Manitoba: Occult Threat or Mystic Menace?

Winnipeg professor argues that Manitoba legislature has occult roots
WINNIPEG (CP) — To some, Manitoba’s legislature may be thought of as that pretty building with the gold-covered boy on the top where the politicians argue a lot and sometimes enact a law or two.
Or, it could be a beacon of the occult.
University of Winnipeg researcher Frank Albo says that after years of study, he’s convinced Manitoba’s legislature is actually an architectural talisman built to the specifications of the same divine blueprints found in ancient temples.
“We have a Rosetta Stone in the heart of the Canadian Prairies,” said Albo.
He said he had hoped to write his thesis on how the building matched the specs of ancient pagan temples, but he soon noticed recurring elements that didn’t fit the classical mold.
Among the things that kept cropping up were numbers five, eight and 13 — a series found in a numerical segment discovered by 12th-century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci in which each number is the sum of the two preceding it.
The segment is found often in nature, and is considered by many to be a “blueprint for the plan of God,” Albo said.
“If you go on the official tour, they’ll mention how the number 13 keeps appearing — 13 chairs, 13 lights . . . even the original height of the Golden Boy. When I plugged those numbers into the floor plan . . . it appeared the architecture adhered to this divine plan.”
Albo found the lieutenant-governor’s reception room had cubit dimensions matching those of King Solomon’s inner sanctum. A cubit is an ancient measure of length roughly equal to the length of a forearm.
However, the cubits used were those favoured by the Freemasons, a fraternal group known for its secret rituals and interest in the occult.
After Albo learned there were many Masons in the administration that built the legislature — which was started in 1911 and finished in 1920 — his thesis took a new direction.
“It leads me to believe this building may have been built as a sort of talisman — a beacon of energy to harness these ideas that in ancient times were considered divine,” Albo said.
Fuelled by a resurgence in numerology spawned by the book The Da Vinci Code, Albo has presented his theories to architectural experts, art historians and even Freemasons all over the world.
He recently met with Manitoba’s minister of government services, and hopes to see the province incorporate his findings into tourism initiatives.
“My academic career hinges on this, so I’ve been careful to make sure I’m not inventing things,” he said.
“But the coincidences start to add up to the point where you go, ‘This is amazing.’ Now the coincidences have so overwhelmed me that I’m mission-bound to find out what’s going on.”
(Winnipeg Sun)