Posted on 02/12/2008 7:18:25 AM PST by Smelly_Fed
WASHINGTON — Conspiracy theorists take note: The myths surrounding one of America's oldest and most enduring national symbols are about to be debunked ... if you believe the government, that is. The keepers of the Great Seal of the United States, the emblem on the back of the US$1 bill, want you to know what it is not. It is not a sign that Freemasons run the country, it has nothing to do with the occult, and it does not contain clues to a fabulous hidden treasure. It is rather the nation's stamp of authority, sovereignty and power, gracing cash and embossing the most important of documents from its home at the State Department, which has held it since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the first secretary of state. Not that the Seal's symbols — the all-seeing eye, the unfinished pyramid, the Latin phrases, the bald eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows and the number 13 — aren't powerful. They are, historians say. Yet their meanings have been misidentified, misunderstood and misrepresented almost since the Continental Congress first commissioned the Seal in 1776. It would be another six years before the original design was approved and another 128 before it evolved into its current form. Along the way, a movement to decipher the Seal's meaning with ancient Egyptian, mystical and otherwise other worldly explanations has gained currency. The Internet age has seen an explosion in such conspiracy theories, many which have now been ingrained in public consciousness through the popular "National Treasure" movie franchise that serves up a combination of Masonic lore and historical myths in blockbuster Hollywood fashion.
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“Imagine a time when few were literate. . .”
Right now, of course. I like your pentagram symbol list, haven’t seen that before.
And look at some the common symbols used today, an elephant for GOP and an ass for the Democrats. They convey perfect descriptions.
“The rendition of the seal at the link is not well executed.”
“The RENDITION”??!! RENDITION!!
See, it’s all about evil Bush snatching innocent civilians off the streets. I saw it in that movie.
Durn! I thought we were speshul.
Walt Disney produced a half hour show on the pentagram in the ‘50s (it’s now sold to teachers) with Donald Duck giving its history and math properties. Actually a great mathematical symbol now stolen by occultists and discredited in people’s minds.
“What are the conspiracy theorists going to do with themselves now?”
I am sure that the 9-11 truthers have some tinfoil hats they could share.
Shows how little the author knows.
(actually, I remember when I was a kid in the 80s a lot of conspiracies like this)
Conspiracies will never leave us. The most recent, who was the moron, or conspiracy genius, who put up the Che flag in Obama’s Houston office?
They’ll find something to do. Campaign for Ron Paul, most likely.
Uhhh claim this is as much a sham as any of the other Gov’t coverups - Kennedy assassination, Project Bluebook, Roswell, etc...
Nice parlor trick. I could do the same and make a Mickey Mouse head.
Or the Powerball winning number predictor.
After they'd been wandering around the gold paved streets for a few weeks, who should they bump into but God, Himself?
So they get to chatting with God, and finally one of them screws up enough courage to ask Him, "So God? Would you tell us what is the real truth behind the JFK assassination?"
God looks at him for a moment and says, "OK, but you really won't like it. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot JFK. Jack Ruby, acting alone, shot Lee Harvey Oswald."
Dead silence.
Finally one conspiracy theorist turns to the other and whispers. "The conspiracy is deeper than we thought."...
Ok, now that is a little weard.
But over and over again, GW is referred to as presented at affairs "Of Masonic Style"....even after his death.
There is no way you can dissasociate GW and Masonry.
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