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pyramid. Seven of the keystones are decorated with flames, and the eighth bears the Hebrew name of God
inside a triangular plaque surrounded by a sunburst. St Mary Woolnoth church is based on the idea of a
cube within a cube. This has represented the squaring of the circle from ancient times, which takes us back
to the ideal proportions of Leonardo‘s Vitruvian Man… and, of course, the Freemasons, and as another
symbol, it shows a ―world within a world‖.
But it is the geographical alignment of Hawksmoor‘s churches as much as their architecture and ornate
recurring motifs that has provoked speculation, among such authors like Iain Sinclair, who‘s book-length
prose-poem Lud Heat in 1975, where he describes how Hawksmoor‘s churches form regular triangles and
pentacles, and ―guard, mark or rest upon‖ the City‘s sources of occult power. Sinclair even provides maps
to prove the alignments, which he considers a clear sign of Hawksmoor‘s true Satanic affiliation, as
Sinclair was the first to connect Hawksmoor‘s churches with some of the most horrendous crimes in
London‘s history, such as the Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 and Jack the Ripper‘s killing spree in
1888. Sinclair suggests that the malign influence of Christ Church, Spitalfields, is so great that it attracts
dark acts of violence to its vicinity. [8][9]
Again I could go on and on about how much sacred geometry, geographical alignment, triangles and
pentacles are entwined with Freemasonry, and that because they‘ve already had the foresight and
knowledge to hand when it came to building such ―new cities‖, they too [the American Freemasons], must
have been more than willing and eager to put their skills to the test, when they set about designing and
building great projects such as the capitol of America and its other major cities in general. So bearing this
in mind and going back to Tony Robinson and C4 programme, and despite mentioning the previous well
known historical facts about the US and Washington, - again I ask, why didn‘t the programme include any
of those details, or more so like that of what Julia Duin of the Washington Times wrote in her article in
2008?
This same story and information was repeated in many other newspaper publications around the period
of Obama‘s inauguration. – Here‘s only a small extract from the overall interview, Duin writes; ―...I
learned all this from Garrison Courtney, a 30-something government worker who gives Masonic tours of
the District in his spare time. He is Worshipful Master at the Cincinnatus Lodge in Georgetown.
Contrary to public perceptions of Masons being older white guys, current local membership is a racially
and religiously mixed group of Gen-X men [7] . Calling themselves, - a ‗spiritual organisation‘. Masons
need only believe in a ‗Supreme Being‘ - Masons have grown nationally in recent years, he said, with 38
Lodges in the Washington District alone‖. The late President Gerald R. Ford was a Freemason: ―We
actually had a Masonic procession to his casket while he was lying in state at the Capitol‖, Mr Courtney
said. The inaugural parade, he tells me; ―Began as a Masonic procession [a parade of Masonic notables]
from the then still-unfinished White House to Capitol Hill where Washington travelled on Sept the 18th
1793 to lay the cornerstone for the Capitol. Lafayette Park was the site of a makeshift Masonic lodge, in
which the Scottish stone-masons then working on the executive mansion lived. - Washington also ensured
the boundaries of the District, each 10 miles along, which formed a perfect square, which symbolises
ultimate virtue in Masonry‖.
The ―whole idea‖ behind the building of Washington, was to convey the message about the new
experiment, a new way of thinking the Founding Fathers had in mind - said Akram Elias, a past
grandmaster of all the District's lodges. Whole books have been written about the Masonic imagery on
buildings around the District. Many of their cornerstones were laid with Masonic ceremonies involving
oil, wine and corn. – ―All five statues in front of the White House are Freemasons, Mr. Courtney said.
Every single one of the statues on Virginia Avenue are as well. ‗Masonry is ingrained in the city‘ and in
the American culture‖. [7] - So there you have it, a recent article which appeared in the American press in
late 2008 clearly stating that; ―Masonry is ingrained in the city of Washington‖, yet as I‘ve already said,
when this simply question was put to Hawkins by Tony Robinson, his reply was; ―Not at all‖. - And
Robinson, in typical Baldrick style, shrugged his shoulders, and just seemed to accept it as that must be so.
-Therefore pervading to the trusting viewer: ―Well that‘s that then...‖ - and leaving them none the wiser.
It‘s interesting to note that on page 26 of The Lost Symbol, Brown‘s character Langdon, tries to dispel
the ―conspiracy theory‖ to an over keen student who points out the above mentioned Masonic layout of the
streets in Washington D.C., by apparently then showing the student another map, but this time of Detroit,
and pointing out that the exact same shapes could be found on that street map. However, it‘s worth noting,
that he too must have been unable to replicate the same patterns again on the street map of Washington
D.C., other than what the student was already pointing out to him, - otherwise he would have surely
mentioned this point as well, that is of course, if we assume he knew about them in the first place. But