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Post by james1983 on Sept 27, 2020 0:16:23 GMT -6
Charles J. Folger from Nantucket was secretary of treasury and one of the cabal responsible for the reverse seal (all seeing eye) on the back of the 1$ bill. I just thought that was interesting.
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Post by Admin Horan on Sept 27, 2020 7:36:07 GMT -6
I keep forgetting to mention Lincoln's administration invented the greenback dollar. IIRC, Melville and Hawthorne mention Charles Folger in their letters discussing the establishment of a "Masonic Republic." Melville was all for it, but Hawthorne grew less enthusiastic over time.
Of course, one of Hawthorne's ancestors was active in the Salem Witch trials. What's interesting is, how many otherwise highly-educated civic leaders not only believed in the reality of "witchcraft," but they seemed to believe that occult forces were way more powerful than the average "superstitious" person believed. English law on the matter was heavily influenced by the paranoid (if more or less accurate) conspiracy theories of King James I, who rabidly believed in an occult plot to destroy him. That was how "making a pact with the devil" became a capital crime in Britain and the Colonies. ("Witchcraft" in and of itself was NOT a crime. It was only a crime to use witchcraft to harm others. Like a knife. The crime the Salem witches were executed for was "making a pact with the Devil." That was also the crime the Inquisitors executed the Templars for. It was the medieval equivalent of "making a pact with al Qaeda" or whatever.) And it was the Templars/Masons who believe in Magick as something powerful enough to rule the World. For them, Sir Isaac Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation proved that an inconceivably powerful occult (unseen) Force acting at mind-boggling distances, literally held and directed the planets and stars themselves in their orbits. Why couldn't such occult forces guide and shape whole societies and populations? We still believe in it. We call it "scientific" names like Social Science, or Psychology, or Propaganda, or Bias, or whatever. But we still believe that powerful, invisible forces control the World, and we are still obsessed with understanding and mastering those forces.
For go-getters like the Foulgers and Stanfords, they NEEDED to use that kind of Force if they were going to "tame" and "civilize" vast populations of heathen savages. And make them profitable. Manifest Destiny is a description of such an occult Force sugar-coated and whitewashed for mass audiences. And yes, there is no doubt that, until the "purges" of the WWI years, Freemasons were pretty much running the country on Hermetic principles and beliefs.
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Post by james1983 on Sept 28, 2020 1:22:32 GMT -6
One of the people Howeel quotes in his book is Nobel prize winner Propigene that I mentioned in the posts about Stanford and Marilyn Ferguson. He's the guy who "invented" the "chaos theory" that Ferguson said could be used as initiation. He won the prize in 1977 I believe. What's funny he wrote a book called "order out of chaos" lol. You can't just make this shit up lol.
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