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Referred to as the Websterian Great Seal, it was used until 1885.
The third engraving was prepared in 1885 under Secretary of State F. T. Frelinghuysen and
cut by Tiffany and Co.; and the fourth engraving, under Secretary of State John Hay, engraved
by Max Zeiler, and cut by Baily, Banks & Biddle; were both consistent with the design passed
by law in 1782.
A committee appointed by Frelinghuysen, consisting of Theodore F. Dwight (Chief of the
Bureau of Rolls and Library of the State Department), Justin Winsor (historian), Charles Eliot
Norton (Harvard professor), William H. Whitmore (genealogist), John Denison Chaplin, Jr.
(associate editor of American Cyclopedia) and James Horton Whitehouse (designer for Tiffany
and Co. in New York City) decided that a die for the reverse side of the seal would not be
produced and used as an official seal. Norton called it a “dull emblem of a Masonic fraternity.”
However, a 1957 pamphlet by the U.S. Government Printing Office, called The Seal of the
United States, indicated that in 1885 “a die may have been cut,” but never used.
Celestia Root Lang (editor and publisher of Divine Life magazine from the Independent
Theosophical Society of America) wrote in 1917: “The reverse side must have been designed by
a mystic, one versed in symbolism ... The time will come ... when the white stone (pyramid
capstone) will become the headstone of the corner of our government ... in proclaiming a new
religion in which all spiritual currents flowing from every religion shall meet in the perfection of
the white stone ... having neither dogma nor doctrine ... We see in Mr. Barton only the facade of
the instrument; that if he himself was not a mystic or seer, then, a Master (thought to have been
Thomas Paine) stood behind him.”
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. wrote in his book The Coming of the New Deal, that Vice
President Henry A. Wallace (a Mason) was “fascinated” by the occult, and was impressed
enough with the significance of the reverse side of the Great Seal to lobby Treasury Secretary
Morganthau to have it put on the back of the one dollar bill in 1935. Wallace later ran for
President as a Socialist. What this gesture meant, was that the Illuminati had finally reached the
point where they could set into motion their plans for the New World Order by initiating the
destruction of our Constitution.
The front side of the Great Seal, or the Eagle, is well known. It is used to seal all
governmental documents. The reverse side displays a pyramid, with an eye in the capstone and a
Latin inscription around it. This seems to be a continuation of the Masonic symbolism found on
the front. The number thirteen is displayed prominently, and was thought to have referred to the
thirteen colonies. However, the number thirteen was a mystical number to the Egyptians and
Babylonians, and also the Masons.
There are:
13 stars in the crest
13 stripes and bars in the shield
13 olive leaves
13 olives
13 arrows in the right claw
13 feathers in the arrows
13 letters in “Annuit Coeptis”
13 letters in “E Pluribus Unum”
13 courses of stone in the pyramid
13 X 9 dots in the divisions around the crest