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HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Marquis de Lafayette
Karl Marx
Wolfgang Mozart
Napoleon Bonaparte
George Washington
Simon Bolivar
Joseph Stalin
Horatio Nelson
MASONIC INFLUENCE Part of a Masonic ritual, the hand gesture seen in an illustration from "Duncan’s Masonic Ritual
and Monitor," above, bears a striking resemblance to poses in many historical portraits. From sacred-texts.com; wikimedia.org
street, giving way to a restoration of the old monastery
demolished by Stalin. And this second exile and
excommunication will not be caused by the funny,
blasphemous verses he occasionally wrote, but by the
very gesture of his hand hidden in his breast pocket.
Because this gesture proves that he is an archenemy of
the Russian Orthodoxy – a Freemason.
Like many symbols of a bygone era – Picasso’s
dove being one – some gestures become obsolete, too.
Their meaning is now obscure to us. Having noticed
a similarity in hand gestures between the Nelson and
Pushkin monuments, I decided to visit the National
Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery – both located
on the same Trafalgar Square – to study hand
gestures in the portraits of other great personalities.
I invite you to take a quick look at the portraits of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Simon Bolivar, George
Washington, Lafayette, Solomon Rothschild and Napoleon
Bonaparte. What do they all have in common?
One hand is hidden inside their clothing. Searching the
web for more information, I found them all listed
(plus Marx and Stalin) on a single website – one dedicated
to the Masonic conspiracy.
The site explains that during the Masonic initiation
ceremony, the initiate must learn a secret password
and a hand sign – namely, thrusting his hand in his
bosom. The hidden hand lets the other initiates know
that the individual is part of this secret Brotherhood.
“The hand that executes the actions is hidden behind
cloth, which can symbolically refer to (the) covert nature
of the Mason’s actions,” the propagators of this
Masonic conspiracy explain. The ritual, we are told, is
in imitation of one given by God to Moses, when He
commanded him to thrust his hand into his bosom:
And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put
now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his
hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold,
his hand was leprous as snow. And he said,
Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put
his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out
of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as
his other flesh. (Exodus 4-6)
No one would dispute that the author of "Die Zauberflote"
was a Mason. Solomon Rothschild was proud
to be one, keeping his wallet close to his bosom. But I
am not sure about Marx and Stalin. Marx most probably
hid his hand during the photo session because he
had an itchy skin disease. Stalin had a deformed and
withered hand. As for Simon Bolivar and the rest of the
conspirators – only Pushkin could have enlightened
us! And yes, we should not forget our Nelson on Trafalgar
Square. But I am reminded that he simply had
no hand to hide – he’d lost it at the battle. This fact is
hidden by having the missing part of the body appear
not to be missing by putting it behind the cloth. That,
of course, doesn’t prove Nelson was not a Mason. n
Zinovy Zinik's latest book, Sounds Familiar or The
Beast of Artek (Divus, London), was published in June.
See a video on
Freemasonry at
artenol.org.
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