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by Shawn Hopkins


  Dr. John Dee passed his esoteric knowledge on to his successor, Francis Bacon. For John Dee believed that America was the lost civilization of Atlantis, a theory perhaps communicated to him by the angels he spoke to... Once Elizabeth took the throne, the dream of colonizing America became closer to becoming a reality. But then the church excommunicated her, and, in the following years, spies and assassins were sent to kill her. Enter Bacon and Lee’s role in the Rosicrucian-formed intelligence network established to protect Elizabeth…

  He came to a part that revealed Bacon to have been writing a book entitled, New Atlantis: Land of the Rosicrucians when he died. And upon reading that, Father Baer’s last word ricocheted through the corridors of his mind. Rose… But had the priest been trying to direct him backwards, revealing the history of this grand conspiracy, wanting him to appreciate the scope and magnitude of what it was he had become part of? Or was he actually accusing the Order of being responsible for the things now unfolding? Could it be possible that Father Baer was attempting to warn him that the Rosicrucians were the ones after the ring?

  Scott skipped over the significance behind the rose and cross symbols since Isaiah had already explained them to him.

  I said before that we would look into how Bacon could have hoped to spread his philosophy of a New Age and manifest it on the physical plane. There seems to have been two major ways through which he was able to set the stage for his New World Order. One of those ways was a worldwide revolution against established monarchies. We’ll get into that. But there was another ingredient that was most desperately needed and perhaps the most essential of all — the reversal of a divine act. When man first joined together to build the tower to heaven under Nimrod, God intervened by confusing their languages so that they couldn’t understand each other. The one world effort to reach heaven, to boast of humanity’s enlightened greatness, was squashed by a sudden inability to communicate. Bacon realized that in order to unite mankind, that confusion had to be replaced with understanding and a strong universal and central language by which information could be spread. To accomplish this impossible task, he created a literary society called, the Knights of the Helmet — the society responsible for the explosion of literature during the Elizabethan era and translating the works of Plato and other ancient wisdom texts into English. It is said that, in this way, up to 2,000 works passed through Bacon’s hands on their way to the English public and the nation’s literacy. However, his true purpose was to prepare the people of the Old World for the colonization of the New. You see, the Knights of the Helmet were named after the Greek goddess, Pallas Athena, who wears a helmet signifying secrecy or invisibility (for no one can see her when she is wearing it). Interesting enough, Bacon’s spirit encounter was supposedly with Athena, her telling him that the Divine Majesty delights to hide his work according to the innocent play of children and that he should “follow the example of the most High God, putting away popular applause, and, after the manner of Solomon the King, compose a history of the times and fold it into enigmatical writings and cunning mixtures of the theatre.”

  Scott then read of Bacon’s “enlightened” entertainment and his intention to educate the English people for world democracy.

  Without care for the praises of man, Bacon and his literary society is believed to have written many of their writings under the guise of another. William Shakespeare. Mark Twain wrote an entire book making this case in 1909. Isn’t it interesting that Shakespeare is synonymous with Apollo and Athena, both meaning “shakers of the spear,” representing the light of knowledge being shaken at the dragon of ignorance? Apollo and Athena are considered to be the great shake-spears. It is also interesting that William Shakespeare could be the anagram “here I was, like a Psalm” and in the King James Bible (1611), the 46th word from the beginning of the 46th Psalm is “shake” while the 46th word from the end of the 46th Psalm is “spear” (46 being his age when the KJ Bible was printed and the sum of 23 and 23 — the days of both his birth and death).

  Though he was interested in the famous Baconian Shake-spear debate, he got Isaiah’s point and only skimmed the numerous historical facts that seemed to make laughable the idea that an actor like William Shakespeare could possibly be responsible for developing more than 20,000 words in the English language, or have an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the court.

  Manly P. Hall (Masonic philosopher) wrote in his book, Secret Teachings of All Ages, that “Sir Francis Bacon, the Rosicrucian initiate, wrote into the Shakespeare plays the secret teachings of the fraternity of the Rose and Cross and the true rituals of the Freemasonic order. The Bacon-Shakespeare controversy… involved the most profound aspects of science, religion, and ethics: he who solves this mystery may yet find therein the key to the supposedly lost wisdom of antiquity.”

  Perhaps here is a good example of the Rosicrucian method, for Shakespeare clearly attempts to represent Christianity through over 1,200 biblical references, and yet his Christian themes are interwoven with the Occult wisdom of the mystery religions. And of course, we can easily see just how effective his work (commissioned by Pallas Athena) was, for Shake-spear has long been a mandatory requirement within the American education system.

  He skipped the rest, beginning to understand in part the deception Isaiah had spoken of, America’s foundation presumably having played a central part in the orchestration of the New World Order’s birth.

  He next settled into a section on the religious aspects of this utopian dream.

  Within the scheme to unite mankind, we can see a clear trend toward universalism, the acceptance of all religions, a one world religion. Since it is clear that the ancient mystery religions, all very similar to each other and teaching basically the same things, have been the foundation and backbone for most other religions throughout history, we can expect a form of them to be used by Satan within the last days deception spoken of by both the prophets and apostles. The New Age movement, though nothing new, seems to be the religion of choice, but perhaps there is no greater picture of Lucifer’s intent than that of Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland.

  The Knights Templar, while stationed in the Middle East, began mixing their Catholic beliefs with those of Islam, Judaism, and the Hashishim. In so doing, they adopted the teachings of the esoteric religions as their own. Later, while being hunted by the Catholic Church, they found refuge within the Masonic Lodge, and though Freemasonry existed before that, the Templars are credited with the development of its modern philosophy. It is Rosslyn Chapel that clearly connects Freemasonry to the Templar Knights, and Christianity to the ancient pagan religions. It was built by William St. Clair in the 15th century and represents an infusion of all beliefs. For example, there can be seen 110 sculptures of the ancient fertility god sprinkled throughout the more dominant images of crosses and roses. It is a chapel containing no clear indication as to what, or who, should be worshiped in it. Could it have been the expression of some prototype philosophy concerning the Order’s intentions within the New Atlantis?

  There is evidence within the chapel’s artwork that suggests influence from the New World, and that before Columbus. The chapel was finished in 1492, and yet there is Indian corn found carved around the windows, corn indigenous only to North America and not grown in Europe. There are also cactus plants carved along the chapel’s arches and a type of clover leaf that botanists testify could have only be found in America — thus the speculation arises as to just how far the Templar Knights escaped the Catholic Church. It is also interesting to note that Columbus’ father-in-law was the grand master of the order of the Knights of Christ, an offshoot of the Knights Templar. Many insist still that Columbus was given secret charts and diaries which he used to reach the New World.

  Scott looked up from the composition book and thought back to everything he’d been taught about his former country’s founding and the fight for religious freedom. Suddenly, the concept that Jesus would lead His followers onto a battlefield to fight for the individual�
��s right to worship any god or demon he wanted to seemed utterly preposterous from a Judeo-Christian perspective. And yet, the view itself was a Christian one. Patriotic Christianity, Jack Cairn’s greatest enemy. Deception.

  He fixed his gaze on the darkening clouds before plunging into another section that dealt with revolutions.

  America’s revolution would be the first of many, for the secret societies knew that in order to convert the Old World, they would have to do it through the example of the New. And while it is true that most “Americans” did not fight the Revolutionary War intending to promote “global” revolution, it’s indisputable that the secret societies played an important role...

  Now, to understand the overall chessboard the American Revolution was fought on, one must understand a few things about Benjamin Franklin and the circles he entertained. It is undeniable that he was a very active member of Freemasonry and other secret societies in both England and France. A member of the Hell-Fire Club — a pseudo satanic order famous for its drunken sexuality...

  A raindrop landed on Scott’s head and exploded his concentration. Lifting his eyes back to the commune before him, he watched as women began running to retrieve clothes that hung drying on clotheslines.

  Stifling a yawn, and flipping the collar of his jacket up against cold thoughts of his wife’s predicament, he settled back into whatever this Hell-Fire Club was, how it was forced underground after dabbling in Satanism, and their motto, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” It was a philosophy that Aleister Crawly (the famous British occultist, Freemason, and Rosicrucian) had adopted a century later, earning him some of the credit in sparking the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s.

  Getting back to Franklin, we can only wonder what his business was with these people. Sir Francis Dashwood was the Club’s founder, a member of British Parliament and a close friend and advisor to King George III (much of the Club is said to have been comprised of English nobility). Franklin reportedly visited with Dashwood in 1758 to discuss the future of the American colonies, and though prompting some to believe that the Hell-Fire Club was just a cover for British intelligence and that Franklin was actually a British spy known as #72 or “Moses,” it is more plausible that he was working alongside the Hell-Fire Club against the King, ensuring the society’s esoteric goals. British Intelligence referred to him as “Moses” because he was seen by them as leading the colonists away from King George like Moses had led the Israelites out of Egyptian captivity (as a side note, it’s remarkable that Franklin’s original design for America’s seal was that of Moses standing on the shoreline as the waters were collapsing onto Pharaoh’s army, the inscription reading, “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God”). It seems likely, then, that British Intelligence was actually working with the secret Orders in undermining King George, attempting a world democracy through an American revolution that favored Bacon’s vision of such a new World Order. We’ve even seen it in our own time, America being the central force by which democracy is being spread throughout the world. But we shall come to that...

  As the American ambassador to France, Franklin’s ideas can be credited, to a large degree, for leading to the French Revolution. And since Franklin managed to get the King of France to fund America’s revolution, it’s ironic that its success later inspired the very revolution in France that overthrew the King!

  The Currency Act of 1774 plunged America into depression and led to the revolution...

  The raindrops were falling more regularly now, and Scott was forced to randomly skim the rest of the book.

  …Thomas Paine, a friend of Franklin and a Mason, wrote “Common Sense” and helped inspire the American Revolution… Voltaire was a Mason, and his writings helped lead to French Revolution…

  …The “virtuous” revolution was, however, something new. No one had ever thought it okay and proper to rebel against kings that were supposedly appointed by God…

  …Manly P. Hall stated that the secret societies helped establish the country for the peculiar purpose that was known only to the initiated…

  …During the American Revolution, there existed a secret order in Germany that many believe was responsible for most of the wars and conspiracies that took place over the next few hundred years. General William Huntington Russell created the Order as a means to reconcile the esoteric orders with the mainstream European movements, since he believed that Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry started to drift away from its roots. He brought his Order to North America, and we know it now as Skull and Bones… Keep that in mind as we look further into the role revolution plays within the establishment of the New Order...

  …Intended to change the organized system of religion and government, the revolutionary ideology of the 18th and 19th centuries was shaped by German occultism and not just the rationalism of the French Enlightenment…

  Scott forced himself to slow down when he saw stuff about Pythagoras again, how he was driven from Greece to southern Italy and had purportedly established a religious-philosophical brotherhood that was intended to transform society. Isaiah then revealed the relation between Pythagoras and the French Revolution by pointing out that Pythagorean symbols dominated the revolution, that Adam Weishaupt — the leading revolutionary/Bavarian lawmaker who founded the Illuminati — wrote a blueprint for politicized Illuminism during the first years of the revolution that he called “Pythagoras.” And though the Illuminati was disbanded by the Bavarian government in 1786, their doctrines made it all the way to America, for in a response letter written by George Washington to Rev. G. W. Snyder (who sent Washington a copy of Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy against All the Religions and Governments of Europe), Washington admitted that he was in fact persuaded of the Illuminati’s active presence within America. He also associated the Illuminati with Jacobinism, the radical group that was responsible for starting the French Revolution.

  …But, in point of fact, the Illuminati was the power behind the Jacobins! The Bavarian Illuminati put a “fire in the minds of men,” compelling them to join in the global revolution that would change the world! But can we show that this was intended to be America’s role? Let us consider that the Jacobean hat is found on the seal of the US Army, on several other figures of liberty within the Capitol Building, and all over the Library of Congress. And just what is the Jacobean hat? The Phrygian cap, dating back to ancient Rome and said to have been worn by the slaves who had obtained their freedom, became the symbol of liberty.

  It is also associated with Ganymede, the mythical figure carried away by Zeus and made cup-bearer to the gods, Zeus giving him a place within the heavens where he became the constellation Aquarius. It is worth mentioning now, though it will become of greater importance and textual relevance later on, that throughout the 20th century, esoteric teachers have declared that mankind is now in the process of entering this New Age, or the Age of Aquarius… The caps are depicted in paintings as being worn by the Magi who followed the star to Christ (though Freemasonry teaches that this star was Sirius and that the Magi were followers of Zoroaster, it is more likely that they were simply in the east when they saw the star in the west, and that they were biblical scholars well versed in Daniel’s prophecies)…

  Benjamin’s words came scrolling back through his mind. How could one know all that the Devil has been up to for the last six thousand years, and that within every society of which he has been working to prepare the way?

  The heavens opened, and Scott closed the cover on a subject that his mind wanted to reject as sheer nonsense. But the day in which he lived made such an easy dismissal almost impossible. At least he now understood what Isaiah was trying to tell him about the Rosicrucians, and what Father Baer’s warning was meant to be. The rose and the cross. The deception lurking within the shadows of a patriotic religion. Satan’s workings throughout the centuries to bring about the platform on which his New Order would arise, the promise of liberty his modus operandi...

  Tucking the book beneath his
jacket, he ran down the main street and made it to the tent just as thunder shook the forest. As he walked past Mossad agents planning their attack on the prison camp, he subconsciously felt the form of the phone through his jeans, the same phone Malachi told him to get rid of. But he couldn’t do that. Not just yet.

  “Hey.”

  Scott looked up and saw Malachi coming into the tent.

  “It’s confirmed.”

  And he sat up straight, everything he’d just read disappearing like a shadow struck by light. “What’s confirmed?” His heart was racing.

  “She’s there. Your wife, Jennifer May Cavanaugh. She’s in the prison.”

  “The same one?”

  Malachi nodded.

  For some reason, warning bells started going off in Scott’s head, but he ignored them, the desire to save his wife and the hope he could once again be with her blinding him to anything negative. He needed it to be true. “So you’ll help me?”

  “If you help us.”

  “When?”

  “Tonight.”

  36

  They were on foot, all fifteen of them, and well into the five mile journey to the prison camp. The rain had turned to sleet as the sun dipped below the earth, and now, within the pitch black hours of night, big flakes of snow were beginning to flutter through the trees. They were all in black and equipped with silenced weapons and grenades, their night-vision gear transforming the darkness into green daylight. The idea was simple: neutralize the prison’s guards, infiltrate the structure, and find the scientist. And somewhere in there they would find Scott’s wife. Once she was secured, they would fade back into the night.

 

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