WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:47.240 Oh bead of Thattar, Hello, and welcome to the show. 2 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:50.479 This is the Cult of Conspiracy and I am the 3 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:51.200 Cajun Night. 4 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:53.200 And today. 5 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:56.039 You know, it was brought to my attention that we 6 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.320 go over so many conspiracies we do, and some of 7 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:01.479 them are more obscure, some of them are more widely 8 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:06.200 talked about, relatively well known within the conspiracy community. But 9 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:09.040 you know, we have a lot of new listeners, We 10 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:11.079 have a lot of people who are relatively new to 11 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:15.519 the conspiratorial mindset, if you will, the Truther movement, as 12 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:17.760 we say, because it's not conspiracy. So many of them 13 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:21.439 have been confirmed. So you know, I figured on this 14 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:24.040 episode we could take a step back and look at 15 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.000 one of the oldest and most well known conspiracies that 16 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:30.640 a lot of people know about but don't actually know 17 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:36.400 much about, and that would be Freemasonry. And we're also 18 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:39.120 going to tie in some Illuminati connections here. We're going 19 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:42.359 to tie in some esotericism connections here. Some of the 20 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:46.640 big key players here before we begin, Raven Lee. You 21 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.480 know the Masons exist. You see their iconography, you see 22 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:53.920 the bumper stickers, you see old white dudes of the 23 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:56.480 fat ring on and they got the square encompass on it. 24 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:56.760 Cool. 25 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:57.879 I always see them. 26 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.719 I started seeing them at the parades at the Mardi 27 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.439 Gras festivals. Yeah, so that's where I was like, Yeah, 28 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.000 I'm like, what are these And they're at some of them, 29 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.719 they're really prominent, and the shit they have like fifty 30 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.199 floats and some of them, so it's like. 31 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:11.759 A whole thing. 32 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.520 So what you're thinking of with the parades would be 33 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.400 the Shriners, which these dudes wear like a red fez 34 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:22.599 and they have a little, yeah, a logo on it 35 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:26.199 with usually an Arab looking name and a scimitar, and 36 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.719 they're always around parades. They got these little little doom 37 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:33.120 buggy looking carts that they ride around all these things. 38 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.280 And then you probably have heard of like the Shriner's 39 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.680 Charity Hospital. That's a big thing that we see a 40 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:41.360 lot of, Like they're really tied in with charity hospitals 41 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:46.360 for kids and a lot of freemasonry. Does go back 42 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.080 to insane amounts of charity work. I think the last 43 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:51.439 last time I really looked into it, they spend like 44 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:54.240 two million a day on charity worldwide. 45 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:54.639 Wow. 46 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:58.919 I mean a very well funded organization, don't get me wrong. 47 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.919 And although their number are dwindling these days, they still 48 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:06.159 have a lot of money coming in because throughout the years, 49 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:10.840 different temples and different lodges have put their money into 50 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:14.000 endowments that they are still the lodge is getting the 51 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.120 benefit of these days. So for anybody who doesn't know, 52 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.319 they are listed as a five oh one C ten 53 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:22.319 nonprofit in a lot of places, and a five a' 54 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:26.439 one C ten is a I actually don't know if 55 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:28.360 they're listed as a five to oh one C ten 56 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.759 or now a religious organization. I believe they would be 57 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.240 classified as even though they are specifically non religious, a 58 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.360 C ten versus a C three like you might have 59 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:39.360 heard of, a C three you can donate money to 60 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:42.879 other organizations, a C ten you can donate money to 61 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.800 an individual if they meet a certain criteria. So I 62 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.759 believe they're listed that way. But besides the point, they 63 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.840 took a lot of because they paid dues. They pay 64 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.800 monthly dues their members due to their lodge, and that 65 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.360 money gets put in an account that later on the 66 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.879 treasurer and the grand Master can take and put to 67 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.520 words whatever they want as far as an investment goes, 68 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.479 not to enrich themselves but to enrich the lodge, and 69 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:08.800 that does in turn enrich the members because let's say 70 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.719 a freemason gets in some sort of legal trouble, whatever 71 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:16.399 the case may be, his lodge will fund his legal fees. 72 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.399 Like they will absolutely feel the bill. 73 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.240 Yeah unless it's okay, if it's like a murder and 74 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.160 like multiple murders went down, I don't believe the lodge 75 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:25.040 is going to fund that. 76 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:28.759 But divorce court or some. 77 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:32.160 Sort of a DWI situation or yeah, yeah, the lodge 78 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:35.720 will absolutely cover the lawyer costs one hundred percent. And 79 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.360 you know, let's say you have a brother that gets 80 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:41.319 hurt on the job and he, you know, can't pay 81 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:44.319 his bills. The lodge will start sending some money his way. 82 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.319 And that's what I mean. They're able to send money 83 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.959 to an individual rather than just an organization. So there's 84 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.279 a lot of benefits that a lot of freemasons get 85 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:57.079 from joining these lodges. And uh, not only of the 86 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.079 camaraderie and of the networking that they get, but but 87 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.319 also some financial things. However, yes, there are dues involved. 88 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:05.639 You have to go to meetings, it's a whole thing. 89 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:10.519 So we see these dudes at parades and in certain 90 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:12.480 case You'll even see some that are claiming that they're 91 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.879 Knight's templars, right, and so these are two sides of 92 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.439 the same coin as far as freemasonry is concerned. And 93 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.399 so I'm getting way ahead of myself here. 94 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:22.759 Yeah, this is more. 95 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:24.959 This is more or less what you'll see in our 96 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.120 every day you know, comings and goings. 97 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.519 You'll see the logos on the back of the cars. 98 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:34.040 We have a lot of them down here, A lot. 99 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.920 I would say, like one in five cars will have 100 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:40.360 a type of logo on it. So there's a lot, 101 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:44.560 like every day, I see it consistently. So absolutely why 102 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:46.439 I brought this to your attention was because I've had 103 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:49.720 people talk about this, and to be fair, I do 104 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.720 know I feel like I know a bit about a bit, 105 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.839 but I also feel like there's so much information when 106 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:58.279 it comes to this, and there's a lot of misinformation 107 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.920 too that like when people are asking me, I'm like, 108 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.680 you know, I know somebody that knows a lot more 109 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:08.160 in depth history that can actually explain it. And for 110 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.160 those that we have of new listeners that are just 111 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.079 trying to understand the basis of what the hell the 112 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.319 world has been doing for the last you know, two 113 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.279 three hundred years or something. Then this is kind of 114 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:21.160 one of those topics of you know, where did it begin, 115 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:24.199 how did it actually start? Is it the same thing 116 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:26.800 as the Knight's Templar, how are they different? And like, 117 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.680 you know, all of the questions that people have is 118 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:31.600 you know, I was hoping that you could shed some 119 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.399 light for the new cult members and kind of break 120 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:35.480 it all down for everybody. 121 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:38.240 Absolutely, So that's what we're going to do on this episode, 122 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.439 good cult members. We're going to break it all down. 123 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.399 We're going to really, I don't want to say, do 124 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:47.399 the most comprehensive deep dive to ever be done. However, 125 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.160 we are going to be going down the rabbit hole 126 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.439 on the Freemasons. 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My math ain't always math, 160 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:15.319 and but. 161 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:17.680 I do believe that that means three months out of 162 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.800 the year are free of charge and it is best 163 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:21.519 bang for buck as far as the content goes. 164 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:23.480 And we appreciate everybody's already gone and done so. 165 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:27.319 Without further ado, let me go ahead and share the screen, 166 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:29.240 and we are gonna get started. Actually know what. No, 167 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:31.079 I'm not gonna share the screen just yet. I'm gonna 168 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.759 paint a picture. I'm gonna paint a picture for everybody. Okay. 169 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.960 The year is circle way fucking back in the day, okay, 170 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.960 and we have the year of our Lord. 171 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:45.240 You have to say it correctly. Way the fuck yeah, 172 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:46.240 yeah yeah. 173 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.639 And essentially you have these guys who are of a 174 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.799 more educated mindset. And I don't mean educated in the 175 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.200 traditional sense of uh oh, well, this is a doctor, 176 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.240 this is a noble class, or whatever the case is, 177 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.440 although that would definitely come in. You basically had a 178 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.799 network of dudes that were trying to not only help themselves, 179 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.639 think of a like a mafia almost, you know, it's not. 180 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:13.559 It's a networking opportunity and they're in the club, so 181 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.600 to speak. So they get hooked up whenever they get 182 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:17.639 in a jam, because you know, they just reach out 183 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:19.240 to some of their other guys in the club, so 184 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:23.320 to speak. And so cut to it's the Middle Ages, 185 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:26.960 and we have these these builders of all these great 186 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.519 castles and all these things, and you would have certain 187 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:34.120 tricks of the trade for these trades guilds, right like 188 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.000 the stone mason guild or the blacksmith guild or the 189 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.720 carpentry guild. Yeah, any old guy can get out there 190 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.919 and start busting up some rocks, for sure, but to 191 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.240 carve them in a specific way to get a certain 192 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.799 thing that you're wanting to get a certain look, to 193 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:54.000 get a certain geometri Jesus Christ, geometric pattern, emetric words, 194 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.279 things and stuff. Then things you would need. 195 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.720 To be taught by a journeyman. 196 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:00.519 Right. 197 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:03.279 It's the same concept as far as kraft work goes today. 198 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.320 If you're trying to be a welder, yeah, sure you 199 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.399 could buy a welding machine, buy some rods and like 200 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:09.519 fiddle fuck around in your garage and yeah, you could 201 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.120 probably make some stuff stick. But if you're trying to 202 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.440 become a master at welding, you would want to get 203 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:17.759 hooked up with a journeyman who's been doing it for 204 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:21.600 years that you could apprentice under. And this stands to 205 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.799 reason it's still done to this day. So the Stonemason 206 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.399 Guild was very particular about who they would allow to 207 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:32.440 learn their craft. All of them were, but the Stonemasons 208 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.840 were special because they were the ones that were constructing castles, 209 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:39.320 they were the ones that were constructing churches. They saw 210 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:45.519 their craft as spiritual and also physical. Yes, but you 211 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.000 can't just not any old thing is going to go 212 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:52.120 into building, not tre dome, right, It's yeah, you have 213 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:55.799 to have a real set of skills blessed by God 214 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.960 to put your hands on the building blocks of what would. 215 00:10:58.799 --> 00:10:59.679 Become his house. 216 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:03.960 That makes sense clearly, right, And this goes back they 217 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.480 came up with these stories, right, And a lot of 218 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:08.200 these people, keep in mind, were illiterate back in the 219 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.559 Middle Ages. So whenever you would get hooked up with 220 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:14.440 the stone Mason Guild, people understood math, the very basics 221 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:18.159 of you know, arithmetic, but not all things could be 222 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.320 written down in a manual, so to speak, because most 223 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:24.440 of the Stonemasons weren't literate to that level. So they 224 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:27.080 would be taught in stories, and they would be shown 225 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.840 with iconography, and you would have this journeyman who would 226 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:33.960 be teaching somebody how to do this, and as they're 227 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:36.080 talking about how you would carve this out of this rock, 228 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.879 very similar to when Moses smashed the rock and water 229 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:40.440 came out. 230 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:43.039 And you see what I'm saying. They would like find ways. 231 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:48.759 To imbue spiritual and oftentimes biblical stories into their craft work, 232 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:52.120 and that story is very similar to how oral traditions 233 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:55.639 have been passed down for forever, same principle, but instead 234 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:58.480 of an oral tradition to teach why the stars are 235 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.480 the way they are, these traditions are being used in 236 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.120 the principle of stone mason crafting. 237 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:09.320 Mm hmmm, so okay, So it's like a fancy get 238 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.440 together of smarter people to have apprentices underneath. 239 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:18.159 So essentially as far as stone masons go, yes, but 240 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:20.679 they would there's a lot of there's a lot of 241 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:22.360 iconography behind that as well. 242 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:26.039 The reason why they wear a lambskin apron, right. 243 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:29.679 And the reason why they use the compass in square, 244 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:33.039 The reason why they have hammers and trowels in their 245 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.600 mix is because these are the tools of the stone masonry. 246 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.639 Now the lambskin. 247 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.639 Apron. That goes back to the original stone Masons as well, 248 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:48.120 because they would use lambskin it was readily available, and 249 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.759 basically they would just cut the head off and they 250 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.000 would use the legs of the leather and wrap that 251 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.320 around their waist to make an apron, and they would 252 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:00.039 wrap the front legs around each of the thighs to 253 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.840 cover up their entire from their waist to their knees 254 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:06.480 so that they wouldn't damage their clothes and catch a 255 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:11.919 random shard of rock, as they're essentially grand scale flintnapping, right, 256 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.960 And so the apron has its origins in that. However, 257 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.639 modern Freemasons will make the connection to the Garden of 258 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:25.279 Eden and how the first clothing ever created biblically speaking 259 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:28.840 was fig leaves. And what did Adam and Eve do 260 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:32.279 with these fig leaves? They made aprons to cover their nakedness. 261 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:34.279 M h. 262 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.759 So they find ways of, like I said, imbuing spiritual 263 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:44.120 narratives into the craft work itself. You see what I'm saying. Ok? Yeah, 264 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:48.000 So Middle Ages come around and the Stonemason's Guild. A 265 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.360 lot of their secrets are their secrets, and at this 266 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:52.960 point it's not necessarily of the esoteric variety. 267 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:56.120 It's craft secrets, right, trade secrets, if you will. 268 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.759 Then we get into the renaissance, where now people are 269 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.519 starting to think outside the box. They're starting to take 270 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:08.120 in Eastern philosophy and shirk off the yokes of old 271 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:10.840 school traditionalism, or at least what they thought it was anyway. 272 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:14.000 And there is a renaissance not just of the culture, 273 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:17.720 but of masonry. And this is around the time when 274 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:22.440 what we see as free and accepted masonry comes into 275 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:28.080 the forefront. There are sigils that are carved into rocks 276 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.360 that date back to the fifteen hundreds of the Square 277 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.919 and Compass. But we're starting to get into murky territory. 278 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:38.559 Whether that was freemasonry or if that was stone masonry, 279 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:40.480 you see what I'm saying. There's a little bit of 280 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:42.399 controversy and a little bit of back and forth debate 281 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:46.120 on that. But some will say that freemasonry dates back 282 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.840 all the way to the building of the Temple of Solomon, 283 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.039 which is what Freemasons believe. 284 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.200 It's a a far back way, it is. 285 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.919 Indeed, and that's also why a lot of their iconography 286 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.879 goes back to that, why they have the grand worsh 287 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:01.960 full master and adult. 288 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.559 They weren't practicing, and they didn't actually have a group 289 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:05.919 though until like later on. 290 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:07.519 Then how did it go all the way back? 291 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:12.399 They claim that this group operated in secret for centuries 292 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:16.159 and it only became a prominently well known thing around 293 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:17.200 the time of the Renaissance. 294 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:23.080 Okay, but if they had no like actual anything written down, 295 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.440 or they don't know anybody that was a part of 296 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:28.799 the secret society or anything, so they just made it up. 297 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:30.840 Yes and no. 298 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:33.480 Hell, depending on who you asked, they'll say that they 299 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.240 actually are the ones that built the Pyramids of Egypt 300 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:37.679 were clearly Freemasons. 301 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.919 Wow, there's got a lot of bolster. They they really 302 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:45.399 feel like they did a lot. 303 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.399 They do, and a lot of the principles that they 304 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:52.200 teach come out of Hermetic Cobbalism, but that came about later. 305 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:53.919 We're going to get to that in a bit. But anyway, 306 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:58.519 all right, so according to them, according to their story, 307 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:04.559 they claimed directly from the knights templars, which okay, is 308 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:08.159 a bold claim and I disagree with it for multiple reasons. 309 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.240 Uh, basically all historical. 310 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:13.480 To be completely honest with you, So all right, cut 311 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:17.360 back you ever see national treasure of course, of course. 312 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.879 So of course you remember whenever they were talking about 313 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:24.039 the Templar gold, that it made its way here from 314 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:27.120 the Freemasons, who took their name off the builders of 315 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.440 the Great Pyramids and the temples in Egypt. That is 316 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.440 not that's not exactly a direct connection like people might 317 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:35.759 be thinking, because the temples in Egypt and the Pyramids 318 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:38.840 were built, you know, twenty five hundred BC. So you're 319 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:44.000 telling me for upwards of three thousand years the Freemasons 320 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.559 were operating in secret and no one knew about it. 321 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:50.360 I find this highly unlikely. So the Freemasons as we 322 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:55.120 know today really came about sixteen hundreds seventeen hundreds. They 323 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.240 started becoming a thing that people like understood were operating 324 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:00.960 right and around the same time the Illuminati became a thing, 325 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:02.960 and we're going to get to them in specific here 326 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:07.000 in a bit. So the Knights Templars, for anybody who 327 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:11.599 does not know, were a group of warrior monks blessed 328 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:14.240 by the Pope to operate in and around the Holy 329 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.680 Land and protect pilgrims. They were able to own land. 330 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:22.000 They actually, in the craziest turn of events ever, somehow 331 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:24.559 they were able to convince the pope to not pay 332 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:28.839 taxes or tithes, which y'all got to understand how fucking 333 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:31.200 wild that was for this day and age. For you 334 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:35.559 to be a ecumenical order to not pay taxes to 335 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:38.160 your local lord. Okay, you can probably get away with that, 336 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:43.480 to not pay tithes to the local church. Basically, this 337 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:47.920 was a group that was only answerable to the Pope himself. 338 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:50.920 Kings had to acknowledge the fact that that knights templars 339 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:54.880 were untouchable. This is this is fucking insane for the 340 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:55.279 day and. 341 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:56.720 Age, I don't think. 342 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.400 Yeah. They also formed the first system of we might 343 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:05.119 call international banking. So the knights templars would traveling to 344 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:07.640 and from Jerusalem on a pilgrimage, which a lot of 345 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:09.759 Christians did back in these days, which I would love 346 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:10.720 to do one of these days. 347 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:12.519 You couldn't just carry. 348 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.680 Around all of the gold and all the money you're 349 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:17.839 gonna need for the next year of your life, because 350 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:21.319 you'll get bandits attack you on the road, right, And 351 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.839 this is a thing that a lot of the Islamic 352 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:26.319 bandits were doing to the Christian pilgrims who were going 353 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.599 unarmed because they're on pilgrimage. So the Knights Templar started 354 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:31.759 out as a way to protect these pilgrims. But then 355 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:33.960 they realize, what if we were to do this, What 356 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:36.720 if we were to set up a spot in Jerusalem 357 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:40.680 or in Acker or wherever in Jaffa where we would 358 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:43.759 have a storehouse full of gold, and we have a 359 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:46.319 spot in Paris and in Rome and in all these 360 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:49.160 places full of gold. And basically, let's say, old boy 361 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.880 gives me one hundred gold pieces and I will write 362 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.200 him a ledger what we today might call a check, 363 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.920 and this person instead of carrying around one hundred pieces 364 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:02.960 of gold, they'll carry this paper ledger with them, and 365 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:05.839 then once they get to their location, we'll give them 366 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:08.440 equal parts gold with interest, of course, which is also 367 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:11.920 my God. The fact that they charged interest was that 368 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.960 was seen as evil for the DNA, But the Knights 369 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:19.240 Templars were allowed to charge interest again, blessed by the 370 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:20.759 Pope to do so so. 371 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:22.480 Share They weren't Jews, you. 372 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:27.119 Would think, you would think, but no, no, they weren't. Uh. 373 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:28.200 As a matter of fact, they. 374 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:29.799 Were kind of They were not too kind of the 375 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:33.079 Jews to be completely honest with you, but that you know, historically. 376 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:33.960 Speaking, neither were the Muslims. 377 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:37.559 So is what it is. But anyway, so they would 378 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.440 have this international banking system set up, and they were 379 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:43.640 allowed to own land. As a matter of fact, at 380 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:46.640 one point in time they bought Cyprus, like the island 381 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:49.519 of Cyprus, which that was because of Richard the lion Heart, 382 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:51.240 and that was a whole other thing. But beside the point, 383 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:54.359 the Templar Knights, who started off being so poor that 384 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:57.519 two knights had to share the same horse, became this 385 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:03.599 internationally overly well like more wealthy than any king organization. 386 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:09.400 Because of that, they got the boot, they were tortured, 387 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:12.920 they were arrested, They had drummed up charges about all 388 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:15.880 these heretical things that they were doing. Some were saying 389 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:19.640 inappropriate kisses, some were saying spitting on the cross, some 390 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:21.680 were saying that they were worshiping the head of John 391 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:24.519 the Baptist. There's so many stories, so many stories about 392 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:27.160 what the knights Templars were doing that made them actually 393 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.559 super evil. Even though like a hundred years after they 394 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:33.880 were all burned at the stake and all these things, 395 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:36.200 a lot of church fathers came up and was like, hey, 396 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:38.920 by the way, they totally didn't do that like that, 397 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.960 that understandably did not happen. And then Pope Francis, if 398 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.799 you're not mistaken, actually publicly released all of the information 399 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.640 to say no, the Knights Templar were absolutely not doing 400 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.759 anything evil behind closed doors. All of that was drummed up. 401 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:57.079 Charges were sorry, so it's understood. 402 00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:59.720 We killed all these people, but like, ma bad. 403 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:01.160 The Catholic Church be doing that. 404 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.039 Sometimes the Catholic Church be doing that quite a bit. 405 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:08.519 They do, yeah, they do. So the Knights Templars went underground. 406 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:11.599 A lot of them were murdered, a lot of them 407 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:16.200 were arrested, but there was a few that escaped to Portugal, 408 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:19.319 which was seen as a safe haven for the Knights Templars. 409 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.960 And there are still a few groups of Templar Knights 410 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:26.359 that do claim direct lineage from the original Templars that 411 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:28.720 are out of Portugal, and I have to tell you 412 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:32.720 they have the strongest claim of anyone else on earth 413 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:36.480 by and large, because they can actually prove that historically 414 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:40.440 and documents in all the things. The last grand Master 415 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:43.039 of the Knights Templars was a guy named Jacques de Molat. 416 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:46.880 He's a French dude, and for over a year they 417 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:51.200 brutally medieval tortured this guy to get all these confessions out. 418 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:54.519 One day he was burned at the stake in view 419 00:21:54.599 --> 00:21:57.240 of Notre Dame, and he put out a curse on 420 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:59.519 the King of France who arrested him, and the Pope 421 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.559 who over saw it and said, before a year is up, 422 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:05.200 I will see you before a tribunal in front of God. 423 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:07.160 Both of those dudes are dead within a year. 424 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:13.079 Interestingly enough, Wow, so all the things okay, so they 425 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:13.759 came first. 426 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:17.359 Then this is where then came. Well, this is where 427 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:21.400 the legend begins. Because when the knights Templars were arrested, 428 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:25.119 all of their storehouses which were full of gold, their banks, 429 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:27.559 they think of their big banking hubs, they're big vaults. 430 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:31.160 When they were arrested the green gods, let's think about that, 431 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:33.480 the Knight's templar version of green gods all over Europe, 432 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:36.799 all over what in one spot, hundreds of these locations. 433 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:40.359 When they were arrested, all of the guards went in 434 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:46.519 to snatch the gold. Not a single piece was ever found, really, 435 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:47.839 not a single piece. 436 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.640 So either to this day, to this day, the gee's 437 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:53.000 got it. 438 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:54.440 I don't think so. 439 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.759 I'm gonna be honest with you, I think that they 440 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.839 had some inside knowledge because they were very well funded 441 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:04.640 and very well plugged in. So when the King of 442 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.119 France decided that he was going to come and excommunicate 443 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:08.960 them and do well, the pope ex communicate the king 444 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:12.000 arrested them. I have a weird feeling that somebody in 445 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:15.359 the king's court overheard the conversation and got word to 446 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:17.319 the knight's templars and they got all the gold out 447 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:19.599 there a week prior to them getting arrested. It happened 448 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:22.680 on October thirteenth, as a matter of fact, which most 449 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.680 historians would say is why October or Friday the thirteenth 450 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:29.359 is seen as a unlucky day. 451 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:30.200 It goes back to this. 452 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:33.359 So none of the gold was ever found, and there's 453 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:35.519 a bunch of groups that still to this day will 454 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:40.400 claim that that's where they got their austatious wealth from 455 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:43.680 is from templar gold or something like that. I am 456 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:45.000 of the belief that a lot of it made its 457 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:47.640 way to Portugal, some of it made its way to England, 458 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:49.880 some of it made its way to the northern European countries. 459 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:52.960 Whatever the case, there's all kinds of people that claim 460 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.480 that they know what happened, but nothing is concrete. So 461 00:23:56.519 --> 00:23:59.960 the Knight's templar, some of them went underground with their gold. 462 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:02.799 Some of them were just never seen of again. But 463 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:08.240 here is where the Mason templar connection starts and stops. 464 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:13.000 And then a new myth and legend picked up. So 465 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.000 Jacques de Molay he gets burned at the stake. His 466 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:19.880 second in command who took over after him, was a 467 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:24.759 dude named Larminius. Larminius wrote a charter which we're gonna 468 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:26.480 talk about here in a bit. I got a section 469 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:32.279 of it pulled up specifically. In this charter he talks 470 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:36.039 about how there is a group of templars in Scotland 471 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:40.119 that are not associated with the actual knights templars. They 472 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:42.480 do not hold true to the templar values, they do 473 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:46.279 not hold true to Christianity. These templars are not us, 474 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:51.559 the people in Scotland. We're operating out of a place 475 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:55.720 called Rosalind Chapel. And if you've ever seen the Da 476 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:59.000 Vinci Code, that would be the Roslyn Chapel in question, 477 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:01.920 which is a real place and that is what a 478 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:05.920 lot of people would say would be the birthplace of Freemasons. 479 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:12.799 So the actual Knights Templars is said that this group 480 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:18.839 that later became Freemasons are not true templars yet somehow 481 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:23.160 the Freemasons have two routes you could take, right, so 482 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:26.319 you have your first basic levels. There's thirty three degrees 483 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:29.640 in regular freemasonry, blue side free masonry, if you will. 484 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:31.559 Three is usually the number of the people will get 485 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:34.920 to entered apprentice, and then uh, what's the next one? 486 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:37.960 Fellowship apprentice or something like that, and then master Mason, 487 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:40.680 which is the third level. And you could stop there 488 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:42.640 and just chill there for the rest of your life. 489 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:45.599 But if you want to go further into masonry, you 490 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:49.119 have to choose Scottish right or York right, i e. 491 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:54.160 Knights Templars or Shriners. 492 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:55.599 Oh, I didn't realize that. 493 00:25:56.440 --> 00:25:59.960 So this is where the templar connection comes. 494 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:03.039 So this is like the Knights templar that they're claiming 495 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:05.519 is the fake ones, not the true ones. 496 00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:08.920 Yes, Oh okay, okay, So you. 497 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:10.480 Know what with that one. Let's go ahead and share 498 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:12.319 the screen and we're gonna play a quick little clip 499 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:17.119 about Rosalind Chapel and templars. And there's iconography that would 500 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:19.799 say that, oh, clearly the Knights Templers are here. This 501 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:22.160 is what we would call a forgery. But beside the point, 502 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:23.759 I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen. Let's talk 503 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:26.720 about it more so. Now, let's talk about the Rosalind 504 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.240 Chapel in Scotland and why so many people believe that 505 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:34.680 this is where the Templars ran to and hid, even 506 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:36.519 though again we're gonna talk about the charter itself in 507 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.480 a minute, but let's talk about Roslin Chapel first. 508 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.400 A building is just a building until it becomes part 509 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:48.039 of a story, and the story becomes part of a legend. 510 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.200 That's what happened to Rosalind Chapel, located just seven miles 511 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:57.079 southeast of Edinburgh, Scotland. The chapel was founded in fourteen 512 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:00.400 forty six by Sir Williams and Clair as a Roman 513 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:05.000 Catholic collegiate church, meaning it was self governing, with financial 514 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:10.079 support coming from the Sinclair family. What really made Rosalind 515 00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:14.359 Chapel famous was the twenty three publication of Dan Brown's 516 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:18.559 best selling mystery novel The Da Vinci Code. This was 517 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:21.759 followed by the huge box office success of the movie 518 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:27.240 version in twenty oh six starring Tom Hanks. Rosalind Chapel 519 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:30.839 now welcomes about one hundred forty thousand visitors each year. 520 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:34.720 It's an easy, inexpensive public bus ride from the heart 521 00:27:34.759 --> 00:27:38.079 of Edinburgh. The number twenty two bus takes you to 522 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:41.119 the village of Roslin, just a short walk from the chapel. 523 00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:47.680 Indoor photography is not permitted, but published images and outdoor 524 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:51.400 photography give you an idea of the intricate masonry and 525 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:55.640 carving that first made it famous. The chapel we see 526 00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:59.359 today took about forty years to complete, but it's less 527 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:02.839 than half the size that was planned by Sir William. 528 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:06.559 He died in fourteen eighty four and his heirs apparently 529 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:10.480 decided it was big enough. A little over one hundred 530 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:14.559 years after the chapel was completed, the Protestant Reformation swept 531 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:18.480 over Scotland. The Saint Clair's were worn to close the 532 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.839 chapel or risk losing their land and possibly their lives. 533 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:27.759 They complied. The chapel sat abandoned and neglected for almost 534 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:31.519 one hundred fifty years. At one point during the English 535 00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:36.440 Civil War, Oliver Cromwell stabled horses in the chapel. In 536 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:40.039 sixteen sixty the old Roslyn Inn open next door. It 537 00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:45.240 attracted artists, writers, aristocrats and royals. The great Scottish writer 538 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:49.359 Sir Walter Scott campaigned to restore the chapel as part 539 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:53.200 of an effort to build national pride and identity. The 540 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:58.319 first major renovation began in eighteen thirty seven. The legend 541 00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:01.720 that attracted Dan Brown was the possible link between the 542 00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:05.960 chapel and a religious order of warrior knights called the 543 00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:10.680 Knights Templar. They provided protection to pilgrims who flocked to 544 00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:14.319 the Holy Land after the Crusades. In the process, they 545 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:19.000 became very rich and very powerful. They built a fort 546 00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:22.880 on top of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. When the 547 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:25.480 Crusaders were driven out of the Holy Land they returned 548 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:29.799 to Europe. French King Philip convinced the Pope to disband 549 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:34.160 the Templars. Eventually there were mass arrests and executions, but 550 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:36.880 some got away and may have been able to take 551 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:41.400 some of the Templar treasure and holy relics collected in Jerusalem, 552 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:44.839 most notably the Holy Grail, the cup Jesus used at 553 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.920 the Last Supper with them. Many believed the Templars became 554 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:53.359 Masons and created the Order of Freemasonry, and that the 555 00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:56.920 Masons who built Rosalind Chapel did so with the idea 556 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.920 of making it a sacred place to house the gray 557 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:04.559 and other sacred objects. Is that real history or just 558 00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:09.000 a good story. Whatever people believe, it's bringing them back 559 00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:09.720 to Rosslyn. 560 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:17.319 So breaking this down the reason why and back to 561 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:21.200 the history lesson here. The reason why the Knights Templars 562 00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.599 were called the Knights Templars was actually they started off 563 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:29.319 being the poor Knights of Christ. That was their official 564 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:34.079 name in the papal bowl from the Pope. But they 565 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:36.519 were used in a couple of big military campaigns. They 566 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:39.480 retook the city of Jerusalem and then they were given 567 00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:44.720 the site of what once was the Temple, the Solomon's Temple, 568 00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.839 the holy spot where the Jews for years would do 569 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:51.480 their big things right, So when they got there, there 570 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:54.200 was about ten years where they didn't really do much. 571 00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:58.839 Some speculated that they started digging and excavating underneath the 572 00:30:58.839 --> 00:31:01.519 temple and where they found a bunch of holy relics 573 00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:03.480 that were underneath. In some of these like I don't 574 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.839 want to say underground caves, but basically like the basement 575 00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:10.160 levels of the original site of the temple. They later 576 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:14.960 were called Templar Knights and then later just Templars because 577 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.480 they took the Temple of Solomon. Okay, okay, I. 578 00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:21.920 Didn't actually know the history of how they got their 579 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:22.680 name at all. 580 00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:25.680 Right, okay, fair enough, fair enough. And that's is part 581 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:25.799 of the. 582 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:27.920 Reason why we're doing this episode. We're just going in deep, 583 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:34.400 you know, so tell me Allegedly they found certain relics. 584 00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:37.279 And I don't like the fact that he even brought 585 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:40.200 up the Holy Grail. Here's the deal, y'all. The Holy 586 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:43.640 Grail doesn't exist. I hate to be that asshole. 587 00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:44.880 You don't think it exists. 588 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:50.039 It only gets brought up in Middle Aged Romantic literature 589 00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:55.200 the same way that King Arthur's sword Excalibur. 590 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:55.799 Gets brought up. 591 00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:59.720 You are not gonna say that Excalaber doesn't exist or 592 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:01.279 the Lady in the Lake doesn't exist. 593 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:02.720 Okay, that's rude. 594 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:06.640 King Arthur being a play a dude, sure, a Camelot 595 00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:12.599 being a spot okay, fine, Merlin being a druid wizard, okay, fine, sure, 596 00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:16.519 for sure. But the part itself Excalibur, and that's the thing, 597 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:19.039 perfect example, was it the Lady in the lake or 598 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.599 did he pull the sword from the stone. Mmmmm. 599 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:28.039 See, yep, there's if I and I don't even want 600 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.839 to be incorrect about this. I feel like at one 601 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:33.000 point the lady in the lake gave it to him, 602 00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:35.000 and then something happened. 603 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:36.400 Then he ended up having to pull it from the 604 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:37.000 stone too. 605 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:39.680 So I've actually never heard that there was a connection 606 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:43.279 between the two counts. Depending on the las you go down, 607 00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:45.680 either A it was given to him by a lady 608 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:50.000 in the lake, or B only the true king can 609 00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:51.960 pull the sword from the stone, and this ten year 610 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:53.200 old comes up and yanks it. 611 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.880 But that's my point, Hannah. 612 00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:57.200 It doesn't matter what you look up on this one 613 00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:00.279 because there is no set story, because this is not true. 614 00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:04.359 This is a legend Excalibur itself. Yeah, maybe King Arthur 615 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:06.640 had a sword he called Excalibri, but the backstory of 616 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:10.279 its complete fabrication because it was about romantic literature. The 617 00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:13.119 same could be said for the Holy Grail, the cup 618 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.279 that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. 619 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.920 There is zero, zero, evidence at all. 620 00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:23.200 That the disciples or the apostles i should say, kept 621 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.079 any of the plate in silverware and cups or anything 622 00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.119 from the Last Supper. Because keep in mind they all 623 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:33.039 went into hiding immediately after he was taken and crucified 624 00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:35.640 and rose from the dead. That wasn't even their house 625 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:38.720 they went to find. There was a random house that 626 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:41.559 already had the Passover feast set up. It wasn't even 627 00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:44.519 their spot. That wasn't their cups, their plates or any 628 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:48.920 of this shit. So the entire backstory that the Holy 629 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:52.960 Grail and all these things that that's a complete historically speaking, 630 00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:56.279 a complete fabrication brought up around romantic literature. 631 00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:59.519 And so I feel like the Holy Grail might exist 632 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:04.400 all Probably it probably is not, maybe honestly because of 633 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:06.880 course India and Jones is like the best. But sure, 634 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.440 you know, it was like the most simple cup because 635 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:13.079 it was just like not anything fancy house that they 636 00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:18.079 were at so cold. It could had the cup existed, 637 00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:21.639 because you know whatever, they kept it because that was 638 00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:23.159 like the last thing that he touched. 639 00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.199 Maybe, so is it still around, Not highly probable, But you. 640 00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:29.719 Know, there's a few of them. 641 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:33.760 There's a few of these artifacts that people talk about 642 00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:37.800 these days that again, if you want to believe in them, fine, 643 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.199 you're you're not like a bad person or a bad 644 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:43.440 Christian or whatever. You're not a bad or you know, 645 00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:47.480 you're not committing evil by believing that the Holy Grail 646 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:50.880 is a real thing, or the longenest Spear is a 647 00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:53.639 real thing, or oh they had a fragment of the 648 00:34:53.719 --> 00:35:00.639 True Cross. But if you look at historical documentation, soldier 649 00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:05.199 that speared Jesus, maybe he did have a massive conversion 650 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:08.480 and change his life and become a follower of the Way, 651 00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:12.960 and we would now call that Christianity. Possibly. Okay, why 652 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:17.239 would he save his spear? Well, you know they say, no, no, no, 653 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:18.920 See that's the thing. We're not going off of what 654 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.159 they say. We're going off of historical documentation. And there 655 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:25.320 is zero evidence that the dude who speared Jesus and 656 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:29.000 the blood and water came out of him, There's zero 657 00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:31.719 evidence to say that he did anything with that spear. 658 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:34.000 So all these people that are acting like the longen 659 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.000 his spear is a real artifact, I'm sorry. There's zero 660 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.280 evidence to suggest such same thing with the True Cross. 661 00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:48.559 So apparently big big Emperor dude who only converted because 662 00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:51.840 his mom pressured him into it, sends his mom to 663 00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.880 the Holy Land and she's actually the one that founded 664 00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:57.719 what we would now call the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 665 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:01.400 the spot where Jesus was crucified. Right, she goes and 666 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:03.639 does all these things and does some I want to 667 00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:07.239 use the term archaeological digging, because this was before that 668 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:12.760 term was even really used. But she finds allegedly a 669 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.000 whole bunch of crazy artifacts that are super special. A 670 00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:20.280 part of it was a piece of the actual cross 671 00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:23.599 that Jesus was crucified on. So say her, and if 672 00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:25.559 you question her, you're questioning the king and you should 673 00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:26.159 be thrown in jail. 674 00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:27.840 This is the true fucking cross. Because I said, so. 675 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:32.400 You yeah, like that's oh. 676 00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:34.760 To be fair, I did look up the history of 677 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:37.800 the sword, so I was correct. There's two. So either 678 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.880 there's two swords or the sword got repaired. So cause 679 00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:43.519 originally he got the sword from the stone and then 680 00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:46.480 it broke and then he got it repaired by the 681 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:50.280 lady in the lake. So there's an argument that there's two, 682 00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:53.719 that there's either two swords or that it is the 683 00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:55.000 same sword that got repaired. 684 00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:55.719 Yeah. 685 00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:58.000 So if anyone wants to actually read the history of it, 686 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.800 you can go to Ancient Word and Origins and they'll 687 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:02.639 like break down the entire story. 688 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:05.400 But I really I vibe. 689 00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.280 I vibe with Skyle, but I'm not gonna lie like 690 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:08.719 it's a it's a great story. 691 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.960 It's a story, and it is great and it does 692 00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:12.920 teach lessons and all these things. 693 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:15.440 But like then we get into the conversation of the 694 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.920 Green Knight versus Lancelot, which one's actually the bad guy? 695 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:23.360 Mm hmmm, Yeah, there's a lot of different versions of 696 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:25.519 Lancelot and was he good? 697 00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:26.159 Was he bad? 698 00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:29.360 Was he envious that he actually you know, purposely go 699 00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:32.559 behind King Arthur, like there's a whole bunch of different 700 00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:36.239 variations of the story or no one will know the truth. 701 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:40.440 Never because it's more possible that these are legends that 702 00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.639 were attributed to an ancient kingdom that probably existed. 703 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:46.440 Yes, but all of these. 704 00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:48.840 Other story arcs and character arcs were kind of made 705 00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:49.800 famous from. 706 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:51.719 Playwrights m. 707 00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:55.760 Well back to this though. So the Holy Grail they 708 00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:57.119 potentially found. 709 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.679 Which again there's no record decision, which. 710 00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:02.639 Why would it be here? Of all places? It would not? 711 00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:04.400 I don't feel like so that's just me. 712 00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:05.360 So that's the other. 713 00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:07.599 Thing, right, they say that they found the Holy Grail 714 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:11.320 underneath the Temple of Solomon. Just so we're all clear. 715 00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:14.000 The Temple of Solomon was housed by the dudes that 716 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:17.400 murdered Jesus. Why the fuck would they keep the cup 717 00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:19.639 that the heretic they called Jesus. 718 00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:21.280 Why would they keep that? 719 00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:24.079 They didn't see that unless they thought it had magical powers. 720 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:27.840 But again, there's no evidence to suggest this, and the 721 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.119 Jews wouldn't give a fuck about that. They got their 722 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:32.639 own version of things that have magical powers, and shit, 723 00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:36.119 it just it makes no sense. But yes, some say 724 00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:38.639 that the Knights Templar found the Holy Grail. Then you'll 725 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:40.840 read Dan Brown's book and he'll say, actually, the Holy 726 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.440 Grail is Mary Magdalene, and she and Jesus had babies, 727 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:48.320 and that's the bloodlines that led to European royalty. And 728 00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:51.679 again there is less than zero evidence to say that 729 00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:55.519 actually existed. If anything, Mary Magdalene and John the Beloved 730 00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:58.280 might have been a couple. We know that they at 731 00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:01.800 least traveled to Ephesus together and died there, so there's 732 00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:02.199 more of it. 733 00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:04.719 If we're gonna say that that the apostle. 734 00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:07.400 John and Mary Magdalene may have had children together and 735 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.679 maybe that bloodline became the royalty of Europe. Okay, we're 736 00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:14.920 talking about two apostles. Essentially, that would be wild as fuck. 737 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:20.519 But the sci fi murder mystery Who done it? Book, 738 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:23.000 the da Vinci cod says a whole nother story. But 739 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:26.320 we're getting off topic. So they say that they found 740 00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:28.360 the Holy Grail. They say they found the head of 741 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.119 John the Baptist. Also would be fucking wild because he 742 00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:35.360 was beheaded by Herod because his daughter wanted it because 743 00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:37.400 of her mom, who was jealous of John for calling 744 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:41.000 her a whore basically publicly. But beside the point, nobody 745 00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:45.000 would have saved that. Nobody's gonna protect that relic. So 746 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:48.360 it's just there's so many things that were attributed that 747 00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:52.559 the templars found that cannot be historically fact checked by 748 00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:54.679 any stretch of the imagination. It's one of these things 749 00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:57.159 that just kind of became legend, kind of became lore, 750 00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:00.400 and now people just know that they had it, and 751 00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:03.440 it's like, but how how do we know that? But anyway, 752 00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:07.800 beside the point, so Roslyn Chapel, this is where the 753 00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:13.320 connection to knights, templars, and Freemasons start and stop. And 754 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:17.199 again this goes back to Larminius. So the Larminius Charter 755 00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:23.280 is it's I'm gonna try to pronounce this. Karta Transmissionals 756 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:27.760 Okay is a nineteenth century document claiming to prove the 757 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:32.000 survival of the Knights Templars after thirteen fourteen by recording 758 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:36.239 a secret lineage of grand masters starting with Johannes Marcus Larminius. 759 00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:39.320 And if you look up Larminius, he was in fact 760 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:42.079 the second of command to Jacques de Molay, so once 761 00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:46.119 Molay died, this would have been his natural successor okay. 762 00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:50.440 It is widely considered a forgery by scholars and is 763 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:55.119 distinct from traditions regarding templars in Scotland, but even within 764 00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:57.760 this charter, and this charter is currently housed at the 765 00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:02.480 Grand International Lodge of the Freemasons in London, England. This 766 00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:06.719 charter specifically says that the templars quote unquote that we're 767 00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:11.639 operating in Scotland are not true templars. Yet the Freemasons 768 00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:15.480 house this in their Grand Lodge and claimed that this 769 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:19.159 is their connection to the Knights templars. Make it make sense? 770 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.679 I can't, but like what, it's one of these things 771 00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:26.360 I suppose, so anyway, The charter focuses primarily on a 772 00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:31.000 continental French lineage of succession and makes no direct historical, 773 00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:36.119 substantiated link to continued Scottish templar organizations. Controversy and forgery. 774 00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:37.599 We might as well bring this up while we're talking 775 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.559 about it. The document first appeared in eighteen oh four, 776 00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:45.440 so the document allegedly dates back to thirteen fourteen by 777 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.119 an organization that was being aggressively and brutally hunted by 778 00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:53.119 every royal family on the European continent with the exception 779 00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:58.920 of Portugal, and somehow this document survived, give or take 780 00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:04.920 five hundred years, and was finally brought forward. It's generally 781 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.880 seen as a forgery meant to bolster the authority of 782 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.920 the neo templar groups i e. The Freemasons anyway, so 783 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:17.960 that that I could pull up the actual genuine article itself. 784 00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:20.360 But there's no real need, Like I said, Historians even 785 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:22.800 argue to this day of it's genuine or not, or 786 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:24.920 if the copy that they have in the Grand Lodge 787 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:28.960 might be a a recreation of the original or whatever. 788 00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:30.599 But even so, soundly, it's bullshit. 789 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:32.880 It sounds like it's bullshit, but it. 790 00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:34.800 Sounds like they just made up some shit and they're like, 791 00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:38.480 you know that, But like, but why specifically, I guess 792 00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:42.719 who created the Freemasons, Like who is the founder of it? 793 00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:46.599 Well, that depends on who you ask, because the Freemasons 794 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:49.800 will claim that it goes back to Hiram Abiff, who 795 00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:53.039 is one of the architects of the Temple of Solomon, 796 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:55.239 original Temple of Solomon. 797 00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:57.679 Because it's like, okay, well who created it? 798 00:42:57.719 --> 00:42:59.639 So they would have they would have had to have 799 00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:03.159 knowledge of the Knights templar and like there are at 800 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:07.599 least some of their information. And then fast forward to 801 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:11.360 this time. So were they a historian, Like did they 802 00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:12.119 you know? 803 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:13.760 I don't know. 804 00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:16.159 I think it's kind of interesting though, Like you'd had 805 00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:18.800 to have known about it. You'd had to have found 806 00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:23.239 the records and read about the specific group to understand 807 00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:25.360 kind of what they went. 808 00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:27.960 Through to be able to base this group off of them. 809 00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:32.599 Yeah, you would think, you would think, But then cut 810 00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:35.480 to the Renaissance. You have these groups that are operating 811 00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:38.159 in secret. And for the record, it wasn't just the Freemasons. 812 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:42.760 There was all kinds of these aristocratic groups that would 813 00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:47.920 get together to discuss philosophy and they would exchange, you know, 814 00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:52.800 ideas about so many different things. Well, that's kind of 815 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:56.079 the point of what freemasonry became, right, So it was 816 00:43:56.119 --> 00:43:59.440 no longer the craftsmen. You mean the dudes that are 817 00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:04.760 working with their hands. They're obviously not Masons. It's like, wait, 818 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:08.159 they're stone Masons, Like the dudes are actually carving. Yeah, well, yeah, 819 00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:11.440 we're talking about people of a certain caliber, people of 820 00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:14.079 a certain mindset. It's a whole thing. It's a whole 821 00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:19.800 fucking thing. So around the Renaissance it became this philosophical group. 822 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.599 Two of their main rules is that you do not 823 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:28.760 discuss politics. You do not discuss religion, period fucking period. Now, 824 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:32.280 to be a Freemason, you have to believe in some 825 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:35.960 sort of divine power. It doesn't have to be God, 826 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:39.400 it doesn't have to be uh Ahuramazda. It doesn't have 827 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:42.920 to be uh you know, the Hindu, the elephant in Krishna, 828 00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:46.079 it doesn't matter. You have to at least you can't 829 00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:49.159 be an atheist, like, you have to at least believe 830 00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:51.480 in some sort of a creator being or what they 831 00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:54.400 would call the divine architect. 832 00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:58.440 Okay, I actually thought this was more of a religious 833 00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:01.719 group than anything. More of like a culty religious group 834 00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:02.039 kind of. 835 00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:05.320 Vibe so it became that, but that's not what we're 836 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.519 gonna get to that orig We're gonna get to that 837 00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:10.639 when we talk about Albert Pike. But so where it 838 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:14.159 started from was basically around the Renaissance. Leave your religion 839 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:20.119 at the door. We're here to discuss high minded conversation, philosophy, rhetoric, 840 00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:25.480 these types of things, basically scholarly debate and camaraderie and 841 00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:29.440 brotherhood and all these things and their rituals for joining 842 00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:33.880 actually go back to a murder that allegedly took place 843 00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:38.440 when really so back to the conversation about how they 844 00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:42.400 take their notes from mason guilds. Apparently there was a 845 00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.519 master mason on a job site who had his book 846 00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:48.360 that you know, had all the secrets of the tricks 847 00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:51.280 of the trade of masonry, and three of his younger 848 00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:55.239 guys wanted this book and decided that, like, yo, we 849 00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:57.280 want to know what these secrets are because we're trying 850 00:45:57.280 --> 00:45:59.599 to elevate ourselves. And he's like, no, you're not ready 851 00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:02.920 for them. And for the record, I don't mean spiritually, 852 00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:06.719 I mean this same conversation as you got this guy 853 00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:09.159 who's been doing this job for forty years, and you 854 00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:11.079 got these young cats have been in the field for 855 00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:12.760 two years and they're like, well, I want to make 856 00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.000 the same money as you. And it's like, no, you're 857 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:17.000 not ready. You ain't paid your dues. You have to 858 00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:19.000 know what you're talking about before you get onto this. 859 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:24.159 So they killed him. They killed him and stole the book. Okay, 860 00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:27.920 and this is the murder that has re enacted every 861 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:32.639 time a Mason joins the order. 862 00:46:33.880 --> 00:46:36.599 Do you think that maybe one of the Stonemasons was 863 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:41.679 hired to I don't know, maybe fix something that they 864 00:46:41.719 --> 00:46:44.599 were able to find the records of the Knights, Like 865 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:47.119 they were hired by the church, and they found the 866 00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:49.519 records and they like read the records and then like 867 00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.280 they I don't know, word of mouth, it decided to 868 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:54.599 create some kind of society like hey, these people were 869 00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:56.519 kind of cool back in the day, Like it's brow thing, 870 00:46:56.960 --> 00:46:58.360 like we could do this too. 871 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:03.920 So how can I put this without sounding insulting to people? 872 00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:07.280 How much experience do you have with college fraternities. 873 00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:11.400 I'm I mean I know a good bit about them. Okay, 874 00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:12.760 I was gonna join a sorority. 875 00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:18.159 Okay, So every fraternity, if you ask them, will say 876 00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:20.000 that they are the ones that created beer pong. 877 00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:22.320 They were actually. 878 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:27.320 The first Greek brotherhood in the United States. They were 879 00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.639 the first to create the beer pong as well. They 880 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:33.280 all have these stories of legend and lord that make 881 00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:35.480 them the original and make them so much cooler than 882 00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:40.119 all the rest. It's all bullshit. It's all stories. It's 883 00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:43.920 all It doesn't matter who created it, but everyone claims 884 00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:45.679 that they were the first, they are the biggest, they 885 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:48.400 are the oldest, all these things. It's the same with 886 00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:52.119 like motorcycle clubs, like the Hell's Angels believe that they 887 00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:54.480 are the biggest and the oldest. The Banditos believe they're 888 00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:57.920 the largest organization on Earth. The Outcast believes they're the 889 00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:01.840 biggest organizations. It doesn't it doesn't make a fuck. But 890 00:48:02.599 --> 00:48:07.400 same conversation here. The Freemasons basically created a bunch of 891 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:10.480 stories about their origin and it just got repeated so 892 00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:13.320 many times that now it's indiscernible from the truth. 893 00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:16.880 Okay, I guess I was just trying to figure out 894 00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:19.599 exactly like how it got started and how they like 895 00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:22.880 linked themselves to a thing that was five hundred years previous. 896 00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:25.239 So in my mind, I'm just trying to follow the 897 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:27.840 chain of events of like who did this? Like who 898 00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.039 who created this whole situation? And like how do they 899 00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:33.719 know about this? How do they get the information? And 900 00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:36.400 I guess my thought processes is they worked on a 901 00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:39.679 church for the Catholics, or they they found they were 902 00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:42.280 doing something to where they found the information and they 903 00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:44.559 were like, hey, I guess it sounds like a kind 904 00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:45.400 of a cool idea. 905 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:47.880 Let's let's take this and run with it. 906 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:50.639 It would stand to reason that it would have started 907 00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:54.280 with actual Stonemasons, because, like we're saying, they come up 908 00:48:54.320 --> 00:49:00.039 with these these spiritual stories to kind of juxtapose on 909 00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.960 to their craft in the building of these temples and things, 910 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:05.679 and then perhaps somewhere along the way it did take 911 00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:09.119 more of a esoteric and spiritual meaning behind it. And 912 00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:11.280 then you get some guys that are of a higher 913 00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:13.400 mind and a little more educated. They're like, wait a minute, 914 00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:15.840 what are y'all talking about over there? Like hold on that, Yeah, 915 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:17.639 that kind of lines up with something I'm reading about 916 00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:18.480 in this ancient book. 917 00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:21.079 And over time, one thing leads to another. 918 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:25.159 Well, when you look at the Renaissance, though, because that's 919 00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:29.039 when you really see a lot of the amazing stone 920 00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:34.039 work coming out again and so they were intermixed with 921 00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:37.719 the art groups, which were intermixed with the philosophy groups, 922 00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:40.840 and they were all interconnected to each other and having 923 00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:44.079 a lot of interesting conversations. And they had a lot 924 00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:49.079 of societal movements where they would invite multiple people in 925 00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:53.360 different areas together to showcase their work and then to 926 00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:57.800 have like these educated philosophy, theology and all this stuff 927 00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:00.360 kind of conversation. So I could see how, at least 928 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:02.679 in my mind, how it would transverse. 929 00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:03.320 Into what it became. 930 00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:03.880 Exactly. 931 00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:05.760 I don't know if that's actually the chain of events, 932 00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:07.480 but at least in my mind, that's what I'm thinking 933 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:07.920 it would be. 934 00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:11.360 I agree absolutely. So you know what, Okay, let's read this. 935 00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:14.280 This is from the Masons themselves. Here a brief history 936 00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.800 and philosophy of the Scottish Right. And I got another 937 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:18.480 one pulled up about the York Right as well. So 938 00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:22.719 let's learn La France Lodge number ninety three. This is 939 00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.800 the ninety third lodge ever founded on Earth. So the 940 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.480 introduction the first three degrees summarized the major differences that 941 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:33.320 exist between the ancient and accepted Scottish Right, the aas R, 942 00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:39.599 and the English rights exhortations emphasize the universally universatility of freemasonry, 943 00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:42.679 and there is no chaplain among lodge officers to avoid 944 00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:47.159 any confusion whatsoever with religion. The questioning under the blindfold, 945 00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:50.039 the chain of union, the embrace, and the triple kiss 946 00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:53.400 of the candidate's godfather, which is a it's just a 947 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:59.000 cheek kiss, It's not anything crazy. All repeated references to peace, love, joy, 948 00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:03.440 heart's affection, kindest virtues, and the red rose given to 949 00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:06.760 the initiate to be offered to the woman he esteems 950 00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:12.519 most create more affectionate feelings. Manually drawing the tracing board 951 00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:16.559 of each degree, the bitter Cup, the four purifying ordeals, 952 00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:19.960 the use of swords, the mirror, and the perjurer's corpse 953 00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:24.320 constitute a more sensorial approach, triggering a more emotional state 954 00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:27.920 of mind conductive to a more mystical disposition. I know 955 00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:29.599 we're going over a lot here, but we're gonna break 956 00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:32.320 it down, I promise. The use of the swords also 957 00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:36.960 gives the whole right a definitive chivalric flavor. The order 958 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.679 differences relating to the principle offers the steps, the tools, 959 00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:44.679 the ruffians blows the winding, the winding staircase, and the 960 00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:48.400 middle chamber in the third degree and MB meaning the 961 00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:52.719 father's son or new life significantly modify the symbolism of 962 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:56.000 the ritual. For the record, the Ruffians blow is when 963 00:51:56.039 --> 00:51:58.039 they get hit over the head with a hammer and 964 00:51:58.079 --> 00:51:59.840 they fall back into a coffin and this is when 965 00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:01.719 they do their mock death. 966 00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:04.679 So this is an image that you've. 967 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:08.519 Probably seen on a lot of cars, right. So, and 968 00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:11.719 you see this number thirty two, The highest degree you 969 00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:15.000 could get is a thirty third degree mason, and this 970 00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:18.440 is of the Scottish rite. Thirty two is just below it. 971 00:52:18.519 --> 00:52:20.280 And to get to thirty three, the only place that 972 00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:22.840 you could do this is at the Grand Lodge in Washington, DC. 973 00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:28.440 And it's a wild, wild pyramid in the middle of Washington, DC. 974 00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.159 That's a giant temple for these people. But anyway, this 975 00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:35.360 if you ever see the double headed eagle clutching a 976 00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:39.159 sword with the Latin at the bottom and this triangle 977 00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:44.199 in the center with a number, this is a Freemasonry logo. 978 00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:48.320 So the history of the AASR accounts for these differences, 979 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:51.760 originating from the specific cultural environments in which English and 980 00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:55.039 Scottish rights were developed. The English rights were established in 981 00:52:55.079 --> 00:52:59.360 a predominantly English Protestant culture with a more austere moral 982 00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:03.000 and social inspiration derived from the Old Testament, where the 983 00:53:03.159 --> 00:53:07.159 Scottish Rite was developed in predominantly Catholic France, inspired by 984 00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.400 a more effective and mystical message of the Gospel. 985 00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:12.920 The history of aasr the. 986 00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.840 Masons. The origin of the speculative masonry is to be 987 00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:22.519 found in the medieval Scottish operative mason labor guilds. These 988 00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:27.000 early regulations are the old charges quote unquote of operative 989 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:31.440 stone Masons described in the Regius Manuscript of thirteen ninety 990 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:35.320 and William Shawl's Statutes of fifteen ninety eight and fifteen 991 00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:39.280 ninety nine. According to these documents, candidates were admitted during 992 00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:44.559 simple initiation ceremonies, including a brief legendary history of the craft, 993 00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:50.199 the articles uniting all masons, their duties, prayers, esoteric modes 994 00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:54.079 of recognition, and their obligation to keep this instruction secret. 995 00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:57.000 So before we go in further real quick thirteen ninety, 996 00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:03.639 the Regius Manuscript thirteen ninety. The Larminius Charter was allegedly 997 00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:08.960 thirteen twenty four thirteen fourteen here give or take. So 998 00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:14.119 this is where they're saying that, oh, the knights Templar died, 999 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.840 the Freemasons were stood up. Clearly there's a connection here, 1000 00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:20.719 although again there's no actual connection that could be made 1001 00:54:20.719 --> 00:54:22.719 here because what we're reading about, and if you were 1002 00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:27.440 to read Regius Manuscript, this was a stone mason's guild 1003 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:35.199 and there is no link whatsoever to warrior monks of 1004 00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:40.960 the Catholic Faith to stonemasons. There's almost no connection to 1005 00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:45.280 that whatsoever. But the Regius Manuscript talks about the initiation 1006 00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:47.800 of becoming a stone mason and how you would keep 1007 00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:49.519 your trade secrets a secret. 1008 00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:51.280 Okay. 1009 00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:56.920 So Scottish Freemasonry started moving to England in the sixteen forties, 1010 00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:59.559 and the Great Fire of London in sixteen sixty six 1011 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:02.719 brought many more craftsmen from Ireland and Scotland to help 1012 00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:05.960 with the reconstruction of the city. All they are likely 1013 00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:11.239 to have shared their legends and primitive Masonic rituals and catechisms. 1014 00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:15.719 As the construction of religious buildings, castles and mansions was 1015 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:18.960 still going on in Scotland and Ireland but was disappearing 1016 00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:22.480 in Europe and England, the operative stone mason lodges progressively 1017 00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:27.800 began to accept quote unquote non operative speculative masons. So 1018 00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:28.679 what do we mean by that? 1019 00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:32.559 The stone mason guilds started taking on members into their 1020 00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:35.440 little groups, their clubs if you will, that weren't actual 1021 00:55:35.679 --> 00:55:37.079 crafting stone masons. 1022 00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:42.559 Okay, so this is where it started to change. 1023 00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:46.400 Basically, Yes, And this is around once again, the sixteen forties, 1024 00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:49.679 sixteen sixty six, Like I said, sixteen hundreds into the 1025 00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:53.320 seventeen hundred. They're talking of Renaissance era here, right, So 1026 00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:58.280 moving forward, Speculative masonry at its creation is likely to 1027 00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:02.199 have been somewhat deprived of substance, as was influenced by 1028 00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:05.719 the playful societies of the eighteenth century England, meeting in 1029 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:09.239 taverns where talking, dining, card playing, and even gambling prevailed 1030 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:14.800 over knowledge and spirituality. It was fortunately improved by the intel. 1031 00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:18.679 Ramsey is known as a to have been actively involved 1032 00:56:18.719 --> 00:56:23.480 in the intellectual enlightenment of such institutions as the Royal 1033 00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:27.519 High Degree Rituals from seventeen thirty and seventeen thirty eight. 1034 00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:31.239 So this is whenever things went from a bunch of 1035 00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:35.360 dudes just dudes being bros over here. To listen, we 1036 00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:36.760 need have a little bit of order here. We need 1037 00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:38.800 have a little bit of structure. We need to make 1038 00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:44.800 this an official thing of a certain class of people. Right, 1039 00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:47.360 So this really became like they put pen to paper 1040 00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:50.280 to make this what it was seventeen thirty to seventeen 1041 00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:55.800 thirty eight. So Ramsey's Aura Society and the spiritual inspiration 1042 00:56:55.920 --> 00:57:04.320 of esoteric philosation philosoph low Socian Philosocian esoteric philosophy. Why 1043 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:06.079 the fuck are they doing this anyway? I don't know. 1044 00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:11.519 It offered the doctrinal basis an original plan for the fees, 1045 00:57:11.639 --> 00:57:15.280 such as the Rosa Crucian Society. So this is why. 1046 00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:19.079 And for those that don't know what Rosaicrucianism is, it 1047 00:57:19.159 --> 00:57:22.719 is also called the Order of the Rosy Cross, and 1048 00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:26.400 it is a cross as unlike the Crucifix with roses 1049 00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:31.119 all over it. And it was Christian esotericism basically old 1050 00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:35.760 school woo woo Christianity that kind of had a Gnostic flair, 1051 00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:39.440 kind of had a Christian flair, and took the Bible 1052 00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:44.920 as a philosophical take rather than a historical document, and 1053 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.320 that was gaining prominence around this time frame. Like I said, 1054 00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:49.320 there was all kinds of these secret societies that were 1055 00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:52.400 popping up all over Europe of these people that basically 1056 00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:54.199 just wanted to be like a part of the club 1057 00:57:54.360 --> 00:57:56.840 and have some sort of secret knowledge that it was 1058 00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:58.599 all a part of this right. It was like the fomo, 1059 00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:01.400 and it wasn't offer to the lower levels. It was 1060 00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:05.280 only offered to nobility class or educated class of people 1061 00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:09.440 to keep it the into the realm of exclusivity. So 1062 00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:13.280 when the Freemasons kind of did this, they were taking 1063 00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:15.840 some of their notes off of the Rosicrucians and then 1064 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:19.360 later kind of adopted them into their order. Like I said, 1065 00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:21.880 one of them is Christian esotericism, and one of these 1066 00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:24.000 are Eastern philosophies. We've got the York right in the 1067 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.239 Scottish Rite, the Templars and the Shriners. One of them 1068 00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:30.840 is more of the Rosicrucian Christian esotericism. One of them 1069 00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:36.079 is more of the Eastern Vedic Egyptian all these things 1070 00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:38.800 as far as that philosophical take. But I'm getting ahead 1071 00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:44.199 of myself, So moving on French masonry and Rosicrucian Society's 1072 00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:49.559 renovation of French freemasonry and maybe considered Blue Lodge masonry 1073 00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:53.280 was slow to take its full shape. And blue lodge 1074 00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:55.239 if you will. If you've ever seen a Masonic logo 1075 00:58:55.320 --> 00:58:58.000 that's blue with the square and compass, that's what blue 1076 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:01.280 lodge means. They also have something called a red lodge, 1077 00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:03.079 which are going to get to in a minute. There 1078 00:59:03.159 --> 00:59:05.400 is some that's called a purple lodge that that's not 1079 00:59:05.480 --> 00:59:08.079 like actually accepted. It's just it's like a moniker. 1080 00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:08.599 We'll get to. 1081 00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:12.119 And then there's whiteside free masonry that we'll talk about 1082 00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:15.320 more towards the end. But again getting way ahead of myself, 1083 00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:20.079 the above mentioned manuscripts included only two degrees, apprenticed and 1084 00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:21.960 fellow of the craft. That's the word I was trying 1085 00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:24.239 to look for earlier, I said, fellow craftsman, fellow. 1086 00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:24.760 Of the craft. 1087 00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:29.000 The arid as the first informal constitution of what would 1088 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:31.920 become Scottish Rite in France. At a time when masonry 1089 00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:35.679 started spreading over Europe. The best senior fellows became masters, 1090 00:59:35.800 --> 00:59:38.280 mainly in charge of many lodges came to be founded 1091 00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:41.039 by the followers of the Administration in supervision of the 1092 00:59:41.079 --> 00:59:45.320 work and morality Scottish Catholic Stewart dynasty, who fled from 1093 00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:48.280 Britain to the third degree with its legendary death of 1094 00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:50.519 Hiram which we're going to talk about Hiram Abiffin a 1095 00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:54.599 bit France after the Stewarts had lost the throne of England, 1096 00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:57.000 already mentioned in the Old Charges of the Stuarts. For 1097 00:59:57.000 --> 00:59:59.519 the record, we're talking about the Royal House of Stuart, 1098 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:04.679 the influence of the Stewart's on the development development in Scotland. 1099 01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:08.159 But it was also known in England in the mint 1100 01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:10.840 of the Scottish Rite in France that the Jacobite theory 1101 01:00:11.320 --> 01:00:12.800 early seventeen twenties. 1102 01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:14.719 The degree was officially. 1103 01:00:14.280 --> 01:00:17.719 Mentioned in the in the is credible when one knows 1104 01:00:17.719 --> 01:00:20.880 that the Duke of War in seventeen thirty eight second 1105 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:25.400 edition of Anderson's Constitution, James Hector MacLean and Lord Darwin 1106 01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:30.000 Tar Darwin Water Jesus Christ As for high degrees, the 1107 01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:33.639 first reference appears in seventeen twenty eight, and there is 1108 01:00:33.679 --> 01:00:36.760 a record in the Daily Journal of September fifth, seventeen 1109 01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:40.159 fifty three I'm sorry, seventeen thirty five confirming that a 1110 01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:44.679 degree of Scots or Scotch Master was conferred at Temple 1111 01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:47.760 Bar in London and in Bath as early as seventeen 1112 01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:50.679 thirty three in the French lodge Saint George de le 1113 01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:54.599 Zervance whatever at the Convent Garden in London in seventeen 1114 01:00:54.679 --> 01:00:55.199 thirty six. 1115 01:00:55.719 --> 01:00:57.199 So this is where we went. 1116 01:00:57.280 --> 01:01:01.480 From sixteen hundreds, we kind of have of groups of 1117 01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:05.039 stone mason guilds who are kind of talking about some 1118 01:01:05.199 --> 01:01:08.920 esoteric things, but it's more stories to oral tradition their 1119 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:11.239 craft a bit. Then it kind of gets into the 1120 01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:15.239 high societies of the Reformation and another Reformation I should say, 1121 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:21.679 the the the Renaissance, and then the first time we 1122 01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:24.280 actually have documented time frames as far as like a 1123 01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:28.480 higher degree of masonry goes early seventeen hundreds. 1124 01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:31.159 So the babies compared to a lot of the other 1125 01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:34.639 secret orders that have been about for a long time. 1126 01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:36.679 Well, give me an example of a secret order that 1127 01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:39.239 predates this. And I'm not saying this to challenge you. 1128 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:41.719 I'm just so the cult members of what we're talking about. 1129 01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:46.480 The nine that you talked about and the twelve that 1130 01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:49.039 you talked about that had been around for a long. 1131 01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:52.199 Time Ashoka's Nine Unknown Men, which I just because my 1132 01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:55.199 own biases I believe still exist. There's no record of 1133 01:01:55.239 --> 01:01:58.079 them existing after Ashoka died, but I believe they do. 1134 01:01:59.400 --> 01:02:02.320 And then there's other organizations like the Twelve, but that's 1135 01:02:02.360 --> 01:02:05.840 like the Zodiac Club in New York, and that only 1136 01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:09.039 has existed for like one hundred years. Yeah, but as 1137 01:02:09.079 --> 01:02:12.840 far as Freemasons are concerned, they claim their lineage back 1138 01:02:12.880 --> 01:02:13.920 to the Knights Templars. 1139 01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:17.719 And then also they are one of the. 1140 01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:22.159 Oldest, if not the oldest, secret fraternal orders on Earth 1141 01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:27.320 that are still been operating without fail. That being said, 1142 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:29.760 when you start to look back and peel back the 1143 01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:32.239 layers of the onion as far as where their origin 1144 01:02:32.280 --> 01:02:36.880 story really starts from sixteen hundred seventeen hundreds maybe. 1145 01:02:37.360 --> 01:02:39.039 I mean they're some pretty old, to be honest with you. 1146 01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:41.079 Sixteen h yeah, hot minute ago. 1147 01:02:41.159 --> 01:02:43.239 So oh it's nothing to scoff at by any means, 1148 01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:46.920 but right before the founding of America kind of thing. 1149 01:02:47.119 --> 01:02:48.280 So when we're talking about. 1150 01:02:48.079 --> 01:02:54.239 These ancient orders from like the Germany, the Bohemians, and 1151 01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:58.719 the ancient orders of the Priesthood from Egypt and and 1152 01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:01.960 all these things, Yeah, the Freemasons aren't as old as 1153 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:03.440 they would want. 1154 01:03:03.280 --> 01:03:05.920 People to believe, for sure. 1155 01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:10.480 But all right, So continuing on, so this degree seventeen 1156 01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:13.719 thirty six. This higher degree, if you will, this degree 1157 01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:17.519 was conferred on Blue Lodge masters. However, even if these 1158 01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:21.079 early high degrees were practiced in England, probably under the 1159 01:03:21.079 --> 01:03:24.480 Scottish influence, they grew up and expanded in France. Andrew 1160 01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:28.719 Michael Ramsey, a French speaking Scottish baronet, is likely to 1161 01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:31.840 have been the major firebrand in this movement. In seventeen 1162 01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:35.960 thirty seven he delivered his famous oration in Paris extolling 1163 01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:39.840 the Scottish masonry of the Grand Lodge of Edinburgh, the 1164 01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:44.159 ritual of which was more complete, as he said then respectively, 1165 01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:46.840 in the first, second, and third Grand Masters of the 1166 01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:50.760 Grand Lodge of France were Catholics and Jacobites. For those 1167 01:03:50.719 --> 01:03:53.800 who don't know what a Jacobite is, if you've ever 1168 01:03:53.840 --> 01:03:57.000 seen Outlander, they do a pretty good job of explaining it. 1169 01:03:57.039 --> 01:04:00.400 But basically, the Jacobite revolution, and it wasn't justin Scotland, 1170 01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:05.400 there was other Jacobethan movements across Europe. Essentially, they wanted 1171 01:04:05.400 --> 01:04:08.880 to install the true heir of Scotland back on the 1172 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:12.320 throne in the form of Bonnie Prince Charlie. 1173 01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:15.719 His dad was the king. He got usurped. 1174 01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:18.639 Basically, or I forget if it was he was usurped, 1175 01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:22.800 or if basically they handed the reigns of Scotland to 1176 01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:25.440 the English king until Charlie was old enough to reign, 1177 01:04:25.480 --> 01:04:27.159 and then the king said no, I'm never given this 1178 01:04:27.239 --> 01:04:29.320 back kind of thing. But either way it goes. The 1179 01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:32.800 Jacobite rebellion that took place was basically the end of 1180 01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:35.920 the Highland way of life for Scotland. No longer would 1181 01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:38.480 you have clans and war chiefs. Now you would have 1182 01:04:38.679 --> 01:04:42.760 essentially British nobles that would take over swaths of Scotland. 1183 01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:45.639 And it really became more of a repression of the 1184 01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:50.119 Highland way of life. But the Jacobites also had a 1185 01:04:50.159 --> 01:04:52.679 pretty slizable following in France. 1186 01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:55.480 I remember hearing about some things. 1187 01:04:55.519 --> 01:05:00.400 In Belgium. I remember hearing about something in the Lens, 1188 01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:03.840 But at that point it's more like where we draw 1189 01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:06.039 in the line between legend and law and historical fact, 1190 01:05:06.079 --> 01:05:08.679 you know what I mean. But anyway, so he gave 1191 01:05:08.719 --> 01:05:11.760 his his oration in Paris, and so, like they said, 1192 01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:15.159 the Grand Lodge in France were Catholics and Jacobites. Meanwhile, 1193 01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:19.840 in England they were more of the Protestant movement. The 1194 01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:23.239 Jacobites are likely to have been men of goodwill, wishing 1195 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.159 to establish some order within masonry and create a new 1196 01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:30.559 spiritual and chivalrc ethic in society, and thereby escaped the 1197 01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:35.280 papal condemnation of the seventeen thirty eight. Whatever the validity 1198 01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:40.119 of the Jacobite theory, the many interpretations of Hiram Abyff's legend, 1199 01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:42.800 and the more mystical nature of the third degree had 1200 01:05:42.840 --> 01:05:46.639 already triggered the creation of over thirty five quote unquote 1201 01:05:46.760 --> 01:05:52.159 high degrees in the mid seventeen thirties. So how do 1202 01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:56.360 we go from three degrees to allegedly thirty five. Well, 1203 01:05:58.119 --> 01:06:01.880 let's just say, egos a bitch. And you have this 1204 01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:05.760 guy who's claiming, oh well, I just achieved the highest degree. 1205 01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:08.159 I'm a third level. Oh really, that's so interesting. I 1206 01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:11.000 just achieved five. I didn't even know there was five. 1207 01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:14.960 Well you wouldn't, oh my gosh. 1208 01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:17.800 So they just were pissing contests of one upping each 1209 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:19.440 other to get to the highest level. 1210 01:06:19.639 --> 01:06:21.119 That's it, that's essentially. 1211 01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:24.400 And so how do we turn from this which didn't 1212 01:06:24.440 --> 01:06:27.840 sound honestly that terrible, Like when you're reading the top 1213 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:33.519 part to the super bad shit that people associate with 1214 01:06:33.559 --> 01:06:37.119 the thirty three degrees and like the ones that like 1215 01:06:37.199 --> 01:06:40.079 do some heinous, horrible crap to get to that level. 1216 01:06:40.360 --> 01:06:42.360 How the hell did we go from this to that? 1217 01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:45.039 It's very funny that you would bring this up, because like, 1218 01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:46.639 in just a second, we're going to be talking about 1219 01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:50.599 this guy right here, Albert Pike, who was a Confederate general, 1220 01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:53.199 who made it what it was or what it is. 1221 01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:55.079 So let's keep going here. 1222 01:06:55.119 --> 01:06:59.280 So Ramsey's seventeen thirty seven oration, widely published in seventeen 1223 01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:03.519 forty one, and its allusions to Knight's crusades, resulted in 1224 01:07:03.559 --> 01:07:08.800 an explosive proliferation of so called Scottish degrees. 1225 01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:10.559 Although they were French products. 1226 01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:14.599 So just we're clear there is zero connection from original 1227 01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:17.159 Knights templars to Freemasons. 1228 01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:19.360 But because certain things got. 1229 01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:22.000 Said enough times, people just took it and ran with it, 1230 01:07:22.039 --> 01:07:24.719 and now it's just seen as documented facts, even though 1231 01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:28.440 not even a little bit. But moving on, at some stage, 1232 01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:32.159 there would be one four hundred and fifty degrees in 1233 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:36.000 use in fifty two Rits covered by seventy five orders. 1234 01:07:38.239 --> 01:07:42.320 Jeez, So keep this in mind. We have two orders. 1235 01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:42.760 Now we have the. 1236 01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:45.000 Scottish or we have two rights Scottish right in New York. 1237 01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:45.159 Right. 1238 01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:45.639 That's it. 1239 01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:49.119 That's all freemasonry has on the entire earth. And they 1240 01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:53.159 have thirty three degrees. But why did this happen? Well, 1241 01:07:53.599 --> 01:07:56.880 because there was all these crazy degrees, which is also 1242 01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:59.239 where Whiteside Masonry comes from. We'll get to that towards 1243 01:07:59.239 --> 01:08:03.360 the very end here, fifty two rites. Because everybody wanted 1244 01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:05.320 to start their own thing. They still wanted to be Masons, 1245 01:08:05.559 --> 01:08:07.400 but they want to do their own thing with it. 1246 01:08:07.480 --> 01:08:11.400 I'm not of the Scottish brand. I'm of the Bohemian brand, 1247 01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:14.920 or I'm of the Romanian brand, or I'm of the Roman. 1248 01:08:14.719 --> 01:08:15.719 Or whatever the case would be. 1249 01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:19.199 You had all these people basically founding without any kind 1250 01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:22.079 of hierarchy to say that that is and is not 1251 01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:26.000 free and accepted Masons. That's why these charters all have 1252 01:08:26.359 --> 01:08:29.479 F and AM on their logos. If you ever drive 1253 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:33.000 by a Masonic lodge in your local town, you'll see, 1254 01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:36.920 you know, F and AM which stands for Free and 1255 01:08:37.359 --> 01:08:41.920 Accepted Masons. Because there's all kinds of Masonic orders out 1256 01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.000 there that are operating that are not accepted. They are 1257 01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:48.000 not true free Masons. They're not actually under the adherents 1258 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:50.840 of the Grand Lodge. This is where all of this 1259 01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:56.279 stems from. So then, okay, Albert Pike he utilized various 1260 01:08:56.319 --> 01:09:01.520 religious traditions, legends, and philosophies to convey universal truths independent 1261 01:09:01.560 --> 01:09:05.479 of any specific faith. The English rituals, which had dropped 1262 01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:08.399 a number of the first official mention of Scottish masonry 1263 01:09:08.399 --> 01:09:12.600 in France old spiritual traditions that had inspired the cathedral 1264 01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:15.359 appeared in seventeen forty three in article twenty of the 1265 01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:19.159 Grand Lodge Builders. So Albert Pike basically came in and 1266 01:09:19.199 --> 01:09:23.640 turned all this chaos into order. He wrote a book 1267 01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:26.239 called Morals and Dogma, which we're going to talk about 1268 01:09:26.279 --> 01:09:29.680 in a bit, where basically this was how Masons were 1269 01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:32.520 going to do things moving forward. This is how the 1270 01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:35.760 rituals go down, step by step. This is what the 1271 01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:40.399 orders are, the rights that are actually accepted, the levels 1272 01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:43.439 that are actually accepted, all the things, here's the passwords, 1273 01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:45.239 here's the handshakes, here's all the things. 1274 01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:47.319 All this other shit's too much. 1275 01:09:47.560 --> 01:09:49.760 We're losing the plot here this We're gonna get it 1276 01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:51.600 right back down to the original basis. 1277 01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:53.880 Oh, why listen to this person. 1278 01:09:53.920 --> 01:09:58.680 Though, because Albert Pike was an extremely influential guy, he 1279 01:09:58.760 --> 01:10:02.279 was a member of multiple organizations. The two most notable 1280 01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:06.079 would be the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Freemasons, 1281 01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:10.239 both of which do very esoteric I don't want to 1282 01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:13.319 use the term black magic because that's not necessarily true here, 1283 01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:17.279 but very esoteric philosophical things. And if you ask them, oh, 1284 01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:19.800 we're here for charity, it's all for a big charity, 1285 01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:24.239 cause in reality, they when you look at a lot 1286 01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:26.560 of their pledges that they make in the very beginning, 1287 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.479 it's very much of a spiritual nature. Then when you 1288 01:10:29.479 --> 01:10:31.439 get to the upper levels, you actually are selling your 1289 01:10:31.439 --> 01:10:35.039 soul to Lucifer like by name that's mentioned, which we're 1290 01:10:35.039 --> 01:10:37.079 gonna we're gonna get to that in a minute. But 1291 01:10:37.239 --> 01:10:39.279 essentially he's the one that came in, wrote the book 1292 01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:41.920 Morals and Dogma and changed the entire game as far 1293 01:10:41.960 --> 01:10:46.239 as Freemasonry was concerned. And that was again, that's a 1294 01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:49.920 Civil War guy. So a lot of our founding fathers 1295 01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:54.840 in this country were Freemasons. And this is yeah, yeah, 1296 01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:57.159 and this is before the accepted rights. They were still 1297 01:10:57.159 --> 01:10:59.520 operating when it was all these crazy rights and all 1298 01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:01.760 these crazy degrees and all this shit were going. 1299 01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:04.840 Before they got into like super super bad shit, right, 1300 01:11:04.920 --> 01:11:07.319 so before old boy made it what it is, which 1301 01:11:07.359 --> 01:11:10.159 is fascinating to me how one person can change the 1302 01:11:10.239 --> 01:11:13.279 course of history and impact so many people's lives. 1303 01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:15.119 And most people don't even know who this guy is. 1304 01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:16.600 That's the crazy part. 1305 01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:17.159 Most people. 1306 01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:21.159 If you've because of you exactly, and this guy is 1307 01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:24.960 what changed the movers and shakers of the world by 1308 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:28.800 writing a couple of publications and no one knows about them. 1309 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:34.319 It's mind blowing. Okay, but anyway, anyway, so let's can 1310 01:11:34.359 --> 01:11:36.439 go in here. So the first official mention we talked 1311 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:44.239 about that, Ramsey also extolled the chival chivalric ideal of 1312 01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:48.520 France's regulations denying any superior powers to the Knights Crusaders, 1313 01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:53.760 whose heroic courage had been Scottish Masons over the masters 1314 01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:57.279 of Blue lodges. Once again, he just threw that together 1315 01:11:57.359 --> 01:11:59.239 because that's the legend that he was told. 1316 01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:00.880 There's zero evidence of that. 1317 01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:05.079 But anyway, over the energizing and unifying factor of christian 1318 01:12:05.279 --> 01:12:09.079 the succeeding decades or Christianity, I should say, high degrees 1319 01:12:09.279 --> 01:12:12.319 spread over the world, eventually resulting in the progress of 1320 01:12:12.359 --> 01:12:16.319 civilization of the Western Hemisphere, and in seventeen sixty one 1321 01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:19.760 A tom Moram though the merging of the Eastern and 1322 01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:24.439 Western that's basically what that means refined, received a patent 1323 01:12:24.640 --> 01:12:28.520 from the highest authorities in Paris cultures. This he thought 1324 01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:31.079 would provide a model for as well as in England, 1325 01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:35.560 appointing him Grand Inspector, so he became the Guy Masons 1326 01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:39.119 as leaders of human society. Ramsey was con or. He 1327 01:12:39.199 --> 01:12:43.039 was against this and began a chain of events leading 1328 01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:46.840 to the creation of Vinced and through or Convinced. I 1329 01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:48.960 think this is written very strangely. 1330 01:12:49.079 --> 01:12:51.800 Wow, like it's look it like split it apart. Ramsey 1331 01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:54.640 was con this, and it's convinced that though. 1332 01:12:54.560 --> 01:12:58.039 Yeah, I feel like didn't know that spellcheck exists. 1333 01:12:58.199 --> 01:13:01.479 I don't know. Yeah, this is from the Grand Lodge. 1334 01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:03.479 This is one of their documents. 1335 01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:09.640 But okay, wow, super consolidation of both mystical and crusade. 1336 01:13:09.680 --> 01:13:10.600 Yeah, that's where you're at. 1337 01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:14.439 Yeah, So the consolidation of both mystical mystical and a 1338 01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:19.000 cascade of Deputy Inspector generals in New York and chivalric virtues. 1339 01:13:19.279 --> 01:13:22.920 The Masons would uh the mason's mind would more. In 1340 01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:27.199 seventeen sixty eight, three brothers, including Moses Michael Hayes, easily 1341 01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:29.800 regained the wisdom and love of its original divine and 1342 01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:33.760 a businessman of Dutch parentage, were empowered nature that makes 1343 01:13:33.800 --> 01:13:36.600 no sense to confer all degrees in the West Indies 1344 01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:39.960 and North America. In seventeen eighty one, Hayes commissioned eight 1345 01:13:40.039 --> 01:13:43.840 brothers to establish Moran's Right in the US of these 1346 01:13:44.079 --> 01:13:47.560 barren m continue. Okay, I don't know what all that's about. 1347 01:13:47.640 --> 01:13:51.640 This is written very strangely, but anyway, so that is 1348 01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:53.680 a little bit of the history of how the Freemasons 1349 01:13:53.720 --> 01:13:57.720 got from a stone Mason's guild. Somehow a Knight's templar 1350 01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:00.600 connection got thrown in the mix because fuck it, and 1351 01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:03.680 then into the public zeitgeist of what we have now. 1352 01:14:04.159 --> 01:14:08.960 Now let's talk more specifically about the Knight's templars. So 1353 01:14:09.159 --> 01:14:11.640 this is from the York Right, the York Right of 1354 01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:16.159 Freemasonry official information. These are some other logos you've probably 1355 01:14:16.159 --> 01:14:20.720 seen on the back of cars, right, So this logo 1356 01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:22.760 they're square and compass with the g This is what 1357 01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:26.319 you would see or what's called a blue side mason. Okay, 1358 01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:29.680 then you have or you see this, and it's called 1359 01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:33.239 a blue lodge. Essentially, it is a lodge where you're 1360 01:14:33.279 --> 01:14:36.000 only going through the first three degrees of masonry and 1361 01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:39.199 that's about it. Then there is this emblem here and 1362 01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:40.880 this is what you might call if you see this 1363 01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:45.079 on a sign, as a red lodge. This is where 1364 01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:49.479 Knights templars are created as far as the Freemasons are concerned. Right, 1365 01:14:50.279 --> 01:14:52.560 then when you get to a certain level within that 1366 01:14:52.720 --> 01:14:53.319 you see this. 1367 01:14:53.319 --> 01:14:56.039 This is what you may hear a term called a 1368 01:14:56.079 --> 01:14:56.920 purple lodge. 1369 01:14:57.479 --> 01:14:59.880 That's kind of a like a nickname given, but that's 1370 01:14:59.920 --> 01:15:03.000 not an actually accepted term. But essentially it is all 1371 01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:05.199 still within the realm of the Knights templars. And this 1372 01:15:05.960 --> 01:15:09.960 is the Free Masonic Knights Templar logo itself. 1373 01:15:10.640 --> 01:15:15.279 I've seen really mm hmmm, I've seen quite a few, 1374 01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:16.800 but okay, okay, fair enough. 1375 01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:18.880 So I think I've seen the purple one and I've 1376 01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:20.159 seen the blue one a ton. 1377 01:15:20.520 --> 01:15:22.800 Okay, So you may have seen some of these other ones. 1378 01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:25.520 Maybe you have, maybe you have not, but uh, these 1379 01:15:25.520 --> 01:15:27.199 are other logos that you may see. 1380 01:15:27.399 --> 01:15:31.319 The crown, uh this, uh, this square, I've seen that 1381 01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:32.239 one with the. 1382 01:15:32.119 --> 01:15:37.640 Wreath and the green triangle. The Grand York right bodies 1383 01:15:38.119 --> 01:15:40.800 the red Rosicrucian or rose of Cronston. 1384 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:41.640 I've seen that one. 1385 01:15:42.159 --> 01:15:45.000 This is also a symbol for the Hermitic or a 1386 01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:47.520 tree of life. This one is talking about how they're 1387 01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:51.000 all knights, templars of the USA, Cryptic Mason's jurisdictions. 1388 01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:54.000 Uh yeah, these are These are just more logos that 1389 01:15:54.039 --> 01:15:54.680 you might see. 1390 01:15:54.760 --> 01:15:56.600 I've seen a couple of those, but some of those 1391 01:15:56.640 --> 01:15:58.439 I really haven't seen. But I've seen a couple of 1392 01:15:58.479 --> 01:16:01.359 those throughout like down here, and I've seen a lot of. 1393 01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:02.319 Them on their hats. 1394 01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:02.880 Yeah. 1395 01:16:03.079 --> 01:16:05.720 So, or they'll hand out the pins, or they have 1396 01:16:05.800 --> 01:16:07.000 them on the side of the floats. 1397 01:16:07.199 --> 01:16:12.560 So absolutely absolutely so. Again not to get way too 1398 01:16:12.600 --> 01:16:14.720 often too the weeds here, but this is more of 1399 01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:16.960 the emblems you might see. Also, this one, this is 1400 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:19.960 what we would call a keystone or a cornerstone, and 1401 01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:23.640 they use this for the the de Molay mark, the 1402 01:16:23.800 --> 01:16:27.279 children's group of the Freemasons, Like if you're a Freemason 1403 01:16:27.479 --> 01:16:29.520 and you want your kid to be associated with the order. 1404 01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:33.000 They're called the Molayans, named after Jacques de Molay. 1405 01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:37.119 Huh So all of those are different groups that are 1406 01:16:37.159 --> 01:16:40.279 those are part of the fifty two rites that were created. 1407 01:16:40.479 --> 01:16:43.159 Okay, no, no, no, these are accepted these days. These 1408 01:16:43.159 --> 01:16:44.840 are accepted. It's like subsets. 1409 01:16:45.199 --> 01:16:49.720 So you'll have it's like the variation flavors of Christianity. 1410 01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:50.760 Yeah, exactly. 1411 01:16:51.039 --> 01:16:51.319 Okay. 1412 01:16:51.479 --> 01:16:52.680 You'll see some that are like. 1413 01:16:54.479 --> 01:16:59.279 The Order of Tall Cedars, the Molayans, the Eastern Star. 1414 01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:01.520 All of these are groups. 1415 01:17:01.159 --> 01:17:03.079 That are within the Word of Bunker Hill. 1416 01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:07.039 Yeah, Order of the Mystic Time, They. 1417 01:17:07.119 --> 01:17:08.680 Order of the Order of Rainbow. 1418 01:17:08.880 --> 01:17:12.399 Order of Rainbow is one. Absolutely that the Shrine Clowns, 1419 01:17:12.840 --> 01:17:14.039 that's another one. 1420 01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:17.840 Okay, now you're just being ridiculous. Daughters of the Nile. 1421 01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:21.560 I have heard of White Shine Jerusalem. 1422 01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:23.800 Daughters of the Nile, Order of the Eastern Star, Order 1423 01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:28.840 of Amaranth, National National Sojourners Tall. 1424 01:17:28.960 --> 01:17:34.119 So all these fall under the now recognized way of 1425 01:17:34.439 --> 01:17:38.239 the Freemasons. So all of them participate in the same rituals. 1426 01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:43.079 They're just different flavors of it, absolutely, okay. And so 1427 01:17:43.239 --> 01:17:45.720 for a lot of the ones down here with just 1428 01:17:45.800 --> 01:17:49.439 the g they're not really like doing anything satanic. They're 1429 01:17:49.479 --> 01:17:51.239 more or less because I see them out doing a 1430 01:17:51.279 --> 01:17:53.760 lot of charity work. I see them out. I've talked 1431 01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:55.560 to a lot of the guys. They just seem like 1432 01:17:55.600 --> 01:17:57.560 they're they just want to part of it, be a 1433 01:17:57.560 --> 01:17:59.760 part of some like boys club essentially. 1434 01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:06.720 And that's I will say this ninety nine point nine percent. 1435 01:18:06.840 --> 01:18:11.039 I know, I know, listen, but listen, I understand this 1436 01:18:11.199 --> 01:18:15.279 that they are going to never do anything evil, like 1437 01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:21.079 the vast, vast majority of Freemasons, A have never heard 1438 01:18:21.279 --> 01:18:24.560 of the crazy shit that so many conspiracy theorists. Well, 1439 01:18:24.600 --> 01:18:26.319 they may have heard the conspiracy, but they don't know 1440 01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:29.840 about Albert Pike's book, right, or they haven't read it 1441 01:18:29.880 --> 01:18:31.119 covered they don't read it. 1442 01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:32.960 I thought they like had to read it, like this 1443 01:18:33.079 --> 01:18:36.079 was something that they have to know to be able 1444 01:18:36.119 --> 01:18:36.960 to participate. 1445 01:18:37.119 --> 01:18:38.800 Not really, I mean you can't. 1446 01:18:39.039 --> 01:18:41.880 It's recommended that you would read it, but it's not 1447 01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:44.479 like you don't have to read it to be a 1448 01:18:44.479 --> 01:18:47.520 Mason by any means. It's kind of like the Blue Bible. 1449 01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:53.039 They have Masonic Bibles that they're not different from regular Bibles. 1450 01:18:53.079 --> 01:18:55.960 They just have some like marginal notes, and they have 1451 01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:58.000 some pictures, and they have some things that they draw 1452 01:18:58.079 --> 01:19:01.079 comparisons to Freemasonry from the Bible which again you have 1453 01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:03.560 to you got to really try to see those connections. 1454 01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:07.640 But whatever, it's not they're not trying to bastardize religion 1455 01:19:07.920 --> 01:19:13.159 because they are allegedly a non religious organization. It's the 1456 01:19:13.159 --> 01:19:17.319 ones at the very, very very top that have done 1457 01:19:17.399 --> 01:19:20.079 and are still doing a lot of horrible shit in 1458 01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:23.199 the name of the organization. But your average guy walking 1459 01:19:23.199 --> 01:19:25.760 around with a Masonic ring, even if he's at thirty two, 1460 01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:28.840 even is at the thirty second level, he's probably never 1461 01:19:28.880 --> 01:19:30.640 done some horrible shit in the name of the Order, 1462 01:19:31.239 --> 01:19:32.359 the realistic. 1463 01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:34.439 So what is the third like, what do they have 1464 01:19:34.520 --> 01:19:38.039 to do at the thirty three level specifically. 1465 01:19:37.840 --> 01:19:40.680 Well, I'm glad you bring that up. Let's move forward 1466 01:19:40.760 --> 01:19:44.520 in the conversation to Albert Pike. So this is a 1467 01:19:44.560 --> 01:19:48.920 book that he wrote, the Masonic Formulas and Rituals. This 1468 01:19:49.079 --> 01:19:51.920 is a well, I didn't mean to do that, old up, 1469 01:19:52.039 --> 01:19:56.479 old up. This is public but a publication twenty ten 1470 01:19:56.560 --> 01:19:58.079 Scottish Rite Research Society. 1471 01:19:58.199 --> 01:19:59.479 So let's read the excerpt. 1472 01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:03.319 Here the source of Albert Pike's Ritual Revisions, transcribed from 1473 01:20:03.319 --> 01:20:06.600 the original copy in the archives vault of the Supreme Council. 1474 01:20:07.079 --> 01:20:10.239 This never before published work includes the complete collection of 1475 01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:12.840 rituals which Albert Pike received when he joined the Scottish 1476 01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:15.960 Right in eighteen fifty three. After receiving the degrees, Pike 1477 01:20:16.079 --> 01:20:19.239 borrowed the manuscript rituals and over the next two years 1478 01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:22.199 he transcribed his own copies. He later used these texts 1479 01:20:22.199 --> 01:20:25.479 to create his revision of the Scottish Right rituals. This 1480 01:20:25.520 --> 01:20:29.079 book answered the question what was the Scottish Right like 1481 01:20:29.239 --> 01:20:34.159 before Albert Pike? So before he did anything, you could 1482 01:20:34.199 --> 01:20:36.039 see a whole lot of symbolism, a whole lot of 1483 01:20:36.039 --> 01:20:40.239 occult symbolism on this because it essentially was like the 1484 01:20:40.279 --> 01:20:46.199 Hermetic orders. It was looking at philosophical and esoteric and 1485 01:20:46.279 --> 01:20:50.840 in some cases magic with a K principles. So contents 1486 01:20:50.880 --> 01:20:54.279 include three craft degrees from the early French source, all 1487 01:20:54.279 --> 01:20:59.479 Scottish rights rituals, the Adoniramite write, the degrees of Knighthood, 1488 01:20:59.520 --> 01:21:03.199 the true Masonry of adoption and the Androgynists adoptive Right, 1489 01:21:03.279 --> 01:21:08.239 and so much more. Includes original drawings and Masonic ciphers 1490 01:21:08.279 --> 01:21:13.199 from Pike. An introduction by ill ill Illustrious brother de 1491 01:21:13.399 --> 01:21:17.359 Hooyas provides insight into these rituals and the ritual development 1492 01:21:17.439 --> 01:21:20.680 of the Scottish, right. So anyway, this book kind of 1493 01:21:20.680 --> 01:21:25.279 talks about freemasonry before Albert Pike, but let's talk about 1494 01:21:25.319 --> 01:21:27.199 Albert Pike in specific. 1495 01:21:27.319 --> 01:21:28.560 So who is this guy? 1496 01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:33.159 How did he get so, you know, ostensibly the key 1497 01:21:33.239 --> 01:21:36.920 figure in what we would now call freemasonry. So Albert Pike, 1498 01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:40.880 who alive eighteen oh nine to eighteen ninety one. He 1499 01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:43.199 was a lawyer who played a major role in the 1500 01:21:43.199 --> 01:21:46.319 development of early counts of Arkansas and played an active 1501 01:21:46.399 --> 01:21:46.800 role in the. 1502 01:21:46.720 --> 01:21:48.560 State's politics prior to the Civil War. 1503 01:21:49.000 --> 01:21:51.319 He was also a central figure in the development of 1504 01:21:51.399 --> 01:21:53.880 Masonry in the state and later became a national leader 1505 01:21:53.920 --> 01:21:58.279 of that organization. So during the Civil War he commanded 1506 01:21:58.319 --> 01:22:02.640 the Confederacy the Confederate's Indian territory, raising troops there and 1507 01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:06.520 exercising field command in one battle. He also was a 1508 01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:09.439 talented poet and writer, which would go into him writing 1509 01:22:09.439 --> 01:22:12.600 these books. Also him being a lawyer, he was a wordsmith, 1510 01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:17.359 if you will. It's also worth noting he was a 1511 01:22:17.399 --> 01:22:21.960 Confederate and his statue was taken down in Washington, d C. 1512 01:22:22.319 --> 01:22:23.840 At one point in time, just a. 1513 01:22:23.760 --> 01:22:28.000 Few years ago, and your boy Donnie t made sure 1514 01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:29.479 that that statue got put back up. 1515 01:22:30.520 --> 01:22:32.720 It's worth mentioning anyway. 1516 01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:35.479 Was he like a horrible human being? Well, obviously with 1517 01:22:35.520 --> 01:22:38.119 what he wrote, but like he was what he did. 1518 01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:40.960 He was a Confederate general who wanted to keep slavery 1519 01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:43.840 and was very clear about the fact that they are 1520 01:22:43.880 --> 01:22:44.840 worshiping Lucifer. 1521 01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:50.439 Okay, you know it's the red flags just keep popping 1522 01:22:50.520 --> 01:22:51.560 up with good old Donnie T. 1523 01:22:51.960 --> 01:22:52.720 There's so many. 1524 01:22:53.199 --> 01:22:56.159 Yeah, but I don't even know if Donny T even 1525 01:22:56.199 --> 01:22:57.880 knew that about Albert Pike or not. I'm not out 1526 01:22:57.880 --> 01:23:00.319 of one now. I don't think he's like the artist 1527 01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:01.000 dude on Earth. 1528 01:23:01.239 --> 01:23:04.840 Okay, I don't think that he's that stupid at all, 1529 01:23:05.399 --> 01:23:07.279 but I am, but I am curious to see what 1530 01:23:07.319 --> 01:23:10.359 this whole Epstein situation with Malania coming out on National 1531 01:23:10.399 --> 01:23:14.079 TV yesterday and saying that, hey, by the way, we're 1532 01:23:14.119 --> 01:23:18.720 doing this, and it's like, ooh, we're okay, they're gonna 1533 01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:21.239 look in They're going to forcibly look into the Epstein 1534 01:23:21.279 --> 01:23:24.800 files because there is more people connected than just Epstein. 1535 01:23:25.560 --> 01:23:29.079 Okay, we'll see, which we've been saying that, but anyway, 1536 01:23:29.199 --> 01:23:30.399 we'll get to we'll do it. 1537 01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:32.840 That's a whole episode in and of itself. 1538 01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:36.239 But for him to put this man, this piece of 1539 01:23:36.239 --> 01:23:37.640 shit statue back up. 1540 01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:41.239 Yeah, no, you can't just say that he didn't know 1541 01:23:41.279 --> 01:23:41.720 about it. 1542 01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:43.560 So you got to keep in mind how much money 1543 01:23:43.640 --> 01:23:46.399 the Masons have to throw around, and it's very possible 1544 01:23:46.439 --> 01:23:50.079 that enough Masons threw enough money into his fund. Trump's 1545 01:23:50.119 --> 01:23:52.159 fun to be like, hey, you know, it'd be really 1546 01:23:52.199 --> 01:23:54.720 cool as if you put up our patron homie back up. 1547 01:23:55.960 --> 01:23:58.600 And maybe you know, listen, I heard he was a 1548 01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:00.960 pretty good guy. I don't know they say that, some 1549 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:03.319 people say that I don't know, but sure it's a 1550 01:24:03.359 --> 01:24:04.079 fucking statue. 1551 01:24:04.119 --> 01:24:05.039 What difference does it make? 1552 01:24:05.359 --> 01:24:07.199 I could see that being a part of the conversation too, 1553 01:24:07.399 --> 01:24:10.720 or I very well knew exactly what this was and 1554 01:24:10.840 --> 01:24:12.920 was like, yeah, we need that guy back. I don't know. 1555 01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:15.439 I'm totally gonna buy the book because I want to 1556 01:24:15.479 --> 01:24:20.159 read it. Yep, all right, I already found it while 1557 01:24:20.159 --> 01:24:22.640 we were talking. I found I found a nineteen oh 1558 01:24:22.680 --> 01:24:23.319 six version. 1559 01:24:23.439 --> 01:24:24.960 I got to pull it up right here, which we're 1560 01:24:24.960 --> 01:24:27.560 gonna talk about more and some of the quotes from it, 1561 01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:27.920 some of the more. 1562 01:24:28.479 --> 01:24:30.479 I want to actually like get my hands on a 1563 01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:32.239 copy of it because I want to see. 1564 01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:35.439 Yeah, so all right, So moving on. Albert Pike was 1565 01:24:35.479 --> 01:24:38.359 born in Boston, Massachusetts, eighteen oh nine. He was one 1566 01:24:38.359 --> 01:24:42.760 of six children of a cobbler, and his mom was Sarah. 1567 01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:45.399 He attended public school in Byfield. 1568 01:24:44.840 --> 01:24:50.720 Newbury Port and uh Farm Framington, Framingham Jesus, Massachusetts. Here 1569 01:24:50.720 --> 01:24:52.920 receees an education that provided him with the background in 1570 01:24:52.960 --> 01:24:56.600 classical and contemporary literature and in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 1571 01:24:57.319 --> 01:24:59.960 Now I remember we've talked about that in this day. 1572 01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:03.720 If you could speak English, fine, whatever, Latin, or you're 1573 01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:07.079 educated Greek. Oh, you've got a high level of education. 1574 01:25:07.239 --> 01:25:10.000 Hebrew. Oh you're clearly like a doctorate at something. 1575 01:25:10.399 --> 01:25:13.840 Obviously clearly his word is like law. 1576 01:25:13.880 --> 01:25:17.000 Not many people had the knowledge of all four of 1577 01:25:17.039 --> 01:25:19.600 those languages. So this, that right off the rip, tells 1578 01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:20.399 you this guy. 1579 01:25:20.359 --> 01:25:22.520 Was educated, educated. 1580 01:25:23.119 --> 01:25:27.760 He passed cobbler though, yeah, you wouldn't think, yeah. 1581 01:25:27.479 --> 01:25:28.880 Like a cobbler and like that. 1582 01:25:29.399 --> 01:25:32.319 How and why I'm curious how that happened in one 1583 01:25:32.359 --> 01:25:35.960 of six like they normally that doesn't you wouldn't get 1584 01:25:35.960 --> 01:25:37.279 that kind of level education. 1585 01:25:37.600 --> 01:25:40.399 Well, let's talk about it further. Because he stopped off at. 1586 01:25:40.279 --> 01:25:44.039 Harvard, he passed the examination required for entry into Harvard 1587 01:25:44.039 --> 01:25:46.840 when he was just sixteen. However, he was unable to 1588 01:25:46.840 --> 01:25:49.520 pay the tuition at Harvard, and he began to teach, 1589 01:25:50.000 --> 01:25:54.319 working at schools in newbury Port, near Gloucester, and Fairhaven 1590 01:25:54.880 --> 01:25:57.000 later in his life. In eighteen fifty nine, he earned 1591 01:25:57.039 --> 01:26:00.199 an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard for his 1592 01:26:00.239 --> 01:26:05.800 deep scholarship. So he independently, on his own studied these things, 1593 01:26:05.880 --> 01:26:08.119 even though he didn't have a classic education. He could 1594 01:26:08.159 --> 01:26:09.800 have gone to Harvard if he could afford it, but 1595 01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:11.600 his dad made shoes. 1596 01:26:11.880 --> 01:26:14.239 He was one of six kids. Yeah, you know, they 1597 01:26:14.239 --> 01:26:15.119 didn't have the money for that. 1598 01:26:15.960 --> 01:26:18.479 So when he was fifty he earned it all right. 1599 01:26:18.479 --> 01:26:21.439 And this is after the whole Civil War, I actually know, 1600 01:26:21.520 --> 01:26:23.840 right before it. So he began to write poetry as 1601 01:26:23.840 --> 01:26:25.640 a young man, which he continued to do for the 1602 01:26:25.640 --> 01:26:27.159 rest of his life, and when he was twenty three 1603 01:26:27.159 --> 01:26:31.399 he published his first poem, Hymns to the Gods. Subsequent 1604 01:26:31.399 --> 01:26:35.439 poems appeared in contemporary literary sources such as Blackwood's Edinburgh 1605 01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:39.319 Magazine and local newspapers. His first collection of poetry, prose 1606 01:26:39.479 --> 01:26:43.119 sketches and poems written in the Western Country appeared in 1607 01:26:43.159 --> 01:26:46.119 eighteen thirty four. He later gathered many of his poems 1608 01:26:46.159 --> 01:26:48.840 and republished them in Hymns of the Gods and other poems. 1609 01:26:49.600 --> 01:26:52.800 After his death, these appeared again in General Albert Pike's 1610 01:26:52.800 --> 01:26:57.800 poems Lyrics and Love Songs. Wow. So Pike left Massachusetts 1611 01:26:57.840 --> 01:27:00.520 for Santa Fe in what was then Mexico in eighteen 1612 01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:04.039 thirty one, one of the many time one of many 1613 01:27:04.119 --> 01:27:07.479 at the time attracted to the developing West. From Santa Fe, 1614 01:27:07.560 --> 01:27:10.720 he joined an expedition to the lands around the headwaters 1615 01:27:10.760 --> 01:27:13.479 of the Arkansas and Red Rivers. Somewhere along the route, 1616 01:27:13.479 --> 01:27:16.239 he left his expedition and walked to Fort Smith. He 1617 01:27:16.359 --> 01:27:19.079 taught there in rural schools for a short time, but 1618 01:27:19.159 --> 01:27:23.079 his literary skills early evolved him in Arkansas politics. 1619 01:27:23.720 --> 01:27:25.000 He could read pretty good. 1620 01:27:26.560 --> 01:27:29.960 In eighteen thirty three, he published in local newspapers letters 1621 01:27:29.960 --> 01:27:34.920 in support of Robert Crittenden's candidacy for territorial delegate to Congress. 1622 01:27:35.399 --> 01:27:39.520 The anonymous letters, signed Casco after one of the Roman 1623 01:27:39.560 --> 01:27:44.000 politicians who assassinated Julius Caesar, were considered very persuasive and 1624 01:27:44.319 --> 01:27:48.000 secured him for a statewide reputation as a writer. 1625 01:27:48.520 --> 01:27:51.039 They also attracted attention from Charles. 1626 01:27:50.680 --> 01:27:55.359 Bertrand, owner of the Whig Party Arkansas Advocate, who invited 1627 01:27:55.359 --> 01:28:00.800 Pike to Little Rock's Pulaski's County to work as the editor. 1628 01:28:01.119 --> 01:28:03.680 Pike accepted the job and moved to the capital city, 1629 01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:06.479 and while working for The Advocate, Pike published a series 1630 01:28:06.520 --> 01:28:09.119 of stories and poems about his adventures in New Mexico. 1631 01:28:09.399 --> 01:28:11.880 The material later published in The pro Stories and Poems 1632 01:28:11.880 --> 01:28:16.000 Written in the Western Country. In addition to editing the paper, 1633 01:28:16.039 --> 01:28:18.479 Pike secured additional work in Little Rock as a clerk 1634 01:28:18.600 --> 01:28:22.079 in the Legislator. He married a woman on October tenth, 1635 01:28:22.119 --> 01:28:26.720 eighteen thirty four. The couple also had six children, so 1636 01:28:27.000 --> 01:28:31.199 what this woman brought to the marriage was considerable financial resources, 1637 01:28:31.560 --> 01:28:34.239 and she helped Pike purchase an intent an interest in 1638 01:28:34.279 --> 01:28:36.880 The Advocate from Bertrand in eighteen thirty four. 1639 01:28:37.439 --> 01:28:40.119 The next year he became its sole proprietor. 1640 01:28:40.520 --> 01:28:43.600 Pike studied law while editing the newspaper, ultimately passing the 1641 01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:46.640 Arkansas Bar exam in either eighteen thirty six or eighteen 1642 01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:49.640 thirty seven. In the later year or the latter year, 1643 01:28:49.720 --> 01:28:52.119 he sold the newspaper and devoted his time to the law. 1644 01:28:52.439 --> 01:28:55.840 He demonstrated considerable legal prowess early and represented clients and 1645 01:28:55.920 --> 01:28:59.960 courts at every level level, including the United States Supreme Court, 1646 01:29:00.359 --> 01:29:04.039 which he received permission to practice before in eighteen forty nine. 1647 01:29:04.760 --> 01:29:07.079 So this dude was making his way in the world, 1648 01:29:08.199 --> 01:29:12.159 married into some way. I was, he's smart, Like, he's 1649 01:29:12.159 --> 01:29:15.399 just a smart dude. He reads all this literature, making 1650 01:29:15.439 --> 01:29:19.000 some very lucrative business deals happen. He's killing it. He's 1651 01:29:19.039 --> 01:29:21.199 absolutely killing it. And then on top of that, he's 1652 01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:24.560 a lawyer. So Pike developed a lucrative law practice, and 1653 01:29:24.600 --> 01:29:27.279 his clients included many of the tribes of the Indian Territory. 1654 01:29:27.479 --> 01:29:30.039 Among his clients at that time were the Creek, Muskogee 1655 01:29:30.039 --> 01:29:32.760 and Chucktaw, whom he represented in a case against the 1656 01:29:32.840 --> 01:29:36.000 US government that secured payment for the lands taken in 1657 01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:39.520 the Treaty of Fort Jackson in eighteen fourteen. Pike learned 1658 01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:43.119 several Native American dialects while working as their attorney. 1659 01:29:43.680 --> 01:29:45.640 I mean, the dude, damn old boy was really smart. 1660 01:29:45.680 --> 01:29:47.479 I mean you're talking like that's like at least six 1661 01:29:47.560 --> 01:29:50.520 or seven languages that he, yeah, like was able to 1662 01:29:50.560 --> 01:29:51.239 speak and read. 1663 01:29:51.479 --> 01:29:53.199 We're talking pre Civil War. 1664 01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:57.000 You got the US government to actually pay the natives 1665 01:29:57.000 --> 01:29:58.039 for the land they stole. 1666 01:29:58.760 --> 01:29:59.199 Ah. 1667 01:29:59.359 --> 01:30:02.359 Yeah, homeboy was perspasive by lah. 1668 01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:05.960 Yeah, Okay, that man had the words for sure. 1669 01:30:07.079 --> 01:30:08.760 That's probably why he picked the old girl because she 1670 01:30:08.760 --> 01:30:09.279 had money. 1671 01:30:09.479 --> 01:30:12.880 Oh, he knew what he was doing. Yes. So from 1672 01:30:12.920 --> 01:30:15.439 eighteen thirty six eighteen forty four, Pike was the first 1673 01:30:15.479 --> 01:30:18.439 reporter to the Arkansas Supreme Court, charged with writing notes 1674 01:30:18.479 --> 01:30:21.279 on the relevant points in court decisions. He published the 1675 01:30:21.319 --> 01:30:23.840 Index Court's Opinions. In eighteen forty two, he published the 1676 01:30:23.920 --> 01:30:27.079 Arkansas Form Book, a tool for lawyers providing models for 1677 01:30:27.119 --> 01:30:29.000 the different kinds of motions to be filed in the 1678 01:30:29.000 --> 01:30:32.199 state courts. His reputation as an attorney also secured him 1679 01:30:32.199 --> 01:30:35.960 an appointment of receiver for the failed Arkansas State Bank 1680 01:30:36.359 --> 01:30:39.920 in eighteen forty. As receiver, he attempted to collect the 1681 01:30:39.960 --> 01:30:42.560 debts owed to that institution, and at the same time, 1682 01:30:42.640 --> 01:30:44.960 the fees he received for the work were lucrative and 1683 01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:49.239 secured his fortune. So, oh, poor son of a cobbler 1684 01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:51.600 that couldn't get into Harvard because he couldn't pay the tuition. 1685 01:30:52.359 --> 01:30:56.000 He found a gold mine in all ar Kansas. 1686 01:30:57.119 --> 01:30:58.399 Before he was even fifty. 1687 01:30:58.640 --> 01:31:03.520 Yes, and Dition As ambition public figure, Pike joined Order 1688 01:31:03.640 --> 01:31:06.680 others in eighteen forty five and supporting actions against Mexico 1689 01:31:07.000 --> 01:31:10.079 what became the Mexican War. He helped raise Little Rock Guards, 1690 01:31:10.119 --> 01:31:13.800 a company incorporated into the Arkansas Cavalry Regiment of Colonel 1691 01:31:13.920 --> 01:31:17.720 Archibald Yell, and served as a captain. Pike concluded early 1692 01:31:17.920 --> 01:31:20.920 on that the senior officers of the regiment were incompetent, 1693 01:31:21.039 --> 01:31:23.760 and he shared his observations with people back in Arkansas 1694 01:31:23.800 --> 01:31:27.560 through letters and newspapers. Following the Battle for Buenavista, he 1695 01:31:27.640 --> 01:31:31.840 leveled particularly harsh criticisms against Lieutenant Colonel John Selden Rohne. 1696 01:31:32.359 --> 01:31:36.079 After the publication of a particularly victoroulic letter by Pike 1697 01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:39.439 in the Arkansas Gazette, Ron demanded that Pike apologize or 1698 01:31:39.640 --> 01:31:44.840 give him satisfaction, which sounds like a duel. Pike refused 1699 01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:47.319 to apologize, and the two fought in the duel hey 1700 01:31:48.039 --> 01:31:51.000 near Fort Smith, on a sand bank in the Arkansas River, 1701 01:31:51.319 --> 01:31:53.960 and the exchange of fire neither hit his antagonists, and 1702 01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:58.279 the two were persuaded to halt the duel with honor satisfied. Yeah, 1703 01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:00.880 duels back in the day very rarely actually Indian death. 1704 01:32:01.279 --> 01:32:03.000 More often than not, you would just take a shot 1705 01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:06.560 to just like prove your metal, so to speak, prove 1706 01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:08.640 that you're a man and you're actually about that life. 1707 01:32:08.920 --> 01:32:10.520 More often than not, they would just fire into the 1708 01:32:10.560 --> 01:32:11.279 air or something. 1709 01:32:11.319 --> 01:32:12.359 It was all for show. 1710 01:32:12.600 --> 01:32:16.920 Anyway. Returning from Mexico, Pike re established his law practice. 1711 01:32:17.239 --> 01:32:20.000 He promoted the construction of trans Continental Railroad from New 1712 01:32:20.119 --> 01:32:24.279 Orleans to the Pacific Coast, writing numerous newspaper essays urging 1713 01:32:24.319 --> 01:32:27.239 support for the project. He moved to New Orleans in 1714 01:32:27.279 --> 01:32:30.680 eighteen fifty three to further his railroad activities, although he 1715 01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:35.119 also continued to practice law. He translated French legal volumes 1716 01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:37.680 into English while preparing to pass the local bar exam 1717 01:32:37.720 --> 01:32:41.960 for Louisiana. Now that's interesting also because Louisiana operates under 1718 01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:44.760 Napoleonic law, not common law like the rest of the 1719 01:32:44.880 --> 01:32:47.760 United States. So it's an entirely different bar that has 1720 01:32:47.800 --> 01:32:50.159 to be done here. Like I understand each state has 1721 01:32:50.159 --> 01:32:53.079 their own bar, but like it's different law that you 1722 01:32:53.119 --> 01:32:55.920 have to apply when you study for Louisiana bar exam. 1723 01:32:55.960 --> 01:33:00.520 But anyway, ultimately he successfully obtained h charter from the 1724 01:33:00.520 --> 01:33:03.720 Louisiana legislator for one of his railroad projects, and he 1725 01:33:03.760 --> 01:33:06.239 returned to Little Rock in eighteen fifty seven. In the 1726 01:33:06.319 --> 01:33:09.079 years immediately following the Mexican Civil or the Mexican War, 1727 01:33:09.159 --> 01:33:13.119 Pike's concern with the developing six sectional crisis brought on 1728 01:33:13.239 --> 01:33:15.199 by the issue of slavery became apparent. 1729 01:33:15.800 --> 01:33:16.760 He had long been a. 1730 01:33:16.720 --> 01:33:19.640 Whig, which for those it's the Whig and the big parties, 1731 01:33:19.720 --> 01:33:22.079 this was the conservative and liberals of the day and 1732 01:33:22.119 --> 01:33:24.720 age like we have Republican and Democrat now. But anyway, 1733 01:33:25.359 --> 01:33:28.680 but the Whig Party repeatedly refused to address the slavery issue. 1734 01:33:28.800 --> 01:33:32.359 The failure in Pike's own anti Catholicism led him to 1735 01:33:32.439 --> 01:33:37.039 join the No Nothing Party upon its creation. The No 1736 01:33:37.159 --> 01:33:40.800 Nothing Party was a third option that started to gain traction. 1737 01:33:40.920 --> 01:33:43.840 But I should also mention before we go any further, 1738 01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:51.039 the first third party option in the United States was 1739 01:33:51.079 --> 01:33:58.039 the Anti Masonic Party. Wait, so, if you go back 1740 01:33:58.079 --> 01:34:01.119 in time, and it doesn't matter, even seventeen seventy six, 1741 01:34:01.840 --> 01:34:09.800 we have primarily always been a two party country right right, left, conservative, uh, liberal, 1742 01:34:09.880 --> 01:34:12.640 whatever you want to say, and they've had different monikers 1743 01:34:12.640 --> 01:34:17.800 for years on that the first third party to actually 1744 01:34:17.880 --> 01:34:20.239 be registered and actually get a little bit of traction. 1745 01:34:20.960 --> 01:34:22.880 Was the Anti Masonic Party. 1746 01:34:24.039 --> 01:34:27.640 Can you imagine that everybody's like, man, fuck the Republicans, 1747 01:34:27.640 --> 01:34:29.119 fuck the Democrats, that's not the point. 1748 01:34:29.199 --> 01:34:32.079 We need to get these fucking Masons out of here. 1749 01:34:32.199 --> 01:34:34.399 Like that. They did that to the tune of having 1750 01:34:34.680 --> 01:34:36.720 whole political party associated with it. 1751 01:34:38.439 --> 01:34:42.279 Well, maybe they felt very inclined that the Masons were 1752 01:34:42.279 --> 01:34:43.279 doing some shady shit. 1753 01:34:43.560 --> 01:34:45.439 They just wanted to get the old boys club out 1754 01:34:45.439 --> 01:34:47.560 of it. Like the whole point of America being founded 1755 01:34:47.720 --> 01:34:51.600 was to leave aristocracy and nobility back in Europe. Yet 1756 01:34:51.640 --> 01:34:53.920 somehow we now have one with the Masonic League, and 1757 01:34:54.000 --> 01:34:55.880 it's like it didn't matter if you were on one 1758 01:34:55.880 --> 01:34:57.720 side of the aisle or the other. All of them 1759 01:34:57.720 --> 01:34:58.319 were homies. 1760 01:34:58.840 --> 01:35:00.880 Yeah, they're all boys club exactly. 1761 01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:03.159 So the Anti Masonic Party started as a way to 1762 01:35:03.199 --> 01:35:05.560 try to shirk that. It didn't go far, but that 1763 01:35:05.800 --> 01:35:07.800 was if anybody wants to look that up. So anyway, 1764 01:35:08.319 --> 01:35:10.920 Pike then joined the Know Nothing Party upon its creation 1765 01:35:11.279 --> 01:35:14.279 in eighteen fifty six. He attended the new party's national convention, 1766 01:35:14.600 --> 01:35:17.239 but he found it equally reluctant to adopt a strong 1767 01:35:17.279 --> 01:35:22.399 pro slavery platform. A strong pro slavery platform. Just we're 1768 01:35:22.399 --> 01:35:23.680 all clear of where he's at. 1769 01:35:24.079 --> 01:35:25.000 I'm so confused. 1770 01:35:25.119 --> 01:35:30.239 He represented Native Americans and helped them like actually gain 1771 01:35:30.319 --> 01:35:32.640 traction and get lamp back and all of these things 1772 01:35:32.880 --> 01:35:37.800 came down to the Louisiana got the bar and all this, 1773 01:35:38.439 --> 01:35:40.880 and then was still pro slave. 1774 01:35:41.279 --> 01:35:42.640 Yeah. 1775 01:35:43.079 --> 01:35:45.079 Yeah, it makes no sense to me. 1776 01:35:45.439 --> 01:35:49.119 Because they had some feelings towards the black population at 1777 01:35:49.119 --> 01:35:51.199 that time, and yeah, they had some feelings towards the natives, 1778 01:35:51.199 --> 01:35:54.079 but like they're not black though. 1779 01:35:56.119 --> 01:35:58.359 I mean it depends, I guess on what state you're in, 1780 01:35:58.399 --> 01:36:01.319 because some of them were just even worse to the 1781 01:36:01.399 --> 01:36:03.920 native population, so worse. 1782 01:36:03.880 --> 01:36:07.640 Yes, but there's very little evidence that Native Americans were slaves. 1783 01:36:07.680 --> 01:36:10.520 There was attempts, there was absolutely attempts to enslave the 1784 01:36:10.600 --> 01:36:15.920 Native population. They did not God, there's no way to 1785 01:36:15.920 --> 01:36:16.279 say this. 1786 01:36:16.960 --> 01:36:19.000 We're just gonna move on. No, no, we're just gonna move 1787 01:36:19.039 --> 01:36:19.560 on from that. 1788 01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:24.800 They didn't do well like as slaves. And I'm not 1789 01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:27.560 saying that to say like, oh, well they weren't good, No, no, no, no. 1790 01:36:28.600 --> 01:36:35.479 They they were still battling a lot of sicknesses that 1791 01:36:35.520 --> 01:36:39.199 the white man brought over to this continent. Meanwhile, black 1792 01:36:39.239 --> 01:36:43.279 people had developed inoculation in Africa, like there's a long 1793 01:36:43.319 --> 01:36:46.720 list of reasons. But Native American slaves did not go 1794 01:36:46.840 --> 01:36:49.680 too well. So that's why instead of enslaving them, they 1795 01:36:49.760 --> 01:36:52.479 just kept kicking them more west and put them on reservations. 1796 01:36:52.600 --> 01:36:53.520 So that's what that's about. 1797 01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:57.600 So and for the record, his own anti Catholicism here 1798 01:36:58.439 --> 01:37:01.000 that also meant very anti cath which we talked about 1799 01:37:01.439 --> 01:37:05.399 very anti Irish. Excuse me, very anti Irish, very anti Italian. 1800 01:37:05.880 --> 01:37:08.119 So it wasn't just black people that he had an 1801 01:37:08.159 --> 01:37:11.039 issue with. He was like, okay with the natives, but 1802 01:37:11.079 --> 01:37:14.079 he didn't think that they were like equal. Yeah, like, 1803 01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:17.359 let's not be crazy here, rave and they're not. They're 1804 01:37:17.399 --> 01:37:21.119 not white. So but they were able to pay him 1805 01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:25.000 for his legal services, and that green mattered more at 1806 01:37:25.000 --> 01:37:27.439 the time, I should say gold. Gold mattered more than 1807 01:37:27.439 --> 01:37:30.600 skin color at that point, so is what it is. 1808 01:37:31.039 --> 01:37:34.399 So yeah, he had a real issue with the black population, 1809 01:37:34.439 --> 01:37:36.920 a lot of people. He had an issue with the Catholics, 1810 01:37:36.960 --> 01:37:41.159 all these things. So he joined other Southern delegates in 1811 01:37:41.279 --> 01:37:44.760 walking out of the convention. Pike expressed a belief that 1812 01:37:44.920 --> 01:37:50.800 in states' rights and considered succession constitutional. He philosophically supported secession, 1813 01:37:50.880 --> 01:37:53.680 demonstrating his position in eighteen sixty one when he published 1814 01:37:53.680 --> 01:37:57.840 the pamphlet titled State or Province, Bond or Free. In 1815 01:37:57.880 --> 01:38:01.880 eighteen sixty one, the Arkansas State Secession Convention named Pike 1816 01:38:01.960 --> 01:38:05.199 its Commissioner to Indian Territory and authorized him to negotiate 1817 01:38:05.239 --> 01:38:08.600 treaties with various tribes. As a result of this of 1818 01:38:08.640 --> 01:38:11.640 his experience there, the Confederate War Department appointed him a 1819 01:38:11.640 --> 01:38:15.920 brigadier general in the Confederate Army in August eighteen sixty 1820 01:38:15.920 --> 01:38:19.000 one and assigned him to the Department of the Indian Territory. 1821 01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:22.920 Pike assisted the tribes that supported the Confederacy in raising regiments. 1822 01:38:23.199 --> 01:38:25.880 He believed that these units would be critical to protecting 1823 01:38:25.880 --> 01:38:28.800 the territory from the Union incursion, but his belief that 1824 01:38:28.840 --> 01:38:32.039 the Indian units should be kept in Indian territory brought 1825 01:38:32.079 --> 01:38:35.199 him into early conflict with his superiors. In the spring 1826 01:38:35.239 --> 01:38:38.000 of eighteen sixty two, General Earl Van Dorn ordered him 1827 01:38:38.000 --> 01:38:42.119 to bring his twenty five hundred Indian troops into northwestern Arkansas. 1828 01:38:42.479 --> 01:38:45.359 Despite his opposition of the move, Pike obeyed, and his 1829 01:38:45.439 --> 01:38:48.039 Indian forces of about nine hundred men joined the Confederate 1830 01:38:48.039 --> 01:38:51.600 forces in northwest Arkansas on March seventh and eight, eighteen 1831 01:38:51.640 --> 01:38:54.800 sixty two. They participated in the Battle of p Ridge 1832 01:38:55.079 --> 01:39:00.000 aka Elkhorn Tavern, led by Pike. Pike proved a poor leader, 1833 01:39:00.399 --> 01:39:02.319 and he failed to keep his force engaged with the 1834 01:39:02.399 --> 01:39:06.239 enemy or in check. Charges circulated widely that the men 1835 01:39:06.399 --> 01:39:11.600 had stopped their advance to take scalps. After the Battlepike 1836 01:39:11.640 --> 01:39:14.279 and his men returned to Indian Territory. So he proved 1837 01:39:14.319 --> 01:39:18.960 to be a pretty a shitty battlefield commander. And I 1838 01:39:18.960 --> 01:39:23.600 mean to be honest, right, obviously he's a book nerd. 1839 01:39:24.479 --> 01:39:28.680 He's not a military guy. But also it kind of 1840 01:39:28.720 --> 01:39:31.880 sucks whenever you get your boys that you got to 1841 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:35.359 join and instead of like holding a line and advancing 1842 01:39:35.359 --> 01:39:38.119 a charge and all this stuff, they start scalping the 1843 01:39:38.199 --> 01:39:39.520 dudes they just killed. And it's like, no, no, we 1844 01:39:39.560 --> 01:39:42.039 got to keep pushing. I need a scalp, dude, what 1845 01:39:42.039 --> 01:39:44.239 are you talking about. I'm not going up there. I 1846 01:39:44.239 --> 01:39:46.159 gotta get this scout first, then we proceed. It's like 1847 01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:50.119 the Native Americans and the white man fought wars very differently, 1848 01:39:50.439 --> 01:39:53.159 which is why the Natives gave the white guy so 1849 01:39:53.199 --> 01:39:55.680 much hell whenever they were doing like guerrilla warfare tactics. 1850 01:39:55.680 --> 01:40:00.840 But anyway, so anyway, moving on, opposition to Confederate policy 1851 01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:03.119 over Indian territory would continue to be a source of 1852 01:40:03.159 --> 01:40:06.279 conflict between Pike and his superiors. Unhappy with Pike, in 1853 01:40:06.319 --> 01:40:09.479 the summer of eighteen sixty two, General Thomas Henman, commander 1854 01:40:09.479 --> 01:40:12.079 of the Confederate forces in Arkansas, attempted to extend his 1855 01:40:12.119 --> 01:40:15.840 authority over the territory. Pike responded by issuing a circular 1856 01:40:16.319 --> 01:40:19.119 that refused to surrender control and charged him with trying 1857 01:40:19.119 --> 01:40:22.800 to replace constitutional government with despotism, so him being a 1858 01:40:22.840 --> 01:40:25.279 good writer and being able to spend a narrative that 1859 01:40:25.439 --> 01:40:30.159 really played to his favor multiple times. Ultimately, the dispute 1860 01:40:30.199 --> 01:40:33.399 between the two went to the Confederate authorities at Richmond. 1861 01:40:33.720 --> 01:40:36.760 The authorities decided in favor of him in and reprimanded 1862 01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:40.039 Pike on July twelve. Pike resigned from his position in protests. 1863 01:40:40.319 --> 01:40:44.479 With his resignation, Pike retired to Greasy Cove at Montgomery County, 1864 01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:46.840 and he was appointed as a judge of the state 1865 01:40:46.840 --> 01:40:49.199 Supreme Court in eighteen sixty four, but little is known 1866 01:40:49.199 --> 01:40:52.239 of his activities in court. At the end of the 1867 01:40:52.239 --> 01:40:54.359 Civil War, Pike moved to New York and then for 1868 01:40:54.399 --> 01:40:57.880 a short time Canada. After receiving amnesty from President Andrew 1869 01:40:57.920 --> 01:41:02.079 Johnson in August eighteen sixty five, he returned for a 1870 01:41:02.119 --> 01:41:05.800 time to Arkansas and resumed his law practice. Eighteen sixty seven, 1871 01:41:05.840 --> 01:41:08.319 he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and entered a new law 1872 01:41:08.359 --> 01:41:14.079 partnership with General Charles Adams. He was also editing Memphis Appeal. 1873 01:41:14.239 --> 01:41:16.159 It was the paper at the time. He may have 1874 01:41:16.199 --> 01:41:19.680 been involved in the organization of the KKK at this time. 1875 01:41:20.520 --> 01:41:22.840 Oh yes, who could have seen that come in. 1876 01:41:23.119 --> 01:41:25.479 Let's also not negate the fact that on top of 1877 01:41:25.479 --> 01:41:27.720 writing the book for Morals and Dogma, on top of 1878 01:41:27.720 --> 01:41:31.199 being very well versed in all the esoteric things, he 1879 01:41:31.319 --> 01:41:33.880 was also one of the founding fucking members of the Klan. 1880 01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:40.399 So yeah, I mean it's I mean, it's pretty obvious 1881 01:41:40.439 --> 01:41:42.760 that he would have been, especially how he reacted to 1882 01:41:43.279 --> 01:41:47.600 anything that wasn't pro owning slaves. So yeah, you know, 1883 01:41:47.840 --> 01:41:50.560 his thing should have been taken down and should stay down. 1884 01:41:51.119 --> 01:41:55.079 I agree the piece of shit. I fully agree there. 1885 01:41:55.159 --> 01:41:58.600 He was engaged for a time in politics, editing the Patriot, 1886 01:41:59.000 --> 01:42:03.800 a Democrat newspaper for the record, the Democrat Party has 1887 01:42:03.840 --> 01:42:07.319 always and still is the party of racism start to finish. 1888 01:42:08.760 --> 01:42:11.960 From eighteen sixty eight to eighteen seventy he also practiced 1889 01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:15.039 law in partnership with Robert Johnson, former US Senator until 1890 01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:18.239 eighteen eighty. Although less interested in Arkansas affairs, one of 1891 01:42:18.239 --> 01:42:20.359 his last major roles in the state would be his 1892 01:42:20.439 --> 01:42:24.039 support to the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant of 1893 01:42:24.079 --> 01:42:28.079 Elijah Baxter claiming for the governorship of eighteen seventy four. 1894 01:42:29.279 --> 01:42:34.079 Moving forward here. After ceasing practicing law, Pike's real interest 1895 01:42:34.399 --> 01:42:37.399 was the Masonic lodge. He had become a Mason in 1896 01:42:37.439 --> 01:42:40.840 eighteen fifty and participated in the creation of the Masonic 1897 01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:44.680 Saint John's College in Little Rock that same year eighteen 1898 01:42:44.720 --> 01:42:48.159 fifty one. He helped form the Grand Chapter of Arkansas 1899 01:42:48.199 --> 01:42:50.920 and was its Grand High Priest from eighteen fifty three 1900 01:42:50.960 --> 01:42:53.760 to eighteen fifty four. In eighteen fifty three, he also 1901 01:42:53.800 --> 01:42:57.279 associated with the Scottish Right of Masons and rose rapidly 1902 01:42:57.279 --> 01:43:00.199 in the organization, which because he had the money, and 1903 01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:02.479 he was well first, and he was well plugged in, 1904 01:43:02.640 --> 01:43:05.880 educated all the things, all the things. In eighteen fifty nine, 1905 01:43:05.920 --> 01:43:09.000 he was elected Grand Commander of the Supreme Council Southern 1906 01:43:09.079 --> 01:43:12.359 Jurisdiction of the United States, the administrative district for all 1907 01:43:12.399 --> 01:43:15.439 parts of the country except the fifteen states east of 1908 01:43:15.439 --> 01:43:18.720 the Mississippi River in north of Ohio, and held. 1909 01:43:18.479 --> 01:43:21.000 That post until his death. 1910 01:43:21.479 --> 01:43:23.439 After the war, he devoted much of his time to 1911 01:43:23.560 --> 01:43:26.560 rewriting the rituals of Scottish Rite Masons. 1912 01:43:26.880 --> 01:43:27.520 For years. 1913 01:43:27.720 --> 01:43:30.720 His Morals and Dogma, which was written in eighteen seventy one, 1914 01:43:31.000 --> 01:43:34.039 still in print, was distributed to members of the Rite. 1915 01:43:34.439 --> 01:43:37.760 Over his career he published numerous other works on the order, 1916 01:43:37.800 --> 01:43:41.640 including Meaning of Masonry, Book of the Words, The Point 1917 01:43:41.640 --> 01:43:45.399 within the Circle. As he aged, he also became interested 1918 01:43:45.399 --> 01:43:49.800 in spiritualism, particularly Indian thought and its relationship to Masonry. 1919 01:43:50.319 --> 01:43:54.079 Late in life, he learned Sanskrit and translated various literary 1920 01:43:54.159 --> 01:43:57.319 works in that language. As a result of his work 1921 01:43:57.319 --> 01:44:01.159 in this area, he published Indo Aryan Das and worship 1922 01:44:01.319 --> 01:44:02.960 as contained in the rig Veda. 1923 01:44:03.880 --> 01:44:07.920 So the dude was, Yes, he was a horrible racist. 1924 01:44:07.840 --> 01:44:10.800 But he was also very well read and very intelligent 1925 01:44:10.840 --> 01:44:13.399 as far as all these languages were concerned. In transliterating 1926 01:44:13.439 --> 01:44:18.560 these books. Pike was much honored after his death. His 1927 01:44:18.640 --> 01:44:21.520 Masonic brothers erected a statue of him in nineteen oh 1928 01:44:21.600 --> 01:44:25.199 one in Washington, d C. Authorities also named the first 1929 01:44:25.279 --> 01:44:30.159 highway between Hot Springs and Colorado Springs, the Albert Pike Highway. 1930 01:44:30.279 --> 01:44:34.279 In Colorado, Albert Pike Hotel bears his name, as does 1931 01:44:34.319 --> 01:44:37.000 the Albert Pike Memorial Temple. Both are in Little Rock, 1932 01:44:37.359 --> 01:44:41.399 and his Little Rock home remains standing. Discussions about removing 1933 01:44:41.399 --> 01:44:44.680 the statue in Washington, d C and other Confederate generals 1934 01:44:45.079 --> 01:44:47.960 around the country began in the summer of twenty seventeen, 1935 01:44:48.159 --> 01:44:52.720 following a white supremacist rally at a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia. 1936 01:44:52.880 --> 01:44:55.640 On June nineteen, twenty twenty, the statue was toppled amid 1937 01:44:55.680 --> 01:44:59.039 ongoing protests across the nation. Following the murder of George Floyd. 1938 01:44:59.359 --> 01:45:03.439 On August four, twenty twenty five. Just last year, y'all, 1939 01:45:03.560 --> 01:45:04.880 it was a few months ago. I actually have time 1940 01:45:04.880 --> 01:45:07.680 of recording, the National Park Service announced that the statue 1941 01:45:07.720 --> 01:45:12.479 was being restored for installation. It was reinstalled October twenty fifth, 1942 01:45:12.800 --> 01:45:15.960 twenty twenty five, despite a shutdown from the federal government. 1943 01:45:16.000 --> 01:45:20.039 At the time the government shutdown was going on, no 1944 01:45:20.239 --> 01:45:23.520 federal employees were getting paid. Yet somehow the National Park 1945 01:45:23.600 --> 01:45:26.680 Service still found the funds to pay the employees to 1946 01:45:26.840 --> 01:45:28.880 re erect his statue. 1947 01:45:29.319 --> 01:45:31.760 And you want to tell me that it wasn't coincidence, Like, 1948 01:45:31.800 --> 01:45:33.840 come on, now, you saw his body was moved in 1949 01:45:33.960 --> 01:45:36.880 nineteen forty four and put in the temple. 1950 01:45:37.640 --> 01:45:37.920 Yep. 1951 01:45:38.079 --> 01:45:41.079 They took it from Oak Hill symmetry and then they 1952 01:45:41.079 --> 01:45:42.199 put it in the temple. 1953 01:45:42.840 --> 01:45:43.159 Yep. 1954 01:45:44.279 --> 01:45:47.359 No, there's no way that, especially during the shutdown, that 1955 01:45:47.399 --> 01:45:51.239 this was happening. They weren't aware of what this man did. 1956 01:45:51.960 --> 01:45:54.159 So we stood for Let's talk a. 1957 01:45:54.079 --> 01:45:56.079 Little bit about Well, I want to talk about the 1958 01:45:56.119 --> 01:45:59.600 legend Hiram Abiff real quick. Let's talk about the book itself, 1959 01:45:59.680 --> 01:46:04.159 Moral and Dogma by Albert Pike. So Lucifer gets brought 1960 01:46:04.239 --> 01:46:07.520 up a good bit and he's called the light Bearer, 1961 01:46:08.119 --> 01:46:11.239 the strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit 1962 01:46:11.319 --> 01:46:14.520 of darkness, Lucifer, the sun of the morning. It is 1963 01:46:14.600 --> 01:46:20.279 he who bears the light and with its splendors, intolerable blinds, feeble, sensual. 1964 01:46:19.960 --> 01:46:20.920 Or selfish souls. 1965 01:46:21.399 --> 01:46:21.880 Doubt it not? 1966 01:46:22.960 --> 01:46:23.039 So? 1967 01:46:23.119 --> 01:46:26.119 Okay? What the fuck are we talking about here. If 1968 01:46:26.159 --> 01:46:29.319 two Masons meet each other and they're in public and 1969 01:46:29.359 --> 01:46:31.640 they don't know each other, but they see the logos 1970 01:46:31.720 --> 01:46:34.359 or whatever, you might hear them say, oh, okay, I 1971 01:46:34.439 --> 01:46:37.680 see you're a fellow traveler, and what that means is 1972 01:46:38.479 --> 01:46:41.159 you are traveling, and you'll they'll ask you what direction 1973 01:46:41.199 --> 01:46:45.119 are you traveling? Right? Because that also goes into one 1974 01:46:45.159 --> 01:46:49.239 of the the vows that they take upon joining Free Masonry. 1975 01:46:50.039 --> 01:46:53.600 I state your name traveling from the west to the east, 1976 01:46:53.880 --> 01:46:57.600 seeking the light and the illumination, because the sun rises 1977 01:46:57.600 --> 01:47:01.720 in the east. Right. So if you have a Mason 1978 01:47:01.800 --> 01:47:05.199 saying which to which direction you're traveling, typically they'll say, oh, 1979 01:47:05.239 --> 01:47:08.239 you know me, man, I'm traveling east, because they're traveling 1980 01:47:08.239 --> 01:47:08.960 towards the light. 1981 01:47:09.560 --> 01:47:11.239 Now, if you'll get one of the older. 1982 01:47:11.000 --> 01:47:14.880 Cats, one of the more quote unquote illuminated Masons, i e. 1983 01:47:15.079 --> 01:47:17.720 Somebody at a higher level, they might say, well, actually, 1984 01:47:17.760 --> 01:47:21.479 I'm traveling west, And what that means is they've already 1985 01:47:21.520 --> 01:47:25.319 gone east, attained the illumination, and now they're heading back 1986 01:47:25.399 --> 01:47:30.319 to elevate brothers of a lower or younger status trying 1987 01:47:30.359 --> 01:47:32.840 to give them the knowledge and give them the information 1988 01:47:32.960 --> 01:47:35.960 to help them level up, so to speak. So there's 1989 01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:40.399 another turn of phrase. But traveling towards the east to 1990 01:47:40.520 --> 01:47:45.680 the sun, fine, all finding good. The problem is, according 1991 01:47:45.720 --> 01:47:49.279 to Morals and Dogma, you're traveling east to get to 1992 01:47:49.319 --> 01:47:55.800 the morning Star, which they literally name as Lucifer. And no, 1993 01:47:56.079 --> 01:47:58.520 they do not mean this, and there's gonna be people. Well, 1994 01:47:58.520 --> 01:48:02.800 that's more of like a philosophical thing. No, no, actually, 1995 01:48:03.520 --> 01:48:07.119 clearly in the book he describes that they are doing 1996 01:48:07.159 --> 01:48:09.199 this as a form of Satanic worship. 1997 01:48:10.159 --> 01:48:12.720 Like it's this isn't a hypothetical. 1998 01:48:14.640 --> 01:48:18.760 Interesting and people who like didn't question this, considering how 1999 01:48:18.800 --> 01:48:22.119 many people were of Catholic and Christian faith back then. 2000 01:48:22.680 --> 01:48:26.199 Most people don't read Morals and Dogma. Most Masons have 2001 01:48:26.279 --> 01:48:30.399 never read the book. They might have a couple of 2002 01:48:30.439 --> 01:48:33.880 excerpts that they memorized from it because this, again was 2003 01:48:33.960 --> 01:48:36.800 like what they did as far as their rituals are concerns, 2004 01:48:36.800 --> 01:48:39.800 so they may read that section. They haven't read the 2005 01:48:39.920 --> 01:48:41.760 entire thing cover to cover, and even if they did, 2006 01:48:42.359 --> 01:48:44.479 they would probably overlook that right. 2007 01:48:44.520 --> 01:48:45.640 They would probably be like, oh. 2008 01:48:45.560 --> 01:48:47.560 Well, I guess this guy was kind of on some 2009 01:48:47.560 --> 01:48:49.520 wild shit. But anyway, moving on, we'll tell me about 2010 01:48:49.520 --> 01:48:50.800 this other rich walk out to do when I hit 2011 01:48:50.840 --> 01:48:53.199 level thirteen. But you see what I'm saying. It's it's 2012 01:48:53.239 --> 01:48:55.880 not the entire point of the book. But he's also 2013 01:48:55.920 --> 01:48:59.239 not shy about it either. We already read a little 2014 01:48:59.239 --> 01:49:01.239 bit about his up bringing, in his past and all 2015 01:49:01.319 --> 01:49:07.920 these things. So morals and dogma, So the first degree apprenticed, Okay, 2016 01:49:08.319 --> 01:49:13.359 the twelve inch rule and the common gabble. Unregulated and irregulated. 2017 01:49:13.560 --> 01:49:16.800 Is not only wasted in the void like that of gunpowder, 2018 01:49:16.840 --> 01:49:20.319 burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science, 2019 01:49:20.600 --> 01:49:24.279 but striking in the dark as it blows, meeting only 2020 01:49:24.319 --> 01:49:28.279 the air, they recoil and bruise itself. It is destruction 2021 01:49:28.560 --> 01:49:31.920 and ruin. It is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone, 2022 01:49:32.159 --> 01:49:36.319 not growth in progress. It is polyphemus, blinded, striking at 2023 01:49:36.399 --> 01:49:39.560 random and falling headlong among the sharp rocks by the 2024 01:49:39.560 --> 01:49:41.600 impetus of his own blows. 2025 01:49:42.600 --> 01:49:44.920 Oh, my god, bro as wordy as fuck? 2026 01:49:45.119 --> 01:49:48.399 Oh oh, wordy, wordy, she says. 2027 01:49:49.159 --> 01:49:53.199 No wonder people haven't read this, Like, dear God, did 2028 01:49:53.239 --> 01:49:57.800 you just want to hear himself talk like yes, yes, clearly, 2029 01:49:57.880 --> 01:50:00.359 the tyrants use the force of the people to chain 2030 01:50:00.479 --> 01:50:03.640 and subjugate that that is, invoke the people. 2031 01:50:04.239 --> 01:50:08.600 Wow, this dude brings up under Claudius, under Domitian. Uh, 2032 01:50:08.680 --> 01:50:12.119 he brings up Caesar, he brings up Cara Kala, he 2033 01:50:12.199 --> 01:50:16.239 brings up Zeus, he brings up the spawn of Commedas. 2034 01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:18.079 Like he's this. 2035 01:50:17.960 --> 01:50:21.840 Dude is going on and on and that's just level one. 2036 01:50:22.159 --> 01:50:25.960 And these people decided to take this bullshit and apply 2037 01:50:26.119 --> 01:50:30.119 it national or worldwide. Yeah to the Masons. And now 2038 01:50:30.159 --> 01:50:32.159 this is how they follow it, Like why would you 2039 01:50:32.239 --> 01:50:32.560 do this? 2040 01:50:32.760 --> 01:50:34.560 I mean, he's clearly smarter than me, so I need 2041 01:50:34.560 --> 01:50:34.920 to listen to. 2042 01:50:34.920 --> 01:50:37.199 I mean, somebody at some point could have like rewritten 2043 01:50:37.199 --> 01:50:39.680 this by now and made it like a lot better 2044 01:50:39.760 --> 01:50:41.560 and be like, you know, maybe we should take out 2045 01:50:41.600 --> 01:50:45.119 a lot of this shit where like hurting people or 2046 01:50:45.359 --> 01:50:48.239 children or whatever they do is not a vibe. 2047 01:50:48.760 --> 01:50:50.399 So let's just read this too. 2048 01:50:50.520 --> 01:50:54.439 These are the ten commandments from morals and dogma. Okay, 2049 01:50:56.159 --> 01:51:00.960 let's go. God is eternal, omnipotent, immutable wisdom and supreme 2050 01:51:01.039 --> 01:51:06.720 intelligence and exhaustless love. Thou shalt adore, revere and love him. 2051 01:51:07.039 --> 01:51:10.760 Thou shalt honor him by practicing the virtues. And they 2052 01:51:10.760 --> 01:51:12.960 don't mean the virtues of the Bible. They mean the 2053 01:51:13.039 --> 01:51:17.560 virtues of freemasonry. Thy religion shall be to do good 2054 01:51:17.960 --> 01:51:20.760 because it is a pleasure to THEE, and not merely 2055 01:51:20.800 --> 01:51:23.960 because it is a duty. That thou mayest become the 2056 01:51:24.039 --> 01:51:27.640 friend of the wise man. Thou shalt obey his precepts. 2057 01:51:28.000 --> 01:51:33.520 Thy soul is immortal, Thou shalt do nothing to degrade it. Okay, 2058 01:51:34.439 --> 01:51:39.439 Thou shalt this unceasingly war against vice. Thou shalt not 2059 01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:43.640 do unto others that which thou wouldst not wish them 2060 01:51:43.680 --> 01:51:46.319 to do unto THEE. The golden rule Jesus Christ. Thou 2061 01:51:46.359 --> 01:51:51.319 shalt be submissive to thy fortunes and keep burning the 2062 01:51:51.399 --> 01:51:55.039 light of wisdom. All right. This is Number three. Thou 2063 01:51:55.079 --> 01:51:58.640 shalt honor thy parents. Thou shalt pay respect and homage 2064 01:51:58.960 --> 01:52:03.119 and on my to the aged. Thou shalt instruct the young, 2065 01:52:03.359 --> 01:52:07.680 and thou shalt protect and defend infancy and innocence. Okay, 2066 01:52:08.359 --> 01:52:11.239 Thou shalt cherish thy wife and thy child children. Thou 2067 01:52:11.279 --> 01:52:14.520 shalt love thy country and obey its laws. All right. 2068 01:52:14.600 --> 01:52:18.960 Number six, Thy friends shall be to THEE a second self. 2069 01:52:19.439 --> 01:52:22.720 Misfortune shall not estrange THEE from him. Thou shalt do 2070 01:52:22.840 --> 01:52:25.439 for his memory whatever thou wouldst do for him if 2071 01:52:25.439 --> 01:52:29.920 he were living. Okay, so be a homie. Number seven, 2072 01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:35.720 Thou shalt avoid and flee from insincere friendships, keep fake 2073 01:52:35.720 --> 01:52:38.279 ass bitches at check. I feel that thou shalt and 2074 01:52:38.279 --> 01:52:41.479 everything refrain from excess. Thou shalt fear to be the 2075 01:52:41.479 --> 01:52:43.760 cause of a stain on thy memory. 2076 01:52:44.039 --> 01:52:44.359 Okay. 2077 01:52:44.960 --> 01:52:49.079 Number eight, thou shalt allow no passions to become thy master. 2078 01:52:49.840 --> 01:52:53.680 Thou shalt make the passions of other profitable lessons to thyself. 2079 01:52:54.000 --> 01:52:58.760 Thou shalt be indulgent to error. Number nine Thou shalt 2080 01:52:58.760 --> 01:53:03.039 hear much, Thou shall speak little. Thou shalt act act well. 2081 01:53:03.920 --> 01:53:07.039 You should forget injuries, You should render good for evil. 2082 01:53:07.439 --> 01:53:10.800 You should not misuse either thy strength or thy superiority. 2083 01:53:11.600 --> 01:53:15.399 And number ten thou shalt study to know men, that 2084 01:53:15.439 --> 01:53:19.039 thereby thou mayst learned to know thyself. Thou shalt ever 2085 01:53:19.119 --> 01:53:22.159 seek after virtue. Thou shalt be just, and thou shalt 2086 01:53:22.199 --> 01:53:23.880 avoid idleness. 2087 01:53:24.319 --> 01:53:27.920 Okay, So okay, So, like, how do we get from 2088 01:53:27.960 --> 01:53:31.000 that to what is it exactly that they do in 2089 01:53:31.039 --> 01:53:32.640 the thirty third degree? 2090 01:53:32.680 --> 01:53:34.119 Like, what is it they're supposed to do? 2091 01:53:34.600 --> 01:53:36.960 Oh, for the record, everything we just did was that 2092 01:53:37.079 --> 01:53:40.880 was just first level. Now we're at level two, fellow craft. 2093 01:53:41.359 --> 01:53:43.279 So let's see if I could scroll down to the 2094 01:53:43.279 --> 01:53:46.920 finals of the thirty third and you know, it'll just 2095 01:53:46.960 --> 01:53:48.520 give you a better picture than one I could give 2096 01:53:48.520 --> 01:53:50.840 you honestly. Oh oh, there was one. There was Satan. 2097 01:53:51.279 --> 01:53:53.119 There was Satan. Hold on where I just had it. 2098 01:53:55.680 --> 01:53:59.199 Damn it, I just had it up. In one respect, 2099 01:53:59.239 --> 01:54:02.279 all gnostics greed, they all hailed, and there was a 2100 01:54:02.359 --> 01:54:05.319 world purely emanating of the vital development of God, a 2101 01:54:05.399 --> 01:54:09.439 creation evolved, developing of the divine essence, far exalted above 2102 01:54:09.520 --> 01:54:14.640 any outward creation produced by God's plastic power, wow and 2103 01:54:14.720 --> 01:54:18.079 condition by pre existing matter. They agreed in holding that 2104 01:54:18.119 --> 01:54:20.479 the farmer in his lower world was not the father 2105 01:54:21.119 --> 01:54:26.000 of that higher world, of the emanation, but the demiurge. 2106 01:54:26.199 --> 01:54:28.199 So you can see that he is bringing on he's 2107 01:54:28.199 --> 01:54:31.920 even bringing up Plato God like the Syrian gnosis, all 2108 01:54:31.960 --> 01:54:35.880 of these things, and right here we have Satan. But 2109 01:54:35.960 --> 01:54:38.640 on the other hand, since the chaotic principle of matter 2110 01:54:38.720 --> 01:54:42.199 has acquired vitality, there now arises a more distinct and 2111 01:54:42.239 --> 01:54:46.720 more active opposition to the godlike a barely negative, blind, 2112 01:54:46.960 --> 01:54:52.600 ungodly nature power which abstainly resists all influence of the divine. Hence, 2113 01:54:53.079 --> 01:54:58.279 as products of the spirit of the pneumohilicon are satan, 2114 01:54:58.640 --> 01:55:01.520 malignant spirits, wicked men, in none of whom there is 2115 01:55:01.560 --> 01:55:06.680 any reasonable or moral principle, or any principle of rational will. 2116 01:55:07.000 --> 01:55:11.560 But blind passions alone have the ascendiary in them. There 2117 01:55:11.640 --> 01:55:14.960 is some conflict, as the scheme of Platonism supposes, between 2118 01:55:14.960 --> 01:55:17.479 the soul under guidance of the divine reason the noose 2119 01:55:17.920 --> 01:55:22.439 and the soul blindly resisting reason, between the pronoia and 2120 01:55:22.520 --> 01:55:25.399 the a nag excuse me, or the divine principle in 2121 01:55:25.399 --> 01:55:29.159 the nature. So he goes into all of these esoteric principles. 2122 01:55:29.199 --> 01:55:31.439 All this in his book. By the way, all this 2123 01:55:31.479 --> 01:55:33.600 is in the book. And so wait, what was that one? 2124 01:55:33.720 --> 01:55:36.479 Are we on another level? Now? It looked like a 2125 01:55:36.520 --> 01:55:37.159 title sequence. 2126 01:55:37.239 --> 01:55:41.399 No, okay, basically, and it's been a long. 2127 01:55:41.199 --> 01:55:44.479 Time since I like actually thumbed through the book myself. 2128 01:55:44.720 --> 01:55:46.920 But it gets more in depth the higher up and 2129 01:55:47.039 --> 01:55:50.359 levels you go. And oh, here we go. That was 2130 01:55:50.399 --> 01:55:54.239 all twenty sixth So now at twenty seven now, Commander 2131 01:55:54.279 --> 01:55:57.119 of the Temple, it goes on and on and on on, 2132 01:55:57.159 --> 01:56:02.760 but essentially, essentially at the thirty third degree, they have 2133 01:56:02.840 --> 01:56:05.760 one question for you. You wouldn't have gotten to the 2134 01:56:05.800 --> 01:56:08.640 thirty second degree unless you had already done your reading 2135 01:56:08.680 --> 01:56:12.159 into all of these things, into all of the background, 2136 01:56:12.199 --> 01:56:17.960 the stories, the you know, gnostic conversations, the hermetic principles 2137 01:56:17.960 --> 01:56:20.560 of the flupty flaws like they have, all these things. 2138 01:56:20.680 --> 01:56:22.760 You had to have done this to get to that point. 2139 01:56:23.439 --> 01:56:26.159 So then when you get to that thirty second degree 2140 01:56:26.520 --> 01:56:28.439 and you're there for a few years and they decide 2141 01:56:28.439 --> 01:56:31.159 to call you up, tap you on the shoulder, right, 2142 01:56:32.319 --> 01:56:35.039 you have to go to the Grand Lodge of the 2143 01:56:35.119 --> 01:56:37.920 United States, which is in Washington, d c. They bring 2144 01:56:37.960 --> 01:56:41.399 you into the Grand Chamber and they ask you one question, 2145 01:56:42.560 --> 01:56:48.640 whom do you serve? That's it. And typically brothers will say, 2146 01:56:49.119 --> 01:56:52.159 I serve the Order, I serve my brothers, I serve 2147 01:56:53.239 --> 01:56:56.119 you know, I serve the Masons, all these things, and 2148 01:56:56.159 --> 01:56:58.840 they ask them to leave, and then they have to 2149 01:56:59.039 --> 01:57:02.079 come back. There. There's cases where this dude did it, 2150 01:57:02.279 --> 01:57:05.279 you know a hundred times, left the room for a 2151 01:57:05.279 --> 01:57:07.920 few minutes, thought about. A better answer comes in whom 2152 01:57:07.920 --> 01:57:12.239 do you serve? The answer they're looking for is Lucifer. 2153 01:57:14.000 --> 01:57:15.560 Hmm okay. 2154 01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:21.199 And because they don't see Lucifer as the negative, they 2155 01:57:21.199 --> 01:57:22.760 don't see him as the evil being. 2156 01:57:23.399 --> 01:57:25.800 They see him as. 2157 01:57:25.720 --> 01:57:28.880 The light bearer, the illuminated one, the one that gives 2158 01:57:28.920 --> 01:57:31.279 the humans the knowledge of good and evil and all 2159 01:57:31.319 --> 01:57:35.119 these things. It's crazy, the twenty eighth degree Night of 2160 01:57:35.159 --> 01:57:39.680 the Sun or Prince Adept they keep. The more higher 2161 01:57:39.720 --> 01:57:42.239 up you go in levels, the more grandiose the titles sound. 2162 01:57:42.319 --> 01:57:45.920 To be completely honest with you, it's a very long book. 2163 01:57:46.840 --> 01:57:48.920 I'm scrolling through right now and I'm on page four 2164 01:57:49.000 --> 01:57:52.880 hundred and ten of this type of reading, which again 2165 01:57:53.000 --> 01:57:55.439 is very very poetic in nature. To be honest with. 2166 01:57:55.359 --> 01:57:59.479 You, he's long witted, bitch, Oh, very long winded. He 2167 01:57:59.560 --> 01:58:02.000 really likes to hear himself talk, which. 2168 01:58:01.960 --> 01:58:03.760 I mean, you've got a guy that's speaking all these 2169 01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:07.119 different languages and is this well versed in this many things. 2170 01:58:07.159 --> 01:58:09.720 And keep in mind the day and age he was 2171 01:58:09.720 --> 01:58:10.119 living in. 2172 01:58:10.159 --> 01:58:11.960 This is around the same time where the Hermetic Order 2173 01:58:11.960 --> 01:58:16.199 of the Golden Dawn was going on, right, and he 2174 01:58:15.560 --> 01:58:18.800 was He wasn't a member of this, but he absolutely 2175 01:58:19.800 --> 01:58:24.199 was a studier of some of the esoteric principles. This 2176 01:58:24.279 --> 01:58:26.720 is end of the eighteen hundreds, is when that really 2177 01:58:26.720 --> 01:58:30.279 got going. This is out Alistair Crowley, Madam Blovotsky, all 2178 01:58:30.359 --> 01:58:35.159 these people call young who started speaking on esoteric principles 2179 01:58:35.319 --> 01:58:38.760 and trying to get them into the upper echelon circles, 2180 01:58:39.119 --> 01:58:42.880 so to speak. You know right here you find it. Well, no, 2181 01:58:43.640 --> 01:58:46.640 because this is the thing. They don't have a prerequisite 2182 01:58:46.640 --> 01:58:49.279 for the thirty third degree even in this book. 2183 01:58:49.319 --> 01:58:51.279 This is pretty much the last chapter. 2184 01:58:51.399 --> 01:58:55.760 Title twenty nine Scottish Writers Saying of Scape Jesus Christ 2185 01:58:56.319 --> 01:58:59.600 twenty ninth degree in Freemasonry, the Scottish Knight of Saint Andrew, 2186 01:59:00.079 --> 01:59:05.720 thirtieth degree, Knight Kodash or Kadash, thirty one Inspector Inquisitor 2187 01:59:06.359 --> 01:59:11.880 and thirty second degree Master of the Royal secret There 2188 01:59:11.920 --> 01:59:16.760 is no other chapter beyond this, the kind of wrap 2189 01:59:16.840 --> 01:59:19.479 them all up into this, and then the final one 2190 01:59:20.279 --> 01:59:23.399 just kind of talks about and as in each Trianglar perfection, 2191 01:59:23.840 --> 01:59:26.720 one is three and three are one. So man is 2192 01:59:26.800 --> 01:59:29.800 one though a double of nature, and he attains the 2193 01:59:29.840 --> 01:59:32.840 purpose of his being only when two natures are in 2194 01:59:32.920 --> 01:59:36.239 him that are just are in just equilibrium, and his 2195 01:59:36.319 --> 01:59:39.039 life is a success only when it two is in 2196 01:59:39.079 --> 01:59:42.640 harmony and beautiful, like the great harmonies of God in 2197 01:59:42.680 --> 01:59:45.960 the universe. Such my Brother is the true word of 2198 01:59:46.039 --> 01:59:50.159 a Master Mason, such the Royal Secret, which makes possible 2199 01:59:50.239 --> 01:59:54.000 and shall at length make real the holy Empire of 2200 01:59:54.239 --> 01:59:59.920 true Masonic Brotherhood. This is pretty much where I go. 2201 02:00:01.000 --> 02:00:03.359 It's so, how did they get the thirty third? Like 2202 02:00:03.439 --> 02:00:06.079 who created it? Did Pike create it? And then like 2203 02:00:06.159 --> 02:00:10.359 it's just an oral thing that they decided to do essentially. 2204 02:00:11.319 --> 02:00:13.239 And I mean, I don't want to even give him 2205 02:00:13.279 --> 02:00:16.359 the distinction of saying he created it, but he's the 2206 02:00:16.359 --> 02:00:19.319 one that really put pin to paper and sectioned it 2207 02:00:19.439 --> 02:00:22.159 off to be what it is. If that makes sense. 2208 02:00:23.800 --> 02:00:24.479 Let me see here. 2209 02:00:25.199 --> 02:00:28.479 More So, if they're just if they're just hailing Satan, 2210 02:00:28.840 --> 02:00:31.520 are they actually committing like hainous crimes like so many 2211 02:00:31.520 --> 02:00:34.640 people talk about, like the conspiracies talk about like they 2212 02:00:34.680 --> 02:00:36.600 have to kill somebody or they have to do like 2213 02:00:37.119 --> 02:00:39.439 horrible shit to be able to get to the thirty third? 2214 02:00:39.479 --> 02:00:41.520 Like are they actually doing that or is it just 2215 02:00:41.680 --> 02:00:42.920 more of a conspiracy? 2216 02:00:43.680 --> 02:00:47.439 No again, ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of 2217 02:00:47.520 --> 02:00:49.880 Masons are not doing any conspiratorial things. 2218 02:00:50.239 --> 02:00:52.720 They're just they're just dudes. They're just a part of 2219 02:00:52.720 --> 02:00:53.439 a boys club. 2220 02:00:53.640 --> 02:00:55.960 They like to get together and do some charity work, 2221 02:00:56.199 --> 02:00:59.039 smoke some stoves, have a little glass of brandy, you know, 2222 02:00:59.159 --> 02:01:02.960 and bring in the younger generation and the networking and 2223 02:01:03.039 --> 02:01:05.600 the financial benefits. If you ever get jammed up, they'll 2224 02:01:05.640 --> 02:01:07.479 come to your aid. And there's so many things. There's 2225 02:01:07.479 --> 02:01:11.279 so many benefits on paper to joining. It's the ones 2226 02:01:11.279 --> 02:01:13.479 at the very tippy top. And that's the other thing too. 2227 02:01:13.960 --> 02:01:18.000 In America we only have blue side masonry offered, and yeah, 2228 02:01:18.039 --> 02:01:19.680 you have the red and you have the purple one whatever. 2229 02:01:20.199 --> 02:01:27.039 But in Europe, in very small esoteric circles, you have 2230 02:01:27.159 --> 02:01:31.199 what's called white side free masonry. This is something that 2231 02:01:31.279 --> 02:01:34.439 most American Masons will disagree even exists. 2232 02:01:34.760 --> 02:01:36.239 But remember how we talked about earlier. 2233 02:01:36.239 --> 02:01:40.079 There was four thousand rights and all these things and 2234 02:01:40.119 --> 02:01:41.279 degrees and all this shit. 2235 02:01:41.920 --> 02:01:42.680 Yeah, fifty two. 2236 02:01:43.239 --> 02:01:44.000 So there is. 2237 02:01:44.840 --> 02:01:51.039 Less known about these groups because worldwide there's only thirty 2238 02:01:51.039 --> 02:01:55.880 three accepted levels and that's all blue side. However, not 2239 02:01:56.039 --> 02:01:58.720 only did the elites of the past decide that thirty 2240 02:01:58.760 --> 02:02:02.479 three was the number they should stop, they also decided 2241 02:02:02.520 --> 02:02:06.159 that there should be an offshoot that only the select 2242 02:02:06.319 --> 02:02:09.359 of the select of the select could even be invited to. 2243 02:02:09.720 --> 02:02:12.159 Most thirty third degree Masons, they may know. 2244 02:02:12.159 --> 02:02:14.039 That it exists, but most of them will never actually 2245 02:02:14.079 --> 02:02:16.800 go to a meeting of Whiteside Free Masons. There's three 2246 02:02:16.920 --> 02:02:21.239 hundred and sixty degrees within white Side free Masonry, and 2247 02:02:21.399 --> 02:02:28.479 it is overly magic with a K. There is the sacrifices, 2248 02:02:28.520 --> 02:02:33.000 there is the actual demonic entities that they are doing 2249 02:02:33.039 --> 02:02:38.000 deals with, and all these things. And again, your average 2250 02:02:38.000 --> 02:02:40.399 Mason has never even heard of this, or they've heard that, 2251 02:02:40.479 --> 02:02:43.399 Oh yeah, that conspiracy. It's a yeah, totally that's a thing, 2252 02:02:43.840 --> 02:02:46.520 but they don't actually believe it. 2253 02:02:46.520 --> 02:02:47.840 It is absolutely a real thing. 2254 02:02:48.960 --> 02:02:51.359 Okay, I didn't know that was actually like a real thing. 2255 02:02:52.039 --> 02:02:57.239 Yep. It's existed four years, but it didn't get officially 2256 02:02:57.319 --> 02:03:00.760 recognized until after morals and dogma had been And because 2257 02:03:01.119 --> 02:03:04.960 that's not just an American publication, Mason's worldwide use that 2258 02:03:05.039 --> 02:03:08.399 to talk about the thirty two degrees of Scottish. 2259 02:03:08.000 --> 02:03:08.920 Right free Masonry. 2260 02:03:09.319 --> 02:03:12.520 York right has I want to say, like thirteen levels 2261 02:03:12.520 --> 02:03:14.840 to it, and they like they jump up. It's like 2262 02:03:14.920 --> 02:03:18.479 you go from three to five to seven to thirteen 2263 02:03:18.680 --> 02:03:22.359 to nineteen. There's not as many independent levels as you 2264 02:03:22.399 --> 02:03:25.279 do with the Scottish right, but essentially you can achieve 2265 02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:28.199 thirty third through the York or the Scottish. That's the 2266 02:03:28.239 --> 02:03:32.479 other distinction as well. Now there are dudes that do both. 2267 02:03:32.840 --> 02:03:34.600 They will go all the way up on the York 2268 02:03:34.640 --> 02:03:36.680 right side, and then they will go all the way 2269 02:03:36.760 --> 02:03:37.079 up on. 2270 02:03:37.039 --> 02:03:39.680 The Scottish right side. That takes years. 2271 02:03:40.119 --> 02:03:43.119 That takes money, like your whole year, like your whole life. 2272 02:03:43.399 --> 02:03:44.439 And that's the other thing too. 2273 02:03:44.520 --> 02:03:46.319 Let's say you go to that level, you become a 2274 02:03:46.399 --> 02:03:48.760 York right, you become a templar, which you're finally seeing 2275 02:03:48.760 --> 02:03:52.920 as a templar when you hit the twentieth level, right, Okay, cool. 2276 02:03:53.399 --> 02:03:54.920 And then you go all the way to the tippy 2277 02:03:54.960 --> 02:03:57.000 top of that side, and then you go to the 2278 02:03:57.319 --> 02:03:59.840 shriner side, to the Scottish right, and you're doing all 2279 02:03:59.840 --> 02:04:02.920 these things and you finally you've spent decades of your 2280 02:04:02.920 --> 02:04:07.600 life studying this information and applying all these philosophical mind 2281 02:04:07.640 --> 02:04:10.479 fucks to your life to make yourself what you're trying 2282 02:04:10.479 --> 02:04:12.960 to be the best person you could possibly be. You've 2283 02:04:13.000 --> 02:04:18.279 dedicated thirty years, forty years, you've paid dues like as 2284 02:04:18.319 --> 02:04:20.840 religiously as possible. You are a brother through and through, 2285 02:04:22.000 --> 02:04:25.079 and then you get that tap on the shoulder, maybe 2286 02:04:25.920 --> 02:04:27.800 maybe if you have hailed a position of maybe to 2287 02:04:27.840 --> 02:04:30.399 be like the state grand Master or something at that point, 2288 02:04:31.119 --> 02:04:32.560 and you get a taple on the shoulder to come 2289 02:04:32.640 --> 02:04:35.840 up to the big boys, to be a level thirty three. 2290 02:04:36.000 --> 02:04:38.079 And then you find out that you've been doing all 2291 02:04:38.199 --> 02:04:43.319 this in the service of Lucifer at that point. At 2292 02:04:43.319 --> 02:04:48.319 that point, your life is the brotherhood. You can't you're 2293 02:04:48.439 --> 02:04:52.439 gonna walk away from forty years of dedicated service. However 2294 02:04:52.479 --> 02:04:55.760 many thousands and thousands of dollars you've donated to these 2295 02:04:55.840 --> 02:04:58.279 charities and these causes, and your dues and all these things. 2296 02:04:58.640 --> 02:05:01.680 All of your friends are made, all of your family 2297 02:05:01.680 --> 02:05:04.800 connections are masons, your job is dependent upon it. At 2298 02:05:04.800 --> 02:05:07.319 certain points like it's there are so many things that 2299 02:05:07.359 --> 02:05:09.920 basically you've already sold your soul to the devil at 2300 02:05:09.960 --> 02:05:14.159 that point, Yeah, you could walk away and lose who 2301 02:05:14.239 --> 02:05:16.600 you are as a person for the last forty years. 2302 02:05:18.159 --> 02:05:19.039 Most guys don't try. 2303 02:05:19.199 --> 02:05:21.039 I try to look up the White Side stuff, and 2304 02:05:21.079 --> 02:05:23.279 there's like no information on it. I did find that 2305 02:05:24.720 --> 02:05:28.640 the chapter that is the Freemasons for all of Europe, 2306 02:05:28.720 --> 02:05:31.119 and so that's interesting. You can click on each country 2307 02:05:31.159 --> 02:05:32.880 and find all sorts of information about that. 2308 02:05:33.079 --> 02:05:34.960 So yeah, you're not going to find a lot of 2309 02:05:35.000 --> 02:05:39.039 online information about the White Side because specifically, it's. 2310 02:05:38.920 --> 02:05:42.920 All I hear saying hush hush conversations and channels. 2311 02:05:43.039 --> 02:05:44.399 Kind of a situation I. 2312 02:05:44.399 --> 02:05:48.880 Met one one time when I was in DC. As 2313 02:05:48.880 --> 02:05:51.600 a matter of fact, I saw a logo on the 2314 02:05:51.600 --> 02:05:54.000 back of a car that I didn't recognize. And I'm 2315 02:05:54.000 --> 02:05:56.000 somebody who has been looking into the Freemason since I 2316 02:05:56.079 --> 02:05:58.640 was in like middle school, like real shit. So when 2317 02:05:58.640 --> 02:06:00.800 I saw this specific logo, I asked him about it, 2318 02:06:01.119 --> 02:06:04.479 and he didn't tell me anything about it except for 2319 02:06:04.520 --> 02:06:06.279 the fact that and I was a young marine at 2320 02:06:06.279 --> 02:06:06.640 this time. 2321 02:06:07.439 --> 02:06:10.560 He didn't tell me. He's like, oh, that's that's Whiteside masonry. 2322 02:06:10.560 --> 02:06:11.039 And I'm like. 2323 02:06:12.039 --> 02:06:14.960 You you mean, like cause you'll see the white logo 2324 02:06:15.079 --> 02:06:17.800 with a Masonic emblem and that's fine, whatever, cool, cool, 2325 02:06:18.319 --> 02:06:19.880 That's not what this logo was. And I was like, 2326 02:06:19.960 --> 02:06:22.840 I still, I'd never seen this before my life, and 2327 02:06:22.840 --> 02:06:24.279 I was like, it was next to a bunch of 2328 02:06:24.279 --> 02:06:26.520 other Masonic logos, So I knew that it was connected 2329 02:06:26.560 --> 02:06:29.000 in some way, shape or form, and he's like, yeah, 2330 02:06:29.000 --> 02:06:31.479 that's not offered in this country. And I'm like, so, 2331 02:06:32.640 --> 02:06:34.920 what is it. He's like, well, you know, to tell. 2332 02:06:34.800 --> 02:06:36.479 You that I have to kill you. 2333 02:06:36.479 --> 02:06:38.279 You know that. The Mason's always make that joke whenever 2334 02:06:38.279 --> 02:06:39.439 you ask him about it or whatever. 2335 02:06:40.239 --> 02:06:42.000 But he's probably actually being serious at that time. 2336 02:06:42.279 --> 02:06:43.239 I think he might have been. 2337 02:06:43.760 --> 02:06:44.720 I think he might have been. 2338 02:06:45.319 --> 02:06:49.319 This was God, where was I. I forget what kind 2339 02:06:49.359 --> 02:06:51.640 of big event, big dinner I was at or whatever, 2340 02:06:51.680 --> 02:06:53.119 but I saw that and I had to. 2341 02:06:53.079 --> 02:06:53.760 Ask about it. 2342 02:06:53.800 --> 02:06:57.880 But yeah, so whiteside masonry is literally just not offered 2343 02:06:57.880 --> 02:06:58.479 in this country. 2344 02:06:58.560 --> 02:07:00.359 I don't think there's more than there. 2345 02:07:00.239 --> 02:07:01.640 May be the old country. 2346 02:07:02.359 --> 02:07:05.680 Yeah, like there may be four or five Whiteside Masons 2347 02:07:05.680 --> 02:07:07.279 in America, like real shit. 2348 02:07:07.359 --> 02:07:11.159 I don't mean lodges, I mean individuals, all right. 2349 02:07:12.399 --> 02:07:14.800 Anyway, we could go more and more in depth on 2350 02:07:14.880 --> 02:07:19.000 this the legend of Hiramabefuh. We could also go more 2351 02:07:19.039 --> 02:07:23.920 in depth as far as Philadelphia's founding years were rife 2352 02:07:23.920 --> 02:07:27.439 with conspiracy fears about the godless Freemasons in the Illuminati. 2353 02:07:27.960 --> 02:07:29.760 You know, actually, let's do this one. Let's do this 2354 02:07:29.800 --> 02:07:31.760 one stead because the Hira mabief one is a long, 2355 02:07:32.399 --> 02:07:34.319 a long read, and honestly, we can make a whole 2356 02:07:34.319 --> 02:07:37.399 episode about Hire mabiff In and of itself. So let's 2357 02:07:37.399 --> 02:07:39.800 talk about this. So we do know that George Washington 2358 02:07:40.279 --> 02:07:44.399 was initiated into Freemasonry at the age of twenty. Okay, 2359 02:07:45.159 --> 02:07:47.920 he was a lifelong Mason. And it wasn't just him, 2360 02:07:47.920 --> 02:07:49.840 A lot of the founding founder a lot of the 2361 02:07:49.840 --> 02:07:52.600 founding fathers were as a matter of fact. So how 2362 02:07:52.640 --> 02:07:55.560 conspiracy spread has changed immensely over the history of the 2363 02:07:55.680 --> 02:07:58.560 United States as technology and media have evolved, but the 2364 02:07:58.640 --> 02:08:01.800 nature of conspiracies has not, so the person writing this. 2365 02:08:01.880 --> 02:08:06.199 I teach communication courses at Villanova University, twelve miles from Philadelphia, 2366 02:08:06.239 --> 02:08:09.720 on how conspiracy theories are created and disseminated. As the 2367 02:08:09.800 --> 02:08:13.039 nation approaches its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary on July fourth, 2368 02:08:13.199 --> 02:08:15.560 twenty twenty six, I have been thinking about the early 2369 02:08:15.640 --> 02:08:18.800 history of Philadelphia and the controversial people, stories, and ideas, 2370 02:08:18.800 --> 02:08:22.359 including conspiracies, that permeated the city during the second half 2371 02:08:22.399 --> 02:08:26.560 of the seventeen hundreds. Conspiracy theories describe alternate versions of events, 2372 02:08:26.560 --> 02:08:28.399 such as the collapse of the Twin Towers of the 2373 02:08:28.399 --> 02:08:31.880 World Trade Center that contrast with the official accepted versions 2374 02:08:31.920 --> 02:08:35.840 of events. Conspiracies, however, involve small groups of people who 2375 02:08:35.880 --> 02:08:38.439 act in secret for their own gain and against the 2376 02:08:38.439 --> 02:08:42.520 common good. Examples of conspiracies include the Watergate scandal by 2377 02:08:42.640 --> 02:08:46.119 Nixon and members of the administration, or the Tuskegee experiments, 2378 02:08:46.159 --> 02:08:49.520 in which the US public health professionals treated unsuspecting African 2379 02:08:49.520 --> 02:08:53.239 Americans with syphilis with the placebo which all this is accurate, 2380 02:08:53.880 --> 02:08:58.680 Colonial America was rife with perceived conspiratorial agendas. Many of 2381 02:08:58.720 --> 02:09:02.560 these stem from the uneasy coexistence of political parties with religion, 2382 02:09:03.000 --> 02:09:06.119 which was newly protected by the First Amendment, and with 2383 02:09:06.159 --> 02:09:10.640 the Catholic Church in particular Freemasons in the cradle of liberty. 2384 02:09:10.720 --> 02:09:14.960 So this also is worth mentioning. Here the gavel represents 2385 02:09:15.079 --> 02:09:19.199 the refining of characteristics and the removal of vices among Freemasons. 2386 02:09:19.640 --> 02:09:22.079 This is like some stained glass of a Masonic logo, 2387 02:09:22.800 --> 02:09:27.880 worth mentioning. So Philadelphia was the country's political center during 2388 02:09:27.880 --> 02:09:31.239 the American Revolution, which began in seventeen seventy five. After 2389 02:09:31.279 --> 02:09:34.439 the war ended in america victory in seventeen eighty one. 2390 02:09:34.760 --> 02:09:37.319 Philadelphia served as the capital of the US beginning in 2391 02:09:37.319 --> 02:09:40.600 seventeen ninety until Washington, d c. Was chosen by America's 2392 02:09:40.600 --> 02:09:44.159 permanent capital in eighteen hundred. During this period, the US 2393 02:09:44.199 --> 02:09:47.319 dependent on contributions from its political and civil figures to 2394 02:09:47.399 --> 02:09:51.359 develop further leaders with skills and intelligence. Among the group 2395 02:09:51.439 --> 02:09:53.720 of some of the country's leaders were Freemasons and the 2396 02:09:53.840 --> 02:10:00.479 independent brethren of skilled Stonemasons. In England, landowners or even 2397 02:10:00.600 --> 02:10:04.359 royalty owned many Masons or owned many Masons. But some 2398 02:10:04.439 --> 02:10:07.079 Masons were self sufficient and enjoyed their freedom to work 2399 02:10:07.119 --> 02:10:09.680 as they wished when they made their way to America 2400 02:10:09.680 --> 02:10:13.079 by the seventeen twenties. Their high standards of workmanship, fair trade, 2401 02:10:13.119 --> 02:10:15.920 and reasons as they taught their craft made them influential 2402 02:10:15.960 --> 02:10:19.359 in society. Being a Freemason was marked was a mark 2403 02:10:19.399 --> 02:10:23.840 of sophistication. Freemasons were high status, wealthy men. The fraternity 2404 02:10:23.840 --> 02:10:26.920 provided a forum for networking, not just for stone shapers, 2405 02:10:26.920 --> 02:10:30.119 but other men who were successful in business, trade, or 2406 02:10:30.119 --> 02:10:33.560 even colonial administration. Now you might recognize this picture raven 2407 02:10:33.640 --> 02:10:36.000 Lee I do I do, I do the old Ton 2408 02:10:36.039 --> 02:10:39.800 tavern in time tavern so by the late seventeen forties. 2409 02:10:39.840 --> 02:10:43.720 Almost all of Philadelphia's Freemasons were also merchants, ship owners, 2410 02:10:43.800 --> 02:10:48.079 or successful artisans. They were considered political, intellectual, and creative 2411 02:10:48.119 --> 02:10:51.800 leaders in colonial Philadelphia. So the Ton Tavern was also 2412 02:10:51.840 --> 02:10:55.039 a popular hangout in Philadelphia for Freemasons and other political 2413 02:10:55.079 --> 02:10:57.680 brass in the late seventeen hundreds, And we saw that 2414 02:10:57.720 --> 02:11:01.000 when we went to Philadelphia, we saw a lot Freemasons. 2415 02:11:01.479 --> 02:11:04.680 The Ton Tavern was once used to hold Masonic meetings 2416 02:11:04.960 --> 02:11:07.199 as a matter of fact, So there's to say that 2417 02:11:07.239 --> 02:11:10.199 the founding of the Marine Corps and the founding of 2418 02:11:10.199 --> 02:11:13.159 Freemasonry in the United States, like they are directly linked, 2419 02:11:13.199 --> 02:11:14.760 believe it or not. So. 2420 02:11:14.920 --> 02:11:16.560 Freemasons built notable. 2421 02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:19.439 Structures throughout the Philadelphia and southern New Jersey areas, as 2422 02:11:19.479 --> 02:11:21.640 well as New York, Boston, and other parts of New England. 2423 02:11:21.880 --> 02:11:24.359 But because the group's rituals and oaths were shielded from 2424 02:11:24.359 --> 02:11:27.880 public view and performed in clandestine sessions in Masonic temples, 2425 02:11:28.239 --> 02:11:32.399 rumors spread about their activities. Some believe Freemasons secretly conspired 2426 02:11:32.479 --> 02:11:34.840 against American values, especially religion. 2427 02:11:35.319 --> 02:11:37.239 Freemasons believed in principles. 2428 02:11:36.840 --> 02:11:40.439 Such as rationalism, which views science and logic rather than 2429 02:11:40.479 --> 02:11:44.640 sensory experiences as the foundation of knowledge. Freemasons also held 2430 02:11:44.640 --> 02:11:47.079 that everything in the universe is the result of natural 2431 02:11:47.159 --> 02:11:52.039 causes rather than supernatural or divine. They treated all religions equally. 2432 02:11:52.159 --> 02:11:55.199 They allow participation in them, but believed no faith was 2433 02:11:55.239 --> 02:11:58.359 to be favored as possessing the One True God. This 2434 02:11:58.520 --> 02:12:01.760 was in contrast with the religions argue their doctrine exclusively 2435 02:12:01.800 --> 02:12:04.840 expressed in the Truth. In seventeen thirty eight, Pope Clement 2436 02:12:04.920 --> 02:12:08.680 the Seventh, I'm sorry, Pope Clement the twelfth banned Freemasons 2437 02:12:08.720 --> 02:12:12.119 from joining the Catholic Church, a prohibition that still exists today. 2438 02:12:12.840 --> 02:12:13.960 So just we're all clear. 2439 02:12:14.399 --> 02:12:15.279 I didn't realize that. 2440 02:12:15.640 --> 02:12:17.359 Yeah, he made it to where if you are a 2441 02:12:17.399 --> 02:12:20.640 Catholic and you're also a Freemason, you are hereby excommunicated 2442 02:12:20.640 --> 02:12:21.840 from the church and you're going to hell. 2443 02:12:22.880 --> 02:12:25.800 Oh yeah, that's interesting considering how many Catholics we have 2444 02:12:25.880 --> 02:12:28.800 downe here and how many Freemasons, so so few of 2445 02:12:28.840 --> 02:12:30.680 those like under the table things. 2446 02:12:31.119 --> 02:12:37.920 The Catholics still have some very deep seated issues with Freemasonry. However, 2447 02:12:38.960 --> 02:12:40.800 it's one of those laws that like, yeah, it's a 2448 02:12:40.880 --> 02:12:43.199 law in the books, but who enforces it. You know. 2449 02:12:43.760 --> 02:12:45.880 It's kind of like, did you know just throwing it 2450 02:12:45.880 --> 02:12:49.279 out that if you are a Communist and you're a 2451 02:12:49.279 --> 02:12:51.520 member of the Communist Party in the United States, you 2452 02:12:51.600 --> 02:12:54.760 are not allowed to hold any public office, Like that's 2453 02:12:54.800 --> 02:12:55.680 a federal crime. 2454 02:12:56.680 --> 02:12:57.039 I did not. 2455 02:12:57.199 --> 02:12:59.319 There's a lot of weird rules that I had no 2456 02:13:00.000 --> 02:13:02.199 I've never heard about known about. 2457 02:13:02.840 --> 02:13:06.239 Three members of the Communist Party have been elected to 2458 02:13:06.479 --> 02:13:10.479 offices when in the last eighteen months, really they should 2459 02:13:10.520 --> 02:13:13.680 be charged for federal crimes and serve jail time. But 2460 02:13:13.840 --> 02:13:18.159 it's one of those laws that is not enforced. Yeah, 2461 02:13:18.479 --> 02:13:20.279 that's the thing, that's a real thing. For the record, 2462 02:13:20.239 --> 02:13:22.720 Communis are evil. We need to we need They're not people. 2463 02:13:23.079 --> 02:13:26.680 They're not people. They are not people. Anyway, moving on, 2464 02:13:27.479 --> 02:13:29.920 they treated all religions equally, like we talked about about 2465 02:13:29.920 --> 02:13:33.439 Papa Pope Clement made it to where Catholics cannot join Freemasons. 2466 02:13:33.800 --> 02:13:38.600 So the Godless Illuminati, another secret society, also peaked at 2467 02:13:38.600 --> 02:13:40.239 this time in various parts of Europe, and it drew 2468 02:13:40.279 --> 02:13:44.800 suspicion among Americans that members exerted influence over the New Nation. 2469 02:13:45.399 --> 02:13:48.479 Members of the Illuminati, a movement that started in Germany, 2470 02:13:48.479 --> 02:13:54.760 in seventeen seventy six, promoted Enlightenment values and ideas, including logic, secularism, 2471 02:13:54.800 --> 02:13:59.560 and education. Like Freemasons, they rejected superstition. Unlike Freemasons, however, 2472 02:13:59.560 --> 02:14:03.840 they also rejected religion and its influence on society. We 2473 02:14:03.840 --> 02:14:07.279 should also mention the fact that the Illuminati was founded 2474 02:14:07.279 --> 02:14:10.279 by a dude that was not allowed to join the Freemasons, 2475 02:14:10.680 --> 02:14:12.199 which we could do a whole episode on that one 2476 02:14:12.199 --> 02:14:15.159 as well, but he basically will have him Yeah, he 2477 02:14:15.319 --> 02:14:19.520 started it as a way to be a counter or 2478 02:14:19.560 --> 02:14:26.399 a rival of the Freemasons. Later that one was disbanded 2479 02:14:27.039 --> 02:14:30.800 while the Freemasons were allowed to thrive. And when that happened, 2480 02:14:31.119 --> 02:14:34.399 the Freemasons basically just adopted the members of the Illuminati, 2481 02:14:34.720 --> 02:14:38.279 and they brought their esoteric knowledge with them, and now 2482 02:14:38.399 --> 02:14:41.800 the Illuminati is a part of Freemasonry. 2483 02:14:44.000 --> 02:14:45.680 We'll have to go a deep dive into this at 2484 02:14:45.680 --> 02:14:46.319 a later time. 2485 02:14:46.439 --> 02:14:50.520 We will have to Europe most outlaw mostly outlawed the 2486 02:14:50.520 --> 02:14:53.319 movement before seventeen ninety due to the group's attempts to 2487 02:14:53.640 --> 02:14:57.359 greatly lessen religious influence, which again in seventeen hundreds, that's 2488 02:14:57.800 --> 02:15:00.720 that's a fate worse than death. The Illuminati occupy key 2489 02:15:00.760 --> 02:15:04.079 roles in the educational system and government of Bavaria, where 2490 02:15:04.079 --> 02:15:08.399 they weakened clerical authority. The normally secret of Illuminati attracted 2491 02:15:08.399 --> 02:15:12.800 attention through their attempts to attend and participate within Masonic temples. 2492 02:15:13.199 --> 02:15:16.000 They used Freemason ideas along with their own ideas to 2493 02:15:16.039 --> 02:15:19.119 recruit followers through these networks, hoping to promote an even 2494 02:15:19.159 --> 02:15:23.159 stronger one world government led by reason instead of religion 2495 02:15:23.239 --> 02:15:25.880 or spiritualism. That was one of their core tenets. By 2496 02:15:25.880 --> 02:15:29.399 the way, this sit in speculation. As a result, religious 2497 02:15:29.439 --> 02:15:34.279 and specifically Catholic leaders suspected an association between philosophically consistent 2498 02:15:34.319 --> 02:15:38.520 Illuminati and Freemasons because there is. In a letter to 2499 02:15:38.560 --> 02:15:42.000 George Washington in seventeen ninety eight, Reverend G. W. Snyder 2500 02:15:42.039 --> 02:15:45.600 from Maryland attempted to awaken Washington to the danger of 2501 02:15:45.640 --> 02:15:49.239 the Illuminati and their influence on Freemasons. He wrote about 2502 02:15:49.239 --> 02:15:52.479 a recently published book by the Scottish physicist John Robinson 2503 02:15:52.680 --> 02:15:57.840 called Proofs of a Conspiracy that, according to Snyder, gives 2504 02:15:57.840 --> 02:16:01.399 a full account of a society of Freemasons that distinguishes 2505 02:16:01.479 --> 02:16:05.279 itself by the name of Illuminati, whose plan it is 2506 02:16:05.319 --> 02:16:09.479 to overturn all government and all religion, even natural, and 2507 02:16:09.560 --> 02:16:13.239 who endeavor to eradicate every idea of a supreme being. 2508 02:16:14.760 --> 02:16:19.479 Damn, seventeen ninety eight, we got our conspiracy heads already happening. 2509 02:16:19.680 --> 02:16:22.239 If anybody wants to look that up, Proofs of a 2510 02:16:22.279 --> 02:16:27.279 Conspiracy from seventeen ninety eight, it is, it's a pretty 2511 02:16:27.319 --> 02:16:28.199 weird read. 2512 02:16:28.239 --> 02:16:30.760 And honestly it's not. 2513 02:16:31.199 --> 02:16:33.399 It's not some hair brain thing to say, like, hey, 2514 02:16:33.680 --> 02:16:37.520 there's clearly connections between the Freemasons and the Illuminati, and 2515 02:16:37.639 --> 02:16:39.520 one of these groups has a lot of members at 2516 02:16:39.559 --> 02:16:41.959 the very tippy top of our government, and the other 2517 02:16:42.000 --> 02:16:45.079 one wants to dismantle all the world's government to make 2518 02:16:45.159 --> 02:16:48.479 one world government. Perhaps we should look a little deeper 2519 02:16:48.520 --> 02:16:51.559 into this. But of course old Georgie Boy was on 2520 02:16:51.639 --> 02:16:54.159 the take because he was a member of the Freemason 2521 02:16:54.159 --> 02:16:56.000 since he was twenty. He was very well aware of 2522 02:16:56.000 --> 02:16:59.440 what the plan was all one hundred percent. Anyway, even today, 2523 02:16:59.440 --> 02:17:02.799 conspiracy theories still promote the illuminized existence, even after they 2524 02:17:02.840 --> 02:17:05.840 were formally outlawed in Europe. Yeah, just like the Knights 2525 02:17:05.840 --> 02:17:08.959 Templar were outlawed, just like the Freemasons were outlawed by 2526 02:17:09.000 --> 02:17:13.280 the Catholic Church. It's crazy how it works out. Just 2527 02:17:13.840 --> 02:17:17.319 like drugs are outlawed in every jail. It's so like 2528 02:17:17.399 --> 02:17:19.680 drugs are not allowed in prisons, yet that's the easiest 2529 02:17:19.680 --> 02:17:22.840 place to get drugs. Funny how that works even today? 2530 02:17:22.840 --> 02:17:25.159 Can we talked about that? Even after they were formally outlawed. 2531 02:17:25.360 --> 02:17:28.319 Such theories suggests the Illuminati still works to degrade religious 2532 02:17:28.360 --> 02:17:31.719 influence throughout civil upheaval. A myth survives that the Illuminati 2533 02:17:31.799 --> 02:17:35.479 still operates secretly support a world government that guide various 2534 02:17:35.520 --> 02:17:39.559 governments on how economically controlled or how to economically control 2535 02:17:39.600 --> 02:17:42.479 the world. But the Illuminati in the late seventeen hundreds 2536 02:17:42.879 --> 02:17:46.840 seems to dovetail with what people assumed were the basic 2537 02:17:47.079 --> 02:17:52.079 ideas of agendas of Freemasons in America. Some in America suspected, 2538 02:17:52.239 --> 02:17:55.360 without obvious evidence, that Freemasons use their status to boost 2539 02:17:55.399 --> 02:17:57.520 fellow Freemasons to various government positions. 2540 02:17:59.079 --> 02:18:04.799 That's not a suspect thing. Some that's clear and obvious. 2541 02:18:04.879 --> 02:18:05.600 That's how they do. 2542 02:18:05.719 --> 02:18:10.920 But all right, they worried this would drive America to 2543 02:18:10.959 --> 02:18:13.000 become godless or even satanic. 2544 02:18:15.520 --> 02:18:19.000 You know, you know, you know, it's weird. 2545 02:18:19.360 --> 02:18:20.079 It's weird. 2546 02:18:20.159 --> 02:18:22.920 Time to be alive right now, what's going on in 2547 02:18:22.959 --> 02:18:24.719 our world? Right in our country? 2548 02:18:25.200 --> 02:18:28.600 Concerns about the influence of Freemasons persisted in part because 2549 02:18:28.639 --> 02:18:32.879 American Presidents Washington and James Munroe were Free Masons. The 2550 02:18:32.920 --> 02:18:35.840 American public was suspicious that these members reached high levels 2551 02:18:35.840 --> 02:18:39.200 of government due to their influence of Freemasons. In fact, 2552 02:18:39.319 --> 02:18:41.840 as many as twenty five of the fifty five men 2553 02:18:41.879 --> 02:18:45.360 who attended the Continental Convention in Philly were Free Masons. 2554 02:18:45.920 --> 02:18:49.719 Founding father Benjamin Franklin was a devout Mason for fifty years. 2555 02:18:50.040 --> 02:18:52.479 Thomas Jefferson was widely thought to be a Mason, though 2556 02:18:52.479 --> 02:18:55.760 there is little evidence to support this. Actually that's confirmed. 2557 02:18:55.799 --> 02:18:57.760 He wasn't a high level Mason, but he was absolutely 2558 02:18:57.799 --> 02:19:01.680 a member. Many of these American leaders, including Franklin, John Adams, 2559 02:19:01.680 --> 02:19:04.479 and Jefferson, had spent time in Europe, especially France, during 2560 02:19:04.479 --> 02:19:08.440 the late seventeen hundreds. Americans feared the European Illuminati members 2561 02:19:08.479 --> 02:19:11.639 could directly access these political leaders and gain power and 2562 02:19:11.760 --> 02:19:15.000 influence over the US. None of the leaders admitted to 2563 02:19:15.040 --> 02:19:18.559 having any connections with the Illuminati well. Of course, of course, 2564 02:19:19.920 --> 02:19:23.079 fears around Freemason and Illuminati came to a head in 2565 02:19:23.120 --> 02:19:27.959 the dramatic vitriolic US presidential election of seventeen ninety six 2566 02:19:28.000 --> 02:19:30.799 and eighteen hundred. In the late seventeen ninety six election, 2567 02:19:31.239 --> 02:19:34.799 Jefferson's Republican Party accused Adam of wanting to be a 2568 02:19:34.920 --> 02:19:38.040 king and also grooming his son John Quincy Adams to 2569 02:19:38.079 --> 02:19:42.360 become president immediately after his father. Adam's Federalist Party and 2570 02:19:42.399 --> 02:19:45.520 an anonymous writer in the newspaper suspected to be Alexander Hamilton, 2571 02:19:45.799 --> 02:19:51.000 writing under the pseudonym Focian, spread rumors attacking Jefferson. Focian 2572 02:19:51.079 --> 02:19:53.760 suggested that while Jefferson was a U S Secretary of 2573 02:19:53.840 --> 02:19:58.200 State in France during Washington's presidency, the Illuminati influenced him 2574 02:19:58.319 --> 02:20:00.440 in ways that would cause him to turn earn his 2575 02:20:00.520 --> 02:20:05.479 back on religion. Which is funny because Jefferson was specifically 2576 02:20:05.520 --> 02:20:10.120 non religious, like that's that's a known thing. He The 2577 02:20:10.159 --> 02:20:13.520 Thomas Jefferson Bible is a thing where it's literally. 2578 02:20:13.280 --> 02:20:14.360 Just the quotes of Jesus. 2579 02:20:14.639 --> 02:20:18.040 The entire the entire Thomas Jefferson Bible is literally only 2580 02:20:18.200 --> 02:20:21.520 quotations from Jesus with nothing else. So he was a 2581 02:20:21.639 --> 02:20:23.719 very well educated man, and I would say he was 2582 02:20:23.959 --> 02:20:28.959 religious or spiritual. He was not a Christian by any stretch. 2583 02:20:29.000 --> 02:20:32.600 But anyway, Adam's Federalist Party or we've talked about that one. 2584 02:20:32.639 --> 02:20:36.799 Ari uh Focin also accused Jefferson of fathering children with 2585 02:20:36.840 --> 02:20:40.200 an enslaved woman, Sally Hemmings, who he kept as a 2586 02:20:40.239 --> 02:20:43.040 concubine when he returned with her from France in seventeen 2587 02:20:43.120 --> 02:20:47.440 ninety eight or eighty nine. Historians do believe that Jefferson 2588 02:20:47.479 --> 02:20:50.760 did in fact have up to six children with his 2589 02:20:51.000 --> 02:20:55.600 slave concubine, So just we're all clear, not a baseless accusation. 2590 02:20:56.520 --> 02:20:59.680 The accusations also said Jefferson would free all enslaved people 2591 02:20:59.719 --> 02:21:03.600 in a America if elected. Adams won in seventeen ninety 2592 02:21:03.639 --> 02:21:08.079 six just by just three electoral votes, and Jefferson defeated 2593 02:21:08.120 --> 02:21:14.639 him in eighteen hundred. So yah know, ah, he didn't 2594 02:21:14.680 --> 02:21:18.360 free any slaves. Just were all clear. Jefferson absolutely didn't 2595 02:21:18.399 --> 02:21:20.280 do that, but he did father a lot of children 2596 02:21:20.319 --> 02:21:24.280 with his slave women. Anyway. Freemasons today have largely shrunk 2597 02:21:24.280 --> 02:21:27.280 from their once quite prestigious influence in American society. Today, 2598 02:21:27.319 --> 02:21:30.559 they are mostly philanthropic organizations that support many causes, such 2599 02:21:30.559 --> 02:21:34.360 as children's hospitals, home for aged, and community services. They 2600 02:21:34.360 --> 02:21:36.879 are about one million members in America according to an 2601 02:21:36.959 --> 02:21:40.079 estimate from twenty twenty. That's down from a high of 2602 02:21:40.079 --> 02:21:44.840 over four million in nineteen fifty nine. So, actually, could 2603 02:21:44.879 --> 02:21:47.680 you look up what was the population of America in 2604 02:21:47.760 --> 02:21:50.920 nineteen fifty nine, because I'm actually very curious. So twenty 2605 02:21:50.959 --> 02:21:54.879 twenty we got about three hundred and sixty million Americans 2606 02:21:55.399 --> 02:22:00.600 and allegedly about a million claim to be Freemasons. So 2607 02:22:00.680 --> 02:22:04.440 that's you know, a one in three sixty five chance 2608 02:22:04.440 --> 02:22:06.239 that you're meeting somebody on the street and they happen 2609 02:22:06.280 --> 02:22:08.159 to be some sort of an affiliate with the Freemasons. 2610 02:22:08.959 --> 02:22:12.360 Approximately two point nine billion was that was the world, 2611 02:22:12.440 --> 02:22:14.799 So it is one hundred and seventy nine million here. 2612 02:22:15.200 --> 02:22:18.360 One hundred and seventy nine million, and four million of 2613 02:22:18.399 --> 02:22:19.840 them were free Masons. 2614 02:22:20.319 --> 02:22:22.520 That is a much larger ratio. 2615 02:22:23.159 --> 02:22:25.319 So you see that everybody's saying like free Mason ring 2616 02:22:25.360 --> 02:22:27.840 is on the decline, It really is. 2617 02:22:28.680 --> 02:22:30.639 It's like one in every forty five people is a 2618 02:22:30.719 --> 02:22:31.559 per is one. 2619 02:22:31.799 --> 02:22:34.440 So we've gone from one in forty five to one 2620 02:22:34.479 --> 02:22:39.120 in three sixty. You see what, Yeah, they're definitely on 2621 02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:41.399 the on the downslope. 2622 02:22:41.559 --> 02:22:42.959 Anyway, they bring up certain things. 2623 02:22:42.959 --> 02:22:45.520 This is a picture inside of the Egyptian Hall at 2624 02:22:45.520 --> 02:22:50.079 the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia. You see a lot of 2625 02:22:50.120 --> 02:22:53.920 the iconography. You got the wings, you got the pharaoh's heads. 2626 02:22:53.920 --> 02:22:56.879 This is clearly a Shriner lodge because the Shriners are 2627 02:22:56.920 --> 02:23:01.079 more of the Eastern philosophy. If it was a Knight's 2628 02:23:01.159 --> 02:23:03.520 Templar group, you'd see the checkered floors and you'd see 2629 02:23:03.520 --> 02:23:04.639 more things. 2630 02:23:05.159 --> 02:23:08.239 But anyway, anyway, this is basically. 2631 02:23:07.959 --> 02:23:11.559 The beginning, middle, and end of where the Illuminati ties 2632 02:23:11.680 --> 02:23:15.440 came in. So, okay, before we get out of here, Raven, 2633 02:23:15.479 --> 02:23:17.879 do you have any more questions that have been just 2634 02:23:18.159 --> 02:23:21.239 boiling up? Because we covered a lot relatively quickly, and 2635 02:23:21.280 --> 02:23:23.600 there's so much more to talk about, as far as 2636 02:23:24.440 --> 02:23:28.239 hiram Abiff or the ancient stories of King Solomon and 2637 02:23:28.280 --> 02:23:30.639 the Lesser and Greater Key of Solomon and how Albert 2638 02:23:30.639 --> 02:23:32.600 Pike uses that in some of his things, which is 2639 02:23:32.799 --> 02:23:36.760 calling upon demons, the Acacia tree, which is where we 2640 02:23:36.799 --> 02:23:40.479 get DMT from, which also is what they put on 2641 02:23:40.600 --> 02:23:42.879 top of the grade marker for hiram Abiff, and then 2642 02:23:42.920 --> 02:23:45.479 all of these things. There's so much we could spend 2643 02:23:45.799 --> 02:23:48.600 years talking about this, But do you have any questions 2644 02:23:48.680 --> 02:23:49.440 as of this moment. 2645 02:23:50.760 --> 02:23:53.440 No, I think that this was a pretty good I mean, 2646 02:23:53.479 --> 02:23:55.639 we had to kind of get through it pretty quickly, 2647 02:23:55.719 --> 02:23:58.719 but I think this is a great like introduction for 2648 02:23:59.399 --> 02:24:01.559 you know, all this. I asked quite a few questions 2649 02:24:01.559 --> 02:24:02.920 that I felt like people would ask too. 2650 02:24:04.559 --> 02:24:06.159 I am interested in getting this book. 2651 02:24:06.159 --> 02:24:08.040 I'm not gonna lie just for the soul's sake of 2652 02:24:08.079 --> 02:24:10.760 having it, to look at it and to see what 2653 02:24:10.760 --> 02:24:14.680 what random crap this dude is saying, because like, realistically, 2654 02:24:14.719 --> 02:24:17.799 when you're reading what he's saying, it's just like he's 2655 02:24:17.840 --> 02:24:20.120 throwing in a whole bunch of words to make himself 2656 02:24:20.399 --> 02:24:23.319 sound better. And it's like, Okay, I'm surprised they haven't 2657 02:24:23.360 --> 02:24:24.879 rewritten it by this point. 2658 02:24:24.959 --> 02:24:27.840 Oh no, he oh they can't. This is this is 2659 02:24:27.879 --> 02:24:31.040 their fucking I'm not gonna say it's their Bible. I 2660 02:24:31.079 --> 02:24:34.680 will say that this has been untouched and unchanged since 2661 02:24:34.719 --> 02:24:36.920 he wrote it. This is the doctrine. This is a 2662 02:24:36.959 --> 02:24:37.680 canon law. 2663 02:24:38.520 --> 02:24:39.000 I don't know. 2664 02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:41.879 I think it's one of those things that like, since 2665 02:24:41.920 --> 02:24:44.280 it's not like we're talking about like thousands and thousands 2666 02:24:44.319 --> 02:24:47.159 of years old like I rewrite it, you know, make 2667 02:24:47.280 --> 02:24:51.680 like a King James two edition, you know, make it, 2668 02:24:51.719 --> 02:24:54.079 make a more updated one to where people, you know, 2669 02:24:54.239 --> 02:24:56.920 may will want to actually read it and join again. 2670 02:24:57.040 --> 02:25:02.399 But it does sound like it originated with good intentions 2671 02:25:02.799 --> 02:25:06.760 and then got taken over by people of ill intention 2672 02:25:07.000 --> 02:25:09.520 and it turned into this other thing. And I didn't 2673 02:25:09.559 --> 02:25:13.760 really understand how the Illuminati got absorbed into the Masons, 2674 02:25:13.799 --> 02:25:16.120 because I know that they're parallel, and there's lots of 2675 02:25:16.120 --> 02:25:18.920 conversations of the two of them, and I can see 2676 02:25:18.920 --> 02:25:22.159 how they join up, I mean, especially when they're dwindling 2677 02:25:22.200 --> 02:25:24.799 and all this other stuff that's going on with them, 2678 02:25:24.879 --> 02:25:25.399 And then that. 2679 02:25:25.399 --> 02:25:27.079 Draws a lot of questions for a lot of people. 2680 02:25:27.239 --> 02:25:30.319 Is that, you know, since there's even still a million people, 2681 02:25:30.879 --> 02:25:34.559 do they participate or feel inclined to participate in the 2682 02:25:34.680 --> 02:25:38.239 Illuminati doctrine of wanting the one world order? 2683 02:25:38.360 --> 02:25:40.600 Do they feel like this is that what this is about? 2684 02:25:40.600 --> 02:25:43.799 I mean, because there's a lot of people that really 2685 02:25:43.879 --> 02:25:47.559 down here or like about the Masons. But all I've 2686 02:25:47.600 --> 02:25:50.360 ever heard my entire life is how evil and corrupt 2687 02:25:50.360 --> 02:25:52.559 they are, and how like it is like the most 2688 02:25:52.559 --> 02:25:55.799 satanic of satanic things, and like when I was a kid, 2689 02:25:55.840 --> 02:25:59.360 Like that's what I was hearing about. And I'm surprised 2690 02:25:59.360 --> 02:26:02.159 that there's still like there is. It doesn't seem like 2691 02:26:02.200 --> 02:26:05.319 they're uh. The people that are at the low levels, 2692 02:26:05.360 --> 02:26:05.719 they don't. 2693 02:26:06.239 --> 02:26:07.200 I've met a bunch. 2694 02:26:07.280 --> 02:26:08.719 I mean, they just seem like they want to be 2695 02:26:08.799 --> 02:26:11.360 a part of something, and like you know, the you know, 2696 02:26:11.399 --> 02:26:13.239 the Scouts of America. You want to just be a 2697 02:26:13.239 --> 02:26:15.280 part of something, right, and you want to help people, 2698 02:26:15.399 --> 02:26:18.440 and like this kind of seems like that long standing 2699 02:26:18.520 --> 02:26:19.840 tradition of helping people. 2700 02:26:20.319 --> 02:26:22.200 But clearly good old. 2701 02:26:22.120 --> 02:26:26.799 Pikey Poo was the kiss of death for this being 2702 02:26:26.879 --> 02:26:29.479 like a positive thing and it turned into quite a 2703 02:26:29.520 --> 02:26:33.239 negative thing that got taken over probably in somewhere in 2704 02:26:33.280 --> 02:26:36.959 the more satanic and now you know what it is 2705 02:26:36.959 --> 02:26:39.440 is we all understand it in the conspiracy realm is 2706 02:26:39.879 --> 02:26:42.440 not being very great when you get into the higher levels. 2707 02:26:42.799 --> 02:26:47.000 Well, with that in mind, some speculate that that, like 2708 02:26:47.040 --> 02:26:50.120 I said, the White Side Freemasonry, if you will, Some 2709 02:26:50.200 --> 02:26:53.040 speculate that is the Illuminati, and that's why it's not 2710 02:26:53.079 --> 02:26:54.799 talked about and why it's not over at least it 2711 02:26:54.799 --> 02:26:56.239 probably is, I mean, why not. 2712 02:26:56.799 --> 02:27:00.360 Right, It probably honestly is it's probably the Illuminati chap it. 2713 02:27:00.399 --> 02:27:01.799 I mean, they probably band together. 2714 02:27:02.040 --> 02:27:05.159 Remember how it just said the Illuminati specifically spits in 2715 02:27:05.200 --> 02:27:08.399 the face of religion, like out, that's what they're about. 2716 02:27:09.079 --> 02:27:11.559 Cut two, you go to the thirty third level of 2717 02:27:11.600 --> 02:27:14.440 free masonry, Blue Side, and you already know that you're 2718 02:27:14.440 --> 02:27:17.399 worshiping Lucifer at this point, what difference does it make. 2719 02:27:17.440 --> 02:27:19.360 You're already in for a penny, in for a pound, 2720 02:27:19.639 --> 02:27:21.079 you know what I mean. You might as well go 2721 02:27:21.120 --> 02:27:23.079 as far as this road will take you, and then 2722 02:27:23.120 --> 02:27:25.760 you get introduced to the other you know, up to 2723 02:27:25.760 --> 02:27:27.959 three hundred and sixty degrees of this new type of 2724 02:27:27.959 --> 02:27:30.760 masonry if they deem you worthy to go that route. 2725 02:27:31.760 --> 02:27:35.000 Some speculate that that is what the Illuminati became. 2726 02:27:36.120 --> 02:27:38.760 I could see it. I mean I could see the preservation. 2727 02:27:39.040 --> 02:27:41.840 I mean, they want to keep it around. And this 2728 02:27:41.879 --> 02:27:45.120 group obviously is still keeping it going and feeding bodies 2729 02:27:45.159 --> 02:27:47.360 to the machine of finding people that they want to 2730 02:27:47.920 --> 02:27:51.639 bring up into this. And so I mean, especially with 2731 02:27:51.719 --> 02:27:53.600 the way that they do some of their rituals and 2732 02:27:53.639 --> 02:27:58.079 stuff like, even if they're not intending to sign their 2733 02:27:58.120 --> 02:28:00.680 self away to you know, if you believe that they're 2734 02:28:00.680 --> 02:28:03.280 setting they're sould away to this. Then, I mean they're 2735 02:28:03.319 --> 02:28:07.799 still performing ritualistic practices, which obviously all religions have, I 2736 02:28:07.799 --> 02:28:11.360 mean Christians, Jews, everybody, everybody has them, right, But. 2737 02:28:13.040 --> 02:28:16.440 I think that I think, honestly, you might be onto something. 2738 02:28:16.639 --> 02:28:18.920 I think that the Illuminati definitely could be hiding in 2739 02:28:18.959 --> 02:28:22.760 the shadows of the Masons, and that they're quietly operating 2740 02:28:22.760 --> 02:28:26.440 in the backgrounds of all this, and they're using them 2741 02:28:26.600 --> 02:28:30.600 to feed their propaganda and everything else, which plays into 2742 02:28:31.440 --> 02:28:34.040 how much is it are they actually involved in our 2743 02:28:34.040 --> 02:28:37.920 current government? And you know how many people are a 2744 02:28:37.920 --> 02:28:39.959 part of this and they're just not talking about it. 2745 02:28:40.440 --> 02:28:43.920 So and also it can't go without we can't just 2746 02:28:44.120 --> 02:28:47.639 leave without saying that Albert Pike, also because he was 2747 02:28:47.719 --> 02:28:52.319 somebody who could read Latin and Greek and Hebrew and Sanskrit, 2748 02:28:52.680 --> 02:28:55.799 he is the reason why the Eastern philosophy has made 2749 02:28:55.840 --> 02:28:58.840 their way into this organization. He is the reason why 2750 02:28:59.079 --> 02:29:03.200 the Kabbalah is into Freemasonry. Also, in this book Morals 2751 02:29:03.239 --> 02:29:06.959 and Dogmen, he says without the kabbala what is freemasonry? 2752 02:29:08.440 --> 02:29:09.559 His words, not mine. 2753 02:29:10.200 --> 02:29:12.200 So let's mix in the fact that the same guy 2754 02:29:12.280 --> 02:29:16.200 is saying that the kabbala is masonry, they are worshiping 2755 02:29:16.280 --> 02:29:20.319 and seeking the illumination from Lucifer, and that he did 2756 02:29:20.360 --> 02:29:23.840 what he could to transcribe all these old alchemical texts 2757 02:29:23.879 --> 02:29:26.719 into English that he and his boys could enact them. 2758 02:29:27.159 --> 02:29:34.360 He quotes Gnostic scriptures clearly, clearly your boy wasn't about how. 2759 02:29:34.319 --> 02:29:36.159 Was he getting a hold of all this? So like 2760 02:29:36.200 --> 02:29:38.280 you have to think during that time, like, it's not 2761 02:29:38.319 --> 02:29:41.520 like he was traveling. Not one time do we read 2762 02:29:42.079 --> 02:29:42.639 that's true. 2763 02:29:42.920 --> 02:29:44.040 That's true. 2764 02:29:43.479 --> 02:29:46.520 He had a lot of money and influence, so he 2765 02:29:46.559 --> 02:29:49.280 probably could have been getting this stuff from overseas and 2766 02:29:49.360 --> 02:29:50.520 having it sent to him. 2767 02:29:50.600 --> 02:29:51.520 So mm hmm. 2768 02:29:52.000 --> 02:29:54.239 But I mean he was anti Catholic, and the Catholics 2769 02:29:54.399 --> 02:29:56.959 held so much knowledge, so it's interesting. 2770 02:29:57.239 --> 02:29:58.639 Yes, But and that's another thing. 2771 02:29:58.680 --> 02:30:00.680 The Catholics didn't hold all the knowledge. 2772 02:30:00.680 --> 02:30:02.559 I know, they didn't hold all of it. They held 2773 02:30:02.840 --> 02:30:04.920 they held a good amount of it. I would say 2774 02:30:04.959 --> 02:30:07.680 that they didn't hold all of it. But he would 2775 02:30:07.680 --> 02:30:10.079 still have to tread carefully, even with a lot, like 2776 02:30:10.200 --> 02:30:13.200 to talk to people in you know, Rome, in different 2777 02:30:13.200 --> 02:30:15.239 places like that to be able to gather some of 2778 02:30:15.239 --> 02:30:15.959 this information. 2779 02:30:16.479 --> 02:30:19.360 Paris, everything goes through Paris. That's the thing. It doesn't 2780 02:30:19.399 --> 02:30:22.000 have to go through the Catholic Church. He has Masonic 2781 02:30:22.040 --> 02:30:24.799 brothers in France, He's got Masonic brothers in England who 2782 02:30:24.799 --> 02:30:27.479 are closer to these places. He could get original books 2783 02:30:28.040 --> 02:30:30.399 and it's like, yes, the Catholic Church did all lot 2784 02:30:30.399 --> 02:30:34.159 to repress information for the Middle Ages. Once the once 2785 02:30:34.200 --> 02:30:37.879 the Renaissance started, the Catholic Church drastically started losing its 2786 02:30:37.879 --> 02:30:40.600 grip on what literature was and was not available. Then 2787 02:30:40.600 --> 02:30:43.680 when Gutenberg came out the printing press, everything was fucked. 2788 02:30:43.879 --> 02:30:45.639 They could not Yeah, I mean you're talking about the 2789 02:30:45.680 --> 02:30:49.879 fourteenth centuries when the Renaissance started. Yeah, so by the 2790 02:30:49.920 --> 02:30:53.600 seventeenth century, I mean you're you're talking like the information 2791 02:30:53.680 --> 02:30:56.120 is spreading across the world. So, I mean, it's just 2792 02:30:56.159 --> 02:30:59.239 it's interesting that he involved all of this stuff. And 2793 02:30:59.239 --> 02:31:00.719 that's kind of honestly why I want to look at 2794 02:31:00.719 --> 02:31:03.040 the book itself as I want to see how like 2795 02:31:03.280 --> 02:31:07.159 crazy this kind of gets with information and why they 2796 02:31:07.200 --> 02:31:11.639 would take this and develop this into like this is 2797 02:31:11.719 --> 02:31:15.280 the word and not one person has questioned this at all, 2798 02:31:15.479 --> 02:31:18.399 maybe thought hmm, maybe we should change this a little bit, 2799 02:31:18.440 --> 02:31:19.879 Maybe this doesn't sound right. 2800 02:31:20.559 --> 02:31:21.239 No, I don't know. 2801 02:31:21.479 --> 02:31:23.079 They still abide, mind, that's the thing. 2802 02:31:23.399 --> 02:31:26.040 And most these weird ass secret group ord not even secret, 2803 02:31:26.079 --> 02:31:28.200 it's not secret at all, but these weird ass groups. 2804 02:31:28.600 --> 02:31:30.600 Yeah, yeah, I don't know. 2805 02:31:30.959 --> 02:31:33.879 And again, most Masons haven't read the book cover to cover. 2806 02:31:34.040 --> 02:31:38.159 That's like five hundred and seventy five pages of very rambling, 2807 02:31:38.280 --> 02:31:41.000 poetic ramblings that you have to be well versed in 2808 02:31:41.120 --> 02:31:43.959 history to even understand half of what he's fucking talking about. 2809 02:31:44.920 --> 02:31:47.239 Like, you have to be super well versed in history. 2810 02:31:47.239 --> 02:31:50.879 Whenever he brings up a random philosopher from Greek antiquity 2811 02:31:50.959 --> 02:31:53.239 that most humans have never heard of, let alone know 2812 02:31:53.280 --> 02:31:56.440 what his rhetoric was. You have to do research to 2813 02:31:56.440 --> 02:31:58.600 be able to understand the sentence that you just read 2814 02:31:58.719 --> 02:32:01.000 at this level. And it's a whole thing. It's a study, 2815 02:32:01.239 --> 02:32:05.559 and that was the point. So anyway, anyway, we covered 2816 02:32:05.559 --> 02:32:08.280 a lot. We covered a lot in this episode, and 2817 02:32:08.479 --> 02:32:11.159 I'm hoping for any of the newer cult members that 2818 02:32:11.239 --> 02:32:14.280 may be newer, you know, to the conspiracy world and 2819 02:32:14.319 --> 02:32:16.879 you've always been curious about the Freemasons, I hope that 2820 02:32:17.079 --> 02:32:19.600 this covered some of the questions that you may have 2821 02:32:19.840 --> 02:32:23.239 had if it didn't then we want to hear about 2822 02:32:23.280 --> 02:32:25.040 it so that we can do another one, because we could, 2823 02:32:25.040 --> 02:32:29.319 literally we could talk forever about freemasonry and their connections 2824 02:32:29.360 --> 02:32:32.280 to upper elites, not just in America. We go and 2825 02:32:32.280 --> 02:32:34.159 talk about France, we could talk about Germany, we could 2826 02:32:34.159 --> 02:32:37.159 talk about Britain, we could talk about Scotland, so many 2827 02:32:37.280 --> 02:32:40.760 places around the word royal classes, not just of our democracy. 2828 02:32:41.120 --> 02:32:43.479 Royalty was a part of the Freemasons in the Illuminati, 2829 02:32:43.799 --> 02:32:46.440 and this also was done as a way to protest 2830 02:32:46.479 --> 02:32:49.760 the Catholic Church who had reigned over the royal class 2831 02:32:49.760 --> 02:32:53.280 for centuries. So there's levels upon levels upon levels. We 2832 02:32:53.360 --> 02:32:56.760 barely scratch the surface here, but good cult members. I 2833 02:32:56.799 --> 02:32:58.719 hope that this answered some questions. 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Fine, ladies and gentlemen, why are a good 2868 02:34:13.319 --> 02:34:14.920 chick got monemistics? John that show and give them the 2869 02:34:14.959 --> 02:34:16.440 same low respect over there with the five star views 2870 02:34:16.440 --> 02:34:18.239 and the positivity in the comments. Come to you got 2871 02:34:18.319 --> 02:34:20.319 the Cage to Night and come joint into us were 2872 02:34:20.360 --> 02:34:23.000 individual patrons that we host every Wednesday night, nine pm Central. 2873 02:34:23.159 --> 02:34:24.680 Least of those are in the description as well, and 2874 02:34:24.920 --> 02:34:25.479 we thank. 2875 02:34:25.360 --> 02:34:27.719 You if everybody's already gone and done so. With all 2876 02:34:27.760 --> 02:34:30.479 of this being said, this was another beautiful episode of 2877 02:34:30.600 --> 02:34:33.639 the Cults of conspiracy and I am the Caje to Night. 2878 02:34:34.159 --> 02:34:37.120 And there's one very important shooting. The vital piece of 2879 02:34:37.159 --> 02:34:40.120 information needs to learn just as soon as humanly possible, 2880 02:35:15.360 --> 02:35:16.200 no pay up that