Pierre Marchildon, Full-time Pilgrim of St. Michael
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Once and for all, it’s <strong>time</strong> to get at the root<br />
<strong>of</strong> Masonic influence and “secret” clubs<br />
by <strong>Michael</strong> Brown<br />
www.spiritdaily.com<br />
During the coming months there is bound to<br />
be major hoopla over a new book by Dan Brown,<br />
who wrote the blasphemous DaVinci Code.<br />
This <strong>time</strong>, hopefully, it will not be such a tirade<br />
against the Church. It may be folly to hope<br />
for that.<br />
But one beneficial thing it could bring into<br />
sharp relief is Freemasonry; any such light into<br />
that darkness is a benefit.<br />
For rumor is that the novel — tentatively entitled<br />
The Solomon Key — focuses on the mysterious<br />
Masons and their secret influence, especially<br />
in Washington, D.C.<br />
The book, claims one report, is “set to lift the<br />
veil on mysterious Freemason symbols carved<br />
into the very fabric <strong>of</strong> the historic streets and<br />
buildings <strong>of</strong> the U.S. capital.”<br />
Word is that the new adventure will be based<br />
in the heart <strong>of</strong> that city, “which could reveal some<br />
astonishing facts for history buffs.”<br />
If that is correct (and his new novel is not just<br />
another attack on Christianity), those “astonishing<br />
facts” may include what many believe is a Masonic<br />
link to the very way that the nation’s capital is<br />
laid out architecturally. An aerial view <strong>of</strong> Washington,<br />
many point out, shows a perfect square and<br />
the compass -- which are the universal symbols <strong>of</strong><br />
Freemasonry. (See picture below.)<br />
Is such simply a coincidence? We really don’t<br />
know. Perhaps no one does. George Washington<br />
is said to have demanded that the capital be laid<br />
out in a symbolic square. The shape <strong>of</strong> a square<br />
and compass is also formed by drawing a line on<br />
the map between two <strong>of</strong> the city’s major landmarks,<br />
the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, and<br />
along the walls <strong>of</strong> the White House and the Jefferson<br />
Memorial, notes the AFB news service.<br />
“At the center <strong>of</strong> these stands the Washington<br />
Monument, a vast brick obelisk whose dimensions<br />
themselves are symbolic: 555 feet high by<br />
55 wide (170 meters by 17).<br />
“The number five is said to refer to the traditional<br />
five orders <strong>of</strong> architecture — which in turn<br />
relates to the Freemasons’ regard for geometry as<br />
a symbol <strong>of</strong> order, and <strong>of</strong> ‘the great geometrician’<br />
— the supreme being,” says the news item.<br />
Inside the Capitol building, it further notes,<br />
“lies a cornerstone laid by George Washington<br />
himself, dressed in his ceremonial apron, in a Masonic<br />
ritual in 1793.”<br />
One could argue that the design <strong>of</strong> the capital<br />
is based more on neo-classical style -- the<br />
efforts to establish a new republic based on an<br />
ancient Roman republican model rather than<br />
anything that related to Freemasonry. But we are<br />
concerned with any social-spiritual group that excludes<br />
Jesus in the way Masonry does and that<br />
has initiation rituals which can be linked back to<br />
occultic Egyptians, Babylonians, and others.<br />
Are Masons part <strong>of</strong> a larger scheme?<br />
That’s something backed more with theories<br />
than evidence, but we are concerned with the ob-<br />
Jan.-Feb.-March 2008<br />
vious trend to build a world government and likewise<br />
are befuddled by the documented existence<br />
<strong>of</strong> secret groups that like Masons also include major<br />
political leaders.<br />
We’re not prone to conspiracy theories, but<br />
why the secrecy? Why, for example, are there the<br />
Bilderberg Club, the Club <strong>of</strong> Rome, and the Bohemian<br />
Grove so clandestine? And why do they<br />
some<strong>time</strong>s interweave?<br />
It is <strong>time</strong> for all <strong>of</strong> this to come aboveboard<br />
and it is remarkable that the media has never<br />
touched it — perhaps until now. Will Dan Brown’s<br />
novel provoke a needed discussion?<br />
It is <strong>time</strong> for us to understand the influence <strong>of</strong><br />
the Bilderbergs, who meet each year in tremendous<br />
secrecy. Those meetings occur in Europe<br />
and the closed-door sessions involve about 120<br />
business, government, and media leaders from<br />
that continent and also North America — including,<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten, presidential candidates.<br />
Why the secrecy? This organization not only<br />
has enormous political cloud, but allegedly influences<br />
the Federal Reserve, the European Central<br />
Bank, and the Bank <strong>of</strong> England.<br />
The goal, fear some, is to create a “world<br />
company” that will morph into a single world<br />
body <strong>of</strong> governing the masses for the benefit <strong>of</strong><br />
a mysterious elite.<br />
There is Bilderberg influence over the World<br />
Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other<br />
bodies that affect us in ways we don’t understand.<br />
It is <strong>time</strong> that we understood them. It is <strong>time</strong> too<br />
that we made our politicians explain this matter.<br />
“The Bilderberg Group is not the end but the<br />
means to a future One World Government,” writes<br />
one author, Daniel Estulin. “This organization has<br />
grown beyond its secretive beginnings to become<br />
a virtual shadow government which decides in<br />
total secrecy at annual meetings how its plans are<br />
to be carried out.”<br />
The ultimate goal, fear such writers, is to<br />
exercise hegemony over the world (starting with<br />
Eurasia) and bring about a globalized market<br />
place that would be controlled by the single government,<br />
policed by a United World Army, and<br />
financially regulated by a World Bank, with a<br />
micro-chipped population that is monitored and<br />
with life needs stripped down to “materialism<br />
and survival work, buy, procreate, sleep — all<br />
connected to a global computer that monitors<br />
our every move.”<br />
This would seem paranoid if there had not<br />
been such strides <strong>of</strong> late in introducing microchips<br />
(ostensibly to keep medical information),<br />
and if luminaries such as Henry Kissinger and<br />
the Rockefellers had not been attached to that or<br />
groups such as the Trilateral Commission.<br />
It would also seem more paranoid if there<br />
was not such a push — as we clearly see in our<br />
<strong>time</strong> — for “one unified Europe” and now even<br />
“one unified North America.”<br />
Indeed, besides the curious opening <strong>of</strong> borders<br />
is the prospect <strong>of</strong> a super-highway that would<br />
unite Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. The seed <strong>of</strong><br />
the union rests in passage <strong>of</strong> the North American<br />
Free Trade Agreement in the early 1990s under<br />
George Bush Senior (and then Bill Clinton).<br />
Paranoia? Perhaps. We have to be very careful<br />
<strong>of</strong> these matters. Is it just the domain <strong>of</strong> “Illuminati”<br />
(and the “black helicopters”)? Or do we<br />
now need to take a closer look at some <strong>of</strong> these<br />
fears?<br />
Governor Rick Perry <strong>of</strong> Texas — a strong supporter<br />
<strong>of</strong> the trans-national highway — recently<br />
fueled such apprehensions by traveling to Turkey<br />
to attend — yes — the secretive Bilderberg conference.<br />
Meanwhile, former Mexican president Vicente<br />
Fox makes no bones about his support for<br />
North American unification.<br />
Folks can go too far with such things (it seems<br />
unfair to proclaim the current President Bush as<br />
using the devil’s sign when he uses a hand signal<br />
that is really a cheer for the Texas Longhorns), and<br />
perhaps folks get overly wrought about another<br />
secret, Masonic-like group: the Skull and Bones<br />
Society, based at Yale, and with a number <strong>of</strong> leaders,<br />
including the current president, as initiates.<br />
Are we too concerned about the highly secret annual<br />
meeting <strong>of</strong> government, business, and diplomatic<br />
leaders at Bohemian Grove in California?<br />
Whatever the answer to that question, we can<br />
say that such secrecy is no huge comfort and that<br />
it’s obvious we’re in an era where corporations<br />
are laying down the foundation for a single global<br />
entity, moving even into China (which is atheistic<br />
and who is ostensibly is our enemy).<br />
How much <strong>of</strong> this is consciously designed,<br />
and how much is simply the momentum <strong>of</strong> our<br />
<strong>time</strong>s, is subject to debate. There is a spirit, however,<br />
that is moving in the world, and corporations<br />
should be watched more than anything.<br />
Will secret oligarchies and the powerful men<br />
behind the curtain soon see things to fruition?<br />
Our masses have been hypnotized by cell<br />
phones, TV, and media that are owned by corporations<br />
that are becoming multi-national and<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten participate in elite organizations (at least<br />
in the case <strong>of</strong> Bohemian Grove, which like the<br />
Masons has a ritual with occult overtones).<br />
However the Masons figure into all this (they<br />
are <strong>of</strong>ten given more credit than they may deserve),<br />
they have had their place as an example<br />
<strong>of</strong> secret initiate groups that seek to exert — and<br />
have exerted — influence.<br />
The trend is growing. The groups are expanding.<br />
And there is certainly that overlap between<br />
various organizations. Small comfort there.<br />
Whatever the influence <strong>of</strong> Masons in the<br />
architecture <strong>of</strong> Washington, it is a fact that a Masonic<br />
temple with its own architecture <strong>of</strong> sphinxes<br />
and colonnades dominates a corner <strong>of</strong> 16th <strong>St</strong>reet<br />
near the city center —- one <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> Masonic<br />
lodges in the capital and just a stone’s throw<br />
from the White House.<br />
Oh, the webs that secrecy weaves.<br />
Brown “had a contact with us but then cut it<br />
short,” said Akram Elias, grand master-elect <strong>of</strong><br />
Washington’s Grand Lodge. “We are all sitting<br />
around waiting for his book to come out but nobody<br />
knows what he’s going to say.”<br />
<strong>Michael</strong> Brown<br />
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