Subject: One nation under the Grand Architect
From: Dave <dkuehne(@)erols.com>

Be sure to see my 'illuminating' comments at the end ~DK~

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Prelude: Freemasonry and the American Revolution

America wields today such might as the world has never
before seen, together with infinite cunning and uncanny
knowledge of secrets, the hidden mysteries of life
itself ... such that all nations cringe beneath her
mighty fist, their hatred in vain. Yet when I look into
the eyes of my countrymen, I see not joy of triumph,
nor pride in victory, but only hollowness ... and a
quiet desperation, as though each had just figured out
that the theatre was on fire, and his best chance of
survival lay in keeping his mouth shut, and sneaking
out the door. And so a question began to form in my
mind, "Are these my countrymen?" Looking next at our
women, I observe how these, too, have abandoned their
men for mammon. Where, indeed, are our wives? Who, or
what, has driven this wedge between us? 

Then I consider the others, the foreign people
constantly moving among us, more and more of them every
day, shaded faces that murmur to one another in alien
tongues, then look over at us and smile pretentiously,
and in their eyes I could at least discern a glimmer of
understanding, that this white man had just been cut
down. They were too polite, or perhaps too solemn, to
answer me back what was really on their minds, "Now we
are the Americans!" ... I wondered, is that how it
felt, in ancient times, to die in battle by the enemy's
hand? Death is a solemn moment, and there is a silent
communication that passes between the living and the
dead. 

How it came to be that our people, sons of the
Pioneers, the heirs to America -- are now disfranchised
from our homeland and its institutions, now vilified
and pushed to the fringe, is a story worth
investigating. It is nothing less than the story of the
rise and fall of a great nation ... in fact, of a race
that just one hundred years ago had been master of the
world, and something like three-tenths of its
population. Now we are barely fifteen percent of
teeming billions, and our great empire, like those of
ancient Greece, Rome, the Catholic Church and Great
Britain, is left steaming ahead without us, as though
we had just fallen, or been pushed, overboard ... It's
hard to recollect whether there had even been a
struggle. It's an eerie feeling, isn't it, as if there
were something that we were supposed to have done, and
did not? 

It is only with patience and study that one can fully
comprehend the awesome significance of what we have to
reveal, of how our own kindness was turned against us,
and used as a tool to bring about our enslavement.
"Tief ist der Welt, und tiefer als ein Tag gedacht,"
wrote Friederich Nietzsche a century ago. "Deep is the
world, and deeper than can be given to a day." Our
conscious mind can only grasp what it constructs in a
single day, between waking and sleeping again. A story
so vast as this, what we have to tell, is likewise
beyond a single day's imagining. And so we shall start,
not at the beginning (for that is indeed a long way
back), but somewhere in the middle ... in media res.
The Patriot [a/k/a Nationalist] movement in America
began, arguably, with the organization of the "True
Sons of Liberty" in 1718 by James Otis and Elisha Cook,
apparently in response to the creation of the Grand
Lodge of St. John (the Pretender) by George I, the
Hanoverian (Rosicrucian) King of England who had been
placed on the throne by the money powers. As England
was turned over to the bankers, America began to
revolt. This little upstart American lodge was the
forerunner of the "Sons of Liberty" who, in 1765,
became famous for their "Boston Tea Party" in
opposition to the Stamp Tax and colonial policies of
Lord Grenville, exchequer to the Crown. In a broader
perspective, this was an organized resistance to the
colonial policies of the "British" East India Company,
the Church of England and the Royal Society, who had
become puppets of the international bankers. In this
respect, it was both a populist and a nationalist
rebellion. It was the Sons of Liberty who, in creating
the American Revolution, for a brief moment held the
promise of a homeland for our people. But there were
deeper forces at work, that had been set in motion a
century earlier by Oliver Cromwell in the English
Puritan Revolt. When Charles I (a Stuart, son of James
I of England, the VI of Scotland) had disbanded
Parliament (during a trade war with the Netherlands) in
a quarrel over excise tax and tariff policy, the
English Whigs, who included the merchant-adventurers,
mercers and upstart nobility, under the leadership of
Cromwell defeated the Crown, beheaded Charles I, and
drove the Stuarts into exile in Scotland and France.
The Stuarts-in-exile became known as the "Jacobites",
"James" being the English form of the Hebrew "Jacob",
so-named after the exiled claimant James II and his
grandfather James I, who had established the Stuarts on
the Throne of England. They found protection under the
Grand Lodge of St Andrew's, which is the national Lodge
of Scotland, their homeland, and which had branch
lodges in France, some dating back to the "Rough
Wooing" of Edward I in the early 14th century. Although
the Stuarts later regained (ever so briefly) the Crown
under James II, and once again under Queen Anne (an
even shorter tenure), the Glorious Revolution of 1688,
which put William, Duke of Orange on the throne,
demonstrated that the Dutch (Jewish) banking houses
were securing their influence over the English Crown. 

Not surprisingly, the House of Orange were Dutch, and
their investiture coincided with the creation of the
Bank of England in 1694. Later, after Queen Anne was
deposed, the Sephardic Bankers raised George I (the
House of Hanover) to the English throne. George's
father was Friederich, Count Palatine of the Rhine, who
had been married to Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James
I. Friedrich had been deposed from Heidelberg of the
Palatine by the Catholics during the Thirty Years' War;
and so the House of Hanover had been exiled to the
Hague, where they established a famous Rosicrucian
College to pass the time. Shortly after his accession
to the English throne, King Grorge I of the House of
Hanover warranted the Grand Lodge of St. John's (the
Pretender) in 1717, which is generally given as the
date of the formal creation of British Freemasonry.
Meanwhile the Grand Lodge of St. Andrew's, which is of
the older Knights Templar tradition, remained alive in
Scotland, Ireland, France and also in the Thirteen
Colonies of North America. As already mentioned, the
Lodge of St. Andrew's sheltered the Jacobites. Many of
the Scottish and Irish officers serving in the British
forces during the Seven Years War ("French & Indian
War" of 1754) were members of the Lodge of St. Andrews,
and they planted Stuart and Jacobite loyalties on North
American soil. Not to say such didn't exist already, as
demonstrated by the friendship between the Carolina
governors and Robert Teach -- alias Blackbeard the
Pirate, who flew the Masonic Skull & Crossbones flag
and named his ship the Queen Anne's Revenge.
Nevertheless, this conflict between the Jacobites and
the Hanoverians, or between the lodges of St. Andrew
and St. John (the Pretender) -- that is to say, of the
Knights Templar versus the Rosicrucians, was to find
its resolution in the next three wars to shake the
world: the American Revolution, the French Revolution
(Napoleonic Wars), and the American Civil War. 

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Beginning with
the first reports of Freemasonry in America ... 

"... On 8 December 1730 Benjamin Franklin printed in
his newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, the first
documented notice about Freemasonry in North America,
Franklin's article, which consisted of a general
account of Freemasonry, was prefaced by the statement
that "there are several Lodges of FREE MASONS erected
in this Province ..." Franklin himself became a
Freemason in February 1731, and Provincial Grand Master
of Pennsylvania in 1734. That same year, he ushered
into print the first Freemasonic book to be published
in America, an edition of Anderson's Constitutions ..."

Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

The Temple and the Lodge 

Only two months elapsed between Benjamin Franklin's
publication of this first notice and his initiation
into the lodge of Freemasonry. Some say that his motive
had been to threaten the Masons with exposure if they
did not let him in. Soon thereafter, Franklin became
the largest publisher in America, owning a chain of
newspapers and printing-houses. His rise within the
Brotherhood was accompanied by a generous measure of
worldly success. Over the course of his long and
illustrious career, Franklin was initiated into the
highest covens of the Order, in Europe as well as in
America. His mentors included members of the Royal
Society and the notorious and sexually promiscuous
"Hell-Fire" clubs in England, and also the Neuf Soeurs
in France. He developed extensive contacts within both
the Hanoverian and the Stewart-Jacobean branches of the
Lodge, and thus Franklin's inside-knowledge became as
profound as his influence. One is inclined to wonder
how he ever managed to repay such a debt. In 1754, two
years before the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, (in
America generally known as the "French and Indian
War"), Benjamin Franklin had drawn up the "Albany Plan"
to create a federal union of the Colonies under "one
general government": 

"The [British] Crown was to appoint a President General
to act as executive officer; "the people" or their
representatives were to appoint members of a Grand
Council of Delegates. This central government was to
control Indian affairs, declare war and make peace,
raise and equip soldiers and levy taxes."

John C. Miller

Origins of the American Revolution

Stanford University Press 

How's that for a Constitution? This was the work of our
great and illustrious Benjamin Franklin, whom the
Pennsylvania Quakers hailed as "an American Patriot",
so eager to hand us over for a farthing. At the time,
the British Crown was the titular head of St John's
Lodge of Freemasonry. They were the "Tories". The
"Whigs" were the Lodge of St Andrew. In England, the
situation is exactly reversed. The English Tories were
the Lodge of St. Andrew, loyal to the Stuarts
(Jacobins, from James I), while the English Whigs were
the upstart Lodge of St. John (the Pretenders), who
supported William, Duke of Orange, and the later
Hanoverans. The discrepance will be described
elsewhere. Interestingly, Thomas Paine got his start as
a Franklin protege', a Quaker activist whom Franklin
had found destitute in London in 1774 and immediately
brought back with him to America. Co-incidentally,
Paine's first published work was a forceful article
against slavery and the slave trade. Following the
American Revolution, Paine returned to England, where
he wrote the Rights of Man in 1791. Forced to flee
England as a result, Paine went to France, already in
the throes of revolution, and it was here that he wrote
the first part of The Age of Reason, which challenged
fundamental Christian beliefs about the Old Testament.
Abandoned by his Masonic friends, he was arrested by
the Jocobins of the French Republic, whose cause he had
formerly espoused, and he was very nearly guillotined.
Upon his escape from the French Revolution, Paine
returned to America, where he was universally shunned,
and it was here that he died in solitude and poverty.
Denied a resting-place in America, his bones were
shipped back to England, but there also he was denied
decent burial. His skull and right hand were last
known, in 1854, to be in the possession of one Reverend
R. Ainslie, a Unitarian minister. No trace now remains.

"Between 1733 and 1737, the Grand Lodge of England
warranted Provincial Grand Lodges in Massachusetts, New
York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. In Georgia, New
Hampshire and other future states, there were one or
more local lodges but no Provincial Grand Lodge. From
Virginia, no records survive, but there are supposed to
have been lodges warranted not by the Grand Lodge of
England, but by the quasi-Jacobite Grand Lodge of
York." "At the same time that Freemasonry, almost
entirely under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of
England, was spreading through the colonies, there
occurred another development which was to have a much
more profound effect on American history. Since 1732,
Freemasonry had also been spreading through the British
Army in the form of regimental field lodges ... The
first lodge in the British Army was created in the 1st
Foot, later the Royal Scots, in 1732. By 1734, there
were five such regimental lodges. By 1755, there were
twenty-nine ... Of particular significance is the fact
that these lodges were not chartered by the Grand Lodge
of England. On the contrary, they were chartered by the
Irish Grand Lodge, which offered the higher degrees
characteristic of Jacobite Freemasonry ... 

"... [in Massachusetts] Freemasonry had begun ... in
1733, when Henry Price, acting on authority from the
Grand Lodge of England, became Grand Master of
Massachusetts' own Provincial Grand Lodge, St John's.
His deputy Grand Master, as we have seen, was Andrew
Belcher, son of the provincial governor. By 1750, there
were two other lodges based in Boston. Both they and
their parent lodge, St John's, met at a tavern called
the Bunch of Grapes, at the junction of what today are
State and Kilby Streets; and British regiments with
warrants from Grand Lodge also met on the premises.
Subsequently, St John's was to warrant more than forty
lodges under its umbrella. 

"... But in 1752, an 'irregular' lodge, without an
official warrant, was found to be operating at another
tavern, the Green Dragon, renamed Freemasons' Hall in
1764. When the scandalised members of St John's
complained, the 'irregular' lodge duly applied for a
warrant of its own, not from the Grand Lodge of
England, however, but from Grand Lodge of Scotland,
which offered higher degrees. The warrant was not
forthcoming until 1756, [At the outbreak of the "French
and Indian" War, ed.] when British troops and their
regimental field lodges, chartered by both Irish and
Scottish Grand Lodge, began to arrive in America. The
'irregular' lodge was then warranted under the name of
St Andrew's. Soon, however, it began to warrant new
lodges of its own and claimed for itself, therefore,
the status of a Provincial Grand Lodge, under the
authority of Grand Lodge of Scotland. There were thus
two rival Provincial Grand Lodges in Boston: St John's,
under the aegis of the Grand Lodge of England, and St
Andrew's, under the aegis of Grand Lodge of Scotland...
"... Ignoring the strictures against it, St Andrew's
continued to meet and to gain recruits, sometimes,
indeed, pilfering them from St John's. And on 28 August
1769, St Andrew's conferred, for the first time
anywhere in the world, a new Freemasonic Degree,
specifically called the Knight Templar Degree ... But
[this] was not to be St Andrew's sole claim to
distinction. By 1773, it had assumed a position in the
vanguard of what were now rapidly escalating events. At
that time, its Grand Master was Joseph Warren, whom
Grand Lodge of Scotland had appointed Grand Master for
the whole of North America. Among the other members of
the lodge were John Hancock and Paul Revere. "...
Contrary to some subsequent claims and legends, the
'[Boston] Tea Party' does not appear to have been
planned at St Andrew's lodge. In fact, it appears to
have been planned by Samuel Adams and the 'Sons of
Liberty'. But there is no question that at least twelve
members of the lodge were involved in the 'Party'. Not
only that. Twelve other participants afterwards became
members of St Andrew's. 

"... On 22 April [1775], the Third Provincial Congress
of Massachusetts convened, with Joseph Warren, The
Grand Lodge of Scotland's Grand Master for North
America, as president. Warren authorised the
mobilisation of 30,000 men ... on 10 May 1775, the
Second Continental Congress convened, first under the
presidency of Peyton Randolph, then, when he died,
under John Hancock of St Andrew's lodge, and authorised
the raising of a full-fledged army. George Washington,
a prominent Freemason under the Virginia Grand
Mastership of Randolph, was appointed
commander-in-chief. 

"... On 9 November [1775], a special committee, the
Committee of Congress for Secret Correspondence, was
appointed to establish a network of contacts among 'our
friends abroad'. This committee consisted of Robert
Morris, John Jay, Benjamin Harrison, John Dickinson and
Benjamin Franklin. It was to operate extensively
through Freemasonic channels and to lead to the
creation of an elaborate spy network. At the same time,
and quite coincidentally, it was to overlap a British
spy network which ran parallel to it and also operated
through Freemasonic channels. Both networks were to be
based primarily in Paris, which became the center for a
vast web of espionage, intrigue and shifting
allegiances. 

"... On 11 June 1776, Congress appointed a committee to
draft a declaration of independence. Of the five men on
this committee, two, Franklin and Richard Montgomery's
father-in-law, Robert Livingston, were Freemasons, and
one, Roger Sherman, is believed, though not confirmed,
to have been. The other two -- Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams, were not, despite subsequent claims to the
contrary. The text of the declaration was composed by
Jefferson. It was submitted to Congress and accepted on
4 July 1776. The nine signatories who can now be
established as proven Freemasons, and the ten who were
probably so, included such influential figures as
Washington, Franklin and, of course, the president of
the Congress, John Hancock. The army, moreover,
remained almost entirely in Freemasonic hands. 

"Franklin, as we have seen, was a Freemason of long
standing, having been initiated nearly a half century
before, in 1731. In 1734 and again in 1749, he had been
Grand Master of Pennsylvania. In 1756, he had been
inducted into the Royal Society, still at that time
strongly oriented towards Freemasonry. Between 1757 and
1762, and again between 1764 and 1775, he had spent
considerable time abroad, in England and in France. In
1776, as the conflict in the colonies became a
full-fledged war for independence, Franklin became, in
effect, the American ambassador to France, and was to
serve in this capacity until 1785. In 1778, in Paris,
he was to become a member of a particularly important
French lodge, Neuf Soeurs or "Nine Sisters", which was
also to include such luminaries as John Paul Jones
(first initiated in Scotland in 1770) and Voltaire. A
year later, on 21 May 1779, Franklin became Master of
Neuf Soeurs, a post to which he was re-elected in 1780.
In 1782, he became a member of a more elusive and
mysterious Freemasonic conclave, the Royal Lodge des
Commandeurs du Temple a l'Ouest de Carcassonne ("Royal
Lodge of Commanders of the Temple West of
Carcassonne")."

Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

The Temple and the Lodge 

The story that is unfolding is how the American
Revolution had been co-opted by Freemasonic forces,
originating from the Grand Lodge of St Andrew's, of
what was later to become the Scottish Rite. I should
point out that Freemasons have never been populists; to
the contrary, the history of Freemasonry is a litany of
the exploits of countless earls, dukes, viscounts,
barons, marquises and kings. These are the same
individuals who were behind the Highland Clearances and
numerous other acts of enslavement and expropriation
against their own people. They have never cared a jot
for us commoners who, to them, are so much
cannon-fodder. The Revolutionary War had been
orchestrated by Freemasons acting on both the British
and the American sides, and their ultimate objective
had been to steer the rebellious colonists back into
the "British System". Without getting lost in English
history, it is necessary here to describe what we mean
by the "British System". At the dawn of the seventeenth
century, when we see the first English colonies being
established in America, there were serious threats at
home rising to challenge the British aristocracy. The
Anglican Church, which had long served to control the
thoughts and behavior of the commoners, was losing
ground to the new protestant sects of Presbyterians,
Puritans and Quakers. The Roman Catholics, particularly
in the north, remained a separate and threatening
political force, always open to alliance with France
and the Papacy. The English civil wars of the
seventeenth century were essentially religious wars
under the general authorship of Oliver Cromwell, who
sought to establish the supremacy of Parliament over
the English Crown. On the secular front, the populist
movement of the Levelers was asserting the doctrine of
natural rights and natural law as superseding the
Divine Right of Kings. It was against this backdrop of
religious, political and social disintegration that
Freemasonry began to emerge as a new tool for the
control of increasingly diverse institutions. Within
the sanctuary of the lodge, leaders of various factions
could find the mediation to work out their differences
in a way that could not have been accomplished
otherwise. Further, the system of lodges provided a
means of initiation whereby the "right" persons could
be selected, disciplined, and informed according to
their "need to know", then advanced into important
institutional positions, all in the service of
Freemasonry, and yet giving the outward impression that
the landed gentry were actually opening their ranks to
accommodate a rising middle class of commoners. Thus,
even as the outward political structure appeared to
become more democratic, it was in fact the lodges who
were manipulating events from behind the scenes. It was
this utilitarian purpose that accounts for the rapid
spread of Freemasonry among the landed gentry during
the period in question. The proof of who actually won
the American Revolutionary War was clearly exhibited in
the following ceremonies: 

"On 4 February 1789, Washington was elected first
president of the United States and John Adams his
vice-president. The inauguration was on 30 April. The
oath was administered by Robert Livingston, Grand
Master of New York's Grand Lodge and father-in-law of
the dead General Richard Montgomery. The marshal of the
day was another Freemason, General Jacob Morton. Yet
another Freemason, General Morgan Lewis, was
Washington's escort. The bible used for the oath was
that of St John's Lodge No. 1 of New York. Washington
himself at the time was Master of Alexandria Lodge No.
22, Virginia. 

Cornerstone of the Capitol
http://www.servtech.com/~grugyn/plaque.jpg

"On 18 September 1793, the cornerstone of the Capitol
was officially laid. Grand Lodge of Maryland presided
over the ceremony and Washington was asked to serve as
Master. The affiliated lodges under Maryland's
jurisdiction were in attendance, as was Washington's
own lodge from Alexandria, Virginia. There was a great
procession, which included a company of artillery. Then
came a band, followed by Washington himself, attended
by all officers and members of the lodges in full
regalia. 

"When he reached the trench in which the south-east
cornerstone was laid, Washington was presented with a
silver plate commemorating the event and inscribed with
the designations of the lodges in attendance. The
artillery fired a volley. Washington then descended
into the trench and placed the plate on the stone.
Around it, he placed containers of corn, wine and oil,
standard symbolic accoutrements of Freemasonic ritual.
All present joined in prayer and Masonic chanting, and
the artillery fired another volley. "Washington and his
entourage then moved to the east of the cornerstone,
where the president, standing on a traditionally
Masonic three-stepped rostrum, delivered an oration.
More Masonic chanting followed, and a final volley from
the artillery. 

"The gavel, the silver trowel, the square and the level
used by Washington for the ceremony are today held by
Potomac Lodge No. 5 of the District of Columbia. The
apron and the sash he wore are held by his own lodge,
Alexandria No. 22."

Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

The Temple and the Lodge 

Concurrent with all the above events, another story was
unfolding. On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt, an apostate
Jew-turned Jesuit, founded the Bavarian Illuminati, a
select circle of intellectuals and aristocrats who were
allegedly being financed by wealthy Frankfurt Jews for
the purpose of infiltrating and influencing the various
branches of Freemasonry. It is said to be in
commemoration of this event that the Great Seal of the
United States bears the Freemasonic symbol of the
pyramid with the all-seeing eye and the inscription: 

1776: Annuit Coeptis, Novus Ordo Seclorum. ("1776: It
smiles upon thy work, a New Order of the Ages.") 

"The Order was at first very popular, and enrolled no
less than two thousand names upon its registers. ...
Its lodges were to be found in France, Belgium,
Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and Italy."

A Bavarian Illuminati Primer
http://www.freemasonry.bc.ca/Writings/Illuminati.html

And, of course, in Britain and America as well ...
indeed, nearly everywhere that one found a Jewish
community; not to say that the members were all Jews,
as indeed they were not, but perhaps to assure the
Illuminati of the proximity of Jewish surveillance.
Weishaupt's conspiracy was exposed to the Bavarian
authorities by an informant, and on June 22, 1784, the
Elector of Bavaria issued an edict for the suppression
of the Illuminati. This has led some researchers to
conclude that the Order had been broken up; that its
history was therefore short-lived and meteoric, though
other evidence indicates that the Illuminati merely
went underground, disguised as a network of esoteric
"reading societies". 

"However, by this time 15 Lodges of the Order of the
Illuminati had been established in the 13 Colonies.
This was before the Colonies were united and the
Constitution adopted. In 1785 the Columbian Lodge of
the Order of the Illuminati was established in New York
City. Its members included Governor DeWitt Clinton,
Clinton Roosevelt, and Horace Greeley. There was a
Lodge in Virginia also that was identified with Thomas
Jefferson ... 

"The two prime source books for our knowledge of Adam
Weishaupt's Illuminati conspiracy are Professor John
Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy, first published in
1798, and the Abbe Augustin Barruel's impressive
four-volume study, Memoirs Illustrating the History of
Jacobinism, published in 1799, some months after the
first appearance of Robison's book. Both men, one a
Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh
University, the other a French clergyman, writing in
different countries and in different languages, without
the one knowing the other, basically covered the same
subject matter and came to the very same conclusions.
Thus, we have two excellent works which tell us
virtually all we need to know about the origin of
history's most diabolical, long-range conspiracy."

~~ from the Introduction to John Robison's Proof of a
Conspiracy 

As we shall describe in later chapters, the Bavarian
Illuminati were merely one tip of a much larger
iceburg. Baron von Knigge, who had been Weishaupt's
chief organizer, was also a member of Chabrath Zerek
Boqer Aur, meaning in Hebrew, "The Shining Light of the
Dawn" (usually identified as Lucifer "the
torch-bearer", though the planet Venus does have other
symbolic meanings), a very old Jewish Freemasonic lodge
based in Frankfurt, the emergent center of
international Jewish investment banking, and which
maintained a number of correspondent lodges throughout
Europe and possibly also in America. Not the least of
these was known as the "invisible college", a Kabbalist
center located in London, whose members included the
founders of the British Royal Society. Although few
people at the time paid much attention to the warnings
sent out by the Elector of Bavaria to numerous European
monarchs during his prosecution of the Weishaupt lodge,
the publication of Robison's Proofs and Barruel's
Memoirs some fifteen years later created an
international sensation. A wave of paranoia swept
through Freemasonry, as evidenced by the following
cryptic statement written by George Washington himself:


"I have heard much of the nefarious and dangerous
doctrines of the Illuminati. It was not my intention to
doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati and the
principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United
States."

The Writings of George Washington

U.S. George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1941 

But it was already too late. In 1782, just five years
before the "Constitutional Convention" was called in
Philadelphia, the agenda of the Illuminati had been
approved and accepted by European Freemasonry at the
convention in Wilhelmsbad. Like a worm, the Illuminati
had burrowed deep and covered their tail, so that
virtually the whole of Freemasonry, both the Lodges of
St. Andrew and of St. John (the Pretender) were soon
infected. We have already seen how the Banking Powers
controlled the Grand Lodge of St. John (the Pretender)
through the Bank of England, the british east India
Company and other minions; now we shall see how the
Lodge of St. Andrew's, and its child, the United States
of America, shall be systematically subverted by those
same powers which had, over the course of the prior
century, subverted the Crown of England and its child,
the Empire of Great Britain. Such mighty powers do not
succumb to a single blow; and just as it took a series
of wars and revolutions to secure Great Britain, the
subversion of America would span a still greater length
of time. The first stage of that program was to create
a federal constitution that could remove the seat of
government from the many to the few. Numerous
researchers have suggested that the Constitution of the
United States had actually been an Illuminist-initiated
document; that the Constitutional Convention had been
foisted on the states by the Marquis de LaFayette and
his cronies: Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton,
George Washington, John Jay and James Madison, all of
them Freemasons, in order to establish a federal entity
that would guarantee repayment of the states' war-debt
to their European financiers and allies ... the
Hofjuden. 

There is considerable evidence. The Articles of
Confederation, which made no provision for a permanent
federal entity other than "the United States in
Congress Assembled", appear more than adequate to have
meet the exigencies of the time. Further, a reading of
the Federalist Papers, authored by James Madison,
Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, reveals that the exact
same arguments were being put forth then, as are being
put forth today to justify the creation of a permanent
and lasting one-world government. 

In light of this agenda, we must point out that the
delegates to the "Constitutional Convention" violated
their oaths of office, suspended the rules and greatly
exceeded their delegated authority. They were acting as
individuals, not as delegates of the sovereign states,
when they closed the doors to the Convention, and
proceeded in secrecy to draft their new constitution
for a new form of government, a central institution
which was to be invested with overruling and
potentially unlimited power. As we proceed with this
investigation, we shall observe that certain
irregularities had occurred, from threats of violence
and retaliation to the use of outright physical force,
during both the "Constitutional Convention" and the
state ratifying procedures that followed, which suggest
that a coup had indeed been staged, heedless over the
objections of the freemen and the sovereign states of
America. 

And, lastly, we must consider this strange piece of
evidence: 

Jonathan Williams recorded in his Legions of Satan,
1781, that Cornwallis revealed to Washington that a
holy war will now begin in America, and when it is
ended America will be supposedly the citadel of
freedom, but her millions will unknowingly be loyal
subjects to the Crown.

Cornwallis went on to explain what would seem to be a
self contradiction: 

Your churches will be used to teach the Jew's religion
and in less than two hundred years the whole nation
will be working for divine world government. That
government they believe to be divine will be the
British Empire. 

All religions will be permeated with Judaism without
even being noticed by the masses, and they will all be
under the invisible all-seeing eye of the Grand
Architect.

And indeed George Washington was a Mason, and he gave
back through a false religion what he had won with his
army.
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Source: http://www.servtech.com/~grugyn/bk2a-2wl.htm
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My 'illuminating' comments:

After reading the above text, I recalled seeing something
about the Masons in the Protocols, and was I ever right!
See the excerpt from Protocol No. 15 (below).

What's really startling to me is that these Protocols
were 'discovered' about 1895, long after the American
Revolution. But we can see from the above text that the
Masonic lodges were already functioning at the time of
the American Revolution EXACTLY as they are described
in the Protocols . The clear implication is that the
Protocols (or something similar) must have already been
in existence prior to the American Revolution, well
over a century before they were 'discovered'. ~DK~

Excerpt from Protocol No. 15 [emphasis added]:

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Meantime, however, until we come into our kingdom, we shall
act in the contrary way: we shall create and multiply free
MASONIC LODGES in all the countries of the world, absorb
into them all who may become or who are prominent in public
activity, for these lodges we shall find our principal 
intelligence office and means of influence.  All these
lodges we shall bring under one central administration,
known to us alone and to all others absolutely unknown,
which will be composed of our LEARNED ELDERS.  The lodges
will have their representatives who will serve to screen
the above-mentioned administration of MASONRY and from whom
will issue the watchword and program.  In these lodges we
shall tie together the knot which binds together all
revolutionary and liberal elements.  Their composition will
be made up of all strata of society.  The most secret
political plots will be known to us and fall under our
guiding hands on the very day of their conception.  AMONG
THE MEMBERS OF THESE LODGES WILL BE ALMOST ALL THE AGENTS
OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL POLICE since their service is
for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a 
position not only to use its own particular measures with
the insubordinate, but also to screen our activities and
provide pretexts for discontents, ET CETERA.

The class of people who most willingly enter into secret
societies are those who live by their wits, careerists, and
in general people, mostly light-minded, with whom we shall
have no difficulty in dealing and in using to wind up the
mechanism of the machine devised by us. If this world grows
agitated the meaning of that will be that we have had to
stir up in order to break up its too great solidarity.  BUT
IF THERE SHOULD ARISE IN ITS MIDST A PLOT, THEN AT THE HEAD
OF THAT PLOT WILL BE NO OTHER THAN ONE OF OUR MOST TRUSTED
SERVANTS.  It is natural that we and no other should lead
MASONIC activities, for we know whither we are leading, 
we know the final goal of every form of activity whereas
the GOYIM have knowledge of nothing, not even of the
immediate effect of action; they put before themselves,
usually, the momentary reckoning of the satisfaction of 
their self opinion in the accomplishment of their thought
without even remarking that the very conception never
belonged to their initiative but to our instigation of
their thought .... from Protocol No. 15
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--- end excerpt ---

See the Protocols for yourself:

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* * * THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION * * *

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/pr-zion.htm

http://www.iahushua.com/BeWise/protocol.html

http://www.ptialaska.net/~swampy/illuminati/zion.html

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm
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"The world needs a wake up call, and we are going to phone it in."
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It is our position that the KKK are also stooges for the new
world order Freemason Lodges. How do you suspect they knew 
all this information?
The Anti-Federalist Society
http://www.no-debts.com/anti-federalist/index.html