic respect. In England and Wales only a few of the 33 Degrees are conferred by special ritual, while in the USA each Degree has its own initiation ceremony, In this country, the 4th to §7th Degrees are conferred at once and in name only during initiation of the selected Freemason to the 18th Degree. To the few who rise higher than the 18th Degree, the 19th to 29th Degrees are conferred nominally during the ritual of initiation to the 30th Degree - that of Grand Elected Knight Kadosh or Knight of the Black and White Eagle. Degrees above the 30th Degree are conferred singly, No initiate can rise higher than the 18th Degree without the unanimous agreement of the entire Supreme Council.

 

 

Chapter 6

The Great Debate

'The insidious effect of Freemansonry among the police has to be experienced to be believed'

With these words, David Thomas, a former head of Monmouthshire CID, created a storm of protest in 1969 and re-opend a debate that had started nearly a century before, when a conspiracy involving 'Masonic Police' and 'Masonic Criminals' brought the destruction of the original Detective Department of Scotland Yard,,, Since then allegations of 'Masonic Corruption' (within the UK Police Force) have been rife, the Jack the Ripper murders in the East End of London in 1988 were perpetrated according on 'Masonic Ritual' and a subsequent police cover-up was led by the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, both Freemasons... There have been allegations of charges being dropped against criminal Masons by police Masons; of unfair promotions; of on-masons being hounded out of the police service; of livelihoods ruined; of blackmail and violence; of discipline eroded by a system in which a Chief Superintendent, Commanded or even on occasion as Assistant Chief Constable or Chief Constable can be made to Kneel in submissions before one of his own constables; and, in recent times, of robery and murder planned between police and criminals at Lodge Meetings'

 

Chapter 7

Men at the Top

There are fifty-two police forced in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Island....The consensus among my most reliable, highly-ranking informants is that of the fifty Chief Constables and London Commissioners..no fewer that thirty-three are of the Freemasonry Brotherhood ..

 

Chapter 8

Worshipful masters of Conspiracy

Corruption among Scotland Yard detectives, always a problem, grew enormously during the 1960's. One cause of the trouble was the conventional methods of detection were being less and less effective in the face of the burgeoning crime rate......between 1969 and the setting-up of the famous Operation Countryman in 1978 there were three big investigations into corruption in the Metropolitan Police These were:

(1) An enquiry into allegations of corruption and extortion by police, first published by the Times newspaper. This resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of two London detectives in 1972

(2) An enquiry by Lancashire Police into members of the Metropolitan Police Drug Squad. this led to the trial of six detectives, and the imprisonment in 1973 of three of them.

(3) An enquiry into allegations of corruption among CID officers responsible for coping with vice and pornography in London's West End. Over twenty detectives were sacked from the police force during the three-year investigation in the early 1970's, which led eventually to the notorious Porn Squad trials ...

There were corrupt Masonic Police involved in all these cases....

Chapter 9

Operation Countryman

Operation Countryman, the biggest investigation ever conducted into police corruption in Britain, would never have come about if the Commissioner of the City of London Police between 1971 and 1877 had not been corrupted and unduly influenced by Freemasonry...Indeed there seems little doubt that if James Page had refused to join the Brotherhood, he would not have been appointed Commissioner in the first place...

Chapter 11

Birmingham City Police

What I really needed at the outset of my investigation into Masonry in the police was a 'Masonic mole' who was a policeman of rank and integrity..Eventually, as has been shown, I built up a large network of such men, None was so earnest or more scathing than those contacts, masons and otherwise, who spoke to me about Birmingham City Police... One informant spoke of his experiences in Birmingham dating back many years, he was on the point of entering the first of the three chairs of his Holy Royal Arch Chaptwer. he had, he told me, been considering a Knights Templar, the branch of Freemaosnry which admits only Christians, but was becoming increasingly disillusioned to realize that he had to resign from one or the other...he said...'Chief |Constable. Sir Derrick Capper, was an officer of the Warickshire Provincial Grand Lodge, and he saw to it as far as possible that non-Masons were kept to the lower and middle ranks...it was impossible to be a civilian employee at higher level unless you were Mason..'

 

Chapter 12

Conclusion (Regarding the Debate about Masons and the effect of  Masons in the Police Force)

An independent enquiry into Freemasonry in the police should be initiated at the earliest possible moment,, Even thought the majority of police, including Masonic officers, are not corrupt, it is clear that corrupt police can and do use Freemasonry to effect and further corruption.....In September 1981 and again in April 1982 there were claims in court of criminal conduct on the part of Freemason police...At Knightsbridge Crown Court on Tuesday, 22nd September 1981 an ex-Metropolitan Police Detective accused of trying to bribe a senior Drugs Squad officer said they were both members of the same Masonic Lodge.. the detective told the court that he had - seconded the application of the Drugs Squad man - a Superintendant - to join the Lodge when they were both stationed at King's Cross Road -The Superintendant admitted that he was a  member of the Brotherhood and that he had visited the Lodge when the detective was there....In the later case, a police informer named Michael Gervaise claimed as the Old Bailey that policemen in the same Masonic Lodge as criminals involved in a multi-million-pound silver bullion robbery had warned them that they were about to be arrested ....As a result of this 'Masonic Act', one of the men involved in the £3.5 million robbery fled and has never been traced. Gervaise, who had been involved in the robbery himself, told the court, 'certain officer were Freemasons, and certain criminals belonged to the same Lodge .. there were eight or none officers in the same Lodge as the people involved in the silver bullion robbery.'

  Unrest about the undoubted misuse of Freemasonry by policemen is spreading and demands for an enquiry will continue to grow...Many people want to see masonry banned in the police... a compulsory register on which police officer have to list their affiliation to secret societies, and their status within such societies, is the minimum requirement if a grave situation is to be improved.....

Part Three: Inside Information

Chapter 13: The Rabbi's Tale

Despite the ban on speaking to outsiders, many Freemasons allowed me to interview them...Some were extraordinary frank, some going so far ... as confiding the most secret workings of the Brotherhood...among these honourable men was an eminent Freemason of long standing and grad rank: The Rev Saul Amias, MBE, a London rabbi who was Assistant  Grand Chaplain to the United Grand Lodge in 1973 . I interviewed him at his home in Edgware in 1981..

Chapter 14

Five Masters and a Lewis

Chapter 15: Jobs For the Brethren?

Although a new initiate to Freemasonry declares on his honour that he offers himself as a candidate 'uninfluenced by mercenary or other unworthy motives'... there can be no doubt that the majority of businessmen who become Masons do so because they believe it will assist them in business... - as it frequently does...

On the local level, there is much cross-fertilization between masonry and other groups of business people such as Round Table, Lions Clubs, and Rotary Clubs as well as Chambers of Commerce - Men in business on their own account - for example, accountant, architects, builders, estate agents, restaurateurs, taxi firm proprietors, travel agents, commercial travelers, Insurance agents and shop keepers of all kinds - are strongly represented in Lodges up and down the country (UK)

... if you are applying for a job it can make a big difference whether you get the job or not id you give the employer a Freemason sign and the employer is also a Freemason...

One sign by which a masons may secretly make himself known to other in the room involves a particular arrangement of the feet .. the arrangement is outlined in the ceremony of initiation to the First Degree....'..you are expected to stand perfectly erect your feet formed in a square, your body being thus considered an emblem of your mind, and your feet of the rectitude of your actions..' if he is in a position to shake hands with the person to whom he wished to identify himself, recognition becomes much easier...the Entered Apprentice applies distinct pressure with his right thumb on the knuckle of the other man's forefinger.. the Fellow Craft does the same thing with the second knuckle ... The Master Mason applied distinct pressure with his right thumb between the knuckles of the other man's middle and third finger...

Ron, an Insurance Agent price explained... '.. I have got business from two people as a result of being a Mason ...'

A Past Master of Eden Park Lodge No 5379 in Croydon told me... ' I was a consultant for Taylor Woodrow. ...quite a few times I know I got contracts because I gave the Masonic Grip...the whole of the board of directors of Taylor Woodrow were Freemasons at the time...

'..You'll find none out of ten architects are Masons ... went I put in a tender I'd shake the architect by the hand...oh, he'd say, .."You're a Mason.. The contract is yours..."...that is how masonry works ... if there is a contract going from an architect,, the chances are he is a mason..so the chances are a Mason will get it...'

John Poulson, the notoriously corrupt architect whose activities in bribing local government officer, councilors, Civil Servants, officials of nationalized industries and other created a scandal which was described by more than one commentator as the 'British Watergate', was an avid Freemason... read 'The Web of Corruption.. the definitive story of Poulson and his infamous PT man T. Dan Smith ...

I have been told by several informants how details of their bank accounts have been obtained by parties with no right to the information by 'Masonic Contacts'.. the high proportion of bank managers and bank staff who are Freemasons can make the acquisition of this kind of confidential information relatively easy for a Mason,, having as he does the right access to every Lodge in the country ...

In industry, Masonry is far stronger among while collar workers and management up to the higher echelons... the medical profession has a high proportion of Freemasons...most main hospitals, including all the London teaching hospitals have their own Lodges. ... According to Sir Edward Tuckwell, former Serjeant-Surgeon to the Queen, and Lord Porritt, Chairman of the African Medical and Research Foundation, both Freemasons and bother consultants to the Royal Masonic Hospital, the Lodges of the teaching hospitals draw their members from hospital staff and GP's connected with the hospital in question.. Most senior members of the profession are Freemasons, especially those involved with the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons....Masonry dopes seem to have an influence over certain appointments..

Freemasonry plays a significant role in the field of education...

|The ambulance and fire serviced are strongly represented in Masonry..

 

 

 

 

Epiloque of The Brotherhood

by Stephen Knight –published 1984 Pages 304 to 308:

On the 18th June 1982 the dead body of a middle-aged man was found hanging by the neck from a rope suspended from Scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge, London. The pockets of his black suit contained nearly £23,000 in various currencies and were weighted with 12 pounds of builder's blocks. He was Rpberto Clvi, president of Italy's Banco Ambrosiano. who in 1981 had been named a member of Licio Gelli's illegal Freemasonic Lodge Propaganda Due (P2). Calvi was later found guilty by an Italian court of illegally exporting $26.4 million to Switzerland and received a four year suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay a fine of equivalent to £7.3 million, A week later he was confirmed as chairman of Banco Ambrosiano. In April 1982 Calvi's deputy at the bank was wounded by a would-be assassin. Known as 'God's banker', Calvi had been closely linked with Instituto per le Opere di Religione (IOP), the Vatican Bank, for years. A number of highly questionable transactions involving the Vatican Bank, Calvi and Banco Ambrosiano subsidiaries in Latin America and elsewhere led the Bank of Italy to launch an investigation. On the last day of May 1982 the Bank of Italy demanded an explanation for loans of $1,400 million ( $1.4 billion) made by Banco Ambrosiano subsidiaries to several companies registered in Panama owned directly or indirectly by the Vatican Bank. This precipitated a run on Ambrosiano's shares, and eleven days later Calvis disappeared in Rome. Using a false passport. Calvi fled to Austria and then to England. arriving at Gatwick on the 15th June. 1982 and travelled straight to London where he remained for several days in an apartment in Chelsea Cloisters. On the 17th June, 1982 the Bank of Italy seized control of Banco Ambrosiano and trading in its shares was suspended after they had dropped twenty percent in value in one day. Ambrosiano's directors resigned and Calvi's secretary- Graziela Corrocher - who kept the books of Lodge P2 - jumped, or was pushed, to her death from, a fourth-floor window at the bank, Graziela Corrocher left behind her what was obviously intended to be taken as a suicide note, although there is more tan a small doubt that this was genuine.. The note said: 'May Calvi be double cursed for the damage he has caused to the bank and its employees,'

The following night Calvi's body was found hanging from the scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge, four miles from the apartment in Chelsea Cloisters. Even as the Daily Express postal clerk who found the body was hastening to call the police, Italian police were busy chartering a plane ..and a party of high officials arrived at Gatwick a few hours later..

 There were many rumours: The Mafia, with whom Calvi had connections, had murdered him; frightened and despairing, he had committed suicide; he had been ritually done the death by Freemasons. a Masonic 'cable-tow' around his neck and his pockets filled symbolically with chunks of masonry, the location of the murder being chosen for its name - i Italy, the logo of the Brotherhood is the figure of a Blackfriar.

....But a City of London inquest later decided that Calvi had committed suicide, a verdict the banker's family immediately announced its intention to challenge... Italian police, and a number of City of London police associated with the case, are convinced it was murder...a further inquest in 1983, the jury returned an open verdict....as for the reason for the death of Calvi

  The mystery of Calvi's death deepens rather than clarifies with time. It is inextricably bound up with the riddle of P2, the KGB penetration of Freemasonry, and Freemasonry's penetration not only of the Roman Catholic Church, but also of the Vatican itself... At the time this book goes to press, investigations are continuing into Banco Ambrosianos link with the enigmatic president of the Vatican bank, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, and into the continuing international reverberations of the P2 lodge conspiracy.

 Meanwhile, Licio Gelli has since been arrested in Switzerland where he was attempting to withdraw nearly $100 million from several numbered accounts at Genva's Union Bank - money belonging to Banco Ambrosiano.. Gelli awaits the outcome of extradition proceedings,,,

Meanwhile, too, Andropov, had of the KGB when the P2 plot was hatched, now sits at the pinnacle of Soviet power and diverts ever more funds towards the KGB's activities in the West, the exploitation of Freemasonry included

 

 

 


Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire, Graveyard Suggests

By Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor LiveScience.com 

Plague may have helped finish off the Roman Empire, researchers now reveal.
Plague is a fatal disease so infamous that it has become synonymous with any dangerous, widespread contagion. It was linked to one of the first known examples of biological warfare, when Mongols catapulted plague victims into cities.
The bacterium that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, has been linked with at least two of the most devastating pandemics in recorded history. One, the Great Plague, which lasted from the 14th to 17th centuries, included the infamous epidemic known as the Black Death, which may have killed nearly two-thirds of Europe in the mid-1300s. Another, the Modern Plague, struck around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning in China in the mid-1800s and spreading to Africa, the Americas, Australia, Europe and other parts of Asia. [In Photos: 14th-Century 'Black Death' Graveyard]
Although past studies confirmed this germ was linked with both of these catastrophes, much controversy existed as to whether it also caused the Justinianic Plague of the sixth to eighth centuries. This pandemic, named after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, killed more than 100 million people. Some historians have suggested it contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.
To help solve this mystery, scientists investigated ancient DNA from the teeth of 19 different sixth-century skeletons from a medieval graveyard in Bavaria, Germany, of people who apparently succumbed to the Justinianic Plague.
They unambiguously found the plague bacterium Y. pestis there.
"It is always very exciting when we can find out the actual cause of the pestilences of the past," said researcher Barbara Bramanti, an archaeogeneticist at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
"After such a long time — nearly 1,500 years, one is still able to detect the agent of plague by modern molecular methods," researcher Holger Scholz, a molecular microbiologist at the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology in Munich, Germany, told LiveScience.
The researchers said these findings confirm that the Justinianic Plague crossed the Alps, killing people in what is now Bavaria. Analysis of the DNA suggests that much like the later two pandemics of plague, this first pandemic originated in Asia, "even if historical records say that it arrived first in Africa before spreading to the Mediterranean basin and to Europe," Bramanti told LiveScience.
After the Modern Plague spread worldwide, it became entrenched in many rural areas, and the World Health Organization still reports thousands of cases of plague each year. However, doctors can now treat it with modern antibiotics.
The researchers now hope to reconstruct the whole genome sequence of the plague strain in these ancient teeth to learn more about the disease, Scholz said.
The scientists detailed their findings online May 2 in the journal PLOS Pathogens.
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    My name is Reece Woodstock, the lead production manager on this highly sensitive project, called "More Than Human".
    When we decided 5 months ago that we needed to produce a report focused on the latest developments within the field of genetics, little did we realize what we were letting ourselves into. Since that time the evidence has been mounting up week by week and month by month that there is a definite agenda to corrupt the human gene pool.
    Its not an obvious agenda. Its one of them things that you have to peel back the murky smoking mirrors, shady doors and disinformation decoys until you get to the real heart of the matter and the plain vanilla truth about the madness that is going on right now in 2012 in our scientific community.
    What we have found though, is that many Christians are comfortable in associating evil, with the likes of Nazi Germany in the 1940s, gang violence in the community, sexual promiscuity within the media or the promoting of anti biblical and evolutionary ideas in schools and higher education. These are easy associations of evil and ones which are easy to identify and draw the line between black and white.
    However when it comes to the issue of genetics there seems to be a slight apprehension amongst those of the Christian faith. It is almost as if the subject of genetics and faith should be reserved for private interpretation. Many Christians will point out the good that gene science will do for uncovering cures for terrible diseases and providing hope for those seeking fertility treatment. Any criticism of the medical industry is perceived to be an attack out of ignorance and holding to medieval old world views, which are supposedly inconsistent with the modern world.
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    If you turn your TV this Sunday to any Christian station, I would like you to count the number of messages you come across where there is specific focus on the genetics revolution and the biblical perspective. I am sure you will see and hear messages about increasing your walk with God, understanding the season of blessing, claiming the anointing, faithfulness, being good stewards etc. There is nothing wrong with any of these themes, but I can almost guarantee that on a month by month and year by year basis, that none of the high profile ministries will touch what you are about to see in this 5 part report.
    Why.....Because the vast majority of Christians leaders have no idea that respected establishments like the science community are dabbling in areas that mankind should never venture. If Christian leaders were to approach their congregations with the truth there is the fear that people would react as people naturally do, they leave because they don't want to hear any more. Commercially it is too risky for any TV ministry to risk losing viewers and church attendees over such topics....right?
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    The reality that will unfold right before your eyes in the 5 part report "More Than Human" is that mankind is teetering on the precipice of a disaster, and is a on a collision course with severe consequences that will brutally impact the human race in the near future. Whilst science has a great mission to rid the world of disease and make it a better place, there is also a sense of accountability and responsibility that accompanies this great calling.
    Unfortunately on the ascent to godhood status, mankind has thrown off the shackles of accountability and responsibility because the end is within sight.
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    "More Than  Human" is a major  report in which we have collaborated with some of the world best scientific researchers,who have issued stark warnings about a diabolical agenda, to deceive people into thinking that science is making extraordinary scientific strides for the benefit of you and me.
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    1MORE THAN HUMAN - INTRODUCTION HYBRID WORLD




    An unholy trinity of revolutions has widened its sphere of influence over mankind in the twenty first century deepening its grip and ensuring that the future of mankind follows a predicted path. One could be mistaken for assuming that these three revolutions are all random events, but with a little discernment one will begin to observe, that across all three revolutions is the same end goal. The deification of man or in other words, man attaining immortality and godhood status. These three revolutions are genetic engineering, spiritual enlightenment and technology acceleration. All three may seem like independent strands yet beneath the mist that that hides their footprint is a control center operating out of a spiritual plane........................


    2. MORE THAN HUMAN - THE CODE OF LIFE
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    Which Psychology gurus and Christian TV Evangelists have been accused of having similar systems of beliefs about the nature of man that originate out of the Kingdom of the occult? (Addressed in Part 2: Page 14)


    When Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt broke the 100m sprint world record in Berlin in 2009 he set an unbelievable time of 9.58 seconds. However many researchers believe that in the next 50-100 years human beings will be running less than 8 seconds. Is this really possible? (Addressed in Part 2: Page 20)
       
    Can your own DNA really store non biological data and be used like a memory  flash drive? Surely this cant be reality, or can it? What are the sinister motives behind the funding of this new area of research? (Addressed in Part 2: Page 25)
       
    Why is the scientific finding that our DNA actually absorbs light, consistent with what the Bible infers about our future bodies? (Addressed in Part 2: Page 37)

                           
    3. MORE THAN HUMAN - GENETIC ARMAGEDDON




    Are hybrids and chimera's the fantasy of mythology and legends or is there proof in the Bible of animal-human hybrids? and if so what are the implications?(Addressed in Part 3: Page 8)
       



    What past evidence is there 
    that genetically modifying a pharmaceutical drug caused an unheard disease to impact more than 5000 Americans? (Addressed in Part 3: Page 27)
       
    Are you aware of the 4 different ways that animal and human DNA have been mixed under laboratory conditions? and which method was used to create the worlds first animal - human hybrid? (Addressed in Part 3: Page 48)
       
    Of the 10 consequences facing the genetic revolution, which consequence has major impacts for institutions such as the Birckbeck (CSI) law school in the United Kingdom? (Addressed in Part 3: Page 53)

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    Why is Fredriech Nietzsche who wrote "Antichrist" and conjured up the concept of the "Ubermensch (Overman)", such an important historical figure in the birthing of transhumanist philosophies? (Addressed in Part 4: Page 5)

    Why is the Mormon Transhumanist Association a key partner of Humanity+ (Formerly known as the World Transhumanist Association)? (Addressed in Part 4: Page 13)

    Why is the development and mass production
     of the "Artificial Womb" such an integral part of the transhumanist and same sex marriage agenda? (Addressed in Part 4: Page 34)


    Why is the movie "Avatar" one of the most incredible insights into what is really happening with the creation of synthetic life forms?  Is there a link between the Singularity and Avatar technology? Will it soon be possible to keep a brain alive outside the physical body? (Addressed in Part 4: Page 70)

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    Why do so many Christians have a problem with the concept of "alien abductions" despite the fact that many of the accounts have been proven on review not to be the result of mental breakdowns, fabricated stories or hallucinations? (addressed in Part 5: Page 5)

    Which book in the Apocrypha mentions a specific type of being as the guardian to the gates of hell, a being seen by many alien abductees in modern times? (addressed in Part 5: 21)

    See evidence of a massive Wikileaks, Cablegate leak, proving that national governments are openly candid about the existence of extraterrestrials!(addressed in Part 5: Page 24)

    Who are the descendants of european royalty and the black nobility who believe they are offspring of the Nephilim? (addressed in Part 5: Page 37)

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    1. Because the conclusions drawn in this report from the chaos and confusionare shared by some of the worlds best researchers whose views also contribute to this report. It is not just us sounding the alarm but experts in the area of genetic engineering who have seen the dangers and are sounding it as well.
    The dangers from genetic engineering is not just an idea from a bunch of conspiracy theorists but an actual reality supported by thousands of medical experts, some who have to hide their true opinions for the sake of protecting their funding and medical practices
    Dr Michael Antoniou, Kings College London School of Medicine
    Dr Michael Antoniou contributed to a report based on an exhaustive survey of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies and concluded not only that GM food crops pose significant, if largely under-evaluated, health risks, but that they have so far failed to deliver on their promise to increase crop yields and lower herbicide and pesticide use. He and his research partners argue that there are already safer environmentally friendly ways to grow more food for the planet’s exploding population. By focusing on the false panacea of genetic modification as a way to feed the world’s hungry, vital research dollars have been siphoned away from more promising lower-tech approaches to prop up world leading GM Food providers companies like Monsanto, Dupont and Bayer.
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    Bad science is unquestionably bad for one's health and well-being, and should be avoided at all costs. Science is, above all, fallible and negotiable, because we have the choice, to do or not to do. It should be negotiated for the public good. That is the only ethical position one can take with regard to science. Otherwise, we are in danger of turning science into the most fundamentalist of religions, that, working hand in hand with corporate interests, will surely usher in the brave new world.
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    This attempt for humans to attain the unique qualities found within the animal, plant kingdom and  world of artificial intelligence will corrupt human DNA and inflict the curse of the Days of Noah.
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                    Are there political organizations presently at work bending the world to their will?
              Why are some religions successful, while others have died out? Mystery, reverent secrecy, .....


      Behind Closed Doors
                                             The Power and Influence of Secret Societies
    By
    Michael Streeter
     
    From the ruthless Sicilian Mafia to the politically significant Bilderberg Group, described as 'an international who's who of the
     
    wealthy, influential and powerful'. Behind Closed Doors explores some of the world's most mysterious and secretive associations, 

    separating the falsehoods and fictions from the often unsettling truth...Many religions that purport to be based on spiritual insight 

    and established historical significance have nonetheless incurred fear and suspicion, Opus Dei made famous in Dan Brown's best-

    selling 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code - has long courted controversy with its links to various powerful institutions and governments, 

    including Franco's Spain. The Church of Scientology has made headlines with its controversial views on mental health, politics and 

    the nature of the universe itself, Intrigue and suspicion also surround many secular organizations, including the secretive Skull and 

    Bones Society, a gather of elites at Yale University; the infamous Ku Klux Klan (KKK), with its violent history and practices; and Cecil 

    John Rhodes's Society of the Elect, an appropriately name organization that sought to expand the British Empire... From medieval 

    Spain all the way to modern-day Los Angeles, California, Behind Closed Doors takes the reader on a gripping, revelatory journey 

    behind the scenes of some of the world's most secret faiths and institutions, peeling away the speculation and paranoia to reveal 

    their true nature and impact upon society...
     
                                       ANNUIT COEPTIS - NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM
     
    Are there political organizations presently at work behind the world to their will? Why are some religions successful, while others have died out? Mystery, reverent secrecy. business acumen and financial wealth are all essential to, any of today's most feared and controversial religions and political groups. From the mysterious Illuminati and Opis Dei Faiths to convert political organizations such as the Trilateral Commission, Michael Street examines secret societies, both past and present, exploring their power and influence and revealing the true nature behind the handshakes and headlines....
     
                          SUMMARY OF SECRET SOCIETIES and TERMS AND ORGANISATIONS COVERED IN ' BEHIND CLOSED DOORS'
     
    Alumbrados
    The Spanish word for 'Illuminati' or 'enlightened', given to a loosely connected group of mystics in 15th and 16th century Spain. Many of these Christians were converts from Judaism or Islam, and a considerable number were persecuted by the Catholic Church as heretics.
     
    Assassins
    One of the most famous - and notorious - secret societies in history. Formed in the late 11th Century in what is today Iran they were founded by Hassan-i-Sabah, of the Ismaili sect of Islam, and used as a means of attacking his political and religious enemies. Followers were used to attack and assassinate Crudoer warlords in the Holy Land, though overtime they simply became killers for hire. They vanished during the time of the Mongol invasions of the 13th century.
     
    Bilderberg Group
    The formation of this political gathering of world leaders and powerbrokers can be dated to a meeting at a hotel in Holland in 1954, though its origins probably owe much to political alliances and networks that developed in the Second World War. Each year Bilderberg invitees meet behind closed doors to discuss the great political, economic and diplomatic issues of the day.. The Group has been accused by conspiracy theorists of being a front for a world government, and by other critics of working in an anti-democratic and unaccountable manner...
     
    Carbonari
    A 19th-century Italian Secret Society with overt political and nationalistic aims, which included the reunifications of Italy - in which they played a part, Their rituals and secrecy were based largely on Freemasonry, though their roots may lie in a fresh revolutionary group whose name (like that of the Italian society) means 'charcoal burners'. Though short-lived. the Carconari had a considerable impact of Itatlian history.
     
    Cathars
    One of the best-known groups of Christian heretics in history, Cathars or people with similar beliefs existed in many parts of Christian Europe from the 11th century AD. though they are most closely identified with the south of France. Another name for them is the Albigensians, meaning people form Albi, a town near Toulouse. The Cathers were nosics whose beliefs, which included the assertion that Jesus’ teachings had been misunderstood and corrupted by later institutions, were inevitably condemned by the Catholic Church. In the early 13th century, the Church launched a crusade against the French Cathars; by the middle of the century they had been wiped out as an organised community. Their former strongholds and castles are now popular tourist destinations in southern France.
     
    Conspiracy Equals
    One of a number of quaintly named secret devolutionary societies that existed in France in the aftermath of the Revolution in 1789. Created by Francios Babeuf and Filippo Buonarroti, its aim was to seize power by focusing on a small clique of powerful official and individuals in the post-revolutionary government (rather than seeking a popular mass uprising). However, the subversive group was itself subverted and betrayed, and its members either jailed or executed.
     
    Council on Foreign Relations
    One of the elite political 'clubs' that has provoked much controversy among conspiracy theorists since its formation in New York after the end of the First World War. Like the Bilderberg Group, its alleged purpose is to set up a form of world government (some believe that it has already been successful). The Council on Foreign Relations is undoubtedly a very effective, well connected and influential source of policy and ideas.
     
    Freemasonry
    Edited from: The Brotherhood by Stephen Knight-1984:
    Modern Freemasonry probably originated in Scotland...The earliest known instance of a non-stonemason, a gentleman, joining a mason's lodge is John Boswell, Laird of Auchinlech, who was a member of the Lodge of Edinburgh in 1600, Apparently the first English Gentleman to join an English Lodge was Elias Ashmore, founder of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. Elias Ashmore was an antiquarian deeply interested in Rosicruciamism, he joined in 1644. Masonry became so fashionable that as the seventh century progressed the 'acceptance' (the collective term for non-stonemasons) became the majority in the Masonic Lodges. For example in 167- the Aberdeen Lodge ( Scotland), where Dr James Anderson, who wrote the modern day constitution for Freemasonry, became a member, had 39 'accepted' members while only ten remained 'operative' masons...but it was long before the novelty in participating in the quaint and venerable doings of artisans wore thin. Men of fashion saw no reason to prolong association with working men, and they begun to form their gentlemen's Lodges...so what we know today as "Modern Freemasonry" was launched...
    ... The comparatively short documented history of Freemasonry as an institution is nevertheless quite extra-ordinary. It is the story of how a Roman Catholic trade guild for a few thousand building workers in Britain came to be taken over by the aristocracy, the gentry and members of mainly non-productive professions, and how it was turned into a non-Christian secret society enjoying association with offshoot fraternal societies with millions of adherents throughout most of the non-Communist world...Freemasonry is both a speculative, philosophic - even religious and mystical - system, and a fraternity of those organized to help each other in material ways ... for some Masons it is entirely the former, for others entirely the latter, but for most it is a mixture of the two...
    ....Masonic historians seem as uncertain as non-masons about who first saw in the obsolescent mediaeval Christian Masonic guild, an organization that could be taken over and converted into a quasi-religious, quasi-secular secret society .. What evidence there is indicates that this evolution began very slowly and almost by chance, and that it was only later that the potential of the Masonic guild as a clandestine power base was perceived... in other words, it appears that the original interest of the gentry in the Masonic lodges stemmed from curiosity, antiquarian interest, and a kind of fashionable search for an unconventional, exclusive social milieu - rather like a jet-set fad for frequenting working men's pubs....
    ... There are a number of reasons why the Masonic guild should have attracted this general interest....
    ...First, the working ( or 'operative') mason's craft guild was ripe for takeover: structured in the heyday of Gothic architecture in the thirteenth century, the craft was dying.. King's College Chapel at Cambridge, perhaps the last truly great English Gothic building, had been completed about 1512...
     ... Secondly, the highly skilled stonemasons of the Gothic age were peculiar in that many were itinerant workers, moving from church site to cathedral site as work was to be found. They had no regular headquarters like other trades, gathering in temporary lodges on site to discuss affairs ...and, as they often did not know each other as did permanent residents of mediaeval towns, they needed some method of recognition, some way of maintaining a closed shop to protect their demanding and highly esteemed profession against interlopers who had not undergone the rigorous apprenticeship necessary to acquire the mason's skills. These, as Professor Jacob Bronowski termed them, were the 'industrial aristocrats'.....
    .... Thus there was cosmopolitan romance, exclusivity and an organized secretiveness about the mason's guild, which became increasingly moribund as baroque replaced Gothic architecture ... all of this had potential fascination for men of education.......
     
    .... The 'speculative' Masons inherited seven main fundamental points from their 'operative' predecessors:
    (1) an organization with the three grades of membership: (a) Apprentice, (b) Fellow or Journeyman, and (c) Master Mason;
    (2) A unit termed a Lodge;
    (3) Legendary histories of the origins of the Masonic craft set out in the 100-odd manuscripts containing the so-called 'Old Charges', the oldest being the Regius manuscripts of 1390, which was in verse;
    (4) A tradition o fraternal and benevolent relations between members;
    (5) A rule of secrecy about Lodge doings, although the Old Charges themselves were simply lists of quite ordinary rules for the guild, which members were enjoined to keep 'so help you God'. as befitted a Christian grouping there were no blood-curdling oaths;
    (6) A method of recognition, notably the Scottish 'mason word' traced back to 1550: unwritten but variously remembered as Mahabyn, Mahabone, or even Matchpin;
    (7) A thoroughly Christian foundation - the Old Charges are permeated with mediaeval Roman Catholicism;
     
    With the demise of the original 'trade union' purpose of organization and the eclipse not only of Roman Catholicism due to the Reformation, but also the waning of Christianity with the rise of science, what was left towards the end of the seventeenth century was the framework of a secretive association, likened by authority to a peasant's cottage ripe for extensive development as a luxury weekend home fore the well-to-do.
    ... Serious Masonic historians themselves deplore the lack of documentation about the three or four critical decades before the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, but is was during these years that the course of Freemasonry was to follow set.. It was evidently then that few men among the small number (possibly only a few hundred in all) of 'accepted' masons must have come to see the potential of a secret society cutting across class divisions to embrace aristocrats, gentry, professional men and elements of the expanding middle class... It was to be a 'brotherhood' which would put a string to pull into the hand of every members, and strings enough in the hands of its shadowy controllers to manipulate events - like puppet masters behind the scenes ..But who these people were and just how consciously they planned or, as some have said, even plotted, is shrouded in mystery… One thing united a majority of politically conscious people at this time: the need to preserve the gain of the Civil War of 1642=1651 - the limitation of the power of the King.. The 'accepted'  Masons of the last quarter of the seventeenth century would appear to have been largely drawn from the type of people most anxious to preserve and to increase the steadily growing influence in society and government if men of quite moderate wealth and standing...
    .... William of orange and his consort Mary in 1688 were invited to become joint sovereigns..
    .... When Grand Lodge was founded, George I had been on the throne only three years ..The prominent in Masonry were poised to have a hand in the manipulation of the new Hanoverian dynasty...
    ...Before the foundation of Grand Lodge in 1717, moves to transform the old guild into a true secret society were well on the way. As the normal trade union business of operative Masonic Lodges dwindled and eventually ceased, so the element of ritual based on the readings of the Old Charges - their legendary stories about the origins of the 'Mason's Craft; and their injunctions to members to obey the traditional rules - was transformed. Lodge ritual, initiations and speculative dissertations became the mail business of actual lodge meetings ... at the same time fraternal conviviality  - which in the old days of operative masonry had probably been confined to a tankard or two after meetings in a local ale house - soon became a major feature of Masonic society... much was eaten, much was drunk, and much was discussed in the privacy of Masonic meeting places (usually taverns) after the rather dry formal doings in Lodge were over... the 'better' the `lodge - in the sense of social class - the 'better' the conversation and the more lavish and expensive the entertainment ,,,Masonry was already on its way to mirroring and re-enforcing the class system and the emerging social order based on strictly constitutional monarchy... whatever it was to become overseas, where no Civil War, no Glorious Revolution had yet taken place, Masonry in England was already headed towards a conservative future...The sights of its prime movers were already set on a movement underpinning a type of society admirably suited to its purposes: a stable society with limited social mobility in which a secret inner 'Old Boy' association could provide an environment where considerable benefit could be gained by members who knew how to 'play the Masonic organ'.
    ,, Formal oaths of secrecy to be sworn by individual initiates appear in a number of Old charges containing 'new orders', but as these were published five years after the establishment of Grand Lodge they are possibly spurious. ,,,either way, no horrific sanctions are mentioned, even so, the inclusion of an oath in the initiation rituals can be regarded as a crucial step in the creation of a secret society from the old guild...
     
    .... In 1717 Freemasonry enters properly into history,, Four London Lodges alone formed Grand Lodge and owed allegiance to it. What is interesting is that a none too well-off gentleman, Anthony Sayer, was installed as Grand Master, In the beginning the upper classed kept a low profile.. they backed the creation of a central organization welding individual lodges together, but eventually wanted this done before they assumed official public control... Of the four original London Lodges, the first three contained not one 'Esquire' between them, where as Lodge Original No.4 was made up of seventy-one members of whom, in 1724, ten were nobles, three were honourable, four were baronets or knights, and two were generals. .. in 1718, Sayer was replaced after barely a year by George Payne, a 'man of more substance', being a member of Original No 4. But he too had only one year in office, another interim while the upper-class moved in on the small gentry just as the small gentry moved in on the 'operative' artisans a century earlier...
    ... The third Grand Master was the Reverend John Theophilus Desaguliers, a Doctor of Law, a Fellow of the Royal society and chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales, whom he admitted to the Brotherhood in 1737. He was of French extraction. ,, A head hunter for Freemasonry.... he not only visited Edinburgh to encourage the Scots along the organizational path the London Masons were following , but visited The Hague in 1731, where he admitted the Duke of Lorraine to the Brotherhood. The Duke married Mara Theresa in 1736 and become co-Regent when she acceded to the Austrian throne in 1738... under Joseph II Mozart, Haydn and a host of other notables became Freemasons ...Dr Desaguliers, certainly appears to have sparked the missionary zeal of British Freemasonry which eventually carried the Freemasonry movement to almost every country in the world....
    Queen Elizabeth II is the present Grand patroness of Freemasonry...with Prince Phillip doing her bidding, who is said to be one of the most senior Make figures of Freemasonry in the world .... giving him extreme power
     
    The headquarters of the Brotherhood ( as Freemasonry is generally called) in England and Wales is in London, where the massive bulk of Freemasons Hall squats at the corner of Great Queen Street and Wild Street, like a gigantic elephant's footstool... This is the seat of the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of the 8,000 plus lodges in England and Wales, These Lodges, of which there are another 1,200 odd under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and about 750 under the Grand Lodge of Ireland, carry out their secret business and ritual in a deliberately cultivated atmosphere of mystery in Masonic Temples. Masonic Temples might be purpose built, or might be rooms in hotels or private buildings temporarily converted for Masonic use. Many town halls up and down Britain have private function room, used for Masonic rituals, as does New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police...
    .... The Grand Lodges control what is known as ''Craft" Freemasonry, and brethren often refer to the Brotherhood as "the Craft". Craft Freemasonry covers the three degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason ..The vast majority of Masons rise no higher than Master Mason, and most are under the impression that there are no higher degrees... Even many masons who go on to become Royal Arch Masons, governed by Grand Chapter, have no idea that the Masonic ladder extends a further thirty rungs above those on the third who believe they had already reached the top of Freemasonry....( it is note that other researchers such as Glen Kealy believe that the ladder goes even higher to a 90 degree mason .. .however a 33 degree mason can not request to become and/or would not know about the 90 degree mason levels unless selected and told about them......
    .... There is an important distinction to be made between 'Freemasonry', which is the Freemason movement as a whole, and 'Freemasons', which describes any number of individual Masons.... it has been claimed that Captain William Morgan in American in 1826,Mozart and the Jack the Ripper murders were committed by Freemasons and/or the Brotherhood.. some people today look upon Freemasonry as an underground movement devoted to murder, terrorism and revolution ... and is a worldwide conspiracy and watch.... however... Freemasonry is not a worldwide secret society ..however is a secret society that, originating in Britain, now has independent offshoots  in most of the non-Communist world ...while the British Grand Lodge recognize more than a hundred Grand Lodges ( forty-nine in the USA), they have no control over them, and most reflect the political complexion of the country in which they operate. Far from being revolutionary, there is no organization more reactionary, more Establishment-based, that British Freemasonry. Its members derive benefit from the Brotherhood only so long as the status quo is maintained ... nevertheless, Freemasonry has a potent influence on life in Britain - for both good and ill... the Brotherhood's publicly stated aims are: morality, fraternity and charity ... the average member of the Brotherhood will be eloquent on the generous donations made by United Grand Lodge to charity ...which are quite substantial ... on the other hand, there can be no doubt that many others have suffered because of Freemasonry entering into areas of life where, according to all its publicly proclaimed principles, it should never intrude .... the abuse of Freemasonry caused alarming miscarriages of justice.. it is one of the aims of this book to look at some of the effects of this abuse .... I am free to name only a small number of the many hundreds of people who have helped me with advice and information ...  (for the writing of this book) .... most of those who helped did so only on the understanding that I would say nothing that could lead to their identification... among these were Freemasons, who feared recrimination from members of the Brotherhood ... other included government officials, politicians, judges, policemen of all ranks, lawyers, churchmen, past and present officers of MI5 and MI6, and people from every sector of society touched by this book.....
     
     
    Edited from: The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies Intro: Elias Ashmore:
    Elias Ashmore was an English historian, astrologer, alchemist, in 1644, where he became a member of Brasenose
    College and studied astrology and mathematics, His studies were interrupted by the final phase of the English Civil War, and he served with distinction in the Royalist cause, helping defend Oxford and Worcester against Parliamentary armies. After the final collapse of the Royalist cause in 1646, Ashmore went to live with relatives in Cheshire, While there in October 16rh, 1646, he was initiated into Freemasonry, becoming one of the first two "accepted (speculative) Masons (Masons not employed in the building trades) in England, the other, initiated on the same evening, was his brother-in-law Henry Mainwaring. He remained active in Masonry for the rest of his life and appears to have led a significant role in its spread in seventeenth-century England...
     
                                                                  The Origins of Freemasonry
    As the most influential secret society in the modern Western world....and the paradigm for most other secret societies over the last three centuries ..... Freemasonry also known as "the Craft" - seemed to officially emerged in between 1600 and  1717, as the what we know today as the modern version of Freemasonry with what are known as "accepted" or "speculative" Freemasons who were not in the actual craftsmen in the building trades or Britain, becoming Freemasons for the first time and in effect taking over the organizational structure, name and historical concepts of Freemasonry for their own purposes which included organizing a Scotsman, Dr James Anderson and others to write a new constitution, rules, rituals, oaths, secret signs and codes and historical story for their new restructured Freemason organization ..... which researches, historians and scholars seems to indicate was based on a number of fabricated and/or not historical supported facts strung together that sounded logical, exciting and charismatic based on general historical information... along with the basic history, concepts, rituals, codes and symbols used in the original Freemasonry lodges that had no permanent addresses because Freemasonry's original members were itinerant stonemasons that travelled around from place to place where ever they had a building to build and made temporary lodges for their accommodation nearby the building sites they worked on...even though these lodges where not permanent accommodation for the stone masons, they were semi-permanent, as it could take many years to complete the churches and cathedrals they were employed to build....so the term "lodge' as used in modern Freemasonry, which is simply a regular meeting place for "accepted" or "speculative" Freemasons who were not in the actual craftsmen in the building trades, is quite different to what the term "lodge" meant to "the original real stone masons",,, simply being a place where they lived while completing their building assignments..
    The real and true origins and history of modern day Freemasonry prior the 1600 and 1700's have been the storm centre of unending dispute for most of its history...
    however
     Freemasonry has attracted a torrent of speculation from Masons and non-Masons alike, and inevitably much of that speculation has fastened on the question of Freemasons origins. Emerging our of obscurity in Britain in the middle of the seventeenth century, with no documented origin or founder, Freemasonry has posed a puzzle to scholarly research and provided a happy hunting ground to crackpots of all descriptions. No other social institution in the western world has been credited with so many different origins..
      
    Inside The Brotherhood- by Martin Short: ".....It is also a cause for dismay that, at the end of the twentieth century, so  many senior jobs are filled by men who look for 'Truth' in the re-creation of a murder which never took place, who see no folly in submitting themselves (and others) to blindfold humiliation, who mouth boyish passwords and perform occult rituals, and who have sworn loyalty to hundreds of thousands of men they have never met - even though they have sworn the Constable's `oath to perform their duties 'without favour or affection, malice or ill-will'.
    What is even more distressing is that many of these men work at London's world famous police-headquarters: New Scotland Yard. Stephen Knight in his books -Brotherhood- had it wrong when the said the building has its own Temple. We may now know why!!!  Using the Manor Lodge as out guide to the Craft's strength in the upper ranks, we know the 'Big House' does not have a room big enough to accommodate all the inmates eligible to join.. If a Scotland Yard Lodge were ever formed I suggest it might be called the 'Blue Lamp', but such a creation is most unlikely after the uproar over the formation of the Manor Lodge. which has been a public relations disaster for both Masonry and the ' Met Police'.
     ..it is noted that when another police officer suggested that Brian Woollard had been a victim of a Masonic plot Woollard's new chief Superintendent Alistair Kerr retorted: Absolute nonsense! Poppycock!...."
     
    Freemasonry can perhaps best be seen as a secret movement rather than as one society, as there have been and continue to be number of different Masonic organizations, The traditional, not to say mythical, history of Freemasonry claims to trace its origins back to the biblical times of King Solomon or before - however in fact most -though not all - scholars believe that Freemasonry emerged out of medieval stonemason stonemason guilds whose members built many of the cathedrals that still etch the continent's skylines ... yet recent search indicates that a powerful group of elites which are known as 'speculative Masons'. made up of powerful aristocracy, business, legal, political and church leaders who are not actual stonemasons in the 1700's seemed to have taken over the control of Freemasonry in England. Ireland, Wales and Scotland, when real stonemasons were noted needed much any more when the English Crown broke from the Catholic Church who was supplying the funds to make churches and cathedrals, and thus the fund dried up...putting the real stonemasons out of work .... these speculative masons hired Dr James Anderson to write the modern Freemason constitution in the 1700's wit what appears to be a lot of false and made up history and events to falsely given the impression that Freemasonry can trace its origins back to the biblical times of King Solomon or before ...which is still used today .. for example ... many historians believe that King Solomon’s Temple was not the grandiose stone building built by stonemasons, but mainly made of wood ...
    Modern-day Freemasonry claims that their key emphasis is self-improvement and the quest for better understanding and knowledge of oneself and the world; the use of its many rituals and symbols is said to assist in this process. `Its modern organization stems from early 18th Century England. In continental Europe and is North America Freemasonry has been linked with radical and revolutionary ideas. Nowadays, it attracts criticism from those who believe its followers use their membership to help further their own careers, as well as those of fellow Freemasons.
     
                                                            Inside The Brotherhood –
                                             Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons
                                                                         by Martin Short
    Chapter 13
    The Meaning of the Manor (Inner London Freemason Lodge)
     
    Some twelve members of the Manor Lodge of St James Lodge have figures in the Brian Woollard affair, but what is that strength of its entire membership - and what does that tell us about the role of Freemasonry in the LONDON Metropolitan Police as a whole?
    With only limited sources of information, I have discovered the ranks of seventy-two serving and retired officers (together with two 'specials' and one civilian) among the near-seven members who had joined the lodge by the start of 1987. Police yearbooks and newspaper files usually identify only senior officers, so my findings may exaggerate the seniority of the membership as a whole. Even so, it is clear that Manor recruits mainly from the upper ranks of the Metropolitan Police. The seventy-two include; 1 assistant commissioner, 2 deputy assistant commissioners, 12 commanders, 23 chief superintendents, 10 chief superintendents, 7 chief inspectors, 12 inspectors, 2 sergeants and 3 constables.
    An assistant commissioner has reached almost the peak of the force. There are only four AC's in the Metropolitan Police. They are outranked only by the Commissioner and his deputy. The AC and DAC ranks are unique to London and are considered equal to chief constable in any other police force in Britain.
    At the time the Manor list was printed, twenty-six of these seventy-two members were retired and forty-two were still serving. As I write, the retired men include the AC and DACs, nine commanders, thirteen chief superintendents and five superintendents. Among Manor members still in the force are three commanders, thirteen chief superintendents and five superintendents. They include recent commanders of the Fraud Squad and the Anti-Terrorist Squad (in both of them which Brian Woollard used to work); and chief superintendents in Central, North, South, East and West London. Today there is barely a department of the Metropolitan Police in which the Manor does not have a member, so that when it meets in Mark Masons' Hall in St James Street four times a year. it must be an excellent listening post for hot 'shop' gossip from all quarters. Forbidden to discuss politics and religion, its members would seem to have little to talk about except their own 'Freemasonry Craft' : policing
    The Manor was sponsored by an existing lodge, the Prior Walter (no. 8687), whose members belong to the Order of St John.  The chivalric club claims descent from the medieval Knights Hospitalles, yet it was foundered only in 131.. Today it is best known for the St John Ambulance Brigade and other charitable work, but it's 'knights' are mostly titled people, not stretch-bearers or first aiders. The Order is not ostensibly Masonic, but contains very many Masons. According to the blurb on Manor Lodge summonses, it also has a 'close affinity with the police service'.
     Whether its members are retired policemen or still serving, the Manor constitutes one of the strongest sectional interests in the London Metropolitan Police Force. It looks even stronger when viewed as an element within the CID. Thirty-two of he seventy-two were identifiably detectives, including the AC, six commanders and twelve chief superintendents. Such figures may indicate that more than two-fifths of all the  Masons in the Metropolitan Police are detectives, even though detectives constitute only one in seven of London's policemen; some 3,500 out of a total male strength of 24,000. Thus the Freemasonry Craft appears to be far stronger among detectives than uniformed officers, which long-time observers of London's CID would find easy to believe. It is nor possible to say if men join Freemasonry as a prelude to (or in the hope of) joining the CID, or if men who are already detectives are subsequently persuaded to become Masons.
     In recent years Freemasonry's strength in "c" District has been immense. In 191 at least six out of the twelve top jobs in 'C' were filled by Masons: all future founders of Manor of St James' Lodge. at the top were the District Commander, Edward Stow, and Chief Superintendent Alan Gibson (who in 1982 as Commander of 'Q' District would class with Brian Woollard). Other Masons included the detective superintendent heading Seville Row CID, the superintendent in 'Clubs Office' (which watches over West End nightspots, drinking clubs and restaurants), and the chief superintendent and superintendent at Bow Street.
      Several more of 'C's' 1981 top twelve are said to have been Freemasons but, even if only six were 'on the square', the Craft clearly dominated the district at the time. The same seems true today. Reorganization means that 'C' no longer has its own commander - indeed 'C' (like all other 'districts') no longer exists - but as recently as 1987 chief superintendents and inspectors at each of the old 'C' stations (West End Central, Vine Street and Bow Street) were members of the Manor Lodge.
     The question is: Did these men rise high in the police force solely on their police skills or has the Freemason Brotherhood played some part in their success? Has none ever been helped up the ladder -or - saved from falling off the ladder - by fellow-Masons? and can they all honestly claim that, in performing their duties, they have never done favours for their Masonic Brothers outside the police? ....
    .... One Mason in the Manor was demoted for taking the wife and children of an imprisoned criminal out on a caravan holiday and was moved from the CID to uniform, but later was promoted.. and not hounded out of the police force like Brian Woollard (a non Mason) was.. he once even said: 'Getting out of the CID was the best thing that happened to me.."
    ..As a reporter specializing in police affairs, I have been on good terms for many years with several police officers who now belong to the Manor Lodge. I am tempted to say to each of them, "what's nice guy like you doing in a place like this?" or "I thought you would never join a club that would have you as a member', but such flippancy would trivialize the threat which the Manor Lodge may pose to policing in London, a threat perceived in a lot of correspondence between public, press and politicians.
      One week after the 'consecration' of the Manor Lode, a citizen named D.G. Parker of Exmouth wrote to Home Secretary Douglas Hurd to ask what action he proposed to take against the forming of the Manor Lodge. In Parker's view, the new Manor Lodge clearly contradicted the Commissioner's advice that policemen should not be Masons.
     Hurd did not reply but Mrs C, Fitzpatrick wrote back on Home Office paper saying her job was to water down Sir Kenneth Newman's 'Principles on Policing'...Mr Parker write back to Douglas Hurd saying: "it was hardly surprising that there was little evidence about Freemasonry and the police because 'this secret society works with great finesse.. witness the extraordinary difficulty in getting any questions on the matter accepted for discussion in the House of Commons .. Te decent, law abiding public have become disillusioned with the corruption and cover-ups which occur.." before blasting the Home Office view that it would be an 'unwarranted interference' if policemen were banned from Freemasonry..
     
    ..." it is not considered such an interference to prohibit workers at the Cheltenham Communications Centre (GCHQ) from being members of a trade union, and the trade unions are not a secret society. In this connection or may ask why Freemasons are allowed to be members of the various government intelligence services when owing allegiance to a secret society as well as the Crown, and the same can be said regarding the judiciary.... The time is approaching when this mater will have to come into the open. There is no question of anyone wanting secrets to be divulged, and Freemasons can practice their rituals as much as they wish, but a secret society cannot be allowed to use its influence against the public interest, no matter how many of its members occupy high places.."
    Mr Parker's dyspeptic onslaught on the Craft got him nowhere, just another bland response from a Home Office clerk. It a member of the public only gets the 'brush off' from the Home Secretary, members of the House of Commons fare no better, as Mr Parker says:
     
    'for six years Labour MP Austin Mitchell has fought to bring the issue of Freemasonry into the open, repeatedly petitioning Parliament on Brian Woollard's behalf...'
     
    On the Woollard case, Mitchell said: 'He found it hard not to  conclude that Freemasons had not only interfered with his career, but had sent Brian Woollard to a place where he would be surrounded and constantly watched by Freemasons:
     
    ' This is particularly worrying because it gives real substance to Woollard's complaints about his role of the masons in his case and more generally the police.'
     
    Woollard himself has bludgeoned successive Home Secretaries and all the main party leaders demanding to know where they stand on Freemasonry in the police and in society as a whole. Notting up his campaign for a society as a whole. Hotting up his campaign for an Ombudsman for the Public Service, in 1987 he re-canvassed all the party leaders, none of whom ha previously sent him more than a bland acknowledgement.
      As usual, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's    staffers thanked him for his letter which (as always) was 'receiving attention.' Woollard knew this meant noting would happen. Labour leader Neil Kinock did not even reply.
     Whenever Woollard sent David Steel, then Liberal leader, a fresh pack of Wollardiana he received only unsigned acknowledgement slips. In March 1987 SDP leader David Owen wrote back saying, 'questions of the influence of freemasonry in the police force and the lack of redress for legitimate grievences are extremely serious ones'. He promised to talk the matter over with his Alliance colleagues. Since then Dr Owen has split from the alliance and from most of his own party, so tackling the masons cannot be his highest priority!
     Like political leaders, police chiefs find Freemasonry difficult to confront. On 1986 I wrote to all Britain's chief constables concerning the Craft. There answers are analyzed in Chapter 21, but Sir Kenneth Newman's painstaking reply deserves attention here. He said he was not and never been a mason. The formation of the `Manor Lodge was 'admittedly a disappointment', but he felt it quite likely that 'many have not joined who might have done but for the publication of my policy. Sir Kenneth Newman believed officers were taking some notice of his 'Principles', which was given to all new recruits at Hendon training school. Instructors there use it as basis of early lessons.
     As he wrote this letter Sir Kenneth Newman may not have known that one Manor Lodge member, Commander Anthony Speed, was in charge of a key part of the school. ..
    ... I am grateful for the care taken by Sir Kenneth over this reply, but I feel he did not address the fundamental question raised by the formation of the Manor Lodge: who really runs the Metropolitan Police? The Principles seem to have special impact, Flouted by men of high rank, its anti-Masonic strictures are in disrepute, Brian Woollard thinks they were never more than a cosmetic devise to appease him and his sympathizers. Sir Kenneth Newman would deny this, but he does not seem to have underestimated the impact which even the notoriety of the Manor may have on junior officers. That it flourishes without specific condemnation from Scotland Yard will also 'not be lost on those who aspire to the highest ranks'. Ambitious youngsters nay decide, ' If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!'
      The present Commissioner, Sir Peter Imbert, has also told me he does not see Freemasonry as a formidable element in Britain's police forces... in April 1988 he told Independent Radio News that neither he, his deputy not his four assistant commissioners is a Mason, ...I hate to contradict Sir Peter, but one of his assistant commissioners is a mason, albeit one who has quit active membership 'precisely because of its corrupting and corrosive qualities'. Even if Sir Peter counts this man as a non mason, he should know that another four serving or recently retired deputy assistant commissioners are staunch members of the brotherhood.
     
      The lack of active Masons among Scotland Yard's current 'big six' proves little... Most Masons may never want to become assistant commissioner, let alone Commissioner. Not for nothing has the Craft been called 'the Mafia of the `Mediocre': far better to sit out a police career in the middle and upper ranks than to risk having one's weaknesses ruthlessly exposed under the constant pressure of life at the top. Nor would most Masons want their brother Masons to fill all the top jobs. They know that if they did, Britain's police would be deprived of the much-needed leadership skills of non-Masons. Nevertheless, the presence of so many Masons is senior operational ranks such as commander and chief in senior operational ranks such as commander and chief superintendent (which are often the most enjoyable) may still justify the feeling that, even today, Masons are over promoted at the expense of non-Masons.
     
    ..It is also a cause for dismay that, at the end of the twentieth century, so  many senior jobs are filled by men who look for 'Truth' in the re-creation of a murder which never took place, who see no folly in submitting themselves (and others) to blindfold humiliation, who mouth boyish passwords and perform occult rituals, and who have sworn loyalty to hundreds of thousands of men they have never met - even though they have sworn the Constable's `oath to perform their duties 'without favour or affection, malice or ill-will'.
    What is even more distressing is that many of these men work at London's world famous police-headquarters: New Scotland Yard. Stephen Knight in his books -Brotherhood- had it wrong when the said the building has its own Temple. We may now know why!!!  Using the Manor Lodge as out guide to the Craft's strength in the upper ranks, we know the 'Big House' does not have a room big enough to accommodate all the inmates eligible to join.. If a Scotland Yard Lodge were ever formed I suggest it might be called the 'Blue Lamp', but such a creation is most unlikely after the uproar over the formation of the Manor Lodge. which has been a public relations disaster for both Masonry and the 'Met Police'.
     ..it is noted that when another police officer suggested that Brian Woollard had been a victim of a Masonic plot Woollard’s new chief Superintendent Alistair Kerr retorted: Absolute nonsense! Poppycock!....
    ....In September 1987 Brian Woollard was forced to stop work because of high blood pressure. His doctor diagnosed strain brought on by the long fight against Freemasonry. When the pressure subsided Woollard declared he was willing to go back to work, provided he was given an assurance that he would not be placed under command of any officer who was a Freemason - otherwise his blood pressure would shoot back up again. No such assurance was forthcoming so he informed Commissioner Impart that he would wait at home until the matter was examined by Judicial Review: a High Court procedure whereby he hoped to expose Freemasonry's role throughout the Metropolitan Police.
       In a symbolic gesture Brian Woollard sent Chief Inspector Impart his warrant card which was then sent by Impart to West Henderson station and Brain Woollard fired off another letter to Impart: 'By the single act of returning my warrant card to the Masonic fold of the Metropolitan Police you have displayed abject moral cowardice in the face of freemasonry.'
    Brian Woollard on the 25 May 1988 appeared before a Scotland Yard discipline board ... through a barrister he asked for a postponement so that he could call dozens of witnesses, including Commissioners Newman and Impart: 'To show I had been persistently oppressed by Masons. I therefore needed to cross-examine my oppressors,' No postponement was granted and Brain Woollard was dismissed from the Met Police there and then.. After 33 years of dedicated service to the Met Police Brian Woollard was out of a job....
    ..... The Police Federation's deputy secretary, Patrick Johnson, agreed to pay £1,500 towards Brian Woollard's appeal costs provided his appeal grounds .. 'would not be related to matters of Freemasonry within the police force.. Brian Woollard felt that this was rather like asking a Jew to accept an inquiry into World War II on condition that no mention was made of the Nazi Party or the Final Solution or the Holocaust,,, On reviewing the case, Brian Woollard's barrister felt that the best way to proceed was to  request the Home secretary to set up an inquiry into the influence of Freemasonry in the Metropolitan Police under Section 32 of the 1964 Police Act... from the reply from  Police Federation's deputy secretary, Patrick Johnson,, it was clear that while the  Police Federation  made our it wanted 'natural justice' for Woollard, it did not want it at the expense of Freemasonry - or, at least not  at the cost of upsetting those thousands of its own members that were 'on the square (members of Freemasonry)'...In 1987 Home Secretary Hurd turned down Woollard's request for an inquiry into the brotherhood..
     Brian Woollard's claims that there was a conspiracy uniting Masons in Islington Council, in the building firms working for it, in the Fraud Branch of Met Police, and the Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the first thing any investigator should have done, was to approach Grand Lodge to find out which suspects were Masons,,, only then could anyone decide if Woollard's allegations were  unfounded or foundered... yet the Grande Lodge was never approached for their assistance to provide the information as to the Masonic membership of the suspects....
    ... In England's Masonic hierarchy, Pro Grand master Lord Cornwallis is second only to the Duke of Kent....and anything he has to say to members of the Brotherhood would have the force almost of the Ten Commandments, who had comments 'not the believe Woollard' published in the Freemason Quarterly Communication which is distributed to all Masons... It was as if the Supreme Architect himself had said, 'Thou Shalt Not Believe Woollard'. When Woollard found out about Cornwallis's statement, he condemned it as an outrageous interference in his case...
     Hurd and Impart jointly issued a statement saying there was no evidence of Masonic corruption in the Met Police, when no one in Scotland Yard had made any serious effort to find evidence of Masonic corruption in the Met Police. .
    ..the first policeman ever to be dismissed from any British police force over Freemasonry turned out to be a non-Mason: Brian Woollard...
    Recently, three of Brian Woollard's former Wembley colleagues have also left the Metropolitan Police, but voluntary. They are all Manor Lodge members: Brother George Wise, a former chief superintendent, is now head of security at Wembley stadium where he hired Brothers Ned Pountain and William Gibson as part-time security advisers, Folk with suspicious minds might think this case of 'jobs for the boys from Mason St James's Lodge, but these masons may well be the best men for the task ... either way,, Brian Woollard thinks he will get no offer to work at Wembley, except perhaps as a football.....
     
    Squaring The Square Mile: Chapter 30: Inside the Brotherhood Martin Short
     P 495-496... There is far more to the inner City of London than Lloyds of London Insurance, lawyers and Lord Mayors....The biggest City business is probably banking... Here again Freemasonry is rampant... Lodges are centered on the Bank of England (no. 263), Lloyds Bank (Black Horse of Lombard Street, no, 4155) and National Westmister0 NatWest (no.3647), It was from within the Midland Bank that I gained some real insight into the Freemasonry Craft's role in banking. My source had already been a Mason for some years when he was asked to join Midland Bank's lodge, the Holden (no, 2946). Some years ago he went as a guest and found himself alongside four senior officials in Midland Bank Trustee Company: the then managing director, general manager, chairman of the investment committee and a regional director, Others present included a director of Midland Montague Merchant Bank and other Midland Bank moguls...
     My source could not decide if these men had become powers in the bank because they were already Masons, or if Masonry had co-opted them once they had achieved power. He chose not the join the lodge because by then he felt the craft was spiritually flawed. When this became known to his Masonic colleagues, his career collapsed. He was denied promotion and told his services were no longer required. he now reflects.. "The lodge seemed composed entirely of senior managers. I spotted no low-level staff, no maintenance men - and of course no women.. if the lodge does have any say over who gets on in the bank, its existence certainly can't do women bankers any good.'
     
     
    Martin Short states about Freemasonry and the Police force in Britain in his book- Inside the Brotherhood:
    From Chapter 14 : The Phoenix
    ".... it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My Masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...
    Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'
    One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..
    ..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non=police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'
     “ ...We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....”
    "...Among the hundreds of letters which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...
    Conclusion by Martin Short at the end of his book 'Inside the Brotherhood
    In my book I have tried where possible third hand evidence..not third-hand rumor... I have tried to provide sober deduction, not exaggeration... it should go without saying that anyone investigating a secret society - or even a 'private' one - as Grand Lodge now characterizes Freemasonry  - will always find evidence hard to come by...therefore 'rumor and speculation'. although unsatisfactory, become legitimate .. if the investigator 'exaggerates; what little evidence he or she gets, the 'private society should hold itself to blame...Freemasonry gives rise to genuine public concern, which Masons ignore at their peril...
     'What Public, Legal and Political Action Should be Taken regarding Freemasonry?
    .... I suggest that  the action taken about Freemasonry should be more than would appeal to the Tory MP who says, 'if people wish to belong to secret societies, that is their own business' , but probably less than is required by the Labour man who feels that 'Freemasonry should be made illegal'....
    ...Most MP's who completed my 1986 questionnaire said than councilors, local government officers, civil servants, policemen, judges and MP's should all be required to disclose their Masonic membership....the only proper way to test political opinion would be to put a 'disclosure' bill to the vote. There is no chance that the present Tory Government in the UK would sponsor it, so an MP should introduce a private member's bill and a free vote should follow...this bill also should give the public access to full and up-to-date membership lists of all Masonic lodges...as I suggested on Chapter 21, these should be available at reference libraries in the localities where the lodges meet, and a town and country halls...
    ... thus the Bromyard one Craft Lodge List would be open for inspection..
    ... In Truro six ... in Cambridge eleven ..... in Sunderland twenty-nine....
    .... in Croydon eighty-nine ,, in Manchester 129 ... in the city of London over 200 ....
    ..... in Greater London another 1,450 or more...
    ..The degree of 'publication' might also be required of all other Masonic bodies: from the Royal Arch .. right the way through to the Society of  Rose Croix Order..
    ..The list of any lodge affiliated to a particular workplace, or recruiting mainly from within a specific organization, should be open for scrutiny by everyone who works at that place or in that organization. Thus the list for a town hall-lodge, such as the Borough of Newman, should be available at Newman Town Hall; the Holden Lodge list at Midland Bank; he London Hospital Lodge list at London Hospital; the list for the Union Lodge of Norwich should be given on demand to any employee of Norwich Union; the Lutine, Lloyd's and Fidentia lodge lists should be viewable at Lloyds of London; likewise lists of all military lodges (including the 21st Territorial SAS) at regimental HQ's; lists of barristers', Masters, Court Clerks' lodges should be displayed in the Inns of Court, at the Bar Council and the High Court, and the Manor of St James's list at New Scotland Yard, and at Bow Street, Vine Street and West End Central police stations...
     ...Most Masons would argue against these measures...
    ..They would say that although they have nothing to hide, why should their lists be publicly available if the same is not required for the MCC, the Athenaeum, the Labour Party, the Transport and General Worker's Union, the Royal and Ancient Order of Foresters, the Sons of Temperance, the Druids, Rotary, the Round Table, the Elks, the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos, the Lions, the Kiwanis, the Baker Street Irregulars, the Sovereign and Military Oder of Malta, the Catholic Police Guild, BUPA, the AA, the Women's Institute, the Mother's Union or the subscription department of Readers Digest...
    ... The answer is simple. It is for Masons to demonstrate that any other organization has all these features:
    1. A code of mutual aid, sworn by all members, to assist each other beyond the aid they swear to perform for all other people in society...
    2. Oaths (however watered-down in recent years) which threaten that some physical, economic or social penalty - or negative moral judgment - will be applied to those who reveal the organization's secrets..
    3. Rituals which make use of blindfolds, nooses, daggers  or similar menacing objects or disorienting devices ...
    4. Secret passwords, signs, grips or handshakes ...
    5. Widespread public concern about the organization's activities or those of its members ...
    I know of no golf club which has any of these features and no political party, trade union, friendly society, insurance company, businessmen's club, social group, or mainstream religious fraternity which has more than two of the above... If it can be shown that any other group manifests all of these elements, it should be subject to the same curbs as may be imposed on Freemasonry ..Some Masons claim that three Catholic organizations - the Knights of Columbus, the Catenians and Opus Dei - are quasi-Masonic ...If their rituals and oaths do resemble Freemasonry's, if genuine texts can be produced to prove it, and if there is widespread pubic concern, they too should be subject to any obligations imposed on the Craft..
    ..If Masons have nothing to hide, none of this should cause them great disquiet.... Just as their secretiveness breeds paranoia among the 'profane'. so a new openness would help dispel it, If the Freemasonry Craft is primarily a charitable organization, a movement or moral regeneration or just a load of men pursuing an arcane hobby, the have nothing to fear...`personal anxieties could be accommodated... such as that they maybe do not want their home addresses disclosed ..However, all voters' addresses are on view at public libraries on electoral roles... at Companies House, the home addresses of all company directors are available to anyone who pays a small fee ...As it happens, Freemason's home addresses might not be required, provided every lodge discloses the full named of all members..
    ..It is noted that today's MP's should bear in mind that any law to curb Freemasonry will face widespread evasion, as the history of the 1799 Unlawful Societies Act shows. Brought in 'for the more effectual Suppression of Societies established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes', this was passed when there were fears of French plots to overthrow the Government of Great Britain and to achieve Irish independence. The Act claimed that societies such as United Englishmen, United Scotsmen, United Britons and  United Irishmen were plotting seditious ends, and that their members swore oaths and secret vows, used secret signs and operated a cell-like structure across the country, However, a blanket ban on such organizations would also have banned Freemasonry, which shared all offending characteristics. To gain exemption, England's rival Grand Lodges (the 'Moderns' and the 'Ancients') jointly lobbied politicians will skill which would do credit to today's ruthless 'political action committees' in the USA. Their respective leaders, the Earl of Moirs and the Duke of Atholl, pressured Prime Minister William Pitt. According to 1799 Grand Lodge minutes, the Masonic delegation reported that Pitt:
    '... expressed his good opinion of the Society and said he was willing to recommend any Clause to prevent the New Act from affecting the Society, provided that the Name of the Society could be prevented from being made use o as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes..'
    The pressure worked ... Prime Minister William Pitt duly introduced a clause stating the Act did not apply to ' Lodges of Freemasons, the meetings whereof have been in great measure directed to charitable purposes'...
    ...Pitt must have been beguiled by the smooth talking aristocrats, particularly Moira... According to one Masonic Historian, Moira's 'timely intervention had saved Freemasonry from extinction'....
    ...'Presumably Moira and Athol had told Pitt that no British Masonic Lodge was likely to contain plotters bent on ' overturning the laws, constitution and government. and every existing establishment, civil and ecclesiastical' in Great Britain or `Ireland...Yet even 'regular' Freemasonry (as opposed to the truly seditious continental variety) had harboured traitors... Many American Revolutionaries were 'regular' Masons, notably George Washington, Ben Franklin and Admiral Paul Jones who had been initiated in Scotland. One Boston Lodge, St Andrews , was full of rebels, including Paul Revere, General Joseph Warren, John Hancock and John Rowe... It was John Rowe who inspired the Boston Tea Party, according to one of the 'Indian' raiders who belonged to the lodge, was planned within St Andrew's itself...
     ...The American Revolution had begun only twenty-four years before the Unlawful Societies Act became Law... It is extremely unlikely that Briton's Prime Minister, William Pitt, had any idea of Freemasonry's  strength among the Revolutionaries - for sure Moira would have not told him! - but, had be known. he would have had good reason to suspect that the Freemasonry Craft might 'again be made use of as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes'. Pitt would also have had grounds for believing that not all brethren subscribed to their second Antient Charge: ' A mason is a peaceable subject to the civil powers, wherever he resides or works, and is never to be concerned in plots and conspiracies against the peace and welfare of the nation.'...
    ..Of course, even if Pitt had known about the Masonics of Washington and hi brother rebels, he may not have pressed the point because the Craft's leading petitioner, the Earl of Moira, had himself been a hero on England's side in the Revolutionary Wars. Pitt would have been 'snowballed' by Moira's revelation that no less than six of George III's sons were 'on the square', for how could a fraternity boasting 'so many of His Majesty's illustrious Family' possibly be seditious?...
    ...Nevertheless, the Act did impose major restrictions on Freemasonry. The 'names and descriptions' of all members of each lodge had to be registered with the local clerk of the peace.... By the time the Act was repealed in 1967, it had long been widely ignored .. Many lodges did not make returns… One pre-1967 lodge secretary told me: 'I never bothered and many other secretaries never knew this law existed... besides, who was going to make you do it... In out town most law enforcers - the Clerk of Peace, half the JP's and the police chief --were all in the lodge...!'
    ...Even more restrictive, the 1979 Act had exempted only meetings of 'regular Lodges of Free Masons held (before) the passing of this Act...for some years the Masonic orders subverted this clause by reissuing the warrants of dominant or dead lodges, thus back-dating the foundation of many lodges. Not only were these Freemasons breaking the  criminal law, their stealth and deceit show they knew their actions were illegal..
    ... On the rolls of United Grand Lodge today there are fewer than 300 lodges which were founded before 1799, yet by 1967 another 6,000 had been 'consecrated'. Abroad view of the 1799 Act might have encouraged Masons to feel the exemption applied to any future lodges formed under both Modern and Antient Grand Lodges (united in 1813) and two more Grand Lodges in Scotland.. The terms of another Act in 1817 may have supported that view... However, neither Act legalized other Masonic Orders such as the Knights Templar (which had barely got going by 1799), the Rose Croix (founded in 1845), the Mark (organized about 1845), the Red Cross of Constantine (whose earliest lodge was founded in 1865) and the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (founded in 1866) ...... All these orders are self governing and have never come under the authority of the various Grand Lodges, which regulate only the Craft and Royal Arch degrees. so they could never have been exempted from the ban on other societies imposed by the 1799 Act....
    ... The illegality of the `Masonic Knights Templar is confirmed by the fact that their Grand Master, Lord Rancliffe, 'was personally concerned with the bill in the Lords' and neglected the Order thereafter. Masonic historians differ over whether the revival of the Masonic Templars some years later indicates that 'any question of illegality was over' or whether it suggests that 'the authorities were turning a blind eye'. My own view is that all these 'higher' or ' sides' degrees ( from Knights Templar on wards) met illegally for more than a century until 1967.... Nobody would have dared enforce the 1799 Act (even had they known about it) because many magistrates, Court Masters, Court Lords, judges, policemen belonged to these same degrees... Through vested interests. Masonic law-breaking has been constantly connived at by the forces of law and order....
    Today, any Parliamentary moves requiring public disclosure by masons should be matched by legislation creating an Ombudsman for the public servant and the police, as advocated by Brain Woollard ( see Chapter 13)... This is necessary to prevent the kind of career abuse which 4 million other State employees may suffer at the hands of Masons.. or... indeed ... non-Masons... There must me many Masons in public service who feel that hey too have had a raw deal at work ...In future they should have a mean of redress against anti-Masonic prejudice, especially if they are to be obliged to disclose Masonic Membership...
    The former British ambassador featured in Chapter 32 has further suggestions:
    ...'..It should not be too difficult to procure form civil and public servants who belong to secret societies some written declaration and assurances about their activities… I also suggest that something should be done about the confidential personal reporting systems...It seems that any officer who believes he may be the subject victimization through the reporting system (as I was) should be entitles to state that the reporting officer as a Freemason and that this should be taken into account in assessing the report.. Ideally, in my view, Freemasons should be excluded from the reporting process, but that is too much to hope for...
    ...I also suggest that the numerous voluntary organizations and charities which serve this country and have been one of its great strengths, should be required by law to keep an indication of any secret society membership by its officers.. .Members of any society - or indeed contributors to a charity - should, as a matter of routine, be able to obtain a statement of its officer's affiliations...This is not an unreasonable request, but a simple reassurance that the society is being run for the benefit of all members and not primarily for `masons perpetuating themselves in office...
    In the present diminished and dangerous situation of our country, a very real danger exists from organizations, such as the Freemason Brotherhood - partly through infiltration, partly from the  illusionment and frustration which arises when our meritocratic system is deliberately and consistently distorted....'...
    ..In the House of Commons in June 1988 Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours introduced a bill to compel police recruits to swear they would not join any organization such as Freemasonry....he also demanded that officers who are already Masons should resign from their lodges or leave the police force.. On first reading the bill was passed by 117 votes to sixteen, but it had no chance of becoming law because of the shortage of Parliamentary time...
    ..If any future bill along these lines looks as if it might become law, it will encounter fierce lobbying just like the 1799 bill did ,,,,  It will infuriate Masonic cops... It ever reached the statute book, it could provoke mass resignation from the police force...
    ..This might not be a bad thing, but it seems unlikely that policemen could be banned from joining Freemasonry unless this 'private, voluntary organization' is itself made illegal....In the present political climate (of near perpetual Conservative rule) there is no chance of this happening,....
    ...However, because an action is otherwise legal,,, it does not mean that public servants have an in alienable right to perform it...
    ..In many respects the civil liberties of public servants and already severely curtailed....Millions of public servants (including the police) sign the Official Secrets Act which curbs their right to discuss, publish or otherwise disseminate information which they may learn in the course of their work... Also no civil servant, member of the armed forces or policeman may stand as a candidate in local or national elections without first resigning his or her employment. Since 1984 no employees of GCHO may belong to a trade union. The armed forces and the police have long been deprived of that right, just as they have surrendered their civil liberty to withdraw their labour and go on strike...Thus, imposing a similar curb on policemen in respect of Freemasonry has undeniable precedents.. They would retain the right to remain a Mason... but they would lose their right to remain a copper.. a judge. a Master of the Court .... a Lord of the Court .,, or any other job which has the power and/or authority in any way over the public in general... so that the same rule might well be applied to all other public servants..
    ...All this is for Parliament and the public to decide and debate... In the meantime Dale Campbell-Savours says: 'If Freemasonry were to shed itself of its secrecy, its exclusiveness and its oath of allegiance, I would have no objection to police officers being members....'
    ..However.. if it were to do all that, it would not longer be Freemasonry!....
    ..Even some senior Freemasons such as Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Peter Neivens ( an honorary Manor of St James Lodge)  has been concerned about excessive 'tears of sympathy' for Freemason Brothers who have been convicted of serious crime stares...'As for lodges which have allowed major criminals to remain as members for years after conviction... if that were proven to me, then if the authority rested with me, I would seriously think of disbanding that lodge...'
    ..If this policy were to be rigorously applied throughout Britain, not only would Freemasonry be far healthier : its opponents would have far less meat to feed on....Yet is must be doubted if the hierarchy as a whole would want to apply such discipline... As things now stand, Grand Lodge only acts against lodges like Waterways many years after they have become a haven for criminals, and only then after embarrassing media exposure.. It is therefore no wonder that in the meantime other lodges like the Queenswood contain cells of public corruption and the entire institution of Freemasonry is brought into disrepute as a result..
    ....however, Freemasons will argue that the merits of an institution as vast as Freemasonry do not turn on the vice or virtue of individual Masons... and that it does not change its essence because one Grand Officer, his Honour Judge Joseph Butler-Sloss, was exposed in the News of the World in July 1988 as a regular patron of Nairobi prostitutes while serving as a High Court judge on Kenya.. Freemasons argue that the private quirks of prominent men who happen to be a Freemason should not be held against the Brotherhood... as Masons have said... this would be like condemning Christianity because quite a few vicars over the years have been caught molesting choirboys...
    ...As I write these final pages in December 1988 I am still being sent evidence of Freemasonry's reluctance to punish those who transgress its own moral code.. the evidence come not form outsiders... but from men who are themselves staunch Masons...One such source is leonard Acklam, a well-to-do self-made Yorkshire businessman who fought for years to win redress for a Masonic Grand Officer's outrageous attempt to interfere with justice...A Mason for 33 years, a Past Master of Brighouse Lodge (no. 1301) and a 30th degree member of the Rose Croix, Acklam is worth hearing...
    ...Leonard Acklam a Freemason, had employed a Freemason Solicitor to collect a £10,000 debt he was owed.. however his own solicitor lied to him about the case  and when appointing a new non Mason Solicitor who threatened to report the Mason Solicitor to the Law Society and sue for negligence, a senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfearn told Acklam that he 'would lose a lot of friends' and that Acklam should 'look on it in a true Masonic manner and forget it..  a  senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfern was not only interfering with Acklam's legal action against a Mason solicitor, but was also telling Acklams to forget the £10,000 he is owed...An in initial letter of complaint in 1981 sent to the local Yorkshire Ws Riding grand secretary did not go down well,,, for Redfearn was not only a Grand Officer of English Freemasonry, but also a leading industrialist, a deputy lieutenant of the county, a knight of the realm, a one time chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations and the local Tory KIng-maker (future Tory MP Gary Waller was initiated in his lodge in 1971)..also he was photographed at Conservative Party occasions alongside Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, It was extremely unlikely. therefore. that any Yorkshire Masonic body would dare condemn him...
    From Chapter 14
     The Phoenix "....
    .. If the Manor Lodge of St James was formed in defiance of the anti-Masonic views of a Metropolitan Commissioner, it would not be the first time the Brotherhood has waved two fingers at the most important police chief in Britain...
    ...Back in 1958 the new commissioner was Joseph Simpson. He was the first man ever to reach the top job after starting as an ordinary bobby...He was public school educated and a university graduate but, unlike his gentleman predecessors, he had done three years on the beat and had the deserved respect of most London coppers... In short, He was a policeman's policeman...
    .... One shaft of light which Sir Joseph Simpson brought to the job was a distinct hostility to Freemasonry, or at lease a dislike of its most arrogant manifestations...During his early years in office he was greatly irritated by an organization calling itself the Metropolitan Police Masonic Association (MPMA),   The title gave it an official air, but its founders had no authority for using the words 'Metropolitan Police',... They might have had the unofficial 'non' from a previous commissioner, but Sir Joseph took a dim view and demanded its abolition....
    ... The MPMA’s members were not prepared to disband on the say-so of a mere commissioner - especially as earlier commissioners, such as Charles Warren, had themselves been Freemasons. Rather than abolish their fraternity in a fraternity, they decided just to change its name. They also decided to keep the initials MPMA. The were determined to keep 'Masonic' in the title, and 'Association' was harmless enough, also they would have to substitute another word for either Metropolitan or Police.... some wag in the leadership had a little education.... As this new body was going to rise from the ashes of the old, he thought, it could have no more appropriate name than  'Metropolitan Phoenix Masonic Association'.  This would get round Sir Joseph Simpson's vexatious objections, but it would still be the MPMA and the same old bird...
    ....Simpson died in office, from a heart attach three days after the battle of Grosvenor Square in 1969, but the Phoenix lived on.. In 1971 it had 288 members... Its rule book reveals that the inclusion of Metropolitan in its title was gratuitous and misleading, for its members only needed to be 'Master Masons who are regular, serving and retired officers of any police force'...
    The rule book makes it clear this was no Masonic Lodge... Ritual was forbidden at its gatherings... Instead its objects were:
    1. To introduce Master Masons of the Police Force who would otherwise have no opportunity of meeting as Brother Masons.
    2. To promote fraternal intercourse by arranging social functions.
    3. To render assistance to those who may be distressed by sickness or adversity.
    4. Loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen and the Craft in General,
    ..Aside from the genuflection to the Crown, these aims might strike an anti-Masonic as a sugar-coated code of mutual aide, arousing fears in the outsider that the Phoenix as a means of achieving a kind of Masonic apartheid in the Police Service...Could it have acted as a wedge between Masons and non-Masons, or a jungle telegraph, or a 'firm in a firm'? .. Its members would doubtless deny it, but the club does seem like a collective support system: ideal for help up the promotion ladder, or saving skins...
    ....The 1971 list contains one man still serving at Scotland Yard: a deputy assistant commissioner ... Another is a detective chief superintendent...Most members left the service long ago,,, Many held humble rank, so either the mutual aid principle never helped them gain promotion or they never sought to use it.... Perhaps the Phoenix was just a social club for men with a common hobby ... If so, one brother was such an enthusiast ha he took the hobby with him to a Mediterranean retirement,, In 1971 Brother A.J. Fookes was running a pub in Gibraltar called the Mason Arms...
    The phoenix list shows that in the early 1970's there was a network of police Masons, in lodges all over south-east England, who were doubly committed to mutual aid. Today, it seems, the Phoenix may not be the bird it was. I have been unable to find out if it is still flying... It may now be in one of its 'ashes' periods: about it burst forth in full plumage ,, Perhaps the Manor of St James's Lodge is its latest incarnation... AS it happens, no 1971 Phoenix people show up as mason members... Perhaps this is only because there is a fifteen-year gap between the lists, but it seems to confirm that there must be thousands of London police Masons, otherwise there would be names in common....
    Another indicator of the Crafts strength in the police force emerged when barrister Andrew Arden presented his 1987 report on the running of the London Borough of Hackney (see Chapter 6) ..During his research Mr. Arden was assisted by Grand Secretary Michael Higham... He gave the 'profane' Arden forty-four lodge lists to help him identity Masons working for Hackney Council but. in performing this unprecedented favour, he knowingly divulged the identities of over 3,500 Masons who had no connection with Hackney and whose individual permission he did not seek..
    .... Higham also divulged the occupation of 2,534 named Masons...Of these ninety-eight were policemen .... amounting to 3.9% of Ardens sample.. or slightly less than one Mason ^n every twenty five... if this were typical of  the whole country.. .and if ( according to Commander Higham) there a re between 250,000 and 500,000 Masons under Grand Lodge, then between 9.700 and 19,400 policemen in England and Wales are Freemasons... However if my total figure of 600,000 living Masons, whether active or lapsed, is correct (see Chapter 9), then some 23,400 serving and retired policemen are Freemasons .... In December 1985 there were slightly fewer than 108,000 serving make police officers in England and Wales...  Even if we exclude my highest estimate and stick to the Higham figures ....it would seem that  between 9 and 18 percent of all policemen may be Masons : one in eleven or one in six of all men in English and Wales police forces...yet, as ever, when it comes to calculating Masonic strength, huge statistical crevasses have to be vaulted
    ....The records at Freemasons' Hall are always out-of-date because they show only the occupations declared when men become Master Masons .. Should they change t heir jobs or retire, these records stay the same... Yet even if 20% of men who said they were policemen have since retired, it seems that between 8,000 and 16,000 policemen are 'on the square'.. In addition, however, young policemen are being drawn into Freemasonry all the time, which may bring the total back to around 20,000... There a re thousands more in Scotland and Northern Island, where they probably form an even higher proportion of the police service, for reasons explained in Chapter 19..
    ... Higham supplied Arden with the names and occupations of men in fourteen individual lodges... One lode had fifty-two members, of which eleven policemen out of eighty-eight members, another had five out of fifty four. Of course these high numbers are outdone by the Manor Lodge of St James,  but the manor is not Britain's only all-police lodge... According to the Grand Secretary of East Lancashire, three lodges are composed entirely of ex-police officers: in Wales, Kent and Liverpool.. The Kent lodge meets in Sittingbourne and is called the Watch and Ward,,, It was founded as recently as 1977, yet it has already won a place in Freemasons' Hall Museum by presenting a Masonic gavel made in the form of a police truncheon… In the early 1980's  the Watch and Ward could muster only twenty-five members, but this is no proof of ill-health.. .Indeed, Masonic consciousness among policemen, both serving and retired, is growing stronger… The Liverpool lode, Sovereign;’ Peace, was founded in 1979..
    .... Most policemen belong to general lodges where they get to know men form other walks of life - that is one of the main benefits of Freemasonry - yet they are usually proposed by other policemen... A random sample of lodge summonses reveals that policemen are valued candidates for admission into almost any lodge..
    .. In 1976 the Derby Allcroft Lodge of London initiated a Scotland Yard detective sergeant and a builder on the same day...It already contained several policemen, including one future member of the Manor of St James's, In 1982 Gateway Lodge of Witney initiated a Thames Valley officer along with an electrical engineer, a British Telecom warden and an Oxfordshire fireman... These lodges  contain a mix of employees, public servants and the self-employed.. Whatever a Mason's job, on lodge days he must be able to sop work early enough to arrive for the meeting at three or four o'clock … Policemen can almost always manage this because they work shifts, or because senior officers are also Masons and will turn a blind eye if brothers slip off during working hours...
    ...Thus it was that is January 1972 a thirty-two-year-old detective sergeant took a half-day off from West  Hampstead police station in north London to be initiated in the Fryent Lodge alongside a C-op produce controller.. The Fryent is a general lodge but, over dinner, brethren proposed several toasts to the 'Blue Lamp', in honour of the Metropolitan Police....This may have something to do with the fact that the lodge meets at Hendon Hall Hotel, close to Hendon Police College from which it recruits some of its members...
    it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My Masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...
     ' Why do nearly all Masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst?
     Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system...
    ... It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ...
    ....That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'
    Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:. The best-kn
    '..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position... However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'
    If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as Masonic spokesmen claim...
    ....The public need to be convinced ....
    ... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....
    Free Gardeners
    The Freemasons were by no means the only group to emerge from a particular trade. The Free Gardeners have been traced back to 17th century Scotland, and lodges later appeared in the U. S  the Order of Free Gardeners existed until the middle of the 20th century. Like their stonemason cousins, the FreeGardeners drew inspiration from the story of KIng Solomon and the building of his Temple in Jerusalem. They were regarded as even more secretive than the Freemasons.
    Golden Dawn
    The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, to give it its fu;; name, is perhaps the best known of modern era magical secret societies, through is its original form it was short-lived. Founded in 1887, it fractured into different groups early in the 20th century, Its focus on high magic made it very influential in occult circles, and former members went on to form their own societies and it make their marks in the esoteric world of such groups - none more so than the notorious Aleister Crowley.
    Hell-Fire Club
    There as more than one Hell-Firs Club, but the original was probably formed in England 1719 by the Duke of Wharton. The best known branch, however, was that which was founded by Sir Francis Dashwood, and that used to meet at Medmenham Abbey. Despite its name, the club's members seem to have been more interested in having lots of lascivious, debauched fun than taking part in 'Satan worship', though some have claimed the group did have some links to politics.
    Illuminati
    The Illuminati is a collective name given to a secretive group of individuals who are said by conspiracy theorists to run the world - to at least are working to take over the running if the world. In fact, there was a real Illuminati secret society: the Bavarian Illuminati founded by a university academic called Adam Weidhaupt in 1776. Its members all used pseudonyms and infiltrated Masonic lodges to spread their influence; the ultimate aim was to bring about revolutionary change in society. However the Bavarian authorities learnt of their existence and broke up the organization just ten years after it formed. Nonetheless some have claimed -  - that the Bavarin Illuminati helped start the French Revolution...
    Knights Templar
    One of the most famous organizations in history, the Knights Templar were thought to have begun life as a kind of early 12th  century security company protecting pilgrims on the hazardous road to Jerusalem, It soon evolved into one of the most powerful and wealthy organizations in the medieval world, , with the knights Templars acting as both bankers and wealthy land owners. Though they were outwardly conventional Christians, the Knights Templars claimed by some to have picked up unorthodox and heretical ideas from their time in the Holy Land, and were brutally suppressed in the 14th century because of this allegation.  Since their demise, the Templars have inspired and influenced many secret societies, Some believe their true goal was to discover the secrets of Solomon’s Temple and is associated treasures. There is also a belief that Scottish Freemasonry has its origins in the Knights Templar.
    Ku Klux Klan
    This racist society has had a number of different incarnations since it first appeared in the south of the United  States in the middle of the 19th century, It saw a huge revival in the 1920's when anti-Catholicism and anti-trade unionism were among the features added to its while supremacy outlook. Remnants of KKK still exist, though support for them is currently low.
    Mafia
    This word became a catchall name to describe just about any organised crime group, as is, for example, the Russian Mafia. Its roots, however, lie in an organized criminal secret society in Sicily that sprung up in the 19th century. The members of this group did not use the name 'mafia', or indeed any other name for themselves other than 'Cosa Nostra', which means 'Our Thin' in Italian. Final proof that the Cosa Nostra existed as a true secret society (rather than a romantic idea of criminal gangs) only finally emerged in the 1990's. In the meantime, Sicily had exported the mafia tot he US where it still exists.
    Mithraism
    Mithraism is a mystery cult or religion that was a powerful rival to Christianity in the Roman Empire.  Its precise origins are a matter of academic debate, though it probably began life as a blend of loyal beliefs and traditions in the Near East. Popular with Roman soldiers, its many rituals were kept secret - and largely remain so to this day. Many have pointed to some similarities in beliefs and practices between Mithraism and Christianity, the latter ultimately becoming the dominant belief system within the late Western Roman Empire.
    Mystery Cults
    The ancient world was home to a number of secretive cults that can be considered to have involved 'mystery rites'. These include the followers of Bacchus (the Roman form of Dionysus) and those who took part in the famous Eleusinian rites near Athens. Followers had to be initiated into such mysteries, whose rituals and inner beliefs were jealously guarded secrets. At the centre of many of these mystery cults was a celebration of the endless cycle of death and re-birth in the world, as witnessed in the passing of the seasons. On some occasions, for example in Ancient  Rome.  such secret groups were treated as subversive, and were persecuted.
    Nine Unknown Men
    An elite group based in India said or date from 3rd century BC. The group's original purpose was supposedly to keep secret knowledge that could be harmful to the human race, but some claim that today its members are the hidden rulers of the world. The group is mentioned mostly in works of fiction, which is probably where it should remain...but there is mounting research and evidence that there is currently a fairly well hidden group that control most of the world's banking, money, minerals, politics, arms, drugs (legal and illegal) and food production.. and thus is doe snot sound that far unreasonable to assume that these Nine Unknown Men were to for runners of the well hidden group that control most of the world's banking, money, minerals, politics, arms, drugs (legal and illegal) and food production... it matters not what name you given them,,, they seem to be real enough...
    Odd Fellows
    Odd Fellowship shares some similarities and background with  Freemasonry, and is thought to have originated in the 17th century in England. From the start, Odd Fellow lodges had many working-class members, and adopted ways of helping members and their families financially in time of trouble. They were among the groups that became known as 'friendly societies'. Odd Fellow lodges were very popular in the US, and there are still Odd Fellow organizations around the world today.
    Odin Brotherhood
    This fascinating secret society claims to have been around since the early 15th century AD, when it formed to protect pagan faiths against attacks from Christianity. However, the existence of the Brotherhood only became known in the late 20th century, and their beliefs were them publicized by academic Mark Mirabello. Its members hono0ur old gods, incl0uding Odin. Thor and Freya, and place emphasis on virtues such as bravery. strength and knowledge.
    Opus Dei
    A controversial Catholic organization created by Spanish priest Josemaria Escriva in the late 1920's (the late pries has since been made a saint), The group has a relatively small but influential membership: many of its members have links to politics and business, Its aim is to promote traditional Catholic values and, above all, to 'find God in daily life'. The organization has been criticized for being a 'sect within a sect' inside the Catholic Church, and also for its recruitment techniques concerning young people and the demands it puts upon its members. Opus Dei was closely associated with Franco Regime (1936-75) in Spain.
    Order of Anti-Poke Noses
    A delightfully named society, the Order of Anti-Poke Noses was created un the 1920's in the US as one of a number of groups opposed to the Ku Klux Klan and its hateful teachings. The short-lived Order's basic stance was that it opposed any group that 'stuck its nose into other people's business'.
    Ordo Novi Templi
    The Ordo Novi Templi dates from 1907, and was created by Australian occults and former monk Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels. The occult world merged with Aryan supremist views in this society, and it was a part of the intellectual and spiritual backdrop to the rise of Nazism in Germany. The society was also said to have been one of the inspirations for Himmler's modeling of the SS as a tool of Nazi supremist views.
    Ordo Templi Orientis
    Established at the start of the 20th Century, this important magical secret society was later dominated by the ideas and personality of occultist Aleister Crowly. It still exists today - as do some splinter groups - and continues to be important in occult circles.
    Pythagorean Brotherhood
    A secret society founded by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th Century BC, the Brotherhood was based in Crotona, in Southern Italy, in what was a Greek colony.  At the heart of its teachings was the sacred nature of geometry and numbers. There was an outer and an inner circle of members, the latter being subject to a number of strict rules of behaviour. Though the Brotherhood did not long survive its founder's death, it was well known in the ancient world, and became a kind of blueprint for future secret societies.
     Rosicrucianism
    There is no single Rosicrucian secret society, but rather a series of them that have existed through the centuries and up to this present. As is so often the case with secret societies, the origins of the Rosicrucian movement is shrouded in mystery and legend. It first emerged in the world in the early 17th century in the form of a series of pamphlets, which suggested that a group known as the 'Rosy Cross' had been founded by the 15th-century monk, who had travelled widely through the East, collecting ancient wisdom and traditions. Many different societies have since claimed the Rosicrucian name. The Rosicrucian movement remains an important part of the occult tradition, and its aim today is personal self-improvement and enlightenment.  Has often been closely linked with alchemy in that the turning of base metal into gold is symbolic of the spiritual development of the individual.
    Church of Scientology
    This organization began life in the 1950's as the vehicle for self-help therapy devised by American pulp-fiction and science-fiction writer L Rom Hubbard, It has since developed an elaborate 'theology', and Scientology today claims to be a religion, Its stated aim is to help remove all the psychological 'obstacles and clutter' that prevent human beings form fulfilling their true mental and spiritual potential.  Critics claim that the Church uses cult-like techniques to attract and keep its members.
    Skull and Bones Society. 
    One of  the oldest and best-known American secret societies, the Skull and Bones Society is credited with enormous power and influence by critics because of the high sanding and power of many of its members, Membership in this Yale University society has included American presidents George Bush and his son, George W. Bush, as well as President William Taft
    Society of the Elect
    This was a secret society set up by the imperialist and diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes in the late 19th Century, and is sometimes seen as the 'grandfather' of such organizations as the Bilderberg Group. No one is sure how log the society lasted or how influential it actually was, but some serious commentators have suggested that in various layer incarnations it has wielded enormous influence. Its aim was to create a form of federal world government, with the British Empire (as it was) at the heart of it.
    Theosophocical  Society
    The Theosophocical  Society was started by Helena Blatvatsky in New York in the 1870's. It began life as a secret society before evolving into a more public organization that promoted occult philosophy. It drew on both western occult tradition and Eastern mysticism, and was highly influential. The Society still exists today.
    Thuggees
    Members of this Indian secret society (from which the modern word 'thug' derives) used to befriend travelers on the road and then, at a pre-arranged time and place, would rob and strangle them. The Thugs, who were active as far back as the 16th century CE, claimed to be servants of then goddess Kali. They were eradicated by the `British in the middle of the 19th century
    Thule Society
    A secret society that believed in and promulgated Aryan supremacy in Germany in the second and third decades of the 20th century. Hitler himself was never a members, but he did join and dominate a political splinter group associated with the Thule Society. The group eventually became the Nazi Party.
    Triads
    This the generic name given to various Chinese secret societies, Such societies originally grew out of Chinese politics and national identity, but have for some time been associated more wit criminal activity than with politics, Their influence has spread beyond Chinese borders to many other parts of the world
    Trilateral Commission
    The Trilateral Commission was created in 1973 by group of politicians, bankers and businesspersons from North American, Europe and Japan. One prominent member of the Trilateral Commission was Jimmy Carter, who later became US president. The stated purpose of the Commission is to discuss common ideas and aims among groups of politicians, bankers and businesspersons from all over the world. The group has attracted criticism from some. who claim that its covert agenda is the formation of a single world government.

    The Secret World of the Freemasons 
    by Tim Sedoulous
    Freemasonry is the World's most famous and successful fraternity
    With millions of members spread right across the globe, the organization is well known for tis veilf of secrecy as for its impressive roster of historical members.
      The Secret World of the Freemasons takes a fascinating look inside this enigmatic institytion and the trial facing te ancient order as it approaches the challenges of the twenty-first century. With a detailed examination of the visible structure of International Freemasonry ans the myths and legends that surround it, the book examines the true meaning of Freemasonry -its mythological and real history, its context, and the symbolism and philosophy that illuminate every aspect of the Freemasonry Craft. Tracking the conditions, symbolism, relics and rituals from the Knights Templar to today's Freemasons who pledge to abide by the time -honoured tenets of morality, charit and loyalty. The Secret World of the Freemasons reveals the true purposes of this ancient secret society... Tim Dedopulos is an anthropoligist, esoteric reseacher and historian, with well over a score of books to his name, including Kabbalah amd wizards (Carlton Books). He has been studying the subject of Freemasonry ever since discovering that his grandfather was a 33=degree Master Mason and former Worshipful Master of the island of Corfu in Greece....
    What is Freemasonry?
    Rumours and legends have dogged Freemasonry since its inception. Everyonr uoi talk to seems to have a dificult take,,,
    Itsa secret conspiracy of power that rules the world...
    No, it's the inheritor of the wealth amd mysteries of the Knights Templar..
    A club to gove harmless old men something to do during the week..
    A satanic conspiracy to destroy mankind for ever...
    A hugh... corrupt... old boy's network...
    The guardian of great ocult secrets ...
    A blasphemous religion..
    One big charity fund-raising group..
    A blasphemous religion....
    .The guardian of great occult secrets...
    There are a thousand theories, but the truth is something altogether stranger and more wonrous...
    The official traditional answer- the one you will probably get if you go and ask a Grand Lodge about the Craft - is that Freemasonry is " a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illuminated symbols". There is no deying that the answer sounds evocative, but what does it mean and, more importantly, what does it imply? At its simplest level, reemasonry is one of the wrold's oldest surviving secular farernal societies. Although it is specifically not religious, its members are concerned with developing themselves morally and spiritually in order to become better people... Over the course of their time as members, they are taught the society's plays, These are ancient words, actions and settings, and are exlained through allegorical reference to the trappings of stonemasons' craft, particularly its tools and customs.. The single most crucial qualification required to become a Freemason is that you have to beleive in God, or some other supreme being deity... It doesn't matter what religion you follow, or how dedicated you are to it.. Allbeleif systems are welcome into Freemasonry, even home-brewed ones, and how strictly you follow your religion's dictates is left entirely up to your own conscience...The important thing is that you have faith is a supreme being. The reason should be obvious - if you don't believe that there is a spiritual side of life, you can't genuinely claim to be interested in your spiritual development, and so the whole thing would be a bit pointless for you.... Apart from that, what you believe absolutely doesn't matter. Freemasonry never pries into a member's religion - in fact , all religios discussion is utterly forbidden during Masonic meetings, as it political debate,,Such matters are deeply held personal issues and are likely to prove divisive. In an organizattion that seeks members of good repute from all races, religions and creeds, avoiding political and religious clashes in vital....There is, of c ourse, far more to Freemasonry than just a series of moral and spiritual teachings... There are a number of other "sides' to Freemasonry that arise from its core purpose... One of the most important of these is that Freemasonry is a very charitable organization. For in 1994, it is estimated that the collective Grand Lodges and their constituent memebers across the USA donated a sum of $625 million to national and local charitable caused alone, with perhaps as much as an additional $400 mllion going to international funds.. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as great many Masons volunteer their time.. The masonic Service Association, for example, ensures that every Veteran's Administration Hospital in A merica has a Masonic volunteer working with patients - half a million hours worth of work a year...By comparison in Detroit a smany as athousand local masons regularily turn out as part of the efforts to help patrol the city on "Devils Night". 30th October, to try and prevent the annual epidemic of fires and looting associated with tha night... Their efforts have kept their assigned territory of the city entirely clear of damage for several years... InBritain, the Craft;s members contribute more than £3 million annually to national and international - non-Masonic - charitable causes, ranging from the hospice movement and the Prince's Trust to Alzheim r;s research and housing for disadvantaged innrcity chidren.. In addition each lodge contributes toward local non-Masonic charities...
    Stephen Knight the author of the Brotherhood who died aged 33 ......18 months after publishing his book
    ..... Had Stephen Knight lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen ... Knight from all over the world...
             A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony
                                Inside The Brotherhood –
                                                                                                Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons
                                                                         by Martin Short
    Contents:
    Acknowledgemtns                                                                                                                         P 7
    Foreward                                                                                                                                         P 9
    Intorduction: The Brotherhood and Its Aftermath                                                                  P 18
            Part One: Ritual or Religion?
    1. Ritual Poison                                                                                                                                P 45
    2. Whatever Happened to Jsus?                                                                                                  P 60
    3. Cloth and Apron, Cross and Square                                                                                        P 81
    4. Jahbulon - the sacred Word to Keep                                                                                        P 90
    5. Masonic Light, resurrection and Gnosis                                                                               P 106
    6. Obelisks and Egypt                                                                                                                     P 115
    7. Sorcery, Sex, Satan and Skills                                                                                                  P 124
    8. St Peter's Squared                                                                                                                      P 149
     . PART TWO: Who are the Masons?
    9. Figuring the Facts                                                                                                                        P 169
    10. A Mechanism of Social Control?                                                                                            P 149
      PART THREE: Freemasons and the Police
    11. The Manor of St James Mason Lodge                                                                                    P 195
    12. The Fall and Fall of Brian Woolard                                                                                             P 205
    13. The meaning of the Manor                                                                                                        P 236
    14. The Phoenix                                                                                                                                 P 258
    15. A Criminal Intelligence                                                                                                                P 261
    16. A Firm in a Firm: Freemasonry and Police Corruption                                                          P 268
    17. Master of the City                                                                                                                           P 291
    18. A column of Mutual Defence                                                                                                        P 300
    19. The Encompassing of John Stalker                                                                                            P 312
    20. Parrish's Council                                                                                                                           P 351
    21. Tough at the Top                                                                                                                           P 361
        PART FOUR: Masonic Activities
    22. Judging by Results                                                                                                                         P 369
    23. Masonic Justicea                                                                                                                                 P 381
     The Isle of  Wight has sixteen or more Freemason Lodges which claim over 1,500 members.. of a total population of about 110,000 in 1993 and if we discount unlikely Masonic recruiting material (men under 25, the poor, districts and most inmates in Albany and Parkhurst jails) the ratio comes down to one in ten being Freemasons on the Isle of Wight...most are in business, local government, the police and the law, so it follows that a very large percentage of all island business goes through Masonic hands....a local nightclub owner who was not a Freemason, one Derek Smith was forced to shut down, lost his license and had to sell his nightclub closed after fighting a powerful Freemason police inspector Gerald Marsh and a powerful Freemason Justice...other people had been battling with Isle of Wight masons for years, especially over widespread abuse of licensing laws by masonic publicans... one of them were doing a roaring after-hours trade, damaging the legitimate business of a neighbouring landlord who had no Masonic Protection and thus had to operate within the law....There is no doubt that throughout Britain Freemasonry is very strong on 'the Bench' ( the collective term for magistrates and licensing justices)...in 1973 a survey in one provincial city discovered that 29 out of 43 magistrates were Freemasons or Rotarians.. Anyone's chance of appearing before a Mason-free slate of three magistrates are almost nil - unless all of them are women...For almost 25 years Ian Morton worked as an administrator in Derbyshire magistrates' courts .. his father was a mason and Morton was perfect Mason material...he never joined because what he saw going on at the courts was more than enough to put him off joining Freemasonry... he states :..'.. All this stuff about Masonic signals may well be true, but in my experience Masons aren't let off in court.. They don't even get into court!.... We used to see all the police files and we could never understand why some people were prosecuted and others were not; why working-class men under thirty were breathalysed, but not professional people; why boys on 125 Yamaha bikes were done for speeding but older men driving rolls-Royces or Jaguars..Over many years we found out who the Freemasons were, and that's when all these decisions made sense...' Morton's wife, Rae, used to be married to a Mason and came to understand how the Freemason Craft justified its  covert control of so much of British society, ..'I was always told Freemasonry was "the Benevolent Mafia" and that "we know best". When I showed the couple a Derbyshire Masonic Yearbook, they identified not only a large number of JP's, but also many justice's clerks, councilors, policemen, solicitors and estate agents..This only reinforced Ian Morton's opinions which had been expressed two years earlier in a letter published in a local newspaper...'...it is high time that Freemasons were obliged to state their interests and the mere fact that they are reluctant to do so is more than adequate reason to demand that they do... Anyone in or standing for public office should be prepared to be open, as to their interests and affiliations..That is all that is being asked..if a list is successfully completed, it must be published..anything less would be an insult..'
    Further evidence of how Freemasonry operates in magistrates's courts come from the far north of England. A Justice of the Peace had read The Brotherhood and wrote to offer his own experiences about life on the Bench..In later conversations he asked me not to name him in this book, for obvious reasons...' There are some sixy JP's on our bench and vacancies come up most years.. They are filled on the advice of a small group of magistrates who are known as the `lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for the area. To my surprise I was asked to go on this committee - I was the first Catholic chosen for many years...what I saw going on in the committee astonished me..For a start, no one was meant to serve on it for more than six years, but one man had been there for more than twelve years...I also noticed the same tow men were constantly nominating people to fill the vacancies. I was amazed at their range of acquaintances, people from all walks of life, and all of them thoroughly competent. They were OK in themselves. It was the way they came to out attention which was obnoxious.. I soon found out that the two men who nominated them all, and the man who had served more than 12 years on the committee, were all Freemasons..Their whole operation was subtle and well-planned. even the women they nominated turned out to be wives of Freemasons!..Although our Bench was very efficient, the `lord Chancellor's representative came to tell us that out appointments were getting out of balance..There were too many teachers and too many conservatives..this encouraged me to use my power of veto..All you have to do to stop the appointment of a new JP is to say you object...No one may ask why - you simply say so. Whenever the two Masons pushed his luck by putting up too many of their friends I would say, ' I cannot support this nomination.' They got the message after a while and cut down on their offers..
    The coroners' court is another place where Masons often preside..This merely reflects Masonic dominance in the professions from which coroners are selected: the law and medicine..
    24. The Cotton Inheritance                                                                                   P 391
    25. Masonic Light in Town Halls                                                                         P 406
    26. London Belongs to Them (Masons)                                                                 P 432
    No where in Britain has the battle over Freemasonry been fought more bitterly than on London;s local councils.. It is not always Labour versus Conservative, the roughest fights have broke out between rival factions with the Labour parties which have rulles moat inner London Boroughs for most of the century... For Generations Freemsonry was not an issue in London's town halls..Nobody dared raise it because of on strak truth: the power-brokers in both main parties were Masons and usually belonged to the same lodge..Many London Lodges were created especially do elected councillors and full-time officia`ls could socialize togther off-duty..The Masonic Lodges were often named after the boroughs themselves....The Wandsworth Borough Council Lodge (no. 2979). Founded in 1903 survived a 1970 corruption scandal which revealed long-standing Masinic bonds between Labour Sydney sporle and Ronald ash, his Conservative opposite number. ash was not implicated in any crime but Sporle was later jailed for six years for corruption in the firs of the 'Poulson trials.... Undaunted, the Wandsworth Borough Council Lodge (no. 2979) continued to bridge Wandsworth's party divide, as an underground newspaper Lower Down proved in October 1976, whne it surreptionsly potographed numerous male personages arriving at a `masonic suite in Clapham Junction, clad in Dinner jackets, bow ties and carrying regalia cases.. That evenimg they were installing the new lodge master:...'...Included in their number were Norman B, white, the Chief Executive; Clir Dennis Mallam, Leader of the Tory Minority; Councillor Maurice Heaster, Tory Whip; Tory Councillor Michael Chartres; ex-mayor, Councillor Jimmy Hill, ex-council solicitor Harry Sargent; plus a number of other Council officers and ocal notables...Freemasonry attempts to be a secret society..members of Masonic Lodges are sworn to give primary allegiance to their Masonic brethren, and to eep secret all the doings of their order.. It is right that officers and elected members of our Council, whose first duty should be to the public, should belong to an organization that requires this of them? ..There are a number of ex-emplyees of the Council who reeived the cold shoulder from their colleagues for refusing to join the Lodge; they are only too ready to identify those who are 'on the square', and tell some hair-raising stories of what 'they' get up to.. And they don't mean performing silly rites and ceremonies or rolling on te carpet in silly aprons... They allude to much more siniser goings-on..The implicaion is that the Freemasons constitute a significant, mainly non-elected elite within our Corporation...'
    Powerful stuff!!! .... Yet Lower Down never published the lowdown because it was shut down soon afterwards...At the time `i was making a television programme about Freemasonry, so I tried ot find these folk who were 'only too ready' to tell 'hair-rasing stories'....
    27. Every Breath You Take                                                                                     P 449
    28. A Masonic Education                                                                                          P 462
    29. What's Up Doc?                                                                                                     P 480
    30. Squaring te Square Mile                                                                                        P 486
    31. The Regimental Square                                                                                         P 502
    32. Yor Masonic Public Servant                                                                                   P 517
    33. Spooks in Aprons                                                                                                     P 532
    34. The Tory Party in Aprons?                                                                                     P 564
       PART FIVE: Masonic Troubles
    35. Plain Tales of the `Lodge                                                                                        P 589
    36. Falling Masonry                                                                                                         P 595
    37. Charity Begins at Home                                                                                            P 607
    38. The Destruction of arthur Edmonds                                                                     P 627
    39. The Ladies - God Bless Them!                                                                               P 641
    Conclusion: The emedy                                                                                                  P 658
    Notes                                                                                                                                   P 674
    Index                                                                                                                                    P 689
    In the Midland Bank the Lodge seemed composed entirely of senior managers.. I have spotted no lower level staff, no messengers or maintenance men  and of course no women in the Midland Bank being Freemasons and have generally discovered that (a) most bank mangers are Freemasons, ( b) a non-Mason bank manger may feel must join Freemasonry so as to not to lose business (c) Masonic Bank manager meet at functions, no doubt must talk about their customers over wine...
    Freemasonry in Banking In London; Pages 495-499 : Bank of England (lodge No. 263) Lloyds Bank Lodge (Blackhorse of Lombard Street, London -Lodge No. 4155) Midland Bank Lodge ( lodge no. 2946)
    Judging by Results: Page 385  and pages 379 to 380-Judges and Masters who are Freemasons....
    Bill Rugman in the 1970's  accused a High Court Official in his affidavit of acting in a hostile manner owards him:he twice passed his right hand across his right eyebrow as if wiping away some drops of perspiration, butostentatiously ( a well known Freemason sign) Moreover, he did this in the judges vision ( judge Murray-band)..this thought Rugman, was the masonic sign of Grief and Distress. according to the ritual, this has compelling significance: ..' When adversity has visited our Brother, and his calamities call for out aide, we should cheerfully and liberally stretch forth the hand of kindness, to save him from sinking and to releive his necessities...' ... Rugman took his case to the Court of Appeal where three judge re-looks at the case... Lord Hustice Sir Francis Purchas observed, ' If only one or more of these allegaions were to be substantiated they would amount to a serious miscariage of justice and misconduct of the part of the judge.' ,,The Appeal judges had alrady been forced to pay attention to Rugman's Masonic claims because at the outset he had applied for his Appeal to be heard by non-Masonic judges.. He even cited the Royal Masonic Hospital case as a precedent where it was successfully organised for non-Masonic judges to hear the case...Lord Purchas responded that Rugman was in some difficulty because Freemasons swaer an oath not to reveal their membership..This was an extraordinary statemen coming from a Lord Justcie of appel, for Puchas seemed to be saying that soe of his colleages would rather lie than reveal they were Masons..They would place their Masonic oath above thir oath as a judge!....                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      & nbsp;                                                                                                                                                                &n bsp;                                                                                                                                                                &nb sp;                                                                                                                                                                &nbs p;                                                                                                                                                                  ;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   & nbsp;                                                                                                                                                                &n bsp;                                                                                                                                                                &nb sp;                                                                                                                                                                &nbs p;                                                                                                                                                                  ;                                                                                                                                                                                       
    Spooks in Aprons( Freemason Apron): Chapter 33...
    ... There seems no doubt that there are many Freemasons working for the Spook- secret service organizations such as MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc ,which according to many investigators, past members of MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc and in particular Leroy Flecture Prouty ex-CIA officer in his book, The Secret Team .. MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc is not run and financed by the various governments they purport to represent but are run and financed by a cabal of powerful bankers, financiers, and industrialists like the Rothschild Family, the Rockefella Family and their associates ..however the worrying and scary thing is that the governments which they purport to represent gave give these organization like MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc the full 'Green Light' to commit what every criminal offenses and be involved in any criminal activities which include murder (they call it a license to kill) and the growing, manufacture and supply of most of the illegal drugs around the world which is a muli-trillion pound business with the only people prosecuted for selling, manufacturing and growing illegal drugs being people that are not in their gang or were in their gang and have decided to go their own way...outside the laws on any country that they like without fear of any investigation, prosecution, and/or punishment... all covered up under the secrecy acts and all declared as 'official secret government security business ..members of MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc can simply appear at the scene of a murder or a big drug bust in any country in the world and simply tell the local police that they are in charge of the investigation and stop the local police from doing their normal police work and inquiries.. which seems to often also include telling witnesses what lies to tell to the local police and the courts and what evidence and information to to tell the local police and the courts... so that the final outcome of any court trial and investigation and public media releases that are allowed are completely controlled by MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc.. if MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc do not want certain information being publicized world wide in main stream media outlets such as mainstream  newspapers, magazine, TV Net works and Internet web sites..MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc simply issue what is called a "D Notice" to all mainstream  newspapers, magazine, TV Net works and Internet web sites telling them not to publish a certain story.. this has happened recently with the murder of `scottish and Australian INL News undercover journalist, Thomas Allwood, who was conveniently murdered on the 21st June, 2012 in Broxburn Scotland ...one month before he was due in London's High Court of Justice for a hearing on the 24th July, 2012. before Justice Vos (a well known and well respected Freemason) to have a criminal contempt application Thomas Allwood had issued against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, UK Treasury Solicitors, for deliberately and knowingly preparing and presenting a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Bowles (well known and respected Freemason) London's High Court of Justice that falsely stated that USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty had stated the UK Border Agency Officers that Thomas Allwood had paid him $2,000 to appear in the filming of the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show being filmed in April-May 2011..when Ronnie Prouty did not say this and in fact told UK Border Agency Officers on the 27th April, 2011 that he was not getting paid to be in the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show filming.. when he was wrongly and falsely arrested for no sensible and/or valid reason by UK Border Agency Officers on the 27th April, 2011 at Heathrow Airport while traveling from Los Angeles-London-Edinburgh for a five day say in Edinburgh before he was due to fly back to Los Angeles.. and held for about 24 hours in detention at Heathrow Airport and the next day placed in hand cuffs and flow back to Los Angeles in hand cuffs on his own return air ticket... the reason why David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, UK Treasury Solicitors deliberately and knowingly prepared and presented a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Bowles (well known and respected Freemason) London's High Court of Justice  was to convince Master Bowles to strike out a £500 million damages claim against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, in his Masters Chambers, without any hearing for the parties to discuss the letter of request by UK Treasury Solicitors to Master Bowles requesting that he strike out Thomas Allwood's £500 million damages claim against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, in his Masters Chambers, for the damages caused to the filming of the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show which was due to be used to present to TV Networks in Australia, Europe, UK and the USA to sell the rights to air the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show world wide with an expected yearly income of over £1 billion a year to Thomas Allwood and the INL News Group and their various financiers and investors have financed the development of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show over the last 10 years....it is understood from investigations made that USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty was wrongly arrested BY UK Border Agency Staff on the 27th April, 2011 at Heathrow Airport as a favour done for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media ground News Corporation and News International who wanted the UK Government to help sabotage the INL News Group's filling of their media opposition .... the INL News Group ... because of the INL News Groups Fringe Shows Have Talent was financially successful this would have assured the INL News Group's financial strength to be a major media competitor to Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International .. which as has been shown by all the information that was made public with the Parliamentary inquiry into Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking done by staff of  Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors .. it had been fairly standard practice for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group.. News Corporation and News International ... to Hack Phone, Bribe Police  and hack computers for to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors .. and with all the evidence the Freemason Police involved in illegal activities in the police force there seems no doubt that Freemason police were up to their neck in  Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking at least prior to the major publicity in 2012 caused by the the Parliamentary inquiry into Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking done by staff of  Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors...
     Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'
    One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..
    ..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non=police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'
     “ ...We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....”
    "...Among the hundreds of letters which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...
    From Chapter 14 : The Phoenix
    ".... it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...
    ....... ' Why do nearly all masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst? Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system,,,, It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ... That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'
    Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:
    '..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position..However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'
    If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as masonic spokesmen claim,, The public need to be convinced .... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....
     From Chapter 15: A Criminal Intelligence: 
    Masons usually claim such stories are invented by embittered non-Masons who cannot accept that their careers have failed because of their lack of ability; instead it is claimed by Masons, that they ;fantasize about malicious wrongdoing by Masonic colleagues.  Retired Metropolitan  Policeman John Thompson ( a non-Mason) rejects this argument as itself a canard..
    ..'....I admit we non Masons were resentful at our lowly rank. Yet most of us were not bitter. On the contrary, the men who were bitter were those Freemasons who had expected patronage and preferment but never got it. What non-Masons such as I did resent was entering a five-furlong sprint race but being forced to start at the mile and three quarter gate...We also resented that our Masonic colleagues were likely to have their errors, omissions, in adequacies, incompetencies and indiscipline covered up, sometimes at the expense of non-Masons..I concede that many Masonic policemen had an aura if greater competence and many became more able because they had less pressure and could acquit themselves better on boards..I put my hands up to being bitter in one respect..I object when masons dismiss their victims as jealous and vindictive, I am neither neither but what do they expect us to be? They expect us to act like the three wise monkeys: seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil - of Freemasonry of course    ....'
    One on-Masonic sergeant knows to his cost the Brotherhood's power in Oxfordshire...
    ..'... In 1983 I had some building work done on my house..When it was finished I was not entirely satisfied and paid the builder only part of the money..He put most of the faults right but I was still not completely happy and we had quite a disagreement.. He then told me he was a Freemason and he knew various people that I also knew, one of them being a chief superintendent..Not long afterwards the builder had a car accident and  he finished up in hospital.. When he was there he received a visit from the chief superintendent who asked if there was anything he could do for him.. A few days later I was summoned to headquarters to see this chief superintendent. He 'advised' me to hurry up and sort out my dispute with the builder because his being in hospital gave him quite enough to worry about. Now whilst no threats were made,  there was undoubtedly some moral pressure and I came away from headquarters feeling decidedly uneasy..  The obvious difference in our ranks made it a very simple task for him to 'put the screws on'.... As a result I felt bound to pay the builder the remaining money... I find membership of this organization quite odious and not compatible with being a police officer. ... Incidents happen - internal politics you understand- which defy rational explanation and can only be put to the influence of these people.. They are unknown, unseen, but seem to pull strings behind the scenes and get things done...
    Freemason Michael Richardson: Chairman of the Board of Management of The  Royal Masonic Hospital (RMH) in Hammersmith and also managing director of merchant bankers N. M. Rothschild..who represents and personifies everything about Grand Lodge which many Freemasons resent: wealth, power, connections and the City of London and is also seen as the front man to the aristocrats who had given him the job ...who dominate Grand Lodge's committees and are still held responsible for the earlier 'betrayal' of masonic charity: closing and selling the School for Boys in 1977... the previous chairman of RMH was an eminent surgeon Lord Porritt ... the fact that a merchant banker, rather than a medical man, had taken over from the saintly Porritt was now seen as proof that the scheme to sell the RMH two years before was planned years before and felt that Richardson had been chosen because 'privatization' was a Rothschild speciality...
    Comment: it is noted that researches come to the clear conclusion that the Rothschild family  and their partners, who appear to own and/or control over 60% of the world's wealth and valuable resources .. appear to have profited well out most wars in the last 300 years and in particular the 1st and 2nd Word Wars by encouraging them to happen and lending money to all sides of these wars ... and effectively bankrupting both Britain and Germany who had to pay back their large war debts to the Rochschilds in gold at the end of the wars .. with it also claimed that Adolph Hitler was a grandson of a Rothschild (see Mark Hallet's book 'Hitler was a British Agent and other researchers) and it claimed that the Nazi Consentration Camps and Death Squads first focus was to murder senior Freemasons and this way re-organise the world wide control of Freemasonry into the Rothschild family hands .. the quiet shipment of hundreds of millions worth of gold from Heathrow Airport to Switzerland  on pallets, wrapped in black plastic without any security with the late Thomas Allwood senior, transport engineer, on board to repay the Rothschild war debt, was brought to public light by INL News undercover journalist Thomas Allwood, who was murdered in Broxburn Scotland on the 21st June, 2013 a month before he was due to attend the High Court in London to have his application for Criminal Contempt against the Rothschild sponsored politicians..the UK Prime Minister- David Cameron, the UK Chancellor- George Osborne, the UK Home Office, the UK Border Agency and their Treasury Solicitors for deliberately preparing and presenting a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document 'falsely stating that USA Comedian had told the UK Border Agency Officers that he was paid $2,000 to be involved in introducing Fringe Entertainers in the making of a pilot of the INL News Group's and Thomas Allwood's 'Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show' due to be filmed over five days in April-May 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland'... as an illegal way of having Freemason Master Bowles at the London's High Court of Justice strike out a £500 million damages claim against ... the UK Prime Minister- David Cameron, the UK Chancellor- George Osborne, the UK Home Office, the UK Border Agency for the wrongful and illegal arrest of USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty at Heathrow Airport on the 27th April, 2011 and holding him custody for 24 hours and putting him in handcuffs the next day on a plane back to Los Angeles as a favour for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild family and their all powerful News Corporation and News International Media Group, as a way of commercially sabotaging the expensive fiming of a pilot of the INL News Group's and Thomas Allwood's 'Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show' due to be filmed over five days in April-May 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland'... there is mounting proof that leads to the involvement of Freemasons, MI5 and UK Special Branch in the planning and carrying out of the murder of Thomas Allwood on the 21st June, 2012 and the coverup of a lot of the known evidence and investigations by Scottish Police and Prosecution in the arrest and trial of Kyle Montgomery in November, 2012 for the murder of INL News undercover journalist Thomas Allwood ...
    Conclusion by Martin Short at the end of his book 'Inside the Brotherhood
    In my book I have tried where possible third hand evidence..not third-hand rumour... I have tried to provide sober deduction, not exaggeration... it should go without saying that anyone investigating a secret society - or even a 'private' one - as Grand Lodge now characterizes Freemasonry  - will always find evidence hard to come by...therefore 'rumour and speculation'. although unsatisfactory, become legitimate .. if the investigator 'exaggerates; what little evidence he or she gets, the 'private society should hold itself to blame...Freemasonry gives rise to genuine public concern, which Masons ignore at their peril...
     'What Public, Legal and Political Action Should be Taken regarding Freemasonry?
    .... I suggest that  the action taken about Freemasonry should be more than would appeal to the Tory MP who says, 'if people wish to belong to secret societies, that is their own business' , but probably less than is required by the Labour man who feels that 'Freemasonry should be made illegal'....
    ...Most MP's who completed my 1986 questionnaire said than councillors, local government officers, civil servants, policemen, judges and MP's should all be required to disclose their Masonic membership....the only proper way to test political opinion would be to put a 'disclosure' bill to the vote. There is no chance that the present Tory Government in the UK would sponsor it, so an MP should introduce a private member's bill and a free vote should follow...this bill also should give the public access to full and up-to-date membership lists of all masonic lodges...as I suggested on Chapter 21, these should be available at reference libraries in the localities where the lodges meet, and a town and country halls...
    ... thus us Bromyard one Craft Lodge List would be open for inspection..
    ... In Truro six ... in Cambridge eleven ..... in Sunderland twenty-nine....
    .... in Croydon eighty-nine ,, in Manchester 129 ... in the city of London over 200 ....
    ..... in Greater London another 1,450 or more...
    ..The degree of 'publication' might also be required of all other Masonic bodies: from the Royal Arch .. right the way through to the Society of  Rose Croix Order..
    ..The list of any lodge affiliated to a particular workplace, or recruiting mainly from within a specific organization, should be open for scrutiny by everyone who works at that place or in that organization. Thus the list for a town hall-lodge, such as the Borough of Newman, should be available at Newman Town Hall; the Holden Lodge list at Midland Bank; he London Hospital Lodge list at London Hopsital; the lis for the Union Lodge of Norwich should be given on demand to any emplyee of Norwich Union; the Lutine, Lloyd's and Fidentia lodge lists should be viewable at Lloyds of London; likewise lists of all military lodges (including the 21st Territorial SAS) at regimental HQ's; lists of barristers', Masters, Court Clerks' lodges should be displayed in the Inns of Court, at the Bar Council and the High Court, and the Manor of St James's list at New Scotland Yard, and at Bow Street, Vine Street and West End Central police stations...
     ...Most Masons would argue against these measures...
    ..They would say that although they have nothing to hide, why should their lists be publicly available if the same is not required for the MCC, the Athenaem, the Labour Party, the Transport and General Worker's Union, the Royal and Ancient Order of Foresters, the Sons of Temperance, the Druids, Rotary, the Round Table, the Elks, the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos, the Lions, the Kiwanis, the Baker Street Irregulars, the Sovereign and Military Oder of Malta, the Catholic Police Guild, BUPA, the AA, the Women's Institute, the Mother's Union or the subscription department of Readers Digest...
    ... The answer is simple. It is for Masons to demonstrate that any other organization has all these features:
    1. A code of mutual aid, sworn by all members, to assist each other beyond the aid they swear to perform for all other people in society...
    2. Oaths (however watered-dwon in recent years) which threaten that some physical, economic or social penalty - or negative moral judgement - will be applied to those who reveal the organization's secrets..
    3. Rituals which make use of blindfolds, nooses, daggers  or similar menacing objects or disorienting devices ...
    4. Secret passwords, signs, grips or handshakes ...
    5. Widespread public concern about the organization's activities or those of its members ...
    I know of no golf club which has any of these features and no political party, trade union, friendly society, insurance company, businessmen's club, social group, or mainstream religious fraternity which has more than two of the above... If it can be shown that any other group manifests all of these elements, it should be subject to the same curbs as may be imposed on Freemasonry ..Some Masons claim that three Catholic organizations - the Knights of Columbus, the Catenians and Opus Dei - are quasi-Masonic ...If their rituals and oaths do resemble Freemasonry's, if genuine texts can be produced to prove it, and if there is widespread pubic concern, they too should be subject to any obligations imposed on the Craft..
    ..If Masons have nothing to hide, none of this should cause them great disquiet.... Just as their secretiveness breeds paranoia among the 'profane'. so a new openness would help dispel it, If the Freemasonry Craft is primarily a charitable organization, a movement or moral regeneration or just a load of men pursuing an arcane hobby, the have nothing to fear...`personal anxieties could be accommodated... such as that they maybe do not want their home addresses disclosed ..However, all voters' addresses are on view at public libraries on electoral roles... at Companies House, the home addresses of all company directors are available to anyone who pays a small fee ...As it happens, Freemason's home addresses might not be required, provided every lodge discloses the full named of all members..
    ..It is noted that today's MP's should bear in mind that any law to curb Freemasonry will face widespread evasion, as the history of the 1799 Unlawful Societies Act shows. Brought in 'for the more effectual Suppression of Societies established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes', this was passed when there were fears of French plots to overthrow the Government of Great Britain and to achieve Irish independence. The Act claimed that societies such as United Englishmen, United Scotsmen, United Britons and  United Irishmen were plotting seditious ends, and that their members swore oaths and secret vows, used secret signs and operated a cell-like structure across the country, However, a blanket ban on such organizations would also have banned Freemasonry, which shared all offending characteristics. To gain exemption, England's rival Grand Lodges (the 'Moderns' and the 'Ancients') jointly lobbied politicians will skill which would do credit to today's ruthless 'political action committees' in the USA. Their respective leaders, the Earl of Moirs and the Duke of Atholl, pressured Prime Minister William Pitt. According to 1799 Grand Lodge minues, the Masonic delegation reported that Pitt:
    '... expressed his good opinion of the Society and said he was willing to recommend any Clause to prevent the New Act from affecting the Society, provided that the Name of the Society could be prevented from being made use o as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes..'
    The pressure worked ... Prime Minister William Pitt duly introduced a clause stating the Act did not apply to ' Lodges of FreeMasons, the meetings whereof have been in great measure directed to charitable purposes'...
    ...Pitt must have been beguiled by the smooth talking aristocrats, particularly Moira... According to one Masonic Historian, Moira's 'timely intervention had saved Freemasonry from extinction'....
    ...'Presumably Moira and Atholl had told Pitt that no British Masonic Lodge was likely to contain plotters bent on ' overturning the laws, constitution and government. and every existing establishment, civil and ecclesiastical' in Great Britain or `Ireland...Yet even 'regular' Freemasonry (as opposed to the truly seditious continental variety) had harboured traitors... Many American Revolutionaries were 'regular' Masons, notably George Washington, Ben Franklin and Admiral Paul Jones who had been initiated in Scotland. One Boston Lodge, St Andrews , was full of rebels, including Paul Revere, General Joseph Warren, John Hancock and John Rowe... It was John Rowe who inspired the Boston Tea Party, according to one of the 'Indian' raiders who belonged to the lodge, was planned within St Andrew's itself...
     ...The American Revolution had begun only twenty-four years before the Unlawful Societies Act became Law... It is extremely unlikely that Briton's Prime Minister, William Pitt, had any idea of Freemasonry's  strength among the Revolutionaries - for sure Moira would have not told him! - but, had be known. he would have had good reason to suspect that the Freemasonry Craft might 'again be made use of as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes'. Pitt wold also have had grounds for believing that not all brethren subscribed to their second Antient Charge: ' A mason is a peaceable subject to the civil powers, wherever he resides or works, and is never to be concerned in plots and conspiracies against the peace and welfare of the nation.'...
    ..Of course, even if Pitt had known about the Masonics of Washington and hi brother rebels, he may not have pressed the point because the Craft's leading petitioner, the Earl of Moira, had himself been a hero on England's side in the Revolutionary Wars. Pitt would have been 'snowballed' by Moira's revelation that no less than six of George III's sons were 'on the square', for how could a fraternity boasting 'so many of His Majesty's illustrious Family' possibly be seditious?...
    ...Nevertheless, the Act did impose major restrictions on Freemasonry. The 'names and descriptions' of all members of each lodge had to be registered with the local clerk of the peace.... By the time the Act was repealed in 1967, it had long been widely ignored .. Many lodges did not make returns..One pre-1967 lodge secretary told me: 'I never bothered and many other secretaries never knew this law existed..besides, who was going to make you do it... In out town most law enforcers - the Clerk of Peace, half the JP's and the police chief --were all in the lodge...!'
    ...Even more restrictive, the 1979 Act had exempted only meetings of 'regular Lodges of Free Masons held (before) the passing of this Act...for some years the Masonic orders subverted this clause by reissuing the warrants of dominant or dead lodges, thus back-dating the foundation of many lodges. Not only were these Freemasons breaking the  criminal law, their stealth and deceit show they knew their actions were illegal..
    ... On the rolls of United Grand Lodge today there are fewer than 300 lodges which were founded before 1799, yet by 1967 another 6,000 had been 'consecrated'. Abroad view of the 1799 Act might have encouraged Masons to feel the exemption applied to any future lodges formed under both Modern and Antient Grand Lodges (united in 1813) and two more Grand Lodges in Scotland.. The terms of another Act in 1817 may have supported that view... However, neither Act legalized other Masonic Orders such as the Knights Templar (which had barely got going by 1799), the Rose Croix (founded in 1845), the Mark (organized about 1845), the Red Cross of Constantine (whose earliest lodge was founded in 1865) and the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (founded in 1866) ...... All these orders are self governing and have never come under the authority of the various Grand Lodges, which regulate only the CRaft and Royal Arch degrees. so they could never have been exempted from the ban on other societies imposed by the 1799 Act....
    ... The illegality of the `masonic Knights Templar is confirmed by the fact that their Grand Master, Lord Rancliffe, 'was personally concerned with the bill in the Lords' and neglected the Order thereafter. Masonic historians differ over whether the revival of the Masonic Templars some years later indicates that 'any question of illegality was over' or whether it suggests that 'the authorities were turning a blind eye'. My onw view is that all these 'higher' or ' sides' degrees ( from Knights Templar on wards) met illegally for more than a century until 1967.... Nobody would have dared enforce the 1799 Act (even had they known about it) because many magistrates, Court Masters, Court Lords, judges, policemen belonged to these same degrees... Through vested interests. Masonic law-breaking has been constantly connived at by the forces of law and order....
    Today, any Parliamentary moves requiring public disclosure by masons should be matched by legislation creating an Ombudsman for the public servant and the police,as advocated by Brain Woollard ( see Chapter 13)... This is necessary to prevent the kind of career abuse which 4 million other State employees may suffer at the hands of Masons.. or... indeed..non-Masons..There must me many Masons in pub lic service who feel that hey too have had a raw deal at work ...In future they should have a mean of redress against anti-Masonic prejudice, especially if they are to be obliged to disclose Masonic Membership...
    The former British ambassador featured in Chapter 32 has further suggestions:
    ...'..It should not be too difficult to procure form civil and public servants who belong to secret societies some written declaration and assurances about their activities..I also suggest that something should be done about the confidential personal reporting systems...It seems that any officer who believes he may be the subject victimization through the reporting system (as I was) should be entitles to state that the reporting officer as a Freemason and that this should be taken into account in assessing the report..Ideally, in my view, Freemasons should be excluded from the reporting process, but that is too much to hope for...
    ...I also suggest that the numerous voluntary organizations and charities which serve this country and have been one of its great strengths, should be required by law to keep an indication of any secret society membership by its officers..Members of any society - or indeed contributors to a charity - should, as a matter of routine, be able to obtain a statement of its officer's affiliations...This is not an unreasonable request, but a simple reassurance that the society is being run for the benefit of all members and not primarily for `masons perpetuating themselves in office...
    In the present diminished and dangerous situation of our country, a very real danger exists from organizations, such as the Freemason Brotherhood - partly through infiltration, partly from the  illusionment and frustration which arises when our meritocratic system is deliberately and consistently distorted....'...
    ..In the House of Commons in June 1988 Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours introduced a bill to compel police recruits to swear they would not join any organization such as Freemasonry....he also demanded that officers who are already Masons should resign from their lodges or leave the police force.. On first reading the bill was passed by 117 votes to sixteen, but it had no chance of becoming law because of the shortage of Parliamentary time...
    ..If any future bill along these lines looks as if it might become law, it will encounter fierce lobbying just like the 1799 bill did ,,,,  It will infuriate Masonic cops... It it ever reached the statute book, it could provoke mass resignation from the police force...
    ..This might not be a bad thing, but it seems unlikely that policemen could be banned from joining Freemasonry unless this 'private, voluntary organization' is itself made illegal....In the present political climate (of near perpetual Conservative rule) there is no chance of this happening,....
    ...However, beacsue an action is otherwise legal,,, it does not mean that public servants have an in alienable right to perform it...
    ..In many respects the civil liberties of public servants and already severely curtailed....Millions of public servants (including the police) sign the Official Secrets Act which curbs their right to discuss, publish or otherwise disseminate information which they may learn in the course of their work... Also no civil servant, member of the armed forces or policeman may stand as a candidate in local or national elections without first resigning his or her employment. Since 1984 no employees of GCHO may belong to a trade union. The armed forces and the police have long been deprived of that right, just as they have surrendered their civil liberty to withdraw their labour and go on strike...Thus, imposing a similar curb on policemen in respect of Freemasonry has undeniable precedents.. They would retain the right to remain a Mason..but they would lose their right to remain a copper.. a judge. a Master of the Court .... a Lord of the Court .,, or any other job which has the power and/or authority in any way over the public in general..so that the same rule might well be applied to all other public servants..
    ...All this is for Parliament and the public to decide and debate... In the meantime Dale Campbell-Savours says: 'If Freemasonry were to shed itself of its secrecy, its exclusiveness and its oath of allegiance, I would have no objection to police officers being members....'
    ..However.. if it were to do all that, it would not longer be Freemasonry!....
    ..Even some senior Freemasons such as Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Peter Neivens ( an honorary Manor of St James Lodge)  has been concerned about excessive 'tears of sympathy' for Freemason Brothers who have been convicted of serious crime stares...'As for lodges which have allowed major criminals to remain as members for years after conviction... if that were proven to me, then if the authority rested with me, I would seriously think of disbanding that lodge...'
    ..If this policy were to be rigorously applied throughout Britain, not only would Freemasonry be far healthier : its opponents would have far less meat to feed on....Yet is must be doubted if the hierarchy as a whole would want to apply such discipline..As things now stand, Grand Lodge only acts against lodges like Waterways many years after they have become a haven for criminals, and only then after embarrassing media exposure.. It is therefore no wonder that in the meantime other lodges like the Queenswood contain cells of public corruption and the entire institution of Freemasonry is brought into disrepute as a result..
    ....however, Freemasons will argue that the merits of an institution as vast as Freemasonry do not turn on the vice or virtue of individual Masons... and that it does not change its esense because one Grand Officer, his Honour Judge Joseph Butler-Sloss, was exposed in the News of the World in July 1988 as a regular patron of Nairobi prostitutes while serving as a High Court judge on Kenya.. Freemasons argue that the private quirks of prominent men who happen to be a FreeMason should not be held against the Brotherhood... as Masons have said... this would be like condemning Christianity because quite a few vicars over the years have been caught molesting choirboys...
    ...As I write these final pages in December 1988 I am still being sent evidence of Freemasonry's reluctance to punish those who transgress its own moral code.. the evidence come not form outsiders..but from men who are themselves staunch Masons...One such source is leonard Acklam, a well-to-do self-made Yorkshire businessman who fought for years to win redress for a Masonic Grand Officer's outrageous attempt to interfere with justice...A Mason for 33 years, a Past Master of Brighouse Lodge (no. 1301) and a 30th degree member of the Rose Croix, Acklam is worth hearing...
    ...Leonard Acklam a Freemason, had employed a Freemason Solicitor to collect a £10,000 debt he was owed.. however his own solicitor lied to him about the case  and when appointing a new non Mason Solicitor who threatened to report the Mason Solicitor to the Law Society and sue for negligence, a senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfearn told Acklam that he 'would lose a lot of friends' and that Acklam should 'look on it in a true Masonic manner and forget it..  a  senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfern was not only interfering with Acklam's legal action against a Mason solicitor, but was also telling Acklams to forget the £10,000 he is owed...An in initial letter of complaint in 1981 sent to the local Yorkshire Ws Riding grand secretary did not go down well,,, for Redfearn was not only a Grand Officer of English Freemasonry, but also a leading industrialist, a deputy lieutenant of the county, a knight of the realm, a one time chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations and the local Tory KIng-maker (future Tory MP Gary Waller was initiated in his lodge in 1971)..also he was photographed at Conservative Party occasions alongside Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, It was extremely unlikely. therefore. that any Yorkshire masonic body would dare condemn him...
    From Chapter 14
     The Phoenix "....
    .. If the Manor Lodge of St James was formed in defiance of the anti-Masonic views of a Metropolitan Commissioner, it would not be the first time the Brotherhood has waved two fingers at the most important police chief in Britain...
    ...Back in 1958 the new commissioner was Joseph Simpson. He was the first man ever to reach the top job after starting as an ordinary bobby...He was public school educated and a university graduate but, unlike his gentleman predecessors, he had done three years on the beat and had the deserved respect of most London coppers..In short, He was a policeman's policeman...
    .... One shaft of light which Sir Joseph Simpson brought to the job was a distinct hostility to Freemasonry, or at lease a dislike of its most arrogant manifestations...During his early years in office he was greatly irritated by an organization calling itself the Metropolitan Police Masonic Association (MPMA),  The title gave it an official air, but its founders had no authority for using the words 'Metropolitan Police',... They might have had the unofficial 'non' from a previous commissioner, but Sir Joseph took a dim view and demanded its abolition....
    ... The MPMA;s members were not prepared to disband on the say-so of a mere commissioner - especially as earlier commissioners, such as Charles Warren, had themselves been Freemasons. Rather than abolish their fraternity in a fraternity, they decided just to change its name. They also decided to keep the initials MPMA. The were determined to keep 'Masonic' in the title, and 'Association' was harmless enough, also they would have to substitute another word for either Metropolitan or Police.... some wag in the leadership had a little education.... As this new body was going to rise from the ashes of the old, he thought, it could have no more appropriate name than  'Metropolitan Phoenix Masonic Association'.  This would get round Sir Joseph Simpson's vexatious objections, but it would still be the MPMA and the same old bird...
    ....Simpson died in office, from a heart attach three days after the batt;e of Grosvenor Square in 1969, but the Phoenix lived on..IN 1971 it had 288 members..Its rule book reveals that the inclusion of Metropolitan in its title was gratuitous and misleading, for its members only needed to be 'Master Masons who are regular, serving and retired officers of any police force'...
    The rule book makes it clear this was no Masonic Lodge..Ritual was forbidden at its gatherings..Instead its objects were:
    1. To introduce Master Masons of the Police Force who would otherwise have no opportunity of meeting as Brother Masons.
    2. To promote fraternal intercourse by arranging social functions.
    3. To render assistance to those who may be distressed by sickness or adversity.
    4. Loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen and the Craft in General,
    ..Aside from the genuflection to the Crown, these aims might strike an anti-Msonic as a sugar-coated code of mutual aide, arousing fears in the outsider that the Phoenix as a means of achieving a kind of Masonic apartheid in the Police Service...Could it have acted as a wedge between Masons and non-Masons, or a jungle telegraph, or a 'firm in a firm'? .. Its members would doubtless deny it, but the club does seem like a collective support system: ideal for help up t˙e promotion ladder, or saving skins...
    ....The 1971 list contains one man still serving at Scotland Yard: a deputy assistant commissioner ..Another is a detective chief superintendent...Most members left the service long ago,,, Many held humble rank, so either the mutual aid principle never helped them gain promotion or they never sought to use it.... Perhaps the Phoenix was just a social club for men with a common hobby ... If so, one brother was such an enthusiast ha he took the hobby with him to a Mediterranean retirement,, In 1971 Brother A,J, Fookes was running a pub in Gibraltar called the Mason Arms...
    The phoenix list shows that in the early 1970's there was a network of police Masons, in lodges all over south-east England, who were doubly committed to mutual aid. Today, it seems, the Phoenix may not be the bird it was. I have been unable to find out if it is still flying,,It may now be in one of its 'ashes' periods: about ti burst forth in full plumage ,, Perhaps the Manor of St James's Lodge is its latest incarnation... AS it happens, no 1971 Phoenix people show up as masons members..Perhaps this is only because there is a fifteen-year gap between the lists, but it seems to confirm that there must be thousands of London police Masons, otherwise there would be names in common....
    Another indicator of the Crafts strength in the police force emerged when barrister Andrew Arden presented his 1987 report on the running of the London Borough of Hackney (see Chapter 6) ..During his research mr Arden was assisted by Grand Secretary Michael Higham,,He gave the 'profane' Arden forty-four lodge lists to help him identity Masons working for Hackney Council but. in performing this unprecedented favour, he knowingly divulged the identities of over 3,500 Masons who had no connection with Hackney and whose individual permission he did not seek..
    .... Higham aslo divulged the occupation of 2,534 named Masons...Of these ninety-eight were policemen .... amounting to 3.9% of Ardens sample.. or slightly less than one Mason ^n every twenty five... if this were typical of thew the whole country..and if ( according to Commander Higham) there a re between 250,000 and 500,000 Masons under GRand Lodge, then between 9.700 and 19,400 policemen in England and Wales are Freemasons... However if my total figure of 600,000 living Masons, whether active or lapsed, is correct (see Chapter 9), then some 23,400 serving and retired policemen are Freemasons .... In December 1985 there were slightly fewer than 108,000 serving make police officers in England and Wales...  Even if we exclude my highest estimate and stick to the Higham figures ....it would seem that  between 9 and 18 percent of all policemen may be Masons : one in eleven or one in six of all men in English and Wales police forces...yet, as ever, when it comes to calculating Masonic strength, huge statistical crevasses have to be vaulter ....The records at Freemasons' Hall are always out-of-date because they show only the occupations declared when men become Master Masons .. Should they change t heir jobs or retire, these records stay the same... Yet even if 20% of men who said they were policemen have since retired, it seems that between 8,000 and 16,000 policemen are 'on the square'.. In addition, however, young policemen are being drawn into Freemasonry all the time, which may bring the total back to around 20,000... There a re thousands more in Scotland and Northern Island, where they probably form an even higher proportion of the police service, for reasons explained in Chapter 19..
    ... Higham supplied Arden with the names and occupations of men in fourteen individual lodges,,One lode had fifty-two members, of which eleven policemen out of eighty-eight members, another had five out of fifty four. Of course these high numbers are outdone by the Manor Lodge of St James , but the manor is not Britain's only all-police lodge... According to the Grand Secretary of East Lancashire, three lodges are composed entirely of ex-police officers: in Wales, Kent and Liverpool..The Kent lodge meets in Sittingbourne and is called the Watch and Ward,,, It was founded as recently as 1977, yet it has already won a place in Freemasons' Hall Museum by presenting a masonic gavel made in the form of a police truncheon,,,In the early 1980's  the Watch and Ward could muster only twenty-five members, but this is no proof of ill-health..Indeed, Masonic consciousness among policemen, both serving and retired, is growing stronger..The Liverpool lode, Sovereign;s Peace, was founded in 1979..
    .... Most policemen belong to general lodges where they get to know men form other walks of life - that is one of the main benefits of Freemasonry - yet they are usually proposed by other policemen... A random sample of lodge summonses reveals that policemen are valued candidates for admission into almost any lodge..
    .. In 1976 the Derby Allcroft Lodge of London initiated a Scotland Yard detective sergeant and a builder on the same day...It already contained several policemen, including one future member of the Manor of St James's, In 1982 Gateway Lodge of Witney initiated a Thames Valley officer along with an electrical engineer, a British Telecom warden and an Oxfordshire fireman... These lodges  contain a mix of employees, public servants and the self-emplyed.. Whatever a Mason's job, on lodge days he must be able to sop work early enough to arrive for the meeting at three or four o'clock,,Policemen can almost always manage this because they work shifts, or because senior officers are also Masons and will turn a blind eye if brothers slip off during working hours...
    ...Thus it was that is january 1972 a thirty-teo-year-old detective sergeant took a half-day off from West  Hampstead police station in north London to be initiated in the Fryent Lodge alongside a C-op produce controller.. The Fryent is a general lodge but, over dinner, brethren proposed several toasts to the 'Blue Lamp', in honour of the Metropolitan Police....This may have something to do with the fact that the lodge meets at Hendon Hall Hotel, close to Hendon Police College from which it recruits some of its members...
    it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...
     ' Why do nearly all masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst?
     Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system...
    ... It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ...
    ....That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'
    Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:
    '..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position..However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'
    If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as masonic spokesmen claim...
    ....The public need to be convinced ....
    ... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....
    Chapter 15 A Criminal Intelligence
    .... Many masons tell stories of favo¨ra by policemen whom they have come to know through the craft..One brother told me how his Masonic connections cam in handy in unforeseen circumstances....
    "..A friend and I were  developing and industrial heating system in our spare time... We  used to do research in a workshop at the back of his house..On one occasion, while he and his wife were away on holiday, I was working there as usual when suddenly the police turned up... They'd been called to the house by a neighbour who thought I was an intruder..I promptly explained who I was and produced my key, but I had no identification  on me so they were not satisfied... They took me to the police station and told me that, unless I could prove my bona fides, I'd be spending the night in the cells..,, I was trying to think my way out of this mess when I remembered that on several Masonic occasions I'd met a chief superintendent who was based at the station... After one lodge function he had invited us back to that very station's social club where we had a few drinks... Now I fond myself in this jam ... I naturally asked the arresting officers to let me talk to him...He came into the charge room, immediately recognized me and then took my captors into another room.. A few seconds later they cam out again and told me, lost civilly, I was free to go... I'm sure if i hadn't been 'on the square' I would have been kept in the clink all night, maybe longer..My masonic brother, the police chief, had done me a favour: a small one perhaps, but a favour nevertheless..Freemasonry had worked like a magic wand..
    ...Such interventions look less benign to non-Masons inside the force who see them as inextricably intertwined with Masonic manipulation of the police service as a whole...
    ....Among the hundreds of letter which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...
    .... John Thompson retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1970,...Among the hundreds of letter which Stephen Knigt received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...
    .... John Thompson retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1970, having reached the rank of inspector.. When he joined the force in the later 1940's he was aware that many senior officers were 'on the square' , but like most constables he pooh-poohed the power of the Craft with what he calls 'childish flippancy'. .. he only became concerned in January 1953 when he was about to take the competitive examination for promotion to the rank of sergeant...
    ' ... Rumours were rife that masonic candidates had been given the questions in advance..I also heard that they were going to identify themselves as masons on their exam papers to masonic examiners... I sat the exam with all the other candidates -- you guessed it!!.. it had to be cancelled and re-arranged...throughout my police career I was aware of too many incidents involving patronage and favouritism to dismiss them with the same ease as masonic policemen are always able to do...Some were so trivial I was amazed high-ranking officers deigned to involve themselves, but some were so serious that they bordered on criminal conspiracies.. As a young sergeant at Notting Hill I began to note the very effective influence if freemasonry, One night I was on duty as the station;s officer when at one o'clock in the morning I had to charge a man with being 'drunk and indecent'. He was a mason and was on his way home from a Ladies' Night, accompanied by his wife and others, when a constable arrested jim for urinating in a shop doorway. t about 3 A.M the chief superintendent (now Commander rank) suddenly turned up at the station. Such a visit was unknown and he had obviously been dragged from his bed. He sat a round for a long time, reading and re-reading the charge, but when he realized there was nothing he could do, he left. The general consensus at the station was this visit had masonic overtones. It seems nothing was too trivial for Masonic interference...Later, as an inspector at Marylebourne, I was called out by two PC's who had arrested a nineteen-year-old youth for stealing a drivers license and using it with intent to deceive. He had managed to escape and reach his home a block of luxury flats where his father was refusing to let the constables in to re-arrest him. When I arrived the father allowed me in and took me into his study, where photographs were prominently displayed of him in masonic dress. I noted that he had been master of his lodge and he clearly expected me to direct the PC's to forget the matter,,,, I told him he was 'not on' and left him in no doubt he was backing a loser... We took the son to the station. His father followed soon after, staying in the waiting room. As I was preparing the charge sheet the station sergeant told me that a Commander (Now DAC rank) wished to speak to me on the phone.. I had never met this man, so I told the sergeant to tell him I was not prepared to discuss the matter. You see, I had learned to face Freemasonry in the force head-on without fear... Before the father left he asked if the Commander had spoken to me. I replied he had not. He then told me they were in the same Masonic Lodge and then asked me if I was 'on the square'. He had clearly assumed  was, so I had to disappoint him. As it happens, the incident did me some good. I had not hit it off with my PC's beforehand, but this broke the ice...
    ..Masons usually claim such stories are invented by embittered non-Masons who cannot accept that their careers have failed because of their lack of ability; instead it is claimed by Masons, that they ;fantasize about malicious wrongdoing by Masonic colleagues.  Retired Metropolitan  Policeman John Thompson ( a non-Mason) rejects this argument as itself a canard..
    ..'....I admit we non Masons were resentful at our lowly rank. Yet most of us were not bitter. On the contrary, the men who were bitter were those Freemasons who had expected patronage and preferment but never got it. What non-Masons such as I did resent was entering a five-furlong sprint race but being forced to start at the mile and three quarter gate...We also resented that our Masonic colleagues were likely to have their errors, omissions, in adequacies, incompetencies and indiscipline covered up, sometimes at the expense of non-Masons..I concede that many Masonic policemen had an aura if greater competence and many became more able because they had less pressure and could acquit themselves better on boards..I put my hands up to being bitter in one respect..I object when masons dismiss their victims as jealous and vindictive, I am neither neither but what do they expect us to be? They expect us to act like the three wise monkeys: seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil - of Freemasonry of course    ....'
     Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'
    ..... Some readers may feel that John Thompson's recollections can now be dismissed because he retired in 1970, but other police correspondents bemoan present-day Masonic goings-on...Thames Valley Police was formed in 196, through the merger of five forces in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.Recent lodge summonses from these countries show that today Freemasonry is recruiting just as strongly among policemen in this force as it is in London..
    One on-Masonic sergeant knows to his cost the Brotherhood's power in Oxfordshire...
    ..'... In 1983 I had some building work done on my house..When it was finished I was not entirely satisfied and paid the builder only part of the money..He put most of the faults right but I was still not completely happy and we had quite a disagreement.. He then told me he was a Freemason and he knew various people that I also knew, one of them being a chief superintendent..Not long afterwards the builder had a car accident and  he finished up in hospital.. When he was there he received a visit from the chief superintendent who asked if there was anything he could do for him.. A few days later I was summoned to headquarters to see this chief superintendent. He 'advised' me to hurry up and sort out my dispute with the builder because his being in hospital gave him quite enough to worry about. Now whilst no threats were made,  there was undoubtedly some moral pressure and I came away from headquarters feeling decidedly uneasy..  The obvious difference in our ranks made it a very simple task for him to 'put the screws on'.... As a result I felt bound to pay the builder the remaining money... I find membership of this organization quite odious and not compatible with being a police officer. ... Incidents happen - internal politics you understand- whic defy rational explanation and can only be put to the influence of these people.. They are unknown, unseen, but seem to pull strings behind the scenes and get things done...
    ..Even back in the 1960's John Thompson saw the beginnings of what he regards as the most  sinister phenomenon involving Freemasonry and the police force in Britain.. he had just moved to the north London area known as "Y" division..He soon learned that the divisional commander and his deputy were Roman Catholics but that all the other senior officers were Masons...
    ...'... It was on 'Y' Division that I first noticed how former high ranking officers - both uniform and CID - were making new careers as security agents for solicitors, finance houses and other organizations hungry for confidential information ...This has now become a huge industry and Freemasonry is an important constituent in this web of intrigue. Now that more and more information is stored on computer (and its dissemination is subject to serious legal curbs under the Data Protection Act), so employers have realized that the only people that can get round the regulations are high-ranking policemen - especially Freemasons who are particularly well-placed to obtain confidential information with no chance of exposure, because they can get it all from their colleagues in the Brotherhood..Thoroughly illegal..of course,,,'
    Recently police computers have been criminally abused for the purpose of keeping criminal out of Masonic employment. In 1983 the Warwickshire Grand Lodge dismissed the catering manager at its Birmingham Temple because of the way he had disciplined a member of the staff. The brethren alleged that the manager, veteran Masons Derek Yeomans, had shouted at a junior employee, but Yeoman says he was fired for 'telling off' his own boss at the Temple..He took revenge on the ungrateful brethren by squealing about their criminal wrongdoings..He disclosed that one of the province's top Masons habitually checked whether applicants for senior jobs at the `temple had criminal records logged on the West Midlands Police computer, According to Yeomans, this wholly illegal service was performed through a retired chief inspector, himself a leading FreeMason, who used to pass the applicants' names and dates of birth to an officer who worked for the local force and had access to the computer...
    ...Such abuse of police intelligence systems is now taken very seriously  all forces, so a local superintendent was appointed to investigate the allegation..He later reported that Yeoman's only specific claim - that certain applicant's name had been fed into the computer on a certain day --was not true...Yeoman responded that the name might well have been fed in on the day before or the day after but, in any case, it cannot be satisfactory when a policeman is appointed to investigate abuses of his own force's computer by another member of the same force..  Whether or not that inquiry was performed by checking computer records or searching old-fashioned criminal record fils, it seems Warwickshire's Mason's did call on police connections for such a service..As Provincial Grand Master Thomas Wood told the Birmingham Post..
    ...' I believe that on one occasion when someone was needed for a very responsible position I was told that person had been vetted....'
    One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..
    ..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non-police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'
    Chapter 21 Tough at the Top
    ..Many police chiefs are mistaken when the claim the issue has never come up in public complaints against their police forces... I have a pile of letters from citizens who have enclosed copies of formal complaints they have sent to police forces alleging Masonic wrongdoing by policemen... ....In the future chief constables may have to act on increasing public. press and political concern about the role of Freemasonry in the police service...
     ..In the future chief constables may have to act on increasing public, press and political concern about the role of Freemasonry in the police service....
    Early in 1988 Home Office leaks implied Home Secretary Douglas Hurd was thinking of requiring police officers to declare their lodge membership if Freemasonry emerged as a factor in any matter in which they were involved  whether these were internal issued such as promotion and discipline or external investigations...
    ...It is my view that Mason membership should be declared by all police officers and that a regularly updated register of Mason serving in each police force should be kept at every police station and at headquarters of the police force concerned.. this register should be readily available to fellow police officers and to embers of the public..If this is not a service which police forces are willing to give their paymasters, then the register should be on display in all public libraries, just like electoral roles. There will be arguments over whether membership of other secret pr quasi-secret societies, pr fraternal organizations, should be declared. If a convincing case can be made that any other society is an extensive, powerful and cohesive as Freemasonry, then its members should indeed declare themselves.
    If public opinion were to demand this register for policeman, it might even demand the display of entire Masonic Lodge Membership  Rolls at public libraries. This would be stoutly opposed on grounds that it is not the 'British Way' of doing things, but that is for the British people to decide. British people have only just gain access to the Land Registry. For centuries it has been considered an invasion of 'property owners' privacy for other people to know who really owns what in Britain. However this has grossly infringe other people's right to information - especially information which could effect themselves. The same principle applies to membership of secret, or private, mutual aid societies .heir secrecy (about  both what they do and who they are) is a standing invasions of the liberty of all non-members...
    ...The 1964 Police Act forbids policemen from belonging to a trade union. This appears not be formally applied to Freemasonry..despite the Craft's claim to be  descended from a medieval trade union and despite its  continues adherence to the same principles of combination and mutual aid for which policemen are banned from joining union today...
    ,,Ian Oliver, a non-mason a police chief  stated: "... During my sixteen years in the Metropolitan Police until 1977, it was not unknown for officers to join the Masons ^n the hope that it might just help their promotion prospects...
    Chapter 22 Judging by Results
     ... at least eighteen circuit judges, four Queen;s Bench judges, three family division judges, two judges in Chancery, three Lord Justices of Appeal and one Lord Justices of Appeal and one Lord of Appeal in Ordinary....this is some of the known ranks of Freemason's strength as revealed in Masonic reference books to which I have had access... many other sources (such as provincial yearbooks and membership lists of lawyers' lodges) have eluded me, so I am forced to guess that many more judges are 'on the Square' (a well known term to describe a member of FreeMasonry).. certainly many recently retired judges are Masons: fifteen circuit, one Queens Bench, two family division, one Chancery, three Lord Justices of Appeal and one Master of the Royal Court of Protection...
    ..A recent Lord Chief Justice , the late Lord Widgery, was Past Senior Grand Warden of England. The current Chief Justice of Australia, Sir Harry Gibbs, is 'on the square'.  Sir Harry Gibbs, is also the only Australian on the judicial committee of the Privy Council..
    ..The president of the Lands Tribunal is a mason,,
    ...So is England's Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy is 'on the square'...so was his immediate predecessor is 'on the square'..
    ..Beyond the Royal Courts of Justice sit many more Masonic judges, from the current Recorder of Southport to an English Advocate-General in the European Community;s Court of Justice...still more barrister Masons choose to stay where real money can be made: as QC's..
    ...it is also noted that and even higher proportion of lawyers went to public schools and Oxford or Cambridge Universities: networks which are perhaps more powerful than Freemasonry.. however the difference is that those institutions (privileged and self-perpetuating though they are) are dedicated largely to the gaining of open educational qualifications which are essential in a lawyer. What the outsider might wonder is why many of these men, who judge the rest of us, need to belong to a secret (or would -be secret) society; how can these men be trusted to find the truth is court of law...when as Masons they swear belief in - and repeatedly enact - the mythical murder of a bogus historical figure whom they glorify as the stonemason architect of a temple built mainly of wood, even the stonemason architect of a temple built mainly of wood, even though he was neither a stonemason nor an architect! !!!
    ..for some enlightenment of what Freemasonry means to many esteemed dispensers of justice I wrote to Lord Templeman, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, who sits in the House of Lords...Lord Templeman is England's highest-ranking Mason judge,,,Lord Templeman did not reply to me (Martin Short) or Stephen Knight's letters...
    ..perhaps even non-freemason  judges feel they belong to a greater brotherhood- of judges - which takes precedence over any feelings they may have about their colleagues' Masonic frolics...they may well fear coming out would provoke retribution...One  Court recorder told me, '...I'm not a Mason, but don't quote me or I may end up hanging under Blackfriars Bridge..' .. I reacted as if this reference to the bizarre death of the Italian banker-Mason Roberto Calvi in 1982 was a joke, but the Recorder assured me he was very serious....
    Chapter 19 The Encompassing of John Stalker
    banker MASON WIRCH_HUNT ON TOP COP
    MASON MAFIA FRAMED COP CHIEF
    On the 29th June, 1986 those two deadly rivals  for out Sunday morning favours, the People and the News of the World ran almost identical stories about John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police, Four weeks earlier John Stalker had been suddenly removed from a highly sensitive inquiry into allegations of a shoot-to-kill policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)..
    ..Why was John Stalker removed at the  Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police became a massive media guessing game..Sooner or later someone was bound to blame the FreeMasons...
    ..The Press had already blamed the RUC, its Special Branch, Stalker's Rivals in the Manchester force, the SAS, MI5, the Norther Island Office, the Home Office and. or course.. the British Government...
    The People wrote:
    "... Top cop John Stalker is the victim of a plot by Freemasonry that stretches all the way from Ulster to Whitehall, according to his friends and colleagues.. They are convinced that 'a get Stalker order' originated in Ulster, where he made enemies with his inquires into an alleged police 'shoot-to-kill' policy... the order was taken up in Manchester...
    The News of the World offered a less global but equally sinister scenario:
     ....
    James  Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, is studying secret information naming eight key officers. They are all members of the same Freemasons l
    Lodge.  Friends of Roman Catholic Mr Stalker believe the eight were asked by their mason colleagues in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) to 'dish the dirt' on him..
    ..Throughout the 'Stalker Affair I subscribed to a cuttings service which sent me every story linking Stalker and Freemasonry printed anywhere in Britain's press.
    There are 200 such cuttings... such stories  drove East Lancashire's Grand Lodge to hold the only press conference in fifty-seven years to deny the existence of a 'Mason Mafia'. ..Manchester's Masons claimed the witch hunt was on them,,
    ..Masons were active at almost every twist in 'Stalker', Some Masonic involvement was inevitable because Masons are numerically strong in the organizations with which Stalker was bound to clash with if he was doing his job properl...
    the question is...Were masons acting in concert to protect each other, to protect Freemasonry or to protect the establishment in which Masons thrive and prosper...
    ..in my opinion Stalker himself produces evidence in his book about the affair fairly points towards a conspiracy of interests, if not of individuals..
     In May 1984 John Stalker as asked to lead an inquiry into three 1982 incidents in which an undercover RUC 'Mobile Support Unit' had shot dead five suspected Republican terrorists and a seventeen-year-old boy, All six were unarmed so questions were asked as to why they had not been taken alive. The fear was that RUC men had committed multiple murder. The deeper concern was that the 'murders' were not unauthorized acts by police marksmen committed in the heat of the moment, but the product of  cold-blooded policy... ..In 1984 four of the marksmen were tried for murder but were acquitted. This distressed the families of the dead men (all Catholics) and outrages Republican sympathizers.
     The two separate trials had disclosed systematic (if badly co-ordinated)  police lying. One defendant revealed that senior Special Branch officers had told him what false story to tell, allegedly to protect their informers (some south of the border). Stalker's job was to investigate not just he shootings, but the cover stories and also the local CID's limp search for the truth, for it seemed as if RUC marksmen had been acquitted because their CID colleagues had deliberately failed to make a murder case against them...
    ..In his own book John Stalker tells how his Manchester  team found out that shorltly before these killings, an informer had told the RUC that four of the suspects had been involved in an IRA landmine attack which killed three policemen. This incident had occurred just three weeks before he suspect's own deaths so it seemed likely that they were he victims of RUC revenge killings...
    John Stalker asked for the intelligence file on the landmine attack, to check if the dead men had indeed been named as suspects, but RUC Special Branch (SB) repeatedly denied such a file existed... then when he finally
    John Stalker was eventually suspended from the police force on false allegations against him of wrongful association with a local businessman named Kevin Taylor ..which was only activated when John Staler had finally manoeuvered Hermon into handing over the surviving Hayshed material which included a tape of a bug planted by MI and Special Branch which recorded the whole shooting incident..Stalker was granted completed access to March 1986.. he did not get his hands any of the material until 30th April..even then the crucial papers eluded him because on the 29th May, shortly before he was to fly to Belfast to get them he was removed forever from the inquiry...
     
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    Chapter 24 The Cotton Inheretence
    "..Many of Britain's most prominent solicitors are Freemasons. They all appesr in Who's Who, yet none of their entries  contains any reference to their involvement in Freemasonary (known as The Craft) 
    Some examples of past prominent Freemason solicitors are:
    Sir Desmind Heap, President of the Law Society 1972-3, Solicitor for the Corporation of London fpr twenty-six years and  England's  greatest expert o town and country planning law.
    Sir Edmund Liggins, President if the Law Society 1975-6. An eminent Warwickshire solicitor.
    Sir David Napley, President of the Law Society 1976-7. England's leading defence solicitor. A lapsed Mason
    Sir John Stebbings, President of the Law Society 1979. Member of a Derbyshire lodge (deceased December 1988)
    David Sumberg MP, partner in a Manchester legal firm, member of a Staffordshire lodge.
    Bert Millichip, Chairman of the Fotball Association, senior partner in the familty firm in West Bromwich, where he is active in Staffordshire Freemasnary.
    Other prominent Masonic solicitors have included Julius Mermer, Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1987-8; John Evans, for twenty years Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court of Judicature; and Colonel George Kelway, High Court Registrar for Pembroke and Carmarthen from 1940 to 1962.
    These folk are not household names. They do not match singers, sportsman or soap oera stars in public recognition. Yet they have been the backbone of Britain and Britain legal establishment which effectivey runs Britain... they are men of status and respect in the regions where they have built their careers, and nationally influential in the legal profession. Most of these men are Masons of Grand Rank and all are citizens above reproach...
    ..In contast, rank-and-filr Masonic solicitors are regarded as pillagers and looters by many anti-Masons. Stephen Knight's post -Brotherhood files are full of letters alleging all manner of conspiracies against the legal professions with allegations that most of the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff they complain about having done the wrong thing to them....are suspected to be Freemasons and/or closely associated in various solcial, business, political and legal networks and associations they belong to...to the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff that are embers of the CRAFT OF FREEMASONRY...
    .Most of these correspondents of compalint suffer from the same the ame problem: they often do not have enough evidnece that Freemsonry and/or Freemasons and/or their associates and friends have played a part in their troubles.... the ones that do not have the evidence ask for information how to find out if the the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff that they say have done the wrong thing to them are in any way involved im Fremasonry...
    ...part of the answer to their question is that there should be a legal requirement that all Freemasons and/or anyone else in any sort of close association with Freemason members and/or involved in any way with any other social, political, business and/or legal association and/or network should ne required to openly declare such association on a public registrar before they are allowed to be involved in any appointment to a profession and/or job that involves making decisions about the public and/or acting for the public in any way..such as the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs, court staff , anyone inv0lved in politics, local councils and/or any other puvlic and/or semi-public body and/or organisation....
    ..another part of the answer to their problem is the setting up an independent judicial inquiry body run by a retired judge who is not a Freemason and has declared not to have any possible strong biasn in favour of Freemasony...when anyone can request that they legal cases be reveiwed to see if they have been treate din a far and reasonable way... and such reveiw to be a completely different reveiw from all the normal appeals and reviews available at present in the legal system.. and such reveiw to be free of charge to the person requestion the reveiw...
    ..Their allegations are a shocking litany of businesses being destroyed, bankruptcies precipitated, investments mishandled, trust funds defrauded, tr5ials rigged and murders committed and covered up and who was really behind the murders also covered up so that proper and full investigations are simply not carried out by the relavent bodies...The writer of the allegations all claim Masonic solicitors have conspired with a mermutation of Masonic bank managers, estate agents, business rivals, policemen, judges - and even Masonic relatives.... each tragic tale has dozens of characters with an apparently bottomless capacity for evil... some 'victims' are themselves solicitors, driven out of business by Masonic competitors, or it is claimed....even if 95% of this stuff in fantasy, the rest shows there are a lot of wicked people in the world, be they be Masons or not...
    ..Freemasons however, did pay a large role in one miserable story of an old Lancashire lady who ame to sign anew will only days before she died. In 1980 Mrs Esther Cotton aged ninety-two was sick with cancer. She was living alone at home, taking tablets to kill the pain and slow the cancer's growth..On 9th December 1980 her doctor discovered sge was suffering not just from cancer but from bruses to her face and legs, black eyes and cuts, broke ribs and a collapsed vertebrae, Her doctor promptly put is Ormskirk General Hospital where she complained of leg and neck pains. Mrs Cotton's ankles were swollen and the cancer had completely destroyed her tight breast. Tests also showed she was very deaf and suffering from severe heart trouble and anaemia. Two days later she was sinking fast: nois at times but very drowsy in between. By 12th December, despite fairly heavy sedation, she was in constant pain...
     On this same day Mrs Cotton was the subject of frenzied attention which was far from medical. Shortly after midday a solicitor named Gordon Brown appeared at Mrs Cotton's beside insisting she sign a new will. The soliticitor, Gordon Brown, was not Mrs Cotton's regular solicitor, but was acting on instructions from Mrs Cotton's son, Ernest... Because  of the noise and bustle of the ward, Brown asked for the dying woman to be moved to a private room where, witnessed by two hospital administrators, she scrawled a mark where she was meant to sihn her name on the will document...
    .... Within hours her condition rapidly worsened. Her face turned grey, she suffered a relapse, and had to be treated  for congestive cardiac failure. Her condition further deteriorated ... On the 17th December, 1980, Mrs Cotton slipped into a coma and died. Mrs Cotton's funeral was attended to by her son Ernest and her daughter, Mrs Juneth Pilkington.
    Juneth had ben visiting her mother twice daily but the first she knew of the will was on 29th December when a copy came through her letterbox. Juneth thought it strange that her mother had never told her about this will but stranger still that her mother Mrs Cotton could have made it at all. In hospital her condition had been so bad that she could say nothing, could recognize no one and, says Juneth, had quite lost her mental facilities.
    As Juneth read through the will (in which she and her brother were named as executors) Juneth was stunned. The will said Juneth would get just one-quarter of the value of her mother's house. Each of four grandchildren would get a mere £100, but the rest of the estate would go to her brother, Ernest, 'for his own use and benefit absolutely'. The estate was no pittance. The and was worth some £60,000, much of it was tied up in the family business, a motor coach firm. Yet only five months before she signed this 'hospital will', Mrs Cotton had signed another very different message: she was going to leave each grandchild £1,000, but everything else was to be split between her son and daughter 'in equal shares absolutely'.
    What shocked Juneth was not the loss of so much money, but the clandestine way in which the new will had been concocted. The solicitor Gordon Brown had never acted for her mother before, whereas her solicitor for the past thirty years was not consulted. Indeed, no one had even told Mrs Cotton's previous solicitor that Mrs Cotton was ill.
    In the period between these wills the future of the coach firm had caused great family bitterness. The trouble went back to 1948 when old Mr Cotton had died without a will. The business had been held in trust ever since, with shares divided between Mrs Cotton and the Children. Juneth refused to sell her shares to Ernest, who ran the business and wanted total ownership. The 'hospital will' did not give him that - it could could not take away the shares Juneth already had - but it gave `Ernest his mother's 50 percent share, and thus Ernest had majority control for the first time.
    Juneth herself had been very ill during her mother's last days at home but Juneth had called in to see her mother Mrs Cotton on the 4th December, 1980, when she found Mrs Cotton squatting on a settee in an incoherent state. Juneth called the doctor but does not know if he saw Mrs Cotton before the 9th December, 1980, when he sent her to hospital. However, Juneth was not sure whether Mrs Cotton was not suffering from cuts, bruises, broken ribs or collapsed vertebrae.
    Years later Juneth gained access to previously withheld hospital notes and discovered that on 6 December someone had called the hospital to report that Mrs Cotton's back had 'caved in' and she was covered in bruises because of several falls. Juneth also learned that on the 8th December, 1980, the solicitor Gordon Brown, acing on Juneth brother's instructions, had twice visited  Mrs Cotton so that she could dictate a new will. Nether he nor a colleague could have noticed her caved-in back, or they would have realized she was in no condition to make a will. Instead, Gordon Brown took down the details and later had them typed on the appropriate form. On 12th December, 1980, by which time Mrs Cotton was in hospital, she signed her new will. Two hospital employees initialled a few hand written words saying the contents had been read over to Mrs Cotton, 'she appearing perfectly to understand the same'.
    Re-reading the will with care, Juneth felt her mother could have no idea what Mrs Cotton was signing. Mrs Cotton's signature was illegible, and unlike her normal signature as it appeared on the earlier will. The E(for Esther) was vaguely recognizable, but the A (for Annie)  was like a M. In place of 'Cotton', there were a few gnarled loops with no 't's or an 'n'.
    Juneth did not dispute that her mother made that that scrawl, but felt that maybe her hand had been held, but what was extraordinary about the will was that it contained two gross errors. Mrs Cotton's 'dwellinghouse' is described as '22 Brighouse Close, Ormskirk', whereas she lived at number 33. Even more astonishing, the document is made out in the wrong name: 'Hester Annie Cotton', not Esther Annie Cotton. At no time in her life had Esther ever been called Hester.
    Would anyone in his or her right mind voluntarily sign a will made out in the wrong name and address? Can such a will be valid?
    In succeeding months and years, Juneth tried to find out if her mother could possibly have known what she was doing. in 1981, Mr Cotton's doctor wrote that, on 9th December, 1980: "My patient appeared to be in agony and under a great deal of distress. I therefore did not think it appropriate to assess he metal capacity. I immediately arranged her urgent admission into hospital.'
    On the 10th December, 1980, a hospital physician (whom solicitor Gordon Brown had approached) wrote, 'She is is a fit mental state to sign a will.' Later he explained that on 12th December, 1980, he thought Mrs Cotton capable of understanding and signing a will, and could appreciate the extent of the property, the person who should be considered, and the way her estate should be divided.
    If so, how did Mrs Cotton not protest that her new will made a hast of her name and address? The opinion also clashes with Juneth's experience on 10th December, 1980, when her mother, Mrs Cotton, failed to recognize Juneth and two other familiar visitors. The next day Mrs Cotton did not recognize her own grandchild. The day after, Mrs Cotton failed to recognize Juneth, only one hour before she signed the new will...
     ... was wearing a hearing aid, but I did not check to see it it was working properly, as I had no reason to suspect that it wasn't. When I spoke to Mrs Cotton I did so is aloud voice, bending over the patient. Mrs Cotton did not make any comment regarding mistakes in her name and the address of her property. I asked the patient if she understood what I had read out  and if she agreed with it.  As far as I can recollect Mrs Cotton did not make any comments, Mrs Cotton appeared to be an elderly ill lady...
    Juneth's solicitors sent all available hospital records and statements t a consultant physician in Liverpool. In his Opinion he sated Mrs Cotton had been very ill for six weeks before she died. When Mrs Cotton signed the will, her mind may have been clouded by pain from widespread canerous growth; impairment and  cardiovascular functions through cancer, and toxic absorption; lack of natural sleep; effects of drugs against pain and for sedation; and difficulty in communication and resulting frustration due to advanced deafness. He went on....
    .....It is indeed quite possible that `Mrs Cotton may have been given the appearance of not only hearing, but also understanding the contents of the will, as read to her, It is, however, more doubtful whether her cerebral functions were sufficiently unimpaired for her to express her own viewpoints on the contents of the will and to use her independent judgement ... I am inclined to believe that not only an extraordinary effort on her part would have enabled her to rise  above her suffering in order to concentrate her mind on the task presented to her by the solicitor on December the 12th, 1980....
     ...... NO INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE EXISTS TO SHOW THAT MRS COTTON HAD EVER WANTED TO MAKE A NEW WILL....
    In a letter to Juneth's solicitors, Gordon Brown said that Ernest Cotton had told him to visit his mother and take instructions. He cannot comment now because he died in 1984, yet the question remains.... for whom was solicitor Gordon Brown really acting for? Even if Mrs Cotton were compos metis, Mrs Cotton would not have known Gordon Brown from Adam. Mrs Cotton's son Ernest only brought Gordon Brown into her ninety two year old life at her last gasp. So what was the relationship between Ernest Cotton and solicitor Gordon Brown?
     Ernest Cotton and solicitor Gordon Brown are both Freemasons- both members of Ormskirk's Pilgrim Lodge (no. 6207). In 1946 Ernest's Cotton's father had been one Ormskirk Pilgrim Lodge's founders.. Ernest Cotton was Master in 1962 and later achieved the mighty provincial rank of Senior Grand Deacon. Ernest Cotton was a big wheel in  West Lancashire Freemasonry, whereas Gordon Brown had only just been initiated. When Brown drew up the 'hospital will' he was a mere Fellow Craft. Just three weeks later he was raised to the third degree and became a Master Mason. The gap in the two men's Masonic status was immense, notwithstanding that, in the wider world, Gordon Brown was a prosperous solicitor  while Cotton ran a modest coach firm. When Cotton asked him to make a will for his mother, it was an offer Solicitor/Freemason Gordon Brown could not refuse. The job had even been arranged in the ledge. On the 3rd of December, 1980, as some brothers stood drinking at the bar in Ormskirk Masonic Hall, Ernest Cotton walked over to Brown and was heard saying he 'had a little job for him'.
     Such deals may well go on all the time in Ormskirk Masonic Hall, which has many Masons, The mid-Lancashire town has a population of about 27,000 of which about 10,000 are men over twenty-one. The Masonic Hall in Park Road caters for eleven lodges with some 700 members. Even if many of them live in other communities nearby, it seems one Ormskirk man in twenty is 'on the square' (the common description of a Freemason). The town's most powerful lodge is Ormskirk Priority (no. 4007). At six o'clock on the  fourth Wednesday of each month from September to April, its members slip into the hall to perform rituals, quaff a gin and tonic and super at the festive board.
     This lodge showed its power one morning in July 1985 by bringing the town to a halt for the funeral of one of its most revered members. By nine o'clock Ormskirk was paralysed by traffic. Everyone was late for work and shops could not open because the assistants had not arrived. Tradesmen, office staff and shoppers sat in their cars  and fumed because, without warning, the main carpark had been closed to the public so mourners would have only a short walk to the parish church.
      The dead man, Howard Ballance, had been a pillar of the community since World War II. A dentist, he had been a councillor for town and country for thirty-eight years, He was chairman of Lancashire Police Authority for thirty-three years, and was still a Justice of Peace (JP) and chairman of the Magistrates Bench when called to the Grand Lodge Above'.
      Nobody begrudged Ballance a good funeral, but giving his mourners sole use of the carpark sent the town wild. The Chamber of Trade was furious and rand the police to complain, The cops said the council had told them to do it. The Chamber's president blasted the the council's 'Kremlin-like attitude' of 'we are equal, but some are more equal than other'. The council blamed the idea on the police, but said that, anyway, 'it was a sensible way out of what could have been a ticklish problem'. The problem may have been how to appease Lodge no. 4007, whose members included several more councillors, and Ormskirk's ten other lodges. In all Freemason members could call on a total of fifteen of the town's fifty-five JP's and quite a few brethren among the local police.
     One policeman belonged to Pilgrim Lodge with Ernest Cotton and his solicitor Gordon Brown. Other members were factory owners, engineers, builders, shopkeepers, estate agents, an accountant, a printer. a farmer and an instrument technician named Derek Pilkington. He was Juneth Cotton's husband, and it was her brother Ernest Cotton who had nominated Derek Pilkington in 1978 at old Mrs Cotton's instance.
      Derek Pilkington was raised to Master Mason in October 1979 and regularly attended lodge meetings until November 1979 and regularly attended ledge meetings until November 1980, when the family was in dispute over the future of the coach business. Until this was sorted out Derek Pilkington decided to 'withdraw' from attend the lodge, thus avoiding a row with his brother-in-law and complying with Freemasonry's Ancient Charge that, 'no private piques or quarrels must be brought within the door of the lodge'.
      However, the Pilkingtons did complain to a lodge elder about what they felt was Ernest Cotton's 'unmasonic behaviour. They said Ernest Cotton had 'quite wrongly' put pressure on his mother to sign a will to his own advantage and the near disinheritance of his sister. Ernest Cotton had also damaged the interests of a brother Mason (Derek Pilkington), breaking the Masonic commandment of brotherly love. The elder was upset and rand Ormskirk's top Mason (another JP) for advice. The Pilkingtons hoped this call would result in a pledge of Masonic justice, but they received none. Far from getting help from Freemasonry, they were soon ostracized by it, in Juneth COTTON'S words:
    ....We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....
      Derek Pilkington was promptly struck off the lodge steward's list, perhaps in retribution for branding Ernest Cotton's conduct 'unmasonic', perhaps because he had stayed away from three meetings rather than clash with his brother-in-law. It was on the advice of her mother's doctor that  Juneth Cotton decoded to fight the 'hospital will', but she ran into widespread obstruction. She wanted to see insurance papers for the coach firm of which she had long being a partner. Swindon Insurance's local manager, George Parr, refused to let her have them, He said, she was 'on dangerous ground' and added, 'my firm has not got enough money to fight this,'..He did not explain these remarks, but Juneth thinks he was referring to the 'secret and silent power of Freemasonry and Rotary9=9 avery much related organisation)'. Parr may not have been a mason but he was definitely in Rotary: 'Many Rotarians are Masons and it seems clear that is Parr was to help me in my troubles he would be working against the interests of his close  professional colleagues.' When Parr died in 1983, many Masons had refused to give Juneth Cotton details of the family firm's accounts. Pilgrim Lodge kept its funds in one of those banks...
      Meantime, Derek Pilkington had been the victim of a forgery which could only have been perpetrated by a FreeMason. According to the constitutions every lodge member should receive a Grand Lodge certificate as soon as he is registered as a third-degree FreeMason. Derek Pilkington's third-degree Freemason certificate arrived twenty-three months late: on the 28th August, 1981 is a dirty crumpled envelope dropped through the letterbox at dinnertime. Derek complained to the Provincial GRand Secretary, who wrote back saying 'Pilgrim Lode had kept the certificate in order to present it to him in person...' and 'when he did not turn up to the lodge, it was sent on by registered post..'
      That letter contained two errors. fed to the writer by some Pilgrim Lodge member. Derek had attended all its meetings for a full twelve months after he became a Master Mason: which was ample time for him to receive the certificate in person. As for 'registered post', he had never signed for the document because it had been stuffed through the door when no one was at home.
      Derek Pilkington got in touch with the local acting post master who referred to the registered mail receipt book. This contained a signature in Derek's name which showed he had received the letter on the 26th August, 1981: a full two days before it landed of Derek's doormat. The official admitted the signature looked new and stood out from the page, but said it must have been made on that date..
      If so, it had not been made by Derek because he and Juneth were on holiday in France on the 26th August, 1981, and did not return until two days later. No one else had been at home to sign on his behalf or in his name. Besides, the letter bore no registration slip. The Pilkingtons called in the police. A CID man confirmed that the signature looked 'fresh' yet nothing came of his inquiries, even though the suspects were obvious. The forgery could have been perpetuated only by a high-ranking Post Office official with access to the registered mail pen, or wit such a person's co-operation.
    This may sound trivial, but it proves Freemasonry can pervert even the Royal Mail. It if interferes with registered letters, what else does Freemasonry contaminate?
    The the incident also shows how far some Masons will go to cover up a breach of their own rules. First forge the signature, then lie to the Provincial Grand Secretary (a former policeman, then get him to regurgitate the lie to the victim. even hough he too is a Mason.
    Handing out certificates on time and in the correct manner is the job of a lodge secretary. In 1981 the secretary of Pilgrim Lodge was Ernest Cotton. In November that year Derek sent a cheque to cover his annual subscriptions and £10 for Masonic charities. He also enclosed a note which he asked the Master to read in open lodge to the assembled brethren:
    Please accept my apologies for my non-attendance at Pilgrim Lodge ... being unable to attend has been a bitter disappointment to me, but, as you know, there is a brother in the lodge with whom I am at variance over matters which have caused deep distress for almost two years to my wife and myself...I regret so few of my Brothers feel able to discuss my problems with me, or are prepared to listen... However, when the time comes, the Great Architect of the Universe will surely as always be on the side of righteousness...
    The letter was not read out and Derek Pilkington never got a reply to his letter...
    ..In 1983 Derek also lost his job...
    The manager who sacked him was also in the brotherhood.. Freemasons are exhorted to give a brother work, not deprive him of a job. yet Derek's dismissal was unfair and unnecessary, as he later proved to an industrial tribunal which found wholly in Derek's favour..
    ..In January 1984 the Masonic solicitor Gordon Brown died aged little more than fifty. His funeral was attended by many Pilgrim brethren, but not by Ernest Cotton. Some Pilgrim men felt Brown's health had declined largely because he had spend three year trying yo defend the indefensible 'hospital will'. The Pilkington's are convinced its 'mistakes' were deliberate.
     For instance, the will says Juneth Pilkington is to get one-quarter of the value of Mrs Cotton's 'dwellinghouse' but then gives the wrong address. This might have been a mistake, but it could have been a deliberate ploy to cut her out of her inheritance altogether. As it is worded, she would have received one-quarter of a property which her mother never owned - in other words, nothing at all.
      The Pilkington's also say the mistake over Mrs Cotton's name is a Masonic sign. Falsely named 'Hester Annie', not 'Esther Annie', her initials become H.A. These also stand for Hiram Abiff (H.A.), the 'architect' of the Temple of Solomon. The 'Widow' is inserted, as word which did not appear in the earlier will. However, if this is a 'Masonic' will, the word 'Widow' is there to show that Ernest is the 'Widow's Son', a phrase FreeMasons use to identify themselves to other Masons.
       Derek Pilkington has often complained to top Masonic officials, but they refuse to get involved, saying his dispute with Cotton is a legal matter in which Freemasonry cannot interfere. Derek retorts that Masonic lawyers have interfered from the start, first by drawing up a 'Masonic will' and then by ensuring no other lawyer is town dare to fight it. When he complained to Freemasons' Hall in London, Commander Michael Higham wrote to suggest he consult another lawyers 'in another town'.
      This is just what the Pilkingtons did, when they eventually found a non-Masonic solicitor in Manchester. In 1987 they were about to fight the will in court, when Ernest Cotton's side made a last-minute offer: half the value of the mother's house and £4,500 for Juneth Pilkington's share in the coach business. This came to £18,000 out of an estate worth some £60,000. Her barrister urged her strongly to accept, to avoid a legal contest which would exhaust the estate and leave her with nothing.
      As a result the will's glaring mistakes ( or Masonic signs) were never tested, nor was the legality of Mrs Cotton's signature nor the issue of her mental state. Instead, a highly suspect will - perhaps made under duress - was laundered and legitimized by the legal process itself. Now the law took its own cut, Juneth had to pay costs of £9,000: half her entire share of the estate.
    ...  Ernest Cotton in the meantime had been Master of Pilgrim Lodge a second time.  
    .... Ernest Cotton has now been awarded the lofty rank of Past Provincial Grand Warden, an honour which goes only to men who embody what the Anchient Charges call 'the benign influence of masonry, as all true masons have done from the beginning of the world, and will do to the end of time'. A former town councillor, Cotton has even had a road named after him.,,
    In contrast, Derek Pilkington has been 'excluded' from Pilgrim Lodge for non-payment of dues but, as he told officials, he could not attend until the anti-Masonic deeds of other members of the lodge had been remedied. Derek's unfair dismissal by another Mason and subsequent unemployment were two more reasons  why he could not pay £35 a year. Yet his Brethren resolved that it was Derek Pilkington, and no one else, who was 'void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful Lodge or any other warranted Lodge or society of men, who prize honour and virtue above the external advantages of rank and fortune...'.....
      For many years Worshipful Brother Ernest Cotton ran a funeral business from the same premises as the family coach firm. A decade later, on the shelves of the unlocked and deserted garage, a plastic bag was discovered. It contained the remains of a named individual incinerated at Thornton Crematorium on the 15th November, §974. Out of respect for the man and his family, I shall not name him here... However, his crematorium reference number was C9856. Perhaps he too was a Freemason, Even if he was not, his ashes deserved rather better care from a Masonic undertaker...
     
    "..It is an obvious truth, that the privileges of Masonry have long been prostituted for unworthy considerations. and hence their good effects have been less conspicuous.... William Preston, one of Freemason's greatest teachers....written more than 200 years ago by William Preston..
    In 1972 William Preston could see his beloved Brotherhood sinking into a 'general odium, or at least a careless in difference'....
    Today Freemasonry has an even worse public image that in Preston's day ...but does it deserve it?
    In Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood, Martin Short tries to weigh all its good effects against the cost of this enduring prostitution...
     
    Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood car has its origins in the pioneering work of Stephen Knight who died in July 1985 aged thirty-three, just eighteen months after the publication of his best-selling, controversial and much-despised expose of Freemasonry, The Brotherhood...
     
     ..... Had Stephen Knight lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen ... Knight from all over the world...
           
    Behind Closed Doors-
    The power and Influence of Secret Societies
    By 
    Michael Streeter
    The Church of Scientology - 
    Fair Game
    Ron Hubbard’s (the founder of the Church of Scientology) approach to anyone who disagreed or criticized Scientology – and thhere have been many- could be summed up by his ‘fair game’ policy…This policy was aimed at those who were called ‘Supressive Persons (SP’s). Hubbard believed that about 2,5 percent of the world’s population was an “SP”, this is, someone who wanted to destroy whatever was good or useful in the world.. However, in practice, this meant anyone who was opposed to of Scientology
    An example of alleged ‘fair game’ used against those regarded as hostile to Scientology was seen in 2007, during a now notorious BBC investigation into Scientology by reporter John Sweeney.. That investigation is best known for the way in which Sweeney – an experienced journalist who has reported form trouble spots throughout the world – lost his temper during an exchange with a Scientologist spokesman…Sweeney said on the BBC website: “While making our BBC Panorama film “Scientology and me”, I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, been denounced as s “bigot” by star Scientologists and been chased around the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers. Back in Britain strangers have called on my neighbours and my mother-in-law, and someone spied on my wedding and fled the moment he was challenged…
    As well as allegedly using such harassment tactics, Scientology has also been accused of trying to curtail freedom of speech on the Internet.  This is a key issue when discussing the impact of the movement on modern society….However, the website run by Andreas Heldal-Lund, in Norway, has continued to publish Scientology material on his website.. He states on his website: ‘After careful consideration I have concluded that these material are being kept secret in order to withhold information form the public, with the sole purpose of deceiving the public as to the true nature of Scientology. I feel it is my moral duty to society to reveal this information to the public in order to alert them as to its nature…Chuck Beatty, who became a Scientologist in 1975 as a young student in Phoenix, Arisona, and stayed for 27 years because he was especially impressed when he learned that, after becom9ing a ‘clear’ and moving on to the higher levels known as ‘Opertating Thetan’ or the ‘OT’ levels, he would learn to ‘zoom around the universe like Falsh Gordon’. He adds: ‘What a perfect idea! Instead of being bound by earth and archaic religions, this was like a space-age religion,’ says Chuck Beatty…’of course, after 27 years you find out that nobody is doing this stuff. It’s a complete fucking scam – it’s outrageous.”
    Organisation and structure of The Church of Scientology
    The Scientology organization operates through a variety of different bodies throughout the world.. For Ron Hubbard, the group’s structure and discipline was no incidental occurrence, but an integral part of Scientology.. Chuck Beatty was a member of what is called the Sea organization (“Sea Org”). this organisation provides the staff members for the upper echelons of  Scientology, and is known as its religious order, or ‘Vatican’. As Beatty refers to it. According to Scientology’s own description: #Sea org members work long hours and live communally with housing, meals, uniforms, medical and dental care provided by the Church. They participate in Scientology training and auditing during a portion of each day, but otherwise dedicate themselves to furthering the objectives of Scientology through particular functions.’
    Long-standing critics of the movement are less kind. ‘Scientology actually has a lot in common with the worst excesses of the Nazis, with the Sea Org playing the role of the Gastapo,’ says Professor Touretzky. ‘It is the  only “church” with its own intelligence branch, called the Office of Special Affairs,” According to Beatty, ‘as well as keeping dossiers on ‘enemies’ of Scientology, this office (where Beatty’s second wife had worked) also circulated the bad press that Hubbard and Scientology attracted in what are called ‘pass arounds’, with the aim of helping them counter negative publicity. Members of the Sea org ( Beatty included) sign ‘billion-year contracts’ as part of their commitment Scientology and the Sea Org…
    The Sea Org started life in 1967, when for a period of seven years Scientology was run by Ron Hubbard form on board a boat…in reality the relocation was probably due to the fact that Scientology had been running into problems with various governments around the world, and the sea was one place where the organization could operate without hindrance, ( Operation from the sea could also have been a way of testing potential safe havens). Scientology’s clashed with various governments, parliaments and legal systems go right to the heart of the concerns about the influence of the Scientology
    Movement. Following an official report
    Freemasons
    Inside The World's Oldest Secret Society
    By Paul Jeffers
    published by Citadel Books
    Kensington Publishing Group
    859 Third Avenue New York, NY, 10022
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    Chapter 19- The Men Who Run the World .starting Page 158
     
    '''Throughout Freemasonry's history, wary, suspicious and often frightened outsiders have denounced it as a seed of paganism and/or being anti-Christian, explorers of dark mysteries of Occult, as web of Satanism, and a revolutionary threat to the established order, whether it be democracy or totalitarianism. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, European monarchs persistently suppressed Masonry in their belief that it fomented revolution. When the Horthy regime took power in 1919-1920, it marked the start of raids by army officers on Masonic lodges hat included the destruction of libraries, records, archives, paraphernalia, and works of art. Masonic buildings were seized and used for anti-Masonic exhibitions, A decree of 1920 mad Masonry unlawful.... In German, as noted previously, General Erich von Ludendorff, a Hero of World War I, and his wife spread anti-Semitic propaganda during the 1920's. They wrote the tract "Annihilation of Freemasonry through Revelation of is Secrets"and other hate-illed material that explained Germany's defeat in World War I as "a knife in the back by Jews and Masons.". Later, in Mein Kampf ( Adolph Hitler;s autobiography written while in prison for attempting to over throw the democratic government in Germany in the 1920's-Hitler wrote that Masonry had "succumbed to the jews and had become an "excellent instrument" to achieve their aims. He said Germany's post-World-War I "general pacifistic paralysis of the national instinct of self-preservation" began with Freemasonry..In 1931, Nazi Party official were given a Guide and Instructional Letter" that said. "The natural hostility of the peasant against the Jews, and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy. After `hitler came to power in January 1833, his top deputy, herman Goering, informed the grand master of the Grand Lodge of Germany here was "no place for Freemasonry" in Nazi Germany. At that time, there were nine principle German Grand Lodges, with a membership of almost 80,000. The largest were the Grand Lodges of Three Globes, National grand Lodge of All German freemasons, and the Grand Lodge Royal York of Friendship. Their leaders were told tat the Nazi government did not intend to prohibit the activities of the lodge, but that the masonic Order must discontinue the use of the words "Freemason" and "lodge", break a;; international relations, require that its members be of German descent, remove the requirement of secrecy, and discard all parts of the ritual that are of Old testament origin, Thereafter, the Association of german Freemasons called itself the National Christian Order of Frederick the Great.
     
    - it is however noted here that well respected  author Martin Allen in his book The Hitler/Hess Deception-British Intelligence's Best-Kept Secret of the second World War states that Hitler was not the real author of Mein Kampf with the bulk or maybe all of the information for Mein Kampf be provided by Professor Karl Haushofer, with Hess Rudolf Hess taking down the notes while in prison with adolph Hitler ..with Haushofer was the man who provided Hess and Hitler all their political awareness and knowledge and understanding of world affairs.... in October 1944, an investigation by the FBI would take a statement that revealed: 'according to (name Censored) Rudolf Heds... brought Hitler and Haushofer together (and this) combination of Hess and Haushfer was, on the opinion of (Censored) the root of the Nazi Party' .. in fact Karl Haushefer and his son Albrecht became confidential advisors to Adolph Hitler and Rudolf Hess on their most important foreign policy matters - in effect an unofficial Fuhrer's private office on foreign affairs..
     
    The Hitler/Hess Deception-P20-21: "... one of the significant facts about the 1923 Munich Putsh is that it marked a watershed in the Hess-Hitler relationship. Hess would come to prominence as the loyal Nazi-Hitler relationship. Hess would come to prominence as the loyal Nazi who followed his Fuhrer to Lansberg priosn, near Munich, for a year of confinement after the failed "Putsch', during which time he acted as Hitler's secretary whilst he wrote his vitrolic book on political ideology, Mein Kampf...While there were incarcerated at Landsberg, Hitler and Hess were extensively tutored by Pressor Karl Haushofer. Indeed, many of Haushofer's geopolitical theories on Lebensraum, German ethnicity and nationhood, became adopted as Hitlerisms in Mein Kampf..in fact, Hitler was quite literally a captive audience to Hess and his political guru Karl Haushofer, receiving tutorials on the european balance of power, the distribution of peoples, ethnicity, colonies and nationalism....'
     
     
    Freemasons
    Inside The World's Oldest Secret Society
    Chapter 20: The Future of Freemasonry: P.177
    Of the world's estimated 5.9 million Freemasons the majority live in the United States ( about 4 million). Most of the other can be found in English-speaking nations, Statistics for English Masonry are somewhat unreliable because an individual can belong to more than one lodge. Worldwide estimates place membership in England and Wales at about 550,000, Scotland 400,000, Ireland 47,000, Canada and United States 4.1 million; Europe 0,00, Australasia 375,000, Latin America 50,00-; Philippines 10,000; and other areas India, Japan, Formosa, Africa, and Israel) 288,000
    ..Since the mid-1960's, the members in the unites Stated have been declining. This has been attributed to an increasingly secular and materialistic society in which the youth of the "MTV" generation prefer to make their social connections by going to shopping malls, the movies, and rock-an-roll concerts, rather than joining groups that attracted their fathers and grandfathers. they appear to believe that the rituals and rites of such organizations offer no relevance to their lives. Historian John J. Robinson, author of 'Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry', assigns the cause of "the erosion of recruitment" by Freemasonry to "an increasingly permissive and materialistic society (in which) concepts of personal morality, personal pride, and personal honour may appear antiquated." ... This does not mean that Masons are resigned to ultimate extinction, In "Freemasonry and its Future," David F, Coady writes that while "doomsayers are ready to bury the Craft," the future of Freemasonry "lies with the youth of our nation." If these writers "could leave their marble sanctuaries and come down in the quarries of the workmen who are grooming the young men of today to be Freemasons of tomorrow," he continues, "they would see the light at the end of the tunnel." ..Speaking to the District Grand Lodge of North Queensland, Australia, in 1989, Allan D, Wakeham warned, "If we ourselves cannot see in our organization a purpose in the community which is wider than our internal aims, then we will never draw unto our ranks the type of men we need, neither will we be able to convince the world outside that it is an organization which has a beneficial influence on the affairs of the community at large  In an address titles "Masonry in the Modern World," Reverend Dean J.O. Rymer, dean of Auckland, New Zealand, said:
    ",, Because the world is modern, it does not follow that it is the best conceivable world that there could be, To my mind it is not, Nevertheless, we have to recognize that there could be, To my mind it is not, Nevertheless, we have to recognize that nothing that nothing stands still. We liv e in a world of change. If all aspects if life were altered we would repeat mistakes in every generation. There are some values that will be permanent, whatever changes happen in societies. It is these values that we must preserve, whether we are the Church or civic authorities or Freemasonry, It is for Freemasonry to discover in its own self-understanding that which we must never surrender, Belief in God is necessary for any civilization to continue. High moral standards accepted by a community are necessary if people are to live together. The respect for the value of individual persons is obligatory if individuals are to realize their personal potential/ It is the commitment to these beliefs and values that Freemasonry must always uphold. Freemasonry is a solid foundation in unchanging principles, it can be a marvelous training ground in ethical sensitivity, but its searchlight exclusively on itself, and neglects a study of that larger society which exists outside the lodge room ..." ...
    Gary A, Henningsen, past grand master and grand secretary, New York State GRand Lodge of Masons, in an address titles " A Look Ahead ,,, No Secret to masons, Ours Is a Fraternity That Encourages the Human Imagination and Will Continue to Do So Even into This New Century and Millennium" said"
    " ...Human imagination has always thrived in Freemasonry. WE have enticed to our fraternity artists, poets, warriors, inventors, manufacturers, explorers, pioneers, government leaders, business tycoons and gentle everyday family men made better because of their association with the love of our beloved Craft (Freemasonry), It has been so from the very beginning. And that holds whether you think our beginnings took root with the formation of the United Grand Lodge of England, the Illuminati, Knights Templar or Crusader days, the Druids and/or the Egyptians.... Whenever and where ever a people proclaimed a belief in God, in the immortality of their soul, and in a heartfelt obligation to help and serve their fellow man, the environment fostered the unfoldment of human imagination. Whether these people were bona fide Freemasons complete with dues card or forerunners of what was to become bona fide Freemasonry, we have much to be grateful as we advance into the uncertainties of this unfolding 21st Century. We've a wonderous track record to lean on and to emulate. For the first time in history, the consequences of our acts as masons not only will affect our immediate environment, but also can affect the entire planet, WE've never been at this point before. We need to give it serious thought..."
       ... Calling Freemasons "Eighteen Million Beacons of Light," he saw 6 million men..
    .." .... believe in God (by whatever name), believe in the immortality of our souls, and, in the heartfelt obligation to serve our fellow man as we would have our fellow man serve us... What a wonderful opportunity we're being given to become responsible planetary stewards of our human creatively, thus preventing others from wreaking unimaginable horror on our planetary home.,,Nowhere since entering Masonry have we sensed the boundless possibilities so available to us individuals as masons, and collectively as a fraternity..." ..
     
     
     
     
    Introduction:
    The purpose of this book is to examine Freemasonry by exploring its complex and often controversial history, delving into its rituals and rites, and drawing back the shroud of mystery and suspicion that has enveloped it for centuries....
    ..In the interests of full disclosure, I'm not and never have been a Freemason .... However, because I meet basic rules of membership, could have been, I believe in God, I'm over the age of 21, and I have no criminal record.....  I am not among the Freemasonic fellowship, or other groups, such as Kiwanis, Rotary, Off Fellows, Elks, and so on, for two reasons. (a) I've not been invited to join, and (b) except for professional societies, a few labor unions in which membership was a condition of employment, and a peculiar group dedicated to keeping green the memory and the spirit of sherlock Homes, known as the Baker Street Irregulars, I've never been a joinder. Consequently, when U was asked if I would be interested in writing a book on the Masons, I knew almost nothing about them. I was aware of "Shriners" wearing quaint, colourful outfits consisting of flowing capes and a tasseled cap called a fez as they march in the annual Tournament of Roses and other parades, that the motion picture academy awards are handed out at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles, and that the Shriners run several Hospitals for children... I've passed by the Masonic lodge in my hometown and others in cities in the united Sates and elsewhere, I've known men who wore masonic rings and other emblems that seemed to me to be no more significant than the class rings adorning his school and college graduates and the pins on sweaters of members of college fraternities.
    .. Deciding to launch a quick exploration of the subject before committing myself to the project, I learned that Freemasonry is an international fraternity, although some lodges admit women.. membership is open to adults who believe in a Supreme Divine Being and immortality of the soul. While Freemasonry does not claim to be a religion, its beliefs  have been heavily influenced by eighteenth - and nineteenth century Universalism and Deism. Its critics find in its influences of occultism, anti-christianity, and even satanism. While its members must believe in a divine Being, Masonry is open to people of all religions and races. Although Freemasonry is found all over the world. it is not a monolithic organization with a central authority figure, such as the Catholic Church;s papacy, an 'international president', or "secretary general", board of directors, or other overreaching governing authority. The governing body is a country is called the Grand Lodge, In the United States there is one for each stated in which Masonry exists...
    ...The oldest secret society in the world, Freemasons engage in rituals and rites that are said to date the the building of Solomons' Temple and the murder of it's Chief architect, Hiram Abiff,
     
    (please note that many other Freemason Historians and Researchers come to the strong conclusions that this part of the historical background of Freemasonry is simply a fabrication made up in the 1600's by the 'Speculative masons"_not 'building workers'.. who made a take over of Freemasonry in the 1600's when they employed Dr James Anderson and others to write a new Freemason Constitution and historical account and codes and rituals for Modern Day Freemasonry to give a thousands of years old feel to Freemasonry which would gibe authenticity and creditability to the secret codes, oaths and blood curdling rituals of death by satanic and devastating means to those Freemasons who spoke about what happens in Freemasonry Lodges to the outside would on non-Freemasons)
     
     Common ancient tools used in construction that are employed in Masonic ceremonies - trowel, plumb, level and compass - have symbolic meanings that are related to developing morality and the advancement of the members to the understanding of "Universal Light." Although Freemasons engage in secrecy regarding these rituals, Freemasons dispute a popular belief that Masonry is a sinister organization. They also dismiss allegations of a masonic conspiracy to control the United States and the world, Masons answer that they are simply idealists who have banded together to study and celebrate common moral beliefs and individual improvement.
    What is not in dispute is an astonishing number of significant individuals throughout history of Europe and the United States in all fields of human endeavor who were Freemasons, from kings, presidents, and politicians to tycoons of industry, writers, composers, educators, generals, doctors, journalists. and other cultural. social and civic leaders. The provocative question that has persisted since the rise of Freemasonry is whether these men were engaged in a conspiracy to impose the tenets of Freemasonry in a "new world order", Some critics have gone so far as allege that Freemasons already run everything...
     
    (note, that regardless of the influence and power Freemasonry has in all different countries and major centres around the world.... there seems no doubt that in Scotland where there are an estimated over 400,000 Freemasons.. and in 2013 when this edit is being written, this figure may well be closer to 1.000,000 freemasons and or Freemasons associated groups, clubs, organizations and networks in Scotland... out of about 5 million people in Scotland..which is about 20% of the population of Scotland .. however Freemasonry only invites males that are in respectable and solid positions ( or planning to be in the near future) such as media banking, police, lawyers, advocates, barristers. judges, sheriffs, magistrates, government and court clerks. parliamentarians and their staff, artists, poets, warriors, inventors, manufacturers, explorers, pioneers, government leaders, business tycoons and gentle everyday family men ..the become full fledged members of Freemasonry ... one has to take the view that 90% of all males in the work of  respectable and solid positions ( or planning to be in the near future) such as police, lawyers, advocates, barristers. prosectors. judges, sheriffs, magistrates, government and court clerks. parliamentarians and their staff, artists, poets, warriors, inventors, manufacturers, explorers, pioneers, media banking, government leaders, business tycoons and many respectable family men ... are Freemasons and/or belong to one of the many Freemason associated groups, clubs, organizations and networks in Scotland..so if one wants anything done or not done connected with anyone in the councils, the courts, politics, business, police, prosecution, the law, business, media etc and they are not Freemasons and/or have a good Freemason connection... they have little chance of success... and if they try to buck anyone involved and/or connected in any way with Freemasonry in Scotland they will likely be run out of town in one way or another .. and or murdered ... like what happened to the INL News under-cover Journalist Thomas Allwood who was murdered in Broxburn Scotland on the 21st June, 2012 for trying to expose Freemason High Court judges, and masters, barristers. lawyers and investors who Thomas Allwood claimed were involved in a criminal conspiracy to defraud him and his de-dacto wife Valerie Jouai (Nee Butler) of their lawful rights to a multi million pound 25 acre property known as Haywicks Farm, Haywicks Lane, Hardwicke, Gloucester -see www,awn.bz - Thomas Allwood stated that he had the proof that Freemason lawyers and investors were involved in creating a fraudulent will for Valerie Jouai's father the late herbert Henry Butler to have a fellow Freemason ) Gary Jouai.Butler obtain the title deed of  Haywicks Farm, Haywicks Lane, Hardwicke, Gloucester  by devious and fraudulent means.... Thomas Allwood was also trying to expose the Freemason UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and UK Chancellor George Osborne for instructing UK Border Agency to illegally arrest US comedian Ronnie Prouty at Heathrow airport as a favour for Freemasons Rupert and James Murdoch to help commercially sabotage the opposition media INL News Media Group's and Thomas Allwood's filming of their pilot of their Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show in Edinburgh in April, 2011,, and when Thomas Allwood sued them for £500 in damages  Freemason UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and UK Chancellor George Osborne, the UK Home Office and the UK Border Agency, they filed a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to have the claim struck out by Freemason Master Bowles.. which caused Thomas Allwood to file a criminal contempt of court application against
    Freemason UK Prime Minister David Cameron,  UK Chancellor George Osborne, UK Home Office and the UK Border Agency to be heard in the High Court on London before Justice Vos on the 24th July, 2012.. for them to be locked up in jail for such criminal contempt ... however Thomas Allwood was conveniently murdered on the 21st June, 2012 about one month before the proposed hearing to be heard in the High Court on London before Justice Vos on the 24th July, 2012...)
     
    The origin of Freemasonry are debated by Masons themselves. Some accounts trace it back to the building of Solomon's Temple and even earlier to Greece and Egypt...
     
    What is known is that in 1717 several Masons met in London to form the first United Grand Lodge of England as a governing force over groups of Freemasons in Britain. As the British Empire extended into the American colonies, Freemasonry followed... Many founding father oft he USA were Freemasons. Some students of Freemasonry contend that it was at the heart of the American Revolution and that it became the cornerstone of the U.S. Government. Since George Washington, numerous presidents have belonged, as well as members of Congress and other government officials. Although the U,S. Treasury Department denies that the one-dollar note contains Masonic Symbols, and some historians dispute that the plan for Washington D.C., was laid out according to masonic beliefs, there is a great deal of compelling evidence to bolster belief in a masonic link.
    .... That Freemasonry is shrouded in closely held rites and rituals, including an oath of secrecy taken by its members, has created a mystique and a widely held belief that Masons are a group with sinister objectives and that they are anti Christians. This belief has resulted in an opposition to Freemasonry by the Roman Catholic Church, which bans the faithful form joining.
    .. Masons counter a belief that it is the prototype of antidemocratic secret societies by noting that there is no overall veil of secrecy. One Masonic group states, quite correctly, that the degree of secrecy varies widely around the world. It noted, "In English-speaking countries, most Masons are completely public with their affiliations, Masonic buildings are clearly marked, and meeting times are generally a matter of public record,"
    ..While this is true, central aspects of Freemasonry are kept hidden. Meetings are closed to the public. Members are sworn to silence on what goes on and why, They also have a system of signs of recognition, including a secret handshake. Because of this, masons have been suspected of showing favourtism to other Masons, a sin France recently, when the chief prosecutor accused some judges and lawyers of stalling cases involving Masons. In the 1990's in Great Britain, the Labour Party government tried to  enact a law requiring al; public officials who were masons to make their affiliation public.
     .... In this examination of the story of Freemasonry, these and other aspects of the group will be explored, including organization of masonic lodges, rites and rituals, symbolism, the role of women, black Masons (Prince Hall Masonry), Masonic literature, membership requirements, how one joins, involvement of Freemasons in social and charitable causes, and masonic terms that have made their way into everyday language, such as 'hoodwink" and someone being "on the square". Other topics included the role of Freemasonry in the Crusades, an exploration of the hostility to Freemasonry by the Roman Catholic Church, links to Mormonism, the possible role of Freemasonry in the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a controversial theory that Freemason were connected to history's first serial killer ( Jack the Ripper), and a nineteenth-century mysterious disappearance and murder of a critic of Freemasonry that resulted in the formation of America's first "third party".
    .. Although Freemasonry has been vehemently opposed and feared as a sinister conspiracy, it has been vigorously defended as essentially a religiously rooted philosophic system expressed in dramatic ceremonies intended to answer the questions posed by every thoughtful human: Who I am? Why an I here? What is the purpose of life? According to one of Freemasonry's eminent historians, W,L, Wilmshurst, it "supplies a need to those who are earnestly enquiring into the purpose and destiny of human life,"
    .... With symbolism "its soul", Freemasonry has been described as a means by which all "good men" can unite to cultivate "freedom, friendship, and character." recognizing that other groups exist for these purposes, Wilmshurst noted in his book 'The Meaning of Masonry', "It is absurd to think that a vast organization like Masonry was ordained merely to teach grown-up men of the world the symbolic meaning of a few simple builder's tools" or t teach its members elementary virtues of temperance, justice, brotherly love, charity, and morality that can be found in the "fountain of truth and instruction' of the Bible.
     ... Because participants in "the Craft". as Freemasons call it, assert that it has some larger end in view than merely inculcating the practice of common social values, this books explores not only Freemasonry's origins and development, its numerous controversies, suspicions as to its intent, rituals, riles, symbols, and signs, but also its religious and philosophical influence throughout the rise of Western civilization and the extent of its influence today.
     
    Chapter One: Cornerstones
     
     
    If the story of a murder committed 3,000 years ago in Jerusalem that represents one of the cornerstones of Freemasonry ritual is true, the victim was no ordinary man.
     The tale begins in the first verse of the third chapters of Second Chronicles in the Holy Bible, It records that the building of "the house of the Lord" on the order of King Solomon at Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, commenced on the second day of the second months in the fourth year of his reign. To construct the temple, Solomon assembles "three score and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them" . Needing a master artisan to properly adorn the holy edifice, he asked his friend, the king of Tyre, to lend the services of a man "cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, crimson, and that cab skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me,"
      The King despatched Hiram, To this "cunning man, endued with understanding," on all the artistic fields that Solomon had requested, as well as "in stone", tradition has added the name "Abiff." Although little more is noted about him in the Bible beyond recording that he worked with precious metals and made most of the gold and silver adornments of the temple including a pair of columns named Jachin and Boaz, it is assumed that he was placed in command of all aspects of temple construction along specifications revealed to Solomon by God. According to first-century historian Flavious Josehus, in Antiquities of the Jews, the foundations of the temple were set "very deep" in the ground. They were "very strong Stones," said Josephus, that would "unite themselves with the earth" and be a "basis and a sure foundation" for the superstructure that was to be erected over it that would "resist the force of time".
      As the supervising figure with authority for assigning jobs to achieve tis perfection in cutting and fitting enormous stones. Hiram would have also decided when a man was qualified to learn certain "mysteries" necessary for elevation to more challenging tasks in a workforce that was divided into three ranks: apprentice, fellow craftsman and grand master.
        According ti Freemasonry tradition, as the temple neared completion there were fifteen craftsmen who conspired to coerce Hiram into promoting them by threatening to pass for grand masters in other countries to earn higher wages. While twelve of these men eventually abandoned the scheme, Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum were determined to go ahead with the original plan, Knowing that it was Hiram's custom to enter the temple's sanctum sanctorium to pray at nood each day they placed themselves as the three entrances (west, south, and east) and waited, As Hiram left through the east door, Jubela demanded to be named master, Hiram relied that he could not receive "mysteries" without the approval of Solomon and the king of Tyre.
      Infuriated at being told to wait, Jubela slashed Hiram's throat with a 24 inch measuring gauge. s Hiram tried to escape through the south door, he was attacked by Jubelo with a blow to the chest with an architect's square. Reelng to the west door, he was slammed on the head by Jubelum wielding a common gravel or setting ma`ul that killed him. The three then carried his body through the west door and hid it in a heap of rubbish, Returning at midnight, they dug a grave that measured six feet east, six feet west, and six feet deep. With Hiram buried, they fled from Jerusalem for the town of Joppa on the coast of the Mediteranean Sea, The next day, King Solomon noticed Hiram;s absence and began an inquiry, When the twelve craftsmen who had backed out of the pan went to see Solomon to inform him of the plot and incriminate Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum, they appeared before the Kinh wearing white aprons and gloves as token of innocence. Solomon sent search parties in all directions of the compass to find Jubla, Jubelo and Jubelum.
     As the men going west arrived at Joppa, one of the searches sat on a rock to rest and heard Jubela wail form nearby, "O that I had my throat cut across, and my tongue torn our by the root, and burried in the sands of the sea at low water a cable length from the shore, where the tide doth regularly ebb and flow twice in the course of the twenty-four hours, than that I had been concerned in the death of our master Hiram.
     A moment later, Jubelo blurted, "Oh! That I had my heart torn out from under my naked left breast, and given to the vultures of the air as a prey, rather than I had been concerned in the death of so good a master."
      Jubelum exclaimed, "But oh! I struck him harder than you both, for I killed him. Oh! that I had had my body severed in two, one part carried to the south, and the other to the north, my bowels burnt to ashes and scattered before the four winds of the earth, rather than I had been concerned in the death of our master Hiram."
     Seized and taken back to Jerusalem, they confessed to Solomon, described how they had killed Hiram, and described no desire to live. Solomon answered, "They have signed their own deaths, and let it be upon them as they have said."
      with that, Jubela was taken out and had his throat cut  and his  tongue torn our by the root. He was buried in the sands of the sea at low water a cable length from the shore, where "the tide doth regularly ebb and flow twice in the course of the twenty-four hours'.
    Jubelo's heart was torn out from under his naked left breast, and "thrown over the left shoulder" to be consumed by  vultures.
    Jubelum's body was cut in half, with one part carried to the north, and the other to the south. His bowels were burnt to ashes and cast before "the four winds".
       Although we know the existence and the work of Hiram in the building of Solomons Temple from the bible and Joesphus's history of the jews, there is no record outside the rites and rituals of Freemasonry as to whether Hiram Abiff was the supervising architect of the temple, the manner of hi death, nor if Jubelo, and Jubelum were actual persons who were so impatient in their ambition to rise to the supreme rank of grand master that they murdered him and suffered ghastly deaths, Consequently, no one can state with certainly that Freemasonry is as old as the first temple built by the Jews. Whatever evidence might have existed within Solomon's temple to provide credence to the story of Hiram Abiff, and whether a trio of strivers killed him, was lost in the destruction of the temple. Despite the description by Josepus that the stones of the temple were strong enough "to resist the force of time."  they were dismantled by invading and pillaging Babylonian troops in 597 B.C.
    How and Why Solomon's Temple and the death of Hiram Abiff are central to FReemasonry was explained and interpreted by W.L.Wilmshurst in one of a series of papers for "members of the Masonic Order, constituted under the United Grand Lode of England." In the collection 'The Meaning of Masonry' he asserts that Solomon's Temple was meant to represent " the temple of the collective body of humanity itself," Describing Hiram Abiff, Solomon, and the king of Tyre as a "triad" corresponding to Christianity;s Holy Trinity, he writes, "The tragedy of Hiram Abiff, then, is not the record of a vulgar brutal murder of an individual man, It is a parable of cosmic and universal loss; an allegory of the breakdown of a divine scheme. We are dealing with no calamity that occurred during the erection of a building in an eastern city, but with a moral disaster to universal humanity."
      With the slaying of Hiram, Wilmshurst contends, "the faculty of enlightened wisdom has been cut off from us," as a result, the temple of human nature remains unfinished:
    Hiram Abiff is slain, The light and wisdom to guide and enlighten humanity are wanting in us. The full blaze if light and perfect knowledge that were to be ours are vanished form the the race, but in the Divine providence there still remains to us a glimmering light in the East, In the dark world, form which the sun has disappeared, we still have our five senses and our rational facilities to work with and these provide us with substituted secrets that must distinguish us before we regain the genuine ones..."
      Freemasonry is defined as a system of religious philosophy that provides " a doctrine of the universe and of our place in it," by  which we may understand that mankind has fallen away from 'a high and holy " centre: Those who desire to regain it must look within themselves.
      " he regenerated man, the man who not merely in ceremonial form but in vital experience, has passed through the phases of which Masonic degrees are the faint symbol," Wilmshurst writes, Is alone worthy of the title of Master-Mason in the building invisibly out of the souls of just men made perfect."
      This explanation of Solomon's Temple as a metraphoric foundation of Freemasonry was also provided in a speech in 1858 by Albert Pike, published with other addresses under the title 'The Meaning of masonry. Esteemed as "master genius of Masonry, both as Scholar and artist" and regarded as the most significant figure in American Freemasonry during the 19th century, Pike was born in Boston in 1809, Among his relatives were Nicholas Puke, the author of the first book on arithmetic in the Unites States, and the explorer Zebulon (Pike;s Peak) Pike, (the controversial life of Albert Pike as a poet, journalist, Confederate soldier, jurist, and orator and his influence on Freemasonry in the United Sates will be discussed in detail in chapter 11.) Settling in Arkansas in 1850, at the age of forty-one, he became intensely interested in masonic symbols, s he studied them he found that Freemasonry began to shape itself into "something imposing and majestic, solemnly mysterious and grand,"  along with "dim intimations, half-revealed and half concealed," an d of repository of the highest wisdom of the ancient world.
      Noting that is all periods of the world's history secret orders and societies had formed outside "official churches" to impact "to suitable and prepared minds certain truths of human life" and instructions about "divine things," Pike asserted that Freemasonry offered a "synthesis, a concordat, for men of every race, of every creed, of every sect," with "foundation principles being common to them all." These principles are that after mankind's separation form God as the result of the rebelliousness of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (known as "the Fall"), God provided a means by which individuals could find their way back to `Him. To assist men in this quest, God provided guidance through human intermediaries, Imbued with "the light of the divine truth", they have appeared through history as sages, prophets, teachers, philosophers, the leaders of moral movements, and the founders of great religions.  One of these " illuminated" men, st. Paul, called such leaders "stewards of the Mysteries." Although these enlightened men differed in accordance with the cultures, societal structures, and religions of the civilizations of their eras, they sought to share their knowledge of human nature, purpose of life, and steps by which mankind could pursue reconciliation and ultimate  unity with the Deity. They found eager followers among people who's become dissatisfied with formal rituals of official religions that that consisted principally of appealin to a God or Gods on behalf of a ciy-state or tribe. Individuals seeking a route to personal salvation and morality hoped to find it within cults.  They met in secret and practiced elaborate initiations, rites of purification, veneration of objects, took part in sacred dramas; and advanced by steps to full knowledge and Mastery of the Mysteries.
      By the fifth century B.C. in Greece, these cults had become an integral part of the fabric of life. With the conquest of the Hellenistic empire by Rome, he Mysteries became even more widespread and so entrenched that the cult was recognized as a public institution. It remained a central element of Roman society until the fall of the empire and the advent of Christianity and its adoption as the state religion by Emperor Constantine.
      The final blow fell in A.. 399 when Emperor Theodosius decreed, "whatever privileges were conceded by the ancient laws to the priests, ministers, prefects, hierophants of sacred things, or by whatsoever name they may be designed are to be abolished henceforth, and let them not think that they are protected by a granted  privilege when their religious confession is known to have been condemned by the law."
      While the Mysteries are primarily associated with ancient Greece and Rome, their origins are attributed to earlier cults that flourished in Crete and Egypt. Freemason historian, student of the occult, and self-proclaimed clairvoyant C.W, Leadbeater contends in Freemasonry and its Ancient Mystic Rites that the Mysteries and the " great doctrine of the 'Inner Light' ", which was God, "dwelt in the heart of every man".
    Having learned from the World-Teacher, the priests passed on the teachings and"secret instructions. which they enshrined in their Mysteries, and students came form all nations to learn the Wisdom of the Egyptians, and the fame of the Schools of Egypt went abroad to all lands." Among those who learned the Egyptian Mysteries and carried them to another place was a former prince named Moses. Described by the historian Philo as "skilled in music, geometry, arithmetic, hieroglyphics, and the whole circle of arts and scientists, " he was inspired by God to lead Hebrews out of bondage toward 'a land of milk and honey," where as Leadbeater writes, the Mysteries were" faithfully handed down from generation to generation from the days of Moses until King Solomon came to the throne of his father David" and built the temple that would be centre piece of Judaism and eventually stand as a symbol of the path to mankind's reunion with `god that is at the heart of Freemasonry.
       While Masons may claim to be, in Leadbeater's words, "lineal descendants of the kings and prophets of old who have been forbearers of the Hidden Light to men through countless generations," they have more tangible and recent connections to buildersb of the great cathedrals of Europe during the Middle Ages and their artistic and spiritual heirs in eighteen-century Britain.
     
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    Freemasonry and the Protestant Reformation
     
    Two centuries after Christianity was named the official religion of the Roman Empire in a decree by Emperor Constantine, cults of the ancient Mysteries that had become public institutions were abruptly prohibited by emperor Justinian I. His purpose was to strengthen the (now official) religion of the (Roman) Empire and establish himself as the supreme authority over the church in matters of organization and dogma. ( The term was "casesaropapism") . Toward this end, he issued a declaration of faith (544) and convened an ecumenical council at Constantinople (553). The resulting 'Corpus Juris' made paganism and apostansy punishable by death. There was no toleration of dissent. He decreed, "let no place be afforded to heretics for the conduct of their ceremonies, and let no occasion be offered for them to display the in sanity of their obstinate minds. Let all persons know that if any privilege has been fraudulently obtained by means of any rescript whatsoever, by persons of this kind, it will not be valid. Let all bodies of heretics be prevented from holding unlawful assemblies."
       Because the emperor was declared both king and supreme authority on Earth in matters ecclesiastical. Justinian placed himself in conflict with the claim of the Catholic Church that the Pope was the true worldly  representative of Jesus. As a result, the Catholic Encyclopedia states that a present day Roman Catholic "cannot applaud the great emperor's ecclesiastical policy." Wile recognizing Justinian's effort to promote peace and union within the (Roman) Empire, the entry notes that it was "a matter of course that this union was to be that of the 'most holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.' History records that after the decline of the Roman Empire, it was indeed the church and papacy that emerged as supreme arbiters of the Christian faith. It would remain so far far nearly one thousand years.
      he judgement of history is that the efforts of Justinian's reign were so crucial in every aspect of the development of post-Roman European civilization that the Middle Ages would never have happened had it not been for Justinian. An ill-conceived military venture meant to unify the western and eastern parts of the empire, the abandonment of the Latin Language as the official language of the government and administrations, and a weakened eastern empire, which encouraged and strengthened the Persians, set the stage for a devastating war and made possible a westward spread of Islam. By over throwing western Germanic governments that were committed to saving as much of the Roman imperial civilization as possible, Justinian was indirectly responsible for the rise of the medieval church and the papacy to a position of unchallenged power in the European nations that replaced the Roman Empire.
       In addition to Justinian's significant role in the emergence of Christianity as the religion of Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire, Justinian provided impetus to the arts in the style of design and construction known as Byzantine architecture, As a prodigious promotor of building, he saw his empire come to be strewn with superb monuments and buildings that were to be models for all later architecture in the East (Islamic style) and in the West (Gothic).
      While this change of style that spread quickly over a great part of Europe was the result of advances in construction technology, consisting of revolutionary innovations in the form of the vaulted ceiling and the pointed arch, its enthusiastic acceptance was rooted in the birth of a new national consciousness that sparked a rivalry between cities and church officials who were eager to elevate their status with imposing cathedrals and public buildings.
       It was a time, writes art historian H. R. Correrill in the multi-volume 'History of Art', when the Romanesque style building "suddenly gave way to that of a new, popular, and civic architecture" in which "Christendom cast aside its outworn attire and put on a fresh white robe of new-built Churches."
       The Gothic style in religious edifices was meant to raise the devotion of the illiterate masses to a greater height represented by the soaring, majestic cathedrals than was ever possible in the flat, stolid lines of  Romanesque structures. In this era id fresh Christian fervor, known as the Middle Ages, every stone was carved to glorify God by men who found in the craft of masonry a means for the expression of their own faith, possessing not only religious feelings, but also skills with which to express them in stone, they went from job to job and place to place.  They called themselves "Free Masons", but were always under the domain of those who employed them. Whether it was a Monarch, a civic corporation, or a prince of the church who commissioned the building, the "Free Masons" found every aspect of their work and lives strictly regulated. The result of strictures in the matter of limits on wages was the formation of trade union that were necessarily steeped in secrecy. Employers who chose not to engage in clandestine  dealings with the "Free Masons" sought to stifle the practice, In 1360, a (new) law banned secret agreements among "Free Masons" and "Carpenters" and prohibited all oaths of secrecy. In 1425, English "Free Masons" were forbidden to hold assemblies. A code of laws drafted by the duke of Bedford, acting as regent for three-yera-old King Henry VI, noted that a common bond united separate units or working lodges and declared them illegal. In less than two years, the law was being so widely ignored that attempts to enforce it were dropped.
      
    While "Free Masons" were exhibiting economic strength to Great Britain, their counterparts in France and "Free Masons" in germany had also benefited from the premium placed on their skills during the period of cathedral building.
     
    The French organization of "Free Masons" called 'compagnons' also held secret meetings that ran into government resistance and restrictive laws.
     
    In Germany, "Freemasons" were called "Steinmetzen" ( stonemasons). Among their masterpieces were cathedrals at Strasbourg and Cologne, Both became schools where 'Free Masons' of other countries wee received in masonic lodges with symbolic ceremonies, But it was consequences of an event at a far less imposing church if German that would alter the course of Western civilization and change the direction of Freemasonry from fraternity of men bound by their unique "real stone mason craft" with a desire to be respected for it, and paid accordingly, to a broader society of gentlemen from all walks of life.
     
     The incident that triggered the chain of events that would transform Freemasonry took place in the university of WITTENBERGE, Germany, on the front steps of a church. Part of a castle Church ( Scholsskirche), it had a sturdy wooden door that was frequently used by city and university officials and faculty and students for the posting of messages, notes, and notices, but never a thirty-four-yearpold monk named Martin Luther.
     
        A university graduate with a doctorate in theology who was serving as Augustinian Vicar of Meissen and Thuringia, he had been ordained a priest in 1507. Described by a biographer as "temperamental, peevish, egomaniacal,  and argumentative," he had come to the conclusion that there was no place for intermediaries between man and God in the form of church priests and in the church institution of buying remission of sins through "indulgences". Believing that the only requirement for the soul's salvation was faith, he wrote a document attacking the system, titled "Ninety-fiv Theses," nailed it to the Castle Church door, and began the Protestant Reformation.
      
     Although there has been a strong strain of anticlericalism in England, Freemasons had remained loyal to the Catholic Church, When King Henry VII let a procession to a ceremony for laying of the cornerstone of a chapel at Westminster in 1503, Freemasons participated. The Freemasons could be rightly  accused of flaunting laws intended to curtail and punish them for their secret dealings on the rate of wages, notes Jasper Ridley in a history of Freemasonry, nut however "wicked" they were in forming illegal trade unions, "they were perfectly law-abiding as far as religion was concerned,"
     
    When Henry VIII's personal wishes collided with the supremacy of the pope on the issue of his demand that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon be dissolved so that henry could wed mistress, Anne Boleyn, Henry found it expedient, profitable, and popular to promulgate the Act of Supremacy in 1534, putting him at the head of the Church in England.
     
    Between 1534 and 1549, a policy decreeing dissolutions of he monasteries stripped the church of hugh tracks of land and placed them in the hands of the Crown and ultimately those of the nobility and gentry. Because this resulted in an end to the building of churches, Freemasonry entered a  period of decline that resulted in a change in the character of membership and from "operative" meaning those who actually worked in stone, to "speculative", in which the tools of masonry were employed as symbols in the contemplation of the mysteries of life and its meaning.
       
    At precisely what period the "Freemason" lodges started admitting non-Masons is unknown. The practice was noted in 1646 when a lodge was recorded as having admitted Elias Ashmole and Colonel Henry Mainwaring, "There was nothing in the circumstance" note H,L. Haywood, "to indicate that this was a new thing,"
      
    The shift in the purpose of Masonry from workers' guild to philosophical society was regarded at the time as so much of an innovation that secretaries of some of the operative lodges burned their records because they feared that with admission of non-Masons the secrets of the fraternity would become public. Comparing this felling of the necessity for secrecy among the speculative Freemasons to ancient cults, Haywood explains that steps had always been taken to preserve some previous and  secret knowledge or magic. Such societies, when they attained to a real or fancied revelation of truth, sought to perpetuate their lore and to secret to themselves exclusive enjoyment of the power or dignity it conferred.
     
     As later secret societies developed, they also masked their discoveries in allegorical terms. legends, and symbolical dramas. To protect  themselves from intrusion, they emulated the early cults that had veiled their rituals in impenetrable mystery and had bound their members by oaths.
     
    To ensure propagation of their work by competent successors, they invented ordeals of initiation and submission by which candidates for admission proved their fortitude and zeal in ceremonies consisting of successive phrases that sometimes too years to complete.  These secret societies invested their symbols and ceremonials with significance that was suitable to the understanding of novices and led step by step to those that could be comprehended only by the most advanced.
     
     
       
     
     
     
     
     
     



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    Hall admits sex assaults on children

    Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls, the youngest aged nine
     

    Stuart Hall admits sex assaults on children aged between 9 and 17

    'He can only be described as an opportunistic predator'

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    Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls as young as nine years old.
    The Crown Prosecution Service said he was an "opportunistic predator" and almost all the victims provided "strikingly similar accounts".
    The CPS also said the victims, among them a 10-year-old and an 11-year-old, did not know each other and Hall's pattern of behaviour was "unlawful".
    Hall, 83, admitted 14 charges of indecent assault and the offences took place between 1967 and 1985.
    The former It's A Knockout presenter, who was also a regular football match summariser on Radio 5 Live, had previously denied any wrongdoing, telling reporters the claims were "pernicious, callous, cruel and above all spurious".
    He said he had endured "a living nightmare" and but for his "very loving family" may have considered taking his own life.
    He entered the guilty pleas last month at Preston Crown Court. However, they can only be revealed now after reporting restrictions were lifted.
    In court, Hall calmly and repeatedly answered "guilty" when the charges were put to him at the hearing on April 16.
    He admitted touching and kissing 13 young victims over nearly two decades, many were daughters of friends.
    The Recorder of Preston, Judge Anthony Russell QC, told him he would be required to sign the Sex Offenders Register.
    Hall was granted bail until his sentencing date on June 17 and the judge told him all sentencing options remain open including immediate custody.
    Hall's barrister, Crispin Aylett QC, said: "The defendant is, of course, sorry for what he has done. Through me he wishes to apologise to his victims.
    "He is not a man easily moved to self pity but he is only too aware his disgrace is complete."
    Hall was told he must live and sleep at his Wilmslow home in Cheshire and have no unsupervised contact with girls under 18.
    Hall did not comment on the case as he left court accompanied by his legal team, saying only to waiting reporters that he had a "terrible cold".
    He was surrounded by a media scrum as he was led into a waiting car.
    Outside court, Nazir Afzal, chief crown prosecutor for the North West, said: "We prosecuted Stuart Hall because the evidence of the victims clearly established a pattern of behaviour that was unlawful and for which no innocent explanation could be offered.
    "His victims did not know each other and almost two decades separated the first and last assaults but almost all of the victims, including one who was only nine at the time of the assault, provided strikingly similar accounts.
    "Whether in public or private, Hall would first approach under friendly pretences and then bide his time until the victim was isolated. He can only be described as an opportunistic predator."
    Hall was facing 18 charges. A court order was lifted so that the pleas could be reported.
    It was to avoid prejudicing a possible future trial on a count of rape and three separate counts of indecent assault which Hall had denied last month.
    Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said the Crown was satisfied the rape count could lie on file after it was given consideration at "the most senior level" of the CPS. The three other counts were merged with a charge Hall had admitted.
    The BBC said it would not be featuring Hall again in its programmes. In a statement, the corporation said: "In light of today's events, Stuart Hall will no longer be contracted by the BBC."
     

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In this highly allegotical and symbol-laden painting,the spirit of Freemasonry is shown dispensing wisdom and informnation to the people

The pillars on this Scottish Rite Masonic Apron are meant to represent the two mighty pillars that were alledged to have stood at the entrance to Solomon’s temple.




Illuminated above the Mason's head, the equilateral triangle - all sides and angles the same -
symbolizes the strength and unity of the parts that make the whole complete


         A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony, After the ritual, the candidate is a fully fledged Freemason




US founding father and president George Washington was a dedicated Freemason, and is shown here is his regalia as the Worshipful Master of his lodge


Beehives are an important Masonic symbol referring to industry, dedication, productivity, good works and the power of all pulling together....


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The pillars on this Scottish Rite Masonic Apron are meant to represent the two mighty pillars that were alledged to have stood at the entrance to Solomon’s temple.



The left- and right-hand " pillars" on the Tree of Life corresponded closely to the pillars that stood outside Solomon's temple



A German lodge carpet, c.1760, called an “Arbeitsteppich”, shows the magnificant symbolism of the Crafy. Freemasonry’s rich mysteries need defending and re-expressing in the modern world



This painting is claiming to show stonemasons of all grades hard at work buiding Solomon’s temple, while Solomon himself consults with Hiram Abiff.



This highly allegorical and symbolic illustration is meant to depict the interior of the perfect lodge room, as constructed within the soul of each true Freemason

The Secret World of the Freemasons 

by Tim Sedoulous

Freemasonry is the World's most famous and successful fraternity

With millions of members spread right across the globe, the organization is well known for tis veilf of secrecy as for its impressive roster of historical members.

  The Secret World of the Freemasons takes a fascinating look inside this enigmatic institytion and the trial facing te ancient order as it approaches the challenges of the twenty-first century. With a detailed examination of the visible structure of International Freemasonry ans the myths and legends that surround it, the book examines the true meaning of Freemasonry -its mythological and real history, its context, and the symbolism and philosophy that illuminate every aspect of the Freemasonry Craft. Tracking the conditions, symbolism, relics and rituals from the Knights Templar to today's Freemasons who pledge to abide by the time -honoured tenets of morality, charit and loyalty. The Secret World of the Freemasons reveals the true purposes of this ancient secret society... Tim Dedopulos is an anthropoligist, esoteric reseacher and historian, with well over a score of books to his name, including Kabbalah amd wizards (Carlton Books). He has been studying the subject of Freemasonry ever since discovering that his grandfather was a 33=degree Master Mason and former Worshipful Master of the island of Corfu in Greece....

What is Freemasonry?

Rumours and legends have dogged Freemasonry since its inception. Everyonr uoi talk to seems to have a dificult take,,,

Itsa secret conspiracy of power that rules the world...

No, it's the inheritor of the wealth amd mysteries of the Knights Templar..

A club to gove harmless old men something to do during the week..

A satanic conspiracy to destroy mankind for ever...

A hugh... corrupt... old boy's network...

The guardian of great ocult secrets ...

A blasphemous religion..

One big charity fund-raising group..

A blasphemous religion....

.The guardian of great occult secrets...

There are a thousand theories, but the truth is something altogether stranger and more wonrous...

The official traditional answer- the one you will probably get if you go and ask a Grand Lodge about the Craft - is that Freemasonry is " a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illuminated symbols". There is no deying that the answer sounds evocative, but what does it mean and, more importantly, what does it imply? At its simplest level, reemasonry is one of the wrold's oldest surviving secular farernal societies. Although it is specifically not religious, its members are concerned with developing themselves morally and spiritually in order to become better people... Over the course of their time as members, they are taught the society's plays, These are ancient words, actions and settings, and are exlained through allegorical reference to the trappings of stonemasons' craft, particularly its tools and customs.. The single most crucial qualification required to become a Freemason is that you have to beleive in God, or some other supreme being deity... It doesn't matter what religion you follow, or how dedicated you are to it.. Allbeleif systems are welcome into Freemasonry, even home-brewed ones, and how strictly you follow your religion's dictates is left entirely up to your own conscience...The important thing is that you have faith is a supreme being. The reason should be obvious - if you don't believe that there is a spiritual side of life, you can't genuinely claim to be interested in your spiritual development, and so the whole thing would be a bit pointless for you.... Apart from that, what you believe absolutely doesn't matter. Freemasonry never pries into a member's religion - in fact , all religios discussion is utterly forbidden during Masonic meetings, as it political debate,,Such matters are deeply held personal issues and are likely to prove divisive. In an organizattion that seeks members of good repute from all races, religions and creeds, avoiding political and religious clashes in vital....There is, of c ourse, far more to Freemasonry than just a series of moral and spiritual teachings... There are a number of other "sides' to Freemasonry that arise from its core purpose... One of the most important of these is that Freemasonry is a very charitable organization. For in 1994, it is estimated that the collective Grand Lodges and their constituent memebers across the USA donated a sum of $625 million to national and local charitable caused alone, with perhaps as much as an additional $400 mllion going to international funds.. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as great many Masons volunteer their time.. The masonic Service Association, for example, ensures that every Veteran's Administration Hospital in A merica has a Masonic volunteer working with patients - half a million hours worth of work a year...By comparison in Detroit a smany as athousand local masons regularily turn out as part of the efforts to help patrol the city on "Devils Night". 30th October, to try and prevent the annual epidemic of fires and looting associated with tha night... Their efforts have kept their assigned territory of the city entirely clear of damage for several years... InBritain, the Craft;s members contribute more than £3 million annually to national and international - non-Masonic - charitable causes, ranging from the hospice movement and the Prince's Trust to Alzheim r;s research and housing for disadvantaged innrcity chidren.. In addition each lodge contributes toward local non-Masonic charities...

Stephen Knight the author of the Brotherhood who died aged 33 ......18 months after publishing his book

..... Had Stephen Knight lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen ... Knight from all over the world...

         A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony

                            Inside The Brotherhood –

                                                                                            Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons

                                                                     by Martin Short

Contents:

Acknowledgemtns                                                                         P 7

Foreward                                                                                 P 9

Intorduction: The Brotherhood and Its Aftermath                                          P18

        Part One: Ritual or Religion?

1. Ritual Poison                                                                          P 45

2. Whatever Happened to Jsus?                                                          P 60

3. Cloth and Apron, Cross and Square                                                    P81

4. Jahbulon - the sacred Word to Keep                                                   P90

5. Masonic Light, resurrection and Gnosis                                                P 106

6. Obelisks and Egypt                                                                    P 115

7. Sorcery, Sex, Satan and Skills                                                          P 124

8. St Peter's Squared                                                                     P 149

 . PART TWO: Who are the Masons?

9. Figuring the Facts                                                                    P 169

10. A Mechanism of Social Control?                                                      P 149

  PART THREE: Freemasons and the Police

11. The Manor of St James Mason Lodge                                                 P 195

12. The Fall and Fall of Brian Woolard                                                    P 205

13. The meaning of the Manor                                                             P 236

14. The Phoenix                                                                         P 258

15. A Criminal Intelligence                                                                P 261

16. A Firm in a Firm: Freemasonry and Police Corruption                                  P 268

17. Master of the City                                                                      P 291

18. A column of Mutual Defence                                                           P 300

19. The Encompassing of John Stalker                                                     P 312

20. Parrish's Council                                                                      P 351

21. Tough at the Top                                                                      P 361

    PART FOUR: Masonic Activities

22. Judging by Results                                                                    P 369

23. Masonic Justicea                                                                        P 381

 The Isle of  Wight has sixteen or more Freemason Lodges which clian over 1,500 members.. of a total population of about 110,000 in 1993 and if we discount unlikely Masonic recruiting material (men under 25, the poor, dericts and most inamtes in Albany and Parkhurst jails) the ratio comes down to one in ten being Freemasons on the Isle of Wight...most are in business, local government, the police and the law, so it follows that a very large percentag of all island business goes through Masonic hands....a local nightclub owner who was not a Freemason, one Derek Smith was forced to sut down, lost his license and had to sell his nightclub closed after fighting a powerful Freemason police inspector Gerald Marsh and a powerful Freemason Justice...other people had been battling with Isle of Wight masons for years, especially over widespread abise of licensing laws by masonic publicans... one of them were doing a roaring after-hours trade, damaging the legitimate bisoness of a neighbouring landlord who had no Masonic Protection and thus had to operate within the law....There is no doubt that throughout Britain Freemasonr is very strong on 'the Bench' ( the collective term for magistrates and licensing justices)...in 1973 a survey in one provincal city discovered that 29 out of 43 magistrates were Freemasons or Rotarians.. Anyone's chance of appearing before a Mason-free slate of three magisrates are almost nil - unless all of them are women...For almost 25 years Ian Morton worked as an adminisrator in Derbyshire magistrates' courts .. his father was a mason and Morton was perfect Mason material...he never joined because what he saw going on at t˙e corts wa smore than enough to put im off joining Freemasonry... he states :..'.. All this stuff about Masonic signals may well be true, but in my experience Masons aren't let off in court.. They don't even get into court!.... We used to see all the police files and we could never understand why some people were prosecuted and others were not; why working-class men under thirty were breahalysed, but not proessional people; why boys on 125 Yamaha bikes were done for speeding but older men driving rolls-Royces or Jaguars..Over many years we found out who the Freemasons were, and that's when all these decisions made sense...' Morton's wife, Rae, used to be married to a Mason and came to understand how the Freemason Craft justified its  covert control of so much of British society, ..'I was always told Freemasonry ws "the Benevolent Mafia" and that "we know best". When I showed the couple a Derbyshire Masonic Yearbook, they identified not only a lare number of JP's, but also many justice's clerks, councillors, policemen, solicitors and estate agents..This only reinforced Ian Morton's opinions which had been expressed two years earlier ina letter published in a local newspaper...'...it is high time that Freemaons were obliged to state their interests and the mere fact that they are reluctant to do so is more than adequate reason to demand that they do... Anyone in or standing for public office should be prepared to be open, as to their interests and affiliations..That is all that is being asked..ifa list is successfully completed, it must be published..anything less would be an insult..'

Futher evidence of how Freemasonry operates in magistrastes's courts come from the far north of England. A Justice of the Peace had read The Brotherhood and wrote to offer his onw expereinces about life on the Bench..In later conversations he asked me not to name him in this book, for obvious reasons...' There are some sixy JP's on our bench and vacancies come up most years.. They are filled on the advice of a small group of magistrates who are known as the `lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for the area. To my surprise I was asked to go on this committee - I was the first Catholic chosen for many years...waht I saw going on in the committe astonished me..For a start, no one wa smeant to serve on it for more than six years, but on eman had been there for more than twelve years...I also noticed the same tow men were constantly nominating people to fill the vacancies. I was amazed at their range of acquaintances, people from all walks of life, and all of them thoroughly competant. They were OK in themselves. It was the way they came to out attention which was obnoxious.. I soon found out that the two men who nominated them all, and the man who had served more than 12 years on the committee, were all Freemasons..Their whole operation was subtle and well-planned. ven the women they nominated turned out to be wives of Freemasons!..Although our Bench was very efficient, the `lord Chancellor's representative came to tell us that out appointments were getting out of balance..There were too many teachers and too many conservatives..this encouraged me to use my power of vito..All you have to do to stop the appointment of a new JP is to say you object...No one may ask why - you simply say so. Whenever the two Masons pushed hir luck by putting up too many of their freinds I would say, ' I cannot support this nomination.' They got the message after a while and cut down on their offers..

The coroners' court is another place where Masons often preside..This merely reflects Masonic dominance in the professions from which coroners are selected: the law and medicine..

24. The Cotton Inheritance                                                               P 391

25. Masonic Light in Town Halls                                                          P 406

26. London Belongs to Them (Masons)                                                   P 432

No where in Britain has the battle over Freemasonry been fought more bitterly than on London;s local councils.. It is not always Labour versus Conservative, the roughest fights have broke out between rival factions with the Labour parties which have rulles moat inner London Boroughs for most of the century... For Generations Freemsonry was not an issue in London's town halls..Nobody dared raise it because of on strak truth: the power-brokers in both main parties were Masons and usually belonged to the same lodge..Many London Lodges were created especially do elected councillors and full-time officia`ls could socialize togther off-duty..The Masonic Lodges were often named after the boroughs themselves....The Wandsworth Borough Council Lodge (no. 2979). Founded in 1903 survived a 1970 corruption scandal which revealed long-standing Masinic bonds between Labour Sydney sporle and Ronald ash, his Conservative opposite number. ash was not implicated in any crime but Sporle was later jailed for six years for corruption in the firs of the 'Poulson trials.... Undaunted, the Wandsworth Borough Council Lodge (no. 2979) continued to bridge Wandsworth's party divide, as an underground newspaper Lower Down proved in October 1976, whne it surreptionsly potographed numerous male personages arriving at a `masonic suite in Clapham Junction, clad in Dinner jackets, bow ties and carrying regalia cases.. That evenimg they were installing the new lodge master:...'...Included in their number were Norman B, white, the Chief Executive; Clir Dennis Mallam, Leader of the Tory Minority; Councillor Maurice Heaster, Tory Whip; Tory Councillor Michael Chartres; ex-mayor, Councillor Jimmy Hill, ex-council solicitor Harry Sargent; plus a number of other Council officers and ocal notables...Freemasonry attempts to be a secret society..members of Masonic Lodges are sworn to give primary allegiance to their Masonic brethren, and to eep secret all the doings of their order.. It is right that officers and elected members of our Council, whose first duty should be to the public, should belong to an organization that requires this of them? ..There are a number of ex-emplyees of the Council who reeived the cold shoulder from their colleagues for refusing to join the Lodge; they are only too ready to identify those who are 'on the square', and tell some hair-raising stories of what 'they' get up to.. And they don't mean performing silly rites and ceremonies or rolling on te carpet in silly aprons... They allude to much more siniser goings-on..The implicaion is that the Freemasons constitute a significant, mainly non-elected elite within our Corporation...'

Powerful stuff!!! .... Yet Lower Down never published the lowdown because it was shut down soon afterwards...At the time `i was making a television programme about Freemasonry, so I tried ot find these folk who were 'only too ready' to tell 'hair-rasing stories'....

27. Every Breath You Take                                                                   P 449

28. A Masonic Education                                                                    P 462

29. What's Up Doc?                                                                          P 480

30. Squaring te Square Mile                                                                  P 486

31. The Regimental Square                                                                   P 502

32. Yor Masonic Public Servant                                                               P 517

33. Spooks in Aprons                                                                        P 532

34. The Tory Party in Aprons?                                                                P 564

   PART FIVE: Masonic Troubles

35. Plain Tales of the `Lodge                                                                 P 589

36. Falling Masonry                                                                          P 595

37. Charity Begins at Home                                                                 P 607

38. The Destruction of arthur Edmonds                                                      P 627

39. The Ladies - God Bless Them!                                                             P641

Conclusion: The emedy                                                                       P 658

Notes                                                                                         P 674

Index                                                                                         P 689

In the Midland Bank the Lodge seemed composed entirely of senior managers.. I have spotted no lower level staff, no messengers or maintenance men  and of course no women in the Midland Bank being Freemasons and have generally discovered that (a) most bank mangers are Freemasons, ( b) a non-Mason bank manger may feel must join Freemasonry so as to not to lose business (c) Masonic Bank manager meet at functions, no doubt must talk about their customers over wine...

Freemasonry in Banking In London; Pages 495-499 : Bank of England (lodge No. 263) Lloyds Bank Lodge (Blackhorse of Lombard Street, London -Lodge No. 4155) Midland Bank Lodge ( lodge no. 2946)

Judging by Results: Page 385  and pages 379 to 380-Judges and Masters who are Freemasons....

Bill Rugman in the 1970's  accused a High Court Official in his affidavit of acting in a hostile manner owards him:he twice passed his right hand across his right eyebrow as if wiping away some drops of perspiration, butostentatiously ( a well known Freemason sign) Moreover, he did this in the judges vision ( judge Murray-band)..this thought Rugman, was the masonic sign of Grief and Distress. according to the ritual, this has compelling significance: ..' When adversity has visited our Brother, and his calamities call for out aide, we should cheerfully and liberally stretch forth the hand of kindness, to save him from sinking and to releive his necessities...' ... Rugman took his case to the Court of Appeal where three judge re-looks at the case... Lord Hustice Sir Francis Purchas observed, ' If only one or more of these allegaions were to be substantiated they would amount to a serious miscariage of justice and misconduct of the part of the judge.' ,,The Appeal judges had alrady been forced to pay attention to Rugman's Masonic claims because at the outset he had applied for his Appeal to be heard by non-Masonic judges.. He even cited the Royal Masonic Hospital case as a precedent where it was successfully organised for non-Masonic judges to hear the case...Lord Purchas responded that Rugman was in some difficulty because Freemasons swaer an oath not to reveal their membership..This was an extraordinary statemen coming from a Lord Justcie of appel, for Puchas seemed to be saying that soe of his colleages would rather lie than reveal they were Masons..They would place their Masonic oath above thir oath as a judge!....                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Spooks in Aprons( Freemason Apron): Chapter 33...

... There seems no doubt that there are many Freemasons working for the Spook- secret service organizations such as MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc ,which according to many investigators, past members of MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc and in particular Leroy Flecture Prouty ex-CIA officer in his book, The Secret Team .. MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc is not run and financed by the various governments they purport to represent but are run and financed by a cabal of powerful bankers, financiers, and industrialists like the Rothschild Family, the Rockefella Family and their associates ..however the worrying and scary thing is that the governments which they purport to represent gave give these organization like MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc the full 'Green Light' to commit what every criminal offenses and be involved in any criminal activities which include murder (they call it a license to kill) and the growing, manufacture and supply of most of the illegal drugs around the world which is a muli-trillion pound business with the only people prosecuted for selling, manufacturing and growing illegal drugs being people that are not in their gang or were in their gang and have decided to go their own way...outside the laws on any country that they like without fear of any investigation, prosecution, and/or punishment... all covered up under the secrecy acts and all declared as 'official secret government security business ..members of MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc can simply appear at the scene of a murder or a big drug bust in any country in the world and simply tell the local police that they are in charge of the investigation and stop the local police from doing their normal police work and inquiries.. which seems to often also include telling witnesses what lies to tell to the local police and the courts and what evidence and information to to tell the local police and the courts... so that the final outcome of any court trial and investigation and public media releases that are allowed are completely controlled by MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc.. if MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc do not want certain information being publicized world wide in main stream media outlets such as mainstream  newspapers, magazine, TV Net works and Internet web sites..MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc simply issue what is called a "D Notice" to all mainstream  newspapers, magazine, TV Net works and Internet web sites telling them not to publish a certain story.. this has happened recently with the murder of `scottish and Australian INL News undercover journalist, Thomas Allwood, who was conveniently murdered on the 21st June, 2012 in Broxburn Scotland ...one month before he was due in London's High Court of Justice for a hearing on the 24th July, 2012. before Justice Vos (a well known and well respected Freemason) to have a criminal contempt application Thomas Allwood had issued against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, UK Treasury Solicitors, for deliberately and knowingly preparing and presenting a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Bowles (well known and respected Freemason) London's High Court of Justice that falsely stated that USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty had stated the UK Border Agency Officers that Thomas Allwood had paid him $2,000 to appear in the filming of the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show being filmed in April-May 2011..when Ronnie Prouty did not say this and in fact told UK Border Agency Officers on the 27th April, 2011 that he was not getting paid to be in the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show filming.. when he was wrongly and falsely arrested for no sensible and/or valid reason by UK Border Agency Officers on the 27th April, 2011 at Heathrow Airport while traveling from Los Angeles-London-Edinburgh for a five day say in Edinburgh before he was due to fly back to Los Angeles.. and held for about 24 hours in detention at Heathrow Airport and the next day placed in hand cuffs and flow back to Los Angeles in hand cuffs on his own return air ticket... the reason why David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, UK Treasury Solicitors deliberately and knowingly prepared and presented a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Bowles (well known and respected Freemason) London's High Court of Justice  was to convince Master Bowles to strike out a £500 million damages claim against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, in his Masters Chambers, without any hearing for the parties to discuss the letter of request by UK Treasury Solicitors to Master Bowles requesting that he strike out Thomas Allwood's £500 million damages claim against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, in his Masters Chambers, for the damages caused to the filming of the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show which was due to be used to present to TV Networks in Australia, Europe, UK and the USA to sell the rights to air the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show world wide with an expected yearly income of over £1 billion a year to Thomas Allwood and the INL News Group and their various financiers and investors have financed the development of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show over the last 10 years....it is understood from investigations made that USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty was wrongly arrested BY UK Border Agency Staff on the 27th April, 2011 at Heathrow Airport as a favour done for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media ground News Corporation and News International who wanted the UK Government to help sabotage the INL News Group's filling of their media opposition .... the INL News Group ... because of the INL News Groups Fringe Shows Have Talent was financially successful this would have assured the INL News Group's financial strength to be a major media competitor to Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International .. which as has been shown by all the information that was made public with the Parliamentary inquiry into Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking done by staff of  Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors .. it had been fairly standard practice for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group.. News Corporation and News International ... to Hack Phone, Bribe Police  and hack computers for to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors .. and with all the evidence the Freemason Police involved in illegal activities in the police force there seems no doubt that Freemason police were up to their neck in  Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking at least prior to the major publicity in 2012 caused by the the Parliamentary inquiry into Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking done by staff of  Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors...

 Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'

One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..

..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non=police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'

 “ ...We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....”

"...Among the hundreds of letters which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

From Chapter 14 : The Phoenix

".... it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...

....... ' Why do nearly all masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst? Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system,,,, It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ... That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'

Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:

'..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position..However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'

If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as masonic spokesmen claim,, The public need to be convinced .... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....

 From Chapter 15: A Criminal Intelligence: 

Masons usually claim such stories are invented by embittered non-Masons who cannot accept that their careers have failed because of their lack of ability; instead it is claimed by Masons, that they ;fantasize about malicious wrongdoing by Masonic colleagues.  Retired Metropolitan  Policeman John Thompson ( a non-Mason) rejects this argument as itself a canard..

..'....I admit we non Masons were resentful at our lowly rank. Yet most of us were not bitter. On the contrary, the men who were bitter were those Freemasons who had expected patronage and preferment but never got it. What non-Masons such as I did resent was entering a five-furlong sprint race but being forced to start at the mile and three quarter gate...We also resented that our Masonic colleagues were likely to have their errors, omissions, in adequacies, incompetencies and indiscipline covered up, sometimes at the expense of non-Masons..I concede that many Masonic policemen had an aura if greater competence and many became more able because they had less pressure and could acquit themselves better on boards..I put my hands up to being bitter in one respect..I object when masons dismiss their victims as jealous and vindictive, I am neither neither but what do they expect us to be? They expect us to act like the three wise monkeys: seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil - of Freemasonry of course    ....'

One on-Masonic sergeant knows to his cost the Brotherhood's power in Oxfordshire...

..'... In 1983 I had some building work done on my house..When it was finished I was not entirely satisfied and paid the builder only part of the money..He put most of the faults right but I was still not completely happy and we had quite a disagreement.. He then told me he was a Freemason and he knew various people that I also knew, one of them being a chief superintendent..Not long afterwards the builder had a car accident and  he finished up in hospital.. When he was there he received a visit from the chief superintendent who asked if there was anything he could do for him.. A few days later I was summoned to headquarters to see this chief superintendent. He 'advised' me to hurry up and sort out my dispute with the builder because his being in hospital gave him quite enough to worry about. Now whilst no threats were made,  there was undoubtedly some moral pressure and I came away from headquarters feeling decidedly uneasy..  The obvious difference in our ranks made it a very simple task for him to 'put the screws on'.... As a result I felt bound to pay the builder the remaining money... I find membership of this organization quite odious and not compatible with being a police officer. ... Incidents happen - internal politics you understand- whic defy rational explanation and can only be put to the influence of these people.. They are unknown, unseen, but seem to pull strings behind the scenes and get things done...

Freemason Michael Richardson: Chairman of the Board of Management of The  Royal Masonic Hospital (RMH) in Hammersmith and also managing director of merchant bankers N. M. Rothschild..who represents and personifies everything about Grand Lodge which many Freemasons resent: wealth, power, connections and the City of London and is also seen as the front man to the aristocrats who had given him the job ...who dominate Grand Lodge's committees and are still held responsible for the earlier 'betrayal' of masonic charity: closing and selling the School for Boys in 1977... the previous chairman of RMH was an eminent surgeon Lord Porritt ... the fact that a merchant banker, rather than a medical man, had taken over from the saintly Porritt was now seen as proof that the scheme to sell the RMH two years before was planned years before and felt that Richardson had been chosen because 'privatization' was a Rothschild speciality...

Comment: it is noted that researches come to the clear conclusion that the Rothschild family  and their partners, who appear to own and/or control over 60% of the world's wealth and valuable resources .. appear to have profited well out most wars in the last 300 years and in particular the 1st and 2nd Word Wars by encouraging them to happen and lending money to all sides of these wars ... and effectively bankrupting both Britain and Germany who had to pay back their large war debts to the Rochschilds in gold at the end of the wars .. with it also claimed that Adolph Hitler was a grandson of a Rothschild (see Mark Hallet's book 'Hitler was a British Agent and other researchers) and it claimed that the Nazi Consentration Camps and Death Squads first focus was to murder senior Freemasons and this way re-organise the world wide control of Freemasonry into the Rothschild family hands .. the quiet shipment of hundreds of millions worth of gold from Heathrow Airport to Switzerland  on pallets, wrapped in black plastic without any security with the late Thomas Allwood senior, transport engineer, on board to repay the Rothschild war debt, was brought to public light by INL News undercover journalist Thomas Allwood, who was murdered in Broxburn Scotland on the 21st June, 2013 a month before he was due to attend the High Court in London to have his application for Criminal Contempt against the Rothschild sponsored politicians..the UK Prime Minister- David Cameron, the UK Chancellor- George Osborne, the UK Home Office, the UK Border Agency and their Treasury Solicitors for deliberately preparing and presenting a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document 'falsely stating that USA Comedian had told the UK Border Agency Officers that he was paid $2,000 to be involved in introducing Fringe Entertainers in the making of a pilot of the INL News Group's and Thomas Allwood's 'Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show' due to be filmed over five days in April-May 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland'... as an illegal way of having Freemason Master Bowles at the London's High Court of Justice strike out a £500 million damages claim against ... the UK Prime Minister- David Cameron, the UK Chancellor- George Osborne, the UK Home Office, the UK Border Agency for the wrongful and illegal arrest of USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty at Heathrow Airport on the 27th April, 2011 and holding him custody for 24 hours and putting him in handcuffs the next day on a plane back to Los Angeles as a favour for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild family and their all powerful News Corporation and News International Media Group, as a way of commercially sabotaging the expensive fiming of a pilot of the INL News Group's and Thomas Allwood's 'Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show' due to be filmed over five days in April-May 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland'... there is mounting proof that leads to the involvement of Freemasons, MI5 and UK Special Branch in the planning and carrying out of the murder of Thomas Allwood on the 21st June, 2012 and the coverup of a lot of the known evidence and investigations by Scottish Police and Prosecution in the arrest and trial of Kyle Montgomery in November, 2012 for the murder of INL News undercover journalist Thomas Allwood ...

Conclusion by Martin Short at the end of his book 'Inside the Brotherhood

In my book I have tried where possible third hand evidence..not third-hand rumour... I have tried to provide sober deduction, not exaggeration... it should go without saying that anyone investigating a secret society - or even a 'private' one - as Grand Lodge now characterizes Freemasonry  - will always find evidence hard to come by...therefore 'rumour and speculation'. although unsatisfactory, become legitimate .. if the investigator 'exaggerates; what little evidence he or she gets, the 'private society should hold itself to blame...Freemasonry gives rise to genuine public concern, which Masons ignore at their peril...

 'What Public, Legal and Political Action Should be Taken regarding Freemasonry?

.... I suggest that  the action taken about Freemasonry should be more than would appeal to the Tory MP who says, 'if people wish to belong to secret societies, that is their own business' , but probably less than is required by the Labour man who feels that 'Freemasonry should be made illegal'....

...Most MP's who completed my 1986 questionnaire said than councillors, local government officers, civil servants, policemen, judges and MP's should all be required to disclose their Masonic membership....the only proper way to test political opinion would be to put a 'disclosure' bill to the vote. There is no chance that the present Tory Government in the UK would sponsor it, so an MP should introduce a private member's bill and a free vote should follow...this bill also should give the public access to full and up-to-date membership lists of all masonic lodges...as I suggested on Chapter 21, these should be available at reference libraries in the localities where the lodges meet, and a town and country halls...

... thus us Bromyard one Craft Lodge List would be open for inspection..

... In Truro six ... in Cambridge eleven ..... in Sunderland twenty-nine....

.... in Croydon eighty-nine ,, in Manchester 129 ... in the city of London over 200 ....

..... in Greater London another 1,450 or more...

..The degree of 'publication' might also be required of all other Masonic bodies: from the Royal Arch .. right the way through to the Society of  Rose Croix Order..

..The list of any lodge affiliated to a particular workplace, or recruiting mainly from within a specific organization, should be open for scrutiny by everyone who works at that place or in that organization. Thus the list for a town hall-lodge, such as the Borough of Newman, should be available at Newman Town Hall; the Holden Lodge list at Midland Bank; he London Hospital Lodge list at London Hopsital; the lis for the Union Lodge of Norwich should be given on demand to any emplyee of Norwich Union; the Lutine, Lloyd's and Fidentia lodge lists should be viewable at Lloyds of London; likewise lists of all military lodges (including the 21st Territorial SAS) at regimental HQ's; lists of barristers', Masters, Court Clerks' lodges should be displayed in the Inns of Court, at the Bar Council and the High Court, and the Manor of St James's list at New Scotland Yard, and at Bow Street, Vine Street and West End Central police stations...

 ...Most Masons would argue against these measures...

..They would say that although they have nothing to hide, why should their lists be publicly available if the same is not required for the MCC, the Athenaem, the Labour Party, the Transport and General Worker's Union, the Royal and Ancient Order of Foresters, the Sons of Temperance, the Druids, Rotary, the Round Table, the Elks, the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos, the Lions, the Kiwanis, the Baker Street Irregulars, the Sovereign and Military Oder of Malta, the Catholic Police Guild, BUPA, the AA, the Women's Institute, the Mother's Union or the subscription department of Readers Digest...

... The answer is simple. It is for Masons to demonstrate that any other organization has all these features:

1. A code of mutual aid, sworn by all members, to assist each other beyond the aid they swear to perform for all other people in society...

2. Oaths (however watered-dwon in recent years) which threaten that some physical, economic or social penalty - or negative moral judgement - will be applied to those who reveal the organization's secrets..

3. Rituals which make use of blindfolds, nooses, daggers  or similar menacing objects or disorienting devices ...

4. Secret passwords, signs, grips or handshakes ...

5. Widespread public concern about the organization's activities or those of its members ...

I know of no golf club which has any of these features and no political party, trade union, friendly society, insurance company, businessmen's club, social group, or mainstream religious fraternity which has more than two of the above... If it can be shown that any other group manifests all of these elements, it should be subject to the same curbs as may be imposed on Freemasonry ..Some Masons claim that three Catholic organizations - the Knights of Columbus, the Catenians and Opus Dei - are quasi-Masonic ...If their rituals and oaths do resemble Freemasonry's, if genuine texts can be produced to prove it, and if there is widespread pubic concern, they too should be subject to any obligations imposed on the Craft..

..If Masons have nothing to hide, none of this should cause them great disquiet.... Just as their secretiveness breeds paranoia among the 'profane'. so a new openness would help dispel it, If the Freemasonry Craft is primarily a charitable organization, a movement or moral regeneration or just a load of men pursuing an arcane hobby, the have nothing to fear...`personal anxieties could be accommodated... such as that they maybe do not want their home addresses disclosed ..However, all voters' addresses are on view at public libraries on electoral roles... at Companies House, the home addresses of all company directors are available to anyone who pays a small fee ...As it happens, Freemason's home addresses might not be required, provided every lodge discloses the full named of all members..

..It is noted that today's MP's should bear in mind that any law to curb Freemasonry will face widespread evasion, as the history of the 1799 Unlawful Societies Act shows. Brought in 'for the more effectual Suppression of Societies established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes', this was passed when there were fears of French plots to overthrow the Government of Great Britain and to achieve Irish independence. The Act claimed that societies such as United Englishmen, United Scotsmen, United Britons and  United Irishmen were plotting seditious ends, and that their members swore oaths and secret vows, used secret signs and operated a cell-like structure across the country, However, a blanket ban on such organizations would also have banned Freemasonry, which shared all offending characteristics. To gain exemption, England's rival Grand Lodges (the 'Moderns' and the 'Ancients') jointly lobbied politicians will skill which would do credit to today's ruthless 'political action committees' in the USA. Their respective leaders, the Earl of Moirs and the Duke of Atholl, pressured Prime Minister William Pitt. According to 1799 Grand Lodge minues, the Masonic delegation reported that Pitt:

'... expressed his good opinion of the Society and said he was willing to recommend any Clause to prevent the New Act from affecting the Society, provided that the Name of the Society could be prevented from being made use o as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes..'

The pressure worked ... Prime Minister William Pitt duly introduced a clause stating the Act did not apply to ' Lodges of FreeMasons, the meetings whereof have been in great measure directed to charitable purposes'...

...Pitt must have been beguiled by the smooth talking aristocrats, particularly Moira... According to one Masonic Historian, Moira's 'timely intervention had saved Freemasonry from extinction'....

...'Presumably Moira and Atholl had told Pitt that no British Masonic Lodge was likely to contain plotters bent on ' overturning the laws, constitution and government. and every existing establishment, civil and ecclesiastical' in Great Britain or `Ireland...Yet even 'regular' Freemasonry (as opposed to the truly seditious continental variety) had harboured traitors... Many American Revolutionaries were 'regular' Masons, notably George Washington, Ben Franklin and Admiral Paul Jones who had been initiated in Scotland. One Boston Lodge, St Andrews , was full of rebels, including Paul Revere, General Joseph Warren, John Hancock and John Rowe... It was John Rowe who inspired the Boston Tea Party, according to one of the 'Indian' raiders who belonged to the lodge, was planned within St Andrew's itself...

 ...The American Revolution had begun only twenty-four years before the Unlawful Societies Act became Law... It is extremely unlikely that Briton's Prime Minister, William Pitt, had any idea of Freemasonry's  strength among the Revolutionaries - for sure Moira would have not told him! - but, had be known. he would have had good reason to suspect that the Freemasonry Craft might 'again be made use of as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes'. Pitt wold also have had grounds for believing that not all brethren subscribed to their second Antient Charge: ' A mason is a peaceable subject to the civil powers, wherever he resides or works, and is never to be concerned in plots and conspiracies against the peace and welfare of the nation.'...

..Of course, even if Pitt had known about the Masonics of Washington and hi brother rebels, he may not have pressed the point because the Craft's leading petitioner, the Earl of Moira, had himself been a hero on England's side in the Revolutionary Wars. Pitt would have been 'snowballed' by Moira's revelation that no less than six of George III's sons were 'on the square', for how could a fraternity boasting 'so many of His Majesty's illustrious Family' possibly be seditious?...

...Nevertheless, the Act did impose major restrictions on Freemasonry. The 'names and descriptions' of all members of each lodge had to be registered with the local clerk of the peace.... By the time the Act was repealed in 1967, it had long been widely ignored .. Many lodges did not make returns..One pre-1967 lodge secretary told me: 'I never bothered and many other secretaries never knew this law existed..besides, who was going to make you do it... In out town most law enforcers - the Clerk of Peace, half the JP's and the police chief --were all in the lodge...!'

...Even more restrictive, the 1979 Act had exempted only meetings of 'regular Lodges of Free Masons held (before) the passing of this Act...for some years the Masonic orders subverted this clause by reissuing the warrants of dominant or dead lodges, thus back-dating the foundation of many lodges. Not only were these Freemasons breaking the  criminal law, their stealth and deceit show they knew their actions were illegal..

... On the rolls of United Grand Lodge today there are fewer than 300 lodges which were founded before 1799, yet by 1967 another 6,000 had been 'consecrated'. Abroad view of the 1799 Act might have encouraged Masons to feel the exemption applied to any future lodges formed under both Modern and Antient Grand Lodges (united in 1813) and two more Grand Lodges in Scotland.. The terms of another Act in 1817 may have supported that view... However, neither Act legalized other Masonic Orders such as the Knights Templar (which had barely got going by 1799), the Rose Croix (founded in 1845), the Mark (organized about 1845), the Red Cross of Constantine (whose earliest lodge was founded in 1865) and the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (founded in 1866) ...... All these orders are self governing and have never come under the authority of the various Grand Lodges, which regulate only the CRaft and Royal Arch degrees. so they could never have been exempted from the ban on other societies imposed by the 1799 Act....

... The illegality of the `masonic Knights Templar is confirmed by the fact that their Grand Master, Lord Rancliffe, 'was personally concerned with the bill in the Lords' and neglected the Order thereafter. Masonic historians differ over whether the revival of the Masonic Templars some years later indicates that 'any question of illegality was over' or whether it suggests that 'the authorities were turning a blind eye'. My onw view is that all these 'higher' or ' sides' degrees ( from Knights Templar on wards) met illegally for more than a century until 1967.... Nobody would have dared enforce the 1799 Act (even had they known about it) because many magistrates, Court Masters, Court Lords, judges, policemen belonged to these same degrees... Through vested interests. Masonic law-breaking has been constantly connived at by the forces of law and order....

Today, any Parliamentary moves requiring public disclosure by masons should be matched by legislation creating an Ombudsman for the public servant and the police,as advocated by Brain Woollard ( see Chapter 13)... This is necessary to prevent the kind of career abuse which 4 million other State employees may suffer at the hands of Masons.. or... indeed..non-Masons..There must me many Masons in pub lic service who feel that hey too have had a raw deal at work ...In future they should have a mean of redress against anti-Masonic prejudice, especially if they are to be obliged to disclose Masonic Membership...

The former British ambassador featured in Chapter 32 has further suggestions:

...'..It should not be too difficult to procure form civil and public servants who belong to secret societies some written declaration and assurances about their activities..I also suggest that something should be done about the confidential personal reporting systems...It seems that any officer who believes he may be the subject victimization through the reporting system (as I was) should be entitles to state that the reporting officer as a Freemason and that this should be taken into account in assessing the report..Ideally, in my view, Freemasons should be excluded from the reporting process, but that is too much to hope for...

...I also suggest that the numerous voluntary organizations and charities which serve this country and have been one of its great strengths, should be required by law to keep an indication of any secret society membership by its officers..Members of any society - or indeed contributors to a charity - should, as a matter of routine, be able to obtain a statement of its officer's affiliations...This is not an unreasonable request, but a simple reassurance that the society is being run for the benefit of all members and not primarily for `masons perpetuating themselves in office...

In the present diminished and dangerous situation of our country, a very real danger exists from organizations, such as the Freemason Brotherhood - partly through infiltration, partly from the  illusionment and frustration which arises when our meritocratic system is deliberately and consistently distorted....'...

..In the House of Commons in June 1988 Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours introduced a bill to compel police recruits to swear they would not join any organization such as Freemasonry....he also demanded that officers who are already Masons should resign from their lodges or leave the police force.. On first reading the bill was passed by 117 votes to sixteen, but it had no chance of becoming law because of the shortage of Parliamentary time...

..If any future bill along these lines looks as if it might become law, it will encounter fierce lobbying just like the 1799 bill did ,,,,  It will infuriate Masonic cops... It it ever reached the statute book, it could provoke mass resignation from the police force...

..This might not be a bad thing, but it seems unlikely that policemen could be banned from joining Freemasonry unless this 'private, voluntary organization' is itself made illegal....In the present political climate (of near perpetual Conservative rule) there is no chance of this happening,....

...However, beacsue an action is otherwise legal,,, it does not mean that public servants have an in alienable right to perform it...

..In many respects the civil liberties of public servants and already severely curtailed....Millions of public servants (including the police) sign the Official Secrets Act which curbs their right to discuss, publish or otherwise disseminate information which they may learn in the course of their work... Also no civil servant, member of the armed forces or policeman may stand as a candidate in local or national elections without first resigning his or her employment. Since 1984 no employees of GCHO may belong to a trade union. The armed forces and the police have long been deprived of that right, just as they have surrendered their civil liberty to withdraw their labour and go on strike...Thus, imposing a similar curb on policemen in respect of Freemasonry has undeniable precedents.. They would retain the right to remain a Mason..but they would lose their right to remain a copper.. a judge. a Master of the Court .... a Lord of the Court .,, or any other job which has the power and/or authority in any way over the public in general..so that the same rule might well be applied to all other public servants..

...All this is for Parliament and the public to decide and debate... In the meantime Dale Campbell-Savours says: 'If Freemasonry were to shed itself of its secrecy, its exclusiveness and its oath of allegiance, I would have no objection to police officers being members....'

..However.. if it were to do all that, it would not longer be Freemasonry!....

..Even some senior Freemasons such as Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Peter Neivens ( an honorary Manor of St James Lodge)  has been concerned about excessive 'tears of sympathy' for Freemason Brothers who have been convicted of serious crime stares...'As for lodges which have allowed major criminals to remain as members for years after conviction... if that were proven to me, then if the authority rested with me, I would seriously think of disbanding that lodge...'

..If this policy were to be rigorously applied throughout Britain, not only would Freemasonry be far healthier : its opponents would have far less meat to feed on....Yet is must be doubted if the hierarchy as a whole would want to apply such discipline..As things now stand, Grand Lodge only acts against lodges like Waterways many years after they have become a haven for criminals, and only then after embarrassing media exposure.. It is therefore no wonder that in the meantime other lodges like the Queenswood contain cells of public corruption and the entire institution of Freemasonry is brought into disrepute as a result..

....however, Freemasons will argue that the merits of an institution as vast as Freemasonry do not turn on the vice or virtue of individual Masons... and that it does not change its esense because one Grand Officer, his Honour Judge Joseph Butler-Sloss, was exposed in the News of the World in July 1988 as a regular patron of Nairobi prostitutes while serving as a High Court judge on Kenya.. Freemasons argue that the private quirks of prominent men who happen to be a FreeMason should not be held against the Brotherhood... as Masons have said... this would be like condemning Christianity because quite a few vicars over the years have been caught molesting choirboys...

...As I write these final pages in December 1988 I am still being sent evidence of Freemasonry's reluctance to punish those who transgress its own moral code.. the evidence come not form outsiders..but from men who are themselves staunch Masons...One such source is leonard Acklam, a well-to-do self-made Yorkshire businessman who fought for years to win redress for a Masonic Grand Officer's outrageous attempt to interfere with justice...A Mason for 33 years, a Past Master of Brighouse Lodge (no. 1301) and a 30th degree member of the Rose Croix, Acklam is worth hearing...

...Leonard Acklam a Freemason, had employed a Freemason Solicitor to collect a £10,000 debt he was owed.. however his own solicitor lied to him about the case  and when appointing a new non Mason Solicitor who threatened to report the Mason Solicitor to the Law Society and sue for negligence, a senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfearn told Acklam that he 'would lose a lot of friends' and that Acklam should 'look on it in a true Masonic manner and forget it..  a  senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfern was not only interfering with Acklam's legal action against a Mason solicitor, but was also telling Acklams to forget the £10,000 he is owed...An in initial letter of complaint in 1981 sent to the local Yorkshire Ws Riding grand secretary did not go down well,,, for Redfearn was not only a Grand Officer of English Freemasonry, but also a leading industrialist, a deputy lieutenant of the county, a knight of the realm, a one time chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations and the local Tory KIng-maker (future Tory MP Gary Waller was initiated in his lodge in 1971)..also he was photographed at Conservative Party occasions alongside Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, It was extremely unlikely. therefore. that any Yorkshire masonic body would dare condemn him...

From Chapter 14

 The Phoenix "....

.. If the Manor Lodge of St James was formed in defiance of the anti-Masonic views of a Metropolitan Commissioner, it would not be the first time the Brotherhood has waved two fingers at the most important police chief in Britain...

...Back in 1958 the new commissioner was Joseph Simpson. He was the first man ever to reach the top job after starting as an ordinary bobby...He was public school educated and a university graduate but, unlike his gentleman predecessors, he had done three years on the beat and had the deserved respect of most London coppers..In short, He was a policeman's policeman...

.... One shaft of light which Sir Joseph Simpson brought to the job was a distinct hostility to Freemasonry, or at lease a dislike of its most arrogant manifestations...During his early years in office he was greatly irritated by an organization calling itself the Metropolitan Police Masonic Association (MPMA),  The title gave it an official air, but its founders had no authority for using the words 'Metropolitan Police',... They might have had the unofficial 'non' from a previous commissioner, but Sir Joseph took a dim view and demanded its abolition....

... The MPMA;s members were not prepared to disband on the say-so of a mere commissioner - especially as earlier commissioners, such as Charles Warren, had themselves been Freemasons. Rather than abolish their fraternity in a fraternity, they decided just to change its name. They also decided to keep the initials MPMA. The were determined to keep 'Masonic' in the title, and 'Association' was harmless enough, also they would have to substitute another word for either Metropolitan or Police.... some wag in the leadership had a little education.... As this new body was going to rise from the ashes of the old, he thought, it could have no more appropriate name than  'Metropolitan Phoenix Masonic Association'.  This would get round Sir Joseph Simpson's vexatious objections, but it would still be the MPMA and the same old bird...

....Simpson died in office, from a heart attach three days after the batt;e of Grosvenor Square in 1969, but the Phoenix lived on..IN 1971 it had 288 members..Its rule book reveals that the inclusion of Metropolitan in its title was gratuitous and misleading, for its members only needed to be 'Master Masons who are regular, serving and retired officers of any police force'...

The rule book makes it clear this was no Masonic Lodge..Ritual was forbidden at its gatherings..Instead its objects were:

1. To introduce Master Masons of the Police Force who would otherwise have no opportunity of meeting as Brother Masons.

2. To promote fraternal intercourse by arranging social functions.

3. To render assistance to those who may be distressed by sickness or adversity.

4. Loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen and the Craft in General,

..Aside from the genuflection to the Crown, these aims might strike an anti-Msonic as a sugar-coated code of mutual aide, arousing fears in the outsider that the Phoenix as a means of achieving a kind of Masonic apartheid in the Police Service...Could it have acted as a wedge between Masons and non-Masons, or a jungle telegraph, or a 'firm in a firm'? .. Its members would doubtless deny it, but the club does seem like a collective support system: ideal for help up t˙e promotion ladder, or saving skins...

....The 1971 list contains one man still serving at Scotland Yard: a deputy assistant commissioner ..Another is a detective chief superintendent...Most members left the service long ago,,, Many held humble rank, so either the mutual aid principle never helped them gain promotion or they never sought to use it.... Perhaps the Phoenix was just a social club for men with a common hobby ... If so, one brother was such an enthusiast ha he took the hobby with him to a Mediterranean retirement,, In 1971 Brother A,J, Fookes was running a pub in Gibraltar called the Mason Arms...

The phoenix list shows that in the early 1970's there was a network of police Masons, in lodges all over south-east England, who were doubly committed to mutual aid. Today, it seems, the Phoenix may not be the bird it was. I have been unable to find out if it is still flying,,It may now be in one of its 'ashes' periods: about ti burst forth in full plumage ,, Perhaps the Manor of St James's Lodge is its latest incarnation... AS it happens, no 1971 Phoenix people show up as masons members..Perhaps this is only because there is a fifteen-year gap between the lists, but it seems to confirm that there must be thousands of London police Masons, otherwise there would be names in common....

Another indicator of the Crafts strength in the police force emerged when barrister Andrew Arden presented his 1987 report on the running of the London Borough of Hackney (see Chapter 6) ..During his research mr Arden was assisted by Grand Secretary Michael Higham,,He gave the 'profane' Arden forty-four lodge lists to help him identity Masons working for Hackney Council but. in performing this unprecedented favour, he knowingly divulged the identities of over 3,500 Masons who had no connection with Hackney and whose individual permission he did not seek..

.... Higham aslo divulged the occupation of 2,534 named Masons...Of these ninety-eight were policemen .... amounting to 3.9% of Ardens sample.. or slightly less than one Mason ^n every twenty five... if this were typical of thew the whole country..and if ( according to Commander Higham) there a re between 250,000 and 500,000 Masons under GRand Lodge, then between 9.700 and 19,400 policemen in England and Wales are Freemasons... However if my total figure of 600,000 living Masons, whether active or lapsed, is correct (see Chapter 9), then some 23,400 serving and retired policemen are Freemasons .... In December 1985 there were slightly fewer than 108,000 serving make police officers in England and Wales...  Even if we exclude my highest estimate and stick to the Higham figures ....it would seem that  between 9 and 18 percent of all policemen may be Masons : one in eleven or one in six of all men in English and Wales police forces...yet, as ever, when it comes to calculating Masonic strength, huge statistical crevasses have to be vaulter ....The records at Freemasons' Hall are always out-of-date because they show only the occupations declared when men become Master Masons .. Should they change t heir jobs or retire, these records stay the same... Yet even if 20% of men who said they were policemen have since retired, it seems that between 8,000 and 16,000 policemen are 'on the square'.. In addition, however, young policemen are being drawn into Freemasonry all the time, which may bring the total back to around 20,000... There a re thousands more in Scotland and Northern Island, where they probably form an even higher proportion of the police service, for reasons explained in Chapter 19..

... Higham supplied Arden with the names and occupations of men in fourteen individual lodges,,One lode had fifty-two members, of which eleven policemen out of eighty-eight members, another had five out of fifty four. Of course these high numbers are outdone by the Manor Lodge of St James , but the manor is not Britain's only all-police lodge... According to the Grand Secretary of East Lancashire, three lodges are composed entirely of ex-police officers: in Wales, Kent and Liverpool..The Kent lodge meets in Sittingbourne and is called the Watch and Ward,,, It was founded as recently as 1977, yet it has already won a place in Freemasons' Hall Museum by presenting a masonic gavel made in the form of a police truncheon,,,In the early 1980's  the Watch and Ward could muster only twenty-five members, but this is no proof of ill-health..Indeed, Masonic consciousness among policemen, both serving and retired, is growing stronger..The Liverpool lode, Sovereign;s Peace, was founded in 1979..

.... Most policemen belong to general lodges where they get to know men form other walks of life - that is one of the main benefits of Freemasonry - yet they are usually proposed by other policemen... A random sample of lodge summonses reveals that policemen are valued candidates for admission into almost any lodge..

.. In 1976 the Derby Allcroft Lodge of London initiated a Scotland Yard detective sergeant and a builder on the same day...It already contained several policemen, including one future member of the Manor of St James's, In 1982 Gateway Lodge of Witney initiated a Thames Valley officer along with an electrical engineer, a British Telecom warden and an Oxfordshire fireman... These lodges  contain a mix of employees, public servants and the self-emplyed.. Whatever a Mason's job, on lodge days he must be able to sop work early enough to arrive for the meeting at three or four o'clock,,Policemen can almost always manage this because they work shifts, or because senior officers are also Masons and will turn a blind eye if brothers slip off during working hours...

...Thus it was that is january 1972 a thirty-teo-year-old detective sergeant took a half-day off from West  Hampstead police station in north London to be initiated in the Fryent Lodge alongside a C-op produce controller.. The Fryent is a general lodge but, over dinner, brethren proposed several toasts to the 'Blue Lamp', in honour of the Metropolitan Police....This may have something to do with the fact that the lodge meets at Hendon Hall Hotel, close to Hendon Police College from which it recruits some of its members...

it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...

 ' Why do nearly all masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst?

 Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system...

... It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ...

....That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'

Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:

'..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position..However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'

If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as masonic spokesmen claim...

....The public need to be convinced ....

... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....

Chapter 15 A Criminal Intelligence

.... Many masons tell stories of favo¨ra by policemen whom they have come to know through the craft..One brother told me how his Masonic connections cam in handy in unforeseen circumstances....

"..A friend and I were  developing and industrial heating system in our spare time... We  used to do research in a workshop at the back of his house..On one occasion, while he and his wife were away on holiday, I was working there as usual when suddenly the police turned up... They'd been called to the house by a neighbour who thought I was an intruder..I promptly explained who I was and produced my key, but I had no identification  on me so they were not satisfied... They took me to the police station and told me that, unless I could prove my bona fides, I'd be spending the night in the cells..,, I was trying to think my way out of this mess when I remembered that on several Masonic occasions I'd met a chief superintendent who was based at the station... After one lodge function he had invited us back to that very station's social club where we had a few drinks... Now I fond myself in this jam ... I naturally asked the arresting officers to let me talk to him...He came into the charge room, immediately recognized me and then took my captors into another room.. A few seconds later they cam out again and told me, lost civilly, I was free to go... I'm sure if i hadn't been 'on the square' I would have been kept in the clink all night, maybe longer..My masonic brother, the police chief, had done me a favour: a small one perhaps, but a favour nevertheless..Freemasonry had worked like a magic wand..

...Such interventions look less benign to non-Masons inside the force who see them as inextricably intertwined with Masonic manipulation of the police service as a whole...

....Among the hundreds of letter which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

.... John Thompson retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1970,...Among the hundreds of letter which Stephen Knigt received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

.... John Thompson retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1970, having reached the rank of inspector.. When he joined the force in the later 1940's he was aware that many senior officers were 'on the square' , but like most constables he pooh-poohed the power of the Craft with what he calls 'childish flippancy'. .. he only became concerned in January 1953 when he was about to take the competitive examination for promotion to the rank of sergeant...

' ... Rumours were rife that masonic candidates had been given the questions in advance..I also heard that they were going to identify themselves as masons on their exam papers to masonic examiners... I sat the exam with all the other candidates -- you guessed it!!.. it had to be cancelled and re-arranged...throughout my police career I was aware of too many incidents involving patronage and favouritism to dismiss them with the same ease as masonic policemen are always able to do...Some were so trivial I was amazed high-ranking officers deigned to involve themselves, but some were so serious that they bordered on criminal conspiracies.. As a young sergeant at Notting Hill I began to note the very effective influence if freemasonry, One night I was on duty as the station;s officer when at one o'clock in the morning I had to charge a man with being 'drunk and indecent'. He was a mason and was on his way home from a Ladies' Night, accompanied by his wife and others, when a constable arrested jim for urinating in a shop doorway. t about 3 A.M the chief superintendent (now Commander rank) suddenly turned up at the station. Such a visit was unknown and he had obviously been dragged from his bed. He sat a round for a long time, reading and re-reading the charge, but when he realized there was nothing he could do, he left. The general consensus at the station was this visit had masonic overtones. It seems nothing was too trivial for Masonic interference...Later, as an inspector at Marylebourne, I was called out by two PC's who had arrested a nineteen-year-old youth for stealing a drivers license and using it with intent to deceive. He had managed to escape and reach his home a block of luxury flats where his father was refusing to let the constables in to re-arrest him. When I arrived the father allowed me in and took me into his study, where photographs were prominently displayed of him in masonic dress. I noted that he had been master of his lodge and he clearly expected me to direct the PC's to forget the matter,,,, I told him he was 'not on' and left him in no doubt he was backing a loser... We took the son to the station. His father followed soon after, staying in the waiting room. As I was preparing the charge sheet the station sergeant told me that a Commander (Now DAC rank) wished to speak to me on the phone.. I had never met this man, so I told the sergeant to tell him I was not prepared to discuss the matter. You see, I had learned to face Freemasonry in the force head-on without fear... Before the father left he asked if the Commander had spoken to me. I replied he had not. He then told me they were in the same Masonic Lodge and then asked me if I was 'on the square'. He had clearly assumed  was, so I had to disappoint him. As it happens, the incident did me some good. I had not hit it off with my PC's beforehand, but this broke the ice...

..Masons usually claim such stories are invented by embittered non-Masons who cannot accept that their careers have failed because of their lack of ability; instead it is claimed by Masons, that they ;fantasize about malicious wrongdoing by Masonic colleagues.  Retired Metropolitan  Policeman John Thompson ( a non-Mason) rejects this argument as itself a canard..

..'....I admit we non Masons were resentful at our lowly rank. Yet most of us were not bitter. On the contrary, the men who were bitter were those Freemasons who had expected patronage and preferment but never got it. What non-Masons such as I did resent was entering a five-furlong sprint race but being forced to start at the mile and three quarter gate...We also resented that our Masonic colleagues were likely to have their errors, omissions, in adequacies, incompetencies and indiscipline covered up, sometimes at the expense of non-Masons..I concede that many Masonic policemen had an aura if greater competence and many became more able because they had less pressure and could acquit themselves better on boards..I put my hands up to being bitter in one respect..I object when masons dismiss their victims as jealous and vindictive, I am neither neither but what do they expect us to be? They expect us to act like the three wise monkeys: seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil - of Freemasonry of course    ....'

 Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'

..... Some readers may feel that John Thompson's recollections can now be dismissed because he retired in 1970, but other police correspondents bemoan present-day Masonic goings-on...Thames Valley Police was formed in 196, through the merger of five forces in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.Recent lodge summonses from these countries show that today Freemasonry is recruiting just as strongly among policemen in this force as it is in London..

One on-Masonic sergeant knows to his cost the Brotherhood's power in Oxfordshire...

..'... In 1983 I had some building work done on my house..When it was finished I was not entirely satisfied and paid the builder only part of the money..He put most of the faults right but I was still not completely happy and we had quite a disagreement.. He then told me he was a Freemason and he knew various people that I also knew, one of them being a chief superintendent..Not long afterwards the builder had a car accident and  he finished up in hospital.. When he was there he received a visit from the chief superintendent who asked if there was anything he could do for him.. A few days later I was summoned to headquarters to see this chief superintendent. He 'advised' me to hurry up and sort out my dispute with the builder because his being in hospital gave him quite enough to worry about. Now whilst no threats were made,  there was undoubtedly some moral pressure and I came away from headquarters feeling decidedly uneasy..  The obvious difference in our ranks made it a very simple task for him to 'put the screws on'.... As a result I felt bound to pay the builder the remaining money... I find membership of this organization quite odious and not compatible with being a police officer. ... Incidents happen - internal politics you understand- whic defy rational explanation and can only be put to the influence of these people.. They are unknown, unseen, but seem to pull strings behind the scenes and get things done...

..Even back in the 1960's John Thompson saw the beginnings of what he regards as the most  sinister phenomenon involving Freemasonry and the police force in Britain.. he had just moved to the north London area known as "Y" division..He soon learned that the divisional commander and his deputy were Roman Catholics but that all the other senior officers were Masons...

...'... It was on 'Y' Division that I first noticed how former high ranking officers - both uniform and CID - were making new careers as security agents for solicitors, finance houses and other organizations hungry for confidential information ...This has now become a huge industry and Freemasonry is an important constituent in this web of intrigue. Now that more and more information is stored on computer (and its dissemination is subject to serious legal curbs under the Data Protection Act), so employers have realized that the only people that can get round the regulations are high-ranking policemen - especially Freemasons who are particularly well-placed to obtain confidential information with no chance of exposure, because they can get it all from their colleagues in the Brotherhood..Thoroughly illegal..of course,,,'

Recently police computers have been criminally abused for the purpose of keeping criminal out of Masonic employment. In 1983 the Warwickshire Grand Lodge dismissed the catering manager at its Birmingham Temple because of the way he had disciplined a member of the staff. The brethren alleged that the manager, veteran Masons Derek Yeomans, had shouted at a junior employee, but Yeoman says he was fired for 'telling off' his own boss at the Temple..He took revenge on the ungrateful brethren by squealing about their criminal wrongdoings..He disclosed that one of the province's top Masons habitually checked whether applicants for senior jobs at the `temple had criminal records logged on the West Midlands Police computer, According to Yeomans, this wholly illegal service was performed through a retired chief inspector, himself a leading FreeMason, who used to pass the applicants' names and dates of birth to an officer who worked for the local force and had access to the computer...

...Such abuse of police intelligence systems is now taken very seriously  all forces, so a local superintendent was appointed to investigate the allegation..He later reported that Yeoman's only specific claim - that certain applicant's name had been fed into the computer on a certain day --was not true...Yeoman responded that the name might well have been fed in on the day before or the day after but, in any case, it cannot be satisfactory when a policeman is appointed to investigate abuses of his own force's computer by another member of the same force..  Whether or not that inquiry was performed by checking computer records or searching old-fashioned criminal record fils, it seems Warwickshire's Mason's did call on police connections for such a service..As Provincial Grand Master Thomas Wood told the Birmingham Post..

...' I believe that on one occasion when someone was needed for a very responsible position I was told that person had been vetted....'

One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..

..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non-police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'

Chapter 21 Tough at the Top

..Many police chiefs are mistaken when the claim the issue has never come up in public complaints against their police forces... I have a pile of letters from citizens who have enclosed copies of formal complaints they have sent to police forces alleging Masonic wrongdoing by policemen... ....In the future chief constables may have to act on increasing public. press and political concern about the role of Freemasonry in the police service...

 ..In the future chief constables may have to act on increasing public, press and political concern about the role of Freemasonry in the police service....

Early in 1988 Home Office leaks implied Home Secretary Douglas Hurd was thinking of requiring police officers to declare their lodge membership if Freemasonry emerged as a factor in any matter in which they were involved  whether these were internal issued such as promotion and discipline or external investigations...

...It is my view that Mason membership should be declared by all police officers and that a regularly updated register of Mason serving in each police force should be kept at every police station and at headquarters of the police force concerned.. this register should be readily available to fellow police officers and to embers of the public..If this is not a service which police forces are willing to give their paymasters, then the register should be on display in all public libraries, just like electoral roles. There will be arguments over whether membership of other secret pr quasi-secret societies, pr fraternal organizations, should be declared. If a convincing case can be made that any other society is an extensive, powerful and cohesive as Freemasonry, then its members should indeed declare themselves.

If public opinion were to demand this register for policeman, it might even demand the display of entire Masonic Lodge Membership  Rolls at public libraries. This would be stoutly opposed on grounds that it is not the 'British Way' of doing things, but that is for the British people to decide. British people have only just gain access to the Land Registry. For centuries it has been considered an invasion of 'property owners' privacy for other people to know who really owns what in Britain. However this has grossly infringe other people's right to information - especially information which could effect themselves. The same principle applies to membership of secret, or private, mutual aid societies .heir secrecy (about  both what they do and who they are) is a standing invasions of the liberty of all non-members...

...The 1964 Police Act forbids policemen from belonging to a trade union. This appears not be formally applied to Freemasonry..despite the Craft's claim to be  descended from a medieval trade union and despite its  continues adherence to the same principles of combination and mutual aid for which policemen are banned from joining union today...

,,Ian Oliver, a non-mason a police chief  stated: "... During my sixteen years in the Metropolitan Police until 1977, it was not unknown for officers to join the Masons ^n the hope that it might just help their promotion prospects...

Chapter 22 Judging by Results

 ... at least eighteen circuit judges, four Queen;s Bench judges, three family division judges, two judges in Chancery, three Lord Justices of Appeal and one Lord Justices of Appeal and one Lord of Appeal in Ordinary....this is some of the known ranks of Freemason's strength as revealed in Masonic reference books to which I have had access... many other sources (such as provincial yearbooks and membership lists of lawyers' lodges) have eluded me, so I am forced to guess that many more judges are 'on the Square' (a well known term to describe a member of FreeMasonry).. certainly many recently retired judges are Masons: fifteen circuit, one Queens Bench, two family division, one Chancery, three Lord Justices of Appeal and one Master of the Royal Court of Protection...

..A recent Lord Chief Justice , the late Lord Widgery, was Past Senior Grand Warden of England. The current Chief Justice of Australia, Sir Harry Gibbs, is 'on the square'.  Sir Harry Gibbs, is also the only Australian on the judicial committee of the Privy Council..

..The president of the Lands Tribunal is a mason,,

...So is England's Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy is 'on the square'...so was his immediate predecessor is 'on the square'..

..Beyond the Royal Courts of Justice sit many more Masonic judges, from the current Recorder of Southport to an English Advocate-General in the European Community;s Court of Justice...still more barrister Masons choose to stay where real money can be made: as QC's..

...it is also noted that and even higher proportion of lawyers went to public schools and Oxford or Cambridge Universities: networks which are perhaps more powerful than Freemasonry.. however the difference is that those institutions (privileged and self-perpetuating though they are) are dedicated largely to the gaining of open educational qualifications which are essential in a lawyer. What the outsider might wonder is why many of these men, who judge the rest of us, need to belong to a secret (or would -be secret) society; how can these men be trusted to find the truth is court of law...when as Masons they swear belief in - and repeatedly enact - the mythical murder of a bogus historical figure whom they glorify as the stonemason architect of a temple built mainly of wood, even the stonemason architect of a temple built mainly of wood, even though he was neither a stonemason nor an architect! !!!

..for some enlightenment of what Freemasonry means to many esteemed dispensers of justice I wrote to Lord Templeman, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, who sits in the House of Lords...Lord Templeman is England's highest-ranking Mason judge,,,Lord Templeman did not reply to me (Martin Short) or Stephen Knight's letters...

..perhaps even non-freemason  judges feel they belong to a greater brotherhood- of judges - which takes precedence over any feelings they may have about their colleagues' Masonic frolics...they may well fear coming out would provoke retribution...One  Court recorder told me, '...I'm not a Mason, but don't quote me or I may end up hanging under Blackfriars Bridge..' .. I reacted as if this reference to the bizarre death of the Italian banker-Mason Roberto Calvi in 1982 was a joke, but the Recorder assured me he was very serious....

Chapter 19 The Encompassing of John Stalker

banker MASON WIRCH_HUNT ON TOP COP

MASON MAFIA FRAMED COP CHIEF

On the 29th June, 1986 those two deadly rivals  for out Sunday morning favours, the People and the News of the World ran almost identical stories about John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police, Four weeks earlier John Stalker had been suddenly removed from a highly sensitive inquiry into allegations of a shoot-to-kill policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)..

..Why was John Stalker removed at the  Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police became a massive media guessing game..Sooner or later someone was bound to blame the FreeMasons...

..The Press had already blamed the RUC, its Special Branch, Stalker's Rivals in the Manchester force, the SAS, MI5, the Norther Island Office, the Home Office and. or course.. the British Government...

The People wrote:

"... Top cop John Stalker is the victim of a plot by Freemasonry that stretches all the way from Ulster to Whitehall, according to his friends and colleagues.. They are convinced that 'a get Stalker order' originated in Ulster, where he made enemies with his inquires into an alleged police 'shoot-to-kill' policy... the order was taken up in Manchester...

The News of the World offered a less global but equally sinister scenario:

 ....

James  Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, is studying secret information naming eight key officers. They are all members of the same Freemasons l

Lodge.  Friends of Roman Catholic Mr Stalker believe the eight were asked by their mason colleagues in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) to 'dish the dirt' on him..

..Throughout the 'Stalker Affair I subscribed to a cuttings service which sent me every story linking Stalker and Freemasonry printed anywhere in Britain's press.

There are 200 such cuttings... such stories  drove East Lancashire's Grand Lodge to hold the only press conference in fifty-seven years to deny the existence of a 'Mason Mafia'. ..Manchester's Masons claimed the witch hunt was on them,,

..Masons were active at almost every twist in 'Stalker', Some Masonic involvement was inevitable because Masons are numerically strong in the organizations with which Stalker was bound to clash with if he was doing his job properl...

the question is...Were masons acting in concert to protect each other, to protect Freemasonry or to protect the establishment in which Masons thrive and prosper...

..in my opinion Stalker himself produces evidence in his book about the affair fairly points towards a conspiracy of interests, if not of individuals..

 In May 1984 John Stalker as asked to lead an inquiry into three 1982 incidents in which an undercover RUC 'Mobile Support Unit' had shot dead five suspected Republican terrorists and a seventeen-year-old boy, All six were unarmed so questions were asked as to why they had not been taken alive. The fear was that RUC men had committed multiple murder. The deeper concern was that the 'murders' were not unauthorized acts by police marksmen committed in the heat of the moment, but the product of  cold-blooded policy... ..In 1984 four of the marksmen were tried for murder but were acquitted. This distressed the families of the dead men (all Catholics) and outrages Republican sympathizers.

 The two separate trials had disclosed systematic (if badly co-ordinated)  police lying. One defendant revealed that senior Special Branch officers had told him what false story to tell, allegedly to protect their informers (some south of the border). Stalker's job was to investigate not just he shootings, but the cover stories and also the local CID's limp search for the truth, for it seemed as if RUC marksmen had been acquitted because their CID colleagues had deliberately failed to make a murder case against them...

..In his own book John Stalker tells how his Manchester  team found out that shorltly before these killings, an informer had told the RUC that four of the suspects had been involved in an IRA landmine attack which killed three policemen. This incident had occurred just three weeks before he suspect's own deaths so it seemed likely that they were he victims of RUC revenge killings...

John Stalker asked for the intelligence file on the landmine attack, to check if the dead men had indeed been named as suspects, but RUC Special Branch (SB) repeatedly denied such a file existed... then when he finally

John Stalker was eventually suspended from the police force on false allegations against him of wrongful association with a local businessman named Kevin Taylor ..which was only activated when John Staler had finally manoeuvered Hermon into handing over the surviving Hayshed material which included a tape of a bug planted by MI and Special Branch which recorded the whole shooting incident..Stalker was granted completed access to March 1986.. he did not get his hands any of the material until 30th April..even then the crucial papers eluded him because on the 29th May, shortly before he was to fly to Belfast to get them he was removed forever from the inquiry...

 

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Chapter 24 The Cotton Inheretence

"..Many of Britain's most prominent solicitors are Freemasons. They all appesr in Who's Who, yet none of their entries  contains any reference to their involvement in Freemasonary (known as The Craft) 

Some examples of past prominent Freemason solicitors are:

Sir Desmind Heap, President of the Law Society 1972-3, Solicitor for the Corporation of London fpr twenty-six years and  England's  greatest expert o town and country planning law.

Sir Edmund Liggins, President if the Law Society 1975-6. An eminent Warwickshire solicitor.

Sir David Napley, President of the Law Society 1976-7. England's leading defence solicitor. A lapsed Mason

Sir John Stebbings, President of the Law Society 1979. Member of a Derbyshire lodge (deceased December 1988)

David Sumberg MP, partner in a Manchester legal firm, member of a Staffordshire lodge.

Bert Millichip, Chairman of the Fotball Association, senior partner in the familty firm in West Bromwich, where he is active in Staffordshire Freemasnary.

Other prominent Masonic solicitors have included Julius Mermer, Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1987-8; John Evans, for twenty years Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court of Judicature; and Colonel George Kelway, High Court Registrar for Pembroke and Carmarthen from 1940 to 1962.

These folk are not household names. They do not match singers, sportsman or soap oera stars in public recognition. Yet they have been the backbone of Britain and Britain legal establishment which effectivey runs Britain... they are men of status and respect in the regions where they have built their careers, and nationally influential in the legal profession. Most of these men are Masons of Grand Rank and all are citizens above reproach...

..In contast, rank-and-filr Masonic solicitors are regarded as pillagers and looters by many anti-Masons. Stephen Knight's post -Brotherhood files are full of letters alleging all manner of conspiracies against the legal professions with allegations that most of the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff they complain about having done the wrong thing to them....are suspected to be Freemasons and/or closely associated in various solcial, business, political and legal networks and associations they belong to...to the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff that are embers of the CRAFT OF FREEMASONRY...

.Most of these correspondents of compalint suffer from the same the ame problem: they often do not have enough evidnece that Freemsonry and/or Freemasons and/or their associates and friends have played a part in their troubles.... the ones that do not have the evidence ask for information how to find out if the the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff that they say have done the wrong thing to them are in any way involved im Fremasonry...

...part of the answer to their question is that there should be a legal requirement that all Freemasons and/or anyone else in any sort of close association with Freemason members and/or involved in any way with any other social, political, business and/or legal association and/or network should ne required to openly declare such association on a public registrar before they are allowed to be involved in any appointment to a profession and/or job that involves making decisions about the public and/or acting for the public in any way..such as the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs, court staff , anyone inv0lved in politics, local councils and/or any other puvlic and/or semi-public body and/or organisation....

..another part of the answer to their problem is the setting up an independent judicial inquiry body run by a retired judge who is not a Freemason and has declared not to have any possible strong biasn in favour of Freemasony...when anyone can request that they legal cases be reveiwed to see if they have been treate din a far and reasonable way... and such reveiw to be a completely different reveiw from all the normal appeals and reviews available at present in the legal system.. and such reveiw to be free of charge to the person requestion the reveiw...

..Their allegations are a shocking litany of businesses being destroyed, bankruptcies precipitated, investments mishandled, trust funds defrauded, tr5ials rigged and murders committed and covered up and who was really behind the murders also covered up so that proper and full investigations are simply not carried out by the relavent bodies...The writer of the allegations all claim Masonic solicitors have conspired with a mermutation of Masonic bank managers, estate agents, business rivals, policemen, judges - and even Masonic relatives.... each tragic tale has dozens of characters with an apparently bottomless capacity for evil... some 'victims' are themselves solicitors, driven out of business by Masonic competitors, or it is claimed....even if 95% of this stuff in fantasy, the rest shows there are a lot of wicked people in the world, be they be Masons or not...

..Freemasons however, did pay a large role in one miserable story of an old Lancashire lady who ame to sign anew will only days before she died. In 1980 Mrs Esther Cotton aged ninety-two was sick with cancer. She was living alone at home, taking tablets to kill the pain and slow the cancer's growth..On 9th December 1980 her doctor discovered sge was suffering not just from cancer but from bruses to her face and legs, black eyes and cuts, broke ribs and a collapsed vertebrae, Her doctor promptly put is Ormskirk General Hospital where she complained of leg and neck pains. Mrs Cotton's ankles were swollen and the cancer had completely destroyed her tight breast. Tests also showed she was very deaf and suffering from severe heart trouble and anaemia. Two days later she was sinking fast: nois at times but very drowsy in between. By 12th December, despite fairly heavy sedation, she was in constant pain...

 On this same day Mrs Cotton was the subject of frenzied attention which was far from medical. Shortly after midday a solicitor named Gordon Brown appeared at Mrs Cotton's beside insisting she sign a new will. The soliticitor, Gordon Brown, was not Mrs Cotton's regular solicitor, but was acting on instructions from Mrs Cotton's son, Ernest... Because  of the noise and bustle of the ward, Brown asked for the dying woman to be moved to a private room where, witnessed by two hospital administrators, she scrawled a mark where she was meant to sihn her name on the will document...

.... Within hours her condition rapidly worsened. Her face turned grey, she suffered a relapse, and had to be treated  for congestive cardiac failure. Her condition further deteriorated ... On the 17th December, 1980, Mrs Cotton slipped into a coma and died. Mrs Cotton's funeral was attended to by her son Ernest and her daughter, Mrs Juneth Pilkington.

Juneth had ben visiting her mother twice daily but the first she knew of the will was on 29th December when a copy came through her letterbox. Juneth thought it strange that her mother had never told her about this will but stranger still that her mother Mrs Cotton could have made it at all. In hospital her condition had been so bad that she could say nothing, could recognize no one and, says Juneth, had quite lost her mental facilities.

As Juneth read through the will (in which she and her brother were named as executors) Juneth was stunned. The will said Juneth would get just one-quarter of the value of her mother's house. Each of four grandchildren would get a mere £100, but the rest of the estate would go to her brother, Ernest, 'for his own use and benefit absolutely'. The estate was no pittance. The and was worth some £60,000, much of it was tied up in the family business, a motor coach firm. Yet only five months before she signed this 'hospital will', Mrs Cotton had signed another very different message: she was going to leave each grandchild £1,000, but everything else was to be split between her son and daughter 'in equal shares absolutely'.

What shocked Juneth was not the loss of so much money, but the clandestine way in which the new will had been concocted. The solicitor Gordon Brown had never acted for her mother before, whereas her solicitor for the past thirty years was not consulted. Indeed, no one had even told Mrs Cotton's previous solicitor that Mrs Cotton was ill.

In the period between these wills the future of the coach firm had caused great family bitterness. The trouble went back to 1948 when old Mr Cotton had died without a will. The business had been held in trust ever since, with shares divided between Mrs Cotton and the Children. Juneth refused to sell her shares to Ernest, who ran the business and wanted total ownership. The 'hospital will' did not give him that - it could could not take away the shares Juneth already had - but it gave `Ernest his mother's 50 percent share, and thus Ernest had majority control for the first time.

Juneth herself had been very ill during her mother's last days at home but Juneth had called in to see her mother Mrs Cotton on the 4th December, 1980, when she found Mrs Cotton squatting on a settee in an incoherent state. Juneth called the doctor but does not know if he saw Mrs Cotton before the 9th December, 1980, when he sent her to hospital. However, Juneth was not sure whether Mrs Cotton was not suffering from cuts, bruises, broken ribs or collapsed vertebrae.

Years later Juneth gained access to previously withheld hospital notes and discovered that on 6 December someone had called the hospital to report that Mrs Cotton's back had 'caved in' and she was covered in bruises because of several falls. Juneth also learned that on the 8th December, 1980, the solicitor Gordon Brown, acing on Juneth brother's instructions, had twice visited  Mrs Cotton so that she could dictate a new will. Nether he nor a colleague could have noticed her caved-in back, or they would have realized she was in no condition to make a will. Instead, Gordon Brown took down the details and later had them typed on the appropriate form. On 12th December, 1980, by which time Mrs Cotton was in hospital, she signed her new will. Two hospital employees initialled a few hand written words saying the contents had been read over to Mrs Cotton, 'she appearing perfectly to understand the same'.

Re-reading the will with care, Juneth felt her mother could have no idea what Mrs Cotton was signing. Mrs Cotton's signature was illegible, and unlike her normal signature as it appeared on the earlier will. The E(for Esther) was vaguely recognizable, but the A (for Annie)  was like a M. In place of 'Cotton', there were a few gnarled loops with no 't's or an 'n'.

Juneth did not dispute that her mother made that that scrawl, but felt that maybe her hand had been held, but what was extraordinary about the will was that it contained two gross errors. Mrs Cotton's 'dwellinghouse' is described as '22 Brighouse Close, Ormskirk', whereas she lived at number 33. Even more astonishing, the document is made out in the wrong name: 'Hester Annie Cotton', not Esther Annie Cotton. At no time in her life had Esther ever been called Hester.

Would anyone in his or her right mind voluntarily sign a will made out in the wrong name and address? Can such a will be valid?

In succeeding months and years, Juneth tried to find out if her mother could possibly have known what she was doing. in 1981, Mr Cotton's doctor wrote that, on 9th December, 1980: "My patient appeared to be in agony and under a great deal of distress. I therefore did not think it appropriate to assess he metal capacity. I immediately arranged her urgent admission into hospital.'

On the 10th December, 1980, a hospital physician (whom solicitor Gordon Brown had approached) wrote, 'She is is a fit mental state to sign a will.' Later he explained that on 12th December, 1980, he thought Mrs Cotton capable of understanding and signing a will, and could appreciate the extent of the property, the person who should be considered, and the way her estate should be divided.

If so, how did Mrs Cotton not protest that her new will made a hast of her name and address? The opinion also clashes with Juneth's experience on 10th December, 1980, when her mother, Mrs Cotton, failed to recognize Juneth and two other familiar visitors. The next day Mrs Cotton did not recognize her own grandchild. The day after, Mrs Cotton failed to recognize Juneth, only one hour before she signed the new will...

 ... was wearing a hearing aid, but I did not check to see it it was working properly, as I had no reason to suspect that it wasn't. When I spoke to Mrs Cotton I did so is aloud voice, bending over the patient. Mrs Cotton did not make any comment regarding mistakes in her name and the address of her property. I asked the patient if she understood what I had read out  and if she agreed with it.  As far as I can recollect Mrs Cotton did not make any comments, Mrs Cotton appeared to be an elderly ill lady...

Juneth's solicitors sent all available hospital records and statements t a consultant physician in Liverpool. In his Opinion he sated Mrs Cotton had been very ill for six weeks before she died. When Mrs Cotton signed the will, her mind may have been clouded by pain from widespread canerous growth; impairment and  cardiovascular functions through cancer, and toxic absorption; lack of natural sleep; effects of drugs against pain and for sedation; and difficulty in communication and resulting frustration due to advanced deafness. He went on....

.....It is indeed quite possible that `Mrs Cotton may have been given the appearance of not only hearing, but also understanding the contents of the will, as read to her, It is, however, more doubtful whether her cerebral functions were sufficiently unimpaired for her to express her own viewpoints on the contents of the will and to use her independent judgement ... I am inclined to believe that not only an extraordinary effort on her part would have enabled her to rise  above her suffering in order to concentrate her mind on the task presented to her by the solicitor on December the 12th, 1980....

 ...... NO INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE EXISTS TO SHOW THAT MRS COTTON HAD EVER WANTED TO MAKE A NEW WILL....

In a letter to Juneth's solicitors, Gordon Brown said that Ernest Cotton had told him to visit his mother and take instructions. He cannot comment now because he died in 1984, yet the question remains.... for whom was solicitor Gordon Brown really acting for? Even if Mrs Cotton were compos metis, Mrs Cotton would not have known Gordon Brown from Adam. Mrs Cotton's son Ernest only brought Gordon Brown into her ninety two year old life at her last gasp. So what was the relationship between Ernest Cotton and solicitor Gordon Brown?

 Ernest Cotton and solicitor Gordon Brown are both Freemasons- both members of Ormskirk's Pilgrim Lodge (no. 6207). In 1946 Ernest's Cotton's father had been one Ormskirk Pilgrim Lodge's founders.. Ernest Cotton was Master in 1962 and later achieved the mighty provincial rank of Senior Grand Deacon. Ernest Cotton was a big wheel in  West Lancashire Freemasonry, whereas Gordon Brown had only just been initiated. When Brown drew up the 'hospital will' he was a mere Fellow Craft. Just three weeks later he was raised to the third degree and became a Master Mason. The gap in the two men's Masonic status was immense, notwithstanding that, in the wider world, Gordon Brown was a prosperous solicitor  while Cotton ran a modest coach firm. When Cotton asked him to make a will for his mother, it was an offer Solicitor/Freemason Gordon Brown could not refuse. The job had even been arranged in the ledge. On the 3rd of December, 1980, as some brothers stood drinking at the bar in Ormskirk Masonic Hall, Ernest Cotton walked over to Brown and was heard saying he 'had a little job for him'.

 Such deals may well go on all the time in Ormskirk Masonic Hall, which has many Masons, The mid-Lancashire town has a population of about 27,000 of which about 10,000 are men over twenty-one. The Masonic Hall in Park Road caters for eleven lodges with some 700 members. Even if many of them live in other communities nearby, it seems one Ormskirk man in twenty is 'on the square' (the common description of a Freemason). The town's most powerful lodge is Ormskirk Priority (no. 4007). At six o'clock on the  fourth Wednesday of each month from September to April, its members slip into the hall to perform rituals, quaff a gin and tonic and super at the festive board.

 This lodge showed its power one morning in July 1985 by bringing the town to a halt for the funeral of one of its most revered members. By nine o'clock Ormskirk was paralysed by traffic. Everyone was late for work and shops could not open because the assistants had not arrived. Tradesmen, office staff and shoppers sat in their cars  and fumed because, without warning, the main carpark had been closed to the public so mourners would have only a short walk to the parish church.

  The dead man, Howard Ballance, had been a pillar of the community since World War II. A dentist, he had been a councillor for town and country for thirty-eight years, He was chairman of Lancashire Police Authority for thirty-three years, and was still a Justice of Peace (JP) and chairman of the Magistrates Bench when called to the Grand Lodge Above'.

  Nobody begrudged Ballance a good funeral, but giving his mourners sole use of the carpark sent the town wild. The Chamber of Trade was furious and rand the police to complain, The cops said the council had told them to do it. The Chamber's president blasted the the council's 'Kremlin-like attitude' of 'we are equal, but some are more equal than other'. The council blamed the idea on the police, but said that, anyway, 'it was a sensible way out of what could have been a ticklish problem'. The problem may have been how to appease Lodge no. 4007, whose members included several more councillors, and Ormskirk's ten other lodges. In all Freemason members could call on a total of fifteen of the town's fifty-five JP's and quite a few brethren among the local police.

 One policeman belonged to Pilgrim Lodge with Ernest Cotton and his solicitor Gordon Brown. Other members were factory owners, engineers, builders, shopkeepers, estate agents, an accountant, a printer. a farmer and an instrument technician named Derek Pilkington. He was Juneth Cotton's husband, and it was her brother Ernest Cotton who had nominated Derek Pilkington in 1978 at old Mrs Cotton's instance.

  Derek Pilkington was raised to Master Mason in October 1979 and regularly attended lodge meetings until November 1979 and regularly attended ledge meetings until November 1980, when the family was in dispute over the future of the coach business. Until this was sorted out Derek Pilkington decided to 'withdraw' from attend the lodge, thus avoiding a row with his brother-in-law and complying with Freemasonry's Ancient Charge that, 'no private piques or quarrels must be brought within the door of the lodge'.

  However, the Pilkingtons did complain to a lodge elder about what they felt was Ernest Cotton's 'unmasonic behaviour. They said Ernest Cotton had 'quite wrongly' put pressure on his mother to sign a will to his own advantage and the near disinheritance of his sister. Ernest Cotton had also damaged the interests of a brother Mason (Derek Pilkington), breaking the Masonic commandment of brotherly love. The elder was upset and rand Ormskirk's top Mason (another JP) for advice. The Pilkingtons hoped this call would result in a pledge of Masonic justice, but they received none. Far from getting help from Freemasonry, they were soon ostracized by it, in Juneth COTTON'S words:

....We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....

  Derek Pilkington was promptly struck off the lodge steward's list, perhaps in retribution for branding Ernest Cotton's conduct 'unmasonic', perhaps because he had stayed away from three meetings rather than clash with his brother-in-law. It was on the advice of her mother's doctor that  Juneth Cotton decoded to fight the 'hospital will', but she ran into widespread obstruction. She wanted to see insurance papers for the coach firm of which she had long being a partner. Swindon Insurance's local manager, George Parr, refused to let her have them, He said, she was 'on dangerous ground' and added, 'my firm has not got enough money to fight this,'..He did not explain these remarks, but Juneth thinks he was referring to the 'secret and silent power of Freemasonry and Rotary9=9 avery much related organisation)'. Parr may not have been a mason but he was definitely in Rotary: 'Many Rotarians are Masons and it seems clear that is Parr was to help me in my troubles he would be working against the interests of his close  professional colleagues.' When Parr died in 1983, many Masons had refused to give Juneth Cotton details of the family firm's accounts. Pilgrim Lodge kept its funds in one of those banks...

  Meantime, Derek Pilkington had been the victim of a forgery which could only have been perpetrated by a FreeMason. According to the constitutions every lodge member should receive a Grand Lodge certificate as soon as he is registered as a third-degree FreeMason. Derek Pilkington's third-degree Freemason certificate arrived twenty-three months late: on the 28th August, 1981 is a dirty crumpled envelope dropped through the letterbox at dinnertime. Derek complained to the Provincial GRand Secretary, who wrote back saying 'Pilgrim Lode had kept the certificate in order to present it to him in person...' and 'when he did not turn up to the lodge, it was sent on by registered post..'

  That letter contained two errors. fed to the writer by some Pilgrim Lodge member. Derek had attended all its meetings for a full twelve months after he became a Master Mason: which was ample time for him to receive the certificate in person. As for 'registered post', he had never signed for the document because it had been stuffed through the door when no one was at home.

  Derek Pilkington got in touch with the local acting post master who referred to the registered mail receipt book. This contained a signature in Derek's name which showed he had received the letter on the 26th August, 1981: a full two days before it landed of Derek's doormat. The official admitted the signature looked new and stood out from the page, but said it must have been made on that date..

  If so, it had not been made by Derek because he and Juneth were on holiday in France on the 26th August, 1981, and did not return until two days later. No one else had been at home to sign on his behalf or in his name. Besides, the letter bore no registration slip. The Pilkingtons called in the police. A CID man confirmed that the signature looked 'fresh' yet nothing came of his inquiries, even though the suspects were obvious. The forgery could have been perpetuated only by a high-ranking Post Office official with access to the registered mail pen, or wit such a person's co-operation.

This may sound trivial, but it proves Freemasonry can pervert even the Royal Mail. It if interferes with registered letters, what else does Freemasonry contaminate?

The the incident also shows how far some Masons will go to cover up a breach of their own rules. First forge the signature, then lie to the Provincial Grand Secretary (a former policeman, then get him to regurgitate the lie to the victim. even hough he too is a Mason.

Handing out certificates on time and in the correct manner is the job of a lodge secretary. In 1981 the secretary of Pilgrim Lodge was Ernest Cotton. In November that year Derek sent a cheque to cover his annual subscriptions and £10 for Masonic charities. He also enclosed a note which he asked the Master to read in open lodge to the assembled brethren:

Please accept my apologies for my non-attendance at Pilgrim Lodge ... being unable to attend has been a bitter disappointment to me, but, as you know, there is a brother in the lodge with whom I am at variance over matters which have caused deep distress for almost two years to my wife and myself...I regret so few of my Brothers feel able to discuss my problems with me, or are prepared to listen... However, when the time comes, the Great Architect of the Universe will surely as always be on the side of righteousness...

The letter was not read out and Derek Pilkington never got a reply to his letter...

..In 1983 Derek also lost his job...

The manager who sacked him was also in the brotherhood.. Freemasons are exhorted to give a brother work, not deprive him of a job. yet Derek's dismissal was unfair and unnecessary, as he later proved to an industrial tribunal which found wholly in Derek's favour..

..In January 1984 the Masonic solicitor Gordon Brown died aged little more than fifty. His funeral was attended by many Pilgrim brethren, but not by Ernest Cotton. Some Pilgrim men felt Brown's health had declined largely because he had spend three year trying yo defend the indefensible 'hospital will'. The Pilkington's are convinced its 'mistakes' were deliberate.

 For instance, the will says Juneth Pilkington is to get one-quarter of the value of Mrs Cotton's 'dwellinghouse' but then gives the wrong address. This might have been a mistake, but it could have been a deliberate ploy to cut her out of her inheritance altogether. As it is worded, she would have received one-quarter of a property which her mother never owned - in other words, nothing at all.

  The Pilkington's also say the mistake over Mrs Cotton's name is a Masonic sign. Falsely named 'Hester Annie', not 'Esther Annie', her initials become H.A. These also stand for Hiram Abiff (H.A.), the 'architect' of the Temple of Solomon. The 'Widow' is inserted, as word which did not appear in the earlier will. However, if this is a 'Masonic' will, the word 'Widow' is there to show that Ernest is the 'Widow's Son', a phrase FreeMasons use to identify themselves to other Masons.

   Derek Pilkington has often complained to top Masonic officials, but they refuse to get involved, saying his dispute with Cotton is a legal matter in which Freemasonry cannot interfere. Derek retorts that Masonic lawyers have interfered from the start, first by drawing up a 'Masonic will' and then by ensuring no other lawyer is town dare to fight it. When he complained to Freemasons' Hall in London, Commander Michael Higham wrote to suggest he consult another lawyers 'in another town'.

  This is just what the Pilkingtons did, when they eventually found a non-Masonic solicitor in Manchester. In 1987 they were about to fight the will in court, when Ernest Cotton's side made a last-minute offer: half the value of the mother's house and £4,500 for Juneth Pilkington's share in the coach business. This came to £18,000 out of an estate worth some £60,000. Her barrister urged her strongly to accept, to avoid a legal contest which would exhaust the estate and leave her with nothing.

  As a result the will's glaring mistakes ( or Masonic signs) were never tested, nor was the legality of Mrs Cotton's signature nor the issue of her mental state. Instead, a highly suspect will - perhaps made under duress - was laundered and legitimized by the legal process itself. Now the law took its own cut, Juneth had to pay costs of £9,000: half her entire share of the estate.

...  Ernest Cotton in the meantime had been Master of Pilgrim Lodge a second time.  

.... Ernest Cotton has now been awarded the lofty rank of Past Provincial Grand Warden, an honour which goes only to men who embody what the Anchient Charges call 'the benign influence of masonry, as all true masons have done from the beginning of the world, and will do to the end of time'. A former town councillor, Cotton has even had a road named after him.,,

In contrast, Derek Pilkington has been 'excluded' from Pilgrim Lodge for non-payment of dues but, as he told officials, he could not attend until the anti-Masonic deeds of other members of the lodge had been remedied. Derek's unfair dismissal by another Mason and subsequent unemployment were two more reasons  why he could not pay £35 a year. Yet his Brethren resolved that it was Derek Pilkington, and no one else, who was 'void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful Lodge or any other warranted Lodge or society of men, who prize honour and virtue above the external advantages of rank and fortune...'.....

  For many years Worshipful Brother Ernest Cotton ran a funeral business from the same premises as the family coach firm. A decade later, on the shelves of the unlocked and deserted garage, a plastic bag was discovered. It contained the remains of a named individual incinerated at Thornton Crematorium on the 15th November, §974. Out of respect for the man and his family, I shall not name him here... However, his crematorium reference number was C9856. Perhaps he too was a Freemason, Even if he was not, his ashes deserved rather better care from a Masonic undertaker...

 

"..It is an obvious truth, that the privileges of Masonry have long been prostituted for unworthy considerations. and hence their good effects have been less conspicuous.... William Preston, one of Freemason's greatest teachers....written more than 200 years ago by William Preston..

In 1972 William Preston could see his beloved Brotherhood sinking into a 'general odium, or at least a careless in difference'....

Today Freemasonry has an even worse public image that in Preston's day ...but does it deserve it?

In Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood, Martin Short tries to weigh all its good effects against the cost of this enduring prostitution...

 

Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood car has its origins in the pioneering work of Stephen Knight who died in July 1985 aged thirty-three, just eighteen months after the publication of his best-selling, controversial and much-despised expose of Freemasonry, The Brotherhood...

 

 ..... Had Stephen Knight lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen ... Knight from all over the world...

       

Behind Closed Doors-

The power and Influence of Secret Societies

By 

Michael Streeter

The Church of Scientology - 

Fair Game

Ron Hubbard’s (the founder of the Church of Scientology) approach to anyone who disagreed or criticized Scientology – and thhere have been many- could be summed up by his ‘fair game’ policy…This policy was aimed at those who were called ‘Supressive Persons (SP’s). Hubbard believed that about 2,5 percent of the world’s population was an “SP”, this is, someone who wanted to destroy whatever was good or useful in the world.. However, in practice, this meant anyone who was opposed to of Scientology

An example of alleged ‘fair game’ used against those regarded as hostile to Scientology was seen in 2007, during a now notorious BBC investigation into Scientology by reporter John Sweeney.. That investigation is best known for the way in which Sweeney – an experienced journalist who has reported form trouble spots throughout the world – lost his temper during an exchange with a Scientologist spokesman…Sweeney said on the BBC website: “While making our BBC Panorama film “Scientology and me”, I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, been denounced as s “bigot” by star Scientologists and been chased around the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers. Back in Britain strangers have called on my neighbours and my mother-in-law, and someone spied on my wedding and fled the moment he was challenged…

As well as allegedly using such harassment tactics, Scientology has also been accused of trying to curtail freedom of speech on the Internet.  This is a key issue when discussing the impact of the movement on modern society….However, the website run by Andreas Heldal-Lund, in Norway, has continued to publish Scientology material on his website.. He states on his website: ‘After careful consideration I have concluded that these material are being kept secret in order to withhold information form the public, with the sole purpose of deceiving the public as to the true nature of Scientology. I feel it is my moral duty to society to reveal this information to the public in order to alert them as to its nature…Chuck Beatty, who became a Scientologist in 1975 as a young student in Phoenix, Arisona, and stayed for 27 years because he was especially impressed when he learned that, after becom9ing a ‘clear’ and moving on to the higher levels known as ‘Opertating Thetan’ or the ‘OT’ levels, he would learn to ‘zoom around the universe like Falsh Gordon’. He adds: ‘What a perfect idea! Instead of being bound by earth and archaic religions, this was like a space-age religion,’ says Chuck Beatty…’of course, after 27 years you find out that nobody is doing this stuff. It’s a complete fucking scam – it’s outrageous.”

Organisation and structure of The Church of Scientology

The Scientology organization operates through a variety of different bodies throughout the world.. For Ron Hubbard, the group’s structure and discipline was no incidental occurrence, but an integral part of Scientology.. Chuck Beatty was a member of what is called the Sea organization (“Sea Org”). this organisation provides the staff members for the upper echelons of  Scientology, and is known as its religious order, or ‘Vatican’. As Beatty refers to it. According to Scientology’s own description: #Sea org members work long hours and live communally with housing, meals, uniforms, medical and dental care provided by the Church. They participate in Scientology training and auditing during a portion of each day, but otherwise dedicate themselves to furthering the objectives of Scientology through particular functions.’

Long-standing critics of the movement are less kind. ‘Scientology actually has a lot in common with the worst excesses of the Nazis, with the Sea Org playing the role of the Gastapo,’ says Professor Touretzky. ‘It is the  only “church” with its own intelligence branch, called the Office of Special Affairs,” According to Beatty, ‘as well as keeping dossiers on ‘enemies’ of Scientology, this office (where Beatty’s second wife had worked) also circulated the bad press that Hubbard and Scientology attracted in what are called ‘pass arounds’, with the aim of helping them counter negative publicity. Members of the Sea org ( Beatty included) sign ‘billion-year contracts’ as part of their commitment Scientology and the Sea Org…

The Sea Org started life in 1967, when for a period of seven years Scientology was run by Ron Hubbard form on board a boat…in reality the relocation was probably due to the fact that Scientology had been running into problems with various governments around the world, and the sea was one place where the organization could operate without hindrance, ( Operation from the sea could also have been a way of testing potential safe havens). Scientology’s clashed with various governments, parliaments and legal systems go right to the heart of the concerns about the influence of the Scientology

Movement. Following an official report in Australia, for example, the Church of Scientology was banned form operating under that name and as a religion in some states form the mid 1960’s..This ban was overturned in 12983, when a court ruled that the organization was entitles to operate as a religion..

   

 


The Brotherhood
The Secret World of the Freemasons
By Stephen Knight



The Secret World of the Freemasons
 
HarperCollins UK, 2007 - Social Science - 326 pages
This is a classic and highly controversial expose of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of "Inside the Brotherhood". The Freemasons have long fascinated outsiders. The subject of Dan Brown's new novel - set for release in 2007 - this secret and exclusive society, thought to be the largest in Britain today, remains a mystery to the many excluded from its ranks. One would never know if a father or brother was a member due to the mandatory vow of secrecy. In this classic, controversial expose, Stephen Knight talks to the men on the inside - those who have broken their vow of secrecy to reveal the darker side of the 'brotherhood'. Do they influence the law? Is the KGB involved? And is there is a secret group of Masons running the country today, perhaps influencing every move we make? Fully updated with a new introduction by Martin Short, acclaimed author of "Inside the Brotherhood", this is the unmissable, true story of an ancient, and mysterious brotherhood operating in our midst. 
http://www.blackstarreview.com/rev-0155.html


Stephen Knight
by Richard Whittington-Egan 
Stephen Knight was born, a Wednesday’s child, on September 26th, 1951, at Hainault, Essex. He attended West Hatch Technical High School, at nearby Chigwell, where, in his own words, he was “unsuccessfully educated”, and told by his teachers, “Your future lies in ruin before you.” He was inclined to agree when he took his first job as a trainee showroom salesman for the London Electricity Board. 
But he had already made up his mind that what he really wanted was to be a journalist, and found himself facing the first – and toughest – assignment that any journalist ever has to cope with: getting a foothold in the profession. Determination stood him in good stead. In 1969, aged eighteen, he succeeded in having himself accepted as a trainee junior reporter on the Ilford Pictorial, and when that paper folded about his still-wet ears, contrived a desk place on the Ilford Recorder. Sacked somewhat prematurely from the Recorder, he achieved a smooth, upwardly mobile transition to the Hornchurch Echo, where, at the age of twenty, he was promoted to chief reporter. For a month’s span in 1973, he worked on the East London Advertiser, before rejoining the staff of the Ilford Recorder, where he became chief reporter and subsequently feature-writer-cum-dramatic-critic-cum-book-reviewer. 
Still restless, he parted company again with the Recorder, this time of his own volition, in 1975, to take up a position on the Travel Trade Gazette, but was off on his own travels again in 1976, as a full-time, self-employed writer, following the enormous success of The Final Solution. 
He had meanwhile married Margot Kenrick, acquiring two stepdaughters, Natasha and Nicole, and, in 1977, she bore him a baby daughter of his own, Nanouska. The following year, he, Margot, and Nanouska took a trip to Australia. In August 1978, from Singapore, en route, he sent me a cheerful postcard. Later, he told me that he was scenting the antipodean track of Constance Kent, the young fratricide of Road Hill House, who would, in 1979, stand fully discovered and revealed by Bernard Taylor in his definitive book on the case, Cruelly Murdered, as the one hundred year old Miss Ruth Emilie Kaye, who had died, full of redemptive honours – a congratulatory message from the King and Queen no less – after a career of nursing lepers, on April 10th, 1944, in a rest home in the municipality of Strathfield, New South Wales. 
In 1979 Knight produced his first novel, an Edwardian detective story really, with a supernatural tinge, Requiem at Rogano. He did not, I remember, like the publisher’s choice of title. He told me that he had wanted to call it The Heretics of Rogano. It was generally well received. A satisfactory successor to his Ripper book. 
After all this early-flowering success, the year 1980 was to prove his, as majestic language has it, annus horribilis; and in a most unexpected way. It began low key and innocuously enough, with Knight’s seeing an advertisement which appeared in the London Evening Standard seeking people who suffered from epilepsy to take part in a B.B.C. Horizon programme documentary on the disease. He answered it because he wanted to have an opportunity of talking about the public’s misunderstanding of the illness. 
Three years before – in 1977 – he had started to have epileptic episodes. “When I was ten, I was hit on the head by a cricket bat.” The doctors believed that a consequent area of dead tissue discovered in the brain was the causal factor. Recently, his epileptic fits had been steadily increasing in intensity and duration. “Not knowing why was,” he said, “rather frightening.” 


Inside The Brotherhood –
Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons 
by Martin Short
 
"..It is an obvious truth, that the privileges of Masonry have long been prostituted for unworthy considerations. and hence their good effects have been less conspicuous.... William Preston, one of Freemason's greatest teachers....written more than 200 years ago by William Preston..
In 1972 William Preston could see his beloved Brotherhood sinking into a 'general odium, or at least a careless in difference'....
Today Freemasonry has an even worse public image that in Preston's day ...but does it deserve it? 
In Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood, Martin Short tries to weigh all its good effects against the cost of this enduring prostitution...
 
Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood car has its origins in the pioneering work of Stephen Knight who died in July 1985 aged thirty-three, just eighteen months after the publication of his best-selling, controversial and much-despised expose of Freemasonry, The Brotherhood...
 
 has he lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen Knight from all over the world...


Outline history of Modern FREEMASONARY
Stonemasons of medieval timers propably spent their entire working lives on a few big sites: a cathedral, some churches and maybe a secular building such as a castle.On each site some kind of hut or 'lodge' wuld be ereted where masons could shelter in bad weather, store tools, organise work rotas and even sleep or 'lodge'. Cathedr5als mighttake hundreds of years to build, so lodges took on a near permanent from, Stone masons seem to hve developed a system of mutual aid, and at times exercised great economic power. After the Black Daeth of 1348-9, which killed as many as 1.5 million people in Britain, there was such a shortage if stonemasons that the survivors were able to bargain high wages through assemblies. By 1425 the assemblies had become so powerfdul that they were ourlawed by Parliament and anyone ateending them risked imprisonment.
  Through their 'lodges' the stone masons protetced themsleves against a harsh and unforgiving world. Theysafeguarded their own jobs, and maintained work standards, through a controlled rank structure of three degrees: aprentice, fellow craft and master mason. They also laid down rukes governing relations between masons and with the world at large.  Like the cit guilds of the day, thet seem to have given charity to members in hard times.
The word 'lodgte' is little more than a word which modern masons have borrowed from the old stonemasons, and there are other features common to both groups of men, notably a passion for secrecy. Within their early lodges the stonemasons probable 'worked'rituals in which initiates swore not to reveal the skills and trade secrets of their craft. To block infiltration by unskilled outwsiders, the early stomemasons may have devised a sectret code of passwords, handshakes and other signs of recognition.If so, it was these elements which ensured that lodges, in quite another form, would far outlast the men who had set them up.
The early stonemasons were completely dependent on money from Rome and the Catholic Church to fund the building of cathedrals ..if the church in England broke with Rome and the Church no loger had the assets and incometo pay for neww cathedralz, abbeys or5 parish churches, then the stonemasons would be amoung the first to suffer.
In 1534, the unthinkable happened, Henry VIII broke with Rome, denied the authority of the Pope, became an Anglican, and through England into Reformation. In a few year he seized the Churches wealth, disolved and  dispossed the monestries ande brought ecclesiastical building to a halt. Suddenly the number of stonemasons far exceeded demand. and they lost their bargaining power.  Their lodges decayed and their assets, if any, were looted by the State. In 1545 Henry desperately needed money 'for the mainenance of the present wars'. This gave Henry VIII the excuse to  confiscate the assets of all 'fraturnities, brotherhoods and guilds'.  These were Catholic institutions, so their assets were fair game. By 1600 most fraturnities had disappeared along with their records, w3hich is why the  true history of the stonemasons is anybody's guess.
A few lodges survived, but only by throwibg membership open to men who had never worked stome in their lives, such as merchants, landed gentlemen and aristocrats. Soon there 'speculative masons', s they came to be called, far outnumbered the 'operative stonemasons, or 'working masons' who had let them ujoin. The earliest surviving complete membership roll of any lodge is for Aberdeen in 1670. Of forty-nine master and fellow craft members only ten were working masons. Another fifteen were artisans:carpenters, slaters, glaziers, wigmakers, a smith, an armorer, a hookmaker and a cardmaker. All the rest would now be middleclass: nine merchants, three clergymen, three gentlemen, two surgeons, a collector of customs, a lawyer, a professor of mathematics and four noblemen, of whome three were earls. Quite a slate for town of only 8,000 souls...with the lodge turning into a predominantly Protestant g4entlemen's club. The name 'lodge' was reatoined, but rather as the facade of an old building is preserved to maintain a historic appearane. Behind it the old structure has been demonished and a new one is rising in its place....
By this time lodges were also claiming to be schools of moral instruction, which is where the image of the stonemasons -ainstakingly learning his craft came in handy... Each tool- the square, compasses, level, plumbline, gauge, gavel, chisel - became the symbol o  soem process in man's moral  and spiritual perfection..
After hisinitiation, the 'Entered Aprentice' is told he is like a rough stone or Ashlar, 'in his infant or primitive state'.  He is then meticulously hewn into a perfect Ashlar, ' a fit member of civilized society', presumably through the arts of Freemasonry.
However, this high morlaizing fell on death ears. Many eighteeth-centuary Masons used their lodges only as social clubs, indulging in 'the dissipations of luxury and intemperance'. If this had been Freemaonsry's only charm, it would have soon died out, like many other drink-sodden fraturnities of the day. There had to be another incentive to attend. ...he may have been more attracted by a realization that tis honourable facade could provide cover for less honourable activities: not moral but align, not social but self serving. In Aberdeen, for instace, the lodge's social-mix would have made it one of the best places to learn what was going on in local business, in politics and in almost every Aberdonian's private life. Altjough lodges might claim to inculcate Masonry's 'peculiar system of morality', they could easily become cells of intrigue, self advancement and corruption.
....Less strident Masonic historians admit, the rituals worked today were not devised until the early 1700's. For instance, the stonemaons never uttered  the sadistic oaths or 'obligations' traditionally sworn by candidates as they enter modern Masonry's three "Craft" degrees. All evidence indicates that these were invented by Freemasonry's eighteenth century masters who fund the genuine oaths far too tame for their purpose...
In Freemasonry's first degree the initiate, candidate or would-be Apprentice, swears he will never reveal any of the Craft's secrets or mysteries. He further promises not to write down those secrets or mysteries in any form or to 'cause or suffer to be done by others is in my ower to prevent it, on anything movable or immovable, under the canopy of Heaven....'


 
..An increasing section of the public seem to think Freemasons are guided by greed and self-interest, and constitute nothing less than England's 'Mafia'..
This might be unjust, but the Mafia tag sticks because lodges rarely punish brethren who break to criminal law. In the past thirty years (until September 1988) Grand Lodge has expelled only seven Freemasons for criminal acts, even though many more have been 
convicted of spectacular crimes
even though many more have been convicted of spectacular crimes...
Social pressures make it difficult for an honest mason to complain about criminal or immoral conduct by his brothers...Indeed it is he, not the wrongdoers, who faces ostracism and even exclusions form his lodge. he will probably opt for the less couragess route of quietly withdrawing from Freemasonry, embittered at what he sees as the sham, humbug and hypocrisy whereby serious abuses go unpunished...
 
A prime example is Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson who was installed as Worshipful master of the Waterways Lodge ( no. 7913) on Tuesday 13th November, 1979 have only been initiated into Freemasonry only seven years earlier...with his Freemason brethren having lauded him as a man of good report, true and trust...but Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson was a crook.. indeed Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson was an underworld figure of considerable status...as V became a master of the Waterways Lodge. Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson was one of London's top 100 criminal, according to a secret booklet then being circulated in the Flying and Robbery Squads of the London Metropolitan Police.. with known convictions for going equipped to steal, handling stolen goods, shop-breaking etc...with the criminal intelligence officers who complied the report having delivered their most serious observation in the last line: 'Modus Operandi ( criminal specialty) …Armed Robbery...
..It is further noted that by the time the Waterways Lodge elected Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson as Master, its members included several policemen ..One was Superintendent John Brian McNeil who, until 1978, had been chief inspector in the Flying Squad ..it seems rather odd that, having joined the lodge five years earlier...McNeil had picked up nothing about Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson's criminal background...Superintendent John Brian McNeil  seems to have been very conveniently officially been unaware of the Top 100 criminal Lists circulating in Flying Squad Offices .. which included the name the Waterways Lodge elected Master Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson ..yet with so many Flying Squad detectives’ 'on the square', it would seem extra-ordinary if none of them had tipped off McNeil about his fast-moving Masonic Colleague...if they really did believe Gibson was open of London's top 100 gangsters, they must have carried out surveillance on him and probably tailed him to lodge meetings at Southgate...
..to cut along story short...the Waterways Lodge elected Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson as Master confessed to being involved with the robbery on the 24th March 1980, of £3.4 million worth of silver at gun point from a lorry, heading to the port of Tilbury for onward shipment to east Germany....one of the gang dressed in a police uniform with two bogus Ministry of Transport officials pulled out a pistol and a sawn-off shotgun and forced the bullion driver, his companion and a security guard into the back of a van .. the trio received very light sentences of only 10 years and the Waterways Lodge elected Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson as Master came out of prison in 1986.. only serving about 5 years in prison in a comfortable open prison at Spring Hill Open Prison in Buckinghamshire......
..the Waterways Lodge elected Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson as Master was never expelled and/or suspended from Freemasonry.. he did not have to re-join as he had never left the Waterways Lodge and during his five years away in prison had remained on the roll as a 'country member'...
..In 1987 one frightened Waterways members told me: 'Gibson's name is still on the list, but what can I do about it? I'm an ordinary brother. Of course it's a scandal, but don't tell anyone I told you. It's more than my life's worth.'
Facinating examples of Masonic skullduggery'...Observer
 
'A judicious investigation, and Short puts forward a devastating case for the prosecution … Short produces a persuasive testimony that Freemasonry has become a scourge and a disease in jobs in the public service.. Martin Short cites some fascinating and entirely credible examples of Masonic skullduggery -and of Broth ranged viciously against Brother... It is difficult to dispute Short's conclusion that disclosure of their Masonic membership by those in positions of power should be made obligatory...'...Piers Brendon, Observer
 
When the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee decently recommended that police officers, magistrates, judges and crown officers should publicly register their Masonic membership, it was very largely thanks to the ammunition provided by Martin Short's investigative tour de force. Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood carried on the pioneering work begun by Stephen Knight's explosive account of The Brotherhood.
Approximately half a million men in the England and Wales and a further over 400,000 in Scotland.. and a further over 5 million elsewhere around the world-- are Freemasons. Inside the Brotherhood examines what kind of men join Freemasonry (known as the Craft)- and why... 
Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood carried investigates, the occult elements in Masonry whether its rituals should ne seen as a religion - and, is so, what God is being worshipped. And, relying or' first-hand evidence where-ever possible, the book probes the extent to which Masonic paths of mutual aid and secrecy have contaminated the fraternity, aroused mounting hostility form churches, politicians and public, and provoked charges of corruption in key areas of British life, including the police force, local government, the City, and the secret services...
 
'Given the nature of the subject, it is doubtful if a more conclusive book could have been written'...Alan Rushbridger. Times Literary Supplement...
 
'An anatomy of vice .. I recommend it' .. Mark Archer, The Spectator


Freemasonry- The Reality
By
Tobias Caurton
 
P523
 
..” A parliamentary select committee led by campaigning MP, Chris |Mullen ( labour) had read Martin Short’s Anti-Masonic book… “Inside the Brotherhood”…Short found alleged “evidence” of  favourtism in the police and the judiciary in Britain…however ( wrongly or rightly) found no single case of provable  corruption to bring to the bar of justice ( it is noted that the Grand Lodge of England has never denied that it occasionally finds a “Bad apple in the barrel”.. they are then expelled)..
…Jesus was not a socialist and has no interest in democracy..
…in the bible, the majority is always wrong.. David slays Goliath…
….Christ found himself against the people…
…to any wise man or woman, the notion that large numbers of people know anything better than small numbers of people is parable nonsense…
….Hitler was voted in by popular vote in 1933….
..the genius of mankind has always had to struggle with ignorance of his so called fellows…
….democracy as a defense against tyranny is one thing, used in the interests of tyranny, it is itself tyrannical…
..charity for the poor is the duty of the gentleman and the conviction of the lady .. it has never been a priority of ‘society’ as a whole .. welfare is an insurance system not an act of loving charity …
….legal measures were required to care for the disabled and unemployable only after the monasteries, the guilds and the contraternities were smashed during the reformation…
…the church does not engage in charity fort eh sake of “society”, but because it is seen as the sign of Christian Love expected by the saviour from his “sheep”…
….the state cannot function as a religious society .. history demonstrates that time and time again .. if politicians wish to invoke the word of the saints, the should renounce all their worldly goods and ambitions and follow the “way, the truth and the life” for its own sake ….. The fact is that politicians want power, and that power invariably comes from outside themselves…the people give it to them as an act of insurance .. the people, it is argued, can hardly complain of the consequences, when they are so ready to abrogate so much responsibility at the ballot box ..in this sense, politics is a sign of human weakness, usually accompanied by folly…
…the principle of the ‘sovereignty of the individual’  is the only defence against creeping state tyranny….
Freemasons: Inside the World’s Oldest Secret Society
 
By H. Paul Jeffers
Written in 2005
 
Chapter 20
The Future of Freemasonry
 
Of the world’s estimated 5.9 Freemasons, the majority live in the United States ( 4 million). Most of the other can be found in English-speaking nations. Statistics for English Masonry are somewhat unreliable because an individual can belong to more than one lodge. Worldwide estimates place the membership as follows:
(a)   England and Wales at 550,000
(b)    Scotland at 400,000 ( likely that the greater of these are based in or near Edinburgh)
(c)    Ireland at 47,000
(d)   Canada and United States at 4.1 million
(e)   Europe at 80,000
(f)     Australasia at 375,000
(g)   Latin America at 50,000
(h)   Philippines at 10,000
(i)     Other areas ( India, Japan, Formosa, Africa and Israel) at 288,000
 
 It is very interesting to note that the population of Scotland was about 5 million in 2005
And Edinburgh about 400,000 to 500,000 and Glasgow at about 600,000
It seems that about 10% of the population of Scotland are Freemasons
And taking to two major cities and Edinburgh and Glasgow.. making up about 1-1.2 million people combined it seems that one could argue that the bulk of the Scottish Freemasons are based in these two cities… this would mean that one could futher say that it is likely that over 30% or more of the population of Edinburgh and Glasgow are Freemasons .. which would mean that most of the top executive, government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal jobs are filled by Freemasons.. and it seems clear that for one to progress in Scotland in the government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal world once simply has to be a Freemason… this would mean that it is likely that the greater percentage if not nearly all of the male persons working as a Lord, Judge, Sherriff, clerk, solicitors, advocate etc would be a Freemason and if a person who is a party litigant ( litigant in person and not a layer) is arguing a case against a trained solicitor/advocate-Freemason in front of a Freemason Lord, Judge, Sherriff .. what chance have they of having an fair and unbiased hearing in Scotland?…obviously none…
 
Chapter 9
The Mystery of Mozart’s “The being involved in the death of Mozart…
With the allegation that Mozart had hiiden under the pro-masonic surface of the opera a secret counter plot in which Tammino was Mozart, Pamina was Marie Antoinette, and Pamina’s captors were Freemasons..In the scenario, Mozart’as murder was part of a Masonic conspiracy to assassinate Leopold II, as well as Gustav III of Sweden, who was actually murdered at a masked ball a few months after Mozarts death. The plot originated seventy years later ( in1981) by Geirge Friendrich Daumer, a researcher of antiques, a religious fanatic, and an anti-semite. His work would be seized byb a nazi leader in the 1930’s. General Erich Ludendorff, along with his wife, Mathilde, asserted that the secret of Freemasonry was “the Jew” and that Freemasonry’s goal was to “rob the Germans of their national pride and to assure the glorious future of the Jewish people..
In 1931, Nazi Party officials were given a Guide and Instructional Letter” that said “the hostility of the peasant against the Jews and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy…”
 The Reich main Security Office determined that masonry was not only part of the “Jewish problem” but also “ an autonomous ideology with political power” that ruled the press and public opinion and motivated wars and revolutions…
In Czechoslovakia when the Nazi’s entered the country in 1939, 4,000 Freemasons were arrested and many were sent to concentration camps.. less that 5% of Czech Freemasons escaped to England and formed a Grand Lodge Comenius in Exile.
In Germany, France, Italy Morocco, the Spanish Canary Islands and Spain.. Freemasons and their lodges were banned, outlawed and Freemasonry was made a criminal offence and many were arrested and killed and/or sent to concentration camps…. Anyone who did not denounce masonry and reveal to the police the names of all mason with whom he had been associated faced imprisonment….
Hitler himself decreed “Freemasons and the ideological enemies of National Socialism who are allied with them are the originators of the present war..”


Chapter 5

Dr. James Anderson’s constitution
Dr. James Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, around August 5th, 1662.
A doctor of Divinity… James Anderson had become a hero of Scottish nationalism by publishing “An Essay Showing That the Crown of Scotland Is Imperial and Independent and became a prominent and well respected Freemason….. Dr. James Anderson was called upon to write a new code of Freemasonry called “The CONSTITUTION, history, Laws, Charges, Orders, Regulations, and Usages, of  the Right Worshipful FRATURNITY of ACCEPTED FREE MASONS ( which was collected from their General RECORDS, and their faithful TRADITIONS of many Ages)”….
which after it was competed meant he was enshrined in the lore of the Craft as “the father of Freemasonry History”.
. In A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry composed by Arthur Edward Waite, Dr. James Anderson is described “as a son of Aberdeen”, where he earned a doctorate and served somewhere as a Presbyterian minister and “ultimately drifted to London prior ot 1710.”
 
Exert of the Summary of the Constitution of Freemasonry by Dr James Anderson
 
“…Finally, all these Charges you are to observe, and also those that shall be recommended to you in another Way, cultivating Brotherly Love, the Foundation and Cap-stone, the Cement and Glory of this Ancient Fraternity, avoiding all wrangling and quarrelling, all Slander and Backbiting, nor permitting others to slander any honest Broth, but defending his Character, and doing him all good Offices, as far as is consistent with your Honour and safety, and no farther…And if any of them do you Injury you must apply to your own or his Lodge, and from thence you may appeal to the Grand Lodge, at the Quarterly Communication and from thence to the annual Grand Lodge, as has been the ancient laudable Conduct but when the case cannot ne otherwise decided, and patiently listening to the honest and friendly Advice of master and Fellows when they would prevent your going to Law with Strangers; but with respect to brothers or Fellows at Law, the master and Brethren should offer their mediation, which ought to be thankfully submitted to by the contending Brethren; and if that submissions is impracticable, they must, however, carry on their process, or lawsuit, without Wrath and Rancor ( not In the common way) saying or doing nothing which may hinder Brotherly Love, and good offices to be renewed and continued; that all may see the benign Influence of Masonry, as all true Masons have done form the beginning of the World, and will do to the End of Time…”


Freemasons: Inside the World’s Oldest Secret Society
 
By H. Paul Jeffers
Written in 2005
 
Chapter 20
The Future of Freemasonry
 
Of the world’s estimated 5.9 Freemasons, the majority live in the United States ( 4 million). Most of the other can be found in English-speaking nations. Statistics for English Masonry are somewhat unreliable because an individual can belong to more than one lodge. Worldwide estimates place the membership as follows:
(a)   England and Wales at 550,000
(b)    Scotland at 400,000 ( likely that the greater of these are based in or near Edinburgh)
(c)    Ireland at 47,000
(d)   Canada and United States at 4.1 million
(e)   Europe at 80,000
(f)     Australasia at 375,000
(g)   Latin America at 50,000
(h)   Philippines at 10,000
(i)     Other areas ( India, Japan, Formosa, Africa and Israel) at 288,000
 
 It is very interesting to note that the population of Scotland was about 5 million in 2005
And Edinburgh about 400,000 to 500,000 and Glasgow at about 600,000
It seems that about 10% of the population of Scotland are Freemasons
And taking to two major cities and Edinburgh and Glasgow.. making up about 1-1.2 million people combined it seems that one could argue that the bulk of the Scottish Freemasons are based in these two cities… this would mean that one could futher say that it is likely that over 30% or more of the population of Edinburgh and Glasgow are Freemasons .. which would mean that most of the top executive, government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal jobs are filled by Freemasons.. and it seems clear that for one to progress in Scotland in the government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal world once simply has to be a Freemason… this would mean that it is likely that the greater percentage if not nearly all of the male persons working as a Lord, Judge, Sherrif, clerk, solicitors, advocate etc would be a Freemason and if a person who I sa party litigant ( litigant in person and not a layer) is arguing a case against a trained solicitor/advocate-Freemason in front of a Freemason Lord, Judge, Sherrif.. what chance have they of having an fair and unbiased hearing in Scotland?…obviously none…
 
Chapter 9
The Mystery of Mozart’s “The being involved in the death of Mozart…
With the allegation that Mozart had hiiden under the pro-masonic surface of the opera a secret counter plot in which Tammino was Mozart, Pamina was Marie Antoinette, and Pamina’s captors were Freemasons..In the scenario, Mozart’as murder was part of a Masonic conspiracy to assassinate Leopold II, as well as Gustav III of Sweden, who was actually murdered at a masked ball a few months after Mozarts death. The plot originated seventy years later ( in1981) by Geirge Friendrich Daumer, a researcher of antiques, a religious fanatic, and an anti-semite. His work would be seized byb a nazi leader in the 1930’s. General Erich Ludendorff, along with his wife, Mathilde, asserted that the secret of Freemasonry was “the Jew” and that Freemasonry’s goal was to “rob the Germans of their national pride and to assure the glorious future of the Jewish people..
In 1931, Nazi Party officials were given a Guide and Instructional Letter” that said “the hostility of the peasant against the Jews and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy…”
 The Reich main Security Office determined that masonry was not only part of the “Jewish problem” but also “ an autonomous ideology with political power” that ruled the press and public opinion and motivated wars and revolutions…
In Czechoslovakia when the Nazi’s entered the country in 1939, 4,000 Freemasons were arrested and many were sent to concentration camps.. less that 5% of Czech Freemasons escaped to England and formed a Grand Lodge Comenius in Exile.
In Germany, France, Italy Morocco, the Spanish Canary Islands and Spain.. Freemasons and their lodges were banned, outlawed and Freemasonry was made a criminal offence and many were arrested and killed and/or sent to concentration camps…. Anyone who did not denounce masonry and reveal to the police the names of all mason with whom he had been associated faced imprisonment….
Hitler himself decreed “Freemasons and the ideological enemies of National Socialism who are allied with them are the originators of the present war..”
 
 
Chapter 5
Dr. James Anderson’s constitution
Dr. James Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, around August 5th, 1662.
A doctor of Divinity… James Anderson had become a hero of Scottish nationalism by publishing “An Essay Showing That the Crown of Scotland Is Imperial and Independent and became a prominent and well respected Freemason….. Dr. James Anderson was called upon to write a new code of Freemasonry called “The CONSTITUTION, history, Laws, Charges, Orders, Regulations, and Usages, of  the Right Worshipful FRATURNITY of ACCEPTED FREE MASONS ( which was collected from their General RECORDS, and their faithful TRADITIONS of many Ages)”….
which after it was competed meant he was enshrined in the lore of the Craft as “the father of Freemasonry History”.
. In A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry composed by Arthur Edward Waite, Dr. James Anderson is described “as a son of Aberdeen”, where he earned a doctorate and served somewhere as a Presbyterian minister and “ultimately drifted to London prior ot 1710.”
 
Exert of the Summary of the Constitution of Freemasonry by Dr James Anderson
 
“…Finally, all these Charges you are to observe, and also those that shall be recommended to you in another Way, cultivating Brotherly Love, the Foundation and Cap-stone, the Cement and Glory of this Ancient Fraternity, avoiding all wrangling and quarrelling, all Slander and Backbiting, nor permitting others to slander any honest Broth, but defending his Character, and doing him all good Offices, as far as is consistent with your Honour and safety, and no farther…And if any of them do you Injury you must apply to your own or his Lodge, and from thence you may appeal to the Grand Lodge, at the Quarterly Communication and from thence to the annual Grand Lodge, as has been the ancient laudable Conduct but when the case cannot ne otherwise decided, and patiently listening to the honest and friendly Advice of master and Fellows when they would prevent your going to Law with Strangers; but with respect to brothers or Fellows at Law, the master and Brethren should offer their mediation, which ought to be thankfully submitted to by the contending Brethren; and if that submissions is impracticable, they must, however, carry on their process, or lawsuit, without Wrath and Rancor ( not In the common way) saying or doing nothing which may hinder Brotherly Love, and good offices to be renewed and continued; that all may see the benign Influence of Masonry, as all true Masons have done form the beginning of the World, and will do to the End of Time…”


The Brotherhood: 
The Secret World of the Freemasons
 
HarperCollins UK, 2007 - Social Science - 326 pages
This is a classic and highly controversial expose of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of "Inside the Brotherhood". The Freemasons have long fascinated outsiders. The subject of Dan Brown's new novel - set for release in 2007 - this secret and exclusive society, thought to be the largest in Britain today, remains a mystery to the many excluded from its ranks. One would never know if a father or brother was a member due to the mandatory vow of secrecy. In this classic, controversial expose, Stephen Knight talks to the men on the inside - those who have broken their vow of secrecy to reveal the darker side of the 'brotherhood'. Do they influence the law? Is the KGB involved? And is there is a secret group of Masons running the country today, perhaps influencing every move we make? Fully updated with a new introduction by Martin Short, acclaimed author of "Inside the Brotherhood", this is the unmissable, true story of an ancient, and mysterious brotherhood operating in our midst. 
http://www.blackstarreview.com/rev-0155.html
 
Keywords: Freemasonry 
Title: The Brotherhood 
Author: Stephen Knight 
Publisher: Harper Collins 
Media: Book 
Reviewer: Doug Lowe 


In this case the 'brotherhood' being Freemasonry. This is a subject rarely discussed on the Left but we shouldn't underestimate them.
Many socialists tend to view Freemasons with merely amused contempt because of their strange rituals but, as Knight points out, behind these bizarre rites lie more serious issues. We're not talking about conspiracies as such (although their secretiveness leaves them open to such interpretations). We'll leave the paranoia to others.
There are millions of Freemasons around the world and an estimated 3/4 million in Britain. They claim to stand for 'morality, fraternity and charity'. Accordingly, they make large donations to charity and take care of their fellow members and relatives when bereavement and sickness strike.
But membership itself is strictly controlled. British Freemasonry is exclusively male and overwhelmingly middle class. It is open only to those with enough money to cope with the expense involved (and that can be considerable). Freemasons are mainly businessmen and 'professional' people - policemen, bank managers, lawyers, senior civil servants etc. Shop floor workers and clerks are definite no-no's. Catholic and Jewish people are not excluded, since class counts for more than religious persuasion. I get the impression from Knight that the same 'tolerance' is not likely to be extended to non-'white' people.
Although Masons claim a direct line back into the mists of time, this is just part of the mystical shroud it cloaks itself in. In fact, the real beginnings of Freemasonry (as we understand it today) coincided with the rise of a confident and growing middle class in the Seventeenth Century. It was an expression of their assertiveness and growing identity. Its exclusiveness and secrecy was also an expression of its fear and hatred of the growing working classes.
Now, with the ruling class long-entrenched in its power and privileges, Freemasonry is an extremely hierarchical, respectable and conservative group concerned to maintain the status quo. This is, of course, reflected in its membership. The rituals, oaths, mystical jargon and symbols are merely a way of binding them together against 'outsiders'. This obviously helps to reinforce class loyalties.
Most of this is documented by Knight, who then proceeds to show how many Masons use their membership to advance in business, win promotion and generally 'improve' their wealth and positions.
He used his contacts (Masonic and non-Masonic) to look into instances of corruption involving Masons. Amongst other things, he claims that 'the corruption which led to Operation Countryman...would never have arisen had a masonic City of London police commissioner in the 1970s not turned a blind eye to the activities of several desperately corrupt Freemasons under his command'. He also cites the infamous Poulson case as an example of Masons abusing their membership for corrupt ends.
But, as he himself points out, it can be argued that the possibilities for corruption are not confined to those with Masonic contacts. This is where Knight really goes off the rails. He seems concerned that the 'impartiality' of the police and judiciary might be impaired by 'corrupt' Masons using their influence 'unfairly'. His is a Britain where there are a few 'bad apples' in various parts of the State who use Freemasonry for selfish ends. But the key supporting institutions of capitalism - the City, police, judiciary, civil service etc. are riddled with inherent possibilities for dirty dealings anyway, 'legal' or 'illegal'. 
In certain situations it is undoubtedly true that being a Mason is helpful because of the organisation they can use for their benefit. But wheeling and dealing isn't confined to Freemasonry. In any case, when it comes to capitalism and its main institutions Masons are 'loyal citizens' and loyalty to fellow Masons is ultimately secondary.
Naturally, socialists should expose corruption but, unlike Knight, I couldn't care less if a barrister on £xxxxx thousands a year gains promotion aheade of another one because of his Masonic contacts.
As the book proceeds, we head into other familiar territory. He rambles on at length about the dangers of infiltration of Freemasonry by hostile foreign intelligence services. He seems terrified that a major scandal involving Freemasonty would have disastrous effects because it contains many 'top' businessmen, politicians and royals etc. This would cause 'popular revulsion against the whole established order, Government and business', turned to their advantage by unscrupulous extremists. He therefore concludes that the ruling class should do its utmost to weed out the few 'bad apples' who use Fremasonry for 'corrupt ends'.
This is Fantasy Island, of course. The whole orchard is rotten to the core.
Having said that, it is a book worth a glance at as it gives a useful insight into the mentality and workings of Freemasonry. Freemasonry itself is not something that the Left should be overly concerned about - there are clearly a lot more pressing issues. Masonry will only become a real threat during and after a revolution, as one of many organisations attempting to use its power and influence to organise against socialism. Then Freemasonry will have to be destroyed as any other counter-revolutionary institution. Some time to go before that becomes an issue, though!
 
 
Stephen Knight (author)
Stephen Knight (26 September 1951 at Hainault, Essex - 25 July 1985) was a British author.
He is best known for the books Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1976) and The Brotherhood (1984).
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution suggested that those murders were part of a conspiracy between Masons and the royal family, a claim which is not accepted by historians. Nevertheless, the book became popular as the inspiration for works of fiction, among them the 1978 film Murder by Decree by Bob Clark and the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. The latter was adapted, very loosely, into a film by the Hughes brothers in 2001.
The Brotherhood was published at a time when Freemasonry was coming under feverish scrutiny in the United Kingdom.
Knight also wrote the books Cruelly Murdered, Requiem at Rogano and The Killing of Justice Godfrey. He was a religious follower of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and, as a part of this interest, took the name Swami Puja Debal. He struggled with epilepsy for much of his life and was discovered to have a brain tumour in 1980 while taking part in the documentary TV programme Horizon. The tumour was removed, but returned in 1984. Knight died in 1985 at the age of 33.
Stephen Knight obituary
Review of Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
Detailed analysis of Knight's Masonic Ripper claims
http://casebook.org/authors/obituaries/knight.html
 
Stephen Knight
by Richard Whittington-Egan 
Stephen Knight was born, a Wednesday’s child, on September 26th, 1951, at Hainault, Essex. He attended West Hatch Technical High School, at nearby Chigwell, where, in his own words, he was “unsuccessfully educated”, and told by his teachers, “Your future lies in ruin before you.” He was inclined to agree when he took his first job as a trainee showroom salesman for the London Electricity Board. 
But he had already made up his mind that what he really wanted was to be a journalist, and found himself facing the first – and toughest – assignment that any journalist ever has to cope with: getting a foothold in the profession. Determination stood him in good stead. In 1969, aged eighteen, he succeeded in having himself accepted as a trainee junior reporter on the Ilford Pictorial, and when that paper folded about his still-wet ears, contrived a desk place on the Ilford Recorder. Sacked somewhat prematurely from the Recorder, he achieved a smooth, upwardly mobile transition to the Hornchurch Echo, where, at the age of twenty, he was promoted to chief reporter. For a month’s span in 1973, he worked on the East London Advertiser, before rejoining the staff of the Ilford Recorder, where he became chief reporter and subsequently feature-writer-cum-dramatic-critic-cum-book-reviewer. 
Still restless, he parted company again with the Recorder, this time of his own volition, in 1975, to take up a position on the Travel Trade Gazette, but was off on his own travels again in 1976, as a full-time, self-employed writer, following the enormous success of The Final Solution. 
He had meanwhile married Margot Kenrick, acquiring two stepdaughters, Natasha and Nicole, and, in 1977, she bore him a baby daughter of his own, Nanouska. The following year, he, Margot, and Nanouska took a trip to Australia. In August 1978, from Singapore, en route, he sent me a cheerful postcard. Later, he told me that he was scenting the antipodean track of Constance Kent, the young fratricide of Road Hill House, who would, in 1979, stand fully discovered and revealed by Bernard Taylor in his definitive book on the case, Cruelly Murdered, as the one hundred year old Miss Ruth Emilie Kaye, who had died, full of redemptive honours – a congratulatory message from the King and Queen no less – after a career of nursing lepers, on April 10th, 1944, in a rest home in the municipality of Strathfield, New South Wales. 
In 1979 Knight produced his first novel, an Edwardian detective story really, with a supernatural tinge, Requiem at Rogano. He did not, I remember, like the publisher’s choice of title. He told me that he had wanted to call it The Heretics of Rogano. It was generally well received. A satisfactory successor to his Ripper book. 
After all this early-flowering success, the year 1980 was to prove his, as majestic language has it, annus horribilis; and in a most unexpected way. It began low key and innocuously enough, with Knight’s seeing an advertisement which appeared in the London Evening Standard seeking people who suffered from epilepsy to take part in a B.B.C. Horizon programme documentary on the disease. He answered it because he wanted to have an opportunity of talking about the public’s misunderstanding of the illness. 
Three years before – in 1977 – he had started to have epileptic episodes. “When I was ten, I was hit on the head by a cricket bat.” The doctors believed that a consequent area of dead tissue discovered in the brain was the causal factor. Recently, his epileptic fits had been steadily increasing in intensity and duration. “Not knowing why was,” he said, “rather frightening.” 








Stephen Knight ca. 1976 


Martin Freeth, the producer of the Horizon programme, was anxious to show viewers a scan of an epileptic brain, and, knowing that the mark left by the cricket bat accident would show up, chose Knight as the guinea pig. The scanner revealed that this necrotic patch had increased to the size of an egg. Within a week a biopsy had established the diagnosis of a cerebral tumour, and he underwent brain surgery in the Maudsley Hospital, at Denmark Hill, South London. 
He recovered. “I was told that there was only about a five per cent. chance of the tumour ever recurring, as it was very low grade. I translated that at nought per cent. and just carried on living.” 
And there was a happy sequel. 
In his private world things had not been going along too smoothly. Critical differences had blown up between him and his “Belle Marguerite”. In November 1980, it was announced that Lesley Newson, Horizon’s 28-year-old researcher, and Knight would marry when his divorce from his separated wife came through. In the event, though, they never did. 
With six-monthly scans proving clear, Knight went merrily on to write The Brotherhood: The Secret World of the Freemasons, published early in 1984. It was a direct result of his literary Mason-watching, carried out in connection with his Jack the Ripper book. This new work, containing as it did many sensational allegations, among them that the K.G.B. had succeeded in infiltrating Masonry, and with its exposure of the power of the square among the guardians, at all levels, of the law, caused a considerable stir – and most satisfactory sales figures. 
What proved to be his last book, The Killing of Justice Godfrey, another piece of investigative work, also came out in 1984 – in the July. This Knight regarded as his best book. He explained: “When I was thirteen I had the idea of taking an historical mystery and ‘solving’ it in the form of a short story. I approached my history teacher at West Hatch Technical High School, Chigwell – an inspiring man called John Hudson – and asked if he knew a suitable case. He immediately told me to get Who Killed Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey by Alfred Marks from the library. It was, he said, the greatest unsolved murder in English history. Alas, Mr. Marks’ turgid prose proved too much for me and I abandoned the project. But the idea stayed with me and when, ten years later, I finished my book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution and was casting around for a new subject, Godfrey seemed the obvious choice: the three hundredth anniversary of his death was just three years off. If John Hudson had not hooked me in 1965 it is unlikely this book would ever have been written.” It, too, was well received. 
The Brotherhood was dedicated: “For Ma and Pa, with love.” The Killing of Justice Godfrey introduced a completely novel dedicatee: “For Barbara Mary Land. Love.” No more for Margot. His marriage had ended in divorce. 
The first disquieting hints that something was going wrong with himself came shortly after the publication of The Brotherhood. “I began to get strange symptoms. I developed a curious kind of word blindness – not being able to say the word I wanted, however simple; and my handwriting started to become very, very bad. I thought it was due to over-medication from the drugs I’d been taking for epilepsy.” 
He was in South Carolina, holidaying with his girlfriend, Barbara Mary Land, that summer of 1984, when he suddenly realised that the postcards he was writing home were “indecipherable travesties” of his usual writing. Equally worrying was the fact that he found when he was walking that he was continually stumbling to the right. 
“I telephoned my doctor, Peter Fenwick, at the Maudsley.” Dr. Fenwick told him that if he was getting headaches he must come home immediately. He was. He flew back the next day. 
Knight, who was interviewed in considerable depth by Anne De Courcey, from whose perceptive and sympathetic article in the Standard I quote, told her: “I was so confident I was only suffering from over-medication I’d booked a room at the Gatwick Hilton and a return flight the following afternoon. The first inkling that anything was wrong otherwise was when I was kept waiting while they looked at my scan. It turned out they were comparing it with the previous ones. Then a doctor came into the room and said: ‘I’m afraid there’s a recurrence of the tumour.’” 
The following day Knight saw Dr. Fenwick. “He knew that I always respond best to the truth. I asked him how long I had got. He said: ‘We intend to give you another operation followed by chemotherapy. Even if there’s nil response to either you will have at least two years.’ Although I cried at the time and was very upset, we were actually able to have conversation about what those two years would contain for me.” 
In July 1984 about seventy per cent of the aggressive cancer tumour was removed by operation. The remaining thirty per cent. could not, because of its proximity to speech and movement centres of the brain, be subjected to surgical interference. Chemotherapy for eighteen months was prescribed. 
Every six weeks throughout that autumn, winter and spring Knight went to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, in leafy Queen Square, Bloomsbury, where, nearly fifty years before, another tragic young writer, Denton Welch, had been a doomed patient. Brain scans and blood tests in the morning. Chemotherapy in the afternoon. Often, after being injected with iodine to boost the scanner’s effectiveness, he would feel sick. “Then I get frightened, because if I’m sick with my head stuck in one position I might choke myself.” 
In October 1984, Knight was painfully honest with Anne De Courcey. “They have now told me frankly there is nothing they can do to save my life, only prolong it. The surgeon who did the operation thinks it more likely I have one year than two.” 
Knight had heard of the special attitude that was being taken to cancer at the Bristol Centre, where it was treated without drugs or surgery. He visited it and found himself so impressed with the work being done there that he promptly adopted the fruit and vegetable diet which the Centre advocated. “Apart from the nausea and illness induced by chemotherapy, I feel incredibly healthy,” he announced. “More so than I’ve ever been in my whole life – although I still get a yearning for sausages, bacon and eggs.” 
But he was too clever a young man to lose sight of the fact that he was “treading a very slender tightrope between wanting so much to live that I have been trying all sorts of unorthodox therapies, and at the same time trying to realise that if none of them works I will die – and to come to terms with this. I’ve received such incredible amounts of love, both from expected and unexpected sources, that there are now times when, just for a few seconds, I feel open and accepting to everything. Then I slip back and begin to fret." 
Stephen Knight spent his last days enjoying himself, living with his girlfriend in his house at Leytonstone. It was large enough for them to have friends visiting them constantly. 
He said: “I always have plots in my head but at the moment I’m not getting round to writing them. I’ve visited several healers – there’s a whole network of people in alternative work, one of whom leads to another. It’s a new world to me, and very exciting. More than anything else, I have taught myself to live in the moment. Even all the blubbering and soul-searching and agonising I did was part of being in the moment. So is thinking, but acceptingly, ‘I don’t know if I shall see another October.’” 
He did not. 
He died in July 1985, while staying with friends at Carradale, in Argyllshire. And that is where he is buried. 
When I last saw him, Stephen Knight was calling himself Swami Puja Debal and explained to me that he was now a follower of the Indian religious leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, having become a Sannyasin after ending his marriage. He had his little daughter, Nanouska, with him, and we all trooped into a small café-bar hard by the London School of Economics. We drank a dish of tea – Indian, of course – together and Nanouska had an ice cream. He wore, I remember, a strange dark corduroy cap – shaped somewhat like one of those that Burke and Hare the body-snatchers wear in old engravings – to hide his hairless, bandaged head. He carried with him an air of finality. 
Perhaps now he knows the answer to the big question. Whatever, let us remember him with charity. He was human. He erred. He was mortal. Spare him that small slice of immortality which is the warmth of his fellows’ remembrance. 




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Stephen Knight the author of the Brotherhood who died aged 33 ......18 months after publishing his book




                            
A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony






The highly allegorical and symbolic illustration is meant to depict the interior of the perfect lodge room, as constructed within soul of each true Freemason..

 
Beehives are an important masonic Symbol referring to industry, dedication, productivity, good works and the power of all pulling together...

US founding father and president George Washington was a dedicated Freemason and is shown here in his regalia as the Worshipful master of his lodge


                            Inside The Brotherhood
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                                                                                            Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons

                                                                     by Martin Short

In the Midland Bank the Lodge seemed composed entirely of senior managers.. I have spotted no lower level staff, no messengers or maintenance men  and of course no women in the Midland Bank being Freemasons and have generally discovered that (a) most bank mangers are Freemasons, ( b) a non-Mason bank manger may feel must join Freemasonry so as to not to lose business (c) Masonic Bank manager meet at functions, no doubt must talk about their customers over wine...

Freemasonry in Banking In London; Pages 495-499 : Bank of England (lodge No. 263) Lloyds Bank Lodge (Blackhorse of Lombard Street, London -Lodge No. 4155) Midland Bank Lodge ( lodge no. 2946)

Judging by Results: Page 385  and pages 37 and 380-Judges and Masters who are Freemasons....

Spooks in Aprons( Freemason Apron): Chapter 33... there seems no doubt that there are many Freemasons working for the Spook- secret service organizations such as MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc ,which according to many investigators, past members of MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc and in particular Leroy Flecture Prouty ex-CIA officer in his book, The Secret Team .. MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc is not run and financed by the various governments they purport to represent but are run and financed by a cabal of powerful bankers, financiers, and industrialists like the Rothschild Family, the Rockefella Family and their associates ..however the worrying and scary thing is that the governments which they purport to represent gave give these organization like MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc the full 'Green Light' to commit what every criminal offenses and be involved in any criminal activities which include murder (they call it a license to kill) and the growing, manufacture and supply of most of the illegal drugs around the world which is a muli-trillion pound business with the only people prosecuted for selling, manufacturing and growing illegal drugs being people that are not in their gang or were in their gang and have decided to go their own way...outside the laws on any country that they like without fear of any investigation, prosecution, and/or punishment... all covered up under the secrecy acts and all declared as 'official secret government security business ..members of MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc can simply appear at the scene of a murder or a big drug bust in any country in the world and simply tell the local police that they are in charge of the investigation and stop the local police from doing their normal police work and inquiries.. which seems to often also include telling witnesses what lies to tell to the local police and the courts and what evidence and information to to tell the local police and the courts... so that the final outcome of any court trial and investigation and public media releases that are allowed are completely controlled by MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc.. if MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc do not want certain information being publicized world wide in main stream media outlets such as mainstream  newspapers, magazine, TV Net works and Internet web sites..MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc simply issue what is called a "D Notice" to all mainstream  newspapers, magazine, TV Net works and Internet web sites telling them not to publish a certain story.. this has happened recently with the murder of `scottish and Australian INL News undercover journalist, Thomas Allwood, who was conveniently murdered on the 21st June, 2012 in Broxburn Scotland ...one month before he was due in London's High Court of Justice for a hearing on the 24th July, 2012. before Justice Vos (a well known and well respected Freemason) to have a criminal contempt application Thomas Allwood had issued against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, UK Treasury Solicitors, for deliberately and knowingly preparing and presenting a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Bowles (well known and respected Freemason) London's High Court of Justice that falsely stated that USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty had stated the UK Border Agency Officers that Thomas Allwood had paid him $2,000 to appear in the filming of the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show being filmed in April-May 2011..when Ronnie Prouty did not say this and in fact told UK Border Agency Officers on the 27th April, 2011 that he was not getting paid to be in the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show filming.. when he was wrongly and falsely arrested for no sensible and/or valid reason by UK Border Agency Officers on the 27th April, 2011 at Heathrow Airport while traveling from Los Angeles-London-Edinburgh for a five day say in Edinburgh before he was due to fly back to Los Angeles.. and held for about 24 hours in detention at Heathrow Airport and the next day placed in hand cuffs and flow back to Los Angeles in hand cuffs on his own return air ticket... the reason why David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, UK Treasury Solicitors deliberately and knowingly prepared and presented a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Bowles (well known and respected Freemason) London's High Court of Justice  was to convince Master Bowles to strike out a £500 million damages claim against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, in his Masters Chambers, without any hearing for the parties to discuss the letter of request by UK Treasury Solicitors to Master Bowles requesting that he strike out Thomas Allwood's £500 million damages claim against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, in his Masters Chambers, for the damages caused to the filming of the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show which was due to be used to present to TV Networks in Australia, Europe, UK and the USA to sell the rights to air the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show world wide with an expected yearly income of over £1 billion a year to Thomas Allwood and the INL News Group and their various financiers and investors have financed the development of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show over the last 10 years....it is understood from investigations made that USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty was wrongly arrested BY UK Border Agency Staff on the 27th April, 2011 at Heathrow Airport as a favour done for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media ground News Corporation and News International who wanted the UK Government to help sabotage the INL News Group's filling of their media opposition .... the INL News Group ... because of the INL News Groups Fringe Shows Have Talent was financially successful this would have assured the INL News Group's financial strength to be a major media competitor to Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International .. which as has been shown by all the information that was made public with the Parliamentary inquiry into Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking done by staff of  Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors .. it had been fairly standard practice for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group.. News Corporation and News International ... to Hack Phone, Bribe Police  and hack computers for to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors .. and with all the evidence the Freemason Police involved in illegal activities in the police force there seems no doubt that Freemason police were up to their neck in  Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking at least prior to the major publicity in 2012 caused by the the Parliamentary inquiry into Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking done by staff of  Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors...

 Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'

One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..

..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non=police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'

 “ ...We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....”

"...Among the hundreds of letters which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

From Chapter 14 : The Phoenix ".... it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...

....... ' Why do nearly all masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst? Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system,,,, It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ... That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'

Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:

'..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position..However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'

If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as masonic spokesmen claim,, The public need to be convinced .... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....

 From Chapter 15: A Criminal Intelligence: .Masons usually claim such stories are invented by embittered non-Masons who cannot accept that their careers have failed because of their lack of ability; instead it is claimed by Masons, that they ;fantasize about malicious wrongdoing by Masonic colleagues.  Retired Metropolitan  Policeman John Thompson ( a non-Mason) rejects this argument as itself a canard..

..'....I admit we non Masons were resentful at our lowly rank. Yet most of us were not bitter. On the contrary, the men who were bitter were those Freemasons who had expected patronage and preferment but never got it. What non-Masons such as I did resent was entering a five-furlong sprint race but being forced to start at the mile and three quarter gate...We also resented that our Masonic colleagues were likely to have their errors, omissions, in adequacies, incompetencies and indiscipline covered up, sometimes at the expense of non-Masons..I concede that many Masonic policemen had an aura if greater competence and many became more able because they had less pressure and could acquit themselves better on boards..I put my hands up to being bitter in one respect..I object when masons dismiss their victims as jealous and vindictive, I am neither neither but what do they expect us to be? They expect us to act like the three wise monkeys: seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil - of Freemasonry of course    ....'

One on-Masonic sergeant knows to his cost the Brotherhood's power in Oxfordshire...

..'... In 1983 I had some building work done on my house..When it was finished I was not entirely satisfied and paid the builder only part of the money..He put most of the faults right but I was still not completely happy and we had quite a disagreement.. He then told me he was a Freemason and he knew various people that I also knew, one of them being a chief superintendent..Not long afterwards the builder had a car accident and  he finished up in hospital.. When he was there he received a visit from the chief superintendent who asked if there was anything he could do for him.. A few days later I was summoned to headquarters to see this chief superintendent. He 'advised' me to hurry up and sort out my dispute with the builder because his being in hospital gave him quite enough to worry about. Now whilst no threats were made,  there was undoubtedly some moral pressure and I came away from headquarters feeling decidedly uneasy..  The obvious difference in our ranks made it a very simple task for him to 'put the screws on'.... As a result I felt bound to pay the builder the remaining money... I find membership of this organization quite odious and not compatible with being a police officer. ... Incidents happen - internal politics you understand- whic defy rational explanation and can only be put to the influence of these people.. They are unknown, unseen, but seem to pull strings behind the scenes and get things done...

Freemason Michael Richardson: Chairman of the Board of Management of The  Royal Masonic Hospital (RMH) in Hammersmith and also managing director of merchant bankers N. M. Rothschild..who represents and personifies everything about Grand Lodge which many Freemasons resent: wealth, power, connections and the City of London and is also seen as the front man to the aristocrats who had given him the job ...who dominate Grand Lodge's committees and are still held responsible for the earlier 'betrayal' of masonic charity: closing and selling the School for Boys in 1977... the previous chairman of RMH was an eminent surgeon Lord Porritt ... the fact that a merchant banker, rather than a medical man, had taken over from the saintly Porritt was now seen as proof that the scheme to sell the RMH two years before was planned years before and felt that Richardson had been chosen because 'privatization' was a Rothschild speciality...

Comment: it is noted that researches come to the clear conclusion that the Rothschild family  and their partners, who appear to own and/or control over 60% of the world's wealth and valuable resources .. appear to have profited well out most wars in the last 300 years and in particular the 1st and 2nd Word Wars by encouraging them to happen and lending money to all sides of these wars ... and effectively bankrupting both Britain and Germany who had to pay back their large war debts to the Rochschilds in gold at the end of the wars .. with it also claimed that Adolph Hitler was a grandson of a Rothschild (see Mark Hallet's book 'Hitler was a British Agent and other researchers) and it claimed that the Nazi Consentration Camps and Death Squads first focus was to murder senior Freemasons and this way re-organise the world wide control of Freemasonry into the Rothschild family hands .. the quiet shipment of hundreds of millions worth of gold from Heathrow Airport to Switzerland  on pallets, wrapped in black plastic without any security with the late Thomas Allwood senior, transport engineer, on board to repay the Rothschild war debt, was brought to public light by INL News undercover journalist Thomas Allwood, who was murdered in Broxburn Scotland on the 21st June, 2013 a month before he was due to attend the High Court in London to have his application for Criminal Contempt against the Rothschild sponsored politicians..the UK Prime Minister- David Cameron, the UK Chancellor- George Osborne, the UK Home Office, the UK Border Agency and their Treasury Solicitors for deliberately preparing and presenting a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document 'falsely stating that USA Comedian had told the UK Border Agency Officers that he was paid $2,000 to be involved in introducing Fringe Entertainers in the making of a pilot of the INL News Group's and Thomas Allwood's 'Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show' due to be filmed over five days in April-May 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland'... as an illegal way of having Freemason Master Bowles at the London's High Court of Justice strike out a £500 million damages claim against ... the UK Prime Minister- David Cameron, the UK Chancellor- George Osborne, the UK Home Office, the UK Border Agency for the wrongful and illegal arrest of USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty at Heathrow Airport on the 27th April, 2011 and holding him custody for 24 hours and putting him in handcuffs the next day on a plane back to Los Angeles as a favour for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild family and their all powerful News Corporation and News International Media Group, as a way of commercially sabotaging the expensive fiming of a pilot of the INL News Group's and Thomas Allwood's 'Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show' due to be filmed over five days in April-May 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland'... there is mounting proof that leads to the involvement of Freemasons, MI5 and UK Special Branch in the planning and carrying out of the murder of Thomas Allwood on the 21st June, 2012 and the coverup of a lot of the known evidence and investigations by Scottish Police and Prosecution in the arrest and trial of Kyle Montgomery in November, 2012 for the murder of INL News undercover journalist Thomas Allwood ...

Conclusion by Martin Short at the end of his book 'Inside the Brotherhood

In my book I have tried where possible third hand evidence..not third-hand rumour... I have tried to provide sober deduction, not exaggeration... it should go without saying that anyone investigating a secret society - or even a 'private' one - as Grand Lodge now characterizes Freemasonry  - will always find evidence hard to come by...therefore 'rumour and speculation'. although unsatisfactory, become legitimate .. if the investigator 'exaggerates; what little evidence he or she gets, the 'private society should hold itself to blame...Freemasonry gives rise to genuine public concern, which Masons ignore at their peril...

 'What Public, Legal and Political Action Should be Taken regarding Freemasonry?

.... I suggest that  the action taken about Freemasonry should be more than would appeal to the Tory MP who says, 'if people wish to belong to secret societies, that is their own business' , but probably less than is required by the Labour man who feels that 'Freemasonry should be made illegal'....

...Most MP's who completed my 1986 questionnaire said than councillors, local government officers, civil servants, policemen, judges and MP's should all be required to disclose their Masonic membership....the only proper way to test political opinion would be to put a 'disclosure' bill to the vote. There is no chance that the present Tory Government in the UK would sponsor it, so an MP should introduce a private member's bill and a free vote should follow...this bill also should give the public access to full and up-to-date membership lists of all masonic lodges...as I suggested on Chapter 21, these should be available at reference libraries in the localities where the lodges meet, and a town and country halls...

... thus us Bromyard one Craft Lodge List would be open for inspection..

... In Truro six ... in Cambridge eleven ..... in Sunderland twenty-nine....

.... in Croydon eighty-nine ,, in Manchester 129 ... in the city of London over 200 ....

..... in Greater London another 1,450 or more...

..The degree of 'publication' might also be required of all other Masonic bodies: from the Royal Arch .. right the way through to the Society of  Rose Croix Order..

..The list of any lodge affiliated to a particular workplace, or recruiting mainly from within a specific organization, should be open for scrutiny by everyone who works at that place or in that organization. Thus the list for a town hall-lodge, such as the Borough of Newman, should be available at Newman Town Hall; the Holden Lodge list at Midland Bank; he London Hospital Lodge list at London Hopsital; the lis for the Union Lodge of Norwich should be given on demand to any emplyee of Norwich Union; the Lutine, Lloyd's and Fidentia lodge lists should be viewable at Lloyds of London; likewise lists of all military lodges (including the 21st Territorial SAS) at regimental HQ's; lists of barristers', Masters, Court Clerks' lodges should be displayed in the Inns of Court, at the Bar Council and the High Court, and the Manor of St James's list at New Scotland Yard, and at Bow Street, Vine Street and West End Central police stations...

 ...Most Masons would argue against these measures...

..They would say that although they have nothing to hide, why should their lists be publicly available if the same is not required for the MCC, the Athenaem, the Labour Party, the Transport and General Worker's Union, the Royal and Ancient Order of Foresters, the Sons of Temperance, the Druids, Rotary, the Round Table, the Elks, the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos, the Lions, the Kiwanis, the Baker Street Irregulars, the Sovereign and Military Oder of Malta, the Catholic Police Guild, BUPA, the AA, the Women's Institute, the Mother's Union or the subscription department of Readers Digest...

... The answer is simple. It is for Masons to demonstrate that any other organization has all these features:

1. A code of mutual aid, sworn by all members, to assist each other beyond the aid they swear to perform for all other people in society...

2. Oaths (however watered-dwon in recent years) which threaten that some physical, economic or social penalty - or negative moral judgement - will be applied to those who reveal the organization's secrets..

3. Rituals which make use of blindfolds, nooses, daggers  or similar menacing objects or disorienting devices ...

4. Secret passwords, signs, grips or handshakes ...

5. Widespread public concern about the organization's activities or those of its members ...

I know of no golf club which has any of these features and no political party, trade union, friendly society, insurance company, businessmen's club, social group, or mainstream religious fraternity which has more than two of the above... If it can be shown that any other group manifests all of these elements, it should be subject to the same curbs as may be imposed on Freemasonry ..Some Masons claim that three Catholic organizations - the Knights of Columbus, the Catenians and Opus Dei - are quasi-Masonic ...If their rituals and oaths do resemble Freemasonry's, if genuine texts can be produced to prove it, and if there is widespread pubic concern, they too should be subject to any obligations imposed on the Craft..

..If Masons have nothing to hide, none of this should cause them great disquiet.... Just as their secretiveness breeds paranoia among the 'profane'. so a new openness would help dispel it, If the Freemasonry Craft is primarily a charitable organization, a movement or moral regeneration or just a load of men pursuing an arcane hobby, the have nothing to fear...`personal anxieties could be accommodated... such as that they maybe do not want their home addresses disclosed ..However, all voters' addresses are on view at public libraries on electoral roles... at Companies House, the home addresses of all company directors are available to anyone who pays a small fee ...As it happens, Freemason's home addresses might not be required, provided every lodge discloses the full named of all members..

..It is noted that today's MP's should bear in mind that any law to curb Freemasonry will face widespread evasion, as the history of the 1799 Unlawful Societies Act shows. Brought in 'for the more effectual Suppression of Societies established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes', this was passed when there were fears of French plots to overthrow the Government of Great Britain and to achieve Irish independence. The Act claimed that societies such as United Englishmen, United Scotsmen, United Britons and  United Irishmen were plotting seditious ends, and that their members swore oaths and secret vows, used secret signs and operated a cell-like structure across the country, However, a blanket ban on such organizations would also have banned Freemasonry, which shared all offending characteristics. To gain exemption, England's rival Grand Lodges (the 'Moderns' and the 'Ancients') jointly lobbied politicians will skill which would do credit to today's ruthless 'political action committees' in the USA. Their respective leaders, the Earl of Moirs and the Duke of Atholl, pressured Prime Minister William Pitt. According to 1799 Grand Lodge minues, the Masonic delegation reported that Pitt:

'... expressed his good opinion of the Society and said he was willing to recommend any Clause to prevent the New Act from affecting the Society, provided that the Name of the Society could be prevented from being made use o as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes..'

The pressure worked ... Prime Minister William Pitt duly introduced a clause stating the Act did not apply to ' Lodges of FreeMasons, the meetings whereof have been in great measure directed to charitable purposes'...

...Pitt must have been beguiled by the smooth talking aristocrats, particularly Moira... According to one Masonic Historian, Moira's 'timely intervention had saved Freemasonry from extinction'....

...'Presumably Moira and Atholl had told Pitt that no British Masonic Lodge was likely to contain plotters bent on ' overturning the laws, constitution and government. and every existing establishment, civil and ecclesiastical' in Great Britain or `Ireland...Yet even 'regular' Freemasonry (as opposed to the truly seditious continental variety) had harboured traitors... Many American Revolutionaries were 'regular' Masons, notably George Washington, Ben Franklin and Admiral Paul Jones who had been initiated in Scotland. One Boston Lodge, St Andrews , was full of rebels, including Paul Revere, General Joseph Warren, John Hancock and John Rowe... It was John Rowe who inspired the Boston Tea Party, according to one of the 'Indian' raiders who belonged to the lodge, was planned within St Andrew's itself...

 ...The American Revolution had begun only twenty-four years before the Unlawful Societies Act became Law... It is extremely unlikely that Briton's Prime Minister, William Pitt, had any idea of Freemasonry's  strength among the Revolutionaries - for sure Moira would have not told him! - but, had be known. he would have had good reason to suspect that the Freemasonry Craft might 'again be made use of as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes'. Pitt wold also have had grounds for believing that not all brethren subscribed to their second Antient Charge: ' A mason is a peaceable subject to the civil powers, wherever he resides or works, and is never to be concerned in plots and conspiracies against the peace and welfare of the nation.'...

..Of course, even if Pitt had known about the Masonics of Washington and hi brother rebels, he may not have pressed the point because the Craft's leading petitioner, the Earl of Moira, had himself been a hero on England's side in the Revolutionary Wars. Pitt would have been 'snowballed' by Moira's revelation that no less than six of George III's sons were 'on the square', for how could a fraternity boasting 'so many of His Majesty's illustrious Family' possibly be seditious?...

...Nevertheless, the Act did impose major restrictions on Freemasonry. The 'names and descriptions' of all members of each lodge had to be registered with the local clerk of the peace.... By the time the Act was repealed in 1967, it had long been widely ignored .. Many lodges did not make returns..One pre-1967 lodge secretary told me: 'I never bothered and many other secretaries never knew this law existed..besides, who was going to make you do it... In out town most law enforcers - the Clerk of Peace, half the JP's and the police chief --were all in the lodge...!'

...Even more restrictive, the 1979 Act had exempted only meetings of 'regular Lodges of Free Masons held (before) the passing of this Act...for some years the Masonic orders subverted this clause by reissuing the warrants of dominant or dead lodges, thus back-dating the foundation of many lodges. Not only were these Freemasons breaking the  criminal law, their stealth and deceit show they knew their actions were illegal..

... On the rolls of United Grand Lodge today there are fewer than 300 lodges which were founded before 1799, yet by 1967 another 6,000 had been 'consecrated'. Abroad view of the 1799 Act might have encouraged Masons to feel the exemption applied to any future lodges formed under both Modern and Antient Grand Lodges (united in 1813) and two more Grand Lodges in Scotland.. The terms of another Act in 1817 may have supported that view... However, neither Act legalized other Masonic Orders such as the Knights Templar (which had barely got going by 1799), the Rose Croix (founded in 1845), the Mark (organized about 1845), the Red Cross of Constantine (whose earliest lodge was founded in 1865) and the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (founded in 1866) ...... All these orders are self governing and have never come under the authority of the various Grand Lodges, which regulate only the CRaft and Royal Arch degrees. so they could never have been exempted from the ban on other societies imposed by the 1799 Act....

... The illegality of the `masonic Knights Templar is confirmed by the fact that their Grand Master, Lord Rancliffe, 'was personally concerned with the bill in the Lords' and neglected the Order thereafter. Masonic historians differ over whether the revival of the Masonic Templars some years later indicates that 'any question of illegality was over' or whether it suggests that 'the authorities were turning a blind eye'. My onw view is that all these 'higher' or ' sides' degrees ( from Knights Templar on wards) met illegally for more than a century until 1967.... Nobody would have dared enforce the 1799 Act (even had they known about it) because many magistrates, Court Masters, Court Lords, judges, policemen belonged to these same degrees... Through vested interests. Masonic law-breaking has been constantly connived at by the forces of law and order....

Today, any Parliamentary moves requiring public disclosure by masons should be matched by legislation creating an Ombudsman for the public servant and the police,as advocated by Brain Woollard ( see Chapter 13)... This is necessary to prevent the kind of career abuse which 4 million other State employees may suffer at the hands of Masons.. or... indeed..non-Masons..There must me many Masons in pub lic service who feel that hey too have had a raw deal at work ...In future they should have a mean of redress against anti-Masonic prejudice, especially if they are to be obliged to disclose Masonic Membership...

The former British ambassador featured in Chapter 32 has further suggestions:

...'..It should not be too difficult to procure form civil and public servants who belong to secret societies some written declaration and assurances about their activities..I also suggest that something should be done about the confidential personal reporting systems...It seems that any officer who believes he may be the subject victimization through the reporting system (as I was) should be entitles to state that the reporting officer as a Freemason and that this should be taken into account in assessing the report..Ideally, in my view, Freemasons should be excluded from the reporting process, but that is too much to hope for...

...I also suggest that the numerous voluntary organizations and charities which serve this country and have been one of its great strengths, should be required by law to keep an indication of any secret society membership by its officers..Members of any society - or indeed contributors to a charity - should, as a matter of routine, be able to obtain a statement of its officer's affiliations...This is not an unreasonable request, but a simple reassurance that the society is being run for the benefit of all members and not primarily for `masons perpetuating themselves in office...

In the present diminished and dangerous situation of our country, a very real danger exists from organizations, such as the Freemason Brotherhood - partly through infiltration, partly from the  illusionment and frustration which arises when our meritocratic system is deliberately and consistently distorted....'...

..In the House of Commons in June 1988 Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours introduced a bill to compel police recruits to swear they would not join any organization such as Freemasonry....he also demanded that officers who are already Masons should resign from their lodges or leave the police force.. On first reading the bill was passed by 117 votes to sixteen, but it had no chance of becoming law because of the shortage of Parliamentary time...

..If any future bill along these lines looks as if it might become law, it will encounter fierce lobbying just like the 1799 bill did ,,,,  It will infuriate Masonic cops... It it ever reached the statute book, it could provoke mass resignation from the police force...

..This might not be a bad thing, but it seems unlikely that policemen could be banned from joining Freemasonry unless this 'private, voluntary organization' is itself made illegal....In the present political climate (of near perpetual Conservative rule) there is no chance of this happening,....

...However, beacsue an action is otherwise legal,,, it does not mean that public servants have an in alienable right to perform it...

..In many respects the civil liberties of public servants and already severely curtailed....Millions of public servants (including the police) sign the Official Secrets Act which curbs their right to discuss, publish or otherwise disseminate information which they may learn in the course of their work... Also no civil servant, member of the armed forces or policeman may stand as a candidate in local or national elections without first resigning his or her employment. Since 1984 no employees of GCHO may belong to a trade union. The armed forces and the police have long been deprived of that right, just as they have surrendered their civil liberty to withdraw their labour and go on strike...Thus, imposing a similar curb on policemen in respect of Freemasonry has undeniable precedents.. They would retain the right to remain a Mason..but they would lose their right to remain a copper.. a judge. a Master of the Court .... a Lord of the Court .,, or any other job which has the power and/or authority in any way over the public in general..so that the same rule might well be applied to all other public servants..

...All this is for Parliament and the public to decide and debate... In the meantime Dale Campbell-Savours says: 'If Freemasonry were to shed itself of its secrecy, its exclusiveness and its oath of allegiance, I would have no objection to police officers being members....'

..However.. if it were to do all that, it would not longer be Freemasonry!....

..Even some senior Freemasons such as Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Peter Neivens ( an honorary Manor of St James Lodge)  has been concerned about excessive 'tears of sympathy' for Freemason Brothers who have been convicted of serious crime stares...'As for lodges which have allowed major criminals to remain as members for years after conviction... if that were proven to me, then if the authority rested with me, I would seriously think of disbanding that lodge...'

..If this policy were to be rigorously applied throughout Britain, not only would Freemasonry be far healthier : its opponents would have far less meat to feed on....Yet is must be doubted if the hierarchy as a whole would want to apply such discipline..As things now stand, Grand Lodge only acts against lodges like Waterways many years after they have become a haven for criminals, and only then after embarrassing media exposure.. It is therefore no wonder that in the meantime other lodges like the Queenswood contain cells of public corruption and the entire institution of Freemasonry is brought into disrepute as a result..

....however, Freemasons will argue that the merits of an institution as vast as Freemasonry do not turn on the vice or virtue of individual Masons... and that it does not change its esense because one Grand Officer, his Honour Judge Joseph Butler-Sloss, was exposed in the News of the World in July 1988 as a regular patron of Nairobi prostitutes while serving as a High Court judge on Kenya.. Freemasons argue that the private quirks of prominent men who happen to be a FreeMason should not be held against the Brotherhood... as Masons have said... this would be like condemning Christianity because quite a few vicars over the years have been caught molesting choirboys...

...As I write these final pages in December 1988 I am still being sent evidence of Freemasonry's reluctance to punish those who transgress its own moral code.. the evidence come not form outsiders..but from men who are themselves staunch Masons...One such source is leonard Acklam, a well-to-do self-made Yorkshire businessman who fought for years to win redress for a Masonic Grand Officer's outrageous attempt to interfere with justice...A Mason for 33 years, a Past Master of Brighouse Lodge (no. 1301) and a 30th degree member of the Rose Croix, Acklam is worth hearing...

...Leonard Acklam a Freemason, had employed a Freemason Solicitor to collect a £10,000 debt he was owed.. however his own solicitor lied to him about the case  and when appointing a new non Mason Solicitor who threatened to report the Mason Solicitor to the Law Society and sue for negligence, a senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfearn told Acklam that he 'would lose a lot of friends' and that Acklam should 'look on it in a true Masonic manner and forget it..  a  senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfern was not only interfering with Acklam's legal action against a Mason solicitor, but was also telling Acklams to forget the £10,000 he is owed...An in initial letter of complaint in 1981 sent to the local Yorkshire Ws Riding grand secretary did not go down well,,, for Redfearn was not only a Grand Officer of English Freemasonry, but also a leading industrialist, a deputy lieutenant of the county, a knight of the realm, a one time chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations and the local Tory KIng-maker (future Tory MP Gary Waller was initiated in his lodge in 1971)..also he was photographed at Conservative Party occasions alongside Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, It was extremely unlikely. therefore. that any Yorkshire masonic body would dare condemn him...

From Chapter 14

 The Phoenix "....

.. If the Manor Lodge of St James was formed in defiance of the anti-Masonic views of a Metropolitan Commissioner, it would not be the first time the Brotherhood has waved two fingers at the most important police chief in Britain...

...Back in 1958 the new commissioner was Joseph Simpson. He was the first man ever to reach the top job after starting as an ordinary bobby...He was public school educated and a university graduate but, unlike his gentleman predecessors, he had done three years on the beat and had the deserved respect of most London coppers..In short, He was a policeman's policeman...

.... One shaft of light which Sir Joseph Simpson brought to the job was a distinct hostility to Freemasonry, or at lease a dislike of its most arrogant manifestations...During his early years in office he was greatly irritated by an organization calling itself the Metropolitan Police Masonic Association (MPMA),  The title gave it an official air, but its founders had no authority for using the words 'Metropolitan Police',... They might have had the unofficial 'non' from a previous commissioner, but Sir Joseph took a dim view and demanded its abolition....

... The MPMA;s members were not prepared to disband on the say-so of a mere commissioner - especially as earlier commissioners, such as Charles Warren, had themselves been Freemasons. Rather than abolish their fraternity in a fraternity, they decided just to change its name. They also decided to keep the initials MPMA. The were determined to keep 'Masonic' in the title, and 'Association' was harmless enough, also they would have to substitute another word for either Metropolitan or Police.... some wag in the leadership had a little education.... As this new body was going to rise from the ashes of the old, he thought, it could have no more appropriate name than  'Metropolitan Phoenix Masonic Association'.  This would get round Sir Joseph Simpson's vexatious objections, but it would still be the MPMA and the same old bird...

....Simpson died in office, from a heart attach three days after the batt;e of Grosvenor Square in 1969, but the Phoenix lived on..IN 1971 it had 288 members..Its rule book reveals that the inclusion of Metropolitan in its title was gratuitous and misleading, for its members only needed to be 'Master Masons who are regular, serving and retired officers of any police force'...

The rule book makes it clear this was no Masonic Lodge..Ritual was forbidden at its gatherings..Instead its objects were:

1. To introduce Master Masons of the Police Force who would otherwise have no opportunity of meeting as Brother Masons.

2. To promote fraternal intercourse by arranging social functions.

3. To render assistance to those who may be distressed by sickness or adversity.

4. Loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen and the Craft in General,

..Aside from the genuflection to the Crown, these aims might strike an anti-Msonic as a sugar-coated code of mutual aide, arousing fears in the outsider that the Phoenix as a means of achieving a kind of Masonic apartheid in the Police Service...Could it have acted as a wedge between Masons and non-Masons, or a jungle telegraph, or a 'firm in a firm'? .. Its members would doubtless deny it, but the club does seem like a collective support system: ideal for help up t˙e promotion ladder, or saving skins...

....The 1971 list contains one man still serving at Scotland Yard: a deputy assistant commissioner ..Another is a detective chief superintendent...Most members left the service long ago,,, Many held humble rank, so either the mutual aid principle never helped them gain promotion or they never sought to use it.... Perhaps the Phoenix was just a social club for men with a common hobby ... If so, one brother was such an enthusiast ha he took the hobby with him to a Mediterranean retirement,, In 1971 Brother A,J, Fookes was running a pub in Gibraltar called the Mason Arms...

The phoenix list shows that in the early 1970's there was a network of police Masons, in lodges all over south-east England, who were doubly committed to mutual aid. Today, it seems, the Phoenix may not be the bird it was. I have been unable to find out if it is still flying,,It may now be in one of its 'ashes' periods: about ti burst forth in full plumage ,, Perhaps the Manor of St James's Lodge is its latest incarnation... AS it happens, no 1971 Phoenix people show up as masons members..Perhaps this is only because there is a fifteen-year gap between the lists, but it seems to confirm that there must be thousands of London police Masons, otherwise there would be names in common....

Another indicator of the Crafts strength in the police force emerged when barrister Andrew Arden presented his 1987 report on the running of the London Borough of Hackney (see Chapter 6) ..During his research mr Arden was assisted by Grand Secretary Michael Higham,,He gave the 'profane' Arden forty-four lodge lists to help him identity Masons working for Hackney Council but. in performing this unprecedented favour, he knowingly divulged the identities of over 3,500 Masons who had no connection with Hackney and whose individual permission he did not seek..

.... Higham aslo divulged the occupation of 2,534 named Masons...Of these ninety-eight were policemen .... amounting to 3.9% of Ardens sample.. or slightly less than one Mason ^n every twenty five... if this were typical of thew the whole country..and if ( according to Commander Higham) there a re between 250,000 and 500,000 Masons under GRand Lodge, then between 9.700 and 19,400 policemen in England and Wales are Freemasons... However if my total figure of 600,000 living Masons, whether active or lapsed, is correct (see Chapter 9), then some 23,400 serving and retired policemen are Freemasons .... In December 1985 there were slightly fewer than 108,000 serving make police officers in England and Wales...  Even if we exclude my highest estimate and stick to the Higham figures ....it would seem that  between 9 and 18 percent of all policemen may be Masons : one in eleven or one in six of all men in English and Wales police forces...yet, as ever, when it comes to calculating Masonic strength, huge statistical crevasses have to be vaulter ....The records at Freemasons' Hall are always out-of-date because they show only the occupations declared when men become Master Masons .. Should they change t heir jobs or retire, these records stay the same... Yet even if 20% of men who said they were policemen have since retired, it seems that between 8,000 and 16,000 policemen are 'on the square'.. In addition, however, young policemen are being drawn into Freemasonry all the time, which may bring the total back to around 20,000... There a re thousands more in Scotland and Northern Island, where they probably form an even higher proportion of the police service, for reasons explained in Chapter 19..

... Higham supplied Arden with the names and occupations of men in fourteen individual lodges,,One lode had fifty-two members, of which eleven policemen out of eighty-eight members, another had five out of fifty four. Of course these high numbers are outdone by the Manor Lodge of St James , but the manor is not Britain's only all-police lodge... According to the Grand Secretary of East Lancashire, three lodges are composed entirely of ex-police officers: in Wales, Kent and Liverpool..The Kent lodge meets in Sittingbourne and is called the Watch and Ward,,, It was founded as recently as 1977, yet it has already won a place in Freemasons' Hall Museum by presenting a masonic gavel made in the form of a police truncheon,,,In the early 1980's  the Watch and Ward could muster only twenty-five members, but this is no proof of ill-health..Indeed, Masonic consciousness among policemen, both serving and retired, is growing stronger..The Liverpool lode, Sovereign;s Peace, was founded in 1979..

.... Most policemen belong to general lodges where they get to know men form other walks of life - that is one of the main benefits of Freemasonry - yet they are usually proposed by other policemen... A random sample of lodge summonses reveals that policemen are valued candidates for admission into almost any lodge..

.. In 1976 the Derby Allcroft Lodge of London initiated a Scotland Yard detective sergeant and a builder on the same day...It already contained several policemen, including one future member of the Manor of St James's, In 1982 Gateway Lodge of Witney initiated a Thames Valley officer along with an electrical engineer, a British Telecom warden and an Oxfordshire fireman... These lodges  contain a mix of employees, public servants and the self-emplyed.. Whatever a Mason's job, on lodge days he must be able to sop work early enough to arrive for the meeting at three or four o'clock,,Policemen can almost always manage this because they work shifts, or because senior officers are also Masons and will turn a blind eye if brothers slip off during working hours...

...Thus it was that is january 1972 a thirty-teo-year-old detective sergeant took a half-day off from West  Hampstead police station in north London to be initiated in the Fryent Lodge alongside a C-op produce controller.. The Fryent is a general lodge but, over dinner, brethren proposed several toasts to the 'Blue Lamp', in honour of the Metropolitan Police....This may have something to do with the fact that the lodge meets at Hendon Hall Hotel, close to Hendon Police College from which it recruits some of its members...

it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...

 ' Why do nearly all masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst?

 Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system...

... It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ...

....That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'

Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:

'..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position..However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'

If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as masonic spokesmen claim...

....The public need to be convinced ....

... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....

Chapter 15 A Criminal Intelligence

.... Many masons tell stories of favo¨ra by policemen whom they have come to know through the craft..One brother told me how his Masonic connections cam in handy in unforeseen circumstances....

"..A friend and I were  developing and industrial heating system in our spare time... We  used to do research in a workshop at the back of his house..On one occasion, while he and his wife were away on holiday, I was working there as usual when suddenly the police turned up... They'd been called to the house by a neighbour who thought I was an intruder..I promptly explained who I was and produced my key, but I had no identification  on me so they were not satisfied... They took me to the police station and told me that, unless I could prove my bona fides, I'd be spending the night in the cells..,, I was trying to think my way out of this mess when I remembered that on several Masonic occasions I'd met a chief superintendent who was based at the station... After one lodge function he had invited us back to that very station's social club where we had a few drinks... Now I fond myself in this jam ... I naturally asked the arresting officers to let me talk to him...He came into the charge room, immediately recognized me and then took my captors into another room.. A few seconds later they cam out again and told me, lost civilly, I was free to go... I'm sure if i hadn't been 'on the square' I would have been kept in the clink all night, maybe longer..My masonic brother, the police chief, had done me a favour: a small one perhaps, but a favour nevertheless..Freemasonry had worked like a magic wand..

...Such interventions look less benign to non-Masons inside the force who see them as inextricably intertwined with Masonic manipulation of the police service as a whole...

....Among the hundreds of letter which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

.... John Thompson retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1970,...Among the hundreds of letter which Stephen Knigt received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

.... John Thompson retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1970, having reached the rank of inspector.. When he joined the force in the later 1940's he was aware that many senior officers were 'on the square' , but like most constables he pooh-poohed the power of the Craft with what he calls 'childish flippancy'. .. he only became concerned in January 1953 when he was about to take the competitive examination for promotion to the rank of sergeant...

' ... Rumours were rife that masonic candidates had been given the questions in advance..I also heard that they were going to identify themselves as masons on their exam papers to masonic examiners... I sat the exam with all the other candidates -- you guessed it!!.. it had to be cancelled and re-arranged...throughout my police career I was aware of too many incidents involving patronage and favouritism to dismiss them with the same ease as masonic policemen are always able to do...Some were so trivial I was amazed high-ranking officers deigned to involve themselves, but some were so serious that they bordered on criminal conspiracies.. As a young sergeant at Notting Hill I began to note the very effective influence if freemasonry, One night I was on duty as the station;s officer when at one o'clock in the morning I had to charge a man with being 'drunk and indecent'. He was a mason and was on his way home from a Ladies' Night, accompanied by his wife and others, when a constable arrested jim for urinating in a shop doorway. t about 3 A.M the chief superintendent (now Commander rank) suddenly turned up at the station. Such a visit was unknown and he had obviously been dragged from his bed. He sat a round for a long time, reading and re-reading the charge, but when he realized there was nothing he could do, he left. The general consensus at the station was this visit had masonic overtones. It seems nothing was too trivial for Masonic interference...Later, as an inspector at Marylebourne, I was called out by two PC's who had arrested a nineteen-year-old youth for stealing a drivers license and using it with intent to deceive. He had managed to escape and reach his home a block of luxury flats where his father was refusing to let the constables in to re-arrest him. When I arrived the father allowed me in and took me into his study, where photographs were prominently displayed of him in masonic dress. I noted that he had been master of his lodge and he clearly expected me to direct the PC's to forget the matter,,,, I told him he was 'not on' and left him in no doubt he was backing a loser... We took the son to the station. His father followed soon after, staying in the waiting room. As I was preparing the charge sheet the station sergeant told me that a Commander (Now DAC rank) wished to speak to me on the phone.. I had never met this man, so I told the sergeant to tell him I was not prepared to discuss the matter. You see, I had learned to face Freemasonry in the force head-on without fear... Before the father left he asked if the Commander had spoken to me. I replied he had not. He then told me they were in the same Masonic Lodge and then asked me if I was 'on the square'. He had clearly assumed  was, so I had to disappoint him. As it happens, the incident did me some good. I had not hit it off with my PC's beforehand, but this broke the ice...

..Masons usually claim such stories are invented by embittered non-Masons who cannot accept that their careers have failed because of their lack of ability; instead it is claimed by Masons, that they ;fantasize about malicious wrongdoing by Masonic colleagues.  Retired Metropolitan  Policeman John Thompson ( a non-Mason) rejects this argument as itself a canard..

..'....I admit we non Masons were resentful at our lowly rank. Yet most of us were not bitter. On the contrary, the men who were bitter were those Freemasons who had expected patronage and preferment but never got it. What non-Masons such as I did resent was entering a five-furlong sprint race but being forced to start at the mile and three quarter gate...We also resented that our Masonic colleagues were likely to have their errors, omissions, in adequacies, incompetencies and indiscipline covered up, sometimes at the expense of non-Masons..I concede that many Masonic policemen had an aura if greater competence and many became more able because they had less pressure and could acquit themselves better on boards..I put my hands up to being bitter in one respect..I object when masons dismiss their victims as jealous and vindictive, I am neither neither but what do they expect us to be? They expect us to act like the three wise monkeys: seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil - of Freemasonry of course    ....'

 Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'

..... Some readers may feel that John Thompson's recollections can now be dismissed because he retired in 1970, but other police correspondents bemoan present-day Masonic goings-on...Thames Valley Police was formed in 196, through the merger of five forces in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.Recent lodge summonses from these countries show that today Freemasonry is recruiting just as strongly among policemen in this force as it is in London..

One on-Masonic sergeant knows to his cost the Brotherhood's power in Oxfordshire...

..'... In 1983 I had some building work done on my house..When it was finished I was not entirely satisfied and paid the builder only part of the money..He put most of the faults right but I was still not completely happy and we had quite a disagreement.. He then told me he was a Freemason and he knew various people that I also knew, one of them being a chief superintendent..Not long afterwards the builder had a car accident and  he finished up in hospital.. When he was there he received a visit from the chief superintendent who asked if there was anything he could do for him.. A few days later I was summoned to headquarters to see this chief superintendent. He 'advised' me to hurry up and sort out my dispute with the builder because his being in hospital gave him quite enough to worry about. Now whilst no threats were made,  there was undoubtedly some moral pressure and I came away from headquarters feeling decidedly uneasy..  The obvious difference in our ranks made it a very simple task for him to 'put the screws on'.... As a result I felt bound to pay the builder the remaining money... I find membership of this organization quite odious and not compatible with being a police officer. ... Incidents happen - internal politics you understand- whic defy rational explanation and can only be put to the influence of these people.. They are unknown, unseen, but seem to pull strings behind the scenes and get things done...

..Even back in the 1960's John Thompson saw the beginnings of what he regards as the most  sinister phenomenon involving Freemasonry and the police force in Britain.. he had just moved to the north London area known as "Y" division..He soon learned that the divisional commander and his deputy were Roman Catholics but that all the other senior officers were Masons...

...'... It was on 'Y' Division that I first noticed how former high ranking officers - both uniform and CID - were making new careers as security agents for solicitors, finance houses and other organizations hungry for confidential information ...This has now become a huge industry and Freemasonry is an important constituent in this web of intrigue. Now that more and more information is stored on computer (and its dissemination is subject to serious legal curbs under the Data Protection Act), so employers have realized that the only people that can get round the regulations are high-ranking policemen - especially Freemasons who are particularly well-placed to obtain confidential information with no chance of exposure, because they can get it all from their colleagues in the Brotherhood..Thoroughly illegal..of course,,,'

Recently police computers have been criminally abused for the purpose of keeping criminal out of Masonic employment. In 1983 the Warwickshire Grand Lodge dismissed the catering manager at its Birmingham Temple because of the way he had disciplined a member of the staff. The brethren alleged that the manager, veteran Masons Derek Yeomans, had shouted at a junior employee, but Yeoman says he was fired for 'telling off' his own boss at the Temple..He took revenge on the ungrateful brethren by squealing about their criminal wrongdoings..He disclosed that one of the province's top Masons habitually checked whether applicants for senior jobs at the `temple had criminal records logged on the West Midlands Police computer, According to Yeomans, this wholly illegal service was performed through a retired chief inspector, himself a leading FreeMason, who used to pass the applicants' names and dates of birth to an officer who worked for the local force and had access to the computer...

...Such abuse of police intelligence systems is now taken very seriously  all forces, so a local superintendent was appointed to investigate the allegation..He later reported that Yeoman's only specific claim - that certain applicant's name had been fed into the computer on a certain day --was not true...Yeoman responded that the name might well have been fed in on the day before or the day after but, in any case, it cannot be satisfactory when a policeman is appointed to investigate abuses of his own force's computer by another member of the same force..  Whether or not that inquiry was performed by checking computer records or searching old-fashioned criminal record fils, it seems Warwickshire's Mason's did call on police connections for such a service..As Provincial Grand Master Thomas Wood told the Birmingham Post..

...' I believe that on one occasion when someone was needed for a very responsible position I was told that person had been vetted....'

One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..

..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non=police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'

Chapter 21 Tough at the Top

..Many police chiefs are mistaken when the claim the issue has never come up in public complaints against their police forces... I have a pile of letters from citizens who have enclosed copies of formal complaints they have sent to police forces alleging Masonic wrongdoing by policemen... ....In the future chief constables may have to act on increasing public. press and political concern about the role of Freemasonry in the police service...

 ..In the future chief constables may have to act on increasing public, press and political concern about the role of Freemasonry in the police service....

Early in 1988 Home Office leaks implied Home Secretary Douglas Hurd was thinking of requiring police officers to declare their lodge membership if Freemasonry emerged as a factor in any matter in which they were involved  whether these were internal issued such as promotion and discipline or external investigations...

...It is my view that Mason membership should be declared by all police officers and that a regularly updated register of Mason serving in each police force should be kept at every police station and at headquarters of the police force concerned.. this register should be readily available to fellow police officers and to embers of the public..If this is not a service which police forces are willing to give their paymasters, then the register should be on display in all public libraries, just like electoral roles. There will be arguments over whether membership of other secret pr quasi-secret societies, pr fraternal organizations, should be declared. If a convincing case can be made that any other society is an extensive, powerful and cohesive as Freemasonry, then its members should indeed declare themselves.

If public opinion were to demand this register for policeman, it might even demand the display of entire Masonic Lodge Membership  Rolls at public libraries. This would be stoutly opposed on grounds that it is not the 'British Way' of doing things, but that is for the British people to decide. British people have only just gain access to the Land Registry. For centuries it has been considered an invasion of 'property owners' privacy for other people to know who really owns what in Britain. However this has grossly infringe other people's right to information - especially information which could effect themselves. The same principle applies to membership of secret, or private, mutual aid societies .heir secrecy (about  both what they do and who they are) is a standing invasions of the liberty of all non-members...

...The 1964 Police Act forbids policemen from belonging to a trade union. This appears not be formally applied to Freemasonry..despite the Craft's claim to be  descended from a medieval trade union and despite its  continues adherence to the same principles of combination and mutual aid for which policemen are banned from joining union today...

,,Ian Oliver, a non-mason a police chief  stated: "... During my sixteen years in the Metropolitan Police until 1977, it was not unknown for officers to join the Masons ^n the hope that it might just help their promotion prospects...

Chapter 22 Judging by Results

 ... at least eighteen circuit judges, four Queen;s Bench judges, three family division judges, two judges in Chancery, three Lord Justices of Appeal and one Lord Justices of Appeal and one Lord of Appeal in Ordinary....this is some of the known ranks of Freemason's strength as revealed in Masonic reference books to which I have had access... many other sources (such as provincial yearbooks and membership lists of lawyers' lodges) have eluded me, so I am forced to guess that many more judges are 'on the Square' (a well known term to describe a member of FreeMasonry).. certainly many recently retired judges are Masons: fifteen circuit, one Queens Bench, two family division, one Chancery, three Lord Justices of Appeal and one Master of the Royal Court of Protection...

..A recent Lord Chief Justice , the late Lord Widgery, was Past Senior Grand Warden of England. The current Chief Justice of Australia, Sir Harry Gibbs, is 'on the square'.  Sir Harry Gibbs, is also the only Australian on the judicial committee of the Privy Council..

..The president of the Lands Tribunal is a mason,,

...So is England's Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy is 'on the square'...so was his immediate predecessor is 'on the square'..

..Beyond the Royal Courts of Justice sit many more Masonic judges, from the current Recorder of Southport to an English Advocate-General in the European Community;s Court of Justice...still more barrister Masons choose to stay where real money can be made: as QC's..

...it is also noted that and even higher proportion of lawyers went to public schools and Oxford or Cambridge Universities: networks which are perhaps more powerful than Freemasonry.. however the difference is that those institutions (privileged and self-perpetuating though they are) are dedicated largely to the gaining of open educational qualifications which are essential in a lawyer. What the outsider might wonder is why many of these men, who judge the rest of us, need to belong to a secret (or would -be secret) society; how can these men be trusted to find the truth is court of law...when as Masons they swear belief in - and repeatedly enact - the mythical murder of a bogus historical figure whom they glorify as the stonemason architect of a temple built mainly of wood, even the stonemason architect of a temple built mainly of wood, even though he was neither a stonemason nor an architect! !!!

..for some enlightenment of what Freemasonry means to many esteemed dispensers of justice I wrote to Lord Templeman, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, who sits in the House of Lords...Lord Templeman is England's highest-ranking Mason judge,,,Lord Templeman did not reply to me (Martin Short) or Stephen Knight's letters...

..perhaps even non-freemason  judges feel they belong to a greater brotherhood- of judges - which takes precedence over any feelings they may have about their colleagues' Masonic frolics...they may well fear coming out would provoke retribution...One  Court recorder told me, '...I'm not a Mason, but don't quote me or I may end up hanging under Blackfriars Bridge..' .. I reacted as if this reference to the bizarre death of the Italian banker-Mason Roberto Calvi in 1982 was a joke, but the Recorder assured me he was very serious....

Chapter 19 The Encompassing of John Stalker

banker MASON WIRCH_HUNT ON TOP COP

MASON MAFIA FRAMED COP CHIEF

On the 29th June, 1986 those two deadly rivals  for out Sunday morning favours, the People and the News of the World ran almost identical stories about John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police, Four weeks earlier John Stalker had been suddenly removed from a highly sensitive inquiry into allegations of a shoot-to-kill policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)..

..Why was John Stalker removed at the  Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police became a massive media guessing game..Sooner or later someone was bound to blame the FreeMasons...

..The Press had already blamed the RUC, its Special Branch, Stalker's Rivals in the Manchester force, the SAS, MI5, the Norther Island Office, the Home Office and. or course.. the British Government...

The People wrote:

"... Top cop John Stalker is the victim of a plot by Freemasonry that stretches all the way from Ulster to Whitehall, according to his friends and colleagues.. They are convinced that 'a get Stalker order' originated in Ulster, where he made enemies with his inquires into an alleged police 'shoot-to-kill' policy... the order was taken up in Manchester...

The News of the World offered a less global but equally sinister scenario:

 ....

James  Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, is studying secret information naming eight key officers. They are all members of the same Freemasons l

Lodge.  Friends of Roman Catholic Mr Stalker believe the eight were asked by their mason colleagues in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) to 'dish the dirt' on him..

..Throughout the 'Stalker Affair I subscribed to a cuttings service which sent me every story linking Stalker and Freemasonry printed anywhere in Britain's press.

There are 200 such cuttings... such stories  drove East Lancashire's Grand Lodge to hold the only press conference in fifty-seven years to deny the existence of a 'Mason Mafia'. ..Manchester's Masons claimed the witch hunt was on them,,

..Masons were active at almost every twist in 'Stalker', Some Masonic involvement was inevitable because Masons are numerically strong in the organizations with which Stalker was bound to clash with if he was doing his job properl...

the question is...Were masons acting in concert to protect each other, to protect Freemasonry or to protect the establishment in which Masons thrive and prosper...

..in my opinion Stalker himself produces evidence in his book about the affair fairly points towards a conspiracy of interests, if not of individuals..

 In May 1984 John Stalker as asked to lead an inquiry into three 1982 incidents in which an undercover RUC 'Mobile Support Unit' had shot dead five suspected Republican terrorists and a seventeen-year-old boy, All six were unarmed so questions were asked as to why they had not been taken alive. The fear was that RUC men had committed multiple murder. The deeper concern was that the 'murders' were not unauthorized acts by police marksmen committed in the heat of the moment, but the product of  cold-blooded policy... ..In 1984 four of the marksmen were tried for murder but were acquitted. This distressed the families of the dead men (all Catholics) and outrages Republican sympathizers.

 The two separate trials had disclosed systematic (if badly co-ordinated)  police lying. One defendant revealed that senior Special Branch officers had told him what false story to tell, allegedly to protect their informers (some south of the border). Stalker's job was to investigate not just he shootings, but the cover stories and also the local CID's limp search for the truth, for it seemed as if RUC marksmen had been acquitted because their CID colleagues had deliberately failed to make a murder case against them...

..In his own book John Stalker tells how his Manchester  team found out that shorltly before these killings, an informer had told the RUC that four of the suspects had been involved in an IRA landmine attack which killed three policemen. This incident had occurred just three weeks before he suspect's own deaths so it seemed likely that they were he victims of RUC revenge killings...

John Stalker asked for the intelligence file on the landmine attack, to check if the dead men had indeed been named as suspects, but RUC Special Branch (SB) repeatedly denied such a file existed... then when he finally

John Stalker was eventually suspended from the police force on false allegations against him of wrongful association with a local businessman named Kevin Taylor ..which was only activated when John Staler had finally manoeuvered Hermon into handing over the surviving Hayshed material which included a tape of a bug planted by MI and Special Branch which recorded the whole shooting incident..Stalker was granted completed access to March 1986.. he did not get his hands any of the material until 30th April..even then the crucial papers eluded him because on the 29th May, shortly before he was to fly to Belfast to get them he was removed forever from the inquiry...

 

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Chapter 24 The Cotton Inheretence

"..Many of Britain's most prominent solicitors are Freemasons. They all appesr in Who's Who, yet none of their entries  contains any reference to their involvement in Freemasonary (known as The Craft) 

Some examples of past prominent Freemason solicitors are:

Sir Desmind Heap, President of the Law Society 1972-3, Solicitor for the Corporation of London fpr twenty-six years and  England's  greatest expert o town and country planning law.

Sir Edmund Liggins, President if the Law Society 1975-6. An eminent Warwickshire solicitor.

Sir David Napley, President of the Law Society 1976-7. England's leading defence solicitor. A lapsed Mason

Sir John Stebbings, President of the Law Society 1979. Member of a Derbyshire lodge (deceased December 1988)

David Sumberg MP, partner in a Manchester legal firm, member of a Staffordshire lodge.

Bert Millichip, Chairman of the Fotball Association, senior partner in the familty firm in West Bromwich, where he is active in Staffordshire Freemasnary.

Other prominent Masonic solicitors have included Julius Mermer, Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1987-8; John Evans, for twenty years Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court of Judicature; and Colonel George Kelway, High Court Registrar for Pembroke and Carmarthen from 1940 to 1962.

These folk are not household names. They do not match singers, sportsman or soap oera stars in public recognition. Yet they have been the backbone of Britain and Britain legal establishment which effectivey runs Britain... they are men of status and respect in the regions where they have built their careers, and nationally influential in the legal profession. Most of these men are Masons of Grand Rank and all are citizens above reproach...

..In contast, rank-and-filr Masonic solicitors are regarded as pillagers and looters by many anti-Masons. Stephen Knight's post -Brotherhood files are full of letters alleging all manner of conspiracies against the legal professions with allegations that most of the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff they complain about having done the wrong thing to them....are suspected to be Freemasons and/or closely associated in various solcial, business, political and legal networks and associations they belong to...to the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff that are embers of the CRAFT OF FREEMASONRY...

.Most of these correspondents of compalint suffer from the same the ame problem: they often do not have enough evidnece that Freemsonry and/or Freemasons and/or their associates and friends have played a part in their troubles.... the ones that do not have the evidence ask for information how to find out if the the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff that they say have done the wrong thing to them are in any way involved im Fremasonry...

...part of the answer to their question is that there should be a legal requirement that all Freemasons and/or anyone else in any sort of close association with Freemason members and/or involved in any way with any other social, political, business and/or legal association and/or network should ne required to openly declare such association on a public registrar before they are allowed to be involved in any appointment to a profession and/or job that involves making decisions about the public and/or acting for the public in any way..such as the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs, court staff , anyone inv0lved in politics, local councils and/or any other puvlic and/or semi-public body and/or organisation....

..another part of the answer to their problem is the setting up an independent judicial inquiry body run by a retired judge who is not a Freemason and has declared not to have any possible strong biasn in favour of Freemasony...when anyone can request that they legal cases be reveiwed to see if they have been treate din a far and reasonable way... and such reveiw to be a completely different reveiw from all the normal appeals and reviews available at present in the legal system.. and such reveiw to be free of charge to the person requestion the reveiw...

..Their allegations are a shocking litany of businesses being destroyed, bankruptcies precipitated, investments mishandled, trust funds defrauded, tr5ials rigged and murders committed and covered up and who was really behind the murders also covered up so that proper and full investigations are simply not carried out by the relavent bodies...The writer of the allegations all claim Masonic solicitors have conspired with a mermutation of Masonic bank managers, estate agents, business rivals, policemen, judges - and even Masonic relatives.... each tragic tale has dozens of characters with an apparently bottomless capacity for evil... some 'victims' are themselves solicitors, driven out of business by Masonic competitors, or it is claimed....even if 95% of this stuff in fantasy, the rest shows there are a lot of wicked people in the world, be they be Masons or not...

..Freemasons however, did pay a large role in one miserable story of an old Lancashire lady who ame to sign anew will only days before she died. In 1980 Mrs Esther Cotton aged ninety-two was sick with cancer. She was living alone at home, taking tablets to kill the pain and slow the cancer's growth..On 9th December 1980 her doctor discovered sge was suffering not just from cancer but from bruses to her face and legs, black eyes and cuts, broke ribs and a collapsed vertebrae, Her doctor promptly put is Ormskirk General Hospital where she complained of leg and neck pains. Mrs Cotton's ankles were swollen and the cancer had completely destroyed her tight breast. Tests also showed she was very deaf and suffering from severe heart trouble and anaemia. Two days later she was sinking fast: nois at times but very drowsy in between. By 12th December, despite fairly heavy sedation, she was in constant pain...

 On this same day Mrs Cotton was the subject of frenzied attention which was far from medical. Shortly after midday a solicitor named Gordon Brown appeared at Mrs Cotton's beside insisting she sign a new will. The soliticitor, Gordon Brown, was not Mrs Cotton's regular solicitor, but was acting on instructions from Mrs Cotton's son, Ernest... Because  of the noise and bustle of the ward, Brown asked for the dying woman to be moved to a private room where, witnessed by two hospital administrators, she scrawled a mark where she was meant to sihn her name on the will document...

.... Within hours her condition rapidly worsened. Her face turned grey, she suffered a relapse, and had to be treated  for congestive cardiac failure. Her condition further deteriorated ... On the 17th December, 1980, Mrs Cotton slipped into a coma and died. Mrs Cotton's funeral was attended to by her son Ernest and her daughter, Mrs Juneth Pilkington.

Juneth had ben visiting her mother twice daily but the first she knew of the will was on 29th December when a copy came through her letterbox. Juneth thought it strange that her mother had never told her about this will but stranger still that her mother Mrs Cotton could have made it at all. In hospital her condition had been so bad that she could say nothing, could recognize no one and, says Juneth, had quite lost her mental facilities.

As Juneth read through the will (in which she and her brother were named as executors) Juneth was stunned. The will said Juneth would get just one-quarter of the value of her mother's house. Each of four grandchildren would get a mere £100, but the rest of the estate would go to her brother, Ernest, 'for his own use and benefit absolutely'. The estate was no pittance. The and was worth some £60,000, much of it was tied up in the family business, a motor coach firm. Yet only five months before she signed this 'hospital will', Mrs Cotton had signed another very different message: she was going to leave each grandchild £1,000, but everything else was to be split between her son and daughter 'in equal shares absolutely'.

What shocked Juneth was not the loss of so much money, but the clandestine way in which the new will had been concocted. The solicitor Gordon Brown had never acted for her mother before, whereas her solicitor for the past thirty years was not consulted. Indeed, no one had even told Mrs Cotton's previous solicitor that Mrs Cotton was ill.

In the period between these wills the future of the coach firm had caused great family bitterness. The trouble went back to 1948 when old Mr Cotton had died without a will. The business had been held in trust ever since, with shares divided between Mrs Cotton and the Children. Juneth refused to sell her shares to Ernest, who ran the business and wanted total ownership. The 'hospital will' did not give him that - it could could not take away the shares Juneth already had - but it gave `Ernest his mother's 50 percent share, and thus Ernest had majority control for the first time.

Juneth herself had been very ill during her mother's last days at home but Juneth had called in to see her mother Mrs Cotton on the 4th December, 1980, when she found Mrs Cotton squatting on a settee in an incoherent state. Juneth called the doctor but does not know if he saw Mrs Cotton before the 9th December, 1980, when he sent her to hospital. However, Juneth was not sure whether Mrs Cotton was not suffering from cuts, bruises, broken ribs or collapsed vertebrae.

Years later Juneth gained access to previously withheld hospital notes and discovered that on 6 December someone had called the hospital to report that Mrs Cotton's back had 'caved in' and she was covered in bruises because of several falls. Juneth also learned that on the 8th December, 1980, the solicitor Gordon Brown, acing on Juneth brother's instructions, had twice visited  Mrs Cotton so that she could dictate a new will. Nether he nor a colleague could have noticed her caved-in back, or they would have realized she was in no condition to make a will. Instead, Gordon Brown took down the details and later had them typed on the appropriate form. On 12th December, 1980, by which time Mrs Cotton was in hospital, she signed her new will. Two hospital employees initialled a few hand written words saying the contents had been read over to Mrs Cotton, 'she appearing perfectly to understand the same'.

Re-reading the will with care, Juneth felt her mother could have no idea what Mrs Cotton was signing. Mrs Cotton's signature was illegible, and unlike her normal signature as it appeared on the earlier will. The E(for Esther) was vaguely recognizable, but the A (for Annie)  was like a M. In place of 'Cotton', there were a few gnarled loops with no 't's or an 'n'.

Juneth did not dispute that her mother made that that scrawl, but felt that maybe her hand had been held, but what was extraordinary about the will was that it contained two gross errors. Mrs Cotton's 'dwellinghouse' is described as '22 Brighouse Close, Ormskirk', whereas she lived at number 33. Even more astonishing, the document is made out in the wrong name: 'Hester Annie Cotton', not Esther Annie Cotton. At no time in her life had Esther ever been called Hester.

Would anyone in his or her right mind voluntarily sign a will made out in the wrong name and address? Can such a will be valid?

In succeeding months and years, Juneth tried to find out if her mother could possibly have known what she was doing. in 1981, Mr Cotton's doctor wrote that, on 9th December, 1980: "My patient appeared to be in agony and under a great deal of distress. I therefore did not think it appropriate to assess he metal capacity. I immediately arranged her urgent admission into hospital.'

On the 10th December, 1980, a hospital physician (whom solicitor Gordon Brown had approached) wrote, 'She is is a fit mental state to sign a will.' Later he explained that on 12th December, 1980, he thought Mrs Cotton capable of understanding and signing a will, and could appreciate the extent of the property, the person who should be considered, and the way her estate should be divided.

If so, how did Mrs Cotton not protest that her new will made a hast of her name and address? The opinion also clashes with Juneth's experience on 10th December, 1980, when her mother, Mrs Cotton, failed to recognize Juneth and two other familiar visitors. The next day Mrs Cotton did not recognize her own grandchild. The day after, Mrs Cotton failed to recognize Juneth, only one hour before she signed the new will...

 ... was wearing a hearing aid, but I did not check to see it it was working properly, as I had no reason to suspect that it wasn't. When I spoke to Mrs Cotton I did so is aloud voice, bending over the patient. Mrs Cotton did not make any comment regarding mistakes in her name and the address of her property. I asked the patient if she understood what I had read out  and if she agreed with it.  As far as I can recollect Mrs Cotton did not make any comments, Mrs Cotton appeared to be an elderly ill lady...

Juneth's solicitors sent all available hospital records and statements t a consultant physician in Liverpool. In his Opinion he sated Mrs Cotton had been very ill for six weeks before she died. When Mrs Cotton signed the will, her mind may have been clouded by pain from widespread canerous growth; impairment and  cardiovascular functions through cancer, and toxic absorption; lack of natural sleep; effects of drugs against pain and for sedation; and difficulty in communication and resulting frustration due to advanced deafness. He went on....

.....It is indeed quite possible that `Mrs Cotton may have been given the appearance of not only hearing, but also understanding the contents of the will, as read to her, It is, however, more doubtful whether her cerebral functions were sufficiently unimpaired for her to express her own viewpoints on the contents of the will and to use her independent judgement ... I am inclined to believe that not only an extraordinary effort on her part would have enabled her to rise  above her suffering in order to concentrate her mind on the task presented to her by the solicitor on December the 12th, 1980....

 ...... NO INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE EXISTS TO SHOW THAT MRS COTTON HAD EVER WANTED TO MAKE A NEW WILL....

In a letter to Juneth's solicitors, Gordon Brown said that Ernest Cotton had told him to visit his mother and take instructions. He cannot comment now because he died in 1984, yet the question remains.... for whom was solicitor Gordon Brown really acting for? Even if Mrs Cotton were compos metis, Mrs Cotton would not have known Gordon Brown from Adam. Mrs Cotton's son Ernest only brought Gordon Brown into her ninety two year old life at her last gasp. So what was the relationship between Ernest Cotton and solicitor Gordon Brown?

 Ernest Cotton and solicitor Gordon Brown are both Freemasons- both members of Ormskirk's Pilgrim Lodge (no. 6207). In 1946 Ernest's Cotton's father had been one Ormskirk Pilgrim Lodge's founders.. Ernest Cotton was Master in 1962 and later achieved the mighty provincial rank of Senior Grand Deacon. Ernest Cotton was a big wheel in  West Lancashire Freemasonry, whereas Gordon Brown had only just been initiated. When Brown drew up the 'hospital will' he was a mere Fellow Craft. Just three weeks later he was raised to the third degree and became a Master Mason. The gap in the two men's Masonic status was immense, notwithstanding that, in the wider world, Gordon Brown was a prosperous solicitor  while Cotton ran a modest coach firm. When Cotton asked him to make a will for his mother, it was an offer Solicitor/Freemason Gordon Brown could not refuse. The job had even been arranged in the ledge. On the 3rd of December, 1980, as some brothers stood drinking at the bar in Ormskirk Masonic Hall, Ernest Cotton walked over to Brown and was heard saying he 'had a little job for him'.

 Such deals may well go on all the time in Ormskirk Masonic Hall, which has many Masons, The mid-Lancashire town has a population of about 27,000 of which about 10,000 are men over twenty-one. The Masonic Hall in Park Road caters for eleven lodges with some 700 members. Even if many of them live in other communities nearby, it seems one Ormskirk man in twenty is 'on the square' (the common description of a Freemason). The town's most powerful lodge is Ormskirk Priority (no. 4007). At six o'clock on the  fourth Wednesday of each month from September to April, its members slip into the hall to perform rituals, quaff a gin and tonic and super at the festive board.

 This lodge showed its power one morning in July 1985 by bringing the town to a halt for the funeral of one of its most revered members. By nine o'clock Ormskirk was paralysed by traffic. Everyone was late for work and shops could not open because the assistants had not arrived. Tradesmen, office staff and shoppers sat in their cars  and fumed because, without warning, the main carpark had been closed to the public so mourners would have only a short walk to the parish church.

  The dead man, Howard Ballance, had been a pillar of the community since World War II. A dentist, he had been a councillor for town and country for thirty-eight years, He was chairman of Lancashire Police Authority for thirty-three years, and was still a Justice of Peace (JP) and chairman of the Magistrates Bench when called to the Grand Lodge Above'.

  Nobody begrudged Ballance a good funeral, but giving his mourners sole use of the carpark sent the town wild. The Chamber of Trade was furious and rand the police to complain, The cops said the council had told them to do it. The Chamber's president blasted the the council's 'Kremlin-like attitude' of 'we are equal, but some are more equal than other'. The council blamed the idea on the police, but said that, anyway, 'it was a sensible way out of what could have been a ticklish problem'. The problem may have been how to appease Lodge no. 4007, whose members included several more councillors, and Ormskirk's ten other lodges. In all Freemason members could call on a total of fifteen of the town's fifty-five JP's and quite a few brethren among the local police.

 One policeman belonged to Pilgrim Lodge with Ernest Cotton and his solicitor Gordon Brown. Other members were factory owners, engineers, builders, shopkeepers, estate agents, an accountant, a printer. a farmer and an instrument technician named Derek Pilkington. He was Juneth Cotton's husband, and it was her brother Ernest Cotton who had nominated Derek Pilkington in 1978 at old Mrs Cotton's instance.

  Derek Pilkington was raised to Master Mason in October 1979 and regularly attended lodge meetings until November 1979 and regularly attended ledge meetings until November 1980, when the family was in dispute over the future of the coach business. Until this was sorted out Derek Pilkington decided to 'withdraw' from attend the lodge, thus avoiding a row with his brother-in-law and complying with Freemasonry's Ancient Charge that, 'no private piques or quarrels must be brought within the door of the lodge'.

  However, the Pilkingtons did complain to a lodge elder about what they felt was Ernest Cotton's 'unmasonic behaviour. They said Ernest Cotton had 'quite wrongly' put pressure on his mother to sign a will to his own advantage and the near disinheritance of his sister. Ernest Cotton had also damaged the interests of a brother Mason (Derek Pilkington), breaking the Masonic commandment of brotherly love. The elder was upset and rand Ormskirk's top Mason (another JP) for advice. The Pilkingtons hoped this call would result in a pledge of Masonic justice, but they received none. Far from getting help from Freemasonry, they were soon ostracized by it, in Juneth COTTON'S words:

....We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....

  Derek Pilkington was promptly struck off the lodge steward's list, perhaps in retribution for branding Ernest Cotton's conduct 'unmasonic', perhaps because he had stayed away from three meetings rather than clash with his brother-in-law. It was on the advice of her mother's doctor that  Juneth Cotton decoded to fight the 'hospital will', but she ran into widespread obstruction. She wanted to see insurance papers for the coach firm of which she had long being a partner. Swindon Insurance's local manager, George Parr, refused to let her have them, He said, she was 'on dangerous ground' and added, 'my firm has not got enough money to fight this,'..He did not explain these remarks, but Juneth thinks he was referring to the 'secret and silent power of Freemasonry and Rotary9=9 avery much related organisation)'. Parr may not have been a mason but he was definitely in Rotary: 'Many Rotarians are Masons and it seems clear that is Parr was to help me in my troubles he would be working against the interests of his close  professional colleagues.' When Parr died in 1983, many Masons had refused to give Juneth Cotton details of the family firm's accounts. Pilgrim Lodge kept its funds in one of those banks...

  Meantime, Derek Pilkington had been the victim of a forgery which could only have been perpetrated by a FreeMason. According to the constitutions every lodge member should receive a Grand Lodge certificate as soon as he is registered as a third-degree FreeMason. Derek Pilkington's third-degree Freemason certificate arrived twenty-three months late: on the 28th August, 1981 is a dirty crumpled envelope dropped through the letterbox at dinnertime. Derek complained to the Provincial GRand Secretary, who wrote back saying 'Pilgrim Lode had kept the certificate in order to present it to him in person...' and 'when he did not turn up to the lodge, it was sent on by registered post..'

  That letter contained two errors. fed to the writer by some Pilgrim Lodge member. Derek had attended all its meetings for a full twelve months after he became a Master Mason: which was ample time for him to receive the certificate in person. As for 'registered post', he had never signed for the document because it had been stuffed through the door when no one was at home.

  Derek Pilkington got in touch with the local acting post master who referred to the registered mail receipt book. This contained a signature in Derek's name which showed he had received the letter on the 26th August, 1981: a full two days before it landed of Derek's doormat. The official admitted the signature looked new and stood out from the page, but said it must have been made on that date..

  If so, it had not been made by Derek because he and Juneth were on holiday in France on the 26th August, 1981, and did not return until two days later. No one else had been at home to sign on his behalf or in his name. Besides, the letter bore no registration slip. The Pilkingtons called in the police. A CID man confirmed that the signature looked 'fresh' yet nothing came of his inquiries, even though the suspects were obvious. The forgery could have been perpetuated only by a high-ranking Post Office official with access to the registered mail pen, or wit such a person's co-operation.

This may sound trivial, but it proves Freemasonry can pervert even the Royal Mail. It if interferes with registered letters, what else does Freemasonry contaminate?

The the incident also shows how far some Masons will go to cover up a breach of their own rules. First forge the signature, then lie to the Provincial Grand Secretary (a former policeman, then get him to regurgitate the lie to the victim. even hough he too is a Mason.

Handing out certificates on time and in the correct manner is the job of a lodge secretary. In 1981 the secretary of Pilgrim Lodge was Ernest Cotton. In November that year Derek sent a cheque to cover his annual subscriptions and £10 for Masonic charities. He also enclosed a note which he asked the Master to read in open lodge to the assembled brethren:

Please accept my apologies for my non-attendance at Pilgrim Lodge ... being unable to attend has been a bitter disappointment to me, but, as you know, there is a brother in the lodge with whom I am at variance over matters which have caused deep distress for almost two years to my wife and myself...I regret so few of my Brothers feel able to discuss my problems with me, or are prepared to listen... However, when the time comes, the Great Architect of the Universe will surely as always be on the side of righteousness...

The letter was not read out and Derek Pilkington never got a reply to his letter...

..In 1983 Derek also lost his job...

The manager who sacked him was also in the brotherhood.. Freemasons are exhorted to give a brother work, not deprive him of a job. yet Derek's dismissal was unfair and unnecessary, as he later proved to an industrial tribunal which found wholly in Derek's favour..

..In January 1984 the Masonic solicitor Gordon Brown died aged little more than fifty. His funeral was attended by many Pilgrim brethren, but not by Ernest Cotton. Some Pilgrim men felt Brown's health had declined largely because he had spend three year trying yo defend the indefensible 'hospital will'. The Pilkington's are convinced its 'mistakes' were deliberate.

 For instance, the will says Juneth Pilkington is to get one-quarter of the value of Mrs Cotton's 'dwellinghouse' but then gives the wrong address. This might have been a mistake, but it could have been a deliberate ploy to cut her out of her inheritance altogether. As it is worded, she would have received one-quarter of a property which her mother never owned - in other words, nothing at all.

  The Pilkington's also say the mistake over Mrs Cotton's name is a Masonic sign. Falsely named 'Hester Annie', not 'Esther Annie', her initials become H.A. These also stand for Hiram Abiff (H.A.), the 'architect' of the Temple of Solomon. The 'Widow' is inserted, as word which did not appear in the earlier will. However, if this is a 'Masonic' will, the word 'Widow' is there to show that Ernest is the 'Widow's Son', a phrase FreeMasons use to identify themselves to other Masons.

   Derek Pilkington has often complained to top Masonic officials, but they refuse to get involved, saying his dispute with Cotton is a legal matter in which Freemasonry cannot interfere. Derek retorts that Masonic lawyers have interfered from the start, first by drawing up a 'Masonic will' and then by ensuring no other lawyer is town dare to fight it. When he complained to Freemasons' Hall in London, Commander Michael Higham wrote to suggest he consult another lawyers 'in another town'.

  This is just what the Pilkingtons did, when they eventually found a non-Masonic solicitor in Manchester. In 1987 they were about to fight the will in court, when Ernest Cotton's side made a last-minute offer: half the value of the mother's house and £4,500 for Juneth Pilkington's share in the coach business. This came to £18,000 out of an estate worth some £60,000. Her barrister urged her strongly to accept, to avoid a legal contest which would exhaust the estate and leave her with nothing.

  As a result the will's glaring mistakes ( or Masonic signs) were never tested, nor was the legality of Mrs Cotton's signature nor the issue of her mental state. Instead, a highly suspect will - perhaps made under duress - was laundered and legitimized by the legal process itself. Now the law took its own cut, Juneth had to pay costs of £9,000: half her entire share of the estate.

...  Ernest Cotton in the meantime had been Master of Pilgrim Lodge a second time.  

.... Ernest Cotton has now been awarded the lofty rank of Past Provincial Grand Warden, an honour which goes only to men who embody what the Anchient Charges call 'the benign influence of masonry, as all true masons have done from the beginning of the world, and will do to the end of time'. A former town councillor, Cotton has even had a road named after him.,,

In contrast, Derek Pilkington has been 'excluded' from Pilgrim Lodge for non-payment of dues but, as he told officials, he could not attend until the anti-Masonic deeds of other members of the lodge had been remedied. Derek's unfair dismissal by another Mason and subsequent unemployment were two more reasons  why he could not pay £35 a year. Yet his Brethren resolved that it was Derek Pilkington, and no one else, who was 'void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful Lodge or any other warranted Lodge or society of men, who prize honour and virtue above the external advantages of rank and fortune...'.....

  For many years Worshipful Brother Ernest Cotton ran a funeral business from the same premises as the family coach firm. A decade later, on the shelves of the unlocked and deserted garage, a plastic bag was discovered. It contained the remains of a named individual incinerated at Thornton Crematorium on the 15th November, §974. Out of respect for the man and his family, I shall not name him here... However, his crematorium reference number was C9856. Perhaps he too was a Freemason, Even if he was not, his ashes deserved rather better care from a Masonic undertaker...

 

"..It is an obvious truth, that the privileges of Masonry have long been prostituted for unworthy considerations. and hence their good effects have been less conspicuous.... William Preston, one of Freemason's greatest teachers....written more than 200 years ago by William Preston..

In 1972 William Preston could see his beloved Brotherhood sinking into a 'general odium, or at least a careless in difference'....

Today Freemasonry has an even worse public image that in Preston's day ...but does it deserve it?

In Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood, Martin Short tries to weigh all its good effects against the cost of this enduring prostitution...

 

Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood car has its origins in the pioneering work of Stephen Knight who died in July 1985 aged thirty-three, just eighteen months after the publication of his best-selling, controversial and much-despised expose of Freemasonry, The Brotherhood...

 

 ..... Had Stephen Knight lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen ... Knight from all over the world...


 
 
http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/freemasonry/stocks.html
 
Freemasonry and the Ripper
by Wor. Bro. Dennis Stocks, Barron Barnett Lodge. 
(*with apologies to George Johnston)
Few events in the annals of violent crime, not even the murders of monarchs or the assassinations of major political or religious figures have aroused as much sustained interest(1) over the years as the deaths in London in the autumn of 1888 of five quite ordinary prostitutes. 
The killer of these unfortunate women in London at the end of the nineteenth century has captured the imagination as no other ever has, becoming one of the most written about, most speculated about, most thoroughly investigated of all time. Even those gentle souls among us who may not be all that well versed in the subject of murder, or be personally acquainted with individuals who have homicidal tendencies know the name that has now passed into common English usage. Those of us who might have to pause a moment or two before being able to identify any one of a number of other well-known murderers in history who have been responsible for far more deaths, or for more important ones, and whose violent acts have had far greater impact on the times in which they lived instantly recognise the name Jack the Ripper(2). Yet as well known as he is, virtually nothing is actually established about him. 
This, in part, explains our continuing morbid fascination with him; the fact that his (or her) identity remains a mystery. This, and of course the unspeakable horror of his crimes, for it is a curious phenomenon that the human animal is, at one and the same time, both repelled and attracted by horror. 
There is more to it than that, of course. There is the sheer audacity of the man and his single-mindedness of purpose: his uncanny ability to stalk his victims and do his grisly work - all in the face of the most elaborate efforts to prevent him from doing just that, making fools of the authorities in the process, which in itself is enough to gain him a measure of public approbation. Let's face it, there has to be grudging admiration for the man, despite his crimes, despite his obvious insanity, despite the sheer evil and repugnance of his deeds. 
After all, he got away with it! 
There are individuals who have spent lifetimes pursuing the mystery, who have immersed themselves in every aspect of it, who have become authorities in the most trivial details of the crimes and of the victims. Yet little new light has been shed over time; little the "experts" can agree upon. Indeed, as the years go by, the theories seem to become wilder, the list of suspects longer and more fantastic, the controversy ever deeper, the mystery even more tantalising. And the known facts more problematic. Even the number of murders actually committed is a subject for debate: some say five, or eight, some say eleven, a few say as many as fourteen(3). 
The story has just about been milked of every possible drop of information. Canards, suspect sources, forced readings and outright hoaxes (such as the "James Maybrick"/Mike Barrett diaries) are becoming more prevalent(4). 
All we can ever be reasonably certain of is that a single individual was responsible for the five murders and mutilations committed between August 31 and November 9, 1888 - those of: 
Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, (43) found in Buck's Row on 31st August with her throat cut and with slight stomach mutilation,
Annie Chapman, (47) found in Hanbury Street on 8th September with her throat cut, her stomach and genitals badly mutilated and some of her entrails placed around her neck,
Elizabeth ("Long Liz") Stride, (45) found in Berner Street on 30th September with her throat cut but no attempt at mutilation,
Catharine Eddowes, (46) found in Mitre Square on the same night as Elizabeth Stride (30th) with her throat cut and severe mutilation of both face and stomach, and
Mary Jane (Marie Jeanette) Kelly (25) found 9th November in Miller's Court with her throat cut and her whole body grossly mutilated.
Beyond that, there is hardly a fact that is not in dispute (including whether the man was indeed a man - more than one "expert", including Arthur Conan Doyle, has theorised that "he" was a "she"). 
What little we know about the killer has been pieced together from the often conflicting descriptions provided by witnesses who saw him (or thought they saw him, or merely said they saw him), and by police officials and medical examiners who made certain inferences - educated guesses, if you will (and some of them not so educated) - based on his modus operandi and on the postmortem examination of his victims. 
This is what we think we know: He had a moustache, he was five feet six or seven, seemed to be left-handed(5), seemed to have had a familiarisation of with the Whitechapel district, may have had some knowledge of human anatomy, and may have been a member of the Upper or Middle classes. 
Incredible as it may seem, after all the years of research and investigation and all the hundreds of studies, that - and only that - is all we really know about him. Even here there is disagreement. Valid arguments can be made and ample "evidence" submitted to refute most of the above. 
Over the years, several candidates have been proposed - Scotland Yard's computer printout lists 176 individual suspects - but few of them have stood the test of time and none has survived close scrutiny. After all is said and done, after all the research and all the theorising, we are no closer to an answer now than we were over one hundred years ago. Quite simply, we do not know who the killer was. 
Some are convinced that, because of the killer's apparent knowledge of anatomy, he was a physician or surgeon(6). Others think that because he was not all that skilled with a knife, he could not have possibly had medical training. He could have been a butcher or slaughterer (there were several in the area). He could have been a cork cutter or a shoemaker. He had demonstrated enough skill with a blade to suggest that he at least had had experience as a deer hunter, a theory that lends support to those who believe he was a member of the upper classes. (All "gentlemen" of that period were assumed to know how to "gralloch" (disembowel) a deer.) It has been suggested that he was a Russian Secret Agent, a Black Magician, an I.R.A. agent, even a midwife. And he could have been none of these things. Even the fact that all his victims were prostitutes has been questioned(7). 
In 1988 as part of the Cosgrove-Muerer TV Production's "The Secret Life of Jack the Ripper," a FBI profile of the Ripper was compiled(8). As educated guesses go, it is probably as good as we are going to get: 
He was a white male, single, in his mid to late twenties of average intelligence.


He was probably locally resident and had an intimate knowledge of its geography.


He was probably employed, as the murders all took place over weekends.


He was free from family accountability and in all probability lived alone as the murders took place between midnight and 6 am.


In all probability, he was of unsanitary personal habits since the murders showed a marked unfastidiousness.


He would not have reacted well with people and would have been considered by his associates a loner and engaged in erratic behaviour.


He was not surgically or anatomically skilled.


He was likely to have been in trouble with the police prior to the murders. He hated women and was probably intimidated by them.


He most likely had an unhappy childhood, was probably raised by a woman alone, and may have been sexually molested by that woman - perhaps his mother.


He was, the profile concluded, a "predatory animal".


And, perhaps, even one who could not help advertising. On 27th September, 1888 a letter addressed to "The Boss, Central News Office, London City" was received by the Central News Agency which concluded: 
"...My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get the chance.
Good Luck
Yours truly
Jack the Ripper.
Dont mind me giving away the trade name."
On 16 October 1888, George Lusk(9) received a three-inch square cardboard box wrapped in brown paper containing half a human kidney preserved in spirits of wine. An accompanying note claimed it was half the missing left kidney from Catharine Eddowes. The sender claimed to have eaten the other half(10).
As for motives, it has been theorised by armchair psychiatrists that the killer was probably someone who contracted a venereal disease from a prostitute, had become mentally deranged, and committed the crimes out of revenge. Or was he a religious nut whose self-appointed mission in life was to rid the world of fallen women and "excoriate the evil from their bodies?" We simply do not know(11). 
As to whether anyone ever did know... that is another question. 
There is a persistent rumour of an official conspiracy of silence - a cover-up at the highest level - the purpose of which was either to conceal the identity of the killer or, what is more likely, to hide from the public the depth of ineptitude displayed by the police and various government officials in the case, from the cabinet ministerial level on down. 
Scotland Yard's files on the Whitechapel murders were supposed to have been officially sealed until 1992 (coincidentally, the one hundredth anniversary of the death of H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, if anyone cares to read anything into that). Instead, they were opened to the public in 1988, the one hundredth anniversary of the murders. There were, however, some who claimed to have had access to those files earlier, and those individuals indicated that much appeared to be missing by 1988(12). A few went so far as to state that the records seemed to have been deliberately purged of essential information: of anything that was of any real value and could possibly lead to the identification of the killer. Time after time we are told of lost archives, stolen letters, purloined documents, mysterious disappearances of pertinent materials, files that were purposely destroyed or systematically "sanitised" or simply "misplaced". While this state of affairs has surely been overdrawn and over dramatised, some of it just as surely has taken place. Careful searches, for example, have failed to reveal the whereabouts of the original detailed postmortem report of Catharine Eddowes, prepared by Dr Frederick Gordon Brown, the City Police Surgeon. It is not enough to blame it all on "inefficient record keeping" and "crude file indexing" or the "insufficient budgets" of the agencies responsible for securing the files, as has been the case. 
Moreover, private notes and diaries belonging to individuals who were retired officials, or who were otherwise personally involved in the investigations of the murders, or had information pertaining to them, have on several recorded occasions "disappeared" - in at least a few cases within a few days of an individual's death. Dr Thomas Stowell's files were destroyed within hours of his death by his son, who never explained why and refused to discuss the matter at all(13). Sir Melville Macnaghten's personal personal files - he headed the CIS and had first hand knowledge of Scotland Yard's entire investigation - simply "vanished" shortly after his death(14). 
So the possibility of a cover-up cannot be dismissed lightly. The question then remains, why bother to go to such pains unless there was something to hide, something the government, or at least certain highly placed officials within the government, did not wish to have revealed? 
There is another source of frustration: Much of the information that has come down to us is not merely incomplete, but incorrect. For example, the so-called "writing on the wall" found in the passage off Goulston Street following the Murder of Catharine Eddowes. As has been pointed out by Richard Whittington-Egan (A Casebook on Jack the Ripper), at least seven different versions of that message exist (an indication of how difficult it sometimes is to establish even simple facts of the case). And each version is from a "reliable", respected source, one of them being no less a personage than Sir Henry Smith, who actually saw the original message before it was ordered removed. 
The point is, one cannot help but wonder whether such instances as this are the result of carelessness and simple lapses in memory, or whether efforts were made to purposely deceive and mislead(15). 
So much has been written about the Whitechapel murders through the years that it is virtually impossible to keep track of it. Down through the years, literally hundreds of books have been written about the Ripper and his crimes, and the magazine and newspaper articles number in the thousands(16). In 1972 Alexander Kelly(17) compiled a bibliography on the subject that had to be updated twelve years later because another one-hundred-odd books and articles on the subject had been published in the intervening period. The revised edition, too, soon became outdated as 1988 and the Centenary arrived. Jack the Ripper had become a cottage industry. 
Much of what has been written, at least in recent years, is well researched and scholarly, but a good deal of what has come down to us over time is, in whole or in part, simply nonsense. The one thing that almost every single "expert" has in common with every other is the ability to articulate logical reasons why the newest most-favoured suspect could not possibly be the Ripper. Where they fail - every single one of them - is when they offer their own candidate for the distinction. This is where imagination most often comes into play, where supposition comes to the fore, where data become selective and credulity is stretched to the breaking point. Where - in the words of Donald Rumbelow, a former London detective and author of one of the best works on the subject (Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook) - "every fact is capable of being wrenched into the weirdest of interpretations." 
And that brings us to the Freemasons, and Brother Jack. 
Mozart and the Morgan Affair not withstanding, the other great crime with which the name of Freemasonry has been intimately linked is that of Jack the Ripper. Melvin Harris in his 1987 book "Jack the Ripper: The Bloody Truth" has convincingly annihilated any such connections. But Melvyn Fairclough (The Ripper and the Royals) resurrected the problem in 1991 in nothing more than an extension of the Stephen Knight fantasies. 
Fairclough has based his premise on the story/stories of Joseph Sickert. Some years ago, Sickert agreed to cooperate with Stephen Knight by recounting Sickert's family history which involved a good deal of hearsay material Joseph had heard from his father, Walter Sickert(18). The result was the publication in 1976 of "Jack the Ripper - The Final Solution." During the course of this collaboration, Joseph said he realised that Knight was misinterpreting the material and a quarrel ensued. Joseph went his separate way without revealing to Knight "The Full Story" so that, according to Joseph, Knight's book, while broadly on the right lines, was also wrong on many points and missed out many vital details including the identities (yes, plural) of "Jack the Ripper." This idea of a plurality of "Rippers" (a doctor and assistants) was not new; for example, it had formed part of a story by William Le Queux in 1923(19). But Joseph (from his version of what his father had told him) and Knight made it slightly original by adding the Freemasons. 
Knight, knowing he was onto a good thing, continued his self-indulgent fantasies and manufactured mysteries with a second book, "The Brotherhood." But, after Knight's death in 1985, Sickert claimed to have found "forgotten" documents proving he was entitled to part of the profits from "The Final Solution." 
Joseph Sickert, of course, has a family axe to grind since his dear old dad, Walter, has himself been directly implicated as being "Jack" (20). This highly tenuous conclusion is based on a claim, attributed to a statement made in 1948 by Florence Pash (one of Walter's acquaintances), that Walter had seen the bodies of the Ripper's victims. By a quantum leap in jurisprudence relating to evidence, this is assumed to have been at the site of the murders totally discounting that Walter may have seen the bodies, say, in the mortuary; in one of the many illustrated newspapers or, indeed, in his fertile imagination. The conclusion by Knight that Walter Sickert was one of the Rippers seems to have been one of the reasons for the falling out between Knight and Joseph Sickert. 
Fairclough resurrected all this. His argument is now common enough and he continues to push the Sickert/Knight fantasy that was first articulated in the final episode of a 1973 Z CARS spin-off - "Jack the Ripper" - scripted by Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd where "Inspector Barlow" and "Sergeant Watt" re-examined the Ripper murders(21). 
In case you did not know, as a young journalist for the East London Advertiser (the sole surviving newspaper covering the Whitechapel area), Knight had been sent to interview Joseph Sickert after Sickert's story of the murders as cover-up for the indiscretions of H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward ("Eddy")(22a), Duke of Clarence and Avondale had been publicised in that BBC drama-documentary series. Knight apparently found Sickert's story to be persuasive and embarked on his own "research". 
To recap this story for those of you who have come in late:, Eddy has a liaison with and eventually marries the commoner (and Catholic) Annie Elizabeth Crook. According to the story, they meet at Walter Sickert's studio at 15 Cleveland Street and a daughter, Alice Margaret, is born to the couple on 18 April 1885. "Something" has to be done to protect the throne. This was especially urgent after Mary Kelly, a friend of Annie, escaped attempts to arrest everyone concerned with the liaison and fled to Whitechapel. There Kelly shared her secret with a handful of fellow prostitutes who, in turn, dreamed of blackmailing the Crown. They ended in a mortuary courtesy of Masonic assassins who couldn't resist advertising their involvement by using Masonic ritual in the slaughter. 
Annie Crook was caught and incarcerated in Guy's Hospital by the Queen's physician for 156 days before being transferred to a smaller hospital at 367 Fulham Road where she was kept until she died on 3 February 1920. During the period at Grey's, Sir William Gull is supposed to have operated on her brain to remove all unwanted and embarrassing memories. 
But the Sickert family saga, however, takes all this even one amazing step further by claiming that the child that resulted from Eddy's dalliance, Alice Margaret Crook, is Joseph Sickert's mother; making him Eddy's grandson and Queen Victoria's great, great grandson. 
Walter was twenty-five years older than Alice. Yet the story is that she later bore him two sons, Charles (1905-1919) and Joseph (1925- ). From 1899, she lived with Walter as his ward in Dieppe, leaving him when she was 18 to marry William Gorman, an ex-boxer, and bore him several children. On page 111, Fairclough reports that Alice married Gorman on 14 July 1918 and Gorman died in 1951. Now, you don't have to be an intellectual giant to work out that, although now married to Gorman, for Joseph to maintain his claim to be a descendent of royalty, Alice continued to have sexual relations with Walter Sickert as Joseph was born five years after Walter's second wife died and seven years after Alice had married Gorman. 
"One reason Walter encouraged the romance [between Alice and Gorman] was to ensure that any further children Alice might have would be born in wedlock and be accepted as Gorman's"(22b). 
Seven months after Alice gave birth to Joseph, Walter married for a third time. 
"How did Sickert (Walter, that is) become involved?" you ask. 
Oswald Sickert (Walter's father and Joseph's supposed paternal grand father) was an artist/painter and had apparently made friends with many members of the Danish Royal family including King Christian IX's daughter, Alexandra (Alix). After Alix had married Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1863, she came to live in England, gave birth to Eddy and, by 1880, was deeply concerned as to Eddy's social and sexual development. (There were rumours he had been indulging in homosexual liaisons). Alix turned to Oswald's son, Walter (also a painter), to take Eddy under his wing. 
In 1884 Walter was twenty four and four years older than his royal charge. He passed Eddy off as a younger brother, "Albert", and that year introduced him to one of his models, Annie Crook. After the birth of a child in April 1885, Walter Sickert employed Mary Kelly to act as the child's nanny. 
Joseph claimed that his father (Walter) had been bribed to keep silent about all this by Lord Salisbury when Salisbury purchased one of Walter's painting with no more than a cursory glance for 500 pounds. At the time Walter was lucky if he obtained 3 pounds for any of his work. 
According to Joseph's story, on 2 April 1888, on the orders of Prime Minister and prominent Freemason, the Right Honourable Robert Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury, plain clothes police raided the "home" of Annie Crook during a staged street fight to distract the neighbours. But Mary Kelly escaped and triggered off the run of murders and the subsequent cover-up when she and her cronies attempted to use the information she had gained to blackmail the Crown(23). 
There are, to say the least, some intrinsic problems with this story. As much of a bounder Eddy was, would he have left Annie in next to destitute conditions? Would he have condoned Sir William Withey Gull, the Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, first imprisoning his lover/wife and later performing some form of psychosurgery on her? Eddy had eight to nine months to quietly and comfortably secrete Annie away in a nursing home. Yet we are asked to believe he callously looked the other way at all this. 


I would like to present four points against this story: 
1. Howells & Skinner have found absolutely no connection between Walter Sickert and Princess Alexandra, nor between any member of the Sickert family and that of the Danish Royal family. So it is most unlikely that Queen Alexandra would call on the Sickert family to look after her son, a prince of the realm. 
2. Alice Margaret Crook was born on 18 April 1885 which means that her conception must have occurred between 18 July and 11 August 1884 - a time when Eddy was 400 miles away in Heidelberg with his German tutor. 
3. The Royal Marriages Act was - and still is - operative. Any such marriage between Clarence and Cook could have been set aside as illegal because Clarence was under twenty-five years old at the time of the "marriage"; and he had "married" without the Queen's consent. 
This Act had been specifically designed by King George III to stop his sons from entering into marriages of which he disapproved; it was even used to nullify the marriage of Augustus, Duke of Sussex, although a second son had been born in lawful wedlock! 


Further, the Act of Settlement, promulgated in 1772, expressly debars anyone who marries a Roman Catholic from "inheriting the Crown". So the "marriage" of Eddy would have been null and void and easily patched up(24). Why on earth should Eddy, the heir presumptive, be so dramatically protected from scandal? 
His father, the Prince of Wales, was involved in so many scandals it is difficult to know where to start. 
For example, twelve years earlier the Prince of Wales was prominent in a scandal involving Lord Randolph Churchill (Winston's father); a complicated affair (no pun intended) with comic opera overtones(25). The Prince had earlier had a secret love affair with the wife of the Earl of Aylesford (a close friend). While Aylesford was in India with the Prince of Wales making an official good will tour of Britain's Imperial possessions, Lady Aylesford wrote saying she was going to elope with Lord Blandford (Lord Randolph's elder brother) who was also prepared to leave his wife for Lady Aylesford. 
Aylesford immediately returned home and the Prince of Wales denounced Lord Blandford as "the greatest blackguard alive" - conveniently forgetting he, himself, had earlier indulged in a serious flirtation with Lady Aylesford. Both families convinced the lovers not to elope, but Aylesford was intent upon a divorce, citing Lord Blandford as co-respondent. Lady Aylesford passed to Lord Blandford a series of letters the Prince of Wales had written to her during their flirtation ("harmless enough, but containing an undue familiarity"). Blandford, in turn, passed the letters to his brother. 
In a naive effort to keep his brother's name out of a potentially messy divorce trial (all of the Victorian aristocracy's divorce trials were potentially messy), Lord Randolph foolishly went to the Princess of Wales with the letters. His motive was to enlist the aid of the Princess to convince her husband to bring pressure on Aylesford to call off the divorce proceedings and to avoid a major scandal. To no one's surprise (but Lord Randolph's) the Prince of Wales became furious, accused him of blackmail, and challenged him to a duel. Queen Victoria became aware of the situation and the duel never took place. Instead, Lord Randolph was banished to a government post in Ireland and the Prince was denied access to his mother for some time (a relief to both of them if one believes contemporary accounts). 
The affair is often held up as proof, if proof be needed, that the true measure of Victorian respectability, among the upper classes, at least, lay not in refraining from extramarital sex, but engaging in it with discretion. Or, as one member of society put it: "It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses!" 
4. In March 1987, Simon Wood published his researches into all this Sickert family background in a now-defunct magazine - "The Bloodhound." He found that in 1888 Annie Crook and Walter Sickert could not have been living at 15 Cleveland Street (identified by Stephen Knight and Joseph Sickert as the place where Walter had his studio and where Eddy and Annie would meet)(26) since the building and its neighbour #17 were demolished in Michaelmas 1886 and the gap stayed vacant until the Middlesex Hospital Trained Nurses Institute was built on the site in November 1887! He also showed conclusively that Annie Crook was not a Catholic and was not confined from 1888 in one or more hospitals until her death. The rate books for Cleveland Street also show that, rather than being kidnapped by Freemasons and subjected to imprisonment in Guy's Hospital, Crook lived in the basement of #6 throughout 1888, was still there in 1889 and for every year up to 1893! 
But all this Sickert family history aside, Fairclough's thesis quickly involves the prominent Freemasons of the late nineteenth century viz The Duke of St Albans, the Earls of Carnarvon, Derby, and Limerick, the Marquess of Lincolnshire, the Queen's Physician-in-Ordinary (Sir William Withey Gull), the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (Sir Charles Warren) and so on. Oh yes, they include Eddy, Duke of Clarence and Avondale who was, at the time of the murders in 1888, Right Worshipful Master of the Royal Alpha Lodge(27). 
So far, no major problems; but Fairclough seem to go right off the rails at this point. Not content to quote Knight as a source of Masonic practices (highly questionable, if not downright laughable), he also cites William Morgan's (of the "Morgan Affair" infamy) "Freemasonry Exposed," published in 1836. 
Fairclough insists in using the present tense in the paragraphs purporting to expose the nefarious activities of the Freemasons. Yet Morgan's "exposure" (sic) was published some 50 years before the events under analysis. For example, the Oath of a Royal Arch Mason quoted by Fairclough on page 54, bears no relation to any Royal Arch oath with which I am familiar. Yet Fairclough's tense makes it appear modern. The author's attitude is typical of the erroneous misinformation bandied about and is not only vexatious but (with the wealth of correct information available to Cowans in the United Kingdom under the relaxed policies of the Grand Lodge) this cannot be anything less than a premeditated and deliberate attempt to denigrate the Craft. Even Walter Hannah (Darkness Visible and Christian by Degrees) had better information forty years ago. 
Fairclough's premise seems to be broadly based on two primary facts : 
a. There were Freemasons living at the time of the Ripper murders - some of whom were prominent in contemporary society, as there have always been. 
You can do almost anything you wish with this "fact". For example: As each candidate for the Fellow Craft Degree recites, our Lodges usually meet at night. Dracula, as is well known, comes out at night: therefore Dracula is a Freemason. With his sartorial preference for Dinner suits, he is also obviously a member of Grand Lodge! 
Unfortunately for their case against Freemasonry, some of the "Freemasons" named by Knight and Fairclough were not Freemasons (for example Lord Salisbury), while others listed as anti-Masonic were, in fact, prominent Freemasons. For example Wynne Edwin Baxter, the Coroner presiding over the inquests on Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman and Elizabeth Stride. Baxter, a flamboyant and garrulous coroner who had won a very bitter election to that post for East London and Tower of London districts amid accusations of electoral improprieties, was often highly critical of the police. Knight sees this as being in conflict with the Masonic conspiracy of Warren and Anderson and points to Baxter as an anti-Mason. 
In fact, Baxter was a leading member of South Sussex Lodge and simply possessed a combative and touchy personality(28). 
b. There is an exceedingly superficial and tenuous linkage between the apparent mutilations and placement of the internal organs of the victims to the purported ancient penalties of the Masonic oath. Of course, we run into factual problems here. If we follow Fairclough, who is slavishly following Knight, we learn that not only have the unfortunate ladies' throats been cut left to right (making all right-handed murderers cutting their victim's throat from behind Freemasons), but with some Ripper victims, their intestines had been thrown over the shoulders. 
For Fairclough/Knight this is "definitely Masonic" as the murderers of Hiram Abiff had "...their vitals taken out and thrown over the left shoulder". Unfortunately for the comparison, both Chapman's and Eddowes' intestines lay over their right shoulder. Not to be bothered by the facts, Knight explained this away as, "it is possible that the point about which shoulder was overlooked" - presumably due to the hurry, of course. 
This is typical of Fairclough's misinformation regarding the Freemasons. Like Knight, Fairclough delves into wishful thinking and much ingenuity in his vendetta against the Craft and in his search for Masonic involvement(29). If the facts do not fit the hypothesis, simply shrug and move on to the next fantasy. 
Without (much) comment, let me examine a few more of Fairclough's statements. Fairclough has a wild case to plead and so impartially, logic and truth are recklessly abandoned. His mistakes on Masonic ritual are more than irritating or annoying. He cannot have been insensible to the fact that a wealth of material is available to get at least his Masonic "research" correct. 
Like Knight, Fairclough makes much of Hogarth's engraving THE REWARD OF CRUELTY by painstakingly analysing it to show (sic) similarities between the slaughter of Mary Kelly and a Masonic Ritual Murder(!) The Hogarth work shows no more than a standard eighteenth century medical dissection of a hanged criminal. All the so-called Masonic features are nothing more than common anatomy practices of the period. 
Fairclough claims the Royal Arch is part of the chain of advancement to the 330. 
"Beyond the third degree, it takes another fourteen degrees to become 'perfected', to pass through the Holy Royal Arch" 
I believe he has been confused by the thirteenth degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite - the Royal Arch of Enoch. But, of course, the mathematics are questionable. Three plus fourteen equals seventeen. The Royal Arch of Enoch is a thirteenth degree, but let's not worry about facts - they only confuse a good story. 
Catharine Eddowes (the fourth victim) was found in Mitre Square. 
"Both the mitre and the square are tools of the stone mason, and potent emblems of Freemasonry" 
Fairclough goes on to emphasise this point by revealing that "J." (in the Royal Arch Degree) wears a mitre or bishop's hat. 
The importance of the murder site is hammered home in no uncertain terms. A highly obscure source claims that there had been a murder in Mitre Square in 1530 - over 350 years before, which Fairclough takes to mean that Mitre Square is "obviously" of significance to Freemasons. All the more so, he claims, since the sixteenth century victim was murdered in a priory which stood on that spot. An "obvious" reference to the Hiramic Legend(30). 
The murderous Freemasons simply could not help advertising: 
"Eddowes had cuts on her cheeks. They formed two lines meeting at right angles...another reminder of the mason's square" 
All these linkages are, for Fairclough, conclusive proof of direct Masonic involvement in the murders. He goes on to talk about Masonic aprons and the fact that one suspect in the long, long line of choices as the true identity of "Jack" was someone called "Leather Apron." 
"One wonders whether the rumour was spread by the Freemasons themselves, as a veiled means of proclaiming their responsibility". 
There is also a popular myth about the death of Annie Chapman. That is that her rings and some polished farthings were placed in a ritualised pattern at her feet. Knight and Fairclough make much of this. Obviously, to them, she was "deprived of all money and metallic substances" and the rings represent the hollow cross-sections of the two great pillars which stood at the porch or entrance to King Solomon's Temple. 
Unfortunately all this was a pure invention of the Pall Mall Gazette(31). In the succeeding years the money and rings have entered the realm of Jack the Myth, rather than Jack the Ripper. To be fair to Knight and Fairclough, better researchers such as Cullen, Odell, Harrison, Rumbelow, Fido, Skinner and Wilson have all accepted the story with minor variations. But, for Knight and Fairclough, the rings had to exist to legitimise their fantasies of Masonic involvement. 
The (in)famous, if elusive, writing of the brick walls about the "Juwes" "who will not be blamed for nothing": 
"Freemasons I have met have made it clear that masons are fond of puns, puzzles and double negatives". OK, but does this make them guilty of murder? 
It is highly likely that the writing was simply angrily and hastily scrawled by a disgruntled customer who had had less than satisfactory service from one of the numerous Jewish craftsmen in the area and wrote his frustration on the wall that the Jews won't take responsibility for anything (especially, presumably, bad workmanship). 
By 1775, the original fields and gardens of Whitechapel had almost completely vanished beneath streets, alleys and tenements. 88% of all the immigrants arriving in England in the 1880s came from Europe, most of them Jewish emigrants fleeing the pograms of Russia and persecution in other nations. They settled in the Spitalfields area which took its name from the priory and hospital ("spital") of St. Mary founded in 1197. Prejudice was widespread and there was a real fear of anti-Jewish riots(32). 
While there is conflicting testimony as to the actual spelling of the key word used in this chalked message, let's look at the so-called Masonic "Juwes" for a moment. It seems Fairclough is relying on Knight in many instances. So an examination of what Knight says is appropriate. 
Knight writes that the murderers of Hiram Abiff were Entered Apprentices (they were actually Fellow Craft Masons); that Hiram Abiff is resurrected (he is simply exhumed and later buried at a different place) and that the Juwes were hunted down and slain (they were, in fact, taken to King Solomon and subject to a proper trial - although one "traditional" Masonic history has it that one refused to surrender and was killed in self-defence. Knight wrote that when Sir Charles Warren erased the writing he "knew only too well that the writing was telling the world, 'The Freemasons' are the men that will not be blamed for nothing'". This is a marvellous dialectic leap in logic since the Juwes were the enemies of Freemasonry and it was Superintendent Thomas Arnold (a non-Mason) of H Division who arranged the erasure, albeit with Warren's later approval and acceptance of full responsibility(33). As for the word "Juwes" itself as a collective term for the murderers of Hiram Abiff - it had been dropped from English Masonic ritual in the early nineteenth century and is unlikely to have been known to Freemasons (let alone anyone else) in 1888. At that time they were referred to as "the Three Ruffians" as they are today(34). 
Paul Begg has written "It is a mystery why anyone ever thought that 'Juwes' was a Masonic word"(35). 
There is also the problem of syntax. If, for a moment, we accept that the first letter and postcard sent to "The Boss" signed 'Jack the Ripper' really were from the murderer(36), the writing styles are inconsistent. It is generally assumed among those who believe that the letter and postcard are genuine that they were written by an educated man who may have been deliberately attempting to muddy the waters by appearing to be unlettered. Of course, there is the other suggestion that the graffiti hides an anagram, in which case the syntax would be skewed to fit(37). 
Regarding Mary Kelly - the last (fifth) victim - Fairclough reaches the depths of inventiveness. 
"The corpse has a cable tow round its neck. Freemasons use this device to represent the cutting of the throat". 
"...one of the legs, the right one, had been skinned. This feature is a Masonic allegory, a reminder of the initiation of a Master Mason when the Candidate, in reference to his two previous initiations, says; 'and my right leg bare'. As he utters these words he has to roll up his trouser leg. With Kelly they rolled away the flesh(38)." 
Fairclough goes on to implicate Quatuor Coronati Lodge #2076, founded by Sir Charles Warren in 1884. 
The "evidence" for the prosecution as to the culpability of the Lodge? Quatuor Coronati held its annual installation ceremony on the night of 8 November 1888 - the night Kelly may have been slaughtered and Warren, a Past Master, "had enough time to meet up with his murderous friends in the East End". 
"Discounting Eddowes, since her murder was a mistake, the Ripper's intended victims numbered four. Doubtless Warren saw a parallel between the ancient story of the 'Four Crowned Ones'...and...the modern story of the four women, killed for daring to defy the Monarchy, which was an image of the real power behind it: Freemasonry and the Royal Alpha Lodge, No.16". 
So, although we have five murders, we need only four(39) to implicate Quatuor Coronati. 
One wonders if there had been two victims, would Antiquity Lodge #2 UGLE be implicated? or British Lodge #8 UGLE if eight. If Fairclough was so set on Quatuor Coronati, and using this warped logic, it is a wonder he did not find two thousand and seventy-six murders that could be laid at their doorstep. 
Fairclough also continued the story that Dr Gull did not die "as advertised", but ended his days as "Thomas Mason" (note the name!!) alias "#124" at St Mary's Asylum, Islington. 
All this derives from a story carried by the Chicago Sunday-Times Herald of 28 April 1895 wherein it was claimed that a Dr. Benjamin Howard had been one of twelve London physicians who had sat "as a commission of lunacy upon a brother physician who had been responsible for the Ripper murders". 
V. Wor. Bro. Neville Cryer, in his address on the Church and Freemasonry presented to Barron Barnett Lodge last October, identified an increasingly aggressive and intrusive culture among the members of the Press. I would argue that "anything for the story" has a long history. 
Can you honestly believe that after such a story broke in England, that St. Mary's was not besieged by screaming, photographing, journalists with an open purse to bribe guards and wardens? It never happened! One must conclude that the contemporary newspaper hounds realised that the story was pure fabrication. 
Hasty acceptance has outweighed careful appraisal. To be generous and not to make accusations of outright fraud(40), both Knight and Fairclough seem to have misread the Sunday-Times Herald article. Most of the text is not attributed to Dr. Howard at all but to an anonymous "Gentleman of Chicago". Furthermore, in 1896, Dr Howard wrote to repudiate the whole thing - a fact carefully ignored by Fairclough, now completely governed by devotion to conspiracy theory. 
Melvin Harris has convincingly argued that this Gull/Mason story was a deliberate hoax planted in the Sunday-Times Herald by the Chicago Whitechapel Club which met at the back of the newspaper offices. The Whitechapel Club was "strange and frolicsome (and) was not only the focal point for knowledgeable Ripperologists, but it was also a tall story workshop" (41) where hoaxes were burnished to perfection(42). 
We have yet another problem here with the Gull/Mason story. Sickert's story claimed that Gull and the coachman, Netley, murdered at least Annie Chapman in a carriage after feeding her poisoned grapes. But Gull was 72 at the time of the murders and had already suffered one heart attack. If Annie Chapman (not a light person and found in the rear yard of 29 Hanbury Street) was killed in Gull's coach, she would have to have been carried to where she was found. An unlikely event, even with Netley's help! 
Gull died of natural causes in January 1890 an much has been made of the fact that his death certificate was signed by his son-in-law. Medical ethics aside, it does not prove Gull was one of the Rippers(43). 
Lord Randolph Churchill was the supreme Freemason in England and directly involved in the murders. 
"Randolph (Churchill) had an important source of influence on the eminent men he recruited. He was their Masonic superior. He was the highest Freemason in England. the supreme position he held, according to Walter Sickert, though the Grand Lodge deny that he was ever a mason, was that of Magister Magistrorum - Master Mason". (Fairclough p. 92). 
Fairclough goes on to point out that, although none of Randolph's biographers records his Masonic membership and the records at Freemason's Hall contain no record of him as a Freemason, these are "unreliable" and downright sinister as all the records have been erased. 
Fairclough points out that Pick and Knight show Randolph to be a Freemason and claims Randolph was initiated into Freemasonry under the name Rudolph H. Spencer in Dublin in 1878. 
One is tempted to wonder where the Prince of Wales fitted in here with Randolph being the "highest Freemason in England." The Prince of Wales was installed as Grand Master and served in that capacity from 1874 to 1901. His installation ceremony at the Albert Hall was attended by the largest assemblage of Freemasons ever held. 
It also does not help Sickert's-Knight's- Fairclough's linking of the Ripper murders with Freemasonry that, in 1978, Joseph Sickert confessed to the Sunday Times that his story of a Masonic Conspiracy was "a hoax; I made it all up". Knight reacted with a letter to the same paper printed on 2 July 1978 saying Joseph had only made that statement when he (Knight) had proved that Joseph's father was directly involved in the murders along with Gull and Netley. 
Even more serious for Fairclough and his nonjudgemental acceptance of the Sickert family is the diaries Joseph gave him. These are claimed to be three private diaries kept by Frederick George Abberline(44) between 1892 and 1915 and supposedly given to Walter Sickert in 1928 - a year before Abberline's death in Bournemouth. In 1888, Abberline had coordinated the hunt for "Jack." The diaries implicate Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir William Gull and James K. Stephen - Eddy's tutor at Cambridge and Frederico Albericci ("Fingers Freddie") an Italian pickpocket. Melvin Harris calls all this "the Gothic Lewis Carroll world of pasteboard characters (45)." 
Unfortunately all this contradicts Abberline's known views on the Ripper. Worst still, on one page of the diaries reproduced by Fairclough, Abberline's signature is written "G.F.Abberline" instead of F.G.Abberline (46) - and the biographical notes on four of the murder victims set down in the diaries is plagiarised word for word from a research article by Neal Sheldon(47). 
But what about Joseph Sickert and his dad? In September 1907, one Emily Dimmock was found in Camden Town with her throat cut. Robert Wood was charged with the crime, but later acquitted. Walter Sickert was living in Camden Town at this time and was a friend of Wood. Marjorie Lilly in her work "Sickert, The Painter and His Circle" shows how the murders in Whitechapel and at Camden Town became intertwined in Walter's psyche. Dr Wendy Baron, the authority on Walter's work, has pointed out that he customarily gave his work "joke" titles after the manner of Victorian genre painters whose "pictures told a story". Walter and his followers in the "Camden School" concentrated on depressed urban interiors which (with vaguely Degas-like paintings of music-halls) became Walter's best known and most influential work. Walter was known to have an impish and macabre sense of humour and his elaborate jokes and leg-pulling could be disconcerting(47). Joseph claimed that his father incorporated clues as to the identity of the Ripper in his paintings or their titles. One such clue is reported to be a seagull in the painting ENNUI. Sea-GULL - get it? 
Various other "hidden" messages are claimed to lurk in Walter Sickert's paintings: MRS BARRETT and LA HOLLANDAISE are claimed to contain the face of Mary Jane Kelly; LAZARUS BREAKS HIS FAST shows a bowel of grapes claimed to have been used by Gull to sedate his victims(49); and the CAMDEN TOWN MURDER series supposedly shows Mary Kelly's dismembered corpse(50). Another recent book on Jack the Ripper by Dr David Abrahamsen also shows elements of Fairclough's techniques. Abrahamsen's book (Murder and Madness: The Secret Life of Jack The Ripper) has Prince Albert Victor Edward and his tutor, J.K. Stephen, running around Whitechapel in drag taking out their sexual resentments against prostitutes by ripping them to pieces. Abrahamsen does not produce any evidence at all. Court circulars of the time clearly indicate that the Prince was no where near London on every single occasion the Ripper struck(51). 
As Joseph Goebbels may have said, "If you are going to lie, tell BIG lies!" Look at the attraction and furor over the so-called Hitler Diaries and the more recent elaborate hoax attempt to produce the diary of James Maybrick, proving him to be Jack the Ripper! No one was at all interested, I am unhappy to report, in the Dennis Stocks diaries. Perhaps one prerequisite is to be a mass murderer? 
There seems to be a human willingness to suspend the critical functions and wallow in the dangerous morass of misinformation that supports our deeper prejudices. 
But the Jack-the-Ripper-industry rolls along with books continuing to be published, at least three different companies offering walking tours of the murder "sites"(52), and the fascination with the events of 1888 is scarcely diminished. The Victorians were brutally indifferent to many social problems - such as child prostitution. Wilson and Odell(53) have pointed out that this is more insensitivity than callousness. When misery was actively brought to their attention, they were inclined to dissolve into tears. Consider the attraction of East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood - the best seller of the 1870s. Their simplified perceptions of the world (right was right, men were men, women in their place and half the world map shaded in pink) and their open and spontaneous emotional reactions seem almost naive and jingoistic to us. The frisson and morbid fascination of the Whitechapel murders were primarily that "one of us could be one of them" - that "respectable people" could turn from doctor, solicitor, housewife; turn from the teachings of the Church of England and slide into homicidal self-indulgences. 
So the Ripper murders and especially the sexual mutilations were seen as a premeditated insult to Victorian society. Yet, in the obsession with sexual wickedness, it was still believed the Ripper could not be all that grotesque. So the first full-length English book on the subject by Matters, published in 1929, presented the Ripper as a moral avenger(54). 
If Jack does prove to be a lowly labourer or fish porter then nobody is going to take a blind bit of notice, but if we can come up with a belted Earl or something similar and weave a complete and utter fantasy around him with the required amount of gore, sex and violence thrown in, then we can sit back and bathe in the glory of yet another "final solution". 
I certainly do not have the answer as to Jack's identity, but I have suggestions which I believe worthy of consideration: 
Chief Inspector Walter Dew (who captured Crippen) has made a valid point when he reminded the authorities: With all the furor over the murders, with the heightened awareness of all strangers, with the numerous Vigilance Committees roaming the streets, after Nichols' death why were Chapman, Stride, Eddowes and Kelly so easy a target? Was there something about their attacker that put him above suspicion in their minds? Why was he so invisible? 
Another source for research would be the surviving case files of H Division(55). It is unlikely that "Jack" jumped straight into slaughter. A check of previous incident files for the area should contain the name and evidence of the increasingly violent behaviour of "Jack" - whoever he was. 
At the beginning of this paper I intimated the plethora of unknowns associated with this case. But I can tell you one thing for certain, fiction aside, Jack the Ripper, whoever he was, is dead. As the East End children's rhyme has it: 
Jack the Ripper's dead
and lying on his bed.
He cut his throat with Sunlight soap.
Jack the Ripper's dead.
But as for Walter Sickert and his story of "Brother Jack," his misperception of what is "Truth" seems to have extended to his son. Following the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe ("The Yorkshire Ripper"), Joseph attracted press attention when he claimed to have been harassed and had his life threatened by Sutcliffe. He even claimed Sutcliffe had attempted to run him down. You can perhaps wonder that the whole Sickert family is obsessed with the "Ripper" honorific. 
Whatever the real facts of these sad incidents, I believe Knight and now Fairclough have been the dupe of the son of a clever hoaxer with excessive testicular diameter to promote some quirky and mischievous ideas. 
As far as the involvement in Freemasonry in these events is concerned, it has the same relationship to the facts of Criminology as the exploits of Peter Rabbit and Blinkey Bill do to Zoology. 






Appendix One
The Ripper Project applied modern scientific detection techniques in an attempt to isolate realistic suspects from the plethora of candidates. The eight characteristics that resulted were: 
1: He was a white male, aged 28-36, who lived or worked in the Whitechapel district. 
2: He would have come from a family with a weak, passive or absentee father.
3: He would have sought a job where he could vicariously experience his destructive fantasies, such as a butcher, mortician.s helper, medical examiner's assistant or hospital attendant. 
4: He would probably have had some type of physical abnormality that, although not severe, he would perceive as psychologically crippling, such as a speech impediment. 
5: He would have been interviewed during the course of investigations, but would have been overlooked and/or eliminated as a suspect, in part because his ordinary appearance would not have fitted the preconceived notion that both the police and local populace held of Jack the Ripper being an odd or "ghoulish" looking man. 
6: He would be perceived as being quiet, a loner, shy, slightly withdrawn, obedient, and neat and orderly in appearance. He would drink at the local pubs. 
7: He would not have committed suicide after his last homicide. Generally crimes such as thee cease because the perpetrator has come close to being identified, has been interviewed by the police, or has been arrested for some other offence. It would be surprising if Jack the Ripper simply would suddenly stop, except for one of these reasons. 
8: He believed that the homicides were justified - that he was only eliminating garbage. 
See Paley, pp. 169-171






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"The Masonic Career of A.E. Waite," Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Volume 99 (1986), pp. 88-110, 
"To See Ourselves as Others See Us," Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Volume 107, 1004, pp. 1-7. 
Richard Gordon
The Private Life of Jack the Ripper (Heineman, London 1980) 
Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Frank D. McSherry.
Red Jack. (DAW Books, New York, 1988) 
J.M. Hamill
"The Sins of our Masonic Fathers....," Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Volume 101 (1988), pp. 133-159 
Edward B. Hanna
The Whitechapel Horrors. (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1993) 
Melvin Harris
Jack the Ripper: The Bloody Truth. (Columbus Books, London, 1987) 
Melvin Harris 
The Ripper File (W.H. Allen, London 1989) 
Michael Harrison
Clarence: The Life of HRH the Duke of Clarence and Avondale 1864-1892 (W.H. Allen, London 1972) 
Paul Harrison 
Jack the Ripper: The Mystery Solved (Robert Hale, London, 1993) 
Shirley Harrison
The Diary of Jack the Ripper. The Discovery, The Investigation, The Debate. (Hyperion, New York, 1993) 
Veronica Hart
The House that Jack Built (Mandarin; Port Melbourne, Victoria, 1994) 
Michael A. Hoffman II
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare (Dresden, New York; Wiswell Ruffin House, 1992). 
Ellic Howe
"Fringe Masonry in England," Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Volume 85, 1972, pp. 242-295 
Martin Howells and Keith Skinner
The Ripper Legacy: The Life and Death of Jack the Ripper. (Sedgwick and Jackson, New York 1987.) 
Stewart James
Jack the Ripper. (Horwitz, Sydney, 1960.) 
Elwyn Jones & John Lloyd
The Ripper File (Arthur Barker, London 1975) 
Stephen Knight
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. (Panther Books, New York, 1977) 
Stephen Knight
The Brotherhood: The Secret World of the Freemasons (London, Granada {Panther], 1985) 
Richard Laymon
Savage. (BCA, London, 1993.) 
Donald McCormack
The Identity of Jack the Ripper (Pan 1962 - revised John Long 1970) 
Edmund McCoy
Blood of the Fathers. (Orion, London, 1993) 
Evan Macpherson
"Jack the Ripper in Dundee", (The Scots Magazine, Volume 128, number 4 (January 1988), pp. 389-393.) 
Leonard Matters
The Mystery of Jack the Ripper. (Pedigree Books, London, 1960) 
Doug Moench
The Big Book of Conspiracies (New York, Paradox Press, 1995) 
Alan Moore
From Hell(Baltimore,Borderlands Press, 1994) 
Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
From Hell: Volumes 1 (March 1991), 2 (June 1993), 3 (December 1993), 4 (March 1994), 5 (June 1994), 6 (November 1994), 7 (March 1995), 8 (July 1995) (Northampton, Montana; Kitchen Sink Press, dates as shown) 
Tony Mudawar
"The Most Cunning and Dangerous Criminal in London", (The Sherlock Holmes Journal, Volume 19, (Winter 1988), pp.22-24.) 
Robin Odell 
Jack the Ripper in Fact and Fiction (London: Mayflower, 1966) 
Helen O'Neill
"What Kind of Ghoul am I?," The Australian, 1 November 1995. 
Bruce Paley
Jack the Ripper: The Simple Truth (Headline Book, London, 1995). 
Fred L.Pick and G. Norman Knight
The Pocket History of Freemasonry, Seventh Edition. (London; Frederick Muller, 1983). 
Anton Powell
Londonwalks (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1982). 
Donald Rumbelow
The Complete Jack the Ripper. (Star Books, London 1984) 
Terrance Sharkey 
Jack the Ripper: 100 years of Investigation (London: Ward Lock, 1987) 
Seymour Shuster
"Jack the Ripper and Doctor Identification", (International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, Volume 6, number 3 (1975), pp. 385-402.) 
Sir Osbert Sitwell
A Free House! or the Artist as Craftsmen, being the Writings of Walter Richard Sickert (London, Macmillan, 1947) 
Terrance Lore Smith Yours Truly from Hell. (St Martin's Press, New York, 1988.) 
Frank Spierling
Prince Jack (Doubleday, New York 1978) 
Philip Sugden
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper (London: Robinson Books, 1994) 
Herbert Tingsten
Victoria and the Victorians (trans. David and Eva Leckstrom Grey), (Delacorte Press, London, 1972.) 
Peter Underwood
Jack the Ripper: One Hundred Years of Mystery. (Blandford Press, London, 1987.) 
N.P. Warren
Editorial, Ripperana, #14 (October, 1995) 
Pamela West
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper. (Dell Books, New York, 1987.) 
Colin Wilson and Robin Odell
Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict. (Corgi Books, London, 1988) 
Colin, Damon and Rowan Wilson
World Famous Gaslight Murder (The Book Company, Sydney, 1995) 
Richard Whittington-Egan
A Casebook on Jack the Ripper (Wildy, London 1976) 
Phil Wilshire
Ripperana, #12 (January 1996), p.22 
A.P. Wolf
Jack the Myth: A New Look at Jack the Ripper. (Robert Hale, London 1993.) 






Notes
(1) I say "sustained interest" because we have all seen the OJ Simpson obscenity.
(2) Try this simple quiz: How many people were killed by Hawley Harvey Crippen, John Wayne Gacy, John Reginald Halliday Christie, Charles Whitman and Dennis Nilsen? With the possible exception of Crippen, most people would say "Who?" when confronted by these names. 
Answers: respectively - Crippen: 1; Gacy: 32; Christie confessed to 7; Whitman killed 19 and wounded 28 from a tower at the university of Texas and Nilsen boiled the dismembered limbs and severed heads of his 12 victims in a large pot and flushed surplus flesh down the lavatory. 
(3) The front cover blurb of Stuart James' work reads "His razor-sharp scalpel claimed twenty-nine victims as he prowled the dark streets for the woman he hated."
There have been a number of attempts over the years to link "Jack" with other murders before Nichols and after Kelly. One of these was that of "Fairy Fay" who, it is claimed, was killed on Boxing Night 1887. Unfortunately for this theory, "Fairy Fay" did not exist and her murder simply never took place! 
However, we must be cautious and not become so engrossed in the "form" of the killings to the point of obsession. We must be careful not to imagine a serial killer can never change his method of killing. For example, take the death of Alice McKenzie (Claypipe Alice) who was found 17 July 1889 in Castle Alley, Whitechapel. Thomas Bond, one doctor who examined her body, was convinced her murderer was the "same person who committed the former series of Whitechapel murders" {MEPO 3/140.262 Scotland Yard File 18 July 1889. PRO Kew}, cited by Wolf, p.25. 
Odell and Wilson (p.95) reject this as one of the Ripper
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Freemasons: Inside the World’s Oldest Secret Society
 
By H. Paul Jeffers
Written in 2005
 
Chapter 19
The Men Who Rule the World
 
General Rich von Ludendorff, a hero of World War I and hiss wrote the tract Annihilation of Freemasonry through Revelation of its Secrets and oither hate-filled material that explained Germany’s defeat in World War I, “as a knife in the back by Jews and Masons”.. later in Mein Kampf ( Adolph Hitler’s autobiography written in prison for attempted to overthrow the democratic government in Germany in the 1920’s), Hitler wrote that masonry had “ succumbed” to the Jews and had become an “excellent instrument” to achieve their aims, he said Germany’s post World War I “ general pacifist paralysis of the nation instinct of self-preservation” began with Freemasonry…
 
In 1931, Nazi Party officials were given a Guide and Instructional Letter” that said “the hostility of the peasant against the Jews and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy…”
 The Reich main Security Office determined that masonry was not only part of the “Jewish problem” but also “ an autonomous ideology with political power” that ruled the press and public opinion and motivated wars and revolutions…
In Czechoslovakia when the Nazi’s entered the country in 1939, 4,000 Freemasons were arrested and many were sent to concentration camps.. less that 5% of Czech Freemasons escaped to England and formed a Grand Lodge Comenius in Exile.
In Germany, France, Italy Morocco, the Spanish Canary Islands and Spain.. Freemasons and their lodges were banned, outlawed and Freemasonry was made a criminal offence and many were arrested and killed and/or sent to concentration camps…. Anyone who did not denounce masonry and reveal to the police the names of all mason with whom he had been associated faced imprisonment….
Hitler himself decreed “Freemasons and the ideological enemies of National Socialism who are allied with them are the originators of the present war..”
 
After Hitler came ot power in January 1933, his top Deputy, hermann Goering, informed the grand master of the Grand Lodge of Germany there was “no place for Freemasonry” in Germany. At that time, there were nine principle Grand Lodges, with a membership of almost 80,000. the largest were the Grand Lodge of the Three Globes, National Grand Lodge of All German Freemasons, and the Grand Lodge Royal York of Friendship. Their leaders were told that the Nazi government did not intend to prohibit the activities of the lodge, but that the Masonic order must discontinue to use the words “Freemason” and “lodge”, break all international relations, require that its embers be of German descent, remove the requirement of secrecy, and discard all parts of the ritual that are of Old Testament origin. There after, the Association of German Freemasons called itself the National Christian Order of Frederick the Great…
Then in 1934, Goering, as premier of Prussia, ordered dissolution of the oldest and most influential Masonic Grand Lodges in Prussia ( Christian Grand Lodges, Grand Lodge of the Three Globes, All German Freemasons, and Royal York of Friendship) because they “might be regarded as hostile to the State because of their affiliations with international Masonry.”..
A Nazi Party court in berlin published a decree barring form membership those who had been Freemasons for a number of years or who had received the higher degrees of the order. Masonic lodges were attacked for hcving borrowed much of their doctrine and ceremonies form “Semitic sources”.
P.163 ..During the Nuremberg war crimes trials, Robert H, Jackson, the chief prosecutor and a U.S. Supreme Court justice, said, “ It Is not generally understood that among the earliest and most savage of the many persecutions undertaken by every modern dictatorship are those directed against the Free Masons.. ( the ) dictators realize that its membership are not likely to support the police state, which lays so heavy a hand on the freedom of the individual…”
 
..In 1950, the Soviet-imposed government in eastern Europe countries dissolved the lodghes as “meeting places of the enemies of the people’s democratic republic, of capitalistic elements, and of the adherents of Western imperialism.” This would be the policy in every country behind the Iron Curtain…
…the era of the Cold Wat also brought a widespread belief that powerful men engaged in a complex conspiracy to take over the world….as is every period in a uncertainty and fears in all of history, suspicions stirred and thrived among ordinary people that a small group of men gathered in secret to control events and direct to future of the world.. in earlier times, they had been tribal elders and religious figures.. thrn with the 18th century came the Illuminati, consisting of persons who believed they possessed supernatural intellectual powers that entitl4es them to tell others how to live…
… As a result of the Industrial Revolution ansd the rise of the modern capitalism, proponents of socialism pointed to a concentration of power in a few individuals and families as evidence of conspiracies to oppress…”the masses2.. In the first half of the 20th century, a plot by Bolshweviks in Russia and a Nazi conspiracy in Germany had demostrated that small groups of plotters were capable to seizing control of countries and trying to impose a particular ideology on the world…
..In the eyes of many American group such as the Council of Foreign Relations (founded in 1921), the Builderberg Group ( founded in 1954) and the Trilateral Commission ( foundered in 1973) were seen a groups who purpose was economic, political and social domination of the world and went far beyond their started purpose of stopping the imposed threat of “International Communism”..
..Running through this suspicion if elites is a belief that most of the individuals involved in these organisations are involved in a plan to control the world are either Freemasons or sympathetic to Freemasonry…Among the most persistent popular beliefs concerning the power of Freemasonry in the United States is that the Great Seal of the United States and the street plan and designs and designs of federal government buildings in Washington D.C., were laid out on the basis of Masonic beliefs…..One discourse on the subject notes that the symbol of an inverted triangle or pyramid can be seen in the street plan (it’s a pyramid) and that sites are “ connected to famous Freemaons,” suich as Marquis de Lafayette, for whom a park opposite the north side of the White House is name. Old Masonic connections include the Washington Monument and the Pentagon building, said to have been designed by masons to conform to a pentagram (an occult symbol)…
..the U.S. one-dollar note contains Masonic symbols. The Great Seal pictured on the back of the dollar bill has an eagle with thirty-two feathers (the degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry). …..
..The eagle is also the symbol of St, John the Evangelist, the great patron of Freemasonry…
….the arrows in its left talon refer to Israel’s King david ( father of Solomon)…
..The olive branch in the eagle’s right talon is associated with Solomon…..
..The thirteen stars above the eagle’s head represent Jacob, and his twelve sons, and the tribes of Israel…
..Thirteen stars, in a double triangular form, are symbolic of the delivery of the children of Israel form their oppressors and their attainment of a glorious freedom..
….The Latin “ E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one) indicates Masonic fraternity.
..Those who find Freemasonry on the mighty dollar also note that the largest symbol on the buck is the portrait of George Washington, a Mason..
…..Also cited as evidence of masonry on the greenback is an unfinished pyramid..
..also at the tope, inside a radiant triangle .. is the “all seeing eye,” representing “the Grand Architect of the universe,” who is omniscient and watching over the United States…….
..the Latin motto inscribed beneath the pyramid in the GFreta Seal of America is “Novus Ordo Seclorum” ( New order of the Ages) and taken as synonymous with a “new world order”…
…An example of this thinking reads, “ The’ new world order’ involves the elimination of the sovereignty and independence of nation-states and some form of world government. This would mean the end of the United Stated, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights as we now know them.”..
..Most of these new world order proposals involved the conversion of the United nations and its agencies into a world government, complete with a world army, a world parliament, a world court, global taxation, and numerous other agencies to control every aspect of human life ( education, nutrition, health care, population, immigration, communications, transportation, commerce, agriculture, finance, the environment, and so on)..
..the various notion of the new world order differ as to the details and scale, but agree on the basic principle and substance…
..One historian sees the Statue of Liberty as a “Masonic goddess from top to bottom.”… It was ..” conceived by freemasons,” built by French Freemaon Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi ( who had already made a statue of the Freemasons Marquis de Lafayette for the city of new York, for the occasion of the centenary of the signing of the declaration of Independence), and “installed by Freemasons in a Freemasonic ceremony..”
..Those who discern a pattern of Freemasonic influence in American history point to the fact that one-third of the presidents have been members of the Craft of Freemasonry:
George Washington
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk,
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
James A, Garfield
William McKinley
Theordore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Gerald R. Ford
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ronald Regan
 
US Vice presidents who have been members of the Craft of Freemasonry:
Daniel Decius Tompkins
John Cabell Breckinridge
Andrew Johnson
Garrett Augustus Hobart
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Thomas Riley Marshall
Henry A. Wallace
Harry S Truman
Gerald Ford
Also there have been many Five Star Generals and Admirals, U.S. secretaries of state, Chief justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and Associates justices of the U. S. Supreme court who have been members of the Craft of Freemasonry…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chapter 20
The Future of Freemasonry
 
 
Of the world’s estimated 5.9 Freemasons, the majority live in the United States ( 4 million). Most of the other can be found in English-speaking nations. Statistics for English Masonry are somewhat unreliable because an individual can belong to more than one lodge. Worldwide estimates place the membership as follows:
(a)   England and Wales at 550,000
(b)    Scotland at 400,000 ( likely that the greater of these are based in or near Edinburgh)
(c)    Ireland at 47,000
(d)   Canada and United States at 4.1 million
(e)   Europe at 80,000
(f)     Australasia at 375,000
(g)   Latin America at 50,000
(h)   Philippines at 10,000
(i)     Other areas ( India, Japan, Formosa, Africa and Israel) at 288,000
 
 It is very interesting to note that the population of Scotland was about 5 million in 2005
And Edinburgh about 400,000 to 500,000 and Glasgow at about 600,000
It seems that about 10% of the population of Scotland are Freemasons
And taking to two major cities and Edinburgh and Glasgow.. making up about 1-1.2 million people combined it seems that one could argue that the bulk of the Scottish Freemasons are based in these two cities… this would mean that one could further say that it is likely that over 30% or more of the population of Edinburgh and Glasgow are Freemasons  .. which would mean that most of the top executive, government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal jobs are filled by Freemasons.. and it seems clear that for one to progress in Scotland in the government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal world once simply has to be a Freemason… this would mean that it is likely that the greater percentage if not nearly all of the male persons working as a Lord, Judge, Sherrif, clerk, solicitors, advocate etc would be a Freemason and if a person who I sa party litigant ( litigant in person and not a layer) is arguing a case against a trained solicitor/advocate-Freemason in front of a Freemason Lord, Judge, Sherrif.. what chance have they of having an fair and unbiased hearing in Scotland?…obviously none…
 
Chapter 9
The Mystery of Mozart’s “The being involved in the death of Mozart…
With the allegation that Mozart had hiiden under the pro-masonic surface of the opera a secret counter plot in which Tammino was Mozart, Pamina was Marie Antoinette, and Pamina’s captors were Freemasons..In the scenario, Mozart’as murder was part of a Masonic conspiracy to assassinate Leopold II, as well as Gustav III of Sweden, who was actually murdered at a masked ball a few months after Mozarts death. The plot originated seventy years later ( in1981) by Geirge Friendrich Daumer, a researcher of antiques, a religious fanatic, and an anti-semite. His work would be seized by a Nazi leader in the 1930’s. General Erich Ludendorff, along with his wife, Mathilde, asserted that the secret of Freemasonry was “the Jew” and that Freemasonry’s goal was to “rob the Germans of their national pride and to assure the glorious future of the Jewish people..
 
In 1931, Nazi Party officials were given a Guide and Instructional Letter” that said “the hostility of the peasant against the Jews and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy…”
 The Reich main Security Office determined that masonry was not only part of the “Jewish problem” but also “ an autonomous ideology with political power” that ruled the press and public opinion and motivated wars and revolutions…
In Czechoslovakia when the Nazi’s entered the country in 1939, 4,000 Freemasons were arrested and many were sent to concentration camps.. less that 5% of Czech Freemasons escaped to England and formed a Grand Lodge Comenius in Exile.
In Germany, France, Italy Morocco, the Spanish Canary Islands and Spain.. Freemasons and their lodges were banned, outlawed and Freemasonry was made a criminal offence and many were arrested and killed and/or sent to concentration camps…. Anyone who did not denounce masonry and reveal to the police the names of all mason with whom he had been associated faced imprisonment….
Hitler himself decreed “Freemasons and the ideological enemies of National Socialism who are allied with them are the originators of the present war..”
 
 
Chapter 5
Dr. James Anderson’s constitution
Dr. James Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, around August 5th, 1662.
A doctor of Divinity… James Anderson had become a hero of Scottish nationalism by publishing “An Essay Showing That the Crown of Scotland Is Imperial and Independent and became a prominent and well respected Freemason….. Dr. James Anderson was called upon to write a new code of Freemasonry called “The CONSTITUTION, history, Laws, Charges, Orders, Regulations, and Usages, of  the Right Worshipful FRATURNITY of ACCEPTED FREE MASONS ( which was collected from their General RECORDS, and their faithful TRADITIONS of many Ages)”….
which after it was competed meant he was enshrined in the lore of the Craft as “the father of Freemasonry History”.
. In A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry composed by Arthur Edward Waite, Dr. James Anderson is described “as a son of Aberdeen”, where he earned a doctorate and served somewhere as a Presbyterian minister and “ultimately drifted to London prior ot 1710.”
 
Exert of the Summary of the Constitution of Freemasonry by Dr James Anderson
 
“…Finally, all these Charges you are to observe, and also those that shall be recommended to you in another Way, cultivating Brotherly Love, the Foundation and Cap-stone, the Cement and Glory of this Ancient Fraternity, avoiding all wrangling and quarrelling, all Slander and Backbiting, nor permitting others to slander any honest Broth, but defending his Character, and doing him all good Offices, as far as is consistent with your Honour and safety, and no farther…And if any of them do you Injury you must apply to your own or his Lodge, and from thence you may appeal to the Grand Lodge, at the Quarterly Communication and from thence to the annual Grand Lodge, as has been the ancient laudable Conduct but when the case cannot ne otherwise decided, and patiently listening to the honest and friendly Advice of master and Fellows when they would prevent your going to Law with Strangers; but with respect to brothers or Fellows at Law, the master and Brethren should offer their mediation, which ought to be thankfully submitted to by the contending Brethren; and if that submissions is impracticable, they must, however, carry on their process, or lawsuit, without Wrath and Rancor ( not In the common way) saying or doing nothing which may hinder Brotherly Love, and good offices to be renewed and continued; that all may see the benign Influence of Masonry, as all true Masons have done form the beginning of the World, and will do to the End of Time…”



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5th hostage released, and the conclusion of the hostage stand off.
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The Da Vinci Code


ROSSLYN CHAPEL, VILLAGE OF ROSLINE IN MIDLOTHAN, SCOTLAND

Rosslyn is a 15th century medieval chapel in the Village of Rosline in Midlothian, Scotland, near the beautiful city of Edinburgh and it has been the subject of many a different cable television show and a gloat of books and written articles. It’s implied association to Free Masonry,The Holy Grail, The KnightsTemplar and other apparitions; like the black knight on horseback, a lady in white, a ghost hound; legends, myths and mysteries, makes it very interesting for the romantics among us drawn to
these topics and we feel strongly compelled to read or watch anything and everything regarding Rosslyn.

ROSSLYN - THE BEGINNING.

The chapel was founded in 1446 by Sir William St. Clair, third and last St.Clair Prince of Orkney. This chapel is only the choir of what was intended to be a larger cruciform shaped building with a tower at it’s centre. He was getting older when he decided to give something back as a thank you for the many blessings received, by building a house for God. In doing so, he brought abundant workers from other regions and foreign kingdoms such as masons , carpenters, smiths, quarriers and barrowmen.

He had the plans carved by carpenters on boards of imported Baltic timber and then they were given to masons so they would in turn carve them in stone. Since all his workers did not have a place to live, he had them build the town of Rosline and gave everyone a house and lands. The masons were paid in accordance to their degree. The master got 40 pounds a year and the rest got 10 pounds.

Sir William Sinclair died in 1484 and was buried in the unfinished chapel and the larger building he planned was never completed. The foundations of the nave are said to have been excavated in the 19th century and have been found to extend 91 feet beyond the chapel’s original west door, just under the current baptistery and churchyard. His legacy to the Sinclair family, Scotland and the world, is a priceless gem.

ROSSLYN, PRESENT TIME AND OLD MYTHS AND LEGENDS

Rosslyn is the fully working Episcopalian Chapel of St. Matthew’s Collegiate Church and it is a beautiful and extraordinarily different church. The multiple icons carved in it’s interior’s walls can jog one’s imagination and make you wonder about the reasons behind these engravings. For instance, were the depictions of corn (maiz) and the agave (aloe vera) some sort of clue? These plants were native to Mexico and still unknown in Europe. It is like someone was trying to say: guess where we have been!! Although there are some who have said they are strawberries and wheat. Oh well, I chose to believe otherwise,it is more interesting..

THE FREEMASONS, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CONNECTIONS

Another engraving is one that appears to be of two poor Knights Templar riding a horse, just as they are represented in their seal. How about the faces of the apprentice, his grieving mother and the master mason - these three associated with the apprentice’s pillar. The figure of a man on his knees, holding his hand to his chest, in what appears to be a Masonic ritual gesture. Numerous angels and so many more wonderful carvings.

No wonder this chapel is called “The cathedral of clues”. The above details and many more, are mentioned in the engrossing and fascinating book “The Hiram Key” (1996) by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas. (Love their books). Did the Templars travel to the new world as the Vikings did, long before it’s discovery by Columbus? And did the St. Clairs have in their hands, proof of said travels? Maybe Prince Henry St. Clair wanted to visit these lands? We are talking about a 90 year difference in time, who knows, maybe more.

In Westford, Massachussets, there is a monument marking the ground carving of a medieval knight in armor whom the locals have named “The Westford Knight” and it dates back to around 1398. The Scotish Knight Sir James Gunn of the Clan Gunn who died while they were in Westford, was a member of Prince Henry St. Clair’s expedition accross the Atlantic to a mystical land beneath the star  “Merica”, along with the Zeno brothers Nicolo and Antonio who were venetian sailors. The engraving was a tribute by Prince Henry and his men to this loyal friend.

There is also mention that with him, went 300 men and 12 ships and that the journey was documented as the Zeno Narratives. Apparently the Zeno brothers wrote to their friend Carlo “The Lion” in Venice, who kept the letters and passed them on to the Zeno family. It is also said that Prince Henry had in his possession the secret scrolls the Templars had found during the first nine years of lodging under Herod’s Temple, which is speculated that the Nasoreans, forefathers of the Mandeans who along with the Qumranians had buried their secret under Herod’s Temple and that he also had an old map the Templars had used to sail accross the Atlantic and that one of the Zeno brothers was updating it for him. It There are also legends amongst the Micmac native of Nova Scotia and the beathuks, native of Newfoundland, whom the Vikings called “Skraeings” where they talk about a white, bearded man who lived with them for a while.

I love this, it is so enormously exciting!!!   How I would describe Rosslyn, its mysteries and any and all connections thereto would be: “amazing, beautiful, fascinating, odd, incredible, puzzling, unique and definitely very inspiring and controversial. Or just plain “WOW”!!!

Rosslyn is open year round and you can visit their website www.rosslynchapel.org.uk for more details like where you can find lodgings, etc. You can even get married there. And… since you are already in Bonnie Scotland, visiting this awesome place, why not continue exploring in many other nearby, interesting and historic locations, where you are very likely to become involved in the discovery of more myths, hauntings and legends this beautiful land has to offer. On May 12, there was a Medieval Fair in the chapel grounds. I hope somebody took pictures and posts them here, it will be a nice addition to the site.

A lot of the information in this subject, I gathered from the following websites. I thank you. Check them out, they are great! I also read a lot about Rosslyn, I am kind of passionate about it.

www.rosslynchapel.org.uk
www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk
www.heritage.scotsman.com
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk
geocities.com/sconemac/wknight.html by Nancy MacCorkill of the Clan Gunn and she said:
“Vikings Guh Brath”. Sounds nice.

I am so looking forward to the upcoming premiere of The Da Vinci Code movie, hopefully I can take in a morning show.   This past Friday, I went to the local Cinemark theatres to check out showtimes but they know nothing yet, they said to comeback on Wednesday (May 17).
Like other great movies; such as Star Wars Episodes I, II and III; that have premiered on May 19, this movie seems destined to be a blockbuster. There must be a special charm to the opening date first chosen by George Lucas and now picked by Ron Howard that promises a very successful run at the box office. My best wishes go out to Director Ron Howard, I am a fan of his work.   His movies always have an upbeat feel about them, he is true to the happy child within him and he is a great story teller.
I have been reading in the local newspaper about church groups throughout the world worried about what The Da Vinci Code might do to their faithful.  If anything; from my point of view; it will awaken more interest in the Catholic church and other religious denominations and gather new followers.  In this day and age, Religion is so important for so many people and rather than an afront, I believe it will have a positive effect and will re-strengthen the faithful.  Faith is unseeing, yet believing.

After reading The Da Vinci Code by D.Brown, I found his writing style very interesting and wanted to read more of his material. I have to say that Angels and Demons is a fast pased novel full of intrigue and action and it would be great material to be made into a movie. Hopefully Tom Hank’s hair will be clean and short by then or; big or; they can instead have George Clooney or Dennis Quaid to play the main character. When I first read The Da Vinci Code, I invisioned Tom Selleck as Robert Langdon because he fits the attractive professor’s type and masculine good looks and he is a such a great actor. He keeps himself fit and young looking and his portrayals come accross as genuine and so witty. I feel he could do the role justice with ease. Had he made the Indiana Jones movies, he would be a terrific looking Indiana, too bad he had a Magnum P.I. contract he wouldn’t be released from or be a studio loaner.
Reading material such as Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Holy Blood Holy Grail, The Hiram Key (Mr. Lomas and Mr. Knight have a winner here - all about Hiram Abif/King Seqenenre Tao’s connection to Freemasons) and many other out there that I have read - all extremely enthralling books - I find they open up a whole new wave of interest in exploring such fascinating topics contained in them, like Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, Medieval history, French history (one of my favourite world history topics), Rome and Vatican City, the Holy Land, Egypt, the Nag Hammadi scrolls, Gnostic gospets, etc., it makes one feel like what Indiana Jones would feel while researching one of his archaeological quests. You feel the excitement of the adventure without the dangers and physical risks.
And that is why I find this site’s tag line rings so true, “for the adventurers at heart” because I think there is a little of Indiana Jones, Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon, The Librarian character of the TV movies, Ben and Patrick Gates (National Treasure) in all of us and in reading such books we get a chance to experience the thrill of the adventures written for us all to explore and enjoy.

After devouring the book The Da Vinci Code by Author Dan Brown in one and a half days after Xmas of December ‘04, (I just couldn’t put it down, hardly slept), I am re-reading it to be able to remember all the details when I go see the movie on May 19th.  I do hope the theatres have early shows so my hubby and I can go see it while our children are at school.   So, needless to say, I cannot wait for the Da Vinci Code movie to begin showing at theatres.

I hear comments from people who think their faith will be diminished if they read the book or God forbid see the movie and all I can say is: It is a book, a very interesting and brilliantly written novel so your faith is safe and I would say reinforced.   I love my reading and Mr. Brown has my full attention, I have read his other books and the ones with the character of  Robert Langdon who is the main player in The Da V inci Code are the better ones.

There is only one fly in the soup; at least on mine; and that is Tom Hank’s hair. I’ll try to ignore it so I don’t get distracted by it. What was he thinking? What was Ron Howard thinking?   But the main thing is, it will be a good movie because it is based on a very interesting NOVEL.


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Eilin O'Dea in Molly Bloom
( spends most of her time in Bed)

Kerry Leigh in All Change
(used to spend most of her time in bed until it all changed)

Bite Size (these guys only have a Bite Size.....?)


Dirty Beat Up Yanks Crew
(these guys are really dangerous, handle with care.....)

Das Contras
-Scotland's  Best Jazz-Rock-Funk-Ryhmic-Melodic Fusion with all orginal music (these spunky guys are working on spending most of their time in bed..when they come to New York...I am sure they will get plenty of offers...Hmm? )

Atempt 3.4? The Present Attempt....the film,
this is very cutting edge cinema, Attempt 3.4 was originally a very usual play from the Edinburgh Fringe, now a film..produced by INL in asssociationn with Bitter Blue Productions.... will this  attempt succeed?

Click here to video pro of Attempt 3.4

A Day In Dig Day Nation, this another quality futuristic play form the Flying Carpet Theatre...Animation-Virtuoso-political satire.....Discover how an ofice drone becomes superhero, rock star abd post-apocalypic scientist all in one day....
"The Future of Theatre! Don't Miss this show!" Seattle Weekly
http://flyingcarpettheatre.com/

And of course me.... Jessica Delfino
at The INL 2008 International Theatre Show (INL)
to be held in New York from the
19th January 2008 to the 23rd February 2008,
the 19th of January will be a special Red Carpet Gala Preview Night for the Who's Who in the TV, Theatre, Film, Newspaper, Magazine and Internet world as well as special guests and me of course...
A ticket for this Premier Preview night wll be a ticket to die for..the good news is that the special performances at this Premier Preview Night will be repeated on Saturday the 26th January 2008... another ticket to die for.....
anyone interested in wanting to put their name down on my special private list to obtain seats for either on these special nights, and/or any of the other nights between the Saturday the 19th January 2008 and Saturday the 23rd February 2008 except Sundays  (that is my holy day), please email me at:
 
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Hi,
I am Jessica Delfino, you are all invited to see

Eilin O'Dea in Molly Bloom
( spends most of her time in Bed)

Click here to view a  live video clip of Eilin Odea's stunning performance of Molly Bloom  
Kerry Leigh in All Change
(used to spend most of her time in bed until it all changed)


Bite Size (these guys only have a Bite Size.....?)
http://www.usaweeklynews.com/Bite_Size_Exposed.php



Dirty Beat Up Yanks Crew
(these guys are really dangerous, handle with care.....)
http://www.usaweeklynews.com/Beat_Up_Dirty_Yanks.html



Das Contras
-Scotland's  Best Jazz-Rock-Funk-Ryhmic-Melodic Fusion with all orginal music (these spunky guys are working on spending most of their time in bed..when they come to New York...I am sure they will get plenty of offers...Hmm? )
http://www.usaweeklynews.com/DasContrasScotland_sBest.html



Atempt 3.4? The Present Attempt....the film,
this is very cutting edge cinema, Attempt 3.4 was originally a very usual play from the Edinburgh Fringe, now a film..produced by INL in asssociationn with Bitter Blue Productions.... will this  attempt succeed?

Click here to video pro of Attempt 3.4

A Day In Dig Day Nation, this another quality futuristic play
from the Flying Carpet Theatre...
http://flyingcarpettheatre.com/
Animation-Virtuoso-political satire.....
Discover how an office drone becomes superhero, rock star and
post-apocalypic scientist all in one day....
"The Future of Theatre! Don't Miss this show!" Seattle Weekly

http://flyingcarpettheatre.com/

And of course me.... Jessica Delfino
at The INL 2008 International Theatre Show (INL)
to be held in New York from the
19th January 2008 to the 23rd February 2008,
the 19th of January will be a special Red Carpet Gala Preview Night for the Who's Who in the TV, Theatre, Film, Newspaper, Magazine and Internet world as well as special guests and me of course...
A ticket for this Premier Preview night wll be a ticket to die for..the good news is that the special performances at this Premier Preview Night will be repeated on Saturday the 26th January 2008... another ticket to die for.....
anyone interested in wanting to put their name down on my special private list to obtain seats for either on these special nights, and/or any of the other nights between the Saturday the 19th January 2008 and Saturday the 23rd February 2008 except Sundays  (that is my holy day), please email me at:
 
Jess, care of: Admin@inlnews.us

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What is Masonry?

Square & Compasses drawn by Bro. Jason Lewis

What is Freemasonry?
What is the York Rite?
What is the Scottish Rite?
What is the Shrine?
What are Masonic War Veterens?
What is Eastern Star?
What is DeMolay?
What is Rainbow?
What are some other Masonic organizations?
What is a 33rd degree Mason?


ANSWERS:

What is Freemasonry?
Masons, also known as Freemasons, belong to the oldest and largest fraternal organization in the world. There are more than 2 million Freemasons in North America. Masons represent virtually every occupation and profession, yet within the fraternity, all meet as equals. Masons come from diverse political ideologies, yet meet as friends. Masons come from varied religious beliefs and creeds, yet all beleive in one God. One of the most fascinating aspects of Freemasonry is how so many men, from so many walks of life, can meet together in peace, always conducting their affairs in harmony and friendship and calling each other "Brother".

Freemasonry is a fraternal order whose basic tenets are brotherly love, relief (philanthropy), and truth. We strive to enjoy the company of our brother Masons, assist them in times of personal trouble, and reinforce essential moral values. There is an old adage that Masonry "takes good men and makes them better", which is our goal. It has often been observed that men are the products of everything they come into contact with during their lifetime.

Masonry offers a man an opportunity to come into regular, enjoyable contact with men of good character, thus reinforcing his own personal moral development. Of course, Masonry is also meant to be enjoyed by its membership, so the order should not be viewed simply as a philosophical club, but rather a vibrant fellowship of men who seek to enjoy each other's company, a fraternity. To maintain this fraternity, discussion of religion and politics within the Lodge is forbidden, as these subjects are those which have often divided men in the past. Masons cover the spectrum of both religious and political beliefs and encourages a man to be religious without advocating a particular religion, and to be active in his community without advocating a particular medium of political expression.

While there probably are some actual stone-workers who are Masons, Masonry does not teach is membership the literal techniques of stonework. Rather, it takes the actual "operative" work of Medieval Masons and uses it as an allegory for moral development. Thus, the symbols of Masonry are the common tools that were used by medieval stonemasons: the gavel, the rule, the compass, the square, the level, etc. Each of these has a symbolic meaning in Masonry. For example, Masons are said to meet "on the level", meaning that all Masons are brothers, regardless of social status, personal wealth, or office within the Lodge or in the world at large. Similar symbolism exists for other tools.

Masonry is distinguished from other fraternal orders by its emphasis on moral character, its ornate rituals, and its long tradition and history, which dates back to at least the 17th century in modern form, the 14th century (c. 1350-1390) in the written evidence of its precursors, and back to the mists of antiquity in its origin. Masonry has a continuously documented paper history (i.e., Lodge to Lodge) since 1717, though historical analysis shows Masonry to be much older. There are also a great many things that Masonry is NOT: a religion, a secret society, etc., some of these issues are covered in more detail in the FAQ.

There are three degrees in Masonry (Blue Lodge). Other appendant or concordant bodies confer additional degrees, up to the 32nd (or the honorary 33rd) of the Scottish Rite, but in symbolic Masonry proper, there are only three. At the Blue Lodge, Masons receive the degrees of Entered Apprentice (EA) (first degree), Fellowcraft (second degree), and Master Mason (third degree). Promotion generally requires the mastery of a small body of memorized material, the contents of which varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some jurisdictions, only the signs, tokens, and grips of each degree must be learned; in others, a longer amount of material. Of course, no Mason would ever look down upon a Brother simply because he was of a lower degree-- the degrees do not exist to create a pecking order or to confer rank. Rather, they are a system of initiation that allows men to become familiar with the august and ancient history and principles of Masonry at a comfortable pace.

Proceeding from Entered Apprentice to Master Mason in the US can take as little as three months, while in England, the degrees are spaced apart by a year's interval. Most Lodges have regular communications (meetings) once a month, that are also referred to as "business meetings". In the US, these are typically only open to Master Masons. In England, these meetings are usually opened in the first degree, and EAs may attend). Conferring of degrees is usually done at other meetings during the month. While conferral of degrees and mundane business do take up a lot of a Lodge's time, there are a host of other activities that Masons engage in within the fraternity. Charitable work is often done, in the form of fundraisers, community volunteer work, etc. And there are also a great many things done for the simple pleasure of company: monthly breakfasts or dinners, picnics, card/chess matches, lecturers on Masonic history, you name it. Masonry is a fraternity, and its membership seeks to have fun.

Local Masonic Lodges are organized under Grand Lodges. In the United States, each state has its own Grand Lodge, which is a peer with every other Grand Lodge. There is not "Grandest Lodge"-- each Grand Lodge is supreme in its jurisdiction (e.g., in the US, in its state) but has no authority elsewhere. Of course, this does not mean that Masonry in New York is radically different than Masonry in Scotland or New Mexico. Masons are very traditional and the differences between Grand Lodges are usually minor. The head of a Lodge is given the title Worshipful Master. This, of course, does not imply that Masons worship him; it is merely a stylish title. Masonic Lodges can be found in many cities, of all sizes, around the world. There are presently approximately 5 million Masons, half of which are in the United States. If you are interested in more information on becoming a Master Mason click here.
Master Masons meet at Hoffman Lodge No. 412, F. & A. M. (Middletown Masonic Temple), Middletown, NY - on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of the month at 7:30 PM

What is the York Rite?
The York Rite, like the Scottish Rite, is an appendant body of Masonry, and confers degrees beyond the Blue Lodge's three degrees. It consists of nine additional degrees: Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and Royal Arch Mason; the Cryptic Degrees of the Royal Master, Select Master, and Super Excellent Master; and the Chivalric Orders of the Order of the Red Cross, Order of the Knights of Malta and the Order of Knights Templar. The Temple degrees, which comprise the top degrees of the York Rite are specifically Christian. Or at least, it can be stated that the oath is: in some Grand Lodges in the US and abroad, one need not be a Christian, but rather only be willing to take a Christian OATH. The difference here is that there are some who would willingly swear to defend the Christian faith on the grounds that they would defend any man's faith. The Chapter (or Royal Arch) and Council Of Royal And Select Masters (Cryptic Rite), which comprise the first two sections of the York Rite, are not specifically Christian. As with most things Masonic, discuss any concerns with your local York Rite, who can advise you regarding your eligibility.

If you are a Master Mason and wish additional information about York Rite, contact Dan Jonas.

Midland Chapter No. 240 R.A.M. (Royal Arch Masons) meets at the Middletown Masonic Temple - on the 3rd. Thursday of the month. For more information contact Dan Jonas.
Goshen Councel No. 93 R.&S.M. (Royal & Select Masons - Cryptic Rite) meets at the Middletown Masonic Temple - on the 4th Thursday of the month. For more information contact R:.W:. Dan Jonas
Cyprus Commandry No. 67 K.T. (Knights Templar) meets at the Middletown Masonic Temple - on the 2nd Thursday of the month.For more information contact .

What is the Scottish Rite?
The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is one of two branches of Freemasonry to which a Master Mason may proceed after he has completed the first three degrees of the Symbolic or "Blue" Lodge. The Scottish Rite includes the degrees from the 4° through the 32°. Although there are many Scottish Rite members of Scottish ancestry, the Scottish Rite actually originated in France in the early 18th century. During the 18th century, lodges were organized in the United States with the first Scottish Rite Supreme Council founded in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1801. The Northern Masonic Jurisdiction was formed in 1867 and includes the 15 states east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mason-Dixon Line and the Ohio River, including Delaware. The Southern Jurisdiction encompasses the 35 remaining states, the District of Columbia and the United States territories and possessions. The Northern Jurisdiction officially recognizes and enjoys friendly relations with many other jurisdictions around the world. Scottish Rite shares the same belief of all Masonic organizations that there is no higher degree than that of Master Mason. The Supreme Council and its subordinate bodies acknowledge the Masonic supremacy of the Symbolic Grand Lodges and Grand Masters within their jurisdictions. Scottish Rite degrees are in no way higher than the degrees of the Symbolic lodges. The work of the Scottish Rite serves to elaborate on and amplify that of the Symbolic lodge. The Scottish Rite degrees are lessons taught through allegory in the form of plays. The lessons are taken from Biblical as well as more modern historical events. Cast members use costumes and makeup to look like the characters who they represent. Candidates learn the lessons by observing the presentation. Memorization of material presented is not required. The Scottish Rite is open to all Master Masons in good standing. The 33° is conferred annually, at the meeting of the Supreme Council, upon a select number of 32° Scottish Rite Masons who have contributed outstanding service to Freemasonry or Scottish Rite or who have exemplified, in their daily lives, the true meaning of the Brotherhood of Man under the Fatherhood of God. A recipient must be at least 33 years of age and may not apply for the degree. Scottish Rite members meet in local or regional "Valleys" and are organized into four parts; Lodge of Perfection, 4° - 14°; Council of Princes of Jerusalem, 15° - 16°; Chapter of Rose Croix, 17° - 18° and Consistory, 19° - 32°. Some individual Valleys do not contain all four parts.

If you are a Master Mason and wish additional information about Scottish Rite, contact Louis Irizarry II, 32° .
Middletown Lodge of Perfection (Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite 14°) meets at the Middletown Masonic Temple on the 2nd. Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM

What are Masonic War Veterans?

Candidates must be amember in good standing in a Blue Lodge in this State or a Lodge of a sister jurisdiction which has frternal relations with the Grand Lodge of New York. Candidate was regularly enlisted, drafted, inducted or commissioed in the Navy, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Air Force, Merchant Marine, or any other federal armed force that, by federal law or regulation or by the State of New York may be accorder veteran Status. The eligibility status shall apply whether the service was active or reserve, and shall also apply to nationals of any other country who, in alliance with the United States, participated in military or naval activity against a common enemy.

Masonic War Veterans duties are to act as a strong right arm to the Grand Master and to the District Deputies in all Districts, presenting Colors at all official visits, aiding in patriotic celebrations and Memorial Services. To sponsor and conduct visitations to V.A. Medical Center and New York State Extended Care Facilities consisting of comfort item distribution, worship service assistance, ward and birthday parties and therapeutic recreational activities.

If you are a Master Mason and a Veteran and wish additional information about Masonic War Vets, contact Bob Clawson 845-386-4668
Beth-El Post No. 29 - Masonic War Veterans meet at the Middletown Masonic Temple on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM

What is the Shrine?
The Shrine is not an appendant body of Masonry, though the distinction would escape many. The Shrine confers no additional degrees. It was founded in 1872 (the Mecca Temple in New York City) and an Arabic theme was chosen. Hence, the distinctive red fez that Shriners wear at official functions. Members of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles the Mystic Shrine for North America (AASONM is an anagram for "A MASON") are members of the Scottish Rite's 32nd degree, and/or Knights Templer of the York Rite. The Shrine is most noted for its emphasis on philanthropy and its jolly outlook on life-- it has been called "the playground of Masonry". This is expressed as "Pleasure without intemperance, hospitality without rudeness, and jollity without coarseness." The Royal Order of Jesters is a group drawn from Shrine membership, by invitation only.

The Shrine of North America is an international fraternity of approximately 515,000 members throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada and Panama. The Shrine's official philanthropy is Shriners Hospitals for Children, a network of 22 hospitals that provide expert, no-cost orthopaedic and burn care to children under 18. If you know a child Shriners Hospitals might be able to help, call them toll-free at 1-800-237-5055 (in the U.S.) or 1-800-361-7256 (in Canada).

If you are a 32° Master Mason and wish additional information about The Shrine, contact Murry Cohen.
Orange County Shrine Club of Mecca meets at Johnny D's Restaurant - Rt 211E in Middletown, NY - on the 2nd Tuesday of the month.

What is the Eastern Star?
The Order of the Eastern Star is an adoptive rite of Freemasonry with teachings based on the Bible and objectives that are charitable and benevolent. The founder of OES was Dr. Robert Morris, a lawyer and educator from Boston, Massachusetts, who was a Master Mason and Past Grand Master of Kentucky. Dr. Morris intended his creation to become a female branch of Freemasonry, but he failed to overcome the great opposition this idea engendered. After his first published ritual in 1849-50, he became associated with Robert Macoy who wrote and published a ritual based on Morris' in 1867. The first Grand Chapter was organized in Michigan in the same year. (There is evidence for an organization of the same name founded variously in 1788 or 1793, but this group was defunct by 1867.) Subordinate (local) chapters operate under charter from state level grand chapters which are responsible to the General Grand Chapter at the International Eastern Star temple in Washington, D.C.

Members must be eighteen years or older and either Master Masons in good standing or properly related to a Master Mason in good standing. The latter category includes wives; widows; sisters; daughters; mothers; granddaughters; step-mothers; step daughters; step-sisters; and half-sisters. In 1994 this was expanded to include nieces, daughters-in- law, and grandmothers. Each chapter has eighteen officers, some elected and others appointed. Two offices are specifically male (Patron and Associate Patron) while nine offices are specifically female (including Matron and Associate Matron). While the Worthy Matron is considered to be the presiding officer of the chapter, the degrees cannot be conferred without a presiding brother in good standing (hence the Patron and Associate Patron).

The successful candidate must profess a belief in a Supreme Being and is initiated in five degrees, which are conferred in one ceremony. (When Eastern Star was created, it was intended to be the first of a three degree series. The second and third degrees were Queen of the South and the Order of the Amaranth, respectively.) Interestingly enough, OES requires only the belief in a Supreme Being even though the degrees are based in both the Old and New Testaments.

If you are a Masons Lady, are related to, or know a Mason and wish additional information about Eastern Star, contact Phoebe Huttner or Robert L. Clawson (845) 386-4668 .
Queen Esther Chapter No. 163 O. E. S. meets at the Middletown Masonic Temple the 1st. & 3rd. Fridays of the month at 8PM

What is DeMolay?

The International Order of DeMolay is an organization dedicated to preparing young men to lead successful, happy, and productive lives. Basing its approach on timeless principles and practical, hands-on experience, DeMolay opens doors for young men aged 12 to 21 by develop the civic awareness, personal responsibility and leadership skills so vitally needed in society today. DeMolay combines this serious mission with a fun approach that builds important bonds of friendship among members in more than 1,000 chapters worldwide.

DeMolay alumni include Walt Disney, John Wayne, Walter Cronkite, football Hall-of-Famer Fran Tarkenton, legendary Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne, news anchor David Goodnow and many others. Each has spoken eloquently of the life-changing benefit gained from their involvement in DeMolay

The International Order of DeMolay is the world's largest fraternal organization for young men between the ages of 12 and 21. The Order was founded in Kansas City, Missouri on March 24, 1919 by Frank Sherman Land. DeMolay Chapters are sponsored by Masonic Lodges, and some members of the sponsoring body also serve as Advisors on the Chapter's Advisory Council. Structurally, it is similar to Masonry. The officers of a Chapter are the Master Councilor, Senior Councilor, Junior Councilor, Senior Deacon, Junior Deacon, Senior Steward, Junior Steward, Orator, Scribe, Marshal, Chaplain, Standard Bearer, Sentinel, Almoner, and seven Preceptors. DeMolay Chapters hold monthly or bi-weekly meetings with Masonic-like Ritual. Other activities include athletic tournaments and events, social functions (joint activities with Rainbow are encouraged), fund-raising activities, Masonic service activities, and civic and philanthropic activities. DeMolays are taught the seven cardinal virtues of the Order-- filial love, reverence for sacred things, courtesy, comradeship, fidelity, cleanness, and patriotism-- and the importance of practicing them in their daily lives. The Order's namesake is Jacques DeMolay, who was the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar and who was executed by the Inquisition on March 18, 1314. Louis Lower, the first DeMolay, and his group of friends, when asked by Dad Land to choose a name for their group, believed that his heroic fidelity and loyalty to his fellow Templars were qualities with which they wanted their group to be identified.

For More information on DeMolay Contact:

Orange-Rockland Central DeMolay Orange Rockland Central meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month in Goshen, NY

What is Rainbow?
The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls is a junior organization for girls between the ages of 11 and 21, who are from Masonic, Eastern Star, Amaranth homes, and the friends of members of Rainbow girls. At the age of 21, or upon marriage, which ever occurs first, girls who are members in good standing are eligible for Majority Membership. A girl must be sponsored by two other girls who are either active members in good standing or a majority member, and at least one adult who must be a member in good standing of either the Masonic Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star, or Order of the Amaranth. The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls (IORG) is a service organization.

The girls learn about charity, hope, and service through their work and involvement with their annual local and Grand (state or country) service projects.

The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls helps promote self-esteem and leadership in its members. As a member, a girl will learn valuable public speaking skills and will attend meetings presided over by girls her own age. While there are always adult advisors to provide direction, all meetings are conducted by the girls.

Members of the Rainbow are active in their churches, schools, and communities. They raise money for various charities through bake sales, dinners and car washes, and they extend themselves in service to their communities, churches and their sponsoring organizations. Rainbow Girls have many fun activities and opportunities to make lifelong friendships.

If you are a young lady 11-21 years old and wish additional information about Rainbow Girls, contact Kate Andrews.
Middletown Assembly No. 16 of the International Order of Rainbow for Girls - meets at the Middletown Masonic Temple on the 2nd. & 4th. Fridays of the month at 7:30PM .

What are some other Masonic organizations?
Order of Amaranth:
Open to Masons and their wives, mothers, daughters, widows, and sisters. At least one Master Mason must be present at every initiation. It confers only one degree.
Daughters of Mokanna:
An auxiliary organization of the Grotto comprised of the wives, mothers, daughters, widows, and sisters of the Master Masons in the Grotto.
Daughters of the Nile:
An auxiliary organization for the wives, mothers, daughters, widows, and sisters of members of the Shrine.
Desoms:
An organization for deaf Masons.
Grotto:
A fun organization open to Master Masons. It imitates the Shrine to a large degree, but requires only that a member be a Master Mason rather than a 32nd degree Mason or Knight Templar. Officially known as The Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm (MOVPER).
High Twelve International:
An organization of Master Masons that usually meet for lunch, enjoy fellowship, and support Masonic causes, with special emphasis on youth and patriotic endeavors.
Job's Daughters:
Enrolls girls between the ages of 13 and 20 that have some Masonic relative. They must profess a belief in God, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's prayer.
L.O.S. of N.A.:
The Ladies' Oriental Shrine of North America. Another auxiliary for the wives, mothers, daughters, widows, and sisters of Shrine members.
National Sojourners, Inc.:
Open to Master Masons which are U.S. citizens and who have served or are serving as a commissioned or warrant officer in the United States military or in any armed service of a nation allied with the US in time of war.
Philalethes:
A group for Masons interested in Masonic philosophy and history.
Royal Order of Scotland:
An organization for Christian Masons who have been 32nd degree Masons or Knights Templar for five or more years.
Tall Cedars of Lebanon:
A fun organization for Master Masons similar to the Grotto. It confers the two degrees of the Royal Court and the Sidonian.
White Shrine of Jerusalem:
For Master Masons and their wives, mothers, daughters, widows, and sisters. Members must profess a belief in the defense of the Christian religion.

What is a 33rd degree Mason?
The Scottish Rite awards a special honorary degree, the 33rd, to those it feels has made an outstanding contribution to Masonry, the community as a whole, and to mankind. There is no way to "achieve" this degree or "take" it, in the sense that one takes the 4th through 32nd degrees in the Scottish Rite. It is a singular honor, rarely bestowed, and greatly admired.

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President George W. Bush is merely the puppet and "go-for boy" of powerful, behind-the-scenes, Marxist, neo-con, dual loyalist Jews. That's the conclusion of people in the know in Washington, D.C.

Bush's total cave-in to these alien, Jewish foreign policy thugs is also well-known in Europe and the Middle East, where top newspapers and magazines regularly talk about this and frequently name and unmask the very Jews who lurk behind the closed doors of the Bush White House.

Courage and Bravado Needed

In America, only a few alternative news sources have possessed the courage and bravado necessary to expose the Jewish neocons and dual loyalists who minutely control this nation's foreign policy and tell President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condi Rice what to do. These few brave sources are taking incredible heat for their efforts. It's a dangerous and fearful thing to go up against the awesome power of the influential—and vicious—Jewish neocon substructure that secretly rules America.

Marxist, Trotskyites, and other Jewish Neocons

In a recent Power of Prophecy radio broadcast, I revealed the whole sordid mess about the neocon plotters who run the Bush Administration. Almost all these men were once Marxists and Trotskyites, the hardest of hard-core Communists and Red sympathizers. They're predominantly anti-Christian, pro-abortion, ultra-liberal, pro-gay, die-hard fanatical supporters of Israel. In fact, many are dual citizens. That is, they are formally citizens of two countries—Israel and the U.S.A.—at the same time. But their chief allegiance, really their only allegiance, is to Israel and to global Jewish objectives.

Seizing an opportunity to grab the reins of power of the Republican Party (they already had a firm grip on the Democrat Party), these Jesus-haters and front men for Jewish Zionism moved in and began to take charge during the Reagan era. They also worked covertly with Bill Clinton and his cronies to promote their "Israel First" doctrine. But their greed and lust for power has mushroomed considerably since the election of George W. Bush.

George W. Bush, Their Faithful Servant

The younger Bush began his loyal service to these Zionist secret agents while still Governor of Texas. In Austin, he was given the "Jewish catechism and road map" by none other than Abe Foxman, chief of the hate-filled spy agency, Jewish ADL. Then, Bush went over to Jerusalem where genocide mass murderer, Ariel Sharon, now Prime Minister of Israel, gave him a personal indoctrination into what would be required of him as U.S.A. President.

The first step and requirement of the Zionist neocons for George W. was that he renounce his publicly stated belief that Jesus was the only path to salvation. This he did, and his renunciation was duly recorded on the front page of the Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas' widely read newspaper.

The Prince of Darkness and Other Neocons Pulling Bush's Strings

The top ranks of the neocon Jewish fanatics who now run the most minute details of Bush's foreign and domestic policies include such devilish political agents as Richard Pearle, appointed as head of the Defense Policy Board. Washington, DC insiders privately and revealingly call Pearle the "Prince of Darkness!" It was Pearle who masterminded the Iraqi war, a war that was decided on before George W. Bush took the oath of office as President. Pearle is an associate of Henry Kissinger, a Jewish neocon tied to Rockefeller interests.

Another Jewish neocon czar-type is Paul Wolfowitz, who monitors the work of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Michael Chertoff tells his lackey, John Ashcroft, what to do in the Justice Department. George Tenet (real name: Cohen) heads the CIA and takes orders from the Israeli Mossad. There is also Elliot Abrams, running the show in the stead of Secretary of State Colin Powell; others include Donald Kagan, Douglas Feith, Don Zakheim, Richard Haas, Kenneth Adelman, Steve Goldsmith, Edward Luttwak, Robert Satloff, David Frum, Marc Grossman and David Wurmser.

All these men are Jews. All are Zionist warmongers who adore and obey Israel and who view America chiefly as Israel's financial sugardaddy and mercenary slave. Their aim is global power for the Jews and profits for Jewish bankers and Illuminati-directed oil barons. They seem to have no problem if stacks of bloody young American fighting men mount up in Iraq, Iran, and Syria. The dead, after all, are valueless. They are considered by the neocons as inferior gentile goyim (cattle). As such, they are thought to be only fodder and excrement for the great Zionist New World Order dead ahead on the horizon.

Their Loyalty is to the Six-Pointed Star

The loyalty of the Bush neocon dual loyalists is not to the stars and stripes but to the six-pointed star, better known as Solomon's Seal, the witches hexagram, Rothschild's choice of occultic symbol for the Israeli flag. To Jewish neocons, the founding fathers of America, men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, and Patrick Henry, are just "more dead Gentiles."

While most neocons have lived in America their entire life, their sin-scarred soul has long ago taken up permanent residence in socialist/Marxist Israel. Like so many Jews, they hold no fondness for their country of birth, the U.S.A. Their real political forefather is Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gurion, an avid admirer and follower of Red Soviet Bolshevik butcher Lenin, insisted that Jews should never give first allegiance to their nation of birth.

"Which are you first," Ben-Gurion, Communist co-founder of modern-day Israel, once wryly asked an audience, "a Jew or an American?" His own answer shot back immediately: "You are first and foremost a Jew."



The Brotherhood
The Secret World of the Freemasons
By Stephen Knight


The Secret World of the Freemasons
 
HarperCollins UK, 2007 - Social Science - 326 pages
This is a classic and highly controversial expose of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of "Inside the Brotherhood". The Freemasons have long fascinated outsiders. The subject of Dan Brown's new novel - set for release in 2007 - this secret and exclusive society, thought to be the largest in Britain today, remains a mystery to the many excluded from its ranks. One would never know if a father or brother was a member due to the mandatory vow of secrecy. In this classic, controversial expose, Stephen Knight talks to the men on the inside - those who have broken their vow of secrecy to reveal the darker side of the 'brotherhood'. Do they influence the law? Is the KGB involved? And is there is a secret group of Masons running the country today, perhaps influencing every move we make? Fully updated with a new introduction by Martin Short, acclaimed author of "Inside the Brotherhood", this is the unmissable, true story of an ancient, and mysterious brotherhood operating in our midst. 
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Stephen Knight
by Richard Whittington-Egan 
Stephen Knight was born, a Wednesday’s child, on September 26th, 1951, at Hainault, Essex. He attended West Hatch Technical High School, at nearby Chigwell, where, in his own words, he was “unsuccessfully educated”, and told by his teachers, “Your future lies in ruin before you.” He was inclined to agree when he took his first job as a trainee showroom salesman for the London Electricity Board. 
But he had already made up his mind that what he really wanted was to be a journalist, and found himself facing the first – and toughest – assignment that any journalist ever has to cope with: getting a foothold in the profession. Determination stood him in good stead. In 1969, aged eighteen, he succeeded in having himself accepted as a trainee junior reporter on the Ilford Pictorial, and when that paper folded about his still-wet ears, contrived a desk place on the Ilford Recorder. Sacked somewhat prematurely from the Recorder, he achieved a smooth, upwardly mobile transition to the Hornchurch Echo, where, at the age of twenty, he was promoted to chief reporter. For a month’s span in 1973, he worked on the East London Advertiser, before rejoining the staff of the Ilford Recorder, where he became chief reporter and subsequently feature-writer-cum-dramatic-critic-cum-book-reviewer. 
Still restless, he parted company again with the Recorder, this time of his own volition, in 1975, to take up a position on the Travel Trade Gazette, but was off on his own travels again in 1976, as a full-time, self-employed writer, following the enormous success of The Final Solution. 
He had meanwhile married Margot Kenrick, acquiring two stepdaughters, Natasha and Nicole, and, in 1977, she bore him a baby daughter of his own, Nanouska. The following year, he, Margot, and Nanouska took a trip to Australia. In August 1978, from Singapore, en route, he sent me a cheerful postcard. Later, he told me that he was scenting the antipodean track of Constance Kent, the young fratricide of Road Hill House, who would, in 1979, stand fully discovered and revealed by Bernard Taylor in his definitive book on the case, Cruelly Murdered, as the one hundred year old Miss Ruth Emilie Kaye, who had died, full of redemptive honours – a congratulatory message from the King and Queen no less – after a career of nursing lepers, on April 10th, 1944, in a rest home in the municipality of Strathfield, New South Wales. 
In 1979 Knight produced his first novel, an Edwardian detective story really, with a supernatural tinge, Requiem at Rogano. He did not, I remember, like the publisher’s choice of title. He told me that he had wanted to call it The Heretics of Rogano. It was generally well received. A satisfactory successor to his Ripper book. 
After all this early-flowering success, the year 1980 was to prove his, as majestic language has it, annus horribilis; and in a most unexpected way. It began low key and innocuously enough, with Knight’s seeing an advertisement which appeared in the London Evening Standard seeking people who suffered from epilepsy to take part in a B.B.C. Horizon programme documentary on the disease. He answered it because he wanted to have an opportunity of talking about the public’s misunderstanding of the illness. 
Three years before – in 1977 – he had started to have epileptic episodes. “When I was ten, I was hit on the head by a cricket bat.” The doctors believed that a consequent area of dead tissue discovered in the brain was the causal factor. Recently, his epileptic fits had been steadily increasing in intensity and duration. “Not knowing why was,” he said, “rather frightening.” 


Inside The Brotherhood –
Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons 
by Martin Short
 
"..It is an obvious truth, that the privileges of Masonry have long been prostituted for unworthy considerations. and hence their good effects have been less conspicuous.... William Preston, one of Freemason's greatest teachers....written more than 200 years ago by William Preston..
In 1972 William Preston could see his beloved Brotherhood sinking into a 'general odium, or at least a careless in difference'....
Today Freemasonry has an even worse public image that in Preston's day ...but does it deserve it? 
In Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood, Martin Short tries to weigh all its good effects against the cost of this enduring prostitution...
 
Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood car has its origins in the pioneering work of Stephen Knight who died in July 1985 aged thirty-three, just eighteen months after the publication of his best-selling, controversial and much-despised expose of Freemasonry, The Brotherhood...
 
 has he lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen Knight from all over the world...


Outline history of Modern FREEMASONARY
Stonemasons of medieval timers propably spent their entire working lives on a few big sites: a cathedral, some churches and maybe a secular building such as a castle.On each site some kind of hut or 'lodge' wuld be ereted where masons could shelter in bad weather, store tools, organise work rotas and even sleep or 'lodge'. Cathedr5als mighttake hundreds of years to build, so lodges took on a near permanent from, Stone masons seem to hve developed a system of mutual aid, and at times exercised great economic power. After the Black Daeth of 1348-9, which killed as many as 1.5 million people in Britain, there was such a shortage if stonemasons that the survivors were able to bargain high wages through assemblies. By 1425 the assemblies had become so powerfdul that they were ourlawed by Parliament and anyone ateending them risked imprisonment.
  Through their 'lodges' the stone masons protetced themsleves against a harsh and unforgiving world. Theysafeguarded their own jobs, and maintained work standards, through a controlled rank structure of three degrees: aprentice, fellow craft and master mason. They also laid down rukes governing relations between masons and with the world at large.  Like the cit guilds of the day, thet seem to have given charity to members in hard times.
The word 'lodgte' is little more than a word which modern masons have borrowed from the old stonemasons, and there are other features common to both groups of men, notably a passion for secrecy. Within their early lodges the stonemasons probable 'worked'rituals in which initiates swore not to reveal the skills and trade secrets of their craft. To block infiltration by unskilled outwsiders, the early stomemasons may have devised a sectret code of passwords, handshakes and other signs of recognition.If so, it was these elements which ensured that lodges, in quite another form, would far outlast the men who had set them up.
The early stonemasons were completely dependent on money from Rome and the Catholic Church to fund the building of cathedrals ..if the church in England broke with Rome and the Church no loger had the assets and incometo pay for neww cathedralz, abbeys or5 parish churches, then the stonemasons would be amoung the first to suffer.
In 1534, the unthinkable happened, Henry VIII broke with Rome, denied the authority of the Pope, became an Anglican, and through England into Reformation. In a few year he seized the Churches wealth, disolved and  dispossed the monestries ande brought ecclesiastical building to a halt. Suddenly the number of stonemasons far exceeded demand. and they lost their bargaining power.  Their lodges decayed and their assets, if any, were looted by the State. In 1545 Henry desperately needed money 'for the mainenance of the present wars'. This gave Henry VIII the excuse to  confiscate the assets of all 'fraturnities, brotherhoods and guilds'.  These were Catholic institutions, so their assets were fair game. By 1600 most fraturnities had disappeared along with their records, w3hich is why the  true history of the stonemasons is anybody's guess.
A few lodges survived, but only by throwibg membership open to men who had never worked stome in their lives, such as merchants, landed gentlemen and aristocrats. Soon there 'speculative masons', s they came to be called, far outnumbered the 'operative stonemasons, or 'working masons' who had let them ujoin. The earliest surviving complete membership roll of any lodge is for Aberdeen in 1670. Of forty-nine master and fellow craft members only ten were working masons. Another fifteen were artisans:carpenters, slaters, glaziers, wigmakers, a smith, an armorer, a hookmaker and a cardmaker. All the rest would now be middleclass: nine merchants, three clergymen, three gentlemen, two surgeons, a collector of customs, a lawyer, a professor of mathematics and four noblemen, of whome three were earls. Quite a slate for town of only 8,000 souls...with the lodge turning into a predominantly Protestant g4entlemen's club. The name 'lodge' was reatoined, but rather as the facade of an old building is preserved to maintain a historic appearane. Behind it the old structure has been demonished and a new one is rising in its place....
By this time lodges were also claiming to be schools of moral instruction, which is where the image of the stonemasons -ainstakingly learning his craft came in handy... Each tool- the square, compasses, level, plumbline, gauge, gavel, chisel - became the symbol o  soem process in man's moral  and spiritual perfection..
After hisinitiation, the 'Entered Aprentice' is told he is like a rough stone or Ashlar, 'in his infant or primitive state'.  He is then meticulously hewn into a perfect Ashlar, ' a fit member of civilized society', presumably through the arts of Freemasonry.
However, this high morlaizing fell on death ears. Many eighteeth-centuary Masons used their lodges only as social clubs, indulging in 'the dissipations of luxury and intemperance'. If this had been Freemaonsry's only charm, it would have soon died out, like many other drink-sodden fraturnities of the day. There had to be another incentive to attend. ...he may have been more attracted by a realization that tis honourable facade could provide cover for less honourable activities: not moral but align, not social but self serving. In Aberdeen, for instace, the lodge's social-mix would have made it one of the best places to learn what was going on in local business, in politics and in almost every Aberdonian's private life. Altjough lodges might claim to inculcate Masonry's 'peculiar system of morality', they could easily become cells of intrigue, self advancement and corruption.
....Less strident Masonic historians admit, the rituals worked today were not devised until the early 1700's. For instance, the stonemaons never uttered  the sadistic oaths or 'obligations' traditionally sworn by candidates as they enter modern Masonry's three "Craft" degrees. All evidence indicates that these were invented by Freemasonry's eighteenth century masters who fund the genuine oaths far too tame for their purpose...
In Freemasonry's first degree the initiate, candidate or would-be Apprentice, swears he will never reveal any of the Craft's secrets or mysteries. He further promises not to write down those secrets or mysteries in any form or to 'cause or suffer to be done by others is in my ower to prevent it, on anything movable or immovable, under the canopy of Heaven....'


 
..An increasing section of the public seem to think Freemasons are guided by greed and self-interest, and constitute nothing less than England's 'Mafia'..
This might be unjust, but the Mafia tag sticks because lodges rarely punish brethren who break to criminal law. In the past thirty years (until September 1988) Grand Lodge has expelled only seven Freemasons for criminal acts, even though many more have been 
convicted of spectacular crimes
even though many more have been convicted of spectacular crimes...
Social pressures make it difficult for an honest mason to complain about criminal or immoral conduct by his brothers...Indeed it is he, not the wrongdoers, who faces ostracism and even exclusions form his lodge. he will probably opt for the less couragess route of quietly withdrawing from Freemasonry, embittered at what he sees as the sham, humbug and hypocrisy whereby serious abuses go unpunished...
 
A prime example is Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson who was installed as Worshipful master of the Waterways Lodge ( no. 7913) on Tuesday 13th November, 1979 have only been initiated into Freemasonry only seven years earlier...with his Freemason brethren having lauded him as a man of good report, true and trust...but Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson was a crook.. indeed Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson was an underworld figure of considerable status...as V became a master of the Waterways Lodge. Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson was one of London's top 100 criminal, according to a secret booklet then being circulated in the Flying and Robbery Squads of the London Metropolitan Police.. with known convictions for going equipped to steal, handling stolen goods, shop-breaking etc...with the criminal intelligence officers who complied the report having delivered their most serious observation in the last line: 'Modus Operandi ( criminal specialty) …Armed Robbery...
..It is further noted that by the time the Waterways Lodge elected Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson as Master, its members included several policemen ..One was Superintendent John Brian McNeil who, until 1978, had been chief inspector in the Flying Squad ..it seems rather odd that, having joined the lodge five years earlier...McNeil had picked up nothing about Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson's criminal background...Superintendent John Brian McNeil  seems to have been very conveniently officially been unaware of the Top 100 criminal Lists circulating in Flying Squad Offices .. which included the name the Waterways Lodge elected Master Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson ..yet with so many Flying Squad detectives’ 'on the square', it would seem extra-ordinary if none of them had tipped off McNeil about his fast-moving Masonic Colleague...if they really did believe Gibson was open of London's top 100 gangsters, they must have carried out surveillance on him and probably tailed him to lodge meetings at Southgate...
..to cut along story short...the Waterways Lodge elected Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson as Master confessed to being involved with the robbery on the 24th March 1980, of £3.4 million worth of silver at gun point from a lorry, heading to the port of Tilbury for onward shipment to east Germany....one of the gang dressed in a police uniform with two bogus Ministry of Transport officials pulled out a pistol and a sawn-off shotgun and forced the bullion driver, his companion and a security guard into the back of a van .. the trio received very light sentences of only 10 years and the Waterways Lodge elected Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson as Master came out of prison in 1986.. only serving about 5 years in prison in a comfortable open prison at Spring Hill Open Prison in Buckinghamshire......
..the Waterways Lodge elected Freemason Brother Leonard John Gibson as Master was never expelled and/or suspended from Freemasonry.. he did not have to re-join as he had never left the Waterways Lodge and during his five years away in prison had remained on the roll as a 'country member'...
..In 1987 one frightened Waterways members told me: 'Gibson's name is still on the list, but what can I do about it? I'm an ordinary brother. Of course it's a scandal, but don't tell anyone I told you. It's more than my life's worth.'
Facinating examples of Masonic skullduggery'...Observer
 
'A judicious investigation, and Short puts forward a devastating case for the prosecution … Short produces a persuasive testimony that Freemasonry has become a scourge and a disease in jobs in the public service.. Martin Short cites some fascinating and entirely credible examples of Masonic skullduggery -and of Broth ranged viciously against Brother... It is difficult to dispute Short's conclusion that disclosure of their Masonic membership by those in positions of power should be made obligatory...'...Piers Brendon, Observer
 
When the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee decently recommended that police officers, magistrates, judges and crown officers should publicly register their Masonic membership, it was very largely thanks to the ammunition provided by Martin Short's investigative tour de force. Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood carried on the pioneering work begun by Stephen Knight's explosive account of The Brotherhood.
Approximately half a million men in the England and Wales and a further over 400,000 in Scotland.. and a further over 5 million elsewhere around the world-- are Freemasons. Inside the Brotherhood examines what kind of men join Freemasonry (known as the Craft)- and why... 
Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood carried investigates, the occult elements in Masonry whether its rituals should ne seen as a religion - and, is so, what God is being worshipped. And, relying or' first-hand evidence where-ever possible, the book probes the extent to which Masonic paths of mutual aid and secrecy have contaminated the fraternity, aroused mounting hostility form churches, politicians and public, and provoked charges of corruption in key areas of British life, including the police force, local government, the City, and the secret services...
 
'Given the nature of the subject, it is doubtful if a more conclusive book could have been written'...Alan Rushbridger. Times Literary Supplement...
 
'An anatomy of vice .. I recommend it' .. Mark Archer, The Spectator


Freemasonry- The Reality
By
Tobias Caurton
 
P523
 
..” A parliamentary select committee led by campaigning MP, Chris |Mullen ( labour) had read Martin Short’s Anti-Masonic book… “Inside the Brotherhood”…Short found alleged “evidence” of  favourtism in the police and the judiciary in Britain…however ( wrongly or rightly) found no single case of provable  corruption to bring to the bar of justice ( it is noted that the Grand Lodge of England has never denied that it occasionally finds a “Bad apple in the barrel”.. they are then expelled)..
…Jesus was not a socialist and has no interest in democracy..
…in the bible, the majority is always wrong.. David slays Goliath…
….Christ found himself against the people…
…to any wise man or woman, the notion that large numbers of people know anything better than small numbers of people is parable nonsense…
….Hitler was voted in by popular vote in 1933….
..the genius of mankind has always had to struggle with ignorance of his so called fellows…
….democracy as a defense against tyranny is one thing, used in the interests of tyranny, it is itself tyrannical…
..charity for the poor is the duty of the gentleman and the conviction of the lady .. it has never been a priority of ‘society’ as a whole .. welfare is an insurance system not an act of loving charity …
….legal measures were required to care for the disabled and unemployable only after the monasteries, the guilds and the contraternities were smashed during the reformation…
…the church does not engage in charity fort eh sake of “society”, but because it is seen as the sign of Christian Love expected by the saviour from his “sheep”…
….the state cannot function as a religious society .. history demonstrates that time and time again .. if politicians wish to invoke the word of the saints, the should renounce all their worldly goods and ambitions and follow the “way, the truth and the life” for its own sake ….. The fact is that politicians want power, and that power invariably comes from outside themselves…the people give it to them as an act of insurance .. the people, it is argued, can hardly complain of the consequences, when they are so ready to abrogate so much responsibility at the ballot box ..in this sense, politics is a sign of human weakness, usually accompanied by folly…
…the principle of the ‘sovereignty of the individual’  is the only defence against creeping state tyranny….
Freemasons: Inside the World’s Oldest Secret Society
 
By H. Paul Jeffers
Written in 2005
 
Chapter 20
The Future of Freemasonry
 
Of the world’s estimated 5.9 Freemasons, the majority live in the United States ( 4 million). Most of the other can be found in English-speaking nations. Statistics for English Masonry are somewhat unreliable because an individual can belong to more than one lodge. Worldwide estimates place the membership as follows:
(a)   England and Wales at 550,000
(b)    Scotland at 400,000 ( likely that the greater of these are based in or near Edinburgh)
(c)    Ireland at 47,000
(d)   Canada and United States at 4.1 million
(e)   Europe at 80,000
(f)     Australasia at 375,000
(g)   Latin America at 50,000
(h)   Philippines at 10,000
(i)     Other areas ( India, Japan, Formosa, Africa and Israel) at 288,000
 
 It is very interesting to note that the population of Scotland was about 5 million in 2005
And Edinburgh about 400,000 to 500,000 and Glasgow at about 600,000
It seems that about 10% of the population of Scotland are Freemasons
And taking to two major cities and Edinburgh and Glasgow.. making up about 1-1.2 million people combined it seems that one could argue that the bulk of the Scottish Freemasons are based in these two cities… this would mean that one could futher say that it is likely that over 30% or more of the population of Edinburgh and Glasgow are Freemasons .. which would mean that most of the top executive, government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal jobs are filled by Freemasons.. and it seems clear that for one to progress in Scotland in the government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal world once simply has to be a Freemason… this would mean that it is likely that the greater percentage if not nearly all of the male persons working as a Lord, Judge, Sherriff, clerk, solicitors, advocate etc would be a Freemason and if a person who is a party litigant ( litigant in person and not a layer) is arguing a case against a trained solicitor/advocate-Freemason in front of a Freemason Lord, Judge, Sherriff .. what chance have they of having an fair and unbiased hearing in Scotland?…obviously none…
 
Chapter 9
The Mystery of Mozart’s “The being involved in the death of Mozart…
With the allegation that Mozart had hiiden under the pro-masonic surface of the opera a secret counter plot in which Tammino was Mozart, Pamina was Marie Antoinette, and Pamina’s captors were Freemasons..In the scenario, Mozart’as murder was part of a Masonic conspiracy to assassinate Leopold II, as well as Gustav III of Sweden, who was actually murdered at a masked ball a few months after Mozarts death. The plot originated seventy years later ( in1981) by Geirge Friendrich Daumer, a researcher of antiques, a religious fanatic, and an anti-semite. His work would be seized byb a nazi leader in the 1930’s. General Erich Ludendorff, along with his wife, Mathilde, asserted that the secret of Freemasonry was “the Jew” and that Freemasonry’s goal was to “rob the Germans of their national pride and to assure the glorious future of the Jewish people..
In 1931, Nazi Party officials were given a Guide and Instructional Letter” that said “the hostility of the peasant against the Jews and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy…”
 The Reich main Security Office determined that masonry was not only part of the “Jewish problem” but also “ an autonomous ideology with political power” that ruled the press and public opinion and motivated wars and revolutions…
In Czechoslovakia when the Nazi’s entered the country in 1939, 4,000 Freemasons were arrested and many were sent to concentration camps.. less that 5% of Czech Freemasons escaped to England and formed a Grand Lodge Comenius in Exile.
In Germany, France, Italy Morocco, the Spanish Canary Islands and Spain.. Freemasons and their lodges were banned, outlawed and Freemasonry was made a criminal offence and many were arrested and killed and/or sent to concentration camps…. Anyone who did not denounce masonry and reveal to the police the names of all mason with whom he had been associated faced imprisonment….
Hitler himself decreed “Freemasons and the ideological enemies of National Socialism who are allied with them are the originators of the present war..”


Chapter 5
Dr. James Anderson’s constitution
Dr. James Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, around August 5th, 1662.
A doctor of Divinity… James Anderson had become a hero of Scottish nationalism by publishing “An Essay Showing That the Crown of Scotland Is Imperial and Independent and became a prominent and well respected Freemason….. Dr. James Anderson was called upon to write a new code of Freemasonry called “The CONSTITUTION, history, Laws, Charges, Orders, Regulations, and Usages, of  the Right Worshipful FRATURNITY of ACCEPTED FREE MASONS ( which was collected from their General RECORDS, and their faithful TRADITIONS of many Ages)”….
which after it was competed meant he was enshrined in the lore of the Craft as “the father of Freemasonry History”.
. In A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry composed by Arthur Edward Waite, Dr. James Anderson is described “as a son of Aberdeen”, where he earned a doctorate and served somewhere as a Presbyterian minister and “ultimately drifted to London prior ot 1710.”
 
Exert of the Summary of the Constitution of Freemasonry by Dr James Anderson
 
“…Finally, all these Charges you are to observe, and also those that shall be recommended to you in another Way, cultivating Brotherly Love, the Foundation and Cap-stone, the Cement and Glory of this Ancient Fraternity, avoiding all wrangling and quarrelling, all Slander and Backbiting, nor permitting others to slander any honest Broth, but defending his Character, and doing him all good Offices, as far as is consistent with your Honour and safety, and no farther…And if any of them do you Injury you must apply to your own or his Lodge, and from thence you may appeal to the Grand Lodge, at the Quarterly Communication and from thence to the annual Grand Lodge, as has been the ancient laudable Conduct but when the case cannot ne otherwise decided, and patiently listening to the honest and friendly Advice of master and Fellows when they would prevent your going to Law with Strangers; but with respect to brothers or Fellows at Law, the master and Brethren should offer their mediation, which ought to be thankfully submitted to by the contending Brethren; and if that submissions is impracticable, they must, however, carry on their process, or lawsuit, without Wrath and Rancor ( not In the common way) saying or doing nothing which may hinder Brotherly Love, and good offices to be renewed and continued; that all may see the benign Influence of Masonry, as all true Masons have done form the beginning of the World, and will do to the End of Time…”


Freemasons: Inside the World’s Oldest Secret Society
 
By H. Paul Jeffers
Written in 2005
 
Chapter 20
The Future of Freemasonry
 
Of the world’s estimated 5.9 Freemasons, the majority live in the United States ( 4 million). Most of the other can be found in English-speaking nations. Statistics for English Masonry are somewhat unreliable because an individual can belong to more than one lodge. Worldwide estimates place the membership as follows:
(a)   England and Wales at 550,000
(b)    Scotland at 400,000 ( likely that the greater of these are based in or near Edinburgh)
(c)    Ireland at 47,000
(d)   Canada and United States at 4.1 million
(e)   Europe at 80,000
(f)     Australasia at 375,000
(g)   Latin America at 50,000
(h)   Philippines at 10,000
(i)     Other areas ( India, Japan, Formosa, Africa and Israel) at 288,000
 
 It is very interesting to note that the population of Scotland was about 5 million in 2005
And Edinburgh about 400,000 to 500,000 and Glasgow at about 600,000
It seems that about 10% of the population of Scotland are Freemasons
And taking to two major cities and Edinburgh and Glasgow.. making up about 1-1.2 million people combined it seems that one could argue that the bulk of the Scottish Freemasons are based in these two cities… this would mean that one could futher say that it is likely that over 30% or more of the population of Edinburgh and Glasgow are Freemasons .. which would mean that most of the top executive, government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal jobs are filled by Freemasons.. and it seems clear that for one to progress in Scotland in the government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal world once simply has to be a Freemason… this would mean that it is likely that the greater percentage if not nearly all of the male persons working as a Lord, Judge, Sherrif, clerk, solicitors, advocate etc would be a Freemason and if a person who I sa party litigant ( litigant in person and not a layer) is arguing a case against a trained solicitor/advocate-Freemason in front of a Freemason Lord, Judge, Sherrif.. what chance have they of having an fair and unbiased hearing in Scotland?…obviously none…
 
Chapter 9
The Mystery of Mozart’s “The being involved in the death of Mozart…
With the allegation that Mozart had hiiden under the pro-masonic surface of the opera a secret counter plot in which Tammino was Mozart, Pamina was Marie Antoinette, and Pamina’s captors were Freemasons..In the scenario, Mozart’as murder was part of a Masonic conspiracy to assassinate Leopold II, as well as Gustav III of Sweden, who was actually murdered at a masked ball a few months after Mozarts death. The plot originated seventy years later ( in1981) by Geirge Friendrich Daumer, a researcher of antiques, a religious fanatic, and an anti-semite. His work would be seized byb a nazi leader in the 1930’s. General Erich Ludendorff, along with his wife, Mathilde, asserted that the secret of Freemasonry was “the Jew” and that Freemasonry’s goal was to “rob the Germans of their national pride and to assure the glorious future of the Jewish people..
In 1931, Nazi Party officials were given a Guide and Instructional Letter” that said “the hostility of the peasant against the Jews and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy…”
 The Reich main Security Office determined that masonry was not only part of the “Jewish problem” but also “ an autonomous ideology with political power” that ruled the press and public opinion and motivated wars and revolutions…
In Czechoslovakia when the Nazi’s entered the country in 1939, 4,000 Freemasons were arrested and many were sent to concentration camps.. less that 5% of Czech Freemasons escaped to England and formed a Grand Lodge Comenius in Exile.
In Germany, France, Italy Morocco, the Spanish Canary Islands and Spain.. Freemasons and their lodges were banned, outlawed and Freemasonry was made a criminal offence and many were arrested and killed and/or sent to concentration camps…. Anyone who did not denounce masonry and reveal to the police the names of all mason with whom he had been associated faced imprisonment….
Hitler himself decreed “Freemasons and the ideological enemies of National Socialism who are allied with them are the originators of the present war..”
 
 
Chapter 5
Dr. James Anderson’s constitution
Dr. James Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, around August 5th, 1662.
A doctor of Divinity… James Anderson had become a hero of Scottish nationalism by publishing “An Essay Showing That the Crown of Scotland Is Imperial and Independent and became a prominent and well respected Freemason….. Dr. James Anderson was called upon to write a new code of Freemasonry called “The CONSTITUTION, history, Laws, Charges, Orders, Regulations, and Usages, of  the Right Worshipful FRATURNITY of ACCEPTED FREE MASONS ( which was collected from their General RECORDS, and their faithful TRADITIONS of many Ages)”….
which after it was competed meant he was enshrined in the lore of the Craft as “the father of Freemasonry History”.
. In A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry composed by Arthur Edward Waite, Dr. James Anderson is described “as a son of Aberdeen”, where he earned a doctorate and served somewhere as a Presbyterian minister and “ultimately drifted to London prior ot 1710.”
 
Exert of the Summary of the Constitution of Freemasonry by Dr James Anderson
 
“…Finally, all these Charges you are to observe, and also those that shall be recommended to you in another Way, cultivating Brotherly Love, the Foundation and Cap-stone, the Cement and Glory of this Ancient Fraternity, avoiding all wrangling and quarrelling, all Slander and Backbiting, nor permitting others to slander any honest Broth, but defending his Character, and doing him all good Offices, as far as is consistent with your Honour and safety, and no farther…And if any of them do you Injury you must apply to your own or his Lodge, and from thence you may appeal to the Grand Lodge, at the Quarterly Communication and from thence to the annual Grand Lodge, as has been the ancient laudable Conduct but when the case cannot ne otherwise decided, and patiently listening to the honest and friendly Advice of master and Fellows when they would prevent your going to Law with Strangers; but with respect to brothers or Fellows at Law, the master and Brethren should offer their mediation, which ought to be thankfully submitted to by the contending Brethren; and if that submissions is impracticable, they must, however, carry on their process, or lawsuit, without Wrath and Rancor ( not In the common way) saying or doing nothing which may hinder Brotherly Love, and good offices to be renewed and continued; that all may see the benign Influence of Masonry, as all true Masons have done form the beginning of the World, and will do to the End of Time…”


The Brotherhood: 
The Secret World of the Freemasons
 
HarperCollins UK, 2007 - Social Science - 326 pages
This is a classic and highly controversial expose of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of "Inside the Brotherhood". The Freemasons have long fascinated outsiders. The subject of Dan Brown's new novel - set for release in 2007 - this secret and exclusive society, thought to be the largest in Britain today, remains a mystery to the many excluded from its ranks. One would never know if a father or brother was a member due to the mandatory vow of secrecy. In this classic, controversial expose, Stephen Knight talks to the men on the inside - those who have broken their vow of secrecy to reveal the darker side of the 'brotherhood'. Do they influence the law? Is the KGB involved? And is there is a secret group of Masons running the country today, perhaps influencing every move we make? Fully updated with a new introduction by Martin Short, acclaimed author of "Inside the Brotherhood", this is the unmissable, true story of an ancient, and mysterious brotherhood operating in our midst. 
http://www.blackstarreview.com/rev-0155.html
 
Keywords: Freemasonry 
Title: The Brotherhood 
Author: Stephen Knight 
Publisher: Harper Collins 
Media: Book 
Reviewer: Doug Lowe 


In this case the 'brotherhood' being Freemasonry. This is a subject rarely discussed on the Left but we shouldn't underestimate them.
Many socialists tend to view Freemasons with merely amused contempt because of their strange rituals but, as Knight points out, behind these bizarre rites lie more serious issues. We're not talking about conspiracies as such (although their secretiveness leaves them open to such interpretations). We'll leave the paranoia to others.
There are millions of Freemasons around the world and an estimated 3/4 million in Britain. They claim to stand for 'morality, fraternity and charity'. Accordingly, they make large donations to charity and take care of their fellow members and relatives when bereavement and sickness strike.
But membership itself is strictly controlled. British Freemasonry is exclusively male and overwhelmingly middle class. It is open only to those with enough money to cope with the expense involved (and that can be considerable). Freemasons are mainly businessmen and 'professional' people - policemen, bank managers, lawyers, senior civil servants etc. Shop floor workers and clerks are definite no-no's. Catholic and Jewish people are not excluded, since class counts for more than religious persuasion. I get the impression from Knight that the same 'tolerance' is not likely to be extended to non-'white' people.
Although Masons claim a direct line back into the mists of time, this is just part of the mystical shroud it cloaks itself in. In fact, the real beginnings of Freemasonry (as we understand it today) coincided with the rise of a confident and growing middle class in the Seventeenth Century. It was an expression of their assertiveness and growing identity. Its exclusiveness and secrecy was also an expression of its fear and hatred of the growing working classes.
Now, with the ruling class long-entrenched in its power and privileges, Freemasonry is an extremely hierarchical, respectable and conservative group concerned to maintain the status quo. This is, of course, reflected in its membership. The rituals, oaths, mystical jargon and symbols are merely a way of binding them together against 'outsiders'. This obviously helps to reinforce class loyalties.
Most of this is documented by Knight, who then proceeds to show how many Masons use their membership to advance in business, win promotion and generally 'improve' their wealth and positions.
He used his contacts (Masonic and non-Masonic) to look into instances of corruption involving Masons. Amongst other things, he claims that 'the corruption which led to Operation Countryman...would never have arisen had a masonic City of London police commissioner in the 1970s not turned a blind eye to the activities of several desperately corrupt Freemasons under his command'. He also cites the infamous Poulson case as an example of Masons abusing their membership for corrupt ends.
But, as he himself points out, it can be argued that the possibilities for corruption are not confined to those with Masonic contacts. This is where Knight really goes off the rails. He seems concerned that the 'impartiality' of the police and judiciary might be impaired by 'corrupt' Masons using their influence 'unfairly'. His is a Britain where there are a few 'bad apples' in various parts of the State who use Freemasonry for selfish ends. But the key supporting institutions of capitalism - the City, police, judiciary, civil service etc. are riddled with inherent possibilities for dirty dealings anyway, 'legal' or 'illegal'. 
In certain situations it is undoubtedly true that being a Mason is helpful because of the organisation they can use for their benefit. But wheeling and dealing isn't confined to Freemasonry. In any case, when it comes to capitalism and its main institutions Masons are 'loyal citizens' and loyalty to fellow Masons is ultimately secondary.
Naturally, socialists should expose corruption but, unlike Knight, I couldn't care less if a barrister on £xxxxx thousands a year gains promotion aheade of another one because of his Masonic contacts.
As the book proceeds, we head into other familiar territory. He rambles on at length about the dangers of infiltration of Freemasonry by hostile foreign intelligence services. He seems terrified that a major scandal involving Freemasonty would have disastrous effects because it contains many 'top' businessmen, politicians and royals etc. This would cause 'popular revulsion against the whole established order, Government and business', turned to their advantage by unscrupulous extremists. He therefore concludes that the ruling class should do its utmost to weed out the few 'bad apples' who use Fremasonry for 'corrupt ends'.
This is Fantasy Island, of course. The whole orchard is rotten to the core.
Having said that, it is a book worth a glance at as it gives a useful insight into the mentality and workings of Freemasonry. Freemasonry itself is not something that the Left should be overly concerned about - there are clearly a lot more pressing issues. Masonry will only become a real threat during and after a revolution, as one of many organisations attempting to use its power and influence to organise against socialism. Then Freemasonry will have to be destroyed as any other counter-revolutionary institution. Some time to go before that becomes an issue, though!
 
 
Stephen Knight (author)
Stephen Knight (26 September 1951 at Hainault, Essex - 25 July 1985) was a British author.
He is best known for the books Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1976) and The Brotherhood (1984).
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution suggested that those murders were part of a conspiracy between Masons and the royal family, a claim which is not accepted by historians. Nevertheless, the book became popular as the inspiration for works of fiction, among them the 1978 film Murder by Decree by Bob Clark and the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. The latter was adapted, very loosely, into a film by the Hughes brothers in 2001.
The Brotherhood was published at a time when Freemasonry was coming under feverish scrutiny in the United Kingdom.
Knight also wrote the books Cruelly Murdered, Requiem at Rogano and The Killing of Justice Godfrey. He was a religious follower of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and, as a part of this interest, took the name Swami Puja Debal. He struggled with epilepsy for much of his life and was discovered to have a brain tumour in 1980 while taking part in the documentary TV programme Horizon. The tumour was removed, but returned in 1984. Knight died in 1985 at the age of 33.
Stephen Knight obituary
Review of Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
Detailed analysis of Knight's Masonic Ripper claims
http://casebook.org/authors/obituaries/knight.html
 
Stephen Knight
by Richard Whittington-Egan 
Stephen Knight was born, a Wednesday’s child, on September 26th, 1951, at Hainault, Essex. He attended West Hatch Technical High School, at nearby Chigwell, where, in his own words, he was “unsuccessfully educated”, and told by his teachers, “Your future lies in ruin before you.” He was inclined to agree when he took his first job as a trainee showroom salesman for the London Electricity Board. 
But he had already made up his mind that what he really wanted was to be a journalist, and found himself facing the first – and toughest – assignment that any journalist ever has to cope with: getting a foothold in the profession. Determination stood him in good stead. In 1969, aged eighteen, he succeeded in having himself accepted as a trainee junior reporter on the Ilford Pictorial, and when that paper folded about his still-wet ears, contrived a desk place on the Ilford Recorder. Sacked somewhat prematurely from the Recorder, he achieved a smooth, upwardly mobile transition to the Hornchurch Echo, where, at the age of twenty, he was promoted to chief reporter. For a month’s span in 1973, he worked on the East London Advertiser, before rejoining the staff of the Ilford Recorder, where he became chief reporter and subsequently feature-writer-cum-dramatic-critic-cum-book-reviewer. 
Still restless, he parted company again with the Recorder, this time of his own volition, in 1975, to take up a position on the Travel Trade Gazette, but was off on his own travels again in 1976, as a full-time, self-employed writer, following the enormous success of The Final Solution. 
He had meanwhile married Margot Kenrick, acquiring two stepdaughters, Natasha and Nicole, and, in 1977, she bore him a baby daughter of his own, Nanouska. The following year, he, Margot, and Nanouska took a trip to Australia. In August 1978, from Singapore, en route, he sent me a cheerful postcard. Later, he told me that he was scenting the antipodean track of Constance Kent, the young fratricide of Road Hill House, who would, in 1979, stand fully discovered and revealed by Bernard Taylor in his definitive book on the case, Cruelly Murdered, as the one hundred year old Miss Ruth Emilie Kaye, who had died, full of redemptive honours – a congratulatory message from the King and Queen no less – after a career of nursing lepers, on April 10th, 1944, in a rest home in the municipality of Strathfield, New South Wales. 
In 1979 Knight produced his first novel, an Edwardian detective story really, with a supernatural tinge, Requiem at Rogano. He did not, I remember, like the publisher’s choice of title. He told me that he had wanted to call it The Heretics of Rogano. It was generally well received. A satisfactory successor to his Ripper book. 
After all this early-flowering success, the year 1980 was to prove his, as majestic language has it, annus horribilis; and in a most unexpected way. It began low key and innocuously enough, with Knight’s seeing an advertisement which appeared in the London Evening Standard seeking people who suffered from epilepsy to take part in a B.B.C. Horizon programme documentary on the disease. He answered it because he wanted to have an opportunity of talking about the public’s misunderstanding of the illness. 
Three years before – in 1977 – he had started to have epileptic episodes. “When I was ten, I was hit on the head by a cricket bat.” The doctors believed that a consequent area of dead tissue discovered in the brain was the causal factor. Recently, his epileptic fits had been steadily increasing in intensity and duration. “Not knowing why was,” he said, “rather frightening.” 








Stephen Knight ca. 1976 


Martin Freeth, the producer of the Horizon programme, was anxious to show viewers a scan of an epileptic brain, and, knowing that the mark left by the cricket bat accident would show up, chose Knight as the guinea pig. The scanner revealed that this necrotic patch had increased to the size of an egg. Within a week a biopsy had established the diagnosis of a cerebral tumour, and he underwent brain surgery in the Maudsley Hospital, at Denmark Hill, South London. 
He recovered. “I was told that there was only about a five per cent. chance of the tumour ever recurring, as it was very low grade. I translated that at nought per cent. and just carried on living.” 
And there was a happy sequel. 
In his private world things had not been going along too smoothly. Critical differences had blown up between him and his “Belle Marguerite”. In November 1980, it was announced that Lesley Newson, Horizon’s 28-year-old researcher, and Knight would marry when his divorce from his separated wife came through. In the event, though, they never did. 
With six-monthly scans proving clear, Knight went merrily on to write The Brotherhood: The Secret World of the Freemasons, published early in 1984. It was a direct result of his literary Mason-watching, carried out in connection with his Jack the Ripper book. This new work, containing as it did many sensational allegations, among them that the K.G.B. had succeeded in infiltrating Masonry, and with its exposure of the power of the square among the guardians, at all levels, of the law, caused a considerable stir – and most satisfactory sales figures. 
What proved to be his last book, The Killing of Justice Godfrey, another piece of investigative work, also came out in 1984 – in the July. This Knight regarded as his best book. He explained: “When I was thirteen I had the idea of taking an historical mystery and ‘solving’ it in the form of a short story. I approached my history teacher at West Hatch Technical High School, Chigwell – an inspiring man called John Hudson – and asked if he knew a suitable case. He immediately told me to get Who Killed Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey by Alfred Marks from the library. It was, he said, the greatest unsolved murder in English history. Alas, Mr. Marks’ turgid prose proved too much for me and I abandoned the project. But the idea stayed with me and when, ten years later, I finished my book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution and was casting around for a new subject, Godfrey seemed the obvious choice: the three hundredth anniversary of his death was just three years off. If John Hudson had not hooked me in 1965 it is unlikely this book would ever have been written.” It, too, was well received. 
The Brotherhood was dedicated: “For Ma and Pa, with love.” The Killing of Justice Godfrey introduced a completely novel dedicatee: “For Barbara Mary Land. Love.” No more for Margot. His marriage had ended in divorce. 
The first disquieting hints that something was going wrong with himself came shortly after the publication of The Brotherhood. “I began to get strange symptoms. I developed a curious kind of word blindness – not being able to say the word I wanted, however simple; and my handwriting started to become very, very bad. I thought it was due to over-medication from the drugs I’d been taking for epilepsy.” 
He was in South Carolina, holidaying with his girlfriend, Barbara Mary Land, that summer of 1984, when he suddenly realised that the postcards he was writing home were “indecipherable travesties” of his usual writing. Equally worrying was the fact that he found when he was walking that he was continually stumbling to the right. 
“I telephoned my doctor, Peter Fenwick, at the Maudsley.” Dr. Fenwick told him that if he was getting headaches he must come home immediately. He was. He flew back the next day. 
Knight, who was interviewed in considerable depth by Anne De Courcey, from whose perceptive and sympathetic article in the Standard I quote, told her: “I was so confident I was only suffering from over-medication I’d booked a room at the Gatwick Hilton and a return flight the following afternoon. The first inkling that anything was wrong otherwise was when I was kept waiting while they looked at my scan. It turned out they were comparing it with the previous ones. Then a doctor came into the room and said: ‘I’m afraid there’s a recurrence of the tumour.’” 
The following day Knight saw Dr. Fenwick. “He knew that I always respond best to the truth. I asked him how long I had got. He said: ‘We intend to give you another operation followed by chemotherapy. Even if there’s nil response to either you will have at least two years.’ Although I cried at the time and was very upset, we were actually able to have conversation about what those two years would contain for me.” 
In July 1984 about seventy per cent of the aggressive cancer tumour was removed by operation. The remaining thirty per cent. could not, because of its proximity to speech and movement centres of the brain, be subjected to surgical interference. Chemotherapy for eighteen months was prescribed. 
Every six weeks throughout that autumn, winter and spring Knight went to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, in leafy Queen Square, Bloomsbury, where, nearly fifty years before, another tragic young writer, Denton Welch, had been a doomed patient. Brain scans and blood tests in the morning. Chemotherapy in the afternoon. Often, after being injected with iodine to boost the scanner’s effectiveness, he would feel sick. “Then I get frightened, because if I’m sick with my head stuck in one position I might choke myself.” 
In October 1984, Knight was painfully honest with Anne De Courcey. “They have now told me frankly there is nothing they can do to save my life, only prolong it. The surgeon who did the operation thinks it more likely I have one year than two.” 
Knight had heard of the special attitude that was being taken to cancer at the Bristol Centre, where it was treated without drugs or surgery. He visited it and found himself so impressed with the work being done there that he promptly adopted the fruit and vegetable diet which the Centre advocated. “Apart from the nausea and illness induced by chemotherapy, I feel incredibly healthy,” he announced. “More so than I’ve ever been in my whole life – although I still get a yearning for sausages, bacon and eggs.” 
But he was too clever a young man to lose sight of the fact that he was “treading a very slender tightrope between wanting so much to live that I have been trying all sorts of unorthodox therapies, and at the same time trying to realise that if none of them works I will die – and to come to terms with this. I’ve received such incredible amounts of love, both from expected and unexpected sources, that there are now times when, just for a few seconds, I feel open and accepting to everything. Then I slip back and begin to fret." 
Stephen Knight spent his last days enjoying himself, living with his girlfriend in his house at Leytonstone. It was large enough for them to have friends visiting them constantly. 
He said: “I always have plots in my head but at the moment I’m not getting round to writing them. I’ve visited several healers – there’s a whole network of people in alternative work, one of whom leads to another. It’s a new world to me, and very exciting. More than anything else, I have taught myself to live in the moment. Even all the blubbering and soul-searching and agonising I did was part of being in the moment. So is thinking, but acceptingly, ‘I don’t know if I shall see another October.’” 
He did not. 
He died in July 1985, while staying with friends at Carradale, in Argyllshire. And that is where he is buried. 
When I last saw him, Stephen Knight was calling himself Swami Puja Debal and explained to me that he was now a follower of the Indian religious leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, having become a Sannyasin after ending his marriage. He had his little daughter, Nanouska, with him, and we all trooped into a small café-bar hard by the London School of Economics. We drank a dish of tea – Indian, of course – together and Nanouska had an ice cream. He wore, I remember, a strange dark corduroy cap – shaped somewhat like one of those that Burke and Hare the body-snatchers wear in old engravings – to hide his hairless, bandaged head. He carried with him an air of finality. 
Perhaps now he knows the answer to the big question. Whatever, let us remember him with charity. He was human. He erred. He was mortal. Spare him that small slice of immortality which is the warmth of his fellows’ remembrance. 




Related pages:
  Richard Whittington-Egan
       Message Boards: Casebook on Jack the Ripper 
       Ripper Media: A Casebook on Jack the Ripper 
       Ripper Media: The Identity of Jack the Ripper 
  Royal Conspiracy
       Dissertations: On the Origins of the Royal Conspiracy Theory 
       Message Boards: Royal Conspiracies 
       Press Reports: Burlington Daily Times News - 9 December 1970 
       Press Reports: Times - 14 November 1970 
       Press Reports: Times - 4 November 1970 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 19 November 1970 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 9 November 1970 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: A Cast of Thousands - Annie and Alice Cr... 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: A Cast of Thousands - John Netley 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution 
       Ripper Media: Prince Ripper and the Royal Family 
       Ripper Media: The Ripper and the Royals 
       Ripper Media: The Royal Ripper! 
       Suspects: The Royal Conspiracy 
  Stephen Knight
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 26 July 1985 




 
 
http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/freemasonry/stocks.html
 
Freemasonry and the Ripper
by Wor. Bro. Dennis Stocks, Barron Barnett Lodge. 
(*with apologies to George Johnston)
Few events in the annals of violent crime, not even the murders of monarchs or the assassinations of major political or religious figures have aroused as much sustained interest(1) over the years as the deaths in London in the autumn of 1888 of five quite ordinary prostitutes. 
The killer of these unfortunate women in London at the end of the nineteenth century has captured the imagination as no other ever has, becoming one of the most written about, most speculated about, most thoroughly investigated of all time. Even those gentle souls among us who may not be all that well versed in the subject of murder, or be personally acquainted with individuals who have homicidal tendencies know the name that has now passed into common English usage. Those of us who might have to pause a moment or two before being able to identify any one of a number of other well-known murderers in history who have been responsible for far more deaths, or for more important ones, and whose violent acts have had far greater impact on the times in which they lived instantly recognise the name Jack the Ripper(2). Yet as well known as he is, virtually nothing is actually established about him. 
This, in part, explains our continuing morbid fascination with him; the fact that his (or her) identity remains a mystery. This, and of course the unspeakable horror of his crimes, for it is a curious phenomenon that the human animal is, at one and the same time, both repelled and attracted by horror. 
There is more to it than that, of course. There is the sheer audacity of the man and his single-mindedness of purpose: his uncanny ability to stalk his victims and do his grisly work - all in the face of the most elaborate efforts to prevent him from doing just that, making fools of the authorities in the process, which in itself is enough to gain him a measure of public approbation. Let's face it, there has to be grudging admiration for the man, despite his crimes, despite his obvious insanity, despite the sheer evil and repugnance of his deeds. 
After all, he got away with it! 
There are individuals who have spent lifetimes pursuing the mystery, who have immersed themselves in every aspect of it, who have become authorities in the most trivial details of the crimes and of the victims. Yet little new light has been shed over time; little the "experts" can agree upon. Indeed, as the years go by, the theories seem to become wilder, the list of suspects longer and more fantastic, the controversy ever deeper, the mystery even more tantalising. And the known facts more problematic. Even the number of murders actually committed is a subject for debate: some say five, or eight, some say eleven, a few say as many as fourteen(3). 
The story has just about been milked of every possible drop of information. Canards, suspect sources, forced readings and outright hoaxes (such as the "James Maybrick"/Mike Barrett diaries) are becoming more prevalent(4). 
All we can ever be reasonably certain of is that a single individual was responsible for the five murders and mutilations committed between August 31 and November 9, 1888 - those of: 
Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, (43) found in Buck's Row on 31st August with her throat cut and with slight stomach mutilation,
Annie Chapman, (47) found in Hanbury Street on 8th September with her throat cut, her stomach and genitals badly mutilated and some of her entrails placed around her neck,
Elizabeth ("Long Liz") Stride, (45) found in Berner Street on 30th September with her throat cut but no attempt at mutilation,
Catharine Eddowes, (46) found in Mitre Square on the same night as Elizabeth Stride (30th) with her throat cut and severe mutilation of both face and stomach, and
Mary Jane (Marie Jeanette) Kelly (25) found 9th November in Miller's Court with her throat cut and her whole body grossly mutilated.
Beyond that, there is hardly a fact that is not in dispute (including whether the man was indeed a man - more than one "expert", including Arthur Conan Doyle, has theorised that "he" was a "she"). 
What little we know about the killer has been pieced together from the often conflicting descriptions provided by witnesses who saw him (or thought they saw him, or merely said they saw him), and by police officials and medical examiners who made certain inferences - educated guesses, if you will (and some of them not so educated) - based on his modus operandi and on the postmortem examination of his victims. 
This is what we think we know: He had a moustache, he was five feet six or seven, seemed to be left-handed(5), seemed to have had a familiarisation of with the Whitechapel district, may have had some knowledge of human anatomy, and may have been a member of the Upper or Middle classes. 
Incredible as it may seem, after all the years of research and investigation and all the hundreds of studies, that - and only that - is all we really know about him. Even here there is disagreement. Valid arguments can be made and ample "evidence" submitted to refute most of the above. 
Over the years, several candidates have been proposed - Scotland Yard's computer printout lists 176 individual suspects - but few of them have stood the test of time and none has survived close scrutiny. After all is said and done, after all the research and all the theorising, we are no closer to an answer now than we were over one hundred years ago. Quite simply, we do not know who the killer was. 
Some are convinced that, because of the killer's apparent knowledge of anatomy, he was a physician or surgeon(6). Others think that because he was not all that skilled with a knife, he could not have possibly had medical training. He could have been a butcher or slaughterer (there were several in the area). He could have been a cork cutter or a shoemaker. He had demonstrated enough skill with a blade to suggest that he at least had had experience as a deer hunter, a theory that lends support to those who believe he was a member of the upper classes. (All "gentlemen" of that period were assumed to know how to "gralloch" (disembowel) a deer.) It has been suggested that he was a Russian Secret Agent, a Black Magician, an I.R.A. agent, even a midwife. And he could have been none of these things. Even the fact that all his victims were prostitutes has been questioned(7). 
In 1988 as part of the Cosgrove-Muerer TV Production's "The Secret Life of Jack the Ripper," a FBI profile of the Ripper was compiled(8). As educated guesses go, it is probably as good as we are going to get: 
He was a white male, single, in his mid to late twenties of average intelligence.


He was probably locally resident and had an intimate knowledge of its geography.


He was probably employed, as the murders all took place over weekends.


He was free from family accountability and in all probability lived alone as the murders took place between midnight and 6 am.


In all probability, he was of unsanitary personal habits since the murders showed a marked unfastidiousness.


He would not have reacted well with people and would have been considered by his associates a loner and engaged in erratic behaviour.


He was not surgically or anatomically skilled.


He was likely to have been in trouble with the police prior to the murders. He hated women and was probably intimidated by them.


He most likely had an unhappy childhood, was probably raised by a woman alone, and may have been sexually molested by that woman - perhaps his mother.


He was, the profile concluded, a "predatory animal".


And, perhaps, even one who could not help advertising. On 27th September, 1888 a letter addressed to "The Boss, Central News Office, London City" was received by the Central News Agency which concluded: 
"...My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get the chance.
Good Luck
Yours truly
Jack the Ripper.
Dont mind me giving away the trade name."
On 16 October 1888, George Lusk(9) received a three-inch square cardboard box wrapped in brown paper containing half a human kidney preserved in spirits of wine. An accompanying note claimed it was half the missing left kidney from Catharine Eddowes. The sender claimed to have eaten the other half(10).
As for motives, it has been theorised by armchair psychiatrists that the killer was probably someone who contracted a venereal disease from a prostitute, had become mentally deranged, and committed the crimes out of revenge. Or was he a religious nut whose self-appointed mission in life was to rid the world of fallen women and "excoriate the evil from their bodies?" We simply do not know(11). 
As to whether anyone ever did know... that is another question. 
There is a persistent rumour of an official conspiracy of silence - a cover-up at the highest level - the purpose of which was either to conceal the identity of the killer or, what is more likely, to hide from the public the depth of ineptitude displayed by the police and various government officials in the case, from the cabinet ministerial level on down. 
Scotland Yard's files on the Whitechapel murders were supposed to have been officially sealed until 1992 (coincidentally, the one hundredth anniversary of the death of H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, if anyone cares to read anything into that). Instead, they were opened to the public in 1988, the one hundredth anniversary of the murders. There were, however, some who claimed to have had access to those files earlier, and those individuals indicated that much appeared to be missing by 1988(12). A few went so far as to state that the records seemed to have been deliberately purged of essential information: of anything that was of any real value and could possibly lead to the identification of the killer. Time after time we are told of lost archives, stolen letters, purloined documents, mysterious disappearances of pertinent materials, files that were purposely destroyed or systematically "sanitised" or simply "misplaced". While this state of affairs has surely been overdrawn and over dramatised, some of it just as surely has taken place. Careful searches, for example, have failed to reveal the whereabouts of the original detailed postmortem report of Catharine Eddowes, prepared by Dr Frederick Gordon Brown, the City Police Surgeon. It is not enough to blame it all on "inefficient record keeping" and "crude file indexing" or the "insufficient budgets" of the agencies responsible for securing the files, as has been the case. 
Moreover, private notes and diaries belonging to individuals who were retired officials, or who were otherwise personally involved in the investigations of the murders, or had information pertaining to them, have on several recorded occasions "disappeared" - in at least a few cases within a few days of an individual's death. Dr Thomas Stowell's files were destroyed within hours of his death by his son, who never explained why and refused to discuss the matter at all(13). Sir Melville Macnaghten's personal personal files - he headed the CIS and had first hand knowledge of Scotland Yard's entire investigation - simply "vanished" shortly after his death(14). 
So the possibility of a cover-up cannot be dismissed lightly. The question then remains, why bother to go to such pains unless there was something to hide, something the government, or at least certain highly placed officials within the government, did not wish to have revealed? 
There is another source of frustration: Much of the information that has come down to us is not merely incomplete, but incorrect. For example, the so-called "writing on the wall" found in the passage off Goulston Street following the Murder of Catharine Eddowes. As has been pointed out by Richard Whittington-Egan (A Casebook on Jack the Ripper), at least seven different versions of that message exist (an indication of how difficult it sometimes is to establish even simple facts of the case). And each version is from a "reliable", respected source, one of them being no less a personage than Sir Henry Smith, who actually saw the original message before it was ordered removed. 
The point is, one cannot help but wonder whether such instances as this are the result of carelessness and simple lapses in memory, or whether efforts were made to purposely deceive and mislead(15). 
So much has been written about the Whitechapel murders through the years that it is virtually impossible to keep track of it. Down through the years, literally hundreds of books have been written about the Ripper and his crimes, and the magazine and newspaper articles number in the thousands(16). In 1972 Alexander Kelly(17) compiled a bibliography on the subject that had to be updated twelve years later because another one-hundred-odd books and articles on the subject had been published in the intervening period. The revised edition, too, soon became outdated as 1988 and the Centenary arrived. Jack the Ripper had become a cottage industry. 
Much of what has been written, at least in recent years, is well researched and scholarly, but a good deal of what has come down to us over time is, in whole or in part, simply nonsense. The one thing that almost every single "expert" has in common with every other is the ability to articulate logical reasons why the newest most-favoured suspect could not possibly be the Ripper. Where they fail - every single one of them - is when they offer their own candidate for the distinction. This is where imagination most often comes into play, where supposition comes to the fore, where data become selective and credulity is stretched to the breaking point. Where - in the words of Donald Rumbelow, a former London detective and author of one of the best works on the subject (Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook) - "every fact is capable of being wrenched into the weirdest of interpretations." 
And that brings us to the Freemasons, and Brother Jack. 
Mozart and the Morgan Affair not withstanding, the other great crime with which the name of Freemasonry has been intimately linked is that of Jack the Ripper. Melvin Harris in his 1987 book "Jack the Ripper: The Bloody Truth" has convincingly annihilated any such connections. But Melvyn Fairclough (The Ripper and the Royals) resurrected the problem in 1991 in nothing more than an extension of the Stephen Knight fantasies. 
Fairclough has based his premise on the story/stories of Joseph Sickert. Some years ago, Sickert agreed to cooperate with Stephen Knight by recounting Sickert's family history which involved a good deal of hearsay material Joseph had heard from his father, Walter Sickert(18). The result was the publication in 1976 of "Jack the Ripper - The Final Solution." During the course of this collaboration, Joseph said he realised that Knight was misinterpreting the material and a quarrel ensued. Joseph went his separate way without revealing to Knight "The Full Story" so that, according to Joseph, Knight's book, while broadly on the right lines, was also wrong on many points and missed out many vital details including the identities (yes, plural) of "Jack the Ripper." This idea of a plurality of "Rippers" (a doctor and assistants) was not new; for example, it had formed part of a story by William Le Queux in 1923(19). But Joseph (from his version of what his father had told him) and Knight made it slightly original by adding the Freemasons. 
Knight, knowing he was onto a good thing, continued his self-indulgent fantasies and manufactured mysteries with a second book, "The Brotherhood." But, after Knight's death in 1985, Sickert claimed to have found "forgotten" documents proving he was entitled to part of the profits from "The Final Solution." 
Joseph Sickert, of course, has a family axe to grind since his dear old dad, Walter, has himself been directly implicated as being "Jack" (20). This highly tenuous conclusion is based on a claim, attributed to a statement made in 1948 by Florence Pash (one of Walter's acquaintances), that Walter had seen the bodies of the Ripper's victims. By a quantum leap in jurisprudence relating to evidence, this is assumed to have been at the site of the murders totally discounting that Walter may have seen the bodies, say, in the mortuary; in one of the many illustrated newspapers or, indeed, in his fertile imagination. The conclusion by Knight that Walter Sickert was one of the Rippers seems to have been one of the reasons for the falling out between Knight and Joseph Sickert. 
Fairclough resurrected all this. His argument is now common enough and he continues to push the Sickert/Knight fantasy that was first articulated in the final episode of a 1973 Z CARS spin-off - "Jack the Ripper" - scripted by Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd where "Inspector Barlow" and "Sergeant Watt" re-examined the Ripper murders(21). 
In case you did not know, as a young journalist for the East London Advertiser (the sole surviving newspaper covering the Whitechapel area), Knight had been sent to interview Joseph Sickert after Sickert's story of the murders as cover-up for the indiscretions of H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward ("Eddy")(22a), Duke of Clarence and Avondale had been publicised in that BBC drama-documentary series. Knight apparently found Sickert's story to be persuasive and embarked on his own "research". 
To recap this story for those of you who have come in late:, Eddy has a liaison with and eventually marries the commoner (and Catholic) Annie Elizabeth Crook. According to the story, they meet at Walter Sickert's studio at 15 Cleveland Street and a daughter, Alice Margaret, is born to the couple on 18 April 1885. "Something" has to be done to protect the throne. This was especially urgent after Mary Kelly, a friend of Annie, escaped attempts to arrest everyone concerned with the liaison and fled to Whitechapel. There Kelly shared her secret with a handful of fellow prostitutes who, in turn, dreamed of blackmailing the Crown. They ended in a mortuary courtesy of Masonic assassins who couldn't resist advertising their involvement by using Masonic ritual in the slaughter. 
Annie Crook was caught and incarcerated in Guy's Hospital by the Queen's physician for 156 days before being transferred to a smaller hospital at 367 Fulham Road where she was kept until she died on 3 February 1920. During the period at Grey's, Sir William Gull is supposed to have operated on her brain to remove all unwanted and embarrassing memories. 
But the Sickert family saga, however, takes all this even one amazing step further by claiming that the child that resulted from Eddy's dalliance, Alice Margaret Crook, is Joseph Sickert's mother; making him Eddy's grandson and Queen Victoria's great, great grandson. 
Walter was twenty-five years older than Alice. Yet the story is that she later bore him two sons, Charles (1905-1919) and Joseph (1925- ). From 1899, she lived with Walter as his ward in Dieppe, leaving him when she was 18 to marry William Gorman, an ex-boxer, and bore him several children. On page 111, Fairclough reports that Alice married Gorman on 14 July 1918 and Gorman died in 1951. Now, you don't have to be an intellectual giant to work out that, although now married to Gorman, for Joseph to maintain his claim to be a descendent of royalty, Alice continued to have sexual relations with Walter Sickert as Joseph was born five years after Walter's second wife died and seven years after Alice had married Gorman. 
"One reason Walter encouraged the romance [between Alice and Gorman] was to ensure that any further children Alice might have would be born in wedlock and be accepted as Gorman's"(22b). 
Seven months after Alice gave birth to Joseph, Walter married for a third time. 
"How did Sickert (Walter, that is) become involved?" you ask. 
Oswald Sickert (Walter's father and Joseph's supposed paternal grand father) was an artist/painter and had apparently made friends with many members of the Danish Royal family including King Christian IX's daughter, Alexandra (Alix). After Alix had married Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1863, she came to live in England, gave birth to Eddy and, by 1880, was deeply concerned as to Eddy's social and sexual development. (There were rumours he had been indulging in homosexual liaisons). Alix turned to Oswald's son, Walter (also a painter), to take Eddy under his wing. 
In 1884 Walter was twenty four and four years older than his royal charge. He passed Eddy off as a younger brother, "Albert", and that year introduced him to one of his models, Annie Crook. After the birth of a child in April 1885, Walter Sickert employed Mary Kelly to act as the child's nanny. 
Joseph claimed that his father (Walter) had been bribed to keep silent about all this by Lord Salisbury when Salisbury purchased one of Walter's painting with no more than a cursory glance for 500 pounds. At the time Walter was lucky if he obtained 3 pounds for any of his work. 
According to Joseph's story, on 2 April 1888, on the orders of Prime Minister and prominent Freemason, the Right Honourable Robert Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury, plain clothes police raided the "home" of Annie Crook during a staged street fight to distract the neighbours. But Mary Kelly escaped and triggered off the run of murders and the subsequent cover-up when she and her cronies attempted to use the information she had gained to blackmail the Crown(23). 
There are, to say the least, some intrinsic problems with this story. As much of a bounder Eddy was, would he have left Annie in next to destitute conditions? Would he have condoned Sir William Withey Gull, the Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, first imprisoning his lover/wife and later performing some form of psychosurgery on her? Eddy had eight to nine months to quietly and comfortably secrete Annie away in a nursing home. Yet we are asked to believe he callously looked the other way at all this. 


I would like to present four points against this story: 
1. Howells & Skinner have found absolutely no connection between Walter Sickert and Princess Alexandra, nor between any member of the Sickert family and that of the Danish Royal family. So it is most unlikely that Queen Alexandra would call on the Sickert family to look after her son, a prince of the realm. 
2. Alice Margaret Crook was born on 18 April 1885 which means that her conception must have occurred between 18 July and 11 August 1884 - a time when Eddy was 400 miles away in Heidelberg with his German tutor. 
3. The Royal Marriages Act was - and still is - operative. Any such marriage between Clarence and Cook could have been set aside as illegal because Clarence was under twenty-five years old at the time of the "marriage"; and he had "married" without the Queen's consent. 
This Act had been specifically designed by King George III to stop his sons from entering into marriages of which he disapproved; it was even used to nullify the marriage of Augustus, Duke of Sussex, although a second son had been born in lawful wedlock! 


Further, the Act of Settlement, promulgated in 1772, expressly debars anyone who marries a Roman Catholic from "inheriting the Crown". So the "marriage" of Eddy would have been null and void and easily patched up(24). Why on earth should Eddy, the heir presumptive, be so dramatically protected from scandal? 
His father, the Prince of Wales, was involved in so many scandals it is difficult to know where to start. 
For example, twelve years earlier the Prince of Wales was prominent in a scandal involving Lord Randolph Churchill (Winston's father); a complicated affair (no pun intended) with comic opera overtones(25). The Prince had earlier had a secret love affair with the wife of the Earl of Aylesford (a close friend). While Aylesford was in India with the Prince of Wales making an official good will tour of Britain's Imperial possessions, Lady Aylesford wrote saying she was going to elope with Lord Blandford (Lord Randolph's elder brother) who was also prepared to leave his wife for Lady Aylesford. 
Aylesford immediately returned home and the Prince of Wales denounced Lord Blandford as "the greatest blackguard alive" - conveniently forgetting he, himself, had earlier indulged in a serious flirtation with Lady Aylesford. Both families convinced the lovers not to elope, but Aylesford was intent upon a divorce, citing Lord Blandford as co-respondent. Lady Aylesford passed to Lord Blandford a series of letters the Prince of Wales had written to her during their flirtation ("harmless enough, but containing an undue familiarity"). Blandford, in turn, passed the letters to his brother. 
In a naive effort to keep his brother's name out of a potentially messy divorce trial (all of the Victorian aristocracy's divorce trials were potentially messy), Lord Randolph foolishly went to the Princess of Wales with the letters. His motive was to enlist the aid of the Princess to convince her husband to bring pressure on Aylesford to call off the divorce proceedings and to avoid a major scandal. To no one's surprise (but Lord Randolph's) the Prince of Wales became furious, accused him of blackmail, and challenged him to a duel. Queen Victoria became aware of the situation and the duel never took place. Instead, Lord Randolph was banished to a government post in Ireland and the Prince was denied access to his mother for some time (a relief to both of them if one believes contemporary accounts). 
The affair is often held up as proof, if proof be needed, that the true measure of Victorian respectability, among the upper classes, at least, lay not in refraining from extramarital sex, but engaging in it with discretion. Or, as one member of society put it: "It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses!" 
4. In March 1987, Simon Wood published his researches into all this Sickert family background in a now-defunct magazine - "The Bloodhound." He found that in 1888 Annie Crook and Walter Sickert could not have been living at 15 Cleveland Street (identified by Stephen Knight and Joseph Sickert as the place where Walter had his studio and where Eddy and Annie would meet)(26) since the building and its neighbour #17 were demolished in Michaelmas 1886 and the gap stayed vacant until the Middlesex Hospital Trained Nurses Institute was built on the site in November 1887! He also showed conclusively that Annie Crook was not a Catholic and was not confined from 1888 in one or more hospitals until her death. The rate books for Cleveland Street also show that, rather than being kidnapped by Freemasons and subjected to imprisonment in Guy's Hospital, Crook lived in the basement of #6 throughout 1888, was still there in 1889 and for every year up to 1893! 
But all this Sickert family history aside, Fairclough's thesis quickly involves the prominent Freemasons of the late nineteenth century viz The Duke of St Albans, the Earls of Carnarvon, Derby, and Limerick, the Marquess of Lincolnshire, the Queen's Physician-in-Ordinary (Sir William Withey Gull), the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (Sir Charles Warren) and so on. Oh yes, they include Eddy, Duke of Clarence and Avondale who was, at the time of the murders in 1888, Right Worshipful Master of the Royal Alpha Lodge(27). 
So far, no major problems; but Fairclough seem to go right off the rails at this point. Not content to quote Knight as a source of Masonic practices (highly questionable, if not downright laughable), he also cites William Morgan's (of the "Morgan Affair" infamy) "Freemasonry Exposed," published in 1836. 
Fairclough insists in using the present tense in the paragraphs purporting to expose the nefarious activities of the Freemasons. Yet Morgan's "exposure" (sic) was published some 50 years before the events under analysis. For example, the Oath of a Royal Arch Mason quoted by Fairclough on page 54, bears no relation to any Royal Arch oath with which I am familiar. Yet Fairclough's tense makes it appear modern. The author's attitude is typical of the erroneous misinformation bandied about and is not only vexatious but (with the wealth of correct information available to Cowans in the United Kingdom under the relaxed policies of the Grand Lodge) this cannot be anything less than a premeditated and deliberate attempt to denigrate the Craft. Even Walter Hannah (Darkness Visible and Christian by Degrees) had better information forty years ago. 
Fairclough's premise seems to be broadly based on two primary facts : 
a. There were Freemasons living at the time of the Ripper murders - some of whom were prominent in contemporary society, as there have always been. 
You can do almost anything you wish with this "fact". For example: As each candidate for the Fellow Craft Degree recites, our Lodges usually meet at night. Dracula, as is well known, comes out at night: therefore Dracula is a Freemason. With his sartorial preference for Dinner suits, he is also obviously a member of Grand Lodge! 
Unfortunately for their case against Freemasonry, some of the "Freemasons" named by Knight and Fairclough were not Freemasons (for example Lord Salisbury), while others listed as anti-Masonic were, in fact, prominent Freemasons. For example Wynne Edwin Baxter, the Coroner presiding over the inquests on Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman and Elizabeth Stride. Baxter, a flamboyant and garrulous coroner who had won a very bitter election to that post for East London and Tower of London districts amid accusations of electoral improprieties, was often highly critical of the police. Knight sees this as being in conflict with the Masonic conspiracy of Warren and Anderson and points to Baxter as an anti-Mason. 
In fact, Baxter was a leading member of South Sussex Lodge and simply possessed a combative and touchy personality(28). 
b. There is an exceedingly superficial and tenuous linkage between the apparent mutilations and placement of the internal organs of the victims to the purported ancient penalties of the Masonic oath. Of course, we run into factual problems here. If we follow Fairclough, who is slavishly following Knight, we learn that not only have the unfortunate ladies' throats been cut left to right (making all right-handed murderers cutting their victim's throat from behind Freemasons), but with some Ripper victims, their intestines had been thrown over the shoulders. 
For Fairclough/Knight this is "definitely Masonic" as the murderers of Hiram Abiff had "...their vitals taken out and thrown over the left shoulder". Unfortunately for the comparison, both Chapman's and Eddowes' intestines lay over their right shoulder. Not to be bothered by the facts, Knight explained this away as, "it is possible that the point about which shoulder was overlooked" - presumably due to the hurry, of course. 
This is typical of Fairclough's misinformation regarding the Freemasons. Like Knight, Fairclough delves into wishful thinking and much ingenuity in his vendetta against the Craft and in his search for Masonic involvement(29). If the facts do not fit the hypothesis, simply shrug and move on to the next fantasy. 
Without (much) comment, let me examine a few more of Fairclough's statements. Fairclough has a wild case to plead and so impartially, logic and truth are recklessly abandoned. His mistakes on Masonic ritual are more than irritating or annoying. He cannot have been insensible to the fact that a wealth of material is available to get at least his Masonic "research" correct. 
Like Knight, Fairclough makes much of Hogarth's engraving THE REWARD OF CRUELTY by painstakingly analysing it to show (sic) similarities between the slaughter of Mary Kelly and a Masonic Ritual Murder(!) The Hogarth work shows no more than a standard eighteenth century medical dissection of a hanged criminal. All the so-called Masonic features are nothing more than common anatomy practices of the period. 
Fairclough claims the Royal Arch is part of the chain of advancement to the 330. 
"Beyond the third degree, it takes another fourteen degrees to become 'perfected', to pass through the Holy Royal Arch" 
I believe he has been confused by the thirteenth degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite - the Royal Arch of Enoch. But, of course, the mathematics are questionable. Three plus fourteen equals seventeen. The Royal Arch of Enoch is a thirteenth degree, but let's not worry about facts - they only confuse a good story. 
Catharine Eddowes (the fourth victim) was found in Mitre Square. 
"Both the mitre and the square are tools of the stone mason, and potent emblems of Freemasonry" 
Fairclough goes on to emphasise this point by revealing that "J." (in the Royal Arch Degree) wears a mitre or bishop's hat. 
The importance of the murder site is hammered home in no uncertain terms. A highly obscure source claims that there had been a murder in Mitre Square in 1530 - over 350 years before, which Fairclough takes to mean that Mitre Square is "obviously" of significance to Freemasons. All the more so, he claims, since the sixteenth century victim was murdered in a priory which stood on that spot. An "obvious" reference to the Hiramic Legend(30). 
The murderous Freemasons simply could not help advertising: 
"Eddowes had cuts on her cheeks. They formed two lines meeting at right angles...another reminder of the mason's square" 
All these linkages are, for Fairclough, conclusive proof of direct Masonic involvement in the murders. He goes on to talk about Masonic aprons and the fact that one suspect in the long, long line of choices as the true identity of "Jack" was someone called "Leather Apron." 
"One wonders whether the rumour was spread by the Freemasons themselves, as a veiled means of proclaiming their responsibility". 
There is also a popular myth about the death of Annie Chapman. That is that her rings and some polished farthings were placed in a ritualised pattern at her feet. Knight and Fairclough make much of this. Obviously, to them, she was "deprived of all money and metallic substances" and the rings represent the hollow cross-sections of the two great pillars which stood at the porch or entrance to King Solomon's Temple. 
Unfortunately all this was a pure invention of the Pall Mall Gazette(31). In the succeeding years the money and rings have entered the realm of Jack the Myth, rather than Jack the Ripper. To be fair to Knight and Fairclough, better researchers such as Cullen, Odell, Harrison, Rumbelow, Fido, Skinner and Wilson have all accepted the story with minor variations. But, for Knight and Fairclough, the rings had to exist to legitimise their fantasies of Masonic involvement. 
The (in)famous, if elusive, writing of the brick walls about the "Juwes" "who will not be blamed for nothing": 
"Freemasons I have met have made it clear that masons are fond of puns, puzzles and double negatives". OK, but does this make them guilty of murder? 
It is highly likely that the writing was simply angrily and hastily scrawled by a disgruntled customer who had had less than satisfactory service from one of the numerous Jewish craftsmen in the area and wrote his frustration on the wall that the Jews won't take responsibility for anything (especially, presumably, bad workmanship). 
By 1775, the original fields and gardens of Whitechapel had almost completely vanished beneath streets, alleys and tenements. 88% of all the immigrants arriving in England in the 1880s came from Europe, most of them Jewish emigrants fleeing the pograms of Russia and persecution in other nations. They settled in the Spitalfields area which took its name from the priory and hospital ("spital") of St. Mary founded in 1197. Prejudice was widespread and there was a real fear of anti-Jewish riots(32). 
While there is conflicting testimony as to the actual spelling of the key word used in this chalked message, let's look at the so-called Masonic "Juwes" for a moment. It seems Fairclough is relying on Knight in many instances. So an examination of what Knight says is appropriate. 
Knight writes that the murderers of Hiram Abiff were Entered Apprentices (they were actually Fellow Craft Masons); that Hiram Abiff is resurrected (he is simply exhumed and later buried at a different place) and that the Juwes were hunted down and slain (they were, in fact, taken to King Solomon and subject to a proper trial - although one "traditional" Masonic history has it that one refused to surrender and was killed in self-defence. Knight wrote that when Sir Charles Warren erased the writing he "knew only too well that the writing was telling the world, 'The Freemasons' are the men that will not be blamed for nothing'". This is a marvellous dialectic leap in logic since the Juwes were the enemies of Freemasonry and it was Superintendent Thomas Arnold (a non-Mason) of H Division who arranged the erasure, albeit with Warren's later approval and acceptance of full responsibility(33). As for the word "Juwes" itself as a collective term for the murderers of Hiram Abiff - it had been dropped from English Masonic ritual in the early nineteenth century and is unlikely to have been known to Freemasons (let alone anyone else) in 1888. At that time they were referred to as "the Three Ruffians" as they are today(34). 
Paul Begg has written "It is a mystery why anyone ever thought that 'Juwes' was a Masonic word"(35). 
There is also the problem of syntax. If, for a moment, we accept that the first letter and postcard sent to "The Boss" signed 'Jack the Ripper' really were from the murderer(36), the writing styles are inconsistent. It is generally assumed among those who believe that the letter and postcard are genuine that they were written by an educated man who may have been deliberately attempting to muddy the waters by appearing to be unlettered. Of course, there is the other suggestion that the graffiti hides an anagram, in which case the syntax would be skewed to fit(37). 
Regarding Mary Kelly - the last (fifth) victim - Fairclough reaches the depths of inventiveness. 
"The corpse has a cable tow round its neck. Freemasons use this device to represent the cutting of the throat". 
"...one of the legs, the right one, had been skinned. This feature is a Masonic allegory, a reminder of the initiation of a Master Mason when the Candidate, in reference to his two previous initiations, says; 'and my right leg bare'. As he utters these words he has to roll up his trouser leg. With Kelly they rolled away the flesh(38)." 
Fairclough goes on to implicate Quatuor Coronati Lodge #2076, founded by Sir Charles Warren in 1884. 
The "evidence" for the prosecution as to the culpability of the Lodge? Quatuor Coronati held its annual installation ceremony on the night of 8 November 1888 - the night Kelly may have been slaughtered and Warren, a Past Master, "had enough time to meet up with his murderous friends in the East End". 
"Discounting Eddowes, since her murder was a mistake, the Ripper's intended victims numbered four. Doubtless Warren saw a parallel between the ancient story of the 'Four Crowned Ones'...and...the modern story of the four women, killed for daring to defy the Monarchy, which was an image of the real power behind it: Freemasonry and the Royal Alpha Lodge, No.16". 
So, although we have five murders, we need only four(39) to implicate Quatuor Coronati. 
One wonders if there had been two victims, would Antiquity Lodge #2 UGLE be implicated? or British Lodge #8 UGLE if eight. If Fairclough was so set on Quatuor Coronati, and using this warped logic, it is a wonder he did not find two thousand and seventy-six murders that could be laid at their doorstep. 
Fairclough also continued the story that Dr Gull did not die "as advertised", but ended his days as "Thomas Mason" (note the name!!) alias "#124" at St Mary's Asylum, Islington. 
All this derives from a story carried by the Chicago Sunday-Times Herald of 28 April 1895 wherein it was claimed that a Dr. Benjamin Howard had been one of twelve London physicians who had sat "as a commission of lunacy upon a brother physician who had been responsible for the Ripper murders". 
V. Wor. Bro. Neville Cryer, in his address on the Church and Freemasonry presented to Barron Barnett Lodge last October, identified an increasingly aggressive and intrusive culture among the members of the Press. I would argue that "anything for the story" has a long history. 
Can you honestly believe that after such a story broke in England, that St. Mary's was not besieged by screaming, photographing, journalists with an open purse to bribe guards and wardens? It never happened! One must conclude that the contemporary newspaper hounds realised that the story was pure fabrication. 
Hasty acceptance has outweighed careful appraisal. To be generous and not to make accusations of outright fraud(40), both Knight and Fairclough seem to have misread the Sunday-Times Herald article. Most of the text is not attributed to Dr. Howard at all but to an anonymous "Gentleman of Chicago". Furthermore, in 1896, Dr Howard wrote to repudiate the whole thing - a fact carefully ignored by Fairclough, now completely governed by devotion to conspiracy theory. 
Melvin Harris has convincingly argued that this Gull/Mason story was a deliberate hoax planted in the Sunday-Times Herald by the Chicago Whitechapel Club which met at the back of the newspaper offices. The Whitechapel Club was "strange and frolicsome (and) was not only the focal point for knowledgeable Ripperologists, but it was also a tall story workshop" (41) where hoaxes were burnished to perfection(42). 
We have yet another problem here with the Gull/Mason story. Sickert's story claimed that Gull and the coachman, Netley, murdered at least Annie Chapman in a carriage after feeding her poisoned grapes. But Gull was 72 at the time of the murders and had already suffered one heart attack. If Annie Chapman (not a light person and found in the rear yard of 29 Hanbury Street) was killed in Gull's coach, she would have to have been carried to where she was found. An unlikely event, even with Netley's help! 
Gull died of natural causes in January 1890 an much has been made of the fact that his death certificate was signed by his son-in-law. Medical ethics aside, it does not prove Gull was one of the Rippers(43). 
Lord Randolph Churchill was the supreme Freemason in England and directly involved in the murders. 
"Randolph (Churchill) had an important source of influence on the eminent men he recruited. He was their Masonic superior. He was the highest Freemason in England. the supreme position he held, according to Walter Sickert, though the Grand Lodge deny that he was ever a mason, was that of Magister Magistrorum - Master Mason". (Fairclough p. 92). 
Fairclough goes on to point out that, although none of Randolph's biographers records his Masonic membership and the records at Freemason's Hall contain no record of him as a Freemason, these are "unreliable" and downright sinister as all the records have been erased. 
Fairclough points out that Pick and Knight show Randolph to be a Freemason and claims Randolph was initiated into Freemasonry under the name Rudolph H. Spencer in Dublin in 1878. 
One is tempted to wonder where the Prince of Wales fitted in here with Randolph being the "highest Freemason in England." The Prince of Wales was installed as Grand Master and served in that capacity from 1874 to 1901. His installation ceremony at the Albert Hall was attended by the largest assemblage of Freemasons ever held. 
It also does not help Sickert's-Knight's- Fairclough's linking of the Ripper murders with Freemasonry that, in 1978, Joseph Sickert confessed to the Sunday Times that his story of a Masonic Conspiracy was "a hoax; I made it all up". Knight reacted with a letter to the same paper printed on 2 July 1978 saying Joseph had only made that statement when he (Knight) had proved that Joseph's father was directly involved in the murders along with Gull and Netley. 
Even more serious for Fairclough and his nonjudgemental acceptance of the Sickert family is the diaries Joseph gave him. These are claimed to be three private diaries kept by Frederick George Abberline(44) between 1892 and 1915 and supposedly given to Walter Sickert in 1928 - a year before Abberline's death in Bournemouth. In 1888, Abberline had coordinated the hunt for "Jack." The diaries implicate Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir William Gull and James K. Stephen - Eddy's tutor at Cambridge and Frederico Albericci ("Fingers Freddie") an Italian pickpocket. Melvin Harris calls all this "the Gothic Lewis Carroll world of pasteboard characters (45)." 
Unfortunately all this contradicts Abberline's known views on the Ripper. Worst still, on one page of the diaries reproduced by Fairclough, Abberline's signature is written "G.F.Abberline" instead of F.G.Abberline (46) - and the biographical notes on four of the murder victims set down in the diaries is plagiarised word for word from a research article by Neal Sheldon(47). 
But what about Joseph Sickert and his dad? In September 1907, one Emily Dimmock was found in Camden Town with her throat cut. Robert Wood was charged with the crime, but later acquitted. Walter Sickert was living in Camden Town at this time and was a friend of Wood. Marjorie Lilly in her work "Sickert, The Painter and His Circle" shows how the murders in Whitechapel and at Camden Town became intertwined in Walter's psyche. Dr Wendy Baron, the authority on Walter's work, has pointed out that he customarily gave his work "joke" titles after the manner of Victorian genre painters whose "pictures told a story". Walter and his followers in the "Camden School" concentrated on depressed urban interiors which (with vaguely Degas-like paintings of music-halls) became Walter's best known and most influential work. Walter was known to have an impish and macabre sense of humour and his elaborate jokes and leg-pulling could be disconcerting(47). Joseph claimed that his father incorporated clues as to the identity of the Ripper in his paintings or their titles. One such clue is reported to be a seagull in the painting ENNUI. Sea-GULL - get it? 
Various other "hidden" messages are claimed to lurk in Walter Sickert's paintings: MRS BARRETT and LA HOLLANDAISE are claimed to contain the face of Mary Jane Kelly; LAZARUS BREAKS HIS FAST shows a bowel of grapes claimed to have been used by Gull to sedate his victims(49); and the CAMDEN TOWN MURDER series supposedly shows Mary Kelly's dismembered corpse(50). Another recent book on Jack the Ripper by Dr David Abrahamsen also shows elements of Fairclough's techniques. Abrahamsen's book (Murder and Madness: The Secret Life of Jack The Ripper) has Prince Albert Victor Edward and his tutor, J.K. Stephen, running around Whitechapel in drag taking out their sexual resentments against prostitutes by ripping them to pieces. Abrahamsen does not produce any evidence at all. Court circulars of the time clearly indicate that the Prince was no where near London on every single occasion the Ripper struck(51). 
As Joseph Goebbels may have said, "If you are going to lie, tell BIG lies!" Look at the attraction and furor over the so-called Hitler Diaries and the more recent elaborate hoax attempt to produce the diary of James Maybrick, proving him to be Jack the Ripper! No one was at all interested, I am unhappy to report, in the Dennis Stocks diaries. Perhaps one prerequisite is to be a mass murderer? 
There seems to be a human willingness to suspend the critical functions and wallow in the dangerous morass of misinformation that supports our deeper prejudices. 
But the Jack-the-Ripper-industry rolls along with books continuing to be published, at least three different companies offering walking tours of the murder "sites"(52), and the fascination with the events of 1888 is scarcely diminished. The Victorians were brutally indifferent to many social problems - such as child prostitution. Wilson and Odell(53) have pointed out that this is more insensitivity than callousness. When misery was actively brought to their attention, they were inclined to dissolve into tears. Consider the attraction of East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood - the best seller of the 1870s. Their simplified perceptions of the world (right was right, men were men, women in their place and half the world map shaded in pink) and their open and spontaneous emotional reactions seem almost naive and jingoistic to us. The frisson and morbid fascination of the Whitechapel murders were primarily that "one of us could be one of them" - that "respectable people" could turn from doctor, solicitor, housewife; turn from the teachings of the Church of England and slide into homicidal self-indulgences. 
So the Ripper murders and especially the sexual mutilations were seen as a premeditated insult to Victorian society. Yet, in the obsession with sexual wickedness, it was still believed the Ripper could not be all that grotesque. So the first full-length English book on the subject by Matters, published in 1929, presented the Ripper as a moral avenger(54). 
If Jack does prove to be a lowly labourer or fish porter then nobody is going to take a blind bit of notice, but if we can come up with a belted Earl or something similar and weave a complete and utter fantasy around him with the required amount of gore, sex and violence thrown in, then we can sit back and bathe in the glory of yet another "final solution". 
I certainly do not have the answer as to Jack's identity, but I have suggestions which I believe worthy of consideration: 
Chief Inspector Walter Dew (who captured Crippen) has made a valid point when he reminded the authorities: With all the furor over the murders, with the heightened awareness of all strangers, with the numerous Vigilance Committees roaming the streets, after Nichols' death why were Chapman, Stride, Eddowes and Kelly so easy a target? Was there something about their attacker that put him above suspicion in their minds? Why was he so invisible? 
Another source for research would be the surviving case files of H Division(55). It is unlikely that "Jack" jumped straight into slaughter. A check of previous incident files for the area should contain the name and evidence of the increasingly violent behaviour of "Jack" - whoever he was. 
At the beginning of this paper I intimated the plethora of unknowns associated with this case. But I can tell you one thing for certain, fiction aside, Jack the Ripper, whoever he was, is dead. As the East End children's rhyme has it: 
Jack the Ripper's dead
and lying on his bed.
He cut his throat with Sunlight soap.
Jack the Ripper's dead.
But as for Walter Sickert and his story of "Brother Jack," his misperception of what is "Truth" seems to have extended to his son. Following the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe ("The Yorkshire Ripper"), Joseph attracted press attention when he claimed to have been harassed and had his life threatened by Sutcliffe. He even claimed Sutcliffe had attempted to run him down. You can perhaps wonder that the whole Sickert family is obsessed with the "Ripper" honorific. 
Whatever the real facts of these sad incidents, I believe Knight and now Fairclough have been the dupe of the son of a clever hoaxer with excessive testicular diameter to promote some quirky and mischievous ideas. 
As far as the involvement in Freemasonry in these events is concerned, it has the same relationship to the facts of Criminology as the exploits of Peter Rabbit and Blinkey Bill do to Zoology. 






Appendix One
The Ripper Project applied modern scientific detection techniques in an attempt to isolate realistic suspects from the plethora of candidates. The eight characteristics that resulted were: 
1: He was a white male, aged 28-36, who lived or worked in the Whitechapel district. 
2: He would have come from a family with a weak, passive or absentee father.
3: He would have sought a job where he could vicariously experience his destructive fantasies, such as a butcher, mortician.s helper, medical examiner's assistant or hospital attendant. 
4: He would probably have had some type of physical abnormality that, although not severe, he would perceive as psychologically crippling, such as a speech impediment. 
5: He would have been interviewed during the course of investigations, but would have been overlooked and/or eliminated as a suspect, in part because his ordinary appearance would not have fitted the preconceived notion that both the police and local populace held of Jack the Ripper being an odd or "ghoulish" looking man. 
6: He would be perceived as being quiet, a loner, shy, slightly withdrawn, obedient, and neat and orderly in appearance. He would drink at the local pubs. 
7: He would not have committed suicide after his last homicide. Generally crimes such as thee cease because the perpetrator has come close to being identified, has been interviewed by the police, or has been arrested for some other offence. It would be surprising if Jack the Ripper simply would suddenly stop, except for one of these reasons. 
8: He believed that the homicides were justified - that he was only eliminating garbage. 
See Paley, pp. 169-171






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(audio cassette)
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Jack the Myth: A New Look at Jack the Ripper. (Robert Hale, London 1993.) 






Notes
(1) I say "sustained interest" because we have all seen the OJ Simpson obscenity.
(2) Try this simple quiz: How many people were killed by Hawley Harvey Crippen, John Wayne Gacy, John Reginald Halliday Christie, Charles Whitman and Dennis Nilsen? With the possible exception of Crippen, most people would say "Who?" when confronted by these names. 
Answers: respectively - Crippen: 1; Gacy: 32; Christie confessed to 7; Whitman killed 19 and wounded 28 from a tower at the university of Texas and Nilsen boiled the dismembered limbs and severed heads of his 12 victims in a large pot and flushed surplus flesh down the lavatory. 
(3) The front cover blurb of Stuart James' work reads "His razor-sharp scalpel claimed twenty-nine victims as he prowled the dark streets for the woman he hated."
There have been a number of attempts over the years to link "Jack" with other murders before Nichols and after Kelly. One of these was that of "Fairy Fay" who, it is claimed, was killed on Boxing Night 1887. Unfortunately for this theory, "Fairy Fay" did not exist and her murder simply never took place! 
However, we must be cautious and not become so engrossed in the "form" of the killings to the point of obsession. We must be careful not to imagine a serial killer can never change his method of killing. For example, take the death of Alice McKenzie (Claypipe Alice) who was found 17 July 1889 in Castle Alley, Whitechapel. Thomas Bond, one doctor who examined her body, was convinced her murderer was the "same person who committed the former series of Whitechapel murders" {MEPO 3/140.262 Scotland Yard File 18 July 1889. PRO Kew}, cited by Wolf, p.25. 
Odell and Wilson (p.95) reject this as one of the Ripper
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Freemasons: Inside the World’s Oldest Secret Society
 
By H. Paul Jeffers
Written in 2005
 
Chapter 19
The Men Who Rule the World
 
General Rich von Ludendorff, a hero of World War I and hiss wrote the tract Annihilation of Freemasonry through Revelation of its Secrets and oither hate-filled material that explained Germany’s defeat in World War I, “as a knife in the back by Jews and Masons”.. later in Mein Kampf ( Adolph Hitler’s autobiography written in prison for attempted to overthrow the democratic government in Germany in the 1920’s), Hitler wrote that masonry had “ succumbed” to the Jews and had become an “excellent instrument” to achieve their aims, he said Germany’s post World War I “ general pacifist paralysis of the nation instinct of self-preservation” began with Freemasonry…
 
In 1931, Nazi Party officials were given a Guide and Instructional Letter” that said “the hostility of the peasant against the Jews and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy…”
 The Reich main Security Office determined that masonry was not only part of the “Jewish problem” but also “ an autonomous ideology with political power” that ruled the press and public opinion and motivated wars and revolutions…
In Czechoslovakia when the Nazi’s entered the country in 1939, 4,000 Freemasons were arrested and many were sent to concentration camps.. less that 5% of Czech Freemasons escaped to England and formed a Grand Lodge Comenius in Exile.
In Germany, France, Italy Morocco, the Spanish Canary Islands and Spain.. Freemasons and their lodges were banned, outlawed and Freemasonry was made a criminal offence and many were arrested and killed and/or sent to concentration camps…. Anyone who did not denounce masonry and reveal to the police the names of all mason with whom he had been associated faced imprisonment….
Hitler himself decreed “Freemasons and the ideological enemies of National Socialism who are allied with them are the originators of the present war..”
 
After Hitler came ot power in January 1933, his top Deputy, hermann Goering, informed the grand master of the Grand Lodge of Germany there was “no place for Freemasonry” in Germany. At that time, there were nine principle Grand Lodges, with a membership of almost 80,000. the largest were the Grand Lodge of the Three Globes, National Grand Lodge of All German Freemasons, and the Grand Lodge Royal York of Friendship. Their leaders were told that the Nazi government did not intend to prohibit the activities of the lodge, but that the Masonic order must discontinue to use the words “Freemason” and “lodge”, break all international relations, require that its embers be of German descent, remove the requirement of secrecy, and discard all parts of the ritual that are of Old Testament origin. There after, the Association of German Freemasons called itself the National Christian Order of Frederick the Great…
Then in 1934, Goering, as premier of Prussia, ordered dissolution of the oldest and most influential Masonic Grand Lodges in Prussia ( Christian Grand Lodges, Grand Lodge of the Three Globes, All German Freemasons, and Royal York of Friendship) because they “might be regarded as hostile to the State because of their affiliations with international Masonry.”..
A Nazi Party court in berlin published a decree barring form membership those who had been Freemasons for a number of years or who had received the higher degrees of the order. Masonic lodges were attacked for hcving borrowed much of their doctrine and ceremonies form “Semitic sources”.
P.163 ..During the Nuremberg war crimes trials, Robert H, Jackson, the chief prosecutor and a U.S. Supreme Court justice, said, “ It Is not generally understood that among the earliest and most savage of the many persecutions undertaken by every modern dictatorship are those directed against the Free Masons.. ( the ) dictators realize that its membership are not likely to support the police state, which lays so heavy a hand on the freedom of the individual…”
 
..In 1950, the Soviet-imposed government in eastern Europe countries dissolved the lodghes as “meeting places of the enemies of the people’s democratic republic, of capitalistic elements, and of the adherents of Western imperialism.” This would be the policy in every country behind the Iron Curtain…
…the era of the Cold Wat also brought a widespread belief that powerful men engaged in a complex conspiracy to take over the world….as is every period in a uncertainty and fears in all of history, suspicions stirred and thrived among ordinary people that a small group of men gathered in secret to control events and direct to future of the world.. in earlier times, they had been tribal elders and religious figures.. thrn with the 18th century came the Illuminati, consisting of persons who believed they possessed supernatural intellectual powers that entitl4es them to tell others how to live…
… As a result of the Industrial Revolution ansd the rise of the modern capitalism, proponents of socialism pointed to a concentration of power in a few individuals and families as evidence of conspiracies to oppress…”the masses2.. In the first half of the 20th century, a plot by Bolshweviks in Russia and a Nazi conspiracy in Germany had demostrated that small groups of plotters were capable to seizing control of countries and trying to impose a particular ideology on the world…
..In the eyes of many American group such as the Council of Foreign Relations (founded in 1921), the Builderberg Group ( founded in 1954) and the Trilateral Commission ( foundered in 1973) were seen a groups who purpose was economic, political and social domination of the world and went far beyond their started purpose of stopping the imposed threat of “International Communism”..
..Running through this suspicion if elites is a belief that most of the individuals involved in these organisations are involved in a plan to control the world are either Freemasons or sympathetic to Freemasonry…Among the most persistent popular beliefs concerning the power of Freemasonry in the United States is that the Great Seal of the United States and the street plan and designs and designs of federal government buildings in Washington D.C., were laid out on the basis of Masonic beliefs…..One discourse on the subject notes that the symbol of an inverted triangle or pyramid can be seen in the street plan (it’s a pyramid) and that sites are “ connected to famous Freemaons,” suich as Marquis de Lafayette, for whom a park opposite the north side of the White House is name. Old Masonic connections include the Washington Monument and the Pentagon building, said to have been designed by masons to conform to a pentagram (an occult symbol)…
..the U.S. one-dollar note contains Masonic symbols. The Great Seal pictured on the back of the dollar bill has an eagle with thirty-two feathers (the degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry). …..
..The eagle is also the symbol of St, John the Evangelist, the great patron of Freemasonry…
….the arrows in its left talon refer to Israel’s King david ( father of Solomon)…
..The olive branch in the eagle’s right talon is associated with Solomon…..
..The thirteen stars above the eagle’s head represent Jacob, and his twelve sons, and the tribes of Israel…
..Thirteen stars, in a double triangular form, are symbolic of the delivery of the children of Israel form their oppressors and their attainment of a glorious freedom..
….The Latin “ E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one) indicates Masonic fraternity.
..Those who find Freemasonry on the mighty dollar also note that the largest symbol on the buck is the portrait of George Washington, a Mason..
…..Also cited as evidence of masonry on the greenback is an unfinished pyramid..
..also at the tope, inside a radiant triangle .. is the “all seeing eye,” representing “the Grand Architect of the universe,” who is omniscient and watching over the United States…….
..the Latin motto inscribed beneath the pyramid in the GFreta Seal of America is “Novus Ordo Seclorum” ( New order of the Ages) and taken as synonymous with a “new world order”…
…An example of this thinking reads, “ The’ new world order’ involves the elimination of the sovereignty and independence of nation-states and some form of world government. This would mean the end of the United Stated, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights as we now know them.”..
..Most of these new world order proposals involved the conversion of the United nations and its agencies into a world government, complete with a world army, a world parliament, a world court, global taxation, and numerous other agencies to control every aspect of human life ( education, nutrition, health care, population, immigration, communications, transportation, commerce, agriculture, finance, the environment, and so on)..
..the various notion of the new world order differ as to the details and scale, but agree on the basic principle and substance…
..One historian sees the Statue of Liberty as a “Masonic goddess from top to bottom.”… It was ..” conceived by freemasons,” built by French Freemaon Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi ( who had already made a statue of the Freemasons Marquis de Lafayette for the city of new York, for the occasion of the centenary of the signing of the declaration of Independence), and “installed by Freemasons in a Freemasonic ceremony..”
..Those who discern a pattern of Freemasonic influence in American history point to the fact that one-third of the presidents have been members of the Craft of Freemasonry:
George Washington
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk,
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
James A, Garfield
William McKinley
Theordore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Gerald R. Ford
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ronald Regan
 
US Vice presidents who have been members of the Craft of Freemasonry:
Daniel Decius Tompkins
John Cabell Breckinridge
Andrew Johnson
Garrett Augustus Hobart
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Thomas Riley Marshall
Henry A. Wallace
Harry S Truman
Gerald Ford
Also there have been many Five Star Generals and Admirals, U.S. secretaries of state, Chief justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and Associates justices of the U. S. Supreme court who have been members of the Craft of Freemasonry…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chapter 20
The Future of Freemasonry
 
 
Of the world’s estimated 5.9 Freemasons, the majority live in the United States ( 4 million). Most of the other can be found in English-speaking nations. Statistics for English Masonry are somewhat unreliable because an individual can belong to more than one lodge. Worldwide estimates place the membership as follows:
(a)   England and Wales at 550,000
(b)    Scotland at 400,000 ( likely that the greater of these are based in or near Edinburgh)
(c)    Ireland at 47,000
(d)   Canada and United States at 4.1 million
(e)   Europe at 80,000
(f)     Australasia at 375,000
(g)   Latin America at 50,000
(h)   Philippines at 10,000
(i)     Other areas ( India, Japan, Formosa, Africa and Israel) at 288,000
 
 It is very interesting to note that the population of Scotland was about 5 million in 2005
And Edinburgh about 400,000 to 500,000 and Glasgow at about 600,000
It seems that about 10% of the population of Scotland are Freemasons
And taking to two major cities and Edinburgh and Glasgow.. making up about 1-1.2 million people combined it seems that one could argue that the bulk of the Scottish Freemasons are based in these two cities… this would mean that one could further say that it is likely that over 30% or more of the population of Edinburgh and Glasgow are Freemasons  .. which would mean that most of the top executive, government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal jobs are filled by Freemasons.. and it seems clear that for one to progress in Scotland in the government, semi-government, media, business, court, legal world once simply has to be a Freemason… this would mean that it is likely that the greater percentage if not nearly all of the male persons working as a Lord, Judge, Sherrif, clerk, solicitors, advocate etc would be a Freemason and if a person who I sa party litigant ( litigant in person and not a layer) is arguing a case against a trained solicitor/advocate-Freemason in front of a Freemason Lord, Judge, Sherrif.. what chance have they of having an fair and unbiased hearing in Scotland?…obviously none…
 
Chapter 9
The Mystery of Mozart’s “The being involved in the death of Mozart…
With the allegation that Mozart had hiiden under the pro-masonic surface of the opera a secret counter plot in which Tammino was Mozart, Pamina was Marie Antoinette, and Pamina’s captors were Freemasons..In the scenario, Mozart’as murder was part of a Masonic conspiracy to assassinate Leopold II, as well as Gustav III of Sweden, who was actually murdered at a masked ball a few months after Mozarts death. The plot originated seventy years later ( in1981) by Geirge Friendrich Daumer, a researcher of antiques, a religious fanatic, and an anti-semite. His work would be seized by a Nazi leader in the 1930’s. General Erich Ludendorff, along with his wife, Mathilde, asserted that the secret of Freemasonry was “the Jew” and that Freemasonry’s goal was to “rob the Germans of their national pride and to assure the glorious future of the Jewish people..
 
In 1931, Nazi Party officials were given a Guide and Instructional Letter” that said “the hostility of the peasant against the Jews and his hostility against the Freemasons as a servant of the Jew, must be worked up to a frenzy…”
 The Reich main Security Office determined that masonry was not only part of the “Jewish problem” but also “ an autonomous ideology with political power” that ruled the press and public opinion and motivated wars and revolutions…
In Czechoslovakia when the Nazi’s entered the country in 1939, 4,000 Freemasons were arrested and many were sent to concentration camps.. less that 5% of Czech Freemasons escaped to England and formed a Grand Lodge Comenius in Exile.
In Germany, France, Italy Morocco, the Spanish Canary Islands and Spain.. Freemasons and their lodges were banned, outlawed and Freemasonry was made a criminal offence and many were arrested and killed and/or sent to concentration camps…. Anyone who did not denounce masonry and reveal to the police the names of all mason with whom he had been associated faced imprisonment….
Hitler himself decreed “Freemasons and the ideological enemies of National Socialism who are allied with them are the originators of the present war..”
 
 
Chapter 5
Dr. James Anderson’s constitution
Dr. James Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, around August 5th, 1662.
A doctor of Divinity… James Anderson had become a hero of Scottish nationalism by publishing “An Essay Showing That the Crown of Scotland Is Imperial and Independent and became a prominent and well respected Freemason….. Dr. James Anderson was called upon to write a new code of Freemasonry called “The CONSTITUTION, history, Laws, Charges, Orders, Regulations, and Usages, of  the Right Worshipful FRATURNITY of ACCEPTED FREE MASONS ( which was collected from their General RECORDS, and their faithful TRADITIONS of many Ages)”….
which after it was competed meant he was enshrined in the lore of the Craft as “the father of Freemasonry History”.
. In A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry composed by Arthur Edward Waite, Dr. James Anderson is described “as a son of Aberdeen”, where he earned a doctorate and served somewhere as a Presbyterian minister and “ultimately drifted to London prior ot 1710.”
 
Exert of the Summary of the Constitution of Freemasonry by Dr James Anderson
 
“…Finally, all these Charges you are to observe, and also those that shall be recommended to you in another Way, cultivating Brotherly Love, the Foundation and Cap-stone, the Cement and Glory of this Ancient Fraternity, avoiding all wrangling and quarrelling, all Slander and Backbiting, nor permitting others to slander any honest Broth, but defending his Character, and doing him all good Offices, as far as is consistent with your Honour and safety, and no farther…And if any of them do you Injury you must apply to your own or his Lodge, and from thence you may appeal to the Grand Lodge, at the Quarterly Communication and from thence to the annual Grand Lodge, as has been the ancient laudable Conduct but when the case cannot ne otherwise decided, and patiently listening to the honest and friendly Advice of master and Fellows when they would prevent your going to Law with Strangers; but with respect to brothers or Fellows at Law, the master and Brethren should offer their mediation, which ought to be thankfully submitted to by the contending Brethren; and if that submissions is impracticable, they must, however, carry on their process, or lawsuit, without Wrath and Rancor ( not In the common way) saying or doing nothing which may hinder Brotherly Love, and good offices to be renewed and continued; that all may see the benign Influence of Masonry, as all true Masons have done form the beginning of the World, and will do to the End of Time…”


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The Knights Templar, an ancient monastic order, had power that rivaled Kings. They are implicated in dozens of mysteries, and rumored to be the guardians of the Holy Grail. Their arrest, torture, and executions are still controversial seven hundred years later. Follow the link for Histories, rumors, pictures, and much more on the fabled Knights.

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"If you realize that your body is your enemy, and an enemy of God's glory since it is an enemy of your sanctification, why do you treat it so softly?" ~ Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei founder

Opus Dei (Latin, "Work of God") is a politically influential worldwide organization of Catholics, an evangelical group that encourages the pursuit of sainthood for 'ordinary' believers.

Opus Dei has been criticized for its conservative worldview and its encouragement of the practice of corporeal mortification, including fasting, flagellation,* and the use of the cilice, a barbed metal garter worn around the thigh.

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The Priory of Sion

The Priory of Sion was a monastic order, purportedly founded in the eleventh century by crusader king Godefroi de Bouillion. In the twelfth century, an event occurred that split the order in two. The resulting new order would be known as the "Knights of the Temple," commonly known as the Knights Templar (Templars). History was silent on the fate of the Priory, until the end of the nineteenth century, when mysterious documents surfaced..
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THE NEO-TEMPLARS

 

by

 

Dr. PANGLOSS

 

 

The immolation of Jacques de Molay

 

The first legend of Templar survival surfaced in the nineteenth century after a long and mysterious four hundred year silence. In brief it held that the Order had perpetuated itself under the mantle of the "chivalric grades" of Freemasonry! It is hard to see how such a miracle could have been so easily and generally accepted. How, one might well ask, could the Order, abolished in 1314, arise again, at the time of the war of the Austrian succession?

Several historians have tried to explain the process and a few have given plausible explanations for the surfacing of the myth. The closest to the mark, in our view, is R. Le Forestier, the erudite French Masonic historian (1) who explains that the resurgence of hermeticism in German Freemasonry which occurred during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2) became the vehicle which, allegedly and providentially was brought back from the East by the Knights Templar who had been absent from the scene for four hundred years. Since there were no corroborating texts or documents, the only way to make up for these and for the hibernation, was to "reveal" that their existence had been held secret. Thus was born the legend of the Templars' occult survival. A "noble" progenitor had been found for Freemasonry, one much more prestigious than the humble stone masons who built the cathedrals. The idea caught on very quickly and all sorts of adventurers rushed in to take advantage of a potential goldmine. The legend of the "Philosopher's Stone" incorporated into the Masonic rite of "Strict Observance" duped many including Francis I, Emperor of Austria. Riffraff appeared who pretended to have found the "treasure" of the Templars and they offered fabulous returns to credible subscribers. Some of these charlatans actually sold for large sums of money, be-ribboned diplomas bearing seals with the arms and the forged signature of the unfortunate Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart, who had, in fact, never even been a Freemason!

If we are to understand the so- called "history" on which some of the 20th century creations base themselves, we must examine the "myth" and some of its variants.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Freemasons found the need to justify their origins by seeking the longest possible direct historical line; in other words, by creating a genealogy for themselves. This search aimed to show that Freemasonry was the culmination of a line of initiates which found its roots at the beginning of history, specifically at the time of Hiram, the architect of Solomon's Temple, and which, later along the way, would include the Order of the Temple.

Once this idea was firmly anchored it never completely disappeared. An author wrote in 1922: "A few French Templars, among those who were not condemned, joined a secret group of the Parisian Masons' Guild which had been charged, in 1314, with the erection and demolition of the funeral pyre where the Masters of the Temple were burned. Dressing like them, they were able to gather the ashes of the Grand Master following which they constituted themselves a secret order swearing an oath to fight against the French monarchy and the papacy..."

The French National Library contains a document (9948M. Lat;10919,P-84.fol 97 V) entitled "These are the names of the brethren who fled" . G.A. Schiffmann (3) has estimated that it was written in ca. 1745 and that it was of notable Masonic inspiration. The document, which is partially responsible for the belief in a Templar "treasure", also seems to imply that Freemasonry is the descendant of the Temple. It relates how Jacques de Molay, anticipating his fate, initiated his nephew, the Count of Beaujeu, handed him the secret and the custody of the treasure and instructed him to perpetuate the order "until the end of the world."

"But, in order to better keep the order hidden, Beaujeu established new ceremonies in which he freely used the emblems and hieroglyphics of the Temple of Solomon.

"These ceremonies were changed and modeled according to Beaujeu's knowledge of ancient customs, keeping however, those which were inherent to the Order.

"After Beaujeu's death the grand magistracy fell to Aumont, one of the dispersed Templars who had sought refuge in Scotland. One can see how, as a consequence of the various vicissitudes which befell the Order, it had to be particularly circumspect in its efforts to continue to recruit and initiate new candidates.

"However, after Beaujeu, the Order never ceased one moment to subsist and we have, from Beaumont to the present, an uninterrupted list of the Order's Grand Masters." (4).

Now to come back to reality, we note that Chevalier de Ramsay, the Scottish Mason and tutor of the Pretender in exile in France, who introduced the Scottish Rite and its knightly grades into French Freemasonry, openly stated that the foundation of Freemasonry had to be attributed to the knight crusaders who had returned from Palestine. He also said that the Rite had borrowed its grades from Scotland where the Templars had sought refuge.

Thus, according to Ramsay, the Knights Templar continued to live on through Freemansonry.

There is, however, another variant to this alleged genealogy, which also emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century. It claimed that Pierre d'Aumont was the immediate successor of Jacques de Molay. We owe this innovation to Baron de Hund, a high dignitary of Craft, who relates it in his book entitled "The Rite of the Strict Observance":

"After the catastrophe,(the immolation of de Molay) the Provincial Grand Master of Auvergne, Pierre d'Aumont, escaped with two commanders and five knights. In order to avoid recognition, they disguised themselves as masons and escaped to the Scottish island of Mull, where they found the Grand Commander George de Harris and several other brethren with whom they decided to continue the Order. They held a Chapter on St.John's Day 1313 and named Aumont, first of the name, Grand Master. In order to avoid persecution, they borrowed symbols from the masonic craft and called themselves Free Masons...

"In 1361, the Grand Master of the Temple moved the seat of his Order to Aberdeen and, subsequently the Order spread under the veil of Freemasonry in Italy, in Germany Spain and elsewhere."

John Charpentier(5) comments that "this fiction" was to have considerable influence over eighteenth century secret societies one of which was the German "Illuminati of Bavaria".

Walton Hannah in his "Christian by Degrees" states that the French occultist Alphonse Louis Constant, also known as Eliphas Levi records another theory probably drawn from the ritual of some lesser French Masonic degree. This affirms that Jacques de Molay just before his death organized and constituted occult Masonry as a continuation of Templarism, and established four Metropolitan Lodges at Naples, for the East, Edinburgh for the West, Stockholm for the North and Paris for the South.

Another persistent but groundless tradition which also stems from de Hund's affirmations states that the French Templars who had, in 1314, helped Robert the Bruce win his smashing victory over the English at Bannockburn, gained the esteem of the Scottish king, who founded for them the Order of St. Andrew of the Thistle. This order allegedly was later amalgamated to the Masonic Lodge at Kilwinning. Finally, another notion had it that following unexplained circumstances, d'Aumont's Templars were responsible for the creation of the 30th and 33rd Degrees of Scottish Masonry, which were reintroduced in the eighteenth century by the Chevalier de Ramsay.

What remains of all these traditions? Very little, since present day Freemasons no longer believe in their pretended Templar descent. Thus, can we conclude along with John Charpentier that: "The judgement of history has dismissed eighteenth century Freemasonry's claim to the legacy of Templarism".

Peter Partner, to the dismay of proponents of the various Templar myths, concludes in his "The Murdered Magicians": "The unromantic truth is that the Templars of the Middle Ages made not the slightest attempt to build the Temple of Wisdom, unless that Temple is defined as that of the Catholic Church. The end of the Templars arose not from the operation of demonic forces but as a result of their own mediocrity and lack of nerve. A handful of them measured up to the terrible challenge which confronted them but most, including their leaders, at the moment of trial proved to have nothing much to say. In the Holy Land the Templars had been brave soldiers but rather short-sighted politicians, who in no way conformed to the high standards which their nineteenth century admirers ascribed to them. The most striking characteristic of the medieval Templars was their ordinariness; they represented the common man, and not the uncommon visionary".

Let us now examine the greatest eighteenth century hoax perpetuating the genealogy of the Knights Templar, as described by Alec Mellor in his "Les Mythes Ma‡onniques". In 1806 a number of French Freemasons learned of the resurrection of the Order of the Temple . The year before, the governing body of French Freemasonry had granted a charter to The Knights of the Cross, an aristocratic Lodge which featured a secret degree in its ritual which, it claimed, was a legacy from the Order of the Temple. The following story was revealed to the initiates by its authors three humorless worthies Ledru, a medical man, alleged to have been the Duc de Brissac's personal physician, de Courchamp, a notary's clerk and de Saintot.: "On 10 June 1804 a Brother, Radix de Chevillon, met "mysteriously" with the three for the purpose of delivering to them the "powers" he claimed to have received in 1792 from the last secret Grand Master of the Order of the Temple, Timoléon Duc de Cossé Brissac. The latter, who felt that his life was threatened "had, just as his august predecessor and martyr Jacques de Molay, used his high prerogatives to choose a successor". The turmoil of the revolution had prevented Chevillon from getting in touch with his dispersed or executed brethren. Now, although the social order had been reestablished, Cossé-Brissac's great age and infirmities inhibited him from shouldering his high office and to awaken the Order which had plunged into a long slumber. For this reason he conferred the dignity of "Prince of the Order" on his three friends. Ledru was named "Lieutenant General for Africa", de Saintot, "Lieutenant General for Asia" and de Courchamp, "Grand Preceptor" and he turned over the documents proving the authenticity of the modern Order of the Temple. These documents consisted of the "Carta Transmissionis" which originated with one "Larmenius," the alleged immediate successor to the lamented Jacques de Molay; the original of the revised statutes of 1705 transcribed on 27 sheets of paper, the last of which bore the signature of "Philippus Aurelianensis" (Phillip Duke of Orleans) and finally, a register of the minutes of the secret meetings of the order. The chart was written in hyeroglyphics, on parchment embellished with "gothic" symbols, an enormous wax seal and bore the signatures in blood of all the "secret" Grand Masters from Larmenius to Duke Timoléon!

Larmenius' successor was alleged to have been a certain Alexandrinus and the latter's, the High Constable Bernard Duguesclin. ( no less!) He was followed by the Counts of Armagnac (1381-1451), Henri de Montmorency (1574), Charles de Valois (1615), Henri de Durfort Duke of Duras (1681), the Duke of Maine (1724), Henri de Bourbon-Conde (1737), Fran‡ois de Bourbon-Conti (1741), and finally the Duke Timoleon de Cosse-Brissac, who because of the revolutionary unpleasantness had been unable to name his successor, for which reason it was important to do so now". Four new associates joined the cabal, one Arnal, a junkman who during the revolution had been a constitutional priest, Beuchot de la Varenne and Fabre-Palaprat, a former seminarian who some say was a physician but who, according to Mellor, became a chiropodist and whose eccentricities hid a well-developed cunning. Ledru asked de Chevillon to accept the Grand Magistracy but the latter declined the supreme office in order to accept the Regency. The chiropodist was elected Grand Master and signed his name in latin on the Charter. Some unsympathetic historians who have examined the document have pointed out that Duguesclin could neither read nor write, but that his name, nevertheless appears as "Bertrandus Duguesclin", which would lead even the most credulous to conclude that it was a forgery. When confronted, the proponents of the myth concede that while Duguesclin was illiterate he was able to sign with a cross. It was the archivist of the epoch who contributed his own calligraphy to make up for the Grand Master's ignorance!. After all, they say, it is well-known that in the fourteenth century gentlemen's education was confined to the martial arts and did not include reading or writing. It was perfectly understandable, under the circumstances, for the scribes who were considered unworthy to bear the sword, but who recorded feats of arms to apply their masters' names to documents!

Later a copper "reliquary" was purchased, as well as a cross-hilted sword, an old helmet, three cloth mitres, a "white wool war flag with four black stripes" and other remains subjected to the veneration of the faithful. The reliquary was found to contain "four fragments of burned bones, taken from the martyr's funeral pyre wrapped in a linen shroud"..The lot came with bronze seals and an inventory which described the sword as "presumed to have belonged to Grand Master de Molay". The statutes were written in Latin.

Thus "reconstituted", the order was to become very fashionable. The most important names in France graced its rolls and commanderies were erected all over the land. In 1808 a funeral Mass in commemoration of Jacques de Molay's martyrdom was celebrated in St. Paul's Church in Paris. An immense catafalk surrounded by "thrones" rose from the nave where the chiropodist attired in the regalia of the Grand Magistracy sat along with the other high dignitaries. The "General Coadjutor and Primate" pronounced the funeral oration, and a detachment of infantry, which Fabre-Palaprat had managed somehow to commandeer, lined the central aisle. The proceedings had all the appearances of an official ceremony and some of the dupes present spread the rumor that Napoleon protected the Templars because of the deterioration of his relations with the Vatican!

The Order remained in close contact with the knightly degrees of Freemasonry until 1811. In fact one had to be a Freemason to be received into it. Interior quarrels, however, caused a rupture which was further complicated by political skirmishes during the reign of King Charles X. In 1830, Fabre-Palaprat, who had now become totally mad, attempted to found, within the Neo-Temple, a new religion based on the "Levitikon", an alleged Greek manuscript which he had discovered earlier on the shelf of a bookstall along the Seine. Fabre-Palaprat claimed that the document contained the "true Templar doctrine", and was the continuation of a "Johannite" or gnostic church. Having tried, in vain, to offer the episcopate to several "adepts", he contacted Father Chatel, a defrocked priest and founder of the "Eglise Catholique Française", a small schismatic group, who accepted. Fabre-Palaprat, "consecrated" him bishop of the Johannite cult at an important ceremony which was held in a large public dance-hall in Montmartre and conferred on him the title of "Primate of the Gauls". Chatel's eccentricities kept him in the public eye for several years. Fabre-Palaprat died in 1838. Le Forestier, considers that he and his accomplices were more to be pitied for their megalomania than condemned as crooks. Alec Mellor, on the other hand, is of the opinion that the hoax was the means to the fulfillment of their megalomania and that such a psychological symbiosis is not uncommon.

British Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, who had defeated Napoleon at Acre, succeeded Fabre-Palaprat. He moved to France in 1814 with the unoriginal idea of creating an international navy to protect the Mediterranean countries from the attacks of Barbary Coast pirates. The admiral died in 1840 and was buried in at the Paris Père-Lachaise cemetary in his Templar uniform. The Grand Magistracy then passed on to the Prince de Chimay who tried in vain to have the Vatican's interdict on the original order lifted. Twenty years later, the order revived by Fabre-Palaprat was virtually extinct and all the documents and "relics" were transferred to the French National Archives.

Many, and we dont understand why, have seen in the "Carta Transmissionis" proof that Larmenius and his successors followed Jacques de Molay in the Grand Magistracy and a genuine underground continuation of the Order of the Temple. No one, however, has been able or seen fit to carbon-test the document to determine its age or to prove that it was anything more than a forgery and the myth an enormous farce perpetrated by a charlatan or the aberration of an unhinged lunatic acting as the unwitting tool of Bonaparte's political designs..

The "Larmenius Myth" surfaced again in the latter part of the nineteenth century with a proliferation of false Templar orders in Britain, Germany and France and it is still being propagated today.

In 1867 Robert Wentworth Little founded the "Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia"; in 1888, Stanislas de Guaita a noted occultist, Josephin Peladan and ten others formed "The Kabbalistic Order of the Rosy Cross"; in 1890 Peladan branched out on his own to create "The Catholic Rosy Cross of the Temple and the Holy Grail". In Britain Samuel Mathers created "The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn" which spawned a number of "temples" (Isis-Uranus, Hermes, Amon-Ra etc.) In 1905 the notorious British poet, man of letters and occultist Aleister Crowley, founded the "Astrum Argentinum". These groups all seemed to have a number of features in common: i.e. a Masonic orientation, the practice of magic oftentimes, it has been said, with sexual overtones, training in communications with other "heavenly bodies", a pseudo-Templarist esotericism and various references to Rosicrucian "Unknown Adepts".

Peter Partner states that it was during this period that the Templar myth was transformed, for some of its devotees, at least, from a tale of speculative mystics to a tale of abandoned Satanists. The villains in the piece were, Karl Killner, a German Mason of the "side-degrees" who had travelled all over India and the Middle East and Theodor Reuss a German journalist, Freemason, vaudeville artist and sometimes informant of the German Imperial Intelligence Service. In 1895 Killner created "The Ordo Templi Orientis" (O.T.O.) claiming to have acquired his knowledge from one Arab and two Hindu adepts. The doctrine did appear to be impregnated with Sufic and Tantric innuendos. When Killner died in 1905 Reuss took over the grand magistracy. Dr. Gerard Encausse, noted French Mason, occultist and successful medical doctor also known as PAPUS headed the French branch of the Order. In 1911, Aleister Crowley joined the O.T.O. and eleven years later, after Reuss's death became Grand Master.

When in 1937 the Nazis banned the O.T.O., Crowley transferred the seat and the activities of the group to California until his demise in 1947. He was succeeded by Karl Germer who died five years later. Germer neglected to deal with his succession and when he left this world in 1952 the Order found itself divided into various feuding branches in Switzerland, California and England.

The number of contemporary Templar-like orders is unknown, but Laurent Dailliez has managed to identify forty seven! (6) It is obviously far beyond the scope of this book to cover each one. We shall not go into the French or Anglo-Saxon Masonic Templar degrees. but limit ourselves to a few of the better known groups which still proclaim the authenticity of the "Carta Transmissionis" and which are "chivalric" in nature rather than masonic .

Shortly after the second World War, there erupted in Portugal a "Supreme Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem." This group traced its ancestry back to Fabre -Palaprat and his successors. Since 1942 its Grand Master or Regent was F. Don Antonio Campello Pinto de Sousa Fontes who died in 1960 and passed the Grand Magistracy to his son F. Don Fernando Campello Pinto Pereira de Sousa Fontes. The Order gained some popularity in Europe and candidates were willing to pay exorbitant sums for admission. In 1970 the Grand Prior for France was a naturalized Frenchman of Polish origin "General" "Count" Antoine Zdrojevski (7) who had headed some Polish resistance forces in France during the Second World War under the pseudonym of "Commandant Daniel". In 1971 the Zdrojevski group in France unbeknownst to the latter, was being eyed covetously and infiltrated by the Service d'Action Civique (S.A.C.), a "parallel police" instrument of the French Gaullist government whose function it was to maintain that government in power by any means fair or foul. The Portuguese magistracy of the order was a serious impediment to the SAC and the latter arranged to hold a rigged election to ensure that Zjdroeski become the Grand Master of the order. Once Sousa Fontes eliminated it was to be smooth sailing for the SAC for a time.

One of the cover mechanisms used by the S.A.C.for every type of illegal fund raising, extortion, from drugs to arms trafficking and everything in between, was the Societe d'Etudes Techniques Economiques et Commerciales (E.T.E.C.) (8). The Paris offices of E.T.E.C. became the seat of the French Grand Priory of the Order! Inevitably an enormous flap occurred when a jealous member of the S.A.C. blew the whistle on a blackmailing operation which was about to be launched and the names of Zdrojevski, the Order and its French membership appeared in the Parisian press. In 1973 Zdrojevski decided to dissolve the French Grand Priory, eventually becoming a minister in the cabinet of one of the Polish governments in exile headquartered in London. (9) Meanwhile in Portugal, de Sousa Fontes maintained his own Grand Magistracy over what appears to be a loose confederation of autonomous Grand Priories.

The story of the American Grand Priory of this order is interesting and the information which follows is taken more or less verbatim from its "Knights' Manual" (10). The American Grand Priory, fortunately, as opposed to the European ones makes no claims to uninterrupted continuance of succession of the European order from the days of the Crusades. It concedes that there were several periods in history lasting for over a century when the Order in Europe was prevented from any activity. It claims that these difficulties were imposed by the "covetous and dictatorial actions of various European monarchs and potentates." The next paragraph in this section alludes to the Larmenius succession by stating "some of the extant records allegedly make claim to complete uninterrupted succession from the days of the Crusades. While it is possible that this may be so, who today can positively state that these documents were contemporaneously executed or are actually genuine?" Who indeed!! The section ends by stating "It is enough that our chivalrous actions and fine ideals are continued by the modern day Chevaliers of the Temple of Jerusalem." We have no quarrel with the last sentence, but nowhere in the "Knights' Manual" is there any description of the charities which the Order supports in the United States.

With respect to the foundation of the American Grand Priory here is what the "Knights' Manual" has to say:

"There were a considerable number of Swiss Chevaliers throughout the United States starting in the latter 1930s and increasing in number in the early 1960s. Anton Leuprecht, the Autonomous Grand Prior of Switzerland and Mondial Chief of all Autonomous Grand Priories in the world, was kind enough to invite a number of Americans to join his Order in Switzerland. The Swiss Grand Priory is set up upon an ecumenical basis, recognizing Christians of all persuasions.

At the request of the Swiss Grand Prior, Anton Leuprecht, the Mondial Chief of all Autonomous Grand Priories, some of the Swiss Templars in the Eastern portion of the United States were asked in early 1962 to form an Autonomous and Independent Grand Priory of an ecumenical nature in America. Under date of March 31, 1962, a Meeting of Associates made up of Swiss Grand Priory members met at the residence of William Y. Pryor at 14 Overhill Road, Verona, New Jersey. Steps were authorized to be taken to form an Independent and Sovereign Grand Priory for the Order of the Temple of Jerusalem in the United States of America and to incorporate the same in the state of New Jersey as a non-profit corporation."

"Upon April 16th of the same year, a letter of approval from Dom Anton Leuprecht, Grand Prior of the Independent Swiss Priory and Chief of all Independent Grand Priors in the World, recognizing the above action and commending the Associates' efforts was received."

We noted that the seven incorporators were Crolian W. Edelen, (also known as Count de Burgh (12), William Y. Pryor, Herschel S. Murphy, MD, Warren S. Hall, Jr., John D. Leet, Lawrence Stratton, George J. Deyo, D.S.C.

The "Knights' Manual" continues:

"Both the Grand Prior of Switzerland and the Grand Regent at Porto, Portugal approved of this organization under the auspices of Crolian W. Edelen."

"On two occasions the Order in America was approved by Count Fontes, Regent of the Order at Porto, Portugal. These occurred during the time of the creation of our corporate order at which time our Grand Prior was Crolian W. Edelen and thereafter during the encumbancy of William Y. Pryor as Grand Prior after the Regent had been duly informed of his election."

The next phase of the American Order is noteworthy in that Mr. Edelen who had earlier managed to obtain Royal Jugoslav patronage and protection for an order of St. John of Jerusalem from King Peter II was able to get this monarch to do the same for the Order of the Temple. What is not clear is whether this patronage was for the entire order or only for the American Grand Priory. Needless to say the Swiss and the Portuguese were overjoyed. "The Knights Manual" hastens to state that:

"No claim for the continued protection of the American Order under the Royal House of Jugoslavia after the death of King Peter the Second is made, however."

Browsing through the "Knights' Manual" one cannot help but note vestiges of Masonic influence in the ritual even though elsewhere the Manual emphasizes that the Order is not a secret one and it does admit ladies to its ranks. We also note that the American Grand Priory, in keeping with national democratic ideals, has abolished the categories "of grace "for non-nobles and "of justice" for nobles. Elsewhere in the manual the membership is encouraged to join any of the European Templar orders into which they are invited. This advice seems somewhat foolhardy to us as we shall soon demonstrate.

The Order's badge is a modified (the shorter arm being on the bottom) patriarchal cross gules. During the Crusades, high dignitaries wore a regular patriarchal cross gules on their mantles while knights wore an elongated cross patty gules.

We are personally acquainted with a number of people of impeccable social background belonging to the American Grand Priory for whom we have the greatest respect and whose motives are beyond question. While they have no illusions about the authenticity of the so-called Larmenius succession and they consider themselves to be more of a "chivalric-like" organization than a genuine order of chivalry with a valid fountain of honor, they might be well-advised to ponder before they forge any links with any of the diverse European groups which claim connections with the original Templar Order as most of them have been subject to political machinations of every kind. If they are concerned with chivalric ideals they may wish, in order to justify their existence, to consider actively supporting one or several of the many worthwhile charities which abound. Not to do so would certainly put their motivation in question.

We have seen how the "Myth of Larmenius" was exploited in France and elsewhere to explain a Templar succession. Now we shall examine another myth propagated by a Spanish Templar-like group. The story, according to the literature of this "Supreme Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem" whose seat is in Barcelona is as follows: The Order was founded in 1134 in the Holy Land but it had two branches, that of the East which served in Palestine and which subsequently returned to France and was eventually suppressed by Clement V and Philip the Fair and that of the West in Catalonia (on both sides of the Franco-Spanish border) which fought the Moor in Spain and Portugal. This latter Order was held in much esteem by the princes in whose estates it was established. It was not abolished but prospered! We now quote from its brochure:

"It is thus that the Order of the Temple survived and that the Grand Master of Catalonia presently His Imperial and Royal Majesty William III de Grau Moctezuma Rife, received the allegiance, as Grand Catalonian and International Master of all the priories of the Temple."

What a fascinating tale! But how in the world could His Imperial and Royal Highness prince Guillermo III de Grau-Moctezuma, pretender to the "Aztec" throne have become Grand Master of the Catalonian branch of the Order of the Temple? We are then given a short course in Spanish-Mexican history and genealogy, where we learn that: "In 1520, Aztec emperor Moctezuma was defeated and killed by Hernan Cortes in the latter's conquest of Mexico. Cortes returned to Spain and brought back with him Moctezuma's three children: prince Tohualicahualzin who was given the baptismal name of Pedro, princess Xipaguazin baptised Maria and princess Telacuazin, baptised Isabel. Each of them was recognized as prince or princess Moctezuma. At the time Spain was divided into independent kingdoms. Pedro lived in Castille and his sisters settled in Andorra where they had married two Andorran Catalans, barons Juan de Grau de Toloriu and Pedro de Grau who were cousins. Castille offered Pedro the title of count and a pension in exchange for his renunciation to the Aztec crown, which he accepted. Thereupon Maria Grau de Toloriu, next in line to the Mexican throne claimed the imperial prerogatives for herself and her descendants, which privileges were accepted by the kings of Aragon. His Imperial and Royal Highness is a direct descendant of Maria and thus, head of the imperial Aztec House. We also learn that as a fountain of honor, H.I. & R.H. confers a number of "Aztec Chivalric" orders as well the Andorran order known as the "Estamento militar de los Homes de Paratge" founded in 985 by count Borrel II of Catalonia as a reward to the nobles who helped to repel the Moorish invader. This order was reorganized in 1966..." We note that the first "Grau" Grand Master was Pedro de Grau in 1319, the next was Vicente de Grau-Gallego in 1593, then we had Geronimo Giron-Moctezuma in 1791 followed by Casimpiro de Grau Latorre in 1840 and finally the present Grand Master Guillermo de Grau-Moctezuma Rife, elected by the Supreme Council in 1959.

Even if the story were true this would not make the Catalonian Templar order a valid chivalric entity for a variety of reasons. First, H.I. and R.H.'s claim to the Aztec crown is not recognized by Spain, Mexico or, to our knowledge, by any other sovereign state. Second, his genealogy has never been verified and authenticated by the only qualified heraldic and genealogical authority in Spain, namely the Chronicler King of Arms of the Realm. There are undoubtedly many more reasons but let us close by pointing out that there is only one titled Moctezuma family in Spain, that of don Fernando Moctezuma-Marcilla de Teruel y Gomez de Arteche, Grandee of Spain, Duke of Moctezuma and marquis of Tenebron. Needless to say there is no connection between this nobleman and "His Imperial and Royal Highness Guillermo de Grau Moctezuma-Rife".

Who is this fifteenth descendant of the Mexican emperor? His name is Guillermo Grau Rif‚ son of an industrialist from Barcelona whose sister was employed in the records office of the mayor of Barcelona and who was bound and determined that he was the descendant of baron de Toloriu, and as such a descendant of the emperor Moctezuma of Mexico. His calling cards read "H.I. & R.H. Prince Guillermo III de Grau-Moctezuma", and his invitations under what he imagined to be the imperial eagle read " The Commissioner of the Cultural Activities Department of the Aztec Crown, Count of Puntarenas invites........to the official inauguration of the series "The Role of Nexlitcalzin Moctezuma III in the Fine Arts", with the assistance and under the presidency of Their Highnesses the Princes of Moctezuma. Dress: Uniform or white tie with decorations ." In order to maintain the flow of funds into the Imperial Treasury, these programs never failed to include the imposition of decorations and conferral of Mexican titles to some of the guests. One could also count on the presence of at least one reverend "Monsignor", Archimandrite of Antioch to these parties.

H.I.H. appointed himself sovereign dynastic grand master of the following orders: Order of the Aztec Crown; Supreme and Imperial Order of the Golden Eagle and Ocelot; Imperial and Nobiliary Order of Our Lady of Guadelupe del Anahuac; Nobiliary Order of St. John of Anahuac; August Order of San Diego or the Four Lions of Anahuac; Imperial Order of Guillermo I; Imperial Order of Emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin II of Mexico; August Order of Mayan Knights; Order of the Legion of Honor of Anahuac; Dynastic Order of Saint James of Toloriu; Orer of the Empress Xipaguazin-Moctezuma. In addition H.I.H. is the Patron and Head of the Order of Knights of Santa Eulalia, Protector of the Princely Order of the Black Puma of the Princely Order of the Golden Lion, ofthe Order of the Stone of Borinquen. He is also President, protector and founder of the International Moctezuma University, Protector of the Panamerican Legion and the Legion for the Defense of America.

Prices charged for Aztec titles in the mid-fifties were $3,500 for the title of Count, $5000 for that of Marquis, and approximately $17,000 for a duchy! The price of membership in the grades of "eagle", puma, ocelot, lion grand cross, commander, officer in the Aztec orders was according to what the traffic would bear and the publicity and protection the candidate could bring to the crown...

Mr. Grau-Rife ran into some difficulty with the Spanish police and "abdicated" in 1952 stating that "I was wrong but did not have the moral fortitude to put an end to the charade. The truth is that I enjoyed the pomp and the honors. I can state that I did it all for my daughter....."

We wish this were the end of the story. Unfortunately it is not and Sr. Grau quietly waited a number of years had his revenge and took up where he left off this time operating with apparent impunity from Andorra.

To end this section on the "Temple", we note that the "World's Encyclopaedia of Sects" describes another Templar order. This one also entitles itself "Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem". Quite frankly we do not know whether it is a dissident offshoot of the Portuguese order mentioned above or a a completely separate entity. Its Grand Master is "H.E. Mgr. Pierre Pasleau and its headquarters are located at the latter's residence at 19 rue de la Reine, 5200 Huy, Belgium, Tel: 085/21 26 71. It appears also to have a connection to the "Swiss Grand Priory", a breakaway group of the Portuguese order located at 22 Route de Sion, 3960 Sierre, Switzerland. The only reason we decided to even mention this lot is because its Grand Master, is associated with one of the many apocryphal orders of St. John, namely that of the Holy Trinity of Villedieu described in another paper. The"Encyclopaedia of the World's Sects" describes this crew as an "iniatic order of chivalry", whose motto is "To know, to dare, to desire and to be silent". "This order which claims to go back to Hugues de Payens, founder of the Temple contends that the time has come to raise anew the Beaucent, the Templar piebald standard of the Crusades. In order to do this it encourages its members to practice a Christian life according to God's commandments and the precepts of the Universal Church". The Encyclopaedia continues, "Under the direction of a Grand Master, the Templars contribute towards charities which are directed towards the socially handicapped and the homeless as well as to the struggle against all forms of oppression to liberty and human dignity." For this purpose an international Templar information and study center has been established.

"Each new knight is subjected to an initiation, whose symbolism and explanations are designed to acquaint him with man's eternal problems resulting from his presence on earth and to show him his place in a universe the key to which lies in traditional wisdom."

"The order forbids any political activity or discussion and receives candidates irregardless of race, nationality or social condition. However, only members demonstrating their "zealous attachment" to the "Militia" are considered to be active members eligible to take part in the deliberations and ceremonies of the Order"

"One may become a Templar at age 18 and even at 16 with parental consent. Initially, Templar studies are by correspondence. Eventually, the knights take part in conventual chapters in the course of which ceremonies are held. Among the documents sent to each new affiliate is a list of the Grand Masters on which appear Fabre Palaprat who awakened the order in 1804 and Joseph Peladan, among others."

Twenty-three other "orders" which claim Templar traditions are listed in the appendix and we know there are several more..

 

APPENDIX.

 

SOME INDEPENDENT ORDERS CLAIMING "TEMPLAR TRADITIONS"

 

 

French Association of the Knights of Christ,
11 rue du Paon
10000 Troyes, France

 

Knights of the Templar Alliance
Jean Luc Verger
4 rue du Cimetière-Saint Cyprien
31000 Toulouse, France

 

The Universal White Cross
André Karquel, Président
3 rue Vézelay
75008 Paris, France

 

Johannite Fraternity for Templar Renewal, B.P. 25
59670 Castel, France

 

Ordo Militiae Crucis
Marcel Claude
19 rue Soeurs- de- Hasque
Liège, Belgium

 

Ordo Templi Orientis
Christian Bouchet
Domaine de la Butterie
Chateau Thebaud
44690 La Haie Fouassière, France

 

Egyptian Grand Priory (Masonic order part of Memphis Misraim rite)
Robert Ambelain
5 rue Rubens 
75013 Paris, France

 

New Templar Observance
Jacques de Saint André
BP 11
06701 Saint Laurent du Var, France

 

Order of Alibert
Raoul Alibert de la Vallée
résidence Les Mourinoux
96200 Asnières, France

 

Order of Knights of France
BP 54
54130 Saint Max, France

 

Order of Knights of the Holy Temple
Mr. Carpenet
Résidence Pont-Cardinal
19100 Brive, France

 

Order of Knights of the Temple and of Our Lady
BP 12
78430 Louveciennes, France

 

Knightly and Hospitaller Order of Cyprus or Cyprus Templar Order
(not to be confused with the next order)
Mgr. Ivan de la Thibauderie
8 allée Mozart
Sevran, France

 

Templars of Cyprus
Roger Caro
BP 11
83270 Saint-Cyr-sur Mer, France

 

Renewed Order of the Temple
Julien Oregao
La Commanderie-Roais
84110 Vaisons-la-Romaine, France

 

Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple
M. Baudier
4 rue de la Ferme
92200 Neuilly- sur- Seine, France

 

Order of the Cosmic Temple
9 bis rue de Liège
92140 Clamart, France

 

Order of the Guardians of the Temple
M. Edmond Gras 
résidence "Le Vert Bosquet"
rondpoint du Bosquet
06150 Cannes, La Bocca, France

 

 

 

 

1.R. Le Forestier, Francmaconnerie templiere et occultiste aux XVIII et XIX siecles.,Aubier 1970.
2.Relating to Hermes, the inventor of the occult sciences
3.Die Entstehung der Rittergrade in der Freimaurei um die Mitte des XVIIIten Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1882. G.A. Schiffmann.
4.L'Ordre des Templiers, John Charpentier, Paris 1944
5. HISTORIA No. 385bis 1978
6. "The Murdered Magicians", Peter Partner, Oxford University Press, 1981 (Page 170)
7."Les Templiers ces Inconnus" Laurent Daillez (Taillandier 1972)
8. Patrick Chairoff in "Vrais Gogos Faux Chevaliers" affirms that Zdrojevski admitted obtaining his title of "count" from "prince" Amoroso de Aragona (+RIP) a notorious Italian purveyor of false titles and grand master of several orders of chivalry each more bogus than the other and who served time on various occasions during the postwar years for swindling and extorsion. He has also had ties with the London-based Polish government in exile of "Count" Julius Nowina Sokolniki and the notorious International Military Organisation Sphinx which dispensed worthless decorations 
and military ranks to gullible customers. 
9.Technical Economic and Commercial Research Company.
10.Mr. Alfred Zappelli, a Swiss of Italian extraction who lived in Geneva took over what remained of the Zdrojevski order and created a totally separate branch of the Temple. This one was to be the Secret Order of the Temple a quasi Masonic body. It seeks to develop the spiritual self-improvement of its members. 
11.Note that while the American branch appears to be in communion with the Portuguese it has chosen the name Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem as opposed to "Supreme Military etc."
12.R. Gayre of Gayre and Nigg,"The Knightly Twilight" pages 61-64)

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Rosicrucian means in Latin "of the Rose Cross." The symbol of the rose cross is ancient and layered with meaning. The origins of the Rosicrucian fraternity are even more shadowed.

The first widespread publicity of the order came about in Germany in the early seventeenth century, when the anonymous "Manifestos" were published to great notoriety. According to the Manifestos, the Order was founded a century earlier by a certain Christian Rosencreutz, a poor descendent of nobility who was cloistered at an early age with a Jesuit order. After training with the Jesuits as a youth, he travelled to the Holy Land to learn the art of healing. He continued to travel, learning mathematics, alchemy, and magick from the Arabs, biology from the Egyptians, cabala from the Spanish. Then, according to the account in Fraternitas, he returned to his native land, where he formed a secret group composed of himself and three of the brothers of his cloister, dedicated to the preservation of the arts and learning acquired by RC on his journeys. The brothers completed a building, called the Sancti spiritus (Holy spirit), and began to seek more members. Four more men were sought, and the Rosicrucian Order was formed. The men agreed that secrecy was neccessary to fully explore the philosophy of the order. They further agreed to split up and travel the world, curing the sick. They were to meet at Spiritus sanctus once a year, and were each charged with appointing a successor to carry on their work. The order was to remain secret for one hundred years. fraternitas ends with a symbolic description of the discovery of RC's hidden tomb, wherein was disacovered the uncorrupted body of the Master, and many instruments and texts preserved .

The Manifestos promised that the age of secrecy was at an end, and implored the Europe to embrace the quest for knowledge free from greed or tyranny. It called for a reformation of Religion and Science, and called shame on those who would use religious authority or the arts to defraud or accumulate wealth or power. The Confessio gave dire warnings to those who would use religion falsely, and those who misused alchemy and medicine to take money from the unsuspecting. The promoted knowledge and learning for the spiritual improvement of mankind.

Shortly after the publication of the manifestos, another strange manuscript appeared, called the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz. This mysterious document describes an initiatiatory process using a symbolic marriage ceremony.

These works created a commotion in royal and intellectual circles, and sparked a renewed interest in magick, cabbala, and alchemy, which for the first time, were discussed openly. It was a time of great optimism and hope. The power of the Church to stifle spiritual inquiry had been greatly diminished, literacy and learning were available to more people than ever before, and the Renaissance had begun to flourish, and the ideas brough forward in the manifestos were furiously criticised and vociferously defended..

The Rosicrucian Order, however, remained secret, despite much effort to discover their dwelling or to join their ranks. Many were accused of membership in the Order, and some of these narrowly hung onto their lives. However, the ideals they promoted took hold, and philosophy, science, and freedom of conscience flourished.

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The town of Bishop Hill, Illinois, celebrates Christmas the really old-fashioned way, with a seven-foot tall, prank playing goat known as the Julbock, or "Yule goat," an ancient pagan Scandinavian gift-giver. Played by an anonymous resident, Bishop Hill's Julbock is a merrymaking prankster who preys on fellow residents. the Julbock is still a feature in Scandinavian holiday decorating; straw figurines representing the impish goat is ubiquitous in Sweden at Christmastime.

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The Da Vinci Code FAQ, or Will the Real Priory of Sion Please Stand Up?

by Massimo Introvigne

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The Da Vinci Code is just a novel: why criticize it as if it were a history book?

People who ask this question usually have not read the page of The Da Vinci Code titled Fact, where the author, Dan Brown, asserts that «all descriptions of [..]documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate» and are based specifically on the fact that «in 1975 Paris’ Bibliothèque Nationale discovered parchments, known as Les Dossiers Secrets» which reveal the story of the Priory of Sion.

 

But do these «parchments, known as Les Dossiers Secrets», really exist?

At the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris, certain documents called Les Dossiers secrets de Henri Lobineau were not «discovered», but rather deposited there, in 1967, not in 1975. They are not parchments but rather texts which speak about the way to interpret certain parchments, which were neither then nor now at the National Library of Paris, but were handed over by Pierre Plantard (1920-2000), along with a manuscript he wrote, to an author of popular books about «the mysteries of France» by the name of Gérard de Sède (1921-2004), who enhanced and published them as L’Or de Rennes ou la Vie insolite de Bérenger Saunière, curé de Rennes-le-Château (Julliard, Paris, 1967). As of today, the parchments (assuming they are in fact the same) seem to be in possession of a controversial French author, Jean-Luc Chaumeil, who claims to have received them from Plantard in the 1970s, while Les Dossiers secrets can still be found at the National Library in Paris.

 

Are the parchments and Dossier secrets authentic documents about the ancient Priory of Sion?

There is no doubt that both Les Dossiers secrets and the parchments are false documents, compiled in the year 1967, and all the people involved in the falsification have admitted it, even after a few years had passed. Gérard de Sède, who published them for the first time in his book L’Or de Rennes, in a book published twenty years later defined them as «apocryphal», inspired by a «market sensationalism» (G. de Sède, Rennes-le-Château. Le dossier, les impostures, les phantasmes, les hypothèses, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1988, p. 107). He even claimed that in L’Or de Rennes he had scattered enough clues to induce an attentive reader to the conclusion that they were false documents (ibid., p. 108). According to Gérard de Sède, the parchments were fabricated by Philippe de Chérisey (1925-1985), an impoverished French marquis who was a professional TV actor and a devotee of enigmatic riddles. Actually, de Chérisey not only has repeatedly admitted to the fabrication of these parchments, both in letters and published texts (Circuit, The Author, Liège 1968; L’Or de Rennes pour un Napoléon, The Author, Paris, 1975; L’Énigme de Rennes, The Author, Paris 1978), but from as early as October 8, 1967 (as confirmed by a letter from his lawyer, B. Boccon-Gibod, which the English researcher Paul Smith posted on his very detailed Priory of Sion web site), he began working - albeit without significant success up until his death - on getting paid, as it had been agreed, by Pierre Plantard and Gérard de Sède. De Chérisey also left a text to be published twenty years after his death, in fact published in 2006 as Pierre et Papier, where he explained how the false documents had been fabricated. Even the third of the Three Musketeers involved in the trick, Pierre Plantard, admitted that the documents were false. In April of 1989, in the first issue of the second series of his journal, Vaincre, Plantard granted an interview and declared that Les Dossier secrets (which are signed by a certain «Philippe Toscan du Plantier») are false documents fabricated by Philippe de Chérisey and by Philippe Toscan du Plantier, the latter being, he claimed, a young disciple of his who operated under the influence of the LSD (Noël Pinot, «L'Interview de Mr. Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair», Vaincre [2a series], n. 1, April 1989). It is possible that in reality there was no such person as «Philippe Toscan du Plantier» (in this case, the name may have come from Daniel Toscan du Plantier, 1941-2003, a well-known figure in the French movie industry, certainly known to de Chèrisey, and who at that time worked for Gaumont), and the co-author of Les Dossiers secrets  with Chérisey was Plantard himself. But the essential point is that all three of the authors of the Dossier secrets and other «documents» deposited during those years at the National Library of Paris have admitted, publicly and in writing, that they were false documents.

 

But what was so interesting about Les Dossier secrets, and why according to Dan Brown do they support the thesis of  The Da Vinci Code?

According to Les Dossiers secrets de Henri Lobineau (which, incidentally, is a name invented by the same Three Musketeers), the legitimate heirs to the throne of France to this very day are still the Merovingians, dethroned in 751 by the Carolingians. Furthermore, contrary to public opinion, the Merovingians are not extinct but have surviving descendants still alive, the last of which in 1967 was Pierre Plantard, who was therefore the only true contender to the role of King of France (of course, under the improbable case of a restoration of the French monarchy). In order to protect the descendants of the Merovingians from the Carolingians and later from other enemies, a secret society was formed, the Priory of Sion, which - according to the false documents deposited at the National Library of Paris in the 1960’s - had as Grand Masters certain alchemists and esoteric personalities such as Nicolas Flamel (well known to Harry Potter readers, yet in reality an historical person born in 1330 and deceased in 1418), Robert Fludd (1574-1637) and the principal promoter of the Rosicrucian legend, Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), as well as scientists such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Isaac Newton (1642-1727). The last of the Grand Masters would have been the writers Charles Nodier (1780-1844) and Victor Hugo (1802-1885), the musician Claude Debussy (1862-1918), the poet and novelist Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) and Msgr. Francois Ducaud-Bourget (1897-1984), a priest with ties to the schismatic Msgr. Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991). Ducaud-Bourget (it was claimed) had transferred the position to Plantard. It was also claimed that, by pure chance, the truth concerning the Priory of Sion and the famous parchments, hidden in the parish Church of a small French village of less than one hundred inhabitants in the Aude region, at the foot of the eastern Pyrenees mountains, Rennes-le-Château, were supposedly discovered in 1897 by the local parish priest, Berenger Saunière (1852-1917), who, thanks to the knowledge of the secret, came into contact with the esoteric and political milieu of the time and became incredibly wealthy.

 

Wait a minute. In The Da Vinci Code, the main point is that the Merovingians, protected by the Priory of Sion, are not only the legitimate heirs to the throne of France but also the descendants of the children born from the marriage between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Do not Les Dossiers secrets and the other documents talk about this?

No, in fact they do not mention anything about this. The part about the relationship between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene originated between 1969 and 1970, when an English actor, Henry Soskin, who was mostly known for his role in the TV series The Avengers, became interested in the Priory of Sion. He later became a director (going by the name of Henry Lincoln) of documentaries about historical mysteries and lost treasures, and entered into contact with the threesome of Chérisey - Plantard - de Sède. Lincoln decided to re-write the story of L’Or de Rennes in a more suitable way, adapted for a British audience, presenting it first in three documentaries aired by the BBC between 1972 and 1979 and later in a book published in 1982 with the help of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Jonathan Cape, London). Lincoln realized that the identity of the person who was the legitimate heir to the throne of France was not very interesting for his British audience. At the same time, Plantard introduced him into the microcosm of French esoteric organizations where he met Robert Ambelain (1907-1997), a well known figure in this milieu. In 1970, Ambelain had published Jésus ou Le mortel secret des templiers (Robert Laffont, Paris), in which he affirmed that Jesus Christ had a partner, while not being legally married, and identified this «concubine» as Salome. Lincoln meshed Ambelain’s story about the marriage of Jesus with that of the Merovingians suggested by Plantard, and «revealed» that the Merovingians protected by the Priory of Sion were important, not because they were the heirs to the throne of France, as much as because they were the descendants of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. The latter suited Lincoln better than Ambelain’s Salome because both of her connection with the parish church in Rennes-le-Château and of the Medieval legends claiming that she escaped persecution and eventually settled and died in Southern France (sans «husband» and children, however, which were never part of these legends).

 

But did Lincoln know that the documents were false?

Yes: not only because in the French milieu of the esoteric organizations into which he was introduced more or less everybody knew they were false, but because Philippe de Chérisey had told him so, as can be seen by letters from Chérisey himself (some reproduced in Pierre Jarnac, Les Archives de Rennes-le-Château. Tome 2, Belisane, Nice, 1988). Actually, the weak point of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail was precisely that too many people knew about the dubious origin of the documents on which the story was grounded. Thus, after having dealt directly with Chérisey behind Plantard’s back, and then having turned down the marquis-actor too, in 1986 Lincoln and his associates launched a «sanitation» or «de-plantardization» of the Priory of Sion with the book The Messianic Legacy (Jonathan Cape, London). They presented as a great new discovery that which in certain French circles everybody already knew: Plantard was a con man (although perhaps not only a con man) and many of the documents were false. But some of the documents (the British insisted) were true. Perhaps Plantard was not the last descendant of Jesus Christ and the true Priory of Sion was not his organization. But, anyway, there were Merovingian descendants of the marriage between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. And there was a «genuine» Priory of Sion which was behind many contemporary events: the infamous Italian Masonic lodge P2, the scandals involving the Banco Ambrosiano, the schism of Msgr. Lefebvre, the Italian mafia and many others, in a tour de force which made the reader dizzy, and whose only common denominator was a quasi-pathological hatred of the «Vatican» and the Roman Catholic Church.

 

And so does The Da Vinci Code come from The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail?

So much so that two of the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Baigent and Leigh (also offended because Brown, according to them, has added insult to injury by calling the villain of the story Leigh - first name - and Teabing - an anagram of Baigent - as his last name), in October of 2004 filed a lawsuit against Dan Brown, accusing him of having plagiarized their book. In fact, we do find there already the Priory of Sion's connections with the Chapel of Rosslyn, the Church of Saint-Sulpice, and the idea that the Holy Grail is really the Sang réal, i.e., a person containing in herself the blood of Christ. «Lincoln has decided not to be part of the copyright action because of ill health, but is said to support it» (Elizabeth Day, «Da Vinci Code Bestseller Is Plagiarism, Authors Claim», The Sunday Telegraph, October 3, 2004). On April 6, 2006 Brown won the case in first degree and on March 28 2007 on appeal on technical grounds (under British law, borrowing from a work of “history”, no matter how much controversial, is regarded as lawful, and Baigent & Co. always claimed that theirs was an historical rather than a fictional work), but the case did confirm both that Dan Brown got the key ideas for the Code from the British authors and that they in turn relied on Plantard's “elaborate hoax” - see first degree full decision and Brown's interesting “autobiography” filed as an affidavit in the London case; and the appeal decision.

 

Could not The Messianic Legacy have it right, in the sense that false documents were fabricated in order to corroborate a true story? Starting from the beginning, the Priory of Sion does exist, doesn’t it?

It certainly does exist. It was founded on the 7th of May, 1956 at Annemasse by Pierre Plantard with statutes duly filed with the Under-Prefect of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois with the complete name of Priory of Sion - C.I.R.C.U.I.T (Cavalry of Institution and Catholic Rule and of Independent Traditionalist Union). Article 3 of the statutes give an account of the origins of the name, which is derived not from Jerusalem but from Mount Zion (Sion in French), a hill near Annemasse, where they were supposed to construct «a Priory which would be a center of investigation, meditation, rest and prayer» for what was intended to be one of the many small esoteric orders that were common at the time in France. Aside from that, the Priory of Sion was built along the model of the other organizations that Plantard had founded since he was 17 years old in 1937, with the names: Union Française, Rénovation Nationale Française and Alpha Galates. The common characteristics between these organizations and the Priory of Sion were that they all were political in nature (they were monarchists, and Plantard was originally interested in the monarchist movement Action Française, although at Annemasse it was involved, above all, in promoting low-income housing) and the fact that they never had more than a dozen members. Anyway, the Priory of Sion founded in 1956 at Annemasse in a sense still exists today, as a tiny organization within the larger subculture of esoteric societies of France.

 

But wasn’t the Priory of Sion an organization founded by Godefroy de Bouillon (1060-1100), as claimed both by the Dossier secrets and by Dan Brown in the «Fact» page of The Da Vinci Code?

During the 1960’s, when he was preparing the Dossier secrets hoax, Plantard - who, as we know, originally borrowed the name «Priory of Sion» from a hill in Annemasse where he intended to build a center for spiritual retreats - discovered in the history of the Crusades (by which he was often inspired for his fantasies) an «Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion» founded in 1099 in Jerusalem precisely by Godefroy de Bouillon, who later became King of Jerusalem after the First Crusade. The community of monks of the Abbey (and not «Priory», as the superior was called Abbot and not Prior) in Palestine continued to exist until 1291, when it was destroyed by the advancing Muslims. The few surviving monks took refuge in Sicily, where their community was extinguished in the 14th century. This was a very normal community of Catholic monks, without any ties to the Knights Templar, Mary Magdalene or esoteric secrets: the «recovery» of which by Plantard was simply the use of their name, and nothing else.

 

And what about those important people, like Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Victor Hugo… Don’t they have some relation to the Priory of Sion?

Certainly not: neither do they have ties to Plantard’s Priory, founded in 1956; nor to the abbey of monks founded in Palestine, extinct in the 14th century. Actually, Plantard was inspired for his list of Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion by some of the lists of alleged «Imperators», i.e., supreme heads, and «distinguished members» of the AMORC, the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, which circulated in France, were AMORC was quite successful. AMORC had been founded in 1915 in the United States by Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883-1939), and Plantard was in contact with certain leaders of the French branch (some of them later left AMORC) dating back to the 1940's. Except for Cocteau and Msgr. Ducaud-Bourget (who, long before becoming famous, was vicar of the Paris church of Saint Louis d'Antin, where Plantard worked shortly as a sexton), all the names of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion can be found, coincidentally enough, in texts by  French leaders of AMORC. Many esoteric societies established from the 18th to the 20th century give to their members mythical genealogies that would include the Knights Templar, Noah, Saint John or King Solomon, as well as famous people of literature and art. Usually, most of their members are aware of the merely symbolic and mythical character of these genealogies.

 

But didn’t Leonardo leave traces of his knowledge of the secret of the Priory of Sion in his Last Supper, where the person painted to the right of Jesus actually appears to be a woman?

This idea has been defined as «absurd» by one of the most learned scholars of Leonardo, Professor Judith Veronica Field, who teaches at the University of London and is the current president of the Leonardo Da Vinci Society (cf. Gary Stern, «Experts Dismiss Theories in Popular Book», The Journal News, November 2, 2003). Given that in a painting, everyone tends to see what he or she wants to see, more or less suggested by the reading one has done, it is important to point out that whether or not the person depicted on the right of Jesus is a woman or a man, is not that relevant to the issue at hand here. Neither is it necessary to return to the question of whether or not Leonardo was heterosexual, homosexual or bi-sexual, about which a vast amount of literature exists, or whether his preference for masculine forms which seem effeminate should be considered important in this debate. Whoever decides to get worked up over this issue is really forgetting the essential point. Admitting that Leonardo thought that the person sitting next to Christ in the Last Supper was a woman, we have to ask ourselves how this demonstrates that: (a) he thought that person to be Mary Magdalene; (b) the fact that Leonardo thought such a thing would somehow make it true; (c) Mary Magdalene participated in the Last Supper because she was Jesus’ wife; (d) the two had children; (e) those children should have governed the Church; (f) to preserve this truth a secret society was born, the Priory of Sion; (g) and Leonardo was a member of the Priory. As we can see, it is a long road to walk down. Of all these steps not only are there no proofs, but we do know with certainty by whom, when, where and how the legend of the Priory of Sion was invented.

 

What about the parchments found by the parish priest, Saunière, at Rennes-le-Château and taken to Paris for examination, after which the priest became a millionaire?

Such parchments never existed, although the priest, during the renovation of his church, discovered some archaeological artefacts, currently on exposition in the Museum of Rennes-le-Château, but which have nothing to do with either Mary Magdalene or the Priory of Sion. Saunière, who left meticulous records about what he did and how much he spent each day (also available for consultation at the same Museum), never visited Paris in his life. Nor did he become a millionaire, even though he became wealthy enough to be able to acquire property and build a villa and library tower. His real - as opposed to fictional - wealth was explained during the course of a canonical process against Saunière started by the Bishop of Carcassonne, Paul Félix Beuvain de Beauséjour (1839-1930), the acts of which are also available for consultation. Beginning in 1896, Saunière embarked upon a road - illegal from the point of view of both canon law and civil law, but not invented by him nor particularly mysterious - of «trafficking in Masses». Between 1896 and 1915 from his meticulous notes one can deduce that he received stipends for at least one hundred thousand Masses: five or six thousand a year at the high point of the operation. The documentation exists: both in terms of letters and announcements in which a «poor priest» asks for stipends for the celebration of Masses sent to convents or other individuals; as well as in terms of publications in pious magazines throughout all of France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy - the list goes on and includes hundreds of benefactors approached many times over and recorded in accounts on a month-by-month basis. The objection, according to which at a time - unlike today - the Catholic Church did not tolerate that a priest could accumulate various intentions for a single Mass, it was impossible for Saunière to celebrate five or six thousand Masses a year, does not really makes the «trafficking in Masses» activity impossible, but certainly raises questions about the honesty of the priest: and it is an objection that is answered by itself. Simply put, the parish priest of Rennes-le-Château pocketed stipends for Masses that he would never celebrate.

 

Yet, aren’t there strange Satanic or Masonic symbols left by Saunière at Rennes-le-Château which would confirm his occult inclinations?

These are simply made-up stories. The works for the renovation of the parish church were commissioned by Saunière in 1896 to a famous company, the H. Giscard Père et Fils of Toulouse, which was solely responsible for the project. The H. Giscard company, founded in 1885 and in which several Giscard family members worked, was a firm which served numerous parishes, as well as the famous Carmel of Lisieux. Its headquarters have now been transformed into a Museum, but the great-nephew of the founder, Joseph Giscard, continues to work as a sculptor. The conventional style of the Giscard artists is famous in France and only the ignorance of some of those who propagated the Rennes-le-Château legend explains why certain symbols - found in many other Catholic churches around the world - could be interpreted as sinister or Satanic. Hence, we have the devil that supports the holy water basin (a demon evidently defeated by the holy water) or the words written above the entrance to the Church, Terribilis est locus iste, which simply come from the well-known vision of Jacob’s ladder in Genesis 28, 17. The Bishop of Carcassonne, Msgr. Félix-Arsène Billard (1829-1901), a rather conservative prelate who went to see the new church on the occasion of a missionary effort in the village during Pentecost, 1897, certainly found nothing objectionable And those who see in the Way of the Cross of the Rennes-le- Château church «Masonic» symbols should reflect on the fact that many symbols later used by Freemasonry were corporative and Catholic symbols long before they became Masonic. The Giscard artists of the 19th century were well known and appreciated in the Catholic world precisely for their conventional (at times, exaggeratedly so) style, rather bereft of any uniqueness or surprises.

 

It is also said that the French painter, Nicolas Poussin (1594-1655), in his famous painting The Shepherds of Arcadia, depicted a tomb which is found in Rennes-le-Château, indicating his belonging to the Priory of Sion and his knowledge of the secrets…

In a certain sense, among the so many enigmas of Rennes-le-Château, this is the most delightful. The so-called «tomb of Arques» mentioned above was commissioned in 1932 (in substitution for a tomb previously constructed in 1903 and which did not even vaguely resemble the one in The Shepherds of Arcadia) by Louis Bertram Lawrence (1884-1954), an American businessman of French origin. Buried there are Emily Rivarès Lawrence (1863-1932) and Marie Rivarès (1843-1922), respectively the businessman’s mother and grandmother, as well as two cats owned by Marie Rivarès herself and which had been embalmed. All of the administrative documents concerning these constructions and reconstructions are still in existence. The tomb can be considered vaguely reminiscent of the 17th century painting by Poussin. The painting was well known in its own right and it is possible that it somewhat inspired the 1932 project. In 1988, the tomb was demolished by the actual owner with the authorization of the competent municipal authorities (those of the township of Peyrolles), tired of seeing it profaned by vandals searching for the secrets of the Priory of Sion. In any case, Poussin obviously could not have reproduced in a painting of the 17th century a tomb built in 1932.

 

Even admitting that the Priory of Sion is a hoax, are there not proofs in the «Gnostic» Gospels that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, and that the early Christian community did not think he was God? And was this not the reason why the Catholic Church arbitrarily chose the four «inoffensive» Gospels as canonical during the Council of Nicea of 325, backed by the military strength of the Emperor Constantine (280-337)?

Not true: there are several texts of the first Christian century in which Jesus is clearly regarded as God. By the time of the Muratorian Canon - which dates from around 190 A.D. - the recognition of the four Gospels as canonical and the exclusion of the Gnostic texts was substantially completed, 90 years before Constantine was born. In terms of Mary Magdalene, the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, which Dan Brown likes so much, far from being a pro-feminist text, asserts that the greatness of Mary Magdalene lay in «[…] her having become a male». To Simon Peter, who objects that «Mary should leave us! Because women are not worthy of Life», Jesus responds: «Behold, I will guide her in such a way as to make her a male, so that she will become a living spirit equal to you males. Because every woman that becomes a male will enter into the kingdom of Heaven» (Gospel of Thomas, 114). Of course, here we see the Gnostic notion of androgyny which should not be taken literally: yet we are a long way away from feminism. Plus, no mention is made here of Jesus’ and Mary Magdalene’s children.

 

The Da Vinci Code implies that the Opus Dei is a «sect» which has entered into conflict with the Church in terms of its knowledge of the Priory of Sion’s secrets. Is this true?

In the first place, nobody can conceivably blackmail others on the basis of the «secrets of the Priory of Sion», which basically do not exist. These alleged secrets are part of a hoax which proceeds from Plantard to de Sède, from de Sède to Lincoln, and from Lincoln to Dan Brown. In terms of the Opus Dei (where,  by the way, there are no «monks», contrary to what Dan Brown proposes in his book), not only it is an institution approved and praised by the Catholic Church, but its founder, José María Escrivá (1902-1975), has been canonized as a saint by the Pope in 2002. Dan Brown’s «information» comes from an association of ex-members and other people hostile to the Opus Dei, known as The Opus Dei Awareness Network (ODAN), mentioned explicitly in the novel, which is connected to a much larger «anti-cult movement» (whose controversial positions are amply criticized on this web site). ODAN’s aggressive opinions on Opus Dei and its founder are in no way shared by the Catholic hierarchy.

 

But how can such a bunch of wild claims attract more than 60 million readers?

This is a complicated question, to be examined from a sociological point of view. A more detailed discussion of this question is included in my book on the subject (in Italian), I would simply suggest here that The Da Vinci Code brings together two types of social «tastes» which appear to be quite widespread: on the one hand, the notion of «conspiracies» and secret societies that dominate the world; and on the other hand, an increasingly unashamed and virulent anti-Catholicism.

Readers Try to Unlock Code to 'Da Vinci' Sequel

Thursday, October 19, 2006

 


Can Dan Brown do it again?

"The Da Vinci Code," which rattled people's notions of Jesus Christ, became a hit movie, stayed at the top of bestseller lists for years and sold more than 60 million copies, is a hard act to follow.

But Brown apparently plans to do just that with the hotly anticipated and presumably forthcoming sequel to the international phenomenon. And while readers wait for his latest mystery to unravel, they're trying solve their own: just what protagonist Robert Langdon's next quest will be.

"When I was still in the initial stages of guessing and deducing this, I concluded that it would involve the founding fathers and take place in Washington," said David A. Shugarts, author of "Secrets of the Widow's Son," one of the books already out about what readers might encounter in the "Da Vinci Code" sequel. "It was a short while after that Dan Brown himself let all that out."

More specifically, the next thriller — whose working title was initially released as "The Solomon Key," though a Random House publicist has since said that wouldn't be the name — will explore the history of the secret society known as the Freemasons and the link between it, the founding fathers and the birth of the United States, Brown has confirmed.

Several of the men who factored prominently in establishing this country were Masons, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere and others.

The clue that pointed Shugarts and others toward the Freemasons was right on the dust jacket of "The Da Vinci Code" — along with a few others Brown sprinkled on the cover to give readers some tidbits about his next book.

In the written description about "The Da Vinci Code" on the inside flap, several of the white letters are slightly bolded. When put together, they spell out "Is there no help for the widow's son?"

"The phrase comes out of the history of Freemasonry and is an emergency appeal message from one Mason to another Mason to tell each other they're in trouble — it's like 'Mayday!'," said Dan Burstein, who oversaw the publication of "Secrets of the Widow's Son" and has written other guidebooks to Brown's novels, including "Secrets of the Code" and "Secrets of Angels and Demons."

Another puzzle on the "Da Vinci Code" jacket points toward the inclusion of the founding fathers in the sequel. The anagram in dark lettering, when decoded, spells out "E pluribus unum" — an early motto for this country that means "Out of many, one."

Also on the cover are a series of geographic coordinates that turn out to be the location of the Kryptos sculpture at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., whose mysterious code has only partially been solved and which has long fascinated Brown and others interested in cryptology.

Symbols like the unfinished pyramid on the back of the dollar bill — taken from Egyptian history but also possibly used by the Masons — and Mona Lisa's right eye, as well as Masonic buildings like The House of the Temple in Washington and even Mormonism, could also be woven in.

And Brown has mentioned in an interview that his next novel will focus on the murders of politicians in the capital city, according to Greg Taylor, author of "The Guide to Dan Brown's 'The Solomon Key.'"

"I think it will be really interesting, especially if he sticks to what he was going to write on," Taylor said. "There's a lot on these secret societies."

Shugarts, Taylor and others theorize that part of the conspiracy that may be central to the "Da Vinci Code" sequel will revolve around the fact that as Masons, many of the founding fathers weren't Christians but rather Deists — who believe in a higher power that created life but isn't present or active in the world and doesn't interact with the human race.

That flies in the face of what many modern elected officials say about the men who established this country and its democratic government.

"The founding fathers did not mean to create a lily-white Christian nation," Shugarts said. "They had a profound respect for God but intended to allow each person to have that respect in their own way rather than make it a Christian government. Dan Brown may startle us by bringing up some of these inconvenient truths."

Some have speculated that the plagiarism lawsuits and accusations of inaccuracies in "The Da Vinci Code" have led Brown to be far more cautious in his research for his next novel.

"That whole London trial in the spring involving 'The Da Vinci Code,' in my opinion, really threw him off course substantially," Burstein said. "He doesn't want to get caught in another legal quagmire." Burstein believes it may even be possible that he's put this sequel project on hold indefinitely.

In any case, it will soon become apparent whether or not Dan Brown readers can expect the author's next offering in March 2007, the release date that has most recently been bandied about.

Burstein said marketing would have to begin by November or December at the latest considering how huge the book is anticipated to be.

Though many fans say they don't think a "Da Vinci" sequel can or will top the original, they're still excited for the next installment in the Robert Langdon series, whenever it surfaces.

"I'm very much looking forward to reading a book about American history and finding out what secret societies were out there," said Lisa Shea, who runs the "Da Vinci Code" fan Web site www.lisashea.com. "With his talent for drama, he could make it into a really cool story. I am hoping that it comes out soon because I really want to read it."

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A great deal of discussion has centred on whether Russell, the founder of the Watch Tower Society, had connections with Freemasons. Under his leadership the Watchtower contained many Masonic symbols. The terms Watchtower, Golden Age, Jehovah and New World Order are part of Freemasonry as was the all-seeing-eye, winged sun disk, two columns, pyramids and Russell’s strong Zionist stance. Much of this traces back to the Egyptians. The evidence is not conclusive that Russell adopted these beliefs from Freemasonry as it is possible that he took these beliefs and symbols from Second Adventists.

 

The purpose for what follows is to show that many of the beliefs and symbols Russell included in the Watchtower publications are what the religion now claim to be of pagan and even occult background. Russell’s Adventist and Masonic related beliefs help explain the source of some of his teachings and the development of his religion. It raises the question that if this is truly the only religion directed by Jehovah, why God allowed or even directed for symbols of this kind to identify his people, even well after the claimed cleansing of his spiritual temple in 1919.

 

Knights Templar

 

Jehovah’s Witnesses - Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom p.200 states;

 

 “For years, Bible Students wore a cross and crown as a badge of identification, and this symbol was on the front cover of the “Watch Tower” from 1891 to 1931. But in 1928 it was emphasized that not a decorative symbol but one’s activity as a witness showed he was a Christian. In 1936 it was pointed out that the evidence indicates that Christ died on a stake, not a two-beamed cross.”

 It is interesting for Proclaimers to mention that the Bible Students wore a cross and crown. What it fails to mention in this brief reference is what this symbol represented. Wearing a cross is understandable, but why a ‘Cross and Crown’, and what is the meaning of it? The cross and crown is actually referred to as the Knights Templar, in honour of the Knights that are said to have devoted their lives to guarding the Holy Grail. This is a symbol that has been synonymous with secret societies, such as the Illuminati and is also used by Freemasons and Christian Scientists.






The Wreath that appears around the crown also appears in the symbol of the United Nations and the Star Trek logo, both heavily influenced by Freemasons.

           

The Knights Templar appears on each side of the pyramid monument that adorns Russell’s grave, as shown below. Why would Russell introduce what the Watchtower now claim is pagan symbology if he was directed by God’s Holy Spirit?

 

The Winged Sun Disk

 

The winged sun disk is an Egyptian religious symbol and appeared on the cover of Studies In the Scriptures Series I - The Divine Plan of the Ages . This symbol is used by Freemasons and occult groups.

                      

A Masonic reference work describes the winged sun disk it this way:

 

“... the Winged-Disk, with the Uraei of Egypt, the original of which we find in the text summarized by Naville in the "Myths of Horus," pII. xii. ff; "horus commanded Thoth that the Winged-Sun-Disk, with Uraei, should be brought into every sanctuary wherein he dwelt, and into every sanctuary of all the gods of the lands of the South and the North, and in Amentet, in order that they might drive away evil from therein...." This is what is meant by the Winged-Disks, with the Uraei, which are seen over the entrances of the courts of the temples of all the gods and goddesses of Egypt.” (Churchwald, Albert, The Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man(London: George Allen & Co., Ltd.) 1913 p. 344)

 

The Rosicrucian Order, AMORC (Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis) is an occult organization that uses the Winged-Disk as their logo. Rosicrucians are said to have existed for millennium and the AMORC organization started in 1915. As stated on their website http://www.rosicrucian.org/home.html (as at 30 March 2005)

 

“The goal of the Council is to bring cosmic help to all those in need of it. The Council does this by putting certain spiritual energies into motion and directing them in accordance with mystical law and natural principles.”

 

A Rosicrucian reference work says this about the winged-disk or globe (Swinburne, Clymer, The Rosicrucians Their Teachings (Quakertown, PA.: The Philosophical Pub. Co.), 1923 p. 112):

 

“The Winged Globe is pre-eminently a Rosicrucian symbol, although the Illuminati may lay claim to it, and it may be admitted that it is of Egyptian origin. The Winged Globe is the symbol of the perfected soul making its flight back to the source of its creation in the Elysian fields beyond.”

 

This is not a common symbol of Christianity that Russell inadvertently borrowed, this was an unchristian symbol solely of pagan origins.

 

Pyramid

 

Russell had great interest in pyramids and their relationship with Bible prophecy. Bible Students continued to use the pyramid of Gizeh (or Giza) as part of prophecy until the 1930’s.

 

Russell’s belief in the sign of the pyramid most likely came from the Second Adventists. In 1859 John Taylor published The Great Pyramid: Why Was It Built? And Who Built It? He put forward the idea that the architect and supervisor of the Great Pyramid was not an Egyptian but Noah. (Other pyramidologists believe it was Melchizedek.) The astronomer Piazzi Smyth accepted this idea. In June 1876 he published an article in the Bible Examiner, a journal owned by George Storrs in Brooklyn. In 1877 Joseph Seiss also published a book on the pyramid entitled Miracle in Stone. George Storrs then ran a series of articles on the Pyramid and its prophetic significance in the Herald of Life and the Coming Kingdom. Russell attributed much of his knowledge on pyramids to Smyth.

 

Thy Kingdom Come p.338

“Here, thanks to the very accurate measurements of all the passages, furnished by Prof. Smyth, we are enabled to reach what to us are by far the most interesting features of the testimony of this “Witness” yet delivered.”

 

Charles Taze Russell is buried in a family owned grave at the Rosemont United Cemetery, 226 Cemetery Lane, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This cemetery contains the remains of known Masons and overlooks a Masonic temple. It is claimed that Russell was embalmed at death and next to his grave is a pyramid erected as a memorial. Weighing several tons, it is complete with symbols of the knight’s templar, All-Seeing-Eye and the inscription Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society

                        

Souvenir Report of the Bible Students Convention, Pittsburgh, PA. 1919 January 2-5 p.7

 “AT THE GRAVE

     On Monday, a party of about 150 was conducted by Brother Bohnet to the grave of Brother Russell. Upon a hillside, sloping towards the south, we joined hands around the grave and sang: ‘Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love; the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.’

     Our last lingering look upon the scene recalled the peaceful manner of our Pastor’s ‘passing beyond the veil.’ Brother Rutherford’s words came to mind: ‘I am glad this prison experience was reserved for us, rather than for our dear Brother Russell.’

     We visited the marble works and there watched the workmen slowly but surely chisel out the monument to be erected as a memorial to the Society. The Watchtower Society burial lots in Rosemont United Cemeteries, five miles due north of Pittsburgh City, contain ample grave space for all the members of the Bethel family, and the pilgrims and their wives — in all more than 275 adult graves. In the exact center of the Bethel lot will be erected diagonally the Pyramid Shape Monument as designed by Brother Bohnet, and accepted by Brother Russell as the most fitting emblem for an enduring monument on the Society’s burial space. The size of this structure is nine feet across the base, and its apex stone is exactly seven feet above the ground surface level.”

 

Pyramids are a major aspect of Freemason teaching and many pagan religions. They were generally used as temples and played an important part in the belief of the afterlife. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica on DVD 2002

 “Pyramids have been built at various times in Egypt, The Sudan, Ethiopia, western Asia, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, India, Thailand, Mexico, South America, and on some islands of the Pacific Ocean. Those of Egypt and of Central and South America are the best known.”

 

Russell’s interest was particularly in the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, built for Cheops. It is the northernmost of a group of 3 pyramids built in Gizeh and is the largest and oldest of the 3, estimated by archaeologists to have been built over 4,000 years ago.  It is considered the most colossal single building ever erected. Its base points are accurately oriented to the four cardinal points of the compass.

 

Russell’s belief in the message of the pyramids was based on Isaiah 19:19-20;

“19 In that day there will prove to be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Jehovah beside its boundary. 20 And it must prove to be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry out to Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a savior, even a grand one, who will actually deliver them.”

 

He believed that the sign of Egypt was related to the dimension of the pyramid of Gizeh. In the early 1900’s he went to Egypt to measure the pyramid and claimed that the passage of the great pyramid of Gizeh was 2170 inches and that it was built in 2170 B.C.E. The significance of this teaching is highlighted by it having over 60 pages devoted to it in the Thy Kingdom Come book.

Pyramid as appearing in Studies in the Scriptures Series III

Russell originally used the size of a pyramid to prove that 1874 A.D. marked the beginning of the period of trouble, and 1914 as the end. When 1914 did not bring about Armageddon Russell changed the 1916 edition of Thy Kingdom Come to include new measurements on the size of the pyramid to show that 1914 was the beginning of the time of trouble. Russell’s claim was that the great pyramid of Giza had somehow changed size by 41 inches. The two quotes following are from different editions of the same book.

 

Studies In the Scriptures Series III - Thy Kingdom Come 1897 ed. p.342

“We find it to be 3416 inches, symbolizing 3416 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A.D. 1874 as making the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B.C. plus 1874 years A.D. equals 3416 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1874 was the chronological beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation-no, not ever shall be afterward.“

 

Studies In the Scriptures Series III - Thy Kingdom Come 1916 ed. p.342

“We find it to be 3457 inches, symbolizing 3457 years from the above date, B. C. 1542. This calculation shows A.D. 1915 as making the beginning of the period of trouble; for 1542 years B.C. plus 1915 years A.D. equals 3416 years. Thus the Pyramid witnesses that the close of 1914 will be the beginning of the time of trouble such as was not since there was a nation-no, not ever shall be afterward. “

 

The Divine Plan of the Ages 1908 edition end notes state;

“The Great Pyramid in Egypt is a Witness to all these events of the ages and of our day -- testifying in symbols?  The Pyramid's downward passage under "A Draconis" symbolizes the course of Sin? Its First Ascending Passage symbolizes the Jewish age? Its grand Gallery symbolized the Gospel age? Its Upper Step symbolized the approaching period of tribulation and anarchy, "Judgments," upon Christendom? Its King's Chamber the Divine Nature, etc., of the Overcoming Church -- the Christ, Head and Body? Its Ante-Chamber the Correction in Righteousness of the "Great Company" etc.? Its Queen's Chamber those of Israel and the world who attain Restitution?”

 

Several more quotes show this belief in pyramids continuing under the leadership of Rutherford even as late as 1925.

 

Watchtower 1922 June 15 p.187

“In the messages of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh the agreement of one or two measurements with the present-truth chronology might seem accidental, but the correspondency of dozens of measurements proves that the same God designed both pyramid and plan.”

 

Watchtower 1925 May 15 p.148

“In the great Pyramid of Egypt, standing as a silent and inanimate witness of the Lord, is a messenger; and its testimony speaks with great eloquence concerning the divine plan.”

 

In 1928 this teaching was discarded and was no longer referred to. Rutherford made the comment in the Watchtower 1928 November 15 p.344 that the pyramid is "Satan's Bible, and not God's stone witness." Was Rutherford implying that Russell was guided by Satan in coming up this teaching?

 

This was not a wrong mainstream teaching of Christendom that Bible Students had inherited, such as they claim to have done with practices such as Christmas. Neither did Jesus cleanse the Watchtower Society of this teaching when he came to his spiritual temple in 1919. Though Rutherford claims it was from Satan’s Bible he himself had written about it, and Russell had introduced it under the guise of being directed by Holy Spirit as God’s chosen “mouthpiece”.

 

All Seeing Eye

 

The All Seeing Eye on top of Russell’s pyramid is a symbol used by Freemasons, Mormons, in occult worship, Buddhism and appears on the American dollar bill. Other names for this are Eye of Horus or Utchat Eye as it is associated with both the Egyptian God Horus (god of war) and his father Osiris (who along with Isis comprise the Egyptian Triad). Called the "mal ochio" (evil eye), this object is regarded by Satanists as the symbol of Lucifer. It is known to have been Satanist Aleister Crowley's favourite symbol.



To understand why Russell had an interest in the all Seeing Eye we can look to its meaning to Freemasons.

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/glossary/glossary_a.htm (as of 15/1/2005)

 

“What is the source of this symbol and its meaning? An important symbol borrowed by the Freemasons from the nations of antiquity. Among the Egyptians, Osiris, their chief deity was symbolized by an open eye." The eyes of Jehovah are in every place," beholding and watching, the evil and the good. The "All-Seeing Eye" is a symbol of watchfulness and the eye of the Grand Architect. It is the symbol of his Divine watchfulness and care of the Universe. The All-Seeing Eye, whom the Sun, Moon, and Stars obey, and under whose watchful care even comets perform their stupendous revolutions, pervades the inmost recesses of the human heart, and will reward us according to our merits. The "Rays" represent "Light". Freemasons are emphatically called "The Sons of Light" because they are entitled to be in possession of the true meaning and knowledge of this symbol. It is in fact the first of all symbols presented to the initiate, and continues to be presented to him in various forms throughout his Masonic career. But as Light not only came from God, it also makes mans way clear before him, so it is employed to signify moral truth. Prov. 15:833:18”

 

At http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_symbolism_of_freemasonry.htm

Albert G. Mackey, M.D., writes;

 

“The All-Seeing Eye is another, and a still more important, symbol of the same great Being….

 

The All-Seeing Eye may, then, be considered as a symbol of God manifested in his omnipresence—his guardian and preserving character—to which Solomon alludes in the Book of Proverbs (xv. 3), when he says, "The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, beholding (or as it might be more faithfully translated, watching) the evil and the good." It is a symbol of the Omnipresent Deity.”

 

The reason that the Freemasons use this symbol invokes biblical connotations, yet has pagan origins.

 

YHWH

 

The Tetragrammaton and word Jehovah have been used by Freemasons over the centuries.

 

At http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_symbolism_of_freemasonry.htm (as at May 30th 2006) Albert G. Mackey, M.D. writes;

 

“Another important symbol is the Ineffable Name, with which the series of ritualistic symbols will be concluded.

 

The Tetragrammaton, or Ineffable Word,—the Incommunicable Name,—is a symbol—for rightly-considered it is nothing more than a symbol—that has more than any other (except, perhaps, the symbols connected with sun-worship), pervaded the rites of antiquity. …

 

The triangle is another symbol which is entitled to our consideration. There is, in fact, no other symbol which is more various in its application or more generally diffused throughout the whole system of both the Spurious and the Pure Freemasonry.

 

The equilateral triangle appears to have been adopted by nearly all the nations of antiquity as a symbol of the Deity. … Among the Hebrews, it has already been stated that this figure, with a yod in the centre, was used to represent the tetragrammaton, or ineffable name of God.”

 

  The following are Masonic images and a 9 inch Model Temple at the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania.

 

Star

 

The star on the original Watchtower seal has Masonic connotations, being used on Masonic Seal
     

Two Columns

 

Two columns appeared on the invitation to The Photo Drama of Creation. These columns have Masonic origins as explained at http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md02.htm (as at April 9th 2006)

 

“You entered the Lodge between two columns. They represent the two which stood in the porch of the Temple, on each side of the great eastern gateway. These pillars, of bronze, four fingers breadth in thickness, were, according to the most authentic

account--that in the First and that in the Second Book of Kings, confirmed in Jeremiah--eighteen cubits high, with a capital five cubits high. … The capitals were enriched by pomegranates of bronze, covered by bronze net-work, and ornamented with wreaths of bronze; and appear to have imitated the shape of the seed-vessel of the lotus or Egyptian lily, a sacred symbol to the Hindus and Egyptians. The pillar or column on the right, or in the south, was named, as the Hebrew word is rendered in our translation of the Bible, JACHIN: and that on the left BOAZ. Our translators say that the first word means, "He shall establish;" and the second, "in it is strength."

 

These columns were imitations, by Khurum, the Tyrian artist, of the great columns consecrated to the Winds and Fire, at the entrance to the famous Temple of Malkarth, in the city of Tyre. It is customary, in Lodges of the York Rite, to see a celestial globe on one, and a terrestrial globe on the other; but these are not warranted, if the object be to imitate the original two columns of the Temple.”

Two Columns

 

Two columns appeared on the invitation to The Photo Drama of Creation. These columns have Masonic origins as explained at http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md02.htm (as at April 9th 2006)

 

“You entered the Lodge between two columns. They represent the two which stood in the porch of the Temple, on each side of the great eastern gateway. These pillars, of bronze, four fingers breadth in thickness, were, according to the most authentic

account--that in the First and that in the Second Book of Kings, confirmed in Jeremiah--eighteen cubits high, with a capital five cubits high. … The capitals were enriched by pomegranates of bronze, covered by bronze net-work, and ornamented with wreaths of bronze; and appear to have imitated the shape of the seed-vessel of the lotus or Egyptian lily, a sacred symbol to the Hindus and Egyptians. The pillar or column on the right, or in the south, was named, as the Hebrew word is rendered in our translation of the Bible, JACHIN: and that on the left BOAZ. Our translators say that the first word means, "He shall establish;" and the second, "in it is strength."

 

These columns were imitations, by Khurum, the Tyrian artist, of the great columns consecrated to the Winds and Fire, at the entrance to the famous Temple of Malkarth, in the city of Tyre. It is customary, in Lodges of the York Rite, to see a celestial globe on one, and a terrestrial globe on the other; but these are not warranted, if the object be to imitate the original two columns of the Temple.”

Pleiades Constellation

 

The Pleiades are a dipper-shaped cluster of stars situated in the “shoulder” of the constellation Taurus. To the ancient Romans the constellation of the Pleiades was known for its association with homosexuality. In the 20th Century it was popularised by the UFO and flying saucer buffs. Also known as The Seven Sisters it is mentioned in the Bible in Job 9:9, Job 38:31 and alluded to in Amos 5:8.The constellation symbol is found on the west tower of the Mormon Temple and was known by the Egyptians as the "Dragon of the Seven Stars."

 

I have heard Witnesses belittle the Mormon belief that they shall rule on planets as Gods. It may surprise these people that both Russell and Rutherford taught that when they died they would be taken to the Pleiades constellation, which was said to be the dwelling place of God. This is a close parallel with the Mormons belief, that on their resurrection they become gods on various planets.

 

Russell took this idea from Seiss. Seiss taught that the physical construction of the Great Pyramid indicated that Alcyone (the central star in the Pleiades constellation) is at the centre of the universe. This belief appears in Studies in the Scriptures, Series 3 p. 327.

 

Rutherford continued with the teaching in the 1928 book Reconciliation, and said on page 14:

“The constellation of the seven stars forming the Pleides appears to be the crowning center around which the known systems of the planets revolve even as our sun's planets obey the sun and travel in their respective orbits. It has been suggested, and with much weight, that one of the stars of that group is the dwelling-place of Jehovah and the place of the highest heavens; that it is the place to which the inspired writer referred when he said: "Hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven" (2 Chron. 6:21); and that it is the place to which Job referred when under inspiration he wrote: "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"--Job 38:31.

 

The constellation of the Pleiades is a small one compared with others which scientific instruments disclose to the wondering eyes of man. But the greatness in size of other stars or planets is small when compared with the Pleiades in importance, because the Pleiades is the place of the eternal throne of God.”

 

Mention of Pleiades is also in Creation 1927 p.94. The teaching was not discontinued until 1953.

 

Watchtower 1953 November 15 p.703

“Some attribute striking qualities to these constellations or star groups and on the basis of such they then offer private interpretations of Job 38:31, 32 that amaze their hearers… when viewed scripturally they are completely without foundation.”

 

The Watchtower subtly blames the members, saying ‘some attribute striking qualities’, but does not refer to the fact that the reason the members had this belief was that it had been taught in Watchtower publications.

 

Astrology & Spiritualism

 

Russell was not only into Egyptology but also referred to Astrology. The constellations of the Zodiac were regarded in 1914 as of Divine origin with each of the 12 Zodiacal signs having corresponding statements in the Bible.

 

Zion’s Watch Tower 1903 May 1

“AN ASTROLOGER’S OUTLOOK

We seriously question all the claims of astrology; yet the following… seem remarkably true to our expectations based upon the Word of the Lord…Saturn is the representative of the great motive power that has dominated the mind of man up to the present time. … Jupiter, representing law, religion and morality, has been perforce subservient to Saturn’s greater and more potent force…When Uranus and Jupiter meet in the humane sign of Aquarius in 1914, the long-promised era will have made a fair start in the work of setting man free to work out his own salvation, and will insure the ultimate realization of dreams and ideals of all … In 1903 Jupiter will be in the Sign of Pisces—sign of the feet, or understanding, and the synthesis of the new religion is Love.”

 

Rutherford held to this view as shown by quoting Russell.

 

Watchtower 1922 June 15th

"When Uranus and Jupiter meet in the humane sign of Aquarius in 1914, the long promised era will have made a fair start in the work of setting man free to work out his own salvation, and will insure the ultimate realisation of dreams and ideals of all poets and sages in history"

 

Uranus and Jupiter meet in the humane sign of Aquarius every 80 or so years and this occurrence is held as a powerful sign by Astrologers. The start of World War One in 1914 is stated by Astrologers to be proof that extraordinary events do occur with the meeting of Uranus and Jupiter in Aquarius.

 

Conclusion

 



A look at the history of Jehovah’s witnesses show Russell was greatly influenced by Masonic teachings, partly due to the views of Adventist teachers around him. These were not a minor error on his part, but rather well developed teachings that were promoted for fifty years, well into the leadership of Rutherford. Long after Jesus is said to have inspected and cleansed his organization in 1919 Jehovah’s Witnesses continued to promote these pagan views as truth. It is difficult to reconcile these teachings with Watchtower statements that they are the only channel the Lord uses to feed his members with truth, and that there has been no significant change in the truths they have promoted.

 


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    www.freemasonry.org.fj/lodge_polynesia.aspx - 7k - Cached

 


  1. In a related area, Freemasonry teaching. blasphemes the name of God by associating ... volumes), Washington, D.C., The Temple Publishers. 1984. II,, p. 110. 3 ...
    www.bic-church.org/about/issues/english/freemasonry.pdf - 54k - View as html
  2. ... the real details of D.C.'s architecture are laid out ... the first Grand Master of modern Freemasonry, Bacon sent his followers to the new world. ...
    www.hometown.aol.com/norio1944/page8.html - 28k - Cached
  3. Modern Speculative Freemasonry began in London 1717, when 4 lodges formed the ... 2. Speculative Freemasonry put deism in place of the Christian elements ...
    www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=f&word=FREEMASONRY - 53k - Cached
  4. ... existence of Freemasonry predates the 14th - 15th century A.D. Some historians, ... treasure which ends up being buried deep under the ground in Washington D.C. ...
    members.tripod.com/crossbearer-brian/id253.htm - 54k - Cached
  5. Find, shop for and buy Freemasonry at Target.com ... Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. by Christopher Hodapp ...
    target.com/Freemasonry-Practices-Religion-Spirituality-Books/b?... - 218k - Cached
  6. Participated in internships at sites like the Embassy of Lithuania in Washington D.C. ... Questions about Wisconsin Freemasonry? Email the Grand Lodge ...
    www.wisc-freemasonry.org/html/masonic_foundation.htm - 14k - Cached
  7. ... on Freemasonry for Masons and those interested in ... C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. Masonic Magazine. The Lodge ...
    www.masonicdictionary.com/freemasonry.html - 34k - Cached
  8. Freemasonry was born in 1717, when 4 Craft Lodges gathered at the Apple Tree ... 35 states, and headquarters in Washington, D.C., the most openly anti-Catholic, ...
    religion-cults.com/Secret/Freemasonry.htm - 39k - Cached
  9. ... Freemasons and to provide contemporary information on Freemasonry. ... Solomon's Bu ilders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ...
    www.bonisteelml.org/index.html - 41k - Cached
  10. ... Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, by Albert Pike, Washington D.C., 1958, p 104-105. ... fact that the order apparently had been founded in Washington, D.C., in 1864. ...
    www.mychurch.org/blog/43298/YOU-CANNOT-BE-A-CHRISTIAN-AND-A-FREEMASON - 85k - Cached

 

  1. ... the capitol building in Washington, D.C. However, Manley Hall became a leading ... Council of the World in Washington, D.C., awards all 33rd Degrees. ...
    www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/final_warning/freemasonry.htm - 96k - Cached
  2. In 1880, after moving to Washington, D.C., Pike affiliated with a local Lodge, ... He died in the "first" House of the Temple in Washington, D.C., at eight ...
    www.srorlando.org/pike.html - 22k - Cached
  3. Elected to receive the 33° in Washington, D.C. 2007. York Rite ... Email the Webmaster. Questions about Wisconsin Freemasonry? Email the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. ...
    www.wisc-freemasonry.org/html/grand_master.htm - 13k - Cached
  4. The necessary condition for memebrship in Freemasonry is the belief in a Supreme ... Grand Lodge of D.C. 5428 MacArthur Blvd NW. Washington DC 20016-2524 ...
    www.anacostialodge.org/gl.asp - 13k - Cached
  5. Freemasonry in the American Revolution. Washington, D. C. : The ... The Great Light in Masonry. Washington, D.C. : The Masonic ...
    www.hnoc.org/collections/pdf/german/EL2.2001.pdf - 39k - View as html
  6. Freemasonry and the Church. by. W. J. COLLETT, C.D., M.A., B.Ed., B.D., D.D. Grand Master ... ethical accusations against Freemasonry in relation to the ...
    www.linshaw.ca/omtp/vol5no1.html - 15k - Cached
  7. ... D.C. In other words, the conclusions of this book are highly thought of by one ... in his book on the secret Masonic architecture of Washington, D.C., says ...
    meta-religion.com/.../Masonry/freemasonry-visible_and_invisible.htm - 36k - Cached
  8. ... Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (Washington, D.C.: Prepared for the Supreme ... The House of the Temple in Washington, D.C., provides tours daily. ...
    masonicworld.com/education/files/artmay01/sectionsabout_masonry.htm - 222k - Cached
  9. Higher Praise Specializing in Sermons, HigherPraise Church Resources and Christian Info. ... Resources. Ron Carlson. If Not Playing In 9 Sec,Click Above Title ...
    www.higherpraise.com/RonCarlson/FreemasonryMasonicLodge.htm - 97k - Cached
  10. ... P. S. G. D. 63. THE GRAND PRINCIPLES OF FREEMASONRY. By W. Bro. ... THE LIMITATIONS OF FREEMASONRY IN INDIA. By R. W. Bro. C. A. RAMAKRISHNAN, I.C.S. (Retd. ...
    www.masonindia.org/MasonicInfo.htm - 36k - Cached
  1. Freemasonry has been responsible for promoting pedophilia, wars, and attacks ... Washington, D.C. is laid out using Masonic symbolism. Albert Pike – Benjamin Franklin ...
    www.trosch.org/msn/communist.html - 32k - Cached
  2. ... University in Washington, D.C. who speaks about Freemasonry during the Enlightenment. ... U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. with Professor James ...
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  3. ... in 1862 when several residents of Alexandria petitioned the Grand Lodge of D.C. ... The Grand Lodge of D.C. granted this dispensation and this act was to cause ...
    masonicworld.com/education/files/mar05/military_and_freemasonry.htm - 12k - Cached
  4. Display, entitled "British Freemasonry," in an ... Copyright © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. ...
    www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007187&MediaId=5783 - 22k - Cached
  5. DouKnow.net, Deceived By The Light web site. ... Take any good street map of downtown Washington, D.C. and find the Capitol Building. ...
    www.douknow.net/inthelight/fm_satandoor.htm - 14k - Cached
  6. photos of William D Means: Public Home ... and Accepted Masons of Washington, D.C. Freemasonry is first and foremost a fraternity. ...
    public.fotki.com/wdmeans - 19k - Cached
  7. ... Society), The Plumbline, D.C. Voice of Freemasonry, the Virginia Masonic Herald ... D.C. Grand Lodge Leadership Conference in Front Royal, VA. Sept. 1998 ...
    www.tallcedars.org/famous/Bois/bessel.htm - 53k - Cached
  8. The Truth about Freemasonry ... Later, it is noted in the 1988 D.C. Grand Lodge Proceedings that the Grand ... in full time Masonic work within Washington, D.C. ...
    burningtaper.blogspot.com/2007/06/disney-masonic-connection.html - 95k - Cached
  9. ... to the building of King Solomon's Temple in 850 B.C. No one really believes that. ... Franklin D. Roosevelt. Harry S Truman. Warren G. Harding ...
    www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/freemasonry - 18k - Cached
  10. Federal Lodge #1, F.A.A.M.. Celebrating Four Centuries of Freemasonry in Washington D.C. ... What is Freemasonry? So you want to be a Mason? Famous ...
    www.federallodge.net - 28k - Cached
  1. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N ... In the preliminary stages which led up to freemasonry, there are traces of the ...
    www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=361&letter=F - 31k - Cached
  2. ... and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, by Albert Pike, Grand Commander 1859 ... Washington D.C. 1964 ... the Mysteries, in which were represented ...
    freemasonry.cephasministry.com/p14.html - 9k - Cached
  3. All-Seeing Eye in the Masonic Lodges is a symbol of Satan, George Washington was ... The nation's new Capital was renamed Washington D.C. in his honor. ...
    www.biblebelievers.org.au/masonic3.htm - 161k - Cached
  4. OF FREEMASONRY. VALLEY OF WASHINGTON. Washington, D.C. _20 _ To the Officers and Members of: ... I am a Master Mason in good standing in the Blue Lodge, as ...
    dcsr.org/pdfs/petition_affiliation.pdf - 14k - View as html
  5. In 1880, after moving to Washington, D.C., Pike affiliated with a local Lodge, ... He died in the "first" House of the Temple in Washington, D.C., at eight ...
    www.freemason.org/cfo/mar_apr_2002/pike.htm - 14k - Cached
  6. as a Mason in. Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, nor in 10,000 Famous ... Senator at the time, with temporary residence in Washington, D.C. 10,000 ...
    m.1asphost.com/.../books/USA - Freemasonry - Masonic Presidents.pdf - 81k - View as html
  7. notes for a presentation at the D.C. Grand Lodge Wardens and Deacons Seminar on ... Events, upcoming, in D.C. Freemasonry. http://bessel.org/gltresl.htm ...
    www.lodgeroominternational.com/library/library13.html - 435k - Cached
  8. ... mystery religion known as Freemasonry, they offer quotes from many of our ... showing Elizabeth the widow of John, and c. John Russell in the 1850 Census, and ...
    mysite.verizon.net/ress3yvb/id97.html - 65k - Cached
  9. D.C. In 1791, Pierre Charles L'Enfante(the designer, who was a Freemason) ... Freemasonry and the Washington D.C. Street Layout: ...
    groups.google.com.hk/group/talk.origins/browse_thread/thread/... - 57k - Cached
  10. Articles in English and Spanish concerning Masonic Influences in Early ... D.C., House of the Temple, 1950 ) pp. 11, 850, 851, as cited by Tom C. McKenney, ...
    www.crossandcompass.com - 11k - Cached

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  1. The above street plan in Washington D.C is laid out in the shape of a ... down, less thirty-three degrees (as in the thirty-three degrees of Freemasonry) ...
    www.cremationofcare.com/illu_sym_pentagrams.htm - 18k - Cached
  2. ... to this book, this "proved" that Freemasons designed Washington, D.C. ... It's a popular technique in 'popular' literature surrounding Freemasonry today. ...
    www.masonicinfo.com/books/secretarchitecture.htm - 24k - Cached
  3. Freemasonry, and giving a current view and future direction of the Craft in ... M E S S A G E F R O M T H E G R A N D C H A P L A I N. Search. for Destiny ...
    www.uglnsw.freemasonry.org.au/clips/freemason/FreemasonAug05.pdf - 1539k - View as html
  4. Freemasonry is to point out its near universality in the ... 7. Rex R. Hutchens, A Bridge To Light (Washington, D.C.:The Supreme Council, 1988), p. 299-302. ...
    www.namb.net/resources/beliefbulletins/pdf/Closer_Look_Freemasonry.pdf - 76k - View as html
  5. ... Eastern Star Grand Lodge Honour Roll In Memoriam Scottish Rite Shrine York Rite ... [ 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I ] ...
    www.freemasonry.pe.ca/modules/PDdownloads/viewcat.php?list=D - 29k - Cached
  6. Comprehensive expose on Freemasonry explaining the ritual and the significance of its symbols, demonstrating its Jewish ... Street Layout of Washington D.C. ...
    www.biblebelievers.org.au/masonic2.htm - 124k - Cached
  7. Freemasonry and ... a Freemason's tour of Washington, D.C. as it separates fact from ... agenda in their architectural plans of Washington, D.C., and in ...
    www.anathemabooks.com/mason.shtml - 97k - Cached
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    E D I T O R I A L. Freemasonry. – the way forward. In both my inauguration speech, and at ... F R O M T H E G R A N D C H A P L A I N. Meet the new. Grand ...
    www.uglnsw.freemasonry.org.au/clips/freemason/FreemasonOct05.pdf - 2052k - View as html
  9. ... hoped that the important facts related in this book will be a means ... of the Grand Masonic Lodge in Washington D. C. there are two Ancient Egyptian sphinxes. ...
    www.harunyahya.com/globalfreemasonry04.php - 113k - Cached
  10. At Catholic University, in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 1990, in a speech to ... The official position of American Freemasonry has been outlined in their ...
    jesus-is-savior.com/.../Freemasonry/secret_societies_and_satanism.htm - 10k - Cached

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  1. Discusion about Special Report: Washington, D.C. = Ritual Center of Global 'One World Order' ?? in the AboveTopSecret.com website alternative topics discussion ...
    www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread285951/pglastpost - 36k - Cached
  2. ... the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: Books: Albert Pike by Albert Pike ... Now, I understand why Albert Pike's statue is in Washington, D.C. ...
    amazon.ca/Morals-Ancient-Accepted-Scottish-Freemasonry/dp/159547997X - 101k - Cached
  3. ... Order | • Bilderberg | • Bohemian Grove | • Skull and Bones | • Freemasonry ... Sign up at Prison Planet.tv - CLICK HERE. D.C.has stifling security blanket ...
    propagandamatrix.com/articles/january2005/180105securityblanket.htm - 24k - Cached
  4. ... if you have or are currently involved in Freemasonry, I hope and ... perceive America as exalting herself and "Washington D.C." often acts like a god in ...
    www.matthewcmanning.com/files/Exposing_Freemasonry_as_Satanism.pdf - 129k - View as html
  5. D. of C asked me to act as Jr. Deacon of the Lodge. ... and best experience and the first lesson I learnt in Freemasonry, "Be Prepared" ...
    www.masonindia.org/MInfo_35.htm - 12k - Cached
  6. Price: $4.95 | The evidence is there on the money. Traces are found in the configuration of the District of Columbia. Their touch is present in the shape of the...
    goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/.../Ideals-of-Freemasonry-at-District.html
  7. ... of the Masonic and Kabbalistic symbolisms in the Washington, D.C. map layout. ... In his book, The Secret History of Freemasonry (p 77), Jeremy Harwood claims ...
    www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/dc_symbolism/index.htm - 53k - Cached
  8. ... University in Washington, D.C. who speaks about Freemasonry during the Enlightenment. ... D., author and historian, explains the York Rite of Freemasonry. ...
    masonictv.com/pages/order page two for allthingsmasonic.htm - 27k - Cached
  9. ... L'Enfant resulted in a classically inspired vision and plan for Washington, D.C. ... Prince Hall Freemasonry has been practiced in Washington, D.C. with the ...
    www.archfoundation.org/octagon/exhibitions/initiatedeye/index.htm - 37k - Cached
  10. Freemasonic Death Oaths ... out by its roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea, a cable ... in willful violation whereof may I incur the ...
    www.webspawner.com/users/luciferslodge/thedeathoathsof.html - 11k - Cached

 

 

 

 


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  1. Discusion about Special Report: Washington, D.C. = Ritual Center of Global 'One World Order' ?? in the AboveTopSecret.com website alternative topics discussion ...
    www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread285951/pglastpost - 36k - Cached
  2. ... the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: Books: Albert Pike by Albert Pike ... Now, I understand why Albert Pike's statue is in Washington, D.C. ...
    amazon.ca/Morals-Ancient-Accepted-Scottish-Freemasonry/dp/159547997X - 101k - Cached
  3. ... Order | • Bilderberg | • Bohemian Grove | • Skull and Bones | • Freemasonry ... Sign up at Prison Planet.tv - CLICK HERE. D.C.has stifling security blanket ...
    propagandamatrix.com/articles/january2005/180105securityblanket.htm - 24k - Cached
  4. ... if you have or are currently involved in Freemasonry, I hope and ... perceive America as exalting herself and "Washington D.C." often acts like a god in ...
    www.matthewcmanning.com/files/Exposing_Freemasonry_as_Satanism.pdf - 129k - View as html
  5. D. of C asked me to act as Jr. Deacon of the Lodge. ... and best experience and the first lesson I learnt in Freemasonry, "Be Prepared" ...
    www.masonindia.org/MInfo_35.htm - 12k - Cached
  6. Price: $4.95 | The evidence is there on the money. Traces are found in the configuration of the District of Columbia. Their touch is present in the shape of the...
    goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/.../Ideals-of-Freemasonry-at-District.html
  7. ... of the Masonic and Kabbalistic symbolisms in the Washington, D.C. map layout. ... In his book, The Secret History of Freemasonry (p 77), Jeremy Harwood claims ...
    www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/dc_symbolism/index.htm - 53k - Cached
  8. ... University in Washington, D.C. who speaks about Freemasonry during the Enlightenment. ... D., author and historian, explains the York Rite of Freemasonry. ...
    masonictv.com/pages/order page two for allthingsmasonic.htm - 27k - Cached
  9. ... L'Enfant resulted in a classically inspired vision and plan for Washington, D.C. ... Prince Hall Freemasonry has been practiced in Washington, D.C. with the ...
    www.archfoundation.org/octagon/exhibitions/initiatedeye/index.htm - 37k - Cached
  10. Freemasonic Death Oaths ... out by its roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea, a cable ... in willful violation whereof may I incur the ...
    www.webspawner.com/users/luciferslodge/thedeathoathsof.html - 11k - Cached

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  1. ... Thirty-third Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry will be held in Tampa on ... Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A. Washington, D.C. Shepheard's Tavern ...
    www.srorlando.org/index.html - 40k - Cached
  2. ... Page 18 This Forum is a Gateway for a UseNet mailing list about Freemasonry. ... The Tetrahedral World of Washington D.C. The Tetrahedral World of Washington D.C. ...
    www.thebluelodge.org/archive/index.php/f-198-p-18.html - 15k - Cached
  3. Enter the OFTEN Bizarre World of Freemasonry: A list by Jon Cartwright ... of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. ...
    amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8&...+of+Freemasonry+The&index=books&page=1 - 94k - Cached
  4. Understand The Times is An International Missionary Outreach Dedicated to ... Satellite View of Washington D. C. Shows Masonic Influence. Feb 17, 2005 ...
    www.understandthetimes.org/topics/masons.shtml - 64k - Cached
  5. ... of the secret name in his discussion of the old French ... 7 Rex R. Hutchens, A Bridge To Light (Washington, D.C.: The Supreme Council, 1988), p. 299-302. ...
    4truth.net/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=hiKXLbPNLrF&b=784543&ct=932129 - 40k - Cached
  6. The buildings in Washington D.C. were laid out in masonic symbols, and many of ... Lacquement, C.H. "Freemasonry and Organized Religions" in The Pennsylvania ...
    www.watchmannetwork.org/unmasking_freemasonry.htm - 134k - Cached
  7. Arts / Antique & Vintage Books / The Standard Ritual of Scottish Freemasonry by n. ap. ... A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q ...
    marywardbooks.com/books/The-Standard-Ritual-of-Scottish-Freemasonry... - 34k - Cached
  8. Washington, D.C. is a city planned by Masons, its site was laid out by Masons ... books, self help books, lifestyle books, spiriturality books, freemasonry books. ...
    www.fairwindspress.com/description.asp?isbn=1592332293 - 8k - Cached
  9. The buildings in Washington D.C. were laid out in masonic symbols, and many of ... Lacquement, C.H. "Freemasonry and Organized Religions" in The Pennsylvania ...
    www.biblequery.org/OtherBeliefs/Freemasonry/Masons.htm - 30k - Cached
  10. ... ethnic cleansing and disaster we see in this world have a genuine purpose. ... lay to rest any and all arguments whether Freemasonry is "Christian" or not! ...
    www.illuminati-news.com/070606b.htm - 79k - Cached
  • In 1868 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become editor of The Patriot, a ... be torn down and America and Freemasonry will be in jeopardy, for one would ...
    www.masonicinfo.com/pikestatue.htm - 26k - Cached
  • FreeMasonryWatch.org ...
    www.freemasonwatch.freepress-freespeech.com/washington.html - Cached
  • Council of Vienne 1311 - 1312 A.D. Different Volumes Of Sacred Law. Early Catechism Of Freemasonry c 1725. Freemasonry and Catholism This is long! ...
    themasonictrowel.com/Articles/Freemasonry/freemasonry_main_toc.htm - 130k - Cached
  • ... contains, news directories, and general information about Freemasonry. ... of Washington, Washington Circle, Washington, D.C. He was buried with Masonic honors. ...
    www.grandlodge-nc.org/freemasonryrevealed/famous.htm - 8k - Cached
  • ... D.C. — February 4, 2006 : Today the Knights of Freemasonry Universal ... Universality in Freemasonry, those here recognized have taken courageous steps ...
    new.kofu33.org/awards.php - 8k - Cached
  • Recently I was back in Washington, D.C. for the First Joint Session of both the ... Freemasonry in general, and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in ...
    www.burlingamescottishrite.org/Pages/Bulletin.html - 45k - Cached
  • Freemasonry is an esoteric society, in that certain aspects of its ... America's Beginnings Volume II: Secret Architecture of Washington, D.C., (2007) ...
    tinwiki.org/wiki/Freemasonry - 67k - Cached
  • Masons (also known as Freemasons) belong to the oldest and largest fraternal organization in the world. ... Washington, D.C.: Supreme Council 33, 1957. ...
    www.mountnebo229.org/library/dehoyos_13.php - 36k - Cached
  • ... home Mail My MSN Sign in. encarta greeting cards more. Hotmail ... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z. freelance. freelancer. freeloader ...
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  • Watch this all ,and you will be smarter.... Its very important ... david icke washington illuminati masons freemasonry new world order 2007 mayan calendar 2012 ...
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    1. P.O.Box 90181, Washington D.C.20090, p. 24) ... name was adopted in 1717, but the real founder of Freemasonry is not Anderson. ...
      www.aculink.net/~catholic/masonry1.htm - 6k - Cached
    2. century (c. 1350-1390) in the written evidence of its ... Washington, D.C. Members must be eighteen years or older and either Master Masons in good ...
      www.caesarealodge64.org/what_is_freemasonry.htm - 81k - Cached
    3. ... there are social aspects to Freemasonry, just as there are social aspects ... meeting of Grand Masters in Washington, D. C. The declaration was formally ...
      www.emfj.org/social.htm - 2k - Cached
    4. ... which represents the Scottish Rite Masons in 34 American States and nearly all ... Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction at Washington D.C. Another recent ...
      web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/pike.html - 5k - Cached
    5. ... website of Sojouner Kilwinning Lodge #1798, chartered by the Grand Lodge of D.C. ... Masons of Washington, D.C. Freemasonry is first and foremost a fraternity. ...
      www.sojournerkilwinning.org/default.asp - 6k - Cached
    6. ... cornerstones for public buildings in Washington, D.C., and erected monuments to pagan gods. ... on 16th Street in Washington, D.C., just blocks from the ...
      jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/618.htm - 24k - Cached
    7. History of Freemasonry In Virginia. How Much Do Masons ... Washington D.C. Layout and. Masonic Signature. A Collection and Places Named after Albert Pike ...
      www.cephas-library.com/index_masonic_files.html - 79k - Cached
    8. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may ... Washington, D.C. 2007. The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or The Secret if Hiram Abiff ...
      www.battleaxe.org/freemasonry_quotes.htm - 29k - Cached
    9. ... both practical and symbolic uses in operative and speculative Freemasonry. ... Service Association of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1924, pages 32-34 ...
      www.dunnsrockmasoniclodge.org/Gavels in Freemasonry.htm - 16k - Cached
    10. ... Freemasonry. society God Islam Jesus pyramid evil Christian Secret egypt mason masonry freemasonry ... mason symbols Washington D C. Google. Page 1 ...
      www.scribd.com/doc/7516/The-Hidden-Gears-of-Freemasonry - 548k - Cached

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    1. ... Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, D.C., were given to the Library ... extended discussion of freemasonry, the Magnetic Telegraph Company, ...
      www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/french.html - 28k - Cached
    2. The Origins Of Freemasonry Margaret C. Jacob University of Pennsylvania Press 3905 Spruce St., Philadelphia, ... C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R ...
      www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-141752857.html - 31k - Cached
    3. The First Degree of Freemasonry Watch occultic roots are exposed ... statue of a Confederate General in Washington D.C. is also that of a convicted ...
      www.returnofthenephilim.com/FreemasonryFirstDegree-3.html - 55k - Cached
    4. the World, Washington D.C., is dedicated to none other than Confederate ... "S" Streets in Washington, D.C. High above the entrance is an elaborate image of the ...
      bibleprobe.com/freemasonry.pdf - 641k - View as html
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    8. ... a considerable role in European Freemasonry from the 1750's onwards. ... Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Washington, D.C., Bro. ...
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    10. ... National Treasure, which itself portrayed Freemasonry in a positive, if somewhat ... House of the Temple in Washington, D.C. For the last few weeks, there have ...
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    1. Meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays, 7:30 PM. History, trestleobard, officers, photographs. ... contact us. A new message from our Worshipful Master, visit news ...
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    2. Kessinger Publishing utilizes advanced technology to publish and preserve thousands of rare, scarce and ... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...
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    3. Although of a religious nature, Freemasonry is not a religion. ... Colonel C. J. Ingles, D.S.O., V.D. [Published, Toronto Ontario, 1956] ...
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    6. The system of chronology used in craft freemasonry which numbers ... D.C.: Director of Ceremonies. D.G.: Due Guard. D.G.M.: Deputy Grand Master. Dep.: Deputy ...
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    7. ... fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. by Christopher L. Hodapp takes you on ... the most popular modern guide to the ancient, accepted fraternity of Freemasonry. ...
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    8. Washington D.C. Scottish Rite Clipart - Click Here. Masonic Clipart - Click Here ... Freemasons of the Grand Lodge of D.C. Clipart - Click Here ...
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    9. The layout of Washington D.C. was done in precise accords with Masonic symbolism. ... G. Mackey, M.D., 33rd Degree, An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred ...
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    10. The Mason's influence in Washington, D.C. Fascinating facts about famous Masons. ... new history of Prince Hall Freemasonry in the United States, including ...
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    2. Later defeated in a senatorial race, he moved to Washington D.C. in 1870. ... to Athelstan a great interest in Freemasonry and a great love for Freemasons, ...
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    3. The largest Catholic website in the world ... Home. Encyclopedia. Summa. Fathers. Bible. Library. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...
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    5. ... in Washington, D.C. Both William and Walter worked at the Library of Congress ... an official reference not only as to Freemasonry in North America, but as to the ...
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    6. Rite of Freemasonry. Charleston, S.C.:Supreme Council 33. o. of the South- ern Jurisdiction, ... ( Washington, D.C.: Supreme Council of the 33. o. for ...
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    8. Articles indexed to freemasonry (in order of time indexed. ... Is the Devil in the Details of D.C. Streets?Laris Karklis -- The Washington Post ...
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    9. ... Masonic philosophy, history of Freemasonry, history of reason, Euclid's ... of the Middle Ages, 1000-1300,(Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Co., 1971), 56. ...
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    10. Freemasonry—The Invisible Cult in Our Midst. 153 pages-Book $8.00. QTY. 34 ... Plan Revealed in the Architecture, Monuments, and Layout of Washington, D.C. ...
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    1. ... founding fathers was the god of Freemasonry, holding out the promise that man ... I prayed in D.C. at the Naval Lodge, at the House of the Temple (33rd degree of ...
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    2. Shrine rooms in D.C. 2001 Shriner postage stamp. who we are. the club's parade awards ... in the United States America. Illinois York Rite of Freemasonry ...
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    3. Masonic archive of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Valley of Chicago. ... headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., and covers the remaining 35 states. ...
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    4. ... the capitol building in Washington, D.C. However, Manley Hall became a leading ... Council of the World in Washington, D.C., awards all 33rd Degrees. ...
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    5. The Tetrahedral World of Washington D.C. c. c. Introduction. µµµ. µµµ µµµ. C. ccccccccc ... That in of itself would be merely "interesting" if it were the ...
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    6. Masonic Lodge located in Laurel Co., East Bernstadt, Kentucky. ... Web Master. Copyright @2006, 2007 C.D. Ward No. 961, East Bernstadt, Kentucky. ...
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    7. The Tetrahedral World of Washington D.C. c. c. the world's foremost Masonic Cityµµµ ... C. ccccccccccccc. C. µµµ. C. Tetrahedral Washington in All its ...
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    8. ... home of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Colorado. ... Council - our national governing body, is headquartered in Washington, D.C. ...
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    9. ... Albert Pike is, and what role he has played in predicting Three World Wars. ... the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Washington, D.C. (see The Deadly Deception, ...
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    10. ... 29 1809, Boston - d. April 2 1891, Washington, D.C.) was an attorney, soldier, ... Massachusetts Washington, D.C Confederate States Army Freemasonry Attorney-at ...
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    1. ... including Bible, New World Order, New Age, Charismatic, Theosophy, Roman Catholic, Freemasonry and end times ... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X ...
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    2. Modern Freemasons began in 1717 in Western Europe. ... How Washington, D.C. Works. How the Papacy Works. How Gossip Works. OPINIONS ...
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    3. ... was instrumental in bringing into the ranks of Freemasonry several other well ... American Federation of Human Rights in Washington, D.C. (and as such on file as ...
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    4. ... of the Grand Masonic Lodge in Washington D. C. there are two Ancient Egyptian sphinxes. ... No Idolization in Freemasonry but Interpretation), Masonluktan ...
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    5. ... Albert Pike is, and what role he has played in predicting Three World Wars. ... the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Washington, D.C. (see The Deadly Deception, ...
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    6. Washington D.C. testify the nazi persecution of Freemasonry at home and in the occupied ... 565 Bibliography concerning freemasonry in cases persued by ...
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    7. This is the best documentary ever produced on Freemasonry in the history of film. ... Riddles in Stone: The Secret Architecture of Washington, D.C. ...
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    8. ... and long forgotten story contained in the scattered rituals of Freemasonry. ... the Freemasons who founded the nation planned Washington, D.C., the way they did. ...
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    9. Freemasonry in Washington, DC and the Office of Workforce and Professional ... Degree, Deputy Supreme Council for the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry ...
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    10. 25A,B,C. ditto. 26. 1926. Who's Who in Freemasonry. 27. 1963. The Freemason's Pocket. Reference Book ... Genesis of Freemasonry. Knoop D. 267. 1815 ...
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    1. 25A,B,C. ditto. 26. 1926. Who's Who in Freemasonry. 27. 1963. The Freemason's Pocket. Reference Book ... Genesis of Freemasonry. Knoop D. 267. 1815 ...
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    2. Grand Lodge of Canada AF&AM in Ontario. Very informative site on Canadian Masonry ... The Music of Freemasonry. More Music of Freemasonry Sources (GL of D.C. ...
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    3. ... an eternity in the lake of fire, with Lucifer, the god of Freemasonry. ... at 1733 16th St. NW, Washington D.C. Because freemasons are taught the Taxil ...
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    4. ... shown that both modern Freemasonry and Church ritualism descended in ... DOCTRINE (S.D.), Vol. III, only in the 1897 edition (this material is in C.W.XII) ...
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    5. ... Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Washington, D.C. has identified six members ... Tim Donaldson will be honored in Washington D.C. in August 2007. ...
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    6. ... after Hitler's rise to power, it became evident that Freemasonry was ... Conference of Grand Masters in Washington, D.C., received one from Dr. Theodor ...
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    7. Brown commented how in Turkey Freemasonry had come to be generally ... made a historic visit to Washington, D.C. in order to reclaim the Moorish flag ...
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    8. ... Grove Where the Global Elite Clad in Black, Silver and Red Hooded Cloaks Conduct ... Symbols, Freemasonry and the Architecture of Washington, D.C." It opened ...
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    9. Freemasonry teachings and practices of the secret fraternal order officially known as the Free and Accepted ... Architecture of Washington D.C." It opened ...
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    10. ... Scottish Rite Masonic Hall in Washington, D.C., for an annual ceremony honoring ... makes up the bulk of Freemasonry membership in the United States is ...
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    1. ... was a leader in many spheres of society including Freemasonry. ... Baronet, P.C., D.C.L., LL.D. (Hon.) Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia ...
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    2. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British ... Bu ilders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C. ...
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    4. The Robert Burns works archive, with full text indexed and searchable online. ... Home | Introduction | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O ...
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    6. ... its base in the traditions of public schools, and Freemasonry £7.50 ... London: Virtue &co. new and revised edition, n.d. c. early 1920's. In 2 volumes. ...
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    7. ... after Hitler's rise to power, it became evident that Freemasonry was in danger. ... Conference of Grand Masters in Washington, D.C., received one from Dr. Theodor ...
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    8. The first Ministry to Masons Conference was held in Washington D.C. in 1990. ... in the churches, Christians would not continue to be ensnared in Freemasonry. ...
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    9. Humanitarianism, Freemasonry, and universal brotherhood ... sonatas (1740s) & the Sechs Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber (c. 1765; publ. ...
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    3. ... contributions of Freemasons to the design and architecture of Washington, D.C. ... The first book of Freemasonry, printed in 1723, is known as Anderson's ...
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    4. Freemasonry meets in Temples. ... 000 grant to American University in Washington, D. C., and $10,000 to Baylor University in Texas. ...
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    5. ... Albert Pike from its place of honor in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square. ... Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, one C. Fred Kleinknecht. ...
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    6. 111DC/366.1/01HISTORY OF THE G. L. AND OF FREEMASONRY IN D. C. HARPER, KENTON N. ... 112NF/366.1/01 FREEMASONRY IN NEWFOUNDLAND 1848-1948 SKUCE, KENNETH C. ...
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    8. EA-11. What is meant by Ancients and Moderns in Freemasonry? ... District of Columbia, with the lodges in. each state and D.C. being under the ...
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    9. Freemasonry's Premier Research Lodge: Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076 (E.C. ... Peles, D. B. Freemasonry in Isreal. XXXI (1996-1997) 118-121. Transou, P. A. ...
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    2. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. Masonry (Freemasonry) ... modern signification of Freemasonry in which, since ...
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    6. ... Grand Master of Masons in New York administered the oath of office with the ... 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capital at Washington, D.C. ...
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    7. ... by distributing information about Freemasonry which is in the public ... 29, 1721, the Rev. James Anderson, D.D. (c.1680 - May 28, 1739) was directed by ...
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  • Canon Law Society of America, Washington, D.C., 1983, p. 497. ... in the April 1897 issue of his anti-masonic publication, Freemasonry Disclosed. ...
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    What is coming up in the
    INL 2008 International Theatre Show
    to be to held  in New York
    January 19th to 23rd February 2008?

    Molly Boom-
    main head line play:
    staring Eilin O'Dea, a great talented actress from Ireland,
     Eilin's love is the theatre,  however Eilin also wants to also develop her film career. The play is a section of work from the famous Dublin writer James Joyce, which was banned for many years when it was first written, and is an absolute stunning performance that really can not be missed.
    is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature, which was  performed by Eilin O'Dea and directed by Liam Carney


    The INL News Group welcomes the
                             "I Wanna Be Famous"
                              "Actually Now Famous"
                            
    Jessica Delfino
    as stage manageress for the
    INL2008 International Theatre Show,
    on the spot reporter and what other
    mischief Jessicacan get up to on the streets of New York,
    watch out for Jessica if she approaches you on the street in New York, she is armed and dangerous with her video cam...

    Hi,

     I am Jessica Delfino

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    Read about my quirky life
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    Whats coming up in the
    INL 2008 International Theatre Show
    to be to held  in New York
    January 19th to 23rd February 2008?
    Art by this amazing Japanese artist Shizko Kiyohara
    for more on this artist click here to see her web


    for more on this artist click here to see her web site

                                      





    Molly Boom-
    main head line play:
    staring Eilin O'Dea, a great talented actress from Ireland,
     Eilin's love is the theatre,  however Eilin also wants to also develop her film career. The play is a section of work from the famous Dublin writer James Joyce, which was banned for many years when it was first written, and is an absolute stunning performance that really can not be missed.
    is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature, which was  performed by Eilin O'Dea and directed by Liam Carney
     
    All Change: written and performed by Kerry Leigh, a talented stand up commedian from Manchester who was educated is Perth Western Australia at the Curtain University and thus has a great influence of a mixture of English and Australian humour
    "Juggling isn't easy - some days you hand your baby a beer and ask your man if he's done a poo-poo. Has this funny mummy gone gaga? Ride the highs and lows of a comedian's experience of first-time motherhood as she shares her tory with painful honesty and curious humour...." Kerry Leigh

     
     Jessica Delphino
    Jessica Delfino

            
    who went to Philadelphia Art School which Jessica says
                      " is the home of brotherly love..
          ......where the brothers love each other..."
    after been seen by the INL News Team in London and the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, INL has chosen Jessica to co-host the 2008 International News Limited ( INL) International Theatre Show in New York..
    Jessica who has had some her songs banned by you tube and denounced, ....yes........
    denounced by the Catholic League.......
    destroyed the audiencies in London and Edinburgh. when she brought her one wonan show to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.. words are hard to describe Jessica, however the USA Weekly News described her performance as 
                                                      
                             "innocently provocative.."
     
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    The lovely and clever Jessica Delfino wows them in the Galway Comedy Fest in Ireland....jessica delfino touching you comedy zeppelin joni mitchell sabbath genesis haunted pussy
     
    Dirty Beat Up Yanks
    Beat Up Dirty Yanks
    America's most idiotic, obnoxious, and energetic outcasts throw
    themselves onto the stage for a character comedy
    A
    comedic character smackdown slammed with stand-up,
    sketch and improvisation. Some contenders include:
     Buck, a Jewish soul loving hick and Hector,
    a chauvinistic Mexican plumber.

    a surprise guest in the audience trying to be lost in the crowd...Keith Richards...
    When Ronald Prouty
    Beat Off Dirty Yanks
     of Dirty Beat Up Yanks as the mexican plumber in Beat Up Dirty Yanks was doing his famous
    Fixi-The-Toilet Gag... and he asked Keith Richards if he had any toilets to fixie....
    Keith said.... in a rather posh uppercrust voice with a lot of authority and confidence...

                      "..... Oh I have toilets all over the world....."

    the mexican plumber quickly piped back and said to the lady sitting with Keith Richards...
    "ÿou are likley to get into a lot of trouble hanging around with Keith Richards..."
                                              .........all in fun and gest of course......
     
     
     
     Das Contras: Great up and comming Scottish Jass-Rock-Funk- Fussion Bands that ripped audiences appart at the 2007 Wickerman Music and  Edinburgh Fringe Festivals
    http://www.usaweeklynews.com/DasContrasScotland_sBest.html
    Scotland Rocks with Scottish Band 


    Das Contras Live Video 4 Wickerman Festival
    "
    Das Contras.... 

             
    at the 2007 WICKMAN FESTIVAL
    Scotland's Alternative Festival based in
    Dundrennan in the Scottish Borders.



    Das Contras Live Video 4 Wickerman Festival


    Das Contras Live Video 3 Wickerman Festival

    Das Contras Live Video 2 Wickerman Festival

    Das Contras Live Video 1 at Wickerman Festival

     THE INL News Group is working on getting Ellen DeGeneres to jointly host the Gala Premier Preview Show to be held on the 19th January 2008. Ellen is best mates with Hillary Clinton and we are hoping the get Hillary and Bill Clinton along and encourage Bill to play sax for a couple of numbers with the Das Contras band. This will be great publicity for the artists and the show, as well for Hillary's  presidential
    campaign....
     
    Ellen is really great value and very user friendly and would add a lot to the premier of the Show on the 19th January 2008 which should be fun for all and a really great night not to be missed on the your social calander.
     
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    Ellen DeGeneres / AP
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    DeGeneres, one of the country's best known entertainers, sobbed on TV last week as she recounted how an animal rescue group took back a puppy she had adopted but then given to her hairstylist's family without the animal agency's permission.
     


    The FAMOUS Bite Size team
    bring you the best short10 minute plays in the world, great comedy is provided to all by the Bite Size Team, British Actors and Comedians playing the best of  Aussie and British Humour.... 

    A Day In Dig Day Nation brought to you by the Flying Theatre Company

    Attempt 3.4 The Film- filmed from the last live perfromance at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and produced by International News Limitd association with Bitter Blue Productions, one of the very first times an Edinburgh Fringe Play has been turned into a feature Film

    Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom made famous in the  James Joyce play Ulysses is chosen as the feayure show to be brought to New York as part of 2008 International News Limited's International Theatre Show... seats for this show will no doubt be a sell out, so when the dates are announced get your tickets early to make sure you do not miss out.
     Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom was smash hit in Dublin and the INL News Group were fortunate enough to have seen the show while covering the 2007 Dublin Frnge Festival...and knew at once that INL had to share this academy award performance with New Yorkers
    .....


    Eilin Odea as Molly Bloom bears her soul on life, love, sex and lonliness in James Joyce's Ulysses an extract from the Paris 1922 Edition  


    Click here to view a  live video clip of Eilin O'Dea's stunning performance of Molly Bloom                  

    A review has been made by the USA Weekly News on the performance by Eilin O'Dea of James Joyce's Ulysses Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the James Joyce's Ulysses'. This is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature, which was  performed by Eilin O'Dea and directed by Liam Carney at the Teachers Club 36 Parnell Square West Dublin 1,  from the 25th September - 6th October.
     
    This famous narrative which has been used as the basis of songs, re-appeared in movies, quoted in other literary works and in terms of its effect on Irish culture is one of the most difficult narratives for an actor to perform. Eilin O'Dea performs Molly Bloom's otherwise silent voice to bear her soul on life, love, sex and loneliness. This has been done with absolute artistic genius by Eilen O'Dea in a genuine authentic way. Having heard Eilin O'Dea as Molly Bloom, it is hard to imagine any other actor performing this difficult narrative in anyway near the standard set by Eilin O'Dea.  In effect Eilin O'Dea has become the real Molly Bloom is this absolute stunning academy award style performance which will no doubt receive a standing ovation from audiences all around the world.
    The USA Weekly News was compelled to give Eilin O'Dea's  performance of Molly Bloom the highest industry award that is on offer. There is absolutely no doubt of her receiving the normal top five star industry award. However, the USA WEEKLY NEWS has a special 100 Star Award for performances that are in a class of their own. 
     Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom is one of these performances.
    The USA WEEKLY NEWS is confident that when Eilin O'Dea takes her performance of Molly Bloom to London, New York, Australia and the rest of the world,  the play will have a very long and successful season.
      
    Awards from the USA WEEKLY NEWS to Eilin O'Dea as Molly Bloom directed by Liam Carney : The normal Industy 5 star award plus the  USA WEEKLY NEWS special 100 star award for being is class far above the standard to the normal five star ward performance.
    Sincere congradulations from the USA WEEKLY NEWS.....
                    A performance not to be missed....


    Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom made famous in the  James Joyce play  Ulysses
     
    is
      chosen as the feaure show to be brought to New York as part of 2008 International News Limited's International Theatre Show... seats for this show will no doubt be a sell out, so when the dates are announced get your tickets early to make sure you do not miss out.
     Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom was smash hit in Dublin and the INL News Group were fortunate enough to have seen the show while covering the 2007 Dublin Fringe Festival...and knew at once that INL had to share  this academy award performance with New Yorkers.....



    Eilin Odea as Molly Bloom bears her soul on life, love, sex and lonliness in James Joyce's Ulysses extract  from the Paris 1922 edition, recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature    



    Click here to view a  live video clip of Eilin Odea's stunning performance of Molly Bloom                  

    A review has been made by the USA Weekly News on the performance by Eilin O'Dea of James Joyce's Ulysses Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the James Joyce's Ulysses'. This is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature, which was  performed by Eilin O'Dea and directed by Liam Carney at the Teachers Club 36 Parnell Square West Dublin 1,  from the 25th September - 6th October.
     
    This famous narrative which has been used as the basis of songs, re-appeared in movies, quoted in other literary works and in terms of its effect on Irish culture is one of the most difficult narratives for an actor to perform. Eilin O'dea performs Molly Bloom's otherwise silent voice to bear her soul on life, love, sex and loneliness. This has been done with absolute artistic genius by Eilen Odea in a genuine authentic way. Having heard Eilin Odea as Molly Bloom, it is hard to imagine any other actor performing this difficult narrative in anyway near the standard set by Eilin O'dea.  In effect Eilin Odea has become the real Molly Bloom is this absolute stunning academy award style performance which will no doubt receive a standing ovation from audiences all around the world.
    The USA Weekly News is compelled to give Eilin O'Dea's  performance of Molly Bloom the hightest industry award that is on offer. There is absolutely no doubt of her receiving the normal top five star industry award. However, the USA WEEKLY NEWS has a special 100 star award for perpormances that are in a class of their own. 
     Eilin O'Dea's performance of Molly Bloom is one of these performances.
    The USA WEEKLY NEWS is confident that when Eilin O'Dea takes her performance of Molly Bloom to London, New York, Australia and the rest of the world,  the play will have a very long and successful season.
      
    Awards from the USA WEEKLY NEWS to Eilin Odea as Molly Bloom directed by Liam Carney : The normal Industy 5 star award plus the  USA WEEKLY NEWS special 100 star award for being is class far above the standard to the normal five star ward performance.
    Sincere congradulations from the USA WEEKLY NEWS.....
                    A performance not to be missed....



     

    KERRY LEIGH and her amazingly funny and provocative one woman show...oh... not really there is also  'baby pumkin' as well... has been selected  by International News Limited -INL News Group to be brought to  New York as part of the 2008 INL's International Theatre Show

    It was decided to let New Yorkers share in Kerry's unique brand of humour in All Change, "about motherhood, babies and her impersonation of a retarded woman with a new baby obsession which isabsolutely superb.
    Go and see this show...” John Collins

    ALL CHANGE

    "Juggling isn't easy - some days you hand your baby a beer and ask your man if he's done a poo-poo. Has this funny mummy gone gaga? Ride the highs and lows of a comedian's experience of first-time motherhood as she shares her tory with painful honesty and curious humour...." Kerry Leigh


    Rap on Kerry Leigh
    Often mistaken for an Antipodean, Kerry was sent to Australia as a convict when she was just 9 years old for heinous crimes against fashion, returning to the UK in her twenties where she has since developed a dry and witty comedic style musing on the absurdities of life through the eyes of a pseudo-Australian.

    She has successfully written and performed her own one-woman comedy theatre show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007 in which she shares her experience as a first-time mother with painful honesty and curious humour, reviewed here by John Collins:

    “…this is a great show!! Kerry Leigh is very funny about motherhood, babies and her impersonation of a retarded woman with a new baby obsession was superb. Go and see this show...”

    As resident compere for ‘Laughing Cows’ at The Frog and Bucket  in Manchester since 2004, Kerry has become adept at comedy crowd control. Her surreal twist on recent events combined with a talent for quickly building a rapport with the audience makes her a fresh and captivating host each month.

    Kerry’s hosting talent is in demand as she now also MCs the recently formed ‘Roughsketch Comedy Club’ in Manchester for which she also writes and performs.

    Kerry was invited to Edinburgh as a Semi-finalist in Channel 4’s ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ competition in 2004 and was a finalist in 2005’s Citylife Comedian of the Year competition, reviewed here by Citylife writer Marissa Burgess:

    "...Kerry Leigh displayed a beautifully sardonic edge to express an inventive and refreshing set with an occasional unexpected surreal moment."

    Comedy History

    August 2007
    Wrote, directed and performed her one-woman show: All Change
    Edinburgh Fringe Festival

    May 2007 –
    Resident compere and sketch writer / performer at Roughsketch Comedy Club
    Castbar, Manchester

    2004 –
    Resident compere of Laughing Cows Comedy Nite
    The Frog and Bucket, Manchester

    January – December 2005
    Co-Presenter with Caroline Rennie on Drivetime
    All FM Radio, Manchester

    February 2005
    BBC3 I-Dent, comic actor

    November 2005
    Finalist in Citylife Comedian of the Year competition
    Comedy Store, Manchester

    August 2004
    Semi-Finalist ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ competition
    Gilded balloon, Edinburgh

    2002 –
    Stand up comedian performing at various venues throughout the UK

    1996 – 1999 
    BA (Hons) English (Double Major in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts) Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

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    Here's a helpful song by Jessica Delfino. She's discovered a guaranteed shortcut to everlasting fame--watch and learn!

    who went to Philadelphia Art School which Jessica says
                      " is the home of brotherly love..
          ......where the brothers love each other..."
    after been seen by the INL News Team at London and the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, INL has chosen Jessica to host the 2008 International News Limited ( INL) International Theatre Show in New York..
    Congradulations Jessica.. the audiences that are lucky enough to gets tickets to the 2008 INL International Theatre Show to be held in New York will be the winners..

    Some of Jessica's  provocative songs were banned by You Tube

    Jessica who has been denounced, ....yes........
    denounced by the Catholic League.......

    destroyed the audiencies in London and Edinburgh when she brought her one wonan show to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.. words are hard to describe Jessica, however the USA Weekly News described her performance as 

                                                      
                             "innocently provocative.."

    .....it seems like Jessica just came out of Sunday School, but when she starts talking and singing Jessica makes Madona sound like a kindergarden kid.....
    Oh sorry ....she has a drummer backing her who was  half an hour late and Jessica, calmly, without any effort, carried the whole show by herself...until the drummer finally turned up..... with what could be said on the surface as a feeble  excuse......that he was told the venue was just outside the Vauxall Tube Station........ to be fair to Jesssica's  drummer, the INL News Team were told the same story....this was far from the truth as it was really hard to find the venure being a barge on the Thames...but that did not stop the INL News Team and the rest of the audience making sure they found the Battersea Barge where  Jessica was playing, so they did not miss one second of Jessica's mind blowing performance..... and her good friends she hooked up with in Edinburgh 

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    Giant Mag Speaks Out  against the You Tube ban on Jessica

    Magical Vaginas Not Allowed On YouTube

    Why can't we see wizardly pussies?
    October 12th, 2006 • 6:38 PM

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    Magic Pussy

    Hey, YouTube! Now that you’ve been acquired by the massive warlords known as Google, do you really need to be exhibiting such prude behavior as this?

    Jessica Delfino went and made a perfectly fine song, called “My Pussy Is Magic.” And alas, her video—which features her magic singing, and, well, a whole lot of pussies—was shot off YouTube faster than Mark Foley shoots off over boys. The ban is not O.K. by Jessie, and it’s not O.K. by us. (Ironically, Jessica’s blog is hosted by Blogger—another company absorbed by Google.)

    What’s wrong with vaginas? They’re healthy, they’re cute, and they’re fascinating to look at. Jessy understood this, and presented us with a montage of labia to ponder. As Jessica nearly accurately counters, “I came out of a vagina, and so did the makers of YouTube.” Yes, Jessica, you came out of a vagina. But the YouTube founders came out of a plastic bag filled with vinegar and water.

    Ponder we did, and ponder we still will, since we’ll find a way to get this video somehow. And when we do, we’ll post a link. But if you get it first, let us know in a comment. That way we can all celebrate magical vaginas together.

    In its place, we’ll post the famous video made by the magical rich dicks of YouTube after they were bought out for a googleplex dollars of stock.
    Now which would you rather see—
    Jessica’s pussies, or these pussies?

    Click below link to see interviews with the  founders (pussies) of You Tube http://www.giantmag.com/2006/10/web/magical-vaginas-not-allowed-at-youtube/


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                                              .........all in fun and gest of course......

    It was a great night had by all... 
    the INL News Team coud see that no one wanted it to end...


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    Giant Mag Speaks Out  against the You Tube ban on Jessica

    Magical Vaginas Not Allowed On YouTube

    Why can't we see wizardly pussies?
    October 12th, 2006 • 6:38 PM

    Tags for this article: , , , , , , ,

    Magic Pussy

    Hey, YouTube! Now that you’ve been acquired by the massive warlords known as Google, do you really need to be exhibiting such prude behavior as this?

    Jessica Delfino went and made a perfectly fine song, called “My Pussy Is Magic.” And alas, her video—which features her magic singing, and, well, a whole lot of pussies—was shot off YouTube faster than Mark Foley shoots off over boys. The ban is not O.K. by Jessie, and it’s not O.K. by us. (Ironically, Jessica’s blog is hosted by Blogger—another company absorbed by Google.)

    What’s wrong with vaginas? They’re healthy, they’re cute, and they’re fascinating to look at. Jessy understood this, and presented us with a montage of labia to ponder. As Jessica nearly accurately counters, “I came out of a vagina, and so did the makers of YouTube.” Yes, Jessica, you came out of a vagina. But the YouTube founders came out of a plastic bag filled with vinegar and water.

    Ponder we did, and ponder we still will, since we’ll find a way to get this video somehow. And when we do, we’ll post a link. But if you get it first, let us know in a comment. That way we can all celebrate magical vaginas together.

    In its place, we’ll post the famous video made by the magical rich dicks of YouTube after they were bought out for a googleplex dollars of stock.

    Now which would you rather see—
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    Click below link to see interviews withthe  founders of You Tube

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    almighty god
                      The Committee of 300 worships their Almighty G.O.D. which stands for Gold....Oil and Diamonds ..
                      which are all controlled behind the scenes by their agents...
                      The Control of Gold worldwide has been assigned to the the Rothschild Family.....
                      The Control of Oil worldwide has been assigned to the Rockefeller Family....
                       The Control of Diamonds worldwide has been assigned to the Oppenheimer Family..
                       who in turn have spread out other sections of the world's economic, financial, political, social,
                        banking, asset, currency, food, minerals, military etc by setting up silent partnerships with
                        other families and/or simply appoint others to do the jobs they want done with
                        them always control thinks and pulling the strings form behind the scenes.....

                                                         Current Membership List of the Committee of 300
                                  who worship their  Almighty G.O.D. - Gold....Oil and Diamonds


    almighty god

    Abdullah II, King of Jordan
    Abramovich, Roman
    Ackermann, Josef
    Adeane, Edward
    Agius, Marcus
    Ahtisaari, Martti
    Akerson, Daniel
    Albert II, King of Belgium
    Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
    Amato, Giuliano
    Anderson, Carl A.
    Andreotti, Giulio
    Andrew, Duke of York
    Anne, Princess Royal
    Anstee, Nick
    Ash, Timothy Garton
    Astor, William Waldorf
    Aven, Pyotr
    Balkenende, Jan Peter
    Ballmer, Steve
    Balls, Ed
    Barroso, José Manuel
    Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
    Belka, Marek
    Bergsten, C. Fred
    Berlusconi, Silvio
    Bernake, Ben
    Bernstein, Nils
    Berwick, Donald
    Bildt, Carl
    Bischoff, Sir Winfried
    Blair, Tony
    Blankfein, Lloyd
    Blavatnik, Leonard
    Bloomberg, Michael
    Bolkestein, Frits
    Bolkiah, Hassanal
    Bonello, Michael C
    Bonino, Emma
    Boren, David L.
    Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg
    Bronfman, Charles
    Bronfman, Edgar Jr.
    Bruton, John
    Brzezinski, Zbigniew
    Budenberg, Robin
    Buffet, Warren
    Bush, George HW
    Cameron, David
    Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
    Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
    Carington, Peter
    Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden
    Carlos, Duke of Parma
    Carney, Mark
    Carroll, Cynthia
    Caruana, Jaime
    Castell, Sir William
    Chan, Anson
    Chan, Margaret
    Chan, Norman
    Charles, Prince of Wales
    Chartres, Richard
    Chiaie, Stefano Delle
    Chipman, Dr John
    Chodiev, Patokh
    Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
    Cicchitto, Fabrizio
    Clark, Wesley
    Clarke, Kenneth
    Clegg, Nick
    Clinton, Bill
    Cohen, Abby Joseph
    Cohen, Ronald
    Cohn, Gary
    Colonna di Paliano, Marcantonio, Duke of Paliano
    Constantijn, Prince of the Netherlands
    Constantine II, King of Greece
    Cooksey, David
    Cowen, Brian
    Craven, Sir John
    Crockett, Andrew
    Dadush, Uri
    D'Aloisio, Tony
    Darling, Alistair
    Davies, Sir Howard
    Davignon, Étienne
    Davis, David
    de Rothschild, Benjamin
    de Rothschild, David René
    de Rothschild, Evelyn
    de Rothschild, Leopold
    Deiss, Joseph
    Deripaska, Oleg
    Dobson, Michael
    Draghi, Mario
    Du Plessis, Jan
    Dudley, William C.
    Duisenberg, Wim
    Edward, Duke of Kent
    Edward, Earl of Wessex
    Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
    Elkann, John
    Emanuele, Vittorio, Prince of Naples
    Ernst August, Prince of Hanover
    Feldstein, Martin
    Festing, Matthew
    Fillon, François
    Fischer, Heinz
    Fischer, Joschka
    Fischer, Stanley
    FitzGerald, Niall
    Franz, Duke of Bavaria
    Fridman, Mikhail
    Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau
    Gates, Bill
    Geidt, Christopher
    Geithner, Timothy
    Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
    Gibson-Smith, Dr Chris
    Gorbachev, Mikhail
    Gore, Al
    Gotlieb, Allan
    Green, Stephen
    Greenspan, Alan
    Grosvenor, Gerald, 6th Duke of Westminster
    Gurría, José Ángel
    Hague, William
    Hampton, Sir Philip
    Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
    Harald V, King of Norway
    Harper, Stephen
    Heisbourg, François
    Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
    Hildebrand, Philipp
    Hills, Carla Anderson
    Holbrooke, Richard
    Honohan, Patrick
    Howard, Alan
    Ibragimov, Alijan
    Ingves, Stefan
    Isaacson, Walter
    Juan Carlos, King of Spain
    Jacobs, Kenneth M.
    Julius, DeAnne
    Juncker, Jean-Claude
    Kenen, Peter
    Kerry, John
    King, Mervyn
    Kinnock, Glenys
    Kissinger, Henry
    Knight, Malcolm
    Koon, William H. II
    Krugman, Paul
    Kufuor, John
    Lajolo, Giovanni
    Lake, Anthony
    Lambert, Richard
    Lamy, Pascal
    Landau, Jean-Pierre
    Laurence, Timothy
    Leigh-Pemberton, James
    Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
    Leonard, Mark
    Levene, Peter
    Leviev, Lev
    Levitt, Arthur
    Levy, Michael
    Lieberman, Joe
    Livingston, Ian
    Loong, Lee Hsien
    Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
    Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
    Louis-Dreyfus, Gérard
    Mabel, Princess of Orange-Nassau
    Mandelson, Peter
    Manning, Sir David
    Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este
    Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
    Martínez, Guillermo Ortiz
    Mashkevitch, Alexander
    Massimo, Stefano, Prince of Roccasecca dei Volsci
    Massimo-Brancaccio, Fabrizio Prince of Arsoli and Triggiano
    McDonough, William Joseph
    McLarty, Mack
    Mersch, Yves
    Michael, Prince of Kent
    Michael, King of Romania
    Miliband, David
    Miliband, Ed
    Mittal, Lakshmi
    Moreno, Glen
    Moritz, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
    Murdoch, Rupert
    Napoléon, Charles
    Nasser, Jacques
    Niblett, Robin
    Nichols, Vincent
    Nicolás, Adolfo
    Noyer, Christian
    Ofer, Sammy
    Ogilvy, Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy
    Ogilvy, David, 13th Earl of Airlie
    Ollila, Jorma
    Oppenheimer, Nicky
    Osborne, George
    Oudea, Frederic
    Parker, Sir John
    Patten, Chris
    Pébereau, Michel
    Penny, Gareth
    Peres, Shimon
    Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Pio, Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza
    Pöhl, Karl Otto
    Powell, Colin
    Prokhorov, Mikhail
    Quaden, Guy
    Rasmussen, Anders Fogh
    Ratzinger, Joseph Alois (Pope Benedict XVI)
    Reuben, David
    Reuben, Simon
    Rhodes, William R.
    Rice, Susan
    Richard, Duke of Gloucester
    Rifkind, Sir Malcolm
    Ritblat, Sir John
    Roach, Stephen S.
    Robinson, Mary
    Rockefeller, David Jr.
    Rockefeller, David Sr.
    Rockefeller, Nicholas
    Rodríguez, Javier Echevarría
    Rogoff, Kenneth
    Roth, Jean-Pierre
    Rothschild, Jacob
    Rubenstein, David
    Rubin, Robert
    Ruspoli, Francesco, 10th Prince of Cerveteri
    Safra, Joseph
    Safra, Moises
    Sands, Peter
    Sarkozy, Nicolas
    Sassoon, Isaac

    Sassoon, James
    Sawers, Sir Robert John
    Scardino, Marjorie
    Schwab, Klaus
    Schwarzenberg, Karel
    Schwarzman, Stephen A.
    Shapiro, Sidney
    Sheinwald, Nigel
    Sigismund, Grand Duke of TuscanyArchduke of Austria
    Simeon of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Snowe, Olympia
    Sofía, Queen of Spain
    Soros, George
    Specter, Arlen
    Stern, Ernest
    Stevenson, Dennis
    Steyer, Tom
    Stiglitz, Joseph
    Strauss-Kahn, Dominique
    Straw, Jack
    Sutherland, Peter
    Tanner, Mary
    Tedeschi, Ettore Gotti
    Thompson, Mark
    Thomson, Dr. James
    Tietmeyer, Hans
    Trichet, Jean-Claude
    Tucker, Paul
    Van Rompuy, Herman
    Vélez, Álvaro Uribe
    Verplaetse, Alfons
    Villiger, Kaspar
    Vladimirovna, Maria, Grand Duchess of Russia
    Volcker, Paul
    von Habsburg, Otto
    Waddaulah, Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin, Sultan of Brunei
    Walker, Sir David
    Wallenberg, Jacob
    Walsh, John
    Warburg, Max
    Weber, Axel Alfred
    Weill, Michael David
    Wellink, Nout
    Whitman, Marina von Neumann
    Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
    William Prince of Wales
    Williams, Dr Rowan
    Williams, Shirley
    Wilson, David
    Wolfensohn, James
    Wolin, Neal S.
    Woolf, Harry
    Woolsey, R. James Jr.
    Worcester, Sir Robert
    Wu, Sarah
    Zoellick, Robert

    In the Committee of 300, which has a 150-year history, we have some of the most brilliant intellects assembled to form a completely totalitarian, absolutely controlled "new" society only it isn't new, having drawn most of its ideas from the Clubs of Cultus Diabolicus. It strives toward a One World Government rather well described by one of its late members, H. G. Wells, in his work commissioned by the Committee which Wells boldly called: "The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution".
    Most of the Committee of 300's immense wealth arose out of the opium trade with China and India. Obscene profits went straight into the royal coffers, and into the pockets of the nobility, the oligarchs and plutocrats, and made them billionaires. The ordinary people of China, India, and England profited nothing from "opium revenues". In the same way the people of South Africa, black and white, never profited from the gold mining industry, whose revenues were piped directly into the City of London banks and Merchant banks. The Committee of 300 is responsible for the phony drug wars here in the U.S. These phony drug wars were to get us to give away our constitutional rights. Asset forfeiture is a prime example, where huge assets can be seized without trail and no proof of guilt needed. Also the Committee of 300 long ago decreed that there shall be a smaller-much smaller-and better world, that is, their idea of what constitutes a better world. The myriads of useless eaters consuming scarce natural resources were to be culled by up to 99%. Industrial progress supports population growth. Therefore the command to multiply and subdue the earth found in Genesis had to be subverted. This called for an attack upon Christianity; the slow but sure disintegration of industrial nation states; the destruction of billions of people, referred to by the Committee of 300 as "surplus population," and the removal of any leader who dared to stand in the way of the Committee's global planning to reach the foregoing objectives. Not that the U.S. government didn't know, but as it was part of the conspiracy, it helped to keep the lid on information rather than let the truth be known. Queen, Elizabeth II, is the head of the Committee of 300. The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as its principal method of creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.
    The current criminal agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme: "…having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs. By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market… Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented. Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…"The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs. The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs. Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United States.At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300. Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same "upper class" families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of "competitors."
    Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee "MORIAH CONQUERING WIND," the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates, the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry-especially those in the Vatican hierarchy-the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.
    In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line. Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy. His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist-which he has done. As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.
    The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski's controller during the Bolshevik Revolution's formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts. Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that "Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish."
    The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility. The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class. The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them. Venice has remained in their hands ever since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe. In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.
    It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs - RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England's psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain's aristocracy and their one world government agenda. Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England. The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization. Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many. Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
    The European Black Nobility earned its title through dirty tricks, so when the population revolted against the monopolies in government, as anywhere else, the leaders of the uprising were quickly seized and brutally hanged. They use secret assassinations, murder, the bankrupting of opposing citizens or companies, kidnapping and rape. All the families listed are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the original Black Nobility families of Venice from which the House of Windsor and thus the present Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, descends.
     
    What are the goals of the secret elite group, the inheritors of Illuminism (Moriah Conquering Wind), the Cult of Dionysius, the Cult of Isis, Catharism, Bogomilism? This elite group that also calls itself the OLYMPIANS (they truly believe they are equal in power and stature to the legendary gods of Olympus, who have, like Lucifer their god, set themselves above our true God) absolutely believe they have been charged with implementing the following by divine right:
     
    21 Goals of the Illuminati and The Committee of 300
     
    1. A One World Government-New World Order with a unified church and monetary system under their direction. Not many people are aware that the One World Government began setting up its "church" in the 1920's/ 1930's, for they realized the need for a religious belief inherent in mankind to have an outlet and, therefore, set up a "church" body to channel that belief in the direction they desired.
    2. The utter destruction of all national identity and national pride.
    3. The destruction of religion and more especially the Christian religion, with the one exception, their own creation mentioned above.
    4. Control of each and every person through means of mind control and what Brzezinski call "technotronics" which would create human-like robots and a system of terror beside which Felix Dzerzinski's Red Terror will look like children at play.
    5. An end to all industrialization and the production of nuclear generated electric power in what they call "the post-industrial zero-growth society." Exempted are the computer and service industries. United States industries that remain will be exported to countries such as Mexico where abundant slave labour is available. Unemployables in the wake of industrial destruction will either become opium-heroin and or cocaine addicts, or become statistics in the elimination process we know today as Global 2000.
    6. Legalization of drugs and pornography.
    7. Depopulation of large cities according to the trial run carried out by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. It is interesting to note that Pol Pot's genocidal plans were drawn up here in the United States by one of the Club of Rome's research foundations. It is also interesting that the Committee is presently seeking to reinstate the Pol Pot butchers in Cambodia.
    8. Suppression of all scientific development except for those deemed beneficial by the Committee. Especially targeted is nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Particularly hated are the fusion experiments presently being scorned and ridiculed by the Committee and its jackals of the press. Development of the fusion torch would blow the Committee's conception of "limited natural resources" right out of the window. A fusion torch properly used could create unlimited untapped natural resources from the most ordinary substances. Fusion torch uses are legion and would benefit mankind in a manner which is as yet not even remotely comprehended by the public.
    9. Cause by means of limited wars in the advanced countries, and by means of starvation and diseases in Third World countries, the death of 3 billion people by the year 2000, people they call "useless eaters." The Committee of 300 commissioned Cyrus Vance to write a paper on this subject of how best to bring about such genocide. The paper was produced under the title the "Global 2000 Report" and was accepted and approved for action by President Carter, for and on behalf of the U.S. Government, and accepted by Edwin Muskie, then Secretary of State. Under the terms of the Global 2000 Report, the population of the United States is to be reduced by 100 million by the year 2050.
    10. To weaken the moral fibre of the nation and to demoralize workers in the labour class by creating mass unemployment. As jobs dwindle due to the post industrial zero growth policies introduced by the Club of Rome, demoralized and discouraged workers will resort to alcohol and drugs. The youth of the land will be encouraged by means of rock music and drugs to rebel against the status quo, thus undermining and eventually destroying the family unit. In this regard The Committee of 300 commissioned Tavistock Institute to prepare a blueprint as to how this could be achieved. Tavistock directed Stanford Research to undertake the work under the direction of Professor Willis Harmon. This work later became known as "The Aquarian Conspiracy."
    11. To keep people everywhere from deciding their own destinies by means of one created crisis after another and then "managing" such crises. This will confuse and demoralize the population to the extent where faced with too many choices, apathy on a massive scale will result. In the case of the United States, an agency for crisis management is already in place. It is called the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), whose existence I first disclosed in 1980.
    12. To introduce new cults and continue to boost those already functioning which includes rock "music" gangsters such as the filthy, degenerate Mick Jagger's "Rolling Stones" (a gangster group much favoured by European Black Nobility) and all of the Tavistock created "rock" groups which began with "The Beatles."
    13. To continue to build up the cult of Christian fundamentalism begun by the British East India Company's servant, Darby, which will be misused to strengthen the Zionist state of Israel through identifying with the Jews through the myth of "God's Chosen People" and by donating very substantial amounts of money to what they mistakenly believe is a religious cause in the furtherance of Christianity.
    14. To press for the spread of religious cults such as the Moslem Brotherhood, Moslem fundamentalism, the Sikhs, and to carry out experiments of the Jim Jones and "Son of Sam" type of murders. It is worth noting that the late Ayatollah Khomeini was a creation of British Intelligence Military Intelligence Division 6, commonly known as M16, as I reported in my 1985 work, "What Really Happened in Iran."
    15. To export "religious liberation" ideas around the world so as to undermine all existing religions but more especially the Christian religion. This began with "Jesuit Liberation Theology" which brought about the downfall of the Somoza family rule in Nicaragua and which is today destroying EI Salvador, now 25 years into a "civil war," Costa Rica and Honduras. One very active entity engaged in so-called liberation theology is the Communist oriented Mary Knoll Mission. This accounts for the extensive media attention to the murder of four of Mary Knoll's so-called nuns in EI Salvador a few years ago.
    The four nuns were Communist subversive agents and their activities were widely documented by the government of EI Salvador. The United States press and news media refused to give any space or coverage to the mass of documentation in possession of the Salvadorian government, documentation which proves what the Mary Knoll Mission nuns were doing in the country. Mary Knoll is in service in many countries, and played a leading role in bringing Communism to Rhodesia, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa.
    16. To cause a total collapse of the world's economies and engender total political chaos.
    17. To take control of all Foreign and domestic policies of the United States.
    18. To give the fullest support to supranational institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the World Court and, as far as possible, make local institutions of lesser effect by gradually phasing them out or bringing them under the mantle of the United Nations.
    19. Penetrate and subvert all governments, and work from within them to destroy the sovereign integrity of nations represented by them.
    20. Organize a world-wide terrorist apparatus and negotiate with terrorists whenever terrorist activities take place. It will be recalled that it was Bettino Craxi who persuaded the Italian and U.S. governments to negotiate with the Red Brigades kidnapers of Prime Minister Moro and General Dozier. As an aside, General Dozier is under orders not to talk about what happened to him. Should he break that silence, he will no doubt be made "a horrible example of" in the manner in which Kissinger dealt with Aldo Moro, Ali Bhutto and General Zia ul Haq.
    21. Take control of education in America with the intent and purpose of utterly and completely destroying it.
    Much of these goals, which I first enumerated in 1969, have since been achieved or are well on their way to being achieved. Of special interest in the Committee of 300 program is the core of their economic policy, which is largely based on the teachings of Malthus, the son of an English country parson who was pushed to prominence by the British East India Company upon which the Committee of 300 is modelled.
    Malthus maintained that man's progress is tied to the earth's natural ability to support a given number of people, beyond which point earth's limited resources would rapidly be depleted. Once these natural resources have been consumed, it will be impossible to replace them. Hence, Malthus observed, it is necessary to limit populations within the boundaries of decreasing natural resources. It goes without saying that the elite will not allow themselves to be threatened by a burgeoning population of "useless eaters," hence culling must be practiced. As I have previously stated, "culling" is going on today, using the methods mandated in the "Global 2000 Report." -- Dr. John Coleman, former British Intelligence Officer, The Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Committee of 300, http://www.coleman300.com/

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    The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

    The Tavistock Institute Of Human Relations 
    by John Colman
    The most influential propaganda institute in the world,
    Tavistock has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual cultural,
     political and economic policies of the United States dating back to 1914.
    But for Tavistock, the United States would not be rushing down the road
    to dissolution and collapse.

    The Committee of 300

    Undoubtedly the “Bible” of conspiracy books, the completely revised and updated
    Fourth Edition landmark book is filled with information not previously disclosed.
    It names one of the contenders for the White House who is closely related to
    one of the oldest “300” families whose fortune was derived from opium trade
     with China, and no, it is not any of the Bush clan. The origin of
    the Committee of 300 is described; how it has evolved from an opium trading
    company with a Royal Charter to become the de-facto secret upper-level parallel
    government of the United States and the world, with only Russia and China standing
     in opposition to it. A highly organized secret society with tentacles reaching into
     every level of government in the United States and indeed, the world, backed
    by massive financing and run by men of the highest education and intelligence,
    with vast resources at their disposal, manages the thousands of major political
     and economical and contrived situations. In the FOURTH EDITION there is listed
    some very prominent men who came forward to support the existence of the “300.”
    One of them predicted twenty years ago that “The United States will be turned into
    a welfare state” and that “with the exception of Russia all nations would unite in
    a world alliance (The One World Government).”
    Perhaps the most startling admission of the existence
    of the super-secret organization came from President Wilson
     in the last days of his presidency: “Some of the biggest men
    in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacturing,
     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 pervasive, that they had better not speak
    above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
    The “power” Wilson was talking about is the Committee of 300
    and Wilson knew he did not dare to mention it by name.


    The Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power...
    Venetian  Black Nobility,
    Roots of Today's Ruling Oligarchy
    "Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves."  --Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation
    "....Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of “facts.” Aristotle’s formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals...."
    ".. 
    The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300.  The East India Company was chartered by the British Royal Family in 1600.  It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the largest company on earth in its time..."
    ".....
     
    Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same “upper class” families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of “competitors.”....."
    ".....
     
    Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many. Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards......"
    At the center of oligarchy is the idea that certain families are born to rule as an arbitrary elite, while the vast majority of any given population is condemned to oppression, serfdom, or slavery. During most of the past 2,500 years, oligarchs have been identified by their support for the philosophical writings of Aristotle and their rejection of the epistemology of Plato.
    Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of “facts.” Aristotle’s formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals.
    Oligarchs identify wealth purely in money terms, and practice usury, monetarism, and looting at the expense of technological advancement and physical production. Oligarchs have always been associated with the arbitrary rejection of true scientific discovery and scientific method in favor of open anti-science or more subtle obscurantist pseudo-science.
    The oligarchy has believed for millennia that the Earth is overpopulated; the oligarchical commentary on the Trojan War was that this conflict was necessary in order to prevent greater numbers of mankind from oppressing “Mother Earth.” They’ve constantly stressed race and racial characteristics, often as a means for justifying slavery.

    ".. 
    "..
    The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300.  The East India Company was chartered by the British Royal Family in 1600.  It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the 
     
    largest company on earth in its time..."

    The Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power…Venetian Black Nobility, Roots of Today’s Ruling Oligarchy

    The current criminal  agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme:  “…having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs. By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market… Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented. Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…”The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs. The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs. Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United  States.At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300. Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same “upper class” families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of “competitors.”Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee “MORIAH CONQUERING WIND,” the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates,  the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry-especially those in the Vatican hierarchy-the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to  serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line. Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy. His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist-which he has done. As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski’s controller during the Bolshevik Revolution’s formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts. Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that “Man is of  no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish.”The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility. The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class. The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them. Venice has remained in their hands ever  since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe. In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal  Institute of International Affairs – RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England’s psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain’s aristocracy and their one world government agenda. Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England. The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization. Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many. Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once  exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
    Someone posted this on a Facebook page I frequent. Thank you! 

    The Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power…Venetian Black Nobility,Roots of Today’s Ruling Oligarchy
    “The current criminal agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme:
    “…having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs. By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market… Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented. Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…” The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs. The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs. Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United States.At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300. Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same “upper class” families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of “competitors.”
    Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee “MORIAH CONQUERING WIND,” the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates, the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry-especially those in the Vatican hierarchy-the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.
    In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line. Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy. His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist-which he has done. As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.
    The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski’s controller during the Bolshevik Revolution’s formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts. Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that “Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish.”
    The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility. The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class. The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them. Venice has remained in their hands ever since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe. In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.
    It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs – RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England’s psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain’s aristocracy and their one world government agenda. Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England. The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization. Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many. Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
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    The Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power...
    Venetian  Black Nobility,
    Roots of Today's Ruling Oligarchy
    "Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves."  --Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation

    The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300.  The East India Company was chartered by the British Royal Family in 1600.  It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the largest company on earth in its time.  Today, through many powerful alliances, the Committee of 300 rules the world and is the driving force behind the criminal agenda to create a "New World Order", under a "Totalitarian Global Government".  There is no need to use "they" or "the enemy" except as shorthand.  We know who "they", the enemy, is.  The Committee of 300 with its "aristocracy", its ownership of the U.S. Federal Reserve banking system, insurance companies, giant corporations, foundations, communications networks, presided over by a hierarchy of conspirators—this is the enemy.  Secret societies exist by deception.  Each is a hierarchy with an inner circle at the top, who deceives those below with lies, such as claiming a noble agenda; thus, duping them into following a web of compartmentalized complicity.  The inner circle of the Committee of 300 is the Order of the Garter, headed by Queen Elizabeth Windsor II.  It is interesting to note that the Windsor's changed their name from the Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha during WWI, because of anti-German sentiment.
    The enemy is clearly identifiable as the Committee of 300 and its front organizations, such as the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), the Club of Rome, NATO, U.N., the Black Nobility, the Tavistock Institute, CFR and all its affiliated organizations, the think tanks and research institutions controlled by Stanford and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and last, but certainly not least, the military establishment.
    The Committee of 300 is the ultimate secret society made up of an untouchable ruling class, which includes the Queen of the United Kingdom (Elizabeth II), the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark and the royal families of Europe.  These aristocrats decided at the death of Queen Victoria, the matriarch of the Venetian Black Guelphs that, in order to gain world-wide control, it would be necessary for its aristocratic members to "go into business" with the non-aristocratic but extremely powerful leaders of corporate business on a global scale, and so the doors to ultimate power were opened to what the Queen of England likes to refer to as "the commoners".  Through their illicit banking cartel, they own the stock of the Federal Reserve, which is a private for profit corporation that violates U.S. Constitution and is a ROOT of the problem.
    The decadent American families of the unholy partnership, thoroughly corrupted and wallowing in tainted opium money, went on to become what we know today as the Eastern Liberal Establishment.  Its members, under the careful guidance and direction of the British Crown, and subsequently, its foreign policy executive arm, the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA), now known as Chatham House, located in England (across St. James's Square from the Astors), ran the United States from top to bottom through their secret upper-level, parallel government, which is tightly meshed with the Committee of 300, the ultimate secret society.  That secret, all-powerful government is more in control of the United States in 2006 than ever before.
    Some notable members of the Committee of 300 include: The British royal family, Dutch royal family, House of Hapsburg, House of Orange, Duke of Alba, Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, Lord Carrington, Lord Halifax, Lord Alfred Milner, John Jacob and Waldorf of the Astor Illuminati bloodline, Winston Churchill, Cecil Rhodes, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Juliana, Queen Beatrix, Queen Magreta, King Haakon of Norway, Colonel Mandel House, Aldous Huxley, John Forbes, Averill Harriman, William and McGeorge Bundy, George Bush, Prescott Bush, Henry Kissinger, J.P. Morgan, Maurice Strong, David Rockefeller, David and Evelyn Rothschild, Paul, Max and Felix Warburg, Ormsby and Al Gore, Bertrand Russell, Sir Earnest and Harry of the Oppenheimer Illuminati bloodline, Warren Buffet, Giuseppe Mazzini, Sir William Hesse, George Schultz, H.G. Wells, and Ted Turner.
    In the Committee of 300, which has a 150-year history, we have some of the most brilliant intellects assembled to form a completely totalitarian, absolutely controlled "new" society only it isn't new, having drawn most of its ideas from the Clubs of Cultus Diabolicus.  It strives toward a One World Government rather well described by one of its late members, H. G. Wells, in his work commissioned by the Committee which Wells boldly called: "The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution".
      Most of the Committee of 300's immense wealth arose out of the opium trade with China and India.  Obscene profits went straight into the royal coffers, and into the pockets of the nobility, the oligarchs and plutocrats, and made them billionaires.  The ordinary people of China, India, and England profited nothing from "opium revenues".  In the same way the people of South Africa, black and white, never profited from the gold mining industry, whose revenues were piped directly into the City of London banks and Merchant banks.  The Committee of 300 is responsible for the phony drug wars here in the U.S.  These phony drug wars were to get us to give away our constitutional rights.  Asset forfeiture is a prime example, where huge assets can be seized without trail and no proof of guilt needed.  Also the Committee of 300 long ago decreed that there shall be a smaller-much smaller-and better world, that is, their idea of what constitutes a better world.  The myriads of useless eaters consuming scarce natural resources were to be culled by up to 99%.  Industrial progress supports population growth.  Therefore the command to multiply and subdue the earth found in Genesis had to be subverted.  This called for an attack upon Christianity; the slow but sure disintegration of industrial nation states; the destruction of billions of people, referred to by the Committee of 300 as "surplus population," and the removal of any leader who dared to stand in the way of the Committee's global planning to reach the foregoing objectives.  Not that the U.S. government didn't know, but as it was part of the conspiracy, it helped to keep the lid on information rather than let the truth be known.  Queen, Elizabeth II, is the head of the Committee of 300.  The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as its principal method of creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.
    The current criminal agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme: "…having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs.  By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market…  Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented.  Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…"  The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs.  The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs.  Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United States.  At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300.  Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade.  It is still in the hands of the same "upper class" families in Britain and the United States.  It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of "competitors."
    Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee "MORIAH CONQUERING WIND," the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates, the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry—especially those in the Vatican hierarchy—the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.
    In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line.  Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy.  His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist—which he has done.  As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.
    The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle.  As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski's controller during the Bolshevik Revolution's formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts.  Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus.  He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that "Man is of no importance.  Look at what happens when you starve him.  He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive.  Man is only interested in his own survival.  That is all that counts.  All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish."
    The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility.  The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies).  The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class.  The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them. Venice has remained in their hands ever since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe.  In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.
    It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections.  Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs - RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England's psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain's aristocracy and their one world government agenda.  Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England.  The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization.  Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud.  Adepts are few and dupes many.  Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime.  This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power.  Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day.  Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
    The European Black Nobility earned its title through dirty tricks, so when the population revolted against the monopolies in government, as anywhere else, the leaders of the uprising were quickly seized and brutally hanged.  They use secret assassinations, murder, the bankrupting of opposing citizens or companies, kidnapping and rape.  All the families listed are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the original Black Nobility families of Venice from which the House of Windsor and thus the present Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, descends.  --Dr. John Coleman, former British Intelligence Officer, The Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Committee of 300
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    Known as the "Bible" of accurate conspiratorial history that exposes the criminal New World Order agenda, "The Committee of 300", by Dr. John Coleman.  Support the author and buy this book.
    The Committee of 300 is rated by literary experts as the "best seller of all books of its type." In Japan it was at the top of the Best Seller List for two straight years. Translated into eight foreign languages (including Russian, Japanese and Serbian), it is sought after by readers from all over the world. In order to keep the book to less than 500 pages, some of the subjects, persons and organizations of mentioned in the "300", are expounded on in Monographs and other books by Dr. Coleman, thus providing a wealth of information.
    Undoubtedly the "Bible" of conspiracy books, the completely revised and updated Fourth Edition landmark book is filled with information not previously disclosed. The origin of the Committee of 300 is described; how it has evolved from an opium trading company with a Royal Charter to become the de-facto secret upper-level parallel government of the United States and the world.
    A highly organized secret society with tentacles reaching into every level of government in the United States and indeed, the world, backed by massive financing and run by men of the highest education and intelligence, with vast resources at their disposal, manages the thousands of major political and economical and contrived situations. In the FOURTH EDITION there is listed some very prominent men who came forward to support the existence of the "300." One of them predicted twenty years ago that "The United States will be turned into a welfare state" and that all nations would unite in a world alliance (The One World Government). Perhaps the most startling admission of the existence of the super-secret organization came from President Wilson in the last days of his presidency:
    "Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacturing, 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 pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
    The "power" Wilson was talking about is the Committee of 300 and Wilson knew he did not dare to mention it by name.
    "We will have a world government whether you like it or not.  The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent."  --James Paul Warburg, powerful international investment banker, February 17, 1950, as he testified in hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations during the Eighty-First Congress, United States Senate Commission on Foreign Policy (U.S. Printing Office, page 494).  His father was Paul Moritz Warburg, who was also a powerful  international investment banker and Rothschild agent, who conspired to create the private for profit Federal Reserve Banking System during a secret meeting on Jekyll Island in 1910.  Paul Warburg became its second Vice Chairman, as well as the Director of the Council on Foreign Relations upon its founding in 1921.
    "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets.  The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."  --Nathan Mayer Rothschild, one of the sons (five arrows) of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who was the founder of their family's international banking dynasty and Committee of 300 kingpin




     
    Current membership of the Committee of 300
    Abdullah II, King of Jordan
    Abramovich, Roman
    Ackermann, Josef
    Adeane, Edward
    Agius, Marcus
    Ahtisaari, Martti
    Akerson, Daniel
    Albert II, King of Belgium
    Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
    Amato, Giuliano
    Anderson, Carl A.
    Andreotti, Giulio
    Andrew, Duke of York
    Anne, Princess Royal
    Anstee, Nick
    Ash, Timothy Garton
    Astor, William Waldorf
    Aven, Pyotr
    Balkenende, Jan Peter
    Ballmer, Steve
    Balls, Ed
    Barroso, José Manuel
    Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
    Belka, Marek
    Bergsten, C. Fred
    Berlusconi, Silvio
    Bernake, Ben
    Bernstein, Nils
    Berwick, Donald
    Bildt, Carl
    Bischoff, Sir Winfried
    Blair, Tony
    Blankfein, Lloyd
    Blavatnik, Leonard
    Bloomberg, Michael
    Bolkestein, Frits
    Bolkiah, Hassanal
    Bonello, Michael C
    Bonino, Emma
    Boren, David L.
    Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg
    Bronfman, Charles
    Bronfman, Edgar Jr.
    Bruton, John
    Brzezinski, Zbigniew
    Budenberg, Robin
    Buffet, Warren
    Bush, George HW
    Cameron, David
    Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
    Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
    Carington, Peter
    Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden
    Carlos, Duke of Parma
    Carney, Mark
    Carroll, Cynthia
    Caruana, Jaime
    Castell, Sir William
    Chan, Anson
    Chan, Margaret
    Chan, Norman
    Charles, Prince of Wales
    Chartres, Richard
    Chiaie, Stefano Delle
    Chipman, Dr John
    Chodiev, Patokh
    Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
    Cicchitto, Fabrizio
    Clark, Wesley
    Clarke, Kenneth
    Clegg, Nick
    Clinton, Bill
    Cohen, Abby Joseph
    Cohen, Ronald
    Cohn, Gary
    Colonna di Paliano, Marcantonio, Duke of Paliano
    Constantijn, Prince of the Netherlands
    Constantine II, King of Greece
    Cooksey, David
    Cowen, Brian
    Craven, Sir John
    Crockett, Andrew
    Dadush, Uri
    D'Aloisio, Tony
    Darling, Alistair
    Davies, Sir Howard
    Davignon, Étienne
    Davis, David
    de Rothschild, Benjamin
    de Rothschild, David René
    de Rothschild, Evelyn
    de Rothschild, Leopold
    Deiss, Joseph
    Deripaska, Oleg
    Dobson, Michael
    Draghi, Mario
    Du Plessis, Jan
    Dudley, William C.
    Duisenberg, Wim
    Edward, Duke of Kent
    Edward, Earl of Wessex
    Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
    Elkann, John
    Emanuele, Vittorio, Prince of Naples
    Ernst August, Prince of Hanover
    Feldstein, Martin
    Festing, Matthew
    Fillon, François
    Fischer, Heinz
    Fischer, Joschka
    Fischer, Stanley
    FitzGerald, Niall
    Franz, Duke of Bavaria
    Fridman, Mikhail
    Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau
    Gates, Bill
    Geidt, Christopher
    Geithner, Timothy
    Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
    Gibson-Smith, Dr Chris
    Gorbachev, Mikhail
    Gore, Al
    Gotlieb, Allan
    Green, Stephen
    Greenspan, Alan
    Grosvenor, Gerald, 6th Duke of Westminster
    Gurría, José Ángel
    Hague, William
    Hampton, Sir Philip
    Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
    Harald V, King of Norway
    Harper, Stephen
    Heisbourg, François
    Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
    Hildebrand, Philipp
    Hills, Carla Anderson
    Holbrooke, Richard
    Honohan, Patrick
    Howard, Alan
    Ibragimov, Alijan
    Ingves, Stefan
    Isaacson, Walter
    Juan Carlos, King of Spain
    Jacobs, Kenneth M.
    Julius, DeAnne
    Juncker, Jean-Claude
    Kenen, Peter
    Kerry, John
    King, Mervyn
    Kinnock, Glenys
    Kissinger, Henry
    Knight, Malcolm
    Koon, William H. II
    Krugman, Paul
    Kufuor, John
    Lajolo, Giovanni
    Lake, Anthony
    Lambert, Richard
    Lamy, Pascal
    Landau, Jean-Pierre
    Laurence, Timothy
    Leigh-Pemberton, James
    Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
    Leonard, Mark
    Levene, Peter
    Leviev, Lev
    Levitt, Arthur
    Levy, Michael
    Lieberman, Joe
    Livingston, Ian
    Loong, Lee Hsien
    Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
    Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
    Louis-Dreyfus, Gérard
    Mabel, Princess of Orange-Nassau
    Mandelson, Peter
    Manning, Sir David
    Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este
    Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
    Martínez, Guillermo Ortiz
    Mashkevitch, Alexander
    Massimo, Stefano, Prince of Roccasecca dei Volsci
    Massimo-Brancaccio, Fabrizio Prince of Arsoli and Triggiano
    McDonough, William Joseph
    McLarty, Mack
    Mersch, Yves
    Michael, Prince of Kent
    Michael, King of Romania
    Miliband, David
    Miliband, Ed
    Mittal, Lakshmi
    Moreno, Glen
    Moritz, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
    Murdoch, Rupert
    Napoléon, Charles
    Nasser, Jacques
    Niblett, Robin
    Nichols, Vincent
    Nicolás, Adolfo
    Noyer, Christian
    Ofer, Sammy
    Ogilvy, Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy
    Ogilvy, David, 13th Earl of Airlie
    Ollila, Jorma
    Oppenheimer, Nicky
    Osborne, George
    Oudea, Frederic
    Parker, Sir John
    Patten, Chris
    Pébereau, Michel
    Penny, Gareth
    Peres, Shimon
    Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Pio, Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza
    Pöhl, Karl Otto
    Powell, Colin
    Prokhorov, Mikhail
    Quaden, Guy
    Rasmussen, Anders Fogh
    Ratzinger, Joseph Alois (Pope Benedict XVI)
    Reuben, David
    Reuben, Simon
    Rhodes, William R.
    Rice, Susan
    Richard, Duke of Gloucester
    Rifkind, Sir Malcolm
    Ritblat, Sir John
    Roach, Stephen S.
    Robinson, Mary
    Rockefeller, David Jr.
    Rockefeller, David Sr.
    Rockefeller, Nicholas
    Rodríguez, Javier Echevarría
    Rogoff, Kenneth
    Roth, Jean-Pierre
    Rothschild, Jacob
    Rubenstein, David
    Rubin, Robert
    Ruspoli, Francesco, 10th Prince of Cerveteri
    Safra, Joseph
    Safra, Moises
    Sands, Peter
    Sarkozy, Nicolas
    Sassoon, Isaac

    Sassoon, James
    Sawers, Sir Robert John
    Scardino, Marjorie
    Schwab, Klaus
    Schwarzenberg, Karel
    Schwarzman, Stephen A.
    Shapiro, Sidney
    Sheinwald, Nigel
    Sigismund, Grand Duke of TuscanyArchduke of Austria
    Simeon of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Snowe, Olympia
    Sofía, Queen of Spain
    Soros, George
    Specter, Arlen
    Stern, Ernest
    Stevenson, Dennis
    Steyer, Tom
    Stiglitz, Joseph
    Strauss-Kahn, Dominique
    Straw, Jack
    Sutherland, Peter
    Tanner, Mary
    Tedeschi, Ettore Gotti
    Thompson, Mark
    Thomson, Dr. James
    Tietmeyer, Hans
    Trichet, Jean-Claude
    Tucker, Paul
    Van Rompuy, Herman
    Vélez, Álvaro Uribe
    Verplaetse, Alfons
    Villiger, Kaspar
    Vladimirovna, Maria, Grand Duchess of Russia
    Volcker, Paul
    von Habsburg, Otto
    Waddaulah, Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin, Sultan of Brunei
    Walker, Sir David
    Wallenberg, Jacob
    Walsh, John
    Warburg, Max
    Weber, Axel Alfred
    Weill, Michael David
    Wellink, Nout
    Whitman, Marina von Neumann
    Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
    William Prince of Wales
    Williams, Dr Rowan
    Williams, Shirley
    Wilson, David
    Wolfensohn, James
    Wolin, Neal S.
    Woolf, Harry
    Woolsey, R. James Jr.
    Worcester, Sir Robert
    Wu, Sarah
    Zoellick, Robert

    "Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves." --Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation
    The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300. The East India Company was chartered by the British royal family in 1600. It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the largest company on earth in its time. Today, through many powerful alliances, the Committee of 300 rules the world and is the driving force behind the criminal agenda to create a "New World Order", under a "Totalitarian Global Government". There is no need to use "they" or "the enemy" except as shorthand. We know who "they", the enemy, is. The Committee of 300 with its "aristocracy", its ownership of the U.S. Federal Reserve banking system, insurance companies, giant corporations, foundations, communications networks, presided over by a hierarchy of conspirators-this is the enemy. Secret societies exist by deception. Each is a hierarchy with an inner circle at the top, who deceives those below with lies, such as claiming a noble agenda; thus, duping them into following a web of compartmentalized complicity. The inner circle of the Committee of 300 is the Order of the Garter, headed by Queen Elizabeth Windsor II. It is interesting to note that the Windsor's changed their name from the Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha during WWI, because of anti-German sentiment.
    The enemy is clearly identifiable as the Committee of 300 and its front organizations, such as the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), the Club of RomeNATOU.N., the Black Nobility, the Tavistock InstituteCFR and all its affiliated organizations, the think tanks and research institutions controlled by Stanford and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and last, but certainly not least, the military establishment.
    The Committee of 300 is the ultimate secret society made up of an untouchable ruling class, which includes the Queen of the United Kingdom (Elizabeth II), the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark and the royal families of Europe. These aristocrats decided at the death of Queen Victoria, the matriarch of the Venetian Black Guelphs that, in order to gain world-wide control, it would be necessary for its aristocratic members to "go into business" with the non-aristocratic but extremely powerful leaders of corporate business on a global scale, and so the doors to ultimate power were opened to what the Queen of England likes to refer to as "the commoners". Through their illicit banking cartel, they own the stock of the Federal Reserve, which is a private for profit corporation that violates U.S. Constitution and is a root of the problem.
    The decadent American families of the unholy partnership, thoroughly corrupted and wallowing in tainted opium money, went on to become what we know today as the Eastern Liberal Establishment. Its members, under the careful guidance and direction of the British Crown, and subsequently, its foreign policy executive arm, the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA), now known as Chatham House, located in England (across St. James's Square from the Astors), ran the United States from top to bottom through their secret upper-level, parallel government, which is tightly meshed with the Committee of 300, the ultimate secret society. That secret, all-powerful government is now more in control of the United States than ever before.


    The British East India Company
    The Drug Company of the Venetian Black Nobility
    by Eustace Mullins
    It has taken centuries of patient effort for the World Order to attain the power it exercises today. Its origins as an international force go back to the Phoenician slave-traders, continues through the Phnariot families of the Byzantine Empire, then the Venetian and Genoese traders and bankers of the Middle Ages, who moved into Spain and Portugal, and later into England and Scotland. By the 14th century, the Genose controlled the Scottish landlords.

    The Imperial Family of the Byzantine Empire, the Paleologues (meaning 'the Word') were attacked by the Gnostic faction, whose materialistic Aristotelian philosophy was the forerunner of Hegelian dialectic and Marxism. The Paleologues devoutly believed in the Christian faith, as expressed by the Orthodox Rite. The materialistic Venetian and Genoese armies, with the aid of the Turkish "infidels", looted and conquered Constantinople, the legendary "City of God". The Byzantine survivors recreated their culture in Russia, with Moscow as "the third Rome". The plan to destroy the Orthodox Church and its Romanov (new Rome) leader was the hidden goal of the First World War. The victors came away with one billion dollars of the Romanov fortune, after achieving the defeat of their hated enemy, the Orthodox Church.

    During the Middle Ages, European power centers coalesced into two camps: the Ghibellines, those who supported the Emperor's Hohenstaufen family, (an Italian adaptation of Weinblingen, the name of the Hohenstaufen estate); and the Guelphs, from Welf, the German prince who competed with Frederick for control of the Holy Roman Empire. The Pope then allied himself with the Guelphs against the Ghibellines resulting in their victory. All of modern history stems directly from the struggle between these two powers.

    The Guelphs, also called the Neri, or Black Guelphs, and Black Nobility, were the Normans who conquered England in the 11th century; the Genoese who backed Robert Bruce in his conquest of Scotland, and who supported William of Orange in his seizure of the throne of England. William's victory resulted in the formation of the Bank of England and the East India Company, which have ruled the world since the 17th century. Every subsequent coup d'état, revolution and war has centered in the battle of the Guelphs to hold and enhance their power, which is now the World Order.

    The power of the Guelphs grew through their control of banking and international trade. It was extended through the Italian centers to the north of Florence, in Lombardy, which became great financial centers. All Italian bankers, including the Genoese, the Venetians, and Milanese, were referred to as "Lombards" -- Lombard, in German, means "deposit bank" -- the Lombards were bankers to the entire Medieval world. Modern history begins with the transfer of their operations north to Hamburg, Amsterdam, and finally to London.

    The great American fortunes originated with the Guelph slave trade to the colonies. Many of the slave traders doubled in piracy. Trinity Church, whose leading vestryman later was J.P. Morgan, was originally known as "the church of the pirates". Capt. William Kidd provided the material to build it in 1697, and a pew was reserved for him. He was arrested the next year, and hanged in chains at Newgate. In 1711, a slave market was set up on Wall Street near the church, and functioned there for many years.

    Two of the most powerful influences in the world today are the international drug trade, which began with the East India Co., and international espionage, which began with the Bank of England. The East India Co. was granted a charter in 1600 in the closing days of Queen Elizabeth's reign. In 1622, under James I, it became a joint stock company. In 1661, in an attempt to retain his throne, Charles II granted the East India Co. the power to make war. From 1700 to 1830, the East India Co. gained control of all India, and wrested the historic monopoly of opium from the Great Moguls.
    Sir Walter Raleigh, a patriot, saw that the machinations of the international money dealers were bringing ruin to many Englishmen, and tried to stop it. They in turn conspired against him, and had him beheaded. The Order invariably enlists "the law" against its enemies.

    The East India Co. originated as the London Staplers, was later known as the London Mercers Co., merchant guilds which held monopolies over certain avenues of commerce. It was a direct offshoot of the commercial banking establishments of northern Italy, Venice and Genoa. Related firms were the German Hansa, and the Hanse of the Low Countries, which was headquartered in Bruges. It was also allied with the Levant Co. and the Anglo-Muscovy Co.

    Sebastian Cabot, whose descendants are prominent in American banking and intelligence, raised the seed money for Anglo-Muscovy in Italy and London. The company operated northern overland trade routes from the Baltic to India and China. Other related firms were the London Company, chartered in 1606 to establish The Virginian Plantation on a communistic basis, and the Plymouth Company, whose descendants control the New England business world.

    The "City" banks, which dominate American finance and politics (code name for banks for the " City", financial district of London), descend directly from East India and Bank of England operations. The Rockefeller Empire is the most prominent scion of this dynasty.



    The Venetian Black Nobility
    and the Concept of Oligarchy
    by Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley & James Higham
    "Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves."  --Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation
    "....Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of “facts.” Aristotle’s formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals....".


    At the center of oligarchy is the idea that certain families are born to rule as an arbitrary elite, while the vast majority of any given population is condemned to oppression, serfdom, or slavery. During most of the past 2,500 years, oligarchs have been identified by their support for the philosophical writings of Aristotle and their rejection of the epistemology of Plato.
    Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of “facts.” Aristotle’s formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals.
    Oligarchs identify wealth purely in money terms, and practice usury, monetarism, and looting at the expense of technological advancement and physical production. Oligarchs have always been associated with the arbitrary rejection of true scientific discovery and scientific method in favor of open anti-science or more subtle obscurantist pseudo-science.
    The oligarchy has believed for millennia that the Earth is overpopulated; the oligarchical commentary on the Trojan War was that this conflict was necessary in order to prevent greater numbers of mankind from oppressing “Mother Earth.” They’ve constantly stressed race and racial characteristics, often as a means for justifying slavery.
    In international affairs, oligarchs recommend such methods as geopolitics, understood as the method of “divide and conquer,” which lets one power prevail by playing its adversaries one against the other. Oligarchical policy strives to maintain a balance of power among such adversaries for its own benefit, but this attempt always fails in the long run and leads to new wars.
    The essence of oligarchism is summed up in the idea of the empire, in which an elite identifying itself as a master race rules over a degraded mass of slaves or other oppressed victims. If oligarchical methods are allowed to dominate human affairs, they always create a breakdown crisis of civilization, with economic depression, war, famine, plague, and pestilence.
    Examples of this are the Fourteenth-century Black Plague and the Thirty Years War (1618-48), both of which have links to Venetian intelligence.
    The post-industrial society and the derivatives crisis in our own time have brought about the potential for a new collapse of civilization. This crisis can only be reversed by repudiating in practice the axioms of the oligarchical mentality.
    A pillar of the oligarchical system is the family fortune, or fondo, as it is called in Italian. The continuity of the family fortune which earns money through usury and looting is often more important than the biological continuity across generations of the family that owns the fortune.
     
    Some history
    The long and tortuous path of peoples through history sees the Khazars in the Holy Land and part of the Canaanites eventually in northern Italy, adopting the name “Sepharvaim” for deceptive purposes. They later became known as Venetians, and by marrying into European royalty and aristocracy, the “black nobility.”
    In the pre-Christian world around the Mediterranean, oligarchical political forces included Babylon in Mesopotamia. The “whore of Babylon” condemned in the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine, is not a mystical construct, but a very specific cartel of oligarchical families. Other oligarchical centers included Hiram of Tyre and the Phoenicians. The Persian Empire was an oligarchy. In the Greek world, the center of oligarchical banking and intelligence was the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, whose agents included Lycurgus of Sparta and, later, Aristotle.
    In Venice, the largest fondo was the endowment of the Basilica of St. Mark, which was closely associated with the Venetian state treasury, and which absorbed the family fortunes of nobles who died without heirs. This fondo was administered by the procurers of St. Mark, whose position was one of the most powerful under the Venetian system.
    Around this central fondo were grouped the individual family fortunes of the great oligarchical families, such as the Mocenigo, the Cornaro, the Dandolo, the Contarini, the Morosini, the Zorzi, and the Tron. When the Venetian oligarchy transferred many of its families and assets to northern Europe, the Venetian fondi provided the nucleus of the great Bank of Amsterdam, which dominated Europe during the Seventeenth century, and of the Bank of England, which became the leading bank of the Eighteenth century.
    Venice was the enemy of Charlemagne. Charlemagne’s son, King Pepin of Italy, tried unsuccessfully to conquer the Venetian lagoon. Charlemagne was forced to recognize Venice as a part of the eastern or Byzantine Empire, under the protection of the Emperor Nicephorus. Venice was never a part of Western Civilization.
    Over the next four centuries, Venice developed as a second capital of the Byzantine Empire through marriage alliances with certain Byzantine dynasties and conflicts with the Holy Roman Empire based in Germany. The Venetian economy grew through usury and slavery. By 1082, the Venetians had tax-free trading rights in the entire Byzantine Empire.
    The Venetians were one of the main factors behind the Crusades against the Muslim power in the eastern Mediterranean. In the Fourth Crusade of A.C.E. 1202, the Venetians used an army of French feudal knights to capture and loot Constantinople, the Orthodox Christian city which was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
    During the 1200’s, the Venetians, now at the apex of their military and naval power, set out to create a new Roman Empire with its center at Venice. They expanded into the Greek islands, the Black Sea, and the Italian mainland. They helped to defeat the Hohenstaufen rulers of Germany and Italy. Venetian intelligence assisted Genghis Khan as he attacked and wiped out powers that had resisted Venice.
    The Venetians caused the death of the poet and political figure Dante Alighieri, who developed the concept of the modern sovereign nation-state in opposition to the Venetian plans for empire. A series of wars with Genoa led later to the de facto merger of Venice and Genoa. The Venetian bankers, often called Lombards, began to loot many parts of Europe with usurious loans.
    Henry III of England in the years after 1255 became insolvent after taking huge Lombard loans to finance foreign wars at 120-180 percent interest. These transactions created the basis for the Venetian Party in England. When the Lombard bankers went bankrupt because the English failed to pay, a breakdown crisis of the European economy ensued. This led to a new collapse of European civilization, including the onset of the Black Plague, which depopulated the continent.
    In the midst of the chaos, the Venetians encouraged their ally Edward III of England, to wage war against France in the conflict that became the Hundred Years War (1339-1453), which hurled France into chaos before St. Joan of Arc defeated the English. This was then followed by the Wars of the Roses in England. As a result of Venetian domination, the Fourteenth century had become a catastrophe for civilization.
    In the midst of the crisis of the 1300’s, the friends of Dante and Petrarch laid the basis for the Italian Golden Renaissance, which reached its culmination with Nicolaus of Cusa, Pope Pius II, and the Medici-sponsored Council of Florence of 1439. The Venetians fought the Renaissance with a policy of expansion on the Italian mainland, or terra firma, which brought them to the outskirts of Milan. More fundamentally, the Venetians promoted the pagan philosophy of Aristotle against the Christian Platonism of the Florentines.
    Around AD1400, European power centers coalesced into two camps: the Ghibellines, who supported the Hohenstaufen family, and the Guelphs, from Welf, the German prince who competed with Frederick for control of the Holy Roman Empire. The Pope allied himself with the Guelphs. All modern European history stems directly from the struggle between these two powers.
    The Guelphs are also called the Neri, Black Guelphs, or Black Nobility, and supported William of Orange in his seizure of the throne of England, which eventually resulted in the formation of the Bank of England and the East India Company.
    When Cusa and his friends succeeded in reuniting the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox and other eastern churches at the Council of Florence, the Venetians tried to sabotage this result.
    The Venetians tried to use the power of the new nation-states, especially France, to crush Milan and allow further Venetian expansion. But ambassadors for the king of France and the Austrian emperor met at Cambrai in December 1508 and agreed to create a European league for the dismemberment of Venice.
    An immediate target of the Venetians had always been Milan and a broader target – the papacy.
     
    The reformation as a ploy
    The leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, the first Protestant in modern Europe, was Venice’s Cardinal Gasparo Contarini, who was also the leader of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Contarini was a pupil of the Padua Aristotelian Pietro Pomponazzi, who denied the immortality of the human soul. Contarini pioneered the Protestant doctrine of salvation by faith alone, with no regard for good works of charity.
    He organized a group of Italian Protestants called gli spirituali, including oligarchs like Vittoria Colonna and Giulia Gonzaga. Contarini’s networks encouraged and protected Martin Luther and later John Calvin of Geneva. Contarini sent his neighbor and relative Francesco Zorzi to England to support King Henry VIII’s plan to divorce Catherine of Aragon.
    As the Counter-Reformation advanced, the Contarini networks split into two wings - the pro-Protestant spirituali, who later evolved into the giovani and who serviced growing networks in France, Holland, England, and Scotland. The other wing were the zelanti, oriented toward repression and the Inquisition, and typified by Pope Paul IV Caraffa. The zelanti evolved into the oligarchical party called the vecchi, who serviced Venetian networks in the Vatican and the Catholic Hapsburg dominions. The apparent conflict of the two groups was orchestrated to serve Venetian projects.
     
    Pause for breath
    The obvious criticism here is that this seems to be giving inordinate credit for influence to the Venetians when there were homegrown oligarchs and tyrants in all the nation states, all pursuing their own dreams of expansion and conquest.
    This is so but three factors have to be born in mind – the Lombards who were financing all European powers at the time against one another, the Papacy which meant [until Henry VIII] that dictums were coming constantly from Italy and the church had had, for centuries, a most powerful grip on the hearts and minds of men and women all over Europe and then there was the intrigue, the intelligence services and the intermarrying into the great families of Europe by the Venetians themselves.
    Henry’s marriage to Catherine illustrates in itself the extent to which the English monarchy was in no way head-in-the-sand and isolationist. Look at how the Reformation came to England.
    Exactly who were and who are these intermarried families connected to the Venetians?
    The old-line ruling families who believe that they have the right to rule the world because they are descended from the emperors of the ancient Roman and so-called ‘holy’ Roman Empires consist of 13-15 ‘blue blood’ families, which include: Rothschild; Kuhn; Loeb; Lehman; Rockefeller; Sach; Warburg; Lazard; Seaf; Goldman; Schiff; Morgan; Schroeder; Bush and Harriman.
    Other names are: the Giustiniani family, of Rome and Venice who trace their lineage to the Emperor Justianian; Sir Jocelyn Hambro of Hambros (Merchant) Bank; Pierpaolo Luzzatti Fequiz, whose lineage dates back six centuries to the most ancient Luzzatos, of Venice, and Umberto Ortolani of the ancient Black Nobility family of the same name.
    Other old Venetian Black Nobility and board members of ASG and RAS are the Doria family, the financiers of the Spanish Hapsburgs, Elie de Rothschild of the French Rothschild family, Baron August von Finck (Finck, the second richest man in Germany now deceased), Franco Orsini Bonacassi of the ancient Orsini that traces its lineage to an ancient Roman senator of the same name, the Alba family whose lineage dates back to the great Duke of Alba, and Baron Pierre Lambert, a cousin of the Belgian Rothschild family.
    Has anyone ever stopped to think what the Holy Roman Empire actually meant?
     
    Back to the story
    The power of the Guelphs would extend through the Italian financial centers to the north of France in Lombardy. Lombard in German means “deposit bank”, and the Lombards were bankers to the entire Medieval world. They would later transfer operations north to Hamburg, then to Amsterdam and finally to London.
    The Guelphs would start the slave trade to the colonies. The Guelphs, in order to aid their control of finance and politics, would perpetuate gnostic cults which eventually developed into the Rosicrucians, Unitarians, Fabian Society and the World Council of Churches. The East India company, together with John Stuart Mill, would finance the University of London. A friend of Mill, historian George Grote, a founder of London University donated £6000 for the study of “mental health”, which began the worldwide “mental health” movement.
    Banca Commerciale d’Italia, Banca Privata, Banco Ambrosiano, the Netherlands Bank, Barclays Bank, Banco del Colombia, Banco de Ibero-America. Of special interest is Banca del la Svizzeria Italiana (BSI) – since it handles flight capital investments to and from the United States – primarily in dollars and US bonds – located and isolated in “neutral” Lugano, the flight capital center for the Venetian Black Nobility. Lugano is not in Italy or in Switzerland, and is a kind of twilight zone for shady flight capital operations. George Ball, who owns a large block of stock in BSI, is a prominent “insider” and the bank’s US representative.
    In the 1822 Treaty of Verona (between Austria, France, Prussia and Russia) the Jesuits agreed to smash the US Constitution and suppress the freedom of the US. Their methods included destroying free speech, destroying and suppressing the press, universal censorship, sustaining the cooperation of the Pope and clergy to use religion to help keep nations in passive obedience and financing wars against countries with representative governments.
    The monarchs who signed this treaty were ultimately deposed. Most of these families are very wealthy and may be more powerful today than when they sat upon thrones. They are known collectively as the Black Nobility. Privately these families refuse to recognize any right to rule except their own. The fact that this treaty was made long ago does not mean it is void. The treaty was placed in the Congressional Record on April 25, 1916 by Senator Owen.
     
    Today
    Italy and in particular, Venice, is very important strategically because 1. it is the closest to the middle-east and 2. it is a gateway for drugs entering Europe from Iran and Lebanon.
    After the Club of Rome was established in 1968, a body which is from this black nobility, all sorts of things began in a socialist manner – the Paris uprising, the Red Brigades, the fall of various regimes and the Aldo Moro case, which investigators found had old families somehow interested in the issue for not entirely clear reasons.
    The Club of Rome’s Peccei headed the Atlantic Institute’s Economic Council for three decades while he was the Chief Executive Officer for Giovanni Agnellis’ Fiat Motor Company. Agnelli, a member of an ancient Italian family, playing a leading role in development projects in the Soviet Union. The Club of Rome is an umbrella organization for Anglo-American financiers and the old families of Europe, particularly in London, Venice and Genoa.
    Hence the reference in a previous post to the Queen sailing near Venice on occasions in the Britannia.
    Their key role, according to the 90s article I got it from, is to create and manage economic recessions and eventual depressions. Social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, are the only real way to create “welfare” recipients of the future and a series of nanny states. That’s the long term function, meanwhile cleaning up in the financial markets as they go along.
    One of their members, Etienne D’Avignon, was assigned the task of collapsing the steel industry in the US and as the Treaty of Verona showed, the European families have quite an interest in the U.S.A. and vice versa – hence the congressional record entry.
    More difficult to establish is Jacques Soustelle, financed by the Swiss Oltramaire family, who ran one of the assassination centres from Confederation Helvetica. Another interesting snippet, to me, was Richard Gardner marrying into the old families in Italy and providing yet more connections between Italy and the States.
    This is not all about money. It’s also about culture and science and this conflict plays a huge role in the major societal movements in modern history.
    All European history since the Fifteenth century within Europe and globally, has been dominated by the cultural conflict between the radiated influence of the Renaissance and the opposing, Venice-launched force of the so-called ‘Enlightenment.’
     
    Finally
    This is the power up against which we, the lowly Davids of the Albion Alliance world are trying to pit ourselves, our power base only the legitimacy of the people themselves.

    The Bilderberg Group
    An Offshoot of the
    Venetian Black Nobility
    by Daniel Estulin
    The Bilderberg Group is Europe’s version of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  Acting on behalf of The Committee of 300 (Queen of England), specifically the Vatican and the Priory of Sion (French Monarchy), Knight of Malta Dr. Joseph Hieronim Retinger plotted to forge alliances with the European Council of Princes (Dragon Court), the CIA, and Britain’s MI6, by creating another New World Order think-tank to be known as “The Bilderberg Group”.  Interestingly, Dr. Retinger’s middle name is literally translated as “member of the occult”.  Dr. Retinger, founder of the European Movement leading to the founding of the European Union (EU), approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in 1952, who agreed to become its co-founder.  Prince Bernhard presided over its first meeting at the Bilderberg Hotel (which it was named after) in Oosterbeek, Holland, from May 29 to May 31, 1954, and remained its Chair until scandal forced him to resign in 1974.  The Bilderberg Group has been meeting secretly behind closed doors at irregular intervals, once or twice each year since its formation.  Its purpose is the same as the CFR—to remove independence from all countries and permit the aristocracies tyrannical rule from behind the military might of the United Nations (U.N.).
    "In the very early 1990s, just as the last vestiges of the Soviet Empire were crumbling into oblivion, a friend, member of the KGB counter intelligence apparatus during an intimate dinner told me of a very powerful and secretive organization known as the Bilderbergers. Behind this secret society is a contemporary network of powerful private merchant-banking interests of medieval Venetian financier oligarchical model known as fondi. British and Dutch East India Companies, the forerunners of the Council of the 300 and the Bilderbergers are examples of these private merchant banks. Their final objective is a post-industrial society. Actually, their real name is Synarchists. "Synarchism" is used to define a new concept of political alliances by an international brotherhood of financiers and industrialists through a unity of the socialists and the anarchists on fascist principles. According to a top secret 18 page French military intelligence report dated July 1941, summarising a 100-page dossier on the French Synarchist groups: “The Synarchist movement’s aim is essentially to overthrow in every country, where they exist the parliamentary regimes which are considered insufficiently devoted to the interests of these groups and, therefore, too difficult to control because of the number of persons required to control them.” Therefore, it is not too difficult to understand that the intention behind each and all of the Bilderberg meetings is about how to create a Synarchist “Aristocracy of purpose” between Europe and the United States, and how to come to agreement on questions of policy, economics, and strategy in jointly ruling the world. The NATO alliance was their crucial base of operation and subversion because it afforded them the backdrop for their plans of [perpetual war], or at least for their [nuclear blackmail] policy."  --Daniel Estulin (source)
    "It is essentially a private criminal enterprise which stretches across the globe, operating through a network of government agencies, private institutions and both publically owned and private corporations and financial institutions. Now this extended network, which is called the fondi, stretches all the way back to the Middle Ages. Again the fondi is the combined wealth of these oligarchical families. It is concentrated in your tangible things: land, oil, raw materials, precious minerals and metals. And by controlling the financial trade of these items, these family fathers set up fondis that are pooled together for maximum effect and deployed through a number of financial institutions, which hide their origins from the unsuspecting public. At the heart of the fondi system, you have the powerful merchant private banks such as the Rothschild banks. And even more powerful than Rothschild is the Lazard bank. One of the reasons that the Bilderbergers have never been able to discredit me is that historically I can show you that what today is called the Bilderberg Club can be traced back in time to the Venetian Black Nobility, 500 years ago. However, the idea behind these people hasn’t changed since the beginning: it’s the wholesale destruction of anything related and affiliated with the idea of a nation-state.
    The first nation-states were created in France under Louis XI and then in England with Henry VII. The idea behind the nation-state was the social welfare constitution; rights given to the people they had never had before. Before that we worked as slaves. For the first time we literally had something which we could call our own. It gave us the idea of the constitution, which is again one of the things that these people have been so virulently fighting against. With nation-states, anything which was created, any technological advance which took place, created a need in other states in Europe to follow suit otherwise they were left behind. That’s called progress and that’s what the Venetians and the Bilderbergers of today have been so virulently against, which is again the whole thing about zero growth and the wholesale destruction of national, international economies, that’s all part of what you’re witnessing right now. Of course, you have the yobbos who live in the world, the great unwashed, they have no idea what any of this stuff means because again their daily needs just are your basic primary, animal-like needs, which is exactly what these people want you to think about: work, procreate, eat and sleep."  --Daniel Estulin (source)
    "Again another thing about the Bilderbergers is that I can trace who these people are today back to the Venetian Black Nobility. We often hear about the influences of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, but these people are merely your typical lackeys when you actually look at it. They are the bottom of the totem pole. If you’re looking at the powerful people, you can talk about the House of Braganza; you talk about the House of Orange and the House of Hapsburg. These people have unimaginable wealth. You measure it not in billions but in trillions of dollars. I have a document from the Krupp family of Germany. One banking statement, just one account on one day, and there’s a 112 trillion dollars on that account. That’s the kind of money that the Bill Gates of this world… well, they’re not even lackeys. They are nothing, because again what they have is just pocket change for these people.
    One of the reasons that the Bilderbergers have never been able to discredit me is that historically I can show you that today what is called the Bilderberg group goes back in time to the Venetian Black nobility – to the royal houses and lineages of the European oligarchical families. For example, talking about your Queen, one such family is the Guelphs [from which Elizabeth II] the Queen of England comes. I found reference to this family by cross referencing with names like Ethico, Henry, Rudolph and Azoll. I found those references after spending more than two and a half years in the national library of Florence - literally living there - going through five-hundred-year-old documents. Queen Victoria, she comes from the house of Este-Guelph. The name Este comes from the name Marquis of Este of Venice, which is also known as the House of Albert Azoll. Now this line is connected to the Welfs and can easily be traced back to the Cunigundas, Prince of Welf. So basically the Queen of England has Venetian roots, but also German roots because the Guelphs are intertwined with the German aristocracy through the House of Hanover, the Hanoverian English King George I, he came from the Duchy of Luneburg , which have been [governed] by the Guelph family since the 12th century. Somewhat interesting [….] Prince Charles, the Queen’s son, and Diana visited Venice on numerous occasions, not on any official business, but rather in a private capacity. I was told by someone very familiar with the British royal family that the Queen told Diana point blank to never ever ever discuss these trips in public and, of course, Diana never did because I think she knew that the Queen meant it and she’d kill her if she ever did. So anyway, again, historically I can show you that what today is called the Bilderberg Group, 500 years ago was called the Venetian Black Nobility, but the idea behind what [all these people put together] hasn't changed, it’s the wholesale destruction of anything related and affiliated with the idea of a nation state."  --Daniel Estulin (source)
    Official attendee list of the first Bilderberg meeting at Prince Bernhard’s Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland, May 1954
     
    More on Oligarchy & Venetian Black Nobility at investigate911.org by Eustace Mullins and other extraordinary researchers.


    Ignatius of Loyola
    Father General of the Jesuits
    Ignatius was chosen as the first Superior General of his religious order, invested with the title of Father General by the Jesuits. He sent his companions as missionaries around Europe to create schools, colleges, and seminaries. Juan de Vega, the ambassador of Charles V at Rome had met Ignatius there. Esteeming him and the Jesuits, when Vega was appointed Viceroy of Sicily he brought Jesuits with him. A Jesuit college was opened at Messina; success was marked, and its rules and methods were afterwards copied in other colleges.[22] In 1548 Spiritual Exercises was finally printed, and he was briefly brought before the Roman Inquisition, but was released.
    Ignatius wrote the Jesuit Constitutions, adopted in 1554, which created a monarchical organization and stressed absolute self-abnegation and obedience to pope and superiors (perinde ac [sicadaver [essent],[23] "[well-disciplined] like a corpse" as Ignatius put it).[24] His main principle became the Jesuit motto: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam ("for the greater glory of God"). The Jesuits were a major factor in the Counter-Reformation. During 1553–1555, Ignatius dictated his life's story to his secretary, Father Gonçalves da Câmara. This autobiography is a valuable key for the understanding of his Spiritual Exercises. It was kept in the archives for about 150 years, until the Bollandists published the text in Acta Sanctorum. A critical edition exists in Vol. I (1943) of the Fontes Narrativi of the series Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu. He died in Rome on July 31, 1556, as a result of the Roman Fever, a severe case of malaria that recurred in Rome, Italy, at different points in history.
    Famous Quote of Loyola: " That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which appears to our eyes to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black. For we must undoubtingly believe, that the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of the Orthodox Church His Spouse, by which Spirit we are governed and directed to Salvation, is the same; ..."
     
    Canonization and legacy 
    Ignatius was beatified by Pope Paul V on July 27, 1609 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on March 12, 1622.[26] His feast day is celebrated annually on July 31, the day he died. Saint Ignatius is venerated as the patron saint of Catholic soldiers, the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore,[27] the Basque country and various towns and cities in his native region.
    Of the institutions dedicated to Saint Ignatius, one of the most famous is the Basilica of St Ignatius Loyola, built next to the house where he was born in Azpeitia, the Basque Country, Spain. The house itself, now a museum, is incorporated into the basilica complex.
    His legacy includes many Jesuit schools and educational institutions worldwide. In the United States alone there are 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and more than 50 secondary schools.
    Original shield of Oñaz-Loyola
     
     
    Statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Gesù Church, Rome.
     
    Ignatius as Superior General.
     
    Ignatius Loyola
    St Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuits.jpg
    Portrait by Peter Paul Rubens.
    Born: October 23, 1491-LoyolaGipuzkoaBasque CountryKingdom of Castille (actually Spain)
    Died: July 31, 1556 (aged 65)- RomePapal States Honored in: Roman Catholic ChurchAnglican Communion
    Beatified: July 27, 1609 by Pope Paul V - Canonized - March 12, 1622 by Pope Gregory XV -Feast: July 31
     
    Sanctuary of Loyola, in Azpeitia, built over Ignatius' birthplace.
    Ignatius in armor
     
    Visions of Ignatius.

     
    Ignatius of Loyola (BasqueIñigo LoiolakoaSpanishIgnacio de Loyola) (1491[1] – July 31, 1556) was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family,hermitpriest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was its first Superior General.[2] Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation. Loyola's devotion to the Catholic Church was characterized by absolute obedience to the Pope.[3]
    After being seriously wounded in the Battle of Pamplona in 1521, he underwent a spiritual conversion while in recovery. De Vita Christi by Ludolph of Saxonyinspired Loyola to abandon his previous military life and devote himself to labour for God, following the example of spiritual leaders such as Francis of Assisi. He experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus while at the shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat in March 1522. Thereafter he went to Manresa, where he began praying for seven hours a day, often in a nearby cave, while formulating the fundamentals of the Spiritual Exercises. In September 1523, Loyola reached the Holy Land to settle there, but was sent back to Europe by the Franciscans.
    Between 1524 and 1537, Ignatius studied theology and Latin in the University of Alcalá and then in Paris. In 1534, he arrived in the latter city during a period of anti-Protestant turmoil which forced John Calvin to flee France. Ignatius and a few followers bound themselves by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. In 1539, they formed the Society of Jesus, approved in 1540 by Pope Paul III, as well as his Spiritual Exercises approved in 1548. Loyola also composed theConstitutions of the Society. He died in July 1556, was beatified by Pope Paul V in 1609, canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622, and declared patron of all spiritual retreats by Pope Pius XI in 1922. Ignatius' feast day is celebrated on July 31. Ignatius is a foremost patron saint of soldiers, the Society of Jesus, theBasque Country, and the provinces of Guipúzcoa and Biscay.[4]
     
    Early life
    Iñigo Loiolakoa (sometimes erroneously called Íñigo López de Recalde)[5] was born in the municipality of Azpeitia at the castle of Loyola in today's Gipuzkoa,Basque Country, Spain, formerly in the Kingdom of Navarra by then absorbed into the Kingdom of Castile soon to be merged with the Kingdom of Aragon [6] He was baptized Íñigo, after St. Enecus (Innicus), Abbot of Oña,[5] a mediaeval Basque name arguably meaning "My little one".[7] It is unclear when he started using Ignatius instead of his baptismal name "Íñigo" (LatinEnecusBasqueEnekoSpanishÍñigo).[8] Ignatius did not intend to change his name but rather adopted for France and Italy a name which he believed was a simple variant of his own, and which was more acceptable among foreigners.[9]
     
    The youngest of 13 children, Íñigo López was brought up by María de Garín, the local blacksmith's wife, after his own mother died soon after his birth.[10] Íñigo adopted the last name "de Loyola" in reference of the Basque village of Loyola where he was born. He later became a page in the service of a relative, Juan Velázquez de Cuéllar, treasurer (contador mayor) of the kingdom of Castile.
    As a young aristocrat Ignatius had a "love of martial exercises and a vainglorious desire for fame."[11] At this period he framed his life around the stories of adventures of El Cid, the knights of Camelot, and The Song of Roland (the tale has Roland slain by Muslims, when historically his death was at the hands of Basques like Ignatius).[11] Joining the army at seventeen he strutted about "with his cape slinging open to reveal his tight-fitting hose and boots; a sword and dagger at his waist."[11] Upon encountering a Moor who denied the divinity of Jesus he challenged him to a duel to the death and ran him through.[11] He dueled others until the events of 1521.[11]
    In 1509, Íñigo took up arms for Antonio Manrique de Lara, Duke of Nájera and Viceroy of Navarre. According to Thomas Rochford, S.J., his diplomacy and leadership qualities made him a gentilhombre[12] very useful to the Duke.[13] Under the Duke's leadership, he participated in many battles without injury. But when the French army, supporting the Navarrese monarchy, expelled in 1512, stormed Pamplona's fortress on May 20, 1521, a cannonball wounded one of his legs and broke the other.[13] Heavily injured, Íñigo was returned to the castle. He was very concerned about the injuries and had several surgical operations, which were very painful in the days before anaesthetics.
    During this time he read the De Vita Christi, by Ludolph of Saxony, in a Catalan edition. This work influenced his whole life. De Vita Christi is the result of forty years of work by Ludolph. It is a commentary on the life of Jesus Christ, a commentary on the Gospels borrowing extracts from the works of over sixty of the Fathers of the Church. Ludolph particularly quotes St Gregory the GreatSt BasilSt Augustine and the Venerable Bede. Ludolph proposes to the reader that he place himself at the scene of the Gospel story; that he visualise the crib at the Nativity etc. etc. This is known as a method of prayer called Simple Contemplation and is the basis of the method that St. Ignatius sets out in his Spiritual Exercises.[14]
     
    Religious Conversion and Religious Life
    During his period of convalescence in 1521, Ignatius read a series of religious texts, on the life of Jesus[15][16] and on the lives of the saints; he became fired with an ambition to lead a life of self-denying labour and to emulate the heroic deeds of Francis of Assisi and other great monastics. He resolved to devote himself to the conversion of non-Christians in the Holy Land. Upon recovery, he visited the Benedictine monastery, Santa Maria de Montserrat (March 25, 1522), where he hung his military vestments before an image of the Virgin. He then traveled to the town of ManresaCatalonia and spent several months in a cave near where he practiced rigorous asceticism. Ignatius also began seeing a series of visions in full daylight while in hospital. These repetitive visions appeared as "a form in the air near him and this form gave him much consolation because it was exceedingly beautiful ... it somehow seemed to have the shape of a serpent and had many things that shone like eyes, but were not eyes. He received much delight and consolation from gazing upon this object ... but when the object vanished he became disconsolate." [17] In 1523, he instituted a pilgrimage to the Holy Land on a path of self-denial and sacrifice. He briefly remained from September 3 to 23 but was not permitted to stay. Twelve years later, standing before the Pope with his companions, he again proposed sending his companions as emissaries to Jerusalem.[18]
     
    Returning to Spain, he and his companions were occupied in the University of Alcalá (the present-day Complutense University of Madrid, not the newerUniversity of Alcalá established in 1977) with the task of making disciples of women called as witnesses by the Inquisition under the direction of magistrate Alonso Mejias. Although the alumbrados [Illuminated; Illuminati; Enlightened Ones] of Spain were linked in their zeal and spirituality to the Franciscan reforms of which Cardinal de Cisneros was a promoter," the administrators of the Inquisition had mounting suspicions. These female disciples, Doña Leo, Doña Maria, and Doña Beatriz were so hysterically zealous that "one fell senseless, another sometimes rolled about on the ground, another had been seen in the grip of convulsions or shuddering and sweating in anguish." This suspicious activity had taken place while Ignatius and his companions were regularly preaching in public. Because of his "street-corner perorations" being identified "with the activities of the alumbrados," Ignatius was naturally singled out for inspection as one of these visionaries; however he was later released.[19] After these adventurous activities, he studied at the ascetic Collège de Montaigu of the University of Paris, where he remained over seven years. In later life, he was often called "Master Ignatius". This title was due to his taking a master's degree from the before-mentioned university at the age of forty-three.[20]
    By 1534 he had gathered six key companions, all of whom he met as fellow students at the University[21]Francis XavierAlfonso SalmeronDiego Laynez, andNicholas Bobadilla, all Spanish; Peter Faber, a Frenchman; and Simão Rodrigues of Portugal. Later he was joined by Saint Francis Borgia, a member of the House of Borgia who was the main aide of Emperor Charles V, and other nobles. "On the morning of the 15th of August, 1534, in the chapel of church of Saint Peter, at Montmartre, Loyola and his six companions, of whom only one was a priest, met and took upon themselves the solemn vows of their lifelong work." [20] Ignatius of Loyola was the main creator and initial Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious organization of the Catholic Church whose members, known as Jesuits, served the Pope as missionaries. He is remembered as a talented spiritual director. He was very vigorous in opposing the Protestant Reformation and promoting the following Counter-Reformation. He was beatified and then canonized and received the title of Saint on March 12, 1622. He is the patron saint of the provinces of Guipuscoa and Biscay along with the Society of Jesus. Ignatius Loyola wrote Spiritual Exercises, a simple 200-page set of meditations, prayers, and various other mental exercises, from 1522 to 1524. The exercises of the book were designed to be carried out over a period of 28–30 days.
     
    Father General of the Jesuits
    Ignatius was chosen as the first Superior General of his religious order, invested with the title of Father General by the Jesuits. He sent his companions as missionaries around Europe to create schools, colleges, and seminaries. Juan de Vega, the ambassador of Charles V at Rome had met Ignatius there. Esteeming him and the Jesuits, when Vega was appointed Viceroy of Sicily he brought Jesuits with him. A Jesuit college was opened at Messina; success was marked, and its rules and methods were afterwards copied in other colleges.[22] In 1548 Spiritual Exercises was finally printed, and he was briefly brought before the Roman Inquisition, but was released.
    Ignatius wrote the Jesuit Constitutions, adopted in 1554, which created a monarchical organization and stressed absolute self-abnegation and obedience to pope and superiors (perinde ac [sicadaver [essent],[23] "[well-disciplined] like a corpse" as Ignatius put it).[24] His main principle became the Jesuit motto: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam ("for the greater glory of God"). The Jesuits were a major factor in the Counter-Reformation. During 1553–1555, Ignatius dictated his life's story to his secretary, Father Gonçalves da Câmara. This autobiography is a valuable key for the understanding of his Spiritual Exercises. It was kept in the archives for about 150 years, until the Bollandists published the text in Acta Sanctorum. A critical edition exists in Vol. I (1943) of the Fontes Narrativi of the series Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu. He died in Rome on July 31, 1556, as a result of the Roman Fever, a severe case of malaria that recurred in Rome, Italy, at different points in history.
    Famous Quote of Loyola: " That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which appears to our eyes to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black. For we must undoubtingly believe, that the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of the Orthodox Church His Spouse, by which Spirit we are governed and directed to Salvation, is the same; ..."
     
    Canonization and legacy 
    Ignatius was beatified by Pope Paul V on July 27, 1609 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on March 12, 1622.[26] His feast day is celebrated annually on July 31, the day he died. Saint Ignatius is venerated as the patron saint of Catholic soldiers, the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore,[27] the Basque country and various towns and cities in his native region.
    Of the institutions dedicated to Saint Ignatius, one of the most famous is the Basilica of St Ignatius Loyola, built next to the house where he was born in Azpeitia, the Basque Country, Spain. The house itself, now a museum, is incorporated into the basilica complex.
    His legacy includes many Jesuit schools and educational institutions worldwide. In the United States alone there are 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and more than 50 secondary schools.
     
    Genealogy
    Shield of Oñaz-Loyola
    Original shield of Oñaz-Loyola
    The Shield of Oñaz-Loyola is a symbol of St. Ignatius family's Oñaz lineage, and is used by many Jesuit institutions around the world. The Oñaz shield consisted of seven red bars going diagonally from the upper left to the lower right on a gold field. The bands were granted by the King of Spain to each of the Oñaz brothers in recognition of their bravery in battle. The Loyola shield featured a pair of rampant gray wolves flanking each side of a cooking pot. The Loyola name was acontraction of the words Lobo y Olla which literally meant "wolf and pot" in Spanish. The wolf was a symbol of nobility, while the entire design represented the family's generosity towards their military followers. According to legend, wolves had enough to feast on after the soldiers had eaten. Both shields were combined as a result of the intermarriage of the two families in 1261.[28][29]
    The official colors of the Loyola family were maroon and gold.[30]

    Lineage

    Villoslada established the following detailed genealogy of St. Ignatius:[1]
     
    Lope de Oñaz (~1180)
    ├ García López de Oñaz (~1221)
         ├ López García de Oñaz
            wife: Inés, dame of Loyola – unit of families (~1261)
             ├ daughter: Inés de Oñaz y Loyola (~end of the 13th century)
                husband: Juan Pérez (related)
               ├  Jaun (Basque – Lord) Juan Pérez
                ├  Gil López de Oñaz
                ├  other 5 brothers (see – battle of Beotibar)
                     Beltrán Yáñez (el Ibáñez) de Loyola, son of Jaun Juan (+1405)
                     wife: Ochanda Martínez de Leete from Azpeitia
                         ├ Sancha Ibáñez de Loyola
                         |  husband: Lope García de Lazcano
                         |  married: 4 III 1413
                         ├ heir: Juan Pérez de Loyola (d. childless, heirdom for Sancha)
                         ├ Maria Beltranche
                         ├ Elvira
                         ├ Emilia
                         ├ Juanecha
                                 Juan Pérez de Loyola, son of Sancha Ibáñez (+ in Tolosa)
                                  wife: Sancha Pérez de Iraeta (+1473)
                                     ├ Don Beltrán Yáñez (vel Ibáñez) de Oñaz y Loyola (+ 23 X 1507)
                                       wife: Doña Marina Sáenz (vel Sánchez) de Licona (+ < 6 V 1508)
                                       married: 13 VII 1467 r.
    13 children:
    1. Juan Pérez de Loyola (+1503 in Naples)
    2. heir – Don Martín García de Oñaz y Loyola (1477 – 29 XI 1538)
                  wife: Magdalena de Araoz
                  married: 11 IX 1498
        * – order uncertain
    *. Ochoa Pérez de Loyola
    *. Juan Beltrán de Loyola
    *. Beltrán de Loyola (+ < 14 XI 1527)
    *. Hernando de Loyola (+ in Panama, New World)
    *. Pero López de Oñaz y Loyola (priest, + < VII 1529 in Barcelona)
    *. Juaniza (vel Joaneiza) de Loyola, wife of Juan Marínez de Alzaga, notary from Azpeitia
    *. Magdalena de Loyola, wife of Juan López de Gallaiztegui, notary from Anzuola
    *. Sancha Ibáñez de Loyola
    *. Petronila de Loyola, wife of Pedro Ochoa de Arriola
    *. Maria Beltrán de Loyola, wife of Domingo de Arruado
    13. Iñigo López de Loyola (< 23 X 1491 – 31 VII 1556)
     







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