― DG, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― ethan, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
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― xwerxes, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dare, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
why isn't it novus ordo?
― Brock K., Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Deadman, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― petra jane, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
His name wouldn't happen to be Hulk Hogan, would it?
― Kris, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Queen G, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Joe, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~crispen/rants/secrets.html
"HEAVY METAL POISONING" Styx, Kilroy Was Here
RUMOR: A red sticker on the Kilroy Was Here album cover warns, "By order of the Majority for Musical Morality, this album contains secret backward messages...."
FINDINGS: This is a case of second-generation backward-masking. Styx' Paradise Theater did not contain a backward message, though a lot of people said it did. So Styx has included a sure enough backward message on Kilroy Was Here. It is at the beginning of "Heavy Metal Poisoning". The reversed speech lasts about three seconds. There is no musical background. The words reverse to "Annuit Coeptis. Novus ordo seclorum." This is the Latin motto encircling the pyramid on the back of a dollar bill. The usual translation: "God has favored our undertakings. A new order of the ages."
I remember hearing a recording of the backwards message on a radio show when I was little. Pretty freaky, in an Exorcist kind of way...
― xwerxes, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― chris, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
-- Queen G -That is one of my favorite books of all time, besides confederacy of dunces, of course, but it goes into some crazy detail about those two things for sure. -H
― Deadman, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Erich Rhozon, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― nunya fuckin bidness, Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
That's just a quick overview...there's a hell of a lot more involved but I won't bore with ALL of the details.
B
― B, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)
Ever hear of the Knights of Malta, the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians, or the Egyptian cult of the all seeing eye?
So many clubs to join, so little time!
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)
― Johnny C, Thursday, 14 November 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)
― CK, Sunday, 17 November 2002 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)
That daniel dude must be part of the illuminati or somethin.
Yeah. It's just me and Nas these days...
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 17 November 2002 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― DG (D_To_The_G), Sunday, 17 November 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― B, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)
This order had the purpose of destroying social inequality and that's why it has very soon been linked with the freemasons : both this organizations were at this time concerned in revolution, because they were formed by rich but not noble people who were trying to take the power.
Mirabeau, french man who played a great rule during french revolution, was for example and for sure both freemason and illuminati. It seems that they also played a rule during american revolution as the "Novo ordo seclorum", bad spelled, seems to demonstrate it. But no really evidence exists about the link between men who did the american revolution and Illuminati, but maybe for Lafayette, again a french guy who paticipated to the french revolution.
There is, as I said, no surprise that such men were part of the revolutionaries, because the principles of both this organisations were lying on the recovery of the power by the people. But after this brilliant beginning, it seems that the ideals of Illuminati turned to be much more evil and that they pretend and tried to take power for themselves. This order was, from the beginning, formed by rich people...
That they could have been much more concerned by their own power than by the democracy is certainly relevant in the story... But the lineage between the first Illuminati and what they could be today is very difficult to follow, as it is, like freemasons, a secret order.Anyway, the possibility of a today's conspiracy, based on this beginning, may be... but surely that few people among the many who are conspirating claim (secretly!) to be Illuminated !
No ?;-()
― Bibi, Monday, 10 February 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gabe Knight, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)
In the Great Seal of the United States, as pictured on the back of the one dollar bill, is an eagle whose right wing has 32 feathers, the number of ordinary degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. The left wing has 33 feathers, the additional feather corresponding to the Thirty-Third Degree of the Scottish Rite conferred for outstanding Masonic service. The 9 feathers in the tail correspond to the nine degrees in the York Rite.
The eagle is a symbol of St. John the Evangelist, the great patron of Freemasonry. The arrows in its left talon refer to King David, a man of many wars and of much bloodshed. The olive branch in its right talon, the peaceful reign of Solomon who built the temple at Jerusalem. The 13 stars above the eagle’s head represent Jacob and his 12 sons or tribes of Israel and form the star of David which reminds a Masons of King David’s dream of building a temple which his son King Solomon finally realized. The 13 stars, in double triangular form and one in the center, are symbolical of the delivery of the children of Israel from their oppressors and their attainment to a glorious freedom. The latin inscription “E Pluribus Unum” (one composed of many) indicates brotherhood to the Masonic fraternity.
The unfinished pyramid showing two sides of thirteen layers is entirely Masonic. At the top of the pyramid inside a radiant triangle is the all-seeing eye of Providence that indicates that the Grand Architect (the Masonic term for God) is omnisciently and providentially watching mankind. The pyramid is Egyptian in origin and form, and a free interpretation of its symbolism reads: As the Israelites were delivered from bondage in the land of the Pharaohs and the pyramids of Egypt, so we are now free in our own country, and hereafter we will build for ourselves.
"In God We Trust” first appeared on U.S. coins after 1864 when Congress passed an Act authorizing the coinage of a two-cent piece bearing this motto. It was first printed on the one dollar bill in 1957 in compliance with an act of July 11, 1953 requiring that the motto be placed on all coins and currency as new dies were adopted. In 1856 the 84th Congress decreed “In God We Trust” to be the national motto of the United States replacing “E Pluribus Unum.” Since 1963 all denominations of money come inscribed with “In God We Trust.” The motto “In God We Trust” is truly Masonic. Every candidate on his initiation is required to declare that his trust is in God. He who denies the existence of a Supreme Being is debarred from privilege of initiation, for atheism is a disqualification for Masonry.
The United States Treasury Seal with its balance scale, key, and chevron is a distinguishing feature of American currency. It has appeared on every piece of paper money since 1862. The Treasury Seal, one might say, is the final stamp of approval that insures the legality of the currency. Combined with the expressed authority of the government and two signatures, it notarizes the contract, so to speak, made between the United States and the holders of its currency.
At the top of the Treasury Seal is a balance scale. Among the ancients a balance, or pair of scales , was a well-known recognized symbol of justice and fair dealing. This symbol is also recognized by Masonry in the degree of Prince of Jerusalem, the 16th degree in the Scottish Rite.
The Seal used on the first one dollar bill in 1862 had a Mason’s set square not a chevron. Until 1893 two treasury Seals were used, one with the Mason’s square and another with a chevron. Between the years 1893 and 1968 a Treasury Seal with only the Mason’s square was exclusively used. In 1968 the Masonic square was discontinued and afterwards only a chevron has been depicted between the scale and key.
The Treasurer is an officer found in all Masonic bodies whose duty it is to take charge of the funds and pay them out under proper regulations. He is simply the banker of the Lodge or Chapter and has nothing to do with the collection of money which should be made by the Secretary. The Treasurer’s jewel (symbolic of Masonic office) is a key as a symbol that he controls the money chest of the Masonic Lodge.
just kind of a history of the symbolism on the dollar bill from the masonic point of view.
― NonConformist, Thursday, 15 January 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 15 January 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/pl8image/masonic.gif
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 15 January 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 15 January 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)
There's one more bit of mystery about teh great seal. the MDCCLXXVI, which is just roman numerals for 1776, may have other menaings as well. Some say that 1776 was also the year Adam Weishaupt founded the illuminati on May 1st. However, since this would have been a secret society, it seems like a lot of speculation.
Also if you arrange each of the Roman numerals around the pyramid, and add up the base line, the numbers add up to 666, the numebr of the beast in the bible book revelations, a source of many conspiracy theories. But the chapter of revelations in which the Beast and the number 666 is mentioned, is chapter 13. the same as the number of stars, and the layers of the pyramid in the great seal. ( and of course the number of the original US states, not to mention a whole host of other religous and historical meanings. )
M(100) C(100) X (10) / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ D + C + L + X + V + I = DCLXVI500 + 100 + 50 + 10 + 5 + 1 = 666
Less educated christians associate this symbol with satan, demons, or some other devilish nonsense. Some historians equate it with Nero, while I've also read some things relating it to Pagan numerology, around musical notes. It might be the number of "man" where 7 is the perfect number of christ, and the numer of man is the less than perfect number 666. It could also be of "a man" instead of jsut "man", which some say is the last Julian emperor Nero. Anyways, the Beast is basically an anti-christ that rules over the WHOLE WORLD. All nations, languages, people , and tribes. The book of revelation says that the number 666 is used, so that no one may buy or sell thigns unless they bore this symbol. Hmmm.... Interesting that it appears on our dollar bill in a cryptograph. I'm sure that the slave-owning patriarchs that came up with the great seal had a different interpretation of Revelations than modern day, schoalrs and conspiracy nuts.
Anyways, you can read revelations chapter 13 here: http://www.bible.org/cgi-bin/netbible.pl?header=on&book=rev&chapter=13#note_55
― Mike Donovan, Monday, 23 August 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)
welcome brother what office is DM we dont have that office under the irish constitution? I take it you read my rant above feels good to get that off my chest. My fingers are killing me from typing but it was worth it
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)
Why can't girls be Freemasons? It's keeping me from having goals in life, just sitting here with dresses and hairdryers but no secret handshakes. :(
― Abbott, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)
fucks up the whole brotherhood angle, sorry
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)
Well have you ever known a woman that could keep a secret? Only joking. Their are womens lodges in France and America they are not all recognised by the grand lodge but that may change in the fututre its not for me to decide. Dont forget how old freemasonry is it was founded in a time when things were very different. At this stage its almost just tradition that women are not members.
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)
Im sorry i dont understand what you mean by it fucks up the whole brotherhood angle?
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)
I AM one of the Illuminati and I can safely say that we've got enough freemasons on payroll. I mean you guys mean well, but our guys ARE trying to take down the world. We got Enron, we got space station Mir, we were worried about Britney Spears but we got her too (a mole in Jive records set her up for fame but it was easy enough to take out by amplifying her stardom until her plunge into insanity). We were worried about the Internet for about 9 minutes... I think it was 1996. Those were 9 long minutes. Thankfully it took one of our best brainslaves that long to create Google, so we all breathed a sigh of relief. Currently the largest threats on our radar are Michael Vick (some of our highest ranking members are dogs), Jesus (need I say more?) and the Day of the Tentacle video game.
― Will M., Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)
Could you just kind of secretly make me a Mason, like a junior deputy Mason, over the internet? No one at your lodge has to know.
― Abbott, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)
-- IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:44 (0 seconds ago) Link
it means you can't give a blow job to a chick
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)
oh yeah, another major enemy of ours is Bud Light cos it tastes like water-- we hate that.
― Will M., Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)
Dammit Will!!! payroll forgot my check again!!! For a bunch of illuminated people you cant even get my overtime right.....
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)
I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can see
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)
You're suspended until you get that tattoo of Eris lasered off.
― Will M., Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)
I might laser off the rest of me and leave the tattoo. how's that grab you, "brother?"
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)
Ok abbott ill see what i can do, how does "supreme grand master of all things known and unknown but especially dresses & hairdryers" sound? i think its got a ring to it.
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)
BAN IRISH MASON
― jergïns, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)
it was just a joke. Seriously If anyone is really interested in joining a lodge just google freemasons in your area most lodges have an email contact and some kind of application process that you do before you meet them....just to weed out the people asking to join for the wrong reasons.
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)
NO NO NO; I was thinking something more like "Prophet, Seer and Revelator of The Guild of the First Born and the Bornless One; Gets First Dibs."
BUT BUT BUT I'd need someone inside the system to let me in, as a woman. Help me out here.
― Abbott, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)
Here you go abbott
www.luckymojo.com/comasonry.html
if the link doesn't work google women freemasons and hit the first link.
Have to admit that is one impressive title, if we had more like you the illuminati would be shaking in their raybans
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)
some kind of application process that you do before you meet them....just to weed out the people asking to join for the wrong reasons.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)
I saw somthing about the link above on discovery they were not freemasons, they were a lodge not recognised by Grand lodge because of their political opinions ant the fact they had a political agenda. They got booted out long before the incident. The only two things not up for discussion at a meeting are politics and religion. Why? because politics and religion divide people freemasonry does the opposite.
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)
but isn't the whole point of the Freemasons to divide people into members and non-members?
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)
What are you a lawyer? I havn't seen such a spin on words in ages? Like i just said anyone can join, as long as you believe in a god supreme being buddah allah whatever you want to call it. Of course they are only looking for members who's moral compass is working. As for women I wouldnt object to them joining and their are some womens lodges maybe in the future their will be mixed lodges in my opinion its the way forward.
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)
Are you Catholic, IrishMason?
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)
As it happens yes though i would have to admit im far from an active catholic usually just attend weddings funerals and christenings the same as everyone else my age that i know. religion has taken a serious downturn in ireland especially with the younger generation.
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)
Also age and sexual orientation plz.
― Drooone, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)
26 and hetrosexual
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)
This is a very interesting thread.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)
Glad you think so BIG HOOS are you going to tell me were all a bunch of satin worshiping homosexuals trying to take over the world and force our belief's on everyone too?
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)
Could you please use a bit more punctuation, IrishMason?
― Drooone, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)
sorry got to go its late here have an early start. bye
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)
byebye.
― Drooone, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)
-- IrishMason, Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:43 PM
A bit tightly wound, are we? I hear satin does wonders for stress, though.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)
Well, this kind of solves the argument that requiring user registration will kill the random googler phenomenon.
― Abbott, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)
Sorry hoos you took me up wrong i didnt mean it like that. i was only joking really have to go night.
― IrishMason, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)
otm xpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)
I can't believe you asked a mason about punctuation. No wonder he took off.
― Clay, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)
Satin is smooth and soft and sensual, I don't see what's so wrong with worshipping it.
― onimo, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)
IrishMason, if you come back please click "new answers" at the top or bottom of this page and you'll find an amazing array of subjects - it would be great to get a proper Masonic perspective on these. It's not all All Seeing Eye and Novo Ordo Seclorum around here you know!
― onimo, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)
I asked because I was told that Catholics weren't welcome as Masons since they believed in the power of confession. Wouldn't want some bead-fumbler spilling the beans about walking the sands to his local priest.
As is my understanding, Knights of Columbus lodges were set up as a sort of Catholic Masonry.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000039QL.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
― gabbneb, Friday, 27 July 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)
I hope he comes back after his sleep.
― Drooone, Friday, 27 July 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)
WE KNOW WHO GOT CAUGHT IN THE RANGE ROVER WITH THE LITTLE BOY
xpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 27 July 2007 02:17 (eighteen years ago)
This thread is so boring!
― kenan, Friday, 27 July 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)
What are you looking for in your Freemasonry threads, kenan?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 27 July 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)
Like i just said anyone can join, as long as you believe in a god supreme being buddah allah whatever you want to call it. Of course they are only looking for members who's moral compass is working.
I think it's funny that you're accusing me of mincing words (lawyer trickery!) when you yourself stated quite plainly that Freemasonry, unlike religion and politics, does the opposite of dividing people. Well, the Masons are an exclusive club and the whole principle of exclusivity is based on the exclusion of certain others from the club. How is that the "opposite" of division?
I don't even find the exclusivity all that distasteful, but it's the organization's tradition of insistence that the discrimination be based on one's belief in a "supreme being," (to say nothing of your association with that belief being the indicator of a functional moral compass) that seems wrong to me. Could you explain what's the use, or even the appeal, of a private guild that bans the discussion of politics within its ranks? Or is that secret as well?
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 27 July 2007 02:28 (eighteen years ago)
As for women I wouldnt object to them joining and their are some womens lodges maybe in the future their will be mixed lodges in my opinion its the way forward.
The right of women to be included in an exclusive club might well be the way forward, yes, it's possible! Since you believe it's the way forward, you might even feel a moral obligation to personally take a proactive approach toward this reform, as some other lodges have. But if discussion of politics are banned, then how does one go about that?
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 27 July 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)
point taken, I'm just pissed at myself for continuing to read it
― kenan, Friday, 27 July 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)
Hi just a little note to better explain why I think Freemasonry unites people rather than divide's them.....
In Ireland as you probably well know their had long been a serious divide between catholic & protestant and Northern Ireland has seen that divide turn violent for very long time. In fact you could trace the divide right back to when Ireland was under English rule that's basically where it all started. Where else but in a lodge of Freemasons do you find such a diverse mix of people of all different religions, different races and even different political belief's getting on so well under the one roof. If the world was a little more like Freemasonry I think it would be a better place for all of us. In my lodge the protestant / catholic mix is probably about 60/40 to be honest I cant be sure because it doesn’t matter ant therefore it doesn‘t come up, funnily enough I recently attended a Church Of Ireland mass it was a funeral for a fellow mason and there is practically no difference in the ceremony’s and even if their was everybody is entitled to their own opinions and beliefs. People the world over are too quick to be up in arms over absolutely nothing or any real relevance. That’s another thing Freemasonry teaches you “tolerance” Basically I feel that Freemasonry teaches you important life lessons in general, for example their are parts of certain degrees or the explanation of certain Masonic symbols (obviously I can't go into detail) that teach you things like not to judge a book by its cover, which is the basis of racism. I have found it has changed me for the better and its nice to be involved in something that does both a lot of good for its members and non members, for members in the form of a helping hand when needed or taking care of a masons widow & children through our own internal charities and for non members the huge amount of work we put into our fundraising for non Masonic charities. I can safely say with my hand on my heart I have never seen anything in Freemasonry that I or anyone else would consider to be in anyway harmful to either members or non members whatsoever. I'd also like so point out that of course im sure that their have been times when a mason has broke the law or hurt someone in some way that’s bound to happen when you consider the millions of members their are worldwide. But I believe that any real mason, by real mason I mean a member who actively tries be of more use to his fellow man and tries to live by the moral standards taught to all freemasons and follows the laws and constitutions set out in freemasonry, well that man cant be doing too much wrong in my opinion. Hopefully it wont be too long before I will be able to say the same for women. I will take your advise "iiiijjjj" and actively participate in trying to bring around such a change.
Anyway a friend of mine is home from the UK for the weekend so im off out on the piss. bye.
― IrishMason, Saturday, 28 July 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.freemasonsnorthmunster.com/Baal's_Bridge_Square.htm
The old brass square, known as the Baal’s Bridge Square, was recovered from the foundations of Baal’s Bridge in Limerick when the bridge was being rebuilt in 1830. It is inscribed “I will strive to live with Love and Care Upon the Level By the Square” and bears the date, 1507.
I think the inscription say alot about the foundations of Freemasonry.
― IrishMason, Saturday, 28 July 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)
tldr, n00b
― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 28 July 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)