Transcribed by Dok (edited/formatted by wakingup72 @ http://www.waronyou.com/forums)
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Good evening, folks, at home and around the world, and welcome to another edition of The Hour Of The Time. I'm William Cooper, and I strongly suggest that you have pen and paper by your side all during this episode of the Hour Of The Time, for I am going to be giving you a complete bibliography. You see, folks, I own a library that is better than most city libraries in this country. And I am going to give you the names, authors and publishing companies of the books that will start you off to bring you up to speed where I am at. And you're just going to get what you need to get to a beginning level tonight.
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OK, folks, the first thing in the bibliography that you need to get started...I'm going to recommend to you is a book. This is a thick book. The title of it is Our Ageless Constitution. Our Ageless Constitution. Now, I'm not gonna say these things slow. I'm going to repeat everything twice, but I'm gonna keep on going because I have a lot of information to give you. Either make a tape of this broadcast or order the tape or, if you can, write fast and get the information down. But get it, because you need to read these books. You need them for your personal library, you need them to know what’s going on in the world, and who’s bringing it about.
Our Ageless Constitution, edited by W. David Stedman (S-T-E-D-M-A-N) and Lavaughn G. Lewis. It's part of the Stedman Liberty Library, published by W. David Stedman Associates. Now, I don’t know where you can order this book from, folks. I got it as I always get my books: used book stores, from people who find something and send it to me, from scrounging in thrift shops, from new book stores. I have a library that is unbelievable. Most of you would be awed by the books that I have. Most of my income throughout the years have gone toward stocking this library, simply because I learned a long time ago that the sum total of all man's knowledge is contained in books. But you have to root it out. Not all books are true, not all books tell the truth, not all books are all lies. It's sort of a mixture, but you have to have the information available to do the research and come up with the answers.
OK, and once you have that book, you have everything you need to know about the history, the ideals, the purpose, everything behind the founding of this country, and if you don’t know that, you don’t know anything about this country, so you need it.
The next book that I'm going to recommend, because you need to know the symbology and the history and who these people really are, is a book that was originally printed in the 1700’s. In fact, the beginning...it's called the...the Templar’s chart -- the Masonic Chart, the Templar chart -- and the beginning has a letter to the editors of the New York Express, and its signed by Benjamin Franklin. It’s a very old book. It has the complete history, according to Freemasonry, of Freemasonry. It's entitled -- and this is the title of the book -- The True Masonic Chart or Hieroglyphic Monitor; Containing All the Emblems Explained in the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Mason, Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, Royal Arch, Royal Master, and Select Master: Designed and Duly Arranged Agreeably to the Lectures, by R.W. Jeremy L. Cross, G.L., to which are added illustrations, charges, songs, etc., with additions and emendations. Also, a complete history of Freemasonry by a brother. This copy that I have is the twelfth and stereotyped edition, printed in New York, published by A.S. Barnes and Company, 51 Johns St. in 1854.
You can find treasures like this if you look. Most people though sit back and say, "(nasally voice: Oh, I don’t know where to find that. I don’t know anything about doing research. Why don’t you tell me?" (laughs) That’s not the way to do it, folks...not the way to do it.
Second book I'm going to recommend here that you get is a book by Joseph Campbell, probably the world's foremost authority on myth and mythology. This book is entitled Primitive Mythology, the Masks of God. Again, it's by Joseph Campbell, Primitive Mythology, the Masks of God, and I believe it's printed by Penguin...Penguin Books.
OK, next one is also by Joseph Campbell, Occidental Mythology, the Masks of God, by Joseph Campbell. Entitled Occidental Mythology, The Masks of God. Also published by Penguin...Penguin Books.
Now I've got all these books stacked up around here, so if you hear a moment of silence, it's because I'm reaching for something. I literally have surrounded myself with stacks of books. I'm going to give you the title, author, and publisher of as many as I can, starting with the most important for you to use to get started with and working on that. [sic]
Next one is by Joseph Campbell again. The title is Creative Mythology, The Masks of God. Creative Mythology, The Masks of God[/i], also by Joseph Campbell and published by Penguin Books.
The next one, folks, is The Sacred and the Profane. The title is The Sacred and the Profane. The subtitle is, The Nature of Religion, the Significance of Religious Myths, Symbolism and Ritual Within Life and Culture, and it's by Mircea Eliade. Mircea Eliade -- it's actually translated from a foreign language. It's printed by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Next one is an important book once you get to...Once you get into the symbology of the Mystery Schools and the occult, you learn that geometry and Hermetic science become very important. Now, this book is entitled Occult Geometry and Hermetic Science of Motion and Number. Occult Geometry and Hermetic Science of Motion and Number, a combined edition by A.S. Raleigh. A.S. Raleigh, and this is published by Devorss...Devorss Publications. That’s spelled D-E-V (as in Victor)-O-R-S-S. And there’s some treasures in these books.
Now, these are books that most people pass by. They look at them and say, "Ah, this is...this is boring," or, "I would never learn anything from that." And most people would never even pick up one of these books. But, I'm telling you folks, you better start.
Next one is entitled Celestial Symbols. Celestial Symbols: Symbolism in Doctrine, Religious Traditions and Temple Architecture, by Allen H. Barber. Allen H. Barber, and this is published by Horizon Publishers. Sometimes you get to understand that even the names of the publishers, and, sometimes, the name of the authors, are symbolic. Horizon, as you already learned, means "Horus rising." Horizon Publishers and Distributors, Incorporated, PO Box 490, Bountiful, Utah. And that book contains some revelations.
Another one is entitled Many Moons. Many Moons: The Myth and Magic, Fact and Fantasy of Our Nearest Heavenly Body, by Diana Brueton, introduction by Col. James Irwin of the Apollo 11 mission. (laughs) Oh, yes, it gets very interesting...very interesting. And this is published by Prentice Hall Press, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore. So I know you can find this book.
Now, we're going to get into some other areas now, and I'm going to attempt to, sort of, explain to you some of the things that are in these books. And you need to start with some history. The first book that I want to recommend to you is entitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh. Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh. Holy Blood, Holy Grail. The next one is The Messianic Legacy. The Messianic Legacy, by the same authors: Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh.
And then there's another one called, The Temple and the Lodge. The Temple and the Lodge, by the same authors. And then the fourth one by these authors, also, is called The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception. The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, by the same authors. Now, read those books. Read them in that order. The last one just came out. I just ordered it myself, have not read it, but I know, because I have read the other three, that I need to read it, and it's going to be just as revealing as the first three.
Now, none of these books put together the whole picture...I've done that. But they all have pieces to the puzzle that you need to find for yourself, so that you'll know that I'm not leading you down the garden path. That's important.
Now, in that series of books, folks, it outlines the history -- as they have discovered it -- of a secret society whose sole purpose is to protect the bloodline of the family which, traditionally, throughout history has claimed the divine right to rule the rest of us. It's important that you know about that family, because the same people (laughs) also rule this country, folks. They're all related, if you haven't figured that out yet. And if you want to find out how related they are, start looking into an organization, organized in [Cincinnati], called the Knights of the Golden Circle. The Knights of the Golden Circle.
The next book that I want you to pick up and read is entitled Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar, a biography by Michael Grant. Now, in this book, it outlines the...a lot of things about ancient Rome: their political machinery; the way that Rome was really ruled by families, which is going to be the same way in the New World Order -- I can guarantee you that. And it talks a lot about the ancient religions in this book. It's very revealing. It’s a biography, it’s factual; it's not fiction at all, and you need to read it.
The next book is an extremely important book and puts a lot of pieces of the puzzle together. And the person who wrote this book didn’t actually set out to even write about this subject. What he was doing was trying to research the Peasants' Revolt in England, and ended up writing a book about Freemasonry, because of what he found out in his investigation into the Peasants' Revolt in England. And that man is John J. Robinson. John J. Robinson. The title of the book is Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. I'm just going to read to you a little bit from the dust jacket here:
"Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings, emperors and statesmen to take its sacred oaths. It also attracted great revolutionaries such as George Washington and Sam Houston in America, Juárez in Mexico, Garibaldi in Italy, and Bolívar in South America. It was outlawed over the centuries by Hitler, Mussolini and the Ayatollah Khomeini. But where had this powerful organization come from? What was it doing in those secret centuries before it arose from underground more than 270 years ago? And why was Freemasonry attacked with such intense hatred by the Roman Catholic Church?
"This amazing detective story answers these questions and proves that the Knights Templar in Britain, fleeing arrest and torture by pope and King, formed a secret society of mutual protection that came to be called Freemasonry. Based on years of meticulous research, this book solves the last remaining mysteries of the Masons -- their secret words, symbols and allegories whose true meanings have been lost in antiquity. With a richly drawn background of the bloody battles, the opportunistic kings and scheming popes, the tortures and religious persecution that were the Middle Ages, it is an important book that may require that we to take a new look at the history of events leading to the Protestant Reformation."
And you’ve already heard (laughs) about that on this show. But you need this book, Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. Get it.
The next book is by the same author, John J. Robinson. After he wrote Born in Blood, he was intrigued, and so...He wrote Born in Blood about Freemasonry, and then he had to go back and research the history of the Knights Templar. And he wrote this book, entitled Dungeon, Fire and Sword. Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades, by John J. Robinson, author of Born in Blood. And I'm going to read to you from this fly leaf. But...yeah, I will.
"Over the past thousand years, the bloodiest game of king-of-the-hill has been for supremacy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. This book recounts the stirring saga of the Knights Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the aftermath of the butchery of the First Crusade. Recruited to a life of poverty, chastity and obedience intended to lead only to martyrdom on the battlefield, they were totally dedicated to the pious paradox that the wholesale slaughter of non-believers would earn the eternal gratitude of the Prince of Peace.
"The Templars amassed great wealth, which they used to finance their two hundred years of war against the Muslims on the desert, in the mountains, and up the broad sweep of the Nile valley. The Templars’ reward for those two centuries of military martyrdom was to be arrested by pope and king, tortured by the Inquisition, and finally decreed out of existence. But their legend and legacy just would not die.
"In telling the incredible story of the Knights Templar, the author's clear explanation of the cultural and religious differences among the Templars’ enemies and friends in the Middle East gives fresh understanding of the people who populate this restless region. Here are the Sunnis and the Shiites, the Kurds and Armenians, the Arabs and Turks, who figure so prominently in today’s headlines. The similarity of their antagonisms today and those of eight hundred years ago are often so striking as to be eerie.
"Dungeon, Fire & Sword is a brilliant work of narrative history that can be read as an adventure story, a morality play, or a lesson in the politics of warfare."
But, folks, be careful when you read these books that you do not believe them blindly, for sometimes the authors are taken in by exoteric. But you still need to read them.
Don’t go away folks, we got to take our break. I'll be right back after this very short pause.
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And now, folks, we continue with our bibliography. I hope you've all got pen and paper and you're writing just as fast as you can. Don’t worry if you don’t get them all; if you just get some of them and start reading, that’s what counts. You can always order this tape and play it back, and copy them down at your leisure. At some future date we will print a bibliography, but right now, to tell you the truth, folks, we just don’t have time to do that. We're so much engaged in producing this radio show and researching, and I'm writing a second book and traveling and speaking. And, I'll tell ya something, right now I barely have time to talk to my wife, and she doesn’t appreciate to much, so (laughs) were going away this weekend.
The next book, The Future of Man. The Future of Man. Once again, The Future of Man, by Robert Klark Graham. Robert Klark Graham. You can order this book for seven dollars from S.C. Books, P.O. Box 1562, that P.O. Box 1562, Friendswood, Texas. Friendswood, Texas, 77546. Once again, seven dollars for this book from S.C. Books, P.O. Box 1562, Friendswood Texas, 77546.
Boy, I'm really going to have to hurry to get (laughs) a substantial amount of these books in. I hear somebody out there screaming and pulling their hair out, "I can’t possibly read all these books!" Yes, you can. I've done it. I've read every book in my library, folks, and my library is bigger than most city libraries. If I can do it, you can do it. The only thing that will stop you is because you don’t want to do it. And if you learn how to do productive research, some of them you don’t have to read the whole books, believe me. [sic] You just have to learn how to do that. But you have to understand what the context of the book is before you take anything out of context. You can get in big trouble by doing that, believe me.
Next book is A History of Mathematics. A History of Mathematics, second edition, by Carl B. Boyer. That’s A History of Mathematics, second edition, by Carl B. Boyer, B-O-Y-E-R. And the forward is by Isaac Asimov, and this is published by Wiley (W-I-L-E-Y). Should be able...in fact, you should find that in most good book stores. It should be on the shelf.
Next one is the Dead Sea Scrolls. Be very careful about the Dead Sea Scrolls, folks, because everybody who's had their hands on them has been in the pay of the Rockefeller family, and the people who are translating them now are in the pay of the Rockefeller family. And they say that some of them have leaked out and that you're getting the real version...you don’t know that. This could have been intentional leaks and nobody, none of us, know how to really translate these things. So, the Rockefellers, basically, are telling us what the Dead Sea Scrolls say, and I can just about tell you what they're gonna tell us right off the bat: That Jesus didn’t die, and all kinds of things, and, well, just wait and see. Just wait and see. This is called Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls. Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls, a reader from the Biblical Archeology Review, edited by Hershel Shanks. Hershel Shanks, and this is published by Random House.
Now, I'm gonna go a little speedy here because I haven’t much time left, folks. And I want you to get as many of these as you can. Next one is Pagans and Christians. Pagans and Christians. This book is worth its weight in gold. If you want to understand the early history of the church, and the antagonism between the early church, the early Christian church, and the pagan religions. Pagans and Christians, by Robin Lane Fox. Robin Lane Fox. Published by Knopf (K-N-O-P-F). Get it, read it. You won’t regret it.
The next one is...that alarm you just heard going off, that is the bread maker. (laughs) The loaf of bread is done and I'm fixing to have a hot slice of bread with fresh butter on it as soon as I finish this broadcast, folks. Preparing for the Twenty-first Century, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, by Paul Kennedy, published by Random House. Now, that’s a modern book about modern things -- you still need to read it.
Next one is a very important book, printed in 1798. It has been reprinted by the Americanist Classics. The Americanist Classics, published by Western Islands, Boston & Los Angeles. You can find this book easily. It's called Proofs of a Conspiracy, by John Robinson A.M., 1798. Proofs of a Conspiracy, by John Robinson A.M., 1798. The Americanist Classics, published by Western Islands, Boston & Los Angeles. If you didn’t get anything else I have ever told you, get that book and read it.
Another one that's very important is called Time Bomb. Time Bomb. It will give you the roots of the Liberty Lobby and the spotlight and America Free Radio [sic], and will open your eyes on the Nazi influence in this country. Time Bomb, by Piller, published by Arco. Arco. And this is (laughs) very revealing.
Another one is...well, I don’t have it in front of me so I'm not gonna risk misquoting it. This one is The New World Order. The New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies. This is called The New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies, by William T. Still, William T. Still. And who published this book? Let me see here, Huntington House Publishers. Published by Huntington House Publishers' Pick it up, read it. Remember, there are a lot of books called the New World Order. That’s just one, and I'm going to give you another one with the same title here in a few minutes.
The next one is En Route to Global Occupation. En Route to Global Occupation: A High-Ranking Government Liaison Exposes the Secret Agenda of World Unification, by Gary H. Kah. Gary H. Kah, and this, also, is Huntington House Publishers.
The next one is pretty good, called Dark Majesty. Now this author, Texe Marrs, has published a plethora of books about the coming New World Order. Unfortunately, he really laces it with his own religious view points, and that’s OK because he has a lot of hard facts in here. But it tends to turn some people off and they don’t want to read the books because of that. If you're a Christian, you will have no problem reading this book; if you're not, you may have some problem with the religious beliefs of Texe Marrs. But if you can struggle with that and get through it, it will open your eyes and you will get a lot of good facts from this book. Its called Dark Majesty by Texe Marrs, The Secret Brotherhood and the Magic of a Thousand Points of Light. You see, he understands this quite a bit, like I do, only I don’t try to hoist my religion off on the rest of you. I'm a Christian, but I'm a different kind of Christian. I'm a Christian only in that I believe in the ten commandments as given to Moses by God, and the actual words attributed to Christ, whether he lived or died, or was the son of God or was just a man walking on this Earth. I believe that what he said is the most profound utterances ever spoken on this earth, whether they were ever spoken or not, folks. And I try to live my life by the ten commandments and by those words that Christ is credited with having spoken.
The next work is Satanic Voices: Ancient and Modern. Satanic Voices: Ancient and Modern, compiled by David Musa Pidcock. David Musa Pidcock. Now, this author is the head of the Islamic Party in Great Britain. So, again, you have his fundamental religious beliefs mixed in this book with a lot of cold, hard facts, which I have checked and double-checked and they're absolutely true. So if you, again, like with the other book, if you can get past the religious viewpoint of the author and look at what the history of this thing is, from his viewpoint and the facts that he delivers in this book, then (laughs) believe me, you'll be way ahead of the game. It's published by Mustaqim which, I believe, is the Islamic Party in Great Britain. And Mustaqim publishes Islamic art and literature.
Now, remember what I told you a long time ago. If you don’t want to read opposing viewpoints or books written by people who believe in different religious...or different gods than you do; if you don’t want to read something that was written by a blatant Communist, then I'm telling ya right now, you're going to be whipped in this war. You're gonna be beat down and enslaved in this war, because you won't know anything about your enemy, you won't really know what the truth is, because you’ll be stuck, held prisoner, in the dogma of your own beliefs. And I mean that, folks. A lot of us have been believing a lot of things for all of our lives that are absolute, total lies. And once you start your own research you’ll find that out. And you're gonna be probably as angry as I have been at times in my life. And you may do some stupid things like I have done at times in my life. Which is one reason why none of you should ever, ever put me up on a pedestal. Because I'm just like you. (laughs) I'm just like you. I'm not any different. And I may be a lot more human than most, because I've gotten in touch with something inside that lets me feel and express my anger and my emotions and things that most people aren’t in touch with. So when I'm angry, I scream and yell, but five minutes later it's all over with. (laughs) Don’t put me on a pedestal. I'll fall off immediately, and you will all be disappointed. So, if you don’t do it, nobody will be disappointed.
The next book is called, The Unseen Hand. The Unseen Hand: An Introduction to the Conspiratorial View of History, by A. Ralph Epperson, my good friend who lives in Tucson, who’s going to be a guest on this program here in about a week or two. And were going to try to do, maybe three or four episodes of the Hour of the Time with A. Ralph Epperson. This book, The Unseen Hand, is an incredible piece of work and I highly recommend it.
The next book is also by A. Ralph Epperson, and I've used this book extensively during our revelation of the Mystery Schools and Mystery Babylon in our series, our ongoing series. It’s called The New World Order. The New World Order, by A. Ralph Epperson. Get these books, read them. If you cant find them, just wait. He'll be on this show pretty soon, and we'll give you a phone number and an address and a price, and you can send off and get them directly from him.
This next book is extremely revealing. In fact, anything that this author has ever written you should read. In fact there’s a center, a study center set up in Los Angeles called the Philosophical Society which was founded by Manly P. Hall. The name of the author, Manly P. Hall, 33rd degree Freemason. Anything that he's ever written, get it and read it. This particular book is called Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians. Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians. Another good one to read that he wrote is called, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, and anything else that you can find that has been written by Manly P. Hall, get it and read it. Make sure you understand the symbology don’t get caught up in the exoteric bullshit, because that’s the way they hide the real meaning.
Another one, because a lot of the Mystery traditions is wrapped up in what they call the Kaballah, which is the ancient the Jewish version of the Mystery Schools. And don’t get me wrong, folks. Not all Jews are involved in this, not all Catholics are involved in it, not all Protestants are involved in it, not all blacks, not all Arabs, not all whites, but some of every one of them are deeply involved in this. And they are the people who worship Lucifer. If you worship Lucifer, you can be a member, too. This book is called Judaica. Judaica: The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica. This is The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica, by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Dan Cohn-Sherbok, and it's published by Blackwell, Blackwell Reference, printed in Great Britain by TJ Press, Pat Stone limited, Pat Stone, Cornwall, but you can still order this from any bookstore. The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica, by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Make sure you get it, because a lot of the Kabalistic words needs definitions, and you can find them in this book.
Next one is A Dictionary of Freemasonry. A Dictionary of Freemasonry: A Compendium of Masonic History, Symbolism, Rituals, Literature, and Myth. A Dictionary of Freemasonry, by Robert Macoy. Robert Macoy. This book is worth its weight in gold if you know how to, again, interpret the symbolism of the exoteric meaning [inaudible] the exoteric writing. Some of you already know what I'm talking about, some of you have no idea what I'm referring to, but you will find out once you get into this.
Another book that’s worth its weight in gold is called The Mystery Religions. The Mystery Religions and Christianity. The Mystery Religions and Christianity, by Samuel Angus. Samuel Angus. Published by University Books. Published by University Books, The Mystery Religions and Christianity, by Samuel Angus. And we want to thank our member, Spencer. Thank you very much. Spencer supplied us with this volume.
Next one's been around for a long time, but, again, it's worth its weight in gold. But you have to understand, again, the symbolism to read these books. A lot of these books were not meant for us to read and understand. They are meant for an adept, an initiate, to understand. This is A History of Secret Societies, published by Citadel. A History of Secret Societies, published by Citadel, by Arkon Daraul. Arkon Daraul (D-A-R-A-U-L). Arkon (A-R-K-O-N D-A-R-A-U-L), Citadel Press New York. A History of Secret Societies. Again, worth its weight in gold.
The next one is The Occult Conspiracy. The Occult Conspiracy. Now, this book was written by someone who is in sympathy with the Secret Societies and may be a member, although I doubt, from reading this...it doesn’t sound like he is. But he is defiantly in sympathy with them. So be careful when you read this that you don’t get the wrong message, The Occult Conspiracy: Secret Societies, Their Influence and Power in World History, by Michael Howard. That’s Michael Howard, and this is published by Destiny Books, Rochester, Vermont. And the logo of Destiny Books is the Sun and the Moon. (laughs) That should tell you something.
Next one is America's Secret Assignment...excuse me, I'm wrong. America's Assignment with Destiny. There’s two books, and I had this confused with another one. The other one's called Americas Secret Destiny. Throw that one out. That’s total crap. (laughs) That is exoteric from the word "go," all the way to the end. This one, though, you need to read, America's Assignment with Destiny, by Manly P. Hall, and you will not believe what your eyes are telling you that your brain is reading. For this is an incredible book. It has incredible admissions, and you will begin to understand certain things that happened in history that you could never understand before. America's Assignment with Destiny, by Manly P. Hall, and this is published by PRS, whatever that is...let me look in here and find out, so that you will know. Philosophical -- I should have known this...man, I feel stupid now -- illustrated, second printing, Philosophical Research Society Inc. This is Manly P. Hall's organization. America's Assignment with Destiny, by Manly P. Hall. Get it and read it.
Another one that's extremely important that you read this book. Many people pass it by, snub their nose at it. Don’t ever do that, folks. You're making a big mistake. This is The New Age Bible. The New Age Bible, by Dr. John Rodgers, The Hidden Truth Revealed. Just the symbology on the cover will send you reeling after you've listened to the episodes of the Mystery Religion of Babylon that we've already revealed on this show. This is published by Inner Light Publications. Inner Light Publications. The New Age Bible by Dr. John Rodgers, The Hidden Truth Revealed. Get it and read it, folks.
Another one you need to read, which will connect someone else with all of this, if you can understand the symbology, again, is called The Mormon Murders. The Mormon Murders, by Steven Naifeh, and Gregory White Smith. A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death. Read this book.
Now, here's a catalogue you need to get, because you can get a lot of books that you need from this organization:
It's catalogue 2A. Catalogue 2A. Send six dollars to HELP RESEARCH, mailing address is P.O. Box 70. That’s P.O. Box 70, 8349 Lafayette Street. 8349 Lafayette Street, Mokelumne Hill, California. M-O-K-E-L-U-M-N-E. That’s M-O-K-E-L-U-M-N-E, Mokelumne Hill, California, 95245. That’s HELP RESEARCH, P.O. Box 70, 8349 Lafayette Street, Mokelumne Hill, California, 95245.
Good night, folks. I hope you get these books. I hope you start your own library, and I hope you wake up. God bless each and every single one of you.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
William Cooper's Mystery Babylon: Part 16 - Sun Worship
Transcribed by Devotional Soul (edited/formatted by wakingup72 @ http://www.waronyou.com/forums)
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Well, it's hard to believe, folks, but this is the sixteenth hour of broadcasting in our series on Mystery Babylon.
You're listening to the Hour of the Time, and I'm William Cooper.
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Ladies and gentlemen, what you have just listened to is a warning...is a warning. For there is a war being conducted right at this moment -- a war against the American people. It is now a shooting war, and the second battle is being fought. The first was fought in the state of Idaho against the family of Randy Weaver. The second battle is being fought by a brave group of men and women and children in a church, known as Branch Davidian, in Waco, Texas. They are fighting for their Creator-endowed rights. They have committed no crimes. They know what the sound of battle is. They know what it's like to see their friends or relatives die in their arms or at their feet. They know what it's like to have wounded and be refused medicine and medical treatment.
Oh, yes, we are at war. Make no mistake about it. And if you don't believe that, you keep your eyes and ears open in the next weeks, months, and years. You will see it escalate across this country like a wild forest fire, out of control. And unless the sheeple wake up and listen and learn and act, I predict that there will be civil war in the United States of America. Because there are many of us who will not ever give up our Creator-endowed rights, our right to keep and bear arms, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights, without one hell of a fight.
And what you heard at the beginning of this program, folks, for those of you who have never experienced war, was the real sounds of war. What you heard were real bullets being fired, real bombs being dropped, real machine guns killing real people. And Taps, at the end, of what was a real bugle blowing real Taps over real graves of real fallen men who were buried in Arlington National Cemetery. You see, many people have already died protecting what many of you are giving up. I, for one, will not.
When they come for me, there will be another battle. I will not give up. And I don't care who wins or loses, because at the end of my battle it would be just the beginning of yours.
Do you understand what I'm telling you? You see, my whole purpose is to wake enough people so that no battles ever have to be fought. But we're already behind because two have already been fought, and more, I guarantee you, are on the way. Guaranteed, folks. Guaranteed. Because the more we allow them to get away with, the more they will attempt. I don't want a civil war in this country. I want to stop it before it even has a chance to start, and the only way to do that is wake up America.
You see, if two hundred million people stand up with their right under the second article and amendment to the Constitution, holding a weapon in their hand, and say, "Enough! We will not put up with this anymore! Stop it now! Get out of our government! Get out of our cities! Get out of our military! And stay out!" that will be the end of it and no shot will have to be fired. I guarantee that. But what do you think the odds are of that happening?
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Now, this is the sixteenth hour of our series on Mystery Babylon. Many of you have already made the necessary connections. You know what's happening, and you know who's bringing it about, and you know why. Some of you still do not, so we will continue.
[reading from The New World Order, written by A. Ralph Epperson]:
"[Manly P. Hall wrote this:] 'The Serpent Kings [-- and notice that Mr. Hall capitalized the two words, as one would do for a deity or for royalty when he wrote this --] reigned over the earth.'"
[William Cooper]: The Serpent Kings reigned over the earth.
"'It was these Serpent Kings who founded the Mystery Schools which later appeared as the Egyptian and Brahmin Mysteries...The serpent was their symbol...They were the true Sons of Light, and from them have descended a long line of adepts and initiates duly tried and proven according to the law.'"
[William Cooper]: And the proper term is not Freemason, it's free-maçon. It comes from the French, from the Knights of Templar, and it literally means 'the Sons of Light'.
"Another writer, Wilfred Gregson, informed his readers why Mr. Hall capitalized the two words "Serpent Kings" when he wrote:
"'One symbol of great prominence throughout all ancient civilizations is the snake, or serpent, where it has symbolized "Divine Wisdom."'
"So, Mr. Hall had reason to capitalize the words, because he had discovered that the serpent represented divinity. Notice also[, folks,] that Mr. Gregson, even though he chose not to capitalize the word 'serpent,' confirmed that Mr. Hall's use of the capital letter was correct when he stated that there was a connection between 'Divine Wisdom' and the serpent.
"Mr. Hall[, a 33rd degree Mason,] made the same connection in these comments:
"'The serpent is true to the principles of wisdom, for it tempts man to the knowledge of himself.'
"A serpent is 'often used by the ancients to symbolize wisdom.'
"The symbol of the serpent has another concealed truth, according to Kenneth McKenzie. [For] he identified that truth in this quote when he described a Brazen Serpent:
"'It was a type of Mediator, and a promise of redemption.'
"The word Brazen[, folks,] is defined as 'bold, or impudent.' And Impudent is defined as 'shamelessly bold or disrespectful.' [Now, you will remember] that Lucifer was an anointed cherub in heaven, who fell because he sought godly power. The story is covered in Isaiah [chapter 14, verses 12-14 of the Old Testament [Look it up. It says this]:
"'How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground...For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...I will be like the Most High.'
"Therefore, it can be safely said that Lucifer would be considered to be 'shamelessly bold' and[, of course,] 'disrespectful.' It appears that the Brazen Serpent could be Lucifer!
"Another author, John Anthony West, wrote a book entitled Serpent In The Sky, in which he also connected the serpent with 'wisdom.' [And] he wrote [this]:
"'...the serpent represents intellect, the faculty by which man discriminates. There is a higher and a lower intellect. Thus, symbolically, there is a serpent that crawls and the higher intellect, that which allows man to know God -- the heavenly serpent, the serpent in the sky.'
"The somewhat veiled worship of this serpent in the sky inside the Masonic lodges was alluded to by another Masonic writer, Kenneth MacKenzie[. For] in his book entitled The Royal Masonic Encyclopedia, he wrote this:
"'Among the charges preferred against the Order of the Knights of Templar, for which Jacques de Molay suffered martyrdom, was that of worshiping an idol or image called Baphomet. It has been suggested that Baphomet is none other than the Ancient of Days, or Creator. More cannot be said here without improperly revealing what we [meaning [the] Masons] are bound to hele, conceal and never reveal.'
"So, according to this Mason, the snake or serpent is somehow a symbol of the [subject of the] Masonic worship, and apparently this fact is the secret [that] the Masons cannot reveal to the rest of the world.
"A Christian minister, Reverend Alexander Hislop, wrote a book that included some discussion on the subject of serpent worship. [And] in that book, entitled Two Babylons, he explained that serpent worship was not something that is recent in time. It was an ancient practice.
"'Along with the sun [this symbol will be discussed later,] as the great fire-god, and, in due time, identified with him, was the serpent worshiped In the mythology of the primitive world, the serpent is universally the symbol of the sun...as the sun [was] the great enlightener of the physical world, so the serpent was held to have been the great enlightener of the spiritual, by giving mankind the 'knowledge of good and evil.'"
[William Cooper]: And, according to the Bible, you know who gave man the knowledge of good and evil: Satan, Lucifer.
"He then discussed a coin minted in Tyre, the center of the ancient Phoenician culture. (This coin was also the subject of an article in the September, 1986 issue of The Good News magazine.) It depicted a serpent entwined around a tree stump. To the left of the stump stood an empty cornucopia, and to the right a flourishing palm tree. The snake on the coin is the symbol of the powerful god whom the Romans called Aesculapius. The name means 'the man-instructing snake,' or 'the snake that instructs man.' And the article then reported:
"'In mythology, Aesculapius was believed to be the child of the Sun, and thus the "enlightener" of mankind. As the legend goes, Aesculapius was ultimately struck down by a thunderbolt thrown by an angry Zeus, king of the gods, and cast into the underworld.'
"The tree stump[, folks,] represented the fallen 'god' and his ruined kingdom. In the mythologies of many ancient civilizations, the image of a fallen tree was used to symbolize the cutting off of a great god or hero, someone cut of in the midst of their power. [You see,] the snake on the coin was shown twisting itself around the dead stump, exerting its power in an attempt to restore his fallen kingdom.
"The cornucopia is an ancient symbol of plenty, but it was empty on the coin. This has been interpreted as meaning that the abundance had been cut off because the great 'god' has been cut off. However, [folks,] the implication is that the horn of plenty will return when the fallen 'god' is restored to his 'rightful' position. The palm tree shown on the coin is a well know symbol of victory. So it appears that the coin was minted to depict the anticipated return of the fallen snake-god to the world.
"[And] the Bible talks about a fallen serpent in the book of Revelation, chapter 12, verse 9. However, in this case, [folks,] the snake is connected to another symbol of the serpent: 'a great dragon.'
"'And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan...'
"Is the serpent worshiped in the Ancient Mysteries and a symbol [in the] Masonic ceremonies a symbol of Satan, the devil? As has already been discussed, there is indeed evidence[, folks,] that this is the case."
[William Cooper]: And once you have confronted the evidence and studied as much as I have studied, you will know that they are one and the same.
"Another symbol that needs to be analyzed is the star. On the page opposite page 124 in Mackey's Encyclopaedia is a drawing illustrating the 'symbols of Freemasonry.' Included in the twenty or so Masonic symbols is a drawing of a shooting star.
"[Now,] it can be fairly claimed that a blazing or shooting star would be one that was on the move inside the universe. One of the directions it could move would be, of course, towards the earth. If it was moving towards the earth, it could be called a 'falling star.'"
[William Cooper]: But we know that most falling stars are actually meteors and not stars at all.
"Lucifer[, however,] is a 'fallen angel,' according to Isaiah, an Old Testament prophet, who wrote this in Isaiah [chapter 14, verse 12]: 'How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer...'
"[Now, folks,] notice that Isaiah also said that Lucifer fell from heaven. And other parts of the Bible report that he fell to the earth. So, it is conceivable that the symbol of the 'falling' or 'blazing' star could be a symbol of Lucifer.
"A variety of authors have used their writings to discuss the star as a symbol. Professor Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the [Bavarian] Illuminati, was one who explained what he considered the star to be a symbol of [listen closely]:
"'...the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.'
"Mr. Mackey wrote that the star: 'was a symbol of God.' He then connected the blazing star to another symbol when he wrote: 'The Blazing Star...refers us to the sun...' And then he connected it with the secret initiation [ceremonies] inside the Masonic lodge: 'In the Fourth Degree of the same Rite [the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] the [Blazing Star] is again said to be a symbol of the light of Divine Providence pointing out the way of truth.'
"And Mr. Hutchens, the Masonic writer who has authored the recent book on Masonry, further interpreted the symbol of the star [thusly]: 'The star as a type of the myriad suns that light other countless systems of worlds is an emblem of that Masonic Light in search of which every Mason travels -- the correct knowledge of the Deity, and of His laws that control the universe.'
"[Now] closely allied [with the] symbol of the star is the symbol of the sun. Albert Pike identified it with the worship of the past in this collection of quotes from his writings [and pay close attention]:
"'The worship of the sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity.'
"'...thousands of years ago, men worshiped the Sun...Originally, they looked beyond the orb to the invisible God...They personified him as Brahma, Amun, Osiris, Bel, Adonis, Malkarth, Mithras, and Apollo. Krishna is the Hindu Sun-God.'
"'the Gauls worshiped the Sun under the name of Belin or Belinis.'
"'The sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the Deity. The Sun was His manifestation and visible image.'
"'The Sun is the hieroglyphical sign of Truth, because it is the source of Light.'
"So, Mr. Pike identified the sun as a symbol of a deity that should be worshiped He chose to capitalize the first letter of the word, the 's', as one would in recognizing the name of a deity."
[William Cooper]: And if you've been listening to this series, you already know that, of course, it was.
"Albert Mackey repeated Mr. Pike's contentions with comments like these about 'sun worship':
"'...[it was] the oldest and by far the most prevalent of all the ancient religions. Eusebius says that the Phoenicians and the Egyptians were the first who ascribed divinity to the sun.'
"'Hardly any of the symbols of Masonry are more important in their signification or more extensive in their application than the sun as the source of material light, it minds the Mason of that intellectual light of which he is in constant search.
"'The sun is then presented to us in Masonry first as a symbol of light, but then more emphatically as a symbol of sovereign authority.'
"So, [folks,] the sun was a symbol of something that only the believers in the religion known as the Ancient Mysteries understood. These believers, called adepts, certainly knew that the people would not accept their mystery religion, so they had to conceal it from them."
[William Cooper]: Don't go away, folks. We've got to take a short break. I'll be right back after this pause.
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[continuing reading from The New World Order, written by A. Ralph Epperson]:
"So the task became one of creating a religion around a belief that they knew people would accept, because it would make some sense, at least as far as the adepts would explain it. But their basic purpose was to create a popular religion as a cover for their secret worship.
"The secret religion would be built around a belief in the sun.
"The sun would be a perfect thing to build a religion around because of its basic nature. It is very visible, and has a very important role in man's life. It rises in the morning (it appears to be born) and [then] sets in the evening, (it appears to die) and then appears to be 'born again' the next morning. It also appears to wander in the sky, setting further north (or south) each night. It then returns back to any given position twice each year.
"So the sun appears to have a major birth or death twice each day and twice each year. It would[, of course,] be very easy for the adepts to explain to the people that only something bigger than mankind, a god, had the ability to die and come back to life. So, the adepts would teach the people that they had to pray to the god or it would chose not to return. They encouraged a worship of the sun so that it would return to mankind again, either once a day, or once every six months.
"Albert Pike confirmed this view with this explanation of why early man worshiped the sun: 'To them [meaning early man]...the journeyings of the Sun, were voluntary and not mechanical...'
"So early man considered the sun to be something that moved voluntarily. In other words, the sun did not have to return each morning. Man must have quickly determined that since the sun did not have to return, man should start asking it to return. For man certainly depended upon the sun for his life. Man certainly must have figured out just how important the sun was to his life and well-being and certainly must have determined that if the sun chose not to return, all of mankind would certainly perish. So it was an easy jump from the belief that the necessary sun was an entity that chose to move across the daytime sky, to a belief that it would return only if man prayed to it to return.
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"But[, folks,] there is something even more interesting to be considered that Pike didn't explain with that comment.
"Obviously, to make the new religion work, the believers would have to be able to predict the movements of the sun. It wouldn't be too long before some of the common people would start noticing that the sun was neither an actual being nor a god to be worshiped, but something that moved according to precise laws. [Now,] if the common people figured that out, they would not need the adepts who had computed the sun's periodic cycles. So, to keep their power intact, they would teach the people that if they did not accommodate their wishes, they would make certain that the sun did not return. They could even predict, as their measurements became more sophisticated, the exact time and date when the moon would go between the sun and the earth, causing the sun to 'disappear.' They could then fool the people into believing that they were the cause of the disappearance. They could then[, of course,] explain to the people that if they did not continue to pay them sort of tribute, they would not intercede on their behalf, and the sun would not reappear.
"To keep the minds of the common people[, the sheeple,] away from figuring out that the whole religion was a scam, the adepts would conduct beautiful and ornate ceremonies around the worship of the sun. And they would expect the people to pay them for the elaborate rituals. And to make their rituals valid, the adepts would always claim that the sun obeyed their prayers, thereby convincing the people of their need to keep the adepts around. The people[, I mean the sheeple,] would continue to pay tribute to these adepts as long as they appeared to be successful.
"Now, [folks,] if the adepts knew that the sun was a symbol of something that the people would not support, such as a belief that Lucifer, the devil, was the god that they worshiped, they would have to continue with [their] charade, so that the people would not decide to stop worshiping. Because if the [sheeple] figured it out, they would no longer support their activities. They would have to keep their beliefs from the people, and conceal their secret worship in hidden symbols. So sun worship as a religion prospered.
"Mr. Hutchens discussed that position in his book..."
[William Cooper]: And I also discussed it in mine, Behold A Pale Horse.
"Mr. Hutchens [said this]: 'In the Tabernacle the brethren clothed in black, mourn Osiris, who is representative of the sun, of light, of life, of good and beauty. They reflect upon the way the earth may again be gladdened by his presence.'
"Mr. Pike connected the sun to Osiris, mentioned by Mr. Hutchens as worthy of being mourned: 'The three lights that the Altar [inside the Masonic Temple] represent Osiris, Isis and Horus. Osiris was represented by the Sun.'
"Mr. Mackey went a little further and informed his readers that: 'Osiris was the sun.'
"In his book entitled Introduction To Freemasonry, Carl H. Claudy, the author, himself a Mason, connected the sun worship with ceremonies inside the Masonic Lodge: 'The lodge...sets him [meaning the initiate] upon the path that leads to Light but it is for him to...travel the winding path to the symbolic East.'
"The physical sun rises in the east, and the Masons explain that their search for light begins in the east. And notice that Mr. Claudy capitalizes the word 'East,' apparently in reverence to the spot where they believe that this god resides. The Masons tell the world that they circumambulate (defined as walking around) the Temple floor during their initiation ceremonies. Mr. Claudy explains why this rite is performed:
"'When the candidate first circles the lodge room about the altar, he walks step by step with a thousand shades of men who have thus worshiped the Most High by humble imitation. Thus thought of circumambulation is no longer a mere parade but a ceremony of significance, linking all who take part in it with the spiritual aspirations of a dim and distant past.'"
[William Cooper]: And it is a historical fact that the Knights Templar also performed the circumambulation of their temples.
"[And] he further instructs his readers as to why this ceremony is part of their ceremony: 'Early man circled altars on which burned the fire which was his God, from east to west by way of the south [notice that the north is not included in the ceremony. The significance of that omission will be discussed later.] [But,] circumambulation became a part of all religious observances.'
"In another part of his book, entitled Introduction To Freemasonry, Mr. Claudy reported that this style of walking was traceable to the ancient religions of the past [when] he wrote [this]: 'Circumambulation...was in the ceremonies of ancient Egypt.'
"So, this practice of the modern Masons is based upon the ancient [pagan] religious practices of the Ancients. So the Masons are telling us that early man walked around in a circle because he was worshiping the sun. Then they tell us they are doing it for the same reasons.
"There are reasons that the north as a location to be visited in their walk around the temple floor is not included in their initiation rites, and six of the great Masonic writers have told us why this is so.
"Captain William Morgan offered his readers this explanation with this comment from his book [William Cooper: the writing of which he was murdered for]: '...we, therefore, Masonically, turn the north a place of darkness.'
"Mr. Mackey confirmed that statement in his book: 'The north is Masonically called the place of darkness.' And Mr. Pike confirmed the comments made by the other two Masons with this declaration: 'To all Masons, the North has immediately been the place of darkness, and of the great lights of the Lodge, none is in the North.'
"And Kenneth McKenzie added his confirming thoughts: 'The North was always esteemed a place of darkness.' Mr. Hutchens became the fifth Masonic writer to confirm this detail [as he said this]:
"'As in other degrees, the closing ritual provides a summary of the lessons taught in the degree. We hear in the West the eagles gather and the doom of tyranny is near. In the South, truth struggles against error and oppression. In the North, fanaticism and intolerance wane. In the East, the people begin to know their rights and to be conscious of their dignity and that the sun's rays will soon smite the summits of the mountains.'
"Mr. Hutchens informed his readers that the North was where 'fanaticism and tolerance' resided. What he meant by this and what the symbol of the North represents will be explored...later...
"And the sixth Masonic writer who confirmed that the North was a place of darkness was Carl Claudy, who wrote in his book entitled Introduction To Freemasonry: '...the place of darkness, the North.'
"And the reason the Masons do not include the North in their rites is found in the Bible...[in the Bible]...[repeats: The reason] the Masons do not include the North in their rites is found in the Bible in Isaiah, chapter 14, verse 13: 'I [meaning Lucifer] will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the North.'
"The God of the Bible sits in the North, and Lucifer hopes one day to acquire the throne of God for his throne. But, until then, the 'North is a place of darkness.' But, while the north is an excluded territory, the east is the 'place of light,' and is to be revered. Mr. Hutchens tells his readers why that is so: '...the East -- the source of light, and thus knowledge.'
"Albert Mackey quotes Etienne Francois Bazot, a French Masonic writer in his Encyclopedia: 'The veneration which the Masons have for the East...bears a relations to the primitive religion whose first degeneration was sun-worship.'
"Rex Hutchens then tells his readers that the masons deploy lights around the Lodge room during the initiation ceremony for the 25th degree called the Knight of the Sun. [And] he writes: 'The ceiling should be decorated to represent the heavens with the moon, the principle planets and the constellations Taurus and Orion. A single powerful light, a great globe of glass representing the sun, is in the South. In a typical sense the greater light comes from the sun and the transparencies provide lesser light...symbolically, the sun or great light is the Truth and the lesser lights are man's symbolic representation of Truth.'
"Mr. Mackey further discusses this Rite of Circumambulation, as he calls it, in his Encyclopedia. He says that the rite: 'exists in Freemasonry...the people always walked three times round the altar while singing a sacred hymn. In making this procession, great care was taken to move an imitation of the course of the sun.'
"He then assisted the reader with understanding this practice in the Masonic temples: 'This Rite of Circumambulation undoubtedly refers to the doctrine of sun-worship...'
"However, in another of the books that he wrote, Mr. Mackey directly states that the rite is connected to sun worship. This is what he wrote in a book entitled Manual Of The Lodge: 'The circumambulation among the pagan nations referred to the great doctrines of Sabaism or sun worship.'
"Sabaism is defined by Mr. Mackey in his encyclopedia as: 'Sabaism; The worship of the sun, moon and stars, 'the host of heaven.' It was practiced in Persia, Chaldea, India, and other Oriental countries, at an early period in the world's history.' He then added this rather cryptic comment: '...and although the dogma of sun-worship does not of course exist in Freemasonry, we find an allusion to it in the Rite of circumambulation which it preserves...'
"[Now,] one can understand what Mr. Mackey meant by that comment: the Masons do not worship the sun, they worship the Sun!"
[William Cooper]: (laughs) With a capitol 'S'. So he was telling the truth, but concealing it in a symbolic language, for he wrote 'sun' with a small 's'. You have to understand the symbology of the Mystery Schools or you will never understand anything, dear listeners.
"Mr. Hutchens then volunteered the information that in the 12th of the 32 degrees the Rite of Circumambulation is preserved. [And] he writes: 'In all the Scottish Rite Degrees thus far, the candidate has made twenty-one prescribed circuits around the altar; this degree adds seven, for a total of twenty-eight.
"'[And] this practice, called circumambulation, is derived from the ancients and existed among the Romans, Semites, Hindus, and others. It is thought to have been a rite of purification. The sun was believed to travel around the earth; the initiates imitated the movement of the sun when they made circuits around the altar.'
"Furthermore, [dear listeners,] in the ninth degree, other symbols of the sun are involved in the ceremony. [And] Mr. Hutchens tells his readers: 'After the obligation is taken, the nine candles of yellow wax are lit. Yellow is representative of the sun, hence light and knowledge.'
"In the tenth degree, further symbols representing the sun are utilized, according to this author: 'There are three sets of five lights: the wax is yellow, meaning knowledge and also, as the color of the sun, represents the Deity.'"
[William Cooper]: A blatant admission that the sun represents the deity that they worship.
"Other clues that the sun and the serpent are both known symbols of the Masonic Lodge are given by the titles of two of the 32 degrees inside the Masonic Lodge. The 25th degree initiate is called a Knight of the Brazen Serpent, and the 28th degree initiate is called a Knight of the Sun [William Cooper: with a capitol 'S'].
"There's another symbol of the sun inside the Masonic Lodge. The Worshipful Master, the equivalent of the President of the Lodge, sits in the east side of the temple. [And] we are told why that is: 'The Worshipful Master represents the sun at its rising, the Senior Warden [another officer of the Lodge] represents the sun at its setting, and the Junior Warden [still another officer of the Lodge] represents the sun at meridian [the half-way point.] [William Cooper: The Most High.]
"Other individuals and organizations besides the Masonic Lodges are also involved, [folks,] in [various...]varying degrees, with sun worship, or with an acknowledgment that the sun plays a central role in their understanding of the nature of the world.
"Elizabeth Clare Prophet has been described as being a leader in the New Age Movement, as she has written this in a newsletter she publishes called The Coming Revolution: 'the healing of the nations begins with the healing of ourselves. We must draw forth from the Great Central Sun -- that eternal Light with which we were anointed from the beginning.'
Adolf Hitler, [William Cooper: I'm sure you've heard of him,] the head of the German government prior to and during World War II, and who was directly responsible for the murder of over 50 million people, was also a sun worshiper Very early in his life, he joined a secret organization called the Thule Society. And forty years after the war, some historians are finally delving into its strange beliefs. Two of these writers, Michel Bertrand and Jean Angelini, have produced a book entitled The Occult And The Third Reich, and one of their conclusions is: 'In the Nazi cosmology the sun played a prime role...as a sacred symbol of the Aryans, in contrast to the feminine and magical symbolism of the moon, revered by the Semitic peoples.
"'The Nazi Party was the name of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, the party that Mr. Hitler joined. It became [the] controlling party of the German government prior to and during war.
"'...the Fuhrer [German for leader, in this case meaning Mr. Hitler] saw in the Jewish people, with their black hair and swarthy complexion, the dark side of the human species, while the blond and blue-eyed Aryans constituted the light side of humanity. Hitler undertook to extirpate [meaning to eliminate] from the material world its impure elements...to lead it back to glory.'
"But sun worship, as the Masons point out, is not new. The Bible talks about is as well.
"[Folks,] Ezekiel was an Old [World] Testament prophet writing sometime during the period of 571 to 592 B.C. [And] he tells about how he was taken by God to see a practice occurring near the Temple. [And] this is what he wrote in Ezekiel, chapter 8, verses 15 and 16:
"'And He [the Lord God] brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and they worshiped the sun toward the east.'
"And Ezekiel points out that the Lord God considered this practice 'an abomination.'
"There is another reference to sun worship from the Old Testament, this time in Deuteronomy, [chapter 17, verses 2 through 4 and then verse 7]. [And] that reference reads as follows: 'If there be found among you,...man or woman...that...hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven...and it be true...that such an abomination is wrought in Israel...so thou shalt put the evil away from among you.'
"So[, folks,] the God of the Bible has made it [perfectly] clear that sun worship is something that He does not want[, He does not want] His creatures practicing [this]. The Bible even went so far as to say, in both instances, that He considered the practice to be an 'abomination' or an 'evil.'
"But to show just how far this practice has invaded the Christian community, the following 'prayer' was offered up at a recent funeral in a local Christian church: 'Now you will feel no rain, for your Mother, the earth, will fold her arms around you. Now you will feel no cold, for your Father, the Sun, will always warm you.'
"Sun worship continues. Because some Christian churches pray to the Sun god in their church services. And don't understand who they are praying to. Simply stated[, simply stated, dear listeners,] the Sun god that they were praying to is Lucifer!"
[William Cooper]: Lucifer, also known as Satan, or the devil. Wakes you up, doesn't it? See, all the time you thought religion was something stupid and didn't have anything to do with overall world events, but you're wrong. It has everything to do with everything, whether you believe it or not, whether I believe it or not, it doesn't make any difference. If the people who have the power and are in control believe it, it will affect us all. Understand that, because that's true.
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Good night, and God bless each and every one of you.
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Well, it's hard to believe, folks, but this is the sixteenth hour of broadcasting in our series on Mystery Babylon.
You're listening to the Hour of the Time, and I'm William Cooper.
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Ladies and gentlemen, what you have just listened to is a warning...is a warning. For there is a war being conducted right at this moment -- a war against the American people. It is now a shooting war, and the second battle is being fought. The first was fought in the state of Idaho against the family of Randy Weaver. The second battle is being fought by a brave group of men and women and children in a church, known as Branch Davidian, in Waco, Texas. They are fighting for their Creator-endowed rights. They have committed no crimes. They know what the sound of battle is. They know what it's like to see their friends or relatives die in their arms or at their feet. They know what it's like to have wounded and be refused medicine and medical treatment.
Oh, yes, we are at war. Make no mistake about it. And if you don't believe that, you keep your eyes and ears open in the next weeks, months, and years. You will see it escalate across this country like a wild forest fire, out of control. And unless the sheeple wake up and listen and learn and act, I predict that there will be civil war in the United States of America. Because there are many of us who will not ever give up our Creator-endowed rights, our right to keep and bear arms, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights, without one hell of a fight.
And what you heard at the beginning of this program, folks, for those of you who have never experienced war, was the real sounds of war. What you heard were real bullets being fired, real bombs being dropped, real machine guns killing real people. And Taps, at the end, of what was a real bugle blowing real Taps over real graves of real fallen men who were buried in Arlington National Cemetery. You see, many people have already died protecting what many of you are giving up. I, for one, will not.
When they come for me, there will be another battle. I will not give up. And I don't care who wins or loses, because at the end of my battle it would be just the beginning of yours.
Do you understand what I'm telling you? You see, my whole purpose is to wake enough people so that no battles ever have to be fought. But we're already behind because two have already been fought, and more, I guarantee you, are on the way. Guaranteed, folks. Guaranteed. Because the more we allow them to get away with, the more they will attempt. I don't want a civil war in this country. I want to stop it before it even has a chance to start, and the only way to do that is wake up America.
You see, if two hundred million people stand up with their right under the second article and amendment to the Constitution, holding a weapon in their hand, and say, "Enough! We will not put up with this anymore! Stop it now! Get out of our government! Get out of our cities! Get out of our military! And stay out!" that will be the end of it and no shot will have to be fired. I guarantee that. But what do you think the odds are of that happening?
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Now, this is the sixteenth hour of our series on Mystery Babylon. Many of you have already made the necessary connections. You know what's happening, and you know who's bringing it about, and you know why. Some of you still do not, so we will continue.
[reading from The New World Order, written by A. Ralph Epperson]:
"[Manly P. Hall wrote this:] 'The Serpent Kings [-- and notice that Mr. Hall capitalized the two words, as one would do for a deity or for royalty when he wrote this --] reigned over the earth.'"
[William Cooper]: The Serpent Kings reigned over the earth.
"'It was these Serpent Kings who founded the Mystery Schools which later appeared as the Egyptian and Brahmin Mysteries...The serpent was their symbol...They were the true Sons of Light, and from them have descended a long line of adepts and initiates duly tried and proven according to the law.'"
[William Cooper]: And the proper term is not Freemason, it's free-maçon. It comes from the French, from the Knights of Templar, and it literally means 'the Sons of Light'.
"Another writer, Wilfred Gregson, informed his readers why Mr. Hall capitalized the two words "Serpent Kings" when he wrote:
"'One symbol of great prominence throughout all ancient civilizations is the snake, or serpent, where it has symbolized "Divine Wisdom."'
"So, Mr. Hall had reason to capitalize the words, because he had discovered that the serpent represented divinity. Notice also[, folks,] that Mr. Gregson, even though he chose not to capitalize the word 'serpent,' confirmed that Mr. Hall's use of the capital letter was correct when he stated that there was a connection between 'Divine Wisdom' and the serpent.
"Mr. Hall[, a 33rd degree Mason,] made the same connection in these comments:
"'The serpent is true to the principles of wisdom, for it tempts man to the knowledge of himself.'
"A serpent is 'often used by the ancients to symbolize wisdom.'
"The symbol of the serpent has another concealed truth, according to Kenneth McKenzie. [For] he identified that truth in this quote when he described a Brazen Serpent:
"'It was a type of Mediator, and a promise of redemption.'
"The word Brazen[, folks,] is defined as 'bold, or impudent.' And Impudent is defined as 'shamelessly bold or disrespectful.' [Now, you will remember] that Lucifer was an anointed cherub in heaven, who fell because he sought godly power. The story is covered in Isaiah [chapter 14, verses 12-14 of the Old Testament [Look it up. It says this]:
"'How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground...For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...I will be like the Most High.'
"Therefore, it can be safely said that Lucifer would be considered to be 'shamelessly bold' and[, of course,] 'disrespectful.' It appears that the Brazen Serpent could be Lucifer!
"Another author, John Anthony West, wrote a book entitled Serpent In The Sky, in which he also connected the serpent with 'wisdom.' [And] he wrote [this]:
"'...the serpent represents intellect, the faculty by which man discriminates. There is a higher and a lower intellect. Thus, symbolically, there is a serpent that crawls and the higher intellect, that which allows man to know God -- the heavenly serpent, the serpent in the sky.'
"The somewhat veiled worship of this serpent in the sky inside the Masonic lodges was alluded to by another Masonic writer, Kenneth MacKenzie[. For] in his book entitled The Royal Masonic Encyclopedia, he wrote this:
"'Among the charges preferred against the Order of the Knights of Templar, for which Jacques de Molay suffered martyrdom, was that of worshiping an idol or image called Baphomet. It has been suggested that Baphomet is none other than the Ancient of Days, or Creator. More cannot be said here without improperly revealing what we [meaning [the] Masons] are bound to hele, conceal and never reveal.'
"So, according to this Mason, the snake or serpent is somehow a symbol of the [subject of the] Masonic worship, and apparently this fact is the secret [that] the Masons cannot reveal to the rest of the world.
"A Christian minister, Reverend Alexander Hislop, wrote a book that included some discussion on the subject of serpent worship. [And] in that book, entitled Two Babylons, he explained that serpent worship was not something that is recent in time. It was an ancient practice.
"'Along with the sun [this symbol will be discussed later,] as the great fire-god, and, in due time, identified with him, was the serpent worshiped In the mythology of the primitive world, the serpent is universally the symbol of the sun...as the sun [was] the great enlightener of the physical world, so the serpent was held to have been the great enlightener of the spiritual, by giving mankind the 'knowledge of good and evil.'"
[William Cooper]: And, according to the Bible, you know who gave man the knowledge of good and evil: Satan, Lucifer.
"He then discussed a coin minted in Tyre, the center of the ancient Phoenician culture. (This coin was also the subject of an article in the September, 1986 issue of The Good News magazine.) It depicted a serpent entwined around a tree stump. To the left of the stump stood an empty cornucopia, and to the right a flourishing palm tree. The snake on the coin is the symbol of the powerful god whom the Romans called Aesculapius. The name means 'the man-instructing snake,' or 'the snake that instructs man.' And the article then reported:
"'In mythology, Aesculapius was believed to be the child of the Sun, and thus the "enlightener" of mankind. As the legend goes, Aesculapius was ultimately struck down by a thunderbolt thrown by an angry Zeus, king of the gods, and cast into the underworld.'
"The tree stump[, folks,] represented the fallen 'god' and his ruined kingdom. In the mythologies of many ancient civilizations, the image of a fallen tree was used to symbolize the cutting off of a great god or hero, someone cut of in the midst of their power. [You see,] the snake on the coin was shown twisting itself around the dead stump, exerting its power in an attempt to restore his fallen kingdom.
"The cornucopia is an ancient symbol of plenty, but it was empty on the coin. This has been interpreted as meaning that the abundance had been cut off because the great 'god' has been cut off. However, [folks,] the implication is that the horn of plenty will return when the fallen 'god' is restored to his 'rightful' position. The palm tree shown on the coin is a well know symbol of victory. So it appears that the coin was minted to depict the anticipated return of the fallen snake-god to the world.
"[And] the Bible talks about a fallen serpent in the book of Revelation, chapter 12, verse 9. However, in this case, [folks,] the snake is connected to another symbol of the serpent: 'a great dragon.'
"'And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan...'
"Is the serpent worshiped in the Ancient Mysteries and a symbol [in the] Masonic ceremonies a symbol of Satan, the devil? As has already been discussed, there is indeed evidence[, folks,] that this is the case."
[William Cooper]: And once you have confronted the evidence and studied as much as I have studied, you will know that they are one and the same.
"Another symbol that needs to be analyzed is the star. On the page opposite page 124 in Mackey's Encyclopaedia is a drawing illustrating the 'symbols of Freemasonry.' Included in the twenty or so Masonic symbols is a drawing of a shooting star.
"[Now,] it can be fairly claimed that a blazing or shooting star would be one that was on the move inside the universe. One of the directions it could move would be, of course, towards the earth. If it was moving towards the earth, it could be called a 'falling star.'"
[William Cooper]: But we know that most falling stars are actually meteors and not stars at all.
"Lucifer[, however,] is a 'fallen angel,' according to Isaiah, an Old Testament prophet, who wrote this in Isaiah [chapter 14, verse 12]: 'How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer...'
"[Now, folks,] notice that Isaiah also said that Lucifer fell from heaven. And other parts of the Bible report that he fell to the earth. So, it is conceivable that the symbol of the 'falling' or 'blazing' star could be a symbol of Lucifer.
"A variety of authors have used their writings to discuss the star as a symbol. Professor Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the [Bavarian] Illuminati, was one who explained what he considered the star to be a symbol of [listen closely]:
"'...the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.'
"Mr. Mackey wrote that the star: 'was a symbol of God.' He then connected the blazing star to another symbol when he wrote: 'The Blazing Star...refers us to the sun...' And then he connected it with the secret initiation [ceremonies] inside the Masonic lodge: 'In the Fourth Degree of the same Rite [the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] the [Blazing Star] is again said to be a symbol of the light of Divine Providence pointing out the way of truth.'
"And Mr. Hutchens, the Masonic writer who has authored the recent book on Masonry, further interpreted the symbol of the star [thusly]: 'The star as a type of the myriad suns that light other countless systems of worlds is an emblem of that Masonic Light in search of which every Mason travels -- the correct knowledge of the Deity, and of His laws that control the universe.'
"[Now] closely allied [with the] symbol of the star is the symbol of the sun. Albert Pike identified it with the worship of the past in this collection of quotes from his writings [and pay close attention]:
"'The worship of the sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity.'
"'...thousands of years ago, men worshiped the Sun...Originally, they looked beyond the orb to the invisible God...They personified him as Brahma, Amun, Osiris, Bel, Adonis, Malkarth, Mithras, and Apollo. Krishna is the Hindu Sun-God.'
"'the Gauls worshiped the Sun under the name of Belin or Belinis.'
"'The sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the Deity. The Sun was His manifestation and visible image.'
"'The Sun is the hieroglyphical sign of Truth, because it is the source of Light.'
"So, Mr. Pike identified the sun as a symbol of a deity that should be worshiped He chose to capitalize the first letter of the word, the 's', as one would in recognizing the name of a deity."
[William Cooper]: And if you've been listening to this series, you already know that, of course, it was.
"Albert Mackey repeated Mr. Pike's contentions with comments like these about 'sun worship':
"'...[it was] the oldest and by far the most prevalent of all the ancient religions. Eusebius says that the Phoenicians and the Egyptians were the first who ascribed divinity to the sun.'
"'Hardly any of the symbols of Masonry are more important in their signification or more extensive in their application than the sun as the source of material light, it minds the Mason of that intellectual light of which he is in constant search.
"'The sun is then presented to us in Masonry first as a symbol of light, but then more emphatically as a symbol of sovereign authority.'
"So, [folks,] the sun was a symbol of something that only the believers in the religion known as the Ancient Mysteries understood. These believers, called adepts, certainly knew that the people would not accept their mystery religion, so they had to conceal it from them."
[William Cooper]: Don't go away, folks. We've got to take a short break. I'll be right back after this pause.
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[continuing reading from The New World Order, written by A. Ralph Epperson]:
"So the task became one of creating a religion around a belief that they knew people would accept, because it would make some sense, at least as far as the adepts would explain it. But their basic purpose was to create a popular religion as a cover for their secret worship.
"The secret religion would be built around a belief in the sun.
"The sun would be a perfect thing to build a religion around because of its basic nature. It is very visible, and has a very important role in man's life. It rises in the morning (it appears to be born) and [then] sets in the evening, (it appears to die) and then appears to be 'born again' the next morning. It also appears to wander in the sky, setting further north (or south) each night. It then returns back to any given position twice each year.
"So the sun appears to have a major birth or death twice each day and twice each year. It would[, of course,] be very easy for the adepts to explain to the people that only something bigger than mankind, a god, had the ability to die and come back to life. So, the adepts would teach the people that they had to pray to the god or it would chose not to return. They encouraged a worship of the sun so that it would return to mankind again, either once a day, or once every six months.
"Albert Pike confirmed this view with this explanation of why early man worshiped the sun: 'To them [meaning early man]...the journeyings of the Sun, were voluntary and not mechanical...'
"So early man considered the sun to be something that moved voluntarily. In other words, the sun did not have to return each morning. Man must have quickly determined that since the sun did not have to return, man should start asking it to return. For man certainly depended upon the sun for his life. Man certainly must have figured out just how important the sun was to his life and well-being and certainly must have determined that if the sun chose not to return, all of mankind would certainly perish. So it was an easy jump from the belief that the necessary sun was an entity that chose to move across the daytime sky, to a belief that it would return only if man prayed to it to return.
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"But[, folks,] there is something even more interesting to be considered that Pike didn't explain with that comment.
"Obviously, to make the new religion work, the believers would have to be able to predict the movements of the sun. It wouldn't be too long before some of the common people would start noticing that the sun was neither an actual being nor a god to be worshiped, but something that moved according to precise laws. [Now,] if the common people figured that out, they would not need the adepts who had computed the sun's periodic cycles. So, to keep their power intact, they would teach the people that if they did not accommodate their wishes, they would make certain that the sun did not return. They could even predict, as their measurements became more sophisticated, the exact time and date when the moon would go between the sun and the earth, causing the sun to 'disappear.' They could then fool the people into believing that they were the cause of the disappearance. They could then[, of course,] explain to the people that if they did not continue to pay them sort of tribute, they would not intercede on their behalf, and the sun would not reappear.
"To keep the minds of the common people[, the sheeple,] away from figuring out that the whole religion was a scam, the adepts would conduct beautiful and ornate ceremonies around the worship of the sun. And they would expect the people to pay them for the elaborate rituals. And to make their rituals valid, the adepts would always claim that the sun obeyed their prayers, thereby convincing the people of their need to keep the adepts around. The people[, I mean the sheeple,] would continue to pay tribute to these adepts as long as they appeared to be successful.
"Now, [folks,] if the adepts knew that the sun was a symbol of something that the people would not support, such as a belief that Lucifer, the devil, was the god that they worshiped, they would have to continue with [their] charade, so that the people would not decide to stop worshiping. Because if the [sheeple] figured it out, they would no longer support their activities. They would have to keep their beliefs from the people, and conceal their secret worship in hidden symbols. So sun worship as a religion prospered.
"Mr. Hutchens discussed that position in his book..."
[William Cooper]: And I also discussed it in mine, Behold A Pale Horse.
"Mr. Hutchens [said this]: 'In the Tabernacle the brethren clothed in black, mourn Osiris, who is representative of the sun, of light, of life, of good and beauty. They reflect upon the way the earth may again be gladdened by his presence.'
"Mr. Pike connected the sun to Osiris, mentioned by Mr. Hutchens as worthy of being mourned: 'The three lights that the Altar [inside the Masonic Temple] represent Osiris, Isis and Horus. Osiris was represented by the Sun.'
"Mr. Mackey went a little further and informed his readers that: 'Osiris was the sun.'
"In his book entitled Introduction To Freemasonry, Carl H. Claudy, the author, himself a Mason, connected the sun worship with ceremonies inside the Masonic Lodge: 'The lodge...sets him [meaning the initiate] upon the path that leads to Light but it is for him to...travel the winding path to the symbolic East.'
"The physical sun rises in the east, and the Masons explain that their search for light begins in the east. And notice that Mr. Claudy capitalizes the word 'East,' apparently in reverence to the spot where they believe that this god resides. The Masons tell the world that they circumambulate (defined as walking around) the Temple floor during their initiation ceremonies. Mr. Claudy explains why this rite is performed:
"'When the candidate first circles the lodge room about the altar, he walks step by step with a thousand shades of men who have thus worshiped the Most High by humble imitation. Thus thought of circumambulation is no longer a mere parade but a ceremony of significance, linking all who take part in it with the spiritual aspirations of a dim and distant past.'"
[William Cooper]: And it is a historical fact that the Knights Templar also performed the circumambulation of their temples.
"[And] he further instructs his readers as to why this ceremony is part of their ceremony: 'Early man circled altars on which burned the fire which was his God, from east to west by way of the south [notice that the north is not included in the ceremony. The significance of that omission will be discussed later.] [But,] circumambulation became a part of all religious observances.'
"In another part of his book, entitled Introduction To Freemasonry, Mr. Claudy reported that this style of walking was traceable to the ancient religions of the past [when] he wrote [this]: 'Circumambulation...was in the ceremonies of ancient Egypt.'
"So, this practice of the modern Masons is based upon the ancient [pagan] religious practices of the Ancients. So the Masons are telling us that early man walked around in a circle because he was worshiping the sun. Then they tell us they are doing it for the same reasons.
"There are reasons that the north as a location to be visited in their walk around the temple floor is not included in their initiation rites, and six of the great Masonic writers have told us why this is so.
"Captain William Morgan offered his readers this explanation with this comment from his book [William Cooper: the writing of which he was murdered for]: '...we, therefore, Masonically, turn the north a place of darkness.'
"Mr. Mackey confirmed that statement in his book: 'The north is Masonically called the place of darkness.' And Mr. Pike confirmed the comments made by the other two Masons with this declaration: 'To all Masons, the North has immediately been the place of darkness, and of the great lights of the Lodge, none is in the North.'
"And Kenneth McKenzie added his confirming thoughts: 'The North was always esteemed a place of darkness.' Mr. Hutchens became the fifth Masonic writer to confirm this detail [as he said this]:
"'As in other degrees, the closing ritual provides a summary of the lessons taught in the degree. We hear in the West the eagles gather and the doom of tyranny is near. In the South, truth struggles against error and oppression. In the North, fanaticism and intolerance wane. In the East, the people begin to know their rights and to be conscious of their dignity and that the sun's rays will soon smite the summits of the mountains.'
"Mr. Hutchens informed his readers that the North was where 'fanaticism and tolerance' resided. What he meant by this and what the symbol of the North represents will be explored...later...
"And the sixth Masonic writer who confirmed that the North was a place of darkness was Carl Claudy, who wrote in his book entitled Introduction To Freemasonry: '...the place of darkness, the North.'
"And the reason the Masons do not include the North in their rites is found in the Bible...[in the Bible]...[repeats: The reason] the Masons do not include the North in their rites is found in the Bible in Isaiah, chapter 14, verse 13: 'I [meaning Lucifer] will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the North.'
"The God of the Bible sits in the North, and Lucifer hopes one day to acquire the throne of God for his throne. But, until then, the 'North is a place of darkness.' But, while the north is an excluded territory, the east is the 'place of light,' and is to be revered. Mr. Hutchens tells his readers why that is so: '...the East -- the source of light, and thus knowledge.'
"Albert Mackey quotes Etienne Francois Bazot, a French Masonic writer in his Encyclopedia: 'The veneration which the Masons have for the East...bears a relations to the primitive religion whose first degeneration was sun-worship.'
"Rex Hutchens then tells his readers that the masons deploy lights around the Lodge room during the initiation ceremony for the 25th degree called the Knight of the Sun. [And] he writes: 'The ceiling should be decorated to represent the heavens with the moon, the principle planets and the constellations Taurus and Orion. A single powerful light, a great globe of glass representing the sun, is in the South. In a typical sense the greater light comes from the sun and the transparencies provide lesser light...symbolically, the sun or great light is the Truth and the lesser lights are man's symbolic representation of Truth.'
"Mr. Mackey further discusses this Rite of Circumambulation, as he calls it, in his Encyclopedia. He says that the rite: 'exists in Freemasonry...the people always walked three times round the altar while singing a sacred hymn. In making this procession, great care was taken to move an imitation of the course of the sun.'
"He then assisted the reader with understanding this practice in the Masonic temples: 'This Rite of Circumambulation undoubtedly refers to the doctrine of sun-worship...'
"However, in another of the books that he wrote, Mr. Mackey directly states that the rite is connected to sun worship. This is what he wrote in a book entitled Manual Of The Lodge: 'The circumambulation among the pagan nations referred to the great doctrines of Sabaism or sun worship.'
"Sabaism is defined by Mr. Mackey in his encyclopedia as: 'Sabaism; The worship of the sun, moon and stars, 'the host of heaven.' It was practiced in Persia, Chaldea, India, and other Oriental countries, at an early period in the world's history.' He then added this rather cryptic comment: '...and although the dogma of sun-worship does not of course exist in Freemasonry, we find an allusion to it in the Rite of circumambulation which it preserves...'
"[Now,] one can understand what Mr. Mackey meant by that comment: the Masons do not worship the sun, they worship the Sun!"
[William Cooper]: (laughs) With a capitol 'S'. So he was telling the truth, but concealing it in a symbolic language, for he wrote 'sun' with a small 's'. You have to understand the symbology of the Mystery Schools or you will never understand anything, dear listeners.
"Mr. Hutchens then volunteered the information that in the 12th of the 32 degrees the Rite of Circumambulation is preserved. [And] he writes: 'In all the Scottish Rite Degrees thus far, the candidate has made twenty-one prescribed circuits around the altar; this degree adds seven, for a total of twenty-eight.
"'[And] this practice, called circumambulation, is derived from the ancients and existed among the Romans, Semites, Hindus, and others. It is thought to have been a rite of purification. The sun was believed to travel around the earth; the initiates imitated the movement of the sun when they made circuits around the altar.'
"Furthermore, [dear listeners,] in the ninth degree, other symbols of the sun are involved in the ceremony. [And] Mr. Hutchens tells his readers: 'After the obligation is taken, the nine candles of yellow wax are lit. Yellow is representative of the sun, hence light and knowledge.'
"In the tenth degree, further symbols representing the sun are utilized, according to this author: 'There are three sets of five lights: the wax is yellow, meaning knowledge and also, as the color of the sun, represents the Deity.'"
[William Cooper]: A blatant admission that the sun represents the deity that they worship.
"Other clues that the sun and the serpent are both known symbols of the Masonic Lodge are given by the titles of two of the 32 degrees inside the Masonic Lodge. The 25th degree initiate is called a Knight of the Brazen Serpent, and the 28th degree initiate is called a Knight of the Sun [William Cooper: with a capitol 'S'].
"There's another symbol of the sun inside the Masonic Lodge. The Worshipful Master, the equivalent of the President of the Lodge, sits in the east side of the temple. [And] we are told why that is: 'The Worshipful Master represents the sun at its rising, the Senior Warden [another officer of the Lodge] represents the sun at its setting, and the Junior Warden [still another officer of the Lodge] represents the sun at meridian [the half-way point.] [William Cooper: The Most High.]
"Other individuals and organizations besides the Masonic Lodges are also involved, [folks,] in [various...]varying degrees, with sun worship, or with an acknowledgment that the sun plays a central role in their understanding of the nature of the world.
"Elizabeth Clare Prophet has been described as being a leader in the New Age Movement, as she has written this in a newsletter she publishes called The Coming Revolution: 'the healing of the nations begins with the healing of ourselves. We must draw forth from the Great Central Sun -- that eternal Light with which we were anointed from the beginning.'
Adolf Hitler, [William Cooper: I'm sure you've heard of him,] the head of the German government prior to and during World War II, and who was directly responsible for the murder of over 50 million people, was also a sun worshiper Very early in his life, he joined a secret organization called the Thule Society. And forty years after the war, some historians are finally delving into its strange beliefs. Two of these writers, Michel Bertrand and Jean Angelini, have produced a book entitled The Occult And The Third Reich, and one of their conclusions is: 'In the Nazi cosmology the sun played a prime role...as a sacred symbol of the Aryans, in contrast to the feminine and magical symbolism of the moon, revered by the Semitic peoples.
"'The Nazi Party was the name of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, the party that Mr. Hitler joined. It became [the] controlling party of the German government prior to and during war.
"'...the Fuhrer [German for leader, in this case meaning Mr. Hitler] saw in the Jewish people, with their black hair and swarthy complexion, the dark side of the human species, while the blond and blue-eyed Aryans constituted the light side of humanity. Hitler undertook to extirpate [meaning to eliminate] from the material world its impure elements...to lead it back to glory.'
"But sun worship, as the Masons point out, is not new. The Bible talks about is as well.
"[Folks,] Ezekiel was an Old [World] Testament prophet writing sometime during the period of 571 to 592 B.C. [And] he tells about how he was taken by God to see a practice occurring near the Temple. [And] this is what he wrote in Ezekiel, chapter 8, verses 15 and 16:
"'And He [the Lord God] brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and they worshiped the sun toward the east.'
"And Ezekiel points out that the Lord God considered this practice 'an abomination.'
"There is another reference to sun worship from the Old Testament, this time in Deuteronomy, [chapter 17, verses 2 through 4 and then verse 7]. [And] that reference reads as follows: 'If there be found among you,...man or woman...that...hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven...and it be true...that such an abomination is wrought in Israel...so thou shalt put the evil away from among you.'
"So[, folks,] the God of the Bible has made it [perfectly] clear that sun worship is something that He does not want[, He does not want] His creatures practicing [this]. The Bible even went so far as to say, in both instances, that He considered the practice to be an 'abomination' or an 'evil.'
"But to show just how far this practice has invaded the Christian community, the following 'prayer' was offered up at a recent funeral in a local Christian church: 'Now you will feel no rain, for your Mother, the earth, will fold her arms around you. Now you will feel no cold, for your Father, the Sun, will always warm you.'
"Sun worship continues. Because some Christian churches pray to the Sun god in their church services. And don't understand who they are praying to. Simply stated[, simply stated, dear listeners,] the Sun god that they were praying to is Lucifer!"
[William Cooper]: Lucifer, also known as Satan, or the devil. Wakes you up, doesn't it? See, all the time you thought religion was something stupid and didn't have anything to do with overall world events, but you're wrong. It has everything to do with everything, whether you believe it or not, whether I believe it or not, it doesn't make any difference. If the people who have the power and are in control believe it, it will affect us all. Understand that, because that's true.
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Good night, and God bless each and every one of you.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
A 70-year-old US woman has been left bruised and bloody after an unexpected clash with police who came to caution her for not watering her lawn.
Trouble flared when Utah pensioner Betty Perry, 70, refused to give her name after being upbraided because her garden breached local regulations.
She says the officer hit her with handcuffs, cutting her nose, although police insist she slipped and fell.
Ms Perry said she was "distraught" after the incident.
“ He's just trying to cover his tracks, as far as I'm concerned ”
Betty Perry
She denied accusations she was resisting arrest, maintaining that she only turned to go inside to call her son to fix the confusing dispute.
"I tried to sit down and get away from him [the police officer]," she told Utah newspaper the Daily Herald.
"I don't know what he's doing. I said: 'What are you doing?' And he hit me with those handcuffs in my face," she said.
"He's just trying to cover his tracks, as far as I'm concerned."
Set free
The officer had judged that Ms Perry's "sadly neglected and dying landscape" breached an Orem city guideline and was attempting to issue a formal caution when the 70-year-old was injured.
She was treated in a local hospital for the cut to her nose and for other bruises before being taken to jail.
But she was let go when police realised there were "other ways" of finding out her identity without jailing her, a police spokesman said
The arresting officer has not been named but has been placed on administrative leave, he added.
Ms Perry, who says she has never had a run-in with police in the past, has been offered help by local church leaders to clean up her garden.
"I'm very distraught over all this," she said.
"I can't believe this happened. Do you ever just wish you could start your day over and it would all be different?"
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She says the officer hit her with handcuffs, cutting her nose, although police insist she slipped and fell.
Ms Perry said she was "distraught" after the incident.
“ He's just trying to cover his tracks, as far as I'm concerned ”
Betty Perry
She denied accusations she was resisting arrest, maintaining that she only turned to go inside to call her son to fix the confusing dispute.
"I tried to sit down and get away from him [the police officer]," she told Utah newspaper the Daily Herald.
"I don't know what he's doing. I said: 'What are you doing?' And he hit me with those handcuffs in my face," she said.
"He's just trying to cover his tracks, as far as I'm concerned."
Set free
The officer had judged that Ms Perry's "sadly neglected and dying landscape" breached an Orem city guideline and was attempting to issue a formal caution when the 70-year-old was injured.
She was treated in a local hospital for the cut to her nose and for other bruises before being taken to jail.
But she was let go when police realised there were "other ways" of finding out her identity without jailing her, a police spokesman said
The arresting officer has not been named but has been placed on administrative leave, he added.
Ms Perry, who says she has never had a run-in with police in the past, has been offered help by local church leaders to clean up her garden.
"I'm very distraught over all this," she said.
"I can't believe this happened. Do you ever just wish you could start your day over and it would all be different?"
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9/11 anniversary: New York Muslims insist that they are American too
New York City woke up yesterday to a 9/11 anniversary like no other. Blue skies hummed with the buzz of helicopters as police conducted a major operation to patrol two rival midday protests about Park51, the planned Islamic centre close to Ground Zero. The noise of the aircraft mingled with the sound of church bells ringing across Manhattan, marking the exact time that the first plane struck the World Trade Centre.
Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who threatened to burn Qur'ans outside his church, the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, had arrived in the city overnight. Supposedly seeking a meeting with backers of the so-called "Ground Zero mosque", he told NBC's Today Show, "We have decided to cancel the burning. We will definitely not burn the Qur'an."
The protesters against the Islamic centre later gathered to hear the right-wing blogger Pamela Geller, who has spearheaded the drive against the project, as well as a host of Republican politicians.
Meanwhile the march in support of Park51, proclaiming the virtues of religious tolerance, wound its way from near City Hall to close to Ground Zero itself. The duelling demonstrations were in stark contrast to the official remembrance ceremony where relatives of the dead talked solemnly about the lives lost.
It was an acrimonious climax to a troubling week, especially for New York's Muslim population. Mohammad al-Naqeb, a 35-year-old Yemeni immigrant who has spent 10 years in America, said he had never before felt like such an outsider in his adopted country.
Standing in an electronics store in the Brooklyn suburb of Bay Ridge, Naqeb said he was worried for his own safety and that of his children. "I feel scared. Everybody feels scared. For the future of my children and grandchildren, I think they should move it."
For Naqeb, who works as a newspaper sales rep, the solution is for New York's Muslim community to accept that the Park51 project – the official name of the planned Islamic centre – must be elsewhere. Even though Naqeb believes it is unfair and prejudiced that his religious community should be singled out for such treatment, he thinks it is for the best. It is a piece of classic immigrant thinking: get your head down, keep quiet, ignore the insults and they will not send you back. "They should move it. For my family's sake. I want them to have a future here in this country," he repeated.
The Park51 project has triggered a huge wave of protest by those claiming it desecrates the memory of those who died on 9/11. Republican politicians, and many Democrats too, have asked for Park51 to be moved. They have claimed its backers, including a moderate imam who does international outreach work for the State Department, have terrorist ties and are closet radicals.
Newt Gingrich, a leading conservative Republican, has compared Muslims to Nazis. The threat to burn Qur'ans in Florida is just the most extreme of growing anti-Muslim sentiment. Other extremist pastors, in Kansas, Wyoming and Tennessee, have now come up with similar plans. Across the US have come reports of attacks on Muslim targets and the FBI is investigating crimes in four different states that range from windows being smashed at an Islamic centre in California to a fire being set at one in Texas. In New York a man is being prosecuted on a charge of trying to stab to death a Muslim taxi driver.
In New York, the Muslim community is at least 600,000 strong, including black Americans, immigrants from West Africa, Pakistan and Asia – Malaysians, Indonesians, Kazakhs, Turks and Palestinians. There are areas in downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan that have have been home to Syrian and Lebanese Muslims for more than 100 years. Yet now this particular ingredient in New York's famous melting pot feels that it is under attack.
"It makes me feel a little unsafe," said lawyer Safia Hussein, who lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She was born in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River, but New York suddenly feels a different kind of place, especially for someone like her who wears a Muslim headscarf. "There has not been this level of antagonism since right after 9/11," she said.
Bay Ridge's main street looks like a healthy, bustling slice of American life in Brooklyn. The shops that line its Fifth Avenue – about a half-hour ride on the Metro from downtown Manhattan – include Greek delis, a German schnitzel restaurant, Irish pubs and Chinese takeaways.
But among the crowds of shoppers are a large number of women wearing headscarves. Many of the businesses have signs in Arabic advertising parties to mark the end of Ramadan. A burst of loud Middle Eastern music blasts from a passing car stereo. For Bay Ridge is not just another suburb; it is the heart of Arab-American New York and thus one of the largest Muslim neighbourhoods in the city. It is this suburb where Muslims have become most settled and, now, where they feel most safe in a current time of trouble.
"In Bay Ridge, it feels fine," said Linda Sarsour, a native Muslim Brooklynite whose parents came originally from Palestine. "But once we leave the neighbourhood, that is when people feel afraid." In Bay Ridge there is safety in numbers for Muslims, Sarsour says, but she is shocked that suddenly her idea of her home city has become so narrow. After all, she was born and raised in Brooklyn. But now, according to a recent poll, some 63% of her fellow New Yorkers think that Park51 should not be built. She does not hide her feelings about it. "I feel betrayed and disappointed. I almost feel like I don't know anyone any more in this city. Do people look at me as a New Yorker? I am having an identity crisis. Do I have to prove myself to them?" she said.
Sarsour, in common with many Muslims born in America rather than coming in as immigrants, has reacted to the issue by standing up for Park51. "There are enough second and third generation Muslims here in New York who were born here and think: they are just not going to put up with this crap," said Peter Awn of Columbia University, an expert on New York's Muslim community. Many of these younger New York Muslims believe that moving Park51 from its current planned and entirely legal site would set a dangerous precedent. If Park51 were moved, how far would be far enough? What other Muslim projects would then be seen as a threat? "If we move it, where else would be deemed unsuitable for a mosque? Would we have to take it off Manhattan? Where would we draw a line?" asked Safia Hussein.
One man who knows exactly where he draws the line is Mohammad Abdullah. "This is my country. This is the United States of America. It is legal, it is lawful and they should build it right where they want to build it," he said. Abdullah is a black American, born into the Islamic faith of his parents, he has a long beard and flowing Islamic robes. "Islam is not foreign to this country," he said. "There is nothing un-Islamic about this country. We share the same sense of moral appropriateness and justice."
Mohammad al-Naqeb cannot agree. He feels his community is being made a scapegoat and his long-cherished hopes of a new start in a new world, full of greater opportunities than his old homeland, is turning slowly into a nightmare. "Before I came here I thought America was a dream come true. Now it feels like America is not America any more," he said.
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Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who threatened to burn Qur'ans outside his church, the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, had arrived in the city overnight. Supposedly seeking a meeting with backers of the so-called "Ground Zero mosque", he told NBC's Today Show, "We have decided to cancel the burning. We will definitely not burn the Qur'an."
The protesters against the Islamic centre later gathered to hear the right-wing blogger Pamela Geller, who has spearheaded the drive against the project, as well as a host of Republican politicians.
Meanwhile the march in support of Park51, proclaiming the virtues of religious tolerance, wound its way from near City Hall to close to Ground Zero itself. The duelling demonstrations were in stark contrast to the official remembrance ceremony where relatives of the dead talked solemnly about the lives lost.
It was an acrimonious climax to a troubling week, especially for New York's Muslim population. Mohammad al-Naqeb, a 35-year-old Yemeni immigrant who has spent 10 years in America, said he had never before felt like such an outsider in his adopted country.
Standing in an electronics store in the Brooklyn suburb of Bay Ridge, Naqeb said he was worried for his own safety and that of his children. "I feel scared. Everybody feels scared. For the future of my children and grandchildren, I think they should move it."
For Naqeb, who works as a newspaper sales rep, the solution is for New York's Muslim community to accept that the Park51 project – the official name of the planned Islamic centre – must be elsewhere. Even though Naqeb believes it is unfair and prejudiced that his religious community should be singled out for such treatment, he thinks it is for the best. It is a piece of classic immigrant thinking: get your head down, keep quiet, ignore the insults and they will not send you back. "They should move it. For my family's sake. I want them to have a future here in this country," he repeated.
The Park51 project has triggered a huge wave of protest by those claiming it desecrates the memory of those who died on 9/11. Republican politicians, and many Democrats too, have asked for Park51 to be moved. They have claimed its backers, including a moderate imam who does international outreach work for the State Department, have terrorist ties and are closet radicals.
Newt Gingrich, a leading conservative Republican, has compared Muslims to Nazis. The threat to burn Qur'ans in Florida is just the most extreme of growing anti-Muslim sentiment. Other extremist pastors, in Kansas, Wyoming and Tennessee, have now come up with similar plans. Across the US have come reports of attacks on Muslim targets and the FBI is investigating crimes in four different states that range from windows being smashed at an Islamic centre in California to a fire being set at one in Texas. In New York a man is being prosecuted on a charge of trying to stab to death a Muslim taxi driver.
In New York, the Muslim community is at least 600,000 strong, including black Americans, immigrants from West Africa, Pakistan and Asia – Malaysians, Indonesians, Kazakhs, Turks and Palestinians. There are areas in downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan that have have been home to Syrian and Lebanese Muslims for more than 100 years. Yet now this particular ingredient in New York's famous melting pot feels that it is under attack.
"It makes me feel a little unsafe," said lawyer Safia Hussein, who lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She was born in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River, but New York suddenly feels a different kind of place, especially for someone like her who wears a Muslim headscarf. "There has not been this level of antagonism since right after 9/11," she said.
Bay Ridge's main street looks like a healthy, bustling slice of American life in Brooklyn. The shops that line its Fifth Avenue – about a half-hour ride on the Metro from downtown Manhattan – include Greek delis, a German schnitzel restaurant, Irish pubs and Chinese takeaways.
But among the crowds of shoppers are a large number of women wearing headscarves. Many of the businesses have signs in Arabic advertising parties to mark the end of Ramadan. A burst of loud Middle Eastern music blasts from a passing car stereo. For Bay Ridge is not just another suburb; it is the heart of Arab-American New York and thus one of the largest Muslim neighbourhoods in the city. It is this suburb where Muslims have become most settled and, now, where they feel most safe in a current time of trouble.
"In Bay Ridge, it feels fine," said Linda Sarsour, a native Muslim Brooklynite whose parents came originally from Palestine. "But once we leave the neighbourhood, that is when people feel afraid." In Bay Ridge there is safety in numbers for Muslims, Sarsour says, but she is shocked that suddenly her idea of her home city has become so narrow. After all, she was born and raised in Brooklyn. But now, according to a recent poll, some 63% of her fellow New Yorkers think that Park51 should not be built. She does not hide her feelings about it. "I feel betrayed and disappointed. I almost feel like I don't know anyone any more in this city. Do people look at me as a New Yorker? I am having an identity crisis. Do I have to prove myself to them?" she said.
Sarsour, in common with many Muslims born in America rather than coming in as immigrants, has reacted to the issue by standing up for Park51. "There are enough second and third generation Muslims here in New York who were born here and think: they are just not going to put up with this crap," said Peter Awn of Columbia University, an expert on New York's Muslim community. Many of these younger New York Muslims believe that moving Park51 from its current planned and entirely legal site would set a dangerous precedent. If Park51 were moved, how far would be far enough? What other Muslim projects would then be seen as a threat? "If we move it, where else would be deemed unsuitable for a mosque? Would we have to take it off Manhattan? Where would we draw a line?" asked Safia Hussein.
One man who knows exactly where he draws the line is Mohammad Abdullah. "This is my country. This is the United States of America. It is legal, it is lawful and they should build it right where they want to build it," he said. Abdullah is a black American, born into the Islamic faith of his parents, he has a long beard and flowing Islamic robes. "Islam is not foreign to this country," he said. "There is nothing un-Islamic about this country. We share the same sense of moral appropriateness and justice."
Mohammad al-Naqeb cannot agree. He feels his community is being made a scapegoat and his long-cherished hopes of a new start in a new world, full of greater opportunities than his old homeland, is turning slowly into a nightmare. "Before I came here I thought America was a dream come true. Now it feels like America is not America any more," he said.
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William Cooper's Mystery Babylon: Part 15 – Quotes by Freemasons
Transcribed by wakingup72 @ http://www.waronyou.com/forums
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I'm William Cooper, and you're listening to the Hour of the Time.
(opening music: Stars Fell On Alabama, music by Frank Perkins, lyrics by Mitchell Parish, sung by Billie Holiday)
Oh, what a great lady! Anyone, anyone who ever, ever comes to me and tells me that music doesn't penetrate directly to the soul, doesn't have a soul. I mean, that's the only interpretation I could ever make to any statement like that made by anyone.
Tonight, folks, we've got to get you back into the stream. Now, the way I do that is I quit telling you about my research and I quote exactly from the horse's mouth, so you'll know that what you're hearing on this program, the Hour of the Time, is not being made up by me or anyone else. And it's there for anyone to find if you'll just get off your butts and go to the libraries, start digging and looking and searching and reading. And quit listening to what you're told, including what you're told on this show. Remember, my admonition is not to ever believe anything you hear from the mouth of anyone, or that you read from the book written by anyone, or from Dan Rather and the six o'clock news, or the President of the United States, Archer Carter, Tom Valentine, Rush Limbaugh (the man who's sitting on half of his brain) or indeed, from even your own mother. For, folks, the deception in this world right now that's being promulgated in order to bring about a one-world, totalitarian, Socialist government is so deep that you better be standing on a stump or you might drown.
Alice Bailey, folks, one of the key members of the New Age religion, wrote this: "There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarizing the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity.” And she's absolutely, one hundred percent, correct.
The question of just what the ancient mysteries were, folks, was answered in part by Albert G. Mackey, another 33rd degree Mason. He wrote a two-volume work, entitled Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, and wrote this under the subject of the Ancient Mysteries: "Each of the pagan gods had (besides the public and open) a secret worship paid [to] him, to which none were admitted but those who had been selected by preparatory ceremonies, called initiation. This secret worship was termed the Mysteries."
The student of the Masonic order can know that, when Mr. Mackey writes, his writings can be relied upon. He is considered to be one of the premiere Masonic authors of all-time. These are the comments from the biographical information presented on Mr. Mackey in front of his encyclopedia: "His writings are universally esteemed for their sincerity, honest records and common sense. He was a leader in research who valued accuracy."
Carl Claudy, another Mason who writes on the subject of the Lodge, also has words of praise for Mr. Mackey: "He was one of the greatest students and most widely followed authorities the Masonic world has ever known." And in his book, entitled Introduction to Freemasonry, he praised Mr. Mackey with these words: "Albert Gallatin Mackey: one of the greatest students and most widely followed authorities the Masonic world has known...He is the great master of Freemasonry." So, Mr. Mackey certainly can be believed when he tells his readers that the worship of pagan gods had a secret, non-visible worship beside the public one. The reader can believe him when he identifies the name of this secret worship. He told his readers, "This secret worship was termed, 'The Mysteries'."
Another who was written on the subject on the ancient Mysteries was Manly P. Hall, another 33rd degree Mason whom I have quoted extensively before in this series. He has written in his book, entitled What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: "In the remote past the gods walked with men and they chose from among the sons of men the wisest and the truest. With these specially ordained and illumined sons they left the keys of their great wisdom, which was the knowledge of good and evil...These illumined ones founded what we know as the Ancient Mysteries."
Now, in case you weren't listening there, this is a dead giveaway and an admission that the gods that walked with men were known (at least in the Bible) as Satan. For he says here -- and I'm going to read this again for you, folks, because I know some of you just didn't pick it up, because I know the minds of the sheeple operate. And there's a lot of sheeple listening. There's also a lot of people listening who aren't sheeple, and they know that I'm not talking to them. If the word 'sheeple' apply to you makes you angry [sic], then folks, it is an indication that it fits you like a shoe, like a glove, that you are indeed one of the sheeple. Let me read it again: "With these specially ordained and illumined sons they left the keys of their great wisdom, which was the knowledge of good and evil." According to the Bible, the knowledge of good and evil was imparted to Adam when Satan enticed Eve to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge and she, in turn, enticed Adam. And what was the fruit of the tree of knowledge? It was the knowledge of good and evil. It was forbidden for man to know that.
Now, I'm not making judgment on any of this, I'm just telling you what my research says. Remember, this is not a religious program. And while I, myself, personally, have my own idea of what my own religion is, I am in no means trying to foist it off on anyone else. Let me continue. He wrote -- and we're talking about Manly P. Hall, 33rd degree Freemason -- he wrote additional comments about these Mysteries in another of the books he was written, called The Secret Teachings of All Ages. And I would urge you, if you can afford it, to buy that book. It's a very expensive book. I have a copy of it in my library. It cost me one hundred and fifty dollars, and it was worth every single penny of it, I can assure you. "The arcana [William Cooper: defined as being a secret or hidden knowledge] of the ancient Mysteries were never revealed to the profane [William Cooper: defined as those not initiated into the inner Mysteries] except through the media of symbols." You're going to find, folks, that symbols mean more than you will ever begin to understand, unless you waded deep into the end of the stream that is Mystery Babylon, as I have.
"Symbolism fulfilled the dual office of concealing the sacred truths from the uninitiated and revealing to those qualified to understand the symbols." Mr. Hall dedicated the latter book to "the proposition that, concealed within the emblematic figures, allegories and rituals of the ancients is a secret doctrine concerning the inner Mysteries of life, which doctrine has been preserved in toto [which means, 'in the whole'] among a small band of initiated minds since the [very] beginning of the world."
He went on to mention that the Mysteries "were secret societies, binding their initiates to inviolable secrecy, and avenging with death the betrayal of their sacred trusts." And to this day they take blood oaths. Mr. Hall told the reader that no one is to know the identity of those who have received the secrets. In fact, he wrote: "The true Adept and initiate shall reveal his identity to no man unless that one is worthy to receive it." He further explained where some of these initiates lived when he wrote: "No reasonable doubt can exist that the initiates of Greece, Egypt, and other ancient countries possessed the correct solutions to those great cultural, intellectual, moral and social problems which, in an unsolved state, confront the humanity of the 20th century."
He further amplified that thought he had with this: "Neo-Platonism [defined by Mr. Hall as a school founded by Plotinus around 240 A.D. concerning itself with the problems of metaphysics which he calls 'the study of knowledge'] recognized the existence of a secret and all-important doctrine which from the time of the earliest civilizations had been concealed within the rituals, symbols, and allegories of religions and philosophies."
So, in summary, it is possible, folks, to understand what these ancient Mysteries were. And there appears to be at least four truths gleaned from the information provided in the comments made previously and these truths appears to be:
1. The ancient Mysteries had two forms of worshiping the same god.
2. The knowledge of the true god was reserved for those who had been entrusted with the secrets, and not for those whom they call the 'profane'.
3. Those who understood those secrets were sworn to the strictest secrecy, and
4. Those who have knowledge of the secrets claimed to possess all of the answers to all of the problems of mankind.
Now, there was an additional secret for the secret-bearers. They had to be initiated in a private initiation ceremony. Albert Pike, General Albert Pike, a southern Confederate General during the Civil War, wrote this: "Initiation was considered to be a mystical death, and the perfect Epopt was [then] said to be regenerated, new-born, restored to a renovated existence of life, light, and purity."
In fact, folks, this "new-born" experience is similar to the experience the "born-again" Christians go through. The Christians call their experience a second-birth, just as the Masons do. In fact, Albert Pike calls a similar ceremony a "born-again" experience, and he wrote this: "In the Indian Mysteries, the third degree, the Initiate is said to be born-again."
The ceremony in the ancient Mysteries has been described by the Masonic writer Manly P. Hall: "In the ancient system of initiation, the truth seeker must pass through a second birth, and those who attained this exalted state were known thereafter as 'the twice born'. This new birth must be personally earned through a complete regeneration of character and conduct." This new-birth ceremony involves a symbolic death according to the Mason Kenneth MacKenzie. And he wrote this: "In the ancient Mysteries, the aspirant could not participate in the highest secrets until he had been placed in the coffin. In this, he was symbolically said to die and his resurrection was to the light."
Now, remember I told you about the initiation that George Bush underwent in the crypt, also known as the tomb, the Skull and Bones, the Brotherhood of Death at Yale University? This is what they're talking about. During a press conference, a reporter asked George Bush if he was a Christian and he replied thusly: "If you're asking if I have been born-again, the answer is yes." And indeed, he has.
Modern-day Masons participate in an almost similar ceremony to the one described by these Masonic writers. In the third degree called the Master Mason degree, inside the blue lodge the candidate is actually knocked off of his feet by several of the Masons in attendance. He is wrapped up in a blanket and moved to the western end of the temple. There, after further ceremony, he is raised up by a grip called "the Master's Grip" or the "Grip of the Lion's Paw". Those who learned the Mysteries also learned that they had a secret project, one that was described by Albert Pike in his book, entitled Morals and Dogma. Mr. Pike wrote this, "Behold [our] object, the end, the result of the great speculations...of antiquity; the ultimate annihilation of evil, and restoration of Man to his first estate, by a Redeemer, a Masayah, a Christos, the incarnate Word, Reason, or Power of Deity." I urge you all, if you could find a copy of Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike, to purchase it, take it home and read it.
Mr. Hall told his readers that those who had been initiated into the Mysteries were the secret power behind the governments of the past. He wrote this about these ancient initiates in his book, entitled What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: "They are the invisible powers behind the thrones of earth, and men are but marionettes, dancing while the invisible ones pull the strings. We see the dancer, but the master mind that does the work remains concealed by the cloak of silence.”
Now remember, I told you, folks, that if you don't open your mind, and if you don't quit believing dogma, if you don't quit believing what people tell you, if you don't stop believing what Dan Rather tells you on the six o'clock news, or your local minister down at your church, or your mother or the President of the United States, and if you don't start digging to find the truth yourself, you, you, the sheeple, are the marionettes, dancing while the invisible ones pull the strings. And until you change that pattern of your life, you will always be the puppet on the end of someone else's string. And I know that that's not what you want to be, is it? Well, if it's not, change your life now. Stop believing what you are told, including what you hear on this show unless it checks out in your own research, your own experience, your own digging. Each of us must find our own truth, and if we are really looking and digging, we're ultimately going to come to something near the same truth for all of us. And I can tell you now that most of us have been living in fantasyland for all of our lives. We don't even know anything near what the truth of any matter is. And we must begin an honest search, starting from the beginning, wiping the slate clean, cleansing our mind, and looking at the world, beginning again as though through the eyes of a new-born child. And you will find that most of what you ever been taught in your entire life is a lie...is a lie.
Other writers, folks, have confirmed the thoughts of Mr. Hall. A Masonic scholar named George Steinmetz also acknowledged that these Mysteries exist, and that some of the members inside the Masonic lodges are custodians of the secrets. He has written this in his book, entitled Freemasonry: Its Hidden Meaning: "Ancient secret doctrine, which is concealed in Masonic allegory and symbolism...it was but to preserve these truths for future generation that Masonry itself was perpetuated." And if that is true, why is it a secret? Why not tell us all what this secret doctrine is, for modern man is not like ancient man when he didn't know how to read or reason or understand? Modern man has the capability to understand anything that is put before him and accept it if it is the truth, and reject it if it is a lie.
So why the secrecy? The secrecy is because, folks, the real secret of Mystery Babylon is how to control everyone else. And if they reveal these secrets, they won't have the control, for it will be in the hands of everyone. That is the greatest secret of the secret societies. Another writing of Manly P. Hall was this: "Much of the ritualism of Freemasonry is based upon the trials to which candidates were subjected to by the ancient hierophants [William Cooper: 'hierophant' is defined as the high priest of the Mysteries] before the keys of wisdom were [enthroned] to them."
The ancient Mysteries had a beginning. According to Mr. Mackey, he wrote about where they started: "The first of which are those of Isis and Osiris in Egypt, the most important of these Mysteries were the Osiric in Egypt." Another writer, Edmond Ronayne, an ex-Mason, confirmed that the Masons were involved in the worship of Osiris when he wrote this in his book, entitled The Master's Carpet: "Masonry's ceremonies, symbols and the celebrated legend of Hiram in the Master Mason's degree, were directly borrowed from the 'Ancient Mysteries,' or the secret worship of Baal, Osiris or Tammuz." This is a direct admission that Freemasonry stems directly out of Mystery Babylon, the ancient Mystery Religion, the worship of Baal, the golden calf representative of the house during which that two thousand-year period the Sun resided. The Sun, the symbol of the Light, Lucifer, the intellect, the gift, primordial knowing.
Albert Pike then detailed where the Mysteries went after their beginnings in Egypt. He wrote this in Morals and Dogma: "From Egypt, the Mysteries went to Phoenicia, and were celebrated at Tyre. Osiris changed his name, and become Adoni or Dionusos, still the representative of the Sun... In Greece and Sicily, Osiris took the name of Bacchus." So the ancient Mysteries concealed an important Mystery, kept secret from the average person. The mystics claim that this Mystery has been concealed from the world for centuries. Even though they had taken the Mystery to other continents, those who believed in this religion were yet to take it to America. That was yet to come, and we will get to that, I promise you. And it will, I also promise you, amaze you.
[Gilbert] Lafayette, who was a very famous and noted pirate and a member of Freemasonry and the Knights Templar, said this: "An invisible hand is guiding the populace." Arthur Edward Waite, a prolific writer on secret societies has written this: "Beneath the broad tide of human history, there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface." Another who wrote about the power just underneath the surface was President Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States of America, who made this startling statement. He made this statement, yet it was ignored, but it should never go ignored from this point forward. "There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." So, these two writers have warned America that secret societies had been arranging the major events of the past, and President Wilson warned those who were quick to condemn these organizations that they had better be cautious.
Albert Pike had also connected the secret societies with a secret belief in his book, entitled Morals and Dogma. He wrote that all secret orders and associations, quote--now remember, he said, all...all secret orders and associations "had two doctrines, one concealed and reserved for the masters, the other, public." Now, one such secret society with two doctrines was the Illuminati, and Professor [Adam] Weishaupt, its founder, boasted of his organization's secrecy. He realized that this secrecy would enable them to decide the fate of nations, and because their deliberations were secret, no outsider could interfere. He wrote this: "The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear...in its own name, but always [covered] by another name, and another occupation." Weishaupt later wrote about that secrecy in a letter to a fellow member of the Illuminati, "Nothing can bring this about but hidden societies. Hidden schools of wisdom are the means which will one day free men from their bonds...Princes and nations shall vanish from the earth."
Folks, don't go away. We've got to stop for a break. I'll be right back after this very short pause.
(break music: When You Wish Upon A Star, performed by Wynton Marsalis from the album, Hot House Flowers)
Don't forget, folks, this Monday night, March 15th, 8pm to 11, I'll be at the Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Blvd in San Diego, California. That's this coming Monday night, March 15th at 8pm 'til 11. I'll be at the Lafayette Hotel at 2223 El Cajon Blvd in San Diego, California. I'll be giving a three-hour presentation, entitled The Sacrificed King. This is on the Kennedy assassination and I'm going to footage there that you've never seen before. I'm going to show you the direct, I mean direct, absolute occult connection to the Kennedy assassination, I'm going to tell what group killed our president, murdered our president if you will. I'm going to show you the footage of what Dealey Plaza really is so you'll see that this is not just an innocent park in the city of Dallas. I'm going to show you where Dallas really is, and what the occult significance of its location means. And when you leave there, folks, you're going to understand more about the workings of the world, and who assassinated our president and why then you'll ever have before. You're also going to see that, uh, Oliver Stone knew all of this and chose to deceive the American people, because he is one of those who are bringing about the New World Order. And his movie, JFK, was designed to convince all of us that our government doesn't work. The Constitutional government can't work, that it's turned against us, and it's not true, folks. Our Constitutionally instituted and established government had absolutely nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination, as all of those who show up on Monday night, March 15th, 8pm will find out.
[William Cooper further plugs the appearance and offers CAJI memberships]
Well, folks, you've heard all through this series of broadcasts about a group of men supposedly with the only truly mature minds in this world, who are going to setup a Utopia on earth, a heaven of earth if you will. And that there's the ones who are going to rule through a benevolent despotism. And they call this Utopia the Great Society, the New World Order, the Utopian philosophy, all of these things. Now, Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, was a member of this secret society. He was, in fact, a 33rd degree Freemason, and his Great Society that he envisioned was exactly what we're talking about here. And you can see that Johnson, a great Socialist, a Marxist secretly, set us on the road to Socialism by setting up this great welfare state, which he called the Great Society. It's one and the same, folks. It's the same. George Bush's New World Order is the same. The New World Order that our forefathers envisioned was the same. The Great Society talked about during the Peasants' Revolt in England was the same. The same that is coming, unless we wake up to stop it. And you can see, by the welfare state, how well it really works. (laughs) It doesn't work at all, it never will work, it can't work! These people are Looney Tunes.
If you believe the exoteric version of what they intend to bring about -- you see, they have no intention of bring about a Utopia, a heaven on earth, a Great Society, not at all. That's to lure the unwary, the foolish, the great mass of followers that make up the lower degrees of this secret society so that they will support the completion of the Great Work, the plan. They really intend us to be something along the lines of what Hitler attempted to establish. They talk about in terms of a great cleansing, where certain religions, certain people, certain races, will literally be eliminated from this earth. And they are convicted through their own words, ladies and gentlemen, as you hearing tonight and you've heard in other broadcasts. For when I feel that you are getting to the point where you're not understanding what's happening, I go back as I'm doing tonight and quote these people directly from their own mouths. I'm going to do that again tomorrow night, folks, so be ready.
Let me continue. The secret societies were created to bring the world to the new society known as the New World Order. The members of these organizations obviously feel that their goals are so noble that they may perform whatever tasks are required to bring them to that goal, and that goal to fruition. This means, folks, that murder, plunder and lying all become acceptable as long as these methods assist its members in obtaining their goal.
But the Freemasons, or free-maçon, as the true term began, want to world to know that they are not one of the societies involved in changing the world's civilization, and they're quick to rush to their own defense. However, when you go back and read their own history and their own words, you can see that they have literally no defense, for they are convicted by the words of their leaders. By the words of their leaders. And folks, by their deeds. For it was General Albert Pike who created, through the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. It was the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry that created the branch known as B'nai B'rith, which then created the ADL, or the Anti-Defamation League, which is nothing but an organization of criminals who have murdered, who have bombed, who have lied, and just recently, one of their crimes was spying. Putting spies within police organizations in the United States of America, and spiriting out files and records. And all of Jews in the United States support this criminal organization to their great shame, and those of you who feel that the Jews are responsible for all of this, you are wrong. Most Jews don't know any more about this then you did, and they are being used, just as you are being used. Just as I have been used in my life.
"In all time, truth has been hidden under symbols," wrote Albert Pike. And he also wrote this, "[Symbols] are nevertheless, ingenious veils that cover the Truth." Now, Albert Pike was the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The Scottish Rite now controls world Freemasonry. There certainly seems, folks, to be a power in knowing something that you can't tell your family, friends, children, or business acquaintances. And Adam Weishaupt said it best with this selection from his writings: "Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery." And that is true, I've found in my research, that the vast fools, the followers flock to the Mysteries and the promise of learning some secret during their climb up the ladder of degrees of initiation. The truth is that only a very few ever learn anything, and what they learn is how to control the rest.
The power of hidden symbols was alluded to by another writer, this time Foster Bailey in his book, entitled The Spirit of Freemasonry: "A symbol veils or hides a secret, and it is that which veils certain mysterious forces. These energies when released can have a potent effect." And indeed they can, as we are all feeling now the [pinch?] of the power.
There are many who can attest to that simple truth. Organizations with concealed or secret initiation ceremonies abound in America and, indeed, around the world. College fraternities and sororities teach the college student to accept secret initiation ceremonies and hidden knowledge at a young age. The Masons, intended for adult males, have similar organizations for their young sons and daughters, and other secret organizations for their wives. And all of these organizations tend to prepare their male members for further service in the master secret organization, the Masons. However, the Masons are quick to point out that they conceal their truths from the general public. Manly P. Hall, for instance, wrote this: "It is for the Adepts," and 'adept' is defined by the dictionary as one who is an expert, but there is an esoteric definition that shall be discussed later. "It is for the Adepts, one to understand the meaning of the symbols." He further instructed his readers that understanding the symbols can make one wise "and understanding these symbols is the beginning of wisdom."
Max Toth, a writer about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, also wrote about the purpose of symbols, and he said, "The knowledge of the ancient mysteries was never revealed to the laymen except through the media of symbols. Symbolism fulfilled both the need to conceal sacred truths from the uninitiated and to offer a language for those qualified to understand it." Now, whatever these secrets are, folks, one writer on the subject feels it's time to make them public. Alice Bailey, one of the key writers supporting the New Age movement, wrote this: "The hour for the ancient mysteries has arrived. These Ancient Mysteries were hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words, and in symbology; these veil the secret."
Another writer who writes of the order, Carl H. Claudy, told anyone who read the Masonic literature that he had best understand the language or they would miss the true meaning of the words. He wrote, "He who hears but the words of Freemasonry misses their meaning entirely."
Rex Hutchins, a 32rd degree Mason who has written a book for the Masons, one so important that it was used to replace one written by Henry Clausen, a former Sovereign Commander, also informed his readers that his writings also concealed a secret. "The word 'reveal' means to re-veil, that is, to give one explanation and yet to continue to maintain the mystery of the symbol by not explaining it in a full and complete manner."
So, the language code must be broken if one is to learn the truth about the Masonic order. The reason that is so is because the Masons have admitted that they have concealed the true meaning of some of their language. However, it is possible, folks, to know the true meanings of at least some of the hidden language, and the listener can be certain that the discovered interpretations are correct, because the Masons themselves have revealed the hidden meanings of some of their symbols in some of their own literature. The secret societies, folks, that have concealed their purposes and hidden meanings, concealed writings, and private initiation ceremonies are, admittedly, very powerful.
One who recognized that power was Benjamin Disraeli, the prime minister of England in the late 1880s, who said this in the House of Commons on July 14th in 1856: "There is in Italy a power which we seldom mention in this House...I mean the secret societies...It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe -- the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries -- is covered with a network of these secret societies." What are their objects [sic]? "They do not want Constitutional government; they want to change the tenure of the land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to ecclesiastical establishments [meaning religion]."
The Masons know about concealing secrets from the rest of the world. Carl Claudy, a Masonic writer, told his readers that secrets are inside secrets, which are inside other secrets, and he wrote this: "[Cut] through the outer shell and find a meaning; cut through that meaning and find another; under it if you dig [deep] enough you may find a third, a fourth - who shall say how many teachings?" And even the Communists used concealment, for the Communists were created by the Mysteries. The cell system of the Communist party was created by the Mystery Schools, which have used the same system for millennia.
Nikolai Lenin, the Marxist Communist who communized the Russian nation in the years following the Russian revolution of 1917 wrote this: "We have to use any ruse, dodge, trick, cunning, unlawful method, concealment and veiling of the truth." Many of the signs for identifying a Communist, or a member of the Communist party, are exactly the same as those symbols and signs used by Freemasons to identify each other. The use of secrecy to conceal thoughts from certain of the members [sic] of an organization or from the public is the device of those who have something to hide. That something is so horrible, so terrible, that knowledge of that secret must be kept from those who would have the most to lose by knowledge of that secret.
In the case of the secret societies, it is a belief in Lucifer, also known as Satan, or the devil. In the case of Communism, it is the truth that the people living in a Communist nation know that the system does not work. But those in a non-Communist nation, targeted for a Communist government, are not to learn that simple truth. They're to be told that the system is the culmination of man's upward search for a perfect society. A Great Society, if you will, a Utopia on earth, and they must be deluded into believe that there is no cost in the change from their current form of government to the communist form.
One of the things that I find so incredible is that they trap the intellectuals so easily. The intellectuals, the ones who are supposedly so good at using their brain, cannot even use their brain so much as to look into history to see that the first people that the Communists, the international Socialists, destroyed, killed, sentenced to the labor camps, the gulag if you will, are always the intellectuals. And history has recorded the brutality of the Communists, and the fact that millions of people have had to die as the Communists installed that form of government. The evidence to support that convention will be discussed later in some other program.
Now, secrecy is certainly not a part of the Christian religion today, although the Christian religion began in secret and was, in fact, a secret society. It is possible to know that nothing Jesus has said has been hidden from the Christians of today. He told the high priest in [the book of] John, chapter 18, verse 20: "And in secret have I said nothing."
The intentional concealing of an organization beliefs and purposes through the use of hidden language and concealed symbols is reserved primarily to the secret societies, and the nationwide Masonic lodges are indeed a secret society. And in the beginning, Christians had their secret symbols also. One of the most prominent was the symbol of the fish. The secret is simply the fact that certain of their members [sic] worshiped Lucifer, and that they keep that secret from the overwhelming majority of their own members, and certainly the public is never to know this fact if they can help it. And the evidence to support that conclusion is ample, but only to one who cares enough to look for it. The problem with most people is that they don't care enough to look for anything except Wheel of Fortune on the television set.
[reading from The New World Order, written by A. Ralph Epperson]:
"So, the student of history has to discover the hidden meanings behind the symbols and the Masonic literature and in the secret initiation ceremonies to understand the Masonic Order.
"One of the first symbols that needs to be examined is the symbol of the serpent, also called a snake or dragon.
"Manly P. Hall wrote that the use of this symbol is as old as early man when he wrote this in his book, entitled The Secret Teachings of All Ages: 'Among nearly all these ancient peoples the serpent was accepted as a symbol of wisdom...'"
[William Cooper]: For from the serpent has man received the gift of intellect.
"Here Mr. Hall states that the serpent is the symbol of 'wisdom.' It will be remembered that Lord Maitreya, the future New Age leader, also oclaimed to possess 'wisdom.' Mr. Hall continued:
"'Serpent worship in some form has permeated nearly all parts of the earth. The serpent is the symbol and prototype of the Universal Savior, who redeems the world by giving creation the knowledge of itself and the realization of good and evil.'"
[William Cooper]: An admission that the serpent, at least from the point of view of the Christian Bible, is Satan.
"And then Mr. Hall links the serpent with the Ancient Mysteries previously discussed. He continues with the comment that the serpent was worshiped by the priests of that religion:
"'The priests of the Mysteries were symbolized as a serpent, sometimes called Hydra.'
"[And then he] pointed out that the Ancient Mysteries had been passed on to various other cultures, and that they have been brought forward to the present-day."
Folks, we'll continue this tomorrow night. If you can, reach into your pockets, make out a check or money order...
[William Cooper asks for donations]
Until tomorrow night, good night and God bless each and every single one of you.
(closing music: continuation of When You Wish Upon A Star, performed by Wynton Marsalis)
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I'm William Cooper, and you're listening to the Hour of the Time.
(opening music: Stars Fell On Alabama, music by Frank Perkins, lyrics by Mitchell Parish, sung by Billie Holiday)
Oh, what a great lady! Anyone, anyone who ever, ever comes to me and tells me that music doesn't penetrate directly to the soul, doesn't have a soul. I mean, that's the only interpretation I could ever make to any statement like that made by anyone.
Tonight, folks, we've got to get you back into the stream. Now, the way I do that is I quit telling you about my research and I quote exactly from the horse's mouth, so you'll know that what you're hearing on this program, the Hour of the Time, is not being made up by me or anyone else. And it's there for anyone to find if you'll just get off your butts and go to the libraries, start digging and looking and searching and reading. And quit listening to what you're told, including what you're told on this show. Remember, my admonition is not to ever believe anything you hear from the mouth of anyone, or that you read from the book written by anyone, or from Dan Rather and the six o'clock news, or the President of the United States, Archer Carter, Tom Valentine, Rush Limbaugh (the man who's sitting on half of his brain) or indeed, from even your own mother. For, folks, the deception in this world right now that's being promulgated in order to bring about a one-world, totalitarian, Socialist government is so deep that you better be standing on a stump or you might drown.
Alice Bailey, folks, one of the key members of the New Age religion, wrote this: "There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarizing the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity.” And she's absolutely, one hundred percent, correct.
The question of just what the ancient mysteries were, folks, was answered in part by Albert G. Mackey, another 33rd degree Mason. He wrote a two-volume work, entitled Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, and wrote this under the subject of the Ancient Mysteries: "Each of the pagan gods had (besides the public and open) a secret worship paid [to] him, to which none were admitted but those who had been selected by preparatory ceremonies, called initiation. This secret worship was termed the Mysteries."
The student of the Masonic order can know that, when Mr. Mackey writes, his writings can be relied upon. He is considered to be one of the premiere Masonic authors of all-time. These are the comments from the biographical information presented on Mr. Mackey in front of his encyclopedia: "His writings are universally esteemed for their sincerity, honest records and common sense. He was a leader in research who valued accuracy."
Carl Claudy, another Mason who writes on the subject of the Lodge, also has words of praise for Mr. Mackey: "He was one of the greatest students and most widely followed authorities the Masonic world has ever known." And in his book, entitled Introduction to Freemasonry, he praised Mr. Mackey with these words: "Albert Gallatin Mackey: one of the greatest students and most widely followed authorities the Masonic world has known...He is the great master of Freemasonry." So, Mr. Mackey certainly can be believed when he tells his readers that the worship of pagan gods had a secret, non-visible worship beside the public one. The reader can believe him when he identifies the name of this secret worship. He told his readers, "This secret worship was termed, 'The Mysteries'."
Another who was written on the subject on the ancient Mysteries was Manly P. Hall, another 33rd degree Mason whom I have quoted extensively before in this series. He has written in his book, entitled What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: "In the remote past the gods walked with men and they chose from among the sons of men the wisest and the truest. With these specially ordained and illumined sons they left the keys of their great wisdom, which was the knowledge of good and evil...These illumined ones founded what we know as the Ancient Mysteries."
Now, in case you weren't listening there, this is a dead giveaway and an admission that the gods that walked with men were known (at least in the Bible) as Satan. For he says here -- and I'm going to read this again for you, folks, because I know some of you just didn't pick it up, because I know the minds of the sheeple operate. And there's a lot of sheeple listening. There's also a lot of people listening who aren't sheeple, and they know that I'm not talking to them. If the word 'sheeple' apply to you makes you angry [sic], then folks, it is an indication that it fits you like a shoe, like a glove, that you are indeed one of the sheeple. Let me read it again: "With these specially ordained and illumined sons they left the keys of their great wisdom, which was the knowledge of good and evil." According to the Bible, the knowledge of good and evil was imparted to Adam when Satan enticed Eve to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge and she, in turn, enticed Adam. And what was the fruit of the tree of knowledge? It was the knowledge of good and evil. It was forbidden for man to know that.
Now, I'm not making judgment on any of this, I'm just telling you what my research says. Remember, this is not a religious program. And while I, myself, personally, have my own idea of what my own religion is, I am in no means trying to foist it off on anyone else. Let me continue. He wrote -- and we're talking about Manly P. Hall, 33rd degree Freemason -- he wrote additional comments about these Mysteries in another of the books he was written, called The Secret Teachings of All Ages. And I would urge you, if you can afford it, to buy that book. It's a very expensive book. I have a copy of it in my library. It cost me one hundred and fifty dollars, and it was worth every single penny of it, I can assure you. "The arcana [William Cooper: defined as being a secret or hidden knowledge] of the ancient Mysteries were never revealed to the profane [William Cooper: defined as those not initiated into the inner Mysteries] except through the media of symbols." You're going to find, folks, that symbols mean more than you will ever begin to understand, unless you waded deep into the end of the stream that is Mystery Babylon, as I have.
"Symbolism fulfilled the dual office of concealing the sacred truths from the uninitiated and revealing to those qualified to understand the symbols." Mr. Hall dedicated the latter book to "the proposition that, concealed within the emblematic figures, allegories and rituals of the ancients is a secret doctrine concerning the inner Mysteries of life, which doctrine has been preserved in toto [which means, 'in the whole'] among a small band of initiated minds since the [very] beginning of the world."
He went on to mention that the Mysteries "were secret societies, binding their initiates to inviolable secrecy, and avenging with death the betrayal of their sacred trusts." And to this day they take blood oaths. Mr. Hall told the reader that no one is to know the identity of those who have received the secrets. In fact, he wrote: "The true Adept and initiate shall reveal his identity to no man unless that one is worthy to receive it." He further explained where some of these initiates lived when he wrote: "No reasonable doubt can exist that the initiates of Greece, Egypt, and other ancient countries possessed the correct solutions to those great cultural, intellectual, moral and social problems which, in an unsolved state, confront the humanity of the 20th century."
He further amplified that thought he had with this: "Neo-Platonism [defined by Mr. Hall as a school founded by Plotinus around 240 A.D. concerning itself with the problems of metaphysics which he calls 'the study of knowledge'] recognized the existence of a secret and all-important doctrine which from the time of the earliest civilizations had been concealed within the rituals, symbols, and allegories of religions and philosophies."
So, in summary, it is possible, folks, to understand what these ancient Mysteries were. And there appears to be at least four truths gleaned from the information provided in the comments made previously and these truths appears to be:
1. The ancient Mysteries had two forms of worshiping the same god.
2. The knowledge of the true god was reserved for those who had been entrusted with the secrets, and not for those whom they call the 'profane'.
3. Those who understood those secrets were sworn to the strictest secrecy, and
4. Those who have knowledge of the secrets claimed to possess all of the answers to all of the problems of mankind.
Now, there was an additional secret for the secret-bearers. They had to be initiated in a private initiation ceremony. Albert Pike, General Albert Pike, a southern Confederate General during the Civil War, wrote this: "Initiation was considered to be a mystical death, and the perfect Epopt was [then] said to be regenerated, new-born, restored to a renovated existence of life, light, and purity."
In fact, folks, this "new-born" experience is similar to the experience the "born-again" Christians go through. The Christians call their experience a second-birth, just as the Masons do. In fact, Albert Pike calls a similar ceremony a "born-again" experience, and he wrote this: "In the Indian Mysteries, the third degree, the Initiate is said to be born-again."
The ceremony in the ancient Mysteries has been described by the Masonic writer Manly P. Hall: "In the ancient system of initiation, the truth seeker must pass through a second birth, and those who attained this exalted state were known thereafter as 'the twice born'. This new birth must be personally earned through a complete regeneration of character and conduct." This new-birth ceremony involves a symbolic death according to the Mason Kenneth MacKenzie. And he wrote this: "In the ancient Mysteries, the aspirant could not participate in the highest secrets until he had been placed in the coffin. In this, he was symbolically said to die and his resurrection was to the light."
Now, remember I told you about the initiation that George Bush underwent in the crypt, also known as the tomb, the Skull and Bones, the Brotherhood of Death at Yale University? This is what they're talking about. During a press conference, a reporter asked George Bush if he was a Christian and he replied thusly: "If you're asking if I have been born-again, the answer is yes." And indeed, he has.
Modern-day Masons participate in an almost similar ceremony to the one described by these Masonic writers. In the third degree called the Master Mason degree, inside the blue lodge the candidate is actually knocked off of his feet by several of the Masons in attendance. He is wrapped up in a blanket and moved to the western end of the temple. There, after further ceremony, he is raised up by a grip called "the Master's Grip" or the "Grip of the Lion's Paw". Those who learned the Mysteries also learned that they had a secret project, one that was described by Albert Pike in his book, entitled Morals and Dogma. Mr. Pike wrote this, "Behold [our] object, the end, the result of the great speculations...of antiquity; the ultimate annihilation of evil, and restoration of Man to his first estate, by a Redeemer, a Masayah, a Christos, the incarnate Word, Reason, or Power of Deity." I urge you all, if you could find a copy of Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike, to purchase it, take it home and read it.
Mr. Hall told his readers that those who had been initiated into the Mysteries were the secret power behind the governments of the past. He wrote this about these ancient initiates in his book, entitled What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: "They are the invisible powers behind the thrones of earth, and men are but marionettes, dancing while the invisible ones pull the strings. We see the dancer, but the master mind that does the work remains concealed by the cloak of silence.”
Now remember, I told you, folks, that if you don't open your mind, and if you don't quit believing dogma, if you don't quit believing what people tell you, if you don't stop believing what Dan Rather tells you on the six o'clock news, or your local minister down at your church, or your mother or the President of the United States, and if you don't start digging to find the truth yourself, you, you, the sheeple, are the marionettes, dancing while the invisible ones pull the strings. And until you change that pattern of your life, you will always be the puppet on the end of someone else's string. And I know that that's not what you want to be, is it? Well, if it's not, change your life now. Stop believing what you are told, including what you hear on this show unless it checks out in your own research, your own experience, your own digging. Each of us must find our own truth, and if we are really looking and digging, we're ultimately going to come to something near the same truth for all of us. And I can tell you now that most of us have been living in fantasyland for all of our lives. We don't even know anything near what the truth of any matter is. And we must begin an honest search, starting from the beginning, wiping the slate clean, cleansing our mind, and looking at the world, beginning again as though through the eyes of a new-born child. And you will find that most of what you ever been taught in your entire life is a lie...is a lie.
Other writers, folks, have confirmed the thoughts of Mr. Hall. A Masonic scholar named George Steinmetz also acknowledged that these Mysteries exist, and that some of the members inside the Masonic lodges are custodians of the secrets. He has written this in his book, entitled Freemasonry: Its Hidden Meaning: "Ancient secret doctrine, which is concealed in Masonic allegory and symbolism...it was but to preserve these truths for future generation that Masonry itself was perpetuated." And if that is true, why is it a secret? Why not tell us all what this secret doctrine is, for modern man is not like ancient man when he didn't know how to read or reason or understand? Modern man has the capability to understand anything that is put before him and accept it if it is the truth, and reject it if it is a lie.
So why the secrecy? The secrecy is because, folks, the real secret of Mystery Babylon is how to control everyone else. And if they reveal these secrets, they won't have the control, for it will be in the hands of everyone. That is the greatest secret of the secret societies. Another writing of Manly P. Hall was this: "Much of the ritualism of Freemasonry is based upon the trials to which candidates were subjected to by the ancient hierophants [William Cooper: 'hierophant' is defined as the high priest of the Mysteries] before the keys of wisdom were [enthroned] to them."
The ancient Mysteries had a beginning. According to Mr. Mackey, he wrote about where they started: "The first of which are those of Isis and Osiris in Egypt, the most important of these Mysteries were the Osiric in Egypt." Another writer, Edmond Ronayne, an ex-Mason, confirmed that the Masons were involved in the worship of Osiris when he wrote this in his book, entitled The Master's Carpet: "Masonry's ceremonies, symbols and the celebrated legend of Hiram in the Master Mason's degree, were directly borrowed from the 'Ancient Mysteries,' or the secret worship of Baal, Osiris or Tammuz." This is a direct admission that Freemasonry stems directly out of Mystery Babylon, the ancient Mystery Religion, the worship of Baal, the golden calf representative of the house during which that two thousand-year period the Sun resided. The Sun, the symbol of the Light, Lucifer, the intellect, the gift, primordial knowing.
Albert Pike then detailed where the Mysteries went after their beginnings in Egypt. He wrote this in Morals and Dogma: "From Egypt, the Mysteries went to Phoenicia, and were celebrated at Tyre. Osiris changed his name, and become Adoni or Dionusos, still the representative of the Sun... In Greece and Sicily, Osiris took the name of Bacchus." So the ancient Mysteries concealed an important Mystery, kept secret from the average person. The mystics claim that this Mystery has been concealed from the world for centuries. Even though they had taken the Mystery to other continents, those who believed in this religion were yet to take it to America. That was yet to come, and we will get to that, I promise you. And it will, I also promise you, amaze you.
[Gilbert] Lafayette, who was a very famous and noted pirate and a member of Freemasonry and the Knights Templar, said this: "An invisible hand is guiding the populace." Arthur Edward Waite, a prolific writer on secret societies has written this: "Beneath the broad tide of human history, there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface." Another who wrote about the power just underneath the surface was President Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States of America, who made this startling statement. He made this statement, yet it was ignored, but it should never go ignored from this point forward. "There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." So, these two writers have warned America that secret societies had been arranging the major events of the past, and President Wilson warned those who were quick to condemn these organizations that they had better be cautious.
Albert Pike had also connected the secret societies with a secret belief in his book, entitled Morals and Dogma. He wrote that all secret orders and associations, quote--now remember, he said, all...all secret orders and associations "had two doctrines, one concealed and reserved for the masters, the other, public." Now, one such secret society with two doctrines was the Illuminati, and Professor [Adam] Weishaupt, its founder, boasted of his organization's secrecy. He realized that this secrecy would enable them to decide the fate of nations, and because their deliberations were secret, no outsider could interfere. He wrote this: "The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear...in its own name, but always [covered] by another name, and another occupation." Weishaupt later wrote about that secrecy in a letter to a fellow member of the Illuminati, "Nothing can bring this about but hidden societies. Hidden schools of wisdom are the means which will one day free men from their bonds...Princes and nations shall vanish from the earth."
Folks, don't go away. We've got to stop for a break. I'll be right back after this very short pause.
(break music: When You Wish Upon A Star, performed by Wynton Marsalis from the album, Hot House Flowers)
Don't forget, folks, this Monday night, March 15th, 8pm to 11, I'll be at the Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Blvd in San Diego, California. That's this coming Monday night, March 15th at 8pm 'til 11. I'll be at the Lafayette Hotel at 2223 El Cajon Blvd in San Diego, California. I'll be giving a three-hour presentation, entitled The Sacrificed King. This is on the Kennedy assassination and I'm going to footage there that you've never seen before. I'm going to show you the direct, I mean direct, absolute occult connection to the Kennedy assassination, I'm going to tell what group killed our president, murdered our president if you will. I'm going to show you the footage of what Dealey Plaza really is so you'll see that this is not just an innocent park in the city of Dallas. I'm going to show you where Dallas really is, and what the occult significance of its location means. And when you leave there, folks, you're going to understand more about the workings of the world, and who assassinated our president and why then you'll ever have before. You're also going to see that, uh, Oliver Stone knew all of this and chose to deceive the American people, because he is one of those who are bringing about the New World Order. And his movie, JFK, was designed to convince all of us that our government doesn't work. The Constitutional government can't work, that it's turned against us, and it's not true, folks. Our Constitutionally instituted and established government had absolutely nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination, as all of those who show up on Monday night, March 15th, 8pm will find out.
[William Cooper further plugs the appearance and offers CAJI memberships]
Well, folks, you've heard all through this series of broadcasts about a group of men supposedly with the only truly mature minds in this world, who are going to setup a Utopia on earth, a heaven of earth if you will. And that there's the ones who are going to rule through a benevolent despotism. And they call this Utopia the Great Society, the New World Order, the Utopian philosophy, all of these things. Now, Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, was a member of this secret society. He was, in fact, a 33rd degree Freemason, and his Great Society that he envisioned was exactly what we're talking about here. And you can see that Johnson, a great Socialist, a Marxist secretly, set us on the road to Socialism by setting up this great welfare state, which he called the Great Society. It's one and the same, folks. It's the same. George Bush's New World Order is the same. The New World Order that our forefathers envisioned was the same. The Great Society talked about during the Peasants' Revolt in England was the same. The same that is coming, unless we wake up to stop it. And you can see, by the welfare state, how well it really works. (laughs) It doesn't work at all, it never will work, it can't work! These people are Looney Tunes.
If you believe the exoteric version of what they intend to bring about -- you see, they have no intention of bring about a Utopia, a heaven on earth, a Great Society, not at all. That's to lure the unwary, the foolish, the great mass of followers that make up the lower degrees of this secret society so that they will support the completion of the Great Work, the plan. They really intend us to be something along the lines of what Hitler attempted to establish. They talk about in terms of a great cleansing, where certain religions, certain people, certain races, will literally be eliminated from this earth. And they are convicted through their own words, ladies and gentlemen, as you hearing tonight and you've heard in other broadcasts. For when I feel that you are getting to the point where you're not understanding what's happening, I go back as I'm doing tonight and quote these people directly from their own mouths. I'm going to do that again tomorrow night, folks, so be ready.
Let me continue. The secret societies were created to bring the world to the new society known as the New World Order. The members of these organizations obviously feel that their goals are so noble that they may perform whatever tasks are required to bring them to that goal, and that goal to fruition. This means, folks, that murder, plunder and lying all become acceptable as long as these methods assist its members in obtaining their goal.
But the Freemasons, or free-maçon, as the true term began, want to world to know that they are not one of the societies involved in changing the world's civilization, and they're quick to rush to their own defense. However, when you go back and read their own history and their own words, you can see that they have literally no defense, for they are convicted by the words of their leaders. By the words of their leaders. And folks, by their deeds. For it was General Albert Pike who created, through the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. It was the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry that created the branch known as B'nai B'rith, which then created the ADL, or the Anti-Defamation League, which is nothing but an organization of criminals who have murdered, who have bombed, who have lied, and just recently, one of their crimes was spying. Putting spies within police organizations in the United States of America, and spiriting out files and records. And all of Jews in the United States support this criminal organization to their great shame, and those of you who feel that the Jews are responsible for all of this, you are wrong. Most Jews don't know any more about this then you did, and they are being used, just as you are being used. Just as I have been used in my life.
"In all time, truth has been hidden under symbols," wrote Albert Pike. And he also wrote this, "[Symbols] are nevertheless, ingenious veils that cover the Truth." Now, Albert Pike was the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The Scottish Rite now controls world Freemasonry. There certainly seems, folks, to be a power in knowing something that you can't tell your family, friends, children, or business acquaintances. And Adam Weishaupt said it best with this selection from his writings: "Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery." And that is true, I've found in my research, that the vast fools, the followers flock to the Mysteries and the promise of learning some secret during their climb up the ladder of degrees of initiation. The truth is that only a very few ever learn anything, and what they learn is how to control the rest.
The power of hidden symbols was alluded to by another writer, this time Foster Bailey in his book, entitled The Spirit of Freemasonry: "A symbol veils or hides a secret, and it is that which veils certain mysterious forces. These energies when released can have a potent effect." And indeed they can, as we are all feeling now the [pinch?] of the power.
There are many who can attest to that simple truth. Organizations with concealed or secret initiation ceremonies abound in America and, indeed, around the world. College fraternities and sororities teach the college student to accept secret initiation ceremonies and hidden knowledge at a young age. The Masons, intended for adult males, have similar organizations for their young sons and daughters, and other secret organizations for their wives. And all of these organizations tend to prepare their male members for further service in the master secret organization, the Masons. However, the Masons are quick to point out that they conceal their truths from the general public. Manly P. Hall, for instance, wrote this: "It is for the Adepts," and 'adept' is defined by the dictionary as one who is an expert, but there is an esoteric definition that shall be discussed later. "It is for the Adepts, one to understand the meaning of the symbols." He further instructed his readers that understanding the symbols can make one wise "and understanding these symbols is the beginning of wisdom."
Max Toth, a writer about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, also wrote about the purpose of symbols, and he said, "The knowledge of the ancient mysteries was never revealed to the laymen except through the media of symbols. Symbolism fulfilled both the need to conceal sacred truths from the uninitiated and to offer a language for those qualified to understand it." Now, whatever these secrets are, folks, one writer on the subject feels it's time to make them public. Alice Bailey, one of the key writers supporting the New Age movement, wrote this: "The hour for the ancient mysteries has arrived. These Ancient Mysteries were hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words, and in symbology; these veil the secret."
Another writer who writes of the order, Carl H. Claudy, told anyone who read the Masonic literature that he had best understand the language or they would miss the true meaning of the words. He wrote, "He who hears but the words of Freemasonry misses their meaning entirely."
Rex Hutchins, a 32rd degree Mason who has written a book for the Masons, one so important that it was used to replace one written by Henry Clausen, a former Sovereign Commander, also informed his readers that his writings also concealed a secret. "The word 'reveal' means to re-veil, that is, to give one explanation and yet to continue to maintain the mystery of the symbol by not explaining it in a full and complete manner."
So, the language code must be broken if one is to learn the truth about the Masonic order. The reason that is so is because the Masons have admitted that they have concealed the true meaning of some of their language. However, it is possible, folks, to know the true meanings of at least some of the hidden language, and the listener can be certain that the discovered interpretations are correct, because the Masons themselves have revealed the hidden meanings of some of their symbols in some of their own literature. The secret societies, folks, that have concealed their purposes and hidden meanings, concealed writings, and private initiation ceremonies are, admittedly, very powerful.
One who recognized that power was Benjamin Disraeli, the prime minister of England in the late 1880s, who said this in the House of Commons on July 14th in 1856: "There is in Italy a power which we seldom mention in this House...I mean the secret societies...It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe -- the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries -- is covered with a network of these secret societies." What are their objects [sic]? "They do not want Constitutional government; they want to change the tenure of the land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to ecclesiastical establishments [meaning religion]."
The Masons know about concealing secrets from the rest of the world. Carl Claudy, a Masonic writer, told his readers that secrets are inside secrets, which are inside other secrets, and he wrote this: "[Cut] through the outer shell and find a meaning; cut through that meaning and find another; under it if you dig [deep] enough you may find a third, a fourth - who shall say how many teachings?" And even the Communists used concealment, for the Communists were created by the Mysteries. The cell system of the Communist party was created by the Mystery Schools, which have used the same system for millennia.
Nikolai Lenin, the Marxist Communist who communized the Russian nation in the years following the Russian revolution of 1917 wrote this: "We have to use any ruse, dodge, trick, cunning, unlawful method, concealment and veiling of the truth." Many of the signs for identifying a Communist, or a member of the Communist party, are exactly the same as those symbols and signs used by Freemasons to identify each other. The use of secrecy to conceal thoughts from certain of the members [sic] of an organization or from the public is the device of those who have something to hide. That something is so horrible, so terrible, that knowledge of that secret must be kept from those who would have the most to lose by knowledge of that secret.
In the case of the secret societies, it is a belief in Lucifer, also known as Satan, or the devil. In the case of Communism, it is the truth that the people living in a Communist nation know that the system does not work. But those in a non-Communist nation, targeted for a Communist government, are not to learn that simple truth. They're to be told that the system is the culmination of man's upward search for a perfect society. A Great Society, if you will, a Utopia on earth, and they must be deluded into believe that there is no cost in the change from their current form of government to the communist form.
One of the things that I find so incredible is that they trap the intellectuals so easily. The intellectuals, the ones who are supposedly so good at using their brain, cannot even use their brain so much as to look into history to see that the first people that the Communists, the international Socialists, destroyed, killed, sentenced to the labor camps, the gulag if you will, are always the intellectuals. And history has recorded the brutality of the Communists, and the fact that millions of people have had to die as the Communists installed that form of government. The evidence to support that convention will be discussed later in some other program.
Now, secrecy is certainly not a part of the Christian religion today, although the Christian religion began in secret and was, in fact, a secret society. It is possible to know that nothing Jesus has said has been hidden from the Christians of today. He told the high priest in [the book of] John, chapter 18, verse 20: "And in secret have I said nothing."
The intentional concealing of an organization beliefs and purposes through the use of hidden language and concealed symbols is reserved primarily to the secret societies, and the nationwide Masonic lodges are indeed a secret society. And in the beginning, Christians had their secret symbols also. One of the most prominent was the symbol of the fish. The secret is simply the fact that certain of their members [sic] worshiped Lucifer, and that they keep that secret from the overwhelming majority of their own members, and certainly the public is never to know this fact if they can help it. And the evidence to support that conclusion is ample, but only to one who cares enough to look for it. The problem with most people is that they don't care enough to look for anything except Wheel of Fortune on the television set.
[reading from The New World Order, written by A. Ralph Epperson]:
"So, the student of history has to discover the hidden meanings behind the symbols and the Masonic literature and in the secret initiation ceremonies to understand the Masonic Order.
"One of the first symbols that needs to be examined is the symbol of the serpent, also called a snake or dragon.
"Manly P. Hall wrote that the use of this symbol is as old as early man when he wrote this in his book, entitled The Secret Teachings of All Ages: 'Among nearly all these ancient peoples the serpent was accepted as a symbol of wisdom...'"
[William Cooper]: For from the serpent has man received the gift of intellect.
"Here Mr. Hall states that the serpent is the symbol of 'wisdom.' It will be remembered that Lord Maitreya, the future New Age leader, also oclaimed to possess 'wisdom.' Mr. Hall continued:
"'Serpent worship in some form has permeated nearly all parts of the earth. The serpent is the symbol and prototype of the Universal Savior, who redeems the world by giving creation the knowledge of itself and the realization of good and evil.'"
[William Cooper]: An admission that the serpent, at least from the point of view of the Christian Bible, is Satan.
"And then Mr. Hall links the serpent with the Ancient Mysteries previously discussed. He continues with the comment that the serpent was worshiped by the priests of that religion:
"'The priests of the Mysteries were symbolized as a serpent, sometimes called Hydra.'
"[And then he] pointed out that the Ancient Mysteries had been passed on to various other cultures, and that they have been brought forward to the present-day."
Folks, we'll continue this tomorrow night. If you can, reach into your pockets, make out a check or money order...
[William Cooper asks for donations]
Until tomorrow night, good night and God bless each and every single one of you.
(closing music: continuation of When You Wish Upon A Star, performed by Wynton Marsalis)
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