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COSMIC REALITY - 4
Your Daddy Was a Weirdo

In the last chapter we discussed Cosmic Rule #5 concerning chance being a pseudonym for thought. Most of the time chance brought me a book that provided pieces of the puzzle. Some secrets were "freebies", provided by a person who had access to certain information. People just tell me the strangest things. And many of these people came through my Army involvement.

After leaving the Active Army I joined an Army Reserve unit. For one weekend a month and two weeks during the summer, I again put on the Army uniform. One of those two week stints took me to a training center where I met an inspector for the United States Federal Prison systems.

This government employee and I had been conversing for some time before he told me about an experience that was still bothering him. While inspecting a prison facility in the Washington DC area, a prison official showed the inspector a building on the prison site not being used for prisoners. The building was a storehouse. Inside were boxes upon boxes. When the official opened one box, the inspector was shocked to see black military uniforms. According to the official, these were to be worn by members of the Federal Police Force - a security force to be created when the U.S. President federalized all state police.

My disbelief mirrored the inspector's initial reaction. But, the possible existence of such a federal police force, he further explained, could already be ordered by law. He wrote down a number and sent me off in search of Presidential Executive Order 11921....

Executive Order 11921

Executive Order 11921 was issued as part of the Federal Register (Volume 41, Number 116), dated June 1976, to provide the office of President of the United States with:

* the powers of government censorship;
* control over the production and distribution of all materials and their production facilities including petroleum, solid fuels, gas, electric power, water, food, farm equipment, fertilizer, and minerals;
* complete control over the means of transportation;
* and the right to distribute health resources.

The only thing an aspiring presidential dictator had to do upon gaining the presidency was to enact Executive Order 11921 "in any national emergency type situation that might conceivably confront the nation". What that entails is not stipulated.

Existence of a contingency plan to centralize basic economic, transportation, and health activities of America by an agency of the federal government was unnerving. The degree of nationalization planned would give the U.S. President the powers of a dictator. Images of a dictator brought forth thoughts of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany which took me back to Vincent Collins and his NeoNazis operating psychic weapons.

Envisioning a federalized police force wearing black uniforms brought forth images of Nazi troops strutting through Europe and Russia. Images of Europe in the thirties brought forth realities of the forties when an estimated four million members of the Nazi party appeared to have evaporated after the war - and with them went untold billions of dollars in pillaged treasures, stolen from throughout Europe.

I have always wondered where all the money went and where the Nazis had taken refuge. The problem was to convert pillaged funds into something respectable. Again fate entered the picture and I came in contact with the nuclear power industry through John G. Fuller's WE ALMOST LOST DETROIT.

Fuller's nonfiction account of the Fermi nuclear reactor that went critical and has remained a nuclear graveyard, put the fear of God in me. After researching the nuclear industry I was convinced those who were perpetuating its growth were totally out of their minds.

The secret dangers of nuclear factories demands a book of its own and is beyond the scope of what we are doing here. What is important is that a chance encounter with a book provided an explanation of what happened to the Nazi treasure. Billions of dollars could have been sunk into the nuclear industry while not affecting other economic sectors controlled by established power brokers. The best part was that nuclear industry could never really become a competitor to oil.

When your local power company goes to the price regulation people to ask for a rise in the cost to the consumer, the power company is asking for its investment money back. Rate hikes are dependent upon investment money. The more the power company invest, the more they can charge. Nuclear power plants suck up an enormous amount of investment money and can never become cost effective. To cover the expenses of one nuclear plant you could pay off pollution-free conventional power plants many times over. In fact, the only reason nuclear power plants were allowed to be built was probably to convert dirty money and/or have an excuse to continue bilking the consumer with outrageous hike rates.

And, again whether Nazi money was at the root of nuclear evil or not, the United States government was involved in yet another cover-up: nuclear plants have gone to meltdown and Americans have been lied to about the results. I no longer questioned why the Soviet Union had been so active in spying on U.S. industry and financial activities.

President Eisenhower's last address to the American people carried the warning to beware of the military-industrial complex. I also heard that at the end of his life Lyndon Johnson spoke often of a conspiracy. I wondered if this was the rambling of an old man or whether he also knew of a financial and industrial conspiracy that could effectively control the U.S.

Another book enters the picture: Howard S. Katz's THE WARMONGERS. This nonfiction documents the interrelationship of finance and industry, as well as, the manner in which they control the fields of politics and academe. It was obvious; America was under the control of a select and limited group of men. What was bothersome was the question of what type men?

What if Kennedy understood the dangers of such a merging of industry and finance. Reasons given for his assassination were that he was trying to bust the power of the unions, that he was after the Mafia, that he had ordered a withdrawal from Vietnam, and just simply that he was a threat to too many people. But what if Kennedy had uncovered a conspiracy to gain complete control over the United States and perhaps the world. Could he have seen the "handwriting on the wall" and anticipated a day when a law such as Executive Order 11921 would exist to legalize a federal police force?

My paranoia was continuing to be substantiated by my learning and experiences. Black uniforms marched through my thoughts. Vincent Collins had asked me to do a longrange telepathic intrusion on a group resulting in my mind being filled with the very symbol of Nazi Germany - the swastika. And was the Nazi connection through Oswald's handler George DeMohrenschildt something more than an interesting antidote from a bygone past? And what was the Navy's role from DeMohrenschildt to the autopsy?

It all boiled down to this: could the facts concerning the planning, execution, and cover-up of the Kennedy assassination been kept secret because the main players were all NeoNazis tied forever by some oath of loyalty? At about this time Cosmic Rule #5 kicked in again and an acquaintance of mine in the Army Reserve unit handed me a book saying, "I think you might like this".

The Bohemian Grove

The full title of the book is The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats - a Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness. It's author G. William Domhoff has a 1974 copyright on this tale of a retreat located in the 2700 acres of California redwoods owned by the Becktel Corporation. The Becktel corporation has a record of having employed a number of America's high level government officials as well as being responsible for building half the nuclear plants in the United States by the 1970's. Let me repeat this fact: the Becktel Corporation was the world's greatest builder of nuclear power plants.

Domhoff acknowledges the power of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Committee for Economic Development, the Business Council, the National Municipal League, and other organizations for planning American policy and managing consensus for those policies. However, he claims these organizations are the government interface for those of wealth belonging to interlocking social circles and having common economic interests. Domhoff claimed (1974) that 1% of the population owned

* 25-30% of all the privately held wealth,
* 60-70% of all corporate wealth,
* received 20-25% of the yearly income,
* are the directors of American economic/financial institutions,
* control academic and research foundations,
* and dominate the federal government

(page 82, The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats - a Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness).

None of this is new. By the time I read Domhoff's work, I had compiled hundreds of references substantiating Domhoff's view of US reality. The startling aspect to Domhoff's research was uncovering the paganistic ceremonies conducted at the Bohemian Grove by the Bohemian Club. The Bohemian Club is apparently the most powerful of the identified social clubs for the power people. Once a year the Bohemian Club holds a retreat which has been held annually since 1880. Men wearing red flowing robes with pointed hoods, accompanied by funeral music and torch light, partake in this strange ceremony where a muslin wrapped wooden skeleton, carried in a coffin is cremated. The skeleton represents Care - a symbolic representation of the concerns important men bear daily. Care is burned in this ceremony marking the beginning of a two week retreat.

Basing his facts on a 1970 guest list and 1968 club membership list, Domhoff claimed 1500 men (no women allowed) attended this ceremony. Further, he found 40 of the 50 largest industrial corporations, 20 of the top 25 commercial banks, 12 of the top life-insurance companies, 29% of "Fortune" magazine's top 797 corporations of 1969 were represented by at least one director or officer (page 31). Domhoff says, "Cabinet officers, politicians, generals, and governmental advisers are the rule rather than the exception for Lakeside Talks, especially on weekends." (Page 15, The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats - a Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness).

In spite of the ominous guest list, it was the pagan aspects to the ceremony that I found most disturbing. Did these people really believe in wood nymphs and tree spirits and the wisdom of the owl?

A Pause Before Continuing the Tale

I should probably note that my continuing interest and active research into the question of Kennedy had become a way of fighting. Kennedy was only one subject I was pursuing in the quest for knowledge. I had always been on this quest; since Vincent Collins and an introduction to psychic weapons, never mind the possible Nazi connection, the quest had become more desperate. In many ways, I felt not only the survival of my freedom was at sake. There was something more fundamental that was also threatened. It had something to do with the freedom of the mind, the freedom to think. Could a psychic weapon be used to control our very thoughts? If our minds are really like complicated communication centers, could the right signal jam our ability to think?

That was my motivation. Fear. And fear is a very powerful form of personal energy. My fear was focused on an intent to learn everything possible. From the age of thirty, my life became mission oriented: I would fight the enemy as I had been trained to fight, as an intelligence officer. Understanding the enemy,is the weapon the intelligence officer brings to the commander.

The reason I bring this up is it provides the key to understanding the thought behind all the seemingly chance introductions to information, whether by book or by mouth, that took me this far and beyond. The main question I have had all my adult life was who killed Kennedy followed by a hundred "whys?". I have long envisioned a future where all the secrets have been uncovered. The most compelling reason for my having done anything was to learn more. In the process I have lived alone with my books and computer, considered a hermit by those who are less than my friends.

Because my life was simplified down to the basics, I have been able to focus most of my effort to asking questions and being led to the answers. The original draft of this book was in excess of 600 pages. You would have been bored. It only demonstrates my fanatical approach to learning. It indicates the amount of concentrated energy that has gone into my search. This powerful thought has manipulated my universe to provide me the answers. None of it was by chance. In my reality the answers were going to come my way. The secrets were going to be revealed in one way or another.

Let us just review for a moment by recalling certain chance events. At the University the decision to transfer into History led me into emphasizing in Soviet Studies, which was turned into a ticket to the highest echelons of the U.S. Intelligence Community (because Viet Nam had kept the Army too busy to bother with the Soviets). My arriving early for the meeting at the Federal Building resulted in my introduction to the Army Direct Officer Commission Program, which led to a twelve year relationship with both the Active Army and the Army Reserves. In being chosen by the Army Security Agency and being assigned to the only unit responsible for the threat posed against U.S. electronic equipment, I gained a working knowledge of electromagnetic energy which furthered an understanding of enhanced telepathic capabilities. There were all the books on Kennedy and the ominous Navy links. And then there was Vincent Collins and his massive contribution and I would not have met him if I had not made an offhanded remark about needing a psychiatrist who understood psychic powers.

If Cosmic Rule #5 is correct then the main thought behind all these elements is my desire to know, powered by the firm conviction that someday I really would "know it all". I had envisioned a future where I would write a book which would lead the reader to the truth about reality. The future is now. And, to continue on our quest for knowledge we will look at....

Cosmic Rule #6: You Are Not Alone.

This is a rule that is of course true. None of us are alone, there are billions of us on Earth. But does it mean we are not alone in the solar system and are being visited by Space Brothers and Sisters. Or does it mean there are other forms of bioelectromagnetic energy forms that we can not see, perhaps angles and elves and other "spirits" exist besides those energy forms we can see as animals, plants, humans, etceteras. Or perhaps it refers to reincarnation concepts, where our soul really comprises a family of people incarnating throughout history?

If we go back to Cosmic Rule #1: Reality is what we think it is, the choice of your aloneness is up to you. If you do not believe in elves it is unlikely you will ever meet one. Although, one supposes you could meet an alien from Mars without believing such a creature exists; and this supposes that under Cosmic Rule #3 that the majority of mankind believes in space visitors even if you do not. (Rule #3: Majority wins.)

The scope of rule #6 (not alone), as viewed by each one of us, is a result of experience. If you believe in angels and never see any you may still believe, but how hard? It has something to do with experience moving "faith" into "believing" into "knowing". Experience something and you will know even when it runs contrary to what you have been told to believe or to have faith in. In regard this rule, there are two experiences that I would like to relate that have impacted upon how I view the universe. In both cases I heard voices from unknown entities.

I have no idea what specific chain of events led to my becoming suicidal in my Senior year at the University. I am sure my decision to jump off the bridge was founded upon some rational thought process - ya, right. Anyway, the reason behind the decision has long been forgotten; but I clearly remember standing on the edge of a bridge, in the dark night, looking into an even darker void of no-feeling, prepared to jump. I heard this voice as if it was coming from someone standing behind me and to the right. It was a wonderful, melodious voice, saying, "You have many decisions in your life; this is not one of them."

For all practical purposes, I did jump off a bridge that night. From that point on I was sure I was not alone. I had a heard a voice and it did not really seem to matter where it had originated. Whether from my soul, a space visitor, a guardian angel, or a spirit guide, it did not matter. What mattered was this firm conviction, knowledge, that I was not alone even when no other human being was in my space.

I never looked back and have retained a sense that I have some ultimate destiny to fulfill. My life took on new meaning and feeling of fullness as I expanded my concept of my place in the universe - I was never alone.

The second episode of a voice getting my attention and changing the direction of my life, came while I was sitting in front of the computer contemplating the Bohemian Grove and all it entailed. I suddenly had an overpowering image of a picture and the title "Your Daddy Was a Weirdo". I realized I had seen such an article, in a magazine I had bought some months before...

I was at the local record store when I noticed a display of "The Best of High Times" - a compilation of articles carried in the drug culture's "High Times" magazine. Amazed that it was still being published, I bought a copy for nostalgic reasons. While I had skimmed the magazine, I noticed the article because of its strange title.

Suddenly the image of the article was accompanied by a voice that began relating details concerning Kennedy, Nazis, a Catholic Pope and the Soviet Khrushchev. It was enough information that I had to jot down notes as it flowed into my head - a voice that had no audible source, but one that seemed to be telepathically received. For the next three years I compiled the data which supported everything related by that discarnate voice in my head.

The search began with "The Best of High Times" and Glenn Wood's article "Your Daddy Was a Weirdo". Wood claimed there existed a Freemason organization which had dominated American political life since the Revolutionary War, and the majority of U.S. presidents and vice-presidents had been members of the Freemasons also known as Masons.

The article sent me on a full two years search for the full story behind Masonry, which was no easy task. The books relating to Masonry are few and the most comprehensive, Waite's encyclopedia, provided a massive amount of disjunctive information. Yet, eventually, I had enough of an understanding to write about Masonic secrets. The most baffling and troubling aspect to Masonry, beyond its power, was its dedication to the pursuit of psychic powers. It was this connection to the pursuit of psychic power which connect the Freemasons with the Nazis.

The Spear of Destiny

My friend who worked at the local library stopped off one day with a stack of about a dozen books, leaving the pile standing on my desk. The books had been donated but the library did not have room for them. She thought the subject matter might interest me because they dealt, for the most part, with occult subjects. In moving the books, one from the middle jumped out and landed about three feet away. I picked it up wondering why it had seemed so energetic.

Trevor Ravenscroft's THE SPEAR OF DESTINY explains how Hitler was led to the Freemasons and other secret societies due to his fascination with a historical Christian artifact called the Spear of Destiny. In actuality it was the spearhead itself to which the legend was attached. The spearhead was attached to the Jewish ceremonial spear carried by a Roman Centurion by the name of Gaius Longinus, in his official duty as overseer of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It was Longinus who thrust the spear into the suffering Jesus to end the pain. The legend began.

The Spear of Destiny was transported to France where it became the symbol of the Merovingian kings; from the Merovingians the spear came into possession of Charlemagne and forty-four other emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. The spear was eventually placed in the Hofburg Treasure House in Vienna, Austria where Adolf Hitler came under its power. In searching for the secret behind the Spear's legendary powers over Destiny, Hitler came into contact with certain individuals associated with a variety of secret, occult, mystical groups. Adolf Hitler's understanding of secret history gave birth to the Nazi Party.

Adolf Hitler was searching for data concerning the Spear of Destiny when he met Ernst Pretche, owner of a pawn shop. Pretche was connected with the secret lodge founded by Guido Von List. List's lodge was based upon a blood-brotherhood substituting the swastika for the Christian cross and may have evolved from the Order of the New Templars, which also employed the swastika. Through Von List, Hitler, in 1920, met Dietrick Eckert who had been looking for the man he believed existed, who could lead the Aryan race to glory and world conquest. Eckert was a central figure in the Thule Gesellschaft - a powerful and widespread society of occultists.

The growth of occult societies had sprung from the last two decades of the eighteen hundreds. One of the most powerful was the Golden Dawn founded in 1887 as an offshoot of the English Rosicrucian Society. The Golden Dawn practiced ceremonial magic and claimed to be able to lead initiates to secret knowledge and powers. Similar societies were found in Germany, the Thule Society being one, and each had their own legends.

The legend of the island of Thule is as ancient as the German people. Thule was the magical center of a civilization which had left its secrets behind. The Thule Society believed beings from another place/time/dimension could make available vast powers and knowledge which would enable Supermen to mutate out of the human species as the world was conquered. The Thule Society believed they had the ability to tap the very energy which had belonged to the Great Ones of Thule.

In July 1923 seven members founded the National Socialist Party; they and the original forty members all belonged to the Thule Society. Thus, the very core of the Nazi Party was comprised of individuals believing they were in communion with invisible powers. Dioptric Eckardt, Alfred Rosenberg, and Karl Haushofer were the powerful minds behind Adolf Hitler.

Through the endeavors of Captain Ernst Rohm, a small group of soldiers founded the German Workers Party, which had avowed to counter the anti-military and anti-nationalist sentiments of the working class Germans. Rohm's party with its core of military personalities obtained the financial support of rich industrialists. These capitalists wished to control a private army to counter the communist movement strengthened in the difficult days following World War I. The German Workers Party evolved into the National Socialist (Nazi) Party under Hitler's leadership.

The vast majority of Nazi followers did not know there was a central group of occultists, industrialists, bankers, and soldiers running the party. The real alluring aspect of Nazism is that it nurtured within its members a feeling of elitism - an elitism that gave a right to rule the world. In fact, Nazis consider themselves heroes and justified in crushing anyone preventing them from fulfilling their destiny. To Hitler that destiny entailed leading the German nation to world conquest through the power of the Spear of Destiny.

Hitler knew the Merovingian symbol had been the ancient Tribal Spear denoting spiritual leadership; that for Charlemagne the Spear not only symbolized the Blood of Jesus Christ but also gave Charlemagne the divine right to act as a servant for a New Covenant; and that the Spear had been the inspiration for founding of both the French Knights Templar and the German Teutonic Knights - medieval organizations much respected by the Nazis.

According to tradition, the Spear gave its owner control over destiny only if there existed a legitimate right to ownership. Thus Hitler had to become leader of Germany before claiming the Spear. Hitler entered Austria four days after the nation had voted to become one with Germany, on March 15, 1938. In secrecy Hitler returned to the Hofburg Treasure House, to once again gaze upon the quest of a lifetime, the spearhead which was all that remained of the Spear of Destiny.

The spearhead was brought to the spiritual center of Nazism, Nuremberg, Germany. The spearhead became the central piece in the collection of articles comprising the symbols of the Third Reich located in Saint Katherine's Church. The treasures included the Imperial Regalia of the Hapsburg Empire, additionally "donated" by Austria. The collection remained on display at the church in Nuremberg throughout the glorious, victorious days of Hitler's reign.

During the first English air raid on Nuremberg the church roof was destroyed. Hitler had the collection moved to a bank vault, where it was more secure from bombs. That move coincided with the beginning of the end for the Nazis. With military setbacks in Russian and Africa, the collection was again ordered moved. This time the hiding place was kept secret.

The setbacks continued and Churchill, aware of Hitler's obsession with the Spear of Destiny, ordered the spearhead captured. The only clue to the new hiding place of the Nazi treasure came from an intelligence report issued by the 35th Infantry Division, United States Third Army. During a debriefing of two English airmen who had escaped from a German prison camp outside Nuremberg, there was mention of "hidden treasure being found in an underground tunnel." Apparently, as the rumor had it, the tunnel entrance had been uncovered during bombing of the city. Supposedly there was a massive vault inside the tunnel, containing Nazi treasure.

By the Battle of Nuremberg in April 1944, the men searching for the Spear of Destiny had verified the rumor concerning the tunnel and bunker holding Nazi loot. They also determined that Nuremberg Overburgermeister (Mayor), Willi Liebel, had been the man in charge of finding a new hiding place for the Spear. But only Liebel's body was discovered, apparently a result of suicide. Even if he had lived to tell of the tunnel's location, the Spear may not have been there. Liebel's secretary and the local SS Garrison Commander both claimed the collection had been moved again. This time, it was supposedly placed in watertight containers and dropped to the bottom of Lake Zell, near Salzburg, Austria.

It is not clear from the Army records whether the American soldiers prowling through the streets of Nuremberg were on official Army business or something other; however, it was recorded that on April 30, 1945 at 2 PM the soldiers noticed a strange breach in the escarpment along Overen Schmied Gasse, below the towering Medieval Nuremberg Fortress, headquarters for the U.S. Seventh Army. When the soldiers discovered they were at the opening of a tunnel stretching far into the distance, they went in. At the end of the tunnel they found two immense steel doors having a combination lock. The United States had become the new claimant to the Spear of Destiny.

It was at 3:30 PM on that same Monday, it was 200 miles away in a Berlin bunker buried beneath the devastated streets of a once mighty city, it was the suicide of Adolf Hitler by a self-inflicted gunshot wound through the mouth. One wonders if he knew he had lost the Spear. Now why would anyone wonder that? Well, Adolf Hitler was one of the most credible "channels" of his generation.

For those who may be unfamiliar with the term "channel", it refers to a person who enters into various degrees of trance to allow another being a vehicle for communication. The channel essentially receives a telepathic signal which is allowed to take over and speak through the channel. More and more people have taken up channeling in the 1980's and 1990's; there are even books written to teach you how to become a channel. But in the early 1900's there were only a few channels and Hitler was by far the most successful.

Adolf Hitler was born in a Austro-Bavarian frontier town which was already the birthplace of a number of mediums - some well known. People with personal knowledge of Adolf Hitler called him a medium with supernatural powers. One saw a demonic force, where the personality of Hitler faded and the body became a temporary vehicle for these other world forces. Another saw Hitler as turning into an archangel with visions of leading mankind to glory. Still another saw Hitler take on a trance quality, where the speaker was inhabited by something that seemed to have a fluid quality. A mediumistic trance with an ecstatic expression, was how another explained Hitler when in the role of channel.

While we can only surmise what forces were actually using Adolf Hitler, it is quite clear the man had foreseen much of what transpired. His MEIN KAMPf foretold all he intended to do and much of what he accomplished. He even claimed Germany would finally be saved, and even that could be construed as being true if one believes, in the end, Germany was saved from the Nazi evil.

It is obvious that to Adolf Hitler and the Thule Society the concept of "not being alone" entailed being in contact with powers or entities from a different time, dimension, and/or world. Also very clear is that the ultimate Nazi goal is to gain powers beyond those of normal men and to use secret knowledge to evolve into supermen.

This search for Ancient Knowledge and Hidden Powers are central themes for a number of cultures and secret societies including Freemasonry....

The Forefathers' Club

Adolf Hitler grew up in Catholic Austria where Freemasonry was forbidden, although lodges existed in great secret. Hitler viewed the eagle, as do Masons, as a symbol of the loftiest powers and faculties attainable. Favorite authors read by Hitler included those of Freemasons Fichte, Goeth, and Lessing.

Hitler concluded that Freemasonry had lost its heart; yet, while attacking Masons, Hitler did not attack the basic doctrine underlying Freemasonry - the idea there was some great secret being protected by a select group of individuals. According to Hitler, Freemasonry had largely become a vehicle for its members' mutual benefits and not an organization dedicated to the search for spiritual development.

Researching Freemasonry proved difficult, as there are only a limited number of documents on the subject and because every Mason takes an oath never to disclose the inner workings of the organization, under penalty of death. Walter Leslie Wilmshurst's (1867-1939) THE MEANING OF MASONRY states in the first sentence, that his words are solely for members of the order. Wilmshurst claims the need for secrecy lies partially to protect Masons from those who would misunderstand and persecute them and profane the doctrine. Yet the real reason for the secrecy seems tied to the fear that individuals who have not experienced the correct internal development could use certain powers for evil purpose. It is the promise of undefined, although apparently psychic powers, which underline the real final goal of a Mason's development.

The evolution of Freemasonry appears innocent enough. During the Middle Ages the prevailing concept was that the royal families and nobility had a divine right to rule and demand the best from life at the cost to everyone else. Economic realities resulted in the traders, bankers, and infant industrialists evolving into a class powerful enough to compete against the nobility. The expanding middle class consolidated power by organizing craft unions. One of the most powerful of the unions was created by stone masons whose union was organized in lodges.

By 1717 Freemasonry as an active organization of practicing craftsmen had fallen into destitution. In that year, at London's Apple Tree Tavern, certain men organized the Mother Grand Lodge to oversee a revitalized Masonic organization. The innocent craft unions were soon Masonic lodges of "Speculative Freemasonry" which have spread throughout the world in various forms and branches.

The Masonic concern for psychic powers and secrecy were shocking enough; then I began to comprehend the incredible power wielded by Masonry on history - particularly in America. Since at least 1733, Masonry has been a major American political force. Virtually every leader of the American Revolution was a Mason. Even the Boston Tea Party was conducted by members of Boston's Saint John's Lodge during a break in a Masonic meeting. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Great Seal (found on the back of every one dollar bill) were Masonically inspired. Even the cornerstone of the United States Capital Building was laid during a full Masonic ceremony. At least twenty U.S. presidents and sixteen vice-presidents are known to have been Masons (1970).

American Masonic membership exceeds four million, and a Grand Lodge has been established in every state. There are two Supreme Councils - a Northern and Southern Jurisdiction - presiding over The Scottish Rite Masonry, which is the most popular form of American Masonry. The Scottish Rite originated in 1801 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, and had phenomenal success in spreading from America into Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, England and Wales, Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, St. Domingo, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Masonry appears to sanction revolutionary response to politics: not only did Masons spearhead the American Revolution, the architects of the French Revolution were also Masons. In addition, Mason Simon Bolivar led revolutionary forces in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. In Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru, Mason Jose De San Martin fought Spanish forces in battles of independence in the nineteenth century. Mason Jose Mari was a Cuban revolutionary leader. And there were Masons Jose Rigal in the Philippines, Chile's Bernardo O'Higgins, and Mexico's Benito Juarez.

My initial studies made me see Freemasonry as an ominous phenomena, yet I also had to address the fact the most precious documents and institutions in America were the handiwork of Masons. I was confronting the baffling notion that the architects of America appeared to be heavily involved in the mumble jumble of psychic sciences and Ancient Mysteries.

Masons - individually and as a group - are striving to maintain certain undefined "mysteries". An individual joining the Freemason ranks is taken through ceremonies and teaching designed to instill the knowledge of ancient mysteries.

Masonic writer Wilmshurst claims Freemasonry was created to instruct a secret science by a group remaining "obscure and anonymous". This secret science provides individuals with principles through which an understanding of the self can be gained, along with understanding the true relationship with life. Wilmshurst accepts that along with the physical body, each individual has an ethereal counterpart, termed the "astral body". Within this astral body exists a higher consciousness which is usually undeveloped and only active during periods of "stress or deep emotion".

Wilmshurst points out that the three chief qualifications required for an individual to obtain a higher degree of consciousness are that of Faith, Hope, and unbounded Love. Upon gaining an increased level of conscious awareness, the Mason realizes an enhanced understanding. With this new level of comprehension, the Mason obtains an enhanced mental strength, observable as a higher level of character, speech, and overall conduct. An individual is brought to the higher level of consciousness by a systematic series of initiations.

Most individuals have limited perspectives because they accept knowledge derived through the "fallible senses". Wilmshurst indicates this limitation in perspective keeps the individual from tapping the powers of the soul. The goal of Masonry is to assist individuals in penetrating illusion of physical phenomena and awaken powers obtainable only at higher levels of consciousness.

Masonry uses symbols, myths, and allegories which are "transposed into spiritual vales" by the individual himself. This use of symbolism has a tradition in the "Ancient Mysteries" as well as most religions. On the one hand, symbolism is a method of teaching; on the other, it is a way to mask actual doctrine. According to Wilmshurst, the knowledge obtainable is "foolishness to the world" running contrary to all considered orthodox. To protect themselves from ridicule, the founders of Freemasonry chose to use symbolic, traditional, historical myths to protect the doctrine, contributing to the overall secret aura surrounding Masonry.

The individual entering the ranks of Masons is a candidate who must successfully pass through three "degrees" before being considered a Master Mason. These three separate ceremonies are called the "Craft Degrees" and are common to all Masonic groups.

The First Craft Degree of the Entered Apprentice focuses on the qualifications of the man himself. The candidate must demonstrate discipline over his "grosser nature, its appetites, and affections" which seems to indicate a need for controlling such earthly emotions as greed, arrogance, jealousy, lust, and other physically rooted tendencies. It requires developing the self-discipline to refrain from looking outward at the material world while purifying oneself from carnal passions.

Wilmshurst contends that exposure to the lodge members and corresponding psychic atmosphere enhances higher consciousness' power over the physical mind, and a candidate is thus assisted in overcoming base desire. Before continuing to the next degree, the candidate must satisfy certain tests to demonstrate his victory over base desires. (Cosmic Reality's Rule 1 - We are what we think.)

The Second Craft Degree of Fellow-Craft continues to stress that the candidate must look inward. Wilmshurst states that "deep psychological self-analysis" is required and the individual is supposed to be at a level where he will begin tapping into the "psychic faculties of the soul" to experience "unusual phenomena". (Cosmic Reality's Rule 2 - We are capable of our dreams.) Two key words of this degree are "contemplation and enlightenment". In the end, the candidate must realize that God is within each individual and not some outside force. This conclusion is drawn by the candidate's study of man's "psychical nature" eventually leading to a realization of one's own divinity and that "the Kingdom of Heaven is within" each individual. Thus the goal of the Second Degree is to teach "the secrets of nature and the principles of intellectual truth" which the candidate can only comprehend upon successful completion of the First Degree where he unfettered his mind from "mundane interests".

The Third Degree of Master Mason is integrally entwined with the story of Solomon's Temple - perhaps the best known myth surrounding Freemasonry. Yet the literal story really represents two spiritual truths: one involving an individual's relationship with his soul; the other a history of the human race's development.

The legend involves the building of a temple in Jerusalem during Solomon's reign. The chief architect was Hiram Abiff, assassinated before the temple was completed, taking with him the secret of how to complete the temple. Symbolically the temple was being mystically built using the "souls of men", but because of a conspiracy the construction has been delayed "indefinitely".

Thus one has the Fall of Man: conspiring craftsmen had assassinated Hiram Abiff in trying to obtain forbidden knowledge in the same way Adam and Eve broke God's commandment to refrain from taking the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. In both the cases, the Tree of Knowledge and Hiram Abiff are sources of enlightened wisdom, and universal knowledge has been denied mankind. We do not know how to find the Tree of Knowledge and we cannot finish the mystical temple. Instead of enlightenment, mankind continues struggling in the limited environment of the five senses and intellectual gyrations of logic, science, and rationality.

The blindness refers to humanity as a whole and the candidate specifically: after realizing the limitations of physical consciousness, the candidate must reject the sense related physical conception of reality before completing his spiritual rebirth. This total rejection is considered a figurative death from one's physical or lower self. The spiritual death is symbolically represented by the skull and cross bones - long a Freemason symbol of the Master Mason.

Based upon what could be gleaned from available Masonic documents, I concluded the Mason is in search of secret knowledge and, ultimately, power. Unfortunately, this factor reminded me of the Nazis. Hitler realized the inherent desire of a human being to consider oneself as important in the scheme of things. He also understood this human tendency could be exploited by bringing people into a brotherhood having access to secret knowledge - for "knowledge is power".

As in Freemasonry, the Nazi Party promised that membership made individuals part of a special breed having a divine purpose. While Freemasonry stresses the individual must evolve in order to obtain individual power, the Nazis made the party the critical element with the individual gaining importance, by simply being a dutiful member of the party. The fate of the Nazi Party was divinely inspired and , thus, the individual's acceptance into the party set them above all others.

The seeming difference between the Masonic and Nazi emphasis on the individual may, unfortunately, be only philosophical. According to Wilmshurst, part of the Masonry's use of secrecy is to prevent the individual access to psychic powers; for it is possible that certain individuals could obtain "natural and supernatural states", at which vast powers exist, while being untuned to the Divine and, therefore capable of "diverting the power to unholy, demonic, astral and dangerous uses". With this stated fear, Wilmshurst has hit upon the inherent dangers of the Freemason organization: each lodge is only as pure as its members.

Wilmshurst also stipulates that most candidates are kept in the dark and he acknowledges the existence of "interior circles". He further claims Freemasonry was created by and "obscure and anonymous" group as an "elementary expression" of the secret science.

While I did not know if Hitler had access to a secret science, Ravenscroft's SPEAR OF DESTINY had discussed another similarity between Masons and Nazis. Ravenscroft had unveiled the identity of a Nazi inner group under Eckart; it was also certain that, like Masonry, the vast majority of Party adherents had no knowledge of this inner circle nor the philosophy at its roots. The question was now one of identifying the philosophy and identity of the unidentified group at Masonry's core.

The only clues available, concerning the identity of this group, was that they were concerned with protecting a secret science rooted in ancient knowledge having certain basic truths, that Wilmshurst claims, are central to all great world religions, and that there has really been only one world religion. That religion would seem entwined with Christianity.

While there are a variety of Masonic Orders, all have the common ingredient of beginning with the three Craft Degrees discussed earlier. According to Wilmshurst, the three Craft Degrees correspond to the three ceremonial degrees incorporated within the doctrine of the earliest Christian groups, as well as representing the three years of Christ's ministry which ended in his death and resurrection. Masonic tradition also incorporates the concept of spiritual death and rebirth within the third of the Craft Degrees. Thus, it is obvious something of Christianity has been incorporated within Masonic doctrine. However, after 1717 Christian churches were relegated to a position in par with the synagogue, that is, simply a source of opinions. Thus it appeared that while Masonry accepted Christianity, the Vatican and other churches were not considered custodians of the Ancient Mysteries.

During the two years I studied Freemasonry from an academic standpoint, I also began to ask others what they knew about Masonry. In most cases, there was a relative or friend who had been a Mason; in all cases nothing of importance was known about the organization. One friend's father had been a Mason and exhibited fear concerning the organization, yet even he would tell nothing about Masonry. It seemed Masonry was everywhere while remaining an unknown entity. It was obvious the secret death oath taken by Masons was taken seriously. No one - even those who had left the order - ever related Masonic secrets. It was also evident Masonry was worldwide and members could be found in all areas of society and economy.

I began to seriously wonder if there was a Masonic connection to the Kennedy Assassination. After all, the complex assassination scenario depicted by Lifton's BEST EVIDENCE implicates numerous, apparently diverse individuals in the planning, execution, and cover-up of the Kennedy killing. In light of Freemasonry's apparent power over its members, it would not be surprising to find Masonry is the common denominator in individuals directly implicated in Kennedy's Assassination. It is possible those who planned the Assassination exploited the Masonic oath of allegiance, and the only real crime committed by many men instrumental in the various aspects of the murder and ensuing cover-ups was to unquestioningly follow the directions of senior Masons.

Because of the apparent benevolent doctrine and positive influence of Masonry, in light of the Nazi connection to Oswald through DeMohrenschildt, in light of the evolution of Nazism, in light of the millions of missing Nazis, it was assumed that - while the one possible link between the various participants in the Kennedy killing and ensuing cover-ups had to be Masonry - a Nazi shadow group had infiltrated the ranks of Masons and exploited the Masonic oath and loyalty to the Brotherhood.

Meanwhile, during the weekend meetings of the Army Reserve unit, I would sit down with a friend to discuss my newest discoveries concerning Masonry. This friend was a an Army Major and a Vice-president in a major airline company. I had found his comfort with discussions of psychic powers and secret societies to be surprising. And while he never added anything to what I would say, he was very interested and supportive. Two years into our academic relationship, I looked down to see he was wearing a Masonic ring.

In total shock I said, "You are a Mason?"

"Yes. I thought you knew that."

No, I had not known that. But things became very clear: he had not added anything to the discussions because he was under a death oath not to relate Masonic secrets. Not only was he a Mason, he was a thirty-second degree Master Mason and you cannot get much higher in traditional Masonic ranks.

Soon after this revelation I asked him, "Is it possible that a Nazi group could have infiltrated the Masonic ranks in order to acquire new members as well as provide them with a worldwide infrastructure - an organization with an organization?"

The Major was silent for many minutes, finally he looked up and very intently said, "Yes."

It is not difficult to see a Nazi accommodate himself within Masonry. In fact, Hitler concluded that much of the symbolic nature of Freemasonry and its concept of a "brotherhood" could be used as the basis for creating a powerful organization. The Nazi concept of a blood brotherhood could have bound them to each other for life - regardless of Germany's demise, and it is possible a Nazi Brotherhood survived the war in the form of those Nazis who had escaped Germany with billions of dollars in pillaged treasure. The worldwide Freemason organization could have accommodated those missing Nazis, offering a means of communicating with one another, while providing a repository of potential new members of Nazi society.

The existence of the Freemason organization adds another aspect to Cosmic Rule #6: You are not alone. Freemasonry permeates the very fiber of America, as does the more closed clubs represented by the Bohemian Grove. Secret societies have secret agendas and secret memberships. They are like subsocieties existing within the larger, ignorant society of the masses. Thus, accepted society is not alone and no one can ever be sure that a member of a secret society is not lurking about. "Just because you are paranoid, does not mean they are not out to get you."

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