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A secret society believed to possess
knowledge connected to the very origins
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mankind. Our ceremonies are ancient, and
this is the way that we teach our
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lessons.
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Their members played key roles in
establishing the United States of
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There are even some people who argue
that the United States, in its creation,
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was a Masonic republic.
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And today, some believe... that this
organization may be on the verge of
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enacting new historic plans.
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We want to make the world better. And
what we have to do to get there is what
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have to do to get there.
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For nearly three centuries, members of
the fraternal order known as the
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Freemasons have played key roles in
building Western civilization.
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However... The secrecy with which they
deliberately shroud themselves and their
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ancient rituals has made many question
their ultimate agenda.
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There are many who suspect that today
some Freemasons are trying to lay the
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foundation for a new world order.
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Could it be true?
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And if so, does the truth about this
secretive fraternity lie hidden within
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pages of America's book of secrets?
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Washington, D .C., December 7th, 2016.
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President Donald J. Trump nominates
former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a
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prominent Freemason, to be the new
United States Ambassador to China, a
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that has actually banned its citizens
from joining the very secretive
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fraternity.
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Freemasonry is based around a cult of
secrecy.
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it inevitably creates suspicion from the
outside.
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Some people believe the Freemasons are
the hidden hand that controls everything
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going on at high levels in politics.
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It's the largest and the oldest
fraternal order in the world, and
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order is a social club for men,
basically. And the Freemasons have been
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for centuries, and they've had major
impact on our society and our
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democracy.
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According to some historians and
researchers, more than 6 million people
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taken the Masonic oath of secrecy across
the globe.
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In the United States alone, they've held
powerful positions in Congress at every
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level of the court system.
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And 14 have ascended all the way to the
office of the presidency.
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Could it be mere coincidence that many
Freemasons have sought and gained such
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power throughout American society?
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The answer may lie in the legend that
Freemasonry evolved out of another
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and mysterious organization, the Knights
Templar.
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People ask, are the Freemasons a direct
descendant of the Templars? And I would
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say possibly, I think in their ideology
and their belief, yes.
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The Knights Templar were established in
1118 A .D. to protect Christian pilgrims
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in the Holy Land during the Crusades.
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However, after establishing their
headquarters on the Temple Mount in
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at the site where the biblical Temple of
Solomon once stood, some believe the
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Templars discovered not only priceless
religious relics, including the Ark of
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the Covenant, but also documents
containing secret ancient knowledge that
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been lost to history.
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While there, what they believed was the
tomb of Solomon was unearthed.
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And they began to find things that were,
shall we say,
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valuable.
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It was during this period, as the
Templars guarded not only the lives of
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religious pilgrims, but also their
valuables, that they created one of the
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organized banking systems.
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The Templars were the first bankers.
They were actually the ones that started
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the whole credit system.
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They lent money to people for a payment,
what we would now call an interest
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rate. They basically had a treasure to
back it up, and they became very, very
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powerful as a result of it.
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However, by 1307 AD, the Templars'
influence and wealth had become a great
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threat to King Philip IV of France after
he fell into their debt.
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With the cooperation of Pope Clement V,
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The king charged the Templar order with
heresy, outlawed their very existence,
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and had many arrested, tortured, and
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executed.
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Friday the 13th, 1307, a date which will
live in Templar infamy, was the day in
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which the king of France and the pope at
that time decided to rid themselves.
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of the Knights Templar. They burned at
the stake Jacques de Molay, who was the
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head of the Knights Templar.
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Many of the people in the King of
France's court, as well as the Vatican,
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Templars, so that the Templars did
understand that something was coming.
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Therefore, they were actually able to go
somewhere else to prosper and to
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conduct their business.
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There were two major places in Europe
where the Templars were more or less
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allowed to continue, and not officially,
but a blind eye was taken. One was
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Portugal and one was Scotland.
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There's the story that Freemasons
descended from the Knights Templar upon
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fleeing France.
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Some Knights escaped to the British
Isles, maybe Scotland, and that they
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employment among the stonemasons of the
day.
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and that they brought aspects of their
traditions, their rituals and symbols
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into Freemasonry.
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While the direct connection between the
Knights Templar and Freemasonry remains
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the subject of debate, what is more
certain about the origins of the
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is that between the 11th and 13th
centuries, the Catholic Church
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large numbers of Master Masons to
oversee the construction of elaborate
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cathedrals across Europe.
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These master masons soon came to be
known as Freemasons due to the fact that
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they traveled freely among various
lodges which had been established as
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where they could fraternize with their
colleagues and share the inner secrets
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their specialized craft.
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These people were among the most
educated people at the time. They had to
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understand geometry and mathematics and
understand how to cut particular stones
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and the stresses of stones. They had to
have certain trade secrets.
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What they did is created a kind of an
initiatory system that would admit
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practicing stonemasons into this
society.
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By the late 1500s, there were dozens of
Masonic lodges in Scotland and across
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the United Kingdom.
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It was also a time when guild membership
began to change.
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A greater emphasis was placed on
rituals, symbology, levels of
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and the sharing of secret knowledge.
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There are those who believe the
descendants of Knights Templar used
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to pass down their secrets to the
Freemasons and protect their vast
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When you join the Masons, there's a lot
of study, understanding, research, and
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the early degrees when you first enter.
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The first, second, and third degrees are
what's known as the craft or craft
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masonry. That's what most masons are.
They're craft masons or lodge masons.
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And then there's the entered apprentice,
the fellow craft, and then the master
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mason. There's beholden truth that you
have to keep secret as you go through
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various gates to get to the higher
levels.
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When you get to the highest level, you
have to be appointed.
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suppressed by certain powers.
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Whenever there is a form of government
that is tyrannical and tries to suppress
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knowledge, secret societies immediately
emerge to protect that knowledge and
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disseminate it to the next generation.
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Research suggests that by the 18th
century, Freemasons had accumulated
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power to strike back at the European
monarchies that sought to destroy them.
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According to some, this led to an
opportunity in the new world and a
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change the course of history.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 4th,
1776.
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The Second Continental Congress issues
the historic Declaration of
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a bold decree.
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that the 13 North American colonies are
now independent states and no longer
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ruled by Great Britain.
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Over the course of the next seven bloody
years, during the Revolutionary War,
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the Continental Army, led by General
George Washington, would secure the
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independence of the United States of
America.
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It was a new nation, a new experiment in
democratic self -rule, and...
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A new world order.
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When you go back to the founding of the
United States, all of the founders were
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what we consider rational.
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Like they were pushing for, you know, a
republican form of government. They were
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pushing against the monarchy, against
these dogmas. This was a very
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revolutionary idea.
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The motto of the United States, e
pluribus unum, out of many, one.
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What does that mean?
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That means diversity within unity.
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Freemasonry brings together people of
diverse backgrounds.
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Freedom from ignorance.
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Freedom from superstition. Freedom from
intolerance. Freedom from extremism.
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Those were dangerous ideas back then
because absolutist monarchies
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and the church wanted to control you.
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But along with the glory of the brave
men and women who tirelessly worked and
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fought to establish the United States of
America, there existed a curious
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connection to a secret society that had
migrated to North America centuries
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earlier.
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The connection was apparent not only
among its leaders, but also its founding
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documents. That secret society was the
Freemasons.
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Many of the founding fathers, especially
the influential ones, people like
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George Washington and Benjamin Franklin,
were Freemasons.
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If there is one place on the planet
where the principles and the
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teachings of Freemasonry had the
greatest impact, that would be the
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States of America.
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There are even some people who argue
that the United States, in its creation,
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its inception, even in its
constitutional order, was a Masonic
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Freemasons account for two of the five
committee members who drafted the
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Declaration of Independence, 40 % of the
generals during the Revolutionary War,
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and 30 % of those who signed their names
on the U .S. Constitution.
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Freemasonry and...
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The ideals that went into the American
Constitution and the Declaration of
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Independence have an awful lot of
overlap.
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They had values of religious tolerance
and cosmopolitanism and rights and
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equality between all citizens.
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One of the masons of the time was
Montesquieu, a famous French political
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philosopher who had this radical idea of
a separation of powers.
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that you should have three branches of
government, legislative, executive, and
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judicial, that they should check and
balance each other to form a true
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Republican government.
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Washington, D .C., 1791.
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George Washington, now the first
president of the United States of
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appoints French architect Pierre
-Charles L 'Enfant to design the
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capital.
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While Washington was a master mason, L
'Enfant apparently never passed the
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of entered apprentice.
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However, some believe that symbols
associated with Freemasonry were
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into the city's design as an
acknowledgment of the ties between the
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society and the founding of the country.
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The basic layout of the city originally
had these kind of odd diagonal streets.
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So they had to have some reason to lay
them out that way because the normal way
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you would lay out a city is by a grid
pattern.
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And DC did not follow a traditional grid
pattern.
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It's a very cleverly worked grid shape.
So when seen from above, you have a five
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-sided star.
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You have a cascading star, which is all
part of the Masonic thought.
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There's no doubt that Washington, D .C.
was laid out according to
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Masonic ideals and symbolism.
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In 1793...
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President George Washington presided
over the laying of the cornerstone for
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U .S. Capitol building, a ceremony that
not only initiated construction, but was
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also highlighted by elaborate Masonic
rituals.
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There appears George Washington and his
Masonic regalia to perform a Masonic
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ceremony with grain and oil and Masonic
measuring instruments and so on.
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You've got the leader of the republic,
many of its key officers, in a public
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Masonic ceremony.
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And yet they're doing this as a ceremony
based around their secret society.
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But what was the true purpose of this
new experiment in declared self
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-governance? An idealistic new form of
democracy?
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Some suggest that the Freemasons who
were involved actually had a hidden
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people became suspicious of the
fraternity.
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It kind of supported, I believe, the
fears that Freemasonry exerted some kind
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power over the government or among
society.
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Freemasonry was enormously successful in
the early American Republic, but in
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1826, a kind of disaster befell
Freemasonry by the name of the
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Morgan Affair.
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In 1826, William Morgan, a prominent
Freemason in upstate New York, signed
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a publishing contract promising to
reveal secrets of the Masonic
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Traditionally, the Masonic oath has been
quite blood -curdling.
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They were supposed to swear absolutely
solemnly in front of all their brethren
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that they would never tell the secrets
outside of the lodge.
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on pain of some quite hideous
punishment, such as having their tongue
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and their throat cut.
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When Morgan announces he's going to tell
all the secrets of Masonry, some of the
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guys in town decide to take their
Masonic obligation much more seriously
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they really should have.
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And they essentially...
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throw him in a carriage, right off into
the woods, and Morgan shouts out the
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window, murder, as they go off into the
sunset, and he's never seen again.
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Morgan's body was never found, but an
investigation was conducted, and members
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of the local lodge were put on trial for
his death.
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There was a trial that was held of the
Masons who had abducted him.
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The judge in the case was a Mason.
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The governor, he was a Mason. I believe
the sheriff was a Mason. You have all
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these Masons involved with the
prosecution of the crime. Lo and behold,
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is convicted for the murder of William
Morgan.
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That sets off this massive national wave
of hysteria against the Masons.
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This resulted in an anti -Masonic
excitement that lasted from 1826 to
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and for that period it was very
unpopular to be a Freemason.
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In 1828, the Morgan Affair even spurred
the creation of a new political party,
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the Anti -Mason Party.
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The party appealed to voters fearful of
the Masonic influence within the United
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States government.
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The party actually...
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the presidential election in the state
of Vermont, there were hundreds of anti
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-Masonic newspapers that popped up
around the country, and Masons all over
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country start getting attacked.
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You read newspaper accounts at the time
of Masons being hauled out of their
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meetings and tarred and feathered in the
streets.
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The anti -Mason movement was hugely
popular at the time.
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Did the Morgan affair really close the
book on Freemasonry and signal its end
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a powerful force within American
society?
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There are those who believe just the
opposite occurred, that it led to
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secret plot within the Brotherhood to
not only consolidate more power, but
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hide billions in gold.
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A secret plot directly connected to the
American Civil War.
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Marin County, California, February 2013.
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While walking their dog on their rural
property, a couple notices the top of a
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rusted tin can peeking through the
surface of the dirt.
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They dig it out and discover that it
contains more than 1 ,400 gold coins.
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To date, the so -called Saddle Ridge
Hoard is the largest buried coin
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ever documented in the United States.
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It was $10 million worth, dated from mid
to late years of the
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19th century. And there's lots of
mysteries about this. The actual burial
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of these coins was marked with a sort of
angular stone.
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So obviously it was marked for somebody
to find.
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There's a lot of speculation as to who
buried these golds, where did it come
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from. How many people have 1 ,400 gold
coins today? That's very rare.
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So why bury it? Was that part of this
Masonic template, the Masonic treasure
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map? It's a lot of money for someone to
hide away.
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So people have claimed that the Battle
Ridge cache of 1 ,400 gold coins might
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have been hidden by the Knights of the
Golden Circle?
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The Knights of the Golden Circle was a
19th century secret society that
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supported the secession of the
Confederacy and the preservation of the
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institution of slavery.
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The organization was believed to be
working to create a new federation that
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would expand the power of the southern
states.
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And some of its members were Freemasons.
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Well, the golden circle that the society
sought to create would have been a huge
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slavery -based empire surrounding the
Caribbean Sea.
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So the idea, roughly, was to detach the
southern states from the United States.
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Somehow conquer Mexico and northern
South America and all of the Caribbean
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then combine this into this new empire.
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They patterned a lot of their rituals
and oaths around Freemasonry, only they
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made them darker.
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You know, they had darker oaths, harsher
penalties for breaking their oaths,
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things of that nature.
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Their whole goal during the war was to
harass the northern troops and impede
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their movements by any means necessary,
burning bridges and tearing up railroad
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tracks, things like that.
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The Knights of the Golden Circle was a
powerful, subversive organization. They
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were a group of Freemasons that fomented
the Civil War.
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helped execute the Civil War, and then
went underground when it looked like the
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Civil War was going to be lost to
prepare for a second Civil War, burying
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for that day.
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As the influence of this shadowy
organization grew, rumors circulated
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agents of the Knights of the Golden
Circle buried what would amount today to
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billions of dollars worth of treasure
throughout the American South and
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Southwest.
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They were able to do that by initially
stealing from the U .S. Treasury with
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their insiders. The Knights of the
Golden Circle were well informed.
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They had insiders, moles in every
organization.
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So they knew when gold, silver payments
to the troops were about to head out and
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where to hit them.
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According to some of Jesse James'
descendants, the notorious outlaw was
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Freemason and a member of the Knights of
the Golden Circle.
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And they insist that despite the
official record, he was not shot dead in
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Missouri in 1882.
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They say he faked his death, took on an
alias, and continued to steal and hide
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gold across the country.
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They robbed banks, they robbed trains,
but they weren't robbing for themselves.
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They would take a cut, and then they
would bury the loot.
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It was obvious that someone was
giving...
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Jesse the information.
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He was the guy who hit the target, but
it went deeper.
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Jesse James was a political operative.
He was essentially an American terrorist
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for the Confederacy and a field
commander of the Knights of the Golden
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with the likes of Jesse James and
others.
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building the financial reservoir that
they had, the reserves, to launch that
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Second Civil War. But it went on for a
very long time, such that a Second Civil
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War was never really in the cards
anymore.
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But why did some Freemasons depart so
strongly from the vision of the Founding
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Fathers to the point that they actively
tried to undermine the United States?
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What could have caused them to embrace
such a destructive agenda?
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an agenda that seemed at odds with the
Masonic principles of freedom and
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democracy.
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People say that something may have
happened with Masonry in America, where
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went from a benign, benevolent force to
one that maybe organized internal
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revolution, which is the Civil War, and
that had to be under the influence of
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Albert Pike.
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The evidence points to Pike.
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being the supreme leader, not only of
the Knights of the Golden Circle, but of
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the Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
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Scottish Rite Freemasonry was formally
established in 1801, not in Scotland,
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but in the United States.
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By the start of the Civil War, Albert
Pike, a renowned writer and scholar, had
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ascended to the highest rank of the
Order.
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As its sovereign Grand Commander,
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Pike worked to transform the Scottish
Rite into the most elite branch of the
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Freemasonry Brotherhood.
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It's said that Pike found the Scottish
Rite in a cabin and that he left it in a
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temple. And in a real sense, he did
this. He revised our rituals and
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He translated many rare and important
documents into English.
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He modified the 33 degrees of the
Scottish Rite, the 33 membership levels,
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33 different ways to teach lessons.
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Albert Pike systematized and created the
whole elaborate philosophy
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that lies behind the Scottish Rite,
which is the most important and richest
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symbolic system that Freemasons have in
the United States. Now, the problem
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with Pike is that he was also a
Confederate general.
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And so he embodies, if you like, all of
the contradictions of American
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Freemasonry.
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Less than a century after some
Freemasons fought to build the United
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other members fought to tear it down.
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But was that the true aim of the
Freemasons during the Civil War?
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Or were they simply playing both sides
of the conflict to ensure that they
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retained power and influence?
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No matter what.
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January 4th, 2017.
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Congressman John Lewis, a Georgia
Democrat and member of Atlanta's St.
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Masonic Lodge No. 4, introduces the
Martin Luther King Jr.
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National Historical Park Act.
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The law makes the area around Dr. King's
birthplace in Atlanta, Georgia, into a
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national park.
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and includes the Prince Hall Masonic
Temple, where King's office was located
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when he led the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
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Dr. King was reportedly preparing to
secretly join the Prince Hall Masons in
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April of 1968, but was shot mere days
before he could be
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initiated.
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But who were the Prince Hall Masons?
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And what role did this branch of
Freemasonry play in the Civil Rights
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The story starts in 1775 with Prince
Hall, who was
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freed from slavery just five years
beforehand. And what happened in 1775
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is that he tried to become a Freemason
in Boston and was rejected
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on the basis of race.
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Prince Hall ran into the common
prejudices of the time. So what he then
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to find other free Africans to form a
lodge on their own.
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He founded the first what could be
called African -American Masonic Lodge,
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today is called Prince Hall Freemasonry,
after him, by being inducted into a
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British military lodge.
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Prince Hall writes to the Grand Lodge of
England, and he asks them for a
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charter. because they're considered the
utmost authority on Freemasonry in the
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world. And he gets one, and he charters
African Lodge No.
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459 on the rolls of the Grand Lodge of
England in Boston, Massachusetts.
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And then Prince Hall starts issuing
other charters to other groups of Black
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Masons who want to start Masonic Lodges.
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By the 1840s, Prince Hall Lodges were
established in major cities across the
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northern United States.
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In the midst of chattel slavery that was
still existing in the United States of
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America, one man had a tremendous vision
to not just simply become part of the
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fraternity, but to expand it to African
Americans everywhere.
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Prince Hall Freemasonry, as it came to
be called, started to grow into this
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large organization, almost exclusively
made of black men.
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Prince Hall Masonic Lodge became the
center of the black middle class
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Fire!
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In 1863, when the first regiment of
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black troops was recruited in the North
to fight in the Civil War, Prince
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Hall Freemasons were...
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instrumental in the recruitment drive,
and many of the sergeants and so on in
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that regiment were themselves Prince
Hall Freemasons.
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The Black Lodges became a good place for
the abolitionist movement in the 1800s.
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The NAACP and many other organizations
got their start with people who were
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members of the Prince Hall Masonic
Lodge.
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It was much the same way in the 1960s.
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A lot of the leading light in the black
community in the 1960s in the civil
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rights fight were also Prince Hall
Masons.
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Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who led
many of the most important legal
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of the civil rights movement, was
himself a Prince Hall Mason.
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Medgar Evans, the civil rights leader
from Mississippi who was murdered in
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Jackson by a white supremacist, was also
a Prince Old Mason.
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Freemasonry at its heart and soul is
about the evolution of humankind
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and the positive change of humankind.
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And so Freemasons are drawn to causes
that help.
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make a better society.
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The kind of lessons that we teach are
things like free thought, brotherhood,
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equality, honesty.
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We don't care how old you are, how rich
you are, what color you are, what your
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religion is. If you're a Freemason,
you're a brother.
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There have been many, many people who
have been in positions of power who
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to be Masons. We're talking about self
-declared or revealed Masons, but there
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are many who are just not known. It's a
source of pride for some to keep their
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affiliation totally secret. And so the
question becomes whether they act in
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collusion with each other to get an
agenda across.
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The conspiracy theory about Freemasonry
doing the rounds now is the idea of the
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new world order, which is basically what
these groups are supposed to be aiming
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for, their own world order, which is
their great mission.
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There is a general suspicion of any
secret organization.
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They don't know what we're thinking.
They don't know what we're saying. They
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don't know we're preaching amongst each
other. They don't know what we're doing.
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This is something that conspiracy
theorists love to think about.
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The Masons will say they're not a secret
society.
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They're a society with secrets that are
discussed confidentially among them.
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But they would just deny that they
organized in a way that would be known
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collusion to influence events, politics,
the way society develops, because
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they don't leave records.
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of these secret meetings, it's very hard
to know.
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Why do the Freemasons maintain such
absolute secrecy?
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And what are they trying to achieve?
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Is it possible, as some believe, that
they have a master plan for a new world
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order?
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The truth may lie behind closed doors in
the secret meetings of a mysterious
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organization known as the Bilderberg
Group.
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Montreux, Switzerland, June 2nd, 2019.
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Prominent political leaders, financiers,
media moguls, and tech titans are
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photographed arriving for closed -door
meetings at one of the world's most
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exclusive and secretive gatherings.
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The annual event, known as the
Bilderberg meeting, has been closed to
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and press since its inception in the
Netherlands in 1954.
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The very first one happened in the
Bilderberg Hotel.
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So that's why they're called
Bilderbergers.
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The world's elite, trendy leaders get
invited.
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They are thought of as being the creme
de la creme of the world.
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The location of the Bilderberg meeting
is different each year, as is the roster
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of the elites in attendance.
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But a strict code of secrecy remains.
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They follow the so -called Chatham rule.
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which is based on the rule of Chatham
House in London, which is the Institute
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for International Affairs.
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And the rule is quite simple.
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It's forbidden to talk about what was
said within the
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meetings. The idea is that this group of
people can sit down and have a free,
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open, fair, frank conversation without
being held accountable for it.
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But the problem is that we don't know
what they're talking about. We don't
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what decisions are being made. And so
paradoxically for the group to have an
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open, frank, transparent conversation
amongst themselves, they have to
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a rule that makes it that much more sort
of secretive.
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According to Bilderberg officials, their
sole aim is to gather political leaders
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and industry experts from across the
globe to foster a frank dialogue about
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significant issues facing the world.
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There are those who suspect that this
network of world leaders and influential
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private citizens may also include a
number of the Freemasons.
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Some people believe the Bilderberger
group is part of the hidden hand agenda
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the Freemasons.
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These large get -togethers of
influencers in the world are kept
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Some of the people attending those
meetings are Freemasons.
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There is a theory that a group comes
together and they discuss
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what's happening and the direction of
the world. Are they able to control the
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world?
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No. But they can try after free
-thinking meetings.
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to create a direction.
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Freemasonry attracts men who want to
improve their communities and the rest
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the world.
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It's an experiment in governance, and
the idea is that we need to constantly
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move the experiment forward.
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So, if that is an agenda, then I'll take
it.
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Both the Freemasons and the
Bilderbergers claim that their intention
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change the world for the better.
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However, Rumors persist that these
secretive groups have a less benevolent
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agenda.
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But what fuels these suspicions?
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Any time you have what is seen by the
outside world to be a secret or a
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secretive organization, it almost
immediately leads their mind into
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something evil is going on within it.
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The Masons, the Bilderbergers, are good
targets.
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Things where people get together and
discuss different political ideas behind
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closed doors and the public's not
allowed.
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The public doesn't like that.
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What's on the other side of that locked
door over there? I can't get in it.
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What's back there?
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As far as we Freemasons are concerned,
we're a secret society. We keep our
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secrets. But we are not looking to cause
disorder.
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We are only looking to cause order.
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And what we have to do to get there is
what we have to do to get there.
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Is it possible that the Freemasons are
on the cusp of realizing a new world
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order, one that has been centuries in
the making?
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And if so, what will this new world
order look like?
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Perhaps some clues can be found by
examining the chaos that arises during
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international crises.
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Chaos that some claim is being used to
reshape the world as we know it.
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June 3rd, 2020.
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In the midst of the global coronavirus
pandemic, the World Economic Forum
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releases a document entitled The Great
Reset.
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The initiative calls for a complete
reimagining of the world's economic and
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social systems.
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for a more fair, sustainable and
resilient future.
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High -profile members of the global
elite publicly stepped forward in
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the agenda, including heir to the
British monarchy, Charles, Prince of
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Unless we take the action necessary and
we build again in a greener,
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more sustainable and more inclusive way.
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then we will end up having more and more
pandemics and more and more disasters.
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This is the one moment when we have to
make as much progress as we can.
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Although many people across the globe
see the proposed changes and
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as necessary, there are those who
question the timing of this initiative.
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They suggest that the idea of the Great
Reset bears a striking similarity to how
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the Freemasons...
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transformed the world by founding the
United States more than two centuries
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The Scottish Rite has a slogan from
chaos order, and people would
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say, oh, new world order, perhaps.
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That seems consistent with the Masonic
tradition of fighting the orthodoxy of
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the monarchy and the clergy, and that is
a Templar tradition.
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But they haven't really ever come out
saying we're behind the formation of a
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world order.
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And so the average citizen doesn't know.
And there's no way of knowing.
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Could it be true, as some suggest, that
members of Freemasonry are once again
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working to establish a new world order,
just as they helped to do during the
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American Revolution?
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And if so, would it actually bring about
more justice, equality, and freedom?
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as the founding of the United States
eventually did?
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I think all we have to do is look back
to our early history.
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That's how Freemasonry began to creep
into the United States.
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We want to make society better. The
United States was the experiment in the
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order for democracy, for the good of
mankind, and that was the one
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revolution that did succeed.
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So the whole idea is we need a new
social construct.
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I can create a new construct of society
with others who can be from different
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religions, can speak different
languages, who are of different
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because we come together around common
needs.
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Whether it is to liberate people from
slavery, whether it is the
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struggle for civil rights.
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Whether it is even today in Black Lives
Matter or wherever you look, somewhere
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in there, you're going to trip over a
Freemason.
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There are lots of people involved in
current social change movements, not
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here but all over the world. Some of
them are going to ultimately be
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not because they were at the center of
planning at all, but because they're
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drawn to making a better world.
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New world order. I would like to simply
see some order in the world. I would
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like to see people respecting each
other. I would like to see people stop
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for ridiculous reasons.
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00:41:18,950 --> 00:41:21,070
We don't want to keep repeating the
past.
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The great American experiment moves
forward.
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We're making a leap.
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I don't call it an agenda.
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I call it a service to humanity.
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00:41:35,210 --> 00:41:39,810
Some Freemasons insist that they must
maintain secrecy because they are
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perceived as a threat to those in power.
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But conspiracy theorists claim that it's
the Freemasons who actually wield all
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the power and use it to remake the world
whenever they see fit.
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What is the proof?
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For now, it remains hidden, deep within
the pages of America's book of
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secrets.
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