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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,730 --> 00:00:08,490 A secret society believed to possess knowledge connected to the very origins 2 00:00:08,490 --> 00:00:13,150 mankind. Our ceremonies are ancient, and this is the way that we teach our 3 00:00:13,150 --> 00:00:14,150 lessons. 4 00:00:14,230 --> 00:00:18,530 Their members played key roles in establishing the United States of 5 00:00:18,850 --> 00:00:22,270 There are even some people who argue that the United States, in its creation, 6 00:00:22,490 --> 00:00:24,690 was a Masonic republic. 7 00:00:25,410 --> 00:00:31,270 And today, some believe... that this organization may be on the verge of 8 00:00:31,270 --> 00:00:33,290 enacting new historic plans. 9 00:00:33,610 --> 00:00:38,890 We want to make the world better. And what we have to do to get there is what 10 00:00:38,890 --> 00:00:40,210 have to do to get there. 11 00:00:43,390 --> 00:00:48,470 For nearly three centuries, members of the fraternal order known as the 12 00:00:48,470 --> 00:00:52,130 Freemasons have played key roles in building Western civilization. 13 00:00:53,290 --> 00:00:58,130 However... The secrecy with which they deliberately shroud themselves and their 14 00:00:58,130 --> 00:01:01,410 ancient rituals has made many question their ultimate agenda. 15 00:01:02,070 --> 00:01:06,870 There are many who suspect that today some Freemasons are trying to lay the 16 00:01:06,870 --> 00:01:08,510 foundation for a new world order. 17 00:01:09,050 --> 00:01:10,170 Could it be true? 18 00:01:11,170 --> 00:01:16,930 And if so, does the truth about this secretive fraternity lie hidden within 19 00:01:16,930 --> 00:01:20,670 pages of America's book of secrets? 20 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:40,980 Washington, D .C., December 7th, 2016. 21 00:01:42,420 --> 00:01:48,580 President Donald J. Trump nominates former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a 22 00:01:48,580 --> 00:01:54,560 prominent Freemason, to be the new United States Ambassador to China, a 23 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,000 that has actually banned its citizens from joining the very secretive 24 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 fraternity. 25 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,260 Freemasonry is based around a cult of secrecy. 26 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,039 it inevitably creates suspicion from the outside. 27 00:02:10,180 --> 00:02:14,480 Some people believe the Freemasons are the hidden hand that controls everything 28 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,360 going on at high levels in politics. 29 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:21,080 It's the largest and the oldest fraternal order in the world, and 30 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:26,300 order is a social club for men, basically. And the Freemasons have been 31 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:32,960 for centuries, and they've had major impact on our society and our 32 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:33,960 democracy. 33 00:02:35,310 --> 00:02:40,050 According to some historians and researchers, more than 6 million people 34 00:02:40,050 --> 00:02:42,850 taken the Masonic oath of secrecy across the globe. 35 00:02:43,610 --> 00:02:49,250 In the United States alone, they've held powerful positions in Congress at every 36 00:02:49,250 --> 00:02:50,410 level of the court system. 37 00:02:51,150 --> 00:02:55,290 And 14 have ascended all the way to the office of the presidency. 38 00:02:56,430 --> 00:03:02,450 Could it be mere coincidence that many Freemasons have sought and gained such 39 00:03:02,450 --> 00:03:04,150 power throughout American society? 40 00:03:05,130 --> 00:03:10,630 The answer may lie in the legend that Freemasonry evolved out of another 41 00:03:10,630 --> 00:03:14,470 and mysterious organization, the Knights Templar. 42 00:03:14,990 --> 00:03:19,910 People ask, are the Freemasons a direct descendant of the Templars? And I would 43 00:03:19,910 --> 00:03:23,270 say possibly, I think in their ideology and their belief, yes. 44 00:03:24,410 --> 00:03:30,350 The Knights Templar were established in 1118 A .D. to protect Christian pilgrims 45 00:03:30,350 --> 00:03:32,690 in the Holy Land during the Crusades. 46 00:03:33,770 --> 00:03:37,730 However, after establishing their headquarters on the Temple Mount in 47 00:03:38,050 --> 00:03:43,190 at the site where the biblical Temple of Solomon once stood, some believe the 48 00:03:43,190 --> 00:03:47,870 Templars discovered not only priceless religious relics, including the Ark of 49 00:03:47,870 --> 00:03:53,110 the Covenant, but also documents containing secret ancient knowledge that 50 00:03:53,110 --> 00:03:54,290 been lost to history. 51 00:03:55,830 --> 00:04:02,090 While there, what they believed was the tomb of Solomon was unearthed. 52 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:09,660 And they began to find things that were, shall we say, 53 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:10,840 valuable. 54 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:17,380 It was during this period, as the Templars guarded not only the lives of 55 00:04:17,380 --> 00:04:22,420 religious pilgrims, but also their valuables, that they created one of the 56 00:04:22,420 --> 00:04:23,820 organized banking systems. 57 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,700 The Templars were the first bankers. They were actually the ones that started 58 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:29,720 the whole credit system. 59 00:04:30,570 --> 00:04:35,510 They lent money to people for a payment, what we would now call an interest 60 00:04:35,510 --> 00:04:41,610 rate. They basically had a treasure to back it up, and they became very, very 61 00:04:41,610 --> 00:04:43,210 powerful as a result of it. 62 00:04:44,830 --> 00:04:51,390 However, by 1307 AD, the Templars' influence and wealth had become a great 63 00:04:51,390 --> 00:04:55,590 threat to King Philip IV of France after he fell into their debt. 64 00:04:56,490 --> 00:04:58,810 With the cooperation of Pope Clement V, 65 00:04:59,530 --> 00:05:03,950 The king charged the Templar order with heresy, outlawed their very existence, 66 00:05:04,270 --> 00:05:11,130 and had many arrested, tortured, and 67 00:05:11,130 --> 00:05:12,130 executed. 68 00:05:12,970 --> 00:05:19,790 Friday the 13th, 1307, a date which will live in Templar infamy, was the day in 69 00:05:19,790 --> 00:05:25,890 which the king of France and the pope at that time decided to rid themselves. 70 00:05:26,650 --> 00:05:31,810 of the Knights Templar. They burned at the stake Jacques de Molay, who was the 71 00:05:31,810 --> 00:05:32,870 head of the Knights Templar. 72 00:05:35,550 --> 00:05:41,510 Many of the people in the King of France's court, as well as the Vatican, 73 00:05:41,510 --> 00:05:46,910 Templars, so that the Templars did understand that something was coming. 74 00:05:47,090 --> 00:05:52,430 Therefore, they were actually able to go somewhere else to prosper and to 75 00:05:52,430 --> 00:05:53,430 conduct their business. 76 00:05:54,250 --> 00:05:58,910 There were two major places in Europe where the Templars were more or less 77 00:05:58,910 --> 00:06:04,950 allowed to continue, and not officially, but a blind eye was taken. One was 78 00:06:04,950 --> 00:06:06,310 Portugal and one was Scotland. 79 00:06:07,390 --> 00:06:11,590 There's the story that Freemasons descended from the Knights Templar upon 80 00:06:11,590 --> 00:06:12,590 fleeing France. 81 00:06:12,970 --> 00:06:19,150 Some Knights escaped to the British Isles, maybe Scotland, and that they 82 00:06:19,150 --> 00:06:22,210 employment among the stonemasons of the day. 83 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:28,280 and that they brought aspects of their traditions, their rituals and symbols 84 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,100 into Freemasonry. 85 00:06:31,140 --> 00:06:36,040 While the direct connection between the Knights Templar and Freemasonry remains 86 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:41,080 the subject of debate, what is more certain about the origins of the 87 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:46,220 is that between the 11th and 13th centuries, the Catholic Church 88 00:06:46,220 --> 00:06:49,900 large numbers of Master Masons to oversee the construction of elaborate 89 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:51,380 cathedrals across Europe. 90 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:59,060 These master masons soon came to be known as Freemasons due to the fact that 91 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:03,160 they traveled freely among various lodges which had been established as 92 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,200 where they could fraternize with their colleagues and share the inner secrets 93 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:08,460 their specialized craft. 94 00:07:09,740 --> 00:07:13,540 These people were among the most educated people at the time. They had to 95 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:18,020 understand geometry and mathematics and understand how to cut particular stones 96 00:07:18,020 --> 00:07:21,060 and the stresses of stones. They had to have certain trade secrets. 97 00:07:21,930 --> 00:07:28,850 What they did is created a kind of an initiatory system that would admit 98 00:07:28,850 --> 00:07:32,030 practicing stonemasons into this society. 99 00:07:33,710 --> 00:07:39,250 By the late 1500s, there were dozens of Masonic lodges in Scotland and across 100 00:07:39,250 --> 00:07:40,250 the United Kingdom. 101 00:07:41,310 --> 00:07:44,890 It was also a time when guild membership began to change. 102 00:07:45,190 --> 00:07:50,130 A greater emphasis was placed on rituals, symbology, levels of 103 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,380 and the sharing of secret knowledge. 104 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,500 There are those who believe the descendants of Knights Templar used 105 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:03,980 to pass down their secrets to the Freemasons and protect their vast 106 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:11,040 When you join the Masons, there's a lot of study, understanding, research, and 107 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,460 the early degrees when you first enter. 108 00:08:13,870 --> 00:08:17,430 The first, second, and third degrees are what's known as the craft or craft 109 00:08:17,430 --> 00:08:21,490 masonry. That's what most masons are. They're craft masons or lodge masons. 110 00:08:21,750 --> 00:08:26,150 And then there's the entered apprentice, the fellow craft, and then the master 111 00:08:26,150 --> 00:08:31,550 mason. There's beholden truth that you have to keep secret as you go through 112 00:08:31,550 --> 00:08:33,549 various gates to get to the higher levels. 113 00:08:33,789 --> 00:08:37,490 When you get to the highest level, you have to be appointed. 114 00:08:43,710 --> 00:08:45,950 suppressed by certain powers. 115 00:08:46,210 --> 00:08:52,510 Whenever there is a form of government that is tyrannical and tries to suppress 116 00:08:52,510 --> 00:08:58,490 knowledge, secret societies immediately emerge to protect that knowledge and 117 00:08:58,490 --> 00:09:00,230 disseminate it to the next generation. 118 00:09:04,410 --> 00:09:10,130 Research suggests that by the 18th century, Freemasons had accumulated 119 00:09:10,130 --> 00:09:14,010 power to strike back at the European monarchies that sought to destroy them. 120 00:09:14,470 --> 00:09:20,290 According to some, this led to an opportunity in the new world and a 121 00:09:20,290 --> 00:09:21,850 change the course of history. 122 00:09:26,490 --> 00:09:30,710 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 4th, 1776. 123 00:09:31,550 --> 00:09:36,170 The Second Continental Congress issues the historic Declaration of 124 00:09:36,690 --> 00:09:37,870 a bold decree. 125 00:09:38,510 --> 00:09:43,470 that the 13 North American colonies are now independent states and no longer 126 00:09:43,470 --> 00:09:45,470 ruled by Great Britain. 127 00:09:47,210 --> 00:09:52,190 Over the course of the next seven bloody years, during the Revolutionary War, 128 00:09:52,470 --> 00:09:57,770 the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, would secure the 129 00:09:57,770 --> 00:09:59,810 independence of the United States of America. 130 00:10:00,790 --> 00:10:06,750 It was a new nation, a new experiment in democratic self -rule, and... 131 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,600 A new world order. 132 00:10:09,820 --> 00:10:15,360 When you go back to the founding of the United States, all of the founders were 133 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:16,820 what we consider rational. 134 00:10:17,140 --> 00:10:21,200 Like they were pushing for, you know, a republican form of government. They were 135 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,920 pushing against the monarchy, against these dogmas. This was a very 136 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,400 revolutionary idea. 137 00:10:27,740 --> 00:10:33,780 The motto of the United States, e pluribus unum, out of many, one. 138 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:35,260 What does that mean? 139 00:10:35,630 --> 00:10:38,050 That means diversity within unity. 140 00:10:38,830 --> 00:10:42,410 Freemasonry brings together people of diverse backgrounds. 141 00:10:42,670 --> 00:10:44,590 Freedom from ignorance. 142 00:10:44,990 --> 00:10:51,710 Freedom from superstition. Freedom from intolerance. Freedom from extremism. 143 00:10:52,290 --> 00:10:59,050 Those were dangerous ideas back then because absolutist monarchies 144 00:10:59,050 --> 00:11:01,270 and the church wanted to control you. 145 00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:06,740 But along with the glory of the brave men and women who tirelessly worked and 146 00:11:06,740 --> 00:11:12,160 fought to establish the United States of America, there existed a curious 147 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,520 connection to a secret society that had migrated to North America centuries 148 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:17,520 earlier. 149 00:11:17,860 --> 00:11:23,380 The connection was apparent not only among its leaders, but also its founding 150 00:11:23,380 --> 00:11:27,920 documents. That secret society was the Freemasons. 151 00:11:29,130 --> 00:11:33,970 Many of the founding fathers, especially the influential ones, people like 152 00:11:33,970 --> 00:11:38,710 George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, were Freemasons. 153 00:11:39,570 --> 00:11:46,050 If there is one place on the planet where the principles and the 154 00:11:46,050 --> 00:11:50,150 teachings of Freemasonry had the greatest impact, that would be the 155 00:11:50,150 --> 00:11:51,150 States of America. 156 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,460 There are even some people who argue that the United States, in its creation, 157 00:11:56,460 --> 00:12:01,340 its inception, even in its constitutional order, was a Masonic 158 00:12:02,940 --> 00:12:06,540 Freemasons account for two of the five committee members who drafted the 159 00:12:06,540 --> 00:12:12,060 Declaration of Independence, 40 % of the generals during the Revolutionary War, 160 00:12:12,380 --> 00:12:16,720 and 30 % of those who signed their names on the U .S. Constitution. 161 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,060 Freemasonry and... 162 00:12:21,740 --> 00:12:27,240 The ideals that went into the American Constitution and the Declaration of 163 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,620 Independence have an awful lot of overlap. 164 00:12:29,980 --> 00:12:35,680 They had values of religious tolerance and cosmopolitanism and rights and 165 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:37,520 equality between all citizens. 166 00:12:38,140 --> 00:12:42,800 One of the masons of the time was Montesquieu, a famous French political 167 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:47,000 philosopher who had this radical idea of a separation of powers. 168 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,980 that you should have three branches of government, legislative, executive, and 169 00:12:50,980 --> 00:12:55,900 judicial, that they should check and balance each other to form a true 170 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:57,040 Republican government. 171 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,180 Washington, D .C., 1791. 172 00:13:02,460 --> 00:13:06,960 George Washington, now the first president of the United States of 173 00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:12,640 appoints French architect Pierre -Charles L 'Enfant to design the 174 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:13,640 capital. 175 00:13:13,780 --> 00:13:19,320 While Washington was a master mason, L 'Enfant apparently never passed the 176 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:20,540 of entered apprentice. 177 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:27,000 However, some believe that symbols associated with Freemasonry were 178 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,460 into the city's design as an acknowledgment of the ties between the 179 00:13:31,460 --> 00:13:34,000 society and the founding of the country. 180 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,300 The basic layout of the city originally had these kind of odd diagonal streets. 181 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,540 So they had to have some reason to lay them out that way because the normal way 182 00:13:43,540 --> 00:13:45,180 you would lay out a city is by a grid pattern. 183 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:48,200 And DC did not follow a traditional grid pattern. 184 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:54,780 It's a very cleverly worked grid shape. So when seen from above, you have a five 185 00:13:54,780 --> 00:13:55,780 -sided star. 186 00:13:56,380 --> 00:14:01,300 You have a cascading star, which is all part of the Masonic thought. 187 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:07,980 There's no doubt that Washington, D .C. was laid out according to 188 00:14:07,980 --> 00:14:10,300 Masonic ideals and symbolism. 189 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:12,680 In 1793... 190 00:14:13,210 --> 00:14:17,410 President George Washington presided over the laying of the cornerstone for 191 00:14:17,410 --> 00:14:23,270 U .S. Capitol building, a ceremony that not only initiated construction, but was 192 00:14:23,270 --> 00:14:26,350 also highlighted by elaborate Masonic rituals. 193 00:14:27,550 --> 00:14:34,170 There appears George Washington and his Masonic regalia to perform a Masonic 194 00:14:34,170 --> 00:14:39,910 ceremony with grain and oil and Masonic measuring instruments and so on. 195 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:44,520 You've got the leader of the republic, many of its key officers, in a public 196 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:45,780 Masonic ceremony. 197 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,320 And yet they're doing this as a ceremony based around their secret society. 198 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:57,200 But what was the true purpose of this new experiment in declared self 199 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,780 -governance? An idealistic new form of democracy? 200 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:08,900 Some suggest that the Freemasons who were involved actually had a hidden 201 00:15:10,510 --> 00:15:13,450 people became suspicious of the fraternity. 202 00:15:13,770 --> 00:15:19,370 It kind of supported, I believe, the fears that Freemasonry exerted some kind 203 00:15:19,370 --> 00:15:21,870 power over the government or among society. 204 00:15:23,390 --> 00:15:29,530 Freemasonry was enormously successful in the early American Republic, but in 205 00:15:29,530 --> 00:15:36,230 1826, a kind of disaster befell Freemasonry by the name of the 206 00:15:36,230 --> 00:15:37,270 Morgan Affair. 207 00:15:37,950 --> 00:15:44,790 In 1826, William Morgan, a prominent Freemason in upstate New York, signed 208 00:15:44,790 --> 00:15:49,710 a publishing contract promising to reveal secrets of the Masonic 209 00:15:51,050 --> 00:15:55,210 Traditionally, the Masonic oath has been quite blood -curdling. 210 00:15:55,470 --> 00:16:00,030 They were supposed to swear absolutely solemnly in front of all their brethren 211 00:16:00,030 --> 00:16:04,210 that they would never tell the secrets outside of the lodge. 212 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:10,880 on pain of some quite hideous punishment, such as having their tongue 213 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:11,980 and their throat cut. 214 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:18,880 When Morgan announces he's going to tell all the secrets of Masonry, some of the 215 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:24,860 guys in town decide to take their Masonic obligation much more seriously 216 00:16:24,860 --> 00:16:25,860 they really should have. 217 00:16:27,460 --> 00:16:29,100 And they essentially... 218 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,760 throw him in a carriage, right off into the woods, and Morgan shouts out the 219 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:38,840 window, murder, as they go off into the sunset, and he's never seen again. 220 00:16:42,380 --> 00:16:48,100 Morgan's body was never found, but an investigation was conducted, and members 221 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:51,680 of the local lodge were put on trial for his death. 222 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:57,420 There was a trial that was held of the Masons who had abducted him. 223 00:16:57,870 --> 00:16:59,570 The judge in the case was a Mason. 224 00:17:00,150 --> 00:17:05,630 The governor, he was a Mason. I believe the sheriff was a Mason. You have all 225 00:17:05,630 --> 00:17:10,550 these Masons involved with the prosecution of the crime. Lo and behold, 226 00:17:10,550 --> 00:17:13,109 is convicted for the murder of William Morgan. 227 00:17:13,650 --> 00:17:18,869 That sets off this massive national wave of hysteria against the Masons. 228 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:26,520 This resulted in an anti -Masonic excitement that lasted from 1826 to 229 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,440 and for that period it was very unpopular to be a Freemason. 230 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:37,860 In 1828, the Morgan Affair even spurred the creation of a new political party, 231 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,020 the Anti -Mason Party. 232 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:46,040 The party appealed to voters fearful of the Masonic influence within the United 233 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,040 States government. 234 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:49,100 The party actually... 235 00:17:49,470 --> 00:17:55,330 the presidential election in the state of Vermont, there were hundreds of anti 236 00:17:55,330 --> 00:18:00,110 -Masonic newspapers that popped up around the country, and Masons all over 237 00:18:00,110 --> 00:18:01,550 country start getting attacked. 238 00:18:02,010 --> 00:18:06,410 You read newspaper accounts at the time of Masons being hauled out of their 239 00:18:06,410 --> 00:18:08,470 meetings and tarred and feathered in the streets. 240 00:18:08,950 --> 00:18:13,030 The anti -Mason movement was hugely popular at the time. 241 00:18:16,140 --> 00:18:21,640 Did the Morgan affair really close the book on Freemasonry and signal its end 242 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,520 a powerful force within American society? 243 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,840 There are those who believe just the opposite occurred, that it led to 244 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:33,520 secret plot within the Brotherhood to not only consolidate more power, but 245 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:35,340 hide billions in gold. 246 00:18:35,860 --> 00:18:41,240 A secret plot directly connected to the American Civil War. 247 00:18:45,770 --> 00:18:49,210 Marin County, California, February 2013. 248 00:18:51,230 --> 00:18:56,350 While walking their dog on their rural property, a couple notices the top of a 249 00:18:56,350 --> 00:18:58,990 rusted tin can peeking through the surface of the dirt. 250 00:18:59,890 --> 00:19:05,090 They dig it out and discover that it contains more than 1 ,400 gold coins. 251 00:19:06,250 --> 00:19:12,150 To date, the so -called Saddle Ridge Hoard is the largest buried coin 252 00:19:12,150 --> 00:19:14,410 ever documented in the United States. 253 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:22,680 It was $10 million worth, dated from mid to late years of the 254 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:28,560 19th century. And there's lots of mysteries about this. The actual burial 255 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,000 of these coins was marked with a sort of angular stone. 256 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,080 So obviously it was marked for somebody to find. 257 00:19:36,060 --> 00:19:39,680 There's a lot of speculation as to who buried these golds, where did it come 258 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:44,220 from. How many people have 1 ,400 gold coins today? That's very rare. 259 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,780 So why bury it? Was that part of this Masonic template, the Masonic treasure 260 00:19:48,780 --> 00:19:51,780 map? It's a lot of money for someone to hide away. 261 00:19:52,140 --> 00:19:58,100 So people have claimed that the Battle Ridge cache of 1 ,400 gold coins might 262 00:19:58,100 --> 00:19:59,800 have been hidden by the Knights of the Golden Circle? 263 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:05,700 The Knights of the Golden Circle was a 19th century secret society that 264 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:10,660 supported the secession of the Confederacy and the preservation of the 265 00:20:10,660 --> 00:20:11,940 institution of slavery. 266 00:20:13,260 --> 00:20:17,520 The organization was believed to be working to create a new federation that 267 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,840 would expand the power of the southern states. 268 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,980 And some of its members were Freemasons. 269 00:20:24,380 --> 00:20:29,020 Well, the golden circle that the society sought to create would have been a huge 270 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:33,220 slavery -based empire surrounding the Caribbean Sea. 271 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:38,740 So the idea, roughly, was to detach the southern states from the United States. 272 00:20:39,660 --> 00:20:45,140 Somehow conquer Mexico and northern South America and all of the Caribbean 273 00:20:45,140 --> 00:20:49,080 then combine this into this new empire. 274 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:54,800 They patterned a lot of their rituals and oaths around Freemasonry, only they 275 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,060 made them darker. 276 00:20:56,860 --> 00:21:01,460 You know, they had darker oaths, harsher penalties for breaking their oaths, 277 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:02,480 things of that nature. 278 00:21:05,130 --> 00:21:11,030 Their whole goal during the war was to harass the northern troops and impede 279 00:21:11,030 --> 00:21:15,690 their movements by any means necessary, burning bridges and tearing up railroad 280 00:21:15,690 --> 00:21:16,890 tracks, things like that. 281 00:21:18,930 --> 00:21:23,550 The Knights of the Golden Circle was a powerful, subversive organization. They 282 00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:27,670 were a group of Freemasons that fomented the Civil War. 283 00:21:28,140 --> 00:21:31,460 helped execute the Civil War, and then went underground when it looked like the 284 00:21:31,460 --> 00:21:35,880 Civil War was going to be lost to prepare for a second Civil War, burying 285 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:36,880 for that day. 286 00:21:38,660 --> 00:21:43,900 As the influence of this shadowy organization grew, rumors circulated 287 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:48,480 agents of the Knights of the Golden Circle buried what would amount today to 288 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,600 billions of dollars worth of treasure throughout the American South and 289 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:53,600 Southwest. 290 00:21:54,510 --> 00:21:59,390 They were able to do that by initially stealing from the U .S. Treasury with 291 00:21:59,390 --> 00:22:02,850 their insiders. The Knights of the Golden Circle were well informed. 292 00:22:03,070 --> 00:22:05,690 They had insiders, moles in every organization. 293 00:22:06,190 --> 00:22:10,510 So they knew when gold, silver payments to the troops were about to head out and 294 00:22:10,510 --> 00:22:11,510 where to hit them. 295 00:22:12,090 --> 00:22:17,270 According to some of Jesse James' descendants, the notorious outlaw was 296 00:22:17,270 --> 00:22:20,430 Freemason and a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle. 297 00:22:21,230 --> 00:22:25,930 And they insist that despite the official record, he was not shot dead in 298 00:22:25,930 --> 00:22:27,270 Missouri in 1882. 299 00:22:28,490 --> 00:22:34,330 They say he faked his death, took on an alias, and continued to steal and hide 300 00:22:34,330 --> 00:22:35,710 gold across the country. 301 00:22:36,210 --> 00:22:40,310 They robbed banks, they robbed trains, but they weren't robbing for themselves. 302 00:22:40,470 --> 00:22:43,290 They would take a cut, and then they would bury the loot. 303 00:22:43,710 --> 00:22:46,730 It was obvious that someone was giving... 304 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,500 Jesse the information. 305 00:22:48,860 --> 00:22:52,040 He was the guy who hit the target, but it went deeper. 306 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:58,740 Jesse James was a political operative. He was essentially an American terrorist 307 00:22:58,740 --> 00:23:02,040 for the Confederacy and a field commander of the Knights of the Golden 308 00:23:02,140 --> 00:23:04,480 with the likes of Jesse James and others. 309 00:23:05,140 --> 00:23:10,320 building the financial reservoir that they had, the reserves, to launch that 310 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:14,740 Second Civil War. But it went on for a very long time, such that a Second Civil 311 00:23:14,740 --> 00:23:16,700 War was never really in the cards anymore. 312 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:22,640 But why did some Freemasons depart so strongly from the vision of the Founding 313 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:27,400 Fathers to the point that they actively tried to undermine the United States? 314 00:23:28,460 --> 00:23:31,660 What could have caused them to embrace such a destructive agenda? 315 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:37,040 an agenda that seemed at odds with the Masonic principles of freedom and 316 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,040 democracy. 317 00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:46,880 People say that something may have happened with Masonry in America, where 318 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:53,040 went from a benign, benevolent force to one that maybe organized internal 319 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:58,820 revolution, which is the Civil War, and that had to be under the influence of 320 00:23:58,820 --> 00:23:59,779 Albert Pike. 321 00:23:59,780 --> 00:24:02,340 The evidence points to Pike. 322 00:24:02,670 --> 00:24:06,450 being the supreme leader, not only of the Knights of the Golden Circle, but of 323 00:24:06,450 --> 00:24:07,850 the Scottish Rite Freemasonry. 324 00:24:08,870 --> 00:24:15,050 Scottish Rite Freemasonry was formally established in 1801, not in Scotland, 325 00:24:15,290 --> 00:24:17,130 but in the United States. 326 00:24:17,690 --> 00:24:23,350 By the start of the Civil War, Albert Pike, a renowned writer and scholar, had 327 00:24:23,350 --> 00:24:25,290 ascended to the highest rank of the Order. 328 00:24:25,890 --> 00:24:27,930 As its sovereign Grand Commander, 329 00:24:28,650 --> 00:24:33,070 Pike worked to transform the Scottish Rite into the most elite branch of the 330 00:24:33,070 --> 00:24:34,410 Freemasonry Brotherhood. 331 00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:40,410 It's said that Pike found the Scottish Rite in a cabin and that he left it in a 332 00:24:40,410 --> 00:24:46,290 temple. And in a real sense, he did this. He revised our rituals and 333 00:24:46,310 --> 00:24:50,010 He translated many rare and important documents into English. 334 00:24:50,290 --> 00:24:57,050 He modified the 33 degrees of the Scottish Rite, the 33 membership levels, 335 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,080 33 different ways to teach lessons. 336 00:24:59,420 --> 00:25:05,540 Albert Pike systematized and created the whole elaborate philosophy 337 00:25:05,540 --> 00:25:12,500 that lies behind the Scottish Rite, which is the most important and richest 338 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:18,720 symbolic system that Freemasons have in the United States. Now, the problem 339 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:24,140 with Pike is that he was also a Confederate general. 340 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:31,180 And so he embodies, if you like, all of the contradictions of American 341 00:25:31,180 --> 00:25:32,360 Freemasonry. 342 00:25:34,540 --> 00:25:38,820 Less than a century after some Freemasons fought to build the United 343 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,500 other members fought to tear it down. 344 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,720 But was that the true aim of the Freemasons during the Civil War? 345 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:51,500 Or were they simply playing both sides of the conflict to ensure that they 346 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:53,140 retained power and influence? 347 00:25:53,770 --> 00:25:54,970 No matter what. 348 00:25:59,030 --> 00:26:01,210 January 4th, 2017. 349 00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:08,170 Congressman John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and member of Atlanta's St. 350 00:26:08,170 --> 00:26:12,910 Masonic Lodge No. 4, introduces the Martin Luther King Jr. 351 00:26:13,230 --> 00:26:15,190 National Historical Park Act. 352 00:26:16,350 --> 00:26:21,730 The law makes the area around Dr. King's birthplace in Atlanta, Georgia, into a 353 00:26:21,730 --> 00:26:22,730 national park. 354 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,680 and includes the Prince Hall Masonic Temple, where King's office was located 355 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,660 when he led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 356 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:36,460 Dr. King was reportedly preparing to secretly join the Prince Hall Masons in 357 00:26:36,460 --> 00:26:43,360 April of 1968, but was shot mere days before he could be 358 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:44,360 initiated. 359 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,840 But who were the Prince Hall Masons? 360 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,100 And what role did this branch of Freemasonry play in the Civil Rights 361 00:26:55,660 --> 00:27:02,400 The story starts in 1775 with Prince Hall, who was 362 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:09,380 freed from slavery just five years beforehand. And what happened in 1775 363 00:27:09,380 --> 00:27:16,320 is that he tried to become a Freemason in Boston and was rejected 364 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,760 on the basis of race. 365 00:27:20,460 --> 00:27:26,900 Prince Hall ran into the common prejudices of the time. So what he then 366 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:31,220 to find other free Africans to form a lodge on their own. 367 00:27:31,940 --> 00:27:37,360 He founded the first what could be called African -American Masonic Lodge, 368 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:42,040 today is called Prince Hall Freemasonry, after him, by being inducted into a 369 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,100 British military lodge. 370 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:49,380 Prince Hall writes to the Grand Lodge of England, and he asks them for a 371 00:27:49,380 --> 00:27:54,130 charter. because they're considered the utmost authority on Freemasonry in the 372 00:27:54,130 --> 00:27:57,870 world. And he gets one, and he charters African Lodge No. 373 00:27:58,470 --> 00:28:02,830 459 on the rolls of the Grand Lodge of England in Boston, Massachusetts. 374 00:28:03,190 --> 00:28:07,670 And then Prince Hall starts issuing other charters to other groups of Black 375 00:28:07,670 --> 00:28:09,970 Masons who want to start Masonic Lodges. 376 00:28:10,630 --> 00:28:16,650 By the 1840s, Prince Hall Lodges were established in major cities across the 377 00:28:16,650 --> 00:28:17,770 northern United States. 378 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,220 In the midst of chattel slavery that was still existing in the United States of 379 00:28:22,220 --> 00:28:27,800 America, one man had a tremendous vision to not just simply become part of the 380 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:32,700 fraternity, but to expand it to African Americans everywhere. 381 00:28:33,980 --> 00:28:40,520 Prince Hall Freemasonry, as it came to be called, started to grow into this 382 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,740 large organization, almost exclusively made of black men. 383 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:51,600 Prince Hall Masonic Lodge became the center of the black middle class 384 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,120 Fire! 385 00:28:55,740 --> 00:29:02,160 In 1863, when the first regiment of 386 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:09,020 black troops was recruited in the North to fight in the Civil War, Prince 387 00:29:09,020 --> 00:29:10,740 Hall Freemasons were... 388 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:17,560 instrumental in the recruitment drive, and many of the sergeants and so on in 389 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,680 that regiment were themselves Prince Hall Freemasons. 390 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:30,400 The Black Lodges became a good place for the abolitionist movement in the 1800s. 391 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:36,560 The NAACP and many other organizations got their start with people who were 392 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,000 members of the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. 393 00:29:39,420 --> 00:29:42,040 It was much the same way in the 1960s. 394 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:48,180 A lot of the leading light in the black community in the 1960s in the civil 395 00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:51,200 rights fight were also Prince Hall Masons. 396 00:29:52,380 --> 00:29:58,840 Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who led many of the most important legal 397 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,820 of the civil rights movement, was himself a Prince Hall Mason. 398 00:30:04,570 --> 00:30:11,010 Medgar Evans, the civil rights leader from Mississippi who was murdered in 399 00:30:11,010 --> 00:30:17,570 Jackson by a white supremacist, was also a Prince Old Mason. 400 00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:25,690 Freemasonry at its heart and soul is about the evolution of humankind 401 00:30:25,690 --> 00:30:28,070 and the positive change of humankind. 402 00:30:28,370 --> 00:30:33,590 And so Freemasons are drawn to causes that help. 403 00:30:34,110 --> 00:30:35,630 make a better society. 404 00:30:37,670 --> 00:30:42,910 The kind of lessons that we teach are things like free thought, brotherhood, 405 00:30:43,010 --> 00:30:44,690 equality, honesty. 406 00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:49,770 We don't care how old you are, how rich you are, what color you are, what your 407 00:30:49,770 --> 00:30:53,230 religion is. If you're a Freemason, you're a brother. 408 00:30:54,570 --> 00:30:58,950 There have been many, many people who have been in positions of power who 409 00:30:58,950 --> 00:31:05,130 to be Masons. We're talking about self -declared or revealed Masons, but there 410 00:31:05,130 --> 00:31:10,170 are many who are just not known. It's a source of pride for some to keep their 411 00:31:10,170 --> 00:31:15,310 affiliation totally secret. And so the question becomes whether they act in 412 00:31:15,310 --> 00:31:18,410 collusion with each other to get an agenda across. 413 00:31:19,820 --> 00:31:24,960 The conspiracy theory about Freemasonry doing the rounds now is the idea of the 414 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:30,500 new world order, which is basically what these groups are supposed to be aiming 415 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:34,140 for, their own world order, which is their great mission. 416 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,480 There is a general suspicion of any secret organization. 417 00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:42,360 They don't know what we're thinking. They don't know what we're saying. They 418 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,700 don't know we're preaching amongst each other. They don't know what we're doing. 419 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,580 This is something that conspiracy theorists love to think about. 420 00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:54,640 The Masons will say they're not a secret society. 421 00:31:54,940 --> 00:31:59,940 They're a society with secrets that are discussed confidentially among them. 422 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,940 But they would just deny that they organized in a way that would be known 423 00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:11,880 collusion to influence events, politics, the way society develops, because 424 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,880 they don't leave records. 425 00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:15,680 of these secret meetings, it's very hard to know. 426 00:32:18,860 --> 00:32:22,400 Why do the Freemasons maintain such absolute secrecy? 427 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,560 And what are they trying to achieve? 428 00:32:25,420 --> 00:32:30,120 Is it possible, as some believe, that they have a master plan for a new world 429 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,120 order? 430 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:36,020 The truth may lie behind closed doors in the secret meetings of a mysterious 431 00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:40,180 organization known as the Bilderberg Group. 432 00:32:44,070 --> 00:32:47,170 Montreux, Switzerland, June 2nd, 2019. 433 00:32:48,470 --> 00:32:54,610 Prominent political leaders, financiers, media moguls, and tech titans are 434 00:32:54,610 --> 00:32:58,610 photographed arriving for closed -door meetings at one of the world's most 435 00:32:58,610 --> 00:33:01,290 exclusive and secretive gatherings. 436 00:33:02,030 --> 00:33:07,330 The annual event, known as the Bilderberg meeting, has been closed to 437 00:33:07,330 --> 00:33:11,010 and press since its inception in the Netherlands in 1954. 438 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,660 The very first one happened in the Bilderberg Hotel. 439 00:33:17,540 --> 00:33:19,860 So that's why they're called Bilderbergers. 440 00:33:20,060 --> 00:33:24,520 The world's elite, trendy leaders get invited. 441 00:33:24,820 --> 00:33:28,400 They are thought of as being the creme de la creme of the world. 442 00:33:29,060 --> 00:33:34,320 The location of the Bilderberg meeting is different each year, as is the roster 443 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,520 of the elites in attendance. 444 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,840 But a strict code of secrecy remains. 445 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:42,040 They follow the so -called Chatham rule. 446 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:49,380 which is based on the rule of Chatham House in London, which is the Institute 447 00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:50,440 for International Affairs. 448 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,320 And the rule is quite simple. 449 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:59,340 It's forbidden to talk about what was said within the 450 00:33:59,340 --> 00:34:04,240 meetings. The idea is that this group of people can sit down and have a free, 451 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:09,400 open, fair, frank conversation without being held accountable for it. 452 00:34:09,770 --> 00:34:12,590 But the problem is that we don't know what they're talking about. We don't 453 00:34:12,590 --> 00:34:16,850 what decisions are being made. And so paradoxically for the group to have an 454 00:34:16,850 --> 00:34:22,350 open, frank, transparent conversation amongst themselves, they have to 455 00:34:22,350 --> 00:34:27,650 a rule that makes it that much more sort of secretive. 456 00:34:29,070 --> 00:34:33,850 According to Bilderberg officials, their sole aim is to gather political leaders 457 00:34:33,850 --> 00:34:38,449 and industry experts from across the globe to foster a frank dialogue about 458 00:34:38,449 --> 00:34:40,570 significant issues facing the world. 459 00:34:41,250 --> 00:34:45,969 There are those who suspect that this network of world leaders and influential 460 00:34:45,969 --> 00:34:50,190 private citizens may also include a number of the Freemasons. 461 00:34:50,830 --> 00:34:55,610 Some people believe the Bilderberger group is part of the hidden hand agenda 462 00:34:55,610 --> 00:34:56,610 the Freemasons. 463 00:34:56,810 --> 00:35:02,610 These large get -togethers of influencers in the world are kept 464 00:35:02,830 --> 00:35:06,130 Some of the people attending those meetings are Freemasons. 465 00:35:06,490 --> 00:35:13,050 There is a theory that a group comes together and they discuss 466 00:35:13,050 --> 00:35:18,030 what's happening and the direction of the world. Are they able to control the 467 00:35:18,030 --> 00:35:19,030 world? 468 00:35:19,530 --> 00:35:25,070 No. But they can try after free -thinking meetings. 469 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:28,260 to create a direction. 470 00:35:30,020 --> 00:35:35,000 Freemasonry attracts men who want to improve their communities and the rest 471 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:35,899 the world. 472 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:41,300 It's an experiment in governance, and the idea is that we need to constantly 473 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:43,040 move the experiment forward. 474 00:35:43,620 --> 00:35:46,820 So, if that is an agenda, then I'll take it. 475 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:53,120 Both the Freemasons and the Bilderbergers claim that their intention 476 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:54,740 change the world for the better. 477 00:35:55,360 --> 00:36:01,220 However, Rumors persist that these secretive groups have a less benevolent 478 00:36:01,220 --> 00:36:02,220 agenda. 479 00:36:02,740 --> 00:36:05,120 But what fuels these suspicions? 480 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:11,800 Any time you have what is seen by the outside world to be a secret or a 481 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:17,880 secretive organization, it almost immediately leads their mind into 482 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,420 something evil is going on within it. 483 00:36:20,860 --> 00:36:24,920 The Masons, the Bilderbergers, are good targets. 484 00:36:25,740 --> 00:36:30,160 Things where people get together and discuss different political ideas behind 485 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,960 closed doors and the public's not allowed. 486 00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:34,380 The public doesn't like that. 487 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:39,160 What's on the other side of that locked door over there? I can't get in it. 488 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:40,160 What's back there? 489 00:36:41,420 --> 00:36:46,140 As far as we Freemasons are concerned, we're a secret society. We keep our 490 00:36:46,140 --> 00:36:51,640 secrets. But we are not looking to cause disorder. 491 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,600 We are only looking to cause order. 492 00:36:55,150 --> 00:37:00,030 And what we have to do to get there is what we have to do to get there. 493 00:37:04,510 --> 00:37:09,530 Is it possible that the Freemasons are on the cusp of realizing a new world 494 00:37:09,530 --> 00:37:12,310 order, one that has been centuries in the making? 495 00:37:12,790 --> 00:37:16,470 And if so, what will this new world order look like? 496 00:37:17,210 --> 00:37:21,770 Perhaps some clues can be found by examining the chaos that arises during 497 00:37:21,770 --> 00:37:22,870 international crises. 498 00:37:23,580 --> 00:37:28,080 Chaos that some claim is being used to reshape the world as we know it. 499 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:35,200 June 3rd, 2020. 500 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:42,000 In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, the World Economic Forum 501 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,080 releases a document entitled The Great Reset. 502 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,660 The initiative calls for a complete reimagining of the world's economic and 503 00:37:49,660 --> 00:37:50,660 social systems. 504 00:37:51,210 --> 00:37:54,610 for a more fair, sustainable and resilient future. 505 00:37:55,430 --> 00:38:00,310 High -profile members of the global elite publicly stepped forward in 506 00:38:00,310 --> 00:38:05,930 the agenda, including heir to the British monarchy, Charles, Prince of 507 00:38:06,690 --> 00:38:13,590 Unless we take the action necessary and we build again in a greener, 508 00:38:13,590 --> 00:38:15,710 more sustainable and more inclusive way. 509 00:38:16,590 --> 00:38:20,690 then we will end up having more and more pandemics and more and more disasters. 510 00:38:21,190 --> 00:38:26,170 This is the one moment when we have to make as much progress as we can. 511 00:38:26,810 --> 00:38:32,030 Although many people across the globe see the proposed changes and 512 00:38:32,030 --> 00:38:37,690 as necessary, there are those who question the timing of this initiative. 513 00:38:38,050 --> 00:38:44,710 They suggest that the idea of the Great Reset bears a striking similarity to how 514 00:38:44,710 --> 00:38:45,710 the Freemasons... 515 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,520 transformed the world by founding the United States more than two centuries 516 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:58,540 The Scottish Rite has a slogan from chaos order, and people would 517 00:38:58,540 --> 00:39:00,120 say, oh, new world order, perhaps. 518 00:39:00,460 --> 00:39:07,040 That seems consistent with the Masonic tradition of fighting the orthodoxy of 519 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:11,140 the monarchy and the clergy, and that is a Templar tradition. 520 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:17,140 But they haven't really ever come out saying we're behind the formation of a 521 00:39:17,140 --> 00:39:17,939 world order. 522 00:39:17,940 --> 00:39:22,440 And so the average citizen doesn't know. And there's no way of knowing. 523 00:39:23,220 --> 00:39:29,400 Could it be true, as some suggest, that members of Freemasonry are once again 524 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:34,180 working to establish a new world order, just as they helped to do during the 525 00:39:34,180 --> 00:39:35,180 American Revolution? 526 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:41,280 And if so, would it actually bring about more justice, equality, and freedom? 527 00:39:41,820 --> 00:39:44,500 as the founding of the United States eventually did? 528 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,940 I think all we have to do is look back to our early history. 529 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:53,460 That's how Freemasonry began to creep into the United States. 530 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:59,560 We want to make society better. The United States was the experiment in the 531 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:06,260 order for democracy, for the good of mankind, and that was the one 532 00:40:06,260 --> 00:40:08,620 revolution that did succeed. 533 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,500 So the whole idea is we need a new social construct. 534 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:19,780 I can create a new construct of society with others who can be from different 535 00:40:19,780 --> 00:40:23,580 religions, can speak different languages, who are of different 536 00:40:23,580 --> 00:40:26,720 because we come together around common needs. 537 00:40:28,340 --> 00:40:35,020 Whether it is to liberate people from slavery, whether it is the 538 00:40:35,020 --> 00:40:36,580 struggle for civil rights. 539 00:40:37,190 --> 00:40:42,650 Whether it is even today in Black Lives Matter or wherever you look, somewhere 540 00:40:42,650 --> 00:40:45,750 in there, you're going to trip over a Freemason. 541 00:40:46,050 --> 00:40:53,050 There are lots of people involved in current social change movements, not 542 00:40:53,050 --> 00:40:58,870 here but all over the world. Some of them are going to ultimately be 543 00:40:58,930 --> 00:41:03,090 not because they were at the center of planning at all, but because they're 544 00:41:03,090 --> 00:41:05,390 drawn to making a better world. 545 00:41:06,250 --> 00:41:11,090 New world order. I would like to simply see some order in the world. I would 546 00:41:11,090 --> 00:41:15,790 like to see people respecting each other. I would like to see people stop 547 00:41:15,790 --> 00:41:17,650 for ridiculous reasons. 548 00:41:18,950 --> 00:41:21,070 We don't want to keep repeating the past. 549 00:41:21,330 --> 00:41:24,010 The great American experiment moves forward. 550 00:41:24,350 --> 00:41:25,610 We're making a leap. 551 00:41:25,830 --> 00:41:27,110 I don't call it an agenda. 552 00:41:27,470 --> 00:41:29,250 I call it a service to humanity. 553 00:41:35,210 --> 00:41:39,810 Some Freemasons insist that they must maintain secrecy because they are 554 00:41:39,810 --> 00:41:41,730 perceived as a threat to those in power. 555 00:41:42,090 --> 00:41:46,890 But conspiracy theorists claim that it's the Freemasons who actually wield all 556 00:41:46,890 --> 00:41:50,550 the power and use it to remake the world whenever they see fit. 557 00:41:51,650 --> 00:41:53,110 What is the proof? 558 00:41:53,770 --> 00:42:00,330 For now, it remains hidden, deep within the pages of America's book of 559 00:42:00,330 --> 00:42:01,330 secrets. 54142

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